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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Who is the new youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
6 months
E.G.Otis
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Akhilesh Yadav
2. Where is the birth place of Guru Nanak Ji?
Su-Kam Power Systems
Football
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Talwandi
3. Who is the author of the book 'We Indians'?
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Khushwant Singh
Hockey
6 months
4. Greenwich mean time (GMT) is the standard time of which country?
U.K
State Bank of India
Hampi
90 degree
5. What are the bank deposits that can be withdrawn without notice called?
Painting
Abul Kalam Azad
Demand deposits
Planning Commission
6. Motilal Nehru and Chittaranjan Das were the founder members of which party?
Hockey
Swarajya Party
Jama Masjid
Maharashtra
7. When was the foundation day of CSIR ( Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) observed?
Gwalior Gharana
5th September
Talwandi
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
8. Who won the Wimbledon title for seventh time and 17th grand slam crown after beating Andy Murray in male category in 2012?
Roger Federer
Kanishka
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Lawn Tennis153
9. Name the woman boxer of India who have won five time world championship in succession?
10th October
Mary Kom
Bobby Jindal
Sachin Tendulkar
10. Name the metal used as the filament of an electric bulb?
Tungsten
Will pass through Equator
The Rajya Sabha
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
11. How many images will be formed when an object is placed between two mirrors placed parellel to each other?
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Longitudinal position
7th April
Infinite
12. What is the name of World's cheapest tablet PC?
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Khadakvasla
250th anniversary
13. Which state in India has three language teaching formula?
Punjab
Hindukush
Sachin Tendulkar
Sunita Williams
14. Kanchipuram is in which state?
Tamil Nadu
Karashapana
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
15. Which state in South India have a thermal station at Tuticorin?
Jagannath
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
The equator
Tamil Nadu
16. Which is the largest river island in India?
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Krishna
Morarji Desai
Sunderbans delta
17. Name the scientist who is considered as the Father of Genetics?
Johann Gregor Mendel
Akbar
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Bhai Gurmej Singh
18. Who discovered photoelectric effect?
Maharashtra
Albert Einstein
Sri Lanka
Jai Samhita
19. Who discovered X-Ray?
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Roentgen
Euclid
Jamaica
20. Which day in India is celebrated as Children's Day?
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Arthur Conan Doyle
14th November
N.E. Borlaug
21. Which state has become the second highest power purchaser in the country after Punjab?
Chilka lake (Orissa )
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Hunting
22. Who is the author of book 'Freedom Behind Bars'?
Khadakvasla
Planning Commission
Kiran Bedi
Rs 270
23. When was Sangeet Natak Akademi set up by Government of India?
1st May164
1953
Zinc
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
24. Who is the author of book 'The Tribune 130 Years: A Witness to History'?
Increases
Prof. V.N Datta
Heavy water
1953
25. Which is the place experiencing minimum and maximum temperatures -28.3 degree Celsius and 15 degree Celsius respectively?
Leh
1.34 millions
State Bank of India
Sarojini Naidu
26. Who has become the first lady jawan in Indian army?
At the center of earth
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Kiran Bedi
Golconda
27. Which day is celebrated as International Literacy Day?
Ujjain
Ganga
Pune
8th September
28. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?
Art and architecture
Golconda
Kerala
Mumbai
29. Name the gases used in different types of welding?
Oxygen and acetylene
India Museum at Kolkata
Planning Commission
Sriharikota
30. Triple vaccine is administered to a new born child to save him from which diseases?
Arundhati Roy
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Concave lens
31. How many lines are there in latitude and longitude?
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.
Swarajya Party
Odisha
Japan
32. 'A Voice of Freedom' is a book written by whom?
1.34 millions
Khushwant Singh
Concave lens
Nayantara Sahgal
33. Who composed the National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'?
Renders electronic gadgets useless and effectively neutralises the adversary's command control and communication capability by producing a strong electromagnetic field generating powerful electricity surges that play havoc with electronic circuits wi
Rabindranath Tagore
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Hyderabad
34. In which Amendment Right to property was removed from the list of Fundamental rights?
Forty-fourth Amendment
G.V. Mavalankar
24
Journalism
35. Name the gas used to extinguish fire?
5th April
Carbon dioxide
Director General Anil Kaushik
New Delhi
36. Where did coins made of metal first appeared?
Akhilesh Yadav
Later Vedic Age
Mussoorie
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
37. Year 2011 is observed by Army as what?
16th October
2:3161
Year of Disabled Soldiers
William Wordsworth
38. Players of which state got the maximum Olympic medals in London Olympics?
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Haryana
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
39. Name the first heavyweight boxer to go undefeated throughout his career?
Sitar
Rocky Marciano
Johann Gregor Mendel
Washing soda
40. Which is the state wise largest area under forest in India?
Akhilesh Yadav
Nitrous oxide
Madhya Pradesh
22nd April
41. With which field M.F. Hussian were associated?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Johann Gregor Mendel
Painting
Aung San Suu Kyi
42. On what occasion Bihar got its own state anthem and state prayer whose CD's were released by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar?
UK
London
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Param Vir Chakra
43. Champion Trophy is associated with which game?
Hockey
Arthur Conan Doyle
Hindukush
26 years and 9 months
44. Who wrote our National Anthem?
Stainless steel
Jama Masjid
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Landsteiner
45. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Chandrayaan
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
46. What is made from the mixture of lime and chlorine?
Haryana
1953
Third century B.C
Bleaching powder
47. Late Vijay Tendulkar who died in 2008 were famous in which field?
It loses one day
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Playwright
U.K
48. What is equal to latitude of a place?
Bombay
Chandragupta-II
Angle between the horizon and the equator
6 months
49. Which country won the maximum number of medals in Olympics 2008 held in Beijing?
Narmada and Japti
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Vasudeva
USA
50. Name the latest India's surface -to-surface missile successfully test fired (on 26th Sept - 2011)?
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Amitabh Bachchan