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1. Name the state of India having longest coastline?
Washing soda
Bromine
Andhra Pradesh
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).

2. Which gas is called laughing gas?
Nitrous oxide
In front of New Delhi's High Court
Baby Nargis
Mary Kom

3. Which city is known as 'Electronic City of India'?
Mohammad Iqbal
Jhumpa Lahiri
Bangalore
Solidified Carbon Dioxide

4. Who discovered neutron?
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Chadwick
5 hours 30 minutes
24

5. 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?
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The Delhi Metro
Haryana
Swarajya Party

6. Who wrote 'Netaji - Dead or Alive'?
1949
11th May
Samar Guha
Sidney Sheldon

7. Name the person who has set a new Guinness record of being the oldest man to complete a full distance marathon in Toronto?
Makes cancer cell 'commit suicide'. It helps in stoping multiplication of tumorous cells and shut themselves down. Will be available in approximately 5 years and will be in pill form.
Samuel Morse
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
2

8. What is the ratio of width of our National flag to its length?
Vadodara
26th January
Ashoka
2:3161

9. What is AERE?

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10. Which is the highest military award for valour in India?
Kathak
Param Vir Chakra
Pune
Bangalore

11. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
Gujarat
Bombay
Jamaica
Sunderbans delta

12. Why the International Date Line makes slight deviation from 180 degree meridian?
Indra Sinha64
Parupalli Kashyap
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
1953

13. Champion Trophy is associated with which game?
Alexander Graham Bell
11th May
$46 - 00011
Hockey

14. When is India's Army Day celebrated ?
15th January
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
Cavendish

15. 'A Voice of Freedom' is a book written by whom?
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Lead
Nayantara Sahgal
11th May

16. Whose influence is reflected in the sculptures of the Gandhara school?
Greeks
Hampi
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Jaipur

17. Who led the first Muslim invasion of India?
5
Mohammad bin Kasim
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
V. Anand

18. Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
Jaya Dev
Akhilesh Yadav
30th January

19. When in India Teachers Day celebrated?
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5th September
Rocky Marciano
23rd April

20. Who is the author of 'Tarikh-i-Alai' containing the details of the first few years of Sultan Alauddin Khilji?
Amir Khusrau
Rajasthan
Governor
Golden Temple (Amritsar )

21. Who is the author of the book 'Unto the Last' which influenced Gandhi ji?
The Delhi Metro
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Vadodara
John Ruskin

22. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
Uttar Pradesh
Painting
Khushwant Singh
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.

23. Who invented the television?
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Sunil Gavaskar
Johann Gregor Mendel
J.L.Baird

24. In which state is Ganesh Otsav celebrated?
Second Battle of Tarain
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Maharashtra
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver

25. Who has become the first lady jawan in Indian army?
E.G.Otis
Anna Hazare
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Only the first stanza

26. Name the state of India where diamond mines are mainly found?
E.M Forster
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Madhya Pradesh
15th August167

27. What is the latitude of South Pole?
90 degree
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
6 months
11th May

28. Which element is obtained from sea weeds?
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Iodine
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )

29. Name the famous ruler of ancient India - who towards the end of his life converted to Jainism?
Shobha De
S. Radhakrishnan
Odisha
Chandragupta

30. Why speed of sound is greater in solids than in liquids?
Bombay
Madhya Pradesh
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Because the solids have high elasticity.

31. For what is Bijapur known?
Gol Gumbaz
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
S. Radhakrishnan

32. Who was called Bollywood's first superstar?
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
V. Anand
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )

33. Name the subatomic particle which scientists claimed to have spotted and is believed to be a crucial building block in the formation of universe?
Madhya Pradesh
Sarojini Naidu
God particle or Higgs Boson
Ujjain

34. When is World's Sparrow Day observed?
Perpendicular to each other
Bombay
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
20th March

35. Why bubble of water shines?
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Baby Nargis
Due to radiation
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.

36. Name the scientist who is considered as the Father of Genetics?
Johann Gregor Mendel
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Vocal Music
Aravind Adiga

37. Which country won the maximum number of medals in Olympics 2008 held in Beijing?
William Wordsworth
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
USA
Tamil Nadu

38. Which day is chosen to be celebrated as Father's Day?
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Navtej Saran
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Rabindranath Tagore

39. Which musical instrument is said to be invented by Amir Khusro?
Sitar
Ashoka
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi

40. Who invented the lift?
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
E.G.Otis
Prof. V.N Datta
Gota in Sweden

41. How many spokes are there in our national emblem 'Ashoka Chakra'?
Tamil Nadu
Prime Minister
Maharaja Hari Singh
24

42. Who wrote the book 'Eternal Himalayas'?
H.P.S Ahluwalia
28th February
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.
Hunting

43. Who wrote the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?
Jules Verne
W.C Bannerjee
It loses one day
Mary Kom

44. What was adopted from the Maurya dynasty in the emblem of government of India?
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Mohammad Iqbal
Four lions
Dehradun

45. World Human Rights Day is observed on which day?
Robert Watson Watt
The equator
Dance
10th December

46. Name the shooter of Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur) who won silver medal in Olympics 2012?

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47. Name the three new elements added to the Periodic Table in 2011?
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
10th December
Ms. Benazir Bhutto

48. Name the sub-launched long range N-missile developed by China?
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Julang-2
Methane
1953

49. What are the bank deposits that can be withdrawn without notice called?
God particle or Higgs Boson
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Demand deposits
Neil Armstrong

50. Which state of India has highest production of tea?
U.K
Perpendicular to each other
Gol Gumbaz
Assam