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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Name the smallest neighbour of India?
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Lobsang Sangay
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.
23rd December
2. Which river is related to Nagarjun Sagar Project?
Roentgen
Greeks
Krishna
5th June
3. Name the gas used to extinguish fire?
Swarajya Party
Carbon dioxide
Sriharikota
Morarji Desai
4. The World famous 'Peacock Throne' was kept in which Mughal building?
Dilip Kumar
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.)
New Agra Fort
Chandragupta Maurya
5. Which anniversary of sandwich was celebrated by British town in May - 2012?
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
250th anniversary
Uttarakhand
6. Who invented the telegraphic code?
Football
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Samuel Morse
55th rank
7. Name the cities of Himachal to be developed as the solar cities?
Shimla and Hamirpur
South Kolkata
German
Aung San Suu Kyi
8. Why sky appears to be blue?
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Bangalore
Playwright
8th October
9. In which year was the National Anthem first sung?
Music
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
1911133
Angle between the horizon and the equator
10. What is e-bomb?
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183
11. How many lines are there in latitude and longitude?
Latitude includes 180 lines and longitude has 360 lines because longitude connects North Pole to South Pole and latitude is divided from east to west.
8
Performax
Chandragupta Maurya
12. Who is vice President of India?
Angle between the horizon and the equator
5th September
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
1953
13. Where is Bihar's first all women police station located?
Tamil Nadu
Uttar Pradesh
Speaker
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
14. Who discovered the noble gases?
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Cavendish
Gol Gumbaz
15. Who discovered the electric lamp?
Kulandei Francis
Jai Samhita
Konark
Edison
16. Which was the most commonly used coin in Mauryan period?
24th May
Uttarakhand
Karashapana
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
17. Where is National School of Mines located?
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Pune
Shimla and Hamirpur
18. Mainly which gas is present in gobar gas?
Methane
Japan
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Valentina Tereshkova
19. Greenwich mean time (GMT) is the standard time of which country?
Zinc
U.K
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
It loses one day
20. Name the leader under whom India's first coalition government in New Delhi was formed?
Football
Michael Phelps
Andhra Pradesh
Morarji Desai
21. Who is the richest Indian in the World according to the 2011 Forbes India annual rich list?
Shiv Prasad Singh
Zinc
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Methane - butane and propane
22. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Sonepur (Bihar )
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Golconda
23. Who won the silver medal in 66 Kg wrestling and is the first Indian to win two individual Olympic medals?
Jamaica
Bleaching powder
Albert Einstein
Sushil Kumar
24. Which is the largest museum in India?
Lawn Tennis153
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
India Museum at Kolkata
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
25. Name the Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay ofBengal?
Palk Strait
Su-Kam Power Systems
Konark
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
26. How many postal zones are there in India - under the PIN Code System?
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Algernon Sidney
UK
8
27. Who invented the lift?
Kushinagar
E.G.Otis
Second Battle of Tarain
Mumbai
28. Where is Indian Cancer Research Institute situated?
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Bombay
India
29. Who won the first medal for India in Olympics 2012?
Mumbai
Mary Kom
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
30. Which is largest populated city in India?
Stupa
Mumbai
Genetically Modified Crops.
8th March
31. Name the Indian woman boxer who won bronze medal in Olympics?
Kerala
Trivandrum
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
Mary Kom
32. Who has become the first lady jawan in Indian army?
Four lions
30th January
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
33. Who wrote the book 'Eternal Himalayas'?
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Mosley
H.P.S Ahluwalia
34. Who was the only Muslim woman to sit on the throne of Delhi?
Rabindranath Tagore147
Ludhiana
Razia Sultana
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
35. Who is the creator of Rock Garden in Chandigarh?
10th December
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Nek Chand
36. Which is the largest desert in India?
Governor
1949
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
India
37. Who was the first woman to go in space?
Valentina Tereshkova
Akhilesh Yadav
Bobby Jindal
Jules Verne
38. Which child artist got Critics Best Actor Award for his acting in a film Taare Zameen Par?
Darsheel Safary
9th August
Leo Tolstoy
Bhai Gurmej Singh
39. Which state in South India have a thermal station at Tuticorin?
Talwandi
Sunderbans delta
Tamil Nadu
Sachin Tendulkar
40. Upto where Chandragupta Maurya's empire extended in the north-west?
24th October
July - 1947
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Hindukush
41. Who got Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (highest sports award in country) award?
Gagan Narang (shooter)
M. Narasimhan
Jai Samhita
Chaucer
42. What is the name of first Indian aircraft developed by Government laboratory with private fund?
J.L.Baird
Washing soda
Eagle
Genetically Modified Crops.
43. Who fought the Third Battle of Panipat?
Torricelli
24th February
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Yamuna
44. According to a poll conducted by global research company Ipsos - people of which country are happiest on this planet despite woes - conflicts?
Indians
23rd April
Florence Nightingale
90 degree
45. Which is the highest military award for valour in India?
Param Vir Chakra
Chandragupta
Longitudinal position
Alexander Graham Bell
46. Who is the new youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
Mosley
Washing soda
Akhilesh Yadav
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
47. How 4G services will hit the country in 2012?
Rabindranath Tagore147
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.
Infinite
Yousuf Raza Gillani
48. What is the maximum duration for which the Vice President can officiate as the President of India?
6 months
In front of New Delhi's High Court
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Tamil Nadu
49. Which day is known as World Tourism Day?
27th September
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
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Anita Desai
50. What is the ratio of width of our National Flag to its length?
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Neil Armstrong
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
2:4