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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Which is the largest Gurudwara in India?
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
2. Who is the new captain of the Indian Premier League team Rajasthan Royals?
Rahul Dravid
Yamuna
Maharashtra
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
3. Which day is celebrated as National Maritime Day in India?
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Kapil Dev
Valentina Tereshkova
5th April
4. Where is the National Institute of Nutrition located?
28th February
Amir Khusru
Hyderabad
Raja Ravi Varma
5. Who wrote the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?
Yamuna
Jules Verne
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Due to radiation
6. When is World Laughter Day celebrated?
26th January
Dr. F.G.Banting
Hockey
8
7. Who is the World Player of Year?
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Michael Phelps
10th December
26 years and 9 months
8. When is India's National Youth Day celebrated ?
8
12th January
Rahul Dravid
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
9. Begum Akhtar is associated with which field?
Kushinagar
Vocal Music
Saka era
Vadodara
10. Name the alloy of iron - chromium and nickel?
Karashapana
Stainless steel
Tamil Nadu
U.K
11. Who founded the Saka Era?
Kanishka
2:4
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
Tamil Nadu
12. When India became a Sovereign - democratic republic?
24th May
Mathura
Jan 26 - 1950134
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
13. 'A Voice of Freedom' is a book written by whom?
Iodine
USA
Jai Samhita
Nayantara Sahgal
14. Name the ballistic missile that lifted off from Wheeler Island in Odisha on 9th August - 2012?
Governor
162
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
15. Which state in India has three language teaching formula?
Punjab
Kanishka
Trivandrum
Kushinagar
16. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
Jawaharlal Nehru
Krishna
India
Jamaica
17. In which Amendment Right to property was removed from the list of Fundamental rights?
Rajasthan
Forty-fourth Amendment
Shimla and Hamirpur
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
18. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
Carbon dioxide
Sarojini Naidu
Chandragupta
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
19. What is the name of World's cheapest tablet PC?
Sitar
Forty-fourth Amendment
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
20. What is proxy voting?
Kauravas and Pandavas51
2:4
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Prof. V.N Datta
21. Who has become the first lady jawan in Indian army?
Mary Kom
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Bombay
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
22. Players of which state got the maximum Olympic medals in London Olympics?
Haryana
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Madhya Pradesh
Perpendicular to each other
23. In which field Aachan Maharaj has distinguished himself?
Akhilesh Yadav
William Wordsworth
Dance
Mumbai
24. Which place is famous for gigantic rock-cut statue of Budha?
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Bamiyan
2G spectrum scam
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
25. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' taken?
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Dumping
250th anniversary
Mundak Upanishad
26. Which painting got the highest price ever paid for a work of art at any auction?
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27. Name the cities of Himachal to be developed as the solar cities?
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.
Shimla and Hamirpur
Jane Austen
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
28. Where is Elephant Pass located?
69 miles
Sri Lanka
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Kulandei Francis
29. Which country is the world's largest recipient of arms?
5th September
India
Will pass through Equator
Neil Armstrong
30. Which state has maximum density of canals?
Hindukush
Uttar Pradesh
Rocky Marciano
Music
31. What will be the difference in longitudes between two places if their time difference is 2 hours and 20 minutes?
35 degree
Methane - butane and propane
Das Kapital
Manipur54
32. Which is the largest cave in India?
11th July
1911133
Iodine
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
33. Name the Indian who won Magsaysay award for community initiatives in Tamil Nadu?
South Kolkata
18th April
Anna Hazare
Kulandei Francis
34. Name the leader under whom India's first coalition government in New Delhi was formed?
8th May
Morarji Desai
Jamaica
Nitrous oxide
35. Who crafted the wax statue of Anna Hazare?
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36. Name the woman boxer of India who have won five time world championship in succession?
24
Mary Kom
Sri Lanka
Sitar
37. On which part of earth days and nights are of equal length always?
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Equator
William Shakespeare151
Speaker
38. When is the UN Day observed?
24th October
INS Vikrant55
Shiv Prasad Singh
Odisha
39. Where is the famous Meenakshi Temple situated?
Japan
Tamil Nadu
Churchill
Amitabh Bachchan
40. On which date India won the World Cup in Mumbai?
Tamil Nadu
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
2nd April - 2011
Chandragupta Maurya
41. 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
Rahul Dravid
Jana Gana Mana
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
42. Which gas is called laughing gas?
Kanishka
India
Nitrous oxide
Galileo
43. Who discovered the noble gases?
Jules Verne
Cavendish
Infinite
29th August
44. Who wrote Panchatantra?
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
At Magdalla port near Surat.
John Ruskin
Vishnu Sharma
45. Where are the headquarters of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts?
Amitabh Ghosh
20th March
New Delhi
4 minutes
46. What was adopted from the Maurya dynasty in the emblem of government of India?
5th September
Four lions
The Delhi Metro
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.
47. Name the metal used in storage batteries?
4 minutes
Lead
Second Battle of Tarain
Guru Gobind Singh
48. Which metro has been certified by the United Nations as the first metro rail based system in the World to get carbon credits for contributing to the fight against climate changes?
Chandragupta-II
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Robert Watson Watt
The Delhi Metro
49. Who is the author of book 'Gita Govinda'?
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Dr. F.G.Banting
Ladakh
Jayadeva
50. Where is Boat Race a popular sport?
Khushwant Singh
Kerala
Infinite
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)