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Q ‘Unladylike’ is a memoir by __.

1 Supriya Joshi

2 Aditi Mittal

3 Radhika Vaz

4 Aishwarya Mohanraj

Q Siyaram Tewari belongs to which of the following music Gharanas?

1 Bettiah

2 Dagari

3 Kirana

4 Darbhanga

Q The book Godaan was authored by __ in 1936.

1 Rabindranath Tagore

2 Munshi Premchand

3 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

4 RK Narayan

Q _ is commonly represented by the Greek letter ρ (rho).

1 Current

2 Flow of charges

3 Electrical resistivity

4 Electrical conductivity

Q In which of the following districts is Baira Siul Dam located?

1 Kinnaur

2 Mandi

3 Chamba

4 Bilaspur

Q The Barabati Sports Stadium is located in the state of :

1 Odisha

2 Himachal Pradesh

3 Maharashtra

4 Madhya Pradesh

Q Hareli , Kajari and Madai Festival are associated with which of the following states ?

1 Jharkhand

2 Chhattisgarh

3 Uttarakhand

4 Rajasthan

Q Articles 36-51 of the Constitution of India pertain to __.

1 Fundamental Duties

2 Directive Principles of State Policy

3 Fundamental Rights

4 The Union

Q What is the distance from the lower edge of the crossbar of a football goal to the ground?

1 10 feet

2 11 feet

3 8 feet [ 2.44 m ]

4 9 feet

Q When the sun, the moon and the earth are in a straight line, the height of the tide will be higher. What are these tides called?

1 Spring tides

2 Autumn tides

3 Neap tides

4 Diurnal tide

Q Which of the following is a popular dance and music combination of Andhra Pradesh that is similar to the stick dance ?

1 Neuleu

2 Kolannalu

3 Villa Pattu

4 Dandiya

Q Who among the following bestowed upon Milkha Singh the title of the ‘Flying Sikh’ ?

1 Jawaharlal Nehru

2 Lal Bahadur Shastri

3 General Ayub Khan

4 General Yahya Khan

Q For how many days Solung festival is celebrated in Arunachal Pradesh?

1 3 days

2 5 days

3 2 days

4 4 days

Q ‘Karagam’ is a folk dance of which of the following states of India ?

1 Rajasthan

2 Tamil Nadu

3 Assam

4 Odisha

Q Rourkela Iron and Steel plant was established with the technical co-operation of which of the following countries ?

1 Germany

2 Swedon

3 Norway

4 United Kingdom

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 Edward Bradford

2 John Saunders

3 James Monro

4 Charles George Baker

Q Who was the first recipient of the Ashok Chakra from Indian Air Force ?

1 Somnath Sharma

2 Neerja Bhanot

3 Suhas Biswas

4 Bachittar Singh

Q A long, winding ridge of stratified sand and gravel is known as:

1 Moraine

2 esker

3 Erratic

4 Aquifer

Q Diwan-i Kohi was the department of________ introduced by Muhammad Bin Tughlaq.

1 military

2 market

3 charity

4 agriculture

Q According to rules laid down by the International Football Association Board (IFAB), what can be the maximum length of a goal line in football?

1 90 m

2 100 m

3 40 m

4 50 m

Q Manipur’s __ tribe celebrates the ‘Gaan-Ngai’ festival, which is a post-harvest festival of the tribe living in the regions of Manipur.

1 Zeliangrong

2 Chothe

3 Gangte

4 Inpui

Q Which Article of the Indian Constitution mentions about the qualification for
membership of the State Legislature?

1 Article 179

2 Article 171

2 Article 173

4 Article 180

Q Which Union Territory has the lowest literacy rate, according to the Census of India 2011?

1 Lakshadweep

2 Dadra and Nagar Haveli

3 Andaman and Nicobar Islands

4 Delhi

Q Which Article of the Indian Constitution mentions that ‘The State shall endeavour to organise agriculture and animal husbandry on modern and scientific lines’?

1 Article 49

2 Article 48

3 Article 4O

4 Article 44

Q बास्केटबॉल में, जब एक रेफरी यह निर्धारित करनेके लिए गेंद को सेंटर सर्कल मेंऊपर फेंकता हैकि
किस टीम को गेंद प्राप्त होती हैउसे _कहा जाता है।

1 डंक बॉल

2 जम्प बॉल

3 हुक बॉल

4 हाई बॉल

Q Which of the following vitamin is NOT CORRECTLY matched with its deficiency disease?

1 Vitamin B – Beriberi

2 Vitamin D – Rickets

3 Vitamin C – Scurvy

4 Vitamin A – Goiter

Deficiency of vitamin A causes a disease called Night blindness . Goiter is a deficiency disease due to the lack of iodine

Q The post of Vice President has been taken from the Constitution of __.

1 Australia

2 Germany

3 The US

4 The UK

Q Who invented Radio ?

1 G. Marconi

2 JL Baird

3 Alexander Graham Bell

4 Thomas Alva Edison

Q The cell wall of bacteria is made up of:

1 peptidoglycan

2 cellulose

3 glycogen

4 peptone

Q The Centre for Cultural Resources and Training [ CCRT ] was set up in :

1 1979

2 1977

3 1986

4 1993

Q India signed ‘Panchsheel’ agreement with which of its neighbouring country ?

1 China

2 Bangaldesh

3 Pakistan

4 Nepal

Q Ashtadhyayi, is a Sanskrit treatise on grammar, written in the 6th to 5th century BCE by _.

1 Panini

2 Patanjali

3 Agastya

4 Vishvamitra

Q Who is the author of the book named ‘My Music My Life’ ?

1 Pandit Ravi Shankar

2 AR Rahman

3 Michael Jackson

4 Tanvi Shah

Q In which of the following languages is ‘Childhood Days – A Memoir’ by Satyajit Ray written?

1 Hindi

2 Telugu

3 Bengali

4 Kannada

Q The Big Dipper is an asterism formed by the seven brightest stars in the constellation:

1 Orion

2 Ursa Major

3 Cassiopeia

4 Leo Major

Q Manyakheta or Malkhed was the capital of which of the following kingdoms?

1 Shaka

2 Rashtrakuta

3 Kushan

4 Satavahana

Q What is the name of the northern part of the western coastal plain between Mumbai and Goa?

1 Konkan coast

2 Coromandel coast

3 Malabar coast

4 Kannad plain

Q What is the national male workforce participation rate as per the Census of India 2011?

1 53.26%

2 51.26%

3 50.26%

4 52.26%

Q Who among the following attended all the three Round Table Conferences held in London?

1 Sarojini Naidu

2 Tej Bahadur Sapru

3 Mahatma Gandhi

4 Rajendra Prasad

Q Which of the following dance forms traces its lineage to the ancient dance of Sadir Attam?

1 Bharatanatyam

2 Kuchipudi

3 Mohiniyattam

4 Kathakali

Q The Eastern Ghats stretch from the __ to the Nigiris in the south.

1 Damodar Valley

2 Son Valley

3 Mahanadi Valley

4 Godavari Valley

Q When was the Atmiya Sabha founded to attack the evils within Hinduism?

1 1845

2 1814

3 1839

4 1828

Q The ‘Servants of India Society’ was the brainchild of which of the following leaders?

1 Chittaranjan Das

2 Gopal Krishna Gokhale

3 BR Ambedkar

4 Lala Lajpat Rai

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 Chandertal , Renuka and Pong Dam are the three Ramsar wetland sites of which state?

1 Karnataka

2 Assam

3 Gujarat

4 Himachal Pradesh

Q Mohan Veena player Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt won the Grammy Award in the year __.

1 1992

2 1990

3 1994

4 1996

Q As of 2024 , which of the following is the longest national waterway in India?

1 Godavari-Krishna stretch

2 Allahabad-Haldia stretch

3 Sadiya-Dhubri stretch

4 Kottapuram-Kollam stretch

Q Who among the following is the author of the book ‘Those Pricey Thakur Girls’?

1 Anita Nair

2 Pratibha Ray

3 Anuja Chauhan

4 Preeti Shenoy

Q Which of the following is the autobiography of LK Advani , the ex-Prime Minister of India ?

1 Changing India

2 The Insider

3 My Country My Life

4 Matters of Discretion

Q With how many delegates Indian National Congress was established ?

1 72

2 82

3 92

4 62

Q Which of the following metal is in liquid state at room temperature?

1 Calcium

2 Potassium

3 Mercury

4 Iron

Q Who discovered Radium ?

1 Marie Curie

2 Albert Einstein

3 Issac Newton

4 Benjamin Franklin

Q The treaty of Srirangapatnam was signed in 1972 between Tipu Sultan of Mysore and who among the following representatives of the British East India Company ?

1 Charles Cornwallis

2 Warren Hastings

3 Robert Clive

4 John Cartier

Q Who was the first Russian Prime Minister to visit independent India ?

1 Nikolai Bulgarian

2 Vladimir Putin

3 Mikhail Gorbachev

4 Boris Yeltsin

Q Byopa is a traditional headgear of tribes belonging to _____-

1 Arunachal Pradesh

2 Kerala

3 Goa

4 Jharkhand

Q Rajasthan Atomic Power Project is in __

1 Phalodi

2 Churu

3 Rawatbhata

4 Bhawani Mandi

Q Hair is primarily made up which of the following proteins ?

1 Keratin

2 Myosin

3 Tubulin

4 Dystrophin

Q Who among the following is associated with the formation of the ‘Gadar Party’?

1 Lala Lajpat Rai

2 Aurobindo Ghosh

3 Bipin Chandra Pal

4 Lala Hardayal

Q In which regiment of the British Army was Mangal Pandey a sepoy during the first war of independence?

1 6th Dragoon Guards

2 3rd Native Bihar Infantry

3 34th Bengal Native Infantry

4 11th Native Infantry

Q The Harike Barrage has been constructed at the confluence of which two rivers?

1 Beas and Sutlej

2 Ganga and Yamuna

3 Luni and Subarnarekha

4 Mahanadi and Damodar

Q Naharkatiya and Moran-Hugrijan, the important fields are located in which state of India ?

1 Rajasthan

2 Madhya Pradesh

3 West Bengal

4 Assam

Q Baiga is a folk music of Baiga Tribe from which of the following states?

1 Uttarakhand

2 Madhya Pradesh

3 Himachal Pradesh

4 Jharkhand

Q __ empowers the President to remove inconsistencies between laws passed by the Parliament and State Legislatures and the subjects included in the concurrent list.

1 Article 259

2 Article 254

3 Article 253

4 Article 250

Q The provision of fundamental duties in the Indian Constitution is inspired by
___.

1 the constitution of USSR

2 the constitution of France

3 the constitution of Canada

4 the constitution of USA

Q In which of the following years did the government opt for a plan holiday after the seventh five-year plan?

1 From 1991 to 1993

2 From 1990 to 1992

3 From 1992 to 1993

4 From 1989 to 1991

Q Who was the first captain of the Indian women’s cricket team ?

1 Diana Edulji

2 Shanta Rangaswamy

3 Mithali Raj

4 Jhulan Goswami

First captain [ TEST ] of Indian women’s cricket team Shanta Rangaswamy
First ODI captain of the Indian women’s cricket team Diana Edulji
First T20 captain of the Indian women’s cricket team Mithali Raj

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