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1. Which day in India is celebrated as Children's Day?
14th November
Hyderabad
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
2. Late Girilal Jain was a noted figure in which field?
Journalism
Painting
Rajasthan
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
3. Who elects the Vice President of India?
Sitar
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Jules Verne
Rajasthan
4. Where is the World's largest ship canal?
Gota in Sweden
Marie Curie
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
5. Who wrote the book 'Gullivers Travel'?
Maharashtra
The equator
Lala Lajpat Rai
Jonathan Swift
6. Name the country's longest railway tunnel excavated?
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Rajasthan
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
7. Who invented the petrol engine?
Nikolaus Otto
Baby Nargis
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
July - 1947
8. Name the Indian American astronaut who begins her 2nd space odyssey on July 15 - 2012?
8th May
Sunita Williams
4 minutes
Swarajya Party
9. In which Amendment Right to property was removed from the list of Fundamental rights?
Forty-fourth Amendment
J.L.Baird
Chadwick
Jawaharlal Nehru
10. Who is the author of the novel 'White Tiger'which won the Booker Prize 2008?
Aravind Adiga
1911133
5
Sitar
11. What are the benefits of medicine Performax?
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
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.
35 degree
2
12. Who won Jnanpith Award in 2010?
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
Maharashtra
250th anniversary
14th November
13. Who will be the new Director General of Police (DGP) after the retirement of P.S. Gill?
Director General Anil Kaushik
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Cavendish
At the center of earth
14. For which dance Birju Maharaj is well known?
Vadodara
Jan 26 - 1950134
Bombay
Kathak
15. Who is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in India?
The President
Jayadeva
India and Pakistan
Planning Commission
16. Which is largest cave temple in India?
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Mussoorie
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
New Agra Fort
17. What is India's rank on the Transparency International (TI) corruption Perception Index out of 183 countries in 2011?
It loses one day
India
Washing soda
95th
18. Who is crowned Miss Universe India 2011?
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
Speaker
Amir Khusrau
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
19. Where is the National Defence Academy situated?
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
India and Pakistan
Khadakvasla
Japan
20. When is the UN Day observed?
Amir Khusru
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
24th October
Rs 270
21. Who discovered Penicillin?
162
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Alexander Fleming
1st December
22. Name the eminent Hindi authors chosen for Jnanpith Award 2011?
35 degree
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
John Keats
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
23. To whom President of India can write if he wants to resign from office?
Vice President of India
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
V.S Naipaul
24. Which is the largest Church in India?
Saeed Mirza
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
Chilka lake (Orissa )
7th April
25. Name the Strait which separates Asia from North America?
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Jhumpa Lahiri
Narmada and Japti
The Bering Strait
26. Watches of a country is set according to what time?
Torricelli
Lala Lajpat Rai
Standard time of the country138
8th September
27. Who invented the mercury thermometer?
Johannes Kepler
Galileo
1953
Stainless steel
28. Who has been appointed the Governor of RBI after the retirement of Shri Y.V. Reddy?
Strait of Gibraltar
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Aravind Adiga
Washing soda
29. Who was first Indian woman to become president of U.N. General Assembly?
Narendra Modi government
Jana Gana Mana
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
30. When was Sangeet Natak Akademi set up by Government of India?
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Silver
1953
6-14 years
31. Which is the largest port in India?
Mumbai
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Dumping
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
32. What is Dry Ice?
28th February
Aung San Suu Kyi
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
33. Who won bronze medal for India in 10m pistol event (London Olympics - 2012)?
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Mary Kom
Andhra Pradesh
Gagan Narang
34. Who wrote the famous play 'Macbeth'?
William Shakespeare151
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
State Bank of India
Rajasthan
35. In how many time zones is U.S.A divided?
Dance
5
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
36. During whose reign The Mathura School of art flourished?
Washing soda
Vasudeva
Performax
14th November
37. Where is the only shrine in the world which has a natural statue of Hanuman that is not man made?
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Vice President of India
Japan
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
38. What is our National Anthem?
Jana Gana Mana
Sitar
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
2G spectrum scam
39. What reference is taken to know the local time of a place?
Assam
Longitudinal position
Harshavardhana
Jawaharlal Nehru
40. Name the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister whose admirers have decided to build a temple to perpetuate his memory?
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.
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Vidya Balan
Cavendish
41. Name the ballistic missile that lifted off from Wheeler Island in Odisha on 9th August - 2012?
Gota in Sweden
Param Vir Chakra
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
42. Who wrote Panchatantra?
Narendra Modi government
Bobby Jindal
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Vishnu Sharma
43. When are days and nights equal throughout the globe?
Gol Gumbaz
When sun is above the equator
2:3161
8th May
44. Which is the great circle on earth's surface?
Galileo
The equator
Andhra Pradesh
Alexander Graham Bell
45. Who won the first medal for India in Olympics 2012?
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
William Wordsworth
Vice President of India
46. What is AERE?
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47. Where is Char Minar located?
Hyderabad
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Thailand
Sukumar Sen
48. Name the gas used to extinguish fire?
12th January
Manipur54
Jonathan Swift
Carbon dioxide
49. When is India's Republic Day celebrated?
26th January
German
Kulandei Francis
Sunil Gavaskar
50. Name the ship commissioned by India which is biggest in its class in the World?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Palk Strait
Odisha
8th March