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1. Which is the World's largest exporter of inverters?






2. Name the Bollywood legend whose ancestral home in Peshawar - Pakistan has been turned into heritage site?






3. Name the metal present in photo films?






4. Name the herbal drug developed by DRDO for soldiers working in high altitude areas?






5. Who invented radar?






6. Which day in India is observed as Minorities Rights Day?






7. Which child artist got Critics Best Actor Award for his acting in a film Taare Zameen Par?






8. Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?






9. Which was the musical instrument used by Amir Khusro?






10. What is the ratio of width of our National flag to its length?






11. Who was first Indian woman to become president of U.N. General Assembly?






12. Name the temple where majority of pilgrims visiting tonsure their heads and offer their hair to Lord Venkateswara?






13. Why speed of sound is greater in solids than in liquids?






14. On which date Quit India Day comes?






15. Name the great Hindu king who combined in himself the qualities of Samudragupta and Ashoka?






16. Name the China's first woman astronaut into orbit?






17. The World famous 'Peacock Throne' was kept in which Mughal building?






18. Name the 17th Karmapa against whom the Una police filed a chargesheet under section 120-B of the IPC in 2011?






19. Which is the place experiencing minimum and maximum temperatures -28.3 degree Celsius and 15 degree Celsius respectively?






20. When was Sangeet Natak Akademi set up by Government of India?






21. Who was the author of 'Hind Swaraj'?






22. What was the main occupation of Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) people?






23. Who wrote the line 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'?






24. Who was the first king to conquer Malwa - Gujarat and Maharashtra?






25. Which is the largest saline water lake in India?






26. Who wrote an English novel 'In Custody'?






27. When comes National Sports Day of India?






28. Where is the world's largest solar power project going to be set up?






29. Hawa Mahal is situated in which city?






30. When is the UN Day observed?






31. Which will be the new subject added to the curriculum of Kendriya Vidyalayas?






32. Name the subatomic particle which scientists claimed to have spotted and is believed to be a crucial building block in the formation of universe?






33. What reference is taken to know the local time of a place?






34. What was adopted from the Maurya dynasty in the emblem of government of India?






35. Who is called the Flying Sikh of India?






36. Why Shimla is cooler than Amritsar though they have same latitude?






37. Who is the author of the book 'The Exile'?






38. On which date India won the World Cup in Mumbai?






39. On which day International Women's Day observed?






40. Where were huge amounts of uranium recently found?






41. When is the Mother's Day celebrated?






42. Which country has hosted the Asian Games for maximum number of times?






43. When is India's Republic Day celebrated?






44. Who won bronze medal for India in men's 60 Kg freestyle wrestling?






45. Begum Akhtar is associated with which field?






46. Who is known as the Father of the Indian Constitution?






47. Who wrote the famous play 'Macbeth'?






48. Who is the author of book 'The Tribune 130 Years: A Witness to History'?






49. During whose time the Gandhara School of art developed?






50. Name the world's shortest living woman?