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1. Name the scientist who is considered as the Father of Genetics?
Playwright
24
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Johann Gregor Mendel
2. Which region of India is associated with pine forests?
90 degrees
Uttarakhand
5th April
H.P.S Ahluwalia
3. Where is India's Space Rocket Launching Centre situated?
Jamaica
Uttarakhand
Sriharikota
Madhya Pradesh
4. Which gas is used for preparation of soda water?
Carbon dioxide
Johannes Kepler
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
5. What is made from the mixture of lime and chlorine?
Aravallis
Landsteiner
Bleaching powder
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
6. Kanchipuram is in which state?
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Tamil Nadu
Himachal Pradesh
Akbar
7. Name the gas usually filled in the electric bulbs?
1.34 millions
Nitrogen
Jyoti Amge
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
8. Which child artist got Critics Best Actor Award for his acting in a film Taare Zameen Par?
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.
Florence Nightingale
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Darsheel Safary
9. What happens to speed of sound with rise in temperature?
Increases
Amir Khusru
95th
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
10. What was the old name of Indonesia?
Concave mirror
Bangalore
Dutch East Indies
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
11. Radcliffe line is the boundary line between which countries?
India and Pakistan
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Methane
Jama Masjid
12. Where is the World's largest ship canal?
Hockey
Golconda
Gota in Sweden
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
13. Who was the only Muslim woman to sit on the throne of Delhi?
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Razia Sultana
Roentgen
USA
14. Who will be the new Director General of Police (DGP) after the retirement of P.S. Gill?
Gol Gumbaz
16th October
Director General Anil Kaushik
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
15. Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?
Jaya Dev
Aravind Adiga
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
16. Name the first ever pill approved by US to prevent HIV?
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Punjab
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
17. Who wrote our National Anthem?
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Tamil Nadu
Kathak
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
18. When is Sadbhavna Diwas (Goodwill Day ) observed in India?
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19. Who is the richest Indian in the World according to the 2011 Forbes India annual rich list?
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Amir Khusrau
Performax
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
20. Who got Dronacharya Award in 2011 ?
J.B.Say
Samar Guha
State Bank of India
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
21. Name the element required for conversion of solar energy?
Silicon
Mosley
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Navtej Saran
22. What is the other name of deuterium oxide?
5th April
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
29th August
Heavy water
23. Where are the World famous Khajuraho sculptures located?
U.K
Jaipur
Madhya Pradesh
John Ruskin
24. Who wrote the book 'A Passage To India'?
Ashoka
Contingency Fund of India
E.M Forster
Gol Gumbaz
25. Which countries are located on the Greenwich Meridian?
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Razia Sultana
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
State Bank of India
26. Where did coins made of metal first appeared?
Later Vedic Age
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Tamil Nadu
Gol Gumbaz
27. Where are relics of Buddha preserved?
Stupa
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Mosley
Music
28. Which is the largest Mosque in India?
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Churchill
Jama Masjid
Uttar Pradesh
29. Who was first Indian woman to become president of U.N. General Assembly?
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Sushil Kumar
Longitudinal position
Aravallis
30. When India became a Sovereign - democratic republic?
Jan 26 - 1950134
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Sunil Gavaskar
Japan
31. When in India National Technology Day celebrated?
Samuel Morse
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
11th May
Aravind Adiga
32. Where is the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre located?
Robert Watson Watt
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Trivandrum
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
33. Why the International Date Line makes slight deviation from 180 degree meridian?
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Lala Lajpat Rai
1911133
Only the first stanza
34. For what was Ashoka famous?
Nitrogen
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
1.34 millions
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
35. Who invented the telegraphic code?
The President
28th February
Kushinagar
Samuel Morse
36. Name the China's first woman astronaut into orbit?
Sarojini Naidu
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Rajasthan
37. Where were huge amounts of uranium recently found?
Andhra Pradesh
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
2:3161
38. Where is a tunnel near the Indo-Pak border detected?
Sunil Gavaskar
Kapil Dev
In Samba
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
39. Name the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister whose admirers have decided to build a temple to perpetuate his memory?
Mahatma Gandhi
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Fatehpur Sikri
Music
40. On which date India won the World Cup in Mumbai?
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Bangalore
2nd April - 2011
Swarajya Party
41. Who wrote the book 'The Namesake'?
Planning Commission
Oxygen and acetylene
Jhumpa Lahiri
Bleaching powder
42. Name the first Indian women shuttler to enter semifinal at the Olympics?
Abul Kalam Azad
The Delhi Metro
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Mumbai
43. Who wrote the line 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'?
M.N Roy62
John Keats
Shockley
Saka era
44. Who got Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (highest sports award in country) award?
Gagan Narang (shooter)
90 degrees
G.V. Mavalankar
24
45. Begum Akhtar is associated with which field?
Vocal Music
Saeed Mirza
Rajasthan
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
46. Who wrote an English novel 'In Custody'?
E.M Forster
Andhra Pradesh
Narmada and Japti
Anita Desai
47. Which day is known as World Tourism Day?
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
10th October
162
27th September
48. Name the person who transliterated Guru Granth Sahib in Braille?
Bhai Gurmej Singh
God particle or Higgs Boson
The Rajya Sabha
Vadodara
49. Upto where Chandragupta Maurya's empire extended in the north-west?
Hindukush
E.M Forster
23rd April
Vasudeva
50. Which is largest populated city in India?
Mumbai
Washing soda
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
The Lok Sabha