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1. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?
Kanishka
Sriharikota
Kanishka
Johannes Kepler
2. On what occasion Bihar got its own state anthem and state prayer whose CD's were released by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar?
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Stupa
Mary Kom
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
3. Who is the author of book 'India Wins Freedom'?
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Strait of Gibraltar
Hindukush
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
4. Who is the second 100 percent visually impaired person to be accepted into the IAS?
Saeed Mirza
55th rank
Lala Lajpat Rai
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
5. India is facing pressure from the US and other Western countries to break trade ties with which country?
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Bangalore
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Manipur54
6. Name the state where bio-fuel outlet - first of its kind in the country will be opened?
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Rajasthan
Vadodara
Six months
7. Who has been re-elected PDP President for the fourth time in Srinagar in 2011?
Sitar
Bamiyan
Jayadeva
Mehbooba Mufti
8. Which state in South India have a thermal station at Tuticorin?
Indians
18th April
Tamil Nadu
1.34 millions
9. Which states are known for Cauvery Water dispute?
Abul Kalam Azad
55th rank
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
10. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
India
China
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
At Magdalla port near Surat.
11. Which is the world's second cheapest city according to global survey?
John Keats
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Samar Guha
The Delhi Metro
12. In which state are the World famous Ajanta Caves situated?
Rajasthan
Sunil Gavaskar
Sidney Sheldon
Maharashtra
13. Which is the largest port in India?
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Mumbai
22nd April
27th September
14. Where is the World's largest ship canal?
Finland
Gota in Sweden
Chaucer
Because the solids have high elasticity.
15. What is the designation of the chairperson of Lok Sabha?
Speaker
Lawn Tennis153
Bombay
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
16. Where in Delhi a bomb hidden in briefcase exploded killing 11 persons and injuring 47 in the worst attack in India's capital in 3 years in 2011?
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17. Which day is celebrated as Independence Day of India?
15th August167
Tamil Nadu
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
E.M Forster
18. In which century did Ashoka reign?
90 degrees
Journalism
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Third century B.C
19. Whose name is associated with the council of the 'Nine Gems'?
Chandragupta-II
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Jonathan Swift
Jonas Salk
20. By whom is the Vice-President of the Indian Union elected?
When sun is above the equator
Vice President of India
Narmada and Japti
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
21. Who is the 26th Chief Minister of Karnataka?
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Bombay
Kulandei Francis
Aung San Suu Kyi
22. Who invented the telegraphic code?
Samuel Morse
J.L.Baird
Hampi
$46 - 00011
23. Who is known as 'Lady with the Lamp'?
Gagan Narang
Chandragupta Maurya
Razia Sultana
Florence Nightingale
24. Who was the first king to conquer Malwa - Gujarat and Maharashtra?
Shimla and Hamirpur
Chandragupta Maurya
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
6 months
25. What was the old name of Indonesia?
28th February
Dutch East Indies
Jules Verne
Ganga
26. Which child artist got Critics Best Actor Award for his acting in a film Taare Zameen Par?
Shobha De
Khushwant Singh
Darsheel Safary
Talwandi
27. At which point of earth weight of object will be minimum?
At the center of earth
Carbon dioxide
Ganga
Shimla and Hamirpur
28. Who was called Bollywood's first superstar?
Infinite
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
29. Which battle opened the Delhi area to Muhammad Ghori?
5
Only the first stanza
Second Battle of Tarain
Prof. V.N Datta
30. Which is largest fresh water lake in India?
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Sitar
Mohammad bin Kasim
Rabindra Nath Tagore
31. Between whom battle of Kurukshetra was fought?
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
The Bering Strait
Kauravas and Pandavas51
32. What is made from the mixture of lime and chlorine?
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Bleaching powder
Dr. F.G.Banting
Equator
33. Which day in India is observed as Minorities Rights Day?
The Delhi Metro
Hyderabad
18th December
26 years and 9 months
34. Who was the First Election Commissioner of India?
Sukumar Sen
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Khushwant Singh
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
35. Liquefied Petroleum Gas consists mainly which gases?
Maharashtra
15th January
Methane - butane and propane
Jama Masjid
36. Who became the first batsman in the history of cricket to score 100 international centuries?
Khushwant Singh
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Sachin Tendulkar
37. Who discovered neutron?
Mahatma Gandhi
Dadabhai Naoroji
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.
Chadwick
38. Where was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Avanti?
Concave lens
Ujjain
Kolkata
Michael Phelps
39. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Mehbooba Mufti
Jamaica
Maharashtra
40. On which date India won the World Cup in Mumbai?
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
2nd April - 2011
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Samuel Morse
41. Where is Sun Temple situated?
Jaya Dev
Konark
Concave mirror
Assam
42. Who invented the petrol engine?
Sonepur (Bihar )
Nikolaus Otto
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Chaucer
43. Name two other clones left with NDRI?
Stupa
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Hyderabad
Sitar
44. Who composed our National song?
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Dance
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
45. What is equal to latitude of a place?
Angle between the horizon and the equator
24th October
Julang-2
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
46. In which year was the National Anthem first sung?
5 hours 30 minutes
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.)
250th anniversary
1911133
47. What is the difference in time between two places 1 degree longitude apart?
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
4 minutes
Kerala
Dumping
48. With which cells scientists for the first time have developed bone?
Art and architecture
Herodotus
1953
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.)
49. Which player is the author of the book 'Straight From The Heart'?
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Zinc
1911133
Kapil Dev
50. Which country won the maximum number of medals in Olympics 2008 held in Beijing?
India and Pakistan
USA
S. Radhakrishnan
Ripon