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1. Name the world's shortest living woman?
Khushwant Singh
Painting
Jyoti Amge
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
2. The Prime Minister is chairman of this
Shimla and Hamirpur
Planning Commission
28th February
Alexander Graham Bell
3. On which date India won the World Cup in Mumbai?
Sushil Kumar
Saka era
2nd April - 2011
Contingency Fund of India
4. When was Sangeet Natak Akademi set up by Government of India?
5
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
1953
South Africa
5. Who said 'Child is the father of Man'?
Stainless steel
Angle between the horizon and the equator
William Wordsworth
Ashoka
6. Where is the India's first largest bamboo museum?
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Oxygen and acetylene
Mumbai
The number of persons per square kilometre.
7. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
Jamaica
Uttar Pradesh
2G spectrum scam
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
8. Which country is the world's largest recipient of arms?
Andhra Pradesh
35 degree
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
India
9. Who is the author of book 'Speed Post'?
Shobha De
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
Sidney Sheldon
Chandragupta Maurya
10. Which is the largest auditorium in India?
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Gota in Sweden
Paschim Banga1
11. Which game is associated with Merdeka Cup?
Hamid Ansari
Third century B.C
Football
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
12. What is equal to latitude of a place?
Maharaja Hari Singh
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Thailand
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
13. In which state are the World famous Ajanta Caves situated?
Playwright
Maharashtra
9th August
Governor
14. Which ruler was adorned with the title of 'Maharajadhiraja'?
Kathak
Kanishka
Shimla and Hamirpur
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
15. Who earned the title of 'Liberator'?
Chandragupta Maurya
Sriharikota
Haryana
Gwalior Gharana
16. For what was Ashoka famous?
V.S Naipaul
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Shimla and Hamirpur
17. Greenwich mean time (GMT) is the standard time of which country?
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Mumbai
U.K
18. Name the temple where majority of pilgrims visiting tonsure their heads and offer their hair to Lord Venkateswara?
Curiosity
In Samba
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
19. If in a mirror image of object appears to be larger then which type of mirror is used?
Concave mirror
July - 1947
Standard time of the country138
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'.
20. Where are the World famous Khajuraho sculptures located?
69 miles
Mussoorie
Madhya Pradesh
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
21. Name the latest hi-tech weapon invented in 2011 to prevent obesity?
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22. Where is the National Institute of Nutrition located?
Dilip Kumar
Param Vir Chakra
Hyderabad
Amir Khusru
23. Who was the first Indian elected to the leadership of Communist International?
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
M.N Roy62
India Museum at Kolkata
Sri Lanka
24. For what was Gupta dynasty famous?
Chandragupta Maurya
Vishnu Sharma
Art and architecture
Concave mirror
25. Which day is known as World Book and Copyright Day?
23rd April
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Gota in Sweden
26. The World famous 'Peacock Throne' was kept in which Mughal building?
New Agra Fort
Chandragupta
Abhinav Bindra
N.E. Borlaug
27. What is the name of India's moon mission?
24th October
Chandrayaan
Su-Kam Power Systems
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
28. Name the place where Lord Budha breathed his last?
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Kushinagar
29. Who wrote the book 'Gulliver's Travels'?
UK
Ganga
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Jonathan Swift
30. Name the metal present in photo films?
29th August
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
Silver
1911133
31. Which is the highest military award for valour in India?
Bombay
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
Param Vir Chakra
32. Satyan Bose is known for his excellence in which field?
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Motion Picture
Kolkata
Football
33. Who is the creator of 'Sherlock Holmes'?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Gwalior Gharana
Eagle
Maharashtra
34. Who has become the first lady jawan in Indian army?
Akhilesh Yadav
Paschim Banga1
Diffusion
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
35. Where are the achievements of Samudragupta described on?
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Johannes Kepler
Washing soda
Johann Gregor Mendel
36. Who is the author of book 'The Shape of the Beast'?
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Arundhati Roy
Krishna
The Reserve Bank of India
37. Name the Indian woman boxer who won bronze medal in Olympics?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Mary Kom
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
38. On globe - the latitude and longitude intersect at what angle?
Andhra Pradesh
90 degrees
Shiv Prasad Singh
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
39. Which is the largest port in India?
Vidya Balan
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Mumbai
Marie Curie
40. Watches of a country is set according to what time?
Standard time of the country138
Heavy water
India
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
41. How many total number of enclaves are to be exchanged between territories of two countries India and Bangladesh according to the treaty signed in Sept - 2011?
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
162
Uttar Pradesh
42. Name the cities of Himachal to be developed as the solar cities?
Nayantara Sahgal
Shimla and Hamirpur
Silver
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
43. Begum Akhtar is associated with which field?
1.34 millions
Chandragupta Maurya
Vocal Music
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
44. For which dance Birju Maharaj is well known?
Manipur54
Neil Armstrong
Mary Kom
Kathak
45. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
10th October
Speaker
J.B.Say
46. Which state in South India have a thermal station at Tuticorin?
Music
Chandragupta
Tamil Nadu
Jawaharlal Nehru
47. In how many time zones is U.S.A divided?
5
Vocal Music
Edison
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
48. Name the last king of Jammu and Kashmir?
12th January
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
M. Narasimhan
Maharaja Hari Singh
49. Who said 'Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err'?
Jane Austen
Mahatma Gandhi
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Bangalore
50. Who was the first speaker of Independent India's Lok Sabha?
Tamil Nadu
Bengali
Ladakh
G.V. Mavalankar