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1. Which day in India is celebrated as Children's Day?
In Samba
Sriharikota
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
14th November
2. Radcliffe line is the boundary line between which countries?
Nitrous oxide
Abhinav Bindra
India and Pakistan
Jaipur
3. Who is the author of the book 'Unto the Last' which influenced Gandhi ji?
John Ruskin
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
4. Which day in India is observed as Minorities Rights Day?
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Sonepur (Bihar )
18th December
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
5. What is the maximum period of gap between any two sessions of the Indian Parliament?
Khadakvasla
Six months
Thailand
10th December
6. Who is called 'Grand Old Man of India'?
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
Dadabhai Naoroji
Haryana
India Museum at Kolkata
7. Latitude and longitude are at what angle to each other?
Art and architecture
New Delhi
Madhya Pradesh
Perpendicular to each other
8. Durand line is the border common to which two countries?
Churchill
Fatehpur Sikri
Mehbooba Mufti
Pakistan and Afghanistan
9. When is International Labour Day observed?
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
1st May164
Johannes Kepler
10. At which place the largest industrial solar plant of the country became operational on 29th July - 2012?
Gujarat
Ludhiana
Bengali
The President
11. Which state has become the second highest power purchaser in the country after Punjab?
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
12th January
Mahatma Gandhi
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
12. Which metal is used in pencils?
Graphite
Curiosity
Dadabhai Naoroji
24th February
13. Which state in South India have a thermal station at Tuticorin?
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Tamil Nadu
G.V. Mavalankar
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
14. What is the other name of deuterium oxide?
Heavy water
Motion Picture
Amir Khusru
Methane - butane and propane
15. When comes the Farmer's Day (Kisan Divas )in India ?
Chandrayaan
23rd December
Rajasthan
Razia Sultana
16. What is the ratio of width of our National Flag to its length?
The Delhi Metro
8th September
Maharashtra
2:4
17. Name the first ever pill approved by US to prevent HIV?
Lawn Tennis153
Governor
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Genetically Modified Crops.
18. Who is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in India?
State Bank of India
The President
Allauddin Khilji
10th October
19. Who wrote the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?
Saka era
Jules Verne
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Sunil Gavaskar
20. When was the design of our National Flag adopted by the Constituent of India?
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
July - 1947
21. Which is largest cave temple in India?
Demand deposits
Uttar Pradesh
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
22. By whom is the Vice-President of the Indian Union elected?
Saka era
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Abul Kalam Azad
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
23. Which country has World's largest democracy?
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Manipur54
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
India
24. 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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25. Who wrote the book 'Ammi! Letter to a Democratic Mother'?
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
India
Param Vir Chakra
Saeed Mirza
26. Who wrote the book 'Unhappy India'?
South Africa
Lala Lajpat Rai
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
27. How water in earthen pots remain cool?
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jai Samhita
28. Where is famous Somnath Temple located?
2:4
Gujarat
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
The Delhi Metro
29. Who headed the committee on computerisation in Indian banks(1988)?
1.34 millions
M. Narasimhan
Equator
Playwright
30. Where are the headquarters of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts?
Mehbooba Mufti
4 minutes
New Delhi
Genetically Modified Crops.
31. While playing with which team Rahul Dravid completed his 10000 runs in the Test cricket?
South Africa
Palk Strait
8th March
Samuel Morse
32. The Rath Yatra at Puri is celebrated in honour of which Hindu deity?
Odisha
Jagannath
Increases
Methane - butane and propane
33. Who is the second 100 percent visually impaired person to be accepted into the IAS?
Mumbai
Jagannath
Kalpakkam
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
34. Who is the renowned flute player?
Swarajya Party
Roentgen
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
35. 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?
Saka era
Torricelli
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
The Delhi Metro
36. In which field Aachan Maharaj has distinguished himself?
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
V.S Naipaul
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Dance
37. Who discovered blood grouping?
Landsteiner
Mary Kom
Baby Nargis
8th May
38. During whose time the Gandhara School of art developed?
John Ruskin
Sriharikota
At the center of earth
Kushans
39. For what was Gupta dynasty famous?
Art and architecture
Mussoorie
2nd April - 2011
The Reserve Bank of India
40. Which is the longest river of India?
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Ganga
Madhya Pradesh
Ladakh
41. Name the Indian American astronaut who begins her 2nd space odyssey on July 15 - 2012?
Sunita Williams
Ladakh
24
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
42. In which state are the World famous Ajanta Caves situated?
Gagan Narang
Sunderbans delta
Maharashtra
Madhya Pradesh
43. On whose written advice President can proclaim Emergency?
8th May
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Prime Minister
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
44. Name the Russian painter who had an 468 acre estate in Bangalore
Narmada and Japti
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Kerala
45. When is World Laughter Day celebrated?
Zinc
Demand deposits
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
26th January
46. Who elects the Vice President of India?
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Aravind Adiga
5
Chadwick
47. What is the practice of selling goods in a foreign country at a price below their domestic selling price is called?
Mehbooba Mufti
Dumping
J.L.Baird
Hamid Ansari
48. Name the shooter of Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur) who won silver medal in Olympics 2012?
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49. Who wrote Panchatantra?
Vishnu Sharma
Renders electronic gadgets useless and effectively neutralises the adversary's command control and communication capability by producing a strong electromagnetic field generating powerful electricity surges that play havoc with electronic circuits wi
8th October
Concave mirror
50. Who is crowned Miss Universe India 2011?
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
Arthur Conan Doyle
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )