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1. When is Earth Day observed?
India Museum at Kolkata
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
22nd April
Four lions
2. Who wrote 'Gita Govinda'?
Jaya Dev
Das Kapital
Himachal Pradesh
Hyderabad
3. What are the benefits of medicine Performax?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
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.
Hamid Ansari
Chandrayaan
4. Greenwich mean time (GMT) is the standard time of which country?
Firozeshah Tughluq
Sodium
U.K
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
5. What will be the difference in longitudes between two places if their time difference is 2 hours and 20 minutes?
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
2G spectrum scam
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
35 degree
6. Who got Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (highest sports award in country) award?
Miss Venezuele Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares.
Concave lens
Gagan Narang (shooter)
35 year old Sapper Shanti Tigga
7. Who deciphered the genetic code?
Rahul Banerjee (archery ) - Preeja Sreedharan (athletics) - Vikas Gowda (athletics) - Jwala Gutta(badminton) - M Suranjoy Singh(boxing) - Zaheer Khan (cricket) - Sunil Chhetri(football) - Ashish Kumar (gymnastics) - Rajpal Singh (hockey) - Ra
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
2G spectrum scam
Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi
8. Which day is celebrated as International Literacy Day?
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
Vande Mataram
8th September
William Shakespeare151
9. Who discovered the noble gases?
Mumbai
The Bering Strait
Kushans
Cavendish
10. At which place the largest industrial solar plant of the country became operational on 29th July - 2012?
Baby Nargis
V.S Naipaul
Ludhiana
Tamil Nadu
11. Who wrote the book 'A Passage To India'?
Mohammad bin Kasim
Rabindranath Tagore
E.M Forster
American firm Intra Pace unveils a stomach implant vi akeyhole surgery that can help people fight flab by warning the brain when enough food is taken. This credit card sized implant is named as 'Abiliti'.
12. A famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice 'is written by whom?
Uttar Pradesh
Jane Austen
Bangalore
Bleaching powder
13. What is the name of World's cheapest tablet PC?
Thailand
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Navtej Saran
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
14. What is the maximum duration for which the Vice President can officiate as the President of India?
Lead
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Rabindranath Tagore147
6 months
15. Which state of India has highest production of tea?
Assam
Shiv Prasad Singh
Tamil Nadu
Rabindranath Tagore
16. Who invented the television?
Milkha Singh
J.L.Baird
It loses one day
24th February
17. Whose contemporary was Tulsidas?
Cyrus Mistry
Akbar
1949
Playwright
18. Who is the richest Indian in the World according to the 2011 Forbes India annual rich list?
New Delhi
Golconda
Wular lake (Kashmir)
Reliance Group head Sh. Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.60 billion.
19. According to a poll conducted by global research company Ipsos - people of which country are happiest on this planet despite woes - conflicts?
Ludhiana
Indians
Sachin Tendulkar
J.L.Baird
20. Where are the headquarters of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts?
M.N Roy62
New Delhi
Eagle
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
21. Where is Bihar's first all women police station located?
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
At Biharsharif - became operational on 21st Jan. - 2012.
J.B.Say
22. Radcliffe line is the boundary line between which countries?
India's top wax sculptor Sunil Kandalloor
1953
UK
India and Pakistan
23. What is equal to latitude of a place?
Angle between the horizon and the equator
The Bering Strait
Chaucer
7th April
24. Where is India's Space Rocket Launching Centre situated?
Arundhati Roy
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Allauddin Khilji
Sriharikota
25. Vocalist Rahamat Khan belongs to which Gharana?
Gwalior Gharana
USA (104 medals; 46 gold - 29 silver - 29 bronze)
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Equator
26. On which era is the Indian National Calender based?
M. Narasimhan
23rd December
Saka era
R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1947)
27. World Human Rights Day is observed on which day?
Jan 26 - 1950134
Sitar
10th December
10th October
28. Name the person who transliterated Guru Granth Sahib in Braille?
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Edison
26th January
29. What was adopted from the Maurya dynasty in the emblem of government of India?
Four lions
Sidney Sheldon
2G spectrum scam
State Bank of India
30. Mc. Mohan Line demarcates the boundary between which countries?
Florence Nightingale
Maharashtra
India and China
Michael Phelps
31. Where is a tunnel near the Indo-Pak border detected?
Mary Kom
16th October
Stainless steel
In Samba
32. Who is known as Father of Geometry?
The Rajya Sabha
Mr. D. Subbarao (Current RBI Governor)
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
Euclid
33. Which is the largest populated state in India?
South Kolkata
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Uttar Pradesh
Mohammad bin Kasim
34. Who composed the national song of India (Vande Maatram)?
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
China
35. Name the temple where majority of pilgrims visiting tonsure their heads and offer their hair to Lord Venkateswara?
24
Third century B.C
Tirumala temple in Andhra Pradesh
Maharashtra
36. Which was the musical instrument used by Amir Khusro?
William Shakespeare151
Sitar
Cyrus Mistry
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad65
37. Name the shooter of Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur) who won silver medal in Olympics 2012?
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38. Where is the birth place of Guru Nanak Ji?
Roger Federer
Leh
Rabindranath Tagore
Talwandi
39. Why Shimla is cooler than Amritsar though they have same latitude?
Rocky Marciano
Because water keeps on passing out from pores and evaporating.
Stainless steel
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
40. Who has been selected as the new head of Tata empire in 2011?
Colonel Gurman Singh ( grandson of renowned Sikh historian and scholar Baba Prem Singh)
Music
Cyrus Mistry
Tamil Nadu
41. Why sky appears to be blue?
Amir Khusrau
Prof. V.N Datta
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
42. Which musical instrument is said to be invented by Amir Khusro?
Jamaica
30th January
Jan 26 - 1950134
Sitar
43. With which sports is Sushma Saroelker associated?
Kho-Kho
India Museum at Kolkata
Art and architecture
Narendra Modi government
44. Name the ballistic missile that lifted off from Wheeler Island in Odisha on 9th August - 2012?
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
Virender Sehwag (he scored 219 to carve out the highest ever individual score)
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
Mahatma Gandhi
45. Who is the author of the book 'The Exile'?
Hockey
Anita Desai
Navtej Saran
The Lok Sabha
46. Name the country's longest railway tunnel excavated?
Kerala
35 degree
Pir Panjal railway tunnel ( 11.17 Km long tunnel underneath the rugged Pir Panjal mountain)
Haryana
47. When comes the Farmer's Day (Kisan Divas )in India ?
Speaker
Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting HIV)
23rd December
Tamil Nadu
48. What is AERE?
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49. When is the Mother's Day celebrated?
Diffusion
Anna Hazare
11th May
55th rank
50. Satyan Bose is known for his excellence in which field?
Motion Picture
12th January
Michael Phelps
USA