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1. Name the latest India's surface -to-surface missile successfully test fired (on 26th Sept - 2011)?
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
William Wordsworth
2. Name the country which has longest international boundary with India?
Punjab
China
Florence Nightingale
Demand deposits
3. Name the baby of Uttar Pardesh who is the symbolic seven billionth baby ?
Landsteiner
Baby Nargis
India Museum at Kolkata
10th December
4. Who got the greatest Olympic athlete of all time Trophy?
Curiosity
Navtej Saran
Michael Phelps
Football
5. Which day is celebrated as World Red Cross Day?
Curiosity
Silver
8th May
July - 1947
6. Kanchipuram is in which state?
Due to radiation
Tamil Nadu
Year of Disabled Soldiers
95th
7. Why Shimla is cooler than Amritsar though they have same latitude?
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
26th January
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
11th May
8. Who wrote an English novel 'In Custody'?
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Anita Desai
Jagannath
State Bank of India
9. Who is the World Player of Year?
Rabindranath Tagore147
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
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Thailand
10. Name the Apple co-founder who changed the daily habits of millions by reinventing computing - music and mobile phones?
30th January
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
2:4
Ladakh
11. Where is Union Budget presented firstly?
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Jhumpa Lahiri
The Lok Sabha
God particle or Higgs Boson
12. Who is the creator of Rock Garden in Chandigarh?
German
Nek Chand
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Florence Nightingale
13. What happens when a ship crosses Date line from west to east?
It loses one day
Sriharikota
E.M Forster
31st May
14. What is the changed name of Orissa officially according to Presidential assent to the Bill?
Curiosity
Algernon Sidney
Odisha
Dilip Kumar
15. 'Glimpses of World History' is written by whom?
Jawaharlal Nehru
Lala Lajpat Rai
Mundak Upanishad
Paschim Banga1
16. Where did India's first Formula one race took place in 2011?
Rajasthan
Rocky Marciano
90 degrees
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
17. Champion Trophy is associated with which game?
Harshavardhana
Jayadeva
Hockey
6-14 years
18. What is our National Anthem?
2G spectrum scam
Sodium
Jana Gana Mana
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
19. What is KG5 drug?
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20. Where is head office of the State Bank of India located?
Mumbai
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Nayantara Sahgal
Vice President of India
21. Who was called Bollywood's first superstar?
Valentina Tereshkova
Ashoka
31st May
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
22. Where is the World's largest ship canal?
Gota in Sweden
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Amitabh Ghosh
Allahabad Pillar inscription
23. Latitude and longitude are at what angle to each other?
Second Battle of Tarain
Carbon dioxide
Perpendicular to each other
Bengali
24. Who wrote the immortal song 'Vande Mataram'?
Standard time of the country138
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Mary Kom
Pune
25. At what age World's oldest dog Pusuke died?
Kushans
Chadwick
2:4
26 years and 9 months
26. Which day in India is observed as Minorities Rights Day?
18th December
Manipur54
Arthur Conan Doyle
Methane
27. Name the person who presided over the first session of Indian National Congress in 1885?
W.C Bannerjee
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Is a herbal formulation of 10 selected herbs known to have adaptogenic properties. It helps to improve the physical and mental performance by increasing blood oxygenation and reducing low density lipoproteins and cholesterol.
Aung San Suu Kyi
28. Who painted the masterpiece 'Hamsa Damayanti'?
Raja Ravi Varma
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
Hyderabad
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
29. Which player is the author of the book 'Straight From The Heart'?
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'.
Kapil Dev
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
30. Who was the only Muslim woman to sit on the throne of Delhi?
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Razia Sultana
Churchill
Mary Kom
31. Liquefied Petroleum Gas consists mainly which gases?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Kanishka
24
Methane - butane and propane
32. Which day in India is celebrated as Children's Day?
India
14th November
Golconda
Only the first stanza
33. Name the temple where majority of pilgrims visiting tonsure their heads and offer their hair to Lord Venkateswara?
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
From fresh and purified fat stem cells ( Fat has a large number of tissue growing stem cells. People could go for liposuction and save fat cells for future use or can use immediately.)
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
34. When comes the Farmer's Day (Kisan Divas )in India ?
State Bank of India
India
23rd December
Nitrogen
35. Who is the author of book 'Freedom Behind Bars'?
South Kolkata
Abul Kalam Azad
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Kiran Bedi
36. Name the smallest neighbour of India?
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Jama Masjid
Shobha De
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
37. Who is going to receive highest US award?
Navtej Saran
Aung San Suu Kyi
Mundak Upanishad
Art and architecture
38. Which will be the new subject added to the curriculum of Kendriya Vidyalayas?
1.34 millions
German
Landsteiner
Tamil Nadu
39. Which day is observed as Sanskrit Day in India?
5th September
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
Tamil Nadu
Football
40. Which country is the world's largest recipient of arms?
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
India
Algernon Sidney
Nayantara Sahgal
41. On which day International Women's Day observed?
26th January
J.B.Say
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
8th March
42. Where is India's Space Rocket Launching Centre situated?
State Bank of India
Amir Khusru
Sriharikota
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
43. Who wrote the book 'We Indians'?
Sidney Sheldon
18th December
Khushwant Singh
The Lok Sabha
44. Name the state of India where diamond mines are mainly found?
Madhya Pradesh
London
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
INS Vikrant55
45. Between whom battle of Kurukshetra was fought?
Kalpakkam
Carbon dioxide
Contingency Fund of India
Kauravas and Pandavas51
46. Which child artist got Critics Best Actor Award for his acting in a film Taare Zameen Par?
Uttarakhand
Khadakvasla
Darsheel Safary
Baby Nargis
47. Who is the author of the book 'Unto the Last' which influenced Gandhi ji?
John Ruskin
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
State Bank of India
10th October
48. Where is the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre located?
Morarji Desai
Trivandrum
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'.
Gagan Narang (shooter)
49. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Tungsten
India
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
50. Who made the highest score in an ODI against West Indiies in Indora in 2011?
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
14th November
Oxygen and acetylene