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1. Which is the India's largest public sector commercial bank at present?
Bombay
Methane
State Bank of India
30th January

2. For what was Gupta dynasty famous?
Art and architecture
Param Vir Chakra
Ashoka
5th September

3. Name the player of USA who created history by grabbing his 22nd Olympic medal ?
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Mumbai
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Kathak

4. When comes National Sports Day of India?
29th August
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Amir Khusru
Lala Lajpat Rai

5. Who is the new youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Jan 26 - 1950134
Akhilesh Yadav
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

6. Where is the venue for the 2012 Olympics?
Rahul Banerjee (archery ) - Preeja Sreedharan (athletics) - Vikas Gowda (athletics) - Jwala Gutta(badminton) - M Suranjoy Singh(boxing) - Zaheer Khan (cricket) - Sunil Chhetri(football) - Ashish Kumar (gymnastics) - Rajpal Singh (hockey) - Ra
London
Jane Austen
24th February

7. What are the benefits of medicine Performax?
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
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.
Planning Commission
20th March

8. Who was called Bollywood's first superstar?
Manipur54
14th November
31st May
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)

9. Name the ship commissioned by India which is biggest in its class in the World?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Mohammad Iqbal
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)

10. When are days and nights equal throughout the globe?
Jane Austen
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
When sun is above the equator

11. When was Sangeet Natak Akademi set up by Government of India?
Lead
U.K
1953
Mundak Upanishad

12. Name the country which is second largest producer of horticulture commodities such as fruits - vegetables and flowers in the world?
Angle between the horizon and the equator
11th July
India
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu

13. For what was Ashoka famous?
UK
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Dutch East Indies
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.

14. Where is the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre located?
E.G.Otis
Trivandrum
Abhinav Bindra
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156

15. Which country was under the grip of a severe earthquake followed by tsunami recently?
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Japan
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Shiv Prasad Singh

16. Which child artist got Critics Best Actor Award for his acting in a film Taare Zameen Par?
Darsheel Safary
Myanmar
Ganga
Rahul Banerjee (archery ) - Preeja Sreedharan (athletics) - Vikas Gowda (athletics) - Jwala Gutta(badminton) - M Suranjoy Singh(boxing) - Zaheer Khan (cricket) - Sunil Chhetri(football) - Ashish Kumar (gymnastics) - Rajpal Singh (hockey) - Ra

17. Players of which state got the maximum Olympic medals in London Olympics?
Sunil Gavaskar
In Samba
Haryana
Football

18. Which gas is used for preparation of soda water?
Second Battle of Tarain
Sunil Gavaskar
Carbon dioxide
Hyderabad

19. Which is the largest auditorium in India?
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Chandrayaan
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Krishna

20. Name the place where Lord Budha breathed his last?
Standard time of the country138
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Kushinagar
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).

21. Name the eminent Hindi authors chosen for Jnanpith Award 2011?
H.P.S Ahluwalia
5th June
2:3161
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant

22. Which is the largest river delta of India?
Ganga
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Samudragupta
Chandragupta Maurya

23. What is the name of India's moon mission?
Torricelli
1.34 millions
Chandrayaan
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)

24. Who is the person of Indian origin nominated as the Governor of Louisiana - an American state?
Maharashtra
Bobby Jindal
Nikolaus Otto
Su-Kam Power Systems

25. Who wrote the first history book?
Vice President of India
Mahatma Gandhi
Darsheel Safary
Herodotus

26. Name the shooter of Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur) who won silver medal in Olympics 2012?

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27. Who is crowned Miss World 2011?
26 years and 9 months
Uttar Pradesh
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.

28. Who is the author of book 'India Wins Freedom'?
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
11th May
Hamid Ansari
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65

29. Who wrote the book 'Gulliver's Travels'?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Churchill
Bangalore
Jonathan Swift

30. What is equal to latitude of a place?
Nitrogen
Euclid
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.

31. On what occasion Bihar got its own state anthem and state prayer whose CD's were released by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar?
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Sri Lanka
W.C Bannerjee
Abhinav Bindra

32. What is the original name of Mahabharata?
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Jai Samhita
Bamiyan

33. Where is a tunnel near the Indo-Pak border detected?
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
In Samba
$46 - 00011
Equator

34. Name the sub-launched long range N-missile developed by China?
Julang-2
Dilip Kumar
Cavendish
V. Anand

35. Which is the largest desert in India?
Sidney Sheldon
18th December
11th May
Thar desert (Rajasthan)

36. What is the ratio of width of our National flag to its length?
Haryana
8th October
Jaipur
2:3161

37. Greenwich mean time (GMT) is the standard time of which country?
22nd April
14th November
11th May
U.K

38. When is Sadbhavna Diwas (Goodwill Day ) observed in India?

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39. Where are the World famous Khajuraho sculptures located?
Konark
Madhya Pradesh
22nd April
10th December

40. Who is vice President of India?
E.M Forster
Only the first stanza
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Satyendra Nath Bose

41. Which metal is used in pencils?
Allauddin Khilji
1949
Graphite
Wular lake (Kashmir)

42. Who is the creator of 'Sherlock Holmes'?
Arthur Conan Doyle
95th
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka

43. Who invented the steam engine?
Motion Picture
Vadodara
Governor
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)

44. While playing with which team Rahul Dravid completed his 10000 runs in the Test cricket?
South Africa
Carbon dioxide
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.
The number of persons per square kilometre.

45. Who wrote an English novel 'In Custody'?
7th April
Sitar
Anita Desai
Mathura

46. Kathakali a folk dance is prevalent in which state?
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Kerala
Dutch East Indies
Narmada and Japti

47. Which is the highest military award for valour in India?
Prime Minister
Ludhiana
4 minutes
Param Vir Chakra

48. Who won the silver medal in 66 Kg wrestling and is the first Indian to win two individual Olympic medals?
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Sushil Kumar
Mundak Upanishad
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)

49. Who was called the 'Napoleon of India'?
Akbar
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Firozeshah Tughluq
Samudragupta

50. For what is Bijapur known?
Leo Tolstoy
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Gol Gumbaz
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.