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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Name the ballistic missile that lifted off from Wheeler Island in Odisha on 9th August - 2012?
Chandragupta Maurya
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Vocal Music
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
2. Name the 17th Karmapa against whom the Una police filed a chargesheet under section 120-B of the IPC in 2011?
Kerala
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.)
Silicon
USA
3. Which is the Garden City of India?
Pune
Bangalore
Jana Gana Mana
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
4. Which country topped medal table in Olympic 2012?
State Bank of India
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
5. Where is India's Space Rocket Launching Centre situated?
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
Sriharikota
Raja Ravi Varma
6. Name the Russian painter who had an 468 acre estate in Bangalore
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Aravind Adiga
Prime Minister
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
7. Which is the largest Church in India?
Methane - butane and propane
Aravind Adiga
USA
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
8. Who is called Father of English Poetry?
Khushwant Singh
Chaucer
Samudragupta
Dumping
9. Name the herbal drug developed by DRDO for soldiers working in high altitude areas?
Performax
Chandragupta
Shiv Prasad Singh
China
10. Who got Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award in 2011?
2:4
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
55th rank
11. What is the changed name of Orissa officially according to Presidential assent to the Bill?
Dadabhai Naoroji
Maharaja Hari Singh
Odisha
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
12. Who was the first lady to become judge of the Supreme Court?
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Vadodara
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
13. While playing with which team Rahul Dravid completed his 10000 runs in the Test cricket?
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
South Africa
Makes cancer cell 'commit suicide'. It helps in stoping multiplication of tumorous cells and shut themselves down. Will be available in approximately 5 years and will be in pill form.
Talwandi
14. Who discovered neutron?
24th February
162
Chadwick
Kerala
15. What is the practice of selling goods in a foreign country at a price below their domestic selling price is called?
Mahatma Gandhi
Equator
Dumping
Mohammad bin Kasim
16. Where is Indian Cancer Research Institute situated?
Baby Nargis
Bombay
8th May
1953
17. Which element is obtained from sea weeds?
China
G.V. Mavalankar
Hamid Ansari
Iodine
18. What is the ratio of width of our National Flag to its length?
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
2:4
27th September
5th September
19. Who was first Indian woman to become president of U.N. General Assembly?
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
20. Late Girilal Jain was a noted figure in which field?
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'.
Journalism
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Narendra Modi government
21. Between whom battle of Kurukshetra was fought?
It loses one day
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Roentgen
22. Name the great Hindu king who combined in himself the qualities of Samudragupta and Ashoka?
Cyrus Mistry
Makes cancer cell 'commit suicide'. It helps in stoping multiplication of tumorous cells and shut themselves down. Will be available in approximately 5 years and will be in pill form.
Harshavardhana
Abul Kalam Azad
23. What is the name of first Indian aircraft developed by Government laboratory with private fund?
Param Vir Chakra
2:4
Eagle
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
24. Who has been re-elected PDP President for the fourth time in Srinagar in 2011?
Journalism
Mehbooba Mufti
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Kauravas and Pandavas51
25. Name the place where Lord Budha breathed his last?
Vishnu Sharma
Kushinagar
Cavendish
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
26. When is World Health Day celebrated?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Perpendicular to each other
7th April
S. Radhakrishnan
27. What is the ratio of width of our National flag to its length?
Latitude includes 180 lines and longitude has 360 lines because longitude connects North Pole to South Pole and latitude is divided from east to west.
Infinite
Chandragupta Maurya
2:3161
28. Who is the author of novel 'The White Tiger'?
2
Aravind Adiga
10th December
Vishnu Sharma
29. Who led the first Muslim invasion of India?
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Mohammad bin Kasim
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Sachin Tendulkar
30. Who got the greatest Olympic athlete of all time Trophy?
Indra Sinha64
Michael Phelps
Leh
Algernon Sidney
31. When was Sangeet Natak Akademi set up by Government of India?
Sriharikota
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Director General Anil Kaushik
1953
32. Whose influence is reflected in the sculptures of the Gandhara school?
95th
New Delhi
Eagle
Greeks
33. How many images will be formed when an object is placed between two mirrors placed parellel to each other?
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Vasudeva
Infinite
Jane Austen
34. On which part of earth days and nights are of equal length always?
Maharashtra
Equator
Sushil Kumar
Sukumar Sen
35. Which day in India is observed as Minorities Rights Day?
At the center of earth
At Magdalla port near Surat.
18th December
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
36. Who won the first medal for India in Olympics 2012?
Dilip Kumar
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
5th April
37. Who said - 'God helps those who helps themselves'?
Hunting
Algernon Sidney
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Vadodara
38. Name the person who presided over the first session of Indian National Congress in 1885?
8th September
W.C Bannerjee
Sunderbans delta
Uttarakhand
39. Where did India's first Formula one race took place in 2011?
E.M Forster
Golconda
Contingency Fund of India
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
40. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?
Will pass through Equator
26th January
31st May
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
41. Where is Char Minar located?
Shobha De
Hyderabad
1.34 millions
It loses one day
42. Which metro has been certified by the United Nations as the first metro rail based system in the World to get carbon credits for contributing to the fight against climate changes?
M. Narasimhan
The Delhi Metro
5th September
Narendra Modi government
43. Name the largest oil refinery of India?
Haryana
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Vadodara
12th January
44. What is India's rank on Foreign money in Swiss banks?
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
55th rank
At the center of earth
Khadakvasla
45. What is made from the mixture of lime and chlorine?
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Bleaching powder
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Equator
46. Who is the author of the book 'The Exile'?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Hyderabad
Forty-fourth Amendment
Navtej Saran
47. Who invented telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Baby Nargis
Robert Watson Watt
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
48. Name the great poet who graced the court of Alauddin Khilji?
Zinc
India
Amir Khusru
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
49. When India became a Sovereign - democratic republic?
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
Jan 26 - 1950134
Golconda
Bromine
50. Champion Trophy is associated with which game?
15th August167
Hockey
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )