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1. 'Nokia' the telecom company belongs to which country?






2. Who elects the Vice President of India?






3. Where are Dilwara Temples situated?






4. Name the latest India's surface -to-surface missile successfully test fired (on 26th Sept - 2011)?






5. Who is the author of book 'India Wins Freedom'?






6. What is the other name of deuterium oxide?






7. Which book is entitled as 'Bible of Communism'?






8. Radcliffe line is the boundary line between which countries?






9. Which hockey team won the Asian Championship Trophy at Ordos(China) in 2011?






10. Who appoints the Chairman and members of State Public Service Commission?






11. How many postal zones are there in India - under the PIN Code System?






12. Which village of Andhra Pradesh may be sitting over one of the world's largest uranium reserves?






13. Where is head office of the State Bank of India located?






14. When is World Laughter Day celebrated?






15. Who was the first woman to go in space?






16. Name the metal present in photo films?






17. Who said 'Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err'?






18. Which country has World's largest democracy?






19. Which state in India has three language teaching formula?






20. On which date Quit India Day comes?






21. Liquefied Petroleum Gas consists mainly which gases?






22. Which non -metal remains liquid at room temperature?






23. What will be the difference in longitudes between two places if their time difference is 2 hours and 20 minutes?






24. Which place is going to have North India's biggest turf club?






25. By whom is the Vice-President of the Indian Union elected?






26. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?






27. Who discovered Penicillin?






28. When comes the World Environment Day?






29. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?






30. Who is the creator of Rock Garden in Chandigarh?






31. While playing with which team Rahul Dravid completed his 10000 runs in the Test cricket?






32. Name the world's shortest living woman?






33. Who won Jnanpith Award in 2010?






34. Where is the famous Meenakshi Temple situated?






35. What is made from the mixture of lime and chlorine?






36. Greenwich mean time (GMT) is the standard time of which country?






37. What is equal to latitude of a place?






38. Name the Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay ofBengal?






39. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?






40. Name the leader under whom India's first coalition government in New Delhi was formed?






41. What is the name of World's cheapest tablet PC?






42. Which is largest populated city in India?






43. The Prime Minister is chairman of this






44. What is proxy voting?






45. Which is the largest populated state in India?






46. Which day is known as World Book and Copyright Day?






47. Name the player of USA who created history by grabbing his 22nd Olympic medal ?






48. Name the scientist who got Nobel Prize twice for the same subject?






49. Who is the second 100 percent visually impaired person to be accepted into the IAS?






50. Which is the largest Gurudwara in India?