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1. Who is the author of book 'Many Worlds'?
V.S Naipaul
Amir Khusrau
15th March
Bromine
2. Who is sworn as the 14th Vice President of India?
Hamid Ansari
Bangalore
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Satyendra Nath Bose
3. Where is the India's first largest bamboo museum?
Hyderabad
Golconda
Paschim Banga1
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
4. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
90 degree
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Jamaica
Saeed Mirza
5. Who invented the television?
Abhinav Bindra
Nayantara Sahgal
Rs 270
J.L.Baird
6. Name the Bollywood legend whose ancestral home in Peshawar - Pakistan has been turned into heritage site?
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Kanishka
William Shakespeare151
Dilip Kumar
7. Who is the first Indian male shuttler to reach Olympic quarters?
24
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
God particle or Higgs Boson
Parupalli Kashyap
8. Name the element required for conversion of solar energy?
Uttar Pradesh
South Kolkata
Silicon
Art and architecture
9. Where were remains of Vijayanagar Empire found?
24th May
Algernon Sidney
Amitabh Ghosh
Hampi
10. Which day is chosen to be celebrated as Father's Day?
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Kerala
Curiosity
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
11. Who was the first lady to become judge of the Supreme Court?
Sushil Kumar
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
J.B.Say
12. What is the name of first Indian aircraft developed by Government laboratory with private fund?
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
India
27th September
Eagle
13. A famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice 'is written by whom?
July - 1947
Jane Austen
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
15th January
14. Name the place where Lord Budha breathed his last?
Madhya Pradesh
Concave lens
Kushinagar
Genetically Modified Crops.
15. Name the last king of Jammu and Kashmir?
India
Anita Desai
Hindukush
Maharaja Hari Singh
16. Which country won the maximum number of medals in Olympics 2008 held in Beijing?
Tamil Nadu
Jamaica
Saka era
USA
17. Where at present the BRAHMOS missiles are assembled?
Jana Gana Mana
Hyderabad
6 months
India
18. Who is the author of book 'Gita Govinda'?
Jayadeva
Kanishka
Andhra Pradesh
John Keats
19. Which day is celebrated as International Literacy Day?
250th anniversary
8th September
Nitrous oxide
U.K
20. Who is the first Indian sports person to win an individual Gold medal in the Olympic Games?
1st December
Sitar
Jonas Salk
Abhinav Bindra
21. At which place the largest industrial solar plant of the country became operational on 29th July - 2012?
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Ludhiana
24
5th June
22. Name the Russian painter who had an 468 acre estate in Bangalore
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Firozeshah Tughluq
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
23. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
Saka era
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Bromine
Harshavardhana
24. Year 2011 is observed by Army as what?
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Year of Disabled Soldiers
The Reserve Bank of India
25. Name the shooter of Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur) who won silver medal in Olympics 2012?
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26. Who discovered Penicillin?
Gwalior Gharana
Madhya Pradesh
Alexander Fleming
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
27. Which country has hosted the Asian Games for maximum number of times?
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Standard time of the country138
Thailand
28. After whose name the Nobel Prize was started?
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Kolkata
26th January
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
29. Who was the first speaker of Independent India's Lok Sabha?
Madhya Pradesh
G.V. Mavalankar
Nek Chand
Rabindra Nath Tagore
30. When comes National Sports Day of India?
Abul Kalam Azad
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
2:3161
29th August
31. Name the Indian state where the game of Polo is said to have originated?
Manipur54
Journalism
Madhya Pradesh
Karashapana
32. Who wrote Panchatantra?
Mundak Upanishad
Dr. F.G.Banting
Baby Nargis
Vishnu Sharma
33. Where are Dilwara Temples situated?
11th May
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
34. On whose written advice President can proclaim Emergency?
Himachal Pradesh
Prime Minister
Bangalore
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
35. How many spokes are there in our national emblem 'Ashoka Chakra'?
8th March
Kathak
24th October
24
36. Which is the largest Gurudwara in India?
Journalism
Nitrous oxide
6 months
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
37. At what age World's oldest dog Pusuke died?
26 years and 9 months
Samuel Morse
Gota in Sweden
Finland
38. Who was the author of 'Hind Swaraj'?
Mahatma Gandhi
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Torricelli
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
39. In which state is Ganesh Otsav celebrated?
Bangalore
Kauravas and Pandavas51
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Maharashtra
40. With which musical instrument was Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan associated?
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Sitar
69 miles
41. For which dance Birju Maharaj is well known?
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Abul Kalam Azad
Kathak
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
42. What is India's rank on the Transparency International (TI) corruption Perception Index out of 183 countries in 2011?
31st May
95th
Gujarat
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
43. 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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44. Liquefied Petroleum Gas consists mainly which gases?
Aravind Adiga
Firozeshah Tughluq
Maharashtra
Methane - butane and propane
45. Name the state where bio-fuel outlet - first of its kind in the country will be opened?
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Mathura
W.C Bannerjee
Landsteiner
46. Who propounded the Market Law?
Abhinav Bindra
Motion Picture
J.B.Say
8th September
47. Where is India's Space Rocket Launching Centre situated?
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
24
Sriharikota
The Reserve Bank of India
48. Who has become the first lady jawan in Indian army?
Sushil Kumar
Jane Austen
Renders electronic gadgets useless and effectively neutralises the adversary's command control and communication capability by producing a strong electromagnetic field generating powerful electricity surges that play havoc with electronic circuits wi
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
49. Who is the author of 'Tarikh-i-Alai' containing the details of the first few years of Sultan Alauddin Khilji?
Florence Nightingale
Amir Khusrau
Aung San Suu Kyi
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
50. What is proxy voting?
Playwright
Mathura
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Chandragupta