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1. What is e-bomb?

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2. Who is the 26th Chief Minister of Karnataka?
Sukumar Sen
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Samar Guha
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).

3. To whom President of India can write if he wants to resign from office?
Sitar
Vice President of India
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).

4. Where is India's Space Rocket Launching Centre situated?
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Narendra Modi government
Sriharikota
15th March

5. Who discovered blood grouping?
35 degree
Chandragupta-II
China
Landsteiner

6. In how many time zones is U.S.A divided?
Ogyen Trinley Dorjee - the third most important Tibetian religious head after Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama. (as police recovered currencies of 26 countries including 1 - 20 - 197 chinese yuan and around Rs 5.3 million in Indian currency.)
24
Dehradun
5

7. Our Indian National Calender is based on which era?
India
Saka era
Amir Khusrau
Kerala

8. Name the metal present in photo films?
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
New Delhi
Silver
Jawaharlal Nehru

9. Where is Buland Darwaza located?
15th January
Narendra Modi government
Fatehpur Sikri
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)

10. Name the Strait which separates Asia from North America?
Renders electronic gadgets useless and effectively neutralises the adversary's command control and communication capability by producing a strong electromagnetic field generating powerful electricity surges that play havoc with electronic circuits wi
The Bering Strait
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.

11. For what was Gupta dynasty famous?
Art and architecture
Silver
Samuel Morse
Hyderabad

12. 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?
The Delhi Metro
Mahatma Gandhi
Andhra Pradesh
Kushans

13. Who got Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (highest sports award in country) award?
Guru Gobind Singh
Gagan Narang (shooter)
The Bering Strait
It loses one day

14. When is Earth Day observed?
1911133
22nd April
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
John Keats

15. Vocalist Rahamat Khan belongs to which Gharana?
Gwalior Gharana
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Jaya Dev
State Bank of India

16. Which is the highest military award for valour in India?
Kathak
Param Vir Chakra
Trivandrum
Finland

17. Who is the author of book 'Gita Govinda'?
In front of New Delhi's High Court
5
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Jayadeva

18. Where is the only shrine in the world which has a natural statue of Hanuman that is not man made?
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)

19. In how many time zones is the World divided?
Samar Guha
24th February
24
Kerala

20. Where did the World's costliest crash took place?
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
5th September
India
The Bering Strait

21. Where were huge amounts of uranium recently found?
95th
Andhra Pradesh
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Vidya Balan

22. Which is the largest auditorium in India?
Eagle
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )

23. What is the maximum duration for which the Vice President can officiate as the President of India?
Governor
E.M Forster
6 months
USA

24. What is the practice of selling goods in a foreign country at a price below their domestic selling price is called?
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Dumping
Das Kapital
Solidified Carbon Dioxide

25. Who is the first Indian male shuttler to reach Olympic quarters?
Vice President of India
Vidya Balan
Parupalli Kashyap
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)

26. Who is the author of book 'Many Worlds'?
6 months
Jawaharlal Nehru
New Agra Fort
V.S Naipaul

27. Which is the largest delta in India?
26 years and 9 months
Mussoorie
Sunderbans delta
Tamil Nadu

28. Who is the author of book 'India Wins Freedom'?
Jane Austen
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Jaipur
Vadodara

29. Who is generally regardedas the pioneer of Local Self Government in Modern India?
The Bering Strait
Ripon
Ogyen Trinley Dorjee - the third most important Tibetian religious head after Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama. (as police recovered currencies of 26 countries including 1 - 20 - 197 chinese yuan and around Rs 5.3 million in Indian currency.)
Mumbai

30. When is India's Army Day celebrated ?
Mahatma Gandhi
5th September
15th January
2

31. Who wrote the book 'A Passage To India'?
Contingency Fund of India
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
E.M Forster

32. In India - who issues one rupee coins and notes as well as subsidiary coins?
The equator
The Reserve Bank of India
Punjab
4 minutes

33. Name the player of USA who created history by grabbing his 22nd Olympic medal ?
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
1st December
Herodotus

34. Where is the Indian Institute of Science located?
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Baby Nargis
M.N Roy62
Bangalore

35. Who is the elected Prime Minister of Pakistan from Pakistan People's Party?
Akhilesh Yadav
29th August
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Sarojini Naidu

36. Which gas is used for preparation of soda water?
Carbon dioxide
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
18th December
Kho-Kho

37. How many stanza's of Jana Gana Mana song were adopted as National Anthem?
Sri Lanka
Only the first stanza
Leo Tolstoy
Herodotus

38. Who is the author of book 'Freedom Behind Bars'?
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
35 degree
Swarajya Party
Kiran Bedi

39. Liquefied Petroleum Gas consists mainly which gases?
Methane - butane and propane
Vadodara
New Delhi
90 degree

40. When comes the World Disabled Day?
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
15th March
New Delhi
Vasudeva

41. Who invented the telegraphic code?
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Dilip Kumar
Samuel Morse

42. How many total number of enclaves are to be exchanged between territories of two countries India and Bangladesh according to the treaty signed in Sept - 2011?
Ogyen Trinley Dorjee - the third most important Tibetian religious head after Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama. (as police recovered currencies of 26 countries including 1 - 20 - 197 chinese yuan and around Rs 5.3 million in Indian currency.)
162
Jawaharlal Nehru
Graphite

43. Where is Elephant Pass located?
23rd December
Longitudinal position
Lobsang Sangay
Sri Lanka

44. What is the changed name of Orissa officially according to Presidential assent to the Bill?
Odisha
24th October
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Johann Gregor Mendel

45. During whose time the Gandhara School of art developed?
28th February
Kushans
In front of New Delhi's High Court
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days

46. Which is the great circle on earth's surface?
Kolkata
Vocal Music
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
The equator

47. What is proxy voting?
Carbon dioxide
Football
Pune
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.

48. In which state are the World famous Ajanta Caves situated?
Lawn Tennis153
Maharashtra
5th June
Four lions

49. Who is the senior most Army officer to have faced a court martial and dismissed from service by an Indian Army Court?
1st December
Ashoka
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
$46 - 00011

50. Name the person who presided over the first session of Indian National Congress in 1885?
W.C Bannerjee
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Razia Sultana
11th May