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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Who brought and installed two Asokan pillars in Delhi?
Pune
Sriharikota
Baby Nargis
Firozeshah Tughluq
2. Who got Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award in 2011?
Euclid
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Arundhati Roy
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
3. Who invented transistor?
Washing soda
Samudragupta
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Shockley
4. In how many time zones is U.S.A divided?
Rajasthan
Andhra Pradesh
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
5
5. Name the metal used in storage batteries?
Khushwant Singh
V. Anand
24
Lead
6. Which day is chosen to be celebrated as Father's Day?
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Kulandei Francis
Arthur Conan Doyle
7. Name the first heavyweight boxer to go undefeated throughout his career?
Prof. V.N Datta
Abhinav Bindra
Jonathan Swift
Rocky Marciano
8. Who wrote the book 'The Namesake'?
Narendra Modi government
Vande Mataram
Jhumpa Lahiri
Anna Hazare
9. Which is the largest saline water lake in India?
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Chilka lake (Orissa )
State Bank of India
10. How many medals are won by India in Olympics 2012?
Bhai Gurmej Singh
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Amir Khusru
Sukumar Sen
11. Who is sworn as the 14th Vice President of India?
Hamid Ansari
Rabindra Nath Tagore
UK
Will pass through Equator
12. Where is the National Institute of Nutrition located?
In Samba
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Khushwant Singh
Hyderabad
13. Which state is going to be first carbon-neutral state in the country by 2020?
Alexander Fleming
Himachal Pradesh
Chandragupta Maurya
God particle or Higgs Boson
14. When is India's Army Day celebrated ?
Diffusion
15th January
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Vande Mataram
15. Name the baby of Uttar Pardesh who is the symbolic seven billionth baby ?
Ganga
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
J.L.Baird
Baby Nargis
16. Why sky appears to be blue?
23rd April
Planning Commission
Jan 26 - 1950134
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
17. Who said 'I have nothing to offer except blood - sweat and tears'?
Kiran Bedi
Florence Nightingale
Churchill
Jyoti Amge
18. Who discovered blood grouping?
Landsteiner
Bengali
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
V.S Naipaul
19. The World famous 'Peacock Throne' was kept in which Mughal building?
Kapil Dev
New Agra Fort
Bromine
Sitar
20. Who wrote Panchatantra?
6 months
Julang-2
William Shakespeare151
Vishnu Sharma
21. Who appoints the Chairman and members of State Public Service Commission?
250th anniversary
Sriharikota
Maharashtra
Governor
22. Which place is famous for gigantic rock-cut statue of Budha?
Akbar
Bamiyan
Chilka lake (Orissa )
31st May
23. Name the scientist who got Nobel Prize twice for the same subject?
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Concave lens
Marie Curie
24. Which is the World's largest exporter of inverters?
Methane
Su-Kam Power Systems
Jawaharlal Nehru
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
25. On which date Anti Tobacco Day observed?
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Aravind Adiga
31st May
Arundhati Roy
26. Name the Apple co-founder who changed the daily habits of millions by reinventing computing - music and mobile phones?
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Painting
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Leh
27. What was adopted from the Maurya dynasty in the emblem of government of India?
Four lions
15th March
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Alexander Graham Bell
28. How many postal zones are there in India - under the PIN Code System?
8
Haryana
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
India
29. Name the latest India's surface -to-surface missile successfully test fired (on 26th Sept - 2011)?
W.C Bannerjee
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Aung San Suu Kyi
30. What will be the difference in longitudes between two places if their time difference is 2 hours and 20 minutes?
Mussoorie
2:4
35 degree
Genetically Modified Crops.
31. On which day International Women's Day observed?
8th March
Hindukush
The equator
Maharashtra
32. Who discovered insulin?
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Chadwick
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Dr. F.G.Banting
33. What was the old name of Indonesia?
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.
Dutch East Indies
Yousuf Raza Gillani
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
34. When is Sadbhavna Diwas (Goodwill Day ) observed in India?
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35. Which is the largest district in India?
Due to radiation
Finland
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Ladakh
36. Name the three new elements added to the Periodic Table in 2011?
11th May
When sun is above the equator
Chandragupta
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
37. For what was Ashoka famous?
Konark
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
USA
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
38. Motilal Nehru and Chittaranjan Das were the founder members of which party?
Swarajya Party
22nd April
6 months
Samar Guha
39. What is the difference in time between two places 1 degree longitude apart?
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
4 minutes
Saeed Mirza
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
40. Which country is the world's largest recipient of arms?
Mary Kom
India
Kerala
Trivandrum
41. Where in Delhi a bomb hidden in briefcase exploded killing 11 persons and injuring 47 in the worst attack in India's capital in 3 years in 2011?
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42. What is equal to latitude of a place?
E.M Forster
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Anna Hazare
5th April
43. Which river is related to Nagarjun Sagar Project?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Krishna
Six months
44. Where is Indian Cancer Research Institute situated?
Sitar
Aung San Suu Kyi
Bombay
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
45. Indian Air Force Day is observed on which day ?
8th October
90 degrees
Bamiyan
Dumping
46. When are days and nights equal throughout the globe?
Six months
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
28th February
When sun is above the equator
47. What is the name of India's first aircraft carrier?
Golconda
Jane Austen
INS Vikrant55
Longitudinal position
48. Which city is known as 'Electronic City of India'?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Bangalore
Rs 270
Chandragupta
49. When in India Teachers Day celebrated?
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Ganga
Mehbooba Mufti
5th September
50. Where are relics of Buddha preserved?
N.E. Borlaug
Stupa
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
Samuel Morse