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1. Who is the second 100 percent visually impaired person to be accepted into the IAS?
15th August167
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Navtej Saran
Ajit Kumar from Haryana

2. Who is the senior most Army officer to have faced a court martial and dismissed from service by an Indian Army Court?
N.E. Borlaug
Myanmar
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)

3. What is the name of first Indian aircraft developed by Government laboratory with private fund?
M. Narasimhan
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Eagle

4. When is World Health Day celebrated?
18th December
7th April
Saka era
Shimla and Hamirpur

5. Name the first heavyweight boxer to go undefeated throughout his career?
8th September
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.)
Rocky Marciano
The Reserve Bank of India

6. Who discovered X-Ray?
Journalism
Sarojini Naidu
Roentgen
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.

7. On what occasion Bihar got its own state anthem and state prayer whose CD's were released by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar?
Hunting
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
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.
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012

8. On which day International Women's Day observed?
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
Dilip Kumar
8th March
Kho-Kho

9. Name the metal used in storage batteries?
Talwandi
Lead
Concave mirror
India Museum at Kolkata

10. The World famous 'Peacock Throne' was kept in which Mughal building?
Rajasthan
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
New Agra Fort
Year of Disabled Soldiers

11. Which player is the author of the book 'Straight From The Heart'?
Kapil Dev
4 minutes
The Reserve Bank of India
Maithili Sharan Gupta67

12. On which part of earth days and nights are of equal length always?
Mohammad Iqbal
The Bering Strait
Equator
E.M Forster

13. Who wrote the book 'Ammi! Letter to a Democratic Mother'?
Saeed Mirza
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.
8th March
Jai Samhita

14. Who has been selected as the new head of Tata empire in 2011?
1.34 millions
Washing soda
Cyrus Mistry
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.

15. Which is largest state of India?
Rajasthan
Mumbai
Fatehpur Sikri
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).

16. Which cricketer known as 'Tiger' also father of famous actor died on 23rd September - 2011?
18th April
Darsheel Safary
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi

17. Name the Bollywood legend whose ancestral home in Peshawar - Pakistan has been turned into heritage site?
Mahatma Gandhi
Ganga
Baby Nargis
Dilip Kumar

18. What is the other name of deuterium oxide?
Sitar
Heavy water
Perpendicular to each other
Leh

19. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
15th March
24th May
Sachin Tendulkar

20. World Human Rights Day is observed on which day?
Bleaching powder
Mahatma Gandhi
Renders electronic gadgets useless and effectively neutralises the adversary's command control and communication capability by producing a strong electromagnetic field generating powerful electricity surges that play havoc with electronic circuits wi
10th December

21. Who wrote 'One Day Wonders'?
Kanishka
Jawaharlal Nehru
Sunil Gavaskar
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)

22. Which is the great circle on earth's surface?
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
Rs 270
The equator

23. Name the ballistic missile that lifted off from Wheeler Island in Odisha on 9th August - 2012?
Motion Picture
31st May
Governor
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.

24. Which state of India has highest production of tea?
Speaker
The equator
Assam
Standard time of the country138

25. Our Indian Constitution closely follows the Constitutional system of which country?
U.K
26th January
Uttarakhand
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.

26. What are GM Crops?
Jonathan Swift
Su-Kam Power Systems
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Genetically Modified Crops.

27. Which river is related to Nagarjun Sagar Project?
Andhra Pradesh
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Krishna
God particle or Higgs Boson

28. What is the maximum period of gap between any two sessions of the Indian Parliament?
Six months
Golconda
Rahul Banerjee (archery ) - Preeja Sreedharan (athletics) - Vikas Gowda (athletics) - Jwala Gutta(badminton) - M Suranjoy Singh(boxing) - Zaheer Khan (cricket) - Sunil Chhetri(football) - Ashish Kumar (gymnastics) - Rajpal Singh (hockey) - Ra
Hunting

29. Which is the largest Gurudwara in India?
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
26th January
Torricelli
Sitar

30. Who invented the steam engine?
Amjad Ali Khan
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Hyderabad
Japan

31. Which megastar carried the Olympic flame on the torch relay leg between the City of London and the borough of South wark in London on 26th July - 2012 - a day before the opening ceremony of sporting spectacle?
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Bombay
Amitabh Bachchan
15th January

32. Which is the largest desert in India?
M.N Roy62
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Galileo
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)

33. When is International Labour Day observed?
Diffusion
Shobha De
Robert Watson Watt
1st May164

34. Who made the highest score in an ODI against West Indiies in Indora in 2011?
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Johannes Kepler
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Genetically Modified Crops.

35. Who got Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar in 2011 ?
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Gota in Sweden
Su-Kam Power Systems

36. How many stanza's of Jana Gana Mana song were adopted as National Anthem?
Allauddin Khilji
Bengali
Only the first stanza
8th March

37. Which battle opened the Delhi area to Muhammad Ghori?
Second Battle of Tarain
Navtej Saran
1953
Akbar

38. Name the first ever pill approved by US to prevent HIV?
24th February
Kho-Kho
Algernon Sidney
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)

39. Who is the first Indian male shuttler to reach Olympic quarters?
Neil Armstrong
Parupalli Kashyap
Valentina Tereshkova
Vishnu Sharma

40. What are the benefits of medicine Performax?
India and China
Das Kapital
Jane Austen
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.

41. Name the scientist who is considered as the Father of Genetics?
95th
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Johann Gregor Mendel
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156

42. Kathakali a folk dance is prevalent in which state?
6 months
Kerala
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Amir Khusrau

43. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?
Demand deposits
Johannes Kepler
South Africa
Rocky Marciano

44. Who discovered blood grouping?
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.
Dance
Landsteiner
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).

45. From where the longest circle which can be drawn from earth's surface will pass?
Will pass through Equator
Concave mirror
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)

46. Upto where Chandragupta Maurya's empire extended in the north-west?
Kho-Kho
Hindukush
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.
Saeed Mirza

47. After whose name the Nobel Prize was started?
Maharashtra
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Governor

48. Which day is observed as Sanskrit Day in India?
2
5th September
Raja Ravi Varma
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)

49. Name the country which has longest international boundary with India?
55th rank
China
Sitar
Jama Masjid

50. Who invented barometer?
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Torricelli
Kerala
Das Kapital