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1. Name the Indian chess player who broke the World Record by finishing the game in twelve moves?
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Japan
Hunting
V. Anand
2. Who was the chairman of Constituent Assembly?
Neil Armstrong
Genetically Modified Crops.
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Silicon
3. Which region of India is associated with pine forests?
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Four lions
Yamuna
Uttarakhand
4. Who got the greatest Olympic athlete of all time Trophy?
Michael Phelps
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Methane
250th anniversary
5. Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
Palk Strait
Rajasthan
Prime Minister
Leo Tolstoy
6. Where is Bihar's first all women police station located?
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
11th July
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
7. What is the name of World's cheapest tablet PC?
State Bank of India
Sushil Kumar
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Jhumpa Lahiri
8. Who is the author of book 'The Tribune 130 Years: A Witness to History'?
Jama Masjid
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Raja Ravi Varma
Prof. V.N Datta
9. Where are the World famous Khajuraho sculptures located?
Hyderabad
India
Madhya Pradesh
Yamuna
10. Which country has an Unwritten Constitution?
UK
Gwalior Gharana
London
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
11. What is the latitude of South Pole?
Chaucer
90 degree
Alexander Graham Bell
7th April
12. Who headed the committee on computerisation in Indian banks(1988)?
M. Narasimhan
Neil Armstrong
15th March
Chandragupta-II
13. Why speed of sound is greater in solids than in liquids?
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Bromine
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
14. Who discovered the noble gases?
Cavendish
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
2:4
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
15. Who is the author of novel 'The White Tiger'?
Prime Minister
Dadabhai Naoroji
Aravind Adiga
Bombay
16. Who is the author of 'Tarikh-i-Alai' containing the details of the first few years of Sultan Alauddin Khilji?
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
Tamil Nadu
Himachal Pradesh
Amir Khusrau
17. Who was the first lady to become judge of the Supreme Court?
Chandragupta-II
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Madhya Pradesh
18. Which was the musical instrument used by Amir Khusro?
Rocky Marciano
Sitar
Saeed Mirza
Kauravas and Pandavas51
19. Which is the largest auditorium in India?
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Lawn Tennis153
E.M Forster
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
20. Who was the first king to conquer Malwa - Gujarat and Maharashtra?
Chandragupta Maurya
Vadodara
Akhilesh Yadav
10th October
21. Name the Indian scientist who was a part of NASA team which has identified the landing site of the 'Curiosity'?
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Amitabh Ghosh
Kanishka
22. Where were Chola Kings ruling over?
Ripon
Art and architecture
Tamil Nadu
Khadakvasla
23. What was adopted from the Maurya dynasty in the emblem of government of India?
The Reserve Bank of India
John Keats
Four lions
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
24. Which day is known as World Tourism Day?
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
27th September
Jayadeva
25. Who invented the television?
10th October
Mundak Upanishad
J.L.Baird
10th December
26. Which is the largest port in India?
Mary Kom
Forty-fourth Amendment
Tamil Nadu
Mumbai
27. Name the world's shortest living woman?
Mumbai
Indra Sinha64
Jyoti Amge
Governor
28. When is World Laughter Day celebrated?
Uttar Pradesh
Allauddin Khilji
26th January
15th August167
29. Who is generally regardedas the pioneer of Local Self Government in Modern India?
Nayantara Sahgal
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Standard time of the country138
Ripon
30. When comes National Postal Day in India?
God particle or Higgs Boson
10th October
Three Decades in Parliament
Jai Samhita
31. Which is largest populated city in India?
Mumbai
The President
Ladakh
Infinite
32. Triple vaccine is administered to a new born child to save him from which diseases?
26 years and 9 months
India
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Forty-fourth Amendment
33. Who is the creator of Rock Garden in Chandigarh?
31st May
Nek Chand
Amir Khusru
12th January
34. When is International Labour Day observed?
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.
1st May164
Roger Federer
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
35. On which date Anti Tobacco Day observed?
Andhra Pradesh
31st May
U.K
Hyderabad
36. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
Will pass through Equator
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Torricelli
South Kolkata
37. Who is known as Father of Geometry?
Bombay
Arthur Conan Doyle
Euclid
Lawn Tennis153
38. With whom are the rare replicas of sacred book Guru Granth Sahib?
Chaucer
Jamaica
Abhinav Bindra
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
39. Vijayghat ( Samadhi of Lal Bahadur Shastri) is situated on the bank of which river?
Dadabhai Naoroji
5 hours 30 minutes
Chandragupta
Yamuna
40. When in India Teachers Day celebrated?
Kalpakkam
Rajasthan
Saeed Mirza
5th September
41. Who was the First Election Commissioner of India?
Sukumar Sen
Narendra Modi government
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
42. In which Amendment Right to property was removed from the list of Fundamental rights?
2G spectrum scam
Forty-fourth Amendment
Ludhiana
26th January
43. What is Ayush treatment?
Genetically Modified Crops.
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
Rahul Dravid
Dance
44. Term Double Fault is associated with which game?
London
Lawn Tennis153
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Sunil Gavaskar
45. Which is largest state of India?
Gwalior Gharana
14th November
Rajasthan
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
46. Who is the author of book 'Many Worlds'?
Odisha
V.S Naipaul
Jamaica
Journalism
47. 'Nokia' the telecom company belongs to which country?
John Keats
Amir Khusrau
Roger Federer
Finland
48. Which megastar carried the Olympic flame on the torch relay leg between the City of London and the borough of South wark in London on 26th July - 2012 - a day before the opening ceremony of sporting spectacle?
Amitabh Bachchan
Khadakvasla
Contingency Fund of India
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
49. Who composed the national song of India (Vande Maatram)?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
$46 - 00011
Ladakh
Silicon
50. Who is the first Indian sports person to win an individual Gold medal in the Olympic Games?
Diffusion
Abhinav Bindra
11th July
Sri Lanka