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1. Name the player of USA who created history by grabbing his 22nd Olympic medal ?
Madhya Pradesh
U.K
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Myanmar
2. Who deciphered the genetic code?
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
2
J.B.Say
Perpendicular to each other
3. Which was the great centre of trade and commerce in the Gupta period?
Mathura
Only the first stanza
Mehbooba Mufti
Euclid
4. Who made the highest score in an ODI against West Indiies in Indora in 2011?
Iodine
5th September
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
1.34 millions
5. What is Dry Ice?
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Infinite
V.S Naipaul
6. Which is the largest delta in India?
Washing soda
Sukumar Sen
Sunderbans delta
Sarojini Naidu
7. Who is sworn as the 14th Vice President of India?
Leh
South Africa
Hamid Ansari
Jane Austen
8. On which date Chennai turned 372 years?
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
8
Chandragupta Maurya
Kulandei Francis
9. Where is Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy which trains Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officers situated?
Mussoorie
Vice President of India
Gujarat
German
10. Name the ballistic missile that lifted off from Wheeler Island in Odisha on 9th August - 2012?
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Jan 26 - 1950134
South Africa
J.L.Baird
11. In which Amendment Right to property was removed from the list of Fundamental rights?
Longitudinal position
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Arthur Conan Doyle
Forty-fourth Amendment
12. Who wrote 'One Day Wonders'?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
South Kolkata
Kerala
Sunil Gavaskar
13. Where are Dilwara Temples situated?
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Kiran Bedi
Swarajya Party
Chandragupta Maurya
14. Who is the elected Prime Minister of Pakistan from Pakistan People's Party?
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Khadakvasla
Amir Khusrau
30th January
15. Who is the author of book 'Gita Govinda'?
29th August
Saka era
Jayadeva
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
16. Who won the Wimbledon title for seventh time and 17th grand slam crown after beating Andy Murray in male category in 2012?
Roger Federer
10th December
Kerala
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
17. What is the upper house of parliament known as?
The Rajya Sabha
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Cyrus Mistry
18. Who was the First Election Commissioner of India?
Narmada and Japti
Arthur Conan Doyle
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Sukumar Sen
19. Who is the author of book 'The Tribune 130 Years: A Witness to History'?
Samar Guha
Only the first stanza
Prof. V.N Datta
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
20. Which is the place experiencing minimum and maximum temperatures -28.3 degree Celsius and 15 degree Celsius respectively?
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Leh
Mary Kom
21. What happens to speed of sound with rise in temperature?
Ogyen Trinley Dorjee - the third most important Tibetian religious head after Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama. (as police recovered currencies of 26 countries including 1 - 20 - 197 chinese yuan and around Rs 5.3 million in Indian currency.)
Increases
5th September
Sidney Sheldon
22. Who discovered photoelectric effect?
Speaker
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Albert Einstein
Second Battle of Tarain
23. Who was the first lady to become judge of the Supreme Court?
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
July - 1947
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
Finland
24. When is International Labour Day observed?
Kanishka
Rocky Marciano
Rabindranath Tagore147
1st May164
25. Who composed the national song of India (Vande Maatram)?
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Akhilesh Yadav
26. From which mines was the famous Kohinoor diamond produced?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
11th May
Golconda
E.G.Otis
27. When in India Teachers Day celebrated?
Jamaica
24th May
Sitar
5th September
28. Name the youngest skydriver in the country?
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Alexander Fleming
30th January
When sun is above the equator
29. On which date India won the World Cup in Mumbai?
24th May
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
2nd April - 2011
Sri Lanka
30. Name the person who has set a new Guinness record of being the oldest man to complete a full distance marathon in Toronto?
Tamil Nadu
Governor
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
31. In which state are the World famous Ajanta Caves situated?
Maharashtra
1911133
Vice President of India
Chandragupta Maurya
32. Name the baby of Uttar Pardesh who is the symbolic seven billionth baby ?
It loses one day
Dilip Kumar
Baby Nargis
2:4
33. Which is the largest Church in India?
Methane - butane and propane
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
34. Which is the largest desert in India?
Dehradun
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Sunita Williams
35. When is World Laughter Day celebrated?
Galileo
Because the solids have high elasticity.
The number of persons per square kilometre.
26th January
36. Where is largest animal fair held in India?
Sonepur (Bihar )
Nitrogen
Will pass through Equator
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
37. What is the name of first Indian aircraft developed by Government laboratory with private fund?
Talwandi
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Eagle
Jyoti Amge
38. When is Sadbhavna Diwas (Goodwill Day ) observed in India?
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39. Who is the author of book 'Many Worlds'?
New Delhi
V.S Naipaul
Infinite
Mathura
40. Who wrote our National Anthem?
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Sunil Gavaskar
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Narmada and Japti
41. Where is Buland Darwaza located?
Fatehpur Sikri
Aravind Adiga
Chandrayaan
Jawaharlal Nehru
42. Name the country which has longest international boundary with India?
In Samba
China
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
43. Who is the author of book 'The Shape of the Beast'?
Saka era
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
Arundhati Roy
Samuel Morse
44. Who was the first Indian elected to the leadership of Communist International?
Jaya Dev
M.N Roy62
Saka era
Strait of Gibraltar
45. Name the mountain range which stretches from Gujarat in the West to Delhi in the North?
John Ruskin
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Aravallis
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
46. Watches of a country is set according to what time?
Gwalior Gharana
Standard time of the country138
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Bromine
47. Who painted the masterpiece 'Hamsa Damayanti'?
Kushinagar
State Bank of India
Raja Ravi Varma
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
48. In how many time zones is the World divided?
China
24
Kushinagar
When sun is above the equator
49. Who is President of India?
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Saka era
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
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.
50. On what occasion Bihar got its own state anthem and state prayer whose CD's were released by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar?
Chandragupta Maurya
Vadodara
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).