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1. Which game is associated with Merdeka Cup?
Alexander Fleming
Strait of Gibraltar
Football
Landsteiner
2. On which date India won the World Cup in Mumbai?
Silver
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
2nd April - 2011
27th September
3. Who earned the title of 'Liberator'?
Chandragupta Maurya
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
4. Who published the 'Red Data Book' containing information on the wild animals and plants in danger of extinction?
Contingency Fund of India
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
5. How water in earthen pots remain cool?
Amjad Ali Khan
Saka era
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Prime Minister
6. Who invented the telegraphic code?
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
$46 - 00011
Samuel Morse
7. Which is the longest river of India?
Bleaching powder
Football
Ganga
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
8. What is e-bomb?
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9. Which country has an Unwritten Constitution?
Paschim Banga1
1953
Standard time of the country138
UK
10. Term Double Fault is associated with which game?
John Keats
Lawn Tennis153
Vande Mataram
250th anniversary
11. In which field the name of Gangubai Hangal associated?
Music
Odisha
24th October
South Africa
12. Who became the first batsman in the history of cricket to score 100 international centuries?
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Sachin Tendulkar
Sodium
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'.
13. Which place is famous for gigantic rock-cut statue of Budha?
5th September
Dadabhai Naoroji
Bamiyan
Concave lens
14. Who is the new captain of the Indian Premier League team Rajasthan Royals?
India
India
Jayadeva
Rahul Dravid
15. Name the youngest skydriver in the country?
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Demand deposits
Algernon Sidney
16. Which country topped medal table in Olympic 2012?
Nitrous oxide
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Satyendra Nath Bose
17. Who was the founder of the Khalsa?
Guru Gobind Singh
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Anna Hazare
Bamiyan
18. Which is the largest river delta of India?
Gota in Sweden
Ganga
Increases
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
19. On which date Quit India Day comes?
9th August
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Aung San Suu Kyi
H.P.S Ahluwalia
20. Who is the person of Indian origin nominated as the Governor of Louisiana - an American state?
Bobby Jindal
Vasudeva
Uttar Pradesh
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
21. Which is the largest saline water lake in India?
Mussoorie
Akbar
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
22. Who wrote the book 'Eternal Himalayas'?
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Kolkata
Nek Chand
23. What is the name of first Indian aircraft developed by Government laboratory with private fund?
Saka era
Carbon dioxide
Eagle
Jana Gana Mana
24. Which fund can be used to meet the unanticipated expenditurewithout the prior approval of the Parliament?
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Contingency Fund of India
Andhra Pradesh
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
25. When is International Labour Day observed?
Anna Hazare
1st May164
Bangalore
Tungsten
26. Why sky appears to be blue?
Nikolaus Otto
Hamid Ansari
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Shiv Prasad Singh
27. Late Girilal Jain was a noted figure in which field?
Journalism
26th January
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
Roger Federer
28. Who wrote the book 'Gullivers Travel'?
Lead
Four lions
Guru Gobind Singh
Jonathan Swift
29. Name the new nuclear powered submarine formally handed to India by Russia?
Leh
Sachin Tendulkar
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Bangalore
30. Greenwich mean time (GMT) is the standard time of which country?
U.K
Maharashtra
Four lions
Hampi
31. Name the first ever pill approved by US to prevent HIV?
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Shiv Prasad Singh
1st December
The number of persons per square kilometre.
32. When is India's National Youth Day celebrated ?
Maharashtra
Chandragupta Maurya
12th January
Konark
33. Who is the author of the book 'My Experiments with Truth'?
Mahatma Gandhi
Morarji Desai
In Samba
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
34. With which sports is Sushma Saroelker associated?
Kho-Kho
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Krishna
M. Narasimhan
35. Vocalist Rahamat Khan belongs to which Gharana?
Samuel Morse
Albert Einstein
Kanishka
Gwalior Gharana
36. Where is the Indian Institute of Science located?
Jules Verne
22nd April
Bangalore
Lawn Tennis153
37. When was the Constituent Assembly that framed Constitution for Independent India set up?
Andhra Pradesh
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
1949
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
38. Name the world's shortest living woman?
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
5th September
Jyoti Amge
39. For what was Ashoka famous?
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Jane Austen
10th October
Ludhiana
40. Which is largest state of India?
Kushans
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Saeed Mirza
Rajasthan
41. Name the woman boxer of India who have won five time world championship in succession?
Mary Kom
Gagan Narang (shooter)
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Leo Tolstoy
42. Who is known as Nightingale of India?
10th December
Jagannath
Six months
Sarojini Naidu
43. Where is the National Institute of Nutrition located?
Bromine
Navtej Saran
Hyderabad
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
44. India is facing pressure from the US and other Western countries to break trade ties with which country?
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Art and architecture
Rajasthan
Rabindranath Tagore
45. Which is the largest delta in India?
Later Vedic Age
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Sunderbans delta
46. Which country won the maximum number of medals in Olympics 2008 held in Beijing?
USA
V. Anand
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
47. Which is the largest Church in India?
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
5th June
Hyderabad
Dadabhai Naoroji
48. On globe - the latitude and longitude intersect at what angle?
The Reserve Bank of India
90 degrees
USA
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
49. Which day is celebrated as National Maritime Day in India?
90 degree
At the center of earth
Tamil Nadu
5th April
50. Who is the creator of Rock Garden in Chandigarh?
J.B.Say
8th May
Nek Chand
27th September