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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. When is Earth Day observed?
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
22nd April
Diffusion
Kushinagar
2. Where is the venue for the 2012 Olympics?
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Akhilesh Yadav
London
30th January
3. Who was the only Muslim woman to sit on the throne of Delhi?
Razia Sultana
Strait of Gibraltar
Madhya Pradesh
95th
4. Who was called the 'Napoleon of India'?
Samudragupta
Konark
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
5. Where is the National Institute of Nutrition located?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Uttar Pradesh
God particle or Higgs Boson
Hyderabad
6. Which painting got the highest price ever paid for a work of art at any auction?
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7. Which is the place experiencing minimum and maximum temperatures -28.3 degree Celsius and 15 degree Celsius respectively?
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Vice President of India
July - 1947
Leh
8. For what was Gupta dynasty famous?
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Alexander Graham Bell
Art and architecture
Shiv Prasad Singh
9. Name the shooter of Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur) who won silver medal in Olympics 2012?
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10. Champion Trophy is associated with which game?
When sun is above the equator
Hockey
Allahabad Pillar inscription
U.K
11. Our Indian National Calender is based on which era?
Bangalore
Saka era
Dutch East Indies
Kiran Bedi
12. Which was the great centre of trade and commerce in the Gupta period?
Abhinav Bindra
Harshavardhana
Mathura
Sidney Sheldon
13. Which region of India is associated with pine forests?
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Ladakh
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Uttarakhand
14. At what age World's oldest dog Pusuke died?
26 years and 9 months
U.K
Iodine
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
15. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Chandragupta Maurya
The Reserve Bank of India
Mundak Upanishad
16. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?
Johannes Kepler
Methane - butane and propane
Four lions
Bangalore
17. Which is the largest lake in India?
Su-Kam Power Systems
Wular lake (Kashmir)
250th anniversary
15th March
18. Name the cities of Himachal to be developed as the solar cities?
Shimla and Hamirpur
Swarajya Party
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Vande Mataram
19. What is the name of first Indian aircraft developed by Government laboratory with private fund?
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Eagle
Japan
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
20. Who wrote 'One Day Wonders'?
Nitrogen
Sunil Gavaskar
Zinc
Paschim Banga1
21. 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
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Odisha
Nikolaus Otto
22. How water in earthen pots remain cool?
German
Arthur Conan Doyle
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Kho-Kho
23. Watches of a country is set according to what time?
Jonathan Swift
Standard time of the country138
Rajasthan
Vidya Balan
24. On which date Anti Tobacco Day observed?
W.C Bannerjee
N.E. Borlaug
31st May
Nikolaus Otto
25. Which song became the most searched You tube video in India in 2011?
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26. What is e-bomb?
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27. In how many time zones is U.S.A divided?
26 years and 9 months
5
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
Carbon dioxide
28. On which date Quit India Day comes?
9th August
Yamuna
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
30th January
29. Which is the largest dome in India?
Pune
Washing soda
Maharaja Hari Singh
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
30. Who invented the petrol engine?
Nikolaus Otto
Rabindranath Tagore
Kanishka
Vidya Balan
31. Which is the largest populated state in India?
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Uttar Pradesh
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
J.B.Say
32. Who composed the famous song 'Sare Jahan Se Accha'?
23rd April
Mohammad Iqbal
Jhumpa Lahiri
G.V. Mavalankar
33. Who is the first Indian male shuttler to reach Olympic quarters?
30th January
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Madhya Pradesh
Parupalli Kashyap
34. Who is the author of the book 'We Indians'?
Later Vedic Age
Khushwant Singh
4 minutes
J.B.Say
35. Latitude and longitude are at what angle to each other?
Cavendish
Perpendicular to each other
35 degree
Kerala
36. Who is the person of Indian origin nominated as the Governor of Louisiana - an American state?
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Prime Minister
Bobby Jindal
37. What is equal to latitude of a place?
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Performax
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Herodotus
38. Which gas is called laughing gas?
Nitrous oxide
250th anniversary
Baby Nargis
God particle or Higgs Boson
39. Satyan Bose is known for his excellence in which field?
Jaipur
Motion Picture
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Kerala
40. Which is largest river without delta in India?
Narmada and Japti
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Anna Hazare
Mohammad bin Kasim
41. From where the longest circle which can be drawn from earth's surface will pass?
55th rank
Saka era
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Will pass through Equator
42. Name the famous ruler of ancient India - who towards the end of his life converted to Jainism?
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Chandragupta
43. Who is the creator of 'Sherlock Holmes'?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Due to radiation
69 miles
Sitar
44. Which book is entitled as 'Bible of Communism'?
Das Kapital
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.)
$46 - 00011
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
45. Who wrote the first history book?
Herodotus
Sachin Tendulkar
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Guru Gobind Singh
46. Whose contemporary was Tulsidas?
Akbar
Jyoti Amge
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
J.B.Say
47. Who was the first woman to go in space?
Valentina Tereshkova
London
95th
Kerala
48. By whom is the Vice-President of the Indian Union elected?
Chandrayaan
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Three Decades in Parliament
Allahabad Pillar inscription
49. Name the Indian chess player who broke the World Record by finishing the game in twelve moves?
Director General Anil Kaushik
V. Anand
Playwright
Six months
50. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Akbar
Sidney Sheldon
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi