Q ‘Losoong’ festival, celebrated by the tribal community in _, is usually the
time when the farmers rejoice and celebrate their harvest.
1 Sikkim
2 Jharkhand
3 Odisha
4 West Bengal
Q The Merdeka Cup is associated with which of the following sports ?
1 Football
2 Hockey
3 Golf
4 Chess
Q The sal tree assumes great significance in a number of tribal communities scattered across eastern India. For instance, __ festival is celebrated in honour of the tree in Jharkhand.
1 Karma
2 Tusu Parab
3 Sarhul
4 Sohrai
Q Annapurna Devi was known to practice which musical instrument ?
1 Surbahar
2 Bamboo Flute
3 Sarod
4 Violin
Q Who is known as the Father of Modern Dance in India?
1 Kelucharan Mohapatra
2 Uday Shankar
3 Pandit Birju Maharaj
4 Atombapu Sharma
Q Fa-Hien visited India during the reign of which of the following Gupta Kings?
1 Chandragupta II
2 Bhanugupta
3 Samudragupta
4 Budhagupta
Q The Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve is located in which of the following states ?
1 Manipur
2 Sikkim
3 Assam
4 Kerala
Q ‘Ponung’ and ‘Tapu’ are popular dance forms from the state of __ .
1 Meghalaya
2 Arunachal Pradesh
3 Sikkim
4 Assam
Q The Provisional Government of Free India was proclaimed by _.
1 Subhash Chandra Bose
2 Jawaharlal Nehru
3 Madan Mohan Malviya
4 Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Q The largest freshwater lake in India is _.
1 Dal lake
2 Wular lake
3 Chilika lake
4 Sambhar lake
Q ‘The Great Indian Novel’ is a satirical novel by __.
1 Suryakant Tripathi
2 KR Narayan
3 Shashi Tharoor
4 Munshi Prem Chand
Q Which of the following festivals marks the Kannada New Year?
1 Rongker
2 Ugadi
3 Puthandu
4 Vishu
Q What is the national game of Sri Lanka ?
1 Archery
2 Volleyball
3 Cricket
4 Hockey
Q Who was the founder of the Bahmani Sultanate?
1 Muhammad Shah
2 Feroz Shah Bahmani
3 Alauddin Hasan Bahman Shah
4 Muhammad Bin Tughlaq
Q Which of the following Indian monuments of the medieval period was declared as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1993?
1 Jahangir’s Tomb
2 Humayun’s Tomb
3 Taj Mahal
4 Buland Darwaza
Q ”India at Risk” is written by which of the following authors ?
1 Vijay Darda
2 Natwar Singh
3 Jaswant Singh
4 Khushwant Singh
Q Who is the highest run scorer in an over in a test match cricket?
1 Virat Kohli
2 Brian Lara
3 Jaspreet Bumrah
4 Sachin Tendulkar
Q “Laman” is a regional music of which state of India?
1 Maharashtra
2 Himachal Pradesh
3 Uttar Pradesh
4 Rajasthan
Q ‘Ambubachi’ festival of Assam is celebrated in the month of __ every year.
1 January
2 December
3 June
4 March
Q In which year was the Tata Iron and Steel Company founded ?
1 1906
2 1907
3 1908
4 1905
Q Which country is called the land of thunderbolt ?
1 Bhutan
2 Norway
3 Finland
4 Thailand
Q Which day was declared as the ‘Direct Action Day’ by the Muslim League as a means to achieve its demand for Pakistan ?
1 16 August 1945
2 16 August 1946
3 14 August 1946
4 15 August 1945
Q Which city is called twin city of Kochi ?
1 Ernakulam
2 Thrissur
3 Kottayam
4 Alappuzha
Q Who among the following British police officers was killed mistakenly instead of James Scott by Bhagat Singh and his followers on 17 December 1928 ?
1 James Monro
2 John Saunders
3 Edward Bradford
4 Charles George Baker
Q Of the following , which is the highest mountain peak of Myanmar ?
1 Mount Pedro
2 Hkakabo Razi
3 Gangkhar Puensum
4 Mount Noshaq
Q Which of the following places is known as ‘Mecca of Indian Football’ ?
1 Bombay
2 Kolkata
3 Kochi
3 Madras
Q Which of the following battles was fought between Medini Rai and Babur ?
1 Battle of Kannauj
2 Battle of Chanderi
3 First Battle of Panipat
4 Second Battle of Panipat
Q Currency of Japan is __.
1 Yen
2 Dollar
3 Loti
4 Nakfa
Q The tribal festival named ‘Pawl Kut’ is traditionally associated with:
1. Odisha
2 Sikkim
3 Mizoram
4 Rajasthan
Q Who is considered as the the main architect of the Second Five-Year Plan in India ?
1 DR Gadgil
2 PC Mahalanobis
3 VKRV Rao
4 DT Lakdawala
Q Jhijhiya is the famous cultural dance of which of the following states?
1 Uttar Pradesh
2 Assam
3 Bihar
4 Madhya Pradesh
Q Who among the following is the first Indian woman to fly to space?
1 Shawna Pandya
2 Prem Mathur
3 Kalpana Chawla
4 Sunita Williams
Q The highest civilian awards of the country, ‘The Padma Awards’ were instituted in which of the following years?
Ans 1. 1954
2. 1967
3. 1952
4. 1960
Q The agro-based religious Nuakhai festival is celebrated in which of the following states
1 Odisha
2 Maharashtra
3 Tamil Nadu
4 Kerala
Q Which of the following countries has the highest peak named Keokradong?
1. Bhutan
2 Sri Lanka
3 Bangladesh
4 Myanmar
Q Which of the following is called the cyclic arrangement of time units in Hindustani Classical music?
1 Alap
2 Raga
3 Tala
4 Jati
Q As of 2025, which of the following is the longest train route in India?
1 Jammu Tawi-Kanyakumari
2 Dibrugarh-Kanyakumari
3 Amritsar-Kochuveli
4 Guwahati-Trivandrum
Q How many committees were set up by the Constituent Assembly for framing the Constitution?
1. 20
2 11
3 22
4 9
Q How many dynasties ruled Delhi during the Sultanate period (1206 AD – 1526 AD)?
1 6
2 4
3 5
4 3
Q Who among the following is the founder ruler of the Lodhi Dynasty?
1. Bahlul Khan Lodhi
2 Daulat Khan Lodhi
3 Ibrahim Khan Lodhi
4 Sikandar Khan Lodhi
Q Who among the following has written the novel ‘In Custody’?
1 Mulk Raj Anand
2 P Lal
3 Anita Desai
4 Dom Moraes
Q Who among the following was the Secretary of the Constituent Assembly?
1. Dr. Rajendra Prasad
2 HVR Iyengar
3 Hussain Imam
4 HC Mookherjee
Q The Kuiper Belt is a ring of icy rocks and dust bodies just outside the orbit of ____
1 Neptune
2 Jupiter
3 Saturn
4 Venus
Q In which year, Mahatma Gandhi went to Ahmedabad to organise a satyagraha movement amongst cotton mill workers?
1 1918
2 1917
3 1919
4 1920
Q Shri Brahmapuriswara Temple is situated in which state of India?
1 Tamil Nadu
2 West Bengal
3 Rajasthan
4 Maharashtra
Q Article __ of the Constitution of India lays down the process for introducing
changes in the Constitution.
1 342
2 351
3 368
4 374
Q Rotating Savings and Credit Association (ROSCA) was introduced by Shirley Ardener in the year __.
1 1970
2 1964
3 1963
4 1955
Q Who among the following gave up his traditional professions and took to arms, successfully established kingdom in Rajasthan?
1 Maharaja Gangadhar Rao
2 Kadamba Mayurasharman
3 Gurjara-Pratihara Harichandra
4 Maharaja Dahir
Q In the context of water bodies, Neap Tides occur:
1 when the sun and moon are on the opposite sides
2 when there is so much interference by continents
3 when the sun and moon are at right angles to each other
4 when the earth, moon and sun line up in a straight line
Q Festival of ”Ugadi” is celebrated every year on the first day of the Hindu month ____
1 Kartika
2 Chaitra
3 Asadha
4 Jyaistha
Q The battle of Panipat, 1526 was fought between which of the following rulers?
1 Babur and Sikandar Lodi
2 Akbar and Hemu
3 Babur and Ibrahim Lodi
4 Humayun and Sher Khan
Q Who founded the Bombay Presidency Association in 1885 along with Pherozeshah Mehta and KT Telang?
1 AK Fazlul Haq
2 Zakir Husain
3 Behramji M Malabari
4 Badruddin Tyabji
Q The idols of which three Gods are installed in Jagannath Temple, Puri?
1 Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh
2 Ram, Lakshman and Janaki
3 Radha, Krishna and Balram
4 Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra
Q Who wrote the patriotic song ‘Sare Jahan Se Achha Hindustan Hamara’ that was published in the weekly journal Ittehad on 16 August 1904?
1 Muhammad Iqbal
2 Chandrasekhar Azad
3 Sardar Bhagat Singh
4 Rabindranath Tagore
Q The point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the centre of the earth is known as:
1 aphelion
2 perigee
3 apogee
4 perihelion
Q As per Census 2011, the Buddhist Religious community constituted _______ percent of the total population of India.
1 1.7
2 0.4
3 2.3
4 0.7
| Total Polulation : 121.09 crores | Hindu : 96.63 crores [ 79.8 % ] , Muslim : 17. 22 crores [ 14. 2 % ] , Christian : 2.78 crores [ 2.3 % ] , Sikh : 2.08 crores [ 1.7 % ] , Buddhist : 0.84 crores [ 0.7 % ] and Jain : 0.45 crore [ 0.4 % ] |