Q Who coined the word ”Artificial Intelligence” ?
1 John Berger
2 Charles Bachman
3 John McCarthy
4 David Bardley
Q Which of the following festivals is NOT widely celebrated by the tribal people of Jharkhand?
1 Sarhul
2 Jawa
3 Hareli
4 Karma
| Jharkhand | Sarhul , Sohrai , Jawa , Karma , Tusu , Rohini , Bhagta Parab and Bandana / Bandna |
| Chhattisgarh | Hareli , Bastar Dussehra , Goncha , Kajari and Madai festival |
Q Who among the following is the sixth Guru of Sikhism?
1 Guru Hargobind
2 Guru Ram Das
3 Guru Angad
4 Guru Arjan
| Sikh Gurus | First Sikh Guru [ Guru Nanak Dev ] , Second Sikh Guru [ Guru Angad ] , Third Sikh Guru [ Guru Amar Das ] , Fourth Sikh Guru [ Guru Ram Das ] , Fifth Sikh Guru [ Guru Arjan Dev ] , Sixth Sikh Guru [ Guru Hargobind ] , Seventh Sikh Guru [ Guru Hari Rai ] , Eighth Sikh Guru [ Guru Hari Krishan ] , Ninth Sikh Guru [ Guru Tegh Bahadur ] , Tenth Sikh Guru [ Guru Gobind Singh ] |
Q The famous anthology of poems ‘Madhushala’ is written by __.
1 Kannadasan
2 Harivansh Rai Bachchan
3 Mahasweta Devi
4 Kusumagraj
Q Which of the following Parsis festivals is marked as the birth anniversary of
Zoroaster?
1 Zarthost No-Deeso
2 Khordad Sal
3 Jamshed-e-Navroz
4 Paitishahema Gahambar
Q ‘Galpaguchchha’ , written by Rabindranath Tagore is a collection of ____
1 devotional songs
2 poems
3 short stories
4 English shayaris
Q What is the name of the festival that ends the Holy Ramzan month ?
1 Muharram
2 Bakrid
3 Eid-ul-Fitr
4 Eid-ul-Zuha
Q Who is known as the ‘Father of Public Sector Undertakings’ in India ?
1 V Krishnamurthy
2 PC Mahalanobis
3 PV Narasimha Rao
4 KC Neogy
Q Governor General Lord Dalhousie describe the Kingdom of ____‘as a cherry that will drop into our mouth one day”
1 Mysore
2 Awadh
3 Ahom
4 Maratha
Q The Servants of Indian Society was founded by _ in 1905.
1 Gopal Krishna Gokhale
2 Mahatma Gandhi
3 Subhas Chandra Bose
4 Lala Lajpat Rai
Q Who is considered as the father of heredity ?
1 Gregor Mendel
2 Charles Darwin
3 Lamarck
4 Morgan
Q Lalita is a form of folk music from __.
1 Madhya Pradesh
2 Rajasthan
3 Maharashtra
4 Gujarat
Q Pin valley National park is situated in:
1 Andhra Pradesh
2 Arunachal Pradesh
3 Himachal Pradesh
4 Madhya Pradesh
Q Jarawa tribes can be found majorly in which part of India ?
1 Jharkhand
2 Chhattigarh
3 Andaman& Nicobar Islands
4 Sikkim
Q Where is the International Court of Justice situated ?
1 Paris
2 Vienna
3 The Hague
4 Washington
Q Who among the following was the Mughal emperor when the Jama Masjid of Delhi was built?
1 Aurangzeb
2 Akbar
3 Shah Jahan
4 Jehangir
Q In which country Mount Pedro is located ?
1 Sri Lanka
2 Myanmar
3 Bhutan
4 Nepal
Q The quartzite is a ___ type of rock.
1 basalt
2 igneous
3 metamorphic
4 sedimentary
Q Which tennis tournament is often referred to as ‘Roland Garros’ ?
1 French Open
2 Australian Open
3 US Open
4 Wimbledon Open
Q Which scientist invented the Barometer ?
1 E. Torricelli
2 G Marconi
3 Zacharias Janssen
4 John Baird
Q The British government sent the Cabinet Mission to India in the year:
1 1948
2 1946
3 1947
4 1945
Q Which fibre is used to make parachutes ?
1 Nylon
2 Silk
3 Rayon
4 Cotton threads
Q The Headquarters of United Nations University is situated in ___
1 USA
2 France
3 Japna [ Tokyo ]
4 Germany
Q Pneumatic bones is an important characteristic of which of the vertebrate animal ?
1 Aves
2 Reptiles
3 Ambhibians
4 Mammals
Q The High Court of Delhi was estbalished in ____
1 1951
2 1962
3 1966
4 1947
Q What was Komagata Maru ?
1 A ship on to Canada ship
2 A military troop of China
3 A cultural party of Taiwan
4 A guerrila troop of Indians in Burma
Q During the reign of which ruler the famous Chinese traveller Hieu Tsang came to India ?
1 Harshvardhana
2 Ashoka
3 Samundragupta
4 Kutotinga I
Q Who was the temporary President of the Constitutent Assembly ?
1 Sachchidananda Sinha
2 BR Ambedkar
3 Jawaharlal Nehru
4 Rajendra Prasad
Q The outer cover of plant cell is called ?
1 cell wall
2 cell membrane
3 Tonoplast
4 Endoplasmic reticulum
Q The Blackbuck National Park is located in ___
1 Sikkim
2 Madhya Pradesh
4 Gujarat
4 Haryana
Q What is the name of the galaxy closest to the Milky way ?
1 Comet
2 Sunflower galaxy
3 Andromeda galaxy
4 Black eye
Q United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution in the year __ for establishing the UNIDO.
1 1985
2 1975
3 1966
4 1956
Q In cost theory, the usual shape of the __ curve is a rectangular hyperbola.
1 total cost
2 fixed cost
3 average fixed cost
4 variable cost
Q Who among the following book was NOT written by King Harshavardhana ?
1 Nagananda
2 Ratnavali
3 Priyadarshika
4 Amuktamalayada
Q Which of the these Indian Cricketers has the distinction of taking a wicket off the very first ball he bowled in an ODI in his career ?
1 Jai Prakash Yadav
2 Venugopal Rao
3 Sadagoppan Ramesh
4 Abe Kuruvilla
Q During first war of Independence ,1857 , Kanpur region rose to oppose the British rule where Nana Saheb’s Palace at __ served as its headquarters.
1 Fatehgarh
2 Bithoor
3 Bibigarh
4 Pokhraya
Q Where is the headquarters of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited [ NPCIL ] ?
1 Chennai
2 Kolkata
3 Mumbai
4 New Delhi
Q Which agency was created by the United Nations to provide emergency food and health care to children and mothers in the countries aftected by World War II ?
1 IMF
2 WHO
3 UNICEF
4 ILO
Q The Buddha got enlightenment under which of the following tree ?
1 Mango Tree
2 Sal Tree
3 Peepal Tree
4 Banyan Tree
Q India’s first railway university is located at :
1 Thane, Maharashtra
2 Vadodara, Gujarat
3 Rourkela, Odisha
4 Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Q Who is known as the Father of India’s Space Programme ?
1 Anuj Lall
2 Vikram Sarabai
3 Homi J Bhabha
4 Raja Ramanna
Q Which among the following is India’s first Human Spaceflight programme ?
1 Chandrayaan-I
2 Mangalyaan
3 Gaganyaan
4 Shukrayaan
Q When did Mahatma Gandhi founded the All India Harijan Sevak Sangh ?
1 1920
2 1928
3 1932
4 1936
Q The ancient name of which of the following rivers is Vipasha?
1 Sutlej
2 Beas
3 Ravi
4 Chenab
Q Who among the following dances is also known as Ekaharya , where one dancer takes on many roles in a single performance ?
1 Kathak
2 Bharatnatyam
3 Kuchipudi
4 Kathakali
Q Who was the ‘Man of the Match’ at the 1983 Men’s World Cup Cricket Final?
1 Madan Lal
2 Kapil Dev
4 Mohinder Amarnath
4 K Srikanth
Q The Khilafat movement was led by __.
1 Muhammad Ali Jinnah
2 Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali
3 Syed Ahmad Khan
4 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Q Chhannulal Mishra is related to which Musical Lineage?
1 Agara Musical Family
2 Delhi Musical Family
3 Kirana Musical Family
4 Jaipur Musical Family
Q Who among the following kings was given the title of ‘Andhra Bhoja’?
1 Krishnadeva Raya
2 Aliya Rama Raya
3 Rama Raya
4 Vira Narasimha Raya
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 Which of the following novels is NOT written by Chetan Bhagat?
1 The Girl in Room 105
2 One Arranged Murder
3 Who Will Cry When You Die?
4 400 Days
Q The National Rural Health Mission was launched in the year :
1 2004
2 2005
3 2006
4 2010
Q Line , Daisy Wheel , Laser and Drum are types of :
1 Scanners
2 Printers
3 Plotters
4 Photocopiers
Q How many organisations are a part of the United Nations in India ?
1 28
2 22
3 26
4 12
Q Varahamihira’s work Panchasiddhantika deals with ___ astronomical systems.
1 Two
2 Three
3 Four
4 Five
Q Which of the following is the major worldwide centre for Ship breaking in India ?
1 Kochi
2 Alang
3 Chennai
4 Vishakhapatnam
Q Who are the famous Indian women lawyers who led the legal battle to strike Section 377 of the Indian Legal Code [ IPC ] ?
1 Karuna Nandi and Vrinda Grover
2 Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju
3 Menaka Gandhi and Leila Seth
4 Menaka Guruswamy and Pinky Anand
Q The official language of which neighbouring country of India is ‘Dari’ ?
1 Maldives
2 Bhutan
3 Afghanistan
4 Sri Lanka
Q Norman Ernest Borlaug was awarded the _ in 1970 for his contributions to the green revolution.
1 Nobel Prize in Physics
2 Nobel Peace Prize
3 Nobel Prize in Physiology
4 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Q Which dwarf planet orbits the sun in 310 years at a distance between 38.5 to 53 AU?
1 Ceres
2 Iris
4 Makemake
4 Pluto
Q The Narora Atomic Power Station is situated on the banks of the Ganga in _
state.
1 Bihar
2 Uttarakhand
3 Uttar Pradesh
4 West Bengal
Q Which Sultan of Delhi introduced the Ijarah System of revenue farming ?
1 Iltutmish
2 Alauddin Khilji
3 Balban
4 Firoz Shah Tughlaq
Q Which session of the congress led to the divide between extremists and moderates in 1907 ?
1 Madras
2 Surat
3 Calcutta
4 Bombay
Q Who among the following discovered that a wire carrying electric current can attract or repel another wire next to it that’s also carrying electric current?
1 Michael Faraday
2 Andre-Marie Ampere
3 Guglielmo Marconi
4 James Maxwell
Q With which of the following states is the tribal festival named ‘Samakka Saarakka Jaathara’ traditionally associated?
1 Tripura
2 Telangana
3 Tamil Nadu
4 Kerala
Q Chhau is a major dance tradition of India. In which of the following Indian states is the dance form NOT prevalent?
1 Odisha
2 West Bengal
3 Jharkhand
4 Madhya Pradesh
| Chhau dance | Purulia Chhau [ West Bengal ] , Seraikella Chhau [ Jharkhand ] and Mayurbhanj Chhau [ Odisha ] |