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1. What is India's rank on Foreign money in Swiss banks?
Lawn Tennis153
M. Narasimhan
6 months
55th rank
2. With whom are the rare replicas of sacred book Guru Granth Sahib?
Mosley
250th anniversary
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Strait of Gibraltar
3. Which is the largest district in India?
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Ladakh
250th anniversary
E.M Forster
4. Name the baby of Uttar Pardesh who is the symbolic seven billionth baby ?
Sri Lanka
Baby Nargis
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
5. Which is the highest military award for valour in India?
Sachin Tendulkar
Churchill
Param Vir Chakra
In Samba
6. Who is the author of the book 'My Experiments with Truth'?
18th December
Carbon dioxide
Mahatma Gandhi
Rajasthan
7. Who is the first Indian male shuttler to reach Olympic quarters?
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Parupalli Kashyap
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.)
Painting
8. Where is the World's largest ship canal?
Jaya Dev
Rahul Dravid
Gota in Sweden
Dutch East Indies
9. Term Double Fault is associated with which game?
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Lawn Tennis153
Jai Samhita
From fresh and purified fat stem cells ( Fat has a large number of tissue growing stem cells. People could go for liposuction and save fat cells for future use or can use immediately.)
10. When in India National Technology Day celebrated?
Stupa
11th May
Kanishka
35 degree
11. Which country is the world's largest recipient of arms?
26 years and 9 months
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
India
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
12. Which is the language next to Hindi spoken by largest number of people in the Indian sub continent ?
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Demand deposits
Madhya Pradesh
Bengali
13. Name the alloy of iron - chromium and nickel?
Prime Minister
Stainless steel
Contingency Fund of India
Madhya Pradesh
14. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?
Golconda
Indians
Odisha
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
15. Late Vijay Tendulkar who died in 2008 were famous in which field?
The Delhi Metro
Cavendish
Jayadeva
Playwright
16. Where is Union Budget presented firstly?
The Lok Sabha
India
14th November
Pakistan and Afghanistan
17. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' taken?
Tamil Nadu
Mumbai
Mundak Upanishad
Equator
18. Who is vice President of India?
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.
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
5th June
24
19. Who wrote the book 'Eternal Himalayas'?
Baby Nargis
Sachin Tendulkar
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
H.P.S Ahluwalia
20. Which is the largest cave in India?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Anna Hazare
21. On which date Anti Tobacco Day observed?
Rajasthan
31st May
Sukumar Sen
22nd April
22. Which actress has become the brand ambassador for sanitation compaign?
95th
G.V. Mavalankar
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Vidya Balan
23. Who got Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (highest sports award in country) award?
Florence Nightingale
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Allahabad Pillar inscription
24. What are the estimated premature deaths caused annually by air pollution - according to the first pollution survey carried in Sept. - 2011 by World Health Organisation?
Hockey
Andhra Pradesh
N.E. Borlaug
1.34 millions
25. Name the Strait which separates Asia from North America?
Cavendish
The Bering Strait
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Methane
26. Which is the largest desert in India?
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
In Samba
Jaipur
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
27. What is proxy voting?
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Dance
5
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
28. Whom did Dalai Lama announced to be his successor in March - 2011?
Lobsang Sangay
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Edison
Jonathan Swift
29. When is Sadbhavna Diwas (Goodwill Day ) observed in India?
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30. Why clear nights are more colder then cloudy nights?
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Alexander Graham Bell
Due to radiation
Milkha Singh
31. Indian Air Force Day is observed on which day ?
8th October
Gagan Narang (shooter)
4 minutes
95th
32. Why bubble of water shines?
Dr. F.G.Banting
Julang-2
Bleaching powder
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
33. For which dance Birju Maharaj is well known?
Kathak
Kushans
2:3161
Aravind Adiga
34. Who brought and installed two Asokan pillars in Delhi?
8th September
Saka era
Firozeshah Tughluq
18th December
35. Which country has an Unwritten Constitution?
UK
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
The Rajya Sabha
U.K
36. Where were remains of Vijayanagar Empire found?
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
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.
Hampi
G.V. Mavalankar
37. Our Indian Constitution closely follows the Constitutional system of which country?
U.K
Satyendra Nath Bose
William Wordsworth
Rabindranath Tagore
38. What is added to remove permanent hardness of water?
Dadabhai Naoroji
26th January
Uttarakhand
Washing soda
39. Who led the first Muslim invasion of India?
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Mohammad bin Kasim
Performax
Uttar Pradesh
40. Which state in South India have a thermal station at Tuticorin?
Aravind Adiga
Tamil Nadu
Maharashtra
India and Pakistan
41. Name the player of USA who created history by grabbing his 22nd Olympic medal ?
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Tamil Nadu
Pakistan and Afghanistan
42. Which day in India celebrated as Central Excise Day ?
From fresh and purified fat stem cells ( Fat has a large number of tissue growing stem cells. People could go for liposuction and save fat cells for future use or can use immediately.)
24th February
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Concave lens
43. Who earned the title of 'Liberator'?
5 hours 30 minutes
N.E. Borlaug
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Chandragupta Maurya
44. What is the name of World's cheapest tablet PC?
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
1.34 millions
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
45. Who wrote the book 'Gulliver's Travels'?
Jonathan Swift
Jagannath
Concave mirror
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
46. Which book is entitled as 'Bible of Communism'?
Das Kapital
8
Parupalli Kashyap
Shiv Prasad Singh
47. Name the world's shortest living woman?
Jaya Dev
Jyoti Amge
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Talwandi
48. What are GM Crops?
Dance
Ladakh
Odisha
Genetically Modified Crops.
49. On which date Chennai turned 372 years?
Shiv Prasad Singh
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jonas Salk
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
50. Name the ship commissioned by India which is biggest in its class in the World?
Mumbai
Lala Lajpat Rai
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Maharashtra
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