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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. What is the other name of deuterium oxide?
Heavy water
Standard time of the country138
Neil Armstrong
Churchill
2. Who invented barometer?
Rajasthan
Torricelli
1st May164
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
3. Where is Bihar's first all women police station located?
Contingency Fund of India
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Kauravas and Pandavas51
4. Where is Boat Race a popular sport?
Khushwant Singh
7th April
Kerala
162
5. Name the Indian American astronaut who begins her 2nd space odyssey on July 15 - 2012?
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
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
State Bank of India
Sunita Williams
6. Who wrote the book 'The Namesake'?
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Jhumpa Lahiri
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Samuel Morse
7. Which day in India is observed as Minorities Rights Day?
18th December
Hyderabad
Chandragupta-II
Maharaja Hari Singh
8. Which non -metal remains liquid at room temperature?
Methane - butane and propane
Vice President of India
Bromine
Shimla and Hamirpur
9. 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?
Painting
Narendra Modi government
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Heavy water
10. Who appoints the Chairman and members of State Public Service Commission?
11th July
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Governor
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
11. What is the original name of Mahabharata?
Darsheel Safary
Jai Samhita
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
2G spectrum scam
12. Name the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister whose admirers have decided to build a temple to perpetuate his memory?
The Rajya Sabha
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
13. Who is the author of the book 'We Indians'?
INS Vikrant55
Khushwant Singh
Sitar
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
14. Which was the most commonly used coin in Mauryan period?
Churchill
Karashapana
U.K
Alexander Graham Bell
15. Who got Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar in 2011 ?
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
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.)
35 degree
Jama Masjid
16. Whose influence is reflected in the sculptures of the Gandhara school?
Jawaharlal Nehru
Greeks
Krishna
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
17. Who wrote an English novel 'In Custody'?
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Anita Desai
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
18. Who said 'I have nothing to offer except blood - sweat and tears'?
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.
India Museum at Kolkata
Alexander Fleming
Churchill
19. Who has been appointed the Governor of RBI after the retirement of Shri Y.V. Reddy?
Julang-2
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Leo Tolstoy
29th August
20. Who is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in India?
Greeks
Arundhati Roy
Dadabhai Naoroji
The President
21. Who invented the steam engine?
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
8th May
India
Amjad Ali Khan
22. When is National Science Day celebrated in India?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Demand deposits
Assam
28th February
23. Who composed the national song of India (Vande Maatram)?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
15th March
Eagle
24. Which river is related to Nagarjun Sagar Project?
Dadabhai Naoroji
Standard time of the country138
Hockey
Krishna
25. Name the country which has longest international boundary with India?
95th
Contingency Fund of India
China
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
26. Name the Bollywood legend whose ancestral home in Peshawar - Pakistan has been turned into heritage site?
Gujarat
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Dilip Kumar
Concave mirror
27. Who wrote the popular book 'The Naked Face'?
5th September
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sidney Sheldon
28. On which date India won the World Cup in Mumbai?
2nd April - 2011
Dadabhai Naoroji
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
4 minutes
29. Who is the new youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
Jaya Dev
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Akhilesh Yadav
30. When is the World Population Day observed?
Journalism
Shockley
11th July
Jama Masjid
31. Name the Indian who won Magsaysay award for community initiatives in Tamil Nadu?
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
N.E. Borlaug
26th January
Kulandei Francis
32. Who invented radar?
Robert Watson Watt
Four lions
In front of New Delhi's High Court
26th January
33. Name the country which is second largest producer of horticulture commodities such as fruits - vegetables and flowers in the world?
Graphite
Jane Austen
India
Sunita Williams
34. Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?
11th May
Razia Sultana
Jaya Dev
Wular lake (Kashmir)
35. Which country topped medal table in Olympic 2012?
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Allahabad Pillar inscription
26th January
55th rank
36. Who is the author of 'Tarikh-i-Alai' containing the details of the first few years of Sultan Alauddin Khilji?
Amir Khusrau
Satyendra Nath Bose
Mundak Upanishad
E.M Forster
37. Name the largest oil refinery of India?
Curiosity
Kiran Bedi
Vadodara
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
38. Which day is observed as World Heritage Day?
18th April
Chandragupta Maurya
8th September
Florence Nightingale
39. Who is the author of the novel 'White Tiger'which won the Booker Prize 2008?
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
New Delhi
Aravind Adiga
40. A famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice 'is written by whom?
Jane Austen
Oxygen and acetylene
Vande Mataram
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
41. Who was the first speaker of Independent India's Lok Sabha?
G.V. Mavalankar
N.E. Borlaug
Equator
Kerala
42. Which is the largest auditorium in India?
Tamil Nadu
2nd April - 2011
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Karashapana
43. When comes National Sports Day of India?
2nd April - 2011
29th August
Third century B.C
Sonepur (Bihar )
44. An air bubble in water acts as which lens?
Sarojini Naidu
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Longitudinal position
Concave lens
45. With which cells scientists for the first time have developed bone?
Rahul Dravid
Cyrus Mistry
From fresh and purified fat stem cells ( Fat has a large number of tissue growing stem cells. People could go for liposuction and save fat cells for future use or can use immediately.)
Michael Phelps
46. Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
Arundhati Roy
Leo Tolstoy
Rajasthan
Hyderabad
47. When was the design of our National Flag adopted by the Constituent of India?
Because the solids have high elasticity.
18th April
8th March
July - 1947
48. Which age group children in India are ensured free and compulsory education?
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
6-14 years
15th January
Marie Curie
49. Who is the author of book 'Gita Govinda'?
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Jayadeva
5th April
Third century B.C
50. At which place the largest industrial solar plant of the country became operational on 29th July - 2012?
Ludhiana
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Sriharikota
Akbar