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1. Players of which state got the maximum Olympic medals in London Olympics?
Galileo
Haryana
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
24th May

2. Who led the first Muslim invasion of India?
Genetically Modified Crops.
Mosley
Mohammad bin Kasim
Shiv Prasad Singh

3. Which hockey team won the Asian Championship Trophy at Ordos(China) in 2011?
Cavendish
Cyrus Mistry
India
Kauravas and Pandavas51

4. Name the metal present in photo films?
Silver
Punjab
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
Ashoka

5. Who was the chairman of Constituent Assembly?
Algernon Sidney
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
1949
Leo Tolstoy

6. Where is National School of Mines located?
6-14 years
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
In front of New Delhi's High Court
Pune

7. Who is the author of book 'Freedom Behind Bars'?
Performax
Kiran Bedi
Strait of Gibraltar
5 hours 30 minutes

8. With whom the Income Tax Department decides to share its PAN card database?
Aravind Adiga
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
90 degree

9. Where is Union Budget presented firstly?
Stainless steel
The Lok Sabha
John Keats
Dr. Rajendra Prasad

10. Name the strait which separates Africa from Europe?
Kanishka
8th May
Strait of Gibraltar
Jonathan Swift

11. Who is going to receive highest US award?
24th October
Aung San Suu Kyi
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Ashoka

12. The World famous 'Peacock Throne' was kept in which Mughal building?
8th May
Talwandi
New Agra Fort
5th September

13. Which is the world's second cheapest city according to global survey?
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Jan 26 - 1950134

14. Who presented the first Union Budget of Independent India?
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Konark
Strait of Gibraltar

15. Which city is called 'White City' of Rajasthan?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
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.)

16. If in a mirror image of object appears to be larger then which type of mirror is used?
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Akhilesh Yadav
Concave mirror
Amjad Ali Khan

17. Which place is going to have North India's biggest turf club?
Greeks
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Gujarat
Leh

18. Who composed our National song?
Robert Watson Watt
Nitrous oxide
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )

19. Who was the First Election Commissioner of India?
Allahabad Pillar inscription
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.
Euclid
Sukumar Sen

20. Who wrote the famous play 'Macbeth'?
William Shakespeare151
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Bromine
New Delhi

21. Where did India's first Formula one race took place in 2011?
USA
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Vadodara
Mahatma Gandhi

22. Which day in India celebrated as Central Excise Day ?
24th February
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Darsheel Safary
V.S Naipaul

23. For what was Ashoka famous?
Chaucer
Morarji Desai
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Mahatma Gandhi

24. Which is the largest museum in India?
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
India Museum at Kolkata
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
John Keats

25. Why sky appears to be blue?
Krishna
Sukumar Sen
30th January
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.

26. Where is the Caspian sea - the largest inland sea or lake in the world located?
Jane Austen
Leo Tolstoy
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Galileo

27. Which country is the second largest producer of sugar?
Shockley
24
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
Ladakh

28. Name the alloy of iron - chromium and nickel?
Stainless steel
India and Pakistan
Ludhiana
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).

29. Name the smallest neighbour of India?
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Ogyen Trinley Dorjee - the third most important Tibetian religious head after Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama. (as police recovered currencies of 26 countries including 1 - 20 - 197 chinese yuan and around Rs 5.3 million in Indian currency.)
Maharashtra
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas

30. Who invented the lift?
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
E.G.Otis
Alexander Fleming
Razia Sultana

31. Where in Delhi a bomb hidden in briefcase exploded killing 11 persons and injuring 47 in the worst attack in India's capital in 3 years in 2011?

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32. By whom is the Vice-President of the Indian Union elected?
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Chadwick
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )

33. Who wrote the immortal song 'Vande Mataram'?
Jane Austen
M.N Roy62
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Roentgen

34. Name the Bollywood legend whose ancestral home in Peshawar - Pakistan has been turned into heritage site?
Robert Watson Watt
Dilip Kumar
Jan 26 - 1950134
Hyderabad

35. Who discovered the electric lamp?
Edison
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Third century B.C

36. On which era is the Indian National Calender based?
22nd April
Morarji Desai
Saka era
Harshavardhana

37. Which state has become the second highest power purchaser in the country after Punjab?
Lead
Kapil Dev
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)

38. What is the name of first Indian aircraft developed by Government laboratory with private fund?
Saka era
Eagle
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Mohammed Hamid Ansari

39. Name the scientist who got Nobel Prize twice for the same subject?
Firozeshah Tughluq
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Johannes Kepler
Marie Curie

40. What was adopted from the Maurya dynasty in the emblem of government of India?
Rabindranath Tagore
Four lions
Saka era
Golden Temple (Amritsar )

41. Who said 'Child is the father of Man'?
7th April
Tamil Nadu
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
William Wordsworth

42. Under which scam - the 43 year old daughter of former chief minister of Tamil Nadu M.Karunanidhi was in Tihar jail in 2011?
2G spectrum scam
Chaucer
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
John Keats

43. Which is largest man made lake in India?
Dadabhai Naoroji
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
N.E. Borlaug

44. Which is the largest auditorium in India?
Dilip Kumar
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
Hyderabad
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)

45. Who is the first Indian sports person to win an individual Gold medal in the Olympic Games?
Abhinav Bindra
Sonepur (Bihar )
Football
5th September

46. Who wrote the novel 'Neela Chand'?
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Shiv Prasad Singh
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
4 minutes

47. While playing with which team Rahul Dravid completed his 10000 runs in the Test cricket?
Torricelli
22nd April
South Africa
Carbon dioxide

48. Who wrote our National Anthem?
Rabindra Nath Tagore
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.
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Aravind Adiga

49. One degree of longitude on equator is equal to what distance?
Heavy water
Anna Hazare
Swarajya Party
69 miles

50. Who invented barometer?
Tamil Nadu
Increases
Dilip Kumar
Torricelli

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