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1. Which country has hosted the Asian Games for maximum number of times?
Thailand
Param Vir Chakra
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Journalism
2. Whom the Gujarat High Court issued contempt notice on 15th Feb. - 2012 for not obeying its order to compensate people whose shops were burnt down in the post-Godhra riots?
Bangalore
Narendra Modi government
Krishna
Kulandei Francis
3. Name the Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay ofBengal?
Palk Strait
Baby Nargis
Samuel Morse
Forty-fourth Amendment
4. When was the foundation day of CSIR ( Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) observed?
Rs 270
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
8th September
5. Who appoints the Chairman and members of State Public Service Commission?
Mary Kom
Vice President of India
Governor
8th September
6. Where is the India's first largest bamboo museum?
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Sachin Tendulkar
Indra Sinha64
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
7. When was Sangeet Natak Akademi set up by Government of India?
1953
7th April
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
8. What is Dry Ice?
Sodium
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Mumbai
9. Where is the National Defence Academy situated?
In front of New Delhi's High Court
8th March
Khadakvasla
1.34 millions
10. On which date Quit India Day comes?
Landsteiner
Washing soda
Vice President of India
9th August
11. Which day in India is celebrated as Children's Day?
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
14th November
Aravind Adiga
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
12. Who was the first person to set foot on moon?
Neil Armstrong
Assam
India
Mehbooba Mufti
13. Name the Indian American astronaut who begins her 2nd space odyssey on July 15 - 2012?
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Sunita Williams
Roger Federer
J.B.Say
14. Whose name is associated with the council of the 'Nine Gems'?
Anita Desai
Methane
Chandragupta-II
State Bank of India
15. Name the metal used as the filament of an electric bulb?
9th August
Tungsten
Kulandei Francis
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
16. When comes National Sports Day of India?
23rd April
11th July
29th August
Firozeshah Tughluq
17. Which states are known for Cauvery Water dispute?
5
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Sriharikota
18. Who wrote the novel 'Neela Chand'?
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Bangalore
E.M Forster
Shiv Prasad Singh
19. Who elects the Vice President of India?
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Abhinav Bindra
11th July
Maharaja Hari Singh
20. Name the Apple co-founder who changed the daily habits of millions by reinventing computing - music and mobile phones?
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
5th June
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Maharashtra
21. On which date India won the World Cup in Mumbai?
2nd April - 2011
69 miles
Vasudeva
Samar Guha
22. Whose influence is reflected in the sculptures of the Gandhara school?
Navtej Saran
Algernon Sidney
Hockey
Greeks
23. Which is our National song?
Saka era
Vande Mataram
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Golconda
24. Who was first Indian woman to become president of U.N. General Assembly?
4G technology will offer many advancements to the wireless market including downlink data rates well over 100 Mbps - low latency - very efficient spectrum use and low cost implementation.
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Jonas Salk
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
25. 'Nokia' the telecom company belongs to which country?
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Finland
Stupa
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
26. What is the ratio of width of our National flag to its length?
Chadwick
2:3161
Hunting
Nayantara Sahgal
27. Name the shooter of Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur) who won silver medal in Olympics 2012?
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28. What is the estimated premature deaths caused annually by outdoor air pollution - according to the first pollution survey carried out by World Health Organisation in Sept. - 2011?
1.34 millions
In Samba
Hockey
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
29. What is the name of World's cheapest tablet PC?
Tamil Nadu
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Uttar Pradesh
In Samba
30. Who is the new youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Samar Guha
Akhilesh Yadav
31. Who propounded the Market Law?
E.M Forster
250th anniversary
J.B.Say
14th November
32. On which date Chennai turned 372 years?
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Gujarat
New Agra Fort
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
33. Which place is famous for gigantic rock-cut statue of Budha?
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Talwandi
Bamiyan
Dumping
34. Which fund can be used to meet the unanticipated expenditurewithout the prior approval of the Parliament?
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Contingency Fund of India
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
8th May
35. How many images will be formed when an object is placed between two mirrors placed parellel to each other?
1953
Stainless steel
Infinite
18th April
36. In how many time zones is the World divided?
24
2G spectrum scam
Stainless steel
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
37. Who is President of India?
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Kho-Kho
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Third century B.C
38. Name the last king of Jammu and Kashmir?
Maharaja Hari Singh
Mohammad bin Kasim
Jai Samhita
24th February
39. Name the youngest skydriver in the country?
Ashoka
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Due to radiation
Jama Masjid
40. Who said 'Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err'?
Mahatma Gandhi
Football
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.)
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
41. Who composed the National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'?
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Concave mirror
Bombay
Rabindranath Tagore
42. When an open bottle of scent is kept at one corner due to which phenomenon its fragrance is found in whole room?
Diffusion
Jonas Salk
1.34 millions
Speaker
43. Name the ballistic missile that lifted off from Wheeler Island in Odisha on 9th August - 2012?
9th August
Khadakvasla
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Jaya Dev
44. Where is Sun Temple situated?
8th May
Kanishka
Saeed Mirza
Konark
45. Which non -metal remains liquid at room temperature?
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Bromine
46. Why clear nights are more colder then cloudy nights?
Johann Gregor Mendel
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Due to radiation
47. Which is the largest auditorium 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
M.N Roy62
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Carbon dioxide
48. Which state of India has highest production of tea?
Carbon dioxide
Assam
Heavy water
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
49. Which is the largest river delta of India?
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
Ganga
Odisha
29th August
50. Who is the author of book 'Speed Post'?
China
Bangalore
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Shobha De