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1. How many stanza's of Jana Gana Mana song were adopted as National Anthem?
Performax
Only the first stanza
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
2. Who got Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (highest sports award in country) award?
E.M Forster
Aravallis
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Edison
3. In India - who issues one rupee coins and notes as well as subsidiary coins?
Six months
Kushinagar
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
The Reserve Bank of India
4. Who said 'Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err'?
Mahatma Gandhi
Roentgen
Saka era
Johann Gregor Mendel
5. Who is the elected Prime Minister of Pakistan from Pakistan People's Party?
Mosley
Dr. F.G.Banting
Yousuf Raza Gillani
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.)
6. Where did coins made of metal first appeared?
Khushwant Singh
5th September
Later Vedic Age
Nitrogen
7. Name the country's longest railway tunnel excavated?
11th July
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Roger Federer
8. Which is the largest Church in India?
Arundhati Roy
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Darsheel Safary
9. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Michael Phelps
South Kolkata
Tamil Nadu
10. When is World's Sparrow Day observed?
Herodotus
20th March
Four lions
Golconda
11. In which century did Ashoka reign?
24
W.C Bannerjee
Third century B.C
27th September
12. Which is the largest dome in India?
M.N Roy62
Harshavardhana
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Madhya Pradesh
13. Who won the silver medal in 66 Kg wrestling and is the first Indian to win two individual Olympic medals?
Uttar Pradesh
29th August
Sushil Kumar
Jonathan Swift
14. Upto where Chandragupta Maurya's empire extended in the north-west?
24
Motion Picture
Hindukush
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
15. Which is the largest cave in India?
Football
24th October
Haryana
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
16. Who won bronze medal for India in 10m pistol event (London Olympics - 2012)?
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.
Gagan Narang
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Hyderabad
17. India is facing pressure from the US and other Western countries to break trade ties with which country?
Amitabh Ghosh
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Sunderbans delta
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
18. Who won bronze medal for India in men's 60 Kg freestyle wrestling?
Allauddin Khilji
Kushinagar
8th March
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
19. With which sports is Sushma Saroelker associated?
2:4
Kho-Kho
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Sachin Tendulkar
20. Who wrote the novel 'Neela Chand'?
Vishnu Sharma
Bamiyan
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Shiv Prasad Singh
21. How is population density in India defined?
God particle or Higgs Boson
Alexander Fleming
The number of persons per square kilometre.
12th January
22. Who wrote the book 'Eternal Himalayas'?
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Three Decades in Parliament
Odisha
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
23. Where are relics of Buddha preserved?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Stupa
Kathak
24. Which is the language next to Hindi spoken by largest number of people in the Indian sub continent ?
Bengali
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Amir Khusrau
Chandragupta
25. How many images will be formed when an object is placed between two mirrors placed parellel to each other?
Sonepur (Bihar )
Infinite
J.L.Baird
Rocky Marciano
26. Which day in India is celebrated as Children's Day?
14th November
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
Karashapana
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
27. Why sky appears to be blue?
Kerala
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Jaya Dev
28. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?
Manipur54
American firm Intra Pace unveils a stomach implant vi akeyhole surgery that can help people fight flab by warning the brain when enough food is taken. This credit card sized implant is named as 'Abiliti'.
Golconda
Rs 270
29. Who wrote Panchatantra?
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
India and Pakistan
Vishnu Sharma
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
30. Name the mountain range which stretches from Gujarat in the West to Delhi in the North?
Guru Gobind Singh
Madhya Pradesh
Stainless steel
Aravallis
31. Name the scientist who is considered as the Father of Genetics?
When sun is above the equator
11th July
28th February
Johann Gregor Mendel
32. Which country topped medal table in Olympic 2012?
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Stupa
Narendra Modi government
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
33. Which anniversary of sandwich was celebrated by British town in May - 2012?
Vocal Music
250th anniversary
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Mohammad Iqbal
34. Who wrote the book 'Ammi! Letter to a Democratic Mother'?
Saeed Mirza
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Harshavardhana
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
35. Name the two living members of first Lok Sabha to be honored by President on 13th May - 2012 - 60th anniversary of our Parliament?
Dance
Torricelli
Jane Austen
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
36. Who is vice President of India?
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Amitabh Bachchan
The equator
Hyderabad
37. Which is the longest river of India?
Das Kapital
18th December
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Ganga
38. Who elects the Vice President of India?
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
2:4
39. Which game is associated with Agha Khan Cup?
Sukumar Sen
Hockey
Lead
In Samba
40. Which game is associated with Merdeka Cup?
2nd April - 2011
Football
N.E. Borlaug
Gujarat
41. World Human Rights Day is observed on which day?
10th December
Motion Picture
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Silver
42. Mainly which gas is present in gobar gas?
Shockley
Methane
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
8
43. Who is known as the Father of the Indian Constitution?
Michael Phelps
State Bank of India
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Robert Watson Watt
44. Which country is the second largest producer of sugar?
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
Sitar
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
45. Who is the new captain of the Indian Premier League team Rajasthan Royals?
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Shiv Prasad Singh
Rahul Dravid
Zinc
46. Who got Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar in 2011 ?
Morarji Desai
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Uttarakhand
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
47. In which state is Ganesh Otsav celebrated?
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Maharashtra
Ganga
Rahul Dravid
48. Latitude and longitude are at what angle to each other?
Art and architecture
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Perpendicular to each other
Samuel Morse
49. What is KG5 drug?
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50. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?
New Agra Fort
Johannes Kepler
Mohammad Iqbal
2nd April - 2011