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1. Champion Trophy is associated with which game?
Gagan Narang
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Hockey
2. What is proxy voting?
Third century B.C
Dumping
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
3. What will be the difference in longitudes between two places if their time difference is 2 hours and 20 minutes?
Amitabh Bachchan
Chandragupta-II
6 months
35 degree
4. Who wrote the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Amitabh Ghosh
Renders electronic gadgets useless and effectively neutralises the adversary's command control and communication capability by producing a strong electromagnetic field generating powerful electricity surges that play havoc with electronic circuits wi
Jules Verne
5. Which countries are located on the Greenwich Meridian?
Sodium
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
William Shakespeare151
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
6. When is World Laughter Day celebrated?
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
26th January
Methane
Churchill
7. One degree of longitude on equator is equal to what distance?
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
69 miles
Renders electronic gadgets useless and effectively neutralises the adversary's command control and communication capability by producing a strong electromagnetic field generating powerful electricity surges that play havoc with electronic circuits wi
Param Vir Chakra
8. Who wrote the book 'Ammi! Letter to a Democratic Mother'?
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Saeed Mirza
Cavendish
Palk Strait
9. When is the Mother's Day celebrated?
John Keats
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Lead
11th May
10. Name one famous Sarod player?
Firozeshah Tughluq
24
Euclid
Amjad Ali Khan
11. Which element is obtained from sea weeds?
Kho-Kho
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Diffusion
Iodine
12. Which child artist got Critics Best Actor Award for his acting in a film Taare Zameen Par?
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
M. Narasimhan
Darsheel Safary
Torricelli
13. Who invented transistor?
Morarji Desai
Shockley
Saka era
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
14. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' taken?
Mundak Upanishad
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Tamil Nadu
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
15. Our Indian National Calender is based on which era?
Sodium
Maharashtra
Thailand
Saka era
16. Who is crowned Miss World 2011?
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Prime Minister
Samudragupta
17. Who was the author of 'Hind Swaraj'?
Chadwick
95th
Tamil Nadu
Mahatma Gandhi
18. Name the ship commissioned by India which is biggest in its class in the World?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Khushwant Singh
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Dance
19. 'A Voice of Freedom' is a book written by whom?
Nayantara Sahgal
Jana Gana Mana
Firozeshah Tughluq
Performax
20. Indian Air Force Day is observed on which day ?
8th October
The Delhi Metro
Sri Lanka
Michael Phelps
21. Why speed of sound is greater in solids than in liquids?
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Chandragupta Maurya
Guru Gobind Singh
Uttar Pradesh
22. Which state in South India have a thermal station at Tuticorin?
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'.
1st December
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Tamil Nadu
23. Where is the birth place of Guru Nanak Ji?
1.34 millions
8th October
Increases
Talwandi
24. Name the herbal drug developed by DRDO for soldiers working in high altitude areas?
Performax
Alexander Graham Bell
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
25. Name the Indian scientist who was a part of NASA team which has identified the landing site of the 'Curiosity'?
95th
Ashoka
Roentgen
Amitabh Ghosh
26. How water in earthen pots remain cool?
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Abhinav Bindra
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
27. Motilal Nehru and Chittaranjan Das were the founder members of which party?
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Morarji Desai
Golconda
Swarajya Party
28. Who is called Father of English Poetry?
Rocky Marciano
Chaucer
15th August167
Bengali
29. Which is largest populated city in India?
Sitar
Vocal Music
Mumbai
Rabindranath Tagore147
30. Where are Dilwara Temples situated?
Kalpakkam
Mahatma Gandhi
Jaipur
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
31. During whose time the Gandhara School of art developed?
Jyoti Amge
Sitar
Kushans
Jawaharlal Nehru
32. Which is the largest Church in India?
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
Parupalli Kashyap
Ganga
Yamuna
33. What will be the new name of West Bengal?
Paschim Banga1
Jane Austen
U.K
Tamil Nadu
34. Where is Buland Darwaza located?
Akbar
Fatehpur Sikri
Tamil Nadu
Mumbai
35. In which year was the National Anthem first sung?
Anna Hazare
1911133
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
36. Name the gases used in different types of welding?
Oxygen and acetylene
Tamil Nadu
Finland
Shockley
37. Who wrote the first history book?
Herodotus
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
India
Music
38. Name the cities of Himachal to be developed as the solar cities?
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
5
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Shimla and Hamirpur
39. Name the first heavyweight boxer to go undefeated throughout his career?
India and Pakistan
Mahatma Gandhi
26th January
Rocky Marciano
40. In which field the name of Gangubai Hangal associated?
Mundak Upanishad
Carbon dioxide
Music
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
41. Which is the language next to Hindi spoken by largest number of people in the Indian sub continent ?
Ripon
Sunil Gavaskar
Mahatma Gandhi
Bengali
42. Where is the Indian Institute of Science located?
Pune
Bangalore
Later Vedic Age
Rajasthan
43. When is Sadbhavna Diwas (Goodwill Day ) observed in India?
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44. Why sky appears to be blue?
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
24
45. Where did the World's costliest crash took place?
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Kiran Bedi
Firozeshah Tughluq
46. What is KG5 drug?
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47. Who is the senior most Army officer to have faced a court martial and dismissed from service by an Indian Army Court?
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
N.E. Borlaug
250th anniversary
Dumping
48. On which date India won the World Cup in Mumbai?
Baby Nargis
2nd April - 2011
Mathura
New Agra Fort
49. Which is the largest populated state in India?
Uttar Pradesh
Palk Strait
Pakistan and Afghanistan
1st May164
50. Which is the largest public sector bank in India?
State Bank of India
23rd December
Ripon
Governor