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1. How many medals are won by India in Olympics 2012?
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
6-14 years
Dilip Kumar
Rabindranath Tagore147
2. Name the subatomic particle which scientists claimed to have spotted and is believed to be a crucial building block in the formation of universe?
Heavy water
God particle or Higgs Boson
Maharashtra
Madhya Pradesh
3. Who is the person of Indian origin nominated as the Governor of Louisiana - an American state?
Silver
Football
Bobby Jindal
Florence Nightingale
4. With which sports is Sushma Saroelker associated?
Chadwick
V.S Naipaul
Kho-Kho
Mundak Upanishad
5. Who wrote the famous play 'Macbeth'?
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Vishnu Sharma
William Shakespeare151
6. One degree of longitude on equator is equal to what distance?
69 miles
J.L.Baird
Tamil Nadu
S. Radhakrishnan
7. With whom are the rare replicas of sacred book Guru Granth Sahib?
Jules Verne
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Mahatma Gandhi
Anna Hazare
8. When is National Science Day celebrated in India?
24th October
Maharashtra
28th February
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
9. Which country has an Unwritten Constitution?
UK
Robert Watson Watt
Euclid
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
10. Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?
Three Decades in Parliament
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Jaya Dev
Vidya Balan
11. Where is the National Defence Academy situated?
Mumbai
Das Kapital
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
Khadakvasla
12. Who is known as founder of Mohemmadan Anglo-Oriental college at Aligarh?
Vasudeva
Football
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
13. Which is the state wise largest area under forest in India?
Madhya Pradesh
Protecting Flora and Fauna
24
The Rajya Sabha
14. Who wrote the book 'Gulliver's Travels'?
Jonathan Swift
Ludhiana
Jaipur
35 degree
15. For what was Gupta dynasty famous?
Art and architecture
Samudragupta
90 degrees
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
16. Kanchipuram is in which state?
Governor
Ripon
Tamil Nadu
Morarji Desai
17. India is facing pressure from the US and other Western countries to break trade ties with which country?
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Rajasthan
24th February
Gagan Narang (shooter)
18. Which country was under the grip of a severe earthquake followed by tsunami recently?
29th August
Vice President of India
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Japan
19. Why Shimla is cooler than Amritsar though they have same latitude?
Infinite
Kushans
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
1.34 millions
20. Where is Pushkar lake located?
Rajasthan
5 hours 30 minutes
Sachin Tendulkar
Amir Khusrau
21. Where is largest animal fair held in India?
Vadodara
Bangalore
Sonepur (Bihar )
Director General Anil Kaushik
22. Mc. Mohan Line demarcates the boundary between which countries?
5th June
India and China
Ripon
Due to radiation
23. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' taken?
Demand deposits
Mundak Upanishad
Karashapana
Vasudeva
24. Why clear nights are more colder then cloudy nights?
Japan
Dutch East Indies
Due to radiation
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
25. On which date India won the World Cup in Mumbai?
250th anniversary
2nd April - 2011
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Andhra Pradesh
26. What happens when a ship crosses Date line from west to east?
Amir Khusru
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
It loses one day
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
27. Which is the largest area wise state in India?
W.C Bannerjee
Sriharikota
Narmada and Japti
Rajasthan
28. On which date Anti Tobacco Day observed?
Mary Kom
31st May
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Mussoorie
29. What is made from the mixture of lime and chlorine?
Mahatma Gandhi
Bleaching powder
Konark
Cavendish
30. Who is crowned Miss Universe India 2011?
Chandragupta
Bhai Gurmej Singh
8
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
31. Satyan Bose is known for his excellence in which field?
Cavendish
INS Vikrant55
Motion Picture
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
32. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?
Jane Austen
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Param Vir Chakra
Johannes Kepler
33. Which sportsperson won the maximum number of Olympic Gold Medals?
The Delhi Metro
Michael Phelps
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
15th January
34. Name the country which is second largest producer of horticulture commodities such as fruits - vegetables and flowers in the world?
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
India
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Jamaica
35. Who composed the national song of India (Vande Maatram)?
Uttar Pradesh
Jawaharlal Nehru
Gujarat
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
36. Who invented the steam engine?
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Ashoka
Tamil Nadu
37. Whose autobiography is 'India Wins Freedom'?
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Abul Kalam Azad
Trivandrum
Kho-Kho
38. Who brought and installed two Asokan pillars in Delhi?
Dadabhai Naoroji
Firozeshah Tughluq
Tamil Nadu
Darsheel Safary
39. Where were huge amounts of uranium recently found?
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Six months
Darsheel Safary
Andhra Pradesh
40. Who discovered Penicillin?
1911133
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
Perpendicular to each other
Alexander Fleming
41. Who made the highest score in an ODI against West Indiies in Indora in 2011?
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
V.S Naipaul
42. On which date Chennai turned 372 years?
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Carbon dioxide
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
43. Name the cities of Himachal to be developed as the solar cities?
Shimla and Hamirpur
July - 1947
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Valentina Tereshkova
44. Where is the world's largest solar power project going to be set up?
Edison
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Maharashtra
90 degrees
45. Which day is celebrated as National Maritime Day in India?
5th April
Aravind Adiga
The Bering Strait
G.V. Mavalankar
46. Who published the 'Red Data Book' containing information on the wild animals and plants in danger of extinction?
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
47. Name two other clones left with NDRI?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
London
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
48. Who presented the first Union Budget of Independent India?
Methane
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Konark
49. Which day in India is celebrated as Children's Day?
11th July
14th November
5th September
29th August
50. Name the sub-launched long range N-missile developed by China?
Julang-2
4 minutes
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Dilip Kumar