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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Which is the largest desert in India?
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
South Kolkata
Lobsang Sangay
2nd April - 2011
2. Who won bronze medal for India in 10m pistol event (London Olympics - 2012)?
Painting
Sukumar Sen
Gagan Narang
Nitrous oxide
3. Name the country which has longest international boundary with India?
Thailand
China
Tamil Nadu
2G spectrum scam
4. With which field M.F. Hussian were associated?
Painting
Hockey
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Razia Sultana
5. Name the famous ruler of ancient India - who towards the end of his life converted to Jainism?
Chandragupta
Galileo
Third century B.C
U.K
6. Who propounded the Market Law?
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
J.B.Say
Nayantara Sahgal
8th October
7. Name the cities of Himachal to be developed as the solar cities?
Arundhati Roy
Shimla and Hamirpur
At the center of earth
Hyderabad
8. Whose contemporary was Tulsidas?
Hyderabad
Curiosity
Robert Watson Watt
Akbar
9. Who invented the steam engine?
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
11th May
Planning Commission
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
10. When is Sadbhavna Diwas (Goodwill Day ) observed in India?
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11. Which day in India is celebrated as Children's Day?
London
Sitar
Rabindranath Tagore147
14th November
12. For which dance Birju Maharaj is well known?
Bobby Jindal
Kathak
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Samudragupta
13. Which megastar carried the Olympic flame on the torch relay leg between the City of London and the borough of South wark in London on 26th July - 2012 - a day before the opening ceremony of sporting spectacle?
Chandragupta-II
Jyoti Amge
Amitabh Bachchan
Nitrous oxide
14. On what occasion Bihar got its own state anthem and state prayer whose CD's were released by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar?
Swarajya Party
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.
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Ripon
15. Who is sworn as the 14th Vice President of India?
W.C Bannerjee
Hamid Ansari
India
USA
16. Who wrote the novel 'Neela Chand'?
In Samba
Shiv Prasad Singh
Shobha De
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
17. Why bubble of water shines?
Sitar
Baby Nargis
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Valentina Tereshkova
18. Who was the first recipient of Nehru Award for International Understanding?
Martin Luther King
Sitar
Mehbooba Mufti
Sriharikota
19. Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?
New Agra Fort
Jaya Dev
Allauddin Khilji
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
20. Who is the author of the book 'The Exile'?
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Director General Anil Kaushik
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Navtej Saran
21. Who earned the title of 'Liberator'?
Chandragupta Maurya
Andhra Pradesh
Galileo
Roentgen
22. When was the Constituent Assembly that framed Constitution for Independent India set up?
Indra Sinha64
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
1949
23. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' taken?
7th April
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Arundhati Roy
Mundak Upanishad
24. Year 2011 is observed by Army as what?
2:3161
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Sodium
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
25. Name the smallest neighbour of India?
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Ladakh
5th September
26. On which era is the Indian National Calender based?
Silicon
Vadodara
German
Saka era
27. Name the ship commissioned by India which is biggest in its class in the World?
Forty-fourth Amendment
1st May164
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Aravind Adiga
28. What is the difference in time between two places 1 degree longitude apart?
4 minutes
Kiran Bedi
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
23rd December
29. What will be the new name of West Bengal?
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Paschim Banga1
Dr. F.G.Banting
Cyrus Mistry
30. Name the new nuclear powered submarine formally handed to India by Russia?
Mathura
Chadwick
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
V. Anand
31. When are days and nights equal throughout the globe?
When sun is above the equator
Three Decades in Parliament
Sunderbans delta
Guru Gobind Singh
32. What is Ayush treatment?
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
German
4 minutes
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
33. Which day is known as World Book and Copyright Day?
Sunderbans delta
Landsteiner
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
23rd April
34. Who founded the Saka Era?
Kanishka
Myanmar
Carbon dioxide
J.L.Baird
35. Where were huge amounts of uranium recently found?
Andhra Pradesh
31st May
India Museum at Kolkata
Kauravas and Pandavas51
36. Who wrote the famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
V. Anand
U.K
Vande Mataram
Jane Austen
37. Who invented telephone?
Dance
Alexander Graham Bell
The Lok Sabha
Marie Curie
38. Which is the largest port in India?
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.
Golconda
Mumbai
When sun is above the equator
39. Which state in India has three language teaching formula?
Bleaching powder
Aravind Adiga
Punjab
Parupalli Kashyap
40. On which date Quit India Day comes?
Chandragupta Maurya
5th September
9th August
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
41. After whose name the Nobel Prize was started?
Gwalior Gharana
Amir Khusru
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Vishnu Sharma
42. The World famous 'Peacock Throne' was kept in which Mughal building?
Sitar
Shobha De
New Agra Fort
18th April
43. Name the person who transliterated Guru Granth Sahib in Braille?
Ludhiana
Akbar
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Gagan Narang (shooter)
44. Hawa Mahal is situated in which city?
Jaipur
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Rajasthan
1.34 millions
45. Name the state where bio-fuel outlet - first of its kind in the country will be opened?
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Curiosity
15th March
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
46. Who is known as Father of Geometry?
Longitudinal position
10th December
Football
Euclid
47. Champion Trophy is associated with which game?
Jonathan Swift
Hockey
China
Dumping
48. What is India's rank on the Transparency International (TI) corruption Perception Index out of 183 countries in 2011?
Infinite
95th
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
49. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?
Tamil Nadu
Milkha Singh
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
30th January
50. Who is the author of the book 'My Experiments with Truth'?
Mahatma Gandhi
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Mumbai