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1. When India became a Sovereign - democratic republic?
Madhya Pradesh
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Jan 26 - 1950134
8
2. Who is called Father of English Poetry?
Chaucer
29th August
95th
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
3. Which was the most commonly used coin in Mauryan period?
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Karashapana
8th September
Sri Lanka
4. 'A Voice of Freedom' is a book written by whom?
Nayantara Sahgal
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
15th March
6-14 years
5. Who presented the first Union Budget of Independent India?
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Will pass through Equator
Kalpakkam
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
6. Mc. Mohan Line demarcates the boundary between which countries?
Julang-2
26th January
India and China
Anita Desai
7. Which states are known for Cauvery Water dispute?
Abhinav Bindra
Kalpakkam
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
8. Which is the largest public sector bank in India?
Rajasthan
State Bank of India
Forty-fourth Amendment
Shiv Prasad Singh
9. Which is largest river without delta in India?
Rahul Dravid
Madhya Pradesh
Four lions
Narmada and Japti
10. At which place a devastating fire tore through seven storey AMRI hospital killing 91 people in 2011?
State Bank of India
South Kolkata
The Bering Strait
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
11. Which is the largest dome in India?
8th March
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Johannes Kepler
Landsteiner
12. Which is the largest planetarium in India?
The President
Florence Nightingale
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Kolkata
13. In which field the name of Gangubai Hangal associated?
Japan
Music
Khushwant Singh
Amitabh Ghosh
14. Hawa Mahal is situated in which city?
Jaipur
Talwandi
William Wordsworth
1.34 millions
15. Who has been appointed the Governor of RBI after the retirement of Shri Y.V. Reddy?
Saka era
2
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Increases
16. Who composed our National song?
1st December
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Speaker
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
17. Who said 'I have nothing to offer except blood - sweat and tears'?
Sidney Sheldon
Rajasthan
Churchill
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
18. Where were remains of Vijayanagar Empire found?
Hampi
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
19. Who composed the famous song 'Sare Jahan Se Accha'?
Milkha Singh
Mohammad Iqbal
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
20. Where is the world's largest solar power project going to be set up?
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Ganga
Contingency Fund of India
Maharashtra
21. What is the maximum duration for which the Vice President can officiate as the President of India?
6 months
Carbon dioxide
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Jhumpa Lahiri
22. Name the herbal drug developed by DRDO for soldiers working in high altitude areas?
Kushinagar
Performax
Three Decades in Parliament
Amitabh Ghosh
23. Greenwich mean time (GMT) is the standard time of which country?
Landsteiner
Jaya Dev
U.K
Zinc
24. Who won bronze medal for India in 10m pistol event (London Olympics - 2012)?
Third century B.C
Governor
Mundak Upanishad
Gagan Narang
25. When is Martyr's Day in India celebrated ?
Ganga
30th January
9th August
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
26. Who wrote the book 'The Namesake'?
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Perpendicular to each other
Mohammad bin Kasim
27. Where were huge amounts of uranium recently found?
Andhra Pradesh
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
When sun is above the equator
INS Vikrant55
28. Who is the new captain of the Indian Premier League team Rajasthan Royals?
Rahul Dravid
Algernon Sidney
Will pass through Equator
Hyderabad
29. Which is the largest zoo in India?
Dutch East Indies
The Delhi Metro
J.B.Say
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
30. Where is a tunnel near the Indo-Pak border detected?
When sun is above the equator
In Samba
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
2:3161
31. Who is known as the Father of the Indian Constitution?
Leo Tolstoy
Ujjain
Bangalore
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
32. Where is Char Minar located?
Hyderabad
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Johann Gregor Mendel
Washing soda
33. Which state is going to be first carbon-neutral state in the country by 2020?
Himachal Pradesh
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Vidya Balan
1.34 millions
34. Which was the great centre of trade and commerce in the Gupta period?
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Swarajya Party
Jawaharlal Nehru
Mathura
35. Who wrote the line 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'?
Yousuf Raza Gillani
John Keats
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
Kathak
36. How many stanza's of Jana Gana Mana song were adopted as National Anthem?
Vocal Music
The equator
Only the first stanza
Ludhiana
37. Which actress has become the brand ambassador for sanitation compaign?
Saka era
22nd April
Samuel Morse
Vidya Balan
38. Who was the First Election Commissioner of India?
Sukumar Sen
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Satyendra Nath Bose
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
39. Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
The President
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Manipur54
Leo Tolstoy
40. With which cells scientists for the first time have developed bone?
Edison
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
Rs 270
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. 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?
Carbon dioxide
1.34 millions
Mundak Upanishad
Strait of Gibraltar
42. Name the person who has set a new Guinness record of being the oldest man to complete a full distance marathon in Toronto?
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
INS Vikrant55
Mundak Upanishad
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
43. Where is National School of Mines located?
Performax
Pune
S. Radhakrishnan
German
44. Why bubble of water shines?
Harshavardhana
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Standard time of the country138
Amir Khusru
45. Vijayghat ( Samadhi of Lal Bahadur Shastri) is situated on the bank of which river?
Yamuna
Hockey
Zinc
Martin Luther King
46. Name the Indian American astronaut who begins her 2nd space odyssey on July 15 - 2012?
Sunita Williams
Bangalore
Director General Anil Kaushik
Stainless steel
47. Name the player of USA who created history by grabbing his 22nd Olympic medal ?
State Bank of India
Second Battle of Tarain
G.V. Mavalankar
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
48. Who invented the petrol engine?
Nikolaus Otto
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Aravind Adiga
Samudragupta
49. Name the latest hi-tech weapon invented in 2011 to prevent obesity?
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50. Who was the first recipient of Nehru Award for International Understanding?
Martin Luther King
E.G.Otis
26th January
Kanishka