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1. Who is the man popularly kwown as Gurudev?
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Rabindranath Tagore147
Sriharikota
Jaya Dev
2. Which is largest man made lake in India?
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Sitar
Sushil Kumar
3. Which is the largest public sector bank in India?
Sitar
State Bank of India
Dutch East Indies
Chaucer
4. Who invented telephone?
Finland
India
Art and architecture
Alexander Graham Bell
5. Which day is chosen to be celebrated as Father's Day?
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
24th February
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
6. At which point of earth weight of object will be minimum?
At the center of earth
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Rabindranath Tagore147
7. India is facing pressure from the US and other Western countries to break trade ties with which country?
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
New Agra Fort
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
8. Where are Dilwara Temples situated?
Mumbai
$46 - 00011
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Gota in Sweden
9. Who wrote the book 'We Indians'?
The Rajya Sabha
Vice President of India
Khushwant Singh
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
10. Who is sworn as the 14th Vice President of India?
Razia Sultana
Hyderabad
Hamid Ansari
1911133
11. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Carbon dioxide
It loses one day
Kathak
12. An air bubble in water acts as which lens?
Bleaching powder
Concave lens
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Swarajya Party
13. Who is the senior most Army officer to have faced a court martial and dismissed from service by an Indian Army Court?
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
11th May
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Speaker
14. In which state is Ganesh Otsav celebrated?
Bangalore
Maharashtra
South Kolkata
Mahatma Gandhi
15. Name the metal used in storage batteries?
14th November
M. Narasimhan
Khushwant Singh
Lead
16. How many lines are there in latitude and longitude?
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.
Jamaica
Dumping
Because the solids have high elasticity.
17. Who invented the petrol engine?
Four lions
5th June
Nikolaus Otto
24th May
18. Who was the first woman to go in space?
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
Valentina Tereshkova
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
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
19. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' (inscribed below the base plate of the emblem of India) taken?
Jane Austen
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
William Wordsworth
Mundak Upanishad
20. What is the name of India's moon mission?
Chandrayaan
Madhya Pradesh
At the center of earth
India
21. Who wrote the famous play 'Macbeth'?
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Music
William Shakespeare151
22. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
It loses one day
Mumbai
Ganga
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
23. When an open bottle of scent is kept at one corner due to which phenomenon its fragrance is found in whole room?
Dr. F.G.Banting
UK
Uttar Pradesh
Diffusion
24. Which is the longest river of India?
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
Ganga
Forty-fourth Amendment
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
25. Which is the world's second cheapest city according to global survey?
Sunil Gavaskar
Hyderabad
Jonathan Swift
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
26. With which sports is Sushma Saroelker associated?
27th September
Talwandi
Kho-Kho
Mehbooba Mufti
27. Who got Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar in 2011 ?
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Swarajya Party
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
28. What is the new name of Burma?
1949
Myanmar
Nayantara Sahgal
Kushans
29. At what age World's oldest dog Pusuke died?
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
26 years and 9 months
Paschim Banga1
30. What are GM Crops?
Genetically Modified Crops.
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Hindukush
Mundak Upanishad
31. Where is the National Defence Academy situated?
Khadakvasla
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Michael Phelps
32. Who got Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (highest sports award in country) award?
Nayantara Sahgal
Algernon Sidney
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Gagan Narang (shooter)
33. Name the Strait which separates Asia from North America?
God particle or Higgs Boson
Demand deposits
The Bering Strait
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
34. Name the country's longest railway tunnel excavated?
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Kanishka
Will pass through Equator
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
35. Name the mineral found in Zawar mines?
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
At the center of earth
Zinc
Cyrus Mistry
36. Who arranged the elements in the Modern Periodic Table?
Mosley
Shockley
90 degree
18th April
37. What is the time difference between IST and GMT?
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
5 hours 30 minutes
INS Vikrant55
Rs 270
38. Who is the creator of Rock Garden in Chandigarh?
Aravind Adiga
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Lead
Nek Chand
39. Who has become the first lady jawan in Indian army?
Odisha
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Silver
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
40. Who was the first recipient of Nehru Award for International Understanding?
23rd April
Martin Luther King
Sunil Gavaskar
Palk Strait
41. Where is Buland Darwaza located?
German
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Japan
Fatehpur Sikri
42. Who won the Wimbledon title for seventh time and 17th grand slam crown after beating Andy Murray in male category in 2012?
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Bangalore
Roger Federer
43. Kanchipuram is in which state?
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Tamil Nadu
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Krishna
44. Who is the author of book 'Gita Govinda'?
Sri Lanka
90 degree
Jayadeva
Raja Ravi Varma
45. Name the metal used as the filament of an electric bulb?
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Tungsten
Julang-2
INS Vikrant55
46. In how many time zones is U.S.A divided?
Due to radiation
Strait of Gibraltar
5
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
47. Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
Leo Tolstoy
Saeed Mirza
In Samba
48. Who painted the masterpiece 'Hamsa Damayanti'?
Methane - butane and propane
Sunderbans delta
Raja Ravi Varma
$46 - 00011
49. Why sky appears to be blue?
Uttar Pradesh
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Tungsten
Nek Chand
50. Who has been appointed the Governor of RBI after the retirement of Shri Y.V. Reddy?
Dr. F.G.Banting
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Razia Sultana
Kalpakkam
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