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1. Where is the birth place of Guru Nanak Ji?
Mahatma Gandhi
Talwandi
Chandragupta-II
5
2. What is the name of India's first aircraft carrier?
Art and architecture
Hyderabad
Jonathan Swift
INS Vikrant55
3. Name the first Indian women shuttler to enter semifinal at the Olympics?
India and Pakistan
India
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
4. What are the benefits of medicine Performax?
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.
State Bank of India
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
5. Which metro has been certified by the United Nations as the first metro rail based system in the World to get carbon credits for contributing to the fight against climate changes?
W.C Bannerjee
Standard time of the country138
The Delhi Metro
Maharashtra
6. What is the ratio of width of our National flag to its length?
2:3161
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
Sitar
Rajasthan
7. To whom President of India can write if he wants to resign from office?
Music
Ashoka
Kushinagar
Vice President of India
8. With whom are the rare replicas of sacred book Guru Granth Sahib?
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
26 years and 9 months
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Rajasthan
9. Which is the largest auditorium in India?
Roentgen
Three Decades in Parliament
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Kanishka
10. Name the gases used in different types of welding?
Oxygen and acetylene
Jonathan Swift
Chandragupta
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
11. Name the great poet who graced the court of Alauddin Khilji?
G.V. Mavalankar
Amir Khusru
Florence Nightingale
Mumbai
12. Who discovered neutron?
Heavy water
M. Narasimhan
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Chadwick
13. When in India National Technology Day celebrated?
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
God particle or Higgs Boson
11th May
Galileo
14. 'Glimpses of World History' is written by whom?
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Gujarat
Jawaharlal Nehru
15. How is population density in India defined?
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Narendra Modi government
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
16. Name the alloy of iron - chromium and nickel?
Stainless steel
The Reserve Bank of India
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Mahatma Gandhi
17. When is Earth Day observed?
Gwalior Gharana
9th August
22nd April
Bleaching powder
18. Which day is known as World Tourism Day?
1911133
H.P.S Ahluwalia
27th September
Mumbai
19. Which was the musical instrument used by Amir Khusro?
2nd April - 2011
Samuel Morse
In front of New Delhi's High Court
Sitar
20. Where is largest animal fair held in India?
Mumbai
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Sonepur (Bihar )
Maharashtra
21. Name the country which is second largest producer of horticulture commodities such as fruits - vegetables and flowers in the world?
Aravallis
India
Mundak Upanishad
Galileo
22. Begum Akhtar is associated with which field?
Vocal Music
Johannes Kepler
God particle or Higgs Boson
Later Vedic Age
23. Players of which state got the maximum Olympic medals in London Olympics?
Haryana
Silicon
The Rajya Sabha
Vadodara
24. Who wrote the famous play 'Macbeth'?
Amir Khusrau
William Shakespeare151
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
25. Who invented the steam engine?
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
162
26. What is the common name of sodium carbonate?
Forty-fourth Amendment
Concave mirror
Washing soda
Bangalore
27. What was the main occupation of Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) people?
Hunting
22nd April
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Kathak
28. In India - who issues one rupee coins and notes as well as subsidiary coins?
Navtej Saran
The Reserve Bank of India
Narendra Modi government
Fatehpur Sikri
29. Where is famous Somnath Temple located?
Gujarat
8th September
Bangalore
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
30. Which is the largest river delta of India?
90 degree
Ganga
Churchill
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
31. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
Kushans
E.M Forster
Bangalore
Jamaica
32. In how many time zones is the World divided?
William Wordsworth
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
24
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.)
33. Name the Earth- like planet whose existence is confirmed by American astronomers?
Tamil Nadu
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Kanishka
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
34. While playing with which team Rahul Dravid completed his 10000 runs in the Test cricket?
New Delhi
Mundak Upanishad
South Africa
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
35. Name the Russian painter who had an 468 acre estate in Bangalore
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
John Keats
1911133
Jane Austen
36. At which place a devastating fire tore through seven storey AMRI hospital killing 91 people in 2011?
Kulandei Francis
Leh
South Kolkata
Albert Einstein
37. Whose autobiography is 'India Wins Freedom'?
Abul Kalam Azad
15th August167
Tungsten
Sitar
38. Where were huge amounts of uranium recently found?
1911133
Nek Chand
5th June
Andhra Pradesh
39. In which year was the National Anthem first sung?
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
1911133
23rd December
Amitabh Bachchan
40. Which day in India is observed as Minorities Rights Day?
14th November
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
5th April
18th December
41. Who painted the masterpiece 'Hamsa Damayanti'?
Raja Ravi Varma
Methane
Dance
Director General Anil Kaushik
42. Which day is observed as World Heritage Day?
9th August
Ganga
18th April
Hampi
43. What is KG5 drug?
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44. Who is known as the Father of the Indian Constitution?
Saka era
Trivandrum
Chandragupta-II
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
45. Name the shooter of Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur) who won silver medal in Olympics 2012?
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46. Who was the first king to conquer Malwa - Gujarat and Maharashtra?
Painting
Mosley
Chandragupta Maurya
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
47. Triple vaccine is administered to a new born child to save him from which diseases?
Art and architecture
Mundak Upanishad
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Satyendra Nath Bose
48. What is the other name of deuterium oxide?
Jawaharlal Nehru
Heavy water
Khushwant Singh
J.L.Baird
49. Which metal is used in pencils?
Assam
Will pass through Equator
Mumbai
Graphite
50. Why sky appears to be blue?
Finland
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Mary Kom
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.