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1. On which date Anti Tobacco Day observed?
31st May
Sitar
Chandrayaan
Golden Temple (Amritsar )

2. Name the Apple co-founder who changed the daily habits of millions by reinventing computing - music and mobile phones?
John Keats
Kanishka
Mahatma Gandhi
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)

3. Name the China's first woman astronaut into orbit?
Demand deposits
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Aung San Suu Kyi
1.34 millions

4. Where is Boat Race a popular sport?
Samuel Morse
W.C Bannerjee
Kerala
24

5. When was the Constituent Assembly that framed Constitution for Independent India set up?
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Rajasthan
1949

6. Which is the largest dome in India?
2G spectrum scam
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur

7. Which is our National song?
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
Roentgen
Kanishka
Vande Mataram

8. Name the Russian painter who had an 468 acre estate in Bangalore
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Palk Strait
Dehradun
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)

9. Which is the World's largest exporter of inverters?
Su-Kam Power Systems
Mumbai
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Concave lens

10. The Rath Yatra at Puri is celebrated in honour of which Hindu deity?
Tamil Nadu
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Jagannath

11. Who was the first king to conquer Malwa - Gujarat and Maharashtra?
Chandragupta Maurya
John Keats
Ganga
The Rajya Sabha

12. What is Dry Ice?
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
10th October
Second Battle of Tarain
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.

13. Name the Strait which separates Asia from North America?
Mahatma Gandhi
Konark
The Bering Strait
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka

14. Who wrote the book 'A Passage To India'?
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
2G spectrum scam
E.M Forster
30th January

15. Which country is the world's largest recipient of arms?
Heavy water
Kanishka
Chadwick
India

16. Who composed our National song?
Carbon dioxide
Ganga
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
India and China

17. In India - who issues one rupee coins and notes as well as subsidiary coins?
The Reserve Bank of India
Narmada and Japti
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
23rd April

18. Who discovered the oral polio vaccine?
Vocal Music
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Julang-2
Jonas Salk

19. Who invented the petrol engine?
Nikolaus Otto
Saka era
Leh
4 minutes

20. In which state is Ganesh Otsav celebrated?
5th September
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Maharashtra
William Wordsworth

21. Which state in South India have a thermal station at Tuticorin?
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Tamil Nadu
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
J.B.Say

22. What is the maximum duration for which the Vice President can officiate as the President of India?
8th May
6 months
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Michael Phelps

23. Which ruler was adorned with the title of 'Maharajadhiraja'?
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Kanishka
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
12th January

24. Who is the second 100 percent visually impaired person to be accepted into the IAS?
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
Chandragupta-II
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
7th April

25. How water in earthen pots remain cool?
Only the first stanza
Ladakh
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.

26. Who deciphered the genetic code?
Due to radiation
1911133
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).

27. Where are Dilwara Temples situated?
Herodotus
Jonathan Swift
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
China

28. Which game is associated with Agha Khan Cup?
Hockey
Jan 26 - 1950134
Methane
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi

29. Who wrote the book 'Gullivers Travel'?
Jonathan Swift
Concave mirror
Genetically Modified Crops.
The Lok Sabha

30. Who won the silver medal in 66 Kg wrestling and is the first Indian to win two individual Olympic medals?
Uttarakhand
Razia Sultana
Sushil Kumar
William Wordsworth

31. On which date Quit India Day comes?
Shobha De
9th August
Planning Commission
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )

32. Why sky appears to be blue?
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Ripon
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Gujarat

33. Why speed of sound is greater in solids than in liquids?
Nitrogen
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Lead
Because the solids have high elasticity.

34. At which point of earth weight of object will be minimum?
Amjad Ali Khan
5th April
At the center of earth
Mussoorie

35. Whom the Gujarat High Court issued contempt notice on 15th Feb. - 2012 for not obeying its order to compensate people whose shops were burnt down in the post-Godhra riots?
Rahul Dravid
Jules Verne
Narendra Modi government
11th May

36. Players of which state got the maximum Olympic medals in London Olympics?
In front of New Delhi's High Court
Haryana
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Dutch East Indies

37. When in India Teachers Day celebrated?
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Jayadeva
5th September
Makes cancer cell 'commit suicide'. It helps in stoping multiplication of tumorous cells and shut themselves down. Will be available in approximately 5 years and will be in pill form.

38. What is proxy voting?
Six months
Tamil Nadu
Marie Curie
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.

39. Which day is celebrated as National Maritime Day in India?
5th April
1.34 millions
Golconda
Madhya Pradesh

40. Which was the musical instrument used by Amir Khusro?
Marie Curie
Eagle
Lala Lajpat Rai
Sitar

41. Our Indian National Calender is based on which era?
Kanishka
Saka era
Graphite
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi

42. Which city is called 'White City' of Rajasthan?
Infinite
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Rabindranath Tagore
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.

43. What is the ratio of width of our National Flag to its length?
5th September
2:4
Vocal Music
Mohammed Hamid Ansari

44. Who won Jnanpith Award in 2010?
Zinc
Jawaharlal Nehru
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
Director General Anil Kaushik

45. Which is largest fresh water lake in India?
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Odisha
Navtej Saran
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)

46. What happens when a ship crosses Date line from west to east?
Nayantara Sahgal
Japan
Jane Austen
It loses one day

47. Which is the largest auditorium in India?
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
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.
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
16th October

48. What is the maximum period of gap between any two sessions of the Indian Parliament?
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Six months
Satyendra Nath Bose
90 degrees

49. Which is the largest saline water lake in India?
Narmada and Japti
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Harshavardhana

50. When is Martyr's Day in India celebrated ?
30th January
V.S Naipaul
The equator
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)

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