Friday, October 25, 2013

Most Important & Common Q & A

1. New chairman and managing director of Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC)?
Answer: Dinesh K Sharraf.


2. Who became the first player to win four successive ballon d'or awards ?
Answer: Lionel Messi


3. Who wrote the book What Young India Wants ?
Answer: Chetan Bhagat


4. Who is the United States Secretary of State ?
Answer: John Kerry


5. Who is appointed as Chinese ambassador to India ?
Answer:  Wei Wei 


6. Who is the prime minister of Bangladesh ?
Answer: Sheikh Hasina


7.  Who is the miss earth 2012 ?
Answer: Tereza Fajksová


8. 2013 BRICS summit will be held at which place ?
Answer: Durban (South Africa)


9. Who is the present president of North korea ?
Answer: Kim Il-sung


10. What is the code name given to secret operation carried out by the special cell to unearth the IPL spot fixing racket ?
Answer: Operation U-Turn


11. What is the code name given to Ajmal Kasab's execution ?
Answer: Operation X


12. Who is the first  foreign national to hanged in India ?
Answer: Ajmal Kasab


13. What is the code name given to Afzal Guru's execution?
Answer: Operation Three Star 


* 14. Who won 2013 Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award ?
answer: Amjad Ali Khan


* 15. Who won 2013 Lokmanya Tilak award ?
Answer: E Sreedharan

Who is known as Metro Man of India ?
ans: E Sreedharan


* 16. Who is the new foreign secretary of India ?
Answer: Sujatha Singh


* 17. Which country gave one year asylum to Edward SnowdenAmerican intelligence leaker ?
  answer: Russia


* 18. Who is the new president of Iran ?
answer: Hassan Rouhani
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1. In which year Supreme Court of India came in to force ?
Answer: 1950 January 28


2. Who is the first chief Justice of India ?
Answer:  Harilal J Kania


3. Who is the 39th Chief Justice of India ?
Answer: Altamas Kabir (Incumbent)



4. Which article in Indian Constitution gives the power of Writ jurisdiction to Supreme court ?
Answer: Article 32


5. Who appoints the judges of supreme court ?
Answer: President


6. What is the monthly salary of chief Justice of Supreme court ?
Answer: 1 lakh


7.  What is the monthly salary of judge of Supreme court ?
Answer: 90,000


* 8. Who is the present (40th) Chief Justice of India ?
answer:  P. Sathasivam


* 9. Who is the first female supreme court chief justice ?
answer: No female CJI yet


* 10. Who is the first female judge of supreme court ?
Answer: Fathima Beevi

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1. Which countries are separated by 38th parallel ?
Answer:  North Korea and South Korea


2. What is the maximum length of a day in pole ?
Answer: 6 month

Siliguri Corridor gk questions
3. What is the name of corridor, connects north-eastern states to the rest of India which is known as Chicken's Neck ?
Answer: Siliguri Corridor


4. Who is the creator of painting Boy with a pipe ?
Answer:  Pablo Picasso


5. Who presented the first budget in India (1860) ?
Answer: James Wilson


6. Which is the first country to get a loan from world bank ?
answer: France


* 7. The top secret 'Operation Lal Dora' which is recently in news is related to which incident ?
Answer: Landing of Indian troops in Mauritius


* 8. What is the name of border line that separates USA and Canada ?
answer: 49th parallel


* 9. Which is the largest soil group in India ?
Answer: Alluvial soil


* 10. Cartography is the study of ?
answer: Map


*11. Who developed the system of latitude and longitude ?
Answer: Eratosthenes


* 12. Which river crosses the equator twice in its flow ?
answer: Congo River

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1. 2012 Olympics is held at ?
Answer: London


2. Venue of 2016 Olympics (The next Olympics will be held at) ?
Answer:  Riode Genero (Brazil)


3. Venue of 2014 Winter Olympics ?
Answer: Sochi (Russia)


4.  2012 Summer Paralympics is held at ?
Answer: London


5. Venue of 2016 Summer Paralympics ?
Answer: Rio de Genero (Brazil)


6.  Venue of 2014 Winter Paralympics ?
Answer: Sochi (Russia)


7. 2010 World Cup Football was held at ?
Answer: South Africa


8. Where is the venue of 2014 World Cup Football ?
Answer:  Brazil 
Brand ambassador of the 2014 FIFA World Cup ?
Answer: Pele


9. Where is the venue of 2018 FIFA World Cup ?
Answer:  Russia


10. Where is the venue of 2022 World Cup Football ?
Answer:  Qatar


11. 2010 Commonwealth Games was held at ?
Answer:  Delhi


12. 2014 Commonwealth Games will be held at ?
Answer: Glasgow (Scotland)


13. Where is the Venue of 2018 Commonwealth Games ?
Answer: Gold Coast (Australia)


14. 2012 Euro Cup Football was held at ?Answer: Poland and Ukraine


15. Where is the Venue of 2016 Euro Cup Football ?
Answer: France


16.  Where is the Venue of 2015 World Cup Cricket ?
Answer: Australia and New Zealand


17. Which country host the 2019 World Cup Cricket ?
Answer: England


18. Which country host the 2014 T-20 World Cup Cricket ?
Answer: Bangladesh


19. Which country host the 2016 T-20 World Cup Cricket ?
Answer: India


20. Where is the Venue of 2013 Asian Games ?
Answer: Inchean (South Korea)


* 21. Where is the venue of 2013 world athletic championship ?
answer: Moscow (Russia)


* 22.  Which country host the 2023 World Cup Cricket ?
Answer: India

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1. Who discovered the Indus site, Harappa ?
Answer: Dayaram Sahni


2. Who discovered the Indus site, Ropar ?
answer:  Y.D. Sharma


3. Who discovered the Indus site, Mohenjodaro ?
 Answer:  R. D. Banerji


4. Who discovered the Indus site, Lothal ?
answer: S.R.Rao


5. Who discovered the Indus site, Lothal ?
 Answer: Braj Basi Lal




6. What is the meaning of word Mohenjodaro ?
answer: Mound of the Dead




7. In which Indus site, Great bath located ?
Answer: Mohenjodaro


8.  In which Indus site, Great granary located ?
Answer: Harappa
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1. Who is known as the father of Indian army ?
Answer: Major Stringer Lawrence


2. Who is the first commander in chief of Indian Army ?
Answer: Major Stringer Lawrence  


3. 1st Indian to became Commander in Chief of Army?
Answer: Km kariyappa


4. Who is known as Kipper ?
Answer: Km Kariyappa


5. Who is the first commander in chief of Indian air force in Independent India ?
Answer: Thomas Walker Elmhirs 


6. Who is the first commander in chief of Indian Navy ?
Answer:  R D Kathari


* 7. Who is the commander in chief of Indian army when India got independence ?
Answer: Robert Lockhart


* 8. Which is India's first and only military base outside Indian territory ?
Answer: Farkhor Air Base (Tajikistan)


* 9. Who is the first Field Marshal (highest rank in the Indian Army) of Independent India ?
Answer: Sam Manekshaw 


* 10. In which year Indian air force established ?
Answer: 1932 October 8


* 11. Indian Army Day observed on ?
Answer: January 15 


* 12. Indian Airforce Day observed on ?
answer: October 8


* 13. Indian Navy Day observed on ?
Answer: December 4


* 14. Which is the largest Cantonment (military area) in India ?
Answer: Bathinda (and in Asia also)
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3. Which country has the oldest National Flag ?
Answer: Denmark

4. which country has the oldest national anthem ?
Answer: Japan



5. Where is National Defense College situated ?
Answer: New Delhi

6. Where is National Defense Academy (NDA) situated ?
answer: Khadakwasla (Pune)

7. Where is Indian Military Academy situated ?
answer: Dehradun



8. Who is the First American president who won the Nobel Prize ?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

9. Who is the First Russian president who won the Nobel Prize ?
Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev



10. Which is the largest lake in the world ?
answer: Caspian Sea

11. Which is the Largest Fresh Water Lake in the world ?
answer: Lake Superior



12. Which place is known as land of rising sun ?
Answer: Japan

13. Which place is known as land of setting sun ?
Answer: still confused, did you know the answer ?

14. Which place is known as land of midnight sun ?
Answer: Norway



15. Heart and soul of the constitution ?
answer: Article 32

16. Necessary evil in the Constitution ?
answer: Article 22


17. Who discovered the Harappan site Lothal ?
Answer: S.R.Rao

18. Who discovered the Harappan site Kalibangan ?
Answer:  A. Ghosh


* 19. Who translated Arthashastra in to English ?
Answer: R. Shamasastry

* 20. Who translated Bhagavad Gita in to English ?
Answer: Charles Wilkins

* 21. Who translated Manusmṛti in to English ?
Answer: William Jones

* 22. Who translated Gita Govinda in to English ?
Answer: William Jones

* 23. Who translated Abhinjana Shakunthalam in to English ?
Answer: William Jones


* 24. Which is the most abundant metal present in earth's surface ?
Answer: Aluminum

* 25. Which is the most abundant metal present in earth ?
 Answer: Iron
  
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GK on Physics:

1. Rate of change of distance is called as ?
Answer: Speed


2. Rate of change of displacement is called as ?
Answer: Velocity


3. Negative acceleration is called as ?
Answer: Retardation (deceleration)


4. What is the acceleration of a body moving with constant velocity ?
Answer: Zero


5. Which is the weakest force in the universe ?
Answer: Gravitational Force


6. Which is the strongest force in the universe ?
Answer: Nuclear Force 


7. What is the CGS unit of force ?
Answer: Dyne


8. Who discovered the law of inertia ?
Answer: Galileo Galilei


* 9. A body given with an initial velocity moved under the effect of gravity is called ?
Answer: Projectile


* 10. Rate of change of momentum is _____ ?
 Answer: Force


* 11. A large force acting on a short time is called ?
Answer: Impulse


* 12. The ability of a liquid to rise by defying gravity is called ?
Answer: Capillarity


* 13. Which is the liquid that shows Capillary fall ?
Answer: Mercury 

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1. Decibel is a unit of ?
Answer: Sound


2. Which of the following is used as rear view mirrors in vehicles ?
Answer: Convex mirror


3. Which of the following is not an ore of iron ?

a) Iron pyrites  b) Magnetite  c) Hematite  d) Magnesite
Answer: d) Magnesite


4. Which one of the following is known as the 'king of metal' ?

a) Iron  b) Gold  c) Platinum  d) Cobalt
Answer: 


5. Which is the alkaloid that contains in cola drinks ?
Answer: Caffeine


6. Which alloy is used for the production of the body of aeroplanes ?
Answer: Duralumine


7. The compounds which are used to give colour to glasses and oil paintings ?
Answer: Transition metals


8. Name the person who invented lightning conductor ?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin


9. What is the voltage at which house hold AC (Alternating Current) equipments work ?
a) 220 v   b) 230 v    c) 400v   d) 110v

Answer: 230 v


10. Which of the following is a device that employs the principle of Mutual Induction ?

 a) Electric motor    b) Microphone   c) Transformer    d) Electronic choke
Answer: Transformer


11. Dengue fever is caused by ?
Answer: IGM Dengue Virus


12.  The work of famous poet 'AKKITHAM' which got VAYALAR award in 2012 ?
Answer: Anthimahakalam


13. Which is the highest national Environment award ?
Answer: Vriksha Mithra award


14. Who is the second Indian who is appointed as head of ICC Cricket Committee ?
Answer: Anil Kumble  (First > Sunil Gasvaskar)


15. Who got Nobel Prize for literature in 2012 ?
Answer: Mo yan


16. The programme launched by Kerala state Government to protect women and children from sexual abuse and sexual harassment ?
Answer: Nirbhaya


17. The present chief Justice of India ?
Answer:  P. Sathasivam


18. The new name of Big Ben Tower ?
answer: Elizabeth Tower


19. The 14th Vice President of India ?
answer: Hameed Ansari


20. Which was the statistical model used for India's second five year plan for attaining economic development?
answer: Mahalanobis Model


21. The Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) was established on ?
answer: 1992 April 12


22. Who was the first women Director General of Police in India?
answer:  Kanchan Chauduri


23. No child below the age of 14 can employed as per the Indian Constitution ?
answer:  Article 24


24. Who wrote the book 'Development as Freedom' ?
answer: Amartya Sen


25. The sex-ratio of Kerala (Females per 1000 Males) according to the Census of 2011 ?
answer: 1084


26. Untouchability is abolished under ?
Answer:  Article 17


27. Article 21 A deals with?
answer:  Right to Education

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1. Which US state has the nickname Mother of presidents ?
Answer: Virginia


2. Who is the first union minister of India to resign from office ?
Answer: R. K. Shanmukham Chetty
Quiz questions

3. Who used the term "Robot" first ? 
Answer: Karel Capek


4. How many members are nominated by President in Rajya Sabha ?
 Answer: 12


5. How many members are nominated by President in Lok Sabha ?
answer:  2


6. National sports day is observed on ?
Answer: August 29 


7. In which year was the first Amendment of the Constitution of India enacted ?
Answer: 1951

1. Who discovered Nucleic Acid ?
answer: Friedrich Miescher


2. Who invented Bordeaux mixture ?
Answer:  Millardet


3. Chakiarkoothu is a dance form of which state ?
Answer: Kerala


4. Which place is known as pillars of Hercules ?
Answer: Gibraltar 


5. In which Indian library the manuscript of Rigveda is stored ?
answer: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute 


1. What is known as town gas ?
Answer: Coal gas


2. The coal containing highest percentage of carbon is ?
Answer: Anthracite


3. Who was the first woman commander of a space shuttle ?
answer: Eileen Collins


4. Who was the first CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General) of India ?
 Answer: V Narhari Rao


5. Which is the acid present in Tea ?
Answer: Tannic acid


6. What is the pigment present in Muscles ?
Answer: Myoglobin 


7. Who discovered law of electrolysis ?
Answer: Michael Faraday


1. When did Gandhiji arrived on India from South Africa ?
Answer: 1915 January 9


2. Who is the leader of Mahad Satyagrah ?
answer: Dr B.R Ambedkar


3. Who is the leader of Bardoli Satyagraha ?
Answer:  Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel


4. Jallianwala Bagh massacre was in the year ?
 answer: 1919 April 13


1. Who is known as the father of Yoga ?
answer: Patanjali


2. Which Indian is known as the father of plastic Surgery ?
Answer: Sushruta


3. Who is the father of Ayurveda ?
answer: Charaka


4. Who is known as the father of Indian Space program ?
Answer: Dr Vikram Sarabhai


5. Who is known as the father of Indian Missile Program  ?
Answer: A.P.J. Abdul Kalam


6. Who is known as father of Indian atomic bomb ?
answer: Raja Ramanna


7. Who invented Crescograph ?
Answer: Jagadish Chandra Bose


8. Who is known as the father of Indian Green Revolution ?
Answer:  M. S. Swaminathan


9. Which Indian Scientist is known as Thomas Alva Edison of India ?
Answer: G. D. Naid


10. Who is known as the father of white revolution ?
Answer: Verghese Kurien


1. Who is the Father of nuclear Physics ?
Answer: Ruther ford


2. Who discovered Natural radio activity ?
answer: Henri Becquerel


3. Who discovered Artificial radio activity ?
Answer: Irene Joliot-Curie and Frederic Joliot Curie

4. What is the SI unit of radio activity ?
answer: Becquerel


5.  Who coined the term Radio Activity ?
Answer: Marie Curie 


1. Who wrote the song "Sare jahan se acha" ?
Answer: Muhammad Iqbal


2. Who give music to the song "Sare jahan se acha" ?
Answer: Pandit Ravi Shankar


3. Which is the worlds oldest news agency ?
Answer: AFP (Agence France Presse)


4. What is the chemical name of Tear Gas ?
Answer: Chloroacetophenone


5. Which is the only hobby recognized by the United Nations ?
Answer: Ham Radio


6. What is the national flower of Pakistan ?
Answer: Jasmine


7. What is the scientific name of Cockroach ?
Answer: Periplaneta americana


8. What is the unit of luminous intensity ?
Answer: Candela


9. Who is the winner of 2012 Us open men's title ?
Answer: Andy Murray


10. Who is the winner of 2012 Us open women's title ?
Answer: Serena Williams


11. Which famous writer is known as Father of Snow Golf ?
Answer: Rudyard Kipling


12. How many Schedules are there in the Indian Constitution ?
Answer: 12


13. Which planet is known as Red planet ?
Answer: Mars


14. Which European countries are separated by Market Reef ?
Answer: Finland and Sweden 

Market reef Gk questions











15. Who is the author of Panchtantra ?
Answer: Vishnu Sharma


16. Which is the coldest planet in solar system ?
Answer: Neptune


17. The Rourkela Steel Plant in Odisha was built with the collaboration of  _____ ?
Answer: Germany


18. The Durgapur Steel Plant in West Bengal was built with the collaboration of  _____ ?
Answer: Britain


19. The Bhilai Steel Plant in Chattisgarh was built with the collaboration of  _____ ?
Answer: Russia 


20. Who is the first and only Muslim lady ever to rule the throne of Delhi ? 
Answer: Razia Sultana


21. Who composed the national anthem of Bangladesh (Amar sona bangla) ?


22. Who wrote the book Planned economy for India ?
Answer: M. Visvesvaraya (He is known as father of Indian planning, his birthday September 15 is observed as Engineer's Day in India )


23. Which is the oldest sports in the world ?
Answer: Archery  ( It is the national sports of Bhutan)


24. What is the normal duration of Hockey game ?
Answer: 70 Minuets


25. Which Minor Rock Edict of Asoka describes the conquest of Kalinga by Asoka ?
Answer: No. XIII (13)


* 26. Who is the author of Joy of Numbers ?
Answer: Shakuntala Devi


* 27. Who is the creator of the painting The Potato Eaters ?
Answer: Vincent van Gogh


*28. Folketing is the parliament of which country ?
answer: Denmark


* 29. What s the chemical name of Lime stone ?
Answer: Calcium Carbonate


* 30. Zero degree centigrade equal to _________ degree Fahrenheit ?
Answer:  32 
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1. Who was named AIFF (All India Football federation) player of the year 2012 ?
Answer: Syed Rahim Nabi


2. How many gold medal were won by India at Copa Brasil - 2012 Tournament for wrestling ?
Answer: 9


3. The reserve Bank of India has asked banks to ensure withdrawal of Non-CTS 2010 standard cheques with CTS standard -2010 cheques by ?
Answer: error in answer


4. Recently consensus on GST have been arrived by center and states. What does GST mean ?
Answer: Goods and service Tax


5. Who was elected as vice president of Indian National Congress ?
Answer: Rahul Gandhi


6. The government of India has given ......... "language of the 8th schedule" the status of official language ?
Answer: 22


7. Who was world biggest exporter of rice in 2012 as per the latest report by food & Agriculture organization ?
Answer: India


8. The National development Council has approved recently the 12th five year paln and set an annual average growth target of ?
Answer: 8.2 %


9. India on Oct-4, 2012 successfully test fired nuclear capable Prithvi-2 ballistic missile from a test range at Balasore. This was a ?
Answer: Surface to Surface Missile


10. The refractive indices of Kerosene, Turpentine and water are 1.44. 1.47 and 1.33 respectively. Light will have maximum speed in ?
Answer: Water


11. Which of the following gases are given out during Photosynthesis ?
Answer: Oxygen


12. Who is credited with the discovery of Electron ?
Answer:  J.J Thompson


13. What is the Script of Ashoka's inscription ?
Answer: Brahmi


14. The first temporary president of Constituent Assembly?
Answer: Dr. Sachidanand Sinha


15. Which among the following was the major demand of Bardoli Styagraha (1928) organized under the leadership of sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel ?
Answer: Rollback of newly enhanced revenue rate 


16. During the time of which Mughal emperor did the English East India Company establish its first factory in India ?
Answer: Jahangir


17. Find the incorrect statement

a) Spring tide is caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun together in the same direction 

b) A line on a map that join all the places of the same height above sea level is called contour line

c)  Full moon occurs when the moon comes between the Earth and the sun

d) The difference in minutes between the Greenwich time and the local time at a place can be derived by multiplying the longitude of place by four 

Answer: Full moon occurs when the moon comes between the Earth and the sun 


18. The central government on 1st Jan 2013 launched the pilot phase of direct cash benefits transfer scheme. Under this scheme the cash will be directly transferred to the intended beneficiaries through?
answer: Aadhar Linked Bank accounts


19. Identify the three leader states in wind energy among the following ?
Answer : Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Gujarat


20. Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia said recently that the term "Bimaru" states should be done away with. Which sates was/were termed as Bimaru state ?
Answer: Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh


 21. Bhopal  Gas tragedy  is  associated  with  leakage of  ?
 Answer: Methyl  ISO  Cryanate 


 22. Which  company  has  developed  AKASH ,  the  cheapest  tablet computer  ?
Answer: Data Wind


23. Which  of  the  following  articles  of constitution  says  that  the  executive  power  of  every  state  shall  be  so  exercised  as  not  to  impede  or  prejudices the  exercise  of  the  executive  power  of  India ?
Answer: Article 257


24. The  distance  between  the  earth  and  Sun  is greatest during ?
Answer:  Aphelion


25. Who is the General Secretary of CPI(M) ?
Answer:  Prakash Karat  

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1. Density of water is  maximum at which temperature ?
Answer: 4 oC


2. Which is the most abundant noble gas in atmosphere?
Answer: Argon 
  

3. Which of the following is used to remove rust stain from clothes ?
a) lime water    b) alcohol     c) Oxalic acid      d) Kerosine

Answer: Oxalic acid


4. Which Union territory of India has four districts which don't have common border ?
answer: Puducherry 


* 5.  Which state in ancient India was known as Gauda ?
Answer: Bengal


* 6. How many languages are listed in 8th schedule of Indian constitution ?
Answer: 22 


* 7.  Which is the oldest sports in the world ?
Answer: Archery  


* 8. What is the national sports of Bhutan?
Answer: Archery  


* 9. Which is the longest mountain range in the world ?
Answer:  Andes


* 10. Who was the first ruling British Monarch to visit India ?
Answer: George V


* 11. Which country gifted statue of liberty to USA ?
Answer: France

1. In which River Hirakud dam (longest dam in India) is situated ?
Answer: Mahanadi (Odisha)


2. In which River Bhakranangal dam (largest dam in India) is situated ?
Answer: Sutlej (Himachal Pradesh)


3. In which River Tehri Dam (highest dam in India) is situated ?
Answer: Bhagirathi River (Uttarakhand)


4. In which River Nagarjunasagar Dam is situated ?
Answer: Krishna River


* 5. In which state the Baglihar Dam situates ?
Answer: Jammu and Kashmir (in river Chinab)


*6. In which state the Ukai Dam situates ?
Answer: Gujarat (in river Tapti)


* 7. In which state the Pong Dam situates ?
Answer: Himachal Pradesh (in river Beas)


* 8. In which state the Koyna Dam situates ?
Answer: Maharashtra (in river Koyna)


* 9. In which state the Osman Sagar dam situates ?
Answer: Andhra Pradesh (in river Musi )



Chemistry general knowledge questions

1. Which is the first artificial element ?
Answer: Technetium


2. Which synthetic fiber is known as artificial fiber ?
Answer: Nylon


3. Which synthetic fiber is known as artificial silk ?
Answer: Rayon 


4. Which is the first artificial fiber ?
Answer: Rayon 


5. What is known as artificial Plastic ?
Answer: Bakelite


6. Which is the first artificial plastic ?
Answer: Celluloid


7. What is known as artificial rubber ?
Answer: Neoprene 


8. Which is the first artificial sugar ?
Answer: Saccharin 


9.Which chemical is used to make artificial rain ?
Answer: Silver iodide

Tripura

gk questions tripura
1. Which place is the capital of Tripura ?
Answer: Agartala


2. What is the meaning of name Tripura ?
Answer: Three cities


3. Who is the new chief minister of Tripur ?
Answer: Manik Sarkar


4. Which State is bounded by Bangladesh on three sides ?
Answer: Tripura





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