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1. Who is known as Father of Geometry?
Euclid
Pune
Journalism
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
2. Upto where Chandragupta Maurya's empire extended in the north-west?
Hindukush
1.34 millions
2nd April - 2011
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
3. Who wrote the line 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'?
John Keats
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Makes cancer cell 'commit suicide'. It helps in stoping multiplication of tumorous cells and shut themselves down. Will be available in approximately 5 years and will be in pill form.
4. Who was the first recipient of Nehru Award for International Understanding?
Robert Watson Watt
Martin Luther King
Kanishka
Mohammad bin Kasim
5. Mc. Mohan Line demarcates the boundary between which countries?
Aravind Adiga
18th April
India and China
U.K
6. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
2G spectrum scam
Hockey
7. Name the latest hi-tech weapon invented in 2011 to prevent obesity?
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8. Which is the largest desert in India?
Mussoorie
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
9. Who is the first Indian male shuttler to reach Olympic quarters?
5
Parupalli Kashyap
Prof. V.N Datta
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
10. Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?
Chaucer
Maharashtra
Torricelli
Jaya Dev
11. By whom is the Vice-President of the Indian Union elected?
Tamil Nadu
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
South Kolkata
12. Which state is going to be first carbon-neutral state in the country by 2020?
Albert Einstein
Himachal Pradesh
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Lala Lajpat Rai
13. Where is Pushkar lake located?
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Nitrogen
Rajasthan
Ashoka
14. Name the person who transliterated Guru Granth Sahib in Braille?
Yamuna
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Milkha Singh
Mohammad bin Kasim
15. Who is President of India?
23rd April
Uttar Pradesh
Roentgen
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
16. Which day is known as World Book and Copyright Day?
90 degrees
Dilip Kumar
23rd April
Prof. V.N Datta
17. What is AERE?
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18. What is the name of India's first aircraft carrier?
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
Ladakh
INS Vikrant55
Protecting Flora and Fauna
19. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?
Nitrous oxide
Golconda
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Das Kapital
20. Name the famous ruler of ancient India - who towards the end of his life converted to Jainism?
Neil Armstrong
Marie Curie
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Chandragupta
21. What is our National Anthem?
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Vocal Music
Methane - butane and propane
Jana Gana Mana
22. Which ruler was adorned with the title of 'Maharajadhiraja'?
Kanishka
India
Equator
Alexander Graham Bell
23. Where was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Avanti?
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Ujjain
USA
24. Name the first heavyweight boxer to go undefeated throughout his career?
Rabindranath Tagore147
India
5th September
Rocky Marciano
25. Which game is associated with Agha Khan Cup?
In Samba
Hockey
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Ripon
26. Where are relics of Buddha preserved?
Stupa
Diffusion
Lawn Tennis153
2G spectrum scam
27. Which river is related to Nagarjun Sagar Project?
95th
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
William Shakespeare151
Krishna
28. When is Martyr's Day in India celebrated ?
Narmada and Japti
Ganga
Cyrus Mistry
30th January
29. Who made the highest score in an ODI against West Indiies in Indora in 2011?
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
24th October
Chadwick
26 years and 9 months
30. Who invented transistor?
Shockley
Bengali
Akbar
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
31. Where are the headquarters of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts?
Equator
New Delhi
Punjab
Tamil Nadu
32. What is the name of India's moon mission?
Thailand
Chandrayaan
Mehbooba Mufti
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
33. Who wrote the famous play 'Macbeth'?
William Shakespeare151
Diffusion
Kiran Bedi
Third century B.C
34. On whose written advice President can proclaim Emergency?
Nikolaus Otto
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Prime Minister
35. Name the last king of Jammu and Kashmir?
Torricelli
5 hours 30 minutes
10th October
Maharaja Hari Singh
36. Kanchipuram is in which state?
Chaucer
Tamil Nadu
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Jai Samhita
37. Who invented telephone?
Motion Picture
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Alexander Graham Bell
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.
38. Who wrote the immortal song 'Vande Mataram'?
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Guru Gobind Singh
The Bering Strait
39. Name the leader under whom India's first coalition government in New Delhi was formed?
Morarji Desai
Shiv Prasad Singh
Dumping
6 months
40. Who discovered insulin?
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
Dr. F.G.Banting
Kolkata
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
41. Who will be the new Director General of Police (DGP) after the retirement of P.S. Gill?
Washing soda
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Director General Anil Kaushik
Andhra Pradesh
42. Kathakali a folk dance is prevalent in which state?
Kerala
Landsteiner
William Wordsworth
Roentgen
43. Who is the creator of 'Sherlock Holmes'?
4 minutes
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Concave lens
Arthur Conan Doyle
44. Who is crowned Miss World 2011?
2nd April - 2011
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
45. For what was Gupta dynasty famous?
Art and architecture
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Hockey
N.E. Borlaug
46. When are days and nights equal throughout the globe?
Kiran Bedi
India and China
South Africa
When sun is above the equator
47. Whose name is associated with the council of the 'Nine Gems'?
Madhya Pradesh
26th January
Chandragupta-II
Chandragupta
48. Who got Arjuna Award in 2011?
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
7th April
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Because the solids have high elasticity.
49. Why bubble of water shines?
Chandragupta Maurya
State Bank of India
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
2:4
50. Who is the 26th Chief Minister of Karnataka?
Sushil Kumar
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Gota in Sweden
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