Q Who was the first person to fly into space ?
1 Neil Armstrong
2 Yuri Gagarin
3 Buzz Aldrin
4 Dennis Titto
Q In which sport is the term LONA used?
Ans 1. Volleyball
2. Soft ball
3. Kho-Kho
4. Kabaddi
Q The entrance gateway in Dravidian style temple is known as:
Ans 1. Shikhara
2. Mandap
3. Gopuram
4. Vimana
Q Which among the following is the tallest tree species in the world ?
1 Oak
2 Deodar
3 Redwood
4 Eucalyptus
Q ‘Mudiyettu’ is a traditional folk theatre form of which Indian state ?
1 Kerala
2 Assam
3 Jharkhand
4 Manipur
Q The ICAR-Central Institute for Cotton Research is located in _.
1 Hyderabad
2 Bhopal
3 Jaipur
4 Nagpur
Q Who among the following is the author of the book ‘The Last Burden’?
1. Upamanyu Chatterjee
2. Devdutt Pattnayak
3. Jugal Hansraj
4. Ravinder Singh
Q Abyssinia is the old name of which country from the following ?
1 Ertirea
2 Palau
3 Ethiopia
4 South Sudan
Q The construction of the Victoria Memorial Hall at Kolkata as a memorial to the deceased Queen Victoria was envisaged by which of the following Viceroys of British India ?
1 Lord Canning
2 Lord Curzon
3 Lord Minto II
4 Lord Elgin II
Q Matthew Hayden, former Australian cricketer, has written which of the following autobiographies?
1 At the Close Play
2 Standing My Ground
3 The Price Paid
4 True Colours : My Life
Q Which among the following Parts of the Indian Constitution deals with Temporary, Transitional and Special Provisions?
1 XIV
2 XX
3 XXI
4 X
Q Who among the following laid the foundation of Golden Temple?
1 Guru Arjan Sahib
2 Hazrat Mian Mir ji
3 Guru Amardas Sahib
4 Guru Ramdas Sahib
Q Who among the following was the founder of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in 1925?
1 Deendayal Upadhyay
2 Keshav Baliram Hedgewar
3 Madhavrao Sadashivrao Golwalkar
4 Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
Q Where is the headquarter of the WTO located?
1 Washington, D.C.
2 New York
3 Rome
4 Geneva
Q The botanical name of __ is Glycine max.
1 groundnut
2 chickpea
3 pea
4 soya bean
Q The concept of Bodhisattva is associated with __
1 Jainism
2 Sikhism
3 Mahayana Buddhism
4 Hinyana Buddhism
Q Sriharikota island is located in which of the following states?
1 West Bengal
2 Tamil Nadu
3 Andhra Pradesh
4 Odisha
Q Who wrote the famous novel “Durgeshnandini”?
1 Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
2 Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
3 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
4 Rabindranath Tagore
Q Which is the highest plateau in the world?
1 Tibet plateau
2 Deccan plateau
3 East African Plateau
4 Western plateau
Q The Drafting Committee of the Indian Constitution had _.
1 seven members
2 six members
3 eight members
4 nine members
Q India’s total area accounts for about _ of the total geographical area of the
world.
1 2.4 per cent
2 4.4 per cent
3 3.4 per cent
4 1.4 per cent
Q The Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty was founded by __ in the region of Malwa in the eighth century.
1 Dhruva
2 Vatsaraja
3 Mihira Bhoja
4 Nagabhata I
Q Which Queen of Ahmednagar fought against Emperor Akbar ?
1 Durgavati
2 Roopmati
3 Chand Bibi
4 Rudrama Devi
Q The lowest point of _ is Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.
1 Indian Ocean
2 Arctic Ocean
3 Atlantic Ocean
4 Pacific Ocean
Q The natural aging of a lake by nutrient enrichment of its water is termed as :
1 Extraction
2 Nutriphication
3 Eutrophication
4 Denutriphication
Q The book titled ‘The Immortals of Meluha’ is written by _.
1 Chetan Bhagat
2 Devdutt Pattanaik
3 Sushil Kumar
4 Amish Tripathi
Q Amir Khusrau was born at ___ in Uttar Pradesh.
1 Agra
2 Patiyali
3 Kanpur
4 Ghaziabad
Q In which of the following states Tapali dance performed ?
1 Rajasthan
2 Chhattisgarh
3 Karnataka
4 Himachal Pradesh
Q What is the literacy rate of Lakshadweep as per the 2011 Census?
1 95.26%
2 91.85%
3 89.84%
4 85.13%
Q ‘Ranapa’, a folk dance form of Odisha, consists of enacting chapters from the life of Lord ______.
Ans 1. Indra
2. Krishna
3. Ram
4. Hanuman
Q In which Olympic Games did Karnam Malleswari become India’s first woman to win an Olympic medal?
Ans 1. London 2012 Olympic Games
2. Brazil 2016 Olympic Games
3. Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
4. Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games
Q What is the name of famous petroleum site located in Gujarat ?
1 Bongaigaon
2 Paradeep
3 Ankleshwar
4 Bina
Q When did India carry out the first nuclear test at Pokhran ?
1 18 June 1974
2 18 May 1974
3 18 February 1974
4 18 July 1974
Q In which of the following states is the Ajanta caves situated?
Ans 1. Uttar Pradesh
2. Madhya Pradesh
3. Maharashtra
4. Kerala
Q Pulling of the earth gravitational in the same direction by the sun and the moon causes :
1 Neap tides
2 Spring tides
3 Low tides
4 High tides
Q Name the state which has the highest female literacy rate in India as per census 2011
1 Mizoram
2 Kerala
3 Karnataka
4 Maharashtra
Q Which article of the Indian constitution is related with the Separation of judiciary from executive?
1 50
2 41
3 51
4 40
Q __ is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that partitioned British India into two new independent dominions of India and Pakistan in 1947.
1 Rowlatt Act
2 Government of India Act
3 Indian Independence Act
4 Pitt’s India Act
Q Who among the following was famously known as the “The parrot of India”?
1 Pandit Ravishankar
2 Kalidas
3 Lata Mangeshkar
4 Amir Khusro
Q An isotope of which of the following is used in the treatment of cancer?
1 Nickel
2 Iron
3 Aluminium
4 Cobalt
Q Davis Cup is related with which of the following sports?
1 Tennis
2 Table Tennis
3 Basketball
4 Cricket
Q Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize is associated with which of the following disciplines?
Ans 1. Literature
2. Music
3. Science and Technology
4. Sports
Q In which of the following states is Kali Tiger Reserve located?
Ans 1. Assam
2. Telangana
3. Karnataka
4. Arunachal Pradesh
Q The Barabar Hills, also known as the Lomus Rishi Cave is located in present day _.
1 Bihar
2 Madhya Pradesh
3 Gujarat
4 Punjab
Q Who was the first female Muslim ruler of India?
1 Jahanara
2 Razia Sultan
3 Zebunnissa
4 Chand Bibi
Q The Planning Commission of India was replaced by NITI Aayog in __.
1 2018
2 2016
3 2017
4 2015
Q Which of the following empires was founded by Harihara and Bukka in 1336?
Ans 1. Chera empire
2. Vijayanagara empire
3. Maratha empire
4. Kushan empire
Q Maha Shivratri is celebrated in the honour of the Hindu deity, Lord Shiva in the Hindu month of ________.
Ans 1. Kartika
2. Chaitra
3. Phalguna
4. Vaishakha
Q In which year did Jayaprakash Narayan escape from Hazaribagh Prison and joined the Quit India Movement?
1 1942
2 1943
3 1941
4 1940
Q Where is Kandariya Mahadev Temple situated?
Ans 1. Aurangabad
2. Modhera
3. Deogarh
4. Khajuraho
Q Which is the longest river in the world ?
1 Yangtze
2 Nile
3 Amazon
4 Brahmaputra
Q Where is the Sariska Tiger Reserve located?
Ans 1. Karnataka
2. Haryana
3. Rajasthan
4. Gujarat
Q Which is the highest waterfall of the world on land ?
1 Ribbon
2 Jog
3 Angel
4 Gavarnie
Q When was the National Green Tribunal estbalished by the Government of India ?
1 2009
2 2010
3 2011
4 2012
Q The ‘Room on the roof’ a novel about an orphaned English boy living with his guardian is written by whom among the following authors?
Ans 1. Khushwant Singh
2. Ruskin Bond
3. Arundhati Roy
4. Manohar Malgaonkar
Q Who travelled to the United Kingdom in 1830 as the Mughal Empire’s ambassador to ensure that Lord William Bentinck’s Bengal Sati Regulation was not repealed or overturned?
1 Raja Ram Mohan Roy
2 Atma Ram Pandurang
3 Debendra Nath Tagore
4 Keshub Chandra Sen
Q Who is the author of the book ‘Kerala: God’s Own Country’?
Ans 1. Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
2. Shashi Tharoor
3. Sudha Murthy
4. Jeet Thayil
Q Which of the following businesses/banking organisations was established by the Indian Business Community in 1927?
1 Allahabad Bank
2 FICCI
3 CIBS
4 Punjab National Bank
Q Article 149 deals with which of the following?
1 Audit Reports
2 Duties and Powers of the CAG
3 CAG appointment, oath and conditions of service
4 The form of accounts of the Union and of the States
Q Hampi was declared as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in which of the following years
Ans 1. 1980
2. 1999
3. 1986
4. 1990
Q In which of the following mountain ranges will you find the Guru Shikhar peak?
Ans 1. Vindhya
2. Satpura
3. Aravalli
4. Karakoram
Q The __ of a ray is the angle measured from the reflected ray to the normal surface.
1 Angle of Diffusion
2 Angle of Reflection
3 Angle of Refraction
4 Angle of Incidence
Q Which Indian budget is known as the ‘The Black Budget of India’ ?
1 1973 -74
2 2016-17
3 1998-99
4 2018-19
Q Which Governor General prohibited female infanticide and Human Sacrifice?
1 Lord William Bentick
2 Warren Hastings
3 John Shore
4 Lord Canning
Q Where is Tabo Monastery located?
1 Himachal Pradesh
2 Arunachal Pradesh
3 Sikkim
4 Karnataka]
Q The Indian Air Force was established on :
1 8 September 1932
2 8 October 1932
3 8 November 1932
4 8 December 1932
Q India played its first official cricket one-day international match against which of the following countries?
1 England [ on July 13 , 1974 ]
2 Australia
3 West Indies
4 New Zealand
Q Which of the following options is a martial art form associated with Tamil Nadu ?
1 Kalari Payattu
2 Thoda
3 Thang-ta
4 Silambam
Q Which of the following states has the beach named Calangute Beach ?
1 Goa
2 Kerala
3 Tamil Nadu
4 Odisha
Q Which among the following person has written ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’?
1 Thomas Hardy
2 Mark Twain
3 Charles Dickens
4 Jane Austen
Q ______rejected the superstitious beliefs in Hinduism and gave the slogan ‘Go back to Vedas’.
1 Swami Sahajanand
2 Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
3 Atma Ram Pandurang
4 Swami Dayanand Sarasvati
Q Who among the following appointed Aziz Khummar a wine distiller to high
administrative post?
1 Alauddin Khalji
2 Firuz Shah Tughluq
3 Jalaluddin Khalji
4 Muhammad Tughluq
Q Which is the largest sea located in the North Indian Ocean, covering an area of about3.86 million square kilometres?
Ans 1. Java Sea
2. Arabian Sea
3. Andaman Sea
4. Red Sea
Q In badminton, a _________ is called when a rally is stopped without any point.
Ans 1. pass
2. let
3. serve
4.smash
Q The OECD [ The Organistation for Economic Co-operation and Development ] headquarters are situated in :
1 Geneva
2 Paris
3 Vienna
4 Washington DC
Q According to Indian mythology, who sung Shiva Tandava Stotra?
1 Ravana
2 Shiva
3 Vishnu
4 Ganesha
Q Who is the author of the book “Stories I Must Tell”?
1 Kabir Bedi
2 Karan Johar
3 Dilip Kumar
4 Dev Ananda
Q Nahid Siddiqui is a famous classical dancer in _______ genre.
Ans 1. Odissi
2. Kathak
3. Manipuri
4. Bharatnatyam
Q Who is the Captain of Indian Hockey team that won bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics 2020 [ 2021 ] ?
1 Manpreet Singh
2 Harmanpreet Singh
3 Amit Rohidas
4 PR Sreejesh
Q The concept of Concurrent List in the Indian Constitution was borrowed from the
constitution of :
1 Australia
2 USSR
3 USA
4 Ireland
Q Which among the following is the New Year day of Gujarat that falls during harvest season on the day after Diwali?
1 Bestu Varas
2 Vishu
3 Puthandu
4 Ugadi
Q Phag dance, also known as Faag or Phaag dance, is a popular folk-dance form of _
1 Haryana
2 Mahrashtra
3 Goa
4 Assam
Q The highest mountain peak of ______ is Deomali
1 Odisha
2 Maharashtra
3 Himachal Pradesh
4 Karnataka
Q ‘Golden Girl’ is an autobiography of :
1 PT Usha
2 Mark Kom
3 Mithali Raj
4 Saina Nehwal
Q Who is the first Indian to win the All England Open Badminton Championships?
1 Prakash Padukone
2 Saina Nehwal
3 Pullela Gopichand
4 Jwala Gupta
Q Nilachal Hill or Kamagiri Hills is located in which state of India ?
1 Assam
2 Goa
3 Maharashtra
4 Karnataka
Q Chandrakanta, written by __, is considered to be the first work of prose in Hindi.
1 Devaki Nandan Khatri
2 Munshi Premchand
3 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
4 Rabindranath Tagore
Q In which of the following state of India, you will find the natural phenomenon called Chir Batti?
1 Gujarat
2 Uttar Pradesh
3 Goa
4 Karnataka
Q The unit of Electromotive force of a cell is ___
1 Volt
2 Newton
3 Joule
4 Coulomb
Q Sheesh Mahal or the ‘Palace of Mirrors’ in Patiala (Punjab) was built by _____
1 Maharaja Narinder Singh
2 Yadavindra Singh
3 Bala Ala Singh Sidhu
3 Bhalindra Singh
Q The refractive index of water is ___
1 1.33
2 2.33
3 3.33
4 4.33
Q Which type of paintings are found on the walls of Thiruvarur and Ajanta temples ?
1 Mural
2 Jadopatia
3 Osakothi
4 Paitkar
Q The Treaty of Lahore was signed between Sikhs and British in __.
1 1848
2 1859
3 1852
4 1846
Q The Government of India approved the National Policy for the Farmers in the year :
1 2005
2 2006
3 2007
4 2008
Q To neutralise the effect of formic acid injected by ant bite, which among the following can be used ?
1 Potasssium carbonate
2 Calcium carbonate
3 Sodium bicarbonate
4 Sodium carbonate
The effect of the acid causes by ant bites can be neutralised by rubbing moist baking soda or Calamine solution , which contains zinc carbonate
Q Name the type of nutrition in that the organism takes in nutrients in solution form from dead and decaying matters.
1 Autotrophic nutrition
2 Heterotrophic nutrition
3 Saprophytic nutrition
4 Insectivorous nutrition
Q Rs. 50 banknote of Mahatma Gandhi (New) series has base colour of __.
1 chocolate brown
2 stone grey
3 fluorescent blue
4 lavender
Rs. 10 banknote of Mahatma Gandhi (New) series has base colour of chocolate brown
Rs. 20 banknote of Mahatma Gandhi (New) series has base colour of greenish
Rs. 50 banknote of Mahatma Gandhi (New) series has base colour of fluorescent blue.
Rs. 100 banknote of Mahatma Gandhi (New) series has base colour of lavender
Rs. 200 banknote of Mahatma Gandhi (New) series has base colour of bright yellow
Rs. 500 banknote of Mahatma Gandhi (New) series has base colour of stone grey
Rs. 2000 banknote of Mahatma Gandhi (New) series has base colour of magenta