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1. What amount is purposed as per capita allocation for health sector for 2011-2012 - according to the official review of National Rural Health Mission?
Anna Hazare
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
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
Rs 270
2. Where is the National Institute of Nutrition located?
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
South Kolkata
Hyderabad
3. When is India's Republic Day celebrated?
11th May
Due to radiation
26th January
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.
4. Which is the largest delta in India?
Sunderbans delta
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
Andhra Pradesh
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
5. Name the herbal drug developed by DRDO for soldiers working in high altitude areas?
Performax
Gota in Sweden
Firozeshah Tughluq
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
6. Who is called 'Grand Old Man of India'?
Mussoorie
Myanmar
Dadabhai Naoroji
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
7. Who was the chairman of Constituent Assembly?
Mahatma Gandhi
1911133
Kerala
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
8. Who published the 'Red Data Book' containing information on the wild animals and plants in danger of extinction?
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Sitar
Madhya Pradesh
Mahatma Gandhi
9. Name the mineral found in Zawar mines?
Zinc
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Bangalore
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
10. What happens to speed of sound with rise in temperature?
Increases
8
Madhya Pradesh
Nikolaus Otto
11. Who won the first medal for India in Olympics 2012?
Tamil Nadu
Gujarat
Fatehpur Sikri
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
12. When in India National Technology Day celebrated?
Satyendra Nath Bose
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
11th May
Mehbooba Mufti
13. Who won bronze medal for India in 10m pistol event (London Olympics - 2012)?
S. Radhakrishnan
Gagan Narang
Three Decades in Parliament
Japan
14. Who is known as 'Lady with the Lamp'?
Florence Nightingale
Second Battle of Tarain
Himachal Pradesh
Stupa
15. What is KG5 drug?
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16. Which state is going to be first carbon-neutral state in the country by 2020?
Maharashtra
Kho-Kho
Himachal Pradesh
24th February
17. Who is the author of book 'Speed Post'?
Shobha De
William Shakespeare151
Valentina Tereshkova
Alexander Graham Bell
18. In which year was the National Anthem first sung?
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Tamil Nadu
V.S Naipaul
1911133
19. Which is our National song?
1949
Vande Mataram
Jane Austen
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
20. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' taken?
Gujarat
Rahul Dravid
John Keats
Mundak Upanishad
21. Who is the author of book 'Many Worlds'?
V.S Naipaul
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Finland
Hamid Ansari
22. How is population density in India defined?
Bamiyan
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Concave lens
Football
23. What is the practice of selling goods in a foreign country at a price below their domestic selling price is called?
Das Kapital
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Dumping
24. Which ruler was adorned with the title of 'Maharajadhiraja'?
Contingency Fund of India
Kanishka
Jaipur
Sonepur (Bihar )
25. When is the World Population Day observed?
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
$46 - 00011
J.B.Say
11th July
26. Who is the new captain of the Indian Premier League team Rajasthan Royals?
Churchill
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Rahul Dravid
27. Where is Bihar's first all women police station located?
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Jaya Dev
India and China
N.E. Borlaug
28. Who wrote the book 'A Passage To India'?
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Equator
E.M Forster
Rs 270
29. Who has become the first lady jawan in Indian army?
Jonathan Swift
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
J.L.Baird
30. In which Amendment Right to property was removed from the list of Fundamental rights?
Later Vedic Age
14th November
Forty-fourth Amendment
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
31. Where is the only shrine in the world which has a natural statue of Hanuman that is not man made?
Kulandei Francis
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Ladakh
32. Where is the National Defence Academy situated?
8th October
Sriharikota
Prof. V.N Datta
Khadakvasla
33. Who wrote the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?
Jules Verne
Albert Einstein
5
Palk Strait
34. On which era is the Indian National Calender based?
Lala Lajpat Rai
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Saka era
Arundhati Roy
35. Hawa Mahal is situated in which city?
26th January
Gagan Narang
Jaipur
55th rank
36. Which child artist got Critics Best Actor Award for his acting in a film Taare Zameen Par?
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.
Darsheel Safary
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Mumbai
37. Which king brought the valleys of Indus - Ganga and Jamuna together for the first time under one political authority?
15th March
Ashoka
Chandrayaan
Oxygen and acetylene
38. Name the smallest neighbour of India?
Herodotus
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
July - 1947
Raja Ravi Varma
39. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' (inscribed below the base plate of the emblem of India) taken?
Mussoorie
Performax
Mundak Upanishad
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
40. Who composed the national song of India (Vande Maatram)?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Julang-2
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
41. Which is largest state of India?
Rajasthan
Indians
Chadwick
Sitar
42. Durand line is the border common to which two countries?
Hampi
Euclid
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Sitar
43. Mc. Mohan Line demarcates the boundary between which countries?
Forty-fourth Amendment
India and China
India
Hockey
44. Who is known as Father of Geometry?
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Euclid
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Madhya Pradesh
45. Which is the largest saline water lake in India?
Only the first stanza
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
Jamaica
Chilka lake (Orissa )
46. Who invented transistor?
Third century B.C
1st May164
Shockley
Greeks
47. Which country was under the grip of a severe earthquake followed by tsunami recently?
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Japan
New Delhi
Concave lens
48. Year 2011 is observed by Army as what?
Mathura
Cavendish
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Alexander Graham Bell
49. What is made from the mixture of lime and chlorine?
Bleaching powder
Stupa
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
26th January
50. Name the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister whose admirers have decided to build a temple to perpetuate his memory?
Chandragupta Maurya
6-14 years
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy