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1. Which cricketer known as 'Tiger' also father of famous actor died on 23rd September - 2011?
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
2nd April - 2011
Haryana
2. Where is Pushkar lake located?
18th December
Rajasthan
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
Methane - butane and propane
3. What is added to remove permanent hardness of water?
Shockley
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
State Bank of India
Washing soda
4. Who is the renowned flute player?
Anita Desai
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
5. If in a mirror image of object appears to be larger then which type of mirror is used?
Sachin Tendulkar
Saka era
Aravallis
Concave mirror
6. Which musical instrument is said to be invented by Amir Khusro?
Rajasthan
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
Sitar
5th September
7. In how many time zones is the World divided?
24
Ladakh
Kho-Kho
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
8. Which state is going to be first carbon-neutral state in the country by 2020?
Himachal Pradesh
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
22nd April
9. Where is the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre located?
Uttar Pradesh
Trivandrum
Odisha
Standard time of the country138
10. Who discovered Penicillin?
Roentgen
Alexander Fleming
Dehradun
Kanishka
11. Who invented the petrol engine?
Nikolaus Otto
Kolkata
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
12. With which field M.F. Hussian were associated?
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
1st December
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Painting
13. World Human Rights Day is observed on which day?
Swarajya Party
10th December
Concave mirror
24th October
14. Who headed the committee on computerisation in Indian banks(1988)?
Indians
Baby Nargis
Third century B.C
M. Narasimhan
15. Who composed the national song of India (Vande Maatram)?
90 degrees
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Saeed Mirza
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
16. Where is a tunnel near the Indo-Pak border detected?
Edison
Nayantara Sahgal
In Samba
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
17. Who was the first person to set foot on moon?
Neil Armstrong
8
24th October
William Wordsworth
18. Name the metal used as the filament of an electric bulb?
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Sitar
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Tungsten
19. What is the name of India's first aircraft carrier?
Yamuna
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
INS Vikrant55
Samar Guha
20. When in India Teachers Day celebrated?
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Mumbai
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
5th September
21. Where is Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy which trains Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officers situated?
Rabindranath Tagore147
Mussoorie
Second Battle of Tarain
Andhra Pradesh
22. When is India's Republic Day celebrated?
Silver
Mehbooba Mufti
Equator
26th January
23. Which sportsperson won the maximum number of Olympic Gold Medals?
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Kerala
J.L.Baird
Michael Phelps
24. What is the new name of Burma?
Myanmar
Planning Commission
Johann Gregor Mendel
Mumbai
25. What is the name of India's moon mission?
Chaucer
Johannes Kepler
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Chandrayaan
26. Who is the richest Indian in the World according to the 2011 Forbes India annual rich list?
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Sodium
Maharashtra
27. Where at present the BRAHMOS missiles are assembled?
Ladakh
Leo Tolstoy
Hyderabad
Motion Picture
28. From where the longest circle which can be drawn from earth's surface will pass?
Will pass through Equator
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Gagan Narang
Carbon dioxide
29. Satyan Bose is known for his excellence in which field?
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Hockey
Motion Picture
Sachin Tendulkar
30. Where are the achievements of Samudragupta described on?
Allahabad Pillar inscription
USA
Abhinav Bindra
Kanishka
31. Who composed the famous song 'Sare Jahan Se Accha'?
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
The Delhi Metro
Director General Anil Kaushik
Mohammad Iqbal
32. Who was the first speaker of Independent India's Lok Sabha?
Haryana
Greeks
24th May
G.V. Mavalankar
33. Name the state of India having longest coastline?
10th October
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Andhra Pradesh
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
34. Which is the largest area wise state in India?
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Marie Curie
Rajasthan
Rahul Dravid
35. Who wrote 'Netaji - Dead or Alive'?
Gota in Sweden
Indra Sinha64
Gwalior Gharana
Samar Guha
36. Who earned the title of 'Liberator'?
Chandragupta Maurya
Johann Gregor Mendel
1953
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.
37. Which states are known for Cauvery Water dispute?
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Vasudeva
38. Who wrote the line 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'?
Contingency Fund of India
Darsheel Safary
John Keats
Chadwick
39. Which player is the author of the book 'Straight From The Heart'?
Kapil Dev
Guru Gobind Singh
Concave lens
Jyoti Amge
40. How many stanza's of Jana Gana Mana song were adopted as National Anthem?
Only the first stanza
Gagan Narang
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Ganga
41. With which sports is Sushma Saroelker associated?
Kho-Kho
Assam
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
42. Which is the largest dome in India?
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Performax
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
U.K
43. Who won bronze medal for India in 10m pistol event (London Olympics - 2012)?
Gagan Narang
1.34 millions
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Vidya Balan
44. When is the Mother's Day celebrated?
11th May
The Delhi Metro
Amir Khusru
In front of New Delhi's High Court
45. Where is the National Institute of Nutrition located?
10th October
Hyderabad
Morarji Desai
Tamil Nadu
46. Which painting got the highest price ever paid for a work of art at any auction?
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47. Who wrote the book 'Glimpses of World History'?
2nd April - 2011
Mundak Upanishad
Jawaharlal Nehru
Landsteiner
48. Name two other clones left with NDRI?
Tungsten
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Allahabad Pillar inscription
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
49. Which is our National song?
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Uttarakhand
Vande Mataram
Ganga
50. What is e-bomb?
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