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1. Name the woman boxer of India who have won five time world championship in succession?
24
Robert Watson Watt
Mary Kom
India
2. Who is called 'Grand Old Man of India'?
Jana Gana Mana
Dadabhai Naoroji
Perpendicular to each other
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
3. Which place is going to have North India's biggest turf club?
Mehbooba Mufti
Churchill
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
Painting
4. Name the Apple co-founder who changed the daily habits of millions by reinventing computing - music and mobile phones?
Hamid Ansari
24th October
Speaker
Steve Jobs (Died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5th - 2011)
5. What amount is purposed as per capita allocation for health sector for 2011-2012 - according to the official review of National Rural Health Mission?
Krishna
8th May
Rs 270
Perpendicular to each other
6. Who wrote the book 'Gullivers Travel'?
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Jonathan Swift
1911133
Golconda
7. When is Commonwealth Day observed?
55th rank
The Lok Sabha
Svetoslav Roerich (his wife: actor Devika Rani)
24th May
8. Which is the largest Church in India?
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
Music
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
New Agra Fort
9. Who wrote 'One Day Wonders'?
Herodotus
Maharashtra
Sunil Gavaskar
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
10. Where were Chola Kings ruling over?
Algeria - Guinea - Iceland
Marie Curie
Johannes Kepler
Tamil Nadu
11. With which field M.F. Hussian were associated?
Madhya Pradesh
Painting
Jana Gana Mana
Jawaharlal Nehru
12. Name the mountain range which stretches from Gujarat in the West to Delhi in the North?
Algernon Sidney
Aravallis
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Saka era
13. What happens to speed of sound with rise in temperature?
26 years and 9 months
Increases
7th April
Jules Verne
14. India is facing pressure from the US and other Western countries to break trade ties with which country?
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
26th January
Chandragupta Maurya
Cavendish
15. Late Vijay Tendulkar who died in 2008 were famous in which field?
Graphite
5th April
Playwright
German
16. With whom are the rare replicas of sacred book Guru Granth Sahib?
Kerala
Gota in Sweden
1st December
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
17. Which day is celebrated as National Maritime Day in India?
Protecting Flora and Fauna
5th April
Baby Nargis
29th August
18. Which megastar carried the Olympic flame on the torch relay leg between the City of London and the borough of South wark in London on 26th July - 2012 - a day before the opening ceremony of sporting spectacle?
Greeks
2:4
Japan
Amitabh Bachchan
19. Name the state of India where diamond mines are mainly found?
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
Third century B.C
Madhya Pradesh
14th November
20. Where is Char Minar located?
Assam
Hyderabad
8
Rajasthan
21. Which musical instrument is said to be invented by Amir Khusro?
Vadodara
Sitar
Lead
95th
22. How many medals are won by India in Olympics 2012?
5th June
1949
On the outskirts of Ludhiana
6 medals - 4 bronze and 2 silver
23. Which state has become the second highest power purchaser in the country after Punjab?
Chandragupta Maurya
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.
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Dadabhai Naoroji
24. If in a mirror image of object appears to be larger then which type of mirror is used?
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
Finland
Concave mirror
USA
25. Name the new nuclear powered submarine formally handed to India by Russia?
6 months
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
From fresh and purified fat stem cells ( Fat has a large number of tissue growing stem cells. People could go for liposuction and save fat cells for future use or can use immediately.)
26. Name one famous Sarod player?
Amjad Ali Khan
Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
Kho-Kho
30th January
27. Where is the Indian Institute of Science located?
Bangalore
7th April
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.
Jyoti Amge
28. Who said 'I have nothing to offer except blood - sweat and tears'?
Bromine
Four lions
Churchill
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
29. Who wrote the book 'The Daughter of the East'?
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Dehradun
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
30. What are the benefits of medicine Performax?
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
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.
Washing soda
Anita Desai
31. What is the difference in time between two places 1 degree longitude apart?
4 minutes
90 degrees
Diffusion
V. Anand
32. Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
5th June
INS Vikrant55
1.34 millions
Leo Tolstoy
33. Name the Indian state where the game of Polo is said to have originated?
The President
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
Manipur54
Martin Luther King
34. Which is the largest desert in India?
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
Vocal Music
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
Lobsang Sangay
35. Who is called Father of English Poetry?
Speaker
Saka era
M. Narasimhan
Chaucer
36. Which is the largest public sector bank in India?
Ludhiana
State Bank of India
Ms. Benazir Bhutto
The number of persons per square kilometre.
37. 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
Planning Commission
India
Greeks
38. Who crafted the wax statue of Anna Hazare?
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39. Who discovered blood grouping?
Landsteiner
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Anita Desai
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
40. Who is the author of the book 'The Exile'?
Only the first stanza
Navtej Saran
Dutch East Indies
Painting
41. Which gas is called laughing gas?
Michael Phelps ( retires - won 18 gold medals in total)
Music
6-14 years
Nitrous oxide
42. Who invented the steam engine?
Mary Kom
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Zinc
Bhai Gurmej Singh
43. Where are Dilwara Temples situated?
In Samba
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Gujarat
44. Who wrote the book 'Animal's People'?
2nd April - 2011
Diffusion
Strait of Gibraltar
Indra Sinha64
45. Which will be the new subject added to the curriculum of Kendriya Vidyalayas?
Fatehpur Sikri
Hamid Ansari
India
German
46. When is the Mother's Day celebrated?
11th May
1st May164
Razia Sultana
Tamil Nadu
47. Which river is related to Nagarjun Sagar Project?
Roger Federer
South Africa
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Krishna
48. Who invented the petrol engine?
Eagle
Raja Ravi Varma
14th November
Nikolaus Otto
49. Which song became the most searched You tube video in India in 2011?
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50. Who wrote the book 'A Passage To India'?
Baby Nargis
Infinite
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
E.M Forster