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1. Name the new nuclear powered submarine formally handed to India by Russia?
Abul Kalam Azad
Nikolaus Otto
Saka era
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
2. What are the estimated premature deaths caused annually by air pollution - according to the first pollution survey carried in Sept. - 2011 by World Health Organisation?
27th September
1.34 millions
John Ruskin
The Delhi Metro
3. Satyan Bose is known for his excellence in which field?
Chandragupta
Motion Picture
Three Decades in Parliament
Rajasthan
4. Name 72 year old social activist who supported Jan Lokpal Bill?
Anna Hazare
Rajasthan
Lala Lajpat Rai
Longitudinal position
5. Who is the first Indian sports person to win an individual Gold medal in the Olympic Games?
Abhinav Bindra
15th January
Michael Phelps
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
6. Which was the most commonly used coin in Mauryan period?
Karashapana
Chandragupta
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Parupalli Kashyap
7. Which country won the maximum number of medals in Olympics 2008 held in Beijing?
USA
Churchill
New Delhi
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
8. Who is the man popularly kwown as Gurudev?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Herodotus
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Rabindranath Tagore147
9. What is the designation of the chairperson of Lok Sabha?
Speaker
Amjad Ali Khan
Six months
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
10. How many lines are there in latitude and longitude?
Jaya Dev
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.
Mohammad bin Kasim
Leo Tolstoy
11. Who invented telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
24th May
It loses one day
Mosley
12. When is National Science Day celebrated in India?
24th February
28th February
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Gota in Sweden
13. Who appoints the Chairman and members of State Public Service Commission?
Governor
Sonepur (Bihar )
31st May
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
14. Name the Indian chess player who broke the World Record by finishing the game in twelve moves?
Hindukush
V. Anand
Amir Khusrau
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
15. Which was the great centre of trade and commerce in the Gupta period?
Mathura
Third century B.C
Maharashtra
Greeks
16. Who is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in India?
South Kolkata
Japan
The President
Hamid Ansari
17. Greenwich mean time (GMT) is the standard time of which country?
Jaya Dev
Jules Verne
Six months
U.K
18. Where are the World famous Khajuraho sculptures located?
1st December
Narmada and Japti
Madhya Pradesh
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
19. Who crafted the wax statue of Anna Hazare?
20. Which states are known for Cauvery Water dispute?
Dadabhai Naoroji
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
New Delhi
China
21. Name the gas usually filled in the electric bulbs?
Increases
Bangalore
Raja Ravi Varma
Nitrogen
22. Which region of India is associated with pine forests?
Rabindranath Tagore
Aravind Adiga
Uttarakhand
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'.
23. 'Glimpses of World History' is written by whom?
Dilip Kumar
Kushinagar
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Jawaharlal Nehru
24. Who said 'Child is the father of Man'?
Martin Luther King
5 hours 30 minutes
William Wordsworth
Hampi
25. Where are the headquarters of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts?
New Delhi
It loses one day
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
2nd April - 2011
26. Mc. Mohan Line demarcates the boundary between which countries?
Harshavardhana
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
India and China
27. Name the mineral found in Zawar mines?
Mahatma Gandhi
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Aravind Adiga
Zinc
28. Who is sworn as the 14th Vice President of India?
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Mussoorie
Hamid Ansari
Jane Austen
29. With whom the Income Tax Department decides to share its PAN card database?
23rd April
Planning Commission
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Bengali
30. Where is Indian Cancer Research Institute situated?
Lawn Tennis153
Bombay
Churchill
Khadakvasla
31. What is the ratio of width of our National Flag to its length?
5
Kolkata
2:4
Andhra Pradesh
32. Name the alloy of iron - chromium and nickel?
Hindukush
Amir Khusrau
Stainless steel
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
33. In which year was the National Anthem first sung?
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
$46 - 00011
Planning Commission
1911133
34. What amount is purposed as per capita allocation for health sector for 2011-2012 - according to the official review of National Rural Health Mission?
Tamil Nadu
Rs 270
Samudragupta
Swarajya Party
35. What is the latitude of South Pole?
90 degree
Akhilesh Yadav
Hampi
Perpendicular to each other
36. Name the strait which separates Africa from Europe?
Strait of Gibraltar
Milkha Singh
Churchill
Mary Kom
37. Which state has maximum density of canals?
Uttar Pradesh
Talwandi
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Motion Picture
38. The Prime Minister is chairman of this
Zinc
Palk Strait
Bengali
Planning Commission
39. Which is the largest desert in India?
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
40. Which day is celebrated as World Red Cross Day?
Johannes Kepler
London
M. Narasimhan
8th May
41. Who wrote an English novel 'In Custody'?
Anita Desai
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
In front of New Delhi's High Court
Kolkata
42. Where is the World's largest ship canal?
Gota in Sweden
Hyderabad
Vice President of India
Only the first stanza
43. At which place the largest industrial solar plant of the country became operational on 29th July - 2012?
Sonepur (Bihar )
Bamiyan
Ludhiana
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
44. Who wrote the novel 'Neela Chand'?
Stainless steel
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Shiv Prasad Singh
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
45. Which state in South India have a thermal station at Tuticorin?
Tamil Nadu
Rocky Marciano
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Chandragupta Maurya
46. What is the upper house of parliament known as?
Perpendicular to each other
The Rajya Sabha
Finland
Because the solids have high elasticity.
47. Late Girilal Jain was a noted figure in which field?
Journalism
Raja Ravi Varma
Mohammad bin Kasim
When sun is above the equator
48. Who invented radar?
Robert Watson Watt
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
23rd December
49. Name the metal used in storage batteries?
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Rabindranath Tagore
Samar Guha
Lead
50. Whose influence is reflected in the sculptures of the Gandhara school?
22nd April
Amjad Ali Khan
Greeks
Assam