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1. Which fund can be used to meet the unanticipated expenditurewithout the prior approval of the Parliament?
Kerala
24
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.
Contingency Fund of India
2. Name the two living members of first Lok Sabha to be honored by President on 13th May - 2012 - 60th anniversary of our Parliament?
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Nitrous oxide
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Ganga
3. Whom the Gujarat High Court issued contempt notice on 15th Feb. - 2012 for not obeying its order to compensate people whose shops were burnt down in the post-Godhra riots?
Narendra Modi government
Jan 26 - 1950134
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Hockey
4. Which is the largest Gurudwara in India?
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Kanishka
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
5. Where were Chola Kings ruling over?
Rahul Dravid
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Tamil Nadu
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
6. Which element is obtained from sea weeds?
Jawaharlal Nehru
India
Talwandi
Iodine
7. Who discovered X-Ray?
Ashoka
Chandragupta Maurya
Roentgen
Due to radiation
8. Who discovered photoelectric effect?
Gujarat
Albert Einstein
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Bengali
9. Which place is going to have North India's biggest turf club?
Indians
24th October
Planning Commission
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
10. Name the gas used to extinguish fire?
Hunting
Carbon dioxide
In front of New Delhi's High Court
Mundak Upanishad
11. Name the temple where majority of pilgrims visiting tonsure their heads and offer their hair to Lord Venkateswara?
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
Mumbai
10th October
Torricelli
12. Who was first Indian woman to become president of U.N. General Assembly?
Maharashtra
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Chadwick
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
13. Where is Pushkar lake located?
Vocal Music
Carbon dioxide
Rajasthan
Cyrus Mistry
14. Where are the headquarters of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts?
Stupa
New Delhi
Allauddin Khilji
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
15. Where is India's Space Rocket Launching Centre situated?
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Sriharikota
Das Kapital
Sunderbans delta
16. Late Girilal Jain was a noted figure in which field?
15th March
Maharashtra
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Journalism
17. Which is the largest lake in India?
Amir Khusrau
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Kushans
Art and architecture
18. On which date India won the World Cup in Mumbai?
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Gagan Narang
2nd April - 2011
Alexander Graham Bell
19. Who has been selected as the new head of Tata empire in 2011?
Cyrus Mistry
Uttar Pradesh
Arundhati Roy
State Bank of India
20. Name the last king of Jammu and Kashmir?
Stupa
Maharaja Hari Singh
Chandragupta-II
Cavendish
21. When comes National Sports Day of India?
Chandragupta Maurya
Governor
29th August
London
22. 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?
5th September
28th February
6 months
The Delhi Metro
23. Name the player of USA who created history by grabbing his 22nd Olympic medal ?
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Rabindranath Tagore
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
German
24. Who is the author of novel 'The White Tiger'?
Neil Armstrong
Aravind Adiga
Mohammad bin Kasim
Longitudinal position
25. Why speed of sound is greater in solids than in liquids?
Music
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Saka era
26. What happens when a ship crosses Date line from west to east?
Sitar
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
It loses one day
27. During whose reign The Mathura School of art flourished?
Jyoti Amge
Indra Sinha64
Vasudeva
At the center of earth
28. What is e-bomb?
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29. What are the bank deposits that can be withdrawn without notice called?
At the center of earth
Demand deposits
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
Graphite
30. Name the ballistic missile that lifted off from Wheeler Island in Odisha on 9th August - 2012?
Palk Strait
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
5th September
Amitabh Ghosh
31. At what age World's oldest dog Pusuke died?
26 years and 9 months
Satyendra Nath Bose
Sitar
Sunita Williams
32. Where at present the BRAHMOS missiles are assembled?
Hyderabad
1949
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Akhilesh Yadav
33. Who got Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award in 2011?
Shiv Prasad Singh
Kanishka
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
India
34. Name the mineral found in Zawar mines?
It loses one day
24th February
Zinc
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
35. Which is the highest military award for valour in India?
Gota in Sweden
Param Vir Chakra
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
N.E. Borlaug
36. On which date Anti Tobacco Day observed?
U.K
69 miles
Journalism
31st May
37. What is the changed name of Orissa officially according to Presidential assent to the Bill?
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Chaucer
Odisha
Samar Guha
38. Which country is the world's largest recipient of arms?
Three Decades in Parliament
Sunil Gavaskar
Kauravas and Pandavas51
India
39. Which child artist got Critics Best Actor Award for his acting in a film Taare Zameen Par?
Darsheel Safary
Three Decades in Parliament
Mohammad bin Kasim
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
40. On what occasion Bihar got its own state anthem and state prayer whose CD's were released by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar?
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
2:4
14th November
41. From where the longest circle which can be drawn from earth's surface will pass?
27th September
Will pass through Equator
William Shakespeare151
Hockey
42. Name the gas usually filled in the electric bulbs?
Akhilesh Yadav
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Hunting
Nitrogen
43. When is Sadbhavna Diwas (Goodwill Day ) observed in India?
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44. Who said - 'God helps those who helps themselves'?
Krishna
8th May
Algernon Sidney
Lead
45. On which era is the Indian National Calender based?
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Chandragupta Maurya
Saka era
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
46. Which is the largest port in India?
Mumbai
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Jonathan Swift
47. Which river is related to Nagarjun Sagar Project?
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Krishna
8th May
5th June
48. Who headed the committee on computerisation in Indian banks(1988)?
Mosley
Japan
M. Narasimhan
6 months
49. On whose written advice President can proclaim Emergency?
Amjad Ali Khan
Prime Minister
Andhra Pradesh
South Kolkata
50. Who wrote the book 'We Indians'?
Khushwant Singh
Amitabh Ghosh
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
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