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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. What are the bank deposits that can be withdrawn without notice called?
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Nek Chand
Demand deposits
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
2. When is India's National Youth Day celebrated ?
12th January
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Vande Mataram
In Samba
3. Which country won the maximum number of medals in Olympics 2008 held in Beijing?
Gota in Sweden
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Sunil Gavaskar
USA
4. Who is known as Father of Geometry?
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Jaipur
Euclid
5. Whose name is associated with the council of the 'Nine Gems'?
Chandragupta-II
5th April
Martin Luther King
USA
6. Where is Indian Cancer Research Institute situated?
Silicon
Bombay
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
7. What are GM Crops?
Algernon Sidney
Mahatma Gandhi
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Genetically Modified Crops.
8. Who was the chairman of Constituent Assembly?
Edison
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
27th September
9. Which fund can be used to meet the unanticipated expenditurewithout the prior approval of the Parliament?
Contingency Fund of India
Torricelli
Ladakh
July - 1947
10. At which point of earth weight of object will be minimum?
Jaya Dev
Madhya Pradesh
26th January
At the center of earth
11. Who has been re-elected PDP President for the fourth time in Srinagar in 2011?
Lead
Mehbooba Mufti
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Football
12. What happens to speed of sound with rise in temperature?
10th December
Director General Anil Kaushik
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Increases
13. Who is the author of book 'Speed Post'?
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Iodine
Shobha De
Motion Picture
14. Who has been selected as the new head of Tata empire in 2011?
1949
Ganga
Cyrus Mistry
11th July
15. Who wrote the popular book 'The Naked Face'?
USA
Sidney Sheldon
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Cavendish
16. Which is the Garden City of India?
Rabindranath Tagore147
Greeks
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Bangalore
17. Where is largest animal fair held in India?
Sonepur (Bihar )
UK
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Hockey
18. When is India's Army Day celebrated ?
15th January
Mahatma Gandhi
From fresh and purified fat stem cells ( Fat has a large number of tissue growing stem cells. People could go for liposuction and save fat cells for future use or can use immediately.)
Mathura
19. When comes the World Environment Day?
London
5th June
Three Decades in Parliament
Khushwant Singh
20. Who is known as founder of Mohemmadan Anglo-Oriental college at Aligarh?
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
William Wordsworth
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
21. 'Glimpses of World History' is written by whom?
8
Jamaica
Jawaharlal Nehru
5th June
22. Where was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Avanti?
Amir Khusrau
Cavendish
Ujjain
Jonathan Swift
23. Who was the author of 'Hind Swaraj'?
Khadakvasla
Mahatma Gandhi
Rabindranath Tagore
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
24. Name the eminent Hindi authors chosen for Jnanpith Award 2011?
London
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Indra Sinha64
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
25. Who has been appointed the Governor of RBI after the retirement of Shri Y.V. Reddy?
G.V. Mavalankar
27th September
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Rabindra Nath Tagore
26. Which element is obtained from sea weeds?
State Bank of India
Paschim Banga1
Genetically Modified Crops.
Iodine
27. Triple vaccine is administered to a new born child to save him from which diseases?
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Andhra Pradesh
Kushans
28. With which cells scientists for the first time have developed bone?
From fresh and purified fat stem cells ( Fat has a large number of tissue growing stem cells. People could go for liposuction and save fat cells for future use or can use immediately.)
Tamil Nadu
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Sushil Kumar
29. Name the great poet who graced the court of Alauddin Khilji?
The equator
Jai Samhita
Amir Khusru
1.34 millions
30. Who wrote the line 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'?
Rahul Banerjee (archery ) - Preeja Sreedharan (athletics) - Vikas Gowda (athletics) - Jwala Gutta(badminton) - M Suranjoy Singh(boxing) - Zaheer Khan (cricket) - Sunil Chhetri(football) - Ashish Kumar (gymnastics) - Rajpal Singh (hockey) - Ra
John Keats
Bromine
24th February
31. When is International Labour Day observed?
Rs 270
Shiv Prasad Singh
Tungsten
1st May164
32. Who invented telephone?
Anna Hazare
Alexander Graham Bell
2nd April - 2011
15th January
33. Name the Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay ofBengal?
Roger Federer
Narmada and Japti
Su-Kam Power Systems
Palk Strait
34. Name the Indian who won Magsaysay award for community initiatives in Tamil Nadu?
Graphite
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Kulandei Francis
35. Which is the state wise largest area under forest in India?
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Madhya Pradesh
William Wordsworth
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
36. Who wrote an English novel 'In Custody'?
Tamil Nadu
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Anita Desai
37. How many lines are there in latitude and longitude?
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
7th April
Latitude includes 180 lines and longitude has 360 lines because longitude connects North Pole to South Pole and latitude is divided from east to west.
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
38. Players of which state got the maximum Olympic medals in London Olympics?
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Dutch East Indies
Haryana
Myanmar
39. Which day is known as World Tourism Day?
Gujarat
Japan
27th September
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
40. What is the other name of deuterium oxide?
Pune
Uttar Pradesh
Heavy water
William Shakespeare151
41. Who is crowned Miss World 2011?
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Journalism
India
Later Vedic Age
42. Which is the language next to Hindi spoken by largest number of people in the Indian sub continent ?
Bengali
India
Vishnu Sharma
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
43. Who won Jnanpith Award in 2010?
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Khushwant Singh
In Samba
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
44. Name the gas usually filled in the electric bulbs?
Chadwick
Sonepur (Bihar )
Julang-2
Nitrogen
45. Which country has an Unwritten Constitution?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
UK
New Delhi
V. Anand
46. Which day is chosen to be celebrated as Father's Day?
Jane Austen
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
William Wordsworth
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
47. Who wrote the first history book?
Jules Verne
Sri Lanka
Silicon
Herodotus
48. Who got Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (highest sports award in country) award?
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
15th March
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Jonas Salk
49. Which is the great circle on earth's surface?
The equator
Morarji Desai
Odisha
Bhai Gurmej Singh
50. Who got Dronacharya Award in 2011 ?
Bangalore
Sonepur (Bihar )
2nd April - 2011
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).