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1. When comes the World Environment Day?
22nd April
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
5th June
Demand deposits
2. Watches of a country is set according to what time?
Standard time of the country138
U.K
Rajasthan
Dance
3. Who is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in India?
Kanishka
The President
5th April
Swarajya Party
4. Who is generally regardedas the pioneer of Local Self Government in Modern India?
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Ripon
Madhya Pradesh
Stainless steel
5. Who founded the Saka Era?
Kanishka
Rocky Marciano
Mohammad bin Kasim
Samuel Morse
6. Which is largest cave temple in India?
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Gota in Sweden
Tamil Nadu
1.34 millions
7. Name the NASA's most modern spacecraft successfully landed on Mars on 6th August - 2012 to begin a pioneering two year search to find out if the red planet is suitable for life and whether it can be inhabitable in the future?
Su-Kam Power Systems
Bangalore
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
Curiosity
8. Name the great poet who graced the court of Alauddin Khilji?
Tungsten
Nek Chand
1953
Amir Khusru
9. Where is the venue for the 2012 Olympics?
Cyrus Mistry
London
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
11th May
10. With which field M.F. Hussian were associated?
5th September
Painting
Renders electronic gadgets useless and effectively neutralises the adversary's command control and communication capability by producing a strong electromagnetic field generating powerful electricity surges that play havoc with electronic circuits wi
Khushwant Singh
11. Who is the senior most Army officer to have faced a court martial and dismissed from service by an Indian Army Court?
Swarajya Party
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
14th November
William Shakespeare151
12. Which state has maximum density of canals?
Uttar Pradesh
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
UK
69 miles
13. Where is Char Minar located?
Oxygen and acetylene
Silver
Hyderabad
24th February
14. For what was Ashoka famous?
Mundak Upanishad
Valentina Tereshkova
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
Sitar
15. Which state is going to be first carbon-neutral state in the country by 2020?
Dr. F.G.Banting
Herodotus
Himachal Pradesh
Jan 26 - 1950134
16. Who is crowned Miss World 2011?
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
Vadodara
17. Where is the India's first largest bamboo museum?
Vadodara
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
15th August167
18. Where is the headquarters of Oil and Natural Gas Commission?
Dehradun
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Maharashtra
Vasudeva
19. Which king brought the valleys of Indus - Ganga and Jamuna together for the first time under one political authority?
Ashoka
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.)
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Firozeshah Tughluq
20. Whom did Dalai Lama announced to be his successor in March - 2011?
Srilal Shukla and Amar Kant
G.V. Mavalankar
Lobsang Sangay
The President
21. What is the aim of the 'Biosphere Reserve Project'?
Vijay Kumar - Vijay Kumar ( in men's 25m rapid fire pistol)4
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Jana Gana Mana
Protecting Flora and Fauna
22. Who wrote the famous play 'Macbeth'?
William Shakespeare151
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
24th February
Iran ( India has to take decision carefully as Iran is not just an important crude oil supplier but also a prospective large export market.)
23. Which was the musical instrument used by Amir Khusro?
N.E. Borlaug
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Sitar
J.B.Say
24. Who discovered X-Ray?
8th October
Graphite
Jai Samhita
Roentgen
25. Where is the World's largest ship canal?
Akbar
Rabindranath Tagore147
Gota in Sweden
Krishna
26. Where in Delhi a bomb hidden in briefcase exploded killing 11 persons and injuring 47 in the worst attack in India's capital in 3 years in 2011?
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27. On which era is the Indian National Calender based?
Jama Masjid
Morarji Desai
Saka era
Bangalore
28. Name the sub-launched long range N-missile developed by China?
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Julang-2
1953
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
29. Which hockey team won the Asian Championship Trophy at Ordos(China) in 2011?
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Narmada and Japti
India
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
30. Name the Strait connecting Arabian Sea and the Bay ofBengal?
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Palk Strait
Dr. F.G.Banting
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
31. Who is known as Nightingale of India?
Sarojini Naidu
Prime Minister
Amitabh Ghosh
Johann Gregor Mendel
32. Who wrote the first history book?
Khushwant Singh
Landsteiner
Leh
Herodotus
33. At what age World's oldest dog Pusuke died?
Jawaharlal Nehru
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
26 years and 9 months
Bangalore
34. Which anniversary of sandwich was celebrated by British town in May - 2012?
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
250th anniversary
Madhya Pradesh
Baby Nargis
35. Which state in India has three language teaching formula?
Punjab
2
India
E.M Forster
36. Name the metal used as the filament of an electric bulb?
USA
Tungsten
Vadodara
Guru Gobind Singh
37. 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.)
7th April
$46 - 00011
Mohammad bin Kasim
38. Who wrote the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?
Jules Verne
Sunil Gavaskar
35 degree
Lala Lajpat Rai
39. Who got Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award in 2011?
Vande Mataram
95th
Mehbooba Mufti
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
40. How water in earthen pots remain cool?
Narmada and Japti
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Demand deposits
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
41. On which day International Women's Day observed?
India
1st May164
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
8th March
42. Who was the first lady to become judge of the Supreme Court?
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
Chilka lake (Orissa )
Tamil Nadu
8th September
43. 'Nokia' the telecom company belongs to which country?
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
Finland
Guru Gobind Singh
Himachal Pradesh
44. Which is largest populated city in India?
Hyderabad
Rajasthan
Mumbai
Marie Curie
45. Who wrote the book 'Gulliver's Travels'?
24
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Jonathan Swift
90 degrees
46. Name the baby of Uttar Pardesh who is the symbolic seven billionth baby ?
Baby Nargis
Euclid
Nayantara Sahgal
Second Battle of Tarain
47. Which country has World's largest democracy?
India
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT) in Palampur (H.P)
Dumping
48. Who discovered insulin?
Jamaica
Mumbai
Edison
Dr. F.G.Banting
49. Who was the first speaker of Independent India's Lok Sabha?
Hyderabad
G.V. Mavalankar
27th September
UK
50. What is India's rank on the Transparency International (TI) corruption Perception Index out of 183 countries in 2011?
95th
Casting of vote through a proxy that the voter nominates.
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Bankim Chandra Chatterji