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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Who wrote the popular book 'The Naked Face'?
Odisha
Gwalior Gharana
Sidney Sheldon
Assam
2. Where is Indian Cancer Research Institute situated?
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Bombay
Vice President of India
Ganga
3. Who wrote the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?
Painting
Jules Verne
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Edison
4. Late Vijay Tendulkar who died in 2008 were famous in which field?
Chandrayaan
30th January
Mary Kom
Playwright
5. How water in earthen pots remain cool?
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Kapil Dev
Thailand
German
6. Name the first heavyweight boxer to go undefeated throughout his career?
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Rocky Marciano
Gol Gumbaz
Bhai Gurmej Singh
7. Which hockey team won the Asian Championship Trophy at Ordos(China) in 2011?
Sitar
6-14 years
India
Mosley
8. Who published the 'Red Data Book' containing information on the wild animals and plants in danger of extinction?
Landsteiner
Three Decades in Parliament
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Genetically Modified Crops.
9. Who was the only Muslim woman to sit on the throne of Delhi?
Lead
Mahatma Gandhi
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Razia Sultana
10. Where is the birth place of Guru Nanak Ji?
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Bangalore
Dehradun
Talwandi
11. Where at present the BRAHMOS missiles are assembled?
Dilip Kumar
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Nitrogen
Hyderabad
12. Who got the greatest Olympic athlete of all time Trophy?
2
Michael Phelps
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Samar Guha
13. Who is the World Player of Year?
In Samba
Equator
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Ripon
14. Who introduced the market regulations in India in ancient period?
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Nayantara Sahgal
Three Decades in Parliament
Allauddin Khilji
15. Who wrote the book 'We Indians'?
Playwright
Khushwant Singh
Amitabh Bachchan
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
16. Who composed the National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'?
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Rabindranath Tagore
29th August
Kushans
17. Name the latest hi-tech weapon invented in 2011 to prevent obesity?
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18. Which is the highest military award for valour in India?
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
INS Vikrant55
Param Vir Chakra
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
19. Who invented the television?
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
J.L.Baird
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
20. With which sports is Sushma Saroelker associated?
Krishna
Amitabh Bachchan
Kho-Kho
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
21. Who won the first medal for India in Olympics 2012?
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
V.S Naipaul
Gol Gumbaz
Mumbai
22. Which is our National song?
The Rajya Sabha
The President
31st May
Vande Mataram
23. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?
William Shakespeare151
Bangalore
Golconda
Mohammad bin Kasim
24. How many cities can be protected by the missile defence shield developed by India?
2
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'.
6-14 years
Maharashtra
25. Who is the creator of 'Sherlock Holmes'?
Shimla and Hamirpur
Arthur Conan Doyle
Jonathan Swift
J.B.Say
26. Which is the India's largest public sector commercial bank at present?
31st May
Sunita Williams
Sushil Kumar
State Bank of India
27. Where are the headquarters of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts?
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
New Delhi
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
28. What is the name of India's moon mission?
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Chandrayaan
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Pune
29. Which painting got the highest price ever paid for a work of art at any auction?
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30. Which day is known as World Book and Copyright Day?
Razia Sultana
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Hyderabad
23rd April
31. Which is the largest desert in India?
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Art and architecture
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.
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.
32. Which state has maximum density of canals?
Satyendra Nath Bose
Uttar Pradesh
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Uttarakhand
33. When in India Teachers Day celebrated?
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
Saeed Mirza
5th September
34. Name the Russian painter who had an 468 acre estate in Bangalore
Graphite
Gwalior Gharana
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Director General Anil Kaushik
35. Name the person who has set a new Guinness record of being the oldest man to complete a full distance marathon in Toronto?
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Journalism
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Mosley
36. For what is Bijapur known?
Vadodara
Gol Gumbaz
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Leh
37. Where is Char Minar located?
Johannes Kepler
Hyderabad
Torricelli
31st May
38. An air bubble in water acts as which lens?
Jana Gana Mana
Concave lens
Four lions
Satyendra Nath Bose
39. Which battle opened the Delhi area to Muhammad Ghori?
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Gol Gumbaz
Khushwant Singh
Second Battle of Tarain
40. Which village of Andhra Pradesh may be sitting over one of the world's largest uranium reserves?
State Bank of India
Nikolaus Otto
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
41. How many spokes are there in our national emblem 'Ashoka Chakra'?
Morarji Desai
Maharashtra
24
Lala Lajpat Rai
42. Which is the largest zoo in India?
Das Kapital
London
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Anna Hazare
43. Which state in South India have a thermal station at Tuticorin?
Six months
Galileo
Tamil Nadu
Rabindra Nath Tagore
44. At which place a devastating fire tore through seven storey AMRI hospital killing 91 people in 2011?
South Kolkata
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Narendra Modi government
45. What is the designation of the chairperson of Lok Sabha?
Speaker
26th January
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Rocky Marciano
46. Term Double Fault is associated with which game?
W.C Bannerjee
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Lawn Tennis153
The Reserve Bank of India
47. Mc. Mohan Line demarcates the boundary between which countries?
India and China
Algernon Sidney
Tamil Nadu
Carbon dioxide
48. Where is largest animal fair held in India?
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Amir Khusru
Demand deposits
Sonepur (Bihar )
49. Whom the Gujarat High Court issued contempt notice on 15th Feb. - 2012 for not obeying its order to compensate people whose shops were burnt down in the post-Godhra riots?
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Narendra Modi government
Motion Picture
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
50. Which metal is used in pencils?
S. Radhakrishnan
Graphite
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Mahatma Gandhi