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1. Who got Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award in 2011?
Sri Lanka
Saka era
Jaipur
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
2. Who wrote the book 'A Passage To India'?
Hunting
E.M Forster
2:4
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
3. Which is the World's largest exporter of inverters?
South Kolkata
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Su-Kam Power Systems
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
4. Name the largest oil refinery of India?
Baby Nargis
N.E. Borlaug
Vadodara
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
5. Name the great poet who graced the court of Alauddin Khilji?
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Amir Khusru
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
6. Who is known as founder of Mohemmadan Anglo-Oriental college at Aligarh?
Jonas Salk
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Saka era
14th November
7. Which state in India has three language teaching formula?
Punjab
Hyderabad
90 degrees
Aravind Adiga
8. Why the International Date Line makes slight deviation from 180 degree meridian?
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Nikolaus Otto
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
9. Which is the state wise largest area under forest in India?
Madhya Pradesh
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
Standard time of the country138
Jyoti Amge
10. Who is the author of the book 'We Indians'?
Sachin Tendulkar
State Bank of India
Khushwant Singh
Perpendicular to each other
11. Who wrote the famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
Kathak
The Lok Sabha
31st May
Jane Austen
12. Between whom battle of Kurukshetra was fought?
Kauravas and Pandavas51
10th December
Mohammad Iqbal
Martin Luther King
13. Which is the largest Mosque in India?
Jama Masjid
Punjab
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Chandragupta-II
14. Which is the largest district in India?
State Bank of India
Jane Austen
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Ladakh
15. Which day is celebrated as World Red Cross Day?
Param Vir Chakra
Nitrogen
Mumbai
8th May
16. Which is the largest auditorium in India?
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
William Shakespeare151
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Samudragupta
17. On which date India won the World Cup in Mumbai?
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Jonathan Swift
Kalpakkam
2nd April - 2011
18. Players of which state got the maximum Olympic medals in London Olympics?
Maharashtra
Playwright
Kapil Dev
Haryana
19. Who propounded the Market Law?
Mahatma Gandhi
UK
Cavendish
J.B.Say
20. For what was Ashoka famous?
Mumbai
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Eagle
U.K
21. Name the scientist who got Nobel Prize twice for the same subject?
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
11th July
1.34 millions
Marie Curie
22. Latitude and longitude are at what angle to each other?
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
Perpendicular to each other
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
23. Who discovered the electric lamp?
Hindukush
Edison
Euclid
Valentina Tereshkova
24. Name the metal present in photo films?
Bangalore
Silver
Shiv Prasad Singh
Bombay
25. With whom are the rare replicas of sacred book Guru Granth Sahib?
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Will pass through Equator
Lead
Arthur Conan Doyle
26. Name the leader under whom India's first coalition government in New Delhi was formed?
Iodine
Morarji Desai
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
27. Name the state of India where diamond mines are mainly found?
1.34 millions
Swarajya Party
Madhya Pradesh
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
28. What amount is purposed as per capita allocation for health sector for 2011-2012 - according to the official review of National Rural Health Mission?
Aravind Adiga
V.S Naipaul
Yamuna
Rs 270
29. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?
Johannes Kepler
Palk Strait
Pune
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
30. When is India's Republic Day celebrated?
John Keats
5th September
26th January
23rd April
31. Name the country which is second largest producer of horticulture commodities such as fruits - vegetables and flowers in the world?
London
India
Gujarat
Eagle
32. Which non -metal remains liquid at room temperature?
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Journalism
8th October
Bromine
33. Which country has an Unwritten Constitution?
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Lala Lajpat Rai
Cavendish
UK
34. Who is the author of 'Tarikh-i-Alai' containing the details of the first few years of Sultan Alauddin Khilji?
8th October
Amir Khusrau
Parupalli Kashyap
7th April
35. Who is the senior most Army officer to have faced a court martial and dismissed from service by an Indian Army Court?
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Director General Anil Kaushik
Churchill
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
36. Who introduced the market regulations in India in ancient period?
Uttarakhand
Kerala
Allauddin Khilji
Washing soda
37. Who is known as Nightingale of India?
Sarojini Naidu
Mary Kom
India
90 degree
38. Where is the famous Meenakshi Temple situated?
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Tamil Nadu
Sunil Gavaskar
Rajasthan
39. When are days and nights equal throughout the globe?
Churchill
When sun is above the equator
Narendra Modi government
Increases
40. Which place is famous for gigantic rock-cut statue of Budha?
Nek Chand
Bamiyan
Hockey
Chandragupta Maurya
41. Name the person who has set a new Guinness record of being the oldest man to complete a full distance marathon in Toronto?
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Vice President of India
Kerala
Karashapana
42. Which metal is kept under kerosine?
At the center of earth
India
Sodium
Madhya Pradesh
43. In which state are the World famous Ajanta Caves situated?
Bangalore
Silver
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Maharashtra
44. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Strait of Gibraltar
Uttar Pradesh
Kalpakkam
45. Name the great Hindu king who combined in himself the qualities of Samudragupta and Ashoka?
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Himachal Pradesh
Harshavardhana
Hamid Ansari
46. Where is the National Institute of Nutrition located?
Hyderabad
Su-Kam Power Systems
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Maharashtra
47. In which Amendment Right to property was removed from the list of Fundamental rights?
Forty-fourth Amendment
Sunderbans delta
1st May164
Ludhiana
48. For which dance Birju Maharaj is well known?
Andhra Pradesh
William Shakespeare151
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Kathak
49. What are the benefits of medicine Performax?
Amir Khusru
Year of Disabled Soldiers
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.
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
50. Which country won the maximum number of medals in Olympics 2008 held in Beijing?
India Museum at Kolkata
USA
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Jonathan Swift