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1. Who discovered X-Ray?
Governor
Roentgen
Abul Kalam Azad
Protecting Flora and Fauna
2. Who is the new captain of the Indian Premier League team Rajasthan Royals?
Jamaica
The President
Rahul Dravid
Kauravas and Pandavas51
3. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?
Johannes Kepler
China
The Delhi Metro
South Kolkata
4. When is the UN Day observed?
24th October
Jan 26 - 1950134
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Cavendish
5. Who elects the Vice President of India?
J.B.Say
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Landsteiner
6. Name the Indian woman boxer who won bronze medal in Olympics?
American firm Intra Pace unveils a stomach implant vi akeyhole surgery that can help people fight flab by warning the brain when enough food is taken. This credit card sized implant is named as 'Abiliti'.
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Uttarakhand
Mary Kom
7. Name the great Hindu king who combined in himself the qualities of Samudragupta and Ashoka?
Harshavardhana
Bombay
Chandragupta-II
Ladakh
8. Who was the first woman to go in space?
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Alexander Graham Bell
Valentina Tereshkova
Thailand
9. Which is largest river without delta in India?
Indra Sinha64
Hamid Ansari
Prof. V.N Datta
Narmada and Japti
10. Which is the largest lake in India?
Rabindranath Tagore147
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Cyrus Mistry
Wular lake (Kashmir)
11. Year 2011 is observed by Army as what?
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
12. When comes the Farmer's Day (Kisan Divas )in India ?
Football
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
23rd December
Lawn Tennis153
13. How water in earthen pots remain cool?
Raja Ravi Varma
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
27th September
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
14. Which is the largest river delta of India?
Ganga
Khushwant Singh
Pune
Longitudinal position
15. Who earned the title of 'Liberator'?
Chandragupta Maurya
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Myanmar
16. Where is Sun Temple situated?
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Konark
The Reserve Bank of India
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
17. Who discovered insulin?
Sonepur (Bihar )
Dr. F.G.Banting
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
18. Which state is going to be first carbon-neutral state in the country by 2020?
Himachal Pradesh
Kapil Dev
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Abul Kalam Azad
19. Name the player of USA who created history by grabbing his 22nd Olympic medal ?
Rabindranath Tagore
Journalism
Trivandrum
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
20. Who composed our National song?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Chandragupta
21. Name the state where bio-fuel outlet - first of its kind in the country will be opened?
Jamaica
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Third century B.C
Kerala
22. What is e-bomb?
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23. How many spokes are there in our national emblem 'Ashoka Chakra'?
Carbon dioxide
24
Baby Nargis
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
24. Who invented the steam engine?
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Indians
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
25. How 4G services will hit the country in 2012?
Michael Phelps
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.
5th September
Mathura
26. What is equal to latitude of a place?
Diffusion
Angle between the horizon and the equator
8th March
4 minutes
27. For which dance Birju Maharaj is well known?
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
2nd April - 2011
Kathak
Ludhiana
28. Where were remains of Vijayanagar Empire found?
Leh
M.N Roy62
Robert Watson Watt
Hampi
29. Name two other clones left with NDRI?
Swarajya Party
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Indra Sinha64
Rajasthan
30. What amount is purposed as per capita allocation for health sector for 2011-2012 - according to the official review of National Rural Health Mission?
Rs 270
5th June
Churchill
Methane - butane and propane
31. Which is the largest zoo in India?
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Harshavardhana
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
32. Who won Jnanpith Award in 2010?
11th July
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
Aravind Adiga
Konark
33. What are the benefits of medicine Performax?
Maharashtra
Silicon
26th January
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.
34. Who was the first lady to become judge of the Supreme Court?
Jane Austen
Arundhati Roy
24
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
35. After whose name the Nobel Prize was started?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Jamaica
Mary Kom
Mathura
36. The Rath Yatra at Puri is celebrated in honour of which Hindu deity?
Hyderabad
Aravind Adiga
Bamiyan
Jagannath
37. The Prime Minister is chairman of this
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Planning Commission
38. Which is the largest dome in India?
India Museum at Kolkata
Gota in Sweden
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
39. Our Indian National Calender is based on which era?
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Saka era
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Michael Phelps
40. Who wrote 'Netaji - Dead or Alive'?
Uttarakhand
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Samar Guha
J.B.Say
41. Which is the largest populated state in India?
Nek Chand
Sitar
Methane - butane and propane
Uttar Pradesh
42. Name the first ever pill approved by US to prevent HIV?
Sri Lanka
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
43. Where is Char Minar located?
22nd April
Jane Austen
Hyderabad
Graphite
44. Whose contemporary was Tulsidas?
11th May
69 miles
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Akbar
45. Which is the Garden City of India?
Bangalore
Milkha Singh
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
46. Which is largest state of India?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Rajasthan
Milkha Singh
47. Which is the largest museum in India?
12th January
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
India Museum at Kolkata
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
48. Name the place where Lord Budha breathed his last?
Maharaja Hari Singh
Darsheel Safary
Kushinagar
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.
49. Where is India's Space Rocket Launching Centre situated?
India Museum at Kolkata
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Param Vir Chakra
Sriharikota
50. Which non -metal remains liquid at room temperature?
Bromine
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Kerala
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
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