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1. Name the first ever pill approved by US to prevent HIV?
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Strait of Gibraltar
Demand deposits
2. Who invented the television?
Vande Mataram
J.L.Baird
Chandragupta
Hyderabad
3. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
Trivandrum
German
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Chandrayaan
4. Name the gases used in different types of welding?
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Oxygen and acetylene
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
5. Who is the new youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Akhilesh Yadav
The Bering Strait
Myanmar
6. Who discovered photoelectric effect?
Jhumpa Lahiri
Albert Einstein
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Sonepur (Bihar )
7. Where is famous Somnath Temple located?
Madhya Pradesh
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Gujarat
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
8. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' (inscribed below the base plate of the emblem of India) taken?
Mundak Upanishad
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Chaucer
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
9. Under which scam - the 43 year old daughter of former chief minister of Tamil Nadu M.Karunanidhi was in Tihar jail in 2011?
27th September
24
2G spectrum scam
Kerala
10. Who is called the Flying Sikh of India?
Curiosity
Milkha Singh
Mary Kom
Gota in Sweden
11. Who wrote the book 'Ammi! Letter to a Democratic Mother'?
16th October
Odisha
Saeed Mirza
Roentgen
12. Where is National School of Mines located?
Prime Minister
Pune
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
11th July
13. Which is largest cave temple in India?
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Perpendicular to each other
Kanishka
14. What amount is purposed as per capita allocation for health sector for 2011-2012 - according to the official review of National Rural Health Mission?
Rs 270
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Harshavardhana
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.)
15. For what was Gupta dynasty famous?
Firozeshah Tughluq
Motion Picture
Art and architecture
Satyendra Nath Bose
16. Who is the author of book 'The Tribune 130 Years: A Witness to History'?
Anna Hazare
Abhinav Bindra
E.G.Otis
Prof. V.N Datta
17. Who appoints the Chairman and members of State Public Service Commission?
Greeks
Sriharikota
Bombay
Governor
18. When is World Food Day observed?
Vidya Balan
Guru Gobind Singh
Japan
16th October
19. Who is the author of book 'Gita Govinda'?
Rajasthan
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Jayadeva
Yousuf Raza Gillani
20. According to a poll conducted by global research company Ipsos - people of which country are happiest on this planet despite woes - conflicts?
Kathak
Indians
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Sonepur (Bihar )
21. Where in Delhi a bomb hidden in briefcase exploded killing 11 persons and injuring 47 in the worst attack in India's capital in 3 years in 2011?
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22. Vijayghat ( Samadhi of Lal Bahadur Shastri) is situated on the bank of which river?
Speaker
Sukumar Sen
Yamuna
Vice President of India
23. Who wrote 'One Day Wonders'?
Sunil Gavaskar
Raja Ravi Varma
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Akbar
24. Name the Strait which separates Asia from North America?
The Bering Strait
Amjad Ali Khan
God particle or Higgs Boson
Ladakh
25. Where is the only shrine in the world which has a natural statue of Hanuman that is not man made?
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Lawn Tennis153
Cavendish
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
26. When is India's Army Day celebrated ?
15th January
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
5th September
Carbon dioxide
27. Who was the first king to conquer Malwa - Gujarat and Maharashtra?
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Landsteiner
Mohammad Iqbal
Chandragupta Maurya
28. If in a mirror image of object appears to be larger then which type of mirror is used?
Second Battle of Tarain
State Bank of India
Chadwick
Concave mirror
29. Who got Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (highest sports award in country) award?
Maharashtra
Gagan Narang (shooter)
24th October
Amitabh Bachchan
30. What is Dry Ice?
1911133
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Jai Samhita
Ripon
31. When is the UN Day observed?
Diffusion
8th September
24th October
Hockey
32. Name the Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay ofBengal?
Palk Strait
Kolkata
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Narendra Modi government
33. Where is head office of the State Bank of India located?
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Mumbai
Journalism
Vishnu Sharma
34. 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?
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
$46 - 00011
Ladakh
Chandragupta Maurya
35. What was the old name of Indonesia?
Dutch East Indies
Su-Kam Power Systems
Swarajya Party
Rocky Marciano
36. Name the largest oil refinery of India?
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Vadodara
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Trivandrum
37. Where is Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research located?
Cavendish
Kalpakkam
INS Vikrant55
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
38. Which player is the author of the book 'Straight From The Heart'?
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Kapil Dev
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
Bangalore
39. Which actress has become the brand ambassador for sanitation compaign?
Kushans
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Dutch East Indies
Vidya Balan
40. Who wrote 'Netaji - Dead or Alive'?
Samar Guha
Hockey
Sunil Gavaskar
Sarojini Naidu
41. Who is known as Nightingale of India?
Sarojini Naidu
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
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.)
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
42. Which day is observed as Sanskrit Day in India?
5th September
John Ruskin
G.V. Mavalankar
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
43. Who is the author of book 'India Wins Freedom'?
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Tungsten
Longitudinal position
Aravind Adiga
44. What is the new name of Burma?
Andhra Pradesh
Playwright
Myanmar
USA
45. Which fund can be used to meet the unanticipated expenditurewithout the prior approval of the Parliament?
Contingency Fund of India
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Tamil Nadu
Roentgen
46. Name the smallest neighbour of India?
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Dehradun
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Hyderabad
47. Who arranged the elements in the Modern Periodic Table?
Galileo
Odisha
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Mosley
48. Name the great Hindu king who combined in himself the qualities of Samudragupta and Ashoka?
William Shakespeare151
Andhra Pradesh
Harshavardhana
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
49. Where is the Caspian sea - the largest inland sea or lake in the world located?
Playwright
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Neil Armstrong
50. Who is crowned Miss World 2011?
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Hari Prasad Chaurasia