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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Who is known as the Father of the Indian Constitution?
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Rocky Marciano
Nikolaus Otto
2. Who is known as founder of Mohemmadan Anglo-Oriental college at Aligarh?
1.34 millions
Hockey
Tamil Nadu
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
3. Who composed the National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'?
Thailand
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Rabindranath Tagore
Lead
4. Who was the chairman of Constituent Assembly?
90 degree
Tamil Nadu
Anna Hazare
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
5. Which is the largest museum in India?
Vadodara
India Museum at Kolkata
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Allahabad Pillar inscription
6. Who fought the Third Battle of Panipat?
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Manipur54
Punjab
7. Where is Union Budget presented firstly?
The Lok Sabha
German
Julang-2
Bleaching powder
8. Which is the place experiencing minimum and maximum temperatures -28.3 degree Celsius and 15 degree Celsius respectively?
Leh
Assam
Sri Lanka
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
9. While playing with which team Rahul Dravid completed his 10000 runs in the Test cricket?
18th April
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
South Africa
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
10. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?
Ripon
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
South Africa
20th March
11. Triple vaccine is administered to a new born child to save him from which diseases?
Ludhiana
Myanmar
Narmada and Japti
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
12. Watches of a country is set according to what time?
Standard time of the country138
India
Jai Samhita
Sunderbans delta
13. Who headed the committee on computerisation in Indian banks(1988)?
5th September
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
M. Narasimhan
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
14. Where were huge amounts of uranium recently found?
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.)
Amitabh Bachchan
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Andhra Pradesh
15. Who discovered the electric lamp?
Edison
Lobsang Sangay
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Darsheel Safary
16. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
The Reserve Bank of India
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Jamaica
17. Who was the only Muslim woman to sit on the throne of Delhi?
Vishnu Sharma
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Razia Sultana
18. Name the Strait which separates Asia from North America?
The Bering Strait
Dutch East Indies
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
19. Who wrote the book 'Eternal Himalayas'?
Cavendish
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Maharaja Hari Singh
Mumbai
20. Who was the first woman to go in space?
Kulandei Francis
Oxygen and acetylene
Valentina Tereshkova
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
21. Which state in India has three language teaching formula?
V. Anand
Punjab
Sitar
Sarojini Naidu
22. Which hockey team won the Asian Championship Trophy at Ordos(China) in 2011?
Iodine
Tamil Nadu
162
India
23. Who is the author of the book 'We Indians'?
Increases
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Khushwant Singh
Razia Sultana
24. When is Earth Day observed?
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
22nd April
South Kolkata
Playwright
25. Where is Char Minar located?
Hyderabad
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Maharashtra
Equator
26. To whom President of India can write if he wants to resign from office?
Longitudinal position
Vice President of India
$46 - 00011
Julang-2
27. Whose autobiography is 'India Wins Freedom'?
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
23rd December
Abul Kalam Azad
Alexander Graham Bell
28. Name the Indian chess player who broke the World Record by finishing the game in twelve moves?
Martin Luther King
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
V. Anand
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.)
29. Where are relics of Buddha preserved?
15th March
Stupa
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Cavendish
30. Which fund can be used to meet the unanticipated expenditurewithout the prior approval of the Parliament?
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
Contingency Fund of India
Kanishka
Algernon Sidney
31. Name the Indian scientist from whose surname the word 'boson' is derived?
Ludhiana
Jules Verne
Satyendra Nath Bose
Maharashtra
32. Name the country which has longest international boundary with India?
Yousuf Raza Gillani
China
U.K
Bombay
33. Name the leader under whom India's first coalition government in New Delhi was formed?
Rajasthan
Morarji Desai
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
34. In which state are the World famous Ajanta Caves situated?
Edison
Maharashtra
Mary Kom
10th December
35. Which city is known as 'Electronic City of India'?
24
Bangalore
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
36. What are the estimated premature deaths caused annually by air pollution - according to the first pollution survey carried in Sept. - 2011 by World Health Organisation?
1.34 millions
Gol Gumbaz
Ripon
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
37. In which century did Ashoka reign?
Swarajya Party
V. Anand
Third century B.C
Madhya Pradesh
38. According to a poll conducted by global research company Ipsos - people of which country are happiest on this planet despite woes - conflicts?
Hyderabad
5 hours 30 minutes
Indians
Konark
39. Name the book which has collection of speeches of N.G Ranga?
Jonathan Swift
Three Decades in Parliament
South Kolkata
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
40. Which is the largest cave in India?
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
24th October
1.34 millions
G.V. Mavalankar
41. Who discovered blood grouping?
Eagle
Sitar
1953
Landsteiner
42. Who made the highest score in an ODI against West Indiies in Indora in 2011?
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Kiran Bedi
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Edison
43. Name the woman boxer of India who have won five time world championship in succession?
Mary Kom
Vidya Balan
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Jane Austen
44. What is the new name of Burma?
Sushil Kumar
Myanmar
Baby Nargis
India
45. What is Dry Ice?
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
24
2nd April - 2011
46. When is Commonwealth Day observed?
24th May
Jayadeva
6-14 years
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
47. Vijayghat ( Samadhi of Lal Bahadur Shastri) is situated on the bank of which river?
26 years and 9 months
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Yamuna
J.L.Baird
48. Name the metal used in storage batteries?
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Lead
Anna Hazare
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
49. Where did the World's costliest crash took place?
24th October
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Washing soda
50. Who said 'Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err'?
Jaya Dev
Shiv Prasad Singh
Washing soda
Mahatma Gandhi