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1. Who invented the steam engine?
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Bombay
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Jonas Salk

2. Who invented telephone?
Silicon
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.
Diffusion
Alexander Graham Bell

3. Where is the famous Meenakshi Temple situated?
Tamil Nadu
Darsheel Safary
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
In front of New Delhi's High Court

4. Who is the creator of 'Sherlock Holmes'?
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Sri Lanka
Arthur Conan Doyle
24th May

5. When was the foundation day of CSIR ( Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) observed?
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
4 minutes
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Finland

6. Where is Pushkar lake located?
Chandragupta
Rajasthan
Mumbai
Hyderabad

7. Where is Elephant Pass located?
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Sri Lanka
Bleaching powder
30th January

8. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Third century B.C
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)

9. Which is the largest Gurudwara in India?
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Baby Nargis

10. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?
Satyendra Nath Bose
In Samba
Golconda
Yousuf Raza Gillani

11. What is made from the mixture of lime and chlorine?
Bhai Gurmej Singh
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Bleaching powder
Param Vir Chakra

12. When was the design of our National Flag adopted by the Constituent of India?
Rabindranath Tagore
Michael Phelps
Sunil Gavaskar
July - 1947

13. Which song became the most searched You tube video in India in 2011?

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14. Which is the India's largest public sector commercial bank at present?
Kathak
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
State Bank of India

15. Who wrote the book 'Gulliver's Travels'?
Madhya Pradesh
Jonathan Swift
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
26th January

16. Who wrote the immortal song 'Vande Mataram'?
Jonathan Swift
Landsteiner
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
The President

17. Vocalist Rahamat Khan belongs to which Gharana?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
July - 1947
Gwalior Gharana
Hampi

18. Who is President of India?
250th anniversary
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
The Rajya Sabha
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.

19. Name the ballistic missile that lifted off from Wheeler Island in Odisha on 9th August - 2012?
Ashoka
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Sukumar Sen
Lead

20. Where is the National Institute of Nutrition located?
Rabindranath Tagore
Cyrus Mistry
Darsheel Safary
Hyderabad

21. Who is generally regardedas the pioneer of Local Self Government in Modern India?
Ripon
Nitrogen
10th October
Mehbooba Mufti

22. Which is the great circle on earth's surface?
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
23rd December
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
The equator

23. Where is the Indian Institute of Science located?
John Keats
Bangalore
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Tamil Nadu

24. Name the temple where majority of pilgrims visiting tonsure their heads and offer their hair to Lord Venkateswara?
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Baby Nargis
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh

25. What is the new name of Burma?
Myanmar
Washing soda
Longitudinal position
Second Battle of Tarain

26. Who got Dronacharya Award in 2011 ?
Three Decades in Parliament
E.G.Otis
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Hyderabad

27. What are the benefits of medicine Performax?
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.
State Bank of India
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Ajit Kumar from Haryana

28. In how many time zones is the World divided?
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
24
Performax
Hockey

29. Where are the headquarters of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts?
Standard time of the country138
New Delhi
Fatehpur Sikri
Samudragupta

30. Who was first Indian woman to become president of U.N. General Assembly?
M.N Roy62
Jaya Dev
Speaker
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit

31. Who invented the lift?
Alexander Graham Bell
E.G.Otis
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Jama Masjid

32. When in India Teachers Day celebrated?
Maharashtra
35 degree
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
5th September

33. Who wrote the book 'Gullivers Travel'?
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Euclid
Abul Kalam Azad
Jonathan Swift

34. Who presented the first Union Budget of Independent India?
Hampi
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Sitar

35. Which hockey team won the Asian Championship Trophy at Ordos(China) in 2011?
India
Second Battle of Tarain
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Vocal Music

36. In how many time zones is U.S.A divided?
Madhya Pradesh
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
5
Tamil Nadu

37. Which is our National song?
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
Lawn Tennis153
Vande Mataram
Demand deposits

38. Name the metal used as the filament of an electric bulb?
Kushans
Four lions
Tungsten
Michael Phelps

39. Where is the headquarters of Oil and Natural Gas Commission?
Dehradun
Oxygen and acetylene
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)

40. Where is the National Defence Academy situated?
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Khadakvasla
Allauddin Khilji
Jonas Salk

41. Who will be the new Director General of Police (DGP) after the retirement of P.S. Gill?
Director General Anil Kaushik
90 degrees
London
Arundhati Roy

42. Players of which state got the maximum Olympic medals in London Olympics?
Milkha Singh
Haryana
Equator
Angle between the horizon and the equator

43. Who discovered neutron?
Chadwick
Amitabh Bachchan
It loses one day
Morarji Desai

44. Who is called the Flying Sikh of India?
Mohammad Iqbal
Milkha Singh
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Mumbai

45. How many spokes are there in our national emblem 'Ashoka Chakra'?
1949
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
24

46. Motilal Nehru and Chittaranjan Das were the founder members of which party?
Hindukush
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Swarajya Party

47. Name the ship commissioned by India which is biggest in its class in the World?
6 months
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Vishnu Sharma
The President

48. Which river is related to Nagarjun Sagar Project?
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
J.B.Say
Mundak Upanishad
Krishna

49. Our Indian Constitution closely follows the Constitutional system of which country?
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Strait of Gibraltar
U.K
250th anniversary

50. Who is the author of the book 'My Experiments with Truth'?
American firm Intra Pace unveils a stomach implant vi akeyhole surgery that can help people fight flab by warning the brain when enough food is taken. This credit card sized implant is named as 'Abiliti'.
Art and architecture
Mahatma Gandhi
Saka era

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