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1. What happens to speed of sound with rise in temperature?
Das Kapital
Increases
5th June
Sri Lanka

2. Which place is going to have North India's biggest turf club?
Gota in Sweden
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Chilka lake (Orissa )

3. Which is largest fresh water lake in India?
Tamil Nadu
Madhya Pradesh
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Kalpakkam

4. What was the old name of Indonesia?
Dutch East Indies
Infinite
Chandragupta-II
Johann Gregor Mendel

5. Name the three new elements added to the Periodic Table in 2011?
Sitar
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
8th September
It loses one day

6. What is the ratio of width of our National flag to its length?
Kho-Kho
Cyrus Mistry
2:3161
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.

7. Name the new nuclear powered submarine formally handed to India by Russia?
The Rajya Sabha
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
4 minutes
Gujarat

8. Who discovered the oral polio vaccine?
Only the first stanza
Kho-Kho
Ludhiana
Jonas Salk

9. Name the gases used in different types of welding?
Oxygen and acetylene
G.V. Mavalankar
Khushwant Singh
Rabindra Nath Tagore

10. Who discovered photoelectric effect?
South Kolkata
Latitude includes 180 lines and longitude has 360 lines because longitude connects North Pole to South Pole and latitude is divided from east to west.
Albert Einstein
5th September

11. Who got Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (highest sports award in country) award?
Akbar
Kulandei Francis
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)

12. Which is the India's largest public sector commercial bank at present?
26th January
State Bank of India
5
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)

13. Who was the first recipient of Nehru Award for International Understanding?
Martin Luther King
Krishna
Sukumar Sen
The equator

14. Who made the highest score in an ODI against West Indiies in Indora in 2011?
Narendra Modi government
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Torricelli
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)

15. When is International Labour Day observed?
South Africa
1st May164
London
Infinite

16. From where the longest circle which can be drawn from earth's surface will pass?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Valentina Tereshkova
Hockey
Will pass through Equator

17. Who wrote the popular book 'The Naked Face'?
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Protecting Flora and Fauna
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Sidney Sheldon

18. When is World Health Day celebrated?
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
7th April
Mary Kom
Param Vir Chakra

19. Motilal Nehru and Chittaranjan Das were the founder members of which party?
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
In Samba
Swarajya Party
Bengali

20. Which state in India has three language teaching formula?
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Punjab
Mahatma Gandhi
250th anniversary

21. Name the temple where majority of pilgrims visiting tonsure their heads and offer their hair to Lord Venkateswara?
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
India

22. Which is the largest port in India?
M. Narasimhan
Jhumpa Lahiri
Mumbai
V. Anand

23. Who is the first Indian male shuttler to reach Olympic quarters?
Four lions
Longitudinal position
Parupalli Kashyap
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia

24. Who discovered neutron?
Vadodara
Prof. V.N Datta
Chadwick
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland

25. Name the latest hi-tech weapon invented in 2011 to prevent obesity?

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26. What is the new name of Burma?
20th March
Jagannath
Myanmar
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).

27. Name the player of USA who created history by grabbing his 22nd Olympic medal ?
Kalpakkam
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
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.
London

28. Whose influence is reflected in the sculptures of the Gandhara school?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
18th April
Kanishka
Greeks

29. Mc. Mohan Line demarcates the boundary between which countries?
Kalpakkam
India and China
Vice President of India
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.

30. Name the country's longest railway tunnel excavated?
Painting
Lead
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)

31. Which is the largest cave in India?
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Oxygen and acetylene
Kulandei Francis
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)

32. Where is the headquarters of Oil and Natural Gas Commission?
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Dehradun

33. At which place a devastating fire tore through seven storey AMRI hospital killing 91 people in 2011?
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
5th June
South Kolkata
Demand deposits

34. Who was the first king to conquer Malwa - Gujarat and Maharashtra?
Chandragupta Maurya
Nayantara Sahgal
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Dehradun

35. Where are relics of Buddha preserved?
Stupa
11th May
Anita Desai
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.

36. According to a poll conducted by global research company Ipsos - people of which country are happiest on this planet despite woes - conflicts?
55th rank
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Indians

37. Who is the author of book 'Speed Post'?
Rabindranath Tagore147
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Shobha De
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.

38. What is the ratio of width of our National Flag to its length?
Hockey
Gagan Narang
Ripon
2:4

39. Which is the largest museum in India?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Contingency Fund of India
India Museum at Kolkata
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )

40. Who wrote the book 'Gullivers Travel'?
Jonathan Swift
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Dutch East Indies
Param Vir Chakra

41. What is Dry Ice?
Motion Picture
Journalism
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Rabindra Nath Tagore

42. How is population density in India defined?
Gota in Sweden
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Aung San Suu Kyi
India

43. With which musical instrument was Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan associated?
Rajasthan
India and Pakistan
Sitar
Abhinav Bindra

44. Name the latest India's surface -to-surface missile successfully test fired (on 26th Sept - 2011)?
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Art and architecture
10th December
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)

45. World Aids Day falls on which date?
Kerala
Palk Strait
1953
1st December

46. Where did coins made of metal first appeared?
Later Vedic Age
8th October
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Aung San Suu Kyi

47. Name the youngest skydriver in the country?
55th rank
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
China
J.B.Say

48. Name the great Hindu king who combined in himself the qualities of Samudragupta and Ashoka?
In Samba
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Palk Strait
Harshavardhana

49. Who said 'Child is the father of Man'?
William Wordsworth
Dehradun
Firozeshah Tughluq
8th September

50. What is the designation of the chairperson of Lok Sabha?
Kulandei Francis
Jonathan Swift
Speaker
Michael Phelps