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1. Which is the highest military award for valour in India?
Alexander Fleming
China
Param Vir Chakra
Sodium
2. When are days and nights equal throughout the globe?
When sun is above the equator
Dadabhai Naoroji
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Tungsten
3. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
Bangalore
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Alexander Fleming
Mumbai
4. When was Sangeet Natak Akademi set up by Government of India?
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
E.M Forster
Madhya Pradesh
1953
5. Late Girilal Jain was a noted figure in which field?
Jayadeva
Journalism
Sunil Gavaskar
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
6. Who discovered photoelectric effect?
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
South Kolkata
Sunil Gavaskar
Albert Einstein
7. Where is the headquarters of Oil and Natural Gas Commission?
Rabindranath Tagore147
Dehradun
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.
11th May
8. Which countries are located on the Greenwich Meridian?
11th May
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
The Lok Sabha
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
9. Name the Indian scientist from whose surname the word 'boson' is derived?
Satyendra Nath Bose
Akhilesh Yadav
Jonathan Swift
Albert Einstein
10. How is population density in India defined?
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
The number of persons per square kilometre.
2G spectrum scam
Jamaica
11. Which city is known as 'Electronic City of India'?
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Bangalore
Silicon
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
12. Where were huge amounts of uranium recently found?
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.
Sidney Sheldon
Andhra Pradesh
Prime Minister
13. When is Earth Day observed?
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
22nd April
Samar Guha
Gol Gumbaz
14. What are GM Crops?
55th rank
Genetically Modified Crops.
Hyderabad
When sun is above the equator
15. Name the herbal drug developed by DRDO for soldiers working in high altitude areas?
69 miles
Performax
Vasudeva
Jonathan Swift
16. Which is the language next to Hindi spoken by largest number of people in the Indian sub continent ?
Bengali
Palk Strait
Washing soda
Mundak Upanishad
17. When comes National Postal Day in India?
10th October
Strait of Gibraltar
Sitar
Indians
18. Who is known as 'Lady with the Lamp'?
Darsheel Safary
Yamuna
Florence Nightingale
Mary Kom
19. Who is the first Indian male shuttler to reach Olympic quarters?
Algernon Sidney
Parupalli Kashyap
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Planning Commission
20. Where in Delhi a bomb hidden in briefcase exploded killing 11 persons and injuring 47 in the worst attack in India's capital in 3 years in 2011?
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21. Which will be the new subject added to the curriculum of Kendriya Vidyalayas?
German
Maharashtra
Algernon Sidney
Yamuna
22. Who wrote the famous play 'Macbeth'?
Chandragupta-II
William Shakespeare151
Dutch East Indies
Valentina Tereshkova
23. Which is the largest district in India?
Chandragupta-II
Ganga
Kanishka
Ladakh
24. Which player is the author of the book 'Straight From The Heart'?
Odisha
Kapil Dev
Samuel Morse
Playwright
25. Which is largest fresh water lake in India?
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
250th anniversary
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Rabindranath Tagore147
26. In which state is Ganesh Otsav celebrated?
Chandrayaan
Maharashtra
Mumbai
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
27. When is World Food Day observed?
Nitrous oxide
16th October
Chandragupta Maurya
Hyderabad
28. Name the state of India where diamond mines are mainly found?
Bangalore
William Shakespeare151
Myanmar
Madhya Pradesh
29. Who invented the mercury thermometer?
Mumbai
Andhra Pradesh
$46 - 00011
Galileo
30. When is India's Republic Day celebrated?
India
Demand deposits
Karashapana
26th January
31. Who won the silver medal in 66 Kg wrestling and is the first Indian to win two individual Olympic medals?
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Khadakvasla
Sushil Kumar
John Ruskin
32. What will be the new name of West Bengal?
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Nikolaus Otto
Paschim Banga1
33. Name the person who presided over the first session of Indian National Congress in 1885?
W.C Bannerjee
Trivandrum
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Sunil Gavaskar
34. Who propounded the Market Law?
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
W.C Bannerjee
J.B.Say
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
35. If in a mirror image of object appears to be larger then which type of mirror is used?
Amitabh Bachchan
The equator
Concave mirror
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
36. Who founded the Saka Era?
Kanishka
Vasudeva
6 months
Aravind Adiga
37. Who was the chairman of Constituent Assembly?
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Chandrayaan
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
E.G.Otis
38. Which king brought the valleys of Indus - Ganga and Jamuna together for the first time under one political authority?
Ashoka
Odisha
Jane Austen
Narendra Modi government
39. Which state is going to be first carbon-neutral state in the country by 2020?
23rd December
Himachal Pradesh
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
At the center of earth
40. Name the state where bio-fuel outlet - first of its kind in the country will be opened?
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
41. What will be the difference in longitudes between two places if their time difference is 2 hours and 20 minutes?
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Andhra Pradesh
John Keats
35 degree
42. How 4G services will hit the country in 2012?
When sun is above the equator
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.
Eagle
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
43. Who is called Father of English Poetry?
Mohammad Iqbal
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Chaucer
Jai Samhita
44. Latitude and longitude are at what angle to each other?
Khadakvasla
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Perpendicular to each other
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
45. Who wrote the book 'A Passage To India'?
E.M Forster
Dutch East Indies
V.S Naipaul
Standard time of the country138
46. Where is India's Space Rocket Launching Centre situated?
Sriharikota
Dumping
Ganga
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
47. Which cricketer known as 'Tiger' also father of famous actor died on 23rd September - 2011?
Silver
July - 1947
Oxygen and acetylene
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
48. Who invented the telegraphic code?
Samuel Morse
Motion Picture
Nitrous oxide
Tamil Nadu
49. Name the place where Lord Budha breathed his last?
Arthur Conan Doyle
1st December
Kushinagar
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.)
50. In which Amendment Right to property was removed from the list of Fundamental rights?
Samudragupta
Mundak Upanishad
God particle or Higgs Boson
Forty-fourth Amendment