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1. Who invented the lift?
Uttar Pradesh
Morarji Desai
E.G.Otis
Silicon
2. Who is the new captain of the Indian Premier League team Rajasthan Royals?
Sunil Gavaskar
5th September
USA
Rahul Dravid
3. Which is the longest river of India?
Ganga
UK
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
The Rajya Sabha
4. Name the Earth- like planet whose existence is confirmed by American astronomers?
Robert Watson Watt
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
16th October
5. Who invented the steam engine?
Leo Tolstoy
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Kathak
Kalpakkam
6. Which country is the second largest producer of sugar?
Sonepur (Bihar )
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
S. Radhakrishnan
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
7. Name the three new elements added to the Periodic Table in 2011?
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Kushinagar
55th rank
Kapil Dev
8. Who is sworn as the 14th Vice President of India?
29th August
Hamid Ansari
Lala Lajpat Rai
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
9. Name the strait which separates Africa from Europe?
Equator
Mundak Upanishad
Strait of Gibraltar
Rajasthan
10. Where is a tunnel near the Indo-Pak border detected?
Das Kapital
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
USA
In Samba
11. Which day is observed as World Heritage Day?
Chaucer
Stupa
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
18th April
12. Who is vice President of India?
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Mumbai
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Only the first stanza
13. Who has become the first lady jawan in Indian army?
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Jan 26 - 1950134
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
14. Which is the largest museum in India?
Abhinav Bindra
1st December
Madhya Pradesh
India Museum at Kolkata
15. Who is the senior most Army officer to have faced a court martial and dismissed from service by an Indian Army Court?
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
The President
Only the first stanza
16. On whose written advice President can proclaim Emergency?
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Concave lens
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Prime Minister
17. Which country topped medal table in Olympic 2012?
Uttar Pradesh
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
Julang-2
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
18. Which is the largest Church in India?
Milkha Singh
4 minutes
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
19. Which is largest river without delta in India?
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
23rd December
Narmada and Japti
20. When is Earth Day observed?
22nd April
Golconda
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
21. What is India's rank on Foreign money in Swiss banks?
Anita Desai
New Agra Fort
The Bering Strait
55th rank
22. What is the name of first Indian aircraft developed by Government laboratory with private fund?
Algernon Sidney
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Akhilesh Yadav
Eagle
23. Who is the new youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
Akhilesh Yadav
Standard time of the country138
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Nikolaus Otto
24. Which cricketer known as 'Tiger' also father of famous actor died on 23rd September - 2011?
10th October
Hunting
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Tamil Nadu
25. Liquefied Petroleum Gas consists mainly which gases?
Methane - butane and propane
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.
14th November
5 hours 30 minutes
26. Who earned the title of 'Liberator'?
Eagle
Silver
Chandragupta Maurya
Jan 26 - 1950134
27. Which musical instrument is said to be invented by Amir Khusro?
Gota in Sweden
5th September
Golconda
Sitar
28. When comes the Farmer's Day (Kisan Divas )in India ?
23rd December
Football
26th January
Morarji Desai
29. Which was the great centre of trade and commerce in the Gupta period?
Mathura
London
Mehbooba Mufti
Hunting
30. Name the mineral found in Zawar mines?
Zinc
Silicon
Mathura
Swarajya Party
31. Where is the National Institute of Nutrition located?
Hyderabad
Ganga
Stupa
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
32. Where is the Indian Institute of Science located?
Chandragupta
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Assam
Bangalore
33. Who became the first batsman in the history of cricket to score 100 international centuries?
J.B.Say
Amir Khusru
Sachin Tendulkar
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
34. Name the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister whose admirers have decided to build a temple to perpetuate his memory?
250th anniversary
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
South Africa
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
35. Where is Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research located?
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Kalpakkam
Akbar
Maharaja Hari Singh
36. Who discovered the oral polio vaccine?
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.)
Jules Verne
Anita Desai
Jonas Salk
37. Name the first Indian women shuttler to enter semifinal at the Olympics?
Herodotus
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Third century B.C
26th January
38. Which is largest populated city in India?
Mumbai
Guru Gobind Singh
Andhra Pradesh
William Shakespeare151
39. Kathakali a folk dance is prevalent in which state?
Firozeshah Tughluq
Tamil Nadu
Vande Mataram
Kerala
40. Who wrote Panchatantra?
Vishnu Sharma
Due to radiation
INS Vikrant55
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
41. Name the latest hi-tech weapon invented in 2011 to prevent obesity?
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42. Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?
Planning Commission
Jaya Dev
Euclid
Konark
43. What is the other name of deuterium oxide?
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Heavy water
Fatehpur Sikri
Second Battle of Tarain
44. Where is the venue for the 2012 Olympics?
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Johannes Kepler
London
Herodotus
45. What is the ratio of width of our National Flag to its length?
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Jaipur
In Samba
2:4
46. Name the woman boxer of India who have won five time world championship in succession?
Narendra Modi government
German
Mary Kom
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
47. The Rath Yatra at Puri is celebrated in honour of which Hindu deity?
Bengali
India and China
M. Narasimhan
Jagannath
48. In which year was the National Anthem first sung?
Madhya Pradesh
Bhai Gurmej Singh
1911133
Mumbai
49. In how many time zones is the World divided?
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.)
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Bleaching powder
24
50. Which was the World's first surviving clone buffalo at NDRI (National Dairy Research Institute)?
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Strait of Gibraltar
Michael Phelps
Sushil Kumar