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1. Where is the world's largest solar power project going to be set up?
Uttarakhand
Iodine
Sushil Kumar
Maharashtra
2. What is the upper house of parliament known as?
The Rajya Sabha
Graphite
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
5th April
3. Which day is celebrated as International Literacy Day?
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
Bangalore
8th September
Kalpakkam
4. Who said 'I have nothing to offer except blood - sweat and tears'?
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Churchill
Maharaja Hari Singh
New Delhi
5. Name the state of India where diamond mines are mainly found?
Madhya Pradesh
Jan 26 - 1950134
Playwright
Sidney Sheldon
6. When comes the World Environment Day?
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Vishnu Sharma
5th June
7. Who invented the steam engine?
Guru Gobind Singh
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Shiv Prasad Singh
Heavy water
8. Which is the largest river delta of India?
Ganga
Bobby Jindal
Strait of Gibraltar
Tamil Nadu
9. Which musical instrument is said to be invented by Amir Khusro?
Sitar
Tungsten
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Jane Austen
10. Where is the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre located?
55th rank
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
1.34 millions
Trivandrum
11. Who got Arjuna Award in 2011?
Sushil Kumar
24
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
2:3161
12. Who wrote the book 'We Indians'?
Maharashtra
Khushwant Singh
Albert Einstein
Demand deposits
13. What is the name of India's first aircraft carrier?
18th December
Jagannath
INS Vikrant55
Bangalore
14. Players of which state got the maximum Olympic medals in London Olympics?
India and China
Nek Chand
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Haryana
15. Where is the only shrine in the world which has a natural statue of Hanuman that is not man made?
Gujarat
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Florence Nightingale
16. Name the metal used as the filament of an electric bulb?
Dilip Kumar
Tungsten
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
M. Narasimhan
17. Latitude and longitude are at what angle to each other?
Mundak Upanishad
Equator
Sodium
Perpendicular to each other
18. Where is Boat Race a popular sport?
9th August
Nek Chand
Will pass through Equator
Kerala
19. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?
Johannes Kepler
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Eagle
When sun is above the equator
20. What are GM Crops?
Akhilesh Yadav
Concave lens
Genetically Modified Crops.
Robert Watson Watt
21. Which is the largest desert in India?
Shockley
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
1953
22. Who wrote the famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
Sunita Williams
Methane - butane and propane
Jane Austen
24th October
23. 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.
162
Oxygen and acetylene
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
24. Which is largest river without delta in India?
Standard time of the country138
Narmada and Japti
6-14 years
Dumping
25. 'Glimpses of World History' is written by whom?
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.
Chandrayaan
Jawaharlal Nehru
Nitrogen
26. Name the country which is second largest producer of horticulture commodities such as fruits - vegetables and flowers in the world?
Yamuna
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
India
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
27. Liquefied Petroleum Gas consists mainly which gases?
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Methane - butane and propane
Satyendra Nath Bose
Aung San Suu Kyi
28. Who composed the National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'?
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Rabindranath Tagore
Heavy water
William Wordsworth
29. Who headed the committee on computerisation in Indian banks(1988)?
90 degree
M. Narasimhan
Sunita Williams
Washing soda
30. Name the world's shortest living woman?
Nek Chand
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
4 minutes
Jyoti Amge
31. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Albert Einstein
35 degree
At Magdalla port near Surat.
32. Name the sub-launched long range N-missile developed by China?
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Sriharikota
Julang-2
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
33. Where was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Avanti?
Jhumpa Lahiri
Sunil Gavaskar
Ujjain
Dehradun
34. Name the mineral found in Zawar mines?
Zinc
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Shockley
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
35. Where are the achievements of Samudragupta described on?
Jyoti Amge
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Albert Einstein
36. Where is Union Budget presented firstly?
The Lok Sabha
Equator
Jyoti Amge
Gwalior Gharana
37. World Human Rights Day is observed on which day?
New Agra Fort
Karashapana
10th December
USA
38. Which state has become the second highest power purchaser in the country after Punjab?
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
5th June
Cyrus Mistry
4 minutes
39. Who is the author of book 'The Shape of the Beast'?
Shockley
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Cavendish
Arundhati Roy
40. When was the design of our National Flag adopted by the Constituent of India?
July - 1947
5 hours 30 minutes
Alexander Fleming
Governor
41. 'Nokia' the telecom company belongs to which country?
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Golconda
Finland
42. Which is the largest populated state in India?
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
26 years and 9 months
Uttar Pradesh
Playwright
43. Which is the India's largest public sector commercial bank at present?
State Bank of India
Graphite
Hamid Ansari
11th May
44. Name the seas joined by Suez Canal?
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
26th January
China
Methane - butane and propane
45. Where is the World's largest ship canal?
John Ruskin
Gota in Sweden
2:4
Madhya Pradesh
46. Who was first Indian woman to become president of U.N. General Assembly?
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
State Bank of India
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Kho-Kho
47. On globe - the latitude and longitude intersect at what angle?
Palk Strait
90 degrees
1949
5 hours 30 minutes
48. Which day is known as World Tourism Day?
Aung San Suu Kyi
Curiosity
Sarojini Naidu
27th September
49. An air bubble in water acts as which lens?
Later Vedic Age
John Keats
Concave lens
The Rajya Sabha
50. Who got the greatest Olympic athlete of all time Trophy?
Planning Commission
Michael Phelps
1.34 millions
American firm Intra Pace unveils a stomach implant vi akeyhole surgery that can help people fight flab by warning the brain when enough food is taken. This credit card sized implant is named as 'Abiliti'.
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