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1. Where is the National Institute of Nutrition located?
Sunil Gavaskar
Baby Nargis
Kapil Dev
Hyderabad
2. Which day is celebrated as National Maritime Day in India?
5th April
Abhinav Bindra
11th July
August 22 - 2011. (founded on August 22 - 1639 and was known as Chennappanaikan )
3. Name the first ever pill approved by US to prevent HIV?
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Ajit Kumar from Haryana
Cavendish
Sukumar Sen
4. Which is the largest dome in India?
14th November
Ludhiana
Sonepur (Bihar )
Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur
5. Who was called the 'Napoleon of India'?
Samudragupta
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Dadabhai Naoroji
Due to phenomenon of total internal reflection.
6. Name the ship commissioned by India which is biggest in its class in the World?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Kho-Kho
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
Due to radiation
7. Who wrote the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Landsteiner
H.P.S Ahluwalia
Jules Verne
8. When an open bottle of scent is kept at one corner due to which phenomenon its fragrance is found in whole room?
Hindukush
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Diffusion
Mundak Upanishad
9. Name the China's first woman astronaut into orbit?
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Bobby Jindal
Himachal Pradesh
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
10. When is Martyr's Day in India celebrated ?
Andhra Pradesh
Rabindranath Tagore147
Demand deposits
30th January
11. Who is vice President of India?
Due to radiation
Mohammed Hamid Ansari
The Rajya Sabha
Sunderbans delta
12. Name the country which is second largest producer of horticulture commodities such as fruits - vegetables and flowers in the world?
India
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Jai Samhita
Playwright
13. Where is Pushkar lake located?
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Tamil Nadu
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Rajasthan
14. Who inspired Green Revolution in India?
Yogeshwar Dutt from Sonepat - Haryana
Rajasthan
N.E. Borlaug
Tamil Nadu
15. Where is the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre located?
Trivandrum
Ashoka
Silicon
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
16. Which day in India is observed as Minorities Rights Day?
95th
J.B.Say
18th December
Dutch East Indies
17. How is population density in India defined?
Involved 14 luxury cars - including 8 Ferraris on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki - southwestern Japan on 4th Dec. - 2011.
The number of persons per square kilometre.
Infinite
Myanmar
18. Who said 'Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err'?
Saka era
Johann Gregor Mendel
Mahatma Gandhi
It loses one day
19. Name the Indian who won Magsaysay award for community initiatives in Tamil Nadu?
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Maharaja Hari Singh
Madhya Pradesh
Kulandei Francis
20. Why sky appears to be blue?
Jai Samhita
7th April
Kathak
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
21. Who wrote Panchatantra?
Vishnu Sharma
Churchill
Equator
Amir Khusru
22. When is the Mother's Day celebrated?
Sri Lanka
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.)
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
11th May
23. What is the changed name of Orissa officially according to Presidential assent to the Bill?
Odisha
Sri Shanmukhanand Hall (Mumbai)
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Sitar
24. When comes National Postal Day in India?
Marie Curie
10th October
Kerala
Baby Nargis
25. Which river is related to Nagarjun Sagar Project?
Jayadeva
Krishna
Kushinagar
Indra Sinha64
26. Which gas is called laughing gas?
Marie Curie
Tamil Nadu
Sitar
Nitrous oxide
27. On which date India won the World Cup in Mumbai?
2nd April - 2011
Firozeshah Tughluq
Raja Ravi Varma
Jana Gana Mana
28. Where is Elephant Pass located?
William Wordsworth
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
South Africa
Sri Lanka
29. Which state in India has three language teaching formula?
Mumbai
Maharashtra
Punjab
Makes cancer cell 'commit suicide'. It helps in stoping multiplication of tumorous cells and shut themselves down. Will be available in approximately 5 years and will be in pill form.
30. Who said 'I have nothing to offer except blood - sweat and tears'?
Jaipur
Johannes Kepler
U.K
Churchill
31. Who discovered photoelectric effect?
Makes cancer cell 'commit suicide'. It helps in stoping multiplication of tumorous cells and shut themselves down. Will be available in approximately 5 years and will be in pill form.
90 degrees
Albert Einstein
Lobsang Sangay
32. Who is sworn as the 14th Vice President of India?
Hamid Ansari
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
July - 1947
Chandragupta
33. Kanchipuram is in which state?
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Speaker
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Tamil Nadu
34. Name the herbal drug developed by DRDO for soldiers working in high altitude areas?
Performax
Valentina Tereshkova
Gujarat
At Magdalla port near Surat.
35. Who is the new captain of the Indian Premier League team Rajasthan Royals?
Galileo
24th February
Churchill
Rahul Dravid
36. Who is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in India?
The President
Jonathan Swift
Vasudeva
Madhya Pradesh
37. Name the mineral found in Zawar mines?
Zinc
Jawaharlal Nehru
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Julang-2
38. Name the element required for conversion of solar energy?
Himachal Pradesh
Silicon
Lawn Tennis153
New Delhi
39. Why clear nights are more colder then cloudy nights?
Algernon Sidney
Due to radiation
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
40. How many lines are there in latitude and longitude?
New Agra Fort
Herodotus
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
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. Usain Bolt adjudged as the fastest man on the earth in Olympics 2008 belongs to which country?
Jamaica
Dance
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
Chandragupta
42. Who is the author of the book 'Unto the Last' which influenced Gandhi ji?
Zoological Garden at Alipur (Kolkata )
Mussoorie
John Ruskin
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.
43. Name the person who presided over the first session of Indian National Congress in 1885?
Valentina Tereshkova
W.C Bannerjee
Maharashtra
Fatehpur Sikri
44. What is made from the mixture of lime and chlorine?
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
Kushinagar
Bleaching powder
45. Name the first heavyweight boxer to go undefeated throughout his career?
Ladakh
Mahatma Gandhi
Edison
Rocky Marciano
46. How many spokes are there in our national emblem 'Ashoka Chakra'?
M.N Roy62
Dilip Kumar
24
Tamil Nadu
47. Hawa Mahal is situated in which city?
35 degree
Iodine
Jaipur
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
48. Name the metal used in storage batteries?
250th anniversary
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Lead
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
49. Where were huge amounts of uranium recently found?
Heavy water
Andhra Pradesh
Su-Kam Power Systems
Kho-Kho
50. Who is author of 'Hindu view of life'?
Director General Anil Kaushik
Satyendra Nath Bose
Andhra Pradesh
S. Radhakrishnan