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1. Who won the Wimbledon title for seventh time and 17th grand slam crown after beating Andy Murray in male category in 2012?
Roger Federer
Equator
15th March
Milkha Singh
2. Our Indian Constitution closely follows the Constitutional system of which country?
U.K
Su-Kam Power Systems
Bengali
Maharashtra
3. Where is the birth place of Guru Nanak Ji?
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
The Delhi Metro
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Talwandi
4. Which was the great centre of trade and commerce in the Gupta period?
New Delhi
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Mathura
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
5. Name the ballistic missile that lifted off from Wheeler Island in Odisha on 9th August - 2012?
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Mumbai
6. Where is the Indian Institute of Science located?
Vidya Balan
Mary Kom
Bangalore
15th March
7. Which is the largest cave in India?
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
95th
Chaucer
8. Which is the great circle on earth's surface?
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
The equator
22nd April
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
9. Which day is known as World Tourism Day?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
27th September
Sunil Gavaskar
1949
10. Name the country's longest railway tunnel excavated?
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
The Bering Strait
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Kanishka
11. Which is the largest museum in India?
India Museum at Kolkata
Ludhiana
24th May
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
12. Who wrote the book 'The Namesake'?
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Jhumpa Lahiri
Performax
5th September
13. Where is head office of the State Bank of India located?
Trivandrum
Vasudeva
Mumbai
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
14. Where is the National Institute of Nutrition located?
Hyderabad
Mehbooba Mufti
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
15. Which state of India has highest production of tea?
Nitrogen
Assam
Carbon dioxide
Das Kapital
16. Who composed our National song?
Landsteiner
29th August
Johannes Kepler
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
17. At which point of earth weight of object will be minimum?
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.
Japan
Kushans
At the center of earth
18. Who was the author of 'Hind Swaraj'?
Mussoorie
1.34 millions
Mahatma Gandhi
Jama Masjid
19. Which state in South India have a thermal station at Tuticorin?
5th April
Tamil Nadu
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
20. When comes the World Environment Day?
5th June
15th August167
Mathura
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
21. What are the benefits of medicine Performax?
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.
Parupalli Kashyap
2nd April - 2011
31st May
22. Indian Air Force Day is observed on which day ?
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.
8th October
Neil Armstrong
Kiran Bedi
23. Where are Dilwara Temples situated?
Arthur Conan Doyle
2nd April - 2011
Silicon
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
24. Who wrote the book 'Unhappy India'?
Lala Lajpat Rai
Tamil Nadu
Mohammad bin Kasim
7th April
25. Where is Indian Cancer Research Institute situated?
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
Bombay
Roentgen
26. Who wrote the book 'Gullivers Travel'?
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.
Second Battle of Tarain
Jonathan Swift
Euclid
27. Who crafted the wax statue of Anna Hazare?
28. Who wrote the book 'Glimpses of World History'?
Jawaharlal Nehru
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Kiran Bedi
India
29. Who was the first speaker of Independent India's Lok Sabha?
Khadakvasla
Nayantara Sahgal
G.V. Mavalankar
$46 - 00011
30. Who is the new youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Akhilesh Yadav
Konark
Bangalore
31. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?
5 hours 30 minutes
Uttar Pradesh
Golconda
Ludhiana
32. Who earned the title of 'Liberator'?
Forty-fourth Amendment
Chandragupta Maurya
Sidney Sheldon
Will pass through Equator
33. In India - who issues one rupee coins and notes as well as subsidiary coins?
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
New Agra Fort
24th May
The Reserve Bank of India
34. On which date Quit India Day comes?
Mumbai
9th August
Demand deposits
Kushans
35. Who appoints the Chairman and members of State Public Service Commission?
Governor
Saka era
Vadodara
Razia Sultana
36. Who invented the petrol engine?
Abul Kalam Azad
Methane - butane and propane
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Nikolaus Otto
37. Who invented the mercury thermometer?
Galileo
Jane Austen
2nd April - 2011
Chaucer
38. In which century did Ashoka reign?
Mussoorie
Hindukush
Third century B.C
Shockley
39. Who is known as founder of Mohemmadan Anglo-Oriental college at Aligarh?
20th March
Equator
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
40. How many total number of enclaves are to be exchanged between territories of two countries India and Bangladesh according to the treaty signed in Sept - 2011?
Second Battle of Tarain
162
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Chandragupta Maurya
41. On which part of earth days and nights are of equal length always?
E.G.Otis
Tungsten
Equator
Morarji Desai
42. Name the subatomic particle which scientists claimed to have spotted and is believed to be a crucial building block in the formation of universe?
William Wordsworth
90 degrees
Chadwick
God particle or Higgs Boson
43. Where is the only shrine in the world which has a natural statue of Hanuman that is not man made?
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Arundhati Roy
44. When is the UN Day observed?
22nd April
24th October
God particle or Higgs Boson
Gagan Narang (shooter)
45. Which is the largest Gurudwara in India?
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Narendra Modi government
Kerala
Six months
46. Which is largest state of India?
Rajasthan
India
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Alexander Graham Bell
47. 'Glimpses of World History' is written by whom?
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Jawaharlal Nehru
10th October
48. Who fought the Third Battle of Panipat?
29th August
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Khushwant Singh
Raja Ravi Varma
49. The Prime Minister is chairman of this
Cyrus Mistry
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
69 miles
Planning Commission
50. Who painted the masterpiece 'Hamsa Damayanti'?
Aravind Adiga
Sodium
Albert Einstein
Raja Ravi Varma