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1. What is the time difference between IST and GMT?
Galileo
Ganga
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
5 hours 30 minutes

2. Who won the Wimbledon title for seventh time and 17th grand slam crown after beating Andy Murray in male category in 2012?
Jan 26 - 1950134
Amir Khusrau
8th May
Roger Federer

3. An air bubble in water acts as which lens?
Concave lens
Angle between the horizon and the equator
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
18th April

4. Who fought the Third Battle of Panipat?
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Third century B.C
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.)

5. Name the NASA's most modern spacecraft successfully landed on Mars on 6th August - 2012 to begin a pioneering two year search to find out if the red planet is suitable for life and whether it can be inhabitable in the future?
Rabindranath Tagore147
Curiosity
INS Vikrant55
Landsteiner

6. Which is the India's largest public sector commercial bank at present?
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
State Bank of India
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
8

7. When is International Labour Day observed?
Art and architecture
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Chandragupta Maurya
1st May164

8. Hawa Mahal is situated in which city?
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Vocal Music
Jaipur
E.M Forster

9. Name the Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay ofBengal?
Playwright
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.
Palk Strait
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).

10. One degree of longitude on equator is equal to what distance?
Roger Federer
Mahatma Gandhi
69 miles
S. Radhakrishnan

11. Where is the India's first largest bamboo museum?
9th August
Arundhati Roy
Tamil Nadu
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)

12. Liquefied Petroleum Gas consists mainly which gases?
Methane - butane and propane
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Rabindranath Tagore
Bangalore

13. With which musical instrument was Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan associated?
Mumbai
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
2:3161
Sitar

14. Term Double Fault is associated with which game?
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
Lawn Tennis153
1.34 millions
Rabindranath Tagore

15. Where are Dilwara Temples situated?
Heavy water
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
John Keats
Hockey

16. When is Sadbhavna Diwas (Goodwill Day ) observed in India?

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17. Name the element required for conversion of solar energy?
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Silicon
Cyrus Mistry

18. Whose autobiography is 'India Wins Freedom'?
U.K
Bleaching powder
E.G.Otis
Abul Kalam Azad

19. When is the UN Day observed?
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
24th October
Odisha
July - 1947

20. Which place is famous for gigantic rock-cut statue of Budha?
5th September
Bamiyan
Valentina Tereshkova
Only the first stanza

21. Where did the World's costliest crash took place?
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
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'.
Andhra Pradesh
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.

22. Who invented telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Three Decades in Parliament
1953
London

23. Where is Buland Darwaza located?
Fatehpur Sikri
Himachal Pradesh
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Jules Verne

24. Name the Bollywood legend whose ancestral home in Peshawar - Pakistan has been turned into heritage site?
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Dilip Kumar
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Leo Tolstoy

25. If in a mirror image of object appears to be larger then which type of mirror is used?
Concave mirror
Madhya Pradesh
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Vocal Music

26. 'Nokia' the telecom company belongs to which country?
Finland
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit

27. What is equal to latitude of a place?
Kushans
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Navtej Saran
Angle between the horizon and the equator

28. With whom are the rare replicas of sacred book Guru Granth Sahib?
Kerala
Lala Lajpat Rai
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Roentgen

29. Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?
24th May
Lawn Tennis153
Carbon dioxide
Jaya Dev

30. Which is the longest river of India?
15th March
Ganga
Tamil Nadu
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)

31. With which cells scientists for the first time have developed bone?
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.)
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
Jules Verne
Sriharikota

32. Name the country's longest railway tunnel excavated?
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
8
Third century B.C
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).

33. Who wrote the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?
Jules Verne
In Samba
Rajasthan
The President

34. Who said - 'God helps those who helps themselves'?
15th August167
Dutch East Indies
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Algernon Sidney

35. At what age World's oldest dog Pusuke died?
26 years and 9 months
German
Gol Gumbaz
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.

36. Which is the world's second cheapest city according to global survey?
15th March
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Bangalore
India

37. Name the state of India having longest coastline?
Andhra Pradesh
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Sriharikota
1.34 millions

38. Name the person who transliterated Guru Granth Sahib in Braille?
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Bleaching powder
Iodine
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.

39. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Playwright

40. Begum Akhtar is associated with which field?
Mohammad bin Kasim
Vocal Music
Chaucer
W.C Bannerjee

41. What is India's rank on the Transparency International (TI) corruption Perception Index out of 183 countries in 2011?
5th September
God particle or Higgs Boson
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
95th

42. Who is the author of the book 'Unto the Last' which influenced Gandhi ji?
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
Four lions
John Ruskin
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)

43. Who is the elected Prime Minister of Pakistan from Pakistan People's Party?
Speaker
Kanishka
U.K
Yousuf Raza Gillani

44. Name the herbal drug developed by DRDO for soldiers working in high altitude areas?
Performax
Greeks
Hamid Ansari
The Reserve Bank of India

45. Where is Union Budget presented firstly?
The Lok Sabha
Diffusion
China
Wular lake (Kashmir)

46. On which part of earth days and nights are of equal length always?
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Equator
5th September

47. Who introduced the market regulations in India in ancient period?
Allauddin Khilji
Oxygen and acetylene
Jyoti Amge
Ganga

48. Which state of India has highest production of tea?
Gujarat
Only the first stanza
The Delhi Metro
Assam

49. Where is the Indian Institute of Science located?
11th July
Bangalore
Churchill
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.

50. Who said 'Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err'?
Mahatma Gandhi
Indra Sinha64
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.