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General Knowledge Trivia Test

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. When comes the World Environment Day?






2. Watches of a country is set according to what time?






3. Who is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in India?






4. Who is generally regardedas the pioneer of Local Self Government in Modern India?






5. Who founded the Saka Era?






6. Which is largest cave temple in India?






7. Name the NASA's most modern spacecraft successfully landed on Mars on 6th August - 2012 to begin a pioneering two year search to find out if the red planet is suitable for life and whether it can be inhabitable in the future?






8. Name the great poet who graced the court of Alauddin Khilji?






9. Where is the venue for the 2012 Olympics?






10. With which field M.F. Hussian were associated?






11. Who is the senior most Army officer to have faced a court martial and dismissed from service by an Indian Army Court?






12. Which state has maximum density of canals?






13. Where is Char Minar located?






14. For what was Ashoka famous?






15. Which state is going to be first carbon-neutral state in the country by 2020?






16. Who is crowned Miss World 2011?






17. Where is the India's first largest bamboo museum?






18. Where is the headquarters of Oil and Natural Gas Commission?






19. Which king brought the valleys of Indus - Ganga and Jamuna together for the first time under one political authority?






20. Whom did Dalai Lama announced to be his successor in March - 2011?






21. What is the aim of the 'Biosphere Reserve Project'?






22. Who wrote the famous play 'Macbeth'?






23. Which was the musical instrument used by Amir Khusro?






24. Who discovered X-Ray?






25. Where is the World's largest ship canal?






26. Where in Delhi a bomb hidden in briefcase exploded killing 11 persons and injuring 47 in the worst attack in India's capital in 3 years in 2011?

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27. On which era is the Indian National Calender based?






28. Name the sub-launched long range N-missile developed by China?






29. Which hockey team won the Asian Championship Trophy at Ordos(China) in 2011?






30. Name the Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay ofBengal?






31. Who is known as Nightingale of India?






32. Who wrote the first history book?






33. At what age World's oldest dog Pusuke died?






34. Which anniversary of sandwich was celebrated by British town in May - 2012?






35. Which state in India has three language teaching formula?






36. Name the metal used as the filament of an electric bulb?






37. Name the 17th Karmapa against whom the Una police filed a chargesheet under section 120-B of the IPC in 2011?






38. Who wrote the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?






39. Who got Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award in 2011?






40. How water in earthen pots remain cool?






41. On which day International Women's Day observed?






42. Who was the first lady to become judge of the Supreme Court?






43. 'Nokia' the telecom company belongs to which country?






44. Which is largest populated city in India?






45. Who wrote the book 'Gulliver's Travels'?






46. Name the baby of Uttar Pardesh who is the symbolic seven billionth baby ?






47. Which country has World's largest democracy?






48. Who discovered insulin?






49. Who was the first speaker of Independent India's Lok Sabha?






50. What is India's rank on the Transparency International (TI) corruption Perception Index out of 183 countries in 2011?