5. 1. X Y is a global event organized by WWF (World
Wide Fund for Nature, also known as World Wildlife
Fund) and is held on the last Saturday of March
annually, asking households and businesses to turn
off their non-essential lights and other electrical
appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards
the need to take action on climate change. X Y was
conceived by WWF and The Sydney Morning
Herald in 2007, when 2.2 million residents of Sydney
participated by turning off all non-essential
lights.Following Sydney's lead, many other cities
around the world adopted the event in 2008.X Y 2011
took place on March 26, 2011 at participant's local
time. X Y 2012 will take place on March 31, 2012 from
46. 1. X ruled 11 December 1767 – 13 August 1795,
also known as the Philosopher Queen, was a
Queen of the Malwa kingdom, India. She was born
in the village of Chaundi
in Jamkhed, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra. She
moved the capital to Maheshwar south
of Indore on the Narmada River.
She is also famous for her sense of justice. One
day, she found her only son, putting poisonous
scorpions into the shoes of her subjects resulting
in their deaths. She ordered his execution under
the elephant feet.
50. 3.He was Mauryan Emperor Chandragupta ’s
counselor.Traditionally, he is also identified by
the names Kautilya and Vishnu Gupta, who
authored the ancient Indian political treatise
called Arthaśāstra.
59. X is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty
Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric
Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886. A gift to
the United States from the people of France, is of a
robed figure ,depicting theRoman goddess of
freedom, who bears a torch and a upon which is
inscribed the date of the American Declaration of
Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at
her feet. The statue has become an icon of freedom
and of the United States.Bartholdi was inspired by
French law professor and politician Édouard René de
Laboulaye, who commented in 1865 that any
monument raised to American independence would
properly be a joint project of the French and American
63. 1. "It is indeed a great honour that I have been
considered for honorary Group Captain in the IAF.
As an Indian I am proud to be associated with the
dynamic force and I shall do my very best to be
brand ambassador for the force".
Which sportsperson said these lines?
65. 2. The following are various tests done (in serial
order) for what?
The Circumference test
The Sphericity test
Rebound Test (Bounce) test
Water Resistance and absorption test
Weight Check test
Loss of Pressure test
Shape and Size Retention Test
67. 3. He is the youngest driver to have taken part in an
official practice session of a Grand Prix, to score
championship points, to lead a race, to secure
pole position, and to win a race and has many
other “youngest” records in his list. Who is he?
69. 4. With her performance at the 2011 Australian
Open, she became the first player from an Asian
country to appear in a Grand Slam singles
final. She then went on to win the 2011 French
Open singles title, making her the first player from
an Asian country to win a Grand Slam in singles.
Who are we talking about?
78. Since Jan 2006 , which country’s players have
been the official squash number ranked player for
the maximum number of months? (ie in 73
months since Jan 2006 , which country occupied
the #1 rank the maximum times )
82. 2.It is one of India 's largest
selling comic book series, with more
than 90 million copies sold in 20 Indian
languages. Founded in 1967, the imprint
has more than 400 titles that retell
stories from the
great Indian epics, mythology, history, fol
klore, and fables in a comic book format.
It was created by Anant Pai, and
published by India Book House.
84. 3.It is a festival taking place in the month of
January since 2006. It is held each year in
Rajasthan during the month of January, usually
in the Hall of Audience and gardens of the Diggi
Palace in the city centre, and celebrates
excellence in Rajasthani, Indian and
International writing.
The festival directors are the writers Namita
Gokhale and William Dalrymple and is
produced by Sanjoy Roy of Teamwork
Productions. It is an Initiative of the Jaipur
Virasat Foundation founded by Faith
Singh,originally as a segment of the Jaipur
Heritage International Festival in 2006, and
86. 4. X is one of several forms of poetry that
originated in Europe, mainly Provence
and Italy. X commonly has 14 lines. It
derives from the Occitan word "little song"
or "little sound".
88. 5.
The five books are called:
Mitra-bheda: The Separation of Friends (The
Lion and the Bull)
Mitra-lābha or Mitra-samprāpti: The Gaining of
Friends (The Dove, Crow, Mouse, Tortoise
and Deer)
Kākolūkīyam: Of Crows and Owls (War and
Peace)
Labdhapraṇāśam: Loss Of Gains (The
Monkey and the Crocodile)
Aparīkṣitakārakaṃ: Ill-Considered Action /
Rash deeds (The Brahman and the
Mongoose)
95. 1.He might have used his principle of
buoyancy to determine whether the
golden crown was less dense than
solid gold. So excited he was with
his discovery, that he then took to
the streets without clothes, crying
"Eureka!" (Greek, meaning "I have
found it!"). Who are we talking
about?
99. 3. X is a member of the chalcogen group on
the periodic table and is a
highly reactive nonmetallic element that
readily forms compounds with almost all other
elements.By mass, X is the third most
abundant element in the universe
after hydrogen and helium and the most
abundant element by mass in the Earth's
crust, making up almost half of the crust's
mass. It was first discovered
by Swedish pharmacist Carl Wilhelm
Scheele.Scheele called the gas "fire
101. 4. X is a congenital disorder characterized by
the complete or partial absence of pigment in
the skin, hair and eyes due to absence or
defect of an enzyme involved in the
production of melanin.
103. 5. 1729 is known as the Hardy–X
number after a famous anecdote of the
British mathematician G. H. Hardy regarding
a hospital visit to the Indian
mathematician X. In Hardy's words: “I
remember once going to see him when he
was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab
number 1729 and remarked that the number
seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I
hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. "No,"
he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it
is the smallest number expressible as the
sum of two cubes in two different ways. 1729
105. 6. Originally intended to be one ten-
millionth of the distance from the
Earth's equator to the North Pole (at sea
level), its definition has been periodically
refined to reflect growing knowledge
of metrology. Since 1983, it is defined as
the length of the path travelled by light
in vacuum in 1 ⁄ 299,792,458 of
a second.