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1. Which is the Garden City of India?
Ganga
14th November
Bangalore
Neil Armstrong

2. According to a poll conducted by global research company Ipsos - people of which country are happiest on this planet despite woes - conflicts?
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Indians
Jaya Dev

3. Who got Arjuna Award in 2011?
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
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
6 months
Rocky Marciano

4. When is Martyr's Day in India celebrated ?
30th January
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.
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Bengali

5. Which king brought the valleys of Indus - Ganga and Jamuna together for the first time under one political authority?
V.S Naipaul
Oxygen and acetylene
Ashoka
Wular lake (Kashmir)

6. What is the time difference between IST and GMT?
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
5 hours 30 minutes
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya

7. Which city is called 'White City' of Rajasthan?
Darsheel Safary
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
29th August
Tamil Nadu

8. Where is Union Budget presented firstly?
Mary Kom
The Lok Sabha
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Third century B.C

9. Name the herbal drug developed by DRDO for soldiers working in high altitude areas?
1.34 millions
Performax
Japan
Contingency Fund of India

10. Who was the author of 'Bharat Bharati'?
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
M. Narasimhan
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
20th June (3rd sunday of June)

11. Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?
Jaya Dev
Karashapana
Vidya Balan
Sitar

12. When is World's Sparrow Day observed?
Kiran Bedi
Dance
20th March
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush

13. What is the other name of deuterium oxide?
Heavy water
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Nek Chand
Governor

14. Kathakali a folk dance is prevalent in which state?
Oxygen and acetylene
Speaker
Shobha De
Kerala

15. Whose contemporary was Tulsidas?
Standard time of the country138
29th August
Akbar
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)

16. Which is the largest river delta of India?
Madhya Pradesh
New Delhi
Ganga
Playwright

17. When is Sadbhavna Diwas (Goodwill Day ) observed in India?

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18. Where are Dilwara Temples situated?
Ludhiana
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
11th May
1.34 millions

19. Which day is chosen to be celebrated as Father's Day?
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Gwalior Gharana
The Bering Strait
Longitudinal position

20. Greenwich mean time (GMT) is the standard time of which country?
Leh
U.K
Amitabh Ghosh
5 hours 30 minutes

21. Who is vice President of India?
Cavendish
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Torricelli

22. What is the ratio of width of our National Flag to its length?
2:4
Mary Kom
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Dutch East Indies

23. Name the woman boxer of India who have won five time world championship in succession?
Lala Lajpat Rai
Mary Kom
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Shimla and Hamirpur

24. When is Commonwealth Day observed?
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Gagan Narang
24th May
Madhya Pradesh

25. Begum Akhtar is associated with which field?
In front of New Delhi's High Court
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Vocal Music

26. To whom President of India can write if he wants to resign from office?
Vice President of India
26th January
15th January
Saka era

27. During whose time the Gandhara School of art developed?
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Rahul Dravid
Arthur Conan Doyle
Kushans

28. An air bubble in water acts as which lens?
Concave lens
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Third century B.C
Bhai Gurmej Singh

29. Why sky appears to be blue?
The Reserve Bank of India
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Herodotus
Navtej Saran

30. A famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice 'is written by whom?
Jane Austen
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Amir Khusru
Roentgen

31. Who discovered X-Ray?
Kathak
9th August
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Roentgen

32. Which is the largest Church in India?
Robert Watson Watt
UK
Rs 270
Saint Cathadral (Goa )

33. Which fund can be used to meet the unanticipated expenditurewithout the prior approval of the Parliament?
1st May164
South Kolkata
Alexander Fleming
Contingency Fund of India

34. Which is the place experiencing minimum and maximum temperatures -28.3 degree Celsius and 15 degree Celsius respectively?
Four lions
Leh
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Bamiyan

35. How many images will be formed when an object is placed between two mirrors placed parellel to each other?
Infinite
John Ruskin
Mahatma Gandhi
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.

36. Where is the headquarters of Oil and Natural Gas Commission?
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Latitude includes 180 lines and longitude has 360 lines because longitude connects North Pole to South Pole and latitude is divided from east to west.
Dehradun
Graphite

37. When is India's National Youth Day celebrated ?
The Reserve Bank of India
23rd December
12th January
U.K

38. Who made the highest score in an ODI against West Indiies in Indora in 2011?
Three Decades in Parliament
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
U.K
Abul Kalam Azad

39. Who is the elected Prime Minister of Pakistan from Pakistan People's Party?
Khushwant Singh
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Hunting
South Africa

40. Name the place where Lord Budha breathed his last?
India
Kushinagar
Dr. F.G.Banting
Ajit Kumar from Haryana

41. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
11th July
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Golconda
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.

42. What is equal to latitude of a place?
New Agra Fort
Tamil Nadu
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Jyoti Amge

43. Players of which state got the maximum Olympic medals in London Olympics?
Haryana
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Krishna
Chaucer

44. Name the new nuclear powered submarine formally handed to India by Russia?
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Sunil Gavaskar
Jonathan Swift

45. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
Tungsten
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Jamaica
Milkha Singh

46. Where are the World famous Khajuraho sculptures located?
Shiv Prasad Singh
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Madhya Pradesh
162

47. Who wrote the book 'A Passage To India'?
Sunderbans delta
E.M Forster
5th September
Guru Gobind Singh

48. Who is sworn as the 14th Vice President of India?
Genetically Modified Crops.
Saka era
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Hamid Ansari

49. Which cricketer known as 'Tiger' also father of famous actor died on 23rd September - 2011?
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Churchill
Jayadeva
Sriharikota

50. Where is the Caspian sea - the largest inland sea or lake in the world located?
Hockey
Director General Anil Kaushik
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Morarji Desai