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1. Who is called 'Grand Old Man of India'?
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Dadabhai Naoroji
New Agra Fort
Sri Lanka
2. Which is the largest river island in India?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Kalpakkam
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
3. What is KG5 drug?
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183
4. Greenwich mean time (GMT) is the standard time of which country?
Algernon Sidney
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.
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
U.K
5. One degree of longitude on equator is equal to what distance?
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
Cyrus Mistry
69 miles
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
6. How water in earthen pots remain cool?
Planning Commission
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Rajasthan
7. Which country is the world's largest recipient of arms?
Robert Watson Watt
India
4 minutes
Concave lens
8. Where is the Indian Institute of Science located?
Palk Strait
Eagle
Bangalore
Diffusion
9. Who presented the first Union Budget of Independent India?
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.
Hockey
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Uttar Pradesh
10. Which metro has been certified by the United Nations as the first metro rail based system in the World to get carbon credits for contributing to the fight against climate changes?
The Delhi Metro
Vidya Balan
Indians
Third century B.C
11. Where is Indian Cancer Research Institute situated?
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Bombay
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Michael Phelps
12. Which is largest man made lake in India?
Mohammad bin Kasim
Mussoorie
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Rabindranath Tagore147
13. Who is vice President of India?
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
1.34 millions
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
14. Who is the author of the book 'The Exile'?
Mary Kom
Bengali
Navtej Saran
18th December
15. Which day is known as World Book and Copyright Day?
23rd April
Chandragupta Maurya
Mahatma Gandhi
Anita Desai
16. When is Earth Day observed?
Hockey
Zinc
Will pass through Equator
22nd April
17. Who discovered blood grouping?
Landsteiner
Rajasthan
Algernon Sidney
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
18. When is India's Republic Day celebrated?
Milkha Singh
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
26th January
19. Who invented the petrol engine?
Darsheel Safary
Nikolaus Otto
10th December
4 minutes
20. When is International Labour Day observed?
90 degree
24
1st May164
Jules Verne
21. What is Dry Ice?
Heavy water
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Razia Sultana
22. Name the place where Lord Budha breathed his last?
Gota in Sweden
Cavendish
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Kushinagar
23. What are the bank deposits that can be withdrawn without notice called?
U.K
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Demand deposits
Chilka lake (Orissa )
24. Name the person who presided over the first session of Indian National Congress in 1885?
W.C Bannerjee
Vice President of India
Nitrogen
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
25. Who said 'Child is the father of Man'?
12th January
1.34 millions
William Wordsworth
Bengali
26. Who is generally regardedas the pioneer of Local Self Government in Modern India?
The equator
Ripon
10th October
Dutch East Indies
27. Who is the author of book 'India Wins Freedom'?
23rd April
N.E. Borlaug
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Uttar Pradesh
28. Who invented barometer?
Kalpakkam
Kushinagar
Torricelli
W.C Bannerjee
29. Who wrote the book 'Gulliver's Travels'?
Mussoorie
Su-Kam Power Systems
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Jonathan Swift
30. Name the China's first woman astronaut into orbit?
Samudragupta
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Kushans
95th
31. Name one famous Sarod player?
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Amjad Ali Khan
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
32. Name the ballistic missile that lifted off from Wheeler Island in Odisha on 9th August - 2012?
24th October
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
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'.
At Magdalla port near Surat.
33. Who was the author of 'Hind Swaraj'?
22nd April
Mahatma Gandhi
Vadodara
Kauravas and Pandavas51
34. Indian Air Force Day is observed on which day ?
China
Strait of Gibraltar
8th October
5th June
35. Name the scientist who got Nobel Prize twice for the same subject?
Marie Curie
Sitar
Maharashtra
Increases
36. Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?
Jaya Dev
Sunil Gavaskar
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Samudragupta
37. Who wrote 'One Day Wonders'?
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Diffusion
Increases
Sunil Gavaskar
38. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Jonathan Swift
Tamil Nadu
Navtej Saran
39. Who elects the Vice President of India?
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Kathak
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Methane
40. Who was the author of 'Bharat Bharati'?
15th March
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Neil Armstrong
41. Where is Char Minar located?
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Mohammad Iqbal
Hyderabad
42. Who is the author of book 'Many Worlds'?
Speaker
V.S Naipaul
Uttar Pradesh
Curiosity
43. Who was called the 'Napoleon of India'?
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
Equator
Samudragupta
Sunil Gavaskar
44. Who said 'Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err'?
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Perpendicular to each other
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Mahatma Gandhi
45. On which date Chennai turned 372 years?
Satyendra Nath Bose
24
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
24th May
46. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
Jamaica
5th September
Saka era
Chandragupta Maurya
47. Who is the man popularly kwown as Gurudev?
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Rabindranath Tagore147
27th September
Andhra Pradesh
48. Why Shimla is cooler than Amritsar though they have same latitude?
Hyderabad
Roentgen
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Dance
49. Whose autobiography is 'India Wins Freedom'?
Pune
8th September
Gujarat
Abul Kalam Azad
50. Who wrote our National Anthem?
Concave mirror
Rabindra Nath Tagore
E.M Forster
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
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