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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
24th May
Concave mirror
2. Whose influence is reflected in the sculptures of the Gandhara school?
29th August
Vidya Balan
Hampi
Greeks
3. Who is the man popularly kwown as Gurudev?
Vishnu Sharma
Michael Phelps
Rabindranath Tagore147
90 degree
4. Who won bronze medal for India in men's 60 Kg freestyle wrestling?
Kerala
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
U.K
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
5. 'A Voice of Freedom' is a book written by whom?
Vasudeva
Nayantara Sahgal
Alexander Fleming
Aung San Suu Kyi
6. What is the reason found for ground water contamination in Punjab - especially in the Malwa region?
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Sriharikota
7. Who won the Wimbledon title for seventh time and 17th grand slam crown after beating Andy Murray in male category in 2012?
Carbon dioxide
Roger Federer
Dutch East Indies
Because the solids have high elasticity.
8. Which village of Andhra Pradesh may be sitting over one of the world's largest uranium reserves?
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
India and Pakistan
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
9. Name the Apple co-founder who changed the daily habits of millions by reinventing computing - music and mobile phones?
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Rs 270
Sunita Williams
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
10. Where is the headquarters of Oil and Natural Gas Commission?
Mahatma Gandhi
Dehradun
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Jane Austen
11. What is the new name of Burma?
Genetically Modified Crops.
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Myanmar
Vasudeva
12. On which date Chennai turned 372 years?
Samuel Morse
Firozeshah Tughluq
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Sodium
13. Which was the great centre of trade and commerce in the Gupta period?
J.B.Say
29th August
Mathura
Speaker
14. Which hockey team won the Asian Championship Trophy at Ordos(China) in 2011?
India
Madhya Pradesh
John Keats
INS Vikrant55
15. Who is the author of book 'Gita Govinda'?
Jayadeva
Marie Curie
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Hyderabad
16. Where is Buland Darwaza located?
4 minutes
Vadodara
Fatehpur Sikri
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
17. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?
Akbar
Dr. F.G.Banting
Vice President of India
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
18. Which song became the most searched You tube video in India in 2011?
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19. What amount is purposed as per capita allocation for health sector for 2011-2012 - according to the official review of National Rural Health Mission?
Paschim Banga1
Mussoorie
Rs 270
Jawaharlal Nehru
20. Who is the person of Indian origin nominated as the Governor of Louisiana - an American state?
Jana Gana Mana
Bobby Jindal
Sachin Tendulkar
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
21. Durand line is the border common to which two countries?
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Kiran Bedi
Dutch East Indies
11th May
22. For what was Gupta dynasty famous?
Sitar
Jana Gana Mana
Art and architecture
Longitudinal position
23. What is India's rank on the Transparency International (TI) corruption Perception Index out of 183 countries in 2011?
Jayadeva
95th
Allauddin Khilji
Strait of Gibraltar
24. On which part of earth days and nights are of equal length always?
2nd April - 2011
Equator
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
William Shakespeare151
25. For what was Ashoka famous?
Bengali
Third century B.C
Yamuna
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
26. Who has been appointed the Governor of RBI after the retirement of Shri Y.V. Reddy?
Madhya Pradesh
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
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
Amitabh Ghosh
27. Which is the language next to Hindi spoken by largest number of people in the Indian sub continent ?
Standard time of the country138
Bengali
Kerala
Vadodara
28. Who headed the committee on computerisation in Indian banks(1988)?
Hunting
M. Narasimhan
Samuel Morse
5
29. Where were Chola Kings ruling over?
Tamil Nadu
Fatehpur Sikri
Dilip Kumar
Mussoorie
30. Where is the Caspian sea - the largest inland sea or lake in the world located?
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Jaya Dev
Haryana
31. Whose name is associated with the council of the 'Nine Gems'?
Chandragupta-II
Kho-Kho
90 degrees
Mary Kom
32. Who inspired Green Revolution in India?
1st December
Nitrogen
N.E. Borlaug
4 minutes
33. With whom the Income Tax Department decides to share its PAN card database?
5th September
Jaipur
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Kushans
34. Who is the author of the novel 'White Tiger'which won the Booker Prize 2008?
Aravind Adiga
20th March
John Keats
4 minutes
35. Name the mountain range which stretches from Gujarat in the West to Delhi in the North?
Rajasthan
Mundak Upanishad
South Kolkata
Aravallis
36. Which is the Garden City of India?
Due to radiation
Greeks
Rajasthan
Bangalore
37. Who is the author of the book 'Unto the Last' which influenced Gandhi ji?
Kushinagar
John Ruskin
Galileo
Anna Hazare
38. 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?
Su-Kam Power Systems
Diffusion
Curiosity
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
39. Which is the highest military award for valour in India?
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Param Vir Chakra
Mehbooba Mufti
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
40. Where did India's first Formula one race took place in 2011?
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Johann Gregor Mendel
The President
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
41. By whom is the Vice-President of the Indian Union elected?
Art and architecture
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Hockey
Bromine
42. Who wrote the book 'Animal's People'?
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
2G spectrum scam
Mehbooba Mufti
Indra Sinha64
43. What is made from the mixture of lime and chlorine?
Maharaja Hari Singh
Bleaching powder
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
44. Kanchipuram is in which state?
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Sushil Kumar
Tamil Nadu
Angle between the horizon and the equator
45. Who wrote the book 'The Daughter of the East'?
UK
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
46. Which is the largest Gurudwara in India?
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Sunil Gavaskar
47. Name the state where bio-fuel outlet - first of its kind in the country will be opened?
Odisha
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Maharashtra
5
48. Who wrote the book 'Ammi! Letter to a Democratic Mother'?
Gagan Narang
Saeed Mirza
New Agra Fort
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
49. India is facing pressure from the US and other Western countries to break trade ties with which country?
Jaipur
Ogyen Trinley Dorjee - the third most important Tibetian religious head after Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama. (as police recovered currencies of 26 countries including 1 - 20 - 197 chinese yuan and around Rs 5.3 million in Indian currency.)
Michael Phelps
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
50. Who was the author of 'Bharat Bharati'?
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Arthur Conan Doyle
Raja Ravi Varma
Narendra Modi government