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1. Which non -metal remains liquid at room temperature?
Aravind Adiga
Samuel Morse
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Bromine
2. Whose name is associated with the council of the 'Nine Gems'?
Silver
New Agra Fort
Chandragupta-II
Raja Ravi Varma
3. Under which scam - the 43 year old daughter of former chief minister of Tamil Nadu M.Karunanidhi was in Tihar jail in 2011?
2G spectrum scam
Journalism
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Rajasthan
4. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?
Oxygen and acetylene
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Roger Federer
Florence Nightingale
5. Who wrote the famous play 'Macbeth'?
Sushil Kumar
Konark
William Shakespeare151
USA
6. Which is the largest Gurudwara in India?
Prof. V.N Datta
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Saeed Mirza
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
7. Which is largest fresh water lake in India?
6-14 years
China
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
Bengali
8. Who deciphered the genetic code?
5th April
Dadabhai Naoroji
Will pass through Equator
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
9. Who was the first woman to go in space?
U.K
1st December
Rabindranath Tagore147
Valentina Tereshkova
10. Who headed the committee on computerisation in Indian banks(1988)?
Hamid Ansari
M. Narasimhan
Gota in Sweden
The Rajya Sabha
11. When was the design of our National Flag adopted by the Constituent of India?
Dutch East Indies
July - 1947
Alexander Graham Bell
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
12. Which is the largest port in India?
Amitabh Bachchan
Mumbai
German
Art and architecture
13. From where the longest circle which can be drawn from earth's surface will pass?
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Chandragupta Maurya
Maharashtra
Will pass through Equator
14. Name the leader under whom India's first coalition government in New Delhi was formed?
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
24
Shiv Prasad Singh
Morarji Desai
15. What is the ratio of width of our National flag to its length?
5th September
Tamil Nadu
Lead
2:3161
16. Which was the most commonly used coin in Mauryan period?
Kerala
Hockey
Karashapana
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
17. Which is the World's largest exporter of inverters?
Uttar Pradesh
India and Pakistan
Su-Kam Power Systems
Odisha
18. Which state in India has three language teaching formula?
Punjab
31st May
Aravallis
Himachal Pradesh
19. Who is generally regardedas the pioneer of Local Self Government in Modern India?
Ujjain
Third century B.C
Roger Federer
Ripon
20. Who has been appointed the Governor of RBI after the retirement of Shri Y.V. Reddy?
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
1.34 millions
Chandrayaan
21. What is Dry Ice?
In front of New Delhi's High Court
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Nitrous oxide
22. Upto where Chandragupta Maurya's empire extended in the north-west?
Director General Anil Kaushik
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Hindukush
23. Where is India's Space Rocket Launching Centre situated?
23rd April
Sriharikota
Mohammad Iqbal
Amir Khusrau
24. Which day is celebrated as International Literacy Day?
At the center of earth
8th September
Samar Guha
Prof. V.N Datta
25. In which field Aachan Maharaj has distinguished himself?
Forty-fourth Amendment
J.L.Baird
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Dance
26. With whom are the rare replicas of sacred book Guru Granth Sahib?
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Jonathan Swift
South Kolkata
Algernon Sidney
27. Where at present the BRAHMOS missiles are assembled?
Hyderabad
When sun is above the equator
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
28. Where is the National Defence Academy situated?
Khadakvasla
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
H.P.S Ahluwalia
29. What was adopted from the Maurya dynasty in the emblem of government of India?
Tamil Nadu
Tungsten
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Four lions
30. Which is the state wise largest area under forest in India?
Madhya Pradesh
250th anniversary
The Lok Sabha
Hunting
31. Who got Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar in 2011 ?
Mahatma Gandhi
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Amitabh Ghosh
Hyderabad
32. After whose name the Nobel Prize was started?
Equator
Rajasthan
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Akbar
33. Which is the largest area wise state in India?
Dumping
Rajasthan
Galileo
15th August167
34. Who discovered blood grouping?
Art and architecture
Landsteiner
Leo Tolstoy
Lobsang Sangay
35. Players of which state got the maximum Olympic medals in London Olympics?
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Amir Khusrau
Haryana
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
36. Which painting got the highest price ever paid for a work of art at any auction?
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37. Who founded the Saka Era?
Hockey
Kanishka
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
38. Who wrote the line 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'?
Zinc
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
Kolleru lake (Andhra Pradesh )
John Keats
39. In how many time zones is U.S.A divided?
5
Alexander Fleming
Rabindranath Tagore147
Indians
40. Which song became the most searched You tube video in India in 2011?
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41. Who was the first lady to become judge of the Supreme Court?
Dadabhai Naoroji
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
42. Who is the author of the book 'The Exile'?
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Navtej Saran
Maharashtra
1.34 millions
43. Where are the achievements of Samudragupta described on?
The equator
G.V. Mavalankar
Perpendicular to each other
Allahabad Pillar inscription
44. Where were Chola Kings ruling over?
Swarajya Party
Sukumar Sen
Tamil Nadu
Rabindranath Tagore147
45. Name the place where Lord Budha breathed his last?
Kushinagar
Andhra Pradesh
Jonathan Swift
The Delhi Metro
46. Which day is celebrated as Independence Day of India?
15th August167
Sarojini Naidu
Vice President of India
Rajasthan
47. Which country has hosted the Asian Games for maximum number of times?
Ladakh
Thailand
V.S Naipaul
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
48. In which field the name of Gangubai Hangal associated?
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
Music
8th October
Uttar Pradesh
49. Who inspired Green Revolution in India?
Maharashtra
Madhya Pradesh
N.E. Borlaug
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
50. Who composed the National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'?
Nitrous oxide
Rabindranath Tagore
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
6-14 years