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1. What is the time difference between IST and GMT?






2. Who won the Wimbledon title for seventh time and 17th grand slam crown after beating Andy Murray in male category in 2012?






3. An air bubble in water acts as which lens?






4. Who fought the Third Battle of Panipat?






5. Name the NASA's most modern spacecraft successfully landed on Mars on 6th August - 2012 to begin a pioneering two year search to find out if the red planet is suitable for life and whether it can be inhabitable in the future?






6. Which is the India's largest public sector commercial bank at present?






7. When is International Labour Day observed?






8. Hawa Mahal is situated in which city?






9. Name the Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay ofBengal?






10. One degree of longitude on equator is equal to what distance?






11. Where is the India's first largest bamboo museum?






12. Liquefied Petroleum Gas consists mainly which gases?






13. With which musical instrument was Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan associated?






14. Term Double Fault is associated with which game?






15. Where are Dilwara Temples situated?






16. When is Sadbhavna Diwas (Goodwill Day ) observed in India?

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17. Name the element required for conversion of solar energy?






18. Whose autobiography is 'India Wins Freedom'?






19. When is the UN Day observed?






20. Which place is famous for gigantic rock-cut statue of Budha?






21. Where did the World's costliest crash took place?






22. Who invented telephone?






23. Where is Buland Darwaza located?






24. Name the Bollywood legend whose ancestral home in Peshawar - Pakistan has been turned into heritage site?






25. If in a mirror image of object appears to be larger then which type of mirror is used?






26. 'Nokia' the telecom company belongs to which country?






27. What is equal to latitude of a place?






28. With whom are the rare replicas of sacred book Guru Granth Sahib?






29. Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?






30. Which is the longest river of India?






31. With which cells scientists for the first time have developed bone?






32. Name the country's longest railway tunnel excavated?






33. Who wrote the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?






34. Who said - 'God helps those who helps themselves'?






35. At what age World's oldest dog Pusuke died?






36. Which is the world's second cheapest city according to global survey?






37. Name the state of India having longest coastline?






38. Name the person who transliterated Guru Granth Sahib in Braille?






39. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?






40. Begum Akhtar is associated with which field?






41. What is India's rank on the Transparency International (TI) corruption Perception Index out of 183 countries in 2011?






42. Who is the author of the book 'Unto the Last' which influenced Gandhi ji?






43. Who is the elected Prime Minister of Pakistan from Pakistan People's Party?






44. Name the herbal drug developed by DRDO for soldiers working in high altitude areas?






45. Where is Union Budget presented firstly?






46. On which part of earth days and nights are of equal length always?






47. Who introduced the market regulations in India in ancient period?






48. Which state of India has highest production of tea?






49. Where is the Indian Institute of Science located?






50. Who said 'Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err'?