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1. Which is the largest Gurudwara in India?
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Guru Gobind Singh
Zinc
William Wordsworth
2. When is World's Sparrow Day observed?
20th March
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
3. Who wrote the book 'Eternal Himalayas'?
Bangalore
Arthur Conan Doyle
Milkha Singh
H.P.S Ahluwalia
4. Who got Dronacharya Award in 2011 ?
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Mathura
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Carbon dioxide
5. Term Double Fault is associated with which game?
Dehradun
INS Vikrant55
Lawn Tennis153
Bangalore
6. What is made from the mixture of lime and chlorine?
2:3161
Governor
Bleaching powder
24th October
7. What is the name of World's cheapest tablet PC?
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Jaya Dev
Perpendicular to each other
6-14 years
8. Where is Char Minar located?
Finland
Hyderabad
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
27th September
9. Who is the author of the book 'We Indians'?
Kalpakkam
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
Khushwant Singh
Chandragupta Maurya
10. When India became a Sovereign - democratic republic?
Bengali
Ashoka
Jan 26 - 1950134
Forty-fourth Amendment
11. Who is the 26th Chief Minister of Karnataka?
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Vocal Music
Amitabh Bachchan
12. Our Indian Constitution closely follows the Constitutional system of which country?
Bangalore
Hindukush
1949
U.K
13. Name the ballistic missile that lifted off from Wheeler Island in Odisha on 9th August - 2012?
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
29th August
Kerala
Lawn Tennis153
14. 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)
Greeks
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.)
Bleaching powder
15. What is the other name of deuterium oxide?
Herodotus
Kerala
Heavy water
India
16. Who is the senior most Army officer to have faced a court martial and dismissed from service by an Indian Army Court?
The President
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Jhumpa Lahiri
Rs 270
17. Which is our National song?
India and China
35 degree
Vande Mataram
Abul Kalam Azad
18. Which country is the world's largest recipient of arms?
Rocky Marciano
India
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
19. Who composed the National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'?
Rabindranath Tagore
Chaucer
8th May
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
20. Which day in India is observed as Minorities Rights Day?
Governor
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Silicon
18th December
21. When is Earth Day observed?
India and China
Vocal Music
22nd April
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.)
22. Name the latest hi-tech weapon invented in 2011 to prevent obesity?
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23. What is the estimated premature deaths caused annually by outdoor air pollution - according to the first pollution survey carried out by World Health Organisation in Sept. - 2011?
Amir Khusru
1.34 millions
W.C Bannerjee
Kerala
24. Who was the first recipient of Nehru Award for International Understanding?
Japan
Dumping
Tungsten
Martin Luther King
25. During whose time the Gandhara School of art developed?
Lead
Kushans
Playwright
Sushil Kumar
26. Which is the largest populated state in India?
Johann Gregor Mendel
7th April
Uttar Pradesh
Maharashtra
27. Name the shooter of Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur) who won silver medal in Olympics 2012?
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28. Who is the man popularly kwown as Gurudev?
Albert Einstein
The Reserve Bank of India
Rabindranath Tagore147
Jawaharlal Nehru
29. Who became the first batsman in the history of cricket to score 100 international centuries?
Sachin Tendulkar
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Oxygen and acetylene
Japan
30. Which region of India is associated with pine forests?
Maharashtra
Bromine
Julang-2
Uttarakhand
31. Name the Earth- like planet whose existence is confirmed by American astronomers?
Raja Ravi Varma
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Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
32. Who is the author of book 'The Tribune 130 Years: A Witness to History'?
Churchill
Prof. V.N Datta
Nitrogen
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
33. Who is vice President of India?
Hunting
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Makes cancer cell 'commit suicide'. It helps in stoping multiplication of tumorous cells and shut themselves down. Will be available in approximately 5 years and will be in pill form.
34. Where is the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre located?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Washing soda
26th January
Trivandrum
35. Where were huge amounts of uranium recently found?
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Andhra Pradesh
Herodotus
36. Who composed the famous song 'Sare Jahan Se Accha'?
Vadodara
Mohammad Iqbal
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Tamil Nadu
37. Who brought and installed two Asokan pillars in Delhi?
Dr. F.G.Banting
Arthur Conan Doyle
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Firozeshah Tughluq
38. Name two other clones left with NDRI?
Amir Khusrau
Hyderabad
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
39. Who made the highest score in an ODI against West Indiies in Indora in 2011?
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Akhilesh Yadav
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
40. Which will be the new subject added to the curriculum of Kendriya Vidyalayas?
German
Lawn Tennis153
Greeks
Mahatma Gandhi
41. Who said 'I have nothing to offer except blood - sweat and tears'?
Hyderabad
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Churchill
Zinc
42. When was Sangeet Natak Akademi set up by Government of India?
Football
10th October
1953
Rocky Marciano
43. Name the eminent Hindi authors chosen for Jnanpith Award 2011?
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Hindukush
Bengali
Perpendicular to each other
44. When is National Science Day celebrated in India?
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
28th February
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Swarajya Party
45. Where is National School of Mines located?
Chandragupta Maurya
Tamil Nadu
Pune
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
46. Who is the first Indian male shuttler to reach Olympic quarters?
Parupalli Kashyap
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Arthur Conan Doyle
Galileo
47. Champion Trophy is associated with which game?
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Iodine
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Hockey
48. Who said 'Child is the father of Man'?
Sunil Gavaskar
Mary Kom
William Wordsworth
Jaipur
49. Who invented telephone?
18th April
Arundhati Roy
Alexander Graham Bell
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
50. Name the Indian chess player who broke the World Record by finishing the game in twelve moves?
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Makes cancer cell 'commit suicide'. It helps in stoping multiplication of tumorous cells and shut themselves down. Will be available in approximately 5 years and will be in pill form.
V. Anand
Jayadeva