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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. What is the latitude of South Pole?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
90 degree
Jules Verne
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
2. Which is the largest Gurudwara in India?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Washing soda
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
3. Who headed the committee on computerisation in Indian banks(1988)?
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Haryana
Jawaharlal Nehru
M. Narasimhan
4. Who was the author of 'Bharat Bharati'?
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Arthur Conan Doyle
Edison
Chandrayaan
5. Which states are known for Cauvery Water dispute?
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Kanishka
6. Whose influence is reflected in the sculptures of the Gandhara school?
Aravind Adiga
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
9th August
Greeks
7. Which game is associated with Agha Khan Cup?
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
Aravind Adiga
Hockey
Assam
8. In India - who issues one rupee coins and notes as well as subsidiary coins?
E.M Forster
The Reserve Bank of India
Sriharikota
5th September
9. Who published the 'Red Data Book' containing information on the wild animals and plants in danger of extinction?
Jana Gana Mana
Kanishka
Sidney Sheldon
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
10. Name the Indian scientist who was a part of NASA team which has identified the landing site of the 'Curiosity'?
Darsheel Safary
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Amitabh Ghosh
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.)
11. When comes National Postal Day in India?
Michael Phelps
Gota in Sweden
10th October
Protecting Flora and Fauna
12. When is Sadbhavna Diwas (Goodwill Day ) observed in India?
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13. Who wrote our National Anthem?
Painting
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Rabindra Nath Tagore
India and China
14. Where is Char Minar located?
Hyderabad
Chaucer
Rabindranath Tagore147
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.)
15. Where did the World's costliest crash took place?
Hockey
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Hunting
20th March
16. Which hockey team won the Asian Championship Trophy at Ordos(China) in 2011?
Michael Phelps
Because the solids have high elasticity.
India
Rahul Banerjee (archery ) - Preeja Sreedharan (athletics) - Vikas Gowda (athletics) - Jwala Gutta(badminton) - M Suranjoy Singh(boxing) - Zaheer Khan (cricket) - Sunil Chhetri(football) - Ashish Kumar (gymnastics) - Rajpal Singh (hockey) - Ra
17. Name the state of India having longest coastline?
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Amjad Ali Khan
90 degree
Andhra Pradesh
18. In which state are the World famous Ajanta Caves situated?
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
India
Mary Kom
Maharashtra
19. Name the three new elements added to the Periodic Table in 2011?
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Kanishka
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
20. What is Ayush treatment?
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
95th
Dutch East Indies
INS Vikrant55
21. Which is the largest zoo in India?
15th March
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
V.S Naipaul
22. Who is the author of book 'India Wins Freedom'?
8th September
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Kushans
Kulandei Francis
23. Satyan Bose is known for his excellence in which field?
Motion Picture
Amir Khusrau
At the center of earth
1949
24. Name the NASA's most modern spacecraft successfully landed on Mars on 6th August - 2012 to begin a pioneering two year search to find out if the red planet is suitable for life and whether it can be inhabitable in the future?
Das Kapital
Chandrayaan
Curiosity
Protecting Flora and Fauna
25. Where did India's first Formula one race took place in 2011?
When sun is above the equator
Alexander Graham Bell
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Jaipur
26. When is World Food Day observed?
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
16th October
2G spectrum scam
Mahatma Gandhi
27. Which city is known as 'Electronic City of India'?
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Bangalore
Ganga
1953
28. Why bubble of water shines?
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Madhya Pradesh
Samudragupta
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
29. Which king brought the valleys of Indus - Ganga and Jamuna together for the first time under one political authority?
Hockey
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Ashoka
30. In which Amendment Right to property was removed from the list of Fundamental rights?
Amjad Ali Khan
Krishna
Forty-fourth Amendment
Konark
31. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Shockley
Robert Watson Watt
Gujarat
32. Which element is obtained from sea weeds?
Hockey
Iodine
22nd April
Concave lens
33. Where is the venue for the 2012 Olympics?
Das Kapital
London
Shiv Prasad Singh
Hyderabad
34. How is population density in India defined?
The number of persons per square kilometre.
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Rahul Banerjee (archery ) - Preeja Sreedharan (athletics) - Vikas Gowda (athletics) - Jwala Gutta(badminton) - M Suranjoy Singh(boxing) - Zaheer Khan (cricket) - Sunil Chhetri(football) - Ashish Kumar (gymnastics) - Rajpal Singh (hockey) - Ra
Ladakh
35. On which date Quit India Day comes?
M. Narasimhan
9th August
South Kolkata
Michael Phelps
36. Where is largest animal fair held in India?
2:4
Mundak Upanishad
Sonepur (Bihar )
Zinc
37. Who won the Wimbledon title for seventh time and 17th grand slam crown after beating Andy Murray in male category in 2012?
8th March
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Roger Federer
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
38. How many stanza's of Jana Gana Mana song were adopted as National Anthem?
Florence Nightingale
23rd December
Only the first stanza
18th December
39. How 4G services will hit the country in 2012?
Sunita Williams
H.P.S Ahluwalia
4G technology will offer many advancements to the wireless market including downlink data rates well over 100 Mbps - low latency - very efficient spectrum use and low cost implementation.
Bangalore
40. Who wrote the book 'Gullivers Travel'?
Greeks
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Jonathan Swift
Hunting
41. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?
Ladakh
24
Jan 26 - 1950134
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
42. When is Martyr's Day in India celebrated ?
Hunting
90 degrees
Herodotus
30th January
43. Which day is known as World Book and Copyright Day?
23rd April
USA
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Chandragupta-II
44. Why the International Date Line makes slight deviation from 180 degree meridian?
Assam
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Shiv Prasad Singh
William Wordsworth
45. Which child artist got Critics Best Actor Award for his acting in a film Taare Zameen Par?
Uttar Pradesh
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Darsheel Safary
2
46. Late Vijay Tendulkar who died in 2008 were famous in which field?
Golconda
Playwright
Ganga
Arundhati Roy
47. World Aids Day falls on which date?
When sun is above the equator
1st December
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Alexander Fleming
48. How many medals are won by India in Olympics 2012?
4 minutes
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Three Decades in Parliament
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
49. Who propounded the Market Law?
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
J.B.Say
15th August167
Nitrous oxide
50. Who invented transistor?
Shockley
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Param Vir Chakra
Greeks