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1. Who headed the committee on computerisation in Indian banks(1988)?
M. Narasimhan
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Madhya Pradesh
2. Which day is celebrated as International Literacy Day?
8th September
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.
Journalism
8
3. Which state in India has three language teaching formula?
Punjab
Lawn Tennis153
Baby Nargis
Art and architecture
4. What is Ayush treatment?
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
William Shakespeare151
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
5. Which game is associated with Merdeka Cup?
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Sitar
28th February
Football
6. Who got Arjuna Award in 2011?
Arundhati Roy
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
Chandragupta Maurya
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
7. Which king brought the valleys of Indus - Ganga and Jamuna together for the first time under one political authority?
Painting
Maharashtra
Second Battle of Tarain
Ashoka
8. Who wrote the book 'Unhappy India'?
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Lala Lajpat Rai
Concave mirror
Narmada and Japti
9. Name two other clones left with NDRI?
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
In Samba
Andhra Pradesh
10th December
10. Which game is associated with Agha Khan Cup?
Andhra Pradesh
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Tamil Nadu
Hockey
11. Where is the world's largest solar power project going to be set up?
Maharashtra
Bromine
Madhya Pradesh
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
12. Players of which state got the maximum Olympic medals in London Olympics?
Haryana
Sukumar Sen
1.34 millions
Odisha
13. Which element is obtained from sea weeds?
Herodotus
In Samba
29th August
Iodine
14. Who elects the Vice President of India?
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Lobsang Sangay
Graphite
15. Where did India's first Formula one race took place in 2011?
Bombay
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
M. Narasimhan
16. Name the shooter of Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur) who won silver medal in Olympics 2012?
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17. What is the estimated premature deaths caused annually by outdoor air pollution - according to the first pollution survey carried out by World Health Organisation in Sept. - 2011?
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
1.34 millions
Zinc
Its a herbal treatment which is quite safe and cheap as compared to allopathic medicines.
18. On whose written advice President can proclaim Emergency?
Prime Minister
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Angle between the horizon and the equator
19. Begum Akhtar is associated with which field?
26th January
Kho-Kho
Vocal Music
Saka era
20. When was Sangeet Natak Akademi set up by Government of India?
Tamil Nadu
Journalism
Das Kapital
1953
21. In which state is Ganesh Otsav celebrated?
Nayantara Sahgal
Increases
Longitudinal position
Maharashtra
22. Who wrote the line 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'?
John Keats
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
23. Which battle opened the Delhi area to Muhammad Ghori?
Kushans
Samar Guha
Tungsten
Second Battle of Tarain
24. Which country topped medal table in Olympic 2012?
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Silver
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Vasudeva
25. Which country has an Unwritten Constitution?
UK
Satyendra Nath Bose
Milkha Singh
Albert Einstein
26. Which state has maximum density of canals?
William Shakespeare151
Sukumar Sen
Uttar Pradesh
William Wordsworth
27. Name the baby of Uttar Pardesh who is the symbolic seven billionth baby ?
Mumbai
Baby Nargis
8
Kerala
28. Where did the World's costliest crash took place?
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Narmada and Japti
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Sunil Gavaskar
29. Who was the first king to conquer Malwa - Gujarat and Maharashtra?
Dilip Kumar
31st May
Chandragupta Maurya
Dutch East Indies
30. Name the great Hindu king who combined in himself the qualities of Samudragupta and Ashoka?
Director General Anil Kaushik
Dance
Harshavardhana
India Museum at Kolkata
31. Who became the first batsman in the history of cricket to score 100 international centuries?
Sachin Tendulkar
Amitabh Bachchan
Vishnu Sharma
Sunil Gavaskar
32. Who wrote our National Anthem?
India
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Rabindra Nath Tagore
10th December
33. Who led the first Muslim invasion of India?
Mohammad bin Kasim
At the center of earth
Vishnu Sharma
Manipur54
34. Where is the famous Meenakshi Temple situated?
Tamil Nadu
Will pass through Equator
In Samba
Finland
35. Between whom battle of Kurukshetra was fought?
Myanmar
Samudragupta
Kauravas and Pandavas51
Kapil Dev
36. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Mohammad bin Kasim
Jamaica
Neil Armstrong
37. The Prime Minister is chairman of this
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Su-Kam Power Systems
Planning Commission
1949
38. Who appoints the Chairman and members of State Public Service Commission?
Hampi
Shockley
Governor
90 degree
39. Which is the largest cave in India?
Jawaharlal Nehru
Concave mirror
Carbon dioxide
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
40. Which sportsperson won the maximum number of Olympic Gold Medals?
Madhya Pradesh
Maharaja Hari Singh
Michael Phelps
26th January
41. Who introduced the market regulations in India in ancient period?
Edison
Allauddin Khilji
Ludhiana
22nd April
42. Name the Indian state where the game of Polo is said to have originated?
5th September
14th November
Manipur54
Gagan Narang
43. Which is the largest zoo in India?
In front of New Delhi's High Court
Cavendish
When sun is above the equator
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
44. Who was the first person to set foot on moon?
Neil Armstrong
2:3161
Firozeshah Tughluq
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
45. Where is head office of the State Bank of India located?
Maharashtra
Kulandei Francis
Mumbai
Increases
46. Who is the first Indian male shuttler to reach Olympic quarters?
South Kolkata
Uttar Pradesh
Gol Gumbaz
Parupalli Kashyap
47. Which book is entitled as 'Bible of Communism'?
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Playwright
26 years and 9 months
Das Kapital
48. What is the ratio of width of our National flag to its length?
2:3161
Anita Desai
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
69 miles
49. In which field Aachan Maharaj has distinguished himself?
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
India Museum at Kolkata
Jan 26 - 1950134
Dance
50. What reference is taken to know the local time of a place?
1953
Standard time of the country138
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
Longitudinal position