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1. Which is the largest cave in India?
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Silver
4 minutes
Ashoka
2. Name the Indian American astronaut who begins her 2nd space odyssey on July 15 - 2012?
Albert Einstein
Sunita Williams
New Agra Fort
Mumbai
3. Where is National School of Mines located?
Bangalore
Darsheel Safary
Su-Kam Power Systems
Pune
4. Who won the silver medal in 66 Kg wrestling and is the first Indian to win two individual Olympic medals?
Sushil Kumar
Amir Khusrau
Mahatma Gandhi
Kerala
5. When is World Food Day observed?
2
5 hours 30 minutes
16th October
V.S Naipaul
6. Who is vice President of India?
Uttar Pradesh
Amir Khusrau
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Rabindra Nath Tagore
7. Which gas is called laughing gas?
Nitrous oxide
Das Kapital
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
8. In which field Aachan Maharaj has distinguished himself?
6-14 years
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Curiosity
Dance
9. Which river is related to Nagarjun Sagar Project?
Sunderbans delta
Aravallis
Krishna
Karashapana
10. Who said - 'God helps those who helps themselves'?
26 years and 9 months
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
Algernon Sidney
Gota in Sweden
11. Who wrote 'One Day Wonders'?
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Sunil Gavaskar
Euclid
Rajasthan
12. What is KG5 drug?
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13. How is population density in India defined?
July - 1947
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Rajasthan
14. Who was the First Election Commissioner of India?
Hampi
M.N Roy62
Sukumar Sen
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
15. One degree of longitude on equator is equal to what distance?
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Jana Gana Mana
69 miles
Gujarat
16. Who is author of 'Hindu view of life'?
S. Radhakrishnan
USA
M. Narasimhan
Jules Verne
17. Who composed the famous song 'Sare Jahan Se Accha'?
Mohammad Iqbal
Three Decades in Parliament
Tamil Nadu
Standard time of the country138
18. Where is Buland Darwaza located?
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Fatehpur Sikri
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Uttarakhand
19. Where is the Caspian sea - the largest inland sea or lake in the world located?
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
20. Name the book which has collection of speeches of N.G Ranga?
30th January
Three Decades in Parliament
Jawaharlal Nehru
Tamil Nadu
21. What was the old name of Indonesia?
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
Aravind Adiga
Indra Sinha64
Dutch East Indies
22. Who is the creator of 'Sherlock Holmes'?
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Demand deposits
Arthur Conan Doyle
23. Name one famous Sarod player?
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Amjad Ali Khan
Edison
24. Who crafted the wax statue of Anna Hazare?
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25. Which is largest river without delta in India?
Kerala
Narmada and Japti
Abul Kalam Azad
In Samba
26. Who brought and installed two Asokan pillars in Delhi?
10th October
Maharashtra
Bobby Jindal
Firozeshah Tughluq
27. Who got Arjuna Award in 2011?
India
Wular lake (Kashmir)
W.C Bannerjee
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
28. Which country has hosted the Asian Games for maximum number of times?
Thailand
Hyderabad
69 miles
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
29. When in India Teachers Day celebrated?
Jonathan Swift
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
5th September
Himachal Pradesh
30. What happens to speed of sound with rise in temperature?
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Sitar
Increases
31. When is India's Republic Day celebrated?
M.N Roy62
India Museum at Kolkata
6-14 years
26th January
32. Who was the first speaker of Independent India's Lok Sabha?
G.V. Mavalankar
Stainless steel
Perpendicular to each other
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
33. What is proxy voting?
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
8th March
95th
USA
34. Which is largest cave temple in India?
Punjab
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Rocky Marciano
35. On which date Chennai turned 372 years?
Mumbai
Three Decades in Parliament
Vice President of India
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
36. Who became the first batsman in the history of cricket to score 100 international centuries?
Tamil Nadu
Das Kapital
Sachin Tendulkar
Rabindra Nath Tagore
37. Who led the first Muslim invasion of India?
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Haryana
Mohammad bin Kasim
Performax
38. Triple vaccine is administered to a new born child to save him from which diseases?
Sriharikota
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Shockley
Odisha
39. Hawa Mahal is situated in which city?
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Kho-Kho
Chandragupta
Jaipur
40. Where is Boat Race a popular sport?
Kerala
1st December
Johann Gregor Mendel
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
41. Who is the author of book 'India Wins Freedom'?
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Mosley
Golconda
Sunil Gavaskar
42. Name the mountain range which stretches from Gujarat in the West to Delhi in the North?
Aravallis
Cyrus Mistry
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
The Bering Strait
43. Name the place where Lord Budha breathed his last?
Kushinagar
Anna Hazare
India
2
44. At what age World's oldest dog Pusuke died?
Football
India
Jai Samhita
26 years and 9 months
45. Name the gas used to extinguish fire?
Carbon dioxide
Talwandi
New Delhi
Finland
46. Which is the largest museum in India?
India Museum at Kolkata
Gagan Narang
Allauddin Khilji
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
47. What is India's rank on the Transparency International (TI) corruption Perception Index out of 183 countries in 2011?
95th
Sunderbans delta
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Due to radiation
48. Which is our National song?
18th April
Vande Mataram
Uttarakhand
The equator
49. Which is largest man made lake in India?
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Palk Strait
South Kolkata
Rahul Dravid
50. Whose contemporary was Tulsidas?
Madhya Pradesh
Akbar
Robert Watson Watt
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush