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1. Who is the person of Indian origin nominated as the Governor of Louisiana - an American state?
Ludhiana
2
Bobby Jindal
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
2. What was the old name of Indonesia?
Oxygen and acetylene
162
1953
Dutch East Indies
3. With which musical instrument was Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan associated?
Sitar
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Uttar Pradesh
4. How water in earthen pots remain cool?
Navtej Saran
Khushwant Singh
Mosley
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
5. Which states are known for Cauvery Water dispute?
Jaya Dev
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Dadabhai Naoroji
6. Who made the highest score in an ODI against West Indiies in Indora in 2011?
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Chadwick
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
7. Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
2
Samuel Morse
Mumbai
Leo Tolstoy
8. Name the three new elements added to the Periodic Table in 2011?
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
The Delhi Metro
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
9. Where are the achievements of Samudragupta described on?
Allahabad Pillar inscription
69 miles
Because the solids have high elasticity.
God particle or Higgs Boson
10. When is the Mother's Day celebrated?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
11th May
Ashoka
11. Greenwich mean time (GMT) is the standard time of which country?
Narmada and Japti
South Africa
U.K
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
12. Why bubble of water shines?
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Konark
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
13. With which sports is Sushma Saroelker associated?
Kho-Kho
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
South Kolkata
Will pass through Equator
14. Which is the largest desert in India?
Mundak Upanishad
Kalpakkam
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Jama Masjid
15. Who is the 26th Chief Minister of Karnataka?
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Madhya Pradesh
Jawaharlal Nehru
Maharashtra
16. Which day is celebrated as National Maritime Day in India?
Landsteiner
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
5th April
Sitar
17. What are the bank deposits that can be withdrawn without notice called?
90 degree
14th November
Vadodara
Demand deposits
18. Liquefied Petroleum Gas consists mainly which gases?
16th October
15th August167
5
Methane - butane and propane
19. Vocalist Rahamat Khan belongs to which Gharana?
Cavendish
Arthur Conan Doyle
Gwalior Gharana
Kanishka
20. Name the world's shortest living woman?
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Ladakh
Jyoti Amge
India
21. What is the practice of selling goods in a foreign country at a price below their domestic selling price is called?
Gujarat
Dumping
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Rajasthan
22. Who wrote the book 'Unhappy India'?
Das Kapital
Fatehpur Sikri
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Lala Lajpat Rai
23. During whose reign The Mathura School of art flourished?
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Vasudeva
Samar Guha
Silver
24. Who was the first woman to go in space?
Sunil Gavaskar
India and Pakistan
Valentina Tereshkova
Demand deposits
25. Which day in India celebrated as Central Excise Day ?
S. Radhakrishnan
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.
14th November
24th February
26. Where is Sun Temple situated?
Konark
The President
7th April
Gagan Narang
27. 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?
Music
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Curiosity
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
28. Name one famous Sarod player?
Zinc
Prime Minister
Aravind Adiga
Amjad Ali Khan
29. Which is the India's largest public sector commercial bank at present?
Silver
Year of Disabled Soldiers
State Bank of India
Carbon dioxide
30. Which country has an Unwritten Constitution?
5th June
Only the first stanza
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
UK
31. Where is Buland Darwaza located?
Fatehpur Sikri
N.E. Borlaug
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
When sun is above the equator
32. Name the China's first woman astronaut into orbit?
Rajasthan
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Rajasthan
Marie Curie
33. On which date India won the World Cup in Mumbai?
Mohammad Iqbal
Maharashtra
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.)
2nd April - 2011
34. Name the sub-launched long range N-missile developed by China?
1.34 millions
$46 - 00011
Haryana
Julang-2
35. In how many time zones is the World divided?
24
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Landsteiner
E.M Forster
36. During whose time the Gandhara School of art developed?
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Kushans
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
M. Narasimhan
37. A famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice 'is written by whom?
9th August
Anita Desai
1949
Jane Austen
38. Who was the first king to conquer Malwa - Gujarat and Maharashtra?
Jane Austen
Shiv Prasad Singh
Chandragupta Maurya
Performax
39. Which player is the author of the book 'Straight From The Heart'?
Mumbai
Samudragupta
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Kapil Dev
40. Who is author of 'Hindu view of life'?
Dutch East Indies
S. Radhakrishnan
Kalpakkam
Tamil Nadu
41. Where is Bihar's first all women police station located?
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Amir Khusrau
42. Which state of India has highest production of tea?
Four lions
Khushwant Singh
India
Assam
43. Late Vijay Tendulkar who died in 2008 were famous in which field?
Playwright
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Six months
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
44. With whom are the rare replicas of sacred book Guru Granth Sahib?
Anita Desai
It loses one day
Playwright
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
45. Who propounded the Market Law?
Edison
Punjab
J.B.Say
Ashoka
46. Where is the National Defence Academy situated?
Nitrous oxide
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Hyderabad
Khadakvasla
47. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
Ganga
At Magdalla port near Surat.
U.K
Valentina Tereshkova
48. Which day is celebrated as Independence Day of India?
Uttar Pradesh
5th September
Darsheel Safary
15th August167
49. Who is the creator of 'Sherlock Holmes'?
Year of Disabled Soldiers
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Arthur Conan Doyle
50. What is India's rank on Foreign money in Swiss banks?
Bangalore
India
55th rank
Mundak Upanishad