India Quiz 97

India Quiz 97

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1. Which sate has launched Aditya, India's first solar ferry and the largest solar-powered boat in India?

Keala
Gujarat
Tamil Nadu
Karnataka

2. In which state was India's First Transgender school opened?

Maharashtra
Kerala
Karnataka
Gujarat

3. Which state has launched "Digital Dakiya" scheme to teach cashless transactions?

Maharashtra
Madhya Pradesh
Gujarat
Uthar Pradesh

4. Which state will host the 2022 National Games?

Goa
Maghalaya
Uttarakhand
Chhattisgarh

5. Which city lies at the confluence of Netravati and Gurupura rivers?

Goa
Mysore
Mangalore
Udupi

6. Bagh Print, the traditional hand block print with natural colours, belongs to which Indian state?

Bihar
Odisha
Uthra Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh

7. Name the operation of the Indian Armed Forces to evacuate Indian citizens and foreign nationals from Yemen during the 2015 Yemeni Crisis

Operation Desert Storm
Operation Raahat
Operation Pawan
Operation Sukoon

8. Golghar or Gol Ghar is a beehive-shaped large granary constructed in 1786 by East Indian Company. Where is it located?

Agra
Pune
Kolkatha
Patna

9. Which one of the following was the first Uranium mine in India?

Jaduguda
Tummalapalle
Narwapahar
Bhatin

10. In which district is the Nedumkayam tribal colony that became the first digital and cashless tribal colony in India?

Palakkad
Wayanad
Malappuram
Thiruvananthapuram

General Knowledge 53: Personalities Quiz

General Knowledge 52: Personalities Quiz

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1. Who is known as the Father of Indian Archaeology?

N G Majumdar
A.C.L. Carlleyle
Bhagwan Lal Indraji
Alexander Cunningham

2. Who is the present Chief of Air Staff?

Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha
Air Chief Marshal Birendra Singh Dhanoa
Air Chief Marshal Anil Kumar Browne
Air Chief Marshal Pradeep Vasant Naik

3. Anthea Bell, Who passed away recently, is known for her translations of a French comics into English. Which comics we are talking about?

Tintin
Archie
Lucky Luke
Asterix

4. Who has been appointed as the new Chairman of Union Public Service Commission?

Vinay Mittal
Arvind Saxena
David R Syiemlieh
Alka Sirohi

5. Who holds the record for most hat-tricks in football?

Lionel Messi
Christiano Ronaldo
Lothar Mathaus
Pele

6. Who won the Man Booker Prize 2018?

Esi Edugyan
Daisy Johnson
Racher Kushner
Anna Burns

7. Somdev Devvarman, a recipient of Padma Shri in 2018 and Arjuna Award in 2011, is associated with which sports?

Badminton
Footbaal
Tennis
Cricket

8. Who is the present Chief of Army Staff?

General Dalbir Singh
General Bipin Rawat
General Bikram Singh
General Vijay Kumar Singh

9. The Durand Football Tournament or Durand Cup was named after its founder, Sir Mortimer Durand. Who was he?

British footballer
Indian football coach
British diplomat
Sports journalist

10. Which one of the following dance form is associated with Siddhendra Yogi?

Kathakali
Kuchipudi
Bharathanatyam
Yakshagana

General Science Quiz 57

General Science Quiz 57

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1. Which land animal has the largest mouth?

Elephant
Polar bear
Rhinoceros
Hippopotamus

2. Name the chatbot which has become the first AI bot to be granted official residence in Japan

Charlix
SimiSimi
ELIZA
Sbihuya Mirai

3. What causes the red colour of Mars?

The presence of iron oxide in the rocks and sand
The abundance of Nitrogen in Mars atmosphere
The volcanic activity on Mars
The presence of methane in the martial atmosphere

4. "Sultana" which is also known as Thompson Seedless is a seedless variety of which one of the following fruits?

Orange
Watermelon
Pomegranate
Grapes

5. With which weather phenonmenon the Indian classical raga Malhar is associated?

Dust storms
Fog
Rain
Snow

6. Name the British professor of Indian origin who was received Knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for his work as a co-inventor of Next Generation DNA sequencing

Abhas Mitra
Amar Gupta
Ram Chet Chaudhary
Shankar Balasubramanian

7. Which radioactive chemical element is named after the Norse God of Thunder?

Uranium
Plutonium
Promethium
Thorium

8. The element Gallium is named after a country. Name the country

Gambia
Senegal
France
Portugal

9. Which day is celebrated as World Computer Literacy Day?

1 December
2 December
22 December
12 December

10. Which was the first web based email service?

Hotmail
Gmail
Yahoo mail
Rediffmail

General Knowledge 52: Personalities Quiz

General Knowledge 53: Personalities Quiz

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1. In which field the Sant Kabir Award is given?

Handloom
Poetry
Religion
Tourism

2. Who was the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army?

K M Cariappa
Rajendrasinhji Jadeja
S M Shrinagesh
K S Thimmayya

3. Name the first Commander-ion-Chief of Indian Army of independent India

K M Cariappa
Roy Bucher
Rob Lockhart
Rajendrasinhji Jadeja

4. Who won the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize for 2018?

Sujatha Gidla
Sanam Maher
Preti Taneja
Shreevatsa Nevatia

5. In which Indian state is the Bhaichung Stadium, built in honour of Bhaichung Bhutia?

Bengal
Sikkim
Manipur
Nagaland

6. Which one of the following is the memoir of the famous revolutionary Che Guevara?

The Bicycle Thieves
The Motorcycle Diaries
Silver Dream Racer
The Mouse and the Motorcycle

7. Who is the goalkeeper to score the most goals in the history of football?

Rogerio Ceni
Tim Howard
Gianluigi Buffon
Jose Luis Chilavert

8. Who is the present Chief Election Commissioner of India?

Achal Kumar Jyoti
Om Prakash Rawat
Nasim Zaidi
H S Brahma

9. This greatest sprinter of all time retired after the 2017 World Championships. Who is he?

Michael Johnson
Carl Lewis
Usian Bolt
Christian Coleman

10. The Turbulent Years: 1980 - 1996 is the second part of the autobiography of which political pesonality?

Sonia Gandhi
Narendra Modi
Arun Jaitely
Pranab Mukherjee

General Science Quiz 56

General Science Quiz 56

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1. Which is the first high-level programming language designed for a computer?

Plankalkul
Ada
FORTRAN
COBOL

2. Which is the largest species of wild sheep?

Mouflon
Argali
Bighorn sheep
Urial

3. What does AIML stand for?

Advanced Internet Markup Language
Artificial Intelligence Markup Language
Artificial Intelligence Modular Language
Advanced Internet Model Language

4. Name the artificial intelligence chatter bot that was released by Microsoft via Twitter. Microsoft was forced to shut down the service only 16 hours after its launch due to the controversy as the bot posted inflammatory and offensive tweets.

Tay
Charlix
Spookitalk
Zo

5. Which one of the following is an annual competition to determine the best computer programs that demonstrate the "most human" conversational behaviour?

Kaggle
David E. Rumelhart prize
Loebner Prize
DARPA Grand Challenge

6. Which land animal has the largest brain?

Hippopotamus
Elephant
Humans
Chimpanzee

7. Your body has a "thermostat" that controls your body's temperature. What is it?

Skin
Hypothalamus
Cerebrum
Thyroid

8. Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution(MAVEN) is associated to

European Space Agency (ESA)
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
National Space Organization (NSPO)

9. Expand ISSDC

Indian Space Science Data Center
Indian Space Science Documentation Center
Indian Space Shuttle Detection Center
Indian Space Shuttle Direction Control

10. Which country tops the list of fish consumers in the world?

China
Japan
USA
India