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1. Name the 17th Karmapa against whom the Una police filed a chargesheet under section 120-B of the IPC in 2011?
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.)
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
Valentina Tereshkova
2. Why the International Date Line makes slight deviation from 180 degree meridian?
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Zinc
When sun is above the equator
3. Name the Strait which separates Asia from North America?
The Bering Strait
Rabindranath Tagore147
15th March
India and China
4. On whose written advice President can proclaim Emergency?
German
$46 - 00011
Prime Minister
Aung San Suu Kyi
5. At which point of earth weight of object will be minimum?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
At the center of earth
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
90 degree
6. Where is the birth place of Guru Nanak Ji?
Talwandi
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Rs 270
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
7. Which is the largest populated state in India?
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
Madhya Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh
Infinite
8. Name the largest oil refinery of India?
31st May
John Ruskin
Vadodara
Kerala
9. Who is known as the Father of the Indian Constitution?
Is a herbal formulation of 10 selected herbs known to have adaptogenic properties. It helps to improve the physical and mental performance by increasing blood oxygenation and reducing low density lipoproteins and cholesterol.
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
New Delhi
Roger Federer
10. When India became a Sovereign - democratic republic?
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Uttarakhand
Jan 26 - 1950134
India ( Brazil is the first largest producer of sugar.
11. Where is Bihar's first all women police station located?
E.M Forster
Madhya Pradesh
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Kanishka
12. Which was the musical instrument used by Amir Khusro?
Maharashtra
Pakistan and Afghanistan
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Sitar
13. Where is the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre located?
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Kushans
Trivandrum
Diffusion
14. When are days and nights equal throughout the globe?
Heavy water
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Uttarakhand
When sun is above the equator
15. Which non -metal remains liquid at room temperature?
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Eagle
Bromine
24th February
16. For what was Gupta dynasty famous?
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
Johann Gregor Mendel
Art and architecture
Bangalore
17. For which dance Birju Maharaj is well known?
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Equator
Will pass through Equator
Kathak
18. Who composed the famous song 'Sare Jahan Se Accha'?
Mohammad Iqbal
2G spectrum scam
Palk Strait
Music
19. What are the benefits of medicine Performax?
Chandragupta-II
Hampi
Rajasthan
Is a herbal formulation of 10 selected herbs known to have adaptogenic properties. It helps to improve the physical and mental performance by increasing blood oxygenation and reducing low density lipoproteins and cholesterol.
20. During whose reign The Mathura School of art flourished?
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.
Vasudeva
9th August
Narendra Modi government
21. According to a poll conducted by global research company Ipsos - people of which country are happiest on this planet despite woes - conflicts?
Vidya Balan
Indians
India and Pakistan
Hyderabad
22. Where were huge amounts of uranium recently found?
J.B.Say
U.K
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Andhra Pradesh
23. Why sky appears to be blue?
Marie Curie
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Gota in Sweden
Demand deposits
24. Which metro has been certified by the United Nations as the first metro rail based system in the World to get carbon credits for contributing to the fight against climate changes?
The Delhi Metro
Michael Phelps
2:4
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
25. Who discovered photoelectric effect?
Nek Chand
Albert Einstein
The Rajya Sabha
William Shakespeare151
26. Who is the author of book 'Gita Govinda'?
Rajasthan
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Milkha Singh
Jayadeva
27. Name the person who has set a new Guinness record of being the oldest man to complete a full distance marathon in Toronto?
New Agra Fort
Fauja Singh (a 100 year old runner of Indian origin)
Perpendicular to each other
5 hours 30 minutes
28. Who wrote the book 'A Passage To India'?
Chandragupta
5th September
U.K
E.M Forster
29. Which is the place experiencing minimum and maximum temperatures -28.3 degree Celsius and 15 degree Celsius respectively?
Speaker
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
Leh
Zinc
30. What is the latitude of South Pole?
90 degree
24th October
9th August
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
31. Who discovered blood grouping?
Abhinav Bindra
Landsteiner
Madhya Pradesh
Mary Kom
32. A famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice 'is written by whom?
Graphite
Mohammad bin Kasim
Mahatma Gandhi
Jane Austen
33. Who was first Indian woman to become president of U.N. General Assembly?
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Jhumpa Lahiri
24th May
34. In which century did Ashoka reign?
Third century B.C
Jai Samhita
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
China
35. Who wrote the book 'The Daughter of the East'?
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
S. Radhakrishnan
Ripon
Sushil Kumar
36. Who is President of India?
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Palk Strait
Tummalapalle village in Kadapa district.
July - 1947
37. When is India's National Youth Day celebrated ?
Jane Austen
Sunil Gavaskar
12th January
Allauddin Khilji
38. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' (inscribed below the base plate of the emblem of India) taken?
Mundak Upanishad
Will pass through Equator
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
In Southern Pakistani city of Karachi named Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir ( The eight foot blue and white statue is 1500 year old)
39. Where did the World's costliest crash took place?
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
Increases
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
Akbar
40. Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector shipyard?
5th June
At Magdalla port near Surat.
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Longitudinal position
41. Who won Jnanpith Award in 2010?
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Chandrasekhar Kambar (renowned Kannada literateur)
Mary Kom
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
42. Where did India's first Formula one race took place in 2011?
Himachal Pradesh
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Das Kapital
Khushwant Singh
43. Who is the author of book 'Many Worlds'?
Darsheel Safary
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Longitudinal position
V.S Naipaul
44. Who is the author of the book 'Unto the Last' which influenced Gandhi ji?
Sukumar Sen
Marie Curie
John Ruskin
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
45. Who is going to receive highest US award?
Aung San Suu Kyi
Jane Austen
7th April
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
46. What will be the new name of West Bengal?
Galileo
Paschim Banga1
Planning Commission
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
47. Name the first heavyweight boxer to go undefeated throughout his career?
Rocky Marciano
Khushwant Singh
Demand deposits
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'.
48. On which day International Women's Day observed?
Gol Gumbaz
Journalism
Julang-2
8th March
49. Which child artist got Critics Best Actor Award for his acting in a film Taare Zameen Par?
Jonathan Swift
Darsheel Safary
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Speaker
50. Which is the largest lake in India?
Andhra Pradesh
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Harshavardhana