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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Who got Dronacharya Award in 2011 ?
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Greeks
Methane - butane and propane
2. Who invented radar?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Robert Watson Watt
Haryana
Arundhati Roy
3. Who is the man popularly kwown as Gurudev?
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Rabindranath Tagore147
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
95th
4. Who propounded the Market Law?
Ganga
J.B.Say
Karashapana
11th May
5. Which is the language next to Hindi spoken by largest number of people in the Indian sub continent ?
Tungsten
Narendra Modi government
It loses one day
Bengali
6. Who is the creator of 'Sherlock Holmes'?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Sriharikota
8
7. How many images will be formed when an object is placed between two mirrors placed parellel to each other?
11th May
Gujarat
5 hours 30 minutes
Infinite
8. Where is the world's largest solar power project going to be set up?
William Wordsworth
Allauddin Khilji
Maharashtra
V.S Naipaul
9. Why Shimla is cooler than Amritsar though they have same latitude?
Neil Armstrong
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Concave mirror
Jonas Salk
10. Name the element required for conversion of solar energy?
Silicon
24th February
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
11. Name the strait which separates Africa from Europe?
Strait of Gibraltar
1st May164
Jai Samhita
Golconda
12. Name the herbal drug developed by DRDO for soldiers working in high altitude areas?
German
Lawn Tennis153
Performax
Su-Kam Power Systems
13. Who is the new youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
Tamil Nadu
Andhra Pradesh
Zinc
Akhilesh Yadav
14. Who wrote our National Anthem?
Jaya Dev
Shockley
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Amir Khusrau
15. Who is crowned Miss World 2011?
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Hamid Ansari
12th January
India
16. Which painting got the highest price ever paid for a work of art at any auction?
17. Who wrote the first history book?
Herodotus
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Hamid Ansari
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
18. On globe - the latitude and longitude intersect at what angle?
24
Iodine
90 degrees
Bombay
19. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?
Ganga
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Perpendicular to each other
2:3161
20. Who is the author of the book 'Unto the Last' which influenced Gandhi ji?
U.K
The Delhi Metro
John Ruskin
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
21. What is the name of World's cheapest tablet PC?
14th November
Journalism
15th August167
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
22. Who brought and installed two Asokan pillars in Delhi?
Mahatma Gandhi
Jonathan Swift
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Firozeshah Tughluq
23. Who invented the lift?
Mumbai
E.G.Otis
Third century B.C
Vocal Music
24. Which place is going to have North India's biggest turf club?
Diffusion
Maharaja Hari Singh
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
25. Which day is celebrated as Independence Day of India?
Abhinav Bindra
Jane Austen
15th August167
8th May
26. Who is the second 100 percent visually impaired person to be accepted into the IAS?
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Oxygen and acetylene
The Lok Sabha
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
27. The Rath Yatra at Puri is celebrated in honour of which Hindu deity?
Bobby Jindal
Bombay
Khushwant Singh
Jagannath
28. Which is the highest military award for valour in India?
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Dadabhai Naoroji
Param Vir Chakra
Johannes Kepler
29. Who wrote the famous play 'Macbeth'?
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Kanishka
30th January
William Shakespeare151
30. Who appoints the Chairman and members of State Public Service Commission?
Bromine
Arundhati Roy
23rd December
Governor
31. From where the longest circle which can be drawn from earth's surface will pass?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Amir Khusrau
Will pass through Equator
Torricelli
32. Which day is known as World Book and Copyright Day?
23rd April
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Leh
33. Who wrote the book 'Eternal Himalayas'?
China
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Jawaharlal Nehru
Chadwick
34. What are the bank deposits that can be withdrawn without notice called?
Saka era
Jonathan Swift
Demand deposits
Parupalli Kashyap
35. According to a poll conducted by global research company Ipsos - people of which country are happiest on this planet despite woes - conflicts?
Mehbooba Mufti
Akhilesh Yadav
1949
Indians
36. Who wrote an English novel 'In Custody'?
Dilip Kumar
Director General Anil Kaushik
Anita Desai
Vande Mataram
37. Name the scientist who got Nobel Prize twice for the same subject?
Marie Curie
The Reserve Bank of India
Kanishka
Japan
38. Which is the largest auditorium in India?
India Museum at Kolkata
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Six months
Washing soda
39. With whom the Income Tax Department decides to share its PAN card database?
Sitar
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Milkha Singh
Mumbai
40. Name the famous ruler of ancient India - who towards the end of his life converted to Jainism?
Chandragupta
Hyderabad
Dr. F.G.Banting
M.N Roy62
41. Which is the largest Church in India?
Maharashtra
24th February
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
The Reserve Bank of India
42. Whose name is associated with the council of the 'Nine Gems'?
Chandragupta-II
Washing soda
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Jama Masjid
43. Name the Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay ofBengal?
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Palk Strait
Paschim Banga1
44. Under which scam - the 43 year old daughter of former chief minister of Tamil Nadu M.Karunanidhi was in Tihar jail in 2011?
2G spectrum scam
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
45. Who earned the title of 'Liberator'?
Bombay
Chandragupta Maurya
Aravallis
Kolkata
46. By whom is the Vice-President of the Indian Union elected?
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
90 degrees
Hyderabad
July - 1947
47. How water in earthen pots remain cool?
Kanishka
5th September
India and Pakistan
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
48. Name the largest oil refinery of India?
Chadwick
Vadodara
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Madhya Pradesh
49. Term Double Fault is associated with which game?
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Lawn Tennis153
In front of New Delhi's High Court
Vadodara
50. Which state in India has three language teaching formula?
Perpendicular to each other
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Punjab
Dehradun