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1. Name the country which has longest international boundary with India?
31st May
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
China
Shiv Prasad Singh
2. Where are the achievements of Samudragupta described on?
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
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.)
18th December
Allahabad Pillar inscription
3. Who wrote the book 'Gulliver's Travels'?
Ripon
Jonathan Swift
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
4. Which day is observed as World Heritage Day?
Strait of Gibraltar
Edison
18th April
Razia Sultana
5. Name the Strait which separates Asia from North America?
Jane Austen
The Bering Strait
India
5th September
6. Name the ballistic missile that lifted off from Wheeler Island in Odisha on 9th August - 2012?
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
South Africa
Concave mirror
Due to radiation
7. How 4G services will hit the country in 2012?
Bamiyan
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.
Marie Curie
Sonepur (Bihar )
8. When is Commonwealth Day observed?
Paschim Banga1
Jayadeva
24th May
Edison
9. Name the smallest neighbour of India?
Silicon
Hockey
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
26th January
10. Which age group children in India are ensured free and compulsory education?
2G spectrum scam
Jai Samhita
Mathura
6-14 years
11. What is the name of World's cheapest tablet PC?
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
INS Vikrant55
Euclid
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
12. How many cities can be protected by the missile defence shield developed by India?
Rs 270
2
Gota in Sweden
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.
13. Which is the largest delta in India?
Silicon
2nd April - 2011
Sunderbans delta
Albert Einstein
14. Who composed our National song?
Khadakvasla
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.
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
15. Which is the great circle on earth's surface?
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.
Genetically Modified Crops.
Dehradun
The equator
16. Liquefied Petroleum Gas consists mainly which gases?
90 degree
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Methane - butane and propane
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
17. Who invented the petrol engine?
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
God particle or Higgs Boson
Nikolaus Otto
Shimla and Hamirpur
18. What is the ratio of width of our National flag to its length?
Rs 270
Lawn Tennis153
Maharaja Hari Singh
2:3161
19. Which was the musical instrument used by Amir Khusro?
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Gol Gumbaz
Infinite
Sitar
20. An air bubble in water acts as which lens?
Mahatma Gandhi
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Concave lens
Samar Guha
21. At what age World's oldest dog Pusuke died?
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
26 years and 9 months
The Lok Sabha
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
22. Which is the largest public sector bank in India?
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Bobby Jindal
State Bank of India
Aravallis
23. Which is the largest lake in India?
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Rajasthan
Carbon dioxide
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
24. When is India's Army Day celebrated ?
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
15th January
23rd December
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
25. In how many time zones is U.S.A divided?
5
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
10th December
162
26. Name the leader under whom India's first coalition government in New Delhi was formed?
Morarji Desai
Ripon
INS Vikrant55
Longitudinal position
27. Where is Buland Darwaza located?
Fatehpur Sikri
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
8
Finland
28. 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?
2
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Odisha
Amitabh Bachchan
29. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
Punjab
Jamaica
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Bleaching powder
30. Who fought the Third Battle of Panipat?
Mumbai
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Raja Ravi Varma
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
31. Who composed the national song of India (Vande Maatram)?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Kauravas and Pandavas51
32. Which is our National song?
Vande Mataram
Mahatma Gandhi
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Sitar
33. Where is Char Minar located?
Yamuna
Mosley
Hyderabad
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
34. Where is Bihar's first all women police station located?
Akhilesh Yadav
Vidya Balan
95th
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
35. In which field Aachan Maharaj has distinguished himself?
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Dance
Roger Federer
Sachin Tendulkar
36. Who wrote the line 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'?
Mary Kom
Carbon dioxide
State Bank of India
John Keats
37. What is the original name of Mahabharata?
Jai Samhita
American firm Intra Pace unveils a stomach implant vi akeyhole surgery that can help people fight flab by warning the brain when enough food is taken. This credit card sized implant is named as 'Abiliti'.
Firozeshah Tughluq
Rajasthan
38. Name the alloy of iron - chromium and nickel?
Concave mirror
Chandragupta Maurya
Mahatma Gandhi
Stainless steel
39. Latitude and longitude are at what angle to each other?
Perpendicular to each other
New Delhi
10th October
55th rank
40. Where is Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy which trains Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officers situated?
Mussoorie
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Maharashtra
Lawn Tennis153
41. What is added to remove permanent hardness of water?
Valentina Tereshkova
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Washing soda
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
42. Who invented the telegraphic code?
Samuel Morse
Maharashtra
Governor
John Keats
43. Name the baby of Uttar Pardesh who is the symbolic seven billionth baby ?
Playwright
Baby Nargis
Odisha
Vice President of India
44. Who was the author of 'Hind Swaraj'?
2:3161
Mahatma Gandhi
Washing soda
250th anniversary
45. With which musical instrument was Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan associated?
Sitar
Roger Federer
1953
4 minutes
46. Who was the First Election Commissioner of India?
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
In front of New Delhi's High Court
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Sukumar Sen
47. When is the Mother's Day celebrated?
11th May
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.)
8
Ujjain
48. Where is the India's first largest bamboo museum?
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Journalism
Jai Samhita
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
49. Where is Sun Temple situated?
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Konark
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
50. Name the Indian American astronaut who begins her 2nd space odyssey on July 15 - 2012?
Sunita Williams
USA
5th September
Gagan Narang