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1. Who is the richest Indian in the World according to the 2011 Forbes India annual rich list?
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
The equator
Sitar
Harshavardhana
2. What is the other name of deuterium oxide?
Heavy water
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Shimla and Hamirpur
Fatehpur Sikri
3. Who wrote the popular book 'The Naked Face'?
Sonepur (Bihar )
5
Sidney Sheldon
Strait of Gibraltar
4. Name the player of USA who created history by grabbing his 22nd Olympic medal ?
Kho-Kho
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Chadwick
5. Triple vaccine is administered to a new born child to save him from which diseases?
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Hyderabad
6. When is Martyr's Day in India celebrated ?
30th January
Jhumpa Lahiri
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
J.L.Baird
7. What is the common name of sodium carbonate?
26 years and 9 months
E.M Forster
Washing soda
Forty-fourth Amendment
8. Who is known as 'Lady with the Lamp'?
Uttarakhand
Gujarat
Florence Nightingale
Vocal Music
9. Who invented radar?
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Robert Watson Watt
10. Who painted the masterpiece 'Hamsa Damayanti'?
Darsheel Safary
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
India
Raja Ravi Varma
11. When is Sadbhavna Diwas (Goodwill Day ) observed in India?
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12. When is Earth Day observed?
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
22nd April
13. Where did India's first Formula one race took place in 2011?
Ashoka
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Stainless steel
14. Name the state of India where diamond mines are mainly found?
Madhya Pradesh
Pune
Chandrayaan
Chandragupta Maurya
15. Name the herbal drug developed by DRDO for soldiers working in high altitude areas?
Navtej Saran
Martin Luther King
Performax
Silicon
16. Who presented the first Union Budget of Independent India?
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Jane Austen
Jonathan Swift
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
17. Name the great Hindu king who combined in himself the qualities of Samudragupta and Ashoka?
Contingency Fund of India
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Harshavardhana
11th May
18. Name the Indian American astronaut who begins her 2nd space odyssey on July 15 - 2012?
Hyderabad
Sunita Williams
India
The Reserve Bank of India
19. Who is known as Father of Geometry?
Hampi
1953
Euclid
Assam
20. Who will be the new Director General of Police (DGP) after the retirement of P.S. Gill?
Director General Anil Kaushik
Mumbai
24
Journalism
21. Vijayghat ( Samadhi of Lal Bahadur Shastri) is situated on the bank of which river?
Yamuna
In front of New Delhi's High Court
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
1st May164
22. On which day International Women's Day observed?
8th March
Anita Desai
Abul Kalam Azad
Pune
23. Who invented telephone?
22nd April
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Alexander Graham Bell
24th May
24. What is the maximum period of gap between any two sessions of the Indian Parliament?
Dadabhai Naoroji
Bromine
Six months
Genetically Modified Crops.
25. If in a mirror image of object appears to be larger then which type of mirror is used?
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Concave mirror
90 degrees
Gol Gumbaz
26. Name the Indian scientist from whose surname the word 'boson' is derived?
Sitar
Satyendra Nath Bose
Abhinav Bindra
Mumbai
27. Name the mountain range which stretches from Gujarat in the West to Delhi in the North?
Bromine
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Aravallis
2:4
28. Who arranged the elements in the Modern Periodic Table?
India and Pakistan
Mosley
Jama Masjid
Sitar
29. Where is Bihar's first all women police station located?
Stainless steel
Jagannath
Hyderabad
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
30. How water in earthen pots remain cool?
250th anniversary
Washing soda
24
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
31. Who is the senior most Army officer to have faced a court martial and dismissed from service by an Indian Army Court?
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Maharashtra
Tamil Nadu
1.34 millions
32. Which is largest man made lake in India?
Methane - butane and propane
Satyendra Nath Bose
Concave lens
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
33. What was adopted from the Maurya dynasty in the emblem of government of India?
Four lions
14th November
31st May
W.C Bannerjee
34. Which megastar carried the Olympic flame on the torch relay leg between the City of London and the borough of South wark in London on 26th July - 2012 - a day before the opening ceremony of sporting spectacle?
Sunil Gavaskar
Amitabh Bachchan
Jagannath
Sodium
35. Name the 17th Karmapa against whom the Una police filed a chargesheet under section 120-B of the IPC in 2011?
Second Battle of Tarain
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.)
Kathak
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
36. Why Shimla is cooler than Amritsar though they have same latitude?
Bangalore
Chandragupta Maurya
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Silver
37. Whose autobiography is 'India Wins Freedom'?
Abul Kalam Azad
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.
Ripon
Director General Anil Kaushik
38. Name the scientist who got Nobel Prize twice for the same subject?
Three Decades in Parliament
Kalpakkam
Su-Kam Power Systems
Marie Curie
39. Name the sub-launched long range N-missile developed by China?
Jawaharlal Nehru
Julang-2
16th October
Kho-Kho
40. On which date Chennai turned 372 years?
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
8th May
German
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
41. In which state is Ganesh Otsav celebrated?
Maharashtra
Allauddin Khilji
Jai Samhita
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
42. When is National Science Day celebrated in India?
Harshavardhana
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
28th February
Prime Minister
43. What is made from the mixture of lime and chlorine?
Greeks
Sitar
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Bleaching powder
44. Which state has maximum density of canals?
Forty-fourth Amendment
Mahatma Gandhi
Uttar Pradesh
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
45. Who is called Father of English Poetry?
Chaucer
Sri Lanka
India Museum at Kolkata
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
46. Watches of a country is set according to what time?
Chandragupta Maurya
Standard time of the country138
John Ruskin
Edison
47. In India - who issues one rupee coins and notes as well as subsidiary coins?
95th
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Bobby Jindal
The Reserve Bank of India
48. Who invented the lift?
Maharaja Hari Singh
1949
E.G.Otis
When sun is above the equator
49. Who is known as Nightingale of India?
Sarojini Naidu
Samudragupta
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Dance
50. Who wrote 'Netaji - Dead or Alive'?
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Landsteiner
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Samar Guha