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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Where is the Caspian sea - the largest inland sea or lake in the world located?
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Swarajya Party
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
2. Who is the elected Prime Minister of Pakistan from Pakistan People's Party?
Hamid Ansari
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Darsheel Safary
Yousuf Raza Gillani
3. Name 72 year old social activist who supported Jan Lokpal Bill?
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
1.34 millions
Anna Hazare
Nitrous oxide
4. How many images will be formed when an object is placed between two mirrors placed parellel to each other?
Talwandi
Infinite
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
G.V. Mavalankar
5. What was adopted from the Maurya dynasty in the emblem of government of India?
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Four lions
It loses one day
Kushans
6. What is the upper house of parliament known as?
The Rajya Sabha
Anna Hazare
It loses one day
Sachin Tendulkar
7. Who wrote the book 'We Indians'?
The equator
Khushwant Singh
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
Greeks
8. Who discovered neutron?
8th October
Konark
Chadwick
Ripon
9. Name the metal used as the filament of an electric bulb?
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Indra Sinha64
Kalpakkam
Tungsten
10. Which is the largest museum in India?
2G spectrum scam
Razia Sultana
Shiv Prasad Singh
India Museum at Kolkata
11. Who is the author of book 'The Tribune 130 Years: A Witness to History'?
Prof. V.N Datta
2:4
Julang-2
Bhai Gurmej Singh
12. Which is the largest cave in India?
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Jana Gana Mana
Amir Khusrau
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
13. When is Sadbhavna Diwas (Goodwill Day ) observed in India?
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14. On what occasion Bihar got its own state anthem and state prayer whose CD's were released by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar?
Zinc
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Kerala
15. Who won the silver medal in 66 Kg wrestling and is the first Indian to win two individual Olympic medals?
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Uttar Pradesh
Amitabh Bachchan
Sushil Kumar
16. Which gas is called laughing gas?
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.)
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Nitrous oxide
1.34 millions
17. Why bubble of water shines?
Jane Austen
Vocal Music
Forty-fourth Amendment
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
18. Which book is entitled as 'Bible of Communism'?
Dr. F.G.Banting
Silicon
Das Kapital
1949
19. Which state has become the second highest power purchaser in the country after Punjab?
Sidney Sheldon
Painting
Guru Gobind Singh
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
20. Which is the world's second cheapest city according to global survey?
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Football
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
21. World Aids Day falls on which date?
4 minutes
1st December
Prof. V.N Datta
Jai Samhita
22. In which state are the World famous Ajanta Caves situated?
South Kolkata
India
Maharashtra
Shockley
23. What is the aim of the 'Biosphere Reserve Project'?
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Mussoorie
Saka era
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
24. Who is the second 100 percent visually impaired person to be accepted into the IAS?
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Jana Gana Mana
Sri Lanka
Euclid
25. Who founded the Saka Era?
Kanishka
Shockley
India and Pakistan
Maharashtra
26. A famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice 'is written by whom?
1st December
Amjad Ali Khan
Washing soda
Jane Austen
27. Which battle opened the Delhi area to Muhammad Ghori?
6-14 years
Second Battle of Tarain
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Greeks
28. Which is the largest Mosque in India?
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Jama Masjid
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Dilip Kumar
29. Which was the World's first surviving clone buffalo at NDRI (National Dairy Research Institute)?
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Baby Nargis
2
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
30. Name the three new elements added to the Periodic Table in 2011?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Methane - butane and propane
Mumbai
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
31. Who wrote the book 'A Passage To India'?
E.M Forster
Su-Kam Power Systems
New Delhi
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
32. Name the Bollywood legend whose ancestral home in Peshawar - Pakistan has been turned into heritage site?
Dilip Kumar
9th August
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
162
33. Which age group children in India are ensured free and compulsory education?
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
6-14 years
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
34. With which field M.F. Hussian were associated?
8th October
Jane Austen
William Wordsworth
Painting
35. India is facing pressure from the US and other Western countries to break trade ties with which country?
Mussoorie
The President
Alexander Fleming
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
36. Indian Air Force Day is observed on which day ?
1953
8th October
Cavendish
Nitrous oxide
37. Why the International Date Line makes slight deviation from 180 degree meridian?
5 hours 30 minutes
Ganga
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Vidya Balan
38. When is India's Army Day celebrated ?
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Later Vedic Age
15th January
Maharashtra
39. How many medals are won by India in Olympics 2012?
Dance
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
40. What is the maximum duration for which the Vice President can officiate as the President of India?
6 months
Infinite
Mumbai
Jai Samhita
41. World Human Rights Day is observed on which day?
J.B.Say
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
10th December
Curiosity
42. Late Vijay Tendulkar who died in 2008 were famous in which field?
Playwright
Swarajya Party
Curiosity
South Africa
43. Who arranged the elements in the Modern Periodic Table?
Mosley
Kolkata
Increases
Torricelli
44. Which country has hosted the Asian Games for maximum number of times?
E.M Forster
2:4
Thailand
5 hours 30 minutes
45. At which place a devastating fire tore through seven storey AMRI hospital killing 91 people in 2011?
Diffusion
South Kolkata
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Bangalore
46. When is International Labour Day observed?
Bobby Jindal
Mundak Upanishad
Albert Einstein
1st May164
47. Name the person who transliterated Guru Granth Sahib in Braille?
Second Battle of Tarain
Bhai Gurmej Singh
M.N Roy62
Perpendicular to each other
48. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' taken?
Mundak Upanishad
Increases
Carbon dioxide
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
49. Name the strait which separates Africa from Europe?
J.L.Baird
W.C Bannerjee
Strait of Gibraltar
Lala Lajpat Rai
50. Name the state of India where diamond mines are mainly found?
Tamil Nadu
Madhya Pradesh
Churchill
Greeks