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1. Term Double Fault is associated with which game?
Lawn Tennis153
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Rabindranath Tagore147
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
2. Kathakali a folk dance is prevalent in which state?
29th August
Kerala
Hockey
South Africa
3. Who is the second 100 percent visually impaired person to be accepted into the IAS?
5th September
20th March
Hockey
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
4. When is Earth Day observed?
Mumbai
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
22nd April
German
5. Which city is called 'White City' of Rajasthan?
V. Anand
250th anniversary
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
6. Which country won the maximum number of medals in Olympics 2008 held in Beijing?
USA
Wular lake (Kashmir)
2nd April - 2011
Narmada and Japti
7. Which state has become the second highest power purchaser in the country after Punjab?
Uttar Pradesh
Aung San Suu Kyi
Jai Samhita
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
8. Who propounded the Market Law?
Julang-2
J.B.Say
Vasudeva
Mehbooba Mufti
9. Who is the author of book 'Many Worlds'?
M.N Roy62
Kalpakkam
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
V.S Naipaul
10. When is World Food Day observed?
16th October
Sriharikota
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
11. With whom the Income Tax Department decides to share its PAN card database?
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Kerala
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.)
12. What is the maximum period of gap between any two sessions of the Indian Parliament?
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Oxygen and acetylene
Six months
UK
13. Where did coins made of metal first appeared?
Later Vedic Age
Sitar
Lala Lajpat Rai
Nayantara Sahgal
14. Our Indian National Calender is based on which era?
Saka era
Akhilesh Yadav
Three Decades in Parliament
Satyendra Nath Bose
15. Who is known as 'Lady with the Lamp'?
Florence Nightingale
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Jana Gana Mana
Ladakh
16. Who is the author of novel 'The White Tiger'?
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Kerala
Music
Aravind Adiga
17. Where did the World's costliest crash took place?
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Jane Austen
Amitabh Bachchan
5th September
18. Which day is chosen to be celebrated as Father's Day?
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Hindukush
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
19. Which is largest state of India?
Rajasthan
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
V.S Naipaul
Uttar Pradesh
20. For what was Gupta dynasty famous?
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
90 degrees
M. Narasimhan
Art and architecture
21. Name the strait which separates Africa from Europe?
Zinc
Strait of Gibraltar
Finland
Stupa
22. Where is Bihar's first all women police station located?
China
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
The Delhi Metro
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
23. Which is the largest dome in India?
Cyrus Mistry
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Speaker
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
24. Watches of a country is set according to what time?
Standard time of the country138
German
Increases
Journalism
25. When is Sadbhavna Diwas (Goodwill Day ) observed in India?
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26. Name the country which has longest international boundary with India?
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Bromine
China
Indians
27. What was the old name of Indonesia?
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
8th March
Das Kapital
Dutch East Indies
28. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
Dutch East Indies
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Sukumar Sen
At Magdalla port near Surat.
29. Which is the largest auditorium in India?
Mathura
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Anna Hazare
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
30. Who is called 'Grand Old Man of India'?
Jaipur
Dadabhai Naoroji
Dilip Kumar
Mary Kom
31. Name the person who has set a new Guinness record of being the oldest man to complete a full distance marathon in Toronto?
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Madhya Pradesh
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Aravind Adiga
32. Name the metal used in storage batteries?
Vice President of India
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Lead
33. Hawa Mahal is situated in which city?
Silicon
Jaipur
Samuel Morse
Narmada and Japti
34. Who wrote the book 'A Passage To India'?
Indians
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
E.M Forster
Kushans
35. Where is Elephant Pass located?
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Churchill
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Sri Lanka
36. Who got Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award in 2011?
Chandragupta Maurya
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Jawaharlal Nehru
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
37. Name the gas used to extinguish fire?
Talwandi
6 months
Journalism
Carbon dioxide
38. Late Girilal Jain was a noted figure in which field?
Art and architecture
Journalism
Due to radiation
Mussoorie
39. 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?
Diffusion
N.E. Borlaug
Playwright
1.34 millions
40. Mc. Mohan Line demarcates the boundary between which countries?
India and China
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Kiran Bedi
41. Who said - 'God helps those who helps themselves'?
29th August
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Algernon Sidney
Ganga
42. 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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43. After whose name the Nobel Prize was started?
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Jane Austen
1.34 millions
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
44. On globe - the latitude and longitude intersect at what angle?
Gol Gumbaz
Ganga
90 degrees
Kushans
45. Where is Pushkar lake located?
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Rajasthan
46. Who discovered neutron?
Dehradun
U.K
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Chadwick
47. Our Indian Constitution closely follows the Constitutional system of which country?
The President
U.K
Uttar Pradesh
Forty-fourth Amendment
48. Which day in India celebrated as Central Excise Day ?
Jamaica
24th February
South Africa
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
49. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
1.34 millions
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
State Bank of India
50. Name the NASA's most modern spacecraft successfully landed on Mars on 6th August - 2012 to begin a pioneering two year search to find out if the red planet is suitable for life and whether it can be inhabitable in the future?
Curiosity
Himachal Pradesh
Rajasthan
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.