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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Who founded the Saka Era?
Chandragupta Maurya
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Kanishka
Chandragupta Maurya
2. Who was the founder of the Khalsa?
Mohammad Iqbal
Guru Gobind Singh
Shobha De
In front of New Delhi's High Court
3. When comes the World Environment Day?
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
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.
5th June
The Reserve Bank of India
4. When comes the World Disabled Day?
Because the solids have high elasticity.
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
15th March
Mohammad Iqbal
5. Hawa Mahal is situated in which city?
Razia Sultana
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Jaipur
6. Name the seas joined by Suez Canal?
India
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Only the first stanza
Anita Desai
7. How many postal zones are there in India - under the PIN Code System?
Jaya Dev
Kulandei Francis
India
8
8. Who discovered neutron?
Chaucer
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Chadwick
Ladakh
9. Which battle opened the Delhi area to Muhammad Ghori?
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
Genetically Modified Crops.
Second Battle of Tarain
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
10. Who was the First Election Commissioner of India?
Vice President of India
Aung San Suu Kyi
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Sukumar Sen
11. Who wrote the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Alexander Fleming
Jules Verne
Hyderabad
12. Who is the author of the book 'We Indians'?
Khushwant Singh
Lawn Tennis153
5th September
Euclid
13. Which is the largest district in India?
Saka era
Ladakh
Ganga
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'.
14. Which state in India has three language teaching formula?
Punjab
Yamuna
Param Vir Chakra
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
15. When comes National Sports Day of India?
29th August
Performax
J.B.Say
Himachal Pradesh
16. Whom the Gujarat High Court issued contempt notice on 15th Feb. - 2012 for not obeying its order to compensate people whose shops were burnt down in the post-Godhra riots?
Maharashtra
Concave mirror
Narendra Modi government
Uttar Pradesh
17. Who wrote the book 'The Namesake'?
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Bobby Jindal
Jhumpa Lahiri
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.
18. Name the Russian painter who had an 468 acre estate in Bangalore
Odisha
Hockey
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Hyderabad
19. Who was the author of 'Hind Swaraj'?
Vande Mataram
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Mahatma Gandhi
Dance
20. Name the baby of Uttar Pardesh who is the symbolic seven billionth baby ?
India and China
Mathura
Baby Nargis
Swarajya Party
21. Who is vice President of India?
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
10th December
22. When is Martyr's Day in India celebrated ?
India Museum at Kolkata
30th January
The Reserve Bank of India
Hyderabad
23. Which non -metal remains liquid at room temperature?
1949
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Bromine
Mosley
24. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
Will pass through Equator
6-14 years
At Magdalla port near Surat.
18th April
25. Who is going to receive highest US award?
Haryana
Jawaharlal Nehru
Aung San Suu Kyi
Uttarakhand
26. Name the latest hi-tech weapon invented in 2011 to prevent obesity?
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27. How many total number of enclaves are to be exchanged between territories of two countries India and Bangladesh according to the treaty signed in Sept - 2011?
Roger Federer
162
India
Gagan Narang (shooter)
28. Where are Dilwara Temples situated?
Ripon
Punjab
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
22nd April
29. Which game is associated with Agha Khan Cup?
Akhilesh Yadav
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Landsteiner
Hockey
30. At which place a devastating fire tore through seven storey AMRI hospital killing 91 people in 2011?
Gol Gumbaz
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.
South Kolkata
John Keats
31. Who wrote the book 'We Indians'?
Khushwant Singh
90 degrees
Jhumpa Lahiri
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
32. In which century did Ashoka reign?
1st December
22nd April
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Third century B.C
33. Where is the birth place of Guru Nanak Ji?
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Talwandi
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
34. Who got the greatest Olympic athlete of all time Trophy?
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Michael Phelps
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
Jules Verne
35. Who led the first Muslim invasion of India?
Iodine
Khushwant Singh
Mohammad bin Kasim
Aravallis
36. After whose name the Nobel Prize was started?
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Akbar
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
37. Which is the great circle on earth's surface?
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Arundhati Roy
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
The equator
38. When is the UN Day observed?
24th October
The Delhi Metro
Greeks
Heavy water
39. Which was the musical instrument used by Amir Khusro?
Sitar
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
40. Durand line is the border common to which two countries?
29th August
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Edison
Pakistan and Afghanistan
41. Where at present the BRAHMOS missiles are assembled?
Hamid Ansari
Kanishka
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Hyderabad
42. Which country is the world's largest recipient of arms?
Bengali
5th September
Jhumpa Lahiri
India
43. What are the benefits of medicine Performax?
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.
Maharashtra
Mohammad Iqbal
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
44. When is India's National Youth Day celebrated ?
Ganga
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Methane
12th January
45. Name the woman boxer of India who have won five time world championship in succession?
Anna Hazare
Mary Kom
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Maharashtra
46. Who crafted the wax statue of Anna Hazare?
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47. When is the World Population Day observed?
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
8th May
11th July
1953
48. Who is the man popularly kwown as Gurudev?
Jane Austen
Rabindranath Tagore147
Mahatma Gandhi
William Shakespeare151
49. Which painting got the highest price ever paid for a work of art at any auction?
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50. At what age World's oldest dog Pusuke died?
26 years and 9 months
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Sri Lanka
Anita Desai