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1. How many lines are there in latitude and longitude?
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.
250th anniversary
Vishnu Sharma
Firozeshah Tughluq
2. Where was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Avanti?
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Sunita Williams
Ujjain
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
3. Who discovered neutron?
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Kerala
The equator
Chadwick
4. What is e-bomb?
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5. Where is Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research located?
American firm Intra Pace unveils a stomach implant vi akeyhole surgery that can help people fight flab by warning the brain when enough food is taken. This credit card sized implant is named as 'Abiliti'.
Kalpakkam
2
Aravallis
6. Who invented telephone?
Six months
Alexander Graham Bell
London
Vasudeva
7. Who won Jnanpith Award in 2010?
Navtej Saran
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
Narendra Modi government
8. Who brought and installed two Asokan pillars in Delhi?
Firozeshah Tughluq
Jawaharlal Nehru
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
9. When in India Teachers Day celebrated?
Jana Gana Mana
Yamuna
5th September
Sidney Sheldon
10. When is the World Population Day observed?
5th April
11th July
Kushans
Thailand
11. Where is Char Minar located?
Mahatma Gandhi
Lobsang Sangay
Hyderabad
Sitar
12. When is National Science Day celebrated in India?
28th February
S. Radhakrishnan
Chandragupta Maurya
Ludhiana
13. Who wrote the book 'Eternal Himalayas'?
Michael Phelps
Zinc
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
14. Which age group children in India are ensured free and compulsory education?
6-14 years
Cyrus Mistry
Amir Khusru
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.
15. What is the maximum period of gap between any two sessions of the Indian Parliament?
Bombay
Florence Nightingale
Six months
Raja Ravi Varma
16. Which song became the most searched You tube video in India in 2011?
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17. Who got Dronacharya Award in 2011 ?
Jama Masjid
Talwandi
Bromine
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
18. Where is the famous Meenakshi Temple situated?
Tamil Nadu
Saka era
9th August
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
19. When is World Laughter Day celebrated?
Leo Tolstoy
Vidya Balan
Speaker
26th January
20. Name the country's longest railway tunnel excavated?
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
W.C Bannerjee
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
21. Who is the author of the book 'The Exile'?
Chaucer
W.C Bannerjee
John Keats
Navtej Saran
22. Who was the first king to conquer Malwa - Gujarat and Maharashtra?
Jhumpa Lahiri
Maharaja Hari Singh
Chandragupta Maurya
Satyendra Nath Bose
23. Name the largest oil refinery of India?
15th August167
Johannes Kepler
Vadodara
Rabindra Nath Tagore
24. Name the world's shortest living woman?
Jyoti Amge
9th August
8th October
1949
25. To whom President of India can write if he wants to resign from office?
The equator
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Akhilesh Yadav
Vice President of India
26. Whom the Gujarat High Court issued contempt notice on 15th Feb. - 2012 for not obeying its order to compensate people whose shops were burnt down in the post-Godhra riots?
Narendra Modi government
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Hockey
William Shakespeare151
27. Which is the largest populated state in India?
Japan
Uttar Pradesh
Chandragupta Maurya
Samuel Morse
28. Who got Arjuna Award in 2011?
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
E.G.Otis
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Raja Ravi Varma
29. Who discovered insulin?
Dr. F.G.Banting
Shockley
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
30. Name the scientist who is considered as the Father of Genetics?
Johann Gregor Mendel
The Reserve Bank of India
Rabindra Nath Tagore
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.
31. 'Glimpses of World History' is written by whom?
German
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Jawaharlal Nehru
Darsheel Safary
32. Name the eminent Hindi authors chosen for Jnanpith Award 2011?
31st May
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Edison
Rs 270
33. Whose autobiography is 'India Wins Freedom'?
Abul Kalam Azad
Sitar
28th February
Motion Picture
34. Which metro has been certified by the United Nations as the first metro rail based system in the World to get carbon credits for contributing to the fight against climate changes?
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
The Delhi Metro
Governor
Satyendra Nath Bose
35. When is International Labour Day observed?
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
1st May164
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
24
36. Where were remains of Vijayanagar Empire found?
N.E. Borlaug
Vidya Balan
Hampi
Nayantara Sahgal
37. Who wrote the book 'Animal's People'?
Demand deposits
Indra Sinha64
Will pass through Equator
Herodotus
38. Who wrote the book 'Gullivers Travel'?
Shobha De
Jonathan Swift
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Finland
39. Who is the author of book 'Freedom Behind Bars'?
Kiran Bedi
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
40. Who was first Indian woman to become president of U.N. General Assembly?
Jane Austen
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Japan
Madhya Pradesh
41. When was the foundation day of CSIR ( Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) observed?
Navtej Saran
6-14 years
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Vice President of India
42. Who is known as founder of Mohemmadan Anglo-Oriental college at Aligarh?
Sarojini Naidu
Tamil Nadu
30th January
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
43. World Human Rights Day is observed on which day?
10th December
Year of Disabled Soldiers
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
Silver
44. Name the Earth- like planet whose existence is confirmed by American astronomers?
Second Battle of Tarain
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Fatehpur Sikri
Hampi
45. What is the upper house of parliament known as?
John Keats
Anna Hazare
H.P.S Ahluwalia
The Rajya Sabha
46. Where is Bihar's first all women police station located?
Genetically Modified Crops.
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Kerala
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
47. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
UK
Golconda
48. When was Sangeet Natak Akademi set up by Government of India?
1953
N.E. Borlaug
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Trivandrum
49. Durand line is the border common to which two countries?
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Johannes Kepler
Mahatma Gandhi
Himachal Pradesh
50. Who wrote the immortal song 'Vande Mataram'?
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Ujjain
Euclid
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
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