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1. Which is the largest dome in India?
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
69 miles
Sachin Tendulkar
Algernon Sidney
2. Which region of India is associated with pine forests?
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Alexander Graham Bell
8th March
Uttarakhand
3. Who will be the new Director General of Police (DGP) after the retirement of P.S. Gill?
69 miles
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Director General Anil Kaushik
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
4. How 4G services will hit the country in 2012?
Jhumpa Lahiri
Ladakh
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.
12th January
5. Who got Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar in 2011 ?
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
State Bank of India
Rabindranath Tagore147
Perpendicular to each other
6. Who is the author of the novel 'White Tiger'which won the Booker Prize 2008?
Aravallis
Vishnu Sharma
Iodine
Aravind Adiga
7. Which is the largest river delta of India?
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Lead
Euclid
Ganga
8. Where is the National Institute of Nutrition located?
Kolkata
Kushinagar
15th January
Hyderabad
9. Name the eminent Hindi authors chosen for Jnanpith Award 2011?
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
V. Anand
10. Who is called Father of English Poetry?
Allahabad Pillar inscription
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Johannes Kepler
Chaucer
11. Triple vaccine is administered to a new born child to save him from which diseases?
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Hamid Ansari
William Wordsworth
Valentina Tereshkova
12. Which day in India is celebrated as Children's Day?
14th November
N.E. Borlaug
Kho-Kho
Mary Kom
13. Name the first heavyweight boxer to go undefeated throughout his career?
Chandragupta
Rocky Marciano
Hyderabad
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
14. Watches of a country is set according to what time?
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Standard time of the country138
Gota in Sweden
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
15. Which is largest river without delta in India?
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Ladakh
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Narmada and Japti
16. In which state are the World famous Ajanta Caves situated?
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Arundhati Roy
Chaucer
Maharashtra
17. Name the first Indian women shuttler to enter semifinal at the Olympics?
8th October
Harshavardhana
Mahatma Gandhi
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
18. Who is the renowned flute player?
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Punjab
Mary Kom
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
19. Who invented transistor?
German
Hockey
Football
Shockley
20. Which state of India has highest production of tea?
Bengali
Assam
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Vasudeva
21. Name the largest oil refinery of India?
Morarji Desai
Vadodara
11th July
Su-Kam Power Systems
22. Who got Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award in 2011?
Uttar Pradesh
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Rajasthan
Sunil Gavaskar
23. Which is the largest saline water lake in India?
Bangalore
Sonepur (Bihar )
Sitar
Chilka lake (Orissa )
24. Which state has maximum density of canals?
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Sitar
In Samba
Uttar Pradesh
25. Which day is observed as Sanskrit Day in India?
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
5th September
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'.
Leh
26. What is the reason found for ground water contamination in Punjab - especially in the Malwa region?
Hyderabad
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
23rd December
Wular lake (Kashmir)
27. India is facing pressure from the US and other Western countries to break trade ties with which country?
Rabindranath Tagore
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Bombay
Samudragupta
28. Name the Indian state where the game of Polo is said to have originated?
31st May
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
1st December
Manipur54
29. Which is the largest river island in India?
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Mohammad bin Kasim
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
30. Which country topped medal table in Olympic 2012?
Abhinav Bindra
Mussoorie
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
31. The Prime Minister is chairman of this
Stainless steel
Planning Commission
Roentgen
10th December
32. Who won bronze medal for India in 10m pistol event (London Olympics - 2012)?
Dr. F.G.Banting
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Gagan Narang
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
33. Who crafted the wax statue of Anna Hazare?
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34. Name the two living members of first Lok Sabha to be honored by President on 13th May - 2012 - 60th anniversary of our Parliament?
Samuel Morse
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
27th September
35. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' taken?
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Mundak Upanishad
Maharashtra
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
36. What is the maximum duration for which the Vice President can officiate as the President of India?
6 months
35 degree
Gwalior Gharana
Sukumar Sen
37. Who invented the steam engine?
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Leo Tolstoy
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Tamil Nadu
38. Which was the World's first surviving clone buffalo at NDRI (National Dairy Research Institute)?
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
N.E. Borlaug
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
8th March
39. Who is known as Nightingale of India?
Hyderabad
E.G.Otis
Sarojini Naidu
26th January
40. 'Nokia' the telecom company belongs to which country?
Finland
Andhra Pradesh
Forty-fourth Amendment
Tamil Nadu
41. Who was the first lady to become judge of the Supreme Court?
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Kushinagar
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Iodine
42. Name the great Hindu king who combined in himself the qualities of Samudragupta and Ashoka?
Ganga
Harshavardhana
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
8th March
43. Who is the author of novel 'The White Tiger'?
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.
Aravind Adiga
Mahatma Gandhi
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
44. Who is the creator of 'Sherlock Holmes'?
Krishna
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Lobsang Sangay
Arthur Conan Doyle
45. Players of which state got the maximum Olympic medals in London Olympics?
Playwright
Haryana
Mundak Upanishad
Indra Sinha64
46. Where is Char Minar located?
Sunita Williams
Manipur54
Due to radiation
Hyderabad
47. Who wrote the book 'We Indians'?
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Khushwant Singh
1953
Myanmar
48. When is India's Republic Day celebrated?
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
W.C Bannerjee
26th January
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
49. Who founded the Saka Era?
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
$46 - 00011
Kanishka
J.L.Baird
50. Which is largest populated city in India?
Oxygen and acetylene
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Sunil Gavaskar
Mumbai