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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Who got Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar in 2011 ?
The President
Journalism
Amir Khusru
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
2. When is Earth Day observed?
India
5 hours 30 minutes
Hyderabad
22nd April
3. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?
Golconda
23rd December
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
4. Who won bronze medal for India in men's 60 Kg freestyle wrestling?
Mathura
Amir Khusru
Mumbai
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
5. Where was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Avanti?
27th September
V.S Naipaul
Uttar Pradesh
Ujjain
6. Name the first ever pill approved by US to prevent HIV?
Jules Verne
Shimla and Hamirpur
V.S Naipaul
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
7. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?
Krishna
Shiv Prasad Singh
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
New Delhi
8. Name the temple where majority of pilgrims visiting tonsure their heads and offer their hair to Lord Venkateswara?
Satyendra Nath Bose
Chandragupta-II
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
Sitar
9. Name the gas usually filled in the electric bulbs?
Nitrogen
Sidney Sheldon
26th January
Andhra Pradesh
10. Where did the World's costliest crash took place?
Krishna
Uttarakhand
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Kho-Kho
11. When comes National Sports Day of India?
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Greeks
29th August
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
12. Who was the first speaker of Independent India's Lok Sabha?
29th August
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.
Jai Samhita
G.V. Mavalankar
13. What is the estimated premature deaths caused annually by outdoor air pollution - according to the first pollution survey carried out by World Health Organisation in Sept. - 2011?
1.34 millions
6-14 years
Equator
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
14. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Shockley
Finland
15. Who wrote our National Anthem?
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Vishnu Sharma
16. When is India's Army Day celebrated ?
15th January
Mehbooba Mufti
India
30th January
17. Which day in India is celebrated as Children's Day?
Amir Khusrau
Rahul Dravid
10th October
14th November
18. On which date Quit India Day comes?
Landsteiner
9th August
Second Battle of Tarain
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
19. Name the Indian scientist who was a part of NASA team which has identified the landing site of the 'Curiosity'?
Jagannath
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Bamiyan
Amitabh Ghosh
20. Which was the musical instrument used by Amir Khusro?
Stupa
6-14 years
Bobby Jindal
Sitar
21. Where is the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre located?
Dance
162
Trivandrum
Three Decades in Parliament
22. Name the state of India having longest coastline?
Andhra Pradesh
Kho-Kho
U.K
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
23. Which day in India celebrated as Central Excise Day ?
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
South Africa
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
24th February
24. Which musical instrument is said to be invented by Amir Khusro?
Harshavardhana
Diffusion
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Sitar
25. What is the reason found for ground water contamination in Punjab - especially in the Malwa region?
Cyrus Mistry
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
5th April
Mahatma Gandhi
26. Who has become the first lady jawan in Indian army?
Tamil Nadu
Hyderabad
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
27. Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?
Jaya Dev
11th May
Pune
Tamil Nadu
28. When is International Labour Day observed?
Four lions
1st May164
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Roentgen
29. Name the metal used in storage batteries?
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Lead
Edison
Iodine
30. Where is Boat Race a popular sport?
Perpendicular to each other
Lobsang Sangay
Kerala
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
31. When was Sangeet Natak Akademi set up by Government of India?
1953
Ganga
Shiv Prasad Singh
Planning Commission
32. Name the Bollywood legend whose ancestral home in Peshawar - Pakistan has been turned into heritage site?
Dilip Kumar
India
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
15th March
33. What will be the difference in longitudes between two places if their time difference is 2 hours and 20 minutes?
35 degree
Sachin Tendulkar
Eagle
Paschim Banga1
34. Who is called 'Grand Old Man of India'?
Demand deposits
Chandragupta
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.
Dadabhai Naoroji
35. Which country was under the grip of a severe earthquake followed by tsunami recently?
Rajasthan
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.
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Japan
36. Which is the largest dome in India?
Hampi
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Prof. V.N Datta
37. Why bubble of water shines?
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
24th May
38. Which country topped medal table in Olympic 2012?
India
Amir Khusrau
Gota in Sweden
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
39. Who is the author of the book 'My Experiments with Truth'?
State Bank of India
Dutch East Indies
Mahatma Gandhi
S. Radhakrishnan
40. Who is known as 'Lady with the Lamp'?
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Florence Nightingale
8th October
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.)
41. Who became the first batsman in the history of cricket to score 100 international centuries?
Shockley
Sachin Tendulkar
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
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42. When is Sadbhavna Diwas (Goodwill Day ) observed in India?
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43. For which dance Birju Maharaj is well known?
Kathak
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
At the center of earth
Aravind Adiga
44. Vocalist Rahamat Khan belongs to which Gharana?
Aravind Adiga
Gwalior Gharana
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
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.
45. Who discovered insulin?
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Dr. F.G.Banting
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Bangalore
46. Which is largest man made lake in India?
Su-Kam Power Systems
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
4 minutes
Vocal Music
47. What is Dry Ice?
Rahul Dravid
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Amir Khusru
48. Who led the first Muslim invasion of India?
Mohammad bin Kasim
8th March
German
Jana Gana Mana
49. Where did India's first Formula one race took place in 2011?
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
95th
Mathura
Journalism
50. Name the smallest neighbour of India?
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Nitrous oxide