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1. What is the common name of sodium carbonate?
Washing soda
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Jane Austen
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
2. 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?
The Delhi Metro
The Reserve Bank of India
Sunil Gavaskar
S. Radhakrishnan
3. Which is largest river without delta in India?
Narmada and Japti
Jane Austen
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Mohammad Iqbal
4. Year 2011 is observed by Army as what?
Kulandei Francis
Bamiyan
Prof. V.N Datta
Year of Disabled Soldiers
5. Between whom battle of Kurukshetra was fought?
2:3161
Will pass through Equator
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.
Kauravas and Pandavas51
6. When is Martyr's Day in India celebrated ?
Torricelli
30th January
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Shiv Prasad Singh
7. Which is the state wise largest area under forest in India?
Jaya Dev
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Madhya Pradesh
Mohammad bin Kasim
8. An air bubble in water acts as which lens?
Concave lens
Mahatma Gandhi
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
5th April
9. Name the herbal drug developed by DRDO for soldiers working in high altitude areas?
Because the solids have high elasticity.
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
Performax
South Africa
10. Which is the language next to Hindi spoken by largest number of people in the Indian sub continent ?
Stupa
Hamid Ansari
Dumping
Bengali
11. Who has been re-elected PDP President for the fourth time in Srinagar in 2011?
Chandragupta Maurya
Mehbooba Mufti
Hindukush
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
12. Name the world's shortest living woman?
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Jyoti Amge
The Lok Sabha
German
13. Who is the author of book 'Gita Govinda'?
1911133
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Jonas Salk
Jayadeva
14. On which date India won the World Cup in Mumbai?
M. Narasimhan
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
William Shakespeare151
2nd April - 2011
15. Which is our National song?
Standard time of the country138
Fatehpur Sikri
Vande Mataram
Baby Nargis
16. Who arranged the elements in the Modern Periodic Table?
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Mosley
Hamid Ansari
India
17. When comes National Postal Day in India?
10th October
Music
Madhya Pradesh
Saka era
18. Which sportsperson won the maximum number of Olympic Gold Medals?
Michael Phelps
8th March
Dilip Kumar
Ganga
19. Name the sub-launched long range N-missile developed by China?
35 degree
Allauddin Khilji
India and Pakistan
Julang-2
20. Name the Indian American astronaut who begins her 2nd space odyssey on July 15 - 2012?
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Madhya Pradesh
Jai Samhita
Sunita Williams
21. Who appoints the Chairman and members of State Public Service Commission?
Governor
Yamuna
The Lok Sabha
Jhumpa Lahiri
22. Who is the elected Prime Minister of Pakistan from Pakistan People's Party?
Three Decades in Parliament
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Performax
Yousuf Raza Gillani
23. Who discovered Penicillin?
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
At Magdalla port near Surat.
26th January
Alexander Fleming
24. How many total number of enclaves are to be exchanged between territories of two countries India and Bangladesh according to the treaty signed in Sept - 2011?
90 degree
162
Paschim Banga1
Shiv Prasad Singh
25. Where is Pushkar lake located?
Rajasthan
1.34 millions
Lobsang Sangay
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
26. Why Shimla is cooler than Amritsar though they have same latitude?
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
27. Name the latest India's surface -to-surface missile successfully test fired (on 26th Sept - 2011)?
Aravind Adiga
Samuel Morse
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Andhra Pradesh
28. What happens to speed of sound with rise in temperature?
14th November
Increases
State Bank of India
Kiran Bedi
29. With whom are the rare replicas of sacred book Guru Granth Sahib?
Hyderabad
INS Vikrant55
22nd April
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
30. Who composed the National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'?
Rabindranath Tagore
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Leo Tolstoy
Sodium
31. One degree of longitude on equator is equal to what distance?
Odisha
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
69 miles
14th November
32. Which is the largest lake in India?
Wular lake (Kashmir)
10th December
Aravind Adiga
M.N Roy62
33. How many lines are there in latitude and longitude?
Amir Khusru
Hockey
Kalpakkam
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.
34. Durand line is the border common to which two countries?
Rahul Dravid
Cavendish
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
Pakistan and Afghanistan
35. Which day is celebrated as World Red Cross Day?
Leh
8th May
Kiran Bedi
Mahatma Gandhi
36. Name the Indian scientist from whose surname the word 'boson' is derived?
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Satyendra Nath Bose
Speaker
Landsteiner
37. Who discovered blood grouping?
Shockley
Abul Kalam Azad
Landsteiner
Harshavardhana
38. Name the three new elements added to the Periodic Table in 2011?
35 degree
Andhra Pradesh
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Vande Mataram
39. Which day is known as World Tourism Day?
5th September
27th September
M.N Roy62
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
40. On whose written advice President can proclaim Emergency?
Kushinagar
Prime Minister
Eagle
Narmada and Japti
41. Where is Indian Cancer Research Institute situated?
Bombay
John Ruskin
Guru Gobind Singh
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.)
42. What will be the new name of West Bengal?
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Paschim Banga1
In Samba
90 degrees
43. What is the name of India's moon mission?
Chandrayaan
Performax
22nd April
Mumbai
44. Who wrote the book 'The Namesake'?
Mohammad bin Kasim
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Sriharikota
Jhumpa Lahiri
45. In which field Aachan Maharaj has distinguished himself?
Stainless steel
Dance
Amjad Ali Khan
Uttarakhand
46. Where was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Avanti?
Ujjain
Jayadeva
Motion Picture
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
47. When comes the World Environment Day?
Gujarat
5th June
Maharashtra
Playwright
48. Who was the only Muslim woman to sit on the throne of Delhi?
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Mumbai
Razia Sultana
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
49. Who composed the national song of India (Vande Maatram)?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Perpendicular to each other
Chandragupta
Edison
50. Whom did Dalai Lama announced to be his successor in March - 2011?
Hockey
Kiran Bedi
Lobsang Sangay
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh