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1. When was Sangeet Natak Akademi set up by Government of India?
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
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.
Due to radiation
1953
2. Which is the Garden City of India?
Nitrous oxide
Bangalore
Saka era
Madhya Pradesh
3. Who was the first lady to become judge of the Supreme Court?
Chandragupta
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
250th anniversary
4. Who was called the 'Napoleon of India'?
Florence Nightingale
5th September
Samudragupta
In Samba
5. Which hockey team won the Asian Championship Trophy at Ordos(China) in 2011?
90 degree
India
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
6. Which is the largest saline water lake in India?
14th November
Johannes Kepler
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Protecting Flora and Fauna
7. Who discovered insulin?
Sushil Kumar
Dr. F.G.Banting
6-14 years
Mumbai
8. Who is the author of book 'India Wins Freedom'?
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Gol Gumbaz
William Shakespeare151
15th March
9. Which sportsperson won the maximum number of Olympic Gold Medals?
At the center of earth
Michael Phelps
2:4
8th March
10. Who led the first Muslim invasion of India?
Mohammad bin Kasim
Genetically Modified Crops.
Karashapana
Jane Austen
11. Where is India's Space Rocket Launching Centre situated?
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Sriharikota
Mehbooba Mufti
Tamil Nadu
12. Name the state of India where diamond mines are mainly found?
Johann Gregor Mendel
1911133
Rahul Dravid
Madhya Pradesh
13. What is added to remove permanent hardness of water?
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
Washing soda
Mumbai
Longitudinal position
14. Where is the World's largest ship canal?
Jamaica
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Dutch East Indies
Gota in Sweden
15. Name the person who has set a new Guinness record of being the oldest man to complete a full distance marathon in Toronto?
The President
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Ganga
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
16. Name the ship commissioned by India which is biggest in its class in the World?
Mahatma Gandhi
Palk Strait
26th January
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
17. Which river is related to Nagarjun Sagar Project?
Krishna
Mosley
24th October
Cyrus Mistry
18. What is the estimated premature deaths caused annually by outdoor air pollution - according to the first pollution survey carried out by World Health Organisation in Sept. - 2011?
In Samba
Kho-Kho
Infinite
1.34 millions
19. Who was the author of 'Hind Swaraj'?
S. Radhakrishnan
The Bering Strait
Mahatma Gandhi
Because the solids have high elasticity.
20. Name the mountain range which stretches from Gujarat in the West to Delhi in the North?
Aravallis
Akbar
India and Pakistan
Harshavardhana
21. When is India's Army Day celebrated ?
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Pune
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
15th January
22. When is the Mother's Day celebrated?
Robert Watson Watt
11th May
Equator
Firozeshah Tughluq
23. Which king brought the valleys of Indus - Ganga and Jamuna together for the first time under one political authority?
The Rajya Sabha
27th September
Ashoka
22nd April
24. What is the difference in time between two places 1 degree longitude apart?
4 minutes
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Mundak Upanishad
Narmada and Japti
25. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?
U.K
Mussoorie
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Chaucer
26. On which day International Women's Day observed?
Jaya Dev
Bangalore
8th March
Saka era
27. When comes the World Disabled Day?
Mumbai
M.N Roy62
Dr. F.G.Banting
15th March
28. Where is the venue for the 2012 Olympics?
London
2:3161
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Equator
29. Name the scientist who got Nobel Prize twice for the same subject?
Shobha De
Marie Curie
Nitrogen
2:4
30. Who is the senior most Army officer to have faced a court martial and dismissed from service by an Indian Army Court?
Yamuna
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Uttar Pradesh
31. On which date Chennai turned 372 years?
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Hyderabad
Wular lake (Kashmir)
24th February
32. Name the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister whose admirers have decided to build a temple to perpetuate his memory?
10th October
Ganga
From fresh and purified fat stem cells ( Fat has a large number of tissue growing stem cells. People could go for liposuction and save fat cells for future use or can use immediately.)
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
33. Which region of India is associated with pine forests?
Jana Gana Mana
Dr. F.G.Banting
Khushwant Singh
Uttarakhand
34. When is World Laughter Day celebrated?
1st December
South Kolkata
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
26th January
35. Which ruler was adorned with the title of 'Maharajadhiraja'?
250th anniversary
Kanishka
2nd April - 2011
Mathura
36. Name the strait which separates Africa from Europe?
Strait of Gibraltar
Saeed Mirza
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Kulandei Francis
37. Who is the new captain of the Indian Premier League team Rajasthan Royals?
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
M. Narasimhan
Rabindranath Tagore147
Rahul Dravid
38. Which is the world's second cheapest city according to global survey?
Bangalore
From fresh and purified fat stem cells ( Fat has a large number of tissue growing stem cells. People could go for liposuction and save fat cells for future use or can use immediately.)
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Amitabh Bachchan
39. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Rocky Marciano
Johannes Kepler
Lead
40. With whom the Income Tax Department decides to share its PAN card database?
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Hunting
Sonepur (Bihar )
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
41. Which is the largest auditorium in India?
Abhinav Bindra
U.K
Dehradun
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
42. Who is sworn as the 14th Vice President of India?
Hamid Ansari
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
30th January
15th August167
43. Which country has an Unwritten Constitution?
8th October
Contingency Fund of India
UK
Japan
44. Name the scientist who is considered as the Father of Genetics?
John Keats
Akhilesh Yadav
Khushwant Singh
Johann Gregor Mendel
45. Which player is the author of book named 'Sunny Days'?
Sunil Gavaskar
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
$46 - 00011
24
46. When is World Health Day celebrated?
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
7th April
Jane Austen
Vocal Music
47. What is India's rank on the Transparency International (TI) corruption Perception Index out of 183 countries in 2011?
95th
Vidya Balan
New Agra Fort
Euclid
48. Which game is associated with Merdeka Cup?
Football
Bangalore
Himachal Pradesh
USA
49. Name two other clones left with NDRI?
Gol Gumbaz
Mundak Upanishad
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Contingency Fund of India
50. Radcliffe line is the boundary line between which countries?
Raja Ravi Varma
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
India and Pakistan
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.