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1. Where is Elephant Pass located?
Sri Lanka
Bengali
Hockey
Indians
2. With which field M.F. Hussian were associated?
Aravind Adiga
Jana Gana Mana
Arundhati Roy
Painting
3. When is World Laughter Day celebrated?
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
Hampi
Swarajya Party
26th January
4. Name the seas joined by Suez Canal?
Maharaja Hari Singh
Rabindranath Tagore
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
5. Which was the great centre of trade and commerce in the Gupta period?
29th August
Sonepur (Bihar )
Mathura
Washing soda
6. Which is the largest dome in India?
Bromine
Bobby Jindal
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Sri Lanka
7. When in India National Technology Day celebrated?
Euclid
Yamuna
Mussoorie
11th May
8. On which date Quit India Day comes?
Su-Kam Power Systems
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
9th August
Albert Einstein
9. What happens to speed of sound with rise in temperature?
Increases
New Delhi
Jama Masjid
Vasudeva
10. In which century did Ashoka reign?
Third century B.C
2:3161
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Three Decades in Parliament
11. Who invented the television?
Kushinagar
J.L.Baird
Landsteiner
Standard time of the country138
12. Who is the first Indian sports person to win an individual Gold medal in the Olympic Games?
5th September
Jaipur
Alexander Graham Bell
Abhinav Bindra
13. Name the woman boxer of India who have won five time world championship in succession?
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Performax
Gwalior Gharana
Mary Kom
14. Who was the first king to conquer Malwa - Gujarat and Maharashtra?
55th rank
Chandragupta Maurya
V. Anand
John Ruskin
15. Name the mountain range which stretches from Gujarat in the West to Delhi in the North?
Finland
Mosley
Aravallis
Concave mirror
16. Name the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister whose admirers have decided to build a temple to perpetuate his memory?
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Mohammad Iqbal
Allahabad Pillar inscription
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
17. Who was first Indian woman to become president of U.N. General Assembly?
Aravind Adiga
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Aravallis
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
18. What is the ratio of width of our National flag to its length?
In Samba
Razia Sultana
2:3161
Year of Disabled Soldiers
19. Our Indian Constitution closely follows the Constitutional system of which country?
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'.
Gwalior Gharana
U.K
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
20. Who got Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar in 2011 ?
Graphite
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
26th January
21. Which state has maximum density of canals?
Uttar Pradesh
India and China
1911133
S. Radhakrishnan
22. Name the country which is second largest producer of horticulture commodities such as fruits - vegetables and flowers in the world?
India
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
6 months
Roentgen
23. Which day is celebrated as Independence Day of India?
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Performax
15th August167
11th May
24. Where did coins made of metal first appeared?
Later Vedic Age
Chandragupta
Kerala
Tamil Nadu
25. How many total number of enclaves are to be exchanged between territories of two countries India and Bangladesh according to the treaty signed in Sept - 2011?
Tamil Nadu
162
Four lions
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
26. In India - who issues one rupee coins and notes as well as subsidiary coins?
German
The Reserve Bank of India
Washing soda
15th January
27. Name the largest oil refinery of India?
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Sitar
Vadodara
Darsheel Safary
28. Which country has World's largest democracy?
Thailand
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.
India
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
29. Name the ship commissioned by India which is biggest in its class in the World?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Robert Watson Watt
18th December
E.M Forster
30. Which is the largest zoo in India?
Music
Bengali
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Kho-Kho
31. Liquefied Petroleum Gas consists mainly which gases?
Methane - butane and propane
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Darsheel Safary
32. When comes the World Environment Day?
Vishnu Sharma
Florence Nightingale
Rahul Dravid
5th June
33. Who discovered Penicillin?
Alexander Fleming
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.
Hyderabad
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
34. Who was the first person to set foot on moon?
Roentgen
Neil Armstrong
Oxygen and acetylene
Aravind Adiga
35. Which is the largest district in India?
55th rank
Bamiyan
Mundak Upanishad
Ladakh
36. Who is the elected Prime Minister of Pakistan from Pakistan People's Party?
Kerala
Jama Masjid
Sodium
Yousuf Raza Gillani
37. With which musical instrument was Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan associated?
In front of New Delhi's High Court
Shockley
Sitar
State Bank of India
38. Who has become the first lady jawan in Indian army?
8th May
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Jhumpa Lahiri
Oxygen and acetylene
39. 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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40. At what age World's oldest dog Pusuke died?
Chandragupta Maurya
Sushil Kumar
Madhya Pradesh
26 years and 9 months
41. Name the world's shortest living woman?
Governor
Samuel Morse
5th April
Jyoti Amge
42. Who invented transistor?
Bengali
Kathak
Shockley
India and China
43. When in India Teachers Day celebrated?
Chandrayaan
Galileo
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
5th September
44. Where is the headquarters of Oil and Natural Gas Commission?
The President
Dehradun
Alexander Graham Bell
Sunil Gavaskar
45. In which state are the World famous Ajanta Caves situated?
Maharashtra
Johann Gregor Mendel
Oxygen and acetylene
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
46. Who painted the masterpiece 'Hamsa Damayanti'?
Amitabh Bachchan
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Chandragupta Maurya
Raja Ravi Varma
47. Where is the world's largest solar power project going to be set up?
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Dadabhai Naoroji
Maharashtra
48. Which is the largest auditorium in India?
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
In front of New Delhi's High Court
Dance
Kulandei Francis
49. When are days and nights equal throughout the globe?
Sidney Sheldon
William Wordsworth
Ladakh
When sun is above the equator
50. How many postal zones are there in India - under the PIN Code System?
Leh
8
Curiosity
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )