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1. What is AERE?
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2. Which actress has become the brand ambassador for sanitation compaign?
Sunil Gavaskar
Vidya Balan
5 hours 30 minutes
Prime Minister
3. Who won bronze medal for India in men's 60 Kg freestyle wrestling?
Chandragupta-II
Later Vedic Age
Stainless steel
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
4. Which is the largest lake in India?
Razia Sultana
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Karashapana
5. Which is the largest Mosque in India?
Hockey
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Jama Masjid
6. Name the great poet who graced the court of Alauddin Khilji?
Demand deposits
Amir Khusru
Vidya Balan
Mosley
7. Name the ship commissioned by India which is biggest in its class in the World?
Robert Watson Watt
Vadodara
Lala Lajpat Rai
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
8. Where is the famous Meenakshi Temple situated?
Kapil Dev
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Washing soda
Tamil Nadu
9. Which ruler was adorned with the title of 'Maharajadhiraja'?
Kanishka
Abul Kalam Azad
Sidney Sheldon
Amitabh Bachchan
10. Where is the National Defence Academy situated?
Rahul Dravid
Satyendra Nath Bose
Landsteiner
Khadakvasla
11. Who will be the new Director General of Police (DGP) after the retirement of P.S. Gill?
5th September
Director General Anil Kaushik
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Shockley
12. Who wrote the book 'Ammi! Letter to a Democratic Mother'?
Rabindra Nath Tagore
1949
Saeed Mirza
Amjad Ali Khan
13. Year 2011 is observed by Army as what?
Concave mirror
Dr. F.G.Banting
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Hyderabad
14. Name the two living members of first Lok Sabha to be honored by President on 13th May - 2012 - 60th anniversary of our Parliament?
Galileo
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
S. Radhakrishnan
90 degrees
15. Which country was under the grip of a severe earthquake followed by tsunami recently?
Japan
Cyrus Mistry
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Iodine
16. When is Commonwealth Day observed?
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
24th May
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.
Chadwick
17. Who headed the committee on computerisation in Indian banks(1988)?
M. Narasimhan
Nek Chand
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Karashapana
18. At which place the largest industrial solar plant of the country became operational on 29th July - 2012?
Ludhiana
Kerala
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.
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
19. One degree of longitude on equator is equal to what distance?
Alexander Graham Bell
69 miles
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Abul Kalam Azad
20. Who brought and installed two Asokan pillars in Delhi?
Jane Austen
The Bering Strait
Firozeshah Tughluq
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
21. On globe - the latitude and longitude intersect at what angle?
Prime Minister
90 degrees
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Parupalli Kashyap
22. Name the Earth- like planet whose existence is confirmed by American astronomers?
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Cavendish
Stupa
Palk Strait
23. Where is India's Space Rocket Launching Centre situated?
Mosley
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
8th September
Sriharikota
24. Who introduced the market regulations in India in ancient period?
Golconda
Rajasthan
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Allauddin Khilji
25. Name the Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay ofBengal?
Anita Desai
Hindukush
Palk Strait
Michael Phelps
26. How many medals are won by India in Olympics 2012?
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Maharaja Hari Singh
Chaucer
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
27. Who is the author of book 'Freedom Behind Bars'?
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Kiran Bedi
Second Battle of Tarain
John Keats
28. Name the last king of Jammu and Kashmir?
Maharaja Hari Singh
90 degree
Dumping
31st May
29. Who wrote the book 'A Passage To India'?
Mumbai
Konark
Jagannath
E.M Forster
30. Who wrote Panchatantra?
South Kolkata
Vishnu Sharma
Carbon dioxide
8th March
31. Who earned the title of 'Liberator'?
Jonas Salk
Second Battle of Tarain
Andhra Pradesh
Chandragupta Maurya
32. What is Dry Ice?
China
N.E. Borlaug
Oxygen and acetylene
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
33. Which day in India is celebrated as Children's Day?
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
14th November
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Aung San Suu Kyi
34. With whom the Income Tax Department decides to share its PAN card database?
15th August167
Konark
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
18th April
35. Name the state where bio-fuel outlet - first of its kind in the country will be opened?
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Tamil Nadu
250th anniversary
36. What reference is taken to know the local time of a place?
Anna Hazare
Longitudinal position
Sunil Gavaskar
95th
37. What is the estimated premature deaths caused annually by outdoor air pollution - according to the first pollution survey carried out by World Health Organisation in Sept. - 2011?
Harshavardhana
1.34 millions
Bleaching powder
95th
38. Who got Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (highest sports award in country) award?
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Vasudeva
39. 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?
Washing soda
8th March
The Delhi Metro
Chandragupta Maurya
40. Which village of Andhra Pradesh may be sitting over one of the world's largest uranium reserves?
Amitabh Ghosh
Indra Sinha64
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
41. Which hockey team won the Asian Championship Trophy at Ordos(China) in 2011?
Dadabhai Naoroji
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
8th September
India
42. Name the first ever pill approved by US to prevent HIV?
Kolkata
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
43. Who fought the Third Battle of Panipat?
John Ruskin
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Tamil Nadu
Abul Kalam Azad
44. What is the ratio of width of our National flag to its length?
2:3161
Bobby Jindal
Iodine
Longitudinal position
45. Where are the headquarters of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts?
New Delhi
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Bangalore
Navtej Saran
46. Which element is obtained from sea weeds?
Mumbai
Iodine
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Dehradun
47. Which day is celebrated as International Literacy Day?
8th September
Eagle
24th May
India
48. Which is the world's second cheapest city according to global survey?
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Mohammad bin Kasim
The number of persons per square kilometre.
49. What is the other name of deuterium oxide?
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Heavy water
Param Vir Chakra
John Keats
50. Which fund can be used to meet the unanticipated expenditurewithout the prior approval of the Parliament?
London
Curiosity
Contingency Fund of India
Ganga