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1. Who presented the first Union Budget of Independent India?






2. Name the woman boxer of India who have won five time world championship in succession?






3. Which player is the author of the book 'Straight From The Heart'?






4. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?






5. Name the state of India having longest coastline?






6. When is World Food Day observed?






7. Who is crowned Miss World 2011?






8. Which is our National song?






9. Name the new nuclear powered submarine formally handed to India by Russia?






10. Which is the largest planetarium in India?






11. Where were huge amounts of uranium recently found?






12. Between whom battle of Kurukshetra was fought?






13. Which child artist got Critics Best Actor Award for his acting in a film Taare Zameen Par?






14. Name the metal used as the filament of an electric bulb?






15. Who painted the masterpiece 'Hamsa Damayanti'?






16. Who is the renowned flute player?






17. Name the eminent Hindi authors chosen for Jnanpith Award 2011?






18. What are GM Crops?






19. With which musical instrument was Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan associated?






20. In which year was the National Anthem first sung?






21. Who wrote the line 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'?






22. What is the ratio of width of our National Flag to its length?






23. Who is known as 'Lady with the Lamp'?






24. Which day in India celebrated as Central Excise Day ?






25. 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?






26. Which country has hosted the Asian Games for maximum number of times?






27. Who discovered the oral polio vaccine?






28. Where is the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre located?






29. When is World's Sparrow Day observed?






30. For what was Gupta dynasty famous?






31. Who is known as the Father of the Indian Constitution?






32. Who is the creator of 'Sherlock Holmes'?






33. Which is the great circle on earth's surface?






34. Who is called the Flying Sikh of India?






35. Who discovered Penicillin?






36. What are the estimated premature deaths caused annually by air pollution - according to the first pollution survey carried in Sept. - 2011 by World Health Organisation?






37. Who was the first person to set foot on moon?






38. Who is the author of the book 'My Experiments with Truth'?






39. Whose contemporary was Tulsidas?






40. Who is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in India?






41. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?






42. Who was the first recipient of Nehru Award for International Understanding?






43. Where are relics of Buddha preserved?






44. Why speed of sound is greater in solids than in liquids?






45. Name the book which has collection of speeches of N.G Ranga?






46. Who wrote the book 'Glimpses of World History'?






47. Who became the first batsman in the history of cricket to score 100 international centuries?






48. Name the person who has set a new Guinness record of being the oldest man to complete a full distance marathon in Toronto?






49. Liquefied Petroleum Gas consists mainly which gases?






50. Which day is observed as World Heritage Day?