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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Which day in India celebrated as Central Excise Day ?
24th February
Vidya Balan
India Museum at Kolkata
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
2. Who has become the first lady jawan in Indian army?
Second Battle of Tarain
Lobsang Sangay
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Three Decades in Parliament
3. Who wrote the book 'Gullivers Travel'?
Jonathan Swift
South Kolkata
E.M Forster
Mahatma Gandhi
4. In which state is Ganesh Otsav celebrated?
Maharashtra
Bobby Jindal
Odisha
Rabindranath Tagore
5. Which is the largest cave in India?
16th October
Playwright
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Jana Gana Mana
6. Name the ship commissioned by India which is biggest in its class in the World?
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Swarajya Party
The Rajya Sabha
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
7. Kanchipuram is in which state?
Tamil Nadu
250th anniversary
11th July
Gagan Narang
8. Who invented telephone?
Mahatma Gandhi
24th October
Dumping
Alexander Graham Bell
9. Who is known as Nightingale of India?
Sarojini Naidu
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Bombay
10th December
10. On which part of earth days and nights are of equal length always?
5th September
Jana Gana Mana
Rajasthan
Equator
11. Which is the largest planetarium in India?
Kalpakkam
Sonepur (Bihar )
Kolkata
Vice President of India
12. When is International Labour Day observed?
Chandragupta Maurya
1st May164
31st May
J.L.Baird
13. Who is the author of book 'Many Worlds'?
V.S Naipaul
Churchill
Maharashtra
Chandragupta
14. Name the great poet who graced the court of Alauddin Khilji?
Increases
Methane - butane and propane
Amir Khusru
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
15. Name the new nuclear powered submarine formally handed to India by Russia?
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Narmada and Japti
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Mundak Upanishad
16. Which is largest fresh water lake in India?
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Vice President of India
Mahatma Gandhi
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
17. Who composed the National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'?
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Forty-fourth Amendment
Rabindranath Tagore
Galileo
18. Where did India's first Formula one race took place in 2011?
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Aravind Adiga
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Odisha
19. Which was the great centre of trade and commerce in the Gupta period?
Kushinagar
Mathura
Bengali
Haryana
20. Where is Elephant Pass located?
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Sri Lanka
Washing soda
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
21. Which state has become the second highest power purchaser in the country after Punjab?
Ganga
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.
Martin Luther King
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
22. Who wrote the book 'We Indians'?
Diffusion
Khushwant Singh
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Madhya Pradesh
23. Which countries are located on the Greenwich Meridian?
Karashapana
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
250th anniversary
24. Who is the author of novel 'The White Tiger'?
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Lead
Diffusion
Aravind Adiga
25. Where is Union Budget presented firstly?
16th October
The Lok Sabha
14th November
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
26. What is equal to latitude of a place?
Angle between the horizon and the equator
5th June
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Tamil Nadu
27. Name the Indian woman boxer who won bronze medal in Olympics?
Mary Kom
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
28. Which city is known as 'Electronic City of India'?
State Bank of India
Bangalore
Nayantara Sahgal
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
29. When is the UN Day observed?
Vadodara
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
24th October
Infinite
30. Who is author of 'Hindu view of life'?
India
S. Radhakrishnan
Michael Phelps
Harshavardhana
31. Name the largest oil refinery of India?
Jaipur
Vadodara
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Sitar
32. Who is the author of book 'The Tribune 130 Years: A Witness to History'?
Jane Austen
Satyendra Nath Bose
Prof. V.N Datta
$46 - 00011
33. Where are relics of Buddha preserved?
Ripon
Vande Mataram
Das Kapital
Stupa
34. On which date India won the World Cup in Mumbai?
2nd April - 2011
Indians
Herodotus
Forty-fourth Amendment
35. What is the name of India's moon mission?
Chandrayaan
1.34 millions
Trivandrum
2
36. Who is the new youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
8th March
Akhilesh Yadav
Tamil Nadu
Because the solids have high elasticity.
37. Where is the famous Meenakshi Temple situated?
250th anniversary
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Painting
Tamil Nadu
38. What is the aim of the 'Biosphere Reserve Project'?
Chandragupta
Kolkata
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Sukumar Sen
39. Which is the place experiencing minimum and maximum temperatures -28.3 degree Celsius and 15 degree Celsius respectively?
8th September
2
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Leh
40. What amount is purposed as per capita allocation for health sector for 2011-2012 - according to the official review of National Rural Health Mission?
John Ruskin
Increases
Rs 270
Cavendish
41. Which country has an Unwritten Constitution?
UK
Lawn Tennis153
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
10th October
42. Name the alloy of iron - chromium and nickel?
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Stainless steel
Hunting
Eagle
43. After whose name the Nobel Prize was started?
Abul Kalam Azad
Gagan Narang
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Lead
44. When comes the World Environment Day?
Algernon Sidney
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Jagannath
5th June
45. Which age group children in India are ensured free and compulsory education?
Param Vir Chakra
6-14 years
London
Planning Commission
46. Name the famous ruler of ancient India - who towards the end of his life converted to Jainism?
Chandragupta
Four lions
Sitar
Robert Watson Watt
47. Who won the Wimbledon title for seventh time and 17th grand slam crown after beating Andy Murray in male category in 2012?
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Shiv Prasad Singh
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Roger Federer
48. What is the new name of Burma?
Bangalore
Myanmar
Sitar
1.34 millions
49. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Bhai Gurmej Singh
24
50. Who was the first Indian elected to the leadership of Communist International?
Jayadeva
Amitabh Ghosh
M.N Roy62
Uttar Pradesh