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1. When in India National Technology Day celebrated?
N.E. Borlaug
It loses one day
Sitar
11th May
2. Who wrote the book 'A Passage To India'?
Morarji Desai
E.M Forster
Lala Lajpat Rai
Chandragupta
3. Who is the author of book 'The Shape of the Beast'?
Arundhati Roy
Robert Watson Watt
Hunting
Sushil Kumar
4. While playing with which team Rahul Dravid completed his 10000 runs in the Test cricket?
South Africa
Demand deposits
Mathura
The President
5. Why bubble of water shines?
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Roger Federer
Jhumpa Lahiri
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
6. When is World Laughter Day celebrated?
Samuel Morse
6-14 years
26th January
The Delhi Metro
7. Why speed of sound is greater in solids than in liquids?
India and Pakistan
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
4 minutes
Because the solids have high elasticity.
8. Where is Buland Darwaza located?
Fatehpur Sikri
Edison
Art and architecture
5th September
9. Who is the new youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
Akhilesh Yadav
Bromine
2:4
Uttar Pradesh
10. Who wrote the book 'Animal's People'?
20th March
26th January
Julang-2
Indra Sinha64
11. Name the Indian scientist who was a part of NASA team which has identified the landing site of the 'Curiosity'?
Amitabh Ghosh
Guru Gobind Singh
Aravind Adiga
Mosley
12. Who discovered insulin?
Dr. F.G.Banting
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Nayantara Sahgal
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
13. Name the cities of Himachal to be developed as the solar cities?
Shimla and Hamirpur
Hockey
Jane Austen
Jamaica
14. Who became the first batsman in the history of cricket to score 100 international centuries?
Palk Strait
John Keats
The Reserve Bank of India
Sachin Tendulkar
15. Which will be the new subject added to the curriculum of Kendriya Vidyalayas?
Sunil Gavaskar
Sachin Tendulkar
INS Vikrant55
German
16. 'A Voice of Freedom' is a book written by whom?
Madhya Pradesh
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Nayantara Sahgal
Kauravas and Pandavas51
17. Name the person who has set a new Guinness record of being the oldest man to complete a full distance marathon in Toronto?
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Lala Lajpat Rai
2
At Magdalla port near Surat.
18. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
24th October
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Shiv Prasad Singh
Jamaica
19. Which is the world's second cheapest city according to global survey?
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Perpendicular to each other
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
20. In which field Aachan Maharaj has distinguished himself?
U.K
Dance
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Angle between the horizon and the equator
21. Who wrote the immortal song 'Vande Mataram'?
Concave mirror
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
1949
22. Name one famous Sarod player?
Kalpakkam
Amjad Ali Khan
Vasudeva
Later Vedic Age
23. Where were remains of Vijayanagar Empire found?
Hampi
Cavendish
Jan 26 - 1950134
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
24. Where is Boat Race a popular sport?
G.V. Mavalankar
Chadwick
Dehradun
Kerala
25. Durand line is the border common to which two countries?
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Jules Verne
N.E. Borlaug
Bangalore
26. Who wrote the book 'The Daughter of the East'?
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Curiosity
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
27. Who won the first medal for India in Olympics 2012?
Nitrous oxide
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Leh
28. Who discovered the electric lamp?
Edison
Robert Watson Watt
11th May
Vice President of India
29. What is KG5 drug?
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30. Who is generally regardedas the pioneer of Local Self Government in Modern India?
Performax
Ripon
Vadodara
Concave lens
31. The Prime Minister is chairman of this
26th January
Assam
Planning Commission
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
32. How many images will be formed when an object is placed between two mirrors placed parellel to each other?
When sun is above the equator
Odisha
Infinite
Sidney Sheldon
33. Which is the World's largest exporter of inverters?
8th May
Su-Kam Power Systems
Performax
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
34. Which is the largest planetarium in India?
Aravind Adiga
Talwandi
Kolkata
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
35. Which is the India's largest public sector commercial bank at present?
INS Vikrant55
V. Anand
State Bank of India
Manipur54
36. Who got the greatest Olympic athlete of all time Trophy?
Washing soda
Michael Phelps
Gagan Narang
Iodine
37. What is the name of India's first aircraft carrier?
Neil Armstrong
INS Vikrant55
Perpendicular to each other
Bleaching powder
38. Begum Akhtar is associated with which field?
Vocal Music
Martin Luther King
South Africa
Kolkata
39. In which state are the World famous Ajanta Caves situated?
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Oxygen and acetylene
Maharashtra
Saka era
40. When is World's Sparrow Day observed?
S. Radhakrishnan
Palk Strait
20th March
24
41. Who wrote the novel 'Neela Chand'?
Shiv Prasad Singh
Kulandei Francis
Prime Minister
Swarajya Party
42. What is India's rank on Foreign money in Swiss banks?
The Lok Sabha
Jan 26 - 1950134
55th rank
Sunderbans delta
43. Who was the first king to conquer Malwa - Gujarat and Maharashtra?
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Chandragupta Maurya
5th June
Amitabh Bachchan
44. Where at present the BRAHMOS missiles are assembled?
35 degree
Hyderabad
Hockey
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
45. Who inspired Green Revolution in India?
N.E. Borlaug
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
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Fatehpur Sikri
46. Who wrote the famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
India and Pakistan
Genetically Modified Crops.
USA
Jane Austen
47. Who invented radar?
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Robert Watson Watt
U.K
48. Which is the largest cave in India?
28th February
Landsteiner
Euclid
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
49. Between whom battle of Kurukshetra was fought?
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Amjad Ali Khan
Kauravas and Pandavas51
50. Which is the largest area wise state in India?
Performax
Rajasthan
Jane Austen
Ashoka
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