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1. How is population density in India defined?
24
15th March
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Dr. F.G.Banting
2. When is World Laughter Day celebrated?
26th January
London
Tamil Nadu
162
3. What is the name of India's moon mission?
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Chandrayaan
Three Decades in Parliament
Madhya Pradesh
4. What is the other name of deuterium oxide?
Hockey
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Heavy water
Sodium
5. Name the Indian state where the game of Polo is said to have originated?
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Manipur54
Dance
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
6. Who headed the committee on computerisation in Indian banks(1988)?
Anna Hazare
When sun is above the equator
Morarji Desai
M. Narasimhan
7. Who is generally regardedas the pioneer of Local Self Government in Modern India?
Mohammad bin Kasim
Dutch East Indies
Gota in Sweden
Ripon
8. Which is the largest auditorium in India?
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
10th December
11th May
Increases
9. Who won bronze medal for India in men's 60 Kg freestyle wrestling?
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Palk Strait
10. On which part of earth days and nights are of equal length always?
Sarojini Naidu
Andhra Pradesh
Equator
Prime Minister
11. What is the upper house of parliament known as?
2:3161
V.S Naipaul
The Rajya Sabha
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
12. Which day is chosen to be celebrated as Father's Day?
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Swarajya Party
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
2
13. Which is the largest planetarium in India?
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.
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Kapil Dev
Kolkata
14. Which is the largest port in India?
Karashapana
Mumbai
Hindukush
14th November
15. Who is known as Nightingale of India?
Sarojini Naidu
Vishnu Sharma
Martin Luther King
Mahatma Gandhi
16. Which player is the author of book named 'Sunny Days'?
2G spectrum scam
Sunil Gavaskar
1.34 millions
Hamid Ansari
17. Who wrote the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Concave lens
Talwandi
Jules Verne
18. When is India's Army Day celebrated ?
Prof. V.N Datta
Mary Kom
15th January
Vadodara
19. What are the benefits of medicine Performax?
1st May164
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
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.
2
20. Which battle opened the Delhi area to Muhammad Ghori?
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Second Battle of Tarain
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Methane - butane and propane
21. Hawa Mahal is situated in which city?
Jaipur
Sitar
Iodine
Four lions
22. Name the book which has collection of speeches of N.G Ranga?
Marie Curie
Kathak
China
Three Decades in Parliament
23. When comes the World Environment Day?
Indra Sinha64
Vande Mataram
5th June
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
24. How many postal zones are there in India - under the PIN Code System?
8
Shobha De
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Football
25. Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Darsheel Safary
Leo Tolstoy
William Shakespeare151
26. Who is the first Indian male shuttler to reach Olympic quarters?
1.34 millions
Dumping
Sodium
Parupalli Kashyap
27. Name the Apple co-founder who changed the daily habits of millions by reinventing computing - music and mobile phones?
Lead
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Karashapana
New Delhi
28. What is the new name of Burma?
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Myanmar
Rocky Marciano
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
29. Where did coins made of metal first appeared?
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Later Vedic Age
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
30. Who invented transistor?
Aravind Adiga
Shockley
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Mathura
31. Which day in India is celebrated as Children's Day?
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Forty-fourth Amendment
14th November
Painting
32. Name the ship commissioned by India which is biggest in its class in the World?
Manipur54
Zinc
Narmada and Japti
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
33. Which metal is used in pencils?
Graphite
Contingency Fund of India
5th June
Nitrous oxide
34. On which day International Women's Day observed?
$46 - 00011
1st December
8th March
23rd December
35. Name the 17th Karmapa against whom the Una police filed a chargesheet under section 120-B of the IPC in 2011?
Dadabhai Naoroji
Chandragupta
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.)
2G spectrum scam
36. Which state in India has three language teaching formula?
Maharashtra
Punjab
Madhya Pradesh
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
37. On which date Anti Tobacco Day observed?
Jaipur
10th October
The Delhi Metro
31st May
38. After whose name the Nobel Prize was started?
Robert Watson Watt
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
39. Where is the headquarters of Oil and Natural Gas Commission?
Longitudinal position
Methane - butane and propane
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Dehradun
40. At which place a devastating fire tore through seven storey AMRI hospital killing 91 people in 2011?
Stupa
South Kolkata
Landsteiner
USA
41. Who discovered blood grouping?
Param Vir Chakra
$46 - 00011
Landsteiner
10th October
42. What is the designation of the chairperson of Lok Sabha?
Leo Tolstoy
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Speaker
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
43. Why bubble of water shines?
Tamil Nadu
Hockey
M.N Roy62
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
44. Name the new nuclear powered submarine formally handed to India by Russia?
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Ujjain
Allahabad Pillar inscription
45. On what occasion Bihar got its own state anthem and state prayer whose CD's were released by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar?
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
11th May
Ashoka
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
46. The Rath Yatra at Puri is celebrated in honour of which Hindu deity?
7th April
2nd April - 2011
Jagannath
At Magdalla port near Surat.
47. Who wrote the book 'Unhappy India'?
Eagle
Lala Lajpat Rai
It loses one day
Khushwant Singh
48. Who wrote the famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
Narmada and Japti
The Delhi Metro
Anita Desai
Jane Austen
49. Whose influence is reflected in the sculptures of the Gandhara school?
Jane Austen
Edison
Greeks
Mosley
50. Who got Dronacharya Award in 2011 ?
2:3161
India
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
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
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