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1. Where is the National Institute of Nutrition located?
Hyderabad
Longitudinal position
Rocky Marciano
Amir Khusrau
2. Name the Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay ofBengal?
Palk Strait
Dehradun
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'.
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
3. Where in Delhi a bomb hidden in briefcase exploded killing 11 persons and injuring 47 in the worst attack in India's capital in 3 years in 2011?
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4. Name the alloy of iron - chromium and nickel?
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
Stainless steel
55th rank
30th January
5. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Jamaica
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Lala Lajpat Rai
6. Our Indian National Calender is based on which era?
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Saka era
Abul Kalam Azad
Torricelli
7. Where is largest animal fair held in India?
At the center of earth
26 years and 9 months
E.M Forster
Sonepur (Bihar )
8. When are days and nights equal throughout the globe?
Sushil Kumar
Tamil Nadu
When sun is above the equator
Yousuf Raza Gillani
9. When was Sangeet Natak Akademi set up by Government of India?
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Trivandrum
8
1953
10. Who is the author of the book 'My Experiments with Truth'?
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Mahatma Gandhi
Prof. V.N Datta
Jai Samhita
11. Who is the author of the book 'Unto the Last' which influenced Gandhi ji?
John Ruskin
Bromine
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
J.L.Baird
12. Which countries are located on the Greenwich Meridian?
55th rank
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
India and Pakistan
Leo Tolstoy
13. Players of which state got the maximum Olympic medals in London Olympics?
Bleaching powder
Amjad Ali Khan
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
Haryana
14. What is Ayush treatment?
Chadwick
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
6-14 years
Jane Austen
15. Who has been appointed the Governor of RBI after the retirement of Shri Y.V. Reddy?
G.V. Mavalankar
Andhra Pradesh
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
16. Who is author of 'Hindu view of life'?
S. Radhakrishnan
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
8
35 degree
17. Who won bronze medal for India in men's 60 Kg freestyle wrestling?
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
26 years and 9 months
5th September
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
18. Name the Russian painter who had an 468 acre estate in Bangalore
Jonas Salk
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
19. What is our National Anthem?
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Jana Gana Mana
India
Lala Lajpat Rai
20. At what age World's oldest dog Pusuke died?
Kanishka
26 years and 9 months
Alexander Fleming
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
21. How many images will be formed when an object is placed between two mirrors placed parellel to each other?
Alexander Fleming
Infinite
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Finland
22. Which is the world's second cheapest city according to global survey?
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Sunil Gavaskar
Silver
23. What is the upper house of parliament known as?
Sunil Gavaskar
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Shobha De
The Rajya Sabha
24. Begum Akhtar is associated with which field?
Vocal Music
Samuel Morse
Ujjain
Heavy water
25. Where is Union Budget presented firstly?
Shimla and Hamirpur
Bangalore
The Lok Sabha
Jonas Salk
26. Mc. Mohan Line demarcates the boundary between which countries?
Sonepur (Bihar )
Increases
India and China
UK
27. Who wrote the book 'Eternal Himalayas'?
Konark
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Sunderbans delta
31st May
28. Which day is known as World Book and Copyright Day?
Vasudeva
Galileo
23rd April
Cavendish
29. Vijayghat ( Samadhi of Lal Bahadur Shastri) is situated on the bank of which river?
Punjab
Mohammad bin Kasim
Yamuna
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
30. Whose influence is reflected in the sculptures of the Gandhara school?
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Hyderabad
Greeks
Su-Kam Power Systems
31. For what is Bijapur known?
Bangalore
Ujjain
Gol Gumbaz
Carbon dioxide
32. Why Shimla is cooler than Amritsar though they have same latitude?
Methane - butane and propane
Assam
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Bromine
33. Who is crowned Miss World 2011?
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Palk Strait
The Reserve Bank of India
10th December
34. Who invented the telegraphic code?
Rs 270
Samuel Morse
India and China
Alexander Graham Bell
35. Who is called Father of English Poetry?
Protecting Flora and Fauna
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.
Chaucer
The Delhi Metro
36. Who has been selected as the new head of Tata empire in 2011?
Finland
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Darsheel Safary
Cyrus Mistry
37. Where are relics of Buddha preserved?
Mundak Upanishad
Euclid
Stupa
Mehbooba Mufti
38. Which is largest populated city in India?
18th December
Mumbai
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.)
39. Why speed of sound is greater in solids than in liquids?
Prof. V.N Datta
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Jagannath
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
40. What is the difference in time between two places 1 degree longitude apart?
John Ruskin
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Ganga
4 minutes
41. Where is Pushkar lake located?
Andhra Pradesh
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Rajasthan
42. Name the last king of Jammu and Kashmir?
Methane
Maharaja Hari Singh
Washing soda
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
43. How is population density in India defined?
Baby Nargis
India and Pakistan
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Das Kapital
44. Name the Indian state where the game of Polo is said to have originated?
Shockley
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Mussoorie
Manipur54
45. On which day International Women's Day observed?
Chaucer
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
1953
8th March
46. Between whom battle of Kurukshetra was fought?
Su-Kam Power Systems
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Leh
Yamuna
47. Who discovered X-Ray?
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Roentgen
Marie Curie
Allahabad Pillar inscription
48. Indian Air Force Day is observed on which day ?
8th October
Nayantara Sahgal
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
Gagan Narang (shooter)
49. Who discovered the electric lamp?
Rabindranath Tagore147
Edison
Increases
Kanishka
50. Hawa Mahal is situated in which city?
Jaipur
Motion Picture
Mahatma Gandhi
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi