Q The term ‘Green Revolution’ was coined by _____
1 Norman Borlaugh
2 Sir William Gaud
3 Ernst Haeckel
4 Leonard Nadler
Q Which folk music does NOT belong to Nagaland?
1 Hereileu
2 Nyioga
3 Heliamleu
4 Neuleu
Q In which year was the first Cricket World Cup held in India?
1 1987
2 1992
3 1975
4 1979
Q Where is the ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana established?
1 Hajipur, Bihar
2 Belgaum, Karnataka
3 Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu
4 Jalgaon, Maharashtra
Q Which of the following festival is celebrated by Khamtis tribe of Arunachal Pradesh ?
1 Mopin
2 Sangken
3 Tamladu
4 Reh
Q Chali , Jhumuru and Nadu Bhangi are associated with Indian classical dance form ?
1 Sattriya
2 Kathakali
3 Manipuri
4 Kuchipudi
Q The book titled ‘My Journey: Transforming Dreams into Actions’ is an
autobiography of:
1 Pratibha Patil
2 Atal Bihari Vajpayee
3 APJ Abdul Kalam
4 Lal Krishna Advani
Q Janmashtami is a Hindu festival that celebrates the birth (janma) of the god,
Krishna on the eighth (ashtami) day of the dark fortnight of the Hindu month of
_.
1 Bhadrapada
2 Ashwin
3 Shravan
4 Ashadha
Q Who was the first secretary of BCCI ?
1 RE Grant Govan
2 Anthony D’Mello
3 Roger Binny
4 JC Mukherjee
Q What is the weight of the shot put for the men’s category?
1 16 pounds
2 12 pounds
3 14 pounds
4 10 pounds
Q Noyyal , Kabini , Arkavathi and Amaravati are the tributaries of which river?
1 Kaveri
2 Sabarmati
3 Periyar
4 Brahmani
Q Who founded the Arya Mahila Samaj?
1 Sarojini Naidu
2 DK Karve
3 Pandita Ramabai
4 Sarla Devi Chaudhurani
Q The Sun Temple at Konark was built under the rule of which dynasty?
1 Pallava Dynasty
2 Pandya Dynasty
3 Eastern Ganga Dynasty [ Narasimhadeva I ]
4 Rashtrakuta Dynasty
Q Which of the following is the festival of Kerala that heralds the harvest season, lasts for 10 days, and has snake boat races
etc?
1 Thiruvathira
2 Onam
3 Thrissur Pooram
4 Vishu
Q When was the Bharat Nirman Programme launched by the Government of India?
1 2010
2 2014
3 2005
4 2000
Q Who wrote the original handwritten version of the Indian Constitution ?
1 Kailash Nath Katju
2 BN Rau
3 Prem Behari Narain Raizada
4 BR Ambedkar
Q In which year did Abhinav Bindra create history by becoming the first Indian to win an individual gold medal at the Olympic Games in the 10-meter Air Rifle event ?
1 2004
2 2008
3 2012
4 2016
Q The name of the Brahmi priest who later came to be known as Ramakrishna Paramahansa is ___
1 Gadadhar Chattopadhyaya
2 Dayananda Saraswati
3 Shree Narayana Guru
4 Narendra Nath Datta
Q Navreh is the lunar new year that is celebrated in which of the following states / union territories ?
1 Jammu and Kashmir
2 Assam
3 Sikkim
4 Manipur
Q The first woman Chief Justice of High Court in India was ____
1 Fatima Bibi
2 Leila Seth
3 Ruma Pal
4 Indu Malhotra
Q With which state do you associate the folk dance, TARANGAMEL?
1 Madhya Pradesh
2 Goa
3 Telangana
4 West Bengal
Q ‘Silambam’ is the martial art form prevalent in which Indian state ?
1 Tamil Nadu
2 Kerala
3 Maharashtra
4 Madhya Pradesh
Q Who was the captain of the Indian Hockey team that won the first Olympic Gold medal in Amsterdam in 1928 ?
1 Major Dhyan Chand
2 Sardar Singh
3 Jaipal Singh Munda
4 Kisan Lal
Q Which of the following is a folk song genre popular in parts of West Bengal, Assam
and Bangladesh?
1 Chalo
2 Roppi
3 Bhawaiya
4 Rekham Pada
Q Jannayak Sthal is the samadhi sthal of which prime minister of India ?
1 Chandra Shekhar
2 IK Gujral
3 KR Narayanan
4 Giani Zail Singh
Q The 74th Amendment Act of 1992 added a new Part______ to the Constitution of India.
1 X
2 IX-A
3 IX
4 VIII
Q The Hundru Fall lies along the course of which of the following rivers?
1 Damodar
2 Sone
3 Subarnarekha
4 Mahanadi
Q Muharram is the ____ month of the Islamic Calendar and is considered a holy month.
1 fourth
2 first
3 second
4 third
Q Which among the following dance form is NOT associated with Assam ?
1 Bhortal dance
2 Jhumur
3 Bardo Chham
4 Bagurumba
| Folk dance of Assam | Bagurumba || Jhumur || Deodhani || Chabini Dhemali || Natpuja || Bhortal || Kaligopal || Tabal Chongli |
Q Who is the only Indian woman who has been ranked world’s no.1 for badminton?
1 P V Sindhu
2 Rituparna Das
3 Saina Nehwal
4 Jwala Gutta
Q Which of the following is the largest dome of India ?
1 Alai Darwaza
2 Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra
3 Gol Gumbaz
4 Data Darbar
Q Which of the following committee, set up by the Planning Commission in 2009, delinked the poverty line from normative calorie requirement?
1. The Arun Goel Committee
2 The Rajesh Pant Expert Committee
3 The Ramesh Chand Committee
4 The Suresh Tendulkar Committee
Q Which of the following Articles of the Constitution states that ‘It shall be the duty of every citizen of India to promote harmony and the spirit of common brotherhood amongst all the people of India transcending religious, linguistic and regional or sectional diversities; to renounce practices derogatory to the dignity of women.’?
1 51 A (b)
2 51 A (d)
3 51 A (e)
4 51 A (c)
Q In which state is the festival called ‘Kharchi Puja’ , involving the worship of 14 deities in 7 days , traditionally celebrated ?
1 Jharkhand
2 Odisha
3 Tripura
4 Kerala
Q Which famous book was written by ‘Haripala’?
1 Sangeet Darpan
2 Sangeet Ratnakara
3 Sangeeta Sudhakara
4 Gita Govinda
Q Identify the author of the book ”Straight from the Heart”
1 Kapil Dev
2 Yuvraj Singh
3 Sachin Tendulkar
4 Suresh Raina
Q Togalu Gombeyaata is a ____unique to the state of Karnataka.
1 puppet show
3 dance
3 festival
4 cuisine
Q _____ is a dance form which represents a unique synthesis of Hindu and Muslim genius in art .
1 Kathak
2 Odissi
3 Manipuri
4 Kathakali
Q _____ was the first woman Chief Election Commissioner of India .
1 Meira Kumar
2 VS Rama Devi
3 Pratibha Patil
4 Leila Seth
Q The hill station of Kalimpong is situated in____
1 West Bengal
2 Arunachal Pradesh
3 Sikkim
4 Jammu and Kashmir
Q Who was responsible for introducing Enfield rifles that used the greased catridges which became the immediate reason of 1857 revolt ?
1 Lord William Bentinck
2 Captain Hearsey
3 Henry Hardinge
4 Francis Grant
Q At which place was the magnificent temple of Saiva constructed by the great Rashtrakuta King ‘Krishna I’?
1 Kanchi
2 Ellora
2 Badami
4 Kannauj
Q The Pakistani General ____ imposed military rule in his country in the year 1999.
1 Imran Khan
2 Parvez Musharraf
3 Ziauddin Bhatt
4 Qamar Javed
Q In which year Jyotiba Phule formed the Satya Shodhak Samaj ?
1 1873
2 1883
3 1893
4 1863
Q Who is the author of the book named ‘Satyartha Prakash’ ?
1 Swami Dayananda
2 Raja Ram MohanRoy
3 Jyotiba Phule
3 Atmaram Pandurang
Q Who laid the foundation of the city ”Din Panah” ?
1 Akbar
2 Humayun
3 Shah Jahan
4 Jaangir
Q Shantivan is the resting place [ memorial ] of :
1 Mahatma Gandhi
2 Jawahar Lal Nehru
3 Lal Bahadur Shastri
4 Jagjivan Ram
Q Who is the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal ?
1 Karnam Malleswari
2 PT Usha
3 Saina Nehwal
4 PV Sindhu
Q Who among the following nationalist leaders was popularly known as
‘Deshbandhu’?
1 Dadabhai Naoroji
2 Chittaranjan Das
3 Ashutosh Mukherjee
4 Madan Mohan Malaviya
Q Which Spanish football team play their home games at the Bernabeu ?
1 Barcelone
2 Real Madrid
3 Elche
4 Athletic Madrid
Q Archaeological evidence of which of the following dance forms dating back to the 2nd century BC was found in the caves of Udayagiri and Khandagiri?
1 Kathak
2 Kuchipudi
3 Manipuri
4 Odissi
Q Where is the ICAR-Indian Institute of Oil Palm Research [ IIOPR ] established ?
1 Odisha
2 Himachal Pradesh
3 Andhra Pradesh [ Pedavegi ]
4 Kerala
Q Which of the following is the correct formula for calculating NNP?
1 NNP = GNP – DEPRECIATION
2 NNP = GNP + DEPRECIATION
3 NNP = GDP – INCOME
4 NNP = GDP – DEPRECIATION
Q According to Census of India 2011, how many districts are there in India?
1 620
2 640
3 630
4 610
Q Mahabalipuram temple was built under the reign of which of the following dynasties?
1 Rashtrakuta
2 Pallava
3 Pratihara
4 Chola
Q Which of the following sages of ancient India wrote the ‘Mimamsa-sutras’?
1 Jaimini
2 Charaka
3 Badarayana
4 Panini
| Six School of Indian Philosophy | Sankhya [ Kapila ] , Nyaya [ Gautama Muni ] , Yoga [ Patanjali ] , Vaisheshika [ Kanada ] , Purva Mimamsa [ Jaimini ] , Uttara Mimamsa [ Vedanta ] |
Q Match the columns
| States | Cultural festivals |
| A ] Jharkhand | I ] Karma |
| B ] Himachal Pradesh | II ] Chaitraul |
| C ] Telangana | III ] Lohri |
| D ] Punjab | IV ] Bathukamma |
1 A-IV , B-II , C-I , D -III
2 A-III , B-I , C-IV , D-II
3 A-II , B-IV , C-III , D-I
4 A-I , B-II , C-IV , D-III
Q In September 2022 the book ‘Ambedkar and Modi: Reformer’s Ideas Performer’s Implementation’ has been written by which
of the following personalities?
1 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
2 APJ Abdul Kalam
3 Ram Nath Kovind
4 Pratibha Patil
Q Which of the following cities is called the Silicon Valley of India due to its prominence in the IT industry?
1 Bengaluru
2 Chennai
3 Hyderabad
4 Gurugram
Q Fifth Session of the Constituent Assembly held in :
1 9-23 December , 1946
2 20-25 January , 1947
3 14-30 August , 1947
4 6-17 October , 1949
| First Session | 9-23 December, 1946 |
| Second Session | 20-25 January, 1947 |
| Third Session | 28 April – 2 May, 1947 |
| Fourth Session | 14-31 July, 1947 |
| Fifth Session | 14-30 August, 1947 |
| Sixth Session | 27 January, 1948 |
| Seventh Session | 4 November,1948 – 8 January, 1949 |
| Eighth Session | 16 May – 16 June, 1949 |
| Ninth Session | 30 July – 18 September, 1949 |
| Tenth Session | 6-17 October, 1949 |
| Eleventh Session | 14-26 November, 1949 |