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1. Name the Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay ofBengal?
Nek Chand
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Palk Strait
Silicon

2. Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
Aravind Adiga
8th October
Leo Tolstoy
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources

3. Who wrote the book 'Eternal Himalayas'?
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Mohammad bin Kasim
H.P.S Ahluwalia
1.34 millions

4. Name the China's first woman astronaut into orbit?
Dehradun
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Kushans
1911133

5. Name the youngest skydriver in the country?
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Bamiyan
Talwandi
Speaker

6. Who is the World Player of Year?
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Jonas Salk
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
24th February

7. Who is generally regardedas the pioneer of Local Self Government in Modern India?
Ripon
Florence Nightingale
John Keats
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )

8. Name the Indian chess player who broke the World Record by finishing the game in twelve moves?
V. Anand
Sunita Williams
Sidney Sheldon
Konark

9. What is the estimated premature deaths caused annually by outdoor air pollution - according to the first pollution survey carried out by World Health Organisation in Sept. - 2011?
1.34 millions
95th
Methane
28th February

10. Which metal is kept under kerosine?
Ganga
Sodium
Maharashtra
9th August

11. When is Sadbhavna Diwas (Goodwill Day ) observed in India?

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12. What is KG5 drug?

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13. Which place is going to have North India's biggest turf club?
Cavendish
Sukumar Sen
Sunil Gavaskar
On the outskirts of Ludhiana

14. Where did India's first Formula one race took place in 2011?
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Stupa
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Sunita Williams

15. Where are the headquarters of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts?
Mumbai
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
Algernon Sidney
New Delhi

16. Which gas is called laughing gas?
Michael Phelps
Nitrous oxide
Jawaharlal Nehru
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.

17. What is the ratio of width of our National flag to its length?
Anita Desai
2:3161
Sunita Williams
Samuel Morse

18. Name the eminent Hindi authors chosen for Jnanpith Award 2011?
Shimla and Hamirpur
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
State Bank of India
Amir Khusru

19. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?
Golconda
Carbon dioxide
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
John Ruskin

20. Where was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Avanti?
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Ujjain
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.)

21. Which is largest populated city in India?
INS Vikrant55
24th February
Mumbai
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).

22. Name the Indian woman boxer who won bronze medal in Olympics?
Vande Mataram
Karashapana
Mary Kom
Dr. Rajendra Prasad

23. Which state is going to be first carbon-neutral state in the country by 2020?
Indra Sinha64
Director General Anil Kaushik
Himachal Pradesh
Gwalior Gharana

24. Why sky appears to be blue?
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Music
Tamil Nadu
Vasudeva

25. In how many time zones is the World divided?
Bangalore
Ludhiana
Yousuf Raza Gillani
24

26. What is the upper house of parliament known as?
The Rajya Sabha
26th January
Speaker
24th February

27. Who crafted the wax statue of Anna Hazare?

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28. When is India's Army Day celebrated ?
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Kauravas and Pandavas51
15th January
Nitrous oxide

29. Who inspired Green Revolution in India?
Kerala
Curiosity
N.E. Borlaug
Four lions

30. Who invented barometer?
Torricelli
State Bank of India
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Vice President of India

31. Where is Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research located?
Kalpakkam
8
Music
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).

32. During whose reign The Mathura School of art flourished?
Valentina Tereshkova
Vasudeva
Madhya Pradesh
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)

33. Where is the Caspian sea - the largest inland sea or lake in the world located?
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
Konark
Hampi
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia

34. What is the latitude of South Pole?
Kushans
Su-Kam Power Systems
90 degree
S. Radhakrishnan

35. Which is the largest museum in India?
Talwandi
India Museum at Kolkata
Cyrus Mistry
Sitar

36. Where is the National Institute of Nutrition located?
Four lions
Indians
Maharashtra
Hyderabad

37. On globe - the latitude and longitude intersect at what angle?
4G technology will offer many advancements to the wireless market including downlink data rates well over 100 Mbps - low latency - very efficient spectrum use and low cost implementation.
90 degrees
Four lions
Herodotus

38. What was the main occupation of Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) people?
Parupalli Kashyap
Punjab
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.)
Hunting

39. On which date Quit India Day comes?
Robert Watson Watt
9th August
11th May
U.K

40. Who is vice President of India?
Ladakh
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Methane - butane and propane
Mumbai

41. Mainly which gas is present in gobar gas?
Allauddin Khilji
Mary Kom
Methane
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.

42. Name the metal present in photo films?
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Silver
Sarojini Naidu
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.

43. When comes the Farmer's Day (Kisan Divas )in India ?
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Kathak
23rd December
Nitrous oxide

44. Which is the state wise largest area under forest in India?
Nayantara Sahgal
8
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Madhya Pradesh

45. Which is the largest planetarium in India?
Strait of Gibraltar
Kolkata
The Rajya Sabha
The Lok Sabha

46. What is our National Anthem?
Jana Gana Mana
Maharashtra
Sunderbans delta
Speaker

47. Which ruler was adorned with the title of 'Maharajadhiraja'?
Only the first stanza
Kanishka
8th March
Lala Lajpat Rai

48. Greenwich mean time (GMT) is the standard time of which country?
The Bering Strait
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
U.K

49. Who is the author of the book 'We Indians'?
Michael Phelps
Sunita Williams
Khushwant Singh
John Keats

50. Who has been appointed the Governor of RBI after the retirement of Shri Y.V. Reddy?
Allauddin Khilji
8th September
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
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)