India GK Quiz

Q1. India's population, as on 1 March 2011
(A) 1,010,193,422 Billion         (B) 9,10,193,422 Billion
(C) 1,210,193,422 Billion         (D) 1,910,193,422 Billion

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Q2. India's largest city
(A) Delhi              (B) Mumbai
(C) Chennai         (D) Pune

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Q3. Number of State and Union Territories in India
(A) 27 States and 8 Union Territories             (B) 28 States and 7 Union Territories
(C) 27 States and 6 Union Territories             (D) 23 States and 10 Union Territories

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Q4. India's population density
(A) 370.2/km2             (B) 290.7/km2
(C) 375/km2                (D) 421.2/km2

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Q5. India's total area
(A) 3.7 Million sq. km             (B) 3.0 Million sq. km
(C) 4.2 Million sq. km             (D) 3.3 Million sq. km

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Q6. Sex ratio of India according to the 2011 census
(A) 940                 (B) 972
(C) 845                 (D) 774

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Q7. National Motto of India

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Q8. National Anthem of India

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Q9. National Song of India

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Q10. What is the name of India's National Aquatic Animal?
(A) River Dolphin             (B) Crocodile
(C) Katla Fish                    (D) Green Frog

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Q11. In which century did Portuguese merchants first land in Goa?
(A) 17th Century                 (B) 15th Century
(C) 14th Century                 (D) 16th Century

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Q12. Who designed the Indian Parliament in New Delhi?
(A) Gustave Eiffel                             (B) Le Corbusier
(C) Edwin Landseer Lutyens          (D) Bonanno Pisano

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Q13. Which monument was built to commemorate the visit of King George V and Queen Mary to Bombay?
(A) India Gate                             (B) Gateway of India
(C) Victoria Terminus                (D) Elephanta Caves

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Q14. Which monument was built by Mohammed Quli Qutab Shah in 1591 to commemorate the end of Plague?
(A) Charminar                     (B) Jama Masjid
(C) Mecca Masjid                 (D) Toli Masjid

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Q15. Hindi Divas celebrate in India on
(A) 14th September             (B) 12th April
(C) 10th April                       (D) 14th December

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Q16. Which state has the highest literacy rate
(A) Goa                         (B) Kerala
(C) Mizoram                 (D) Manipur

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Q17. What was the code name of the first nuclear tests conducted by India in on 18 May 1974, in Pokhran,Rajasthan ?
(A) Operation Vijay                 (B) Operation Shakti
(C) Smiling Buddha                 (D) Operation Ashwamedh

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Q18. Which state is known as India's Spice Garden ?
(A) Kerala                         (B) Karnataka
(C) Assam                         (D) Andhra Pradesh

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Q19.On which riverbank is Goa located?
(A) Ganga                     (B) Mandovi
(C) Gomati                    (D) Sabarmati

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Q20. Which State in India is the largest producer of Soyabean?
(A) Assam                           (B) Bihar
(C) Madhya Pradesh         (D) Maharastra

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Q21. India won its first Olympic hockey gold in?
(A) 1930                 (B) 1928
(C) 1932                 (D) 1927

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Q22. On which spacecraft did Rakesh Sharma make his historic trip to Space?
(A) Salyut 7                     (B) Soyuz-T
(C) Apollo 11                  (D) Progress 1

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Q23. Who was the backup crew for Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian in space?
(A) Ravi Kumar                     (B) Ravish Sharma
(C) Madhavan Nair               (D) Ravish malhotra

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Q24. Which is India's first artificial satellite?
(A) INSAT                     (B) Aryabhata
(C) bhaskara                (D) Rohini

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Q25. IRS series satellites are used for?
(A) Remote Sensing              (B) Tele Communication
(C) Astronomy                      (D) Forestry

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Q26. First University established in India
(A) University of Calcutta             (B) Delhi University
(C) Madras University                  (D) Banaras Hindu University

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Q27. The first IIT was established in1951 known as
(A) IIT Delhi                         (B) IIT Kanpur
(C) IIT Kharagpur               (D) IIT Madras

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Q28. Biggest District in India
(A) Leh, Jammu and Kashmir                 (B) Bikaner, Rajasthan
(C) Jodhpur, Rajasthan                           (D) Kachchh, Gujrat

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Q29. Smallest District in India
(A) Mahe, Puducherry                         (B) Central Delhi, Delhi
(C) Diu, Daman and Diu                      (D) Yaman, Puducherry

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Q30. Arundhati Roy was the first Indian to won a Man Booker Prize. She won for the book
(A) The Ghost Road                              (B) Last Orders
(C) White Tiger                                     (D) The God of Small Things

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Q31. Which is the largest fresh water lake in India
(A) Wuller Lake, Kashmir                      (B) Hussain Sagar, Hyderabad
(C) Rangarh Lake, Rajasthan                 (D) Dal Lake, Himachal Pradesh

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Q32. Which is the highest waterfall in India
(A) Kunchikal Falls                                 (B) Barehipani Falls
(C) Jog Falls                                             (D) Kynrem Falls

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Q33. Which Wildlife Sanctury declared as First National Park in India
(A) Kaziranga National Park                 (B) Gir National Park
(C) Nanda Devi National Park               (D) Jim Corbett National Park

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Q34. Which is the first Indian company listed in nssdaq stock exchange
(A) Infosys                         (B) Wipro
(C) Tata                              (D) Cognizant

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Q35. Which agreement signed at the end of India-Pakistan war of 1971
(A) Shimla Agreement                         (B) Tashkent declaration
(C) Delhi declaration                           (D) None of the Above

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Q36. First Minister of Education who have been awarded with Bharat Ratna Award
(A) Morarji Desai                             (B) Abul Kalam Azad
(C) Zakir Hussain                             (D) J P Narayan

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Q37. Rabindranath Tagore (first non-European) won noble prize in 1913 for the book
(A) Gitimalya                         (B) Balak
(C) Manasi                             (D) Gitanjali

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Q38. Gitanjali, written by Rabindranath Tagore is a collection of
(A) 101 poems                     (B) 120 poems
(C) 157 poems                     (D) 184 poems

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Q39. Project Tiger in India was started in the year
(A) 1984                                 (B) 1970
(C) 1965                                 (D) 1973

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Q40. Which state in India share only one border with Indian state
(A) Goa                                  (B) Punjab
(C) Nagaland                         (D) Sikkim

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Q41. Which is the longest river bridge over a single river in India
(A) Vikramshila Setu, Bihar                         (B) Godavari Bridge, Andra Pradesh
(C) Mahatma Gandhi Setu, Bihar                (D) Naranarayan Bridge, Assam

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Q42. Who had delivered longest ever speech in United Nation Security Council
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru                             (B) VK Krishna Menon
(C) Atal Bihari Vajpayee                        (D) Vallabhbhai Patel

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Q43. RBI was set up on the recommendation of which commission
(A) C Rangarajan                         (B) Dr. B Ambedkar
(C) Hilton Young                          (D) None of the above

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Q44. Famous environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna is associated with which movement
(A) Save Silent Valley                     (B) Chipko
(C) Narmada Bachao                     (D) Jhola Andolan

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Q45. "Operation Flood" is a movement related with the product
(A) Milk                                     (B) Fresh Water
(C) Rice                                     (D) None of the above

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Q46. Who is known as the father of Indian Green Revolution
(A) V Kurien                               (B) C Subramanian
(C) MS Swaminathan                 (D) None of the above

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Q47. World's first Granite Temple was build in India, find the which one
(A) Brihadeeswarar Temple                 (B) Somnath Temple
(C) Tirupati Temple                                (D) Sabarimala

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Q48. The value of "pi" was first calulated by the indian mathematician
(A) Varahamihira                             (B) Aryabhata
(C) Panini                                          (D) Budhayana

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Q49. "The Musalman", India's only handwritten newspaper is published from
(A) Hyderabad                         (B) Mumbai
(C) Bangalore                           (D) Chennai

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Q50. The first Indian newspaper to offer an online edition on internet
(A) Times of India                         (B) Hindustan Times
(C) Anandabazar Patrika              (D) The Hindu

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(A) Bihar                          (B) Uttar Pradesh
(C) Uttarakhand              (D) Madhya Pradesh

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Q52. In which Puranas the details of Vastu Shastra includes
(A) Agni                  (B) Kurma
(C) Padma              (D) Narada

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Q53. How many parvas in the Mahabharat book
(A) 20              (B) 32
(C) 16              (D) 18

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Q54. How many kandas in the Ramayan book
(A) 12              (B) 7
(C) 13              (D) 10

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Q55.  In which year was the capital of India shifted from Calcutta to Delhi
(A) 1918              (B) 1907
(C) 1911              (D) 1916

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Q56. Where the largest shipyard in India located
(A) Mumbai              (B) Visakhapatnam
(C) Kochi                  (D) Chennai

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Q57. Which state has the minimum total forst area covered in India
(A) Assam              (B) Madhya Pradesh
(C) Goa                  (D) Haryana

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Q58. Which Union Territory has the minimum total forst area covered in India
(A) Delhi                             (B) Daman and Diu
(C) Puducherry                  (D) Chandigarh

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Q59. The Gulf of Mannar is situated along the coast of
(A) Tamil Nadu                (B) Kerala
(C) Karnataka                  (D) Andhra Pradesh

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Q60. Indian Standard Time(IST) refers to the local time of which city
(A) Banaras                  (B) Delhi
(C) Allahabad               (D) Kolkata

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Q61. Which one is the oldest refinery in India
(A) Guwahati                  (B) Barauni
(C) Mangalore                (D) Digboi

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Q62. Which state is the largest producer of rice in India
(A) West Bengal                 (B) Andhra Pradesh
(C) Punjab                           (D) Uttar Pradesh

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Q63. Which state is the largest producer of cotton in India
(A) Madhya Pradesh                 (B) Gujrat
(C) Tamil Nadu                           (D) Haryana

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Q64. Where the India's first Defence University is located
(A) Karnataka                    (B) Kerla
(C) Uttar Pradesh              (D) Haryana

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Q65. In which state the Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development is located
(A) Tamil Nadu                       (B) Karnataka
(C) Himachal Pradesh            (D) Uttaranchal

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Q66. Which one is the oldest mountain range in India
(A) Himalayas              (B) Aravalli
(C) Starupa                  (D) Nilgiri

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Q67. Which one is the highest mountain peak in India
(A) Everest                             (B) Nanda Devi
(C) Kangchenjunga                (D) Yamnotri

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Q68. Which one is the longest river in South India
(A) Kaveri              (B) Krishna
(C) Vaigai               (D) Godavari

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Q69. Which one is the longest rail tunnel in India
(A) Karbude                 (B) Karwar
(C) Pir Panjal               (D) Khowai

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Q70. In which city the longest flyover of india is located
(A) Mumbai               (B) Pune
(C) Chennai               (D) Hyderabad

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Q71. In which State the living root bridges is found
(A) Assam                (B) Mizoram
(C) Sikkim                (D) Meghalaya

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Q72. Which one is the largest zoological park (Zoo) in India
(A) Arignar Anna Zoological Park, Chennai               (B) Nandankanan Zoological Park, Bhubneswar
(C) Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabad                      (D) Mysore Zoo, Mysore

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Q73. The cleanest village of India/Asia is Mawlynnong, in which state it is located
(A) Arunachal Pradesh            (B) Manipur
(C) Meghalaya                           (D) Nagaland

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Q74. Where the headquters of Indian Railway is located
(A) Delhi                  (B) Kolkata
(C) Pune                   (D) Mumbai

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Q75. Where the headquters of Life Insurance of India (LIC) is located
(A) Chennai              (B) Kolkata
(C) Pune                   (D) Mumbai

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Q76. Who is the first indian woman to climb Mt. Everest
(A) Premlata Agarwal           (B) Arunima Sinha
(C) Bachendri Pal                  (D) Krishna Patil

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Q77. Who is the first indian woman to climb Mt. Everest with prosthetic legs
(A) Premlata Agarwalsp          (B) Arunima Sinha
(C) Bachendri Pal                     (D) Krishna Patil

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Q78. Who is known as the "birdman of India"
(A) Humayun Abdulali           (B) Salim Ali
(C) Biswamoy Biswas             (D) Poornachandra Tejaswi

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Q79. Who is the first Indian to be a member of British Parliament
(A) Jamsetji Tata                   (B) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(C) Dadabhai Naoroji           (D) Surendranath Banerjee

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Q80. The 'onam' festival is mainly celebrated in which state
(A) Kerala                  (B) Tamil Nadu
(C) Karnataka           (D) Odisha

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Q81. 'Kuchipudi' is a classical dance from the state
(A) Tamil Nadu            (B) Kerala
(C) Odisha                    (D) Andhra Pradesh

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Q82. 'Bharata Natyam' is a classical dance from the state
(A) Tamil Nadu            (B) Karnataka
(C) Kerala                    (D) Andhra Pradesh

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Q83. Total number of caves present in the Ajanta Caves, Maharashtra
(A) 41            (B) 33
(C) 21            (D) 30

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Q84. Total number of caves present in the Ellora Caves, Maharashtra
(A) 20            (B) 34
(C) 31            (D) 11

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Q85. Maha Kumbh Mela can be held on same place after every
(A) 3 Years            (B) 5 Years
(C) 6 Years            (D) 12 years

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Q86. Kumbh Mela can not be held in which city
(A) Varanasi            (B) Haridwar
(C) Nashik                (D) Ujjain

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Q87. Officially, Indian Republic Day celebration continues for a duration of
(A) One day               (B) Two day
(C) Three day            (D) Four day

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Q88. Total number of spokes present in the Ashoka Chakra
(A) 18            (B) 24
(C) 26            (D) 12

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Q89. When the Postal Index Number (PIN) was first introduced in India
(A) 1947            (B) 1950
(C) 1956            (D) 1972

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Q90. Total number of PIN (Postal Index Number) zone in Indian postal service
(A) 5            (B) 9
(C) 10          (D) 12

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Q91. 'Pravasi Bharatiya Divas' is celebrated in India on
(A) 9th January            (B) 12th February
(C) 29th January          (D) 22nd June

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Q92. French is one of the official language of which union territories
(A) Goa                      (B) Daman and Diu
(C) Puducherry         (D) Lakshadweep

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Q93. According to the census 2011, which state has the highest sex ratio with 1084 women per 1000 men
(A) Maharastra            (B) West Bengal
(C) Tamil Nadu            (D) Kerala

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Q94. Which one is the most literate state in India, according to 2011 census
(A) Mizoram                 (B) Kerala
(C) Lakshadweep         (D) Manipur

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Q95. Which one is the most populated city in India
(A) Delhi              (B) Kolkata
(C) Mumbai         (D) Chennai

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Q96. TATA Airlines is now known as
(A) Indigo                 (B) Air India
(C) Jet Airways         (D) Indigo

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Q97. The international hub of Jet Airways is located as
(A) Englan              (B) Germany
(C) Franch              (D) Belgium

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Q98. How many times India has been elected to the UN Security Council
(A) 3             (B) 5
(C) 6             (D) 7

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Q99. In which year Reserve Bank of India was nationalised
(A) 1947           (B) 1948
(C) 1949           (D) 1952

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Q100. The largest museum of India is located at
(A) Kolkata           (B) Delhi
(C) Mumbai          (D) Hyderabad

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(A) Delhi                 (B) Patna
(C) Kharagpur        (D) Hyderabad

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Q102. In which city the biggest bus terminal of India and South Asia is located
(A) Delhi                 (B) Mumbai
(C) Bangalore        (D) Chennai

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Q103. First city in India that have a dedicated lanes for bicycle rides
(A) Bangalore          (B) Guwahati
(C) Pune                   (D) Madurai

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Q104. In which year UNESCO declared Darjeeling Himalayan Railway as World Heritage Site
(A) 1976          (B) 1989
(C) 1994          (D) 1999

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Q105. Which railway station is at highest altitude in india
(A) Ghum            (B) Ooty
(C) Shimla           (D) Solan

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Q106. India's first metro railway service in Kolkata started in the year
(A) 1984            (B) 1990
(C) 1992            (D) 1995

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Q107. India's first all women Post Office is located at
(A) Delhi               (B) Mumbai
(C) Chennai          (D) Patna

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Q108. Mother Teresa received Nobel Peace Prize in the year
(A) 1979         (B) 1980
(C) 1982         (D) 1985

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Q109. In which country Mother Teresa was born
(A) Germany            (B) Hungary
(C) Macedonia         (D) Slovakia

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