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1. Which country is the world's largest recipient of arms?
India
8th March
Sukumar Sen
Sachin Tendulkar
2. When was the Constituent Assembly that framed Constitution for Independent India set up?
Talwandi
1949
Mumbai
Palk Strait
3. Which megastar carried the Olympic flame on the torch relay leg between the City of London and the borough of South wark in London on 26th July - 2012 - a day before the opening ceremony of sporting spectacle?
Galileo
Zinc
John Keats
Amitabh Bachchan
4. When in India National Technology Day celebrated?
Indra Sinha64
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
11th May
India
5. Kathakali a folk dance is prevalent in which state?
Kerala
Finland
Sukumar Sen
Prof. V.N Datta
6. How many cities can be protected by the missile defence shield developed by India?
Ujjain
Bleaching powder
2
Prof. V.N Datta
7. Why Shimla is cooler than Amritsar though they have same latitude?
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
8th October
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Aung San Suu Kyi
8. Name the mountain range which stretches from Gujarat in the West to Delhi in the North?
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Rajasthan
Aravallis
9. Who discovered the noble gases?
Cavendish
20th March
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Concave mirror
10. Where is India's Space Rocket Launching Centre situated?
Sriharikota
In front of New Delhi's High Court
Football
Mehbooba Mufti
11. Where are the achievements of Samudragupta described on?
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Krishna
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
12. On what occasion Bihar got its own state anthem and state prayer whose CD's were released by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar?
Will pass through Equator
Diffusion
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Rabindranath Tagore
13. Who brought and installed two Asokan pillars in Delhi?
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
24
Firozeshah Tughluq
Demand deposits
14. To whom President of India can write if he wants to resign from office?
N.E. Borlaug
Mathura
18th December
Vice President of India
15. Who got Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (highest sports award in country) award?
The Delhi Metro
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Gagan Narang (shooter)
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
16. Who wrote the book 'The Namesake'?
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Three Decades in Parliament
W.C Bannerjee
17. Who was the only Muslim woman to sit on the throne of Delhi?
Razia Sultana
8th September
Zinc
Equator
18. Name the mineral found in Zawar mines?
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Zinc
12th January
19. Where is Elephant Pass located?
India Museum at Kolkata
Sri Lanka
9th August
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
20. Which day is known as World Book and Copyright Day?
23rd April
Amir Khusrau
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
N.E. Borlaug
21. Who is the author of book 'Gita Govinda'?
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.
Jayadeva
God particle or Higgs Boson
India
22. Name the new nuclear powered submarine formally handed to India by Russia?
Lawn Tennis153
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Maharashtra
23. Who wrote the book 'A Passage To India'?
Curiosity
E.M Forster
Hunting
Hampi
24. Name the country's longest railway tunnel excavated?
24
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
25. Name the person who has set a new Guinness record of being the oldest man to complete a full distance marathon in Toronto?
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Playwright
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
26. Name the book which has collection of speeches of N.G Ranga?
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Uttar Pradesh
Sonepur (Bihar )
Three Decades in Parliament
27. What are the bank deposits that can be withdrawn without notice called?
Demand deposits
22nd April
Kapil Dev
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
28. Name the Indian woman boxer who won bronze medal in Olympics?
Mumbai
Chadwick
Mary Kom
Forty-fourth Amendment
29. Which river is related to Nagarjun Sagar Project?
Kiran Bedi
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Krishna
30. Which is the state wise largest area under forest in India?
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Shobha De
1.34 millions
Madhya Pradesh
31. Why the International Date Line makes slight deviation from 180 degree meridian?
95th
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Mumbai
Golconda
32. Where is the famous Meenakshi Temple situated?
Tamil Nadu
26th January
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Jan 26 - 1950134
33. Who wrote an English novel 'In Custody'?
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Later Vedic Age
Johannes Kepler
Anita Desai
34. Which region of India is associated with pine forests?
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Uttarakhand
Kho-Kho
Mary Kom
35. Who invented radar?
At Magdalla port near Surat.
At the center of earth
Robert Watson Watt
Bleaching powder
36. For what was Gupta dynasty famous?
1.34 millions
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Ashoka
Art and architecture
37. Who invented telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Cyrus Mistry
Khadakvasla
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
38. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?
Trivandrum
Johannes Kepler
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Ujjain
39. When comes the Farmer's Day (Kisan Divas )in India ?
Anna Hazare
Rabindranath Tagore
Mary Kom
23rd December
40. Which gas is called laughing gas?
Nitrous oxide
15th March
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
U.K
41. Who was the author of 'Bharat Bharati'?
Hampi
16th October
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
42. Where are the headquarters of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts?
V. Anand
New Delhi
Gol Gumbaz
J.B.Say
43. Who is called 'Grand Old Man of India'?
Euclid
23rd December
Samuel Morse
Dadabhai Naoroji
44. Who discovered X-Ray?
Mohammad Iqbal
8th May
Silicon
Roentgen
45. At which point of earth weight of object will be minimum?
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
The equator
Andhra Pradesh
At the center of earth
46. When an open bottle of scent is kept at one corner due to which phenomenon its fragrance is found in whole room?
Alexander Graham Bell
Mahatma Gandhi
Diffusion
15th January
47. When is the Mother's Day celebrated?
11th May
Myanmar
6 months
8th September
48. What is made from the mixture of lime and chlorine?
G.V. Mavalankar
Bleaching powder
When sun is above the equator
Vishnu Sharma
49. Who is the first Indian sports person to win an individual Gold medal in the Olympic Games?
Abhinav Bindra
Mohammad Iqbal
Sunil Gavaskar
Music
50. Where were huge amounts of uranium recently found?
Hyderabad
Andhra Pradesh
Sitar
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
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