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1. To whom President of India can write if he wants to resign from office?
Robert Watson Watt
Vice President of India
2:4
Methane
2. When is World's Sparrow Day observed?
20th March
Journalism
Mahatma Gandhi
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
3. Who wrote the book 'A Passage To India'?
The Reserve Bank of India
E.M Forster
Lead
Ladakh
4. Where is famous Somnath Temple located?
Director General Anil Kaushik
Methane
Gujarat
Hampi
5. On whose written advice President can proclaim Emergency?
S. Radhakrishnan
Bangalore
Roger Federer
Prime Minister
6. Which is the largest auditorium in India?
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
5
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
China
7. Where is Union Budget presented firstly?
The Lok Sabha
New Agra Fort
Pune
Rajasthan
8. Why Shimla is cooler than Amritsar though they have same latitude?
Samar Guha
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Herodotus
Kho-Kho
9. Where is Pushkar lake located?
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
M. Narasimhan
Rajasthan
UK
10. Where is Buland Darwaza located?
10th October
William Wordsworth
Fatehpur Sikri
UK
11. Who is the author of the book 'We Indians'?
27th September
5th September
Washing soda
Khushwant Singh
12. Where is the venue for the 2012 Olympics?
Vande Mataram
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Uttar Pradesh
London
13. Name the scientist who got Nobel Prize twice for the same subject?
Johann Gregor Mendel
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
5th June
Marie Curie
14. Which place is famous for gigantic rock-cut statue of Budha?
Bamiyan
Vande Mataram
Haryana
The Lok Sabha
15. Which place is going to have North India's biggest turf club?
Ripon
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Hunting
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
16. Which was the World's first surviving clone buffalo at NDRI (National Dairy Research Institute)?
Maharashtra
Leh
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
18th December
17. What is Ayush treatment?
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
Dehradun
New Delhi
18. Name the person who has set a new Guinness record of being the oldest man to complete a full distance marathon in Toronto?
Maharashtra
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Hunting
28th February
19. What was the old name of Indonesia?
India
Dutch East Indies
Sarojini Naidu
W.C Bannerjee
20. Our Indian Constitution closely follows the Constitutional system of which country?
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
U.K
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Sri Lanka
21. Name the gases used in different types of welding?
Dehradun
Oxygen and acetylene
Anita Desai
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
22. Which is the language next to Hindi spoken by largest number of people in the Indian sub continent ?
8
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Mosley
Bengali
23. Who is known as the Father of the Indian Constitution?
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
1949
Martin Luther King
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
24. Players of which state got the maximum Olympic medals in London Olympics?
Bangalore
Haryana
Navtej Saran
Hyderabad
25. Name two other clones left with NDRI?
Maharaja Hari Singh
Robert Watson Watt
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
26. Who will be the new Director General of Police (DGP) after the retirement of P.S. Gill?
Director General Anil Kaushik
Gwalior Gharana
Prime Minister
2:3161
27. Which is the Garden City of India?
Bangalore
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Nitrogen
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
28. On which date India won the World Cup in Mumbai?
Nayantara Sahgal
Neil Armstrong
Mary Kom
2nd April - 2011
29. How many spokes are there in our national emblem 'Ashoka Chakra'?
24
2G spectrum scam
Alexander Graham Bell
G.V. Mavalankar
30. Which gas is used for preparation of soda water?
7th April
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Abhinav Bindra
Carbon dioxide
31. Who is called 'Grand Old Man of India'?
Gol Gumbaz
Dadabhai Naoroji
Alexander Graham Bell
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
32. Where did the World's costliest crash took place?
Algernon Sidney
Yamuna
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Chilka lake (Orissa )
33. When is World Food Day observed?
Vasudeva
16th October
Sunil Gavaskar
William Wordsworth
34. Who is the author of book 'India Wins Freedom'?
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
35. In which field Aachan Maharaj has distinguished himself?
U.K
Kolkata
Mosley
Dance
36. Who is called Father of English Poetry?
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Chaucer
Jyoti Amge
Prime Minister
37. On what occasion Bihar got its own state anthem and state prayer whose CD's were released by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar?
Jonathan Swift
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Washing soda
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
38. Who won the first medal for India in Olympics 2012?
Euclid
German
Johannes Kepler
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
39. When was the design of our National Flag adopted by the Constituent of India?
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
Sunil Gavaskar
July - 1947
24th February
40. Which village of Andhra Pradesh may be sitting over one of the world's largest uranium reserves?
Stainless steel
Su-Kam Power Systems
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
Jayadeva
41. What are GM Crops?
Genetically Modified Crops.
Only the first stanza
Stainless steel
Sitar
42. Which player is the author of book named 'Sunny Days'?
Sunil Gavaskar
Chandrayaan
Increases
Johannes Kepler
43. Name the great poet who graced the court of Alauddin Khilji?
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Leo Tolstoy
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Amir Khusru
44. By whom is the Vice-President of the Indian Union elected?
Aravallis
Shiv Prasad Singh
95th
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
45. On globe - the latitude and longitude intersect at what angle?
11th May
90 degrees
Japan
Jama Masjid
46. At what price the menu of the first dinner served to the firstclass passengers of the ill fated liner Titanic on 10th April - 1912 sold?
Maharashtra
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
18th April
$46 - 00011
47. Which is the World's largest exporter of inverters?
Rs 270
24
Su-Kam Power Systems
India
48. Name the great Hindu king who combined in himself the qualities of Samudragupta and Ashoka?
Perpendicular to each other
Gota in Sweden
5 hours 30 minutes
Harshavardhana
49. Which day is celebrated as World Red Cross Day?
Strait of Gibraltar
Uttarakhand
Concave lens
8th May
50. Which country was under the grip of a severe earthquake followed by tsunami recently?
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Japan
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
1st May164