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1. Name the sub-launched long range N-missile developed by China?
Julang-2
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Leh
When sun is above the equator
2. Which battle opened the Delhi area to Muhammad Ghori?
Baby Nargis
Lobsang Sangay
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Second Battle of Tarain
3. Where is National School of Mines located?
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Pune
USA
4. What are the bank deposits that can be withdrawn without notice called?
Jayadeva
Demand deposits
Kiran Bedi
Michael Phelps
5. Under which scam - the 43 year old daughter of former chief minister of Tamil Nadu M.Karunanidhi was in Tihar jail in 2011?
Anita Desai
2G spectrum scam
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Andhra Pradesh
6. Where is the Caspian sea - the largest inland sea or lake in the world located?
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Bleaching powder
8th September
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
7. Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?
Trivandrum
Nayantara Sahgal
Jaya Dev
Algernon Sidney
8. When comes National Postal Day in India?
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Vishnu Sharma
10th October
V.S Naipaul
9. Name the Strait which separates Asia from North America?
Andhra Pradesh
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
The Bering Strait
Vocal Music
10. Which state has maximum density of canals?
12th January
Uttar Pradesh
Khushwant Singh
Samuel Morse
11. Name the country's longest railway tunnel excavated?
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
Nitrogen
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
12. On which era is the Indian National Calender based?
Saka era
Hyderabad
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Samar Guha
13. What is our National Anthem?
Chandragupta Maurya
Sunil Gavaskar
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Jana Gana Mana
14. How many lines are there in latitude and longitude?
Sunita Williams
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
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.
15. In which state are the World famous Ajanta Caves situated?
5th April
Maharashtra
Dance
5th June
16. What was the main occupation of Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) people?
Aravind Adiga
Hunting
1911133
Sukumar Sen
17. How many images will be formed when an object is placed between two mirrors placed parellel to each other?
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
7th April
Infinite
It loses one day
18. Who discovered the oral polio vaccine?
Martin Luther King
Jonas Salk
Rajasthan
V. Anand
19. Where is the India's first largest bamboo museum?
Sonepur (Bihar )
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Ganga
Kushans
20. Which place is famous for gigantic rock-cut statue of Budha?
Shiv Prasad Singh
Jagannath
Madhya Pradesh
Bamiyan
21. Which is the longest river of India?
Hyderabad
Ganga
Yamuna
Protecting Flora and Fauna
22. Who invented barometer?
Graphite
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
India and China
Torricelli
23. Who discovered the electric lamp?
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Kanishka
Nikolaus Otto
Edison
24. Who wrote the book 'Gulliver's Travels'?
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Jonathan Swift
Abul Kalam Azad
State Bank of India
25. What is made from the mixture of lime and chlorine?
Bleaching powder
Jonas Salk
Kho-Kho
Martin Luther King
26. Who is the senior most Army officer to have faced a court martial and dismissed from service by an Indian Army Court?
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Second Battle of Tarain
27. Who was the first speaker of Independent India's Lok Sabha?
Jonathan Swift
Vice President of India
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
G.V. Mavalankar
28. Name the shooter of Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur) who won silver medal in Olympics 2012?
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29. Who is going to receive highest US award?
Aung San Suu Kyi
Pakistan and Afghanistan
The Bering Strait
Mosley
30. What is the name of World's cheapest tablet PC?
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Swarajya Party
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
31. Who is the first Indian sports person to win an individual Gold medal in the Olympic Games?
Abhinav Bindra
Kerala
The Rajya Sabha
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
32. Which game is associated with Agha Khan Cup?
Hockey
Silicon
Yamuna
Rabindranath Tagore
33. Who got Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (highest sports award in country) award?
V. Anand
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Gagan Narang (shooter)
William Shakespeare151
34. Name the Indian chess player who broke the World Record by finishing the game in twelve moves?
Narendra Modi government
V. Anand
Sukumar Sen
Music
35. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Rajasthan
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Johannes Kepler
36. Who invented the mercury thermometer?
Greeks
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Galileo
Lobsang Sangay
37. Why clear nights are more colder then cloudy nights?
Due to radiation
4 minutes
Sunil Gavaskar
Hockey
38. What is the original name of Mahabharata?
Khushwant Singh
Kiran Bedi
1st May164
Jai Samhita
39. What is the name of first Indian aircraft developed by Government laboratory with private fund?
Vadodara
Kulandei Francis
Nikolaus Otto
Eagle
40. Who got Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award in 2011?
22nd April
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Kapil Dev
41. Where is the World's largest ship canal?
Anna Hazare
Standard time of the country138
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Gota in Sweden
42. Who has been selected as the new head of Tata empire in 2011?
India Museum at Kolkata
Cyrus Mistry
30th January
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
43. Where did the World's costliest crash took place?
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
The Delhi Metro
Mundak Upanishad
Amir Khusru
44. Motilal Nehru and Chittaranjan Das were the founder members of which party?
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
28th February
Swarajya Party
Kushinagar
45. Name the smallest neighbour of India?
Eagle
Four lions
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Samudragupta
46. Who has become the first lady jawan in Indian army?
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Washing soda
Bangalore
Mary Kom
47. Who inspired Green Revolution in India?
N.E. Borlaug
5th September
Bangalore
90 degrees
48. Whom did Dalai Lama announced to be his successor in March - 2011?
Mary Kom
Tamil Nadu
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Lobsang Sangay
49. Name the Indian scientist from whose surname the word 'boson' is derived?
Palk Strait
Lala Lajpat Rai
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Satyendra Nath Bose
50. Who wrote the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?
Jules Verne
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Jane Austen
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)