Q1. 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 FortQ2. In the 1970s, which was the first Indian film whose dialogue soundtracks were released in the market?Answer: SholayQ3. Which great Indian ruler first enacted a law for the protection of wildlife and environment?Answer: AshokaQ4. In 1983, what became the first product to be sold in a sachet in India?Answer: ShampooQ5. 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 MillionaireQ2. Who was the first non-American TIME Person of the Year?Answer: Kalpana ChawlaQ3. After which NASA astronaut, was the first dedicated meteorological satellite of India named?Answer: Kalpana ChawlaQ4. In India, the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme certifies which valuable mineral?Answer: DiamondQ5. 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 world’s largest manufacturer of bicycles?Answer: Hero CyclesQ2. Which famous Indian building was built using 700 million bricks and three million cubic feet of stone?Answer:Rashtrapati BhavanQ3. India’s first sea bridge, in Mumbai, is named after which former Prime Minister?Answer: Rajiv GandhiQ4. What is the common name of the Hindu festival ‘Dhulheti’ or ‘Phagwa’?Answer: HoliQ5. Which item of India’s 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 RahmanQ2. More than 86% of India’s rhinos live in which national park?Answer: KazirangaQ3. A traffic circle in Bengaluru is named after which Indian Test cricketer?

Answer:Anil KumbleQ4. 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 PatilQ2. Which was the earliest authoritative text on public finance, administration and fiscal laws in India?Answer:Kautilya’s ArthasastraQ3. On which national holiday are the Padma Awards given?Answer: Republic Day or 26th JanuaryQ4. In 1970, the National Dairy Development Board initiated which operation to increase the availability of milk?Answer: Operation Flood or White RevolutionQ5.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 MahalQ2. Which is the first Indian product to obtain the Geographical Identification tag?Answer: TeaQ3. What kind of an animal is ‘Shera’- the mascot of 2010 Commonwealth Games?Answer: TigerQ4. 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 BoyQ5. 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 KhanQ2. Which is the world’s most expensive spice by weight?Answer: SaffronQ3. To increase its brilliance, which diamond was cut from 186 1/16 carats to 105.602 carats?Answer: KohinoorQ4. Who has composed the theme song of the 2010 Commonwealth Games?Answer: A R RahmanQ5. Which famous Indian brand is named after Ramaniklal Ambani’s son?Answer: Vimal

Q1. Along with Gary Hamel, who is the originator of the concept of core competencies?Answer: C. K. PrahaladQ2. In 1993, who was awarded the Booker of Bookers Prize?Answer: Salman RushdieQ3. After the Taj Mahal, which was the most visited monument in India in 2009?Answer: Qutub MinarQ4. In 1947, the Radcliffe Line became the border between India and which country?Answer: PakistanQ5. In 2008, which river was declared India’s National River?Answer: The Ganges

Q1. Hailey National Park was renamed after which hunter turned conservationist?Answer: Jim CorbettQ2. The birth name of which historical figure was Farid Khan?Answer: Sher Shah SuriQ3. Chausa, Totapuri, Jahangir and Rumani are different varieties of which fruit?Answer: MangoQ4. Which Sarod maestro composed raga Priyadarshini in memory of Indira Gandhi?Answer: Amjad Ali KhanQ5. The names of 70,000 Indian soldiers are inscribed on the walls of which monument?Answer: India Gate

Q1. Which sitarist was awarded India’s highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999?Answer: Ravi ShankarQ2. Who established the Missionaries of Charity in 1950 in Calcutta?Answer: Mother TeresaQ3. Balram Halwai is the hero of which MAN Booker Prize winning book?Answer: The White TigerQ4. A PhD Scholarship at St John’s College-Cambridge,is named after which Indian PM?Answer: Dr. Manmohan SinghQ5. 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 VajpayeeQ2. Who is the youngest to score a century in Test for India?Answer: SR TendulkarQ3. Which film has been chosen as India’s official entry at the Oscars in 2010?Answer: Peepli LiveQ4. Which is the most common subspecies of tiger?Answer: Royal Bengal tigerQ5. ‘The Polyester Prince’ by Hamish McDonald is an unauthorised biography of whom?Answer: Dhirubhai Ambani

Q1. The world’s 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 IIQ3. Who was the last Indian born person to win a Nobel Prize?Answer: Venkatraman RamakrishnanQ4. Which lady holds the record for being in space for 185 days?Answer: Sunita WilliamsQ5. 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 LankaQ2. What is the present name of the Formula One team Spyker?Answer: Force IndiaQ3. Jackson Heights is the ‘little India’ of which US city?Answer: New YorkQ4. In terms of actual GDP size and contribution to all India GDP,which city is Number One?Answer: MumbaiQ5. 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 PresidentQ2. In 1591, which monument was built by Mohammed Quli Qutab Shah to commemorate the end of the plague in the city?Answer: CharminarQ3. Dal-Baati-Churma is a famous dish of which Indian state?Answer: RajasthanQ4. Salman Khan starrer film ‘Hello’ is based on whose novel?Answer: Chetan BhagatQ5. 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: USAQ2. Who holds the record for serving as the world’s longest lady PM?Answer: Indira GandhiQ3. Hillcroft,an ethnic enclave in Houston,Texas,has been renamed after which Indian?Answer: Mahatma GandhiQ4. 4 Who was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?Answer: Rabindranath TagoreQ5. 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-PresidentQ2. Who holds the record for the most number of Best Actor nominations at the Filmfare

Awards?Answer: Amitabh BachchanQ3. Which fictional town is located on the banks of the river Sarayu?Answer: MalgudiQ4. In which Indian state could one experience a 36-course meal called Wazwan?Answer: Jammu & KashmirQ5. 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: HotmailQ2. K2,the second highest peak in the world,is situated in which mountain range?Answer: KarakoramQ3. According to The Economist ,which management institute in India “is the toughest in the world to get into”?Answer: IIM AhmedabadQ4. Who is the vice chairman of the World Steel Association?Answer: L N MittalQ5. 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 KumarQ2. Against which country has Sachin Tendulkar scored the most Test centuries?Answer: AustraliaQ3. Who served as the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India from November 1999 to November 2001?Answer: APJ Abdul KalamQ4. In which national park in India are the maximum numbers of Asiatic Lions found ?Answer: Gir National ParkQ5. 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 NaipaulQ2. Screenwriter Simon Beaufoy visited India three times while writing the screenplay of which film?Answer: Slumdog MillionaireQ3. The flavour of which famous rice is caused by the aroma compound 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline?Answer: BasmatiQ4. Tata Consultancy Services is associated with which Formula One team?Answer: FerrariQ5. 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 ChopraQ2. Which Indian has hit the most number of sixes in Test matches?Answer: V SehwagQ3. In 1971, which economist joined the Government of India as Economic Advisor in the Commerce Ministry?Answer: Manmohan SinghQ4. India celebrates National Science Day every year to commemorate the discovery of what?Answer: Raman EffectQ5. 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 RajasthanQ2. Harpal Singh of Delhi was the first proud Indian owner of which car ?Answer: Harpal Singh first Maruti800 ownerQ3. 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 RaoQ2. Which famous football club is run by the Alemao family of Goa?Answer: Churchill BrothersQ3. Which state in north-eastern India harbours the maximum number of orchid species in the country?Answer: Arunachal PradeshQ4. Baba Budan, a Muslim saint, brought what to India for the first time from Yemen?Answer: CoffeeQ5. 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 NehruQ2. In 1981, who was appointed the Music Director for Life at the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra?Answer: Zubin MehtaQ3. 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 BengalQ2. Even though he was in office for 171 days, which Indian Prime Minister never faced Parliament?Answer: Charan SinghQ3. Which was the first Indian film whose soundtrack was made available for downloading on iTunes?

Answer: Delhi-6Q4. Set up in 1927 on the advice of Mahatma Gandhi, which is India’s largest and oldest apex business organization?Answer: FICCIQ5. ‘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 TeresaQ2. India’s busiest airport is situated in which city?Answer: DelhiQ3. 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 BhutiaQ2. Who was the only finance minister to become the President of India?Answer: R VenkataramanQ3. Which type of churidar is named after a beautiful Mughal era courtesan?Answer: AnarkaliQ4. Nawab Wajid Ali Shah added which vegetable to the Awadhi biryani?Answer: PotatoesQ5. 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 GhoshalQ2. Whose debut album was titled Come Away with Me ?Answer: Norah JonesQ3. In 2003,India launched the world’s largest immunization campaign against which disease?Answer: PolioQ4. Who is the founder and chairman of the Caparo Group?Answer: Lord Swaraj PaulQ5. 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 GhaiQ2. Which Indian bowler has conceded the most runs in Test cricket?Answer: Anil KumbleQ3. Who has been the only woman Finance Minister of India?Answer: Indira GandhiQ4. 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 GandhiQ2. Darjeeling tea is plucked from which Indian state?Answer: BengalQ3. Who was the last Indian born lady to win the Booker Prize?Answer: Kiran DesaiQ4. In 2007,India allowed the import of Harley Davidson bikes from the US in exchange for the export of which fruit?Answer: MangoQ5. Who was the first non-Indian head of state to win India’s 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 ChhetriQ2.Which Indian economist coined the phrase ‘Hindu rate of growth’?Answer: Raj KrishnaQ3. 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 SikriQ2. In which state were the first Aadhar cards issued?Answer: MaharashtraQ3. What are Robusta, Rasthali, Poovan, Singapuri and Chinia types of?Answer: Bananas

Q1. Who won the first Filmfare Award for Best Actor?Answer: Dilip KumarQ2. Made by red and buff standstone, which is the highest tower in India?Answer: Qutb MinarQ3. 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 SenQ2. By what name was Tata Steel Europe formerly known?Answer: CorusQ3. 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 DesaiQ2. In 326 BC, which Indian ruler presented Alexander 30 lbs of Indian iron?Answer: Porus/PoruQ3. Who was the final baton bearer in the Queen’s 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: DilbertQ2. Who is the first-ever India-born winner on the PGA Tour?Answer: Arjun AtwalQ3. 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 PadukoneQ2.Vidyadhar Bhattacharya was the chief architect and city planner of which city in Rajasthan?Answer: JaipurQ3. 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 IndiaQ2. In 1985, who became the founding President of the American Association of Ayurvedic Medicine?Answer: Deepak ChopraQ3. 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 BilimoriaQ2. Which is the first alcoholic beverage from India to get the GI status?Answer: Goan FeniQ3. 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 TagoreQ2. In 2004, the famous European Case Awards instituted an award for Excellence in Case Writing named after which Indian?Answer: Sumantra GhoshalQ3. 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: BinocularsQ2.Which Bollywood superstar’s surname is Nagrath?Answer: Hrithik RoshanQ3. 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 CavesQ2. If India is number two, which country produces the most currency notes?Answer: ChinaQ3. 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 India’s independence?Answer: Red FortQ2. Which board game was originally called ‘Mokshapat’?Answer: Snakes & LaddersQ3. 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 GandhiQ2. The proceedings of the Supreme Court of India are conducted in which language?Answer: EnglishQ3. Who was presented the Daniel Guggenheim Medal in 1989, which was first conferred on Orville Wright?Answer: JRD Tata

Q1. A book which didn’t get banned! Which national park was the inspiration behind Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Jungle Book’?Answer: PenchQ2. On World Stats Day a Q on statistics! In 1951, Godrej supplied 1.7 million of what to the Indian Government?Answer: Ballot BoxesQ3. 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 PaulQ2. The Mughal Emperor Babur valued what as ‘two-and-a-half days food of the entire world’?Answer: KohinoorQ3. 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 VajpayeeQ2. Which Indian classical dance form originated in a village in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh?Answer: KuchipudiQ3. 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 Hussain’s tomb?Answer: CharminarQ2. Most people in Haining, China call which Indian Nobel laureate ‘Zhu Zhen Dan’?Answer: TagoreQ3. 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 BattutaQ2. Mr WizeR is the mascot of which brand of cars?Answer: WagonRQ3. 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 MehtaQ2. Who was infamously convicted in a case filed in 1995 by the solicitor firm,Poornanand and Company?Answer: TelgiQ3. 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 MangeshkarQ2. Whose voice was used for the Hindi dub of March of the Penguins?Answer: Amitabh BachchanQ3. 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 PoppiesQ2. Which gateway in Lucknow was modelled after the Sublime Porte in Istanbul?Answer: Rumi Darwaza/Turkish GatewayQ3. Which famous ‘lady in advertising’ was drawn by Eustace Fernandes?Answer: Amul Girl

Q1. Kollywood is the film industry of which state?Answer: Tamil NaduQ2. Cartoonist R. K. Laxman specialises in painting which bird?Answer: CrowsQ3. 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: PhilipsQ2. Which Nobel laureate wrote the book In Light Of India?Answer: Octavio PazQ3. Which is India’s 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: CFLsQ2. Which company was incorporated as Radio Lamp Works in 1938?Answer: Bajaj ElectricalsQ3. 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: KurukshetraQ2. 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 suitQ3. Rugmark is the international label against illegal child labour in the ____ industry.Answer: Carpet

Q1. Dabur once marketed the drug Plagin to combat…?Answer: Plague2. Which is Asia’s largest antelope?Answer: NilgaiQ3. Which bearded Indian’s autobiography is ‘Pendhapur Ka Ek Ladka’?Answer: MF Hussain

Q1. Who is the 55th and current Governor of Louisiana?Answer: Bobby JindalQ2. In 1854, for whom did the British announce an annual pension of Rs 60K?Answer: Rani LaxmibaiQ3. What indian sweet did K.C. Das invent?Answer: Rossomalai

Q1. The fastest Shatabdi goes from New Delhi to…?Answer: BhopalQ2. 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: AhmedabadQ2. How do we popularly know the wrestler Dalip Singh Rana?Answer: The Great KhaliQ3. Far away from here, which tourist attraction was created by Nek Chand?Answer: Rock Garden Chandigarh

Q1. Which is India’s oldest National Park?Answer: CorbettQ2. Fitoor is the first solo Hindi album of which singer?Answer: Mohit ChauhanQ3. 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: VenkyQ2. Dhoom.com is the website of which Indian band?Answer: Euphoria

Q1. Which Indian ruler first enacted a law to protect the environment?Answer: AsokaQ2. Which ad guru wrote the tagline ‘The Tyre with Muscle’ for MRF?Answer: Alyque PadamseeQ3. The Falling’ was the first choice title for which recently released Hindi film?Answer: Peepli Live

Q1. What is the name of India’s highest waterfall?Answer: Jog FallsQ2. Which management guru, along with Dr Ramesh Jain, founded Praja Inc?Answer: CK PrahaladQ3. 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: SonepurQ2. Aditya Vandana is the corporate anthem of which business group?Answer: Aditya Birla GroupQ3. The Bibi Ka Maqbara was built to honour which Mughal emperor’s wife?Answer: Aurangzeb

Q1. Which percussionist founded Moment Records in 1992?Answer: Zakir HussainQ2. From 1974 to 1983, which peak was the second most popular Himalayan destination after

the Everest?Answer: Nanda DeviQ3. 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: NSGQ2. Who resigned as the CM of Karnataka to be sworn in as the 11th PM of India?Answer: H D GowdaQ3. Which river has the largest river basin in India??Answer: Ganga

Q1. Which Muslim scholar is the author of Kitab fi Tahqiq ma li’l-Hind?Answer: Al BeruniQ2. Who is the gentleman behind the Catamaran Venture Fund?Answer: NR Narayana MurthyQ3. 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 FazlQ2. Which Chairman of the 13th Finance Commission is the present non-executive Chairman of NSE?Answer: Vijay KelkarQ3. Which is Indian satellite TV’s longest-running show?Answer: khana khazana

Q1. By what popular name do Indians call the swamp deer?Answer: BarasinghaQ2. Who was the first Chairman of the Rajya Sabha to serve for two terms?Answer: S RadhakrishnanQ3. 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 London’s Madame Tussauds?Answer: Aishwarya RaiQ2. The Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary is the largest sanctuary in which state?Answer: Tamil NaduQ3. 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 JailQ2. In 2000, who was awarded the ‘Best Sportswoman of the Century’ by the Indian Olympic

Association?Answer: PT UshaQ3. Who appoints the Controller and Auditor-General of India?Answer: President

Q1. Only two cities have hosted the Asian Games twice. Delhi and ?Answer: BangkokQ2. Who is Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce?Answer: Rajat GuptaQ3.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 PujaQ2. Located in Bijapur,what is the name of the mausoleum of Muhammad Adil Shah?Answer: Gol GumbazQ3. 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 ReddyQ2. Which company owned the Dartmouth, Eleanor and Beaver, ships associated with the Boston Tea Party?Answer: East India CompanyQ3. Lachchu Maharaj was an exponent of which dance form?Answer: Kathak

Q1. Which ad agency created the Zoozoo characters for Vodafone?Answer: OgilvyQ2. The Reddy family of Apollo Hospitals and Maxis Communications are shareholders of which company?Answer: Aircel3. The AV Birla Group are running a unique promotion for schools in 100 cities. The contest is called Kaho What’s Your ____.Answer: Idea

Q1. Eggs on toast, fish and rice, appams and …?Answer: StewQ2. The Late Wilson Jones from India was a world champ in which sport?Answer: BilliardsQ3. 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: ClintonQ2. Daulatpur Nasirabad village in Haryana was renamed after which President’s visit?

Answer: CarterQ3. Who is the first US President to visit India in his first term in office?Answer: Nixon

Q1. In Jules Verne’s ‘Mysterious Island’, which Indian ruler’s nephew is Captain Nemo?Answer: Tipu SultanQ2. Which food manufacturer claims to have invented the rava idli?Answer: Mavalli Tiffin Room/MTRQ3. 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 BuddhaQ2. Which Indian state attracted the most domestic tourists last year?Answer: Andhra PradeshQ3. 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: BaburQ2. Which is the 1st state to reserve 50% of all posts in local bodies for women?Answer: BiharQ3. 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: SpiceJetQ2. Which tiger reserve is 25 km from Khajuraho?Answer: Panna Tiger ReserveQ3. Who drew the mascot Gattu for Asian Paints?Answer: RK Laxman

Q1. Which Special Response Unit uses the Sudarshan Chakra as its logo?Answer: NSGQ2. Who resigned as the CM of Karnataka to be sworn in as the 11th PM of India?Answer: H D GowdaQ3. Which river has the largest river basin in India?Answer: Ganga

Q1. Where in India did Facebook open its first office?Answer: HyderabadQ2. In 1864, which place was declared the summer capital of British India?Answer: ShimlaQ3. After over 20K Indian requests, which national symbol was added to FarmVille?Answer: Indian tricolour

Q1. Who designed the uniforms of Goa’s traffic police?Answer: Wendell RodricksQ2. 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 PatilQ2. With a share of 40.6%, which country topped the list of export markets for Dubai?Answer: IndiaQ3. Which carp is the most farmed fish in India?Answer: Rohu

Q1. Ashok Leyland is the flagship company of which group?Answer: Hinduja GroupQ2. Which fictional character married an Indian princess named Aouda?Answer: Phileas FoggQ3. 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: ISBQ2. Which Indian emperor wrote the three Sanskrit plays, ‘Nagananda’, ‘Ratnavali’ and ‘Priyadarsika’?Answer: HarshaQ3. 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: ChhatisgarhQ2. Who was the founding editor of ‘Stardust’ and ‘Celebrity’?Answer: Shobhaa DeQ3. 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 IndiaQ2. In 1493, which explorer wrote a report on his discoveries of the ‘Islands of India’?Answer: Christopher ColumbusQ3. 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: NalandaQ2. 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: ISTQ2. In the 1840s, the first trial plantation of what was made by Dr. A Campbell?Answer: Darjeeling TeaQ3. 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: BrazilQ2. Which is the first Indian government organisation to join Twitter?Answer: India PostQ3. Which state is famous for its Sambalpuri saris?Answer: Orissa

Q1. Which district of Haryana was gifted by the Pandavas to Dronacharya?Answer: GurgaonQ2. Which event caused the largest mass migration in human history?Answer: Partition of IndiaQ3. 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: NarmadaQ2. To coincide with the festival of Baisakhi, which king was crowned on 12 April 1801?Answer: Ranjit SinghQ3. 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: JharkhandQ2. Which Afsharid dynasty ruler looted the Peacock Throne in 1739?Answer: Nader ShahQ3. 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 ShankarQ2. 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 KiplingQ2. Who is projected as the hero of the Pandavani style of folk singing?Answer: BhimaQ3. 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: PepperQ2. The scientific name of which tree is Azadirachta indica meaning ‘the Free Tree of India’?Answer: NeemQ3. 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 NumberQ2. Which canal in Andhra Pradesh shares its name with a royal residence?Answer: BuckinghamQ3. Which TS Eliot poem closes with the line ‘Shantih Shantih Shantih’?Answer: The Waste Land

Q1. Which is Calcutta’s most-read English newspaper?Answer: The TelegraphQ2. Which company runs the ‘Jaago Re’ ad campaign that abhors corruption?Answer: TATAQ3. Which organisation is India’s largest employer?Answer: Indian Railways

Q1. On March 1969,which famous train was introduced in India?Answer: RajdhaniQ2. Which Indian won 2 golds in Tennis in the 2010 Asiad?Answer: SomdevQ3. 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 NaipaulQ2. Located 8 km north-west of Puducherry what was designed by architect Roger Anger?Answer: AurovilleQ3. 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 HienQ2. The name of which soft drink brand comes from the Hindi words ‘Nimbu Jaisa’?Answer: LimcaQ3. 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 RayQ2. Which city is home to the International Pepper Exchange?Answer: KochiQ3. 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: SiachenQ2. With which creature is the wildlife conservationist Romulus Whitaker synonymous?Answer: SnakesQ3. In 1986, who wrote a thesis ‘Asset prices in a heterogeneous consumer economy’ at Columbia University?Answer: Vikram Pandits