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1. A famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice 'is written by whom?
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
29th August
Lobsang Sangay
Jane Austen
2. In India - who issues one rupee coins and notes as well as subsidiary coins?
M. Narasimhan
The Reserve Bank of India
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Indra Sinha64
3. Who arranged the elements in the Modern Periodic Table?
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
Mosley
24th October
4. Who was the chairman of Constituent Assembly?
Uttarakhand
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Johann Gregor Mendel
China
5. Name the Bollywood legend whose ancestral home in Peshawar - Pakistan has been turned into heritage site?
Dilip Kumar
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Rs 270
6. Who wrote an English novel 'In Custody'?
London
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Anita Desai
Rs 270
7. Who is President of India?
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Alexander Fleming
Chandragupta Maurya
8. Name the world's shortest living woman?
Heavy water
Jyoti Amge
Tamil Nadu
Chandragupta
9. Where are relics of Buddha preserved?
Gota in Sweden
Mumbai
Stupa
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
10. Name the great poet who graced the court of Alauddin Khilji?
Anita Desai
The President
Amir Khusru
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
11. How many postal zones are there in India - under the PIN Code System?
8
N.E. Borlaug
H.P.S Ahluwalia
90 degree
12. Name the last king of Jammu and Kashmir?
Shobha De
Maharaja Hari Singh
Galileo
Mumbai
13. Which is the largest Gurudwara in India?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
31st May
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
14. Name the sub-launched long range N-missile developed by China?
Julang-2
UK
Methane - butane and propane
India and Pakistan
15. Which state in India has three language teaching formula?
Punjab
26th January
Myanmar
Rahul Dravid
16. Where is Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy which trains Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officers situated?
Mussoorie
Julang-2
U.K
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
17. Name the person who transliterated Guru Granth Sahib in Braille?
V.S Naipaul
G.V. Mavalankar
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Bhai Gurmej Singh
18. How water in earthen pots remain cool?
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Baby Nargis
Mohammad bin Kasim
19. Who invented the mercury thermometer?
Motion Picture
Galileo
Rabindranath Tagore147
8
20. When is World Laughter Day celebrated?
Kerala
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
26th January
Leh
21. Name the country's longest railway tunnel excavated?
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Indra Sinha64
Sunil Gavaskar
22. Who fought the Third Battle of Panipat?
Methane - butane and propane
Kapil Dev
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
23. When was the Constituent Assembly that framed Constitution for Independent India set up?
1949
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Chaucer
15th January
24. On whose written advice President can proclaim Emergency?
India and China
Allauddin Khilji
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Prime Minister
25. What is the changed name of Orissa officially according to Presidential assent to the Bill?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Amjad Ali Khan
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.
Odisha
26. Who invented radar?
Robert Watson Watt
Maharashtra
Jai Samhita
Marie Curie
27. Where did coins made of metal first appeared?
Odisha
Lala Lajpat Rai
Later Vedic Age
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
28. What is KG5 drug?
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29. Year 2011 is observed by Army as what?
Year of Disabled Soldiers
90 degrees
Kolkata
India
30. Name the state of India having longest coastline?
1953
Sunil Gavaskar
11th May
Andhra Pradesh
31. Who wrote the first history book?
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Herodotus
J.L.Baird
Mary Kom
32. Name the book which has collection of speeches of N.G Ranga?
Tamil Nadu
Saka era
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Three Decades in Parliament
33. What is the designation of the chairperson of Lok Sabha?
Rocky Marciano
Speaker
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
34. Where is the world's largest solar power project going to be set up?
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
John Ruskin
Mehbooba Mufti
Maharashtra
35. Name the famous ruler of ancient India - who towards the end of his life converted to Jainism?
Raja Ravi Varma
11th May
Chandragupta
Four lions
36. Who is the first Indian sports person to win an individual Gold medal in the Olympic Games?
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Abhinav Bindra
Sonepur (Bihar )
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
37. What is our National Anthem?
Jana Gana Mana
India
Concave lens
Allauddin Khilji
38. For what is Bijapur known?
24
Gol Gumbaz
Amir Khusrau
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
39. Who was called Bollywood's first superstar?
Mahatma Gandhi
Sunderbans delta
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Speaker
40. Name the place where Lord Budha breathed his last?
Kushinagar
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Kulandei Francis
18th April
41. Who won the first medal for India in Olympics 2012?
Maharashtra
Finland
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Amitabh Ghosh
42. 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?
1.34 millions
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Satyendra Nath Bose
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
43. Which is the largest port in India?
Landsteiner
The equator
Mumbai
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
44. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?
Rocky Marciano
Golconda
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Krishna
45. Name 72 year old social activist who supported Jan Lokpal Bill?
Mundak Upanishad
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Arthur Conan Doyle
Anna Hazare
46. Which day is celebrated as International Literacy Day?
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
8th September
Ashoka
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
47. Name the gas usually filled in the electric bulbs?
Mary Kom
Nitrogen
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Painting
48. Upto where Chandragupta Maurya's empire extended in the north-west?
Pune
Hindukush
Sitar
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
49. Name the metal present in photo films?
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Silver
Lawn Tennis153
Equator
50. Why Shimla is cooler than Amritsar though they have same latitude?
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Tamil Nadu
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Tamil Nadu