Q.The world's highest 'Rail Bridge' is being constructed on which river in Jammu & Kashmir?
ANS-Chenab
Q.Who was popularly called 'Bard of Avon' ?
ANS- William Shakespeare
Q.How many days in total has now been spent by Sunita Williams in space?
ANS-322
Q.Confucianism arose during the reign of
ANS- Han Dynasty
Q.Which of the following States became the first State in the Country to launch RBI's e-payment system for commercial tax payers?
ANS-Karnataka
Q.Who authored the book `The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid' ?
ANS-C.K.Prahalad
Q.Which element is necessarily present in all acids ?
ANS-Hydrogen
Q.In carbon dioxide,carbon and oxygen always combine in the ratio by mass of:
ANS-. 3:8
Q.Which among the following pairs of countries are associated with the dispute oveR controversial Rogun dam project?
ANS-Tajikistan – Uzbekistan
Q. Which is India’s first ever Pollution Control Warship?
ANS-Samudra Prahari
Q,Viagra, the famous aphrodisiac is
patented by –
ANS- Pfizer
Q.‘Open’ is the autobiography of which sports personality?
ANS-Andre Agassiz
Q.Which country has developed the first bio-inspired water striding microbot (robot) which is capable of not
just walking on water but jumping up and down on the water’s surface?
ANS-]China
Q.Welikada prison, which is recently in news is located in which among the following country?
ANS-Sri Lanka
Q.Who is the author of the book
"No Full Stops in India"?
ANS-Mark Tully
Q.In which tribe the divorced women is most respected
ANS- Korawa of Mizapur
Q.Which country is also known as the 'Rainbow Nation' ?
ANS- South Africa
Q.What is the name of the bionic man that is recently unveiled by the Scientists?
ANS- Rex
Q.Recently which Indian Ministry has launched the “My India” Initiative in Feb 2013?
ANS-Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Q.The regional project by name ‘CASA-1000′ (Central Asia-South Asia-1000), funded by World Bank, pertains to the field of :
ANS-Electricity
Q.A person who speaks many
languages
ANS- Polyglot
Q.The host of 2018 Football World Cup is...?
ANS-Russia
Q.Due to its criss-crossing canals, which Kerala town is also called 'The Venice of the East' ?
ANS-Alappuzha
Q.Hwang Ho river flows through which one of the following cities
ANS- Shanghai
Q.In which year Family Planning Programme was started in India? ANS-1952
Q.Winner of 2013 Saraswati Samman?
ANS-Sugatha Kumari
Q.After Sachin Tendulkar, who is the second cricketer to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award ?
ANS-Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Q.Which Company won the 2012 Golden Peacock Award for The Most Innovative Product /Service by the Institute of Directors, India in Feb 2013 for its Cloud Ecosystem Hub?
ANS-Infosys
Q.What is the name of the proposed NASA mission to Moon?
ANS-Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer(LADEE)
Q.In accordance with the National Policy on Skill Development Government has set
a target of skilling how many people (in crores) by 2022?
ANS-50 CRORE
Q.Paper currency first started in India in
ANS-1542
Q.Who is the first Indian to be selected as President of the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs?
ANS- Dr M.S.Swaminathan
Q.Who is the father of Geometry?
ANS- Euclid
Q.Which city is known as the `Big Apple' ?
ANS- New York
Q.Which South Pacific island nation shifted its position on the International Date Line westwards moving from December 29 to December 31, 2011 erasing December 30 from the country’s calendar?
ANS- Samoa