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1. Who will be the new Director General of Police (DGP) after the retirement of P.S. Gill?
Director General Anil Kaushik
Julang-2
Mathura
Akbar
2. How many cities can be protected by the missile defence shield developed by India?
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
1949
2:4
2
3. To whom President of India can write if he wants to resign from office?
Vice President of India
Bangalore
Cyrus Mistry
11th May
4. Who wrote Panchatantra?
Sunita Williams
It loses one day
Vishnu Sharma
Guru Gobind Singh
5. In how many time zones is U.S.A divided?
6-14 years
Arundhati Roy
Param Vir Chakra
5
6. In how many time zones is the World divided?
24
15th March
$46 - 00011
Sunderbans delta
7. Which is largest state of India?
24
15th January
Julang-2
Rajasthan
8. Where is the world's largest solar power project going to be set up?
Indra Sinha64
Khadakvasla
Jagannath
Maharashtra
9. Who founded the Saka Era?
Kanishka
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Longitudinal position
10. During whose time the Gandhara School of art developed?
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Kushans
Maharashtra
Narendra Modi government
11. Name the metal used in storage batteries?
Kushans
Lead
10th October
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
12. When comes the World Disabled Day?
India
Mosley
Jonathan Swift
15th March
13. Who is President of India?
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Aravallis
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
14. What is the other name of deuterium oxide?
Heavy water
Andhra Pradesh
5th September
Morarji Desai
15. Who elects the Vice President of India?
V.S Naipaul
Sunita Williams
8th May
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
16. Where did coins made of metal first appeared?
Maharaja Hari Singh
Later Vedic Age
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Kulandei Francis
17. Which song became the most searched You tube video in India in 2011?
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18. Name the gases used in different types of welding?
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Oxygen and acetylene
Bombay
Jane Austen
19. Who discovered blood grouping?
Landsteiner
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
26th January
Lobsang Sangay
20. When is India's Army Day celebrated ?
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.
15th January
Andhra Pradesh
Carbon dioxide
21. Who said - 'God helps those who helps themselves'?
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Vocal Music
Algernon Sidney
Navtej Saran
22. Which is the largest Gurudwara in India?
Jonas Salk
Khushwant Singh
Mundak Upanishad
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
23. Who is the new youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
Samudragupta
J.L.Baird
Amir Khusrau
Akhilesh Yadav
24. Where was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Avanti?
Iodine
New Delhi
W.C Bannerjee
Ujjain
25. Which country has World's largest democracy?
India
Vande Mataram
Mathura
Graphite
26. Where is Elephant Pass located?
Planning Commission
Stupa
Sri Lanka
London
27. When in India Teachers Day celebrated?
William Wordsworth
5th September
Satyendra Nath Bose
Dutch East Indies
28. Which battle opened the Delhi area to Muhammad Ghori?
Second Battle of Tarain
Ujjain
Nayantara Sahgal
William Wordsworth
29. Name the person who presided over the first session of Indian National Congress in 1885?
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Mumbai
W.C Bannerjee
30. Who discovered X-Ray?
Abul Kalam Azad
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Khushwant Singh
Roentgen
31. Who wrote the famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Eagle
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jane Austen
32. Which is the largest Church in India?
J.L.Baird
Jagannath
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
Bengali
33. Begum Akhtar is associated with which field?
Later Vedic Age
Das Kapital
Vocal Music
Jane Austen
34. Who is the author of book 'Gita Govinda'?
Sitar
Equator
Jayadeva
Alexander Graham Bell
35. On what occasion Bihar got its own state anthem and state prayer whose CD's were released by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar?
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
5th June
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Odisha
36. For what was Ashoka famous?
Nitrous oxide
1st December
W.C Bannerjee
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
37. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?
Six months
Mussoorie
Hockey
Johannes Kepler
38. Who invented the steam engine?
Prime Minister
Mundak Upanishad
Tamil Nadu
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
39. How many postal zones are there in India - under the PIN Code System?
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Chandragupta Maurya
Hockey
8
40. Who discovered the noble gases?
24th October
Cavendish
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
8th September
41. What is added to remove permanent hardness of water?
Is a herbal formulation of 10 selected herbs known to have adaptogenic properties. It helps to improve the physical and mental performance by increasing blood oxygenation and reducing low density lipoproteins and cholesterol.
Washing soda
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Japan
42. Who wrote our National Anthem?
N.E. Borlaug
11th May
Diffusion
Rabindra Nath Tagore
43. Who wrote the book 'A Passage To India'?
Ashoka
Thailand
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
E.M Forster
44. What is Ayush treatment?
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
Sidney Sheldon
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Nek Chand
45. Name the Indian state where the game of Polo is said to have originated?
Rahul Banerjee (archery ) - Preeja Sreedharan (athletics) - Vikas Gowda (athletics) - Jwala Gutta(badminton) - M Suranjoy Singh(boxing) - Zaheer Khan (cricket) - Sunil Chhetri(football) - Ashish Kumar (gymnastics) - Rajpal Singh (hockey) - Ra
Manipur54
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Robert Watson Watt
46. Whom did Dalai Lama announced to be his successor in March - 2011?
Amir Khusrau
29th August
Lobsang Sangay
India Museum at Kolkata
47. Which day in India is celebrated as Children's Day?
14th November
Four lions
Aravallis
Rs 270
48. Who introduced the market regulations in India in ancient period?
Mussoorie
Allauddin Khilji
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Narmada and Japti
49. What reference is taken to know the local time of a place?
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.)
Longitudinal position
Sunita Williams
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
50. What was the old name of Indonesia?
Shockley
Carbon dioxide
India and China
Dutch East Indies