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1. Which is the largest public sector bank in India?
State Bank of India
Haryana
Governor
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
2. Who is the author of book 'India Wins Freedom'?
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Heavy water
Hyderabad
Bangalore
3. Who is the senior most Army officer to have faced a court martial and dismissed from service by an Indian Army Court?
Jaipur
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.
Tamil Nadu
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
4. Who is the author of book 'Gita Govinda'?
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Gol Gumbaz
Ganga
Jayadeva
5. Who is the creator of 'Sherlock Holmes'?
Maharashtra
Arthur Conan Doyle
8th October
Mundak Upanishad
6. Which is largest populated city in India?
Mumbai
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Chandragupta Maurya
Mussoorie
7. What is the name of India's moon mission?
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'.
In front of New Delhi's High Court
Ashoka
Chandrayaan
8. What is the maximum period of gap between any two sessions of the Indian Parliament?
Dance
When sun is above the equator
Six months
Milkha Singh
9. Who was the first woman to go in space?
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
V. Anand
God particle or Higgs Boson
Valentina Tereshkova
10. In which state are the World famous Ajanta Caves situated?
Maharashtra
Neil Armstrong
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Dilip Kumar
11. What are GM Crops?
India Museum at Kolkata
Genetically Modified Crops.
Michael Phelps
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
12. Which is the largest river island in India?
Shiv Prasad Singh
Vocal Music
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
13. Where is Indian Cancer Research Institute situated?
Three Decades in Parliament
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Bombay
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
14. Who got Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award in 2011?
Abhinav Bindra
Rajasthan
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Maharashtra
15. Kathakali a folk dance is prevalent in which state?
2G spectrum scam
Hamid Ansari
South Africa
Kerala
16. Where are the achievements of Samudragupta described on?
18th December
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Vishnu Sharma
Journalism
17. Who is vice President of India?
Cyrus Mistry
26 years and 9 months
Ujjain
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
18. Which place is famous for gigantic rock-cut statue of Budha?
Bamiyan
Rabindranath Tagore
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Galileo
19. Name the Indian scientist from whose surname the word 'boson' is derived?
5
Vocal Music
Satyendra Nath Bose
Nitrous oxide
20. Where are Dilwara Temples situated?
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
The Bering Strait
Rabindranath Tagore147
21. Who won the silver medal in 66 Kg wrestling and is the first Indian to win two individual Olympic medals?
Paschim Banga1
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Gota in Sweden
Sushil Kumar
22. Term Double Fault is associated with which game?
Equator
Abul Kalam Azad
Lawn Tennis153
New Delhi
23. Which player is the author of book named 'Sunny Days'?
Sunil Gavaskar
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Jana Gana Mana
Satyendra Nath Bose
24. Where is Elephant Pass located?
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Jaipur
Sri Lanka
Carbon dioxide
25. Which region of India is associated with pine forests?
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Uttarakhand
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Lead
26. Who is known as the Father of the Indian Constitution?
Bengali
South Africa
Hunting
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
27. In which year was the National Anthem first sung?
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
1911133
Four lions
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
28. An air bubble in water acts as which lens?
Jaya Dev
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Concave lens
29. Which country has an Unwritten Constitution?
UK
Contingency Fund of India
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
30. Where is Char Minar located?
India
Gagan Narang
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Hyderabad
31. At which place the largest industrial solar plant of the country became operational on 29th July - 2012?
Ludhiana
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
5th April
8th September
32. Who is the author of the book 'The Exile'?
Fatehpur Sikri
Mahatma Gandhi
Paschim Banga1
Navtej Saran
33. Which day in India is celebrated as Children's Day?
Hyderabad
14th November
Third century B.C
Bamiyan
34. To whom President of India can write if he wants to resign from office?
Vice President of India
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Anna Hazare
35. When is Commonwealth Day observed?
24th May
Roger Federer
India
Six months
36. Which is the largest dome in India?
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Jamaica
Jonathan Swift
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
37. Who invented radar?
Milkha Singh
Robert Watson Watt
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
38. What is our National Anthem?
Valentina Tereshkova
S. Radhakrishnan
Silicon
Jana Gana Mana
39. When are days and nights equal throughout the globe?
The number of persons per square kilometre.
1.34 millions
When sun is above the equator
Sri Lanka
40. Where is Bihar's first all women police station located?
Japan
Year of Disabled Soldiers
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Demand deposits
41. Whose name is associated with the council of the 'Nine Gems'?
Zinc
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Chandragupta-II
H.P.S Ahluwalia
42. On which day International Women's Day observed?
Alexander Fleming
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
8th March
Kapil Dev
43. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' taken?
Jan 26 - 1950134
26th January
Mundak Upanishad
Allahabad Pillar inscription
44. Where is largest animal fair held in India?
Sonepur (Bihar )
W.C Bannerjee
E.M Forster
Only the first stanza
45. What is the aim of the 'Biosphere Reserve Project'?
In front of New Delhi's High Court
Amitabh Bachchan
Roger Federer
Protecting Flora and Fauna
46. What are the benefits of medicine Performax?
Oxygen and acetylene
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.
Contingency Fund of India
Increases
47. Name the great Hindu king who combined in himself the qualities of Samudragupta and Ashoka?
The President
Harshavardhana
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
95th
48. India is facing pressure from the US and other Western countries to break trade ties with which country?
Mohammad bin Kasim
Methane - butane and propane
Prof. V.N Datta
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
49. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' (inscribed below the base plate of the emblem of India) taken?
Washing soda
Mundak Upanishad
Navtej Saran
India Museum at Kolkata
50. How water in earthen pots remain cool?
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Ludhiana
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
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