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1. When is International Labour Day observed?
Bangalore
1st May164
Speaker
2nd April - 2011
2. Which painting got the highest price ever paid for a work of art at any auction?
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3. Who is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in India?
The President
Shobha De
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arundhati Roy
4. Where is Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research located?
Kalpakkam
Rs 270
Aravallis
Hindukush
5. What will be the difference in longitudes between two places if their time difference is 2 hours and 20 minutes?
35 degree
Florence Nightingale
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
6. Which country is the world's largest recipient of arms?
U.K
Second Battle of Tarain
Su-Kam Power Systems
India
7. When is the World Population Day observed?
11th July
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Jama Masjid
Mary Kom
8. When is Commonwealth Day observed?
Indians
2:3161
M. Narasimhan
24th May
9. Who was the first recipient of Nehru Award for International Understanding?
Hyderabad
Martin Luther King
Bangalore
Shockley
10. What is KG5 drug?
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11. Name the baby of Uttar Pardesh who is the symbolic seven billionth baby ?
Tungsten
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Alexander Graham Bell
Baby Nargis
12. Who was the only Muslim woman to sit on the throne of Delhi?
Razia Sultana
Samuel Morse
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Governor
13. Where is the only shrine in the world which has a natural statue of Hanuman that is not man made?
Nek Chand
India and Pakistan
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
14. Who was called the 'Napoleon of India'?
Guru Gobind Singh
Trivandrum
2:4
Samudragupta
15. What is India's rank on the Transparency International (TI) corruption Perception Index out of 183 countries in 2011?
95th
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
5th September
Carbon dioxide
16. Name the country's longest railway tunnel excavated?
Dumping
It loses one day
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Curiosity
17. Name the person who transliterated Guru Granth Sahib in Braille?
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Robert Watson Watt
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
18. Which is the largest Mosque in India?
5th April
Jama Masjid
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Japan
19. While playing with which team Rahul Dravid completed his 10000 runs in the Test cricket?
Mundak Upanishad
South Africa
Finland
Martin Luther King
20. Who is crowned Miss World 2011?
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Sitar
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
21. With whom are the rare replicas of sacred book Guru Granth Sahib?
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
V. Anand
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
22. When is World Food Day observed?
Methane - butane and propane
Director General Anil Kaushik
Jawaharlal Nehru
16th October
23. Which is the largest zoo in India?
Rajasthan
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
24. Which battle opened the Delhi area to Muhammad Ghori?
Second Battle of Tarain
2
15th August167
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
25. Which is the largest museum in India?
Kolkata
Hockey
India Museum at Kolkata
Stainless steel
26. Which gas is called laughing gas?
Nitrous oxide
Jai Samhita
Robert Watson Watt
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.
27. Watches of a country is set according to what time?
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
2:4
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Standard time of the country138
28. Our Indian National Calender is based on which era?
Ganga
Saeed Mirza
Saka era
Sushil Kumar
29. On which date Chennai turned 372 years?
Thailand
Indra Sinha64
Allauddin Khilji
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
30. In which year was the National Anthem first sung?
Kiran Bedi
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
1911133
Washing soda
31. What are GM Crops?
Genetically Modified Crops.
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Leo Tolstoy
Milkha Singh
32. Who wrote an English novel 'In Custody'?
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Anita Desai
India
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
33. Who discovered blood grouping?
Landsteiner
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
$46 - 00011
Harshavardhana
34. Who invented the television?
Parupalli Kashyap
10th October
J.L.Baird
John Ruskin
35. Whose influence is reflected in the sculptures of the Gandhara school?
Graphite
Aung San Suu Kyi
Myanmar
Greeks
36. Name the person who has set a new Guinness record of being the oldest man to complete a full distance marathon in Toronto?
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Saka era
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
37. Name the last king of Jammu and Kashmir?
Maharaja Hari Singh
Finland
Paschim Banga1
Nek Chand
38. What are the estimated premature deaths caused annually by air pollution - according to the first pollution survey carried in Sept. - 2011 by World Health Organisation?
India
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
1.34 millions
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
39. Where is the Indian Institute of Science located?
Bangalore
Only the first stanza
Planning Commission
Mumbai
40. Who wrote our National Anthem?
Rabindra Nath Tagore
German
Graphite
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
41. What was the old name of Indonesia?
Dutch East Indies
31st May
Heavy water
Amitabh Ghosh
42. Which is the state wise largest area under forest in India?
Mahatma Gandhi
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Madhya Pradesh
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
43. Which is the largest port in India?
Only the first stanza
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Abul Kalam Azad
Mumbai
44. Who was the first lady to become judge of the Supreme Court?
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Motion Picture
V.S Naipaul
45. From where the longest circle which can be drawn from earth's surface will pass?
55th rank
William Shakespeare151
Will pass through Equator
Johannes Kepler
46. Who is the author of book 'Speed Post'?
18th December
Heavy water
Shobha De
Konark
47. Which non -metal remains liquid at room temperature?
10th December
8th September
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Bromine
48. Which game is associated with Merdeka Cup?
J.L.Baird
Football
2G spectrum scam
Four lions
49. Who deciphered the genetic code?
William Shakespeare151
Myanmar
Jonathan Swift
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
50. Upto where Chandragupta Maurya's empire extended in the north-west?
Hindukush
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Amitabh Bachchan
Landsteiner