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1. What are the estimated premature deaths caused annually by air pollution - according to the first pollution survey carried in Sept. - 2011 by World Health Organisation?
1.34 millions
Sushil Kumar
Standard time of the country138
14th November
2. At which place a devastating fire tore through seven storey AMRI hospital killing 91 people in 2011?
Cavendish
INS Vikrant55
India
South Kolkata
3. Who got Dronacharya Award in 2011 ?
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Kerala
4. What is the maximum period of gap between any two sessions of the Indian Parliament?
Contingency Fund of India
Aravind Adiga
Aung San Suu Kyi
Six months
5. Who is the author of 'Tarikh-i-Alai' containing the details of the first few years of Sultan Alauddin Khilji?
Contingency Fund of India
8th October
Das Kapital
Amir Khusrau
6. Which was the great centre of trade and commerce in the Gupta period?
Mathura
Hamid Ansari
Khushwant Singh
Kerala
7. Which city is known as 'Electronic City of India'?
Bangalore
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Silicon
Tamil Nadu
8. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
Bangalore
Jamaica
China
July - 1947
9. Which was the World's first surviving clone buffalo at NDRI (National Dairy Research Institute)?
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
24th May
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
William Wordsworth
10. Who crafted the wax statue of Anna Hazare?
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11. In which Amendment Right to property was removed from the list of Fundamental rights?
Ganga
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Parupalli Kashyap
Forty-fourth Amendment
12. Which non -metal remains liquid at room temperature?
Third century B.C
Bromine
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
15th August167
13. Where is the only shrine in the world which has a natural statue of Hanuman that is not man made?
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.)
Samudragupta
31st May
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
14. Where did the World's costliest crash took place?
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
22nd April
Carbon dioxide
15. Who wrote our National Anthem?
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Rabindranath Tagore147
Mosley
16. Who is the second 100 percent visually impaired person to be accepted into the IAS?
Gujarat
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Param Vir Chakra
17. Who deciphered the genetic code?
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Aravallis
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Torricelli
18. What is the changed name of Orissa officially according to Presidential assent to the Bill?
Swarajya Party
Uttar Pradesh
Odisha
69 miles
19. Which musical instrument is said to be invented by Amir Khusro?
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Florence Nightingale
Michael Phelps
Sitar
20. Which is the largest Gurudwara in India?
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Bangalore
Mosley
21. Who wrote the book 'Ammi! Letter to a Democratic Mother'?
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Bengali
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Saeed Mirza
22. Name the youngest skydriver in the country?
Rahul Dravid
Churchill
Abul Kalam Azad
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
23. Which is largest state of India?
Rajasthan
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Leo Tolstoy
Narendra Modi government
24. Who has been appointed the Governor of RBI after the retirement of Shri Y.V. Reddy?
Mumbai
Dance
The Delhi Metro
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
25. Which is the largest district in India?
5th September
Landsteiner
Shiv Prasad Singh
Ladakh
26. An air bubble in water acts as which lens?
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Concave lens
Silver
28th February
27. For what was Ashoka famous?
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Mary Kom
Nayantara Sahgal
Speaker
28. Which is largest cave temple in India?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Narmada and Japti
V.S Naipaul
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
29. Which country is the world's largest recipient of arms?
India
Jamaica
Assam
Gol Gumbaz
30. Which is the Garden City of India?
Bangalore
27th September
14th November
Aravind Adiga
31. What is the practice of selling goods in a foreign country at a price below their domestic selling price is called?
Vishnu Sharma
Curiosity
Dumping
8th May
32. Who inspired Green Revolution in India?
N.E. Borlaug
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Krishna
33. Who was the author of 'Hind Swaraj'?
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Landsteiner
God particle or Higgs Boson
Mahatma Gandhi
34. Who wrote the immortal song 'Vande Mataram'?
Chaucer
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Harshavardhana
35. What is the time difference between IST and GMT?
5 hours 30 minutes
Alexander Fleming
23rd December
15th March
36. When is National Science Day celebrated in India?
Akbar
26 years and 9 months
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
28th February
37. When is the Mother's Day celebrated?
11th May
Dutch East Indies
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
38. Who was the first woman to go in space?
Valentina Tereshkova
Karashapana
Mohammad bin Kasim
Raja Ravi Varma
39. Late Girilal Jain was a noted figure in which field?
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Journalism
Finland
Hyderabad
40. Which battle opened the Delhi area to Muhammad Ghori?
Sitar
15th January
Second Battle of Tarain
Neil Armstrong
41. Which day in India is celebrated as Children's Day?
14th November
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Aravind Adiga
Planning Commission
42. When is World Health Day celebrated?
26th January
7th April
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Speaker
43. Who was the first king to conquer Malwa - Gujarat and Maharashtra?
Punjab
Tungsten
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Chandragupta Maurya
44. Liquefied Petroleum Gas consists mainly which gases?
William Shakespeare151
Navtej Saran
Mahatma Gandhi
Methane - butane and propane
45. Where are Dilwara Temples situated?
Greeks
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Kushans
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
46. Which will be the new subject added to the curriculum of Kendriya Vidyalayas?
German
Harshavardhana
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
4 minutes
47. Which hockey team won the Asian Championship Trophy at Ordos(China) in 2011?
Methane
Mundak Upanishad
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
India
48. Which game is associated with Agha Khan Cup?
Dilip Kumar
Hockey
Rs 270
Anita Desai
49. Which is the largest area wise state in India?
Rajasthan
Trivandrum
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Uttarakhand
50. Which is the highest military award for valour in India?
India Museum at Kolkata
10th October
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Param Vir Chakra