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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Name the gas used to extinguish fire?
Carbon dioxide
Jyoti Amge
Akhilesh Yadav
Florence Nightingale
2. Which country has hosted the Asian Games for maximum number of times?
Amitabh Bachchan
Punjab
15th January
Thailand
3. Which country topped medal table in Olympic 2012?
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
London
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
18th April
4. Name the smallest neighbour of India?
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Golconda
V. Anand
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
5. Who has been selected as the new head of Tata empire in 2011?
26th January
5 hours 30 minutes
Cyrus Mistry
Rabindra Nath Tagore
6. Name the metal present in photo films?
2nd April - 2011
Silver
Samar Guha
8th March
7. On which date Anti Tobacco Day observed?
Silver
Edison
31st May
Guru Gobind Singh
8. Name the person who has set a new Guinness record of being the oldest man to complete a full distance marathon in Toronto?
Rocky Marciano
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Japan
9. Name the ship commissioned by India which is biggest in its class in the World?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Dehradun
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
10. Who invented radar?
Robert Watson Watt
Palk Strait
Uttarakhand
Chaucer
11. Which is the largest populated state in India?
Hockey
Kushinagar
Uttar Pradesh
Cavendish
12. What is India's rank on the Transparency International (TI) corruption Perception Index out of 183 countries in 2011?
Satyendra Nath Bose
95th
Bangalore
The Reserve Bank of India
13. Where is the World's largest ship canal?
Guru Gobind Singh
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
J.B.Say
Gota in Sweden
14. Who wrote the famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
Speaker
Jonas Salk
Greeks
Jane Austen
15. Where is Boat Race a popular sport?
Forty-fourth Amendment
8th September
Kerala
8th October
16. What is the ratio of width of our National flag to its length?
Madhya Pradesh
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
2:3161
Sitar
17. Who was first Indian woman to become president of U.N. General Assembly?
Indra Sinha64
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Paschim Banga1
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
18. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?
5
Golconda
Vadodara
8th October
19. Name the youngest skydriver in the country?
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Oxygen and acetylene
Sonepur (Bihar )
20. In which field Aachan Maharaj has distinguished himself?
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Shimla and Hamirpur
Dance
Paschim Banga1
21. Which battle opened the Delhi area to Muhammad Ghori?
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Second Battle of Tarain
Mary Kom
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
22. Name one famous Sarod player?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Bamiyan
Roentgen
Amjad Ali Khan
23. Which metal is used in pencils?
Graphite
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Jamaica
24. What is the name of first Indian aircraft developed by Government laboratory with private fund?
Eagle
Anna Hazare
Jaipur
Nayantara Sahgal
25. Who fought the Third Battle of Panipat?
Chandragupta
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Bromine
Churchill
26. Name the metal used as the filament of an electric bulb?
Will pass through Equator
Tungsten
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Rajasthan
27. On which day International Women's Day observed?
8th March
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Yamuna
Konark
28. Who is the creator of 'Sherlock Holmes'?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Julang-2
Uttarakhand
Edison
29. Who is the second 100 percent visually impaired person to be accepted into the IAS?
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Concave lens
Jai Samhita
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
30. Name the sub-launched long range N-missile developed by China?
Concave lens
Kapil Dev
Julang-2
5th September
31. Indian Air Force Day is observed on which day ?
8th October
Amitabh Bachchan
18th December
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
32. Which was the great centre of trade and commerce in the Gupta period?
Andhra Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh
Vidya Balan
Mathura
33. With which musical instrument was Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan associated?
Sitar
Guru Gobind Singh
Motion Picture
Sri Lanka
34. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Jyoti Amge
Valentina Tereshkova
35. On globe - the latitude and longitude intersect at what angle?
Three Decades in Parliament
90 degrees
Samuel Morse
Sitar
36. Who wrote the book 'The Namesake'?
Jhumpa Lahiri
Vishnu Sharma
1st May164
1953
37. Triple vaccine is administered to a new born child to save him from which diseases?
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Indra Sinha64
Jama Masjid
At the center of earth
38. Who wrote an English novel 'In Custody'?
Jamaica
Anita Desai
Jawaharlal Nehru
95th
39. Which game is associated with Merdeka Cup?
Carbon dioxide
Stupa
Football
Gujarat
40. From where the longest circle which can be drawn from earth's surface will pass?
Bangalore
Michael Phelps
Will pass through Equator
Manipur54
41. By whom is the Vice-President of the Indian Union elected?
Uttar Pradesh
The Rajya Sabha
Shiv Prasad Singh
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
42. Which is the largest zoo in India?
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Kerala
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Shockley
43. Where were huge amounts of uranium recently found?
Andhra Pradesh
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Due to radiation
Jayadeva
44. Which is the highest military award for valour in India?
Param Vir Chakra
10th December
Das Kapital
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
45. When is the World Population Day observed?
11th July
Morarji Desai
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
24th October
46. Which place is going to have North India's biggest turf club?
Iodine
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Guru Gobind Singh
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
47. When India became a Sovereign - democratic republic?
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Jan 26 - 1950134
48. Which is the World's largest exporter of inverters?
Su-Kam Power Systems
Saka era
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
Sushil Kumar
49. Where is Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy which trains Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officers situated?
Football
Euclid
Mussoorie
Punjab
50. On which part of earth days and nights are of equal length always?
6 months
Aung San Suu Kyi
Equator
Parupalli Kashyap