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1. Name the Bollywood legend whose ancestral home in Peshawar - Pakistan has been turned into heritage site?
Maharashtra
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Dilip Kumar
2. Which countries are located on the Greenwich Meridian?
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Khushwant Singh
23rd December
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
3. Which day is celebrated as World Red Cross Day?
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
8th May
23rd December
4. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Vande Mataram
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Yousuf Raza Gillani
5. When was the design of our National Flag adopted by the Constituent of India?
Bangalore
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Chandragupta Maurya
July - 1947
6. Name the China's first woman astronaut into orbit?
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Hamid Ansari
Forty-fourth Amendment
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
7. World Human Rights Day is observed on which day?
The Lok Sabha
10th December
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
8. Mainly which gas is present in gobar gas?
Madhya Pradesh
Methane
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Michael Phelps
9. Where is Char Minar located?
Vadodara
Narendra Modi government
Hyderabad
Diffusion
10. What is the maximum duration for which the Vice President can officiate as the President of India?
Baby Nargis
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
Third century B.C
6 months
11. What is the name of India's first aircraft carrier?
Speaker
6 months
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
INS Vikrant55
12. Which is the largest desert in India?
Saka era
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
30th January
Hampi
13. Name the shooter of Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur) who won silver medal in Olympics 2012?
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14. On which date Anti Tobacco Day observed?
29th August
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
2:4
31st May
15. For what was Gupta dynasty famous?
William Shakespeare151
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Greeks
Art and architecture
16. Which gas is called laughing gas?
London
Nitrous oxide
Gujarat
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
17. Who discovered insulin?
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
7th April
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Dr. F.G.Banting
18. When comes National Postal Day in India?
Three Decades in Parliament
10th October
Chandragupta Maurya
5th September
19. Where are the achievements of Samudragupta described on?
Bamiyan
Sunil Gavaskar
10th October
Allahabad Pillar inscription
20. Which was the musical instrument used by Amir Khusro?
Ripon
Swarajya Party
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Sitar
21. For what was Ashoka famous?
90 degree
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Abul Kalam Azad
Ludhiana
22. Name the Indian scientist who was a part of NASA team which has identified the landing site of the 'Curiosity'?
Indra Sinha64
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Amitabh Ghosh
Kapil Dev
23. To whom President of India can write if he wants to resign from office?
Vice President of India
Indians
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.
Four lions
24. Why sky appears to be blue?
Amjad Ali Khan
Neil Armstrong
Hockey
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
25. Name the person who transliterated Guru Granth Sahib in Braille?
Jaya Dev
Darsheel Safary
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
26. In how many time zones is the World divided?
Euclid
24
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Martin Luther King
27. Who is known as the Father of the Indian Constitution?
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
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.
Himachal Pradesh
Ladakh
28. Where are relics of Buddha preserved?
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
5th April
Stupa
Jyoti Amge
29. With which musical instrument was Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan associated?
Ripon
Sitar
Mohammad bin Kasim
Only the first stanza
30. On which day International Women's Day observed?
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
Greeks
1949
8th March
31. When is India's Army Day celebrated ?
Trivandrum
Due to radiation
15th January
Zinc
32. Who composed the famous song 'Sare Jahan Se Accha'?
Haryana
Mohammad Iqbal
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
Kushans
33. Who is the author of the book 'My Experiments with Truth'?
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
10th October
Mahatma Gandhi
34. Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?
Mahatma Gandhi
Shimla and Hamirpur
Satyendra Nath Bose
Jaya Dev
35. Name the three new elements added to the Periodic Table in 2011?
Lobsang Sangay
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
William Shakespeare151
5th September
36. Name the herbal drug developed by DRDO for soldiers working in high altitude areas?
7th April
Performax
The equator
Manipur54
37. Whose influence is reflected in the sculptures of the Gandhara school?
2G spectrum scam
12th January
Greeks
Su-Kam Power Systems
38. Which day is known as World Book and Copyright Day?
Silver
India
23rd April
Saka era
39. During whose time the Gandhara School of art developed?
Vasudeva
24th February
Kushans
Concave lens
40. Who is generally regardedas the pioneer of Local Self Government in Modern India?
Ripon
Torricelli
Indra Sinha64
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
41. Where is Elephant Pass located?
Graphite
Sri Lanka
New Delhi
Carbon dioxide
42. Who wrote the book 'The Namesake'?
Jhumpa Lahiri
Indra Sinha64
1911133
Bangalore
43. Who is the author of book 'India Wins Freedom'?
24
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Tungsten
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
44. Name the Indian state where the game of Polo is said to have originated?
18th December
11th July
Manipur54
1st May164
45. When an open bottle of scent is kept at one corner due to which phenomenon its fragrance is found in whole room?
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
8th October
Diffusion
46. Who was the author of 'Bharat Bharati'?
India and Pakistan
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
55th rank
47. Who wrote the book 'Eternal Himalayas'?
John Ruskin
Kerala
Longitudinal position
H.P.S Ahluwalia
48. World Aids Day falls on which date?
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
1st December
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
Madhya Pradesh
49. What is the new name of Burma?
Manipur54
Increases
Myanmar
State Bank of India
50. Who wrote the book 'Unhappy India'?
Finland
Guru Gobind Singh
Jules Verne
Lala Lajpat Rai