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1. Which is the largest district in India?
Greeks
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Playwright
Ladakh
2. Which is the world's second cheapest city according to global survey?
The Lok Sabha
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Lead
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
3. Where at present the BRAHMOS missiles are assembled?
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Hyderabad
Jan 26 - 1950134
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
4. Which day is known as World Book and Copyright Day?
23rd April
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.
5 hours 30 minutes
$46 - 00011
5. When is World Food Day observed?
Uttar Pradesh
16th October
Kanishka
4 minutes
6. On which day International Women's Day observed?
8th March
Torricelli
Contingency Fund of India
Sitar
7. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' taken?
Mundak Upanishad
Music
9th August
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
8. Name the country's longest railway tunnel excavated?
Johannes Kepler
Director General Anil Kaushik
Aung San Suu Kyi
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
9. For what is Bijapur known?
Florence Nightingale
15th January
Gol Gumbaz
India
10. During whose time the Gandhara School of art developed?
Assam
The Lok Sabha
Jaipur
Kushans
11. Who discovered X-Ray?
14th November
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Roentgen
Protecting Flora and Fauna
12. Which region of India is associated with pine forests?
Uttarakhand
Chandragupta-II
Cyrus Mistry
Maharaja Hari Singh
13. Our Indian National Calender is based on which era?
In Samba
Hampi
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Saka era
14. Between whom battle of Kurukshetra was fought?
Johann Gregor Mendel
The equator
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
15. Who is the first Indian sports person to win an individual Gold medal in the Olympic Games?
Abhinav Bindra
Bhai Gurmej Singh
USA
The Delhi Metro
16. Which age group children in India are ensured free and compulsory education?
6-14 years
24
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
17. Who invented the mercury thermometer?
1.34 millions
11th May
Galileo
12th January
18. Name the two living members of first Lok Sabha to be honored by President on 13th May - 2012 - 60th anniversary of our Parliament?
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Aravind Adiga
Swarajya Party
19. Who said 'Child is the father of Man'?
William Wordsworth
Amir Khusrau
Dutch East Indies
Khushwant Singh
20. Name the person who transliterated Guru Granth Sahib in Braille?
Bhai Gurmej Singh
2nd April - 2011
Das Kapital
Jaipur
21. Who arranged the elements in the Modern Periodic Table?
Nitrogen
Mosley
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
22. Which day in India celebrated as Central Excise Day ?
22nd April
Vocal Music
Michael Phelps
24th February
23. Which will be the new subject added to the curriculum of Kendriya Vidyalayas?
Rocky Marciano
German
Bleaching powder
$46 - 00011
24. When in India Teachers Day celebrated?
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Nek Chand
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
5th September
25. Where is Pushkar lake located?
8th March
Satyendra Nath Bose
Rajasthan
V.S Naipaul
26. Who wrote our National Anthem?
God particle or Higgs Boson
The Lok Sabha
Rabindra Nath Tagore
90 degree
27. To whom President of India can write if he wants to resign from office?
Jawaharlal Nehru
Hindukush
15th March
Vice President of India
28. When is India's Republic Day celebrated?
22nd April
26th January
Kerala
Rajasthan
29. Name the smallest neighbour of India?
Diffusion
10th December
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
30. Which gas is called laughing gas?
27th September
Oxygen and acetylene
Churchill
Nitrous oxide
31. Under which scam - the 43 year old daughter of former chief minister of Tamil Nadu M.Karunanidhi was in Tihar jail in 2011?
Darsheel Safary
2G spectrum scam
M.N Roy62
Allahabad Pillar inscription
32. How water in earthen pots remain cool?
11th July
Ujjain
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
5
33. What is the reason found for ground water contamination in Punjab - especially in the Malwa region?
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Only the first stanza
Dilip Kumar
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
34. Who wrote the first history book?
Heavy water
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Herodotus
35. Where were huge amounts of uranium recently found?
Palk Strait
Sitar
Andhra Pradesh
Dumping
36. When was the foundation day of CSIR ( Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) observed?
Heavy water
Robert Watson Watt
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Andhra Pradesh
37. With whom are the rare replicas of sacred book Guru Granth Sahib?
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Julang-2
Golconda
Demand deposits
38. Name the ballistic missile that lifted off from Wheeler Island in Odisha on 9th August - 2012?
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Dutch East Indies
Hockey
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
39. When is the Mother's Day celebrated?
6 months
South Africa
11th May
Amitabh Bachchan
40. Who said 'Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err'?
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Samuel Morse
Vadodara
Mahatma Gandhi
41. What is the name of first Indian aircraft developed by Government laboratory with private fund?
Amir Khusrau
Vocal Music
Krishna
Eagle
42. Where is Elephant Pass located?
Director General Anil Kaushik
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Jaya Dev
Sri Lanka
43. Who painted the masterpiece 'Hamsa Damayanti'?
Dutch East Indies
Torricelli
Raja Ravi Varma
8
44. Name the state where bio-fuel outlet - first of its kind in the country will be opened?
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
2:4
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
45. 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?
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Lawn Tennis153
Narendra Modi government
46. Name the first ever pill approved by US to prevent HIV?
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Florence Nightingale
2
47. The Prime Minister is chairman of this
Paschim Banga1
Planning Commission
Mumbai
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
48. Name the country which is second largest producer of horticulture commodities such as fruits - vegetables and flowers in the world?
India
Firozeshah Tughluq
South Africa
Hyderabad
49. Name one famous Sarod player?
8th September
India
Amjad Ali Khan
Bleaching powder
50. Radcliffe line is the boundary line between which countries?
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Mussoorie
India
India and Pakistan