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1. Which is the largest river delta of India?
Bengali
11th July
Ganga
Navtej Saran
2. When India became a Sovereign - democratic republic?
Chandragupta Maurya
18th December
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Jan 26 - 1950134
3. When is the World Population Day observed?
Rahul Dravid
German
Shimla and Hamirpur
11th July
4. Who invented radar?
Robert Watson Watt
Firozeshah Tughluq
15th August167
Kolkata
5. How water in earthen pots remain cool?
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Washing soda
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Sunita Williams
6. How is population density in India defined?
26th January
5th September
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Mahatma Gandhi
7. A famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice 'is written by whom?
Razia Sultana
Jane Austen
Mohammad Iqbal
Haryana
8. What will be the new name of West Bengal?
Alexander Fleming
2nd April - 2011
Ladakh
Paschim Banga1
9. Our Indian National Calender is based on which era?
Saka era
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Hockey
Hampi
10. Name the new nuclear powered submarine formally handed to India by Russia?
Aravind Adiga
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
22nd April
Rahul Dravid
11. Who is known as the Father of the Indian Constitution?
Madhya Pradesh
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Myanmar
The number of persons per square kilometre.
12. Where is the World's largest ship canal?
Edison
Gota in Sweden
8th March
Abul Kalam Azad
13. Where is the Indian Institute of Science located?
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Chandragupta Maurya
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Bangalore
14. Which is the largest lake in India?
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
John Keats
Bangalore
15. Name two other clones left with NDRI?
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Gwalior Gharana
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
16. Who discovered insulin?
Lobsang Sangay
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Dr. F.G.Banting
Ganga
17. What is the name of India's first aircraft carrier?
Bleaching powder
German
INS Vikrant55
Mumbai
18. Who was the founder of the Khalsa?
$46 - 00011
William Wordsworth
Guru Gobind Singh
Dutch East Indies
19. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?
Golconda
Mundak Upanishad
2
Ripon
20. Who wrote the famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
55th rank
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Jane Austen
John Ruskin
21. Upto where Chandragupta Maurya's empire extended in the north-west?
Hindukush
Talwandi
Das Kapital
Mumbai
22. Who won the silver medal in 66 Kg wrestling and is the first Indian to win two individual Olympic medals?
Bhai Gurmej Singh
8th October
Sushil Kumar
Jaipur
23. When is India's Republic Day celebrated?
26th January
Jane Austen
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
12th January
24. Who got Arjuna Award in 2011?
M. Narasimhan
12th January
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
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
25. Name the youngest skydriver in the country?
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Michael Phelps
Navtej Saran
Sunil Gavaskar
26. In which state is Ganesh Otsav celebrated?
Robert Watson Watt
Maharashtra
Valentina Tereshkova
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
27. Where is the headquarters of Oil and Natural Gas Commission?
UK
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Sunita Williams
Dehradun
28. For which dance Birju Maharaj is well known?
Ganga
Madhya Pradesh
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Kathak
29. For what was Ashoka famous?
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Genetically Modified Crops.
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
30. Who deciphered the genetic code?
Myanmar
London
14th November
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
31. Who is the author of book 'India Wins Freedom'?
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
32. How many postal zones are there in India - under the PIN Code System?
8
Ripon
In Samba
E.M Forster
33. Where is Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy which trains Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officers situated?
Mussoorie
Bleaching powder
Bamiyan
Uttar Pradesh
34. Where is Sun Temple situated?
Konark
Performax
Tamil Nadu
Speaker
35. Name the seas joined by Suez Canal?
Ludhiana
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Mohammad Iqbal
Fatehpur Sikri
36. Which book is entitled as 'Bible of Communism'?
Jayadeva
Das Kapital
5th June
2:3161
37. Mainly which gas is present in gobar gas?
Methane
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Dutch East Indies
38. What is the common name of sodium carbonate?
Assam
Kerala
Jama Masjid
Washing soda
39. Name the first Indian women shuttler to enter semifinal at the Olympics?
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
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.)
40. When an open bottle of scent is kept at one corner due to which phenomenon its fragrance is found in whole room?
Third century B.C
Diffusion
Jan 26 - 1950134
Maharashtra
41. When are days and nights equal throughout the globe?
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
When sun is above the equator
Jane Austen
9th August
42. Who appoints the Chairman and members of State Public Service Commission?
Saka era
Six months
Jane Austen
Governor
43. Which is the great circle on earth's surface?
Jyoti Amge
The equator
Increases
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
44. By whom is the Vice-President of the Indian Union elected?
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Narendra Modi government
John Ruskin
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
45. Which day is observed as Sanskrit Day in India?
Hyderabad
5th September
23rd December
Dadabhai Naoroji
46. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' taken?
9th August
Euclid
Nayantara Sahgal
Mundak Upanishad
47. Where is the famous Meenakshi Temple situated?
Tamil Nadu
Mahatma Gandhi
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
India Museum at Kolkata
48. Name the woman boxer of India who have won five time world championship in succession?
Mary Kom
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
49. Whose contemporary was Tulsidas?
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Forty-fourth Amendment
Valentina Tereshkova
Akbar
50. Kanchipuram is in which state?
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Maharashtra
26th January
Tamil Nadu