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1. What is the other name of deuterium oxide?
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Hyderabad
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Heavy water

2. Which megastar carried the Olympic flame on the torch relay leg between the City of London and the borough of South wark in London on 26th July - 2012 - a day before the opening ceremony of sporting spectacle?
Abul Kalam Azad
Concave lens
Painting
Amitabh Bachchan

3. Where are relics of Buddha preserved?
Kushinagar
Ripon
Roentgen
Stupa

4. Which country is the world's largest recipient of arms?
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Playwright
India

5. Who founded the Saka Era?
Kanishka
Jawaharlal Nehru
8th May
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.

6. Who was the first lady to become judge of the Supreme Court?
Shimla and Hamirpur
Sunderbans delta
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Curiosity

7. Where is Indian Cancer Research Institute situated?
26 years and 9 months
Bleaching powder
Jan 26 - 1950134
Bombay

8. From where the longest circle which can be drawn from earth's surface will pass?
Akbar
State Bank of India
Will pass through Equator
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant

9. Satyan Bose is known for his excellence in which field?
Jonas Salk
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Motion Picture
24th May

10. Where is India's Space Rocket Launching Centre situated?
Sriharikota
Ganga
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Mary Kom

11. With which musical instrument was Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan associated?
Mahatma Gandhi
Sitar
Konark
Because the solids have high elasticity.

12. Who is sworn as the 14th Vice President of India?
Hamid Ansari
Tamil Nadu
20th March
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.

13. Who discovered neutron?
Chadwick
Stainless steel
Kolkata
Saeed Mirza

14. Who composed the National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'?
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Hyderabad
India Museum at Kolkata
Rabindranath Tagore

15. Who wrote the famous play 'Macbeth'?
Rajasthan
William Shakespeare151
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Maharashtra

16. On which era is the Indian National Calender based?
Saka era
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
U.K
Tamil Nadu

17. With whom the Income Tax Department decides to share its PAN card database?
Nayantara Sahgal
Longitudinal position
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).

18. What are the bank deposits that can be withdrawn without notice called?
Demand deposits
Amjad Ali Khan
The Lok Sabha
11th May

19. Who won the Wimbledon title for seventh time and 17th grand slam crown after beating Andy Murray in male category in 2012?
Shimla and Hamirpur
Hockey
Anita Desai
Roger Federer

20. At which place a devastating fire tore through seven storey AMRI hospital killing 91 people in 2011?
Baby Nargis
South Kolkata
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Ludhiana

21. When in India National Technology Day celebrated?
Playwright
11th May
Leh
Bleaching powder

22. Champion Trophy is associated with which game?
Maharaja Hari Singh
Hockey
Vasudeva
Jaya Dev

23. Who discovered Penicillin?
Sitar
Alexander Fleming
Equator
Mahatma Gandhi

24. Who is called Father of English Poetry?
Rajasthan
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
2G spectrum scam
Chaucer

25. Which country is the second largest producer of sugar?
95th
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
Darsheel Safary
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.

26. Which is the largest delta in India?
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
W.C Bannerjee
Navtej Saran
Sunderbans delta

27. Name the Indian chess player who broke the World Record by finishing the game in twelve moves?
V. Anand
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
The Delhi Metro

28. Who is the new captain of the Indian Premier League team Rajasthan Royals?
Rahul Dravid
Strait of Gibraltar
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
1.34 millions

29. Name the NASA's most modern spacecraft successfully landed on Mars on 6th August - 2012 to begin a pioneering two year search to find out if the red planet is suitable for life and whether it can be inhabitable in the future?
Curiosity
Milkha Singh
Rahul Dravid
Martin Luther King

30. Where is Sun Temple situated?
Ashoka
Konark
5th April
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)

31. How many postal zones are there in India - under the PIN Code System?
250th anniversary
Cavendish
14th November
8

32. Where is the birth place of Guru Nanak Ji?
Gujarat
Talwandi
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Four lions

33. Term Double Fault is associated with which game?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Jama Masjid
Lawn Tennis153
W.C Bannerjee

34. Who is the senior most Army officer to have faced a court martial and dismissed from service by an Indian Army Court?
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
The President
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)

35. Who is known as the Father of the Indian Constitution?
God particle or Higgs Boson
Hunting
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

36. Who was the founder of the Khalsa?
Lala Lajpat Rai
Leh
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Guru Gobind Singh

37. Name the China's first woman astronaut into orbit?
Rabindranath Tagore
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
16th October
Vande Mataram

38. Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?
Carbon dioxide
Palk Strait
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Jaya Dev

39. Who got Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award in 2011?
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Ladakh
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia

40. Who composed the famous song 'Sare Jahan Se Accha'?
Khushwant Singh
Mohammad Iqbal
Pune
Hunting

41. Which is the world's second cheapest city according to global survey?
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Rs 270
Harshavardhana

42. Who will be the new Director General of Police (DGP) after the retirement of P.S. Gill?
The Rajya Sabha
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Director General Anil Kaushik
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).

43. What is the difference in time between two places 1 degree longitude apart?
4 minutes
Jane Austen
Shiv Prasad Singh
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde

44. Who discovered blood grouping?
Landsteiner
Third century B.C
4G technology will offer many advancements to the wireless market including downlink data rates well over 100 Mbps - low latency - very efficient spectrum use and low cost implementation.
Mahatma Gandhi

45. With which field M.F. Hussian were associated?
Cyrus Mistry
Painting
Kanishka
Manipur54

46. Name the famous ruler of ancient India - who towards the end of his life converted to Jainism?
Forty-fourth Amendment
24th May
Chandragupta
Three Decades in Parliament

47. Who wrote the book 'The Daughter of the East'?
31st May
Jhumpa Lahiri
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).

48. India is facing pressure from the US and other Western countries to break trade ties with which country?
Sidney Sheldon
8th March
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)

49. Who composed our National song?
Sonepur (Bihar )
Amir Khusrau
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Bankim Chandra Chatterji

50. What is the new name of Burma?
Mary Kom
Amitabh Bachchan
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
Myanmar