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1. Where are the World famous Khajuraho sculptures located?
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Madhya Pradesh
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Bengali
2. Name the three new elements added to the Periodic Table in 2011?
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Karashapana
Pune
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
3. Where are relics of Buddha preserved?
Stupa
Mumbai
John Keats
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
4. Who is known as Nightingale of India?
Bamiyan
Sarojini Naidu
5th September
Rahul Dravid
5. In which Amendment Right to property was removed from the list of Fundamental rights?
Jaya Dev
Forty-fourth Amendment
Sachin Tendulkar
Vadodara
6. Who won the first medal for India in Olympics 2012?
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Tamil Nadu
Prof. V.N Datta
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
7. During whose reign The Mathura School of art flourished?
26 years and 9 months
E.G.Otis
Vasudeva
New Agra Fort
8. What are the benefits of medicine Performax?
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
$46 - 00011
Is a herbal formulation of 10 selected herbs known to have adaptogenic properties. It helps to improve the physical and mental performance by increasing blood oxygenation and reducing low density lipoproteins and cholesterol.
Algernon Sidney
9. When is the UN Day observed?
Saeed Mirza
24th October
Khushwant Singh
New Delhi
10. Which king brought the valleys of Indus - Ganga and Jamuna together for the first time under one political authority?
Carbon dioxide
Ashoka
Amjad Ali Khan
Razia Sultana
11. With which cells scientists for the first time have developed bone?
Johann Gregor Mendel
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.)
Khadakvasla
Chaucer
12. Who is the author of novel 'The White Tiger'?
Jonathan Swift
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Darsheel Safary
Aravind Adiga
13. Where is India's Space Rocket Launching Centre situated?
1911133
Sriharikota
Four lions
New Delhi
14. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Bengali
15. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Golconda
24
Because the solids have high elasticity.
16. Name the metal used as the filament of an electric bulb?
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Kauravas and Pandavas51
8th May
Tungsten
17. Who made the highest score in an ODI against West Indiies in Indora in 2011?
Yousuf Raza Gillani
22nd April
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
18. Vocalist Rahamat Khan belongs to which Gharana?
Alexander Fleming
Khushwant Singh
Chandragupta Maurya
Gwalior Gharana
19. What is the latitude of South Pole?
Mohammad Iqbal
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Indians
90 degree
20. Name the place where Lord Budha breathed his last?
Kushinagar
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Mumbai
Kathak
21. 'A Voice of Freedom' is a book written by whom?
8th October
Mahatma Gandhi
Nayantara Sahgal
Dehradun
22. Where were huge amounts of uranium recently found?
V.S Naipaul
Chandragupta-II
Leo Tolstoy
Andhra Pradesh
23. Where are Dilwara Temples situated?
Iodine
Chandrayaan
The equator
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
24. Who is the first Indian sports person to win an individual Gold medal in the Olympic Games?
Abhinav Bindra
Churchill
New Agra Fort
Kolkata
25. Name the alloy of iron - chromium and nickel?
Stainless steel
8
Genetically Modified Crops.
Indra Sinha64
26. Where was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Avanti?
Saeed Mirza
J.L.Baird
Akbar
Ujjain
27. Name the largest oil refinery of India?
Sitar
Satyendra Nath Bose
Sushil Kumar
Vadodara
28. Why the International Date Line makes slight deviation from 180 degree meridian?
Vadodara
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Equator
Florence Nightingale
29. Watches of a country is set according to what time?
Standard time of the country138
The equator
Four lions
Tungsten
30. Who won bronze medal for India in men's 60 Kg freestyle wrestling?
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
India and Pakistan
It loses one day
The equator
31. Name two other clones left with NDRI?
Firozeshah Tughluq
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Equator
Carbon dioxide
32. Which metro has been certified by the United Nations as the first metro rail based system in the World to get carbon credits for contributing to the fight against climate changes?
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Samudragupta
N.E. Borlaug
The Delhi Metro
33. In how many time zones is U.S.A divided?
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
5
Jane Austen
Year of Disabled Soldiers
34. Who is crowned Miss Universe India 2011?
Greeks
2nd April - 2011
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
5th September
35. Which day is celebrated as Independence Day of India?
15th August167
China
The Delhi Metro
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
36. Name the ballistic missile that lifted off from Wheeler Island in Odisha on 9th August - 2012?
Uttarakhand
90 degrees
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
E.M Forster
37. Who got Arjuna Award in 2011?
V. Anand
Chandragupta-II
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
New Agra Fort
38. Which state in South India have a thermal station at Tuticorin?
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Kulandei Francis
Tamil Nadu
Kathak
39. When is Sadbhavna Diwas (Goodwill Day ) observed in India?
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40. Who propounded the Market Law?
Heavy water
Indra Sinha64
J.B.Say
Paschim Banga1
41. Who is the author of book 'The Tribune 130 Years: A Witness to History'?
Prof. V.N Datta
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
July - 1947
Sushil Kumar
42. Which state in India has three language teaching formula?
Punjab
Vande Mataram
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Julang-2
43. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' (inscribed below the base plate of the emblem of India) taken?
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Mundak Upanishad
22nd April
Dr. F.G.Banting
44. Which is the World's largest exporter of inverters?
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Su-Kam Power Systems
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
45. Who invented the steam engine?
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Chilka lake (Orissa )
USA
Mundak Upanishad
46. Who is going to receive highest US award?
Chandragupta
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Aung San Suu Kyi
Julang-2
47. Which fund can be used to meet the unanticipated expenditurewithout the prior approval of the Parliament?
Carbon dioxide
23rd December
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Contingency Fund of India
48. When comes National Postal Day in India?
10th October
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
E.M Forster
Maharashtra
49. What is the aim of the 'Biosphere Reserve Project'?
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Arthur Conan Doyle
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Kauravas and Pandavas51
50. What is made from the mixture of lime and chlorine?
18th April
Contingency Fund of India
Bleaching powder
Trivandrum
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