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1. Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Bromine
Morarji Desai
Jaya Dev
2. Who wrote the line 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'?
John Keats
INS Vikrant55
5th April
Vice President of India
3. Which cricketer known as 'Tiger' also father of famous actor died on 23rd September - 2011?
William Wordsworth
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Rabindranath Tagore147
4. How many images will be formed when an object is placed between two mirrors placed parellel to each other?
Tamil Nadu
Infinite
Bamiyan
Because the solids have high elasticity.
5. Who was first Indian woman to become president of U.N. General Assembly?
India
Jawaharlal Nehru
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
6. In how many time zones is the World divided?
Bangalore
Speaker
24
Landsteiner
7. When comes the World Environment Day?
5th June
Perpendicular to each other
23rd December
Torricelli
8. Satyan Bose is known for his excellence in which field?
Ladakh
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Motion Picture
Kulandei Francis
9. Which is the World's largest exporter of inverters?
Landsteiner
Su-Kam Power Systems
16th October
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
10. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' taken?
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Haryana
Mundak Upanishad
Planning Commission
11. In which state is Ganesh Otsav celebrated?
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Mahatma Gandhi
22nd April
Maharashtra
12. Which is our National song?
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Vande Mataram
Vasudeva
Hyderabad
13. Who is the author of book 'Many Worlds'?
London
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
V.S Naipaul
Haryana
14. Who got the greatest Olympic athlete of all time Trophy?
Michael Phelps
Director General Anil Kaushik
Football
Mundak Upanishad
15. Which country has hosted the Asian Games for maximum number of times?
Haryana
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
Nek Chand
Thailand
16. What happens when a ship crosses Date line from west to east?
It loses one day
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Krishna
Dr. F.G.Banting
17. What is the latitude of South Pole?
Krishna
Ladakh
90 degree
1st December
18. After whose name the Nobel Prize was started?
Rajasthan
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
N.E. Borlaug
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
19. Name the sub-launched long range N-missile developed by China?
Julang-2
$46 - 00011
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Year of Disabled Soldiers
20. What is added to remove permanent hardness of water?
Washing soda
Julang-2
162
24
21. What will be the new name of West Bengal?
2:4
Tamil Nadu
Andhra Pradesh
Paschim Banga1
22. Who said 'Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err'?
Mahatma Gandhi
Wular lake (Kashmir)
8th March
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
23. Name the latest hi-tech weapon invented in 2011 to prevent obesity?
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24. When was the Constituent Assembly that framed Constitution for Independent India set up?
Jonathan Swift
UK
1949
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
25. Who wrote the book 'Eternal Himalayas'?
Saka era
Graphite
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
26. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
Chandragupta-II
Second Battle of Tarain
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
27. For which dance Birju Maharaj is well known?
Chandragupta
Kanishka
Kathak
Sitar
28. Who is the author of book 'The Shape of the Beast'?
Arundhati Roy
Mahatma Gandhi
Paschim Banga1
Silver
29. When is the World Population Day observed?
Sidney Sheldon
Nayantara Sahgal
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
11th July
30. Name the country which has longest international boundary with India?
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Albert Einstein
China
11th May
31. Name the Indian woman boxer who won bronze medal in Olympics?
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Mary Kom
Vande Mataram
29th August
32. Who was called the 'Napoleon of India'?
E.G.Otis
Kapil Dev
Samudragupta
Yousuf Raza Gillani
33. Who is sworn as the 14th Vice President of India?
Demand deposits
Samudragupta
Gota in Sweden
Hamid Ansari
34. Who composed the National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'?
Kulandei Francis
5th April
Rabindranath Tagore
Jai Samhita
35. Where are the World famous Khajuraho sculptures located?
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Bangalore
Madhya Pradesh
36. Who was the first king to conquer Malwa - Gujarat and Maharashtra?
Chandragupta Maurya
UK
Lead
Uttar Pradesh
37. 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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38. 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?
Swarajya Party
Kiran Bedi
Amitabh Bachchan
Das Kapital
39. A famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice 'is written by whom?
Kolkata
M.N Roy62
Jane Austen
10th October
40. Name the gas usually filled in the electric bulbs?
Indians
Nitrogen
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
11th May
41. What are GM Crops?
Genetically Modified Crops.
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Harshavardhana
Director General Anil Kaushik
42. Name the herbal drug developed by DRDO for soldiers working in high altitude areas?
Perpendicular to each other
Samuel Morse
Performax
14th November
43. What is the maximum period of gap between any two sessions of the Indian Parliament?
Razia Sultana
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Hockey
Six months
44. Who is author of 'Hindu view of life'?
Jane Austen
Ladakh
Narmada and Japti
S. Radhakrishnan
45. Where is the only shrine in the world which has a natural statue of Hanuman that is not man made?
Ganga
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
27th September
Harshavardhana
46. Who wrote the book 'We Indians'?
250th anniversary
The Reserve Bank of India
Ashoka
Khushwant Singh
47. What is Dry Ice?
Gota in Sweden
South Africa
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
The Lok Sabha
48. Who is the author of book 'Gita Govinda'?
2
E.G.Otis
Demand deposits
Jayadeva
49. Name the country which is second largest producer of horticulture commodities such as fruits - vegetables and flowers in the world?
G.V. Mavalankar
1st December
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
India
50. When is Sadbhavna Diwas (Goodwill Day ) observed in India?
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