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1. For what is Bijapur known?
Karashapana
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Johannes Kepler
Gol Gumbaz

2. Latitude and longitude are at what angle to each other?
Kanishka
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Perpendicular to each other
Palk Strait

3. Who is called Father of English Poetry?
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Chaucer
Leh

4. Whose name is associated with the council of the 'Nine Gems'?
1953
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Chandragupta-II
2:3161

5. Who was the first Indian elected to the leadership of Communist International?
M.N Roy62
India
Mundak Upanishad
Madhya Pradesh

6. Who wrote the immortal song 'Vande Mataram'?
The President
Kathak
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Jawaharlal Nehru

7. How is population density in India defined?
Hyderabad
Jhumpa Lahiri
Haryana
The number of persons per square kilometre.

8. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' taken?
John Ruskin
Ladakh
Bobby Jindal
Mundak Upanishad

9. Name the eminent Hindi authors chosen for Jnanpith Award 2011?
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Bobby Jindal
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
India Museum at Kolkata

10. Name the metal used as the filament of an electric bulb?
Mundak Upanishad
Tungsten
Lead
Yousuf Raza Gillani

11. The Prime Minister is chairman of this
V.S Naipaul
Planning Commission
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Kerala

12. Who is the first Indian sports person to win an individual Gold medal in the Olympic Games?
Gol Gumbaz
Abhinav Bindra
Bombay
London

13. Who got Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award in 2011?
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Tungsten
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
U.K

14. Where is Pushkar lake located?
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
1.34 millions
Sunderbans delta
Rajasthan

15. What is the new name of Burma?
12th January
Samudragupta
Myanmar
2:3161

16. Who propounded the Market Law?
Stainless steel
Dutch East Indies
INS Vikrant55
J.B.Say

17. What is the time difference between IST and GMT?
1.34 millions
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 hours 30 minutes
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh

18. Where is a tunnel near the Indo-Pak border detected?
The Bering Strait
Tamil Nadu
In Samba
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.

19. What is AERE?

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20. One degree of longitude on equator is equal to what distance?
Nek Chand
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Vidya Balan
69 miles

21. Name the latest hi-tech weapon invented in 2011 to prevent obesity?

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22. Who was called Bollywood's first superstar?
Kulandei Francis
Gol Gumbaz
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)

23. Which was the World's first surviving clone buffalo at NDRI (National Dairy Research Institute)?
Concave mirror
Bangalore
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Bankim Chandra Chatterji

24. Where is Boat Race a popular sport?
30th January
Kerala
India
Kauravas and Pandavas51

25. Who composed our National song?
South Kolkata
Jane Austen
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Chandragupta Maurya

26. On which date Anti Tobacco Day observed?
J.L.Baird
Alexander Fleming
31st May
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan

27. What is the original name of Mahabharata?
Assam
Robert Watson Watt
Ashoka
Jai Samhita

28. Who published the 'Red Data Book' containing information on the wild animals and plants in danger of extinction?
Sodium
Journalism
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Talwandi

29. Which gas is used for preparation of soda water?
Landsteiner
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Carbon dioxide

30. Name the scientist who got Nobel Prize twice for the same subject?
24
Marie Curie
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.

31. Name the shooter of Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur) who won silver medal in Olympics 2012?

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32. Name two other clones left with NDRI?
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
10th October
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)

33. Where is Bihar's first all women police station located?
Chandragupta-II
Herodotus
Nikolaus Otto
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.

34. What is the other name of deuterium oxide?
Heavy water
Sarojini Naidu
John Ruskin
Iodine

35. What is made from the mixture of lime and chlorine?
Leh
The Bering Strait
Bleaching powder
Aung San Suu Kyi

36. Why the International Date Line makes slight deviation from 180 degree meridian?
Punjab
Akbar
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.

37. In which century did Ashoka reign?
India
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Kapil Dev
Third century B.C

38. Late Vijay Tendulkar who died in 2008 were famous in which field?
Playwright
Six months
William Shakespeare151
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)

39. Which state of India has highest production of tea?
Odisha
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Hyderabad
Assam

40. Why speed of sound is greater in solids than in liquids?
Saka era
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Because the solids have high elasticity.

41. Where is the World's largest ship canal?
Gota in Sweden
Jonathan Swift
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
1st May164

42. Who is the author of book 'Gita Govinda'?
Sitar
Jayadeva
Kolkata
Mahatma Gandhi

43. In which year was the National Anthem first sung?
Hindukush
5th June
15th August167
1911133

44. Name the Indian state where the game of Polo is said to have originated?
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Manipur54
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

45. With which musical instrument was Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan associated?
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Sitar
The Bering Strait

46. What is proxy voting?
M. Narasimhan
Mussoorie
Gagan Narang
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.

47. Which country has an Unwritten Constitution?
Infinite
UK
J.L.Baird
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)

48. Which countries are located on the Greenwich Meridian?
Dumping
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Jonathan Swift
Equator

49. Who wrote the book 'The Daughter of the East'?
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Haryana
Aravallis

50. Mc. Mohan Line demarcates the boundary between which countries?
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Pune
Iodine
India and China

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