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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. During whose time the Gandhara School of art developed?
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Kushans
Hyderabad
India and Pakistan
2. Where is Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research located?
Kalpakkam
Karashapana
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Forty-fourth Amendment
3. Who founded the Saka Era?
Kanishka
Jaya Dev
Marie Curie
The equator
4. What will be the new name of West Bengal?
Rocky Marciano
Paschim Banga1
Andhra Pradesh
Amir Khusrau
5. Which is largest state of India?
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
In Samba
15th August167
Rajasthan
6. How many images will be formed when an object is placed between two mirrors placed parellel to each other?
Infinite
Iodine
Painting
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
7. Who invented telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Arthur Conan Doyle
Krishna
Oxygen and acetylene
8. Which child artist got Critics Best Actor Award for his acting in a film Taare Zameen Par?
Lawn Tennis153
Darsheel Safary
Morarji Desai
Madhya Pradesh
9. Name the Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay ofBengal?
23rd December
Palk Strait
Myanmar
2G spectrum scam
10. Who discovered X-Ray?
Jaya Dev
Graphite
Roentgen
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
11. What are the estimated premature deaths caused annually by air pollution - according to the first pollution survey carried in Sept. - 2011 by World Health Organisation?
2nd April - 2011
South Africa
Prime Minister
1.34 millions
12. Where did the World's costliest crash took place?
Saka era
Chandragupta-II
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Odisha
13. How many spokes are there in our national emblem 'Ashoka Chakra'?
24
Gol Gumbaz
G.V. Mavalankar
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
14. Whose name is associated with the council of the 'Nine Gems'?
Kho-Kho
Herodotus
Chandragupta-II
Tungsten
15. On which date India won the World Cup in Mumbai?
Uttarakhand
Tamil Nadu
Hyderabad
2nd April - 2011
16. Who is author of 'Hindu view of life'?
Nitrogen
Zinc
8
S. Radhakrishnan
17. What amount is purposed as per capita allocation for health sector for 2011-2012 - according to the official review of National Rural Health Mission?
Rs 270
Kanishka
23rd December
Sonepur (Bihar )
18. Who wrote the popular book 'The Naked Face'?
Sidney Sheldon
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
19. Where is Boat Race a popular sport?
1.34 millions
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Madhya Pradesh
Kerala
20. Which gas is called laughing gas?
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Nitrous oxide
Methane
21. Who is generally regardedas the pioneer of Local Self Government in Modern India?
Dehradun
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
10th December
Ripon
22. Who is called the Flying Sikh of India?
Diffusion
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Abhinav Bindra
Milkha Singh
23. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?
Golconda
Sunil Gavaskar
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.)
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
24. When are days and nights equal throughout the globe?
When sun is above the equator
Abul Kalam Azad
Rs 270
15th August167
25. What is Dry Ice?
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
6 months
William Shakespeare151
Vadodara
26. In how many time zones is U.S.A divided?
5
India
Jayadeva
Morarji Desai
27. What is KG5 drug?
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28. Who led the first Muslim invasion of India?
Mohammad bin Kasim
S. Radhakrishnan
Only the first stanza
Longitudinal position
29. Which sportsperson won the maximum number of Olympic Gold Medals?
Ganga
Michael Phelps
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Will pass through Equator
30. Who said 'Child is the father of Man'?
William Wordsworth
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Cavendish
Aravind Adiga
31. Who was the first woman to go in space?
M. Narasimhan
Rocky Marciano
Tungsten
Valentina Tereshkova
32. Mainly which gas is present in gobar gas?
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Sarojini Naidu
Methane
Hyderabad
33. Where were huge amounts of uranium recently found?
Param Vir Chakra
Kiran Bedi
Talwandi
Andhra Pradesh
34. Who wrote the book 'Eternal Himalayas'?
Ujjain
G.V. Mavalankar
H.P.S Ahluwalia
55th rank
35. Name the person who transliterated Guru Granth Sahib in Braille?
Three Decades in Parliament
Maharashtra
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Art and architecture
36. Which is the largest cave in India?
5th September
Greeks
E.M Forster
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
37. When is India's National Youth Day celebrated ?
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
12th January
Dumping
38. Who said 'I have nothing to offer except blood - sweat and tears'?
Churchill
20th March
Mumbai
Performax
39. Which is the largest dome in India?
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Iodine
Param Vir Chakra
8th May
40. Which is the largest desert in India?
Maharashtra
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
30th January
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
41. Where is the only shrine in the world which has a natural statue of Hanuman that is not man made?
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Bangalore
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Silver
42. What is the ratio of width of our National Flag to its length?
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
2:4
Sodium
Ladakh
43. Which is the world's second cheapest city according to global survey?
Firozeshah Tughluq
5
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Motion Picture
44. What was the old name of Indonesia?
Third century B.C
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Dutch East Indies
Robert Watson Watt
45. Which is the largest delta in India?
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Andhra Pradesh
Mundak Upanishad
Sunderbans delta
46. Who won the Wimbledon title for seventh time and 17th grand slam crown after beating Andy Murray in male category in 2012?
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Lobsang Sangay
India
Roger Federer
47. Where were Chola Kings ruling over?
Longitudinal position
15th August167
Tamil Nadu
Vasudeva
48. Name the first ever pill approved by US to prevent HIV?
Zinc
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Saka era
49. On which date Anti Tobacco Day observed?
India and Pakistan
31st May
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Anita Desai
50. Who wrote the book 'Ammi! Letter to a Democratic Mother'?
U.K
Saeed Mirza
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
At the center of earth