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1. What was adopted from the Maurya dynasty in the emblem of government of India?
Kanishka
Four lions
69 miles
Johannes Kepler
2. Who is called the Flying Sikh of India?
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
M. Narasimhan
Milkha Singh
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
3. Where were remains of Vijayanagar Empire found?
Morarji Desai
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Hampi
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
4. Who got Arjuna Award in 2011?
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
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
Guru Gobind Singh
Thailand
5. Where is the India's first largest bamboo museum?
Mussoorie
Allahabad Pillar inscription
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
6. Who wrote Panchatantra?
Vishnu Sharma
11th May
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
7. Which is the largest port in India?
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.
Mumbai
G.V. Mavalankar
95th
8. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
18th April
Thailand
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
At Magdalla port near Surat.
9. How many stanza's of Jana Gana Mana song were adopted as National Anthem?
Ujjain
Only the first stanza
Governor
1.34 millions
10. Greenwich mean time (GMT) is the standard time of which country?
5th April
Stupa
Planning Commission
U.K
11. Name the great Hindu king who combined in himself the qualities of Samudragupta and Ashoka?
5th September
Kulandei Francis
William Wordsworth
Harshavardhana
12. Who composed our National song?
Andhra Pradesh
Mary Kom
Euclid
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
13. Who is the author of the novel 'White Tiger'which won the Booker Prize 2008?
Aravind Adiga
Planning Commission
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Sodium
14. Which is the largest saline water lake in India?
6-14 years
Stainless steel
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
15. In how many time zones is U.S.A divided?
Longitudinal position
Kanishka
5
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
16. Whose name is associated with the council of the 'Nine Gems'?
Chandragupta-II
5 hours 30 minutes
Kanishka
Carbon dioxide
17. Name the mineral found in Zawar mines?
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Zinc
15th January
India and Pakistan
18. The Rath Yatra at Puri is celebrated in honour of which Hindu deity?
Jagannath
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Carbon dioxide
19. Name the China's first woman astronaut into orbit?
Narendra Modi government
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
The number of persons per square kilometre.
11th May
20. On which part of earth days and nights are of equal length always?
Sodium
U.K
INS Vikrant55
Equator
21. Which book is entitled as 'Bible of Communism'?
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Das Kapital
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
22. Who deciphered the genetic code?
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Kanishka
11th July
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
23. Which gas is called laughing gas?
Hamid Ansari
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Andhra Pradesh
Nitrous oxide
24. Who discovered insulin?
Cavendish
J.L.Baird
9th August
Dr. F.G.Banting
25. Name the first ever pill approved by US to prevent HIV?
German
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Governor
USA
26. When India became a Sovereign - democratic republic?
Jan 26 - 1950134
Tamil Nadu
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
6 months
27. Who wrote the book 'Glimpses of World History'?
Madhya Pradesh
Shimla and Hamirpur
Jawaharlal Nehru
Dadabhai Naoroji
28. Who will be the new Director General of Police (DGP) after the retirement of P.S. Gill?
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Director General Anil Kaushik
Shobha De
250th anniversary
29. Who was the first woman to go in space?
Shockley
Concave lens
Valentina Tereshkova
Carbon dioxide
30. Who is the author of book 'Gita Govinda'?
29th August
Valentina Tereshkova
M. Narasimhan
Jayadeva
31. When is Commonwealth Day observed?
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
24th May
Chandrayaan
Mussoorie
32. By whom is the Vice-President of the Indian Union elected?
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
German
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Planning Commission
33. Who won the Wimbledon title for seventh time and 17th grand slam crown after beating Andy Murray in male category in 2012?
Sonepur (Bihar )
Roger Federer
Sachin Tendulkar
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
34. What is the common name of sodium carbonate?
23rd April
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Washing soda
Chandragupta
35. Who presented the first Union Budget of Independent India?
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
5th September
Vidya Balan
Andhra Pradesh
36. What is India's rank on the Transparency International (TI) corruption Perception Index out of 183 countries in 2011?
Lala Lajpat Rai
29th August
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
95th
37. Which song became the most searched You tube video in India in 2011?
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183
38. Name the famous ruler of ancient India - who towards the end of his life converted to Jainism?
Chandragupta
Forty-fourth Amendment
$46 - 00011
Washing soda
39. Why Shimla is cooler than Amritsar though they have same latitude?
John Ruskin
24th October
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
40. Name the new nuclear powered submarine formally handed to India by Russia?
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Sushil Kumar
Hamid Ansari
State Bank of India
41. Name one famous Sarod player?
Alexander Fleming
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Stupa
Amjad Ali Khan
42. Who is the author of 'Tarikh-i-Alai' containing the details of the first few years of Sultan Alauddin Khilji?
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Gol Gumbaz
Amir Khusrau
Nayantara Sahgal
43. Where is Pushkar lake located?
South Africa
Rajasthan
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Hampi
44. Name the woman boxer of India who have won five time world championship in succession?
Cyrus Mistry
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Euclid
Mary Kom
45. Name the scientist who is considered as the Father of Genetics?
Kalpakkam
Johann Gregor Mendel
Standard time of the country138
Kauravas and Pandavas51
46. In which year was the National Anthem first sung?
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
1911133
Jaipur
47. How many total number of enclaves are to be exchanged between territories of two countries India and Bangladesh according to the treaty signed in Sept - 2011?
Nitrogen
Only the first stanza
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
162
48. Who invented the telegraphic code?
Myanmar
Samuel Morse
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Vasudeva
49. How many spokes are there in our national emblem 'Ashoka Chakra'?
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
24
Darsheel Safary
50. Which is the largest zoo in India?
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Kho-Kho
Sitar
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
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