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1. Who said 'Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err'?
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Ludhiana
Tamil Nadu
Mahatma Gandhi
2. When is Sadbhavna Diwas (Goodwill Day ) observed in India?
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3. What is the name of India's moon mission?
12th January
Chandrayaan
Konark
Chandragupta
4. Who is the author of novel 'The White Tiger'?
5th June
Rocky Marciano
Madhya Pradesh
Aravind Adiga
5. Which day is known as World Tourism Day?
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Hockey
Bangalore
27th September
6. Who is the man popularly kwown as Gurudev?
Indra Sinha64
Rabindranath Tagore147
Khadakvasla
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
7. Who invented the lift?
Silver
E.G.Otis
Oxygen and acetylene
Alexander Graham Bell
8. What happens to speed of sound with rise in temperature?
Aravind Adiga
V. Anand
Increases
Kerala
9. What is the maximum period of gap between any two sessions of the Indian Parliament?
Six months
Samudragupta
Marie Curie
Vadodara
10. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Sunil Gavaskar
Kalpakkam
At Magdalla port near Surat.
11. Which metal is kept under kerosine?
Parupalli Kashyap
Golconda
Third century B.C
Sodium
12. On which date India won the World Cup in Mumbai?
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
2nd April - 2011
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
18th December
13. On which day International Women's Day observed?
Razia Sultana
The President
Rajasthan
8th March
14. Where is Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research located?
15th January
Bengali
Jyoti Amge
Kalpakkam
15. Which child artist got Critics Best Actor Award for his acting in a film Taare Zameen Par?
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Su-Kam Power Systems
Darsheel Safary
16. Who was the first woman to go in space?
Rajasthan
Valentina Tereshkova
Ganga
Narmada and Japti
17. At which place a devastating fire tore through seven storey AMRI hospital killing 91 people in 2011?
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Maharashtra
South Kolkata
18. From where the longest circle which can be drawn from earth's surface will pass?
Will pass through Equator
Mohammad Iqbal
26th January
Sunil Gavaskar
19. Begum Akhtar is associated with which field?
Gol Gumbaz
Vocal Music
Golconda
India
20. Where is the famous Meenakshi Temple situated?
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Akbar
11th May
Tamil Nadu
21. Who is the 26th Chief Minister of Karnataka?
5th September
Robert Watson Watt
Jonas Salk
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
22. Who elects the Vice President of India?
Hyderabad
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
The equator
Chandragupta Maurya
23. Which country is the second largest producer of sugar?
24th February
Shockley
Standard time of the country138
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
24. Who is the author of book 'The Shape of the Beast'?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Arundhati Roy
Ladakh
25. Where is head office of the State Bank of India located?
Mumbai
Navtej Saran
23rd December
Amir Khusrau
26. Indian Air Force Day is observed on which day ?
Golconda
Jamaica
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
8th October
27. Which is the largest port in India?
1.34 millions
Madhya Pradesh
Thailand
Mumbai
28. Who invented the television?
J.L.Baird
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Robert Watson Watt
Forty-fourth Amendment
29. What will be the new name of West Bengal?
V.S Naipaul
Paschim Banga1
Narmada and Japti
John Keats
30. In which century did Ashoka reign?
Chandrayaan
Chadwick
Third century B.C
Euclid
31. Who propounded the Market Law?
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
J.B.Say
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Hyderabad
32. Whose contemporary was Tulsidas?
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Bangalore
M.N Roy62
Akbar
33. Who was the founder of the Khalsa?
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Chaucer
Kathak
Guru Gobind Singh
34. Who got Arjuna Award in 2011?
The equator
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
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
Playwright
35. Who won bronze medal for India in 10m pistol event (London Olympics - 2012)?
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
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.
Gagan Narang
Vidya Balan
36. Who has become the first lady jawan in Indian army?
Jonas Salk
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
15th August167
Yousuf Raza Gillani
37. Who is called Father of English Poetry?
11th May
Cyrus Mistry
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Chaucer
38. Name the gas usually filled in the electric bulbs?
South Kolkata
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Nitrogen
22nd April
39. Name the metal used as the filament of an electric bulb?
Chadwick
V.S Naipaul
Tungsten
Rajasthan
40. Who discovered blood grouping?
The equator
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
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.
Landsteiner
41. Who is the author of book 'The Tribune 130 Years: A Witness to History'?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Prof. V.N Datta
Planning Commission
Narmada and Japti
42. Who is called 'Grand Old Man of India'?
Speaker
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Bangalore
Dadabhai Naoroji
43. Who was first Indian woman to become president of U.N. General Assembly?
Curiosity
India
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Rajasthan
44. Which is the state wise largest area under forest in India?
Madhya Pradesh
Six months
The Reserve Bank of India
Stupa
45. Which is the largest lake in India?
Vasudeva
2
2:3161
Wular lake (Kashmir)
46. Who is the second 100 percent visually impaired person to be accepted into the IAS?
24th October
Hindukush
Chandragupta-II
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
47. Which day is known as World Book and Copyright Day?
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
23rd April
2:4
Rahul Dravid
48. Who invented the steam engine?
Sitar
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Talwandi
Johannes Kepler
49. What is the practice of selling goods in a foreign country at a price below their domestic selling price is called?
Dumping
Jaipur
Haryana
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
50. 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
11th May
Uttarakhand
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)