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1. India is facing pressure from the US and other Western countries to break trade ties with which country?
Khushwant Singh
Mumbai
Vocal Music
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
2. Who is the new youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
Akhilesh Yadav
India and Pakistan
Jawaharlal Nehru
Mohammad Iqbal
3. In which state is Ganesh Otsav celebrated?
9th August
Stupa
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Maharashtra
4. Vocalist Rahamat Khan belongs to which Gharana?
Chandragupta
Mahatma Gandhi
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Gwalior Gharana
5. Name the Bollywood legend whose ancestral home in Peshawar - Pakistan has been turned into heritage site?
Dilip Kumar
New Agra Fort
35 degree
5 hours 30 minutes
6. Who became the first batsman in the history of cricket to score 100 international centuries?
Sachin Tendulkar
Martin Luther King
Diffusion
Jonathan Swift
7. Name the alloy of iron - chromium and nickel?
Lala Lajpat Rai
Andhra Pradesh
Stainless steel
Rabindranath Tagore
8. How many postal zones are there in India - under the PIN Code System?
Gwalior Gharana
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Bangalore
8
9. Who wrote the book 'Gullivers Travel'?
Palk Strait
Chadwick
24th May
Jonathan Swift
10. What is the changed name of Orissa officially according to Presidential assent to the Bill?
Odisha
6 months
Bobby Jindal
The Lok Sabha
11. Which is the largest public sector bank in India?
Andhra Pradesh
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
State Bank of India
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
12. Which fund can be used to meet the unanticipated expenditurewithout the prior approval of the Parliament?
Football
Contingency Fund of India
162
Rajasthan
13. When comes National Sports Day of India?
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
29th August
4 minutes
Wular lake (Kashmir)
14. Which city is known as 'Electronic City of India'?
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Kanishka
Kanishka
Bangalore
15. Where is Union Budget presented firstly?
Aravallis
The Lok Sabha
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
South Africa
16. Which is the largest zoo in India?
8
Aravind Adiga
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
In front of New Delhi's High Court
17. How 4G services will hit the country in 2012?
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
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.
William Wordsworth
Silver
18. Name the player of USA who created history by grabbing his 22nd Olympic medal ?
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Das Kapital
Iodine
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
19. Motilal Nehru and Chittaranjan Das were the founder members of which party?
Swarajya Party
Jane Austen
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Bangalore
20. What is AERE?
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21. Which is the largest populated state in India?
The equator
Uttar Pradesh
Bangalore
Chandragupta Maurya
22. What is the aim of the 'Biosphere Reserve Project'?
16th October
Razia Sultana
Equator
Protecting Flora and Fauna
23. Which is the longest river of India?
Michael Phelps
Dutch East Indies
Ganga
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'.
24. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
Greeks
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Galileo
10th December
25. What will be the difference in longitudes between two places if their time difference is 2 hours and 20 minutes?
1953
11th May
Narmada and Japti
35 degree
26. On which day International Women's Day observed?
15th January
Bangalore
When sun is above the equator
8th March
27. How is population density in India defined?
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
Rabindranath Tagore
The number of persons per square kilometre.
July - 1947
28. Which day in India is celebrated as Children's Day?
Graphite
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
14th November
29. What will be the new name of West Bengal?
Hyderabad
Paschim Banga1
Vishnu Sharma
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
30. How water in earthen pots remain cool?
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
U.K
Third century B.C
Gujarat
31. Which region of India is associated with pine forests?
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Su-Kam Power Systems
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Uttarakhand
32. Which king brought the valleys of Indus - Ganga and Jamuna together for the first time under one political authority?
Japan
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
Ashoka
33. Who is author of 'Hindu view of life'?
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.
S. Radhakrishnan
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
34. Radcliffe line is the boundary line between which countries?
India and Pakistan
Stupa
Rajasthan
Vocal Music
35. Which ruler was adorned with the title of 'Maharajadhiraja'?
90 degrees
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Kanishka
Prof. V.N Datta
36. When an open bottle of scent is kept at one corner due to which phenomenon its fragrance is found in whole room?
Zinc
New Agra Fort
Diffusion
India
37. When was the design of our National Flag adopted by the Constituent of India?
Gota in Sweden
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.
Yamuna
July - 1947
38. Who invented the petrol engine?
Nikolaus Otto
2G spectrum scam
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Dadabhai Naoroji
39. Whom did Dalai Lama announced to be his successor in March - 2011?
Hamid Ansari
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Lobsang Sangay
Valentina Tereshkova
40. Between whom battle of Kurukshetra was fought?
26 years and 9 months
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Ashoka
The Lok Sabha
41. When was the Constituent Assembly that framed Constitution for Independent India set up?
Khadakvasla
1949
India
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
42. Who is known as the Father of the Indian Constitution?
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
43. What is the estimated premature deaths caused annually by outdoor air pollution - according to the first pollution survey carried out by World Health Organisation in Sept. - 2011?
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Amitabh Ghosh
Stainless steel
1.34 millions
44. Who is the creator of Rock Garden in Chandigarh?
Nek Chand
The Delhi Metro
Three Decades in Parliament
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
45. Who was the author of 'Bharat Bharati'?
Myanmar
Shockley
Mumbai
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
46. Where is the headquarters of Oil and Natural Gas Commission?
Chandragupta Maurya
16th October
Dehradun
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
47. Who is crowned Miss World 2011?
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Three Decades in Parliament
Hampi
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
48. Which element is obtained from sea weeds?
Iodine
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Third century B.C
49. Which age group children in India are ensured free and compulsory education?
Bangalore
Rabindranath Tagore147
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
6-14 years
50. How many total number of enclaves are to be exchanged between territories of two countries India and Bangladesh according to the treaty signed in Sept - 2011?
162
31st May
16th October
Infinite