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1. What is e-bomb?
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2. Late Vijay Tendulkar who died in 2008 were famous in which field?
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Playwright
In front of New Delhi's High Court
Sriharikota
3. What is our National Anthem?
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Jana Gana Mana
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Neil Armstrong
4. What happens when a ship crosses Date line from west to east?
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
It loses one day
Mundak Upanishad
5. Name the person who has set a new Guinness record of being the oldest man to complete a full distance marathon in Toronto?
Tamil Nadu
Samuel Morse
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
6. Who made the highest score in an ODI against West Indiies in Indora in 2011?
Carbon dioxide
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
7. Where at present the BRAHMOS missiles are assembled?
Jane Austen
Concave lens
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Hyderabad
8. Which battle opened the Delhi area to Muhammad Ghori?
Jama Masjid
Kalpakkam
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Second Battle of Tarain
9. Which player is the author of the book 'Straight From The Heart'?
Churchill
Kapil Dev
Pune
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
10. When is World Food Day observed?
Four lions
16th October
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
69 miles
11. Name the baby of Uttar Pardesh who is the symbolic seven billionth baby ?
Baby Nargis
Allahabad Pillar inscription
5th September
Mundak Upanishad
12. With which musical instrument was Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan associated?
Kathak
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Sitar
15th March
13. Name the ballistic missile that lifted off from Wheeler Island in Odisha on 9th August - 2012?
Maharashtra
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Sitar
14. Which hockey team won the Asian Championship Trophy at Ordos(China) in 2011?
In Samba
India
Swarajya Party
Vande Mataram
15. Which game is associated with Merdeka Cup?
Johannes Kepler
5th September
Football
Landsteiner
16. Where is the venue for the 2012 Olympics?
4G technology will offer many advancements to the wireless market including downlink data rates well over 100 Mbps - low latency - very efficient spectrum use and low cost implementation.
London
Roentgen
Hockey
17. Where are the headquarters of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts?
Guru Gobind Singh
Second Battle of Tarain
New Delhi
Rajasthan
18. Which state has maximum density of canals?
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Motion Picture
Kolkata
Uttar Pradesh
19. Which anniversary of sandwich was celebrated by British town in May - 2012?
The equator
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
250th anniversary
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
20. Hawa Mahal is situated in which city?
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
8
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Jaipur
21. For what was Gupta dynasty famous?
Madhya Pradesh
Art and architecture
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Longitudinal position
22. Who said 'Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err'?
Mahatma Gandhi
Alexander Fleming
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Raja Ravi Varma
23. Where are Dilwara Temples situated?
8th September
24th May
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Bangalore
24. Mc. Mohan Line demarcates the boundary between which countries?
24
Mahatma Gandhi
Khushwant Singh
India and China
25. Which is the largest river delta of India?
Stainless steel
Ganga
Iodine
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
26. Who has been selected as the new head of Tata empire in 2011?
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Director General Anil Kaushik
Vasudeva
Cyrus Mistry
27. Who discovered the noble gases?
Rahul Dravid
Cavendish
Equator
Fatehpur Sikri
28. Why sky appears to be blue?
Washing soda
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Leh
8th March
29. Radcliffe line is the boundary line between which countries?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
India and Pakistan
Sri Lanka
90 degrees
30. Who inspired Green Revolution in India?
Three Decades in Parliament
Sonepur (Bihar )
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
N.E. Borlaug
31. Who invented the steam engine?
Khushwant Singh
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Will pass through Equator
V.S Naipaul
32. Name the gases used in different types of welding?
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Kanishka
Oxygen and acetylene
Allauddin Khilji
33. Name the first Indian women shuttler to enter semifinal at the Olympics?
1st December
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
U.K
Andhra Pradesh
34. Name the Indian American astronaut who begins her 2nd space odyssey on July 15 - 2012?
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Sunita Williams
Chadwick
27th September
35. Who deciphered the genetic code?
24th May
Infinite
Vasudeva
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
36. Who has become the first lady jawan in Indian army?
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Kanishka
Khadakvasla
37. What is the aim of the 'Biosphere Reserve Project'?
Hockey
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Rajasthan
Sunil Gavaskar
38. Who invented barometer?
Odisha
Mundak Upanishad
Abul Kalam Azad
Torricelli
39. Who was called Bollywood's first superstar?
Param Vir Chakra
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Concave mirror
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
40. Who wrote Panchatantra?
Speaker
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
8th March
Vishnu Sharma
41. Who is the elected Prime Minister of Pakistan from Pakistan People's Party?
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Bombay
American firm Intra Pace unveils a stomach implant vi akeyhole surgery that can help people fight flab by warning the brain when enough food is taken. This credit card sized implant is named as 'Abiliti'.
Methane
42. When was the Constituent Assembly that framed Constitution for Independent India set up?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Mary Kom
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
1949
43. Name the country's longest railway tunnel excavated?
Jawaharlal Nehru
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Krishna
Standard time of the country138
44. Which is the largest Mosque in India?
Ladakh
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Hampi
Jama Masjid
45. India is facing pressure from the US and other Western countries to break trade ties with which country?
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
State Bank of India
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.)
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
46. What is added to remove permanent hardness of water?
Michael Phelps
Kapil Dev
Washing soda
Hampi
47. What is equal to latitude of a place?
The Bering Strait
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Angle between the horizon and the equator
South Kolkata
48. Who appoints the Chairman and members of State Public Service Commission?
Indians
Governor
$46 - 00011
William Shakespeare151
49. Who got Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar in 2011 ?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Khushwant Singh
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
50. Who is the author of 'Tarikh-i-Alai' containing the details of the first few years of Sultan Alauddin Khilji?
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Amir Khusrau
USA