Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
The 4th battalion of the Sikh Light Infantry was the last army unit to be stationed in which
UNESCO World Heritage site in Delhi?
Answer: Red Fort
Q2. In the 1970s, which was the first Indian film whose dialogue soundtracks were released in
the market?
Answer: Sholay
Q3. Which great Indian ruler first enacted a law for the protection of wildlife and environment?
Answer: Ashoka
Q4. In 1983, what became the first product to be sold in a sachet in India?
Answer: Shampoo
Q5. In India, who is the first person to be enumerated in the census?
Answer: President of India
Q1. In 2009, the makers of which Oscar winning film donated 500,000 towards child
development in Mumbai?
Answer: Slumdog Millionaire
Q2. Who was the first non-American TIME Person of the Year?
Answer: Kalpana Chawla
Q3. After which NASA astronaut, was the first dedicated meteorological satellite of India
named?
Answer: Kalpana Chawla
Q4. In India, the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme certifies which valuable mineral?
Answer: Diamond
Q5. In 2010, which Indian cricketer was chosen as a United Nations Environment Programme
Goodwill Ambassador?
Answer: Sachin Tendulkar
Q1. According to the Guinness World Records, which company is the worlds largest
manufacturer of bicycles?
Answer: Hero Cycles
Q2. Which famous Indian building was built using 700 million bricks and three million cubic
feet of stone?
Answer:Rashtrapati Bhavan
Q3. Indias first sea bridge, in Mumbai, is named after which former Prime Minister?
Answer: Rajiv Gandhi
Q4. What is the common name of the Hindu festival Dhulheti or Phagwa?
Answer: Holi
Q5. Which item of Indias national pride was based upon a design by Pingali Venkayya?
Answer:The Indian Flag
Q1. In 2009, who became the youngest recipient to be honoured with an honorary doctorate from
the Aligarh Muslim University?
Answer:AR Rahman
Q2. More than 86% of Indias rhinos live in which national park?
Answer: Kaziranga
Q3. A traffic circle in Bengaluru is named after which Indian Test cricketer?
Answer:Anil Kumble
Q4. Which train in India boasted of the first STD/ISD service installation?
Answer: Rajdhani Express
Q5. Who is the first Bollywood star to feature at Madame Tussauds?
Answer:Amitabh Bachchan
Q1. When the Indian government launched the e-passports scheme, who received the first
copy?
Answer: Pratibha Patil
Q2. Which was the earliest authoritative text on public finance, administration and fiscal laws in
India?
Answer:Kautilyas Arthasastra
Q3. On which national holiday are the Padma Awards given?
Answer: Republic Day or 26th January
Q4. In 1970, the National Dairy Development Board initiated which operation to increase the
availability of milk?
Answer: Operation Flood or White Revolution
Q5.Which famous Indian brand was named after Nirupama Patel?
Answer:Nirma
Q1. Which is the only Indian monument to appear on the list of the New Seven Wonders of the
World?
Answer:Taj Mahal
Q2. Which is the first Indian product to obtain the Geographical Identification tag?
Answer: Tea
Q3. What kind of an animal is Shera- the mascot of 2010 Commonwealth Games?
Answer: Tiger
Q4. Which novel by Vikram Seth has 1,349 pages and 591,552 words and is one of the longest
novels ever published?
Answer: A Suitable Boy
Q5. Which is the first IT company from India to be listed on NASDAQ?
Answer: Infosys
Q1. Which actor founded the production company Red Chillies Entertainment?
Answer: Shah Rukh Khan
Q2. Which is the worlds most expensive spice by weight?
Answer: Saffron
Q3. To increase its brilliance, which diamond was cut from 186 1/16 carats to 105.602 carats?
Answer: Kohinoor
Q4. Who has composed the theme song of the 2010 Commonwealth Games?
Answer: A R Rahman
Q5. Which famous Indian brand is named after Ramaniklal Ambanis son?
Answer: Vimal
Q1. Along with Gary Hamel, who is the originator of the concept of core competencies?
Answer: C. K. Prahalad
Q2. In 1993, who was awarded the Booker of Bookers Prize?
Answer: Salman Rushdie
Q3. After the Taj Mahal, which was the most visited monument in India in 2009?
Answer: Qutub Minar
Q4. In 1947, the Radcliffe Line became the border between India and which country?
Answer: Pakistan
Q5. In 2008, which river was declared Indias National River?
Answer: The Ganges
Q1. Hailey National Park was renamed after which hunter turned conservationist?
Answer: Jim Corbett
Q2. The birth name of which historical figure was Farid Khan?
Answer: Sher Shah Suri
Q3. Chausa, Totapuri, Jahangir and Rumani are different varieties of which fruit?
Answer: Mango
Q4. Which Sarod maestro composed raga Priyadarshini in memory of Indira Gandhi?
Answer: Amjad Ali Khan
Q5. The names of 70,000 Indian soldiers are inscribed on the walls of which monument?
Answer: India Gate
Q1. Which sitarist was awarded Indias highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999?
Answer: Ravi Shankar
Q2. Who established the Missionaries of Charity in 1950 in Calcutta?
Answer: Mother Teresa
Q3. Balram Halwai is the hero of which MAN Booker Prize winning book?
Answer: The White Tiger
Q4. A PhD Scholarship at St Johns College-Cambridge,is named after which Indian PM?
Answer: Dr. Manmohan Singh
Q5. Which Mughal emperor founded a religious doctrine called Din-i-Ilahi?
Answer: Akbar
Q1. Who held the office of prime minister for the shortest period of time in India?
Answer: Atal Behari Vajpayee
Q2. Who is the youngest to score a century in Test for India?
Answer: SR Tendulkar
Q3. Which film has been chosen as Indias official entry at the Oscars in 2010?
Answer: Peepli Live
Q4. Which is the most common subspecies of tiger?
Answer: Royal Bengal tiger
Q5. The Polyester Prince by Hamish McDonald is an unauthorised biography of whom?
Answer: Dhirubhai Ambani
Q1. The worlds highest battlefield is located in which glacier?
Answer: Siachen Glacier
Q2. India is part of the Commonwealth.Who is the Head of the Commonwealth?
Answer: Queen Elizabeth II
Q3. Who was the last Indian born person to win a Nobel Prize?
Answer: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Q4. Which lady holds the record for being in space for 185 days?
Answer: Sunita Williams
Q5. Which two-word phrase did writer Suketu Mehta coin to describe Mumbai?
Answer: Maximum City
Q1. The Palk Strait seperates India and which country?
Answer: Sri Lanka
Q2. What is the present name of the Formula One team Spyker?
Answer: Force India
Q3. Jackson Heights is the little India of which US city?
Answer: New York
Q4. In terms of actual GDP size and contribution to all India GDP,which city is Number One?
Answer: Mumbai
Q5. If you were visiting the Taj Mahal, in which Indian state would you be?
Answer: Uttar Pradesh
Q1. Who appoints the Chief Election Commissioners and Election Commissioners in India?
Answer: The President
Q2. In 1591, which monument was built by Mohammed Quli Qutab Shah to commemorate the
end of the plague in the city?
Answer: Charminar
Q3. Dal-Baati-Churma is a famous dish of which Indian state?
Answer: Rajasthan
Q4. Salman Khan starrer film Hello is based on whose novel?
Answer: Chetan Bhagat
Q5. Among Indians, who scored most number of double centuries in Test cricket?
Answer: V Sehwag
Q1. After Brazil and India,which country has the most Orkut users?
Answer: USA
Q2. Who holds the record for serving as the worlds longest lady PM?
Answer: Indira Gandhi
Q3. Hillcroft,an ethnic enclave in Houston,Texas,has been renamed after which Indian?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
Q4. 4 Who was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Answer: Rabindranath Tagore
Q5. The headquarters of SAARC are located in which neighbouring country of India?
Answer: Nepal
Q1. Who is the ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha?
Answer: The Vice-President
Q2. Who holds the record for the most number of Best Actor nominations at the Filmfare
Awards?
Answer: Amitabh Bachchan
Q3. Which fictional town is located on the banks of the river Sarayu?
Answer: Malgudi
Q4. In which Indian state could one experience a 36-course meal called Wazwan?
Answer: Jammu & Kashmir
Q5. In Test cricket, which Indian has bowled the maximum number of balls?
Answer: A Kumble
Q1. Which free web-based email service was founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith?
Answer: Hotmail
Q2. K2,the second highest peak in the world,is situated in which mountain range?
Answer: Karakoram
Q3. According to The Economist ,which management institute in India is the toughest in the
world to get into?
Answer: IIM Ahmedabad
Q4. Who is the vice chairman of the World Steel Association?
Answer: L N Mittal
Q5. Who is the first non-Russian to win the Chess Oscar six times in a row?
Answer: Vishy Anand
Q1. The real name of which Bollywood actor is Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia?
Answer: Akshay Kumar
Q2. Against which country has Sachin Tendulkar scored the most Test centuries?
Answer: Australia
Q3. Who served as the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India from November
1999 to November 2001?
Answer: APJ Abdul Kalam
Q4. In which national park in India are the maximum numbers of Asiatic Lions found ?
Answer: Gir National Park
Q5. The real name of which Indian ruler was Budh Singh?
Answer: Ranjit Singh
Q1. Which British-Trinidadian novelist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001?
Answer: VS Naipaul
Q2. Screenwriter Simon Beaufoy visited India three times while writing the screenplay of which
film?
Answer: Slumdog Millionaire
Q3. The flavour of which famous rice is caused by the aroma compound 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline?
Answer: Basmati
Q4. Tata Consultancy Services is associated with which Formula One team?
Answer: Ferrari
Q5. The name of which mountain peak means Five Treasuries of the Great Snow in Tibetian?
Answer: Kanchenjung
Q1. Which Bollywood actress won the Miss World title in 2000?
Answer: Priyanka Chopra
Q2. Which Indian has hit the most number of sixes in Test matches?
Answer: V Sehwag
Q3. In 1971, which economist joined the Government of India as Economic Advisor in the
Commerce Ministry?
Answer: Manmohan Singh
Q4. India celebrates National Science Day every year to commemorate the discovery of what?
Answer: Raman Effect
Q5. MARCOS is an elite special operations unit of which branch of the Armed Forces of India?
Answer: Indian Navy
Q1. The ghoomar dance comes from which Indian state?
Answer: Ghoomar from Rajasthan
Q2. Harpal Singh of Delhi was the first proud Indian owner of which car ?
Answer: Harpal Singh first Maruti800 owner
Q3. Who gave R D Burman the nickname Pancham?
Answer: Ashok Kumar
Q1. Who was the first person from Andhra Pradesh to become the Prime Minister of India?
Answer: PV Narasimha Rao
Q2. Which famous football club is run by the Alemao family of Goa?
Answer: Churchill Brothers
Q3. Which state in north-eastern India harbours the maximum number of orchid species in the
country?
Answer: Arunachal Pradesh
Q4. Baba Budan, a Muslim saint, brought what to India for the first time from Yemen?
Answer: Coffee
Q5. From where did the founders of Asian Paints derive the name of their company?
Answer: Telephone Directory
Q1. Which Indian Prime Minister coined the term non-alignment?
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru
Q2. In 1981, who was appointed the Music Director for Life at the Israel Philharmonic
Orchestra?
Answer: Zubin Mehta
Q3. In which Indian state is the town Vasco-da-Gama located?
Answer: Goa
Q1. Which was the first football club to represent India in the Asian Club Cup?
Answer: East Bengal
Q2. Even though he was in office for 171 days, which Indian Prime Minister never faced
Parliament?
Answer: Charan Singh
Q3. Which was the first Indian film whose soundtrack was made available for downloading on
iTunes?
Answer: Delhi-6
Q4. Set up in 1927 on the advice of Mahatma Gandhi, which is Indias largest and oldest apex
business organization?
Answer: FICCI
Q5. The Fall of a Sparrow is the autobiography of which famous Indian ornithologist?
Answer: Salim Ali
Q1. In 1979, the Nobel banquet in Oslo was cancelled on whose request?
Answer: Mother Teresa
Q2. Indias busiest airport is situated in which city?
Answer: Delhi
Q3. The technology centre of General Electric Company in Bangalore is named after which
foreigner?
Answer: Jack Welch
Q1. The first name of which Indian footballer means little brother in Tibetan?
Answer: Baichung Bhutia
Q2. Who was the only finance minister to become the President of India?
Answer: R Venkataraman
Q3. Which type of churidar is named after a beautiful Mughal era courtesan?
Answer: Anarkali
Q4. Nawab Wajid Ali Shah added which vegetable to the Awadhi biryani?
Answer: Potatoes
Q5. Which famous salutation was coined by Champakaraman Pillai during the independence
movement?
Answer: Jai Hind
Q1. Which management guru did The Economist call Euroguru?
Answer: Sumantra Ghoshal
Q2. Whose debut album was titled Come Away with Me ?
Answer: Norah Jones
Q3. In 2003,India launched the worlds largest immunization campaign against which disease?
Answer: Polio
Q4. Who is the founder and chairman of the Caparo Group?
Answer: Lord Swaraj Paul
Q5. Which company started bhashaindia.com to promote Indic language computing on the net?
Answer: Microsoft
Q1. Which film director is the Chairman & Managing Director of Mukta Arts Limited?
Answer: Subhash Ghai
Q2. Which Indian bowler has conceded the most runs in Test cricket?
Answer: Anil Kumble
Q3. Who has been the only woman Finance Minister of India?
Answer: Indira Gandhi
Q4. Which five-storey building has 953 pink sandstone windows known as jharokhas?
Answer: Hawa Mahal
Q5.On which Indian luxury train can you find two restaurant cars named Maharaja and
Maharani?
Answer: Palace on Wheels
Q1. Which Indian has the most roads named after him?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
Q2. Darjeeling tea is plucked from which Indian state?
Answer: Bengal
Q3. Who was the last Indian born lady to win the Booker Prize?
Answer: Kiran Desai
Q4. In 2007,India allowed the import of Harley Davidson bikes from the US in exchange for the
export of which fruit?
Answer: Mango
Q5. Who was the first non-Indian head of state to win Indias highest civilian award,the Bharat
Ratna?
Answer: Mandela
Q1. Who is the first Indian player to play in Major League Soccer club Kansas City Wizards?
Answer: Sunil Chhetri
Q2.Which Indian economist coined the phrase Hindu rate of growth?
Answer: Raj Krishna
Q3. In which state of India is the Indian Wild Ass Sanctuary situated?
Answer: Gujarat
Q1. What was the name of the first planned city of the Mughals?
Answer: Fatehpur Sikri
Q2. In which state were the first Aadhar cards issued?
Answer: Maharashtra
Q3. What are Robusta, Rasthali, Poovan, Singapuri and Chinia types of?
Answer: Bananas
Q1. Who won the first Filmfare Award for Best Actor?
Answer: Dilip Kumar
Q2. Made by red and buff standstone, which is the highest tower in India?
Answer: Qutb Minar
Q3. In Test matches, which Indian has scored most runs in a career without a hundred?
Answer: Chetan Chauhan
Q1. Who was the first Asian to head an Oxbridge college?
Answer: Amartya Sen
Q2. By what name was Tata Steel Europe formerly known?
Answer: Corus
Q3. With which sport is the Calcutta Cup, played between England and Scotland, associated?
Answer: Rugby
Q1. Which Indian Finance Minister presented two budgets on his birthday?
Answer: Morarji Desai
Q2. In 326 BC, which Indian ruler presented Alexander 30 lbs of Indian iron?
Answer: Porus/Poru
Q3. Who was the final baton bearer in the Queens Baton Relay for the 2010 Commonwealth
Games Opening Ceremony?
Answer: Sushil Kumar
Q1. In which comic strip, known for its satirical office humour, are you most likely to meet a
character named Asok?
Answer: Dilbert
Q2. Who is the first-ever India-born winner on the PGA Tour?
Answer: Arjun Atwal
Q3. For which film did Richard Attenborough win the 1982 Academy Award?
Answer: Gandhi
Q1. Who was the first Indian to win the All England Badminton Championship?
Answer: Prakash Padukone
Q2.Vidyadhar Bhattacharya was the chief architect and city planner of which city in Rajasthan?
Answer: Jaipur
Q3. Savitri Khanolkar designed the medal for which Indian gallantry award?
Answer: Param Vir Chakra
Q1. Which building is the first ISO-certified habitat in India?
Answer: Rashtrapati Bhawan/Presidential House in India
Q2. In 1985, who became the founding President of the American Association of Ayurvedic
Medicine?
Answer: Deepak Chopra
Q3. What is the name of the film production company founded by Mira Nair?
Answer: Mira Nair
Q1. Who is the first Parsi member of the House of Lords?
Answer: Karan Faridoon Bilimoria
Q2. Which is the first alcoholic beverage from India to get the GI status?
Answer: Goan Feni
Q3. The Tennis Federation of Cambodia has officially designated which Indian tennis player as
their Tennis Ambassador?
Answer: Leander Paes
Q1. Who was the first Indian to refer to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi as Mahatma?
Answer: Rabindranath Tagore
Q2. In 2004, the famous European Case Awards instituted an award for Excellence in Case
Writing named after which Indian?
Answer: Sumantra Ghoshal
Q3. Until 1896, India was the only source of which precious stone?
Answer: Diamond
Q1. In the Indian Navy, the best all-round Cadet is awarded with a pair of what?
Answer: Binoculars
Q2.Which Bollywood superstars surname is Nagrath?
Answer: Hrithik Roshan
Q3. In ODIs, which Indian has officiated as a match referee in most number of matches?
Answer: Javagal Srinath
Q1. What were discovered by John Smith of the British Army in 1819 while hunting?
Answer: Ajanta Caves
Q2. If India is number two, which country produces the most currency notes?
Answer: China
Q3. Which artist directed a short film called Through the Eyes of a Painter in 1966?
Answer: MF Husain
Q1. In 1947, from which monument did Jawharlal Nehru announce Indias independence?
Answer: Red Fort
Q2. Which board game was originally called Mokshapat?
Answer: Snakes & Ladders
Q3. Which famous Indian coined the term mega issue?
Answer: Dhirubhai Ambani
Q1. Which Indian Prime Minister has faced the most number of no-trust motions?
Answer: Indira Gandhi
Q2. The proceedings of the Supreme Court of India are conducted in which language?
Answer: English
Q3. Who was presented the Daniel Guggenheim Medal in 1989, which was first conferred on
Orville Wright?
Answer: JRD Tata
Q1. A book which didnt get banned! Which national park was the inspiration behind Rudyard
Kiplings The Jungle Book?
Answer: Pench
Q2. On World Stats Day a Q on statistics! In 1951, Godrej supplied 1.7 million of what to the
Indian Government?
Answer: Ballot Boxes
Q3. Who was the first Indian woman to graduate from Harvard Business School?
Answer: Naina Lal Kidwai
Q1. Which non-resident Indian is the Chancellor of the University of Westminster?
Answer: Swaraj Paul
Q2. The Mughal Emperor Babur valued what as two-and-a-half days food of the entire world?
Answer: Kohinoor
Q3. The last British troops in India ceremoniously exited the country by passing through which
landmark?
Answer: Gateway of India
Q1. Which Indian PM made an appearence in the film Chala Murari Hero Banne?
Answer: AB Vajpayee
Q2. Which Indian classical dance form originated in a village in Krishna district of Andhra
Pradesh?
Answer: Kuchipudi
Q3. The Indian cricket team plays against which team for the Pataudi Trophy?
Answer: England
Q1.Which monument, originally made in wood, represented the saint Imam Hussains tomb?
Answer: Charminar
Q2. Most people in Haining, China call which Indian Nobel laureate Zhu Zhen Dan?
Answer: Tagore
Q3. Which Indian finance minister changed the budget timings for the first time in 1999-2000?
Answer: Yashwant Sinha
Q1. Rihla is an account of whose travels in India?
Answer: Ibn Battuta
Q2. Mr WizeR is the mascot of which brand of cars?
Answer: WagonR
Q3. According to the Limca Book of Records, who is the longest serving president of an Indian
political party?
Answer: Lalu Prasad Yadav
Q1. On whose life was the 2006 Hindi film Gafla loosely based?
Answer: Harshad Mehta
Q2. Who was infamously convicted in a case filed in 1995 by the solicitor firm,
Poornanand and Company?
Answer: Telgi
Q3. The restructuring exercise of which company was dubbed Operation Phoenix?
Answer: Tech Mahindra/Satyam (after scam)
Q1. Which famous singer endorsed the cough syrup, Glycodin?
Answer: Lata Mangeshkar
Q2. Whose voice was used for the Hindi dub of March of the Penguins?
Answer: Amitabh Bachchan
Q3. To offset for CO2 loss, the band Coldplay bought mango trees for villagers in which state?
Answer: Karnataka
Q1. Which novel by Amitav Ghosh is set prior to the Opium Wars?
Answer: Sea of Poppies
Q2. Which gateway in Lucknow was modelled after the Sublime Porte in Istanbul?
Answer: Rumi Darwaza/Turkish Gateway
Q3. Which famous lady in advertising was drawn by Eustace Fernandes?
Answer: Amul Girl
Q1. Kollywood is the film industry of which state?
Answer: Tamil Nadu
Q2. Cartoonist R. K. Laxman specialises in painting which bird?
Answer: Crows
Q3. By what name do we popularly know the town of Sohra in Meghalaya?
Answer: Cherrapunjee
Q1. In 1965,which company pioneered son-et-lumiere shows at Red Fort?
Answer: Philips
Q2. Which Nobel laureate wrote the book In Light Of India?
Answer: Octavio Paz
Q3. Which is Indias first cricket ground to be lit up with floodlights?
Answer: Eden Gardens
Q1. Under the Bachat Lamp Yojana, what is priced between Rs. 10 to 15?
Answer: CFLs
Q2. Which company was incorporated as Radio Lamp Works in 1938?
Answer: Bajaj Electricals
Q3. Which was the first city in India to be electrified in 1905?
Answer: Bangalore
Q1. In Hindu mythology,the end of which war marks the start of Kali Yuga?
Answer: Kurukshetra
Q2. In teen patti/flush,the highest hand is three aces,which 3 cards form the lowest hand?
Answer: 2 3 5 not of same card suit
Q3. Rugmark is the international label against illegal child labour in the ____ industry.
Answer: Carpet
Q1. Dabur once marketed the drug Plagin to combat?
Answer: Plague
2. Which is Asias largest antelope?
Answer: Nilgai
Q3. Which bearded Indians autobiography is Pendhapur Ka Ek Ladka?
Answer: MF Hussain
Q1. Who is the 55th and current Governor of Louisiana?
Answer: Bobby Jindal
Q2. In 1854, for whom did the British announce an annual pension of Rs 60K?
Answer: Rani Laxmibai
Q3. What indian sweet did K.C. Das invent?
Answer: Rossomalai
Q1. The fastest Shatabdi goes from New Delhi to?
Answer: Bhopal
Q2. Who wrote the book Train To Pakistan?
Answer: Khushwant Singh
Q3. Who was nicknamed Payyoli Express?
Answer: PT Usha
Q1. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Airport serves which Indian city?
Answer: Ahmedabad
Q2. How do we popularly know the wrestler Dalip Singh Rana?
Answer: The Great Khali
Q3. Far away from here, which tourist attraction was created by Nek Chand?
Answer: Rock Garden Chandigarh
Q1. Which is Indias oldest National Park?
Answer: Corbett
Q2. Fitoor is the first solo Hindi album of which singer?
Answer: Mohit Chauhan
Q3. Which novel by Ruskin Bond was made into a film, Junoon, by Shyam Benegal?
Answer: A Flight of Pigeons
Q1. In 1986,which became the first poultry company to be listed in India?
Answer: Venky
Q2. Dhoom.com is the website of which Indian band?
Answer: Euphoria
Q1. Which Indian ruler first enacted a law to protect the environment?
Answer: Asoka
Q2. Which ad guru wrote the tagline The Tyre with Muscle for MRF?
Answer: Alyque Padamsee
Q3. The Falling was the first choice title for which recently released Hindi film?
Answer: Peepli Live
Q1. What is the name of Indias highest waterfall?
Answer: Jog Falls
Q2. Which management guru, along with Dr Ramesh Jain, founded Praja Inc?
Answer: CK Prahalad
Q3. Which Beatle named his son Dhani, after two notes of the Indian music scale?
Answer: George Harrison
Q1. In which town is the cattle fair Harihar Kshetra Mela held every year?
Answer: Sonepur
Q2. Aditya Vandana is the corporate anthem of which business group?
Answer: Aditya Birla Group
Q3. The Bibi Ka Maqbara was built to honour which Mughal emperors wife?
Answer: Aurangzeb
Q1. Which percussionist founded Moment Records in 1992?
Answer: Zakir Hussain
Q2. From 1974 to 1983, which peak was the second most popular Himalayan destination after
the Everest?
Answer: Nanda Devi
Q3. Which organisation hosts the Made in India show to display Indian products abroad?
Answer: Confederation of Indian Industry or CII
Q1. Which Special Response Unit uses the Sudarshan Chakra as its logo? ?
Answer: NSG
Q2. Who resigned as the CM of Karnataka to be sworn in as the 11th PM of India?
Answer: H D Gowda
Q3. Which river has the largest river basin in India??
Answer: Ganga
Q1. Which Muslim scholar is the author of Kitab fi Tahqiq ma lil-Hind?
Answer: Al Beruni
Q2. Who is the gentleman behind the Catamaran Venture Fund?
Answer: NR Narayana Murthy
Q3. Who is the music director of the Hrithik-Aishwarya starrer, Guzaarish?
Answer: Sanjay L Bhansali
Q1. Who did Akbar commission to write his biography, Akbarnama?
Answer: Abul Fazl
Q2. Which Chairman of the 13th Finance Commission is the present non-executive Chairman of
NSE?
Answer: Vijay Kelkar
Q3. Which is Indian satellite TVs longest-running show?
Answer: khana khazana
Q1. By what popular name do Indians call the swamp deer?
Answer: Barasingha
Q2. Who was the first Chairman of the Rajya Sabha to serve for two terms?
Answer: S Radhakrishnan
Q3. In 1967, which entrepreneur joined the travel business as a GSA for the Lebanese
International Airlines?
Answer: Naresh Goyal
Q1. Who is the first Bollywood actress to have a wax statue at Londons Madame Tussauds?
Answer: Aishwarya Rai
Q2. The Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary is the largest sanctuary in which state?
Answer: Tamil Nadu
Q3. Which US architect designed the IIM campus at Ahmedabad?
Answer: Louis Kahn
Q1. During 1937-38, the British government decided to repatriate the prisoners from which
prison that had 698 cells?
Answer: Cellular Jail
Q2. In 2000, who was awarded the Best Sportswoman of the Century by the Indian Olympic
Association?
Answer: PT Usha
Q3. Who appoints the Controller and Auditor-General of India?
Answer: President
Q1. Only two cities have hosted the Asian Games twice. Delhi and ?
Answer: Bangkok
Q2. Who is Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce?
Answer: Rajat Gupta
Q3.Ustad Ahmad & Ustad Hamid were the architects of which famous Delhi landmark?
Answer: Red Fort
Q1. Which Hindu festival tomorrow is also known as Surya Shashti?
Answer: Chhat Puja
Q2. Located in Bijapur,what is the name of the mausoleum of Muhammad Adil Shah?
Answer: Gol Gumbaz
Q3. Narottam Tom Puna was the first cricketer of Indian origin to play Tests for which country?
Answer: New Zealand
Q1. Who is the only Speaker of the Lok Sabha to become the President of India?
Answer: Neelam S Reddy
Q2. Which company owned the Dartmouth, Eleanor and Beaver, ships associated with the
Boston Tea Party?
Answer: East India Company
Q3. Lachchu Maharaj was an exponent of which dance form?
Answer: Kathak
Q1. Which ad agency created the Zoozoo characters for Vodafone?
Answer: Ogilvy
Q2. The Reddy family of Apollo Hospitals and Maxis Communications are shareholders of
which company?
Answer: Aircel
3. The AV Birla Group are running a unique promotion for schools in 100 cities. The contest is
called Kaho Whats Your ____.
Answer: Idea
Q1. Eggs on toast, fish and rice, appams and ?
Answer: Stew
Q2. The Late Wilson Jones from India was a world champ in which sport?
Answer: Billiards
Q3. Where was the first Indian Institute of Technology set up?
Answer: Kharagpur
Q1. Which US President has made the longest official trip to India?
Answer: Clinton
Q2. Daulatpur Nasirabad village in Haryana was renamed after which Presidents visit?
Answer: Carter
Q3. Who is the first US President to visit India in his first term in office?
Answer: Nixon
Q1. In Jules Vernes Mysterious Island, which Indian rulers nephew is Captain Nemo?
Answer: Tipu Sultan
Q2. Which food manufacturer claims to have invented the rava idli?
Answer: Mavalli Tiffin Room/MTR
Q3. Which museum houses the largest one-man collection of antiques in the world?
Answer: Salar Jung Museum
Q1. Whose monolithic statue is in the middle of Hussain Sagar Lake?
Answer: The Buddha
Q2. Which Indian state attracted the most domestic tourists last year?
Answer: Andhra Pradesh
Q3. Which building would you see on the reverse side of a Rs 50 note?
Answer: Parliament Building
Q1. Who defeated Rana Sanga at the Battle of Khanwa in 1527?
Answer: Babur
Q2. Which is the 1st state to reserve 50% of all posts in local bodies for women?
Answer: Bihar
Q3. Under Article 76 of the Constitution, who appoints the Attorney General of India?
Answer: President
Q1. Which airline in India has aircraft named Turmeric, Pepper and Cinnamon?
Answer: SpiceJet
Q2. Which tiger reserve is 25 km from Khajuraho?
Answer: Panna Tiger Reserve
Q3. Who drew the mascot Gattu for Asian Paints?
Answer: RK Laxman
Q1. Which Special Response Unit uses the Sudarshan Chakra as its logo?
Answer: NSG
Q2. Who resigned as the CM of Karnataka to be sworn in as the 11th PM of India?
Answer: H D Gowda
Q3. Which river has the largest river basin in India?
Answer: Ganga
Q1. Where in India did Facebook open its first office?
Answer: Hyderabad
Q2. In 1864, which place was declared the summer capital of British India?
Answer: Shimla
Q3. After over 20K Indian requests, which national symbol was added to FarmVille?
Answer: Indian tricolour
Q1. Who designed the uniforms of Goas traffic police?
Answer: Wendell Rodricks
Q2. In which Indian state is the tribal fair, Chitra-Vichitra Mela held?
Answer: Gujarat
Q1. In the Harry Potter books, who is the twin sister of Gryffindor student Parvati Patil?
Answer: Padma Patil
Q2. With a share of 40.6%, which country topped the list of export markets for Dubai?
Answer: India
Q3. Which carp is the most farmed fish in India?
Answer: Rohu
Q1. Ashok Leyland is the flagship company of which group?
Answer: Hinduja Group
Q2. Which fictional character married an Indian princess named Aouda?
Answer: Phileas Fogg
Q3. Along with Karan Johar, who is the chairman of the FICCI Entertainment Committee?
Answer: Yash Chopra
Q1. With which country does India share its longest international boundary?
Answer: Bangladesh
Q1. Solstice is the annual flagship alumni reunion event of which business school?
Answer: ISB
Q2. Which Indian emperor wrote the three Sanskrit plays, Nagananda, Ratnavali and
Priyadarsika?
Answer: Harsha
Q3. Which supersonic cruise missile is named after the rivers Brahmaputra and Moskva?
Answer: Brahmos
Q1. According to legend, the emigration of 36 families inspired the name of which Indian state?
Answer: Chhatisgarh
Q2. Who was the founding editor of Stardust and Celebrity?
Answer: Shobhaa De
Q3. Who served as the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India from 1999 to
2001?
Answer: APJ Abdul Kalamt
Q1. Namaskaar is the in-flight magazine of which airline?
Answer: Air India
Q2. In 1493, which explorer wrote a report on his discoveries of the Islands of India?
Answer: Christopher Columbus
Q3. In the PSUs, what can be offered by the Gujarat or DHI pattern?
Answer: VRS
Q1. Hieun Tsang was involved with which Indian university for 12 years?
Answer: Nalanda
Q2. The charitable organisation CRY stands for?
Answer: Child Rights and You
Q1. For the exact calculation of what did astronomers debate over Ghamapur & Mirzapur?
Answer: IST
Q2. In the 1840s, the first trial plantation of what was made by Dr. A Campbell?
Answer: Darjeeling Tea
Q3. There are 3 national holidays in India: 26 January, 15 August and ?
Answer: 2 October
Q1. At which venue was India disallowed in the World Cup?
Answer: Brazil
Q2. Which is the first Indian government organisation to join Twitter?
Answer: India Post
Q3. Which state is famous for its Sambalpuri saris?
Answer: Orissa
Q1. Which district of Haryana was gifted by the Pandavas to Dronacharya?
Answer: Gurgaon
Q2. Which event caused the largest mass migration in human history?
Answer: Partition of India
Q3. Who along with Shah Rukh Khan became the first Indian movie star to ring the opening bell
in NYSE?
Answer: Kajol
Q1. The Periplus,a manuscript on navigation, called which river Nammadus?
Answer: Narmada
Q2. To coincide with the festival of Baisakhi, which king was crowned on 12 April 1801?
Answer: Ranjit Singh
Q3. Who was the 1st aeronautical engineer to get the Bharat Ratna?
Answer: APJ Kalam
Q1. The name of which Indian state, formed in 2000, means land with forest cover?
Answer: Jharkhand
Q2. Which Afsharid dynasty ruler looted the Peacock Throne in 1739?
Answer: Nader Shah
Q3. Which Raj Kapoor film shares its name with an IPC section?
Answer: Shree 420
Q1. Who did George Harrison call the Godfather of World Music?
Answer: Ravi Shankar
Q2. Who, among the Beatles,bought a sitar to record the song Norwegian Wood?
Answer: George Harrison
Q3. Which national park was named after the first Governor-General of India?
Answer: Rajaji National Park
Q1. Who was the first India-born writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Answer: Rudyard Kipling
Q2. Who is projected as the hero of the Pandavani style of folk singing?
Answer: Bhima
Q3. Apart from MP, Uttarakhand and UP, in which other state is the Kumbh Mela held?
Answer: Maharashtra
Q1. Malabar and Tellicherry are varieties of which spice?
Answer: Pepper
Q2. The scientific name of which tree is Azadirachta indica meaning the Free Tree of India?
Answer: Neem
Q3. What piece of Indian history was bought by an Indian at an auction in England in 2003?
Answer: Tipu Sultan sword
Q1. Ranjana Sonawane is the first Indian to receive what?
Answer: Unique Identification Number
Q2. Which canal in Andhra Pradesh shares its name with a royal residence?
Answer: Buckingham
Q3. Which TS Eliot poem closes with the line Shantih Shantih Shantih?
Answer: The Waste Land
Q1. Which is Calcuttas most-read English newspaper?
Answer: The Telegraph
Q2. Which company runs the Jaago Re ad campaign that abhors corruption?
Answer: TATA
Q3. Which organisation is Indias largest employer?
Answer: Indian Railways
Q1. On March 1969,which famous train was introduced in India?
Answer: Rajdhani
Q2. Which Indian won 2 golds in Tennis in the 2010 Asiad?
Answer: Somdev
Q3. From 1911, Chota Dariba or Dariba Kalan became famous by which new name?
Answer: Paranthewali Gali
Q1. Who is the author of a travelogue named India: A Million Mutinies Now?
Answer: VS Naipaul
Q2. Located 8 km north-west of Puducherry what was designed by architect Roger Anger?
Answer: Auroville
Q3. What road did Rudyard Kipling describe as the backbone of all Hind?
Answer: GT Road
Q1. Which Chinese Buddhist monk visited India in AD 399?
Answer: Fa Hien
Q2. The name of which soft drink brand comes from the Hindi words Nimbu Jaisa?
Answer: Limca
Q3. According to Mark Twain, which city is older than history, older than tradition, older even
than legend?
Answer: Benares/Varanasi
Q1. In 1987, which Indian received the prestigious French Legion of Honor award?
Answer: Satyajit Ray
Q2. Which city is home to the International Pepper Exchange?
Answer: Kochi
Q3. Forest officer Gisborne offered which fictional character a job as a Forest Ranger?
Answer: Mowgli
Q1. The melting water of which glacier is the main source of water for the Nubra river?
Answer: Siachen
Q2. With which creature is the wildlife conservationist Romulus Whitaker synonymous?
Answer: Snakes
Q3. In 1986, who wrote a thesis Asset prices in a heterogeneous consumer economy at
Columbia University?
Answer: Vikram Pandits