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1. What is e-bomb?

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2. Who wrote the book 'Eternal Himalayas'?
Kauravas and Pandavas51
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Assam
Guru Gobind Singh

3. Which is the state wise largest area under forest in India?
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Rahul Dravid
Madhya Pradesh
J.L.Baird

4. Who wrote an English novel 'In Custody'?
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Anita Desai
U.K
Samuel Morse

5. Who inspired Green Revolution in India?
Myanmar
N.E. Borlaug
Arundhati Roy
Jaya Dev

6. What is the other name of deuterium oxide?
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
5 hours 30 minutes
Heavy water
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.

7. To whom President of India can write if he wants to resign from office?
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Vice President of India
Tamil Nadu
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)

8. Why speed of sound is greater in solids than in liquids?
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Japan
Hyderabad

9. Name the mineral found in Zawar mines?
Forty-fourth Amendment
8th October
Mumbai
Zinc

10. When is the UN Day observed?
Roentgen
24th October
6-14 years
Florence Nightingale

11. Which megastar carried the Olympic flame on the torch relay leg between the City of London and the borough of South wark in London on 26th July - 2012 - a day before the opening ceremony of sporting spectacle?
Amitabh Bachchan
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
Stainless steel
Kerala

12. What is AERE?

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13. Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?
Jaya Dev
5th June
Sitar
Haryana

14. Which is the World's largest exporter of inverters?
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Sunita Williams
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Su-Kam Power Systems

15. Who is the World Player of Year?
In Samba
Ogyen Trinley Dorjee - the third most important Tibetian religious head after Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama. (as police recovered currencies of 26 countries including 1 - 20 - 197 chinese yuan and around Rs 5.3 million in Indian currency.)
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Genetically Modified Crops.

16. Where is Union Budget presented firstly?
The Lok Sabha
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
22nd April

17. Who invented radar?
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Will pass through Equator
Robert Watson Watt

18. In which field the name of Gangubai Hangal associated?
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
250th anniversary
Music

19. Who got Dronacharya Award in 2011 ?
Sukumar Sen
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Satyendra Nath Bose

20. Name the person who has set a new Guinness record of being the oldest man to complete a full distance marathon in Toronto?
8th March
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Silicon
Narendra Modi government

21. Name the famous ruler of ancient India - who towards the end of his life converted to Jainism?
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
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
In Samba
Chandragupta

22. Which state has maximum density of canals?
Uttar Pradesh
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
Krishna
8th May

23. What is the time difference between IST and GMT?
Kathak
5 hours 30 minutes
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Mary Kom

24. Who invented telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Saka era
Hampi
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.

25. During whose time the Gandhara School of art developed?
Jonathan Swift
Mundak Upanishad
Kushans
Mathura

26. Who discovered the oral polio vaccine?
Abhinav Bindra
Raja Ravi Varma
Jonas Salk
Bankim Chandra Chatterji

27. Which is the great circle on earth's surface?
Maharaja Hari Singh
Painting
Playwright
The equator

28. What is KG5 drug?

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29. When was the design of our National Flag adopted by the Constituent of India?
July - 1947
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Jane Austen
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves

30. Radcliffe line is the boundary line between which countries?
God particle or Higgs Boson
John Ruskin
India and Pakistan
Four lions

31. Name the first Indian women shuttler to enter semifinal at the Olympics?
Marie Curie
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Arundhati Roy
Khushwant Singh

32. Who wrote the book 'We Indians'?
Forty-fourth Amendment
Khushwant Singh
250th anniversary
Ganga

33. Where is the India's first largest bamboo museum?
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
M. Narasimhan
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Gagan Narang

34. Who got Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar in 2011 ?
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
2nd April - 2011

35. Who said 'Child is the father of Man'?
William Wordsworth
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Herodotus
Martin Luther King

36. Who wrote the line 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'?
John Keats
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
20th March
Year of Disabled Soldiers

37. On which date India won the World Cup in Mumbai?
Arthur Conan Doyle
In Samba
2nd April - 2011
Ajit Kumar from Haryana

38. Which is the largest river delta of India?
Ganga
John Ruskin
Hyderabad
Gagan Narang

39. Why sky appears to be blue?
The equator
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )

40. Mainly which gas is present in gobar gas?
Methane
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Sodium
Carbon dioxide

41. Which is the place experiencing minimum and maximum temperatures -28.3 degree Celsius and 15 degree Celsius respectively?
26th January
Euclid
Leh
Sushil Kumar

42. Who composed our National song?
Carbon dioxide
Only the first stanza
24
Bankim Chandra Chatterji

43. Name the state of India where diamond mines are mainly found?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Jawaharlal Nehru
Madhya Pradesh
Khushwant Singh

44. Who was the first person to set foot on moon?
Galileo
July - 1947
Maharashtra
Neil Armstrong

45. What amount is purposed as per capita allocation for health sector for 2011-2012 - according to the official review of National Rural Health Mission?
Three Decades in Parliament
Rs 270
1st May164
Rabindra Nath Tagore

46. Which hockey team won the Asian Championship Trophy at Ordos(China) in 2011?
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
India
8th March
Strait of Gibraltar

47. During whose reign The Mathura School of art flourished?
Eagle
Vasudeva
Sidney Sheldon
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.

48. When is the World Population Day observed?
Landsteiner
11th July
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
The Bering Strait

49. Which is largest cave temple in India?
Jyoti Amge
Methane
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Andhra Pradesh

50. If in a mirror image of object appears to be larger then which type of mirror is used?
Concave mirror
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.
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.