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1. Where is Buland Darwaza located?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Fatehpur Sikri
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Jonas Salk
2. Who was first Indian woman to become president of U.N. General Assembly?
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Albert Einstein
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
3. Which is the state wise largest area under forest in India?
Kerala
Madhya Pradesh
Standard time of the country138
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
4. Who is vice President of India?
Gota in Sweden
Churchill
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Uttar Pradesh
5. Who invented telephone?
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Alexander Graham Bell
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
1911133
6. Who won the silver medal in 66 Kg wrestling and is the first Indian to win two individual Olympic medals?
Anna Hazare
Sushil Kumar
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Greeks
7. Who is called 'Grand Old Man of India'?
Jama Masjid
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Diffusion
Dadabhai Naoroji
8. What is the name of World's cheapest tablet PC?
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.
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
1st December
Madhya Pradesh
9. Where is the World's largest ship canal?
5
Gota in Sweden
Dehradun
23rd December
10. Where is Pushkar lake located?
Standard time of the country138
Rajasthan
Heavy water
Milkha Singh
11. Who said - 'God helps those who helps themselves'?
Infinite
27th September
Algernon Sidney
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
12. Which is the largest auditorium in India?
Rabindranath Tagore147
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
It loses one day
13. Who brought and installed two Asokan pillars in Delhi?
Firozeshah Tughluq
Alexander Graham Bell
Kolkata
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
14. Who is the author of the book 'My Experiments with Truth'?
Concave lens
Paschim Banga1
Mahatma Gandhi
Jhumpa Lahiri
15. Who has been selected as the new head of Tata empire in 2011?
State Bank of India
Cyrus Mistry
Galileo
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
16. Which country is the world's largest recipient of arms?
Martin Luther King
Mohammad Iqbal
India
Mehbooba Mufti
17. Indian Air Force Day is observed on which day ?
Samudragupta
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Sarojini Naidu
8th October
18. Name the metal present in photo films?
Golconda
Saka era
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Silver
19. Vocalist Rahamat Khan belongs to which Gharana?
Talwandi
Gwalior Gharana
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Dehradun
20. Who wrote the famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
Jane Austen
Amir Khusrau
Infinite
India Museum at Kolkata
21. Name the Strait which separates Asia from North America?
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
The Bering Strait
22. By whom is the Vice-President of the Indian Union elected?
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Torricelli
Ganga
23. What reference is taken to know the local time of a place?
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Kulandei Francis
Longitudinal position
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
24. Which state has maximum density of canals?
Bombay
1911133
30th January
Uttar Pradesh
25. When in India Teachers Day celebrated?
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
5th September
Ashoka
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.
26. On what occasion Bihar got its own state anthem and state prayer whose CD's were released by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar?
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Punjab
Tamil Nadu
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
27. Name the China's first woman astronaut into orbit?
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
6 months
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Michael Phelps
28. Who invented the steam engine?
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Samudragupta
Khadakvasla
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
29. In how many time zones is U.S.A divided?
Akhilesh Yadav
5
Tamil Nadu
India
30. What was the main occupation of Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) people?
6 months
Hunting
Vadodara
South Africa
31. What is KG5 drug?
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32. Which day in India is observed as Minorities Rights Day?
24th February
Hindukush
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
18th December
33. When is India's National Youth Day celebrated ?
Japan
Mussoorie
12th January
Alexander Fleming
34. Who said 'Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err'?
26th January
24th May
Mahatma Gandhi
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
35. What is added to remove permanent hardness of water?
Zinc
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Washing soda
Herodotus
36. Who is generally regardedas the pioneer of Local Self Government in Modern India?
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Jhumpa Lahiri
24th October
Ripon
37. In India - who issues one rupee coins and notes as well as subsidiary coins?
15th March
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
The Reserve Bank of India
Leo Tolstoy
38. Name the shooter of Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur) who won silver medal in Olympics 2012?
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39. Which is largest populated city in India?
South Africa
Mumbai
It loses one day
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
40. Which day is observed as World Heritage Day?
24
Param Vir Chakra
God particle or Higgs Boson
18th April
41. Who is the author of book 'The Tribune 130 Years: A Witness to History'?
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Prof. V.N Datta
Michael Phelps
Because the solids have high elasticity.
42. How is population density in India defined?
Planning Commission
The number of persons per square kilometre.
South Kolkata
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
43. Where is the National Institute of Nutrition located?
Iodine
Hyderabad
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Ujjain
44. Name the person who transliterated Guru Granth Sahib in Braille?
12th January
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Michael Phelps
Tamil Nadu
45. Why the International Date Line makes slight deviation from 180 degree meridian?
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Bombay
Planning Commission
2G spectrum scam
46. 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
Fatehpur Sikri
11th May
Washing soda
47. Who discovered blood grouping?
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Jan 26 - 1950134
Landsteiner
Jagannath
48. According to a poll conducted by global research company Ipsos - people of which country are happiest on this planet despite woes - conflicts?
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Indians
Hyderabad
Ripon
49. Where did coins made of metal first appeared?
8
Vocal Music
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Later Vedic Age
50. Name the gases used in different types of welding?
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Oxygen and acetylene
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Carbon dioxide
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