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1. What will be the difference in longitudes between two places if their time difference is 2 hours and 20 minutes?
35 degree
Prof. V.N Datta
Sodium
Raja Ravi Varma
2. When is World's Sparrow Day observed?
Saeed Mirza
Year of Disabled Soldiers
Sunderbans delta
20th March
3. What is the name of India's first aircraft carrier?
INS Vikrant55
Partly in Europe and partly in Asia
Sushil Kumar
Pakistan and Afghanistan
4. Where is Char Minar located?
Algernon Sidney
Fatehpur Sikri
Kanishka
Hyderabad
5. Which musical instrument is said to be invented by Amir Khusro?
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Sitar
The equator
Mahatma Gandhi
6. Which is the largest planetarium in India?
Kolkata
8
Sachin Tendulkar
Ms. Vasuki Sunkavalli (of Hyderabad)
7. Who wrote 'One Day Wonders'?
Sunil Gavaskar
Talwandi
Jules Verne
Sunita Williams
8. Which state is going to be first carbon-neutral state in the country by 2020?
Mehbooba Mufti
Jyoti Amge
Himachal Pradesh
Martin Luther King
9. In how many time zones is U.S.A divided?
Gwalior Gharana
5
Perpendicular to each other
1911133
10. Where is a tunnel near the Indo-Pak border detected?
35 degree
In Samba
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
To divide Pacific Ocean in two halves
11. Who was the first person to set foot on moon?
Mohammad bin Kasim
Maldives ( smallest in South Asia - its population is just 3 lakhs)
High concentration of uranium due to excessive use of phosphate fertilizers - according to report prepared by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Neil Armstrong
12. Who was the author of 'Bharat Bharati'?
Members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Madenur in Hassan district of Karnataka
Jamaica
Maithili Sharan Gupta67
13. Who is the author of book 'Freedom Behind Bars'?
Kiran Bedi
Raja Ravi Varma
Concave lens
Gagan Narang
14. What reference is taken to know the local time of a place?
Longitudinal position
Fr his vast empire - for his preaching of ahimsa and for following path of Buddha.
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
Art and architecture
15. What is our National Anthem?
Protecting Flora and Fauna
Martin Luther King
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.)
Jana Gana Mana
16. Who became the first batsman in the history of cricket to score 100 international centuries?
Uttarakhand
Football
22nd April
Sachin Tendulkar
17. Which is largest man made lake in India?
Prime Minister
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
Shabbir Ali (football) - Sushil Kohli(swimming) - Raj Kumar (wrestling).
Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand dam )
18. Name the baby of Uttar Pardesh who is the symbolic seven billionth baby ?
Lawn Tennis153
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Haryana ( making daily short term power purchases of about 330 lakh units)
Baby Nargis
19. Term Double Fault is associated with which game?
5th September
Lawn Tennis153
Angle between the horizon and the equator
Agni-II - capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can cover 2000 km.
20. What is the other name of deuterium oxide?
Heavy water
The Lok Sabha
Planning Commission
Hockey
21. Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
Leo Tolstoy
John Ruskin
Liu Yang ( landed on earth safely after 13 days)
Jane Austen
22. Name the world's shortest living woman?
Jyoti Amge
Indians
USA
8th September
23. From where are the words 'Satyameva Jayate' taken?
Infinite
16th October
Mundak Upanishad
Speaker
24. 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?
Japan
Silver
Uttarakhand
Curiosity
25. What is the common name of sodium carbonate?
Darsheel Safary
Washing soda
Rajasthan
Angle between the horizon and the equator
26. A famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice 'is written by whom?
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Art and architecture
Golden Temple (Amritsar )
Jane Austen
27. Who is the first Indian sports person to win an individual Gold medal in the Olympic Games?
Martin Luther King
Morarji Desai
Abhinav Bindra
26th January
28. Name the mineral found in Zawar mines?
Zinc
India and Pakistan
Jonathan Swift
Nerpa (The submarine that has the capacity to fire nuclear warheads)
29. Name the great Hindu king who combined in himself the qualities of Samudragupta and Ashoka?
South Kolkata
Jonathan Swift
Harshavardhana
Nitrous oxide
30. Which day is celebrated as National Maritime Day in India?
M. Narasimhan
Su-Kam Power Systems
5th April
Samuel Morse
31. Which is the state wise largest area under forest in India?
24th May
Pune
Madhya Pradesh
' Why This Kolaveri Di' the song released on 16th Nov. written and sung by Dhanush
32. Name one famous Sarod player?
20th June (3rd sunday of June)
8th May
Kuntal Kumar Roy (athletics) - I. Venkateshwara Rao (boxing) - Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastic) - Rajinder Singh (hockey) - Ramphal (wrestling).
Amjad Ali Khan
33. Who discovered X-Ray?
Roentgen
Mary Kom
Johannes Kepler
Sonepur (Bihar )
34. Who is the renowned flute player?
Fatehpur Sikri
Roentgen
Lawn Tennis153
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
35. Which states are known for Cauvery Water dispute?
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter whereas weight is a force.
On 100th anniversary - celebrated on 22nd March - 2012
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
36. Where is famous Somnath Temple located?
Gujarat
Dr. Hargobind Khurana got nobel prize for it.
250th anniversary
Thailand
37. Whose autobiography is 'India Wins Freedom'?
24
Abul Kalam Azad
8th March
Indra Sinha64
38. Year 2011 is observed by Army as what?
Year of Disabled Soldiers
India Museum at Kolkata
Kauravas and Pandavas51
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'.
39. Who is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in India?
India
E.M Forster
The President
Uttar Pradesh
40. Who is the author of the book 'My Experiments with Truth'?
Das Kapital
Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jhangde
Mahatma Gandhi
Maharashtra
41. Name the person who transliterated Guru Granth Sahib in Braille?
Paschim Banga1
INS Vikrant55
Bhai Gurmej Singh
Speaker
42. Which is the language next to Hindi spoken by largest number of people in the Indian sub continent ?
Mr. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India.
Bengali
35 degree
162
43. Who headed the committee on computerisation in Indian banks(1988)?
Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)
M. Narasimhan
Chandrayaan
5th June
44. Which city is called 'White City' of Rajasthan?
Udaipur (Remember Jaipur is called Pink city). Udaipur is also known as city of lakes.
Sunderbans delta
Rajasthan (Near Maount Abu)139
Red sea and Mediterranean sea
45. Who got Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (highest sports award in country) award?
Demand deposits
The equator
Gagan Narang (shooter)
Khushwant Singh
46. Triple vaccine is administered to a new born child to save him from which diseases?
Whooping cough - tetanus and diphtheria.156
Longitudinal position
Mary Kom
20 August (Late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary)
47. When is Earth Day observed?
INS Satpura (ship which is 143m long can tactically fire weapons even before enemy detects it).
Late YS Rajasekhar Reddy
22nd April
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' was sold for nearly $ 120 million.
48. Who wrote the famous play 'Macbeth'?
Kulandei Francis
Wular lake (Kashmir)
1953
William Shakespeare151
49. Name the famous ruler of ancient India - who towards the end of his life converted to Jainism?
Chandragupta
Mahatma Gandhi
Madhya Pradesh
NATGRID (a network aimed at robust information-sharing among law enforcement agencies).
50. What are GM Crops?
Garima - lived for two years (died on 1st August - 2011 due to heart failure).
Leh
V.S Naipaul
Genetically Modified Crops.