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1. Who was the first person to set foot on moon?
10th October
Neil Armstrong
State Bank of India
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu

2. Who introduced the market regulations in India in ancient period?
Robert Watson Watt
Curiosity
Jamaica
Allauddin Khilji

3. Which country has hosted the Asian Games for maximum number of times?
Robert Watson Watt
Thailand
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Manipur54

4. Which megastar carried the Olympic flame on the torch relay leg between the City of London and the borough of South wark in London on 26th July - 2012 - a day before the opening ceremony of sporting spectacle?
Amitabh Bachchan
Chandragupta Maurya
Jhumpa Lahiri
Bengali

5. Which countries are located on the Greenwich Meridian?
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
J.L.Baird
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Rabindra Nath Tagore

6. Which actress has become the brand ambassador for sanitation compaign?
Vidya Balan
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.)
5th April
Leo Tolstoy

7. Name the largest oil refinery of India?
The President
Journalism
Vadodara
Silicon

8. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' (inscribed below the base plate of the emblem of India) taken?
Concave lens
Mundak Upanishad
Jane Austen
Harshavardhana

9. For which dance Birju Maharaj is well known?
Jaya Dev
Kathak
Ripon
John Keats

10. Name the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister whose admirers have decided to build a temple to perpetuate his memory?
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Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
From fresh and purified fat stem cells ( Fat has a large number of tissue growing stem cells. People could go for liposuction and save fat cells for future use or can use immediately.)
Ashoka

11. Who has been appointed the Governor of RBI after the retirement of Shri Y.V. Reddy?
10th December
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Uttar Pradesh

12. In how many time zones is U.S.A divided?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Anita Desai
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13. With which cells scientists for the first time have developed bone?
5
From fresh and purified fat stem cells ( Fat has a large number of tissue growing stem cells. People could go for liposuction and save fat cells for future use or can use immediately.)
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Shobha De

14. If in a mirror image of object appears to be larger then which type of mirror is used?
11th May
At the center of earth
Concave mirror
Dr. Rajendra Prasad

15. Name the woman boxer of India who have won five time world championship in succession?
Mary Kom
Madhya Pradesh
Hyderabad
Silver

16. Who wrote the famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
Jane Austen
Himachal Pradesh
Maharashtra
15th August167

17. Why Shimla is cooler than Amritsar though they have same latitude?
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Thailand
Aravind Adiga
Dilip Kumar

18. Who wrote the book 'The Daughter of the East'?
Shobha De
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
Navtej Saran
Ms. Benazir Bhutto

19. Which is the India's largest public sector commercial bank at present?
Jonathan Swift
State Bank of India
Tungsten
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)

20. Who discovered neutron?
Planning Commission
Chadwick
Johann Gregor Mendel
Saeed Mirza

21. When is India's Army Day celebrated ?
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
15th January
Jane Austen
Kalpakkam

22. Who is President of India?
7th April
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Mohammed Hamid Ansari

23. When an open bottle of scent is kept at one corner due to which phenomenon its fragrance is found in whole room?
Strait of Gibraltar
Algernon Sidney
Diffusion
Rajasthan

24. India is facing pressure from the US and other Western countries to break trade ties with which country?
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
12th January
Chaucer
Painting

25. Why the International Date Line makes slight deviation from 180 degree meridian?
Raja Ravi Varma
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Ms. Benazir Bhutto

26. In which Amendment Right to property was removed from the list of Fundamental rights?
2:4
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Forty-fourth Amendment
V.S Naipaul

27. Name the Strait which separates Asia from North America?
The Bering Strait
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
State Bank of India
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi

28. Which is the largest populated state in India?
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Uttar Pradesh
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Mahatma Gandhi

29. Which state has become the second highest power purchaser in the country after Punjab?
Akbar
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Anita Desai
God particle or Higgs Boson

30. Which day is celebrated as World Red Cross Day?
8th May
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Sitar

31. Where did India's first Formula one race took place in 2011?
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Only the first stanza
Haryana

32. Who is the World Player of Year?
26 years and 9 months
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
E.M Forster
Tamil Nadu

33. What is KG5 drug?

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34. Who was the founder of the Khalsa?
Mohammad Iqbal
11th July
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Guru Gobind Singh

35. Who wrote the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?
India Museum at Kolkata
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Jules Verne

36. Who was the First Election Commissioner of India?
Sukumar Sen
New Agra Fort
Later Vedic Age
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days

37. Name the Indian scientist who was a part of NASA team which has identified the landing site of the 'Curiosity'?
Rabindranath Tagore
Sushil Kumar
Yamuna
Amitabh Ghosh

38. Who was the first lady to become judge of the Supreme Court?
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Shockley
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Three Decades in Parliament

39. Who propounded the Market Law?
Infinite
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Churchill
J.B.Say

40. Where is famous Somnath Temple located?
India
Haryana
Gujarat
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.

41. Which is the largest river island in India?
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
8th March
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
4 minutes

42. When comes National Sports Day of India?
Paschim Banga1
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
29th August
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.

43. Who was called Bollywood's first superstar?
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Sunderbans delta
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.

44. World Aids Day falls on which date?
1.34 millions
Marie Curie
Kulandei Francis
1st December

45. Durand line is the border common to which two countries?
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Sitar
Pakistan and Afghanistan
India and Pakistan

46. Which is the highest military award for valour in India?
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Param Vir Chakra
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh

47. Which gas is used for preparation of soda water?
26 years and 9 months
Gwalior Gharana
Carbon dioxide
In Samba

48. What is our National Anthem?
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Jana Gana Mana
Rajasthan
E.M Forster

49. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' taken?
Carbon dioxide
Amir Khusru
Mundak Upanishad
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)

50. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
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
Methane
Jamaica
Arthur Conan Doyle