1. India hosted its first-ever Formula One Grand Prix in

2. The draft guidelines issued by the Reserve Bank of India under Basel III norms envisages the ratio of equity capital to risk-weighted loans of a Bank not to be less than

3. The Lokpal Bill was passed by Lok Sabha however it could not paas through the Rajya Sabha on the issue of

4. Which of the following has not been included under the ambit of the Whistleblowers’ Protection Bill?

5. The Citizens’ Charter Bill deals with

6. The National Food Security Bil seeks to provide Rice and Wheat to all people living below the poverty line (BPL) across the country at

7. Which of the following statements are correct about the India’s infant mortality rate?

1. The country’s latest IMR is 47.
2. India has the target of bringing down infant deaths to 30 by 2015.

8. Which of the following has been a major irritant in the nuclear cooperation between India and Japan?

9. Which of the following country has leased nuclear-powered submarine to Indian Navy?

10. How much reservation for the minorities within the 27 per cent quota for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in government jobs and educational institutions?

11. The last ruler of the Delhi sultanate was

12. Shah Abbas, the Safavid ruler of Iran, captured Kandahar from which Mughal emperor

13. Kalachuris had their kingdom in

14. Chalukya dynasty in the Deccan was founded by

15. The Rashtrakutas empire was founded by

16. The Chalukya dynasty of Kalyani was founded by

17. The Hoyasala dynasty of Dwarasamudra was founded by

18. Siva Skandvarman was a great ruler of

19. Under which of the following ruler the Cholas rose as the supreme power in south in 10^th A.D

20. Which kingdom was absorbed to the kingdom of Vijayanagar in the 16th century

21. Which of the following are the regional dances of Uttar Pradesh

1. Raas Leela 2. Kajari 3. Nautanki 4. Jhora

22. Which of the following state with its dance is not correctly matched

23. Lava and Bhavada are the regional dances of

24. Which of the following are the harvest dances

1. Domrua 2. Hero Parab 3. Batauli Nach 4. Nom-Jama

25. Kathikundhei is a puppet dance of

26. Who gave the theory that the electrons in the atom move in precisely determined orbits

27. What Greek letter is used to denote frequency

28. ... is defined as force x distance

29. Power is measured as 1 Joule per ...

30. Which of the following are you doing when you stretch a spring

31. Which of the following statements are correct about the Polar cyclones?

1. A polar cyclone is a low pressure weather system.
2. It strengthens in the summers.
3. It weakens in the winters

32. During the cumulus stage of a thunderstorm

33. In cool humid climates, such as in the regions of the boreal forest biome which process develops a shallow, acidic, ashy-gray soil low in nutrients

34. Which soil order is the newest, most recently developed soil, without soil horizons

35. When gravitational water has drained off, and most of the pore spaces in a soil are filled with water, the soil is said to be at

36. Rock formed from magma that cools deep below the surface of the earth is

37. Sedimentary rocks that have formed from fragments of pre-existing rocks, cemented together by pressure or chemical action, are classified as ___________ rocks

38. A dark, fine-textured volcanic rock, with a composition high in iron and magnesium, and low in silica, would most likely be

39. Rainfall caused by air rising up the slopes of mountains is ________ rainfall

40. fold in which the rock layers are folded upward, with the limbs sloping up to the axis of the fold, is a(n)

41. Akal wood fossil park is located in

42. Which of the following is not a tiger reserve

43. Matach the following

A. Govind Pashu Vihar --------- 1. Assam
B. Kaziranga ----- Uttarakhand
C. Great Himalayan Park ---- 3. Himachal Pradesh
D. Ratanpani ----- 4. Madhya Pradesh

44. The confluence of Bhagirathi and Alaknanda is known as

45. Which of the following vegetation belong to the tidal forests

1. Sundari 2. Nipa 3. Brugiera 4. Screw pine

46. With which of the following country des India have least boundary

47. Which of the following state has maximum number of boundary states

48. "Deppa" is a shifting cultivation of

49. Arrange the following satellites of India in the chronological order of their launching

1. Aryabhatta 2. Rohini 3. SROSS-C 4. APPLE

50. Match the following

A. Noonmati 1. Assam
B. Barauni 2. Bihar
C. Haldia 3. West Bengal
D. Jamnagar 4. Gujrat

51. Which Article of our Constitution forbids child labour?

52. For a No-Confidence Motion to be introduced in the Lok Sabha it must have the support of at least

53. How many Anglo Indians can be nominated by the President to the Lok Sabha?

54. What is the term of office of a member of Rajya Sabha?

55. Who holds the office of the President if neither the President nor the Vice President is available?

56. Which of the following schedules in the Constitution divides the legislative powers between the Union and the States?

57. In accordance with the provisions of our constitution new all-India services can be created only by

58. The vesting of residuary powers under our constitution in the Union follows the precedent of which constitution?

59. Which Constitutional authority is responsible for constituting the Finance Commission periodically?

60. To whom does the Public Accounts Committee submit its report?

61. Which of the following became the first country to announce its withdraw from the Kyoto protocol on climate change?

62. The recently held Durban conference is concerned with

63. Which of the following statements are correct about the present status of the Kyoto Protocol?

1. Kyoto Protocol sets binding targets for 37 industrialised nations and the EU to slash carbon emissions to 5 per cent below the 1990 levels by 2012.
2. China and India have been exempted from any constraints.
3. US had opted out of the Kyoto Protocol.

64. Which of the following statements are correct about the road map for an accord on climate change?

1. The new pact is to be finalised till 2015.
2. The accord will come into effect from 2020.
3. India and China do not come under the ambit of a legal mechanism guiding emission cuts.
4. The developed nations agreed to a second commitment period under Kyoto Protocol.

65. The Bonn conference is concerned with

66. Which of the following is the comic Indian super-hero?

67. The Himayat programme sponsored by the Central government deals with

68. Delhi celebrated 100 years of re-emergence as the capital of India on

69. India’s ranking in transparency international’s corruption perception index stands at

70. Which of the following statements are correct?

1. ITC Hotels has been honoured with “Best Employer” National Award for empowerment of persons with disabilities.
2. The award is given by the Ministry of Youth.

71. "Qissa Khwani bazaar massacre" took place in Peshawar during the

72. In which year was the "Panchsheel" signed by India and China

73. Which of the following Sikh Guru founded the Khalsa

74. Which of the following Guru built Akal Takht

75. Gurudwara Manju ka Tila was built in the honour of which Sikh Guru

76. In 1937 provincial elections the Congress emerged as the dominant party with a clear majority in

77. The Lahore Resolution, demanding the division of India into two separate sovereign states was adopted by Muslim League in

78. The Jugantar party was formed by Aurobindo Ghosh, his brother Barin Ghosh, Bhupendranath Datta in

79. The India House and the The Indian Sociologist were founded in London by

80. Delhi-Lahore Conspiracy to assassinate the then Viceroy of India Charles Hardinge was planned under

81. “Know more. No Less” is the tag line of

82. Which of the following auto manufacturer is setting up its global development and manufacturing hub in India

83. Which of the following statements are correct about the India’s refining capacity?

1. India’s refining capacity is 194 million tonnes per annum.
2. India currently has a shortage of oil refining capacity.

84. Which of the following is the nuclear-powered attack submarine given by Russia to India?

85. Prosthetic ‘eye’ is likely to help

86. The newly discovered planets by the NASA’s Kepler telescope have been named as

87. Grail spacecraft has been launched by NASA to map

88. Which of the following statements are correct about Mario Miranda who died?

1. He was an Indian cartoonist.
2. He was also a painter and writer.
3. He was a Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan awardee.

89. Which of the following statements are correct about the Václav Havel who died recently?

1. He was a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician.
2. He was the last president of Czechoslovakia.
3. He was the first President of the Czech Republic.

90. Which of the following statements are correct about Satyadev Dubey who died recently?

1. He was a noted theatre personality.
2. Recently he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan.

91. The Cyclone Thane had which the coast of

92. Which of the following country has recently lifted its decade-old ban to export uranium to India?

93. Jyoti Amge has entered the Guinness World Records as the world’s

94. Which of the following statements are correct about Siddhartha Mukherjee?

1. He is an Indian-born American physician, scientist and writer.
2. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.

95. Which of the following statements are correct about the Champion’s Trophy?

1. Australia maintained its stranglehold on the Champion’s trophy with a 1-0 win over Spain.
2. This was Australia's overall 12^th Champion’s trophy title.

96. Which of the following statements are correct about the SAFF Championship 2011?

1. The The SAFF Championship 2011 was hosted by India.
2. India won the title by defeating Pakistan

97. Which of the following statements are correct?
1. India has won the Asia Cup luge title for the first time.
2. Shiva Keshavan claimed the first ever gold medal for the country.
3. He is the first non-Japanese to win this title.

98. Which of the following statements are correct about India's Greenhouse Emissions?

1. The per capita emissions are much lower compared to those of the developed countries.
2. India ranks in the top five in terms of GHG emissions.

99. India’s total CO2 emissions are about --- of total global CO2 emissions.

100. Which of the following are the outcome of the Cancun Agreements on climate change financing?

1. Fast start finance.
2. Long-term finance.
3. Climate Fund

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