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1. Where are Dilwara Temples situated?
Rocky Marciano
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Neil Armstrong
Prime Minister
2. Which player is the author of the book 'Straight From The Heart'?
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Kapil Dev
Mundak Upanishad
5th April
3. Who invented the television?
1953
Dilip Kumar
12th January
J.L.Baird
4. Whose autobiography is 'India Wins Freedom'?
Six months
Tamil Nadu
July - 1947
Abul Kalam Azad
5. Who discovered neutron?
Abul Kalam Azad
Jama Masjid
Sachin Tendulkar
Chadwick
6. Who was the chairman of Constituent Assembly?
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Punjab
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
7. Which is the largest zoo in India?
State Bank of India
Gol Gumbaz
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Mundak Upanishad
8. Where is the World's largest ship canal?
Gota in Sweden
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Amitabh Ghosh
Saka era
9. Who headed the committee on computerisation in Indian banks(1988)?
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Sachin Tendulkar
69 miles
M. Narasimhan
10. Where is Elephant Pass located?
8th September
Sri Lanka
Kho-Kho
Washing soda
11. Liquefied Petroleum Gas consists mainly which gases?
Landsteiner
Methane - butane and propane
Prime Minister
Samudragupta
12. When is the UN Day observed?
Maharashtra
24th October
Razia Sultana
24
13. Which is the largest Mosque in India?
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Sushil Kumar
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Jama Masjid
14. What are GM Crops?
90 degrees
Genetically Modified Crops.
Arundhati Roy
Jama Masjid
15. Which is the largest desert in India?
Perpendicular to each other
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Cyrus Mistry
5
16. Which is the great circle on earth's surface?
Diffusion
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Arundhati Roy
The equator
17. India is facing pressure from the US and other Western countries to break trade ties with which country?
Herodotus
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
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.)
South Kolkata
18. Name the shooter of Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur) who won silver medal in Olympics 2012?
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19. Who is the first Indian sports person to win an individual Gold medal in the Olympic Games?
Michael Phelps
Abhinav Bindra
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Neil Armstrong
20. Name the Apple co-founder who changed the daily habits of millions by reinventing computing - music and mobile phones?
Manipur54
Punjab
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Galileo
21. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Kapil Dev
Maharashtra
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
22. Which day in India is celebrated as Children's Day?
Shiv Prasad Singh
U.K
Robert Watson Watt
14th November
23. When is National Science Day celebrated in India?
Mohammad Iqbal
Cavendish
Allahabad Pillar inscription
28th February
24. What is made from the mixture of lime and chlorine?
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Bleaching powder
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.)
25. What is the estimated premature deaths caused annually by outdoor air pollution - according to the first pollution survey carried out by World Health Organisation in Sept. - 2011?
Yamuna
India and China
1.34 millions
Leo Tolstoy
26. Which anniversary of sandwich was celebrated by British town in May - 2012?
Rahul Dravid
China
250th anniversary
Andhra Pradesh
27. Who won bronze medal for India in 10m pistol event (London Olympics - 2012)?
Jyoti Amge
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Euclid
Gagan Narang
28. 'A Voice of Freedom' is a book written by whom?
Amitabh Bachchan
Nayantara Sahgal
Johann Gregor Mendel
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
29. Who appoints the Chairman and members of State Public Service Commission?
U.K
Governor
Paschim Banga1
8th October
30. Name the two living members of first Lok Sabha to be honored by President on 13th May - 2012 - 60th anniversary of our Parliament?
Michael Phelps
Samudragupta
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Dutch East Indies
31. Where is Union Budget presented firstly?
Madhya Pradesh
The Lok Sabha
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Four lions
32. Name the woman boxer of India who have won five time world championship in succession?
Mary Kom
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Swarajya Party
Mundak Upanishad
33. Which region of India is associated with pine forests?
Standard time of the country138
Director General Anil Kaushik
6 months
Uttarakhand
34. Where did India's first Formula one race took place in 2011?
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Kathak
Karashapana
The President
35. Late Girilal Jain was a noted figure in which field?
Sitar
Journalism
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Nayantara Sahgal
36. Name the person who transliterated Guru Granth Sahib in Braille?
Abhinav Bindra
1949
Bhai Gurmej Singh
State Bank of India
37. When is Martyr's Day in India celebrated ?
Narendra Modi government
Param Vir Chakra
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
30th January
38. Who discovered blood grouping?
1911133
Increases
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Landsteiner
39. A famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice 'is written by whom?
China
Amitabh Ghosh
Rabindranath Tagore
Jane Austen
40. Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
Jana Gana Mana
Vishnu Sharma
Carbon dioxide
Leo Tolstoy
41. Who got the greatest Olympic athlete of all time Trophy?
Carbon dioxide
Michael Phelps
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
42. 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
Saka era
Karashapana
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
43. Who arranged the elements in the Modern Periodic Table?
Narendra Modi government
Lala Lajpat Rai
V. Anand
Mosley
44. Which is the largest area wise state in India?
Rajasthan
Curiosity
New Delhi
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.
45. Who discovered insulin?
Dr. F.G.Banting
Cavendish
7th April
Amitabh Ghosh
46. Who is the renowned flute player?
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
12th January
Ujjain
47. Mainly which gas is present in gobar gas?
Jawaharlal Nehru
Sukumar Sen
Methane
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
48. What happens to speed of sound with rise in temperature?
Anna Hazare
Sunderbans delta
Increases
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
49. Which countries are located on the Greenwich Meridian?
Konark
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Jama Masjid
50. Where are the achievements of Samudragupta described on?
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Mumbai
Allauddin Khilji
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)