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1. Who is the man popularly kwown as Gurudev?
Rabindranath Tagore147
Sukumar Sen
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
Sunderbans delta
2. What is difference between mass of body and its weight?
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
Samuel Morse
11th May
Gagan Narang
3. When is World's Sparrow Day observed?
Gagan Narang
20th March
4 minutes
Khushwant Singh
4. Name the mountain range which stretches from Gujarat in the West to Delhi in the North?
Aravallis
Maharashtra
27th September
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
5. Which is the largest river delta of India?
Ganga
The equator
Milkha Singh
G.V. Mavalankar
6. When in India Teachers Day celebrated?
USA
24
2G spectrum scam
5th September
7. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' (inscribed below the base plate of the emblem of India) taken?
Mundak Upanishad
Alexander Graham Bell
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
1953
8. What is proxy voting?
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Swarajya Party
Manipur54
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
9. Name the player of USA who created history by grabbing his 22nd Olympic medal ?
22nd April
Martin Luther King
Vande Mataram
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
10. Which day is observed as World Heritage Day?
18th April
India
Samar Guha
Sunita Williams
11. Which region of India is associated with pine forests?
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Uttarakhand
Lead
G.V. Mavalankar
12. Who is the 26th Chief Minister of Karnataka?
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
The Lok Sabha
Cavendish
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
13. What is made from the mixture of lime and chlorine?
Bleaching powder
Amir Khusrau
7th April
Uttar Pradesh
14. When comes the World Environment Day?
10th October
Mary Kom
5th June
Jyoti Amge
15. Where did the World's costliest crash took place?
Bobby Jindal
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Narendra Modi government
Darsheel Safary
16. Why the International Date Line makes slight deviation from 180 degree meridian?
Samudragupta
24th February
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Zinc
17. Late Vijay Tendulkar who died in 2008 were famous in which field?
Playwright
Khadakvasla
Speaker
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
18. Who is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in India?
Anna Hazare
Sushil Kumar
Kushinagar
The President
19. Who is called Father of English Poetry?
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Curiosity
Chaucer
At the center of earth
20. Who is the author of book 'Speed Post'?
Michael Phelps
Shobha De
Karashapana
Leh
21. Which day is celebrated as National Maritime Day in India?
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
5th April
1st December
Chadwick
22. What reference is taken to know the local time of a place?
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
250th anniversary
Longitudinal position
15th August167
23. Which musical instrument is said to be invented by Amir Khusro?
Sitar
Shobha De
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
24. Where did India's first Formula one race took place in 2011?
Mumbai
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Shiv Prasad Singh
Mahatma Gandhi
25. Who is the author of book 'India Wins Freedom'?
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Michael Phelps
Hunting
24
26. Who elects the Vice President of India?
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Baby Nargis
Shimla and Hamirpur
27. Who headed the committee on computerisation in Indian banks(1988)?
Sarojini Naidu
1949
India
M. Narasimhan
28. Where were remains of Vijayanagar Empire found?
Hockey
Maharaja Hari Singh
1949
Hampi
29. Which day is celebrated as Independence Day of India?
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
15th August167
Johannes Kepler
30. Who wrote the book 'Gullivers Travel'?
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Jonathan Swift
Mehbooba Mufti
31. During whose time the Gandhara School of art developed?
Four lions
Kushans
U.K
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
32. Who was the first woman to go in space?
John Keats
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Shockley
Valentina Tereshkova
33. Name the sub-launched long range N-missile developed by China?
Edison
Julang-2
Lobsang Sangay
Jawaharlal Nehru
34. Which is the largest port in India?
Mumbai
1.34 millions
Kanishka
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
35. Name the first Indian women shuttler to enter semifinal at the Olympics?
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
Abhinav Bindra
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Navtej Saran
36. Name the smallest neighbour of India?
Assam
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Uttarakhand
Journalism
37. Who is the author of the novel 'White Tiger'which won the Booker Prize 2008?
Aravind Adiga
Vocal Music
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
38. Where is Buland Darwaza located?
Graphite
Fatehpur Sikri
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
24th May
39. Year 2011 is observed by Army as what?
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Anna Hazare
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
Motion Picture
40. How many lines are there in latitude and longitude?
Sunil Gavaskar
Three Decades in Parliament
Lawn Tennis153
Latitude includes 180 lines and longitude has 360 lines because longitude connects North Pole to South Pole and latitude is divided from east to west.
41. Where are Dilwara Temples situated?
24th May
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Odisha
Baby Nargis
42. Who was the chairman of Constituent Assembly?
Kapil Dev
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Haryana
43. Where is the world's largest solar power project going to be set up?
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Sri Lanka
Maharashtra
It loses one day
44. Which river is related to Nagarjun Sagar Project?
24th February
Krishna
Genetically Modified Crops.
Sonepur (Bihar )
45. Name the latest hi-tech weapon invented in 2011 to prevent obesity?
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46. Name the scientist who is considered as the Father of Genetics?
Johann Gregor Mendel
M.N Roy62
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Jaya Dev
47. Greenwich mean time (GMT) is the standard time of which country?
Thailand
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
U.K
Chaucer
48. Which day is observed as Sanskrit Day in India?
Bombay
Chandrayaan
5th September
Marie Curie
49. Who is the author of book 'The Tribune 130 Years: A Witness to History'?
Prof. V.N Datta
5th April
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
50. According to a poll conducted by global research company Ipsos - people of which country are happiest on this planet despite woes - conflicts?
Sitar
Mehbooba Mufti
Indians
Raja Ravi Varma