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1. Who is the first Indian sports person to win an individual Gold medal in the Olympic Games?
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
1st May164
Abhinav Bindra
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
2. Who is sworn as the 14th Vice President of India?
6 months
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
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.
Hamid Ansari
3. Where is the Caspian sea - the largest inland sea or lake in the world located?
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
G.V. Mavalankar
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Sunita Williams
4. Name the Russian painter who had an 468 acre estate in Bangalore
Krishna
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Only the first stanza
Zinc
5. Why the International Date Line makes slight deviation from 180 degree meridian?
Karashapana
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Bhai Gurmej Singh
At Magdalla port near Surat.
6. Name the Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay ofBengal?
Churchill
Bangalore
Palk Strait
G.V. Mavalankar
7. Where is the only shrine in the world which has a natural statue of Hanuman that is not man made?
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Journalism
The equator
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
8. Who wrote the book 'Unhappy India'?
Madhya Pradesh
Michael Phelps
18th December
Lala Lajpat Rai
9. Which is the largest district in India?
Jamaica
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Ladakh
23rd April
10. Who discovered Penicillin?
Karashapana
Contingency Fund of India
Alexander Fleming
Speaker
11. What is the difference in time between two places 1 degree longitude apart?
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Will pass through Equator
Sodium
4 minutes
12. Name the Indian scientist who was a part of NASA team which has identified the landing site of the 'Curiosity'?
Assam
Lobsang Sangay
Amitabh Ghosh
Madhya Pradesh
13. Who won Jnanpith Award in 2010?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Journalism
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
Shiv Prasad Singh
14. On which date India won the World Cup in Mumbai?
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
Khadakvasla
Roentgen
2nd April - 2011
15. When is the World Population Day observed?
Perpendicular to each other
11th July
Akbar
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
16. Who is the author of the book 'We Indians'?
INS Vikrant55
Sitar
Khushwant Singh
26th January
17. Name the latest India's surface -to-surface missile successfully test fired (on 26th Sept - 2011)?
69 miles
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Ganga
18. What is the maximum duration for which the Vice President can officiate as the President of India?
Jan 26 - 1950134
Trivandrum
6 months
Kushinagar
19. Which ruler was adorned with the title of 'Maharajadhiraja'?
Kanishka
Greeks
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Bobby Jindal
20. Which is the largest port in India?
Khushwant Singh
Mumbai
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
21. Where is the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre located?
Trivandrum
Four lions
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
22. When is World's Sparrow Day observed?
Nayantara Sahgal
20th March
Bobby Jindal
Edison
23. Who founded the Saka Era?
Hampi
Contingency Fund of India
Samar Guha
Kanishka
24. Which country has an Unwritten Constitution?
Mosley
Governor
Performax
UK
25. Name the Indian who won Magsaysay award for community initiatives in Tamil Nadu?
Makes cancer cell 'commit suicide'. It helps in stoping multiplication of tumorous cells and shut themselves down. Will be available in approximately 5 years and will be in pill form.
Kulandei Francis
Kanishka
Valentina Tereshkova
26. Which state has become the second highest power purchaser in the country after Punjab?
Pune
Navtej Saran
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Anna Hazare
27. Who discovered neutron?
1.34 millions
Chadwick
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
28. To whom President of India can write if he wants to resign from office?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Ludhiana
Vice President of India
India and China
29. Where is the Indian Institute of Science located?
Bangalore
Anna Hazare
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Forty-fourth Amendment
30. Where is National School of Mines located?
Bobby Jindal
Iodine
Pune
Longitudinal position
31. Who is known as the Father of the Indian Constitution?
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
INS Vikrant55
Stainless steel
32. Which day is celebrated as National Maritime Day in India?
Manipur54
5th April
Zinc
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
33. Why speed of sound is greater in solids than in liquids?
2
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
6 months
Because the solids have high elasticity.
34. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Jamaica
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
The Reserve Bank of India
35. Who headed the committee on computerisation in Indian banks(1988)?
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
M. Narasimhan
20th March
36. Kathakali a folk dance is prevalent in which state?
Kerala
18th December
1953
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
37. Which is largest state of India?
Dr. F.G.Banting
Rajasthan
Bengali
Sitar
38. Which fund can be used to meet the unanticipated expenditurewithout the prior approval of the Parliament?
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Kauravas and Pandavas51
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Contingency Fund of India
39. Name the strait which separates Africa from Europe?
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
Strait of Gibraltar
Sriharikota
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
40. Name the person who transliterated Guru Granth Sahib in Braille?
India
Das Kapital
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Mumbai
41. Which is the highest military award for valour in India?
INS Vikrant55
Param Vir Chakra
5th September
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
42. Name the youngest skydriver in the country?
Planning Commission
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Sushil Kumar
Hindukush
43. Name 72 year old social activist who supported Jan Lokpal Bill?
Narmada and Japti
Speaker
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Anna Hazare
44. Name the scientist who got Nobel Prize twice for the same subject?
Chandragupta Maurya
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
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Marie Curie
45. Who discovered the oral polio vaccine?
Jonas Salk
Saka era
15th August167
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
46. Between whom battle of Kurukshetra was fought?
Harshavardhana
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
William Wordsworth
Kauravas and Pandavas51
47. What is Ayush treatment?
Euclid
Palk Strait
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
1.34 millions
48. What is equal to latitude of a place?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Hyderabad
At the center of earth
49. Which king brought the valleys of Indus - Ganga and Jamuna together for the first time under one political authority?
Su-Kam Power Systems
India
Ashoka
Kushinagar
50. Who is crowned Miss World 2011?
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Uttar Pradesh
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Sodium