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1. What was adopted from the Maurya dynasty in the emblem of government of India?
Four lions
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Because the solids have high elasticity.
2. Name the Indian woman boxer who won bronze medal in Olympics?
Mary Kom
Andhra Pradesh
22nd April
Madhya Pradesh
3. Who is known as the Father of the Indian Constitution?
Myanmar
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Punjab
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
4. Who became the first batsman in the history of cricket to score 100 international centuries?
Algernon Sidney
Bombay
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Sachin Tendulkar
5. Where were Chola Kings ruling over?
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Kerala
Tamil Nadu
6. India is facing pressure from the US and other Western countries to break trade ties with which country?
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Alexander Graham Bell
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
7. Where is Pushkar lake located?
1911133
Silicon
Rajasthan
Jawaharlal Nehru
8. When is World Health Day celebrated?
7th April
From fresh and purified fat stem cells ( Fat has a large number of tissue growing stem cells. People could go for liposuction and save fat cells for future use or can use immediately.)
Aravind Adiga
Maharashtra
9. Which is largest man made lake in India?
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Dadabhai Naoroji
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Das Kapital
10. Which is the largest Gurudwara in India?
Jan 26 - 1950134
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Anna Hazare
11. Which is the largest auditorium in India?
Anna Hazare
Mumbai
Later Vedic Age
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
12. On globe - the latitude and longitude intersect at what angle?
90 degrees
Mary Kom
Himachal Pradesh
Ripon
13. How 4G services will hit the country in 2012?
4G technology will offer many advancements to the wireless market including downlink data rates well over 100 Mbps - low latency - very efficient spectrum use and low cost implementation.
Aravallis
Jonathan Swift
John Keats
14. Where is largest animal fair held in India?
Leh
Darsheel Safary
Sonepur (Bihar )
Due to radiation
15. With which field M.F. Hussian were associated?
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Painting
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
16. Who wrote the line 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'?
Jane Austen
John Keats
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Mahatma Gandhi
17. When is Earth Day observed?
22nd April
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Vasudeva
18. In how many time zones is U.S.A divided?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Maharashtra
5
Karashapana
19. For what is Bijapur known?
22nd April
Gol Gumbaz
Chilka lake (Orissa )
1.34 millions
20. At which point of earth weight of object will be minimum?
At the center of earth
India
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
21. Which is the largest Church in India?
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
2:3161
22. To whom President of India can write if he wants to resign from office?
Sunderbans delta
Vice President of India
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
N.E. Borlaug
23. Which is largest cave temple in India?
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
9th August
Kushans
24. Which state has become the second highest power purchaser in the country after Punjab?
Dumping
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Arthur Conan Doyle
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
25. Who invented the petrol engine?
Nikolaus Otto
Maharashtra
Eagle
Nitrous oxide
26. When an open bottle of scent is kept at one corner due to which phenomenon its fragrance is found in whole room?
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Vishnu Sharma
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Diffusion
27. Motilal Nehru and Chittaranjan Das were the founder members of which party?
Sriharikota
90 degrees
Swarajya Party
Kauravas and Pandavas51
28. Who propounded the Market Law?
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
J.B.Say
Guru Gobind Singh
Fatehpur Sikri
29. Who has been re-elected PDP President for the fourth time in Srinagar in 2011?
Hunting
Ujjain
Mehbooba Mufti
Contingency Fund of India
30. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
Painting
Jamaica
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Golconda
31. Hawa Mahal is situated in which city?
Jaipur
Bangalore
Sodium
Ganga
32. Who wrote 'One Day Wonders'?
24
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.
Sunil Gavaskar
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
33. Name the new nuclear powered submarine formally handed to India by Russia?
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Sushil Kumar
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
34. Who presented the first Union Budget of Independent India?
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Will pass through Equator
Jaipur
35. Which is the largest cave in India?
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Das Kapital
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Firozeshah Tughluq
36. Which region of India is associated with pine forests?
Punjab
Uttarakhand
15th March
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
37. Name the country's longest railway tunnel excavated?
162
Yamuna
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
1st December
38. Which is the largest lake in India?
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
V.S Naipaul
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Dutch East Indies
39. When comes the Farmer's Day (Kisan Divas )in India ?
23rd December
Swarajya Party
China
10th October
40. Which is the largest river island in India?
Bengali
Sunita Williams
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
41. When is the World Population Day observed?
15th January
11th July
Gwalior Gharana
11th May
42. Who is the first Indian sports person to win an individual Gold medal in the Olympic Games?
Bombay
15th March
Allauddin Khilji
Abhinav Bindra
43. Who is the author of the novel 'White Tiger'which won the Booker Prize 2008?
8
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Aravind Adiga
44. Who wrote the book 'Glimpses of World History'?
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Jawaharlal Nehru
Kushans
China
45. Which village of Andhra Pradesh may be sitting over one of the world's largest uranium reserves?
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
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'.
Uttarakhand
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
46. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' taken?
Mundak Upanishad
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
Dilip Kumar
Chandragupta
47. Where is India's Space Rocket Launching Centre situated?
Mary Kom
Sriharikota
Mohammad Iqbal
Jagannath
48. Where was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Avanti?
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Mohammad Iqbal
5
Ujjain
49. What will be the difference in longitudes between two places if their time difference is 2 hours and 20 minutes?
Forty-fourth Amendment
N.E. Borlaug
Jane Austen
35 degree
50. Which is the largest populated state in India?
Karashapana
M. Narasimhan
Diffusion
Uttar Pradesh