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General Knowledge Trivia Test
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1. Which is the longest river of India?
Shockley
Ganga
Samuel Morse
The President
2. On whose written advice President can proclaim Emergency?
God particle or Higgs Boson
Prime Minister
Myanmar
10th December
3. Name the gases used in different types of welding?
The Bering Strait
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
18th December
Oxygen and acetylene
4. Who fought the Third Battle of Panipat?
Indians
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.)
Jawaharlal Nehru
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
5. Why sky appears to be blue?
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Martin Luther King
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
6. Which is the largest Mosque in India?
Jama Masjid
Tamil Nadu
Prof. V.N Datta
Mary Kom
7. Which gas is called laughing gas?
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Nitrous oxide
Rajasthan
8. For which dance Birju Maharaj is well known?
27th September
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Kathak
Because the solids have high elasticity.
9. Which element is obtained from sea weeds?
At the center of earth
Prof. V.N Datta
Iodine
The Delhi Metro
10. What happens when a ship crosses Date line from west to east?
Carbon dioxide
It loses one day
In Samba
$46 - 00011
11. Who arranged the elements in the Modern Periodic Table?
Fatehpur Sikri
Mosley
Sidney Sheldon
Vande Mataram
12. What will be the new name of West Bengal?
Dadabhai Naoroji
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Paschim Banga1
Vasudeva
13. Name the Indian American astronaut who begins her 2nd space odyssey on July 15 - 2012?
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Kulandei Francis
Jyoti Amge
Sunita Williams
14. When is Sadbhavna Diwas (Goodwill Day ) observed in India?
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15. Name the three new elements added to the Periodic Table in 2011?
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Kiran Bedi
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Increases
16. When is the Mother's Day celebrated?
J.L.Baird
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
11th May
17. Name the last king of Jammu and Kashmir?
Bangalore
Hyderabad
Maharaja Hari Singh
Madhya Pradesh
18. Which is the largest area wise state in India?
Kathak
Lobsang Sangay
Hindukush
Rajasthan
19. When is World's Sparrow Day observed?
20th March
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Hyderabad
India and Pakistan
20. Who discovered photoelectric effect?
Oxygen and acetylene
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Albert Einstein
Amitabh Ghosh
21. Name the gas used to extinguish fire?
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Carbon dioxide
Bangalore
Uttar Pradesh
22. Who discovered the noble gases?
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
1st May164
2G spectrum scam
Cavendish
23. Where is Boat Race a popular sport?
John Keats
Kerala
Concave lens
8th September
24. Which age group children in India are ensured free and compulsory education?
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Kapil Dev
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
6-14 years
25. Who is vice President of India?
John Ruskin
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Alexander Graham Bell
26. Name the largest oil refinery of India?
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Neil Armstrong
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Vadodara
27. Which state has become the second highest power purchaser in the country after Punjab?
Narmada and Japti
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Golconda
Dehradun
28. Where is Union Budget presented firstly?
Jonas Salk
M. Narasimhan
South Kolkata
The Lok Sabha
29. On which era is the Indian National Calender based?
Second Battle of Tarain
Saka era
V.S Naipaul
South Africa
30. When was Sangeet Natak Akademi set up by Government of India?
Milkha Singh
Navtej Saran
Nikolaus Otto
1953
31. Which metro has been certified by the United Nations as the first metro rail based system in the World to get carbon credits for contributing to the fight against climate changes?
The Delhi Metro
William Wordsworth
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
32. Who is the first Indian male shuttler to reach Olympic quarters?
Tamil Nadu
Parupalli Kashyap
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
1st December
33. How many stanza's of Jana Gana Mana song were adopted as National Anthem?
Only the first stanza
11th May
Football
Curiosity
34. Who got Dronacharya Award in 2011 ?
INS Vikrant55
Standard time of the country138
Punjab
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
35. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' taken?
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Algernon Sidney
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Mundak Upanishad
36. Between whom battle of Kurukshetra was fought?
Kauravas and Pandavas51
1949
South Kolkata
Aravallis
37. Where is the only shrine in the world which has a natural statue of Hanuman that is not man made?
Amjad Ali Khan
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Leo Tolstoy
38. Indian Air Force Day is observed on which day ?
8th October
Vande Mataram
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
39. Who wrote the book 'Ammi! Letter to a Democratic Mother'?
Saeed Mirza
Roger Federer
Kanishka
Firozeshah Tughluq
40. The World famous 'Peacock Throne' was kept in which Mughal building?
New Agra Fort
Heavy water
18th April
Sukumar Sen
41. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?
Johannes Kepler
2
V. Anand
Washing soda
42. Where is Pushkar lake located?
Rajasthan
Hyderabad
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Increases
43. At which place a devastating fire tore through seven storey AMRI hospital killing 91 people in 2011?
South Kolkata
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Standard time of the country138
Angle between the horizon and the equator
44. Who wrote the book 'Eternal Himalayas'?
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
The Delhi Metro
Andhra Pradesh
H.P.S Ahluwalia
45. Where is the National Defence Academy situated?
The equator
Johann Gregor Mendel
Khadakvasla
Bobby Jindal
46. Which place is going to have North India's biggest turf club?
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Uttarakhand
The Lok Sabha
Allahabad Pillar inscription
47. With which musical instrument was Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan associated?
Sitar
Fatehpur Sikri
Washing soda
Mahatma Gandhi
48. Who is known as 'Lady with the Lamp'?
Prof. V.N Datta
Abhinav Bindra
Florence Nightingale
Fatehpur Sikri
49. Who invented the mercury thermometer?
It loses one day
Galileo
26 years and 9 months
Bangalore
50. With whom the Income Tax Department decides to share its PAN card database?
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Kho-Kho
Baby Nargis
1.34 millions