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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Name the metal present in photo films?
Silver
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
Silicon
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
2. What is made from the mixture of lime and chlorine?
Akhilesh Yadav
Shiv Prasad Singh
Mosley
Bleaching powder
3. At what age World's oldest dog Pusuke died?
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
26 years and 9 months
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Stupa
4. Which was the musical instrument used by Amir Khusro?
26 years and 9 months
Football
5th April
Sitar
5. Radcliffe line is the boundary line between which countries?
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
24th May
India and Pakistan
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.
6. Which state in South India have a thermal station at Tuticorin?
Tamil Nadu
24
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
15th January
7. Which is the largest area wise state in India?
India Museum at Kolkata
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
July - 1947
Rajasthan
8. On which era is the Indian National Calender based?
28th February
Third century B.C
Saka era
Shockley
9. Between whom battle of Kurukshetra was fought?
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Vadodara
Milkha Singh
Jhumpa Lahiri
10. Who wrote the book 'The Namesake'?
Jhumpa Lahiri
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Vande Mataram
Graphite
11. What will be the difference in longitudes between two places if their time difference is 2 hours and 20 minutes?
35 degree
Samuel Morse
Bangalore
Narmada and Japti
12. Hawa Mahal is situated in which city?
Amitabh Bachchan
Dance
The Delhi Metro
Jaipur
13. Who was the first person to set foot on moon?
Neil Armstrong
Vasudeva
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Aravallis
14. What amount is purposed as per capita allocation for health sector for 2011-2012 - according to the official review of National Rural Health Mission?
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Rs 270
Chandragupta-II
Shimla and Hamirpur
15. Where is Char Minar located?
Longitudinal position
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Ganga
Hyderabad
16. Who appoints the Chairman and members of State Public Service Commission?
Governor
Odisha
Jane Austen
Jaipur
17. Who made the highest score in an ODI against West Indiies in Indora in 2011?
Das Kapital
8th May
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
18. World Human Rights Day is observed on which day?
8th September
Sriharikota
10th December
Tamil Nadu
19. What is KG5 drug?
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20. Where is Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research located?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Kanishka
Kalpakkam
21. Name the gas used to extinguish fire?
Dadabhai Naoroji
Hampi
Carbon dioxide
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
22. Greenwich mean time (GMT) is the standard time of which country?
N.E. Borlaug
U.K
Sunil Gavaskar
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
23. Begum Akhtar is associated with which field?
Journalism
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Vocal Music
Heavy water
24. From where the longest circle which can be drawn from earth's surface will pass?
Prime Minister
Will pass through Equator
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Golconda
25. Name the Russian painter who had an 468 acre estate in Bangalore
Amitabh Ghosh
Abul Kalam Azad
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
26. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?
5th June
Golconda
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Chaucer
27. What is Dry Ice?
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Dehradun
Governor
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
28. Who was the first lady to become judge of the Supreme Court?
Guru Gobind Singh
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Mumbai
Second Battle of Tarain
29. Which country is the world's largest recipient of arms?
250th anniversary
Shobha De
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
India
30. How water in earthen pots remain cool?
South Africa
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Jonathan Swift
31. Which king brought the valleys of Indus - Ganga and Jamuna together for the first time under one political authority?
Ashoka
Sitar
Bangalore
2G spectrum scam
32. When comes National Sports Day of India?
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
29th August
Vocal Music
Amitabh Bachchan
33. Which place is famous for gigantic rock-cut statue of Budha?
90 degrees
Bamiyan
Swarajya Party
In front of New Delhi's High Court
34. What is proxy voting?
Bengali
The Lok Sabha
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
35. Name the great Hindu king who combined in himself the qualities of Samudragupta and Ashoka?
Jaipur
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.)
Harshavardhana
Nikolaus Otto
36. Name the first Indian women shuttler to enter semifinal at the Olympics?
Michael Phelps
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Rocky Marciano
Cyrus Mistry
37. When India became a Sovereign - democratic republic?
Dehradun
Jan 26 - 1950134
Konark
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
38. Which village of Andhra Pradesh may be sitting over one of the world's largest uranium reserves?
Thailand
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
39. Who published the 'Red Data Book' containing information on the wild animals and plants in danger of extinction?
Vishnu Sharma
8th October
24th October
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
40. Who introduced the market regulations in India in ancient period?
J.B.Say
India Museum at Kolkata
5th June
Allauddin Khilji
41. Name the country's longest railway tunnel excavated?
Indians
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Third century B.C
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
42. Who wrote the book 'Glimpses of World History'?
Hyderabad
Jawaharlal Nehru
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
11th May
43. Name the NASA's most modern spacecraft successfully landed on Mars on 6th August - 2012 to begin a pioneering two year search to find out if the red planet is suitable for life and whether it can be inhabitable in the future?
Curiosity
Firozeshah Tughluq
The Bering Strait
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
44. Where is the Caspian sea - the largest inland sea or lake in the world located?
Vice President of India
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Sonepur (Bihar )
Zinc
45. Which state in India has three language teaching formula?
Cyrus Mistry
Haryana
Kalpakkam
Punjab
46. Which is the largest Gurudwara in India?
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Hockey
Nikolaus Otto
47. Who was the only Muslim woman to sit on the throne of Delhi?
Razia Sultana
Increases
Jane Austen
Mohammad Iqbal
48. In which state are the World famous Ajanta Caves situated?
Maharashtra
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
12th January
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
49. Who wrote the popular book 'The Naked Face'?
Jawaharlal Nehru
Sidney Sheldon
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Art and architecture
50. Who is known as the Father of the Indian Constitution?
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Prime Minister
Thar desert (Rajasthan)