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1. Which is the largest saline water lake in India?
Three Decades in Parliament
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Kolkata
The Bering Strait

2. 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?
1953
Uttar Pradesh
Narendra Modi government
6-14 years

3. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' (inscribed below the base plate of the emblem of India) taken?
Bangalore
Alexander Fleming
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Mundak Upanishad

4. Which painting got the highest price ever paid for a work of art at any auction?

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5. Which is the largest district in India?
Maharashtra
V. Anand
Ladakh
Gagan Narang (shooter)

6. What is the reason found for ground water contamination in Punjab - especially in the Malwa region?
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
2

7. In which field Aachan Maharaj has distinguished himself?
Dr. F.G.Banting
Neil Armstrong
Dance
Churchill

8. Who was the first lady to become judge of the Supreme Court?
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Will pass through Equator
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi

9. Name the country's longest railway tunnel excavated?
Uttar Pradesh
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Krishna
Herodotus

10. Which is largest state of India?
Uttar Pradesh
Rajasthan
Dehradun
Samudragupta

11. What reference is taken to know the local time of a place?
23rd April
Longitudinal position
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Uttar Pradesh

12. Which game is associated with Merdeka Cup?
South Kolkata
Football
24
INS Vikrant55

13. What is India's rank on the Transparency International (TI) corruption Perception Index out of 183 countries in 2011?
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
95th
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Nikolaus Otto

14. What is the common name of sodium carbonate?
Zinc
Washing soda
4 minutes
It loses one day

15. Which is the largest delta in India?
State Bank of India
Sunderbans delta
Heavy water
India and China

16. With which musical instrument was Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan associated?
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Chandragupta Maurya
India and China
Sitar

17. Who is the creator of 'Sherlock Holmes'?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Samar Guha
Silicon

18. When is World Laughter Day celebrated?
M. Narasimhan
Uttarakhand
Three Decades in Parliament
26th January

19. Where is the Caspian sea - the largest inland sea or lake in the world located?
Standard time of the country138
Churchill
John Keats
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia

20. Who is called 'Grand Old Man of India'?
Rocky Marciano
Raja Ravi Varma
Dadabhai Naoroji
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)

21. Which is the world's second cheapest city according to global survey?
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Music
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)

22. Who won bronze medal for India in 10m pistol event (London Olympics - 2012)?
Ganga
Gagan Narang
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Johann Gregor Mendel

23. When is World's Sparrow Day observed?
20th March
Roger Federer
Torricelli
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy

24. Where is the National Defence Academy situated?
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Roentgen
Nikolaus Otto
Khadakvasla

25. What is KG5 drug?

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26. When was the Constituent Assembly that framed Constitution for Independent India set up?
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.
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Diffusion
1949

27. Name the ship commissioned by India which is biggest in its class in the World?
Hyderabad
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Hamid Ansari

28. What is India's rank on Foreign money in Swiss banks?
55th rank
2
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Graphite

29. A famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice 'is written by whom?
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Jane Austen
UK
Jonathan Swift

30. Mainly which gas is present in gobar gas?
Hockey
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Methane
Equator

31. What will be the difference in longitudes between two places if their time difference is 2 hours and 20 minutes?
15th March
Lead
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
35 degree

32. When is the Mother's Day celebrated?
Roger Federer
Ganga
Director General Anil Kaushik
11th May

33. Who invented radar?
Uttarakhand
Robert Watson Watt
Yamuna
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).

34. What is the latitude of South Pole?
90 degree
Hockey
Performax
Jane Austen

35. Who got Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar in 2011 ?
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
2
Sitar
V.S Naipaul

36. Which place is going to have North India's biggest turf club?
Forty-fourth Amendment
Mahatma Gandhi
Baby Nargis
On the outskirts of Ludhiana

37. Which country was under the grip of a severe earthquake followed by tsunami recently?
It loses one day
Navtej Saran
Vadodara
Japan

38. Name the country which is second largest producer of horticulture commodities such as fruits - vegetables and flowers in the world?
Nek Chand
Hyderabad
India
250th anniversary

39. Who won the silver medal in 66 Kg wrestling and is the first Indian to win two individual Olympic medals?
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'.
Mosley
Strait of Gibraltar
Sushil Kumar

40. How many lines are there in latitude and longitude?
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
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.
Harshavardhana
Jane Austen

41. Which is the largest dome in India?
Jagannath
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)

42. Name one famous Sarod player?
Strait of Gibraltar
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Amjad Ali Khan
15th August167

43. Name the Indian scientist who was a part of NASA team which has identified the landing site of the 'Curiosity'?
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Amitabh Ghosh
Bangalore
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )

44. Which is the longest river of India?
Myanmar
Amir Khusru
Ganga
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

45. Who is the author of book 'India Wins Freedom'?
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Dilip Kumar
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Lobsang Sangay

46. Who is crowned Miss World 2011?
29th August
Amir Khusru
Finland
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.

47. Name the state of India having longest coastline?
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Andhra Pradesh

48. Who is the new youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
Akhilesh Yadav
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Edison
Carbon dioxide

49. Who is the author of book 'The Shape of the Beast'?
Arundhati Roy
Vasudeva
Manipur54
23rd December

50. Where is the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre located?
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Shimla and Hamirpur
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Trivandrum