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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Name the gas used to extinguish fire?
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Carbon dioxide
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
2. Which is the highest military award for valour in India?
Washing soda
Rabindranath Tagore147
Param Vir Chakra
Bangalore
3. Where is famous Somnath Temple located?
Mahatma Gandhi
Michael Phelps
Gujarat
Art and architecture
4. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' (inscribed below the base plate of the emblem of India) taken?
90 degrees
1.34 millions
Mundak Upanishad
Aravind Adiga
5. Who wrote the book 'We Indians'?
Golconda
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
London
Khushwant Singh
6. Which state of India has highest production of tea?
Dutch East Indies
Nitrogen
Assam
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
7. Where is the National Institute of Nutrition located?
Hyderabad
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Trivandrum
Mosley
8. Whose name is associated with the council of the 'Nine Gems'?
Jhumpa Lahiri
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Shimla and Hamirpur
Chandragupta-II
9. Name the herbal drug developed by DRDO for soldiers working in high altitude areas?
Performax
11th May
Hunting
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
10. Name the Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay ofBengal?
Palk Strait
U.K
2:4
Jan 26 - 1950134
11. With whom are the rare replicas of sacred book Guru Granth Sahib?
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Alexander Fleming
Gol Gumbaz
30th January
12. Who is the author of book 'Many Worlds'?
V.S Naipaul
USA
Jonathan Swift
2nd April - 2011
13. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?
Sukumar Sen
Johannes Kepler
Martin Luther King
Sunita Williams
14. After whose name the Nobel Prize was started?
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Dutch East Indies
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
India
15. Name the cities of Himachal to be developed as the solar cities?
Ganga
Shimla and Hamirpur
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Jamaica
16. Name the alloy of iron - chromium and nickel?
Odisha
Finland
Stainless steel
Maharashtra
17. Who published the 'Red Data Book' containing information on the wild animals and plants in danger of extinction?
Yousuf Raza Gillani
30th January
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Director General Anil Kaushik
18. Who invented the mercury thermometer?
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Sitar
Galileo
Golconda
19. Which hockey team won the Asian Championship Trophy at Ordos(China) in 2011?
India
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
20. When is India's Republic Day celebrated?
Chandragupta
Su-Kam Power Systems
Bleaching powder
26th January
21. Who said - 'God helps those who helps themselves'?
Indians
Algernon Sidney
Demand deposits
Sitar
22. When comes National Sports Day of India?
Methane
Director General Anil Kaushik
The President
29th August
23. Where is the Caspian sea - the largest inland sea or lake in the world located?
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
S. Radhakrishnan
28th February
Kerala
24. Name the gas usually filled in the electric bulbs?
Chadwick
Nitrogen
The Lok Sabha
10th December
25. Whose contemporary was Tulsidas?
Akbar
Talwandi
Su-Kam Power Systems
Florence Nightingale
26. Who is crowned Miss Universe India 2011?
Sriharikota
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
1949
Chadwick
27. Which state in India has three language teaching formula?
Morarji Desai
Amir Khusru
Punjab
Amjad Ali Khan
28. On which date Chennai turned 372 years?
Guru Gobind Singh
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Amitabh Bachchan
29. What will be the new name of West Bengal?
Paschim Banga1
Only the first stanza
V. Anand
Vidya Balan
30. On which date Quit India Day comes?
Akbar
Mohammad Iqbal
9th August
Amitabh Ghosh
31. Which gas is used for preparation of soda water?
2
Planning Commission
Marie Curie
Carbon dioxide
32. Who deciphered the genetic code?
Albert Einstein
Sodium
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Concave lens
33. Where are the headquarters of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts?
Sitar
New Delhi
27th September
India and China
34. How many cities can be protected by the missile defence shield developed by India?
Year of Disabled Soldiers
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
2
Bangalore
35. What is the ratio of width of our National flag to its length?
8
Firozeshah Tughluq
2:3161
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
36. Which country was under the grip of a severe earthquake followed by tsunami recently?
Japan
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Jawaharlal Nehru
37. Who was first Indian woman to become president of U.N. General Assembly?
Mahatma Gandhi
23rd April
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
38. Which metal is kept under kerosine?
Sodium
Jamaica
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
39. Who is the author of book 'Gita Govinda'?
Jayadeva
Vishnu Sharma
Only the first stanza
Graphite
40. Who is vice President of India?
E.G.Otis
Vadodara
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
E.M Forster
41. Who is the elected Prime Minister of Pakistan from Pakistan People's Party?
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Dance
Bleaching powder
Yousuf Raza Gillani
42. At which place a devastating fire tore through seven storey AMRI hospital killing 91 people in 2011?
Heavy water
Satyendra Nath Bose
South Kolkata
Odisha
43. How many postal zones are there in India - under the PIN Code System?
Krishna
8
G.V. Mavalankar
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
44. Which river is related to Nagarjun Sagar Project?
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Krishna
7th April
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
45. Which age group children in India are ensured free and compulsory education?
Fatehpur Sikri
Saka era
6-14 years
Chilka lake (Orissa )
46. At what price the menu of the first dinner served to the firstclass passengers of the ill fated liner Titanic on 10th April - 1912 sold?
$46 - 00011
Khushwant Singh
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
47. Who is the first Indian sports person to win an individual Gold medal in the Olympic Games?
Jules Verne
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
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.)
Abhinav Bindra
48. In which century did Ashoka reign?
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
God particle or Higgs Boson
Third century B.C
49. Who founded the Saka Era?
Maharaja Hari Singh
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Kanishka
Khushwant Singh
50. Where is the Indian Institute of Science located?
The Lok Sabha
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Bangalore
15th March