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1. What is the reason found for ground water contamination in Punjab - especially in the Malwa region?
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Rajasthan
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Allauddin Khilji
2. Where is largest animal fair held in India?
Satyendra Nath Bose
Sonepur (Bihar )
Churchill
95th
3. Where is Indian Cancer Research Institute situated?
Jyoti Amge
Bombay
Johann Gregor Mendel
Das Kapital
4. What is e-bomb?
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5. When is World's Sparrow Day observed?
31st May
Sodium
24th February
20th March
6. What is India's rank on the Transparency International (TI) corruption Perception Index out of 183 countries in 2011?
Karashapana
Gol Gumbaz
95th
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
7. Who discovered the noble gases?
Nikolaus Otto
Tamil Nadu
Cavendish
Abhinav Bindra
8. Where is the famous Meenakshi Temple situated?
Jane Austen
Tamil Nadu
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Jonathan Swift
9. Upto where Chandragupta Maurya's empire extended in the north-west?
Jonas Salk
Hindukush
India
15th March
10. Which megastar carried the Olympic flame on the torch relay leg between the City of London and the borough of South wark in London on 26th July - 2012 - a day before the opening ceremony of sporting spectacle?
Amitabh Bachchan
15th March
Abul Kalam Azad
Hunting
11. Which day in India is celebrated as Children's Day?
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Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
14th November
Vande Mataram
12. Who founded the Saka Era?
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Kanishka
Tamil Nadu
India
13. Name the scientist who got Nobel Prize twice for the same subject?
Marie Curie
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Aung San Suu Kyi
Chandragupta-II
14. When is Commonwealth Day observed?
24th May
Michael Phelps
Uttar Pradesh
Four lions
15. What is the designation of the chairperson of Lok Sabha?
Maharaja Hari Singh
Speaker
1st December
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
16. When in India Teachers Day celebrated?
7th April
Japan
Rs 270
5th September
17. Which day in India celebrated as Central Excise Day ?
Bhai Gurmej Singh
24th February
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
18. Name the first Indian women shuttler to enter semifinal at the Olympics?
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
11th July
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
23rd December
19. Who headed the committee on computerisation in Indian banks(1988)?
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Saka era
Sitar
M. Narasimhan
20. Name the gas used to extinguish fire?
Carbon dioxide
Mumbai
Maharashtra
22nd April
21. Name the state of India having longest coastline?
11th May
Andhra Pradesh
Vidya Balan
Maharaja Hari Singh
22. Who is the author of novel 'The White Tiger'?
V. Anand
Amitabh Ghosh
Aravind Adiga
Assam
23. Where is Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy which trains Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officers situated?
Mussoorie
1st May164
Uttar Pradesh
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
24. Under which scam - the 43 year old daughter of former chief minister of Tamil Nadu M.Karunanidhi was in Tihar jail in 2011?
2G spectrum scam
Morarji Desai
Samuel Morse
INS Vikrant55
25. Which is the largest delta in India?
Sunderbans delta
Jan 26 - 1950134
Johann Gregor Mendel
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
26. Where is National School of Mines located?
Mary Kom
Pune
Dadabhai Naoroji
8th October
27. Which is the largest public sector bank in India?
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Mumbai
State Bank of India
Oxygen and acetylene
28. Which musical instrument is said to be invented by Amir Khusro?
Michael Phelps
Sitar
The Bering Strait
Chandragupta-II
29. Our Indian National Calender is based on which era?
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Motion Picture
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Saka era
30. Which metal is used in pencils?
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
5th September
Graphite
Chandragupta
31. Which is the India's largest public sector commercial bank at present?
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
90 degrees
11th July
State Bank of India
32. For what is Bijapur known?
Gol Gumbaz
55th rank
Saka era
24th May
33. Which is the largest populated state in India?
Uttar Pradesh
Shockley
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.
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
34. Who is known as Nightingale of India?
Akhilesh Yadav
Director General Anil Kaushik
Sarojini Naidu
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
35. On which date Quit India Day comes?
Mussoorie
9th August
Nitrous oxide
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
36. Who is the second 100 percent visually impaired person to be accepted into the IAS?
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
37. Who brought and installed two Asokan pillars in Delhi?
Firozeshah Tughluq
24
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
38. Which is the Garden City of India?
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Edison
Sachin Tendulkar
Bangalore
39. In which state is Ganesh Otsav celebrated?
Maharashtra
5th June
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Japan
40. The World famous 'Peacock Throne' was kept in which Mughal building?
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Khushwant Singh
New Agra Fort
Amjad Ali Khan
41. Name 72 year old social activist who supported Jan Lokpal Bill?
Anna Hazare
London
Washing soda
The Rajya Sabha
42. Which is largest fresh water lake in India?
Kerala
Satyendra Nath Bose
Saka era
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
43. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' (inscribed below the base plate of the emblem of India) taken?
India Museum at Kolkata
Robert Watson Watt
J.B.Say
Mundak Upanishad
44. What is KG5 drug?
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45. Where is the birth place of Guru Nanak Ji?
Jonas Salk
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
5 hours 30 minutes
Talwandi
46. What is the difference in time between two places 1 degree longitude apart?
July - 1947
4 minutes
5 hours 30 minutes
Gagan Narang (shooter)
47. The Rath Yatra at Puri is celebrated in honour of which Hindu deity?
Jaya Dev
The Bering Strait
Jagannath
8th May
48. Which country has an Unwritten Constitution?
UK
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Renders electronic gadgets useless and effectively neutralises the adversary's command control and communication capability by producing a strong electromagnetic field generating powerful electricity surges that play havoc with electronic circuits wi
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
49. Which is the largest auditorium in India?
Sunil Gavaskar
Dance
Chaucer
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
50. Which day is known as World Book and Copyright Day?
24th May
23rd April
W.C Bannerjee
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