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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Kathakali a folk dance is prevalent in which state?
Kerala
Mohammad Iqbal
26 years and 9 months
Chadwick
2. Who is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in India?
162
The President
20th March
Khushwant Singh
3. Who is the new youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
Akhilesh Yadav
Hamid Ansari
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Sarojini Naidu
4. Name the element required for conversion of solar energy?
Sriharikota
Silicon
18th April
Jagannath
5. Who arranged the elements in the Modern Periodic Table?
Aravind Adiga
Kathak
Roentgen
Mosley
6. Name the subatomic particle which scientists claimed to have spotted and is believed to be a crucial building block in the formation of universe?
God particle or Higgs Boson
Kulandei Francis
Torricelli
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
7. Where is Bihar's first all women police station located?
Gol Gumbaz
95th
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Jane Austen
8. What reference is taken to know the local time of a place?
8th September
Rabindranath Tagore147
Sunil Gavaskar
Longitudinal position
9. Who is known as 'Lady with the Lamp'?
Kiran Bedi
Sarojini Naidu
Florence Nightingale
2:4
10. Who wrote Panchatantra?
Vishnu Sharma
India
Kushans
Samuel Morse
11. Who invented the telegraphic code?
Samuel Morse
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
69 miles
2G spectrum scam
12. Which day is observed as Sanskrit Day in India?
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Narendra Modi government
William Wordsworth
5th September
13. When is World's Sparrow Day observed?
8
Demand deposits
20th March
Kalpakkam
14. On which part of earth days and nights are of equal length always?
Zinc
Hampi
Herodotus
Equator
15. Name the herbal drug developed by DRDO for soldiers working in high altitude areas?
16th October
Performax
In Samba
Hunting
16. From where the longest circle which can be drawn from earth's surface will pass?
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Punjab
Will pass through Equator
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
17. Name the Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay ofBengal?
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Kerala
Palk Strait
Vidya Balan
18. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?
Swarajya Party
5th June
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
18th December
19. Which state has become the second highest power purchaser in the country after Punjab?
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'.
Vishnu Sharma
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
20. Name the largest oil refinery of India?
Vadodara
Hunting
Journalism
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
21. Who discovered the oral polio vaccine?
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Jonas Salk
18th April
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.
22. On which date Anti Tobacco Day observed?
31st May
11th July
Rabindranath Tagore147
Mary Kom
23. Which day in India is celebrated as Children's Day?
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Shiv Prasad Singh
14th November
Equator
24. The World famous 'Peacock Throne' was kept in which Mughal building?
John Ruskin
1911133
Infinite
New Agra Fort
25. Where were remains of Vijayanagar Empire found?
10th December
Hampi
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
30th January
26. Where are the World famous Khajuraho sculptures located?
Jules Verne
V. Anand
Madhya Pradesh
Karashapana
27. When was the Constituent Assembly that framed Constitution for Independent India set up?
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
It loses one day
1949
Jaya Dev
28. Name the Indian woman boxer who won bronze medal in Olympics?
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Razia Sultana
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Mary Kom
29. Year 2011 is observed by Army as what?
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Darsheel Safary
Lawn Tennis153
E.M Forster
30. Who discovered X-Ray?
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Aravind Adiga
Roentgen
V.S Naipaul
31. When was the design of our National Flag adopted by the Constituent of India?
Nikolaus Otto
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
E.M Forster
July - 1947
32. Name the metal used as the filament of an electric bulb?
Sarojini Naidu
Tungsten
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
33. Liquefied Petroleum Gas consists mainly which gases?
Rabindra Nath Tagore
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'.
India
Methane - butane and propane
34. Whose name is associated with the council of the 'Nine Gems'?
Chandragupta-II
Bleaching powder
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
35. Why bubble of water shines?
German
Painting
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
36. Where is the India's first largest bamboo museum?
Jawaharlal Nehru
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
1.34 millions
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
37. Who wrote the famous play 'Macbeth'?
Tamil Nadu
Julang-2
Kolkata
William Shakespeare151
38. Where is the famous Meenakshi Temple situated?
Satyendra Nath Bose
Contingency Fund of India
Mahatma Gandhi
Tamil Nadu
39. Who composed the National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'?
Jaya Dev
Art and architecture
Rabindranath Tagore
Param Vir Chakra
40. Term Double Fault is associated with which game?
Sunderbans delta
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Lawn Tennis153
Swarajya Party
41. Who wrote the book 'Eternal Himalayas'?
H.P.S Ahluwalia
India
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
Only the first stanza
42. Which will be the new subject added to the curriculum of Kendriya Vidyalayas?
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Nayantara Sahgal
Sodium
German
43. When is Earth Day observed?
Vasudeva
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Iodine
22nd April
44. Who invented the lift?
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
E.G.Otis
Longitudinal position
The Delhi Metro
45. Who invented the television?
J.L.Baird
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
William Shakespeare151
Ashoka
46. Which country has World's largest democracy?
India
Ganga
Akhilesh Yadav
Kushans
47. At what age World's oldest dog Pusuke died?
Vidya Balan
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
5th June
26 years and 9 months
48. Which is the largest Mosque in India?
Gota in Sweden
Jama Masjid
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Governor
49. When is World Health Day celebrated?
7th April
Mundak Upanishad
In Samba
Karashapana
50. Who was called Bollywood's first superstar?
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.
26 years and 9 months
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar