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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. What is the name of India's first aircraft carrier?
Pune
INS Vikrant55
162
American firm Intra Pace unveils a stomach implant vi akeyhole surgery that can help people fight flab by warning the brain when enough food is taken. This credit card sized implant is named as 'Abiliti'.
2. With which field M.F. Hussian were associated?
Painting
Chadwick
The Bering Strait
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
3. Name the scientist who is considered as the Father of Genetics?
Razia Sultana
Johann Gregor Mendel
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
4. Name the Earth- like planet whose existence is confirmed by American astronomers?
V.S Naipaul
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Kolkata
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
5. At which place a devastating fire tore through seven storey AMRI hospital killing 91 people in 2011?
South Kolkata
The number of persons per square kilometre.
1953
Michael Phelps
6. Who has become the first lady jawan in Indian army?
Maharashtra
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
V.S Naipaul
American firm Intra Pace unveils a stomach implant vi akeyhole surgery that can help people fight flab by warning the brain when enough food is taken. This credit card sized implant is named as 'Abiliti'.
7. What is the name of first Indian aircraft developed by Government laboratory with private fund?
Increases
24
Eagle
1.34 millions
8. Which village of Andhra Pradesh may be sitting over one of the world's largest uranium reserves?
24
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
Bobby Jindal
Nitrous oxide
9. Who presented the first Union Budget of Independent India?
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Sitar
Jhumpa Lahiri
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
10. Where is India's Space Rocket Launching Centre situated?
Uttarakhand
Sriharikota
Anita Desai
Vishnu Sharma
11. Which is the largest district in India?
Kulandei Francis
India
Ladakh
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
12. Name the Indian scientist from whose surname the word 'boson' is derived?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
U.K
Satyendra Nath Bose
God particle or Higgs Boson
13. Which day is known as World Tourism Day?
Mosley
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
27th September
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
14. Whose contemporary was Tulsidas?
Darsheel Safary
Akbar
State Bank of India
Tamil Nadu
15. Where is the birth place of Guru Nanak Ji?
Talwandi
Nitrogen
Valentina Tereshkova
Dadabhai Naoroji
16. Which metro has been certified by the United Nations as the first metro rail based system in the World to get carbon credits for contributing to the fight against climate changes?
The Delhi Metro
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
17. By whom is the Vice-President of the Indian Union elected?
Cyrus Mistry
In front of New Delhi's High Court
Painting
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
18. Who crafted the wax statue of Anna Hazare?
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19. Which game is associated with Agha Khan Cup?
Hockey
Akhilesh Yadav
Edison
Andhra Pradesh
20. Where is Indian Cancer Research Institute situated?
Firozeshah Tughluq
Bombay
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Swarajya Party
21. Who won the silver medal in 66 Kg wrestling and is the first Indian to win two individual Olympic medals?
Sushil Kumar
Jana Gana Mana
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Konark
22. Where is the Indian Institute of Science located?
Bangalore
Stainless steel
Planning Commission
Playwright
23. In which field the name of Gangubai Hangal associated?
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Carbon dioxide
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Music
24. How many total number of enclaves are to be exchanged between territories of two countries India and Bangladesh according to the treaty signed in Sept - 2011?
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
162
Andhra Pradesh
5 hours 30 minutes
25. Who is author of 'Hindu view of life'?
Narmada and Japti
Anita Desai
Herodotus
S. Radhakrishnan
26. Who was the author of 'Bharat Bharati'?
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
In Samba
Ganga
27. Who inspired Green Revolution in India?
N.E. Borlaug
Saka era
Kanishka
Shobha De
28. Who is the author of book 'India Wins Freedom'?
Mumbai
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
29th August
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
29. How 4G services will hit the country in 2012?
Sidney Sheldon
4G technology will offer many advancements to the wireless market including downlink data rates well over 100 Mbps - low latency - very efficient spectrum use and low cost implementation.
Kulandei Francis
Johann Gregor Mendel
30. Which age group children in India are ensured free and compulsory education?
6-14 years
Lead
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
31. When is Earth Day observed?
Eagle
55th rank
22nd April
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
32. Where is Union Budget presented firstly?
The Lok Sabha
State Bank of India
Ludhiana
Julang-2
33. Which is the largest auditorium in India?
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Six months
Andhra Pradesh
Marie Curie
34. Where is the Caspian sea - the largest inland sea or lake in the world located?
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Mahatma Gandhi
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
8th March
35. How water in earthen pots remain cool?
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
36. Name the subatomic particle which scientists claimed to have spotted and is believed to be a crucial building block in the formation of universe?
U.K
God particle or Higgs Boson
Tamil Nadu
J.L.Baird
37. Where is famous Somnath Temple located?
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Gujarat
Tamil Nadu
Will pass through Equator
38. When is India's National Youth Day celebrated ?
Mumbai
12th January
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Paschim Banga1
39. What was adopted from the Maurya dynasty in the emblem of government of India?
Four lions
The President
2G spectrum scam
Dilip Kumar
40. Who is known as founder of Mohemmadan Anglo-Oriental college at Aligarh?
Dumping
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Third century B.C
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
41. What is e-bomb?
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42. Name the gas usually filled in the electric bulbs?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Nitrogen
43. When was Sangeet Natak Akademi set up by Government of India?
Firozeshah Tughluq
1953
Chandragupta Maurya
Lobsang Sangay
44. Where did India's first Formula one race took place in 2011?
Forty-fourth Amendment
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Yousuf Raza Gillani
45. Late Girilal Jain was a noted figure in which field?
Journalism
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
V.S Naipaul
Ripon
46. What is the latitude of South Pole?
Karashapana
Maharashtra
90 degree
Konark
47. Between whom battle of Kurukshetra was fought?
Morarji Desai
Increases
Kauravas and Pandavas51
State Bank of India
48. Name the eminent Hindi authors chosen for Jnanpith Award 2011?
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Sri Lanka
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
49. What was the main occupation of Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) people?
Hunting
Kerala
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Bamiyan
50. Who is the person of Indian origin nominated as the Governor of Louisiana - an American state?
Himachal Pradesh
95th
Bobby Jindal
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)