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1. Where was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Avanti?
31st May
Ujjain
Florence Nightingale
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
2. Who was the First Election Commissioner of India?
Lead
2G spectrum scam
Sukumar Sen
When sun is above the equator
3. Who is known as 'Lady with the Lamp'?
Florence Nightingale
Year of Disabled Soldiers
New Agra Fort
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
4. What are the estimated premature deaths caused annually by air pollution - according to the first pollution survey carried in Sept. - 2011 by World Health Organisation?
Painting
Pune
In front of New Delhi's High Court
1.34 millions
5. During whose time the Gandhara School of art developed?
22nd April
Mohammad bin Kasim
Kushans
Das Kapital
6. Latitude and longitude are at what angle to each other?
India
2nd April - 2011
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Perpendicular to each other
7. Where is Buland Darwaza located?
New Agra Fort
Due to radiation
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Fatehpur Sikri
8. Who said 'Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err'?
Jonathan Swift
Mahatma Gandhi
Roentgen
Jaya Dev
9. Who discovered the electric lamp?
Chandragupta-II
It loses one day
Rs 270
Edison
10. Which is largest state of India?
Due to radiation
Rajasthan
Hamid Ansari
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
11. Where did coins made of metal first appeared?
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Later Vedic Age
Chandragupta-II
12. When comes National Sports Day of India?
29th August
Painting
Longitudinal position
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
13. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Prime Minister
India
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
14. At which point of earth weight of object will be minimum?
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
At the center of earth
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
15. According to a poll conducted by global research company Ipsos - people of which country are happiest on this planet despite woes - conflicts?
Ripon
Indians
Bengali
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
16. In how many time zones is the World divided?
Krishna
24
Mathura
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
17. What is Dry Ice?
Rajasthan
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
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.
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
18. Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Carbon dioxide
Satyendra Nath Bose
Jaya Dev
19. Who is the second 100 percent visually impaired person to be accepted into the IAS?
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Guru Gobind Singh
Mahatma Gandhi
8th October
20. Who was the author of 'Hind Swaraj'?
Darsheel Safary
Four lions
Mahatma Gandhi
Carbon dioxide
21. Who wrote the book 'Gullivers Travel'?
Baby Nargis
Stupa
Jonathan Swift
Year of Disabled Soldiers
22. Who made the highest score in an ODI against West Indiies in Indora in 2011?
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
27th September
W.C Bannerjee
New Delhi
23. Which is the largest dome in India?
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
5th September
Swarajya Party
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
24. Kanchipuram is in which state?
Tamil Nadu
31st May
Ladakh
John Ruskin
25. Which is the Garden City of India?
South Africa
Ganga
Bangalore
John Ruskin
26. Who is the author of book 'Speed Post'?
Shobha De
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Sachin Tendulkar
15th March
27. Which country has hosted the Asian Games for maximum number of times?
Thailand
Motion Picture
Jai Samhita
Methane - butane and propane
28. Who is the new youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
Akhilesh Yadav
Vocal Music
Jama Masjid
The Rajya Sabha
29. When is International Labour Day observed?
Navtej Saran
Carbon dioxide
Robert Watson Watt
1st May164
30. Which country topped medal table in Olympic 2012?
28th February
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Sitar
Silicon
31. What is added to remove permanent hardness of water?
Washing soda
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Performax
Landsteiner
32. Name the ship commissioned by India which is biggest in its class in the World?
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Tamil Nadu
Thailand
33. Name the gas used to extinguish fire?
Carbon dioxide
Art and architecture
Rabindra Nath Tagore
India
34. Which is the largest planetarium in India?
Kolkata
Allauddin Khilji
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
8th March
35. Which book is entitled as 'Bible of Communism'?
Kalpakkam
Das Kapital
Gota in Sweden
Myanmar
36. What will be the new name of West Bengal?
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Paschim Banga1
Jai Samhita
8th May
37. With which cells scientists for the first time have developed bone?
Dance
Shiv Prasad Singh
Chadwick
From fresh and purified fat stem cells ( Fat has a large number of tissue growing stem cells. People could go for liposuction and save fat cells for future use or can use immediately.)
38. On which date Quit India Day comes?
9th August
Rabindranath Tagore147
Dilip Kumar
Rahul Dravid
39. Who is generally regardedas the pioneer of Local Self Government in Modern India?
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Thailand
Ripon
Stainless steel
40. What is the latitude of South Pole?
90 degree
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Abul Kalam Azad
5th April
41. Who founded the Saka Era?
M.N Roy62
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.
Kanishka
Darsheel Safary
42. Who is the author of the book 'My Experiments with Truth'?
Kalpakkam
Mahatma Gandhi
Sri Lanka
Andhra Pradesh
43. Which cricketer known as 'Tiger' also father of famous actor died on 23rd September - 2011?
Greeks
8
Rajasthan
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
44. After whose name the Nobel Prize was started?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Torricelli
Kathak
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
45. Name the two living members of first Lok Sabha to be honored by President on 13th May - 2012 - 60th anniversary of our Parliament?
90 degrees
Ganga
Saka era
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
46. By whom is the Vice-President of the Indian Union elected?
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Diffusion
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
47. Which day is celebrated as World Red Cross Day?
Bleaching powder
Vocal Music
8th May
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
48. Who discovered insulin?
Andhra Pradesh
Dr. F.G.Banting
Genetically Modified Crops.
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
49. What is the name of World's cheapest tablet PC?
Rabindranath Tagore
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Alexander Graham Bell
50. Who was first Indian woman to become president of U.N. General Assembly?
Neil Armstrong
Landsteiner
Jan 26 - 1950134
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
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