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1. When is Commonwealth Day observed?
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
24th May
12th January
2. Name the metal used in storage batteries?
Lead
Valentina Tereshkova
Forty-fourth Amendment
Art and architecture
3. Whom the Gujarat High Court issued contempt notice on 15th Feb. - 2012 for not obeying its order to compensate people whose shops were burnt down in the post-Godhra riots?
11th May
Paschim Banga1
Narendra Modi government
Protecting Flora and Fauna
4. Who was the first lady to become judge of the Supreme Court?
Alexander Graham Bell
Lead
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
The Reserve Bank of India
5. Who is known as Father of Geometry?
Euclid
In front of New Delhi's High Court
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Anna Hazare
6. Who won bronze medal for India in men's 60 Kg freestyle wrestling?
1949
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Mehbooba Mufti
7. Who is vice President of India?
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Lobsang Sangay
9th August
8. What is the upper house of parliament known as?
The Rajya Sabha
Madhya Pradesh
Narendra Modi government
Hampi
9. Name the latest hi-tech weapon invented in 2011 to prevent obesity?
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10. Where is head office of the State Bank of India located?
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Mumbai
London
Dadabhai Naoroji
11. Who was the first person to set foot on moon?
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Su-Kam Power Systems
Chandragupta-II
Neil Armstrong
12. Who is the senior most Army officer to have faced a court martial and dismissed from service by an Indian Army Court?
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
W.C Bannerjee
Finland
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
13. What are GM Crops?
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Jules Verne
Genetically Modified Crops.
G.V. Mavalankar
14. Which state has become the second highest power purchaser in the country after Punjab?
2
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
5
26th January
15. Kathakali a folk dance is prevalent in which state?
Kerala
Mahatma Gandhi
Chandrayaan
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
16. Who was the first woman to go in space?
Valentina Tereshkova
Carbon dioxide
Mundak Upanishad
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
17. Which child artist got Critics Best Actor Award for his acting in a film Taare Zameen Par?
Jaipur
Darsheel Safary
35 degree
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
18. To whom President of India can write if he wants to resign from office?
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Mohammad bin Kasim
Vice President of India
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
19. Which game is associated with Agha Khan Cup?
Hockey
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Konark
Mahatma Gandhi
20. Who discovered the oral polio vaccine?
Darsheel Safary
Jonas Salk
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
21. Mainly which gas is present in gobar gas?
Methane
Mohammad bin Kasim
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Sitar
22. Which village of Andhra Pradesh may be sitting over one of the world's largest uranium reserves?
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
Gol Gumbaz
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
7th April
23. Whose contemporary was Tulsidas?
Mary Kom
Dadabhai Naoroji
Akbar
Rabindranath Tagore147
24. Who fought the Third Battle of Panipat?
Michael Phelps
Concave lens
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Chandrayaan
25. World Aids Day falls on which date?
Golconda
1st December
Marie Curie
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
26. What is the changed name of Orissa officially according to Presidential assent to the Bill?
5th June
Odisha
24th February
German
27. Where is Char Minar located?
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Baby Nargis
Hyderabad
28. Who is the author of book 'Gita Govinda'?
Fatehpur Sikri
11th July
Jayadeva
Rabindranath Tagore
29. Which is the world's second cheapest city according to global survey?
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Ripon
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Shimla and Hamirpur
30. When is World Laughter Day celebrated?
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.
2nd April - 2011
V. Anand
26th January
31. Who wrote the first history book?
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
Herodotus
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
Edison
32. Who appoints the Chairman and members of State Public Service Commission?
Governor
Kushans
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Jane Austen
33. Which place is going to have North India's biggest turf club?
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Yousuf Raza Gillani
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
E.M Forster
34. Radcliffe line is the boundary line between which countries?
India and Pakistan
Samuel Morse
J.L.Baird
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
35. Name the three new elements added to the Periodic Table in 2011?
14th November
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Only the first stanza
E.M Forster
36. Which game is associated with Merdeka Cup?
Abhinav Bindra
Demand deposits
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
Football
37. Whose influence is reflected in the sculptures of the Gandhara school?
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
95th
Chandragupta Maurya
Greeks
38. Who propounded the Market Law?
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Indra Sinha64
24
J.B.Say
39. Who was called Bollywood's first superstar?
Vande Mataram
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
8
15th August167
40. Which country has an Unwritten Constitution?
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
UK
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
41. Who presented the first Union Budget of Independent India?
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Washing soda
Bombay
Himachal Pradesh
42. Name the great poet who graced the court of Alauddin Khilji?
Hockey
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Amir Khusru
Madhya Pradesh
43. Where is Indian Cancer Research Institute situated?
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
15th March
Bombay
Sunderbans delta
44. What is made from the mixture of lime and chlorine?
24th February
15th August167
Bleaching powder
Mumbai
45. Which was the World's first surviving clone buffalo at NDRI (National Dairy Research Institute)?
Sitar
Rocky Marciano
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Param Vir Chakra
46. During whose time the Gandhara School of art developed?
Kushans
Hampi
Chilka lake (Orissa )
U.K
47. Name two other clones left with NDRI?
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.
Myanmar
Infinite
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
48. Between whom battle of Kurukshetra was fought?
Ujjain
Increases
Lead
Kauravas and Pandavas51
49. Who wrote 'Netaji - Dead or Alive'?
Samar Guha
Kulandei Francis
N.E. Borlaug
Jawaharlal Nehru
50. Which is the largest museum in India?
William Wordsworth
Raja Ravi Varma
India Museum at Kolkata
Andhra Pradesh