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1. 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
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Andhra Pradesh
Tamil Nadu

2. Name the Apple co-founder who changed the daily habits of millions by reinventing computing - music and mobile phones?
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
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)

3. How many medals are won by India in Olympics 2012?
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.

4. Who wrote the book 'The Namesake'?
Alexander Fleming
Maharashtra
Jhumpa Lahiri
Japan

5. Latitude and longitude are at what angle to each other?
Music
Krishna
Perpendicular to each other
Chilka lake (Orissa )

6. Who was the first king to conquer Malwa - Gujarat and Maharashtra?
Chandragupta Maurya
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
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'.
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)

7. With which field M.F. Hussian were associated?
Gota in Sweden
Journalism
Akbar
Painting

8. If in a mirror image of object appears to be larger then which type of mirror is used?
Graphite
250th anniversary
Shiv Prasad Singh
Concave mirror

9. Who is the author of novel 'The White Tiger'?
Mundak Upanishad
Akbar
Aravind Adiga
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)

10. Who was called Bollywood's first superstar?
Nayantara Sahgal
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Mehbooba Mufti
Rs 270

11. Term Double Fault is associated with which game?
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Lawn Tennis153
Mosley
6-14 years

12. How many images will be formed when an object is placed between two mirrors placed parellel to each other?
Infinite
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
$46 - 00011
Michael Phelps

13. Who invented transistor?
Shockley
Harshavardhana
Indians
8

14. Who is the senior most Army officer to have faced a court martial and dismissed from service by an Indian Army Court?
95th
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Vishnu Sharma

15. When is Commonwealth Day observed?
Washing soda
5th April
Jonathan Swift
24th May

16. Where is National School of Mines located?
Nitrogen
The Delhi Metro
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Pune

17. Where were huge amounts of uranium recently found?
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Golconda
10th October
Andhra Pradesh

18. How many lines are there in latitude and longitude?
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.
UK
Maharashtra
Shobha De

19. After whose name the Nobel Prize was started?
Mathura
30th January
Mary Kom
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite

20. How 4G services will hit the country in 2012?
Chandragupta
Art and architecture
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
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.

21. Where is a tunnel near the Indo-Pak border detected?
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
In Samba
Akbar
9th August

22. Which day in India is observed as Minorities Rights Day?
18th December
Pune
Jai Samhita
Lead

23. When is India's Army Day celebrated ?
15th January
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
New Agra Fort
Odisha

24. Which country won the maximum number of medals in Olympics 2008 held in Beijing?
Jana Gana Mana
Silicon
USA
J.L.Baird

25. Which is largest man made lake in India?
Playwright
Oxygen and acetylene
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Madhya Pradesh

26. Who deciphered the genetic code?
Vidya Balan
Arundhati Roy
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.

27. Name the person who has set a new Guinness record of being the oldest man to complete a full distance marathon in Toronto?
Florence Nightingale
1.34 millions
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.

28. One degree of longitude on equator is equal to what distance?
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
Sri Lanka
18th December
69 miles

29. Late Vijay Tendulkar who died in 2008 were famous in which field?
Playwright
Indians
Rs 270
Shimla and Hamirpur

30. Who invented the petrol engine?
15th January
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Himachal Pradesh
Nikolaus Otto

31. 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?
Kushans
The Delhi Metro
Roger Federer
Uttar Pradesh

32. Who wrote the novel 'Neela Chand'?
Oxygen and acetylene
Shiv Prasad Singh
Finland
24th May

33. Which is the largest auditorium in India?
Equator
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Gujarat
24th October

34. Which is the largest museum in India?
Roentgen
V. Anand
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
India Museum at Kolkata

35. Name the metal used as the filament of an electric bulb?
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Tungsten
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Bamiyan

36. Who wrote the book 'Eternal Himalayas'?
H.P.S Ahluwalia
India
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Strait of Gibraltar

37. What is the name of World's cheapest tablet PC?
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Concave mirror

38. Durand line is the border common to which two countries?
Pakistan and Afghanistan
E.M Forster
Kapil Dev
Iodine

39. What is the maximum duration for which the Vice President can officiate as the President of India?
Year of Disabled Soldiers
6 months
Finland
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana

40. Name the first heavyweight boxer to go undefeated throughout his career?
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
The equator
Rocky Marciano
Madhya Pradesh

41. What is Ayush treatment?
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
27th September
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves

42. When is World Laughter Day celebrated?
Protecting Flora and Fauna
26th January
Mary Kom
Sunita Williams

43. When was the design of our National Flag adopted by the Constituent of India?
Akbar
July - 1947
M.N Roy62
12th January

44. Name the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister whose admirers have decided to build a temple to perpetuate his memory?
Hampi
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy

45. Who said 'Child is the father of Man'?
Valentina Tereshkova
The Bering Strait
William Wordsworth
Stainless steel

46. How many spokes are there in our national emblem 'Ashoka Chakra'?
24
Rajasthan
Amir Khusrau
G.V. Mavalankar

47. Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?
Jaya Dev
Mary Kom
Ashoka
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).

48. What happens when a ship crosses Date line from west to east?
Vande Mataram
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
It loses one day

49. Which king brought the valleys of Indus - Ganga and Jamuna together for the first time under one political authority?
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Ashoka
Jyoti Amge
1st December

50. At which place a devastating fire tore through seven storey AMRI hospital killing 91 people in 2011?
South Kolkata
Jawaharlal Nehru
Ripon
Algernon Sidney