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1. Who won bronze medal for India in 10m pistol event (London Olympics - 2012)?
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
23rd December
Gagan Narang
Football
2. Who was called the 'Napoleon of India'?
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Samudragupta
Silicon
3. With whom are the rare replicas of sacred book Guru Granth Sahib?
Four lions
Motion Picture
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
4. What is the difference in time between two places 1 degree longitude apart?
Perpendicular to each other
4 minutes
J.L.Baird
Vice President of India
5. Who said - 'God helps those who helps themselves'?
Graphite
Algernon Sidney
Michael Phelps
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
6. Which is the World's largest exporter of inverters?
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Su-Kam Power Systems
Diffusion
7. Who invented the steam engine?
5th April
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
8. Which gas is called laughing gas?
5th September
Nitrous oxide
Assam
12th January
9. Which is the largest public sector bank in India?
Chandrayaan
State Bank of India
8th May
12th January
10. Name the Indian American astronaut who begins her 2nd space odyssey on July 15 - 2012?
Sriharikota
J.L.Baird
Kanishka
Sunita Williams
11. Which cricketer known as 'Tiger' also father of famous actor died on 23rd September - 2011?
Madhya Pradesh
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
12. Where is the venue for the 2012 Olympics?
1953
London
Kulandei Francis
Amitabh Ghosh
13. Which fund can be used to meet the unanticipated expenditurewithout the prior approval of the Parliament?
Sodium
S. Radhakrishnan
Hyderabad
Contingency Fund of India
14. Which day is celebrated as Independence Day of India?
15th August167
Narendra Modi government
Johann Gregor Mendel
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
15. Name the strait which separates Africa from Europe?
Contingency Fund of India
Cavendish
Strait of Gibraltar
Kerala
16. Late Vijay Tendulkar who died in 2008 were famous in which field?
Rabindranath Tagore147
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Rocky Marciano
Playwright
17. Who was the first speaker of Independent India's Lok Sabha?
G.V. Mavalankar
Narmada and Japti
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Gota in Sweden
18. Who composed the national song of India (Vande Maatram)?
Samudragupta
Roger Federer
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Palk Strait
19. Which day is celebrated as World Red Cross Day?
1.34 millions
8th May
24th May
Silver
20. Which country has hosted the Asian Games for maximum number of times?
Infinite
Director General Anil Kaushik
Thailand
Later Vedic Age
21. Who painted the masterpiece 'Hamsa Damayanti'?
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Raja Ravi Varma
Greeks
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
22. What is added to remove permanent hardness of water?
William Shakespeare151
Washing soda
Speaker
Trivandrum
23. Who composed the famous song 'Sare Jahan Se Accha'?
Abul Kalam Azad
Kolkata
Mohammad Iqbal
Concave mirror
24. Who was the First Election Commissioner of India?
90 degree
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
24th May
Sukumar Sen
25. Which country has World's largest democracy?
Gagan Narang (shooter)
India and Pakistan
India
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.
26. What is equal to latitude of a place?
Washing soda
Bobby Jindal
Angle between the horizon and the equator
M. Narasimhan
27. 'A Voice of Freedom' is a book written by whom?
Nayantara Sahgal
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Khushwant Singh
Mary Kom
28. Who is the elected Prime Minister of Pakistan from Pakistan People's Party?
Leo Tolstoy
Rajasthan
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Jawaharlal Nehru
29. Who discovered photoelectric effect?
1st May164
Football
12th January
Albert Einstein
30. Who was the first recipient of Nehru Award for International Understanding?
Martin Luther King
Governor
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Karashapana
31. Who won the first medal for India in Olympics 2012?
Chandragupta-II
Kiran Bedi
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Anusha Tyagi ( Her feat has been recognised by the Limca Book of Records)
32. Who got the greatest Olympic athlete of all time Trophy?
6-14 years
Andhra Pradesh
Michael Phelps
Mahatma Gandhi
33. Who propounded the Market Law?
J.B.Say
Bombay
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
Infinite
34. World Aids Day falls on which date?
1st December
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
27th September
Rajasthan
35. Which is the largest district in India?
Ladakh
Krishna
Himachal Pradesh
2nd April - 2011
36. Who was the first king to conquer Malwa - Gujarat and Maharashtra?
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Kanishka
Chandragupta Maurya
John Ruskin
37. Who appoints the Chairman and members of State Public Service Commission?
Akbar
Jane Austen
Vasudeva
Governor
38. Who is vice President of India?
Algernon Sidney
Increases
Samuel Morse
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
39. Who wrote the book 'Gullivers Travel'?
Sunita Williams
Jonathan Swift
Andhra Pradesh
5
40. If in a mirror image of object appears to be larger then which type of mirror is used?
Kho-Kho
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
Concave mirror
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
41. When comes the World Disabled Day?
U.K
Allauddin Khilji
15th March
Stainless steel
42. Where is Boat Race a popular sport?
Kerala
Gol Gumbaz
Jan 26 - 1950134
Sonepur (Bihar )
43. How 4G services will hit the country in 2012?
Razia Sultana
Gota in Sweden
Shimla and Hamirpur
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.
44. What is the new name of Burma?
Mussoorie
Saeed Mirza
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Myanmar
45. Our Indian National Calender is based on which era?
India Museum at Kolkata
Saka era
90 degree
Silicon
46. What was adopted from the Maurya dynasty in the emblem of government of India?
Four lions
Oxygen and acetylene
Stainless steel
Chandrayaan
47. Which day is known as World Tourism Day?
27th September
Indians
Nek Chand
India
48. Who has been re-elected PDP President for the fourth time in Srinagar in 2011?
Mehbooba Mufti
Jane Austen
2G spectrum scam
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
49. Where did coins made of metal first appeared?
V.S Naipaul
Later Vedic Age
23rd December
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
50. Name the mountain range which stretches from Gujarat in the West to Delhi in the North?
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Aravallis