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1. 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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2. For what was Ashoka famous?
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
At the center of earth
U.K
Stainless steel
3. When is the Mother's Day celebrated?
11th May
Vadodara
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Washing soda
4. On which date Chennai turned 372 years?
Haryana
2
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
2nd April - 2011
5. Who introduced the market regulations in India in ancient period?
Firozeshah Tughluq
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Allauddin Khilji
Darsheel Safary
6. Which metal is kept under kerosine?
Sodium
Michael Phelps
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Raja Ravi Varma
7. What is added to remove permanent hardness of water?
Finland
Washing soda
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
Oxygen and acetylene
8. Where is Elephant Pass located?
Vice President of India
Mundak Upanishad
Roentgen
Sri Lanka
9. Who is crowned Miss Universe India 2011?
Kulandei Francis
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
1.34 millions
Sunderbans delta
10. Where is a tunnel near the Indo-Pak border detected?
In Samba
Rahul Dravid
Jaya Dev
Planning Commission
11. When comes the World Environment Day?
Kushinagar
5th June
Neil Armstrong
Hyderabad
12. After whose name the Nobel Prize was started?
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Fatehpur Sikri
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Amir Khusru
13. Name the temple where majority of pilgrims visiting tonsure their heads and offer their hair to Lord Venkateswara?
2G spectrum scam
Hunting
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
Maharashtra
14. According to a poll conducted by global research company Ipsos - people of which country are happiest on this planet despite woes - conflicts?
Milkha Singh
Stupa
Indians
China
15. Name the Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay ofBengal?
India
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Palk Strait
15th January
16. Motilal Nehru and Chittaranjan Das were the founder members of which party?
Mohammad Iqbal
Swarajya Party
Is a herbal formulation of 10 selected herbs known to have adaptogenic properties. It helps to improve the physical and mental performance by increasing blood oxygenation and reducing low density lipoproteins and cholesterol.
Silver
17. What is KG5 drug?
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18. During whose reign The Mathura School of art flourished?
Kiran Bedi
Hamid Ansari
Vasudeva
26th January
19. Vocalist Rahamat Khan belongs to which Gharana?
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
W.C Bannerjee
Gwalior Gharana
Amir Khusrau
20. Name the Indian who won Magsaysay award for community initiatives in Tamil Nadu?
Abhinav Bindra
Kulandei Francis
Kanishka
New Agra Fort
21. Name the sub-launched long range N-missile developed by China?
Julang-2
Albert Einstein
90 degree
8th October
22. Which gas is called laughing gas?
Morarji Desai
Jules Verne
Nitrous oxide
Allauddin Khilji
23. Which day is known as World Tourism Day?
27th September
250th anniversary
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Jaya Dev
24. Which child artist got Critics Best Actor Award for his acting in a film Taare Zameen Par?
Darsheel Safary
Finland
Ashoka
Dadabhai Naoroji
25. Name the subatomic particle which scientists claimed to have spotted and is believed to be a crucial building block in the formation of universe?
Kulandei Francis
Torricelli
God particle or Higgs Boson
Sitar
26. On whose written advice President can proclaim Emergency?
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Governor
Prime Minister
M. Narasimhan
27. Who is the author of book 'Many Worlds'?
E.M Forster
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
V.S Naipaul
Florence Nightingale
28. Which day in India is celebrated as Children's Day?
India
14th November
Pakistan and Afghanistan
8th October
29. Kanchipuram is in which state?
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
The President
Tamil Nadu
German
30. What is the reason found for ground water contamination in Punjab - especially in the Malwa region?
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Dutch East Indies
Milkha Singh
William Wordsworth
31. Which country has World's largest democracy?
It loses one day
Vishnu Sharma
Narendra Modi government
India
32. Which day is celebrated as World Red Cross Day?
Football
8th May
1st May164
1949
33. Name the gas usually filled in the electric bulbs?
Is a herbal formulation of 10 selected herbs known to have adaptogenic properties. It helps to improve the physical and mental performance by increasing blood oxygenation and reducing low density lipoproteins and cholesterol.
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Nitrogen
Vice President of India
34. Who has been selected as the new head of Tata empire in 2011?
Cyrus Mistry
The Delhi Metro
Golconda
German
35. Where is National School of Mines located?
Pune
24
29th August
Rajasthan
36. How many spokes are there in our national emblem 'Ashoka Chakra'?
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Jana Gana Mana
24
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
37. In which field Aachan Maharaj has distinguished himself?
Dance
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Akbar
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
38. Who discovered the electric lamp?
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Edison
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
28th February
39. Between whom battle of Kurukshetra was fought?
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Methane
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.)
The Rajya Sabha
40. How 4G services will hit the country in 2012?
Madhya Pradesh
4G technology will offer many advancements to the wireless market including downlink data rates well over 100 Mbps - low latency - very efficient spectrum use and low cost implementation.
M. Narasimhan
9th August
41. Which country has hosted the Asian Games for maximum number of times?
Tamil Nadu
Odisha
Manipur54
Thailand
42. Who was the first speaker of Independent India's Lok Sabha?
G.V. Mavalankar
At the center of earth
Florence Nightingale
Razia Sultana
43. Who is generally regardedas the pioneer of Local Self Government in Modern India?
Gol Gumbaz
Ripon
Japan
Morarji Desai
44. Who wrote the book 'Gulliver's Travels'?
Methane - butane and propane
Jonathan Swift
Greeks
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
45. When in India National Technology Day celebrated?
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
11th May
24
Perpendicular to each other
46. Name the Strait which separates Asia from North America?
Mosley
Mahatma Gandhi
The number of persons per square kilometre.
The Bering Strait
47. Who wrote the book 'Unhappy India'?
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Lala Lajpat Rai
Third century B.C
48. Which country was under the grip of a severe earthquake followed by tsunami recently?
15th August167
Japan
Aung San Suu Kyi
1.34 millions
49. Name the book which has collection of speeches of N.G Ranga?
Assam
7th April
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Three Decades in Parliament
50. What happens to speed of sound with rise in temperature?
Parupalli Kashyap
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Increases
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