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1. Which is the largest district in India?
W.C Bannerjee
Madhya Pradesh
Ladakh
Gagan Narang (shooter)

2. Name the gas usually filled in the electric bulbs?
Heavy water
Nitrogen
Will pass through Equator
Amjad Ali Khan

3. Which is the largest Gurudwara in India?
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Governor
China

4. Which is the place experiencing minimum and maximum temperatures -28.3 degree Celsius and 15 degree Celsius respectively?
Amitabh Bachchan
Jama Masjid
Mehbooba Mufti
Leh

5. Which metal is kept under kerosine?
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Nikolaus Otto
Sodium
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.)

6. Where is the National Defence Academy situated?
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Khadakvasla
M.N Roy62
Strait of Gibraltar

7. When are days and nights equal throughout the globe?
Amjad Ali Khan
When sun is above the equator
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Carbon dioxide

8. Why bubble of water shines?
Landsteiner
22nd April
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Mundak Upanishad

9. Who won bronze medal for India in men's 60 Kg freestyle wrestling?
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
The Rajya Sabha
Mohammad bin Kasim
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.

10. At which point of earth weight of object will be minimum?
6-14 years
At the center of earth
Finland
Rajasthan

11. What is the name of India's first aircraft carrier?
INS Vikrant55
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Japan
Rabindra Nath Tagore

12. What is the designation of the chairperson of Lok Sabha?
Bangalore
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
E.M Forster
Speaker

13. What is our National Anthem?
Jana Gana Mana
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jaipur
Sukumar Sen

14. Who is called Father of English Poetry?
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Chaucer
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Kerala

15. Late Vijay Tendulkar who died in 2008 were famous in which field?
Playwright
Third century B.C
Japan
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.

16. Which day is celebrated as International Literacy Day?
Longitudinal position
8th September
Nitrous oxide
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.

17. Who said 'I have nothing to offer except blood - sweat and tears'?
Alexander Fleming
E.G.Otis
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Churchill

18. On which day International Women's Day observed?
Japan
8th March
Will pass through Equator
250th anniversary

19. Who is going to receive highest US award?
Aung San Suu Kyi
Indians
Dutch East Indies
July - 1947

20. With which field M.F. Hussian were associated?
Painting
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Johann Gregor Mendel
Due to radiation

21. Name the state of India where diamond mines are mainly found?
Nayantara Sahgal
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
Madhya Pradesh
M.N Roy62

22. Who is the first Indian male shuttler to reach Olympic quarters?
Parupalli Kashyap
Dr. F.G.Banting
Saka era
26th January

23. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Khushwant Singh
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha

24. Where is the only shrine in the world which has a natural statue of Hanuman that is not man made?
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Gol Gumbaz
Aravallis
8

25. From where the longest circle which can be drawn from earth's surface will pass?
6-14 years
Dutch East Indies
Will pass through Equator
Satyendra Nath Bose

26. Where was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Avanti?
Jan 26 - 1950134
Kerala
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Ujjain

27. Name the first ever pill approved by US to prevent HIV?
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Jyoti Amge
Harshavardhana
Dadabhai Naoroji

28. Name the two living members of first Lok Sabha to be honored by President on 13th May - 2012 - 60th anniversary of our Parliament?
Landsteiner
2G spectrum scam
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Perpendicular to each other

29. Where were remains of Vijayanagar Empire found?
Hampi
India
Nitrous oxide
In front of New Delhi's High Court

30. Which country is the world's largest recipient of arms?
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
India
Darsheel Safary
Madhya Pradesh

31. Name one famous Sarod player?
Amjad Ali Khan
Jai Samhita
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Nitrous oxide

32. Who is known as 'Lady with the Lamp'?
INS Vikrant55
Kerala
Kushans
Florence Nightingale

33. What is the maximum duration for which the Vice President can officiate as the President of India?
15th January
E.G.Otis
6 months
8th October

34. Where is the National Institute of Nutrition located?
Hamid Ansari
Hyderabad
Samar Guha
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).

35. What is KG5 drug?

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36. Which is the largest Mosque in India?
Mary Kom
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Rajasthan
Jama Masjid

37. Name the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister whose admirers have decided to build a temple to perpetuate his memory?
Chandragupta
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Valentina Tereshkova
Sodium

38. 'A Voice of Freedom' is a book written by whom?
90 degree
Nayantara Sahgal
1949
Hindukush

39. Who is the author of the book 'Unto the Last' which influenced Gandhi ji?
John Ruskin
Graphite
William Wordsworth
11th May

40. Where is India's Space Rocket Launching Centre situated?
Hampi
Sriharikota
Infinite
Maharaja Hari Singh

41. Name the three new elements added to the Periodic Table in 2011?
Alexander Graham Bell
6-14 years
Ripon
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).

42. Which anniversary of sandwich was celebrated by British town in May - 2012?
26th January
Nek Chand
250th anniversary
Jonathan Swift

43. Who invented telephone?
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Galileo
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
Alexander Graham Bell

44. Who is the 26th Chief Minister of Karnataka?
Andhra Pradesh
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Madhya Pradesh

45. India is facing pressure from the US and other Western countries to break trade ties with which country?
Cyrus Mistry
Kerala
Madhya Pradesh
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)

46. Which sportsperson won the maximum number of Olympic Gold Medals?
Michael Phelps
Sunita Williams
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh

47. 'Glimpses of World History' is written by whom?
Jawaharlal Nehru
Konark
Mary Kom
Kerala

48. Who is the author of book 'Speed Post'?
Navtej Saran
Karashapana
Shobha De
15th March

49. What was the old name of Indonesia?
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
The Lok Sabha
Dutch East Indies

50. Which song became the most searched You tube video in India in 2011?

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