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1. Whom the Gujarat High Court issued contempt notice on 15th Feb. - 2012 for not obeying its order to compensate people whose shops were burnt down in the post-Godhra riots?
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Narendra Modi government
Akhilesh Yadav
Samudragupta
2. During whose time the Gandhara School of art developed?
Khushwant Singh
Kushans
Rabindranath Tagore147
Because blue colour of light is of shorter wavelength so easily scattered by dust particles and water vapour.
3. Who was the first speaker of Independent India's Lok Sabha?
Sunita Williams
G.V. Mavalankar
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
24
4. Our Indian Constitution closely follows the Constitutional system of which country?
South Kolkata
Milkha Singh
U.K
Because Shimla is at higher elevation.
5. Which battle opened the Delhi area to Muhammad Ghori?
Razia Sultana
V.S Naipaul
Kepler 22-b - Its located 600 light years away. A year at Kepler 22 lasts 290 days
Second Battle of Tarain
6. Which is the largest cave in India?
Amarnath (Jammu and Kashmir )
July - 1947
Jaipur
Kho-Kho
7. Who was first Indian woman to become president of U.N. General Assembly?
Hamid Ansari
It loses one day
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
1.34 millions
8. When is World Laughter Day celebrated?
26th January
India
Samuel Morse
Thar desert (Rajasthan)
9. On what occasion Bihar got its own state anthem and state prayer whose CD's were released by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar?
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Andhra Pradesh
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Narmada and Japti
10. What is our National Anthem?
India
Parupalli Kashyap
Jana Gana Mana
Heavy water
11. What is the name of India's first aircraft carrier?
John Ruskin
Yousuf Raza Gillani
Ladakh
INS Vikrant55
12. Which is largest man made lake in India?
Jaipur
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
26th January
Chaucer
13. Who got Dhyan Chand Award in 2011?
Vidya Balan
Aravind Adiga
Finland
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
14. When is World Food Day observed?
26th September (49th foundation day was observed on 26th Sept. - 2011)
16th October
Concave mirror
Sushil Kumar
15. Who invented the telegraphic code?
Bangalore
Mumbai ( New Delhi is fourth cheapest whereas Ziirich in Switzerland is most expensive place)
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Samuel Morse
16. Who got Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award in 2011?
Kiran Bedi
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Reena Dharamshaktu(mountaineering) - Mamta Sodha1(mountaineering) - Dilip Donde (sailing) - Late Balwant Singh Sandhu(mountaineering).
Florence Nightingale
17. Which game is associated with Agha Khan Cup?
24th February
Hockey
Four lions
Silver
18. Name the mountain range which stretches from Gujarat in the West to Delhi in the North?
Morarji Desai
Mumbai
Aravallis
Landsteiner
19. Who wrote the book 'Gulliver's Travels'?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Solidified Carbon Dioxide
Jonathan Swift
Infinite
20. Name the latest India's surface -to-surface missile successfully test fired (on 26th Sept - 2011)?
Three Decades in Parliament
Prithvi-II (striking range of 350 km)
At Magdalla port near Surat.
22nd April
21. Hawa Mahal is situated in which city?
Will pass through Equator
Fatehpur Sikri
Rahul Dravid
Jaipur
22. Who wrote the book 'The Namesake'?
Su-Kam Power Systems
Jhumpa Lahiri
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Hampi
23. Name the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister whose admirers have decided to build a temple to perpetuate his memory?
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Carbon dioxide
Navtej Saran
Aravind Adiga
24. When comes National Postal Day in India?
10th October
God particle or Higgs Boson
Aeriel Engineer Recce Equipment. The Army's engineer regiments are to be equipped with micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (micro-UAVs)
Palk Strait
25. Late Vijay Tendulkar who died in 2008 were famous in which field?
Mehbooba Mufti
Playwright
Sitar
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
26. Who is going to receive highest US award?
Aung San Suu Kyi
Chandrayaan
Ludhiana
Thailand
27. When is India's Republic Day celebrated?
Majuli (Brahmaputra river - Assam)
22nd April
26th January
Karashapana
28. Name the latest hi-tech weapon invented in 2011 to prevent obesity?
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29. Who was the first person to set foot on moon?
Kalpakkam
Neil Armstrong
Shockley
Sunita Williams
30. From where the longest circle which can be drawn from earth's surface will pass?
15th August167
Will pass through Equator
Vidya Balan
Edison
31. Which is the largest planetarium in India?
Kolkata
Algernon Sidney
Former Military Secretary - Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash.( Found guilty for his involvement in Sukna land scam.)
Samar Guha
32. Our Indian National Calender is based on which era?
1.34 millions
Hindukush
Carbon dioxide
Saka era
33. Who said - 'God helps those who helps themselves'?
Second Battle of Tarain
Algernon Sidney
Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July - 2012)
Florence Nightingale
34. Where is Buland Darwaza located?
5th September
Kanishka
Bangalore
Fatehpur Sikri
35. Who is President of India?
Param Vir Chakra
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
36. Who wrote the famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
Aravallis
Uttar Pradesh
Jane Austen
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
37. What is the changed name of Orissa officially according to Presidential assent to the Bill?
Late Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
Odisha
90 degrees
Jan 26 - 1950134
38. Where are the achievements of Samudragupta described on?
Allahabad Pillar inscription
Leh
Bleaching powder
Planning Commission
39. What is AERE?
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40. What is the name of India's moon mission?
Chandrayaan
Sukumar Sen
Amir Khusru
Dutch East Indies
41. Who invented the steam engine?
Assam
Newcommen (Later James Watt made improvements)
Shimla and Hamirpur
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
42. During whose reign The Mathura School of art flourished?
Nitrogen
Johann Gregor Mendel
Vasudeva
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
43. 'Nokia' the telecom company belongs to which country?
Iodine
Finland
24th October
1.34 millions
44. Which is the largest district in India?
Saint Cathadral (Goa )
U.K
5 hours 30 minutes
Ladakh
45. Name the sub-launched long range N-missile developed by China?
Bangalore
Shimla and Hamirpur
Kailash Temple - Ellora (Maharashtra)
Julang-2
46. Liquefied Petroleum Gas consists mainly which gases?
Methane - butane and propane
Prof. V.N Datta
Third century B.C
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
47. Who said 'I have nothing to offer except blood - sweat and tears'?
Because the solids have high elasticity.
4 minutes
Churchill
State Bank of India
48. What is the other name of deuterium oxide?
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and N.Ramachandran (Sports Academies of Excellence).
Lionel Messi - won the World Player of the Year award for the third time in row on 9th Jan. - 2012.
Heavy water
Mr. D.V.Sadananda Gowda (he succeeds Mr. B.S.Yeddyurappa).
49. Triple vaccine is administered to a new born child to save him from which diseases?
Hockey
Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
The Bering Strait
50. Which king brought the valleys of Indus - Ganga and Jamuna together for the first time under one political authority?
India
Aakash (Android based device developed by IIT researchers and now being developed by a company called DataWind.
Ashoka
Sunita Williams