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1. With which musical instrument was Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan associated?
Krishna
Sitar
Leo Tolstoy
Ganga
2. Durand line is the border common to which two countries?
Michael Phelps
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
1st December
3. On which part of earth days and nights are of equal length always?
Bombay
Nitrogen
Equator
Herodotus
4. Who is known as founder of Mohemmadan Anglo-Oriental college at Aligarh?
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Rajasthan
Mussoorie
5. Which river is related to Nagarjun Sagar Project?
Krishna
Jyoti Amge
William Wordsworth
John Ruskin
6. Who wrote the book 'Unhappy India'?
Maharashtra
8
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Lala Lajpat Rai
7. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Tamil Nadu
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'.
Sunil Gavaskar
8. After whose name the Nobel Prize was started?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Shiv Prasad Singh
W.C Bannerjee
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
9. How many images will be formed when an object is placed between two mirrors placed parellel to each other?
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Shockley
Infinite
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
10. On which date Anti Tobacco Day observed?
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Ludhiana
31st May
INS Vikrant55
11. Who said 'I have nothing to offer except blood - sweat and tears'?
26th January
Satyendra Nath Bose
Dadabhai Naoroji
Churchill
12. Name the great Hindu king who combined in himself the qualities of Samudragupta and Ashoka?
Harshavardhana
Jane Austen
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Saka era
13. Who discovered neutron?
Odisha
Chadwick
Mohammad bin Kasim
Ganga
14. Who wrote our National Anthem?
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Dance
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
15. Which king brought the valleys of Indus - Ganga and Jamuna together for the first time under one political authority?
Ashoka
Hamid Ansari
90 degrees
18th December
16. Name the herbal drug developed by DRDO for soldiers working in high altitude areas?
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Yamuna
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Performax
17. Name the Indian American astronaut who begins her 2nd space odyssey on July 15 - 2012?
Sunita Williams
Satyendra Nath Bose
Madhya Pradesh
In front of New Delhi's High Court
18. Which game is associated with Merdeka Cup?
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Khadakvasla
Football
19. What is equal to latitude of a place?
Chandragupta
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
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.
20. Vocalist Rahamat Khan belongs to which Gharana?
18th April
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Gwalior Gharana
21. Where is the world's largest solar power project going to be set up?
28th February
Maharashtra
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
Gagan Narang (shooter)
22. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
J.L.Baird
2nd April - 2011
Jamaica
23. On which date India won the World Cup in Mumbai?
Hunting
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Stainless steel
2nd April - 2011
24. Who has been re-elected PDP President for the fourth time in Srinagar in 2011?
M. Narasimhan
London
Mehbooba Mufti
India Museum at Kolkata
25. Who was the chairman of Constituent Assembly?
Swarajya Party
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Landsteiner
26. What is the practice of selling goods in a foreign country at a price below their domestic selling price is called?
Dumping
24th October
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Jyoti Amge
27. Who earned the title of 'Liberator'?
Torricelli
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Chandragupta Maurya
28. Which day is celebrated as International Literacy Day?
Uttarakhand
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Ganga
8th September
29. When India became a Sovereign - democratic republic?
Jana Gana Mana
Jan 26 - 1950134
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Lobsang Sangay
30. What was adopted from the Maurya dynasty in the emblem of government of India?
Four lions
Sodium
18th December
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
31. Name the Earth- like planet whose existence is confirmed by American astronomers?
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Herodotus
32. 'Nokia' the telecom company belongs to which country?
Michael Phelps
Finland
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Albert Einstein
33. By whom is the Vice-President of the Indian Union elected?
China
Six months
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Chandragupta-II
34. Whose contemporary was Tulsidas?
U.K
Akbar
1st December
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
35. 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?
Amitabh Bachchan
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
Bangalore
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
36. Name the Russian painter who had an 468 acre estate in Bangalore
Concave mirror
10th October
Leo Tolstoy
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
37. Where are the achievements of Samudragupta described on?
Sidney Sheldon
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Arthur Conan Doyle
38. Who is the author of book 'India Wins Freedom'?
Arundhati Roy
Baby Nargis
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Saeed Mirza
39. What is the difference in time between two places 1 degree longitude apart?
In front of New Delhi's High Court
4 minutes
Rabindranath Tagore
Washing soda
40. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
Carbon dioxide
Governor
Maharashtra
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
41. Watches of a country is set according to what time?
31st May
Chandragupta Maurya
Standard time of the country138
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
42. Who is President of India?
The equator
Infinite
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
From fresh and purified fat stem cells ( Fat has a large number of tissue growing stem cells. People could go for liposuction and save fat cells for future use or can use immediately.)
43. Players of which state got the maximum Olympic medals in London Olympics?
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Haryana
Jagannath
44. Whose name is associated with the council of the 'Nine Gems'?
Mahatma Gandhi
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Chandragupta-II
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
45. What is the maximum period of gap between any two sessions of the Indian Parliament?
INS Vikrant55
Dumping
Six months
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
46. Which state in South India have a thermal station at Tuticorin?
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Tamil Nadu
Bangalore
47. Which is the world's second cheapest city according to global survey?
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Chadwick
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
48. When is National Science Day celebrated in India?
28th February
INS Vikrant55
South Africa
S. Radhakrishnan
49. What is the upper house of parliament known as?
Sunderbans delta
The Rajya Sabha
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Euclid
50. What is India's rank on Foreign money in Swiss banks?
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Sidney Sheldon
55th rank
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)