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1. Which state in South India have a thermal station at Tuticorin?
18th December
Amir Khusrau
Nitrogen
Tamil Nadu

2. Which child artist got Critics Best Actor Award for his acting in a film Taare Zameen Par?
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Diffusion
Darsheel Safary
Kolkata

3. World Aids Day falls on which date?
Tungsten
6-14 years
1st December
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )

4. Who was the first recipient of Nehru Award for International Understanding?
Martin Luther King
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
10th December
William Shakespeare151

5. Where is Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy which trains Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officers situated?
Satyendra Nath Bose
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Gol Gumbaz
Mussoorie

6. Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
Anita Desai
Leo Tolstoy
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Bleaching powder

7. Which is the largest auditorium in India?
Robert Watson Watt
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
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.)

8. Which gas is called laughing gas?
Nitrous oxide
E.G.Otis
Jules Verne
Graphite

9. Which painting got the highest price ever paid for a work of art at any auction?

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10. Who invented the steam engine?
Dumping
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
8th March

11. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?
Jai Samhita
Yamuna
Golconda
Vasudeva

12. Which country has World's largest democracy?
Methane
55th rank
India
Vadodara

13. Which was the World's first surviving clone buffalo at NDRI (National Dairy Research Institute)?
Heavy water
Carbon dioxide
Hunting
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).

14. Who wrote the popular book 'The Naked Face'?
250th anniversary
Herodotus
Sidney Sheldon
Nitrous oxide

15. Name the state of India where diamond mines are mainly found?
Aravallis
Chandragupta
Jyoti Amge
Madhya Pradesh

16. Who crafted the wax statue of Anna Hazare?

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17. Motilal Nehru and Chittaranjan Das were the founder members of which party?
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
China
Swarajya Party
Jawaharlal Nehru

18. Which is the world's second cheapest city according to global survey?
Maharaja Hari Singh
Nek Chand
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)

19. Where is a tunnel near the Indo-Pak border detected?
New Agra Fort
In Samba
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Ganga

20. Which is the largest Mosque in India?
Kapil Dev
Washing soda
Jama Masjid
Hari Prasad Chaurasia

21. Who won the silver medal in 66 Kg wrestling and is the first Indian to win two individual Olympic medals?
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Sushil Kumar
Wular lake (Kashmir)
23rd December

22. Which day in India celebrated as Central Excise Day ?
Sitar
Hockey
24th February
Methane

23. When is India's National Youth Day celebrated ?
Equator
Music
12th January
Sonepur (Bihar )

24. Who has been selected as the new head of Tata empire in 2011?
Cyrus Mistry
95th
Hunting
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).

25. What are the benefits of medicine Performax?
Nek Chand
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.
18th April
Amitabh Ghosh

26. Who got Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award in 2011?
Satyendra Nath Bose
Paschim Banga1
Andhra Pradesh
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).

27. Watches of a country is set according to what time?
V.S Naipaul
Standard time of the country138
Painting
Thar desert (Rajasthan)

28. Why bubble of water shines?
Jawaharlal Nehru
30th January
Renders electronic gadgets useless and effectively neutralises the adversary's command control and communication capability by producing a strong electromagnetic field generating powerful electricity surges that play havoc with electronic circuits wi
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.

29. Between whom battle of Kurukshetra was fought?
Jayadeva
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Morarji Desai

30. Triple vaccine is administered to a new born child to save him from which diseases?
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Kho-Kho
24
Gagan Narang (shooter)

31. Why clear nights are more colder then cloudy nights?
8
When sun is above the equator
M. Narasimhan
Due to radiation

32. Who propounded the Market Law?
J.B.Say
Washing soda
Jaipur
Robert Watson Watt

33. Which game is associated with Agha Khan Cup?
Akhilesh Yadav
Hockey
Samuel Morse
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources

34. In which field the name of Gangubai Hangal associated?
Music
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan

35. Where is Sun Temple situated?
Konark
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
16th October

36. Whose influence is reflected in the sculptures of the Gandhara school?
55th rank
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Yamuna
Greeks

37. From where the longest circle which can be drawn from earth's surface will pass?
Will pass through Equator
Rahul Dravid
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Allauddin Khilji

38. Which country has an Unwritten Constitution?
UK
Dehradun
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Governor

39. What is the ratio of width of our National Flag to its length?
Albert Einstein
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Uttar Pradesh
2:4

40. Which is the Garden City of India?
Bangalore
Equator
N.E. Borlaug
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)

41. Our Indian Constitution closely follows the Constitutional system of which country?
Chaucer
Zinc
U.K
6-14 years

42. Who led the first Muslim invasion of India?
Mohammad bin Kasim
Baby Nargis
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Maharashtra

43. How many images will be formed when an object is placed between two mirrors placed parellel to each other?
11th May
Infinite
Forty-fourth Amendment
Stupa

44. Name the woman boxer of India who have won five time world championship in succession?
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Mary Kom
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.

45. During whose reign The Mathura School of art flourished?
Vasudeva
S. Radhakrishnan
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
H.P.S Ahluwalia

46. Name the state where bio-fuel outlet - first of its kind in the country will be opened?
Carbon dioxide
Landsteiner
Jaya Dev
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka

47. Which is largest river without delta in India?
24
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Narmada and Japti
Paschim Banga1

48. What is the practice of selling goods in a foreign country at a price below their domestic selling price is called?
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Dumping
Dr. F.G.Banting

49. Which is the state wise largest area under forest in India?
Aravallis
Madhya Pradesh
Chandragupta
Kauravas and Pandavas51

50. Who painted the masterpiece 'Hamsa Damayanti'?
2nd April - 2011
Raja Ravi Varma
26th January
Kerala