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1. Who discovered blood grouping?
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Euclid
Landsteiner
Akhilesh Yadav
2. Name the herbal drug developed by DRDO for soldiers working in high altitude areas?
Mary Kom
Finland
Performax
Saina Nehwal ( won bronze medal for India)
3. Which gas is used for preparation of soda water?
Carbon dioxide
Chandrayaan
Buddh Internation Circuit in Delhi
Sukumar Sen
4. When is International Labour Day observed?
Stainless steel
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Gota in Sweden
1st May164
5. Which countries are located on the Greenwich Meridian?
Kiran Bedi
24th October
Nitrogen
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
6. On whose written advice President can proclaim Emergency?
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Prime Minister
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
William Shakespeare151
7. Which ruler was adorned with the title of 'Maharajadhiraja'?
Longitudinal position
2:3161
Kanishka
Only the first stanza
8. 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?
Bangalore
The Bering Strait
The Delhi Metro
Gol Gumbaz
9. Name the three new elements added to the Periodic Table in 2011?
Nek Chand
J.L.Baird
The new elements numbered 110 - 111 - 112 are called darmstadtium (Ds) - roentgenium (Rg) - and copernicium (Cn).
N.E. Borlaug
10. Who is the renowned flute player?
Gota in Sweden
Hunting
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Hyderabad
11. Why the International Date Line makes slight deviation from 180 degree meridian?
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
Hampi
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Albert Einstein
12. Who is called the Flying Sikh of India?
Milkha Singh
Rabindranath Tagore
Bleaching powder
Khadakvasla
13. Where is head office of the State Bank of India located?
Mumbai
U.K
Chandragupta Maurya
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
14. Who wrote the book 'We Indians'?
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Khushwant Singh
20th March
15. What is the name of World's cheapest tablet PC?
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Tamil Nadu
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
2nd April - 2011
16. On what occasion Bihar got its own state anthem and state prayer whose CD's were released by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar?
Shobha De
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
India
Maharashtra
17. Who arranged the elements in the Modern Periodic Table?
2
Mosley
Mahatma Gandhi
Chaucer
18. After whose name the Nobel Prize was started?
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
31st May
Bangalore
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
19. Who was the founder of the Khalsa?
Guru Gobind Singh
Second Battle of Tarain
God particle or Higgs Boson
Perpendicular to each other
20. Where are the achievements of Samudragupta described on?
162
China
Gujarat
Allahabad Pillar inscription
21. What is e-bomb?
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22. Who discovered the noble gases?
Leh
The equator
Cavendish
Jayadeva
23. Who was the first recipient of Nehru Award for International Understanding?
Martin Luther King
Gujarat
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Mussoorie
24. Who has been selected as the new head of Tata empire in 2011?
Rocky Marciano
Lead
Cyrus Mistry
State Bank of India
25. Where is the World's largest ship canal?
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
Methane - butane and propane
G.V. Mavalankar
Gota in Sweden
26. Name the leader under whom India's first coalition government in New Delhi was formed?
Hampi
Japan
Morarji Desai
Sri Lanka
27. Name the first heavyweight boxer to go undefeated throughout his career?
Rocky Marciano
Johann Gregor Mendel
Anna Hazare
Chandragupta Maurya
28. By whom is the Vice-President of the Indian Union elected?
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Kiran Bedi
Yousuf Raza Gillani
29. Which actress has become the brand ambassador for sanitation compaign?
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Vidya Balan
Kanishka
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
30. Who is sworn as the 14th Vice President of India?
Hamid Ansari
Carbon dioxide
July - 1947
Das Kapital
31. Which city is called 'White City' of Rajasthan?
16th October
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Cavendish
32. Who wrote the popular book 'The Naked Face'?
Robert Watson Watt
Sidney Sheldon
1.34 millions
Rabindranath Tagore147
33. Who invented the mercury thermometer?
Khushwant Singh
Galileo
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
Dilip Kumar
34. Who is known as the Father of the Indian Constitution?
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Abhinav Bindra
Navtej Saran
Shobha De
35. Which child artist got Critics Best Actor Award for his acting in a film Taare Zameen Par?
Bombay
Silicon
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Darsheel Safary
36. When is World Laughter Day celebrated?
South Kolkata
26th January
10th October
Garima II (a female) and Shreasth (a male).
37. Name the country which has longest international boundary with India?
1953
China
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Saka era
38. In which state are the World famous Ajanta Caves situated?
Methane - butane and propane
Jayadeva
14th November
Maharashtra
39. Which is the largest district in India?
Ladakh
Jane Austen
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Sukumar Sen
40. What is India's rank on Foreign money in Swiss banks?
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Maharashtra
Satyendra Nath Bose
55th rank
41. Where is Pushkar lake located?
It loses one day
1.34 millions
Rajasthan
London
42. Name the Indian scientist from whose surname the word 'boson' is derived?
Painting
Silver
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Satyendra Nath Bose
43. What is the ratio of width of our National flag to its length?
Longitudinal position
2:3161
Bangalore
Governor
44. Name the scientist who got Nobel Prize twice for the same subject?
India
Gota in Sweden
Marie Curie
Madhya Pradesh
45. Liquefied Petroleum Gas consists mainly which gases?
Methane - butane and propane
Sriharikota
Hunting
Mohammad bin Kasim
46. Why speed of sound is greater in solids than in liquids?
Because the solids have high elasticity.
Indians
Samudragupta
Uttar Pradesh
47. What is made from the mixture of lime and chlorine?
Journalism
Bleaching powder
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.
Silver
48. Who wrote the famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
Dumping
Jane Austen
Maharashtra
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
49. Which is the India's largest public sector commercial bank at present?
Jane Austen
Vishnu Sharma
State Bank of India
Mumbai
50. Who wrote 'One Day Wonders'?
Sunil Gavaskar
9th August
Khushwant Singh
London