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1. Why the International Date Line makes slight deviation from 180 degree meridian?






2. Where is Pushkar lake located?






3. Who is the author of the book 'Unto the Last' which influenced Gandhi ji?






4. When was Sangeet Natak Akademi set up by Government of India?






5. Who deciphered the genetic code?






6. Where is a tunnel near the Indo-Pak border detected?






7. Who invented telephone?






8. Which hockey team won the Asian Championship Trophy at Ordos(China) in 2011?






9. What is the changed name of Orissa officially according to Presidential assent to the Bill?






10. Name the element required for conversion of solar energy?






11. Name the player of USA who created history by grabbing his 22nd Olympic medal ?






12. Name the latest India's surface -to-surface missile successfully test fired (on 26th Sept - 2011)?






13. Who wrote the book 'The Daughter of the East'?






14. India is facing pressure from the US and other Western countries to break trade ties with which country?






15. Name the largest oil refinery of India?






16. Who wrote the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?






17. Which is the place experiencing minimum and maximum temperatures -28.3 degree Celsius and 15 degree Celsius respectively?






18. Where is Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research located?






19. How many total number of enclaves are to be exchanged between territories of two countries India and Bangladesh according to the treaty signed in Sept - 2011?






20. What is the time difference between IST and GMT?






21. Who is the new captain of the Indian Premier League team Rajasthan Royals?






22. Satyan Bose is known for his excellence in which field?






23. During whose reign The Mathura School of art flourished?






24. What are the benefits of medicine Performax?






25. Who was the first woman to go in space?






26. Who was the first lady to become judge of the Supreme Court?






27. Who was the only Muslim woman to sit on the throne of Delhi?






28. Who said 'Child is the father of Man'?






29. Name the world's shortest living woman?






30. Who is known as the Father of the Indian Constitution?






31. On whose written advice President can proclaim Emergency?






32. What is the name of World's cheapest tablet PC?






33. Name the smallest neighbour of India?






34. Where is the only shrine in the world which has a natural statue of Hanuman that is not man made?






35. Who published the 'Red Data Book' containing information on the wild animals and plants in danger of extinction?






36. How many images will be formed when an object is placed between two mirrors placed parellel to each other?






37. Who got Dronacharya Award in 2011 ?






38. Who is the author of 'Tarikh-i-Alai' containing the details of the first few years of Sultan Alauddin Khilji?






39. Whom did Dalai Lama announced to be his successor in March - 2011?






40. Where are Dilwara Temples situated?






41. Which country topped medal table in Olympic 2012?






42. Who was the founder of the Khalsa?






43. Where were huge amounts of uranium recently found?






44. Name the temple where majority of pilgrims visiting tonsure their heads and offer their hair to Lord Venkateswara?






45. When is the World Population Day observed?






46. Who is the man popularly kwown as Gurudev?






47. 'Glimpses of World History' is written by whom?






48. What is the other name of deuterium oxide?






49. On which day International Women's Day observed?






50. Who has been selected as the new head of Tata empire in 2011?