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1. Latitude and longitude are at what angle to each other?
Perpendicular to each other
N.E. Borlaug
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Washing soda
2. What is India's rank on the Transparency International (TI) corruption Perception Index out of 183 countries in 2011?
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
95th
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
J.L.Baird
3. Name the Indian woman boxer who won bronze medal in Olympics?
Due to radiation
Mary Kom
Shobha De
Saka era
4. When comes National Sports Day of India?
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Nek Chand
Madhya Pradesh
29th August
5. Which is the World's largest exporter of inverters?
Su-Kam Power Systems
Greeks
Silicon
Konark
6. Which actress has become the brand ambassador for sanitation compaign?
State Bank of India
Pune
Vidya Balan
11th May
7. Which metal is used in pencils?
Graphite
At the center of earth
Martin Luther King
90 degrees
8. Who is the creator of 'Sherlock Holmes'?
Arthur Conan Doyle
U.K
Michael Phelps
11th May
9. Which is the largest saline water lake in India?
Uttar Pradesh
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Rajasthan
Tamil Nadu
10. Which is the great circle on earth's surface?
The equator
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Mumbai
11. Who composed the National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'?
Rs 270
Sidney Sheldon
Rabindranath Tagore
Leh
12. Who was the first woman to go in space?
2:3161
Valentina Tereshkova
Music
Pakistan and Afghanistan
13. Where is a tunnel near the Indo-Pak border detected?
In Samba
Strait of Gibraltar
V. Anand
Mary Kom
14. Who composed our National song?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Chaucer
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
15. Between whom battle of Kurukshetra was fought?
Firozeshah Tughluq
1949
Japan
Kauravas and Pandavas51
16. Name the eminent Hindi authors chosen for Jnanpith Award 2011?
Journalism
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Silicon
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
17. Who was first Indian woman to become president of U.N. General Assembly?
Swarajya Party
The Bering Strait
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Algernon Sidney
18. Which is the largest museum in India?
Alexander Graham Bell
Dr. F.G.Banting
India Museum at Kolkata
Vocal Music
19. Which country has World's largest democracy?
India
Mosley
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
20. Where at present the BRAHMOS missiles are assembled?
Hyderabad
Sodium
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
15th January
21. Which day is known as World Tourism Day?
27th September
24th October
16th October
Euclid
22. What is KG5 drug?
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23. Which cricketer known as 'Tiger' also father of famous actor died on 23rd September - 2011?
Performax
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
India
24. Where is the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre located?
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Tamil Nadu
Trivandrum
Bangalore
25. Who brought and installed two Asokan pillars in Delhi?
Methane
Aravind Adiga
Firozeshah Tughluq
Arundhati Roy
26. Who discovered the noble gases?
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Vocal Music
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Cavendish
27. Who composed the national song of India (Vande Maatram)?
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Jayadeva
14th November
28. Which anniversary of sandwich was celebrated by British town in May - 2012?
250th anniversary
35 degree
Indra Sinha64
July - 1947
29. Name the Russian painter who had an 468 acre estate in Bangalore
Chandragupta Maurya
Myanmar
Julang-2
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
30. Who wrote the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?
Mundak Upanishad
Akbar
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
Jules Verne
31. Where is Indian Cancer Research Institute situated?
16th October
Bombay
Rahul Dravid
Narendra Modi government
32. When are days and nights equal throughout the globe?
John Keats
Jhumpa Lahiri
When sun is above the equator
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
33. When is the Mother's Day celebrated?
Anita Desai
11th May
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Arthur Conan Doyle
34. Name the Indian who won Magsaysay award for community initiatives in Tamil Nadu?
Kulandei Francis
Jama Masjid
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.
5th September
35. Which is largest state of India?
Rajasthan
Sunil Gavaskar
Tamil Nadu
Angle between the horizon and the equator
36. Name the metal used as the filament of an electric bulb?
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Torricelli
Tungsten
37. Who discovered insulin?
Ladakh
Alexander Graham Bell
Painting
Dr. F.G.Banting
38. Who arranged the elements in the Modern Periodic Table?
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Sitar
Yamuna
Mosley
39. How water in earthen pots remain cool?
Maharashtra
Edison
18th April
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
40. Where is the National Defence Academy situated?
Hindukush
Khadakvasla
Sitar
Nayantara Sahgal
41. Who was the first recipient of Nehru Award for International Understanding?
USA
Martin Luther King
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Mumbai
42. Who invented transistor?
Raja Ravi Varma
Kerala
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Shockley
43. Which region of India is associated with pine forests?
Allauddin Khilji
Chandrayaan
India and Pakistan
Uttarakhand
44. Motilal Nehru and Chittaranjan Das were the founder members of which party?
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Dance
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Swarajya Party
45. Name the place where Lord Budha breathed his last?
Uttar Pradesh
The Rajya Sabha
Kushinagar
90 degree
46. Who propounded the Market Law?
Rocky Marciano
Myanmar
J.B.Say
8th March
47. 'Nokia' the telecom company belongs to which country?
Madhya Pradesh
Finland
Sitar
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
48. What is the reason found for ground water contamination in Punjab - especially in the Malwa region?
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Later Vedic Age
Mahatma Gandhi
29th August
49. Indian Air Force Day is observed on which day ?
Genetically Modified Crops.
Anita Desai
8th October
Chandrayaan
50. Who wrote Panchatantra?
Concave lens
Vishnu Sharma
Silver
Sunderbans delta