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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Who was the author of 'Hind Swaraj'?
8th May
Albert Einstein
Mahatma Gandhi
Amitabh Ghosh
2. Who wrote the popular book 'The Naked Face'?
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Rocky Marciano
Sidney Sheldon
Cavendish
3. Name the Indian scientist from whose surname the word 'boson' is derived?
Satyendra Nath Bose
Vishnu Sharma
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
V. Anand
4. What is the name of India's first aircraft carrier?
Thailand
Sachin Tendulkar
18th December
INS Vikrant55
5. When is India's Republic Day celebrated?
69 miles
26th January
8th October
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
6. Name the country which has longest international boundary with India?
China
Kushinagar
Performax
State Bank of India
7. Which metal is used in pencils?
Lead
2G spectrum scam
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Graphite
8. Who wrote the book 'We Indians'?
Jama Masjid
Arthur Conan Doyle
Firozeshah Tughluq
Khushwant Singh
9. Name the latest India's surface -to-surface missile successfully test fired (on 26th Sept - 2011)?
Jonathan Swift
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Maharashtra
Harshavardhana
10. Which city is known as 'Electronic City of India'?
Nikolaus Otto
Bangalore
5th April
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
11. Who discovered blood grouping?
American firm Intra Pace unveils a stomach implant vi akeyhole surgery that can help people fight flab by warning the brain when enough food is taken. This credit card sized implant is named as 'Abiliti'.
India
Landsteiner
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
12. What happens to speed of sound with rise in temperature?
Increases
18th April
6-14 years
Assam
13. Name the Indian chess player who broke the World Record by finishing the game in twelve moves?
V. Anand
Ashoka
Jaya Dev
The Bering Strait
14. Name the shooter of Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur) who won silver medal in Olympics 2012?
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15. Name the country which is second largest producer of horticulture commodities such as fruits - vegetables and flowers in the world?
India
Jayadeva
Thailand
Eagle
16. On what occasion Bihar got its own state anthem and state prayer whose CD's were released by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar?
Amir Khusru
Konark
Anita Desai
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
17. Which is the largest desert in India?
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Jai Samhita
Jawaharlal Nehru
8th October
18. When was the Constituent Assembly that framed Constitution for Independent India set up?
Algernon Sidney
Fatehpur Sikri
1st December
1949
19. Which ruler was adorned with the title of 'Maharajadhiraja'?
Andhra Pradesh
Sushil Kumar
Kanishka
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
20. Vijayghat ( Samadhi of Lal Bahadur Shastri) is situated on the bank of which river?
Speaker
Khadakvasla
Iodine
Yamuna
21. 'Nokia' the telecom company belongs to which country?
Three Decades in Parliament
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Mumbai
Finland
22. How 4G services will hit the country in 2012?
Makes cancer cell 'commit suicide'. It helps in stoping multiplication of tumorous cells and shut themselves down. Will be available in approximately 5 years and will be in pill form.
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
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.
Narmada and Japti
23. When is World Health Day celebrated?
2:4
Standard time of the country138
Gujarat
7th April
24. Name the metal used as the filament of an electric bulb?
Samudragupta
Governor
Hamid Ansari
Tungsten
25. What is the name of India's moon mission?
Aravind Adiga
Chandrayaan
Tamil Nadu
Amir Khusrau
26. Which will be the new subject added to the curriculum of Kendriya Vidyalayas?
Heavy water
German
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
27. Which anniversary of sandwich was celebrated by British town in May - 2012?
8
Kerala
State Bank of India
250th anniversary
28. Where did the World's costliest crash took place?
Albert Einstein
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
American firm Intra Pace unveils a stomach implant vi akeyhole surgery that can help people fight flab by warning the brain when enough food is taken. This credit card sized implant is named as 'Abiliti'.
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
29. Which is the largest museum in India?
2:3161
India Museum at Kolkata
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Maharashtra
30. Where are Dilwara Temples situated?
12th January
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
31. Name the first ever pill approved by US to prevent HIV?
24th October
Firozeshah Tughluq
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
32. Which countries are located on the Greenwich Meridian?
Third century B.C
7th April
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
South Kolkata
33. Who has been appointed the Governor of RBI after the retirement of Shri Y.V. Reddy?
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Mahatma Gandhi
Konark
11th July
34. Who is crowned Miss Universe India 2011?
Dilip Kumar
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
Roger Federer
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
35. Who discovered neutron?
Playwright
Chadwick
In Samba
God particle or Higgs Boson
36. Mainly which gas is present in gobar gas?
Methane
Chaucer
Ludhiana
Jules Verne
37. What is the difference in time between two places 1 degree longitude apart?
$46 - 00011
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
4 minutes
Rabindra Nath Tagore
38. Where is the India's first largest bamboo museum?
Rahul Dravid
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
J.L.Baird
39. What is equal to latitude of a place?
India and China
It loses one day
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Ludhiana
40. What is the ratio of width of our National Flag to its length?
2:4
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Nikolaus Otto
When sun is above the equator
41. When comes National Sports Day of India?
Martin Luther King
8th March
29th August
Jagannath
42. Who was the only Muslim woman to sit on the throne of Delhi?
Vande Mataram
Diffusion
Razia Sultana
Mumbai
43. For what was Ashoka famous?
Bleaching powder
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Music
44. Where is largest animal fair held in India?
Playwright
Dance
Sonepur (Bihar )
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
45. Which is the largest saline water lake in India?
Chilka lake (Orissa )
E.M Forster
30th January
Jawaharlal Nehru
46. Who brought and installed two Asokan pillars in Delhi?
Six months
Firozeshah Tughluq
Hampi
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
47. Who got Dronacharya Award in 2011 ?
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Julang-2
Myanmar
48. Name the state where bio-fuel outlet - first of its kind in the country will be opened?
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Mundak Upanishad
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
49. Why sky appears to be blue?
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Jane Austen
Heavy water
50. When is International Labour Day observed?
1st May164
The Bering Strait
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Mary Kom