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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Who is the World Player of Year?
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Maharashtra
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
2. Where is a tunnel near the Indo-Pak border detected?
In Samba
Chandrayaan
Johannes Kepler
Trivandrum
3. With which sports is Sushma Saroelker associated?
5th June
Hyderabad
Kho-Kho
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
4. Who wrote Panchatantra?
Johann Gregor Mendel
Uttar Pradesh
Samudragupta
Vishnu Sharma
5. 'Nokia' the telecom company belongs to which country?
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Finland
Standard time of the country138
Wular lake (Kashmir)
6. Name the state of India where diamond mines are mainly found?
Jai Samhita
Madhya Pradesh
Nikolaus Otto
12th January
7. At which place a devastating fire tore through seven storey AMRI hospital killing 91 people in 2011?
South Kolkata
USA
V. Anand
State Bank of India
8. Greenwich mean time (GMT) is the standard time of which country?
J.B.Say
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
U.K
9. Who was the first king to conquer Malwa - Gujarat and Maharashtra?
24
Vocal Music
Chandragupta Maurya
Anna Hazare
10. Who is the first Indian male shuttler to reach Olympic quarters?
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Ujjain
Parupalli Kashyap
Akhilesh Yadav
11. What is the name of first Indian aircraft developed by Government laboratory with private fund?
Hindukush
Eagle
U.K
William Wordsworth
12. Who won Jnanpith Award in 2010?
Vice President of India
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
Anna Hazare
13. Name the Apple co-founder who changed the daily habits of millions by reinventing computing - music and mobile phones?
Standard time of the country138
It loses one day
Kolkata
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
14. Who wrote the book 'Glimpses of World History'?
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
6-14 years
Gwalior Gharana
Jawaharlal Nehru
15. Where is head office of the State Bank of India located?
Mumbai
Art and architecture
Jules Verne
Rajasthan
16. World Aids Day falls on which date?
State Bank of India
Mehbooba Mufti
Chadwick
1st December
17. Name the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister whose admirers have decided to build a temple to perpetuate his memory?
5th April
Performax
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Kulandei Francis
18. How many stanza's of Jana Gana Mana song were adopted as National Anthem?
Only the first stanza
Hunting
Oxygen and acetylene
Chaucer
19. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' (inscribed below the base plate of the emblem of India) taken?
Samuel Morse
New Agra Fort
Mundak Upanishad
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
20. Who wrote the book 'Gulliver's Travels'?
Maharaja Hari Singh
Jonathan Swift
Prof. V.N Datta
Jamaica
21. Which day is celebrated as International Literacy Day?
8th September
South Africa
The President
Gota in Sweden
22. With whom the Income Tax Department decides to share its PAN card database?
Motion Picture
Director General Anil Kaushik
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Governor
23. Name the first heavyweight boxer to go undefeated throughout his career?
The Delhi Metro
Washing soda
9th August
Rocky Marciano
24. Whose contemporary was Tulsidas?
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.)
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'.
Akbar
Indra Sinha64
25. Watches of a country is set according to what time?
30th January
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.
Madhya Pradesh
Standard time of the country138
26. Who is the person of Indian origin nominated as the Governor of Louisiana - an American state?
Art and architecture
Performax
Eagle
Bobby Jindal
27. Name the cities of Himachal to be developed as the solar cities?
Shimla and Hamirpur
God particle or Higgs Boson
Sunita Williams
Jyoti Amge
28. Who got the greatest Olympic athlete of all time Trophy?
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
90 degrees
Michael Phelps
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
29. When India became a Sovereign - democratic republic?
UK
Jan 26 - 1950134
Only the first stanza
Carbon dioxide
30. Where is the National Defence Academy situated?
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Krishna
Landsteiner
Khadakvasla
31. Who got Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award in 2011?
Mathura
Gagan Narang
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
2nd April - 2011
32. What is the estimated premature deaths caused annually by outdoor air pollution - according to the first pollution survey carried out by World Health Organisation in Sept. - 2011?
Karashapana
Cavendish
V. Anand
1.34 millions
33. Who composed the national song of India (Vande Maatram)?
Kanishka
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Golconda
34. Name the new nuclear powered submarine formally handed to India by Russia?
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Jonas Salk
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Kerala
35. Mainly which gas is present in gobar gas?
Four lions
Methane
8th March
Tamil Nadu
36. Who brought and installed two Asokan pillars in Delhi?
Firozeshah Tughluq
INS Vikrant55
Indians
German
37. Why clear nights are more colder then cloudy nights?
Florence Nightingale
Prof. V.N Datta
Myanmar
Due to radiation
38. Who is President of India?
Su-Kam Power Systems
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Torricelli
90 degree
39. Whose influence is reflected in the sculptures of the Gandhara school?
Methane
Greeks
Khadakvasla
India
40. Which non -metal remains liquid at room temperature?
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.)
Bromine
Johann Gregor Mendel
Jana Gana Mana
41. Where is Elephant Pass located?
Khushwant Singh
Shobha De
Amitabh Ghosh
Sri Lanka
42. Begum Akhtar is associated with which field?
24
Vocal Music
Motion Picture
6 months
43. Where is Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research located?
Rajasthan
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Kalpakkam
44. Name the gases used in different types of welding?
Oxygen and acetylene
Cavendish
Vice President of India
Ganga
45. If in a mirror image of object appears to be larger then which type of mirror is used?
Motion Picture
Harshavardhana
Concave mirror
William Shakespeare151
46. Who invented the telegraphic code?
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Nitrous oxide
Samuel Morse
J.B.Say
47. Where were Chola Kings ruling over?
Tamil Nadu
11th May
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Vande Mataram
48. Who wrote the line 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'?
New Delhi
John Keats
Samuel Morse
Nitrogen
49. Which metal is kept under kerosine?
Kerala
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Sodium
Speaker
50. On which day International Women's Day observed?
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Julang-2
8th March
Vishnu Sharma