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1. What is the upper house of parliament known as?
The Rajya Sabha
Andhra Pradesh
Carbon dioxide
8th March
2. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
Jamaica
1st May164
Neil Armstrong
15th January
3. Which is the longest river of India?
Curiosity
Chandrayaan
Kerala
Ganga
4. Which was the World's first surviving clone buffalo at NDRI (National Dairy Research Institute)?
Only the first stanza
Narmada and Japti
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Thailand
5. When an open bottle of scent is kept at one corner due to which phenomenon its fragrance is found in whole room?
Diffusion
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Makes cancer cell 'commit suicide'. It helps in stoping multiplication of tumorous cells and shut themselves down. Will be available in approximately 5 years and will be in pill form.
6. Name the largest oil refinery of India?
10th December
Vadodara
Rajasthan
Aravind Adiga
7. Who earned the title of 'Liberator'?
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Chandragupta Maurya
Zinc
Andhra Pradesh
8. Which is the largest port in India?
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Mumbai
Arthur Conan Doyle
Paschim Banga1
9. Who appoints the Chairman and members of State Public Service Commission?
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Mumbai
Governor
10. Where is the India's first largest bamboo museum?
24th May
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
William Wordsworth
11. Who said 'Child is the father of Man'?
Jai Samhita
Motion Picture
William Wordsworth
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
12. With which field M.F. Hussian were associated?
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Su-Kam Power Systems
2nd April - 2011
Painting
13. Name the Russian painter who had an 468 acre estate in Bangalore
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
J.B.Say
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
14. Who won the first medal for India in Olympics 2012?
24
S. Radhakrishnan
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
When sun is above the equator
15. Who is the author of book 'Gita Govinda'?
Algernon Sidney
Jayadeva
India Museum at Kolkata
Rabindranath Tagore
16. With which musical instrument was Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan associated?
Kushans
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Sitar
30th January
17. Where is India's Space Rocket Launching Centre situated?
Sriharikota
Maharaja Hari Singh
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Akbar
18. Name the Indian scientist from whose surname the word 'boson' is derived?
Tamil Nadu
Motion Picture
Satyendra Nath Bose
Assam
19. Which is the Garden City of India?
Graphite
Bangalore
10th December
Prime Minister
20. Our Indian Constitution closely follows the Constitutional system of which country?
Jhumpa Lahiri
U.K
Hockey
Zinc
21. Where is the world's largest solar power project going to be set up?
Maharashtra
Bangalore
Mundak Upanishad
Razia Sultana
22. Name the latest hi-tech weapon invented in 2011 to prevent obesity?
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23. What is e-bomb?
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24. Who arranged the elements in the Modern Periodic Table?
J.B.Say
Uttarakhand
Mosley
Kalpakkam
25. Name the place where Lord Budha breathed his last?
Concave mirror
Kushinagar
Palk Strait
Kathak
26. Name the player of USA who created history by grabbing his 22nd Olympic medal ?
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Due to radiation
Contingency Fund of India
Florence Nightingale
27. Where were Chola Kings ruling over?
Hockey
Allauddin Khilji
Tamil Nadu
29th August
28. What reference is taken to know the local time of a place?
Jane Austen
The Rajya Sabha
Longitudinal position
2:3161
29. Name the element required for conversion of solar energy?
Michael Phelps
Vice President of India
Silicon
Saka era
30. Where is Bihar's first all women police station located?
Iodine
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Nayantara Sahgal
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
31. Who discovered the noble gases?
Oxygen and acetylene
Cavendish
German
55th rank
32. Name the subatomic particle which scientists claimed to have spotted and is believed to be a crucial building block in the formation of universe?
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Ganga
God particle or Higgs Boson
162
33. Name the country which has longest international boundary with India?
Kanishka
Kiran Bedi
Playwright
China
34. Where is the only shrine in the world which has a natural statue of Hanuman that is not man made?
15th March
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.
Edison
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
35. Name the Apple co-founder who changed the daily habits of millions by reinventing computing - music and mobile phones?
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Stupa
Ladakh
John Ruskin
36. Which day is known as World Book and Copyright Day?
Yamuna
Akbar
23rd April
26th January
37. Which was the great centre of trade and commerce in the Gupta period?
Mathura
Darsheel Safary
Ganga
5
38. Name the cities of Himachal to be developed as the solar cities?
Shimla and Hamirpur
Bengali
Jhumpa Lahiri
5
39. Which is largest populated city in India?
24th October
Mumbai
India and Pakistan
G.V. Mavalankar
40. Who was the first king to conquer Malwa - Gujarat and Maharashtra?
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Chandragupta Maurya
41. Who discovered X-Ray?
Shimla and Hamirpur
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
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.
Roentgen
42. Which metro has been certified by the United Nations as the first metro rail based system in the World to get carbon credits for contributing to the fight against climate changes?
The Delhi Metro
Vice President of India
15th March
N.E. Borlaug
43. Which state is going to be first carbon-neutral state in the country by 2020?
Himachal Pradesh
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Gujarat
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
44. Which day is observed as Sanskrit Day in India?
Jane Austen
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Will pass through Equator
5th September
45. Which village of Andhra Pradesh may be sitting over one of the world's largest uranium reserves?
Rajasthan
Greeks
Hunting
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
46. Name the 17th Karmapa against whom the Una police filed a chargesheet under section 120-B of the IPC in 2011?
Pakistan and Afghanistan
India
Kolkata
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.)
47. Who discovered photoelectric effect?
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Albert Einstein
48. When was the Constituent Assembly that framed Constitution for Independent India set up?
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Dr. F.G.Banting
1949
Madhya Pradesh
49. When comes the Farmer's Day (Kisan Divas )in India ?
Longitudinal position
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
23rd December
Rs 270
50. Which is the largest river island in India?
Neil Armstrong
Madhya Pradesh
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Mary Kom