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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. When is the World Population Day observed?
Kanishka
11th July
10th October
Khadakvasla
2. Name the shooter of Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur) who won silver medal in Olympics 2012?
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3. Who is the author of book 'The Tribune 130 Years: A Witness to History'?
8th March
Prof. V.N Datta
Chandrayaan
Bleaching powder
4. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Harshavardhana
Sitar
5. Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?
Jaya Dev
Vice President of India
India
July - 1947
6. Which state of India has highest production of tea?
Aung San Suu Kyi
Edison
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Assam
7. Who discovered photoelectric effect?
Albert Einstein
5th September
1st May164
Bhai Gurmej Singh
8. Name the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister whose admirers have decided to build a temple to perpetuate his memory?
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
State Bank of India
9. Who is the author of 'Tarikh-i-Alai' containing the details of the first few years of Sultan Alauddin Khilji?
Amir Khusrau
Navtej Saran
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Mahatma Gandhi
10. Which song became the most searched You tube video in India in 2011?
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11. Who discovered Penicillin?
Bengali
Alexander Fleming
Nek Chand
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
12. With which cells scientists for the first time have developed bone?
The equator
Hyderabad
26 years and 9 months
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.)
13. Which metal is used in pencils?
Kiran Bedi
Graphite
Michael Phelps
It loses one day
14. Which is largest cave temple in India?
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Six months
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Mary Kom
15. What was the old name of Indonesia?
London
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Dutch East Indies
Aravind Adiga
16. Which region of India is associated with pine forests?
Uttarakhand
Jaya Dev
Planning Commission
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
17. Who wrote the book 'The Daughter of the East'?
Andhra Pradesh
The Reserve Bank of India
The Delhi Metro
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
18. Why Shimla is cooler than Amritsar though they have same latitude?
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Morarji Desai
Himachal Pradesh
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
19. Which is the largest zoo in India?
Lobsang Sangay
Dadabhai Naoroji
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Jayadeva
20. Which is largest state of India?
Haryana
Rajasthan
German
2:4
21. Where did India's first Formula one race took place in 2011?
The equator
Vasudeva
Saeed Mirza
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
22. Name the person who presided over the first session of Indian National Congress in 1885?
William Shakespeare151
Haryana
W.C Bannerjee
South Africa
23. Who is the author of novel 'The White Tiger'?
Pune
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Aravind Adiga
24. What is the maximum period of gap between any two sessions of the Indian Parliament?
20th March
Six months
William Wordsworth
London
25. Who is the author of the novel 'White Tiger'which won the Booker Prize 2008?
Concave lens
Aravind Adiga
Shobha De
INS Vikrant55
26. Which is largest river without delta in India?
Narmada and Japti
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Carbon dioxide
Prime Minister
27. Name the Indian woman boxer who won bronze medal in Olympics?
Mary Kom
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
N.E. Borlaug
Jan 26 - 1950134
28. What is the upper house of parliament known as?
Jamaica
Hampi
The Rajya Sabha
V. Anand
29. Name the Indian American astronaut who begins her 2nd space odyssey on July 15 - 2012?
London
8th May
Sunita Williams
5
30. Name the famous ruler of ancient India - who towards the end of his life converted to Jainism?
Chandragupta
7th April
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
Gujarat
31. Name the herbal drug developed by DRDO for soldiers working in high altitude areas?
Performax
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Diffusion
Jan 26 - 1950134
32. Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
Leo Tolstoy
Sodium
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
U.K
33. Which is the largest district in India?
Amjad Ali Khan
Ladakh
Palk Strait
5th June
34. In which state is Ganesh Otsav celebrated?
Maharashtra
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
J.L.Baird
Gol Gumbaz
35. Where is the National Defence Academy situated?
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Khadakvasla
36. Triple vaccine is administered to a new born child to save him from which diseases?
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Vande Mataram
37. Name the state of India having longest coastline?
Morarji Desai
Andhra Pradesh
Tungsten
Das Kapital
38. Name the cities of Himachal to be developed as the solar cities?
Mosley
Shimla and Hamirpur
New Agra Fort
Rs 270
39. Which state in South India have a thermal station at Tuticorin?
William Wordsworth
Ganga
Tamil Nadu
Krishna
40. Which place is famous for gigantic rock-cut statue of Budha?
Himachal Pradesh
Three Decades in Parliament
Strait of Gibraltar
Bamiyan
41. Who is the author of book 'India Wins Freedom'?
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Assam
India Museum at Kolkata
Bangalore
42. The World famous 'Peacock Throne' was kept in which Mughal building?
Gota in Sweden
Neil Armstrong
New Agra Fort
Tamil Nadu
43. Who founded the Saka Era?
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Param Vir Chakra
4 minutes
Kanishka
44. How is population density in India defined?
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
45. 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
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.)
Marie Curie
American firm Intra Pace unveils a stomach implant vi akeyhole surgery that can help people fight flab by warning the brain when enough food is taken. This credit card sized implant is named as 'Abiliti'.
46. Name the person who has set a new Guinness record of being the oldest man to complete a full distance marathon in Toronto?
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
11th July
Chandragupta Maurya
Kalpakkam
47. On which era is the Indian National Calender based?
Saka era
Hockey
Lead
Dadabhai Naoroji
48. Where is the famous Meenakshi Temple situated?
Finland
8th May
Tamil Nadu
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
49. Where at present the BRAHMOS missiles are assembled?
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Gagan Narang
6-14 years
Hyderabad
50. Which day is celebrated as International Literacy Day?
10th December
8th September
John Keats
J.L.Baird