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1. Who invented transistor?
Gwalior Gharana
4G technology will offer many advancements to the wireless market including downlink data rates well over 100 Mbps - low latency - very efficient spectrum use and low cost implementation.
Euclid
Shockley

2. Who has been appointed the Governor of RBI after the retirement of Shri Y.V. Reddy?
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
India Museum at Kolkata
162
1.34 millions

3. Which is the largest port in India?
Razia Sultana
2nd April - 2011
Mundak Upanishad
Mumbai

4. Where are the World famous Khajuraho sculptures located?
Governor
Nayantara Sahgal
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Madhya Pradesh

5. What was the main occupation of Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) people?
Hunting
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Leh

6. Whose autobiography is 'India Wins Freedom'?
Abul Kalam Azad
Kalpakkam
The Reserve Bank of India
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.

7. Which was the World's first surviving clone buffalo at NDRI (National Dairy Research Institute)?
Valentina Tereshkova
Maharashtra
Razia Sultana
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).

8. Our Indian National Calender is based on which era?
Contingency Fund of India
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Gujarat
Saka era

9. Which is the place experiencing minimum and maximum temperatures -28.3 degree Celsius and 15 degree Celsius respectively?
4G technology will offer many advancements to the wireless market including downlink data rates well over 100 Mbps - low latency - very efficient spectrum use and low cost implementation.
Leh
8th May
Equator

10. Name the temple where majority of pilgrims visiting tonsure their heads and offer their hair to Lord Venkateswara?
Yamuna
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh

11. Vocalist Rahamat Khan belongs to which Gharana?
Gwalior Gharana
Nitrogen
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)

12. Name the state of India where diamond mines are mainly found?
Madhya Pradesh
5
Hamid Ansari
1st December

13. Which song became the most searched You tube video in India in 2011?

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14. When is Martyr's Day in India celebrated ?
15th August167
30th January
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).

15. Where is Boat Race a popular sport?
Chandragupta Maurya
24th February
Kerala
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)

16. From where the longest circle which can be drawn from earth's surface will pass?
Will pass through Equator
Gwalior Gharana
11th May
Arthur Conan Doyle

17. When in India National Technology Day celebrated?
11th May
Gwalior Gharana
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Japan

18. What is the ratio of width of our National Flag to its length?
Harshavardhana
2:4
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
The equator

19. Who got Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award in 2011?
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Arundhati Roy
Thailand

20. Where is Char Minar located?
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Indians
Hyderabad

21. What is the original name of Mahabharata?
Jai Samhita
Silicon
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
1.34 millions

22. Name the two living members of first Lok Sabha to be honored by President on 13th May - 2012 - 60th anniversary of our Parliament?
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Vishnu Sharma
Khadakvasla
Jamaica

23. Which is the Garden City of India?
Mohammad bin Kasim
4G technology will offer many advancements to the wireless market including downlink data rates well over 100 Mbps - low latency - very efficient spectrum use and low cost implementation.
Maharashtra
Bangalore

24. Who is the author of 'Tarikh-i-Alai' containing the details of the first few years of Sultan Alauddin Khilji?
Amir Khusrau
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
6 months

25. Who is the new captain of the Indian Premier League team Rajasthan Royals?
Rahul Dravid
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Satyendra Nath Bose
Sitar

26. Mainly which gas is present in gobar gas?
14th November
26th January
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Methane

27. Name the country's longest railway tunnel excavated?
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).

28. Name the country which has longest international boundary with India?
China
Jama Masjid
90 degrees
Sarojini Naidu

29. Late Vijay Tendulkar who died in 2008 were famous in which field?
G.V. Mavalankar
Demand deposits
China
Playwright

30. At which point of earth weight of object will be minimum?
At the center of earth
Kerala
Pune
4G technology will offer many advancements to the wireless market including downlink data rates well over 100 Mbps - low latency - very efficient spectrum use and low cost implementation.

31. What are the benefits of medicine Performax?
India Museum at Kolkata
V.S Naipaul
Dilip Kumar
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.

32. With whom are the rare replicas of sacred book Guru Granth Sahib?
2
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
29th August

33. Who is the author of book 'Speed Post'?
E.G.Otis
Mahatma Gandhi
11th May
Shobha De

34. Who is the author of book 'Freedom Behind Bars'?
Robert Watson Watt
Kiran Bedi
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Dutch East Indies

35. Which day is celebrated as International Literacy Day?
8th September
Forty-fourth Amendment
Oxygen and acetylene
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya

36. Where is Bihar's first all women police station located?
Iodine
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
35 degree
Oxygen and acetylene

37. Term Double Fault is associated with which game?
15th August167
Lawn Tennis153
Khushwant Singh
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.

38. When was the Constituent Assembly that framed Constitution for Independent India set up?
Shobha De
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
1949
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)

39. When is the Mother's Day celebrated?
Euclid
11th May
Sitar
London

40. When is International Labour Day observed?
UK
Odisha
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
1st May164

41. Who is the person of Indian origin nominated as the Governor of Louisiana - an American state?
Bobby Jindal
U.K
Parupalli Kashyap
Bromine

42. Who composed our National song?
God particle or Higgs Boson
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
U.K
Methane - butane and propane

43. When is the UN Day observed?
24
Chadwick
The Reserve Bank of India
24th October

44. By whom is the Vice-President of the Indian Union elected?
Bangalore
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Satyendra Nath Bose

45. Which book is entitled as 'Bible of Communism'?
Das Kapital
Jane Austen
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Trivandrum

46. Which metal is used in pencils?
India
Graphite
Longitudinal position
Chandrayaan

47. Who introduced the market regulations in India in ancient period?
Uttar Pradesh
Trivandrum
Allauddin Khilji
W.C Bannerjee

48. Name the world's shortest living woman?
Gagan Narang
South Kolkata
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
Jyoti Amge

49. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
It loses one day
Golconda
8th May

50. At what age World's oldest dog Pusuke died?
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
The Delhi Metro
26th January
26 years and 9 months

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