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1. Which is the longest river of India?
Vice President of India
Ganga
23rd April
9th August

2. Who was the first Indian elected to the leadership of Communist International?
Forty-fourth Amendment
M.N Roy62
Governor
Rajasthan

3. Which is the largest desert in India?
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Mohammad Iqbal
Yamuna
Mosley

4. Name the largest oil refinery of India?
Vadodara
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
American firm Intra Pace unveils a stomach implant vi akeyhole surgery that can help people fight flab by warning the brain when enough food is taken. This credit card sized implant is named as 'Abiliti'.

5. How 4G services will hit the country in 2012?
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
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.
Kolkata
Perpendicular to each other

6. Where are relics of Buddha preserved?
Myanmar
Stupa
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Su-Kam Power Systems

7. If in a mirror image of object appears to be larger then which type of mirror is used?
Concave mirror
Dumping
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
10th October

8. Where is the India's first largest bamboo museum?
Hindukush
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Iodine
State Bank of India

9. Which is the largest saline water lake in India?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
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
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Director General Anil Kaushik

10. Which is the largest museum in India?
Thailand
India Museum at Kolkata
American firm Intra Pace unveils a stomach implant vi akeyhole surgery that can help people fight flab by warning the brain when enough food is taken. This credit card sized implant is named as 'Abiliti'.
Andhra Pradesh

11. Where is the birth place of Guru Nanak Ji?
Talwandi
29th August
M. Narasimhan
28th February

12. On which era is the Indian National Calender based?
Trivandrum
Saka era
6 months
Chandragupta-II

13. Who is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in India?
Punjab
Sidney Sheldon
The President
23rd April

14. When comes National Postal Day in India?
Amir Khusrau
Zinc
10th October
1.34 millions

15. Which place is famous for gigantic rock-cut statue of Budha?
Bamiyan
Johannes Kepler
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Shockley

16. Who became the first batsman in the history of cricket to score 100 international centuries?
24
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Odisha
Sachin Tendulkar

17. Where are the headquarters of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts?
Renders electronic gadgets useless and effectively neutralises the adversary's command control and communication capability by producing a strong electromagnetic field generating powerful electricity surges that play havoc with electronic circuits wi
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
New Delhi
11th July

18. Who discovered the electric lamp?
Amitabh Ghosh
Saeed Mirza
Kanishka
Edison

19. Name the metal present in photo films?
Kathak
Silver
Prime Minister
Demand deposits

20. Where is the Indian Institute of Science located?
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Mussoorie
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Bangalore

21. Greenwich mean time (GMT) is the standard time of which country?
U.K
M. Narasimhan
John Ruskin
Saint Cathadral (Goa )

22. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?
4 minutes
Johannes Kepler
16th October
Carbon dioxide

23. Name the shooter of Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur) who won silver medal in Olympics 2012?

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24. Name the latest India's surface -to-surface missile successfully test fired (on 26th Sept - 2011)?
Three Decades in Parliament
1st May164
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)

25. Name the first ever pill approved by US to prevent HIV?
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi

26. Who wrote the first history book?
INS Vikrant55
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Aravind Adiga
Herodotus

27. Who wrote the book 'Gulliver's Travels'?
Curiosity
Graphite
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Jonathan Swift

28. Who has been appointed the Governor of RBI after the retirement of Shri Y.V. Reddy?
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Later Vedic Age
Aravind Adiga
Indians

29. Whose autobiography is 'India Wins Freedom'?
Edison
Bangalore
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Abul Kalam Azad

30. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
Nitrous oxide
15th January
Navtej Saran
Jamaica

31. Which is the largest Church in India?
Amitabh Bachchan
Jagannath
Vasudeva
Saint Cathadral (Goa )

32. Name the sub-launched long range N-missile developed by China?
Julang-2
Playwright
Football
Jawaharlal Nehru

33. Which is the place experiencing minimum and maximum temperatures -28.3 degree Celsius and 15 degree Celsius respectively?
Silver
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Only the first stanza
Leh

34. What is the latitude of South Pole?
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
Stainless steel
Mundak Upanishad
90 degree

35. What is the designation of the chairperson of Lok Sabha?
Speaker
Sunita Williams
Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
Akhilesh Yadav

36. What is Ayush treatment?
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
Alexander Fleming
Raja Ravi Varma
Hunting

37. Name the latest hi-tech weapon invented in 2011 to prevent obesity?

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38. Where is largest animal fair held in India?
Chadwick
Sonepur (Bihar )
Mary Kom
5th June

39. On what occasion Bihar got its own state anthem and state prayer whose CD's were released by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar?
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
1953
Morarji Desai
Herodotus

40. Which day is known as World Book and Copyright Day?
5th September
When sun is above the equator
Anna Hazare
23rd April

41. Who invented transistor?
Shockley
Saka era
2nd April - 2011
India and Pakistan

42. For which dance Birju Maharaj is well known?
Kathak
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Madhya Pradesh

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

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44. Which child artist got Critics Best Actor Award for his acting in a film Taare Zameen Par?
Performax
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Darsheel Safary
24th October

45. Where are Dilwara Temples situated?
Odisha
Dehradun
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.

46. Which is the largest zoo in India?
Lala Lajpat Rai
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
G.V. Mavalankar

47. Whose name is associated with the council of the 'Nine Gems'?
Six months
Chandragupta-II
2:3161
Johann Gregor Mendel

48. Who was the author of 'Hind Swaraj'?
Mahatma Gandhi
Sri Lanka
N.E. Borlaug
Jules Verne

49. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
Jonathan Swift
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Carbon dioxide
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

50. Where is Buland Darwaza located?
Karashapana
Landsteiner
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Fatehpur Sikri