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1. According to a poll conducted by global research company Ipsos - people of which country are happiest on this planet despite woes - conflicts?
Indians
Tamil Nadu
Nitrous oxide
Eagle
2. What will be the difference in longitudes between two places if their time difference is 2 hours and 20 minutes?
Assam
35 degree
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Jana Gana Mana
3. Where were Chola Kings ruling over?
8th October
Washing soda
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Tamil Nadu
4. Who won the first medal for India in Olympics 2012?
German
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Navtej Saran
Mary Kom
5. Name the shooter of Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur) who won silver medal in Olympics 2012?
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6. Where are the World famous Khajuraho sculptures located?
Equator
Madhya Pradesh
Kushans
Das Kapital
7. Name the Bollywood legend whose ancestral home in Peshawar - Pakistan has been turned into heritage site?
Leo Tolstoy
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Jonathan Swift
Dilip Kumar
8. Who is the author of 'Tarikh-i-Alai' containing the details of the first few years of Sultan Alauddin Khilji?
Painting
Madhya Pradesh
Amir Khusrau
2:3161
9. Triple vaccine is administered to a new born child to save him from which diseases?
Jagannath
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
10. What is the name of first Indian aircraft developed by Government laboratory with private fund?
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Eagle
Saeed Mirza
11. Indian Air Force Day is observed on which day ?
8th October
Saka era
Forty-fourth Amendment
Param Vir Chakra
12. Which state of India has highest production of tea?
The Bering Strait
Assam
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
7th April
13. Which was the great centre of trade and commerce in the Gupta period?
Japan
Mathura
Finland
USA
14. Where did India's first Formula one race took place in 2011?
23rd April
Akhilesh Yadav
Mahatma Gandhi
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
15. Who was called Bollywood's first superstar?
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
India
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
16. Which is the place experiencing minimum and maximum temperatures -28.3 degree Celsius and 15 degree Celsius respectively?
11th May
Leh
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
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
17. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Manipur54
Johannes Kepler
Kapil Dev
18. Which fund can be used to meet the unanticipated expenditurewithout the prior approval of the Parliament?
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Contingency Fund of India
Sarojini Naidu
Bengali
19. Who was the first Indian elected to the leadership of Communist International?
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Mathura
M.N Roy62
Kulandei Francis
20. Where is Sun Temple situated?
Methane
Morarji Desai
Sachin Tendulkar
Konark
21. Who is the renowned flute player?
Jawaharlal Nehru
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Hamid Ansari
22. Who got Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar in 2011 ?
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Rajasthan
23. Who wrote the novel 'Neela Chand'?
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
1911133
Jagannath
Shiv Prasad Singh
24. Name the smallest neighbour of India?
Jai Samhita
4 minutes
Herodotus
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
25. Who became the first batsman in the history of cricket to score 100 international centuries?
Shockley
23rd December
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Sachin Tendulkar
26. Who wrote the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?
London
Bleaching powder
Firozeshah Tughluq
Jules Verne
27. Name the Indian chess player who broke the World Record by finishing the game in twelve moves?
Indra Sinha64
Forty-fourth Amendment
Milkha Singh
V. Anand
28. Who wrote 'One Day Wonders'?
Saka era
Performax
Sunil Gavaskar
H.P.S Ahluwalia
29. In how many time zones is U.S.A divided?
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
5
Dutch East Indies
Graphite
30. Who is generally regardedas the pioneer of Local Self Government in Modern India?
Ripon
Only the first stanza
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
31. How many spokes are there in our national emblem 'Ashoka Chakra'?
24
Mary Kom
Churchill
Planning Commission
32. What is the maximum period of gap between any two sessions of the Indian Parliament?
Six months
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
German
Chadwick
33. Which is largest man made lake in India?
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Kerala
Standard time of the country138
34. Who founded the Saka Era?
Khushwant Singh
Music
Kanishka
Madhya Pradesh
35. Who was the first king to conquer Malwa - Gujarat and Maharashtra?
Chandragupta Maurya
Edison
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Mundak Upanishad
36. Name the new nuclear powered submarine formally handed to India by Russia?
Carbon dioxide
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
26 years and 9 months
37. When is World Laughter Day celebrated?
E.G.Otis
30th January
Paschim Banga1
26th January
38. What was the main occupation of Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) people?
Narendra Modi government
Eagle
Hunting
Painting
39. How is population density in India defined?
London
35 degree
The number of persons per square kilometre.
2nd April - 2011
40. Whom did Dalai Lama announced to be his successor in March - 2011?
15th March
Lobsang Sangay
Uttar Pradesh
Karashapana
41. On which part of earth days and nights are of equal length always?
Equator
Mary Kom
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Parupalli Kashyap
42. Which is the longest river of India?
Ganga
Painting
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
43. Name the first heavyweight boxer to go undefeated throughout his career?
Rocky Marciano
Chadwick
Shimla and Hamirpur
26 years and 9 months
44. When was Sangeet Natak Akademi set up by Government of India?
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
1953
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Bobby Jindal
45. Which is the largest Church in India?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
India Museum at Kolkata
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
46. Who is known as founder of Mohemmadan Anglo-Oriental college at Aligarh?
Standard time of the country138
12th January
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Bangalore
47. Name the country which is second largest producer of horticulture commodities such as fruits - vegetables and flowers in the world?
Indians
India
24th May
Karashapana
48. Which song became the most searched You tube video in India in 2011?
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49. In India - who issues one rupee coins and notes as well as subsidiary coins?
27th September
Rajasthan
The Reserve Bank of India
95th
50. On globe - the latitude and longitude intersect at what angle?
Anna Hazare
Ladakh
90 degrees
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
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