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1. With which field M.F. Hussian were associated?
Painting
Sunil Gavaskar
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Curiosity
2. Which is largest man made lake in India?
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Akhilesh Yadav
Jhumpa Lahiri
Saka era
3. Who is author of 'Hindu view of life'?
Punjab
India and Pakistan
Harshavardhana
S. Radhakrishnan
4. When is the Mother's Day celebrated?
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Washing soda
11th May
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
5. Name the world's shortest living woman?
Jyoti Amge
Governor
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
11th May
6. When is India's National Youth Day celebrated ?
Vocal Music
Ludhiana
12th January
Will pass through Equator
7. Which is the largest museum in India?
India Museum at Kolkata
10th December
Four lions
Ripon
8. Which place is famous for gigantic rock-cut statue of Budha?
Harshavardhana
Bamiyan
Mehbooba Mufti
Roentgen
9. Who won bronze medal for India in men's 60 Kg freestyle wrestling?
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Will pass through Equator
Das Kapital
Saka era
10. Motilal Nehru and Chittaranjan Das were the founder members of which party?
Stainless steel
Bleaching powder
Three Decades in Parliament
Swarajya Party
11. Which city is known as 'Electronic City of India'?
11th July
Indians
Nikolaus Otto
Bangalore
12. In which Amendment Right to property was removed from the list of Fundamental rights?
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Forty-fourth Amendment
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.
Sunita Williams
13. Name one famous Sarod player?
G.V. Mavalankar
Arthur Conan Doyle
Amjad Ali Khan
23rd December
14. Who wrote the book 'The Namesake'?
Jhumpa Lahiri
Julang-2
Genetically Modified Crops.
China
15. Where in Delhi a bomb hidden in briefcase exploded killing 11 persons and injuring 47 in the worst attack in India's capital in 3 years in 2011?
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16. Our Indian National Calender is based on which era?
The Bering Strait
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Saka era
India
17. Name the gas used to extinguish fire?
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Carbon dioxide
Sitar
From fresh and purified fat stem cells ( Fat has a large number of tissue growing stem cells. People could go for liposuction and save fat cells for future use or can use immediately.)
18. Who was the first lady to become judge of the Supreme Court?
Krishna
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Mahatma Gandhi
Bombay
19. Which is the language next to Hindi spoken by largest number of people in the Indian sub continent ?
Uttar Pradesh
Aravind Adiga
Bengali
USA
20. Which day in India celebrated as Central Excise Day ?
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Madhya Pradesh
Kathak
24th February
21. Who won bronze medal for India in 10m pistol event (London Olympics - 2012)?
Indra Sinha64
Ladakh
E.G.Otis
Gagan Narang
22. Name the place where Lord Budha breathed his last?
John Keats
Mosley
Kushinagar
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
23. Who invented telephone?
Football
Sodium
Hamid Ansari
Alexander Graham Bell
24. Which city is called 'White City' of Rajasthan?
Methane
22nd April
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Four lions
25. Name the book which has collection of speeches of N.G Ranga?
Maharaja Hari Singh
10th October
Nitrous oxide
Three Decades in Parliament
26. Name the ballistic missile that lifted off from Wheeler Island in Odisha on 9th August - 2012?
1911133
India and Pakistan
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Kerala
27. Who invented the petrol engine?
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Saeed Mirza
Nikolaus Otto
28. Who wrote Panchatantra?
Lead
Madhya Pradesh
Finland
Vishnu Sharma
29. Who invented barometer?
24
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
$46 - 00011
Torricelli
30. Where are the headquarters of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts?
Mary Kom
New Delhi
Kiran Bedi
Jama Masjid
31. Who is the author of the book 'The Exile'?
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Navtej Saran
Painting
32. Where is India's Space Rocket Launching Centre situated?
State Bank of India
Alexander Graham Bell
Sriharikota
The Lok Sabha
33. How many medals are won by India in Olympics 2012?
Heavy water
Dance
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
34. Which is the largest cave in India?
35 degree
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Kalpakkam
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.
35. Why sky appears to be blue?
20th March
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Bengali
36. Who wrote the famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
China
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Jane Austen
28th February
37. Name 72 year old social activist who supported Jan Lokpal Bill?
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Anna Hazare
18th December
38. Who discovered X-Ray?
Jan 26 - 1950134
Roentgen
Rabindranath Tagore
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
39. Name the Indian state where the game of Polo is said to have originated?
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
Sunil Gavaskar
Oxygen and acetylene
Manipur54
40. Which game is associated with Merdeka Cup?
Marie Curie
Johann Gregor Mendel
Sunil Gavaskar
Football
41. Which country was under the grip of a severe earthquake followed by tsunami recently?
Rocky Marciano
Mumbai
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Japan
42. Which element is obtained from sea weeds?
Madhya Pradesh
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Amjad Ali Khan
Iodine
43. Who discovered photoelectric effect?
Albert Einstein
8th October
2nd April - 2011
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
44. Which countries are located on the Greenwich Meridian?
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Sriharikota
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
Narmada and Japti
45. Who headed the committee on computerisation in Indian banks(1988)?
Ashoka
William Shakespeare151
M. Narasimhan
24th October
46. Mc. Mohan Line demarcates the boundary between which countries?
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
India and China
Hyderabad
47. Which country won the maximum number of medals in Olympics 2008 held in Beijing?
USA
Jane Austen
15th August167
2:4
48. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?
The President
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
49. Where is the Caspian sea - the largest inland sea or lake in the world located?
2:3161
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Will pass through Equator
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
50. What is the latitude of South Pole?
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.
Dance
90 degree
Jagannath