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1. Where are the achievements of Samudragupta described on?
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Uttarakhand
H.P.S Ahluwalia
6 months

2. Which is largest state of India?
Chandragupta Maurya
Rajasthan
Krishna
Methane - butane and propane

3. Who painted the masterpiece 'Hamsa Damayanti'?
Dilip Kumar
Raja Ravi Varma
20th March
Jamaica

4. At which place a devastating fire tore through seven storey AMRI hospital killing 91 people in 2011?
Three Decades in Parliament
South Kolkata
Dr. F.G.Banting
The Bering Strait

5. When comes National Postal Day in India?
10th October
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
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.
Only the first stanza

6. What amount is purposed as per capita allocation for health sector for 2011-2012 - according to the official review of National Rural Health Mission?
Nitrogen
July - 1947
Rs 270
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh

7. Who is the author of the book 'The Exile'?
Ganga
Navtej Saran
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Nitrogen

8. Who discovered the oral polio vaccine?
5 hours 30 minutes
Painting
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.
Jonas Salk

9. Players of which state got the maximum Olympic medals in London Olympics?
6-14 years
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.)
24th October
Haryana

10. Which is the world's second cheapest city according to global survey?
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Football
Palk Strait
Albert Einstein

11. Why the International Date Line makes slight deviation from 180 degree meridian?
Mundak Upanishad
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Bleaching powder

12. Who invented radar?
William Shakespeare151
Jhumpa Lahiri
250th anniversary
Robert Watson Watt

13. Which country has hosted the Asian Games for maximum number of times?
2:3161
Painting
Thailand
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)

14. Which child artist got Critics Best Actor Award for his acting in a film Taare Zameen Par?
Shimla and Hamirpur
Hyderabad
Darsheel Safary
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.

15. Who is the first Indian male shuttler to reach Olympic quarters?
15th March
Herodotus
Parupalli Kashyap
Silicon

16. 'A Voice of Freedom' is a book written by whom?
20th March
Razia Sultana
Speaker
Nayantara Sahgal

17. Which is largest populated city in India?
30th January
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Hindukush
Mumbai

18. Kathakali a folk dance is prevalent in which state?
Valentina Tereshkova
Kerala
Samudragupta
Red sea and Mediterranean sea

19. In which state are the World famous Ajanta Caves situated?
Maharashtra
Galileo
Perpendicular to each other
Three Decades in Parliament

20. At which point of earth weight of object will be minimum?
At the center of earth
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Satyendra Nath Bose
The Delhi Metro

21. When is India's Army Day celebrated ?
The equator
Mumbai
15th January
Kalpakkam

22. Who is sworn as the 14th Vice President of India?
Robert Watson Watt
July - 1947
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Hamid Ansari

23. What was the main occupation of Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) people?
State Bank of India
Hyderabad
Hunting
At Magdalla port near Surat.

24. Who invented the telegraphic code?
W.C Bannerjee
Samuel Morse
Heavy water
U.K

25. Which day in India celebrated as Central Excise Day ?
Jagannath
Ashoka
24th February
Sitar

26. Which region of India is associated with pine forests?
Ladakh
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Rabindranath Tagore
Uttarakhand

27. What is the name of India's moon mission?
Nayantara Sahgal
Lala Lajpat Rai
10th December
Chandrayaan

28. Which countries are located on the Greenwich Meridian?
Rajasthan
Nitrogen
U.K
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland

29. Why speed of sound is greater in solids than in liquids?
69 miles
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Saka era
Dance

30. Who has been selected as the new head of Tata empire in 2011?
24th February
Cyrus Mistry
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65

31. Who inspired Green Revolution in India?
Jane Austen
N.E. Borlaug
162
69 miles

32. The Prime Minister is chairman of this
Perpendicular to each other
Infinite
Planning Commission
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

33. Who was the first person to set foot on moon?
Neil Armstrong
Sitar
W.C Bannerjee
Samudragupta

34. At what age World's oldest dog Pusuke died?
Euclid
26 years and 9 months
Rajasthan
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi

35. What is Ayush treatment?
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
Chandragupta Maurya
Sitar
7th April

36. When comes National Sports Day of India?
29th August
Alexander Fleming
India
Tamil Nadu

37. What is the estimated premature deaths caused annually by outdoor air pollution - according to the first pollution survey carried out by World Health Organisation in Sept. - 2011?
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
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.
1.34 millions
Michael Phelps

38. At what price the menu of the first dinner served to the firstclass passengers of the ill fated liner Titanic on 10th April - 1912 sold?
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
24th May
$46 - 00011
Golconda

39. Which is the language next to Hindi spoken by largest number of people in the Indian sub continent ?
Graphite
Bengali
Tamil Nadu
Heavy water

40. Name the place where Lord Budha breathed his last?
Dehradun
Third century B.C
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
Kushinagar

41. Why bubble of water shines?
Kalpakkam
Dehradun
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Playwright

42. Who got Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award in 2011?
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Demand deposits
Increases
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).

43. Name the subatomic particle which scientists claimed to have spotted and is believed to be a crucial building block in the formation of universe?
Uttar Pradesh
God particle or Higgs Boson
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Indians

44. Who is the author of the book 'My Experiments with Truth'?
Abul Kalam Azad
The President
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Mahatma Gandhi

45. 'Nokia' the telecom company belongs to which country?
S. Radhakrishnan
Sidney Sheldon
Finland
Shockley

46. Which is the largest auditorium in India?
Mathura
Bobby Jindal
Hyderabad
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)

47. When India became a Sovereign - democratic republic?
State Bank of India
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Jane Austen
Jan 26 - 1950134

48. Name the metal used in storage batteries?
Eagle
Hamid Ansari
Lead
Thailand

49. When comes the World Disabled Day?
E.M Forster
Jaya Dev
11th May
15th March

50. Where are the headquarters of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts?
New Delhi
Diffusion
Khushwant Singh
Music