1."Who ordered that?" who famously said so, talking about a particle (possibly while at a restaurant)?
A. Paul Dirac
B. Isidor Isaac Rabi
C. Robert A. Millikan
D. Other
2.What in the list refers to a government that ruled Paris for a few weeks in 1871?
A. Paris Commune
B. Black International
C. Spartacist League
D. Other
3.Which music director composed hit songs out of Lyrics written by his wife?
A. O. P. Nayyar
B. M. S. Viswanathan
C. C. Ramchandra
D. Other
4.Who wrote about the victory of a Thai king and his daughter in an old Olympics?
A. Anna Leonowens
B. Preecha Noonsuk
C. Sulak Sivarak
D. Paul M. Handley
5.An unmanned space probe is named after sita in a sci-fi work by which writer?
A. Diane Carey
B. Michael J. Friedman
C. Arthur C. Clarke
D. Other
6.Who was the first cosmonaut to attempt a manual docking, though unsuccessfully?
A. Oleg Atkov
B. George Beregovol
C. Salizhan Sharipov
D. Other
7.Which celebrity has several tattoos, including one inspired by her hero John Lennon?
A. Lady Gaga
B. Angelina Jolie
C. Drew Barrymore
D. Other
8.Which famous author supposedly used to drink 40 cups of coffee a day?
A. Albert Camus
B. Yasunari Kawabata
C. Rudyard Kipling
D. Voltaire
9.Who used the word "rendez-voused" to describe a 5 km proximity of two spacecraft?
A. Dennis Tito
B. Mark Shuttleworth
C. Wally Schirra
10.Scripts in which calligraphy have nail shaped letters and are named after them?
A. Lishu calligraphy
B. Persian calligraphy
C. Maya calligraphy
11.Who gave the name Rama to an alien starship in a work of science fiction?
A. David Drake
B. Michael Moorcock
C. William R. Forstchen
D. Arthur C. Clarke
12.Who is known for recognising the positive side of divorce as "redefining the family"?
A. Linda C. Senn
B. Constance R. Ahrons
C. Judith S. Wallerstein
D. Other
13.Who did a work of art on Joan of Arc as a part of his her Ladies of Legend series?
A. Mellissa Ryan
B. Natanel Eisenberg
C. Teri Rosario
D. Other
14.G.B. Shaw said her banging of the door reverberated throughout Europe? Which play has her?
A. No Man's Land
B. Period of Adjustment
C. Strange Interlude
D. A Doll's House
15.What is the study of some thing that is a cold or frozen drop, going by its Greek root?
A. Hydrology
B. Oceanography
C. Crystallography
D. Other
16.Who wrote a book on how family structures sway political alleglances in America?
A. Naomi Cahn
B. June Carbone
C. Naomi and June together
D. Donald A. Coffin
17.Which wheel chaired person described his condition as "extreme sitting"?
A. Mike Utley
B. Christopher Reeve
C. Stephen Hawking
D. Aaron Fotheringham
18.Since 1918 Lenin lived with a bullet stuck on his neck. Who shot the bullet?
A. Fanya Kaplan
B. Aleksandr Kerensky
C. Lavr Kornilov
19.Who has already started a work of art that requires nearly 1200 years for completion? (Time Pyramid)
A. Manfred Laber
B. Benedetta Tagliabue
C. Rodney Walker
20.Who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize while being detained or imprisoned?
A. Liu Xiaobo
B. Carl Von Ossietzky
C. Andrei Sakharov
D. All of the above
21."Smooth as silk" is the slogan of which international airline?
A. Lufthansa
B. Cathay Pacific
C. Garuda Indonesia
D. Thai Airways
22.The hypothesis of the heat death of the universe emerged from the 1850s ideas of which scientist?
A. Ernst Mach
B. Micheal Faraday
C. William Thomson
23.Who among the Warner Brothers is credited with ending the era of silent movies?
A. Jack Warner
B. Albert Warner
C. Sam Warner
D. All of the three
24.Which Indian freedom fighter proposed that the Vedas are to Arctic origin?
A. Bhagat Singh
B. Subramanya Bharathy
C. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
25.Who found that women's special spinal curvature help them balance their body during pregnancy?
A. Roger Kurlan
B. Katherine Whitcome
C. Rosalind Franklin
26.Who said that studying the mathematics of falls could provide insights into human evolution?
A. Francis Crick
B. Nicholas Rashevsky
C. John Skoyles
D. Other
27.Who published a work about a baby girl born with a true tall in real life?
A. Joy Torakawa
B. Mouied Alashari
C. Joy Torakawa and Mouied Alashari together
28.The nickname of which Mary represents a peculiar medical condition?
A. Mary Mallon
B. Mary I of England
C. Mary MacKillop
D. Mary Jane
29.Who described in detail the instinctive response of drowning people in real-life situations?
A. Cyril Wecht
B. Francesco A. Pia
C. Sherlock Holmes
30.In hockey, repeatedly pushing the ball from right to left and then left to right is called.
A. Indian dribble
B. Change on the fly
C. Two-line pass
31.Who was always haunted by his father's suicide and drowned himself as if to bury his father's corpse?
A. Hart Crane
B. Robert Maxwell
C. Josef Mengele
D. John Berryman
32.All India Radio put on ban on several hit songs by which music director in the 1950s?
A. O.P. Nayyar
B. M.S. Viswanathan
C. Salil Chowdhury
33.Who in a song asked the then American President to "Come take a walk with me"?
A. Bob Dylan
B. Michael Jackson
C. Buffy Saine-Marie
D. Pink
34.What caused the removal of the pink color from Gilbert Baker's original gay flag?
A. A legal dispute
B. Fabric unavailability
C. A lipstick brand
35.Which MGM icon inspired an apparel collection related to the fight against breast cancer in 2008?
A. Pink Panther
B. Count Screwloose
C. Screwball Squirrel
36.Name the Indian village where almost all (including non Hindus ) speak Sanskrit?
A. Chamanpura
B. Mattur / Mathoor
C. Hazarikapara
37.The FIFA award for the most beautiful goal is named in honour of which player?
A. Franco Baresi
B. Franz Beckenbauer
C. Ferenc Puskas
38."Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum?" is the title of a witty paper by whom?
A. Felix Klein
B. Sofia Kovalevskaya
C. Philippe de La Hire
D. Mark Kac
39.How many types of ambiguity are there? Seven, says a book's title. Which critic wrote it?
A. T. S. Eliot
B. Raymond Williams
C. I. A. Richards
D. William Empson
40.Who observed that the myth of cupid's arrows might be based on the love dart behaviour of snails?
A. Ronald Chase
B. Nappoleon Bonaparte
C. Omar Khayyam
41.Which scientist co-edited a literacy periodical with the British poet William Empson?
A. Carl Sagan
B. Jacob Bronowski
C. Miroslav Holub
42.Who was the wealthiest passenger on board the ill-fated RMS Titanic?
A. Charles Melville
B. John Jacob Astor IV
C. Margaretta Corning
43.Which mathematician wanted a logarithmic spiral to be engraved on his/her tombstone?
A. Ada Lovelace
B. Carl Friedrich Gauss
C. Rene Descartes
D. Jakob Bernoulli
44.Who found a connection between the Yin-Yang symbal and a certain algebraic formation?
A. Taras Banakh
B. Oleg Verbitsky
C. Yaroslav Vorobets
D. All the three above
45.Who stopped writing world-famous poems before the age of 21 and later became an arms dealer?
A. Paul Valery
B. Arthur Rimbaud
C. Rainer Maria Rilke
46.Who designed an artificial habitat for bats in honour of the creatures' flying style?
A. Odebrecht
B. Balfour Beatty
C. Friend and company
47.Who built a 1500-foot long structure in the shape of a coil or fiddlehead on the shore of a lake?
A. Henry Moore
B. Barbara Hepworth
C. Robert Smithson
48.A new release of which software is named in honour of jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt?
A. Joomla 1.6
B. Adobe FrameMaker 10
C. WordPress 3.1
49.A promise of which woman became the name and mission of a famous non-profit organisation?
A. Kasturba Gandhi
B. Florence Nightingale
C. Mahboba Rawi
50.Which country denied asylum to Leon Trotsky despite request from its top intellectuals?
A. Argentina
B. United Kingdom
C. Equatorial Guinea
51.Who gave meat in two piles to Zeus to choose from and started the"I cut, you choose" method?
A. Prometheus
B. Satyrs & Satyresses
C. Hecatonchires
52.Who described "market failure" many years before the term appeared in economics?
A. David Richardo
B. Leszek Balcerowicz
C. Henry Sidgwick
53.Which mathematician took a game theory approach to problems of fairness during WWII?
A. Hugo Steinhaus
B. Bronislaw Knaster
C. Stefan Banach
D. All of the three above
54.Which clown reveived the coveted "Golden Grace" award from actress Princess Grace?
A. Daniel Rice
B. Michael Halvarson
C. Sergey Pavlov
D. George Carl
55.Who has/have been studying pizza cutting mathematically for 20 or more years?
A. Rick Mabry
B. Paul Deiermann
C. Marby and Deiermann
56.Workers getting detached from their work. This is the theory of alienation. Who proposed it?
A. Adam Smith
B. Oliver Williamson
C. Christopher Pissarides
D. Karl Marx
57.If 90% of sci-fi is crap, it holds true for all things from film and literature to consumer goods. Who said so?
A. Chan Davis
B. Marianne de Pierres
C. Theodore Sturgeon
58.Which mathematician founded a society whose logo is a squared square?
A. G. H. Hardy
B. Bernhard Riemann
C. Pierre de Fermat
59.Maximum number of Olympic medals in hockey 3 gold and 1 silver. Who fits the bill?
A. Udham Singh
B. Leslie Claudius
C. Singh and Claudius
60."I am a sceptic about everything, including God and Atheism", Who said that?
A. Carl Sagan
B. Alan Dershowitz
C. Steven Soderbergh
61.What in the list refers to sales organised by non-profit organisation to raise funds?
A. Purple Gorilla
B. White Elephant
C. Violet Crocodile
62.Marx and Engels geatly admired this novelist, though he was a conservative royalist, Name him.
A. Gustave Flaubert
B. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
C. Honore de Balzac
63.Who in the list would you recognise as a member of the historic Gottingen 18?
A. Max Born
B. Wolfgang Paul
C. Hans Kopfermann
D. All of the above
64.Who grouped religious as god religious and godless religious, anf favoured the latter?
A. Guru Nayak
B. Elijah Ben Solomon
C. Jiddu Krishnamurthi
D. Dalai Lama
65.Who is considered to be the father of evolutionary ideas?
A. Empodocles
B. Charles Darwin
C. Lamarck
D. Aristotle
66.Who among the following is considered to be the father of Microbiology?
A. Edward Jenner
B. Robert Koch
C. Robert Hook
D. Louis Pasteur
67.Central Scientific Instruments Organisation is located at which of the following places?
A. Chandigarh
B. Pune
C. Hyderabad
D. Guwahati
68.Which of the following fields of study overlaps with algology, mycology and protozoology?
A. Proctology
B. Prostistology
C. Teratology
D. Pteridology
69.Which is Mynmecology?
A. Study of Snails
B. Study of Tics and Mites
C. Study of Termites
D. Study of Ants
70.Who among the following is considered the father of Mutation Theory?
A. Augo de Vries
B. Paul Berg
C. Gregor Johann Mendal
D. Morgan
71.Who is considered to be the father of Indian Ecology?
A. Birbal Sahni
B. Salim Ali
C. R Mishra
D. C Srivastava
72.Where is the Central Institute of Brackish Aquaculture located?
A. Kolkata
B. Chennai
C. Mumbai
D. Visakhapatnam
73.Which of the following is concerned with the study of Algae?
A. Phycology
B. Mycology
C. Phenology
D. Pteridology
74.What is Tectology?
A. Study of Structural organisation of the body
B. Study of Seismic movements of Earth
C. Study of Muscle movements in the Human Body
D. Study of drifting micro-organisms
75.Where is the Tropical Forestry Research Institute is Located?
A. Jahalpur
B. Pune
C. Jorhat
D. Coimbatore
Answer 's
76.Indian Institute of Chemical Biology is located at which place?
A. Chandigarh
B. Chennai
C. Lucknow
D. Kolkata
77.Mutakshera is a commentary on which of the following Dharmashastra?
A. Manu
B. Yajnavalkya
C. Katyayini
D. Narad
78.Which of the following Neolithic sites has reported Pit-Dwelling?
A. Burzaham
B. Hunsgi
C. Mehrgarh
D. Mahagara
79.The most common type of Harappan seal is?
A. Square
B. Round
C. Cylindrical
D. Oval
80.Which of the following Harappan sites have reported a Persian Gulf seal indicating trade with Mesopotamia?
A. Lothal
B. Kuntsi
C. Rangpur
D. Kunal
81.Which of the following texts refers to a conservation between Nachiketa and Yama on Atman and Brahman?
A. Kathopanisad
B. Mundaka Upanisad
C. Bhagavad Gita
D. Ramayana
82.The Harappan craftsmen are belived to have imported Lapis Lazuli for beads from
A. Afghanistan
B. Iran
C. Iraq
D. Persian Gulf
83.Which of the following Harappan sites contains the evidence of a wooden coffin?
A. Harappa
B. Manda
C. Ropar
D. Hulas
84.Which of the following is regarded as the earliest school of Indian philosophy?
A. Mimansa
B. Nyaya
C. Samkhya
D. Yoga
85.The Maski inscription which refers to full name of 'Asoka' is in the state of
A. Tamil Nadu
B. Karnataka
C. Madhya Pradesh
D. Bihar
86.Where in India is the earliest human skull believed to be that of a Homo Sapien, found?
A. Hathnova
B. Bhimbetka
C. Brahmagiri
D. Inamgaon
87.Which of the following animals appear most frequently on the Harappan seals?
A. Elephant
B. Bull
C. Unicorn
D. Rhinoceros
88.Which of the following places reveal the cultural sequence of all the three phases Phaleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic?
A. Krishna valley
B. Narmada valley
C. Belan valley
D. Indus valley
89.Who wrote the famous series of letters Shatapatren criticizing colonial rule and social evils in the society?
A. Lok Manya
B. Lok Nayak
C. Lokhitawadi
D. Lok priya
90.Which of the following cyclones hit Bay of Bengal in may 2010 affecting coastal areas of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa?
A. Cyclone Laila
B. Cyclone Sarah
C. Cyclone Rita
D. Cyclone Nargis
91.The first Indian Biodiversity Congress(2010) was held in which of the following cities?
A. Chandigarh
B. Bhopal
C. Chennai
D. Thiruvanathapuram
92.Larry King Live, the world renowned American talk show was telecast through which of the following news channel?
A. Cable News Channel
B. Fox News Channel
C. American Broadcasting Company
D. My Network TV
93.The autobiography, keeping the Faith: Memoirs of a parlimentarian, was authored by which of the following personalities?
A. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
B. Vishwanath Pradap Singh
C. George Fernandes
D. Somnath Chatterjee
94.Which of the following countries are littoral states of Gulf of Aden, where Sea Piracy is expanding?
A. Yemen, Somalia and Djibouti
B. Yemen, Somalia and Eritrea
C. Ethiopia, Yemen and Somalia
D. Ethiopia, Djibouti and Eritria
95.Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, is a national of which of the following countries?
A. America
B. Sweden
C. Norway
D. Australia
96.Which of the following Indian Institute of Technology was constructed with Russian assistance, and was visited by Russian President during his 2010 visit?
A. IIT Kharagpur
B. IIT Kanpur
C. IIT Bombay
D. IIT Chennai
97.Which of the following Indian Women were ranked in the Forbes 2010 list of 100 most powerful women in the world?
A. Sonia Gandhi, Indra Nooyi and Prathibha Patil
B. Sonia Gandhi, Indra Nooyi and Shikha Sharma
C. Indra Nooyi, Shikha Sharma, Chanda Kocchar
98.What is the official name of the "Coffee Club" which includes medium powers such as Pakistan, Argentina, Italy and Spain which oppose the creation of new permanent seats in the United Nations Security Council?
A. Uniting for Consensus
B. Plan B Model
C. Blue Group
D. Green Group
99.Which of the following reasons explains the extreme winter conditions experienced by the eastern United States, Northern Europe and East Asia in the winter of 2010-11?
A. El Nino and Southern Oscillation
B. Solar maxima that occurs once in 11 years
C. Change in the pattern of the global ocean currents
D. Overall warning of the atmosphere
100.Which of the following economists proposed Physical Quality of Life Index (PQLI)?
A. Amartya Sen
B. Mahbub Ul Haq
C. Morris D Morris
D. Joan Robinson
Answer 's
A. Paul Dirac
B. Isidor Isaac Rabi
C. Robert A. Millikan
D. Other
2.What in the list refers to a government that ruled Paris for a few weeks in 1871?
A. Paris Commune
B. Black International
C. Spartacist League
D. Other
3.Which music director composed hit songs out of Lyrics written by his wife?
A. O. P. Nayyar
B. M. S. Viswanathan
C. C. Ramchandra
D. Other
4.Who wrote about the victory of a Thai king and his daughter in an old Olympics?
A. Anna Leonowens
B. Preecha Noonsuk
C. Sulak Sivarak
D. Paul M. Handley
5.An unmanned space probe is named after sita in a sci-fi work by which writer?
A. Diane Carey
B. Michael J. Friedman
C. Arthur C. Clarke
D. Other
6.Who was the first cosmonaut to attempt a manual docking, though unsuccessfully?
A. Oleg Atkov
B. George Beregovol
C. Salizhan Sharipov
D. Other
7.Which celebrity has several tattoos, including one inspired by her hero John Lennon?
A. Lady Gaga
B. Angelina Jolie
C. Drew Barrymore
D. Other
8.Which famous author supposedly used to drink 40 cups of coffee a day?
A. Albert Camus
B. Yasunari Kawabata
C. Rudyard Kipling
D. Voltaire
9.Who used the word "rendez-voused" to describe a 5 km proximity of two spacecraft?
A. Dennis Tito
B. Mark Shuttleworth
C. Wally Schirra
10.Scripts in which calligraphy have nail shaped letters and are named after them?
A. Lishu calligraphy
B. Persian calligraphy
C. Maya calligraphy
11.Who gave the name Rama to an alien starship in a work of science fiction?
A. David Drake
B. Michael Moorcock
C. William R. Forstchen
D. Arthur C. Clarke
12.Who is known for recognising the positive side of divorce as "redefining the family"?
A. Linda C. Senn
B. Constance R. Ahrons
C. Judith S. Wallerstein
D. Other
13.Who did a work of art on Joan of Arc as a part of his her Ladies of Legend series?
A. Mellissa Ryan
B. Natanel Eisenberg
C. Teri Rosario
D. Other
14.G.B. Shaw said her banging of the door reverberated throughout Europe? Which play has her?
A. No Man's Land
B. Period of Adjustment
C. Strange Interlude
D. A Doll's House
15.What is the study of some thing that is a cold or frozen drop, going by its Greek root?
A. Hydrology
B. Oceanography
C. Crystallography
D. Other
16.Who wrote a book on how family structures sway political alleglances in America?
A. Naomi Cahn
B. June Carbone
C. Naomi and June together
D. Donald A. Coffin
17.Which wheel chaired person described his condition as "extreme sitting"?
A. Mike Utley
B. Christopher Reeve
C. Stephen Hawking
D. Aaron Fotheringham
18.Since 1918 Lenin lived with a bullet stuck on his neck. Who shot the bullet?
A. Fanya Kaplan
B. Aleksandr Kerensky
C. Lavr Kornilov
19.Who has already started a work of art that requires nearly 1200 years for completion? (Time Pyramid)
A. Manfred Laber
B. Benedetta Tagliabue
C. Rodney Walker
20.Who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize while being detained or imprisoned?
A. Liu Xiaobo
B. Carl Von Ossietzky
C. Andrei Sakharov
D. All of the above
21."Smooth as silk" is the slogan of which international airline?
A. Lufthansa
B. Cathay Pacific
C. Garuda Indonesia
D. Thai Airways
22.The hypothesis of the heat death of the universe emerged from the 1850s ideas of which scientist?
A. Ernst Mach
B. Micheal Faraday
C. William Thomson
23.Who among the Warner Brothers is credited with ending the era of silent movies?
A. Jack Warner
B. Albert Warner
C. Sam Warner
D. All of the three
24.Which Indian freedom fighter proposed that the Vedas are to Arctic origin?
A. Bhagat Singh
B. Subramanya Bharathy
C. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
25.Who found that women's special spinal curvature help them balance their body during pregnancy?
A. Roger Kurlan
B. Katherine Whitcome
C. Rosalind Franklin
Answer 's
1. | B | 2. | A | 3. | A | 4. | D | 5. | C |
6. | B | 7. | A | 8. | D | 9. | C | 10. | B |
11. | D | 12. | B | 13. | C | 14. | D | 15. | C |
16. | C | 17. | D | 18. | A | 19. | A | 20. | D |
21. | D | 22. | C | 23. | C | 24. | C | 25. | B |
26.Who said that studying the mathematics of falls could provide insights into human evolution?
A. Francis Crick
B. Nicholas Rashevsky
C. John Skoyles
D. Other
27.Who published a work about a baby girl born with a true tall in real life?
A. Joy Torakawa
B. Mouied Alashari
C. Joy Torakawa and Mouied Alashari together
28.The nickname of which Mary represents a peculiar medical condition?
A. Mary Mallon
B. Mary I of England
C. Mary MacKillop
D. Mary Jane
29.Who described in detail the instinctive response of drowning people in real-life situations?
A. Cyril Wecht
B. Francesco A. Pia
C. Sherlock Holmes
30.In hockey, repeatedly pushing the ball from right to left and then left to right is called.
A. Indian dribble
B. Change on the fly
C. Two-line pass
31.Who was always haunted by his father's suicide and drowned himself as if to bury his father's corpse?
A. Hart Crane
B. Robert Maxwell
C. Josef Mengele
D. John Berryman
32.All India Radio put on ban on several hit songs by which music director in the 1950s?
A. O.P. Nayyar
B. M.S. Viswanathan
C. Salil Chowdhury
33.Who in a song asked the then American President to "Come take a walk with me"?
A. Bob Dylan
B. Michael Jackson
C. Buffy Saine-Marie
D. Pink
34.What caused the removal of the pink color from Gilbert Baker's original gay flag?
A. A legal dispute
B. Fabric unavailability
C. A lipstick brand
35.Which MGM icon inspired an apparel collection related to the fight against breast cancer in 2008?
A. Pink Panther
B. Count Screwloose
C. Screwball Squirrel
36.Name the Indian village where almost all (including non Hindus ) speak Sanskrit?
A. Chamanpura
B. Mattur / Mathoor
C. Hazarikapara
37.The FIFA award for the most beautiful goal is named in honour of which player?
A. Franco Baresi
B. Franz Beckenbauer
C. Ferenc Puskas
38."Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum?" is the title of a witty paper by whom?
A. Felix Klein
B. Sofia Kovalevskaya
C. Philippe de La Hire
D. Mark Kac
39.How many types of ambiguity are there? Seven, says a book's title. Which critic wrote it?
A. T. S. Eliot
B. Raymond Williams
C. I. A. Richards
D. William Empson
40.Who observed that the myth of cupid's arrows might be based on the love dart behaviour of snails?
A. Ronald Chase
B. Nappoleon Bonaparte
C. Omar Khayyam
41.Which scientist co-edited a literacy periodical with the British poet William Empson?
A. Carl Sagan
B. Jacob Bronowski
C. Miroslav Holub
42.Who was the wealthiest passenger on board the ill-fated RMS Titanic?
A. Charles Melville
B. John Jacob Astor IV
C. Margaretta Corning
43.Which mathematician wanted a logarithmic spiral to be engraved on his/her tombstone?
A. Ada Lovelace
B. Carl Friedrich Gauss
C. Rene Descartes
D. Jakob Bernoulli
44.Who found a connection between the Yin-Yang symbal and a certain algebraic formation?
A. Taras Banakh
B. Oleg Verbitsky
C. Yaroslav Vorobets
D. All the three above
45.Who stopped writing world-famous poems before the age of 21 and later became an arms dealer?
A. Paul Valery
B. Arthur Rimbaud
C. Rainer Maria Rilke
46.Who designed an artificial habitat for bats in honour of the creatures' flying style?
A. Odebrecht
B. Balfour Beatty
C. Friend and company
47.Who built a 1500-foot long structure in the shape of a coil or fiddlehead on the shore of a lake?
A. Henry Moore
B. Barbara Hepworth
C. Robert Smithson
48.A new release of which software is named in honour of jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt?
A. Joomla 1.6
B. Adobe FrameMaker 10
C. WordPress 3.1
49.A promise of which woman became the name and mission of a famous non-profit organisation?
A. Kasturba Gandhi
B. Florence Nightingale
C. Mahboba Rawi
50.Which country denied asylum to Leon Trotsky despite request from its top intellectuals?
A. Argentina
B. United Kingdom
C. Equatorial Guinea
Answer 's
26. | C | 27. | C | 28. | D | 29. | B | 30. | A |
31. | D | 32. | A | 33. | D | 34. | B | 35. | A |
36. | B | 37. | A | 38. | D | 39. | D | 40. | A |
41. | B | 42. | B | 43. | D | 44. | D | 45. | B |
46. | C | 47. | C | 48. | C | 49. | C | 50. | B |
51.Who gave meat in two piles to Zeus to choose from and started the"I cut, you choose" method?
A. Prometheus
B. Satyrs & Satyresses
C. Hecatonchires
52.Who described "market failure" many years before the term appeared in economics?
A. David Richardo
B. Leszek Balcerowicz
C. Henry Sidgwick
53.Which mathematician took a game theory approach to problems of fairness during WWII?
A. Hugo Steinhaus
B. Bronislaw Knaster
C. Stefan Banach
D. All of the three above
54.Which clown reveived the coveted "Golden Grace" award from actress Princess Grace?
A. Daniel Rice
B. Michael Halvarson
C. Sergey Pavlov
D. George Carl
55.Who has/have been studying pizza cutting mathematically for 20 or more years?
A. Rick Mabry
B. Paul Deiermann
C. Marby and Deiermann
56.Workers getting detached from their work. This is the theory of alienation. Who proposed it?
A. Adam Smith
B. Oliver Williamson
C. Christopher Pissarides
D. Karl Marx
57.If 90% of sci-fi is crap, it holds true for all things from film and literature to consumer goods. Who said so?
A. Chan Davis
B. Marianne de Pierres
C. Theodore Sturgeon
58.Which mathematician founded a society whose logo is a squared square?
A. G. H. Hardy
B. Bernhard Riemann
C. Pierre de Fermat
59.Maximum number of Olympic medals in hockey 3 gold and 1 silver. Who fits the bill?
A. Udham Singh
B. Leslie Claudius
C. Singh and Claudius
60."I am a sceptic about everything, including God and Atheism", Who said that?
A. Carl Sagan
B. Alan Dershowitz
C. Steven Soderbergh
61.What in the list refers to sales organised by non-profit organisation to raise funds?
A. Purple Gorilla
B. White Elephant
C. Violet Crocodile
62.Marx and Engels geatly admired this novelist, though he was a conservative royalist, Name him.
A. Gustave Flaubert
B. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
C. Honore de Balzac
63.Who in the list would you recognise as a member of the historic Gottingen 18?
A. Max Born
B. Wolfgang Paul
C. Hans Kopfermann
D. All of the above
64.Who grouped religious as god religious and godless religious, anf favoured the latter?
A. Guru Nayak
B. Elijah Ben Solomon
C. Jiddu Krishnamurthi
D. Dalai Lama
65.Who is considered to be the father of evolutionary ideas?
A. Empodocles
B. Charles Darwin
C. Lamarck
D. Aristotle
66.Who among the following is considered to be the father of Microbiology?
A. Edward Jenner
B. Robert Koch
C. Robert Hook
D. Louis Pasteur
67.Central Scientific Instruments Organisation is located at which of the following places?
A. Chandigarh
B. Pune
C. Hyderabad
D. Guwahati
68.Which of the following fields of study overlaps with algology, mycology and protozoology?
A. Proctology
B. Prostistology
C. Teratology
D. Pteridology
69.Which is Mynmecology?
A. Study of Snails
B. Study of Tics and Mites
C. Study of Termites
D. Study of Ants
70.Who among the following is considered the father of Mutation Theory?
A. Augo de Vries
B. Paul Berg
C. Gregor Johann Mendal
D. Morgan
71.Who is considered to be the father of Indian Ecology?
A. Birbal Sahni
B. Salim Ali
C. R Mishra
D. C Srivastava
72.Where is the Central Institute of Brackish Aquaculture located?
A. Kolkata
B. Chennai
C. Mumbai
D. Visakhapatnam
73.Which of the following is concerned with the study of Algae?
A. Phycology
B. Mycology
C. Phenology
D. Pteridology
74.What is Tectology?
A. Study of Structural organisation of the body
B. Study of Seismic movements of Earth
C. Study of Muscle movements in the Human Body
D. Study of drifting micro-organisms
75.Where is the Tropical Forestry Research Institute is Located?
A. Jahalpur
B. Pune
C. Jorhat
D. Coimbatore
Answer 's
51. | A | 52. | C | 53. | D | 54. | D | 55. | C |
56. | D | 57. | C | 58. | A | 59. | C | 60. | B |
61. | B | 62. | C | 63. | D | 64. | D | 65. | A |
66. | D | 67. | A | 68. | B | 69. | A | 70. | A |
71. | C | 72. | B | 73. | A | 74. | D | 75. | D |
76.Indian Institute of Chemical Biology is located at which place?
A. Chandigarh
B. Chennai
C. Lucknow
D. Kolkata
77.Mutakshera is a commentary on which of the following Dharmashastra?
A. Manu
B. Yajnavalkya
C. Katyayini
D. Narad
78.Which of the following Neolithic sites has reported Pit-Dwelling?
A. Burzaham
B. Hunsgi
C. Mehrgarh
D. Mahagara
79.The most common type of Harappan seal is?
A. Square
B. Round
C. Cylindrical
D. Oval
80.Which of the following Harappan sites have reported a Persian Gulf seal indicating trade with Mesopotamia?
A. Lothal
B. Kuntsi
C. Rangpur
D. Kunal
81.Which of the following texts refers to a conservation between Nachiketa and Yama on Atman and Brahman?
A. Kathopanisad
B. Mundaka Upanisad
C. Bhagavad Gita
D. Ramayana
82.The Harappan craftsmen are belived to have imported Lapis Lazuli for beads from
A. Afghanistan
B. Iran
C. Iraq
D. Persian Gulf
83.Which of the following Harappan sites contains the evidence of a wooden coffin?
A. Harappa
B. Manda
C. Ropar
D. Hulas
84.Which of the following is regarded as the earliest school of Indian philosophy?
A. Mimansa
B. Nyaya
C. Samkhya
D. Yoga
85.The Maski inscription which refers to full name of 'Asoka' is in the state of
A. Tamil Nadu
B. Karnataka
C. Madhya Pradesh
D. Bihar
86.Where in India is the earliest human skull believed to be that of a Homo Sapien, found?
A. Hathnova
B. Bhimbetka
C. Brahmagiri
D. Inamgaon
87.Which of the following animals appear most frequently on the Harappan seals?
A. Elephant
B. Bull
C. Unicorn
D. Rhinoceros
88.Which of the following places reveal the cultural sequence of all the three phases Phaleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic?
A. Krishna valley
B. Narmada valley
C. Belan valley
D. Indus valley
89.Who wrote the famous series of letters Shatapatren criticizing colonial rule and social evils in the society?
A. Lok Manya
B. Lok Nayak
C. Lokhitawadi
D. Lok priya
90.Which of the following cyclones hit Bay of Bengal in may 2010 affecting coastal areas of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa?
A. Cyclone Laila
B. Cyclone Sarah
C. Cyclone Rita
D. Cyclone Nargis
91.The first Indian Biodiversity Congress(2010) was held in which of the following cities?
A. Chandigarh
B. Bhopal
C. Chennai
D. Thiruvanathapuram
92.Larry King Live, the world renowned American talk show was telecast through which of the following news channel?
A. Cable News Channel
B. Fox News Channel
C. American Broadcasting Company
D. My Network TV
93.The autobiography, keeping the Faith: Memoirs of a parlimentarian, was authored by which of the following personalities?
A. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
B. Vishwanath Pradap Singh
C. George Fernandes
D. Somnath Chatterjee
94.Which of the following countries are littoral states of Gulf of Aden, where Sea Piracy is expanding?
A. Yemen, Somalia and Djibouti
B. Yemen, Somalia and Eritrea
C. Ethiopia, Yemen and Somalia
D. Ethiopia, Djibouti and Eritria
95.Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, is a national of which of the following countries?
A. America
B. Sweden
C. Norway
D. Australia
96.Which of the following Indian Institute of Technology was constructed with Russian assistance, and was visited by Russian President during his 2010 visit?
A. IIT Kharagpur
B. IIT Kanpur
C. IIT Bombay
D. IIT Chennai
97.Which of the following Indian Women were ranked in the Forbes 2010 list of 100 most powerful women in the world?
A. Sonia Gandhi, Indra Nooyi and Prathibha Patil
B. Sonia Gandhi, Indra Nooyi and Shikha Sharma
C. Indra Nooyi, Shikha Sharma, Chanda Kocchar
98.What is the official name of the "Coffee Club" which includes medium powers such as Pakistan, Argentina, Italy and Spain which oppose the creation of new permanent seats in the United Nations Security Council?
A. Uniting for Consensus
B. Plan B Model
C. Blue Group
D. Green Group
99.Which of the following reasons explains the extreme winter conditions experienced by the eastern United States, Northern Europe and East Asia in the winter of 2010-11?
A. El Nino and Southern Oscillation
B. Solar maxima that occurs once in 11 years
C. Change in the pattern of the global ocean currents
D. Overall warning of the atmosphere
100.Which of the following economists proposed Physical Quality of Life Index (PQLI)?
A. Amartya Sen
B. Mahbub Ul Haq
C. Morris D Morris
D. Joan Robinson
Answer 's
76. | D | 77. | B | 78. | A | 79. | A | 80. | A |
81. | A | 82. | A | 83. | A | 84. | C | 85. | B |
86. | A | 87. | C | 88. | C | 89. | C | 90. | A |
91. | D | 92. | A | 93. | D | 94. | C | 95. | D |
96. | C | 97. | C | 98. | A | 99. | D | 100. | C |
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