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1. Who wrote 'Netaji - Dead or Alive'?
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Samar Guha
Contingency Fund of India
11th May

2. Name the alloy of iron - chromium and nickel?
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Stainless steel
Bromine
Rabindranath Tagore147

3. Late Girilal Jain was a noted figure in which field?
Anita Desai
Karashapana
Journalism
Renders electronic gadgets useless and effectively neutralises the adversary's command control and communication capability by producing a strong electromagnetic field generating powerful electricity surges that play havoc with electronic circuits wi

4. Which is the state wise largest area under forest in India?
Jamaica
Madhya Pradesh
Dance
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas

5. Who wrote the book 'Unhappy India'?
Lala Lajpat Rai
Maharashtra
Jane Austen
Myanmar

6. Who propounded the Market Law?
INS Vikrant55
J.B.Say
Navtej Saran
Sitar

7. One degree of longitude on equator is equal to what distance?
Abul Kalam Azad
Rabindranath Tagore
Nitrogen
69 miles

8. Which countries are located on the Greenwich Meridian?
11th July
Gagan Narang
Alexander Graham Bell
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland

9. Who is generally regardedas the pioneer of Local Self Government in Modern India?
1949
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
2nd April - 2011
Ripon

10. Name the state of India where diamond mines are mainly found?
Kho-Kho
Galileo
Rabindranath Tagore147
Madhya Pradesh

11. Why the International Date Line makes slight deviation from 180 degree meridian?
Punjab
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Sidney Sheldon
Hockey

12. India is facing pressure from the US and other Western countries to break trade ties with which country?
5th September
Johannes Kepler
Curiosity
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)

13. Who wrote the line 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'?
John Keats
Carbon dioxide
Ganga
Vishnu Sharma

14. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
Kapil Dev
Himachal Pradesh
11th May
Jamaica

15. Who got Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (highest sports award in country) award?
Gol Gumbaz
Thailand
Punjab
Gagan Narang (shooter)

16. Which was the great centre of trade and commerce in the Gupta period?
Mathura
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Amitabh Ghosh
India

17. Who invented telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
U.K
Khadakvasla

18. When India became a Sovereign - democratic republic?
5th September
Prime Minister
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Jan 26 - 1950134

19. After whose name the Nobel Prize was started?
Jaya Dev
18th April
Is a herbal formulation of 10 selected herbs known to have adaptogenic properties. It helps to improve the physical and mental performance by increasing blood oxygenation and reducing low density lipoproteins and cholesterol.
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite

20. Who has been appointed the Governor of RBI after the retirement of Shri Y.V. Reddy?
Six months
5
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Saka era

21. Who is the author of book 'India Wins Freedom'?
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Is a herbal formulation of 10 selected herbs known to have adaptogenic properties. It helps to improve the physical and mental performance by increasing blood oxygenation and reducing low density lipoproteins and cholesterol.
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Six months

22. Name the NASA's most modern spacecraft successfully landed on Mars on 6th August - 2012 to begin a pioneering two year search to find out if the red planet is suitable for life and whether it can be inhabitable in the future?
Curiosity
Algernon Sidney
Three Decades in Parliament
Increases

23. Which king brought the valleys of Indus - Ganga and Jamuna together for the first time under one political authority?
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Ashoka
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
20th March

24. Whose name is associated with the council of the 'Nine Gems'?
Director General Anil Kaushik
Shockley
Chandragupta-II
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.)

25. Where is Char Minar located?
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Jawaharlal Nehru
Hyderabad
Silicon

26. Who crafted the wax statue of Anna Hazare?

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27. 'Nokia' the telecom company belongs to which country?
Finland
Satyendra Nath Bose
Jaipur
Chadwick

28. Who painted the masterpiece 'Hamsa Damayanti'?
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Six months
Yamuna
Raja Ravi Varma

29. What is the reason found for ground water contamination in Punjab - especially in the Malwa region?
Governor
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
10th December

30. Who was the only Muslim woman to sit on the throne of Delhi?
18th December
5th September
Razia Sultana
Sonepur (Bihar )

31. Where are the World famous Khajuraho sculptures located?
Madhya Pradesh
Anita Desai
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Yamuna

32. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?
India
Param Vir Chakra
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.

33. Whose autobiography is 'India Wins Freedom'?
Sonepur (Bihar )
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Abul Kalam Azad
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4

34. When comes National Postal Day in India?
Art and architecture
The equator
Mohammad bin Kasim
10th October

35. Which river is related to Nagarjun Sagar Project?
Myanmar
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Kanishka
Krishna

36. What is the other name of deuterium oxide?
Heavy water
Dance
Rajasthan
Standard time of the country138

37. Who is the senior most Army officer to have faced a court martial and dismissed from service by an Indian Army Court?
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Finland
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)

38. Who wrote the famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
Chandragupta-II
Concave lens
Jane Austen
Stainless steel

39. To whom President of India can write if he wants to resign from office?
5th September
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Vice President of India
Maithili Sharan Gupta67

40. Where were remains of Vijayanagar Empire found?
Satyendra Nath Bose
Hampi
5 hours 30 minutes
26 years and 9 months

41. Who was first Indian woman to become president of U.N. General Assembly?
Edison
Playwright
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
69 miles

42. Name the subatomic particle which scientists claimed to have spotted and is believed to be a crucial building block in the formation of universe?
God particle or Higgs Boson
Trivandrum
Albert Einstein
Jonathan Swift

43. Name the person who transliterated Guru Granth Sahib in Braille?
Kiran Bedi
Himachal Pradesh
Bleaching powder
Bhai Gurmej Singh

44. Which game is associated with Agha Khan Cup?
14th November
Hockey
Greeks
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.)

45. What was the main occupation of Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) people?
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
William Wordsworth
Aung San Suu Kyi
Hunting

46. When comes the Farmer's Day (Kisan Divas )in India ?
Football
23rd December
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Jaya Dev

47. Which day is observed as Sanskrit Day in India?
Second Battle of Tarain
Football
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
5th September

48. What is Dry Ice?
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Ladakh

49. What was adopted from the Maurya dynasty in the emblem of government of India?
Four lions
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
95th

50. Who inspired Green Revolution in India?
Andhra Pradesh
N.E. Borlaug
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Bangalore