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1. Where is famous Somnath Temple located?
India and China
Bangalore
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Gujarat
2. Who is the author of the book 'Unto the Last' which influenced Gandhi ji?
John Ruskin
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Maharashtra
India and China
3. Name the new nuclear powered submarine formally handed to India by Russia?
V. Anand
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Bangalore
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
4. Who wrote the book 'Unhappy India'?
Pune
Lala Lajpat Rai
Bamiyan
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
5. Name the three new elements added to the Periodic Table in 2011?
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
8
E.G.Otis
6. Who is the author of 'Tarikh-i-Alai' containing the details of the first few years of Sultan Alauddin Khilji?
J.L.Baird
Hockey
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Amir Khusrau
7. Which is the highest military award for valour in India?
Stainless steel
Bamiyan
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Param Vir Chakra
8. What is the difference in time between two places 1 degree longitude apart?
Narendra Modi government
Gwalior Gharana
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
4 minutes
9. Name the state of India where diamond mines are mainly found?
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
State Bank of India
Madhya Pradesh
10. Who is crowned Miss Universe India 2011?
Kushinagar
Euclid
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
Gagan Narang
11. Name the Indian state where the game of Polo is said to have originated?
Journalism
Manipur54
162
Jamaica
12. Why the International Date Line makes slight deviation from 180 degree meridian?
Shockley
J.B.Say
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Akhilesh Yadav
13. The Rath Yatra at Puri is celebrated in honour of which Hindu deity?
Jagannath
Bangalore
S. Radhakrishnan
Assam
14. Name the latest India's surface -to-surface missile successfully test fired (on 26th Sept - 2011)?
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Himachal Pradesh
Hindukush
Kanishka
15. 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?
Leh
Curiosity
1953
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
16. Name the country which is second largest producer of horticulture commodities such as fruits - vegetables and flowers in the world?
Rahul Banerjee (archery ) - Preeja Sreedharan (athletics) - Vikas Gowda (athletics) - Jwala Gutta(badminton) - M Suranjoy Singh(boxing) - Zaheer Khan (cricket) - Sunil Chhetri(football) - Ashish Kumar (gymnastics) - Rajpal Singh (hockey) - Ra
Finland
6-14 years
India
17. On which era is the Indian National Calender based?
Sriharikota
The Reserve Bank of India
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Saka era
18. Who became the first batsman in the history of cricket to score 100 international centuries?
Infinite
Mehbooba Mufti
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Sachin Tendulkar
19. What is the aim of the 'Biosphere Reserve Project'?
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Lead
Aung San Suu Kyi
5 hours 30 minutes
20. Which village of Andhra Pradesh may be sitting over one of the world's largest uranium reserves?
Swarajya Party
Arthur Conan Doyle
U.K
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
21. When is World Health Day celebrated?
Ashoka
7th April
Anita Desai
Darsheel Safary
22. What is the designation of the chairperson of Lok Sabha?
The Bering Strait
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Speaker
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
23. When is the UN Day observed?
Michael Phelps
Jaya Dev
24th October
Lead
24. Who invented the steam engine?
Dadabhai Naoroji
Sunita Williams
Aravind Adiga
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
25. Where is Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy which trains Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officers situated?
10th December
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Mussoorie
Param Vir Chakra
26. Which country is the world's largest recipient of arms?
India
Samuel Morse
Kerala
10th October
27. Which city is called 'White City' of Rajasthan?
Raja Ravi Varma
31st May
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Jana Gana Mana
28. What was the main occupation of Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) people?
15th March
Euclid
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Hunting
29. 'Glimpses of World History' is written by whom?
Rajasthan
Swarajya Party
Jawaharlal Nehru
Khushwant Singh
30. What is our National Anthem?
Sachin Tendulkar
Maharashtra
Sukumar Sen
Jana Gana Mana
31. Which player is the author of the book 'Straight From The Heart'?
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Concave mirror
Only the first stanza
Kapil Dev
32. Which place is going to have North India's biggest turf club?
Later Vedic Age
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
33. Name the 17th Karmapa against whom the Una police filed a chargesheet under section 120-B of the IPC in 2011?
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.)
Longitudinal position
Tamil Nadu
Narendra Modi government
34. When is National Science Day celebrated in India?
Jan 26 - 1950134
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
28th February
Will pass through Equator
35. Who propounded the Market Law?
Rabindranath Tagore147
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
J.B.Say
G.V. Mavalankar
36. In which field Aachan Maharaj has distinguished himself?
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Kerala
Dance
Rajasthan
37. Who discovered X-Ray?
Chandragupta
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Roentgen
55th rank
38. Who is known as the Father of the Indian Constitution?
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Nikolaus Otto
Jawaharlal Nehru
5th September
39. Where is Sun Temple situated?
Rajasthan
South Kolkata
Konark
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
40. Which is the largest cave in India?
Art and architecture
Later Vedic Age
Methane
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
41. Watches of a country is set according to what time?
Standard time of the country138
Mumbai
18th December
Strait of Gibraltar
42. Who has become the first lady jawan in Indian army?
1949
Sonepur (Bihar )
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
43. Where were huge amounts of uranium recently found?
Andhra Pradesh
Nikolaus Otto
Palk Strait
23rd April
44. Whose name is associated with the council of the 'Nine Gems'?
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Chandragupta-II
Genetically Modified Crops.
26 years and 9 months
45. Who discovered photoelectric effect?
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Albert Einstein
Shobha De
Amjad Ali Khan
46. Which will be the new subject added to the curriculum of Kendriya Vidyalayas?
Maharashtra
German
Nikolaus Otto
5 hours 30 minutes
47. Who painted the masterpiece 'Hamsa Damayanti'?
Jan 26 - 1950134
Aung San Suu Kyi
27th September
Raja Ravi Varma
48. Where is the National Defence Academy situated?
23rd April
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Khadakvasla
49. Who is the second 100 percent visually impaired person to be accepted into the IAS?
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
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'.
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Dutch East Indies
50. Which is the great circle on earth's surface?
The equator
Aravallis
Albert Einstein
8th October
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