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1. When is India's Army Day celebrated ?
18th December
Tamil Nadu
15th January
Andhra Pradesh
2. Where were remains of Vijayanagar Empire found?
Maharashtra
Sushil Kumar
Hampi
Shobha De
3. What is the changed name of Orissa officially according to Presidential assent to the Bill?
Mary Kom
Odisha
24th May
24th October
4. Which musical instrument is said to be invented by Amir Khusro?
Methane
16th October
Sitar
Bamiyan
5. Which is the largest river delta of India?
China
Mosley
Ganga
Kathak
6. Where is National School of Mines located?
The equator
Pune
26th January
Uttar Pradesh
7. Who is the new youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
Madhya Pradesh
William Wordsworth
Director General Anil Kaushik
Akhilesh Yadav
8. What is our National Anthem?
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Alexander Graham Bell
Jana Gana Mana
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
9. Watches of a country is set according to what time?
Sushil Kumar
Rajasthan
1953
Standard time of the country138
10. Where are the World famous Khajuraho sculptures located?
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Madhya Pradesh
Robert Watson Watt
Arundhati Roy
11. Who is the first Indian male shuttler to reach Olympic quarters?
Parupalli Kashyap
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Carbon dioxide
11th July
12. Who is the richest Indian in the World according to the 2011 Forbes India annual rich list?
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
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Nitrogen
Stupa
13. Who is the 26th Chief Minister of Karnataka?
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Maharashtra
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
14. When was Sangeet Natak Akademi set up by Government of India?
Chilka lake (Orissa )
1953
250th anniversary
Sriharikota
15. When is World Health Day celebrated?
Darsheel Safary
V. Anand
7th April
Khushwant Singh
16. Name the cities of Himachal to be developed as the solar cities?
Razia Sultana
Six months
Silver
Shimla and Hamirpur
17. Name the Indian who won Magsaysay award for community initiatives in Tamil Nadu?
Kulandei Francis
2
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'.
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
18. When are days and nights equal throughout the globe?
Lala Lajpat Rai
When sun is above the equator
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
2nd April - 2011
19. On whose written advice President can proclaim Emergency?
Prime Minister
Aravind Adiga
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Jules Verne
20. Under which scam - the 43 year old daughter of former chief minister of Tamil Nadu M.Karunanidhi was in Tihar jail in 2011?
Akbar
Arthur Conan Doyle
2
2G spectrum scam
21. Who composed our National song?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
162
M.N Roy62
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
22. 'Nokia' the telecom company belongs to which country?
Alexander Fleming
V. Anand
The equator
Finland
23. What is the latitude of South Pole?
G.V. Mavalankar
Washing soda
90 degree
Mohammad Iqbal
24. Which child artist got Critics Best Actor Award for his acting in a film Taare Zameen Par?
London
Darsheel Safary
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Sukumar Sen
25. Late Girilal Jain was a noted figure in which field?
Journalism
Abul Kalam Azad
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
26. Who invented barometer?
Hindukush
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
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.)
Torricelli
27. Who became the first batsman in the history of cricket to score 100 international centuries?
South Africa
Bleaching powder
28th February
Sachin Tendulkar
28. Name the Indian chess player who broke the World Record by finishing the game in twelve moves?
V. Anand
Dehradun
Sodium
Paschim Banga1
29. Name the famous ruler of ancient India - who towards the end of his life converted to Jainism?
Chandragupta
9th August
London
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
30. When was the Constituent Assembly that framed Constitution for Independent India set up?
1949
India
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.)
90 degrees
31. At what price the menu of the first dinner served to the firstclass passengers of the ill fated liner Titanic on 10th April - 1912 sold?
Third century B.C
16th October
Increases
$46 - 00011
32. How many postal zones are there in India - under the PIN Code System?
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
8
Six months
Manipur54
33. Where are relics of Buddha preserved?
Stupa
Amitabh Bachchan
At the center of earth
Khushwant Singh
34. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
Jaipur
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
18th December
Narmada and Japti
35. Which was the most commonly used coin in Mauryan period?
Karashapana
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Bamiyan
36. On which date Anti Tobacco Day observed?
Robert Watson Watt
Odisha
Music
31st May
37. Which is the largest populated state in India?
Uttar Pradesh
Nitrous oxide
Pune
Contingency Fund of India
38. Who wrote the novel 'Neela Chand'?
Planning Commission
Swarajya Party
20th March
Shiv Prasad Singh
39. What is the aim of the 'Biosphere Reserve Project'?
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Sriharikota
24
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
40. Late Vijay Tendulkar who died in 2008 were famous in which field?
Chandragupta
24th February
Playwright
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
41. What amount is purposed as per capita allocation for health sector for 2011-2012 - according to the official review of National Rural Health Mission?
Allauddin Khilji
5 hours 30 minutes
Bromine
Rs 270
42. On which date Chennai turned 372 years?
Second Battle of Tarain
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Bombay
Palk Strait
43. Who is generally regardedas the pioneer of Local Self Government in Modern India?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Dumping
Shimla and Hamirpur
Ripon
44. Who wrote 'One Day Wonders'?
Zinc
Sunil Gavaskar
Razia Sultana
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.)
45. Name the latest India's surface -to-surface missile successfully test fired (on 26th Sept - 2011)?
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Rocky Marciano
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Martin Luther King
46. What are GM Crops?
Genetically Modified Crops.
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Samar Guha
Dehradun
47. Who is the creator of 'Sherlock Holmes'?
India and China
Kulandei Francis
Arthur Conan Doyle
Gwalior Gharana
48. Name the Bollywood legend whose ancestral home in Peshawar - Pakistan has been turned into heritage site?
Dilip Kumar
Tungsten
Darsheel Safary
10th October
49. What is added to remove permanent hardness of water?
Tamil Nadu
24th February
Washing soda
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
50. Who is known as 'Lady with the Lamp'?
24th October
In front of New Delhi's High Court
Florence Nightingale
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver