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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Who wrote Panchatantra?
Six months
Shobha De
Vishnu Sharma
Morarji Desai
2. Name the scientist who got Nobel Prize twice for the same subject?
Marie Curie
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Mahatma Gandhi
When sun is above the equator
3. In which century did Ashoka reign?
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Third century B.C
Mumbai
5
4. Our Indian Constitution closely follows the Constitutional system of which country?
Mahatma Gandhi
William Wordsworth
U.K
Sunita Williams
5. What is the common name of sodium carbonate?
Rajasthan
1.34 millions
12th January
Washing soda
6. Who composed our National song?
2
Chaucer
Planning Commission
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
7. For what is Bijapur known?
July - 1947
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Trivandrum
Gol Gumbaz
8. At which point of earth weight of object will be minimum?
Navtej Saran
Roentgen
Cavendish
At the center of earth
9. Who discovered photoelectric effect?
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Albert Einstein
95th
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.)
10. Who discovered Penicillin?
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Strait of Gibraltar
Alexander Fleming
Mary Kom
11. Which is largest state of India?
Gol Gumbaz
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Rajasthan
Bobby Jindal
12. Name the first ever pill approved by US to prevent HIV?
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
4 minutes
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Indians
13. When is the Mother's Day celebrated?
Allauddin Khilji
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
11th May
Nek Chand
14. Where were remains of Vijayanagar Empire found?
Art and architecture
Hampi
Vice President of India
The Lok Sabha
15. Who is the author of the book 'My Experiments with Truth'?
Mahatma Gandhi
Johannes Kepler
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Nikolaus Otto
16. Name the new nuclear powered submarine formally handed to India by Russia?
Kolkata
Forty-fourth Amendment
Mosley
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
17. On whose written advice President can proclaim Emergency?
Dr. F.G.Banting
Prime Minister
Tamil Nadu
2nd April - 2011
18. How is population density in India defined?
UK
John Ruskin
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Dumping
19. What is the ratio of width of our National Flag to its length?
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
Mosley
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
2:4
20. Who discovered insulin?
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
28th February
Dr. F.G.Banting
Ganga
21. Name the ballistic missile that lifted off from Wheeler Island in Odisha on 9th August - 2012?
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
1.34 millions
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Nayantara Sahgal
22. What is AERE?
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23. When is the UN Day observed?
24th October
Aravind Adiga
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
24. Which is the largest desert in India?
Kolkata
Jamaica
Roger Federer
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
25. Name the shooter of Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur) who won silver medal in Olympics 2012?
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26. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' taken?
Yamuna
Mundak Upanishad
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Kushans
27. Players of which state got the maximum Olympic medals in London Olympics?
Saka era
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Haryana
1st May164
28. How many postal zones are there in India - under the PIN Code System?
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
8
Is a herbal formulation of 10 selected herbs known to have adaptogenic properties. It helps to improve the physical and mental performance by increasing blood oxygenation and reducing low density lipoproteins and cholesterol.
Methane - butane and propane
29. Who said 'Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err'?
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Mahatma Gandhi
2G spectrum scam
Bangalore
30. Name the Indian chess player who broke the World Record by finishing the game in twelve moves?
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
V. Anand
South Africa
Michael Phelps
31. Where is the only shrine in the world which has a natural statue of Hanuman that is not man made?
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
16th October
Sunita Williams
South Africa
32. Term Double Fault is associated with which game?
U.K
Mumbai
Madhya Pradesh
Lawn Tennis153
33. Who is the author of the book 'Unto the Last' which influenced Gandhi ji?
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
John Ruskin
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Bangalore
34. Where is the Indian Institute of Science located?
Bangalore
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Jai Samhita
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
35. When comes the Farmer's Day (Kisan Divas )in India ?
Standard time of the country138
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Khadakvasla
23rd December
36. Who won the silver medal in 66 Kg wrestling and is the first Indian to win two individual Olympic medals?
Galileo
Sushil Kumar
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Parupalli Kashyap
37. Where is Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research located?
Amir Khusru
69 miles
Kalpakkam
Mohammad bin Kasim
38. Who was the first person to set foot on moon?
Navtej Saran
Dadabhai Naoroji
Neil Armstrong
Vasudeva
39. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' (inscribed below the base plate of the emblem of India) taken?
Kho-Kho
Mundak Upanishad
U.K
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
40. When India became a Sovereign - democratic republic?
Jan 26 - 1950134
Sunita Williams
Leh
Samar Guha
41. Why clear nights are more colder then cloudy nights?
Only the first stanza
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Aung San Suu Kyi
Due to radiation
42. Who was called the 'Napoleon of India'?
Samudragupta
Gwalior Gharana
Dance
Amir Khusru
43. Which is the largest dome in India?
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
M. Narasimhan
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
44. Which day is observed as World Heritage Day?
Firozeshah Tughluq
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Assam
18th April
45. Who introduced the market regulations in India in ancient period?
In front of New Delhi's High Court
Amjad Ali Khan
Allauddin Khilji
Sodium
46. Name the place where Lord Budha breathed his last?
Jaipur
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
24
Kushinagar
47. Which is the largest Church in India?
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Hindukush
Increases
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
48. Who inspired Green Revolution in India?
Thailand
N.E. Borlaug
G.V. Mavalankar
Sonepur (Bihar )
49. Name the player of USA who created history by grabbing his 22nd Olympic medal ?
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Equator
Himachal Pradesh
Amitabh Ghosh
50. How many lines are there in latitude and longitude?
Rahul Dravid
Alexander Fleming
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.
18th December