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1) Which of the
following Saint known as "Mahboob-ae-Dilli"
Ans. Nizammuddin Aulia
2) The Coin "Rupia" was first issued by:
Ans. Akbar
3) How many Central
universities are there in
Ans.17
4)who was the first European to translate the Bhagwat Gita into English?
Ans. Charles Wilkins
5)Tuzuk-i-baburi was a autabiography written by babur in
which language
Ans. Turkish
6) Which mughal emperor was also known as Qalandar?
Ans. babur
7) In 2003, Indian
Railways Has completed?
Ans.
150 Years.
8)Which Indian Bank has the highest branches
abroad?
Ans. SBI
9) The first Premature dissolution at the lok sabha took place in the year?
Ans. 1970
10) Tasleema's Nasreen's
Autobiography?
Ans. Dwekhandita
11) The Office of District
collector was created by?
Ans. Warren Hastings
12) what is the national sport of
Ans. Soccer
13) Which indian hockey player has a road
named after him in
Ans. Roop singh
14) In which year was
men's hockey included in the Olympics?
Ans. 1924
15) Who gave Kapil Dev the nickname "Harayana
Hurricane"?
Ans.
Guinness Book of World Records.
16) Which cricketer,
after his retirement from the game, served as
Ans. K. S. Duleepsinghji
17) Who was the only
cricketer to feature on a currency note of his country?
Ans. Sir Frank
Worrell
18) In the history of
Indian Cricket what 'first' does Faroukh Engineer
have to his credit?
Ans. He was the first Indian to play County
cricket ( for
19) Who was the only
player dismissed for duck in the 1983 World Cup cricket final?
Ans. Kirti Azad (
20) Who was the first
Hindu to play for the
Ans. Anil Dalpat (wicket-keeper)
21) Which Australian cricketer, is nicknamed "Herby"?
Ans.
Allan Border.
22) Who scored 99, 98
and 97 in three successive Test innings?
Ans. Clem Hill (
23) What is the
importance of
Ans. For the first time in cricket history a
Test match was tied.
24) Who was the first
victim of Kapil Dev in One day Internationals?
Ans. Imran Khan of
25) Who claimed the
first wicket in Test cricket?
Ans. Allen Hill of
England
26) "She was
initially named Jeevan by her father, but later
changed the name. By what name is this singer better known now? "
Ans. Norah Jones
27) Which former Miss
Ans. Nalini Vishwanathan
28) Which is the
youngest and oldest of the new world religions?
Ans. Sikhism and Hinduism
29) In the 1980 film Kalyug which modern day actress played the role of Rekha's son?
Ans. Urmila Matondkar
30) Which is the
national animal of
Ans. Cow
31) In which Indian
state would you find the largest church of
Ans. Goa
32) The country
Ans. South
33)
Where was the Durand Cup football tournament first played?
Ans. Shimla
34) JPY is the
currency code of which country?
Ans.
35) Who was the
captain of
Ans. Krishnamachari Srikkanth
36) Which planet was
discovered by William Herschel in 1781?
Ans. Uranus
37) Which country is
the world's largest producer of wheat?
Ans.
38) How do we better
know a pugilist?
Ans. Boxer
39) Who wrote the
poem 'Venus and Adonis'?
Ans. William
Shakespeare
40) How is Sampooran Singh better known?
Ans. Gulzar
41) A.S Dilip Kumar is the original name of which famous music
director?
Ans. A.R Rahman
42) Which company was
founded in 1924 by a former cash register salesman Thomas Watson?
Ans. IBM
43) Which Indian
politician wrote 'Flight to Parliament'?
Ans. Rajesh Pilot
44) Who among these
was the first to
Ans. Phu Dorjee
45) "In
computers, which term is used to refer to a collection of databases?"
Ans. Databank
46) What type of a
creature is a mamba?
Ans. A snake
47) In which of these
lakes are the
48) Which Indian
President received the Templeton Prize in 1975?
Ans. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
49) Which was the
first Indian film to be nominated for the Oscar?
Ans. Mother India
50) Holi is celebrated in the month of ________ .
Ans. Phalguna
51) Which city is the
headquarters of the SAARC?
Ans. Kathmandu
52) Which U.S
president won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906?
Ans Theodore Roosevelt
53) Which animal is
given or lent to other countries by the Chinese government as a mark of
friendship?
Ans.Panda
54) What is the more
popular name of the Alsatian breed of dogs?
Ans. German Shepherd
55) Which is used to
refer to data transfer rates in modem?
Ans. Cps
56) On which island
were the extinct bird dodo found?
Ans.
57) "Sourav Ganguly, Virender Sehwag, Pravin Amre" what have in common ?
Ans. Century on Test
debut
58) "In the
English translation of Rabindranath Tagore's 'Gitanjali', which
famous poet wrote the introduction? "
Ans. W.B. Yeats
59) 'Tarkash' is a collection of Urdu poetry by which famous
lyricist?
Ans. Javed Akhtar
60) Which former
Ans. Franklin D.
Roosevelt
61) Which Indian won
a Grammy award in the 2002 Grammy Awards?
Ans. Pandit
62) Aristotle was the
teacher of which famous emperor?
Ans. Alexander the
Great
63) "In 1980,
the Indian government issued a stamp to honour which
hockey legend?"
Ans. Dhyan Chand
64) Which of these
actors played a negative role in Steven Spielberg's '
Ans. Amrish Puri
65) Who is the only
cricketer to have played Test cricket for both
Ans. Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi
66) How is Badruddin Jamaluddin Kazi better known?
Ans Johnny Walker
67) Which of these
games is also called 'Ping-Pong'?
Ans. Table
tennis
68) Who has won the
Nobel Prize twice?
Ans. Marie Curie
69) Who played the
role of the young Raj Kapoor
in the film 'Awara'?
Ans. Shashi Kapoor
70) Which of these
computer languages was developed from an earlier language BCPL?
Ans. C
71) Which country was
ruled by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk?
Ans.
72) By what name is
the software program Multiplan now known?
Ans. MS Excel
73) By what name is
actor R.K. Tuli better known?
Ans. Rajendra Kumar
74) "In 1640,
which city was founded by Francis Day ?"
Ans. Madras
75) "In
computers, what is the full form of OMR?"
Ans. Optical Mark
Reading
76) Which famous director is the nephew of Dev Anand?
Ans. Shekhar Kapur
77) "In
computers, which of these terms is used to refer to a temporary memory for
data?"
Ans. Buffer
78) Who used the
screen name 'Baby Rani' as a child actress?
Ans. Nargis
79) Who was the last
ruler of the
Ans. Ibrahim
80) Who was the first
Asian to swim across the
Ans. Mihir Sen
81) Who was the first
Indian to participate in the
Ans. Sardar Nihal Singh
82) Which is the most
used metal in the world?
Ans. Iron
83) Who was the first
Roman Catholic president of
Ans. John F.
Kennedy
84) Name the first
artificial satellite launched by man.
Ans. Sputnik 1
85) "In
ans. Emperor
86) Which of these cities is both in
87) Which is the
longest river in
Yangtze
88) Which Indian
actresses acted in the film 'City of
ans. Shabana Azmi
89) Which game was
once known as battledore?
Ans. Badminton
90) In which
continent is the
Ans.
91) Which is the
hardest naturally occurring substance known to man?
Ans. Diamond
92) What was the name
of the first personal computer?
Ans. Altair
93) Which planet was
discovered by the American astronomer
Ans. Pluto
94) "Which of
these elements was discovered by Pierre Curie, Marie Curie and G. Bemont?"
ans. Radium
95) What do we call a
device for connecting computer network that has the facilities of both a bridge
and a router?
Ans. Brouter
96) After which Prime
Minister was
Ans. Rajiv Gandhi
97) Which hill
station of
Ans. Meghalaya
98) Which city became
the capital of
Ans. Shimla
99) Who was given the
title of 'Kavi Priya' by Akbar?
Ans. Birbal
100) Which term is used to describe a computer having the
characteristics of both digital and analog computers?
Ans. Hybrid
computer