SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
General Knowledge Trivia Test
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
general-knowledge
,
trivia
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Who inspired Green Revolution in India?
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
John Ruskin
8
N.E. Borlaug
2. What happens when a ship crosses Date line from west to east?
J.B.Say
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
It loses one day
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
3. When comes National Sports Day of India?
Firozeshah Tughluq
Jules Verne
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
29th August
4. Who is the author of the book 'The Exile'?
Navtej Saran
Tungsten
Japan
Motion Picture
5. Who is vice President of India?
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Kalpakkam
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
6. What is the designation of the chairperson of Lok Sabha?
Jonas Salk
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Speaker
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
7. Who wrote the first history book?
Herodotus
11th May
Diffusion
INS Vikrant55
8. Who is the richest Indian in the World according to the 2011 Forbes India annual rich list?
2nd April - 2011
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
162
Florence Nightingale
9. How many spokes are there in our national emblem 'Ashoka Chakra'?
8th March
Contingency Fund of India
Chandrayaan
24
10. Where is the venue for the 2012 Olympics?
Kho-Kho
M.N Roy62
Himachal Pradesh
London
11. Whose autobiography is 'India Wins Freedom'?
5
Abul Kalam Azad
Mundak Upanishad
Jana Gana Mana
12. Where is Buland Darwaza located?
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Fatehpur Sikri
Guru Gobind Singh
13. Which metal is used in pencils?
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Graphite
Andhra Pradesh
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
14. Who is crowned Miss World 2011?
1953
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Bombay
15. With whom the Income Tax Department decides to share its PAN card database?
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
5th June
Shobha De
China
16. World Aids Day falls on which date?
1st December
Jane Austen
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Hockey
17. India is facing pressure from the US and other Western countries to break trade ties with which country?
Planning Commission
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
18. What happens to speed of sound with rise in temperature?
Samuel Morse
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Increases
19. Name the Indian scientist who was a part of NASA team which has identified the landing site of the 'Curiosity'?
Contingency Fund of India
Sri Lanka
Amitabh Ghosh
24
20. Name the Indian scientist from whose surname the word 'boson' is derived?
5th September
The Delhi Metro
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'.
Satyendra Nath Bose
21. When an open bottle of scent is kept at one corner due to which phenomenon its fragrance is found in whole room?
New Delhi
Morarji Desai
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Diffusion
22. Which player is the author of the book 'Straight From The Heart'?
In Samba
Kapil Dev
Music
Vocal Music
23. Name the famous ruler of ancient India - who towards the end of his life converted to Jainism?
E.G.Otis
Concave lens
Chandragupta
Gujarat
24. 'Glimpses of World History' is written by whom?
Nayantara Sahgal
Demand deposits
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Jawaharlal Nehru
25. Who invented the telegraphic code?
9th August
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Samuel Morse
Arundhati Roy
26. In how many time zones is U.S.A divided?
5
Art and architecture
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Myanmar
27. Which day is chosen to be celebrated as Father's Day?
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
4 minutes
Alexander Fleming
Samar Guha
28. Who is the senior most Army officer to have faced a court martial and dismissed from service by an Indian Army Court?
Karashapana
INS Vikrant55
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
15th March
29. Who discovered insulin?
Dr. F.G.Banting
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Mathura
Mahatma Gandhi
30. If in a mirror image of object appears to be larger then which type of mirror is used?
Concave mirror
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
14th November
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
31. Who will be the new Director General of Police (DGP) after the retirement of P.S. Gill?
Tamil Nadu
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Director General Anil Kaushik
32. One degree of longitude on equator is equal to what distance?
Methane - butane and propane
69 miles
28th February
Mosley
33. Which country has World's largest democracy?
India
Saeed Mirza
Jan 26 - 1950134
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
34. Which day is known as World Tourism Day?
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
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'.
Uttar Pradesh
27th September
35. Where are the achievements of Samudragupta described on?
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.)
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Governor
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
36. What was the main occupation of Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) people?
Mahatma Gandhi
18th April
Hunting
15th January
37. Where is Boat Race a popular sport?
Sushil Kumar
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Kerala
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
38. What is the ratio of width of our National Flag to its length?
Curiosity
E.M Forster
2:4
Galileo
39. Which is the place experiencing minimum and maximum temperatures -28.3 degree Celsius and 15 degree Celsius respectively?
Navtej Saran
Khushwant Singh
Kolkata
Leh
40. Who is the author of 'Tarikh-i-Alai' containing the details of the first few years of Sultan Alauddin Khilji?
Maharaja Hari Singh
Jan 26 - 1950134
Amir Khusrau
Carbon dioxide
41. At what age World's oldest dog Pusuke died?
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
26 years and 9 months
Renders electronic gadgets useless and effectively neutralises the adversary's command control and communication capability by producing a strong electromagnetic field generating powerful electricity surges that play havoc with electronic circuits wi
Shiv Prasad Singh
42. Who was the first Indian elected to the leadership of Communist International?
Greeks
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Maharashtra
M.N Roy62
43. Name the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister whose admirers have decided to build a temple to perpetuate his memory?
Kanishka
23rd December
162
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
44. Who was the founder of the Khalsa?
Guru Gobind Singh
24th February
Sodium
State Bank of India
45. What is the maximum duration for which the Vice President can officiate as the President of India?
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
6 months
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
1.34 millions
46. Who is known as Father of Geometry?
Euclid
Michael Phelps
Gota in Sweden
11th May
47. Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?
Nitrogen
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Jaya Dev
Mumbai
48. Who invented radar?
Myanmar
Robert Watson Watt
India and China
Contingency Fund of India
49. Who is President of India?
Finland
26th January
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Prof. V.N Datta
50. Who is called Father of English Poetry?
Vasudeva
Chaucer
UK
Gagan Narang