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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. When is World Health Day celebrated?
Leh
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Jawaharlal Nehru
7th April
2. Who crafted the wax statue of Anna Hazare?
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3. Name the gases used in different types of welding?
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Oxygen and acetylene
Pakistan and Afghanistan
4. Who has been selected as the new head of Tata empire in 2011?
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Cyrus Mistry
Mahatma Gandhi
Gol Gumbaz
5. Who deciphered the genetic code?
Jama Masjid
Performax
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
6. Which is the largest populated state in India?
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
Ujjain
Uttar Pradesh
Nitrous oxide
7. On which era is the Indian National Calender based?
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Kanishka
1.34 millions
Saka era
8. Where were remains of Vijayanagar Empire found?
Increases
Hockey
Hampi
11th July
9. Who will be the new Director General of Police (DGP) after the retirement of P.S. Gill?
5th June
Director General Anil Kaushik
The equator
Karashapana
10. Which is the largest planetarium in India?
Alexander Graham Bell
5
Paschim Banga1
Kolkata
11. Which metal is kept under kerosine?
Sunil Gavaskar
Golconda
Art and architecture
Sodium
12. When comes National Postal Day in India?
Morarji Desai
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
1911133
10th October
13. Which element is obtained from sea weeds?
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Iodine
14. Which is the largest Gurudwara in India?
18th December
July - 1947
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Mussoorie
15. Name the book which has collection of speeches of N.G Ranga?
Guru Gobind Singh
Three Decades in Parliament
15th August167
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
16. Name the ship commissioned by India which is biggest in its class in the World?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
USA
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Pune
17. Which is our National song?
Vande Mataram
1911133
Arundhati Roy
Is a herbal formulation of 10 selected herbs known to have adaptogenic properties. It helps to improve the physical and mental performance by increasing blood oxygenation and reducing low density lipoproteins and cholesterol.
18. Which country is the second largest producer of sugar?
Curiosity
Gagan Narang (shooter)
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
Madhya Pradesh
19. During whose time the Gandhara School of art developed?
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Kushans
Shobha De
55th rank
20. When is Sadbhavna Diwas (Goodwill Day ) observed in India?
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21. Who was the first king to conquer Malwa - Gujarat and Maharashtra?
Third century B.C
Chandragupta Maurya
Contingency Fund of India
Perpendicular to each other
22. Who is the author of 'Tarikh-i-Alai' containing the details of the first few years of Sultan Alauddin Khilji?
Longitudinal position
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Amir Khusrau
Samuel Morse
23. When is Commonwealth Day observed?
Lobsang Sangay
24th May
Kanishka
Edison
24. Which game is associated with Agha Khan Cup?
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Hockey
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
26th January
25. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
Lead
India and China
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Talwandi
26. Name the Indian scientist from whose surname the word 'boson' is derived?
The President
Kanishka
Satyendra Nath Bose
Increases
27. In which century did Ashoka reign?
Third century B.C
Nikolaus Otto
It loses one day
Rajasthan
28. Name the country's longest railway tunnel excavated?
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
8th September
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Iodine
29. Who is the new youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
Milkha Singh
Odisha
Akhilesh Yadav
Indians
30. Greenwich mean time (GMT) is the standard time of which country?
Mathura
Madhya Pradesh
U.K
22nd April
31. Where is National School of Mines located?
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Methane - butane and propane
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Pune
32. From where the longest circle which can be drawn from earth's surface will pass?
M.N Roy62
Harshavardhana
Will pass through Equator
15th January
33. Name the mountain range which stretches from Gujarat in the West to Delhi in the North?
Aravallis
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
John Ruskin
Sachin Tendulkar
34. A famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice 'is written by whom?
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Jane Austen
Ludhiana
35 degree
35. Where is Sun Temple situated?
Konark
Prime Minister
Sushil Kumar
Ripon
36. When comes the World Disabled Day?
Sriharikota
15th March
Concave mirror
V. Anand
37. Who invented radar?
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
When sun is above the equator
Robert Watson Watt
38. How many medals are won by India in Olympics 2012?
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Navtej Saran
Painting
H.P.S Ahluwalia
39. Name the state of India where diamond mines are mainly found?
Madhya Pradesh
1949
11th May
Anita Desai
40. What happens when a ship crosses Date line from west to east?
9th August
It loses one day
Madhya Pradesh
Curiosity
41. Players of which state got the maximum Olympic medals in London Olympics?
Contingency Fund of India
Jawaharlal Nehru
Haryana
Sri Lanka
42. Name the Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay ofBengal?
Jane Austen
Palk Strait
Gujarat
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
43. Name the player of USA who created history by grabbing his 22nd Olympic medal ?
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Assam
Kolkata
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.
44. Liquefied Petroleum Gas consists mainly which gases?
The Lok Sabha
Jai Samhita
Martin Luther King
Methane - butane and propane
45. 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?
1.34 millions
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
5th April
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
46. What is added to remove permanent hardness of water?
Washing soda
G.V. Mavalankar
Bangalore
Jhumpa Lahiri
47. On which date Chennai turned 372 years?
Bengali
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
15th January
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
48. Where is Bihar's first all women police station located?
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Mumbai
Performax
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
49. Whom did Dalai Lama announced to be his successor in March - 2011?
Lobsang Sangay
J.B.Say
Kapil Dev
12th January
50. Who invented transistor?
At the center of earth
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Shockley
Zinc