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1. In which Amendment Right to property was removed from the list of Fundamental rights?
Carbon dioxide
Milkha Singh
Khushwant Singh
Forty-fourth Amendment
2. Who arranged the elements in the Modern Periodic Table?
23rd April
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Mosley
Mohammad bin Kasim
3. When was Sangeet Natak Akademi set up by Government of India?
Andhra Pradesh
14th November
South Kolkata
1953
4. Why bubble of water shines?
Greeks
Chandragupta Maurya
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
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.
5. Which gas is used for preparation of soda water?
Contingency Fund of India
Lawn Tennis153
UK
Carbon dioxide
6. Who got Arjuna Award in 2011?
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Rahul Banerjee (archery ) - Preeja Sreedharan (athletics) - Vikas Gowda (athletics) - Jwala Gutta(badminton) - M Suranjoy Singh(boxing) - Zaheer Khan (cricket) - Sunil Chhetri(football) - Ashish Kumar (gymnastics) - Rajpal Singh (hockey) - Ra
Alexander Graham Bell
7. Who has become the first lady jawan in Indian army?
Lala Lajpat Rai
Manipur54
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
8. Where are the headquarters of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts?
Gujarat
New Delhi
Chadwick
Alexander Fleming
9. What is the maximum period of gap between any two sessions of the Indian Parliament?
India
INS Vikrant55
Six months
Nek Chand
10. Where is Char Minar located?
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Hyderabad
Chandragupta-II
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
11. Where are Dilwara Temples situated?
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Samuel Morse
Longitudinal position
China
12. Motilal Nehru and Chittaranjan Das were the founder members of which party?
8th May
Jama Masjid
Swarajya Party
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
13. 'Nokia' the telecom company belongs to which country?
German
Finland
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Nikolaus Otto
14. With whom the Income Tax Department decides to share its PAN card database?
Samudragupta
State Bank of India
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
15. How many images will be formed when an object is placed between two mirrors placed parellel to each other?
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Infinite
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Valentina Tereshkova
16. Which state in South India have a thermal station at Tuticorin?
South Africa
Vande Mataram
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Tamil Nadu
17. Which megastar carried the Olympic flame on the torch relay leg between the City of London and the borough of South wark in London on 26th July - 2012 - a day before the opening ceremony of sporting spectacle?
Alexander Graham Bell
Amitabh Bachchan
Bobby Jindal
Six months
18. Name the woman boxer of India who have won five time world championship in succession?
Mehbooba Mufti
Mary Kom
Khadakvasla
Raja Ravi Varma
19. Where is the Indian Institute of Science located?
Bangalore
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
11th May
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
20. Who discovered neutron?
Anita Desai
Playwright
Chadwick
Rahul Banerjee (archery ) - Preeja Sreedharan (athletics) - Vikas Gowda (athletics) - Jwala Gutta(badminton) - M Suranjoy Singh(boxing) - Zaheer Khan (cricket) - Sunil Chhetri(football) - Ashish Kumar (gymnastics) - Rajpal Singh (hockey) - Ra
21. Our Indian National Calender is based on which era?
Nayantara Sahgal
Saka era
Vocal Music
Algernon Sidney
22. Which is largest river without delta in India?
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Narmada and Japti
Razia Sultana
Dr. F.G.Banting
23. Name the gas usually filled in the electric bulbs?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Leo Tolstoy
Sunil Gavaskar
Nitrogen
24. Where did India's first Formula one race took place in 2011?
Mary Kom
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Ripon
25. Who was the first person to set foot on moon?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Neil Armstrong
Prof. V.N Datta
26. If in a mirror image of object appears to be larger then which type of mirror is used?
Art and architecture
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Concave mirror
Hyderabad
27. On which date Chennai turned 372 years?
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Leh
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.
Sunil Gavaskar
28. Where is the National Defence Academy situated?
Khadakvasla
John Keats
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Anna Hazare
29. Who led the first Muslim invasion of India?
Mohammad bin Kasim
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
The Bering Strait
250th anniversary
30. Name two other clones left with NDRI?
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Due to radiation
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Nek Chand
31. India is facing pressure from the US and other Western countries to break trade ties with which country?
Vasudeva
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Khadakvasla
32. Who composed the National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'?
Rabindranath Tagore
Hyderabad
Vasudeva
H.P.S Ahluwalia
33. Who is sworn as the 14th Vice President of India?
5th September
Hamid Ansari
Param Vir Chakra
Nikolaus Otto
34. Champion Trophy is associated with which game?
Punjab
Sri Lanka
Vishnu Sharma
Hockey
35. With which field M.F. Hussian were associated?
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
2nd April - 2011
Painting
7th April
36. Name the smallest neighbour of India?
Indians
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
22nd April
28th February
37. Where is the National Institute of Nutrition located?
G.V. Mavalankar
Hyderabad
Narmada and Japti
95th
38. Who wrote the book 'Ammi! Letter to a Democratic Mother'?
Vadodara
Saeed Mirza
Mussoorie
Narendra Modi government
39. Name the latest hi-tech weapon invented in 2011 to prevent obesity?
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40. Who published the 'Red Data Book' containing information on the wild animals and plants in danger of extinction?
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Michael Phelps
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
41. Name the first heavyweight boxer to go undefeated throughout his career?
Football
Chandragupta Maurya
Rocky Marciano
Kushinagar
42. Who is the author of book 'The Shape of the Beast'?
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
It loses one day
Iodine
Arundhati Roy
43. Which anniversary of sandwich was celebrated by British town in May - 2012?
250th anniversary
Aravind Adiga
Ripon
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
44. What happens to speed of sound with rise in temperature?
4 minutes
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Increases
Odisha
45. What was the old name of Indonesia?
Himachal Pradesh
Dutch East Indies
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Stainless steel
46. Name the book which has collection of speeches of N.G Ranga?
9th August
Morarji Desai
W.C Bannerjee
Three Decades in Parliament
47. Who is known as Nightingale of India?
Odisha
Sarojini Naidu
Milkha Singh
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
48. What is the designation of the chairperson of Lok Sabha?
Speaker
When sun is above the equator
Gota in Sweden
Kulandei Francis
49. Which age group children in India are ensured free and compulsory education?
6-14 years
Jawaharlal Nehru
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
29th August
50. Where is Elephant Pass located?
M.N Roy62
Sri Lanka
Dilip Kumar
Wular lake (Kashmir)