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1. Name the woman boxer of India who have won five time world championship in succession?
E.G.Otis
Talwandi
Mary Kom
The Lok Sabha
2. Who wrote 'Netaji - Dead or Alive'?
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Samar Guha
Harshavardhana
Torricelli
3. Name the 17th Karmapa against whom the Una police filed a chargesheet under section 120-B of the IPC in 2011?
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.)
Chandragupta-II
Vande Mataram
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
4. What is our National Anthem?
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
When sun is above the equator
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Jana Gana Mana
5. Where is a tunnel near the Indo-Pak border detected?
Governor
In Samba
Aravallis
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
6. Name the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister whose admirers have decided to build a temple to perpetuate his memory?
Longitudinal position
G.V. Mavalankar
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Saka era
7. Name the country which is second largest producer of horticulture commodities such as fruits - vegetables and flowers in the world?
India
Mary Kom
Washing soda
Bobby Jindal
8. Name the gases used in different types of welding?
Galileo
Oxygen and acetylene
The President
Japan
9. Who wrote an English novel 'In Custody'?
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Anita Desai
Mohammad Iqbal
Painting
10. What is the maximum period of gap between any two sessions of the Indian Parliament?
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Longitudinal position
Gagan Narang
Six months
11. Who won bronze medal for India in men's 60 Kg freestyle wrestling?
Maharashtra
It loses one day
Chaucer
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
12. Which state is going to be first carbon-neutral state in the country by 2020?
Himachal Pradesh
Shockley
16th October
Rajasthan
13. What is the ratio of width of our National flag to its length?
Hamid Ansari
Rabindra Nath Tagore
2:3161
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
14. Kathakali a folk dance is prevalent in which state?
Washing soda
Standard time of the country138
Kerala
Rajasthan
15. Who won bronze medal for India in 10m pistol event (London Olympics - 2012)?
Khushwant Singh
Gagan Narang
Aravind Adiga
11th July
16. What is the time difference between IST and GMT?
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Morarji Desai
5 hours 30 minutes
Strait of Gibraltar
17. Which hockey team won the Asian Championship Trophy at Ordos(China) in 2011?
India
Concave mirror
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Silicon
18. Who is the creator of Rock Garden in Chandigarh?
Nek Chand
Uttar Pradesh
Curiosity
Rocky Marciano
19. Who is the author of book 'India Wins Freedom'?
Nitrous oxide
Jane Austen
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Bromine
20. Which battle opened the Delhi area to Muhammad Ghori?
Thailand
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Prof. V.N Datta
Second Battle of Tarain
21. Who wrote the famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
Jane Austen
11th May
Churchill
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
22. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?
90 degree
Perpendicular to each other
Johannes Kepler
Parupalli Kashyap
23. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?
India
Chaucer
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
24. Which is largest man made lake in India?
Roger Federer
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Darsheel Safary
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
25. Name the scientist who is considered as the Father of Genetics?
Johann Gregor Mendel
Carbon dioxide
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Demand deposits
26. Who is called Father of English Poetry?
5th September
Mumbai
Chaucer
Heavy water
27. The Prime Minister is chairman of this
India and Pakistan
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Vasudeva
Planning Commission
28. Who is crowned Miss World 2011?
Kulandei Francis
Playwright
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Paschim Banga1
29. When was the foundation day of CSIR ( Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) observed?
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
India
Sarojini Naidu
The equator
30. Who has become the first lady jawan in Indian army?
Due to radiation
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Mehbooba Mufti
Governor
31. When in India National Technology Day celebrated?
Rajasthan
Sunil Gavaskar
8
11th May
32. Who wrote the book 'We Indians'?
Lead
Ganga
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Khushwant Singh
33. Who discovered photoelectric effect?
Albert Einstein
6-14 years
Nek Chand
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
34. Who wrote 'One Day Wonders'?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Sunil Gavaskar
N.E. Borlaug
35. Where is Pushkar lake located?
2
Rajasthan
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Algernon Sidney
36. Which day in India celebrated as Central Excise Day ?
In front of New Delhi's High Court
24th February
Ripon
Speaker
37. Name the famous ruler of ancient India - who towards the end of his life converted to Jainism?
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Shockley
Nikolaus Otto
Chandragupta
38. How is population density in India defined?
India Museum at Kolkata
$46 - 00011
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Director General Anil Kaushik
39. What are GM Crops?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Genetically Modified Crops.
Leh
40. With which cells scientists for the first time have developed bone?
Michael Phelps
Mathura
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
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.)
41. Which gas is used for preparation of soda water?
Music
Carbon dioxide
Rs 270
E.M Forster
42. Name 72 year old social activist who supported Jan Lokpal Bill?
8th March
Anna Hazare
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
State Bank of India
43. With whom are the rare replicas of sacred book Guru Granth Sahib?
Khadakvasla
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
44. Which is the largest port in India?
Demand deposits
Mumbai
Mehbooba Mufti
35 degree
45. Why Shimla is cooler than Amritsar though they have same latitude?
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Samar Guha
Landsteiner
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
46. Name the book which has collection of speeches of N.G Ranga?
G.V. Mavalankar
Three Decades in Parliament
Kushans
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
47. Who wrote our National Anthem?
Motion Picture
Rabindra Nath Tagore
15th January
Albert Einstein
48. Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
Genetically Modified Crops.
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Leo Tolstoy
49. When is World Health Day celebrated?
Indra Sinha64
Saka era
7th April
Music
50. Which is largest state of India?
Rajasthan
5th June
Julang-2
Lawn Tennis153
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