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1. What are the bank deposits that can be withdrawn without notice called?
Kho-Kho
Maharashtra
Demand deposits
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
2. Motilal Nehru and Chittaranjan Das were the founder members of which party?
Dadabhai Naoroji
Swarajya Party
India Museum at Kolkata
6 months
3. What is added to remove permanent hardness of water?
Harshavardhana
Alexander Graham Bell
Washing soda
Konark
4. Who is vice President of India?
Bengali
90 degree
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
5. Between whom battle of Kurukshetra was fought?
Kauravas and Pandavas51
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
The Delhi Metro
Mary Kom
6. Who was the first person to set foot on moon?
V.S Naipaul
20th March
6 months
Neil Armstrong
7. Who is the author of book 'Speed Post'?
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Shobha De
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Ujjain
8. Who is sworn as the 14th Vice President of India?
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Hamid Ansari
Rajasthan
90 degree
9. Name the world's shortest living woman?
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Saeed Mirza
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Jyoti Amge
10. Name the leader under whom India's first coalition government in New Delhi was formed?
Roger Federer
14th November
Morarji Desai
Landsteiner
11. Name the place where Lord Budha breathed his last?
Hyderabad
Art and architecture
Tamil Nadu
Kushinagar
12. Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?
Landsteiner
Jaya Dev
15th January
Swarajya Party
13. Name the great Hindu king who combined in himself the qualities of Samudragupta and Ashoka?
Tamil Nadu
Harshavardhana
E.G.Otis
Tungsten
14. In how many time zones is U.S.A divided?
Increases
15th March
Journalism
5
15. Who is the man popularly kwown as Gurudev?
Rabindranath Tagore147
India and China
Art and architecture
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
16. Which actress has become the brand ambassador for sanitation compaign?
William Wordsworth
Mumbai
State Bank of India
Vidya Balan
17. An air bubble in water acts as which lens?
Gagan Narang
Concave lens
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
God particle or Higgs Boson
18. Who invented the mercury thermometer?
Dance
Galileo
Chandragupta-II
Uttar Pradesh
19. Which ruler was adorned with the title of 'Maharajadhiraja'?
Lobsang Sangay
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Kanishka
Concave mirror
20. What are the benefits of medicine Performax?
Kushans
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.
1st May164
Japan
21. Who is generally regardedas the pioneer of Local Self Government in Modern India?
Ripon
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Torricelli
22. Which is the state wise largest area under forest in India?
Madhya Pradesh
5th September
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Harshavardhana
23. Who won bronze medal for India in men's 60 Kg freestyle wrestling?
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
15th January
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
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.
24. Which day is known as World Tourism Day?
27th September
Akbar
Mehbooba Mufti
Kanishka
25. Who discovered neutron?
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Chadwick
Param Vir Chakra
Genetically Modified Crops.
26. Whose name is associated with the council of the 'Nine Gems'?
Alexander Graham Bell
Chandragupta-II
Chandragupta Maurya
Pune
27. When is Earth Day observed?
Jamaica
$46 - 00011
22nd April
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
28. Which country has hosted the Asian Games for maximum number of times?
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Hyderabad
Firozeshah Tughluq
Thailand
29. What is our National Anthem?
Concave lens
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Jana Gana Mana
30. In which state are the World famous Ajanta Caves situated?
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Assam
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Maharashtra
31. Latitude and longitude are at what angle to each other?
Maharashtra
Sachin Tendulkar
Perpendicular to each other
Punjab
32. With which musical instrument was Ustad Mustaq Ali Khan associated?
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
30th January
Sitar
Krishna
33. Satyan Bose is known for his excellence in which field?
18th April
William Shakespeare151
Anita Desai
Motion Picture
34. Name the country which is second largest producer of horticulture commodities such as fruits - vegetables and flowers in the world?
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Art and architecture
India
Odisha
35. Who wrote the book 'We Indians'?
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Karashapana
Khushwant Singh
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
36. Which is the largest district in India?
23rd April
9th August
Ladakh
Aravind Adiga
37. Who was the first king to conquer Malwa - Gujarat and Maharashtra?
V.S Naipaul
Zinc
Razia Sultana
Chandragupta Maurya
38. What are GM Crops?
Jonathan Swift
Genetically Modified Crops.
J.B.Say
Palk Strait
39. Who was the first woman to go in space?
5th April
Ladakh
Bengali
Valentina Tereshkova
40. Which is the world's second cheapest city according to global survey?
The Rajya Sabha
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
8th September
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
41. Who won bronze medal for India in 10m pistol event (London Olympics - 2012)?
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
Gagan Narang
Sri Lanka
Year of Disabled Soldiers
42. Which is the Garden City of India?
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Hyderabad
Bangalore
43. With which sports is Sushma Saroelker associated?
Dutch East Indies
Mumbai
Kho-Kho
Greeks
44. Who is the 26th Chief Minister of Karnataka?
Jane Austen
W.C Bannerjee
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Due to radiation
45. Watches of a country is set according to what time?
Herodotus
Will pass through Equator
Lala Lajpat Rai
Standard time of the country138
46. Hawa Mahal is situated in which city?
Jaipur
Kulandei Francis
Tungsten
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
47. When comes the World Disabled Day?
15th March
Cyrus Mistry
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
48. What was the main occupation of Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) people?
U.K
28th February
Hunting
In front of New Delhi's High Court
49. Which is largest man made lake in India?
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
15th January
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
50. Which metro has been certified by the United Nations as the first metro rail based system in the World to get carbon credits for contributing to the fight against climate changes?
The Delhi Metro
Heavy water
Tamil Nadu
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.)