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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Which is the largest museum in India?
Rahul Banerjee (archery ) - Preeja Sreedharan (athletics) - Vikas Gowda (athletics) - Jwala Gutta(badminton) - M Suranjoy Singh(boxing) - Zaheer Khan (cricket) - Sunil Chhetri(football) - Ashish Kumar (gymnastics) - Rajpal Singh (hockey) - Ra
India Museum at Kolkata
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Khadakvasla
2. Which was the most commonly used coin in Mauryan period?
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Jamaica
Karashapana
3. Which is the largest public sector bank in India?
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
State Bank of India
Genetically Modified Crops.
Milkha Singh
4. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
69 miles
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Kerala
5. Name the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister whose admirers have decided to build a temple to perpetuate his memory?
Football
2nd April - 2011
Mundak Upanishad
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
6. Which fund can be used to meet the unanticipated expenditurewithout the prior approval of the Parliament?
Contingency Fund of India
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
7. When comes National Postal Day in India?
Andhra Pradesh
At the center of earth
10th October
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
8. How many medals are won by India in Olympics 2012?
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Chandragupta Maurya
Bromine
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
9. Who won bronze medal for India in 10m pistol event (London Olympics - 2012)?
Second Battle of Tarain
Gagan Narang
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Due to radiation
10. Which is the place experiencing minimum and maximum temperatures -28.3 degree Celsius and 15 degree Celsius respectively?
Leh
Vadodara
Jhumpa Lahiri
10th December
11. Where is Buland Darwaza located?
E.G.Otis
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Fatehpur Sikri
1.34 millions
12. Which is the largest delta in India?
Silicon
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Sunderbans delta
Rocky Marciano
13. Who is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in India?
Madhya Pradesh
The President
Himachal Pradesh
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
14. An air bubble in water acts as which lens?
Concave lens
Diffusion
11th May
5th September
15. Name the seas joined by Suez Canal?
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
250th anniversary
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
China
16. Name the youngest skydriver in the country?
India
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Tamil Nadu
17. How many stanza's of Jana Gana Mana song were adopted as National Anthem?
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Vande Mataram
5
Only the first stanza
18. Who is known as 'Lady with the Lamp'?
Arundhati Roy
Hockey
Narmada and Japti
Florence Nightingale
19. Who wrote the book 'Unhappy India'?
Lala Lajpat Rai
W.C Bannerjee
Prof. V.N Datta
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
20. Name the 17th Karmapa against whom the Una police filed a chargesheet under section 120-B of the IPC in 2011?
14th November
Churchill
Ogyen Trinley Dorjee - the third most important Tibetian religious head after Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama. (as police recovered currencies of 26 countries including 1 - 20 - 197 chinese yuan and around Rs 5.3 million in Indian currency.)
Pakistan and Afghanistan
21. Who is the senior most Army officer to have faced a court martial and dismissed from service by an Indian Army Court?
Satyendra Nath Bose
Baby Nargis
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
22. Name the first ever pill approved by US to prevent HIV?
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Kanishka
Sachin Tendulkar
23. Where at present the BRAHMOS missiles are assembled?
Hyderabad
Saka era
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Kulandei Francis
24. Where is largest animal fair held in India?
Sonepur (Bihar )
Punjab
Ludhiana
Akhilesh Yadav
25. What reference is taken to know the local time of a place?
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Longitudinal position
Playwright
Golconda
26. Radcliffe line is the boundary line between which countries?
India and Pakistan
11th July
Sitar
Arundhati Roy
27. When is World's Sparrow Day observed?
Infinite
At the center of earth
U.K
20th March
28. Which megastar carried the Olympic flame on the torch relay leg between the City of London and the borough of South wark in London on 26th July - 2012 - a day before the opening ceremony of sporting spectacle?
Jaya Dev
Amitabh Bachchan
Vande Mataram
India Museum at Kolkata
29. The Prime Minister is chairman of this
Ripon
Aravind Adiga
5 hours 30 minutes
Planning Commission
30. Name the great poet who graced the court of Alauddin Khilji?
Washing soda
Amir Khusru
Thailand
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
31. What is AERE?
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32. Which gas is used for preparation of soda water?
Jama Masjid
Carbon dioxide
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Valentina Tereshkova
33. According to a poll conducted by global research company Ipsos - people of which country are happiest on this planet despite woes - conflicts?
Andhra Pradesh
Indians
Johannes Kepler
Six months
34. When are days and nights equal throughout the globe?
When sun is above the equator
8th September
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Jayadeva
35. Who invented the petrol engine?
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
2:4
Chandragupta Maurya
Nikolaus Otto
36. Who published the 'Red Data Book' containing information on the wild animals and plants in danger of extinction?
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Baby Nargis
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
37. Which actress has become the brand ambassador for sanitation compaign?
It loses one day
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Jonathan Swift
Vidya Balan
38. Which place is going to have North India's biggest turf club?
Michael Phelps
Will pass through Equator
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
20th March
39. In which Amendment Right to property was removed from the list of Fundamental rights?
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Infinite
Forty-fourth Amendment
Tamil Nadu
40. Which day is celebrated as World Red Cross Day?
Performax
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
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.
8th May
41. When is the Mother's Day celebrated?
30th January
11th May
Galileo
Painting
42. Why Shimla is cooler than Amritsar though they have same latitude?
Andhra Pradesh
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Lead
43. Who arranged the elements in the Modern Periodic Table?
Allauddin Khilji
1st December
Mosley
Param Vir Chakra
44. What happens to speed of sound with rise in temperature?
Bleaching powder
Increases
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Navtej Saran
45. Where is the world's largest solar power project going to be set up?
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Maharashtra
Ripon
London
46. Name the latest India's surface -to-surface missile successfully test fired (on 26th Sept - 2011)?
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Football
Jane Austen
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
47. Whose autobiography is 'India Wins Freedom'?
Abul Kalam Azad
Allauddin Khilji
Music
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
48. Who is the author of the book 'My Experiments with Truth'?
Mahatma Gandhi
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Amir Khusru
Landsteiner
49. Name the shooter of Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur) who won silver medal in Olympics 2012?
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50. The Rath Yatra at Puri is celebrated in honour of which Hindu deity?
Jagannath
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Hunting
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.