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1. Who presented the first Union Budget of Independent India?
Shobha De
Bombay
Standard time of the country138
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)

2. Who is President of India?
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Madhya Pradesh
18th December
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.

3. Name the place where Lord Budha breathed his last?
Kushinagar
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Karashapana

4. Which country has World's largest democracy?
India
W.C Bannerjee
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
From fresh and purified fat stem cells ( Fat has a large number of tissue growing stem cells. People could go for liposuction and save fat cells for future use or can use immediately.)

5. Name the mountain range which stretches from Gujarat in the West to Delhi in the North?
Aravallis
24th May
The Rajya Sabha
Sri Lanka

6. Who won the Wimbledon title for seventh time and 17th grand slam crown after beating Andy Murray in male category in 2012?
Johann Gregor Mendel
26th January
German
Roger Federer

7. Which village of Andhra Pradesh may be sitting over one of the world's largest uranium reserves?
July - 1947
South Kolkata
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
6 months

8. Whom did Dalai Lama announced to be his successor in March - 2011?
Lobsang Sangay
Bangalore
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.

9. During whose reign The Mathura School of art flourished?
8
Vasudeva
Kerala
Saeed Mirza

10. Who is called 'Grand Old Man of India'?
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Motion Picture
Bangalore
Dadabhai Naoroji

11. Upto where Chandragupta Maurya's empire extended in the north-west?
Konark
Hindukush
Bangalore
Karashapana

12. Who was the only Muslim woman to sit on the throne of Delhi?
Bleaching powder
11th May
Razia Sultana
Abhinav Bindra

13. Which will be the new subject added to the curriculum of Kendriya Vidyalayas?
Prime Minister
German
Iodine
Robert Watson Watt

14. What is Ayush treatment?
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
9th August
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days

15. Why bubble of water shines?
Rocky Marciano
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Andhra Pradesh
Baby Nargis

16. In which state are the World famous Ajanta Caves situated?
U.K
J.B.Say
Gota in Sweden
Maharashtra

17. What is the name of first Indian aircraft developed by Government laboratory with private fund?
Eagle
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Rajasthan
Yousuf Raza Gillani

18. Which is the largest lake in India?
E.G.Otis
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Sunil Gavaskar

19. Who said 'Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err'?
U.K
Mahatma Gandhi
Leo Tolstoy
15th August167

20. How many spokes are there in our national emblem 'Ashoka Chakra'?
Kerala
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
24
Param Vir Chakra

21. When was the design of our National Flag adopted by the Constituent of India?
July - 1947
Andhra Pradesh
India and Pakistan
Dilip Kumar

22. Who got Arjuna Award in 2011?
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
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
26 years and 9 months
Shobha De

23. Name the first ever pill approved by US to prevent HIV?
5th September
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
8th May

24. Who discovered the noble gases?
Ludhiana
Cavendish
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156

25. Who wrote the book 'The Namesake'?
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Concave mirror
Jhumpa Lahiri
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)

26. Where is famous Somnath Temple located?
Gujarat
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
8th September

27. Who got the greatest Olympic athlete of all time Trophy?
Michael Phelps
Latitude includes 180 lines and longitude has 360 lines because longitude connects North Pole to South Pole and latitude is divided from east to west.
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Shimla and Hamirpur

28. Champion Trophy is associated with which game?
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Hockey
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.)
Akbar

29. Who composed the famous song 'Sare Jahan Se Accha'?
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Mohammad Iqbal
Kerala
Hyderabad

30. Where is the world's largest solar power project going to be set up?
Ganga
Maharashtra
Punjab
Jama Masjid

31. Who is the man popularly kwown as Gurudev?
China
Rabindranath Tagore147
Su-Kam Power Systems
Michael Phelps

32. Name the country which has longest international boundary with India?
China
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Silicon
Michael Phelps

33. Name the scientist who got Nobel Prize twice for the same subject?
Marie Curie
New Delhi
Tamil Nadu
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)

34. Name the metal present in photo films?
Silver
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Demand deposits

35. Who wrote the book 'We Indians'?
Khushwant Singh
Standard time of the country138
35 degree
20th March

36. Where is head office of the State Bank of India located?
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Ladakh
Mumbai
Karashapana

37. With whom the Income Tax Department decides to share its PAN card database?
Bleaching powder
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Andhra Pradesh
Johannes Kepler

38. In which field the name of Gangubai Hangal associated?
69 miles
Music
250th anniversary
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)

39. Who invented telephone?
Paschim Banga1
Alexander Graham Bell
18th December
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012

40. Who wrote the book 'Unhappy India'?
Dumping
Lala Lajpat Rai
Mundak Upanishad
24th February

41. Which game is associated with Agha Khan Cup?
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Hockey
The Bering Strait

42. Name the 17th Karmapa against whom the Una police filed a chargesheet under section 120-B of the IPC in 2011?
Sunita Williams
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.)
2
Samudragupta

43. What is the upper house of parliament known as?
The Rajya Sabha
Darsheel Safary
J.B.Say
Pune

44. Which is the highest military award for valour in India?
Kalpakkam
Dr. F.G.Banting
Demand deposits
Param Vir Chakra

45. What is Dry Ice?
Tungsten
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Strait of Gibraltar
1.34 millions

46. Which country is the second largest producer of sugar?
Akbar
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Andhra Pradesh
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.

47. Who was the author of 'Bharat Bharati'?
Ripon
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Maithili Sharan Gupta67

48. The Prime Minister is chairman of this
Planning Commission
Prime Minister
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
Thar desert (Rajasthan)

49. What are the bank deposits that can be withdrawn without notice called?
Silicon
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Finland
Demand deposits

50. Indian Air Force Day is observed on which day ?
8th October
69 miles
Golconda
Robert Watson Watt

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