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1. Who composed the national song of India (Vande Maatram)?
Galileo
Jonas Salk
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Haryana
2. Who fought the Third Battle of Panipat?
Methane
Dadabhai Naoroji
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
3. Where is the Caspian sea - the largest inland sea or lake in the world located?
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Chandragupta-II
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
12th January
4. Who invented radar?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sri Lanka
Playwright
Robert Watson Watt
5. What are the benefits of medicine Performax?
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.
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Ganga
15th August167
6. Name the state of India having longest coastline?
Sunil Gavaskar
250th anniversary
Andhra Pradesh
Michael Phelps
7. Name the metal used as the filament of an electric bulb?
Tamil Nadu
J.B.Say
Tungsten
Kanishka
8. Which is largest state of India?
Rajasthan
26 years and 9 months
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
9. How many cities can be protected by the missile defence shield developed by India?
Lobsang Sangay
Yamuna
12th January
2
10. 'Nokia' the telecom company belongs to which country?
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
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.)
Finland
Jamaica
11. Who is the renowned flute player?
Anna Hazare
Algernon Sidney
1953
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
12. Who was the only Muslim woman to sit on the throne of Delhi?
18th December
M.N Roy62
2nd April - 2011
Razia Sultana
13. On which date Chennai turned 372 years?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Chandrayaan
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
14. What is the designation of the chairperson of Lok Sabha?
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Speaker
Eagle
Jai Samhita
15. With which field M.F. Hussian were associated?
Third century B.C
Khushwant Singh
Sodium
Painting
16. 'A Voice of Freedom' is a book written by whom?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Jai Samhita
Nayantara Sahgal
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
17. Where was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Avanti?
Ujjain
Satyendra Nath Bose
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Shockley
18. Who is the author of the book 'The Exile'?
Navtej Saran
Greeks
Infinite
Lead
19. Name the temple where majority of pilgrims visiting tonsure their heads and offer their hair to Lord Venkateswara?
Chaucer
Swarajya Party
Bromine
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
20. Who won bronze medal for India in 10m pistol event (London Olympics - 2012)?
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Michael Phelps
8th September
Gagan Narang
21. Who said 'Child is the father of Man'?
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
10th December
William Wordsworth
Rajasthan
22. Name the cities of Himachal to be developed as the solar cities?
Shimla and Hamirpur
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Bromine
Carbon dioxide
23. Name the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister whose admirers have decided to build a temple to perpetuate his memory?
2:4
Kalpakkam
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Maharaja Hari Singh
24. Which country is the world's largest recipient of arms?
Mary Kom
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
India
Mussoorie
25. Who is the man popularly kwown as Gurudev?
Rabindranath Tagore147
Maharashtra
Manipur54
12th January
26. Who introduced the market regulations in India in ancient period?
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Allauddin Khilji
Sri Lanka
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
27. Name the country which has longest international boundary with India?
Razia Sultana
Maharashtra
Dr. F.G.Banting
China
28. On which day International Women's Day observed?
Shimla and Hamirpur
Abhinav Bindra
8th March
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
29. What are the bank deposits that can be withdrawn without notice called?
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Mumbai
Marie Curie
Demand deposits
30. India is facing pressure from the US and other Western countries to break trade ties with which country?
Kapil Dev
Mundak Upanishad
Saeed Mirza
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
31. Name the last king of Jammu and Kashmir?
Maharaja Hari Singh
Milkha Singh
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
32. Kanchipuram is in which state?
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Haryana
Dumping
Tamil Nadu
33. What is the name of India's moon mission?
When sun is above the equator
Chandrayaan
11th July
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
34. Which is the language next to Hindi spoken by largest number of people in the Indian sub continent ?
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
W.C Bannerjee
Bengali
Andhra Pradesh
35. When is Sadbhavna Diwas (Goodwill Day ) observed in India?
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36. Which will be the new subject added to the curriculum of Kendriya Vidyalayas?
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Sriharikota
German
Himachal Pradesh
37. Who wrote the famous play 'Macbeth'?
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Kushinagar
William Shakespeare151
38. Who is sworn as the 14th Vice President of India?
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.)
Hamid Ansari
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Cyrus Mistry
39. Who invented the petrol engine?
Jane Austen
Nikolaus Otto
Mahatma Gandhi
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
40. Who got Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award in 2011?
India
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
24th May
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
41. Which ruler was adorned with the title of 'Maharajadhiraja'?
Bombay
Kanishka
India and Pakistan
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.
42. Name the Indian scientist who was a part of NASA team which has identified the landing site of the 'Curiosity'?
Dumping
Guru Gobind Singh
90 degree
Amitabh Ghosh
43. What is India's rank on the Transparency International (TI) corruption Perception Index out of 183 countries in 2011?
95th
Nikolaus Otto
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Tamil Nadu
44. Upto where Chandragupta Maurya's empire extended in the north-west?
Kerala
Hindukush
Amir Khusru
8th September
45. On what occasion Bihar got its own state anthem and state prayer whose CD's were released by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar?
162
Euclid
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
46. Who wrote the book 'Unhappy India'?
35 degree
Vishnu Sharma
Painting
Lala Lajpat Rai
47. Where were huge amounts of uranium recently found?
Narendra Modi government
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Andhra Pradesh
Samudragupta
48. Who wrote the book 'Gullivers Travel'?
Jonathan Swift
Jamaica
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
49. What is KG5 drug?
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50. Who invented transistor?
26th January
Shockley
Navtej Saran
10th December
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