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1. What is the name of World's cheapest tablet PC?
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Speaker
God particle or Higgs Boson
Mahatma Gandhi
2. When comes the Farmer's Day (Kisan Divas )in India ?
Samuel Morse
Mosley
Alexander Fleming
23rd December
3. To whom President of India can write if he wants to resign from office?
Jonathan Swift
Alexander Fleming
Maharashtra
Vice President of India
4. Who is the person of Indian origin nominated as the Governor of Louisiana - an American state?
Jaya Dev
Bobby Jindal
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
Methane - butane and propane
5. For what was Ashoka famous?
Baby Nargis
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
Hyderabad
6. Who wrote our National Anthem?
1st May164
Rabindra Nath Tagore
1st December
Finland
7. Who was the first lady to become judge of the Supreme Court?
Graphite
Ladakh
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
8. Name the player of USA who created history by grabbing his 22nd Olympic medal ?
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Mahatma Gandhi
The Delhi Metro
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
9. Where is Buland Darwaza located?
Fatehpur Sikri
Governor
Kanishka
South Kolkata
10. Which day is celebrated as Independence Day of India?
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
15th August167
Hamid Ansari
35 degree
11. Which day in India is celebrated as Children's Day?
Methane - butane and propane
Mahatma Gandhi
14th November
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
12. When is World's Sparrow Day observed?
M.N Roy62
20th March
Roger Federer
Cavendish
13. Which day is observed as Sanskrit Day in India?
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Bamiyan
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
5th September
14. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?
Johannes Kepler
24
S. Radhakrishnan
Nayantara Sahgal
15. Where is Pushkar lake located?
24th February
Director General Anil Kaushik
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Rajasthan
16. Name the Bollywood legend whose ancestral home in Peshawar - Pakistan has been turned into heritage site?
1st May164
Dilip Kumar
Diffusion
Mundak Upanishad
17. While playing with which team Rahul Dravid completed his 10000 runs in the Test cricket?
Jyoti Amge
Nek Chand
South Africa
Jayadeva
18. Who wrote 'One Day Wonders'?
Darsheel Safary
2
Sunil Gavaskar
Pune
19. On which era is the Indian National Calender based?
Saka era
William Shakespeare151
Ganga
U.K
20. Who discovered the electric lamp?
Edison
Hampi
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Kiran Bedi
21. Who composed our National song?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Hindukush
Ganga
22. Who headed the committee on computerisation in Indian banks(1988)?
Bamiyan
2G spectrum scam
M. Narasimhan
Su-Kam Power Systems
23. Where is Sun Temple situated?
Genetically Modified Crops.
Konark
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
1949
24. In which field the name of Gangubai Hangal associated?
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Music
26th January
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
25. What are the bank deposits that can be withdrawn without notice called?
Madhya Pradesh
1st December
Demand deposits
1911133
26. Who was the first Indian elected to the leadership of Communist International?
Landsteiner
Later Vedic Age
M.N Roy62
Washing soda
27. Year 2011 is observed by Army as what?
250th anniversary
Bombay
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Navtej Saran
28. In India - who issues one rupee coins and notes as well as subsidiary coins?
Jules Verne
Japan
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
The Reserve Bank of India
29. Mainly which gas is present in gobar gas?
Methane
Param Vir Chakra
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Bromine
30. Name the ballistic missile that lifted off from Wheeler Island in Odisha on 9th August - 2012?
Julang-2
U.K
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
When sun is above the equator
31. Which was the musical instrument used by Amir Khusro?
The Bering Strait
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Sitar
At Magdalla port near Surat.
32. Name the herbal drug developed by DRDO for soldiers working in high altitude areas?
Performax
5th September
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
24th February
33. Which player is the author of the book 'Straight From The Heart'?
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Kapil Dev
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
34. Which metal is used in pencils?
Abul Kalam Azad
Graphite
14th November
When sun is above the equator
35. On globe - the latitude and longitude intersect at what angle?
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
90 degrees
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Swarajya Party
36. Which village of Andhra Pradesh may be sitting over one of the world's largest uranium reserves?
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
Concave lens
Strait of Gibraltar
26th January
37. Who won bronze medal for India in men's 60 Kg freestyle wrestling?
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
24
Karashapana
20th March
38. Which song became the most searched You tube video in India in 2011?
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39. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?
Khushwant Singh
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'.
Golconda
Jaipur
40. When is Earth Day observed?
Amir Khusrau
Euclid
22nd April
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
41. In which state are the World famous Ajanta Caves situated?
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Anna Hazare
Maharashtra
12th January
42. When is National Science Day celebrated in India?
Tamil Nadu
28th February
New Delhi
Jhumpa Lahiri
43. Who wrote an English novel 'In Custody'?
Anita Desai
Saeed Mirza
Gol Gumbaz
Allahabad Pillar inscription
44. One degree of longitude on equator is equal to what distance?
69 miles
Arundhati Roy
Robert Watson Watt
Demand deposits
45. Name the Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay ofBengal?
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Palk Strait
Mathura
Diffusion
46. When is India's National Youth Day celebrated ?
12th January
Alexander Fleming
Kerala
Performax
47. Where did India's first Formula one race took place in 2011?
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Nitrous oxide
India
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
48. Who wrote the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?
Jules Verne
24th February
J.L.Baird
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
49. Whose influence is reflected in the sculptures of the Gandhara school?
Ashoka
Amjad Ali Khan
Raja Ravi Varma
Greeks
50. On which part of earth days and nights are of equal length always?
Aravind Adiga
Equator
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Arundhati Roy
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