Q Who was the founder of the Agra Gharana ?
1 Hassu Khan
2 Haddu Khan
3 Khuda Baksh
4 Nathan Peerbaksh
Q Which ceremonial folk dance of Puducherry is related to the Hindu epic Ramayana , performed at the Villianur temple in Puducherry ?
1 Garadi
2 Hulivesha
3 Dalkhai
4 Tippani
Q Where is Valmiki Tiger Reserve located?
Ans 1. West Champaran, Bihar
2. Chandrapur, Maharashtra
3. Ranthambore, Rajasthan
4. Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh
Q Who has written the book ‘The philosophy of the bomb’ ?
1 Surya Sen
2 Bhagat Singh
3 Alpana Dutt
4 Bhagwati Charan Vohra
Q Which former Prime Minister of India has authored the book ‘Shakti se Shanti’ ?
1 Rajiv Gandhi
2 Indira Gandhi
3 Atal Bihari Vajpayee
4 Inder Kumar Gujral
Q Identify the Headquarters of the East Coast Railway Zone of India?
1 Bhubaneswar
2 Kolkata
3 New Delhi
4 Mumbai
Q Sao Joao festival is celebrated primarily by the Catholic Christians in which of the following Indian states?
1 Assam
2 Goa
3 Manipur
4 Nagaland
Q Which of the following is the state bird of Himachal Pradesh ?
1 Western Tragopen
2 Greater Flamingo
3 Northern Goshwak
4 Blood Pheasant
Q Who among the following invented the aeroplane?
Ans 1. Auguste and Louis Lumière
2. Alexander Graham Bell
3. Orville and Wilbur Wright
4. Louis Pasteur and Alexander Fleming
Q The Sixth Economic Census of India was conducted in which of the following years ?
1 2009
2 2011
3 2013
4 2015
Q ‘Train to Pakistan’ was written by ___________, who also served as member of Rajya Sabha.
Ans 1. Mulk Raj Anand
2. Anita Desai
3. Khushwant Singh
4. Vikram Seth
Q What is the duration of the interval in a football match?
Ans 1. 12 minutes
2. 15 minutes
3. 10 minutes
4. 30 minutes
Q Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre is located at :
1 Mumbai
2 Hyderabad
3 Bengaluru
4 Thiruvananthapuram
Q In which year did India conduct its second nulear test in Pokhran ?
1 18 May , 1996
2 18 May , 1998 [ Operation Shakti ]
3 18 May , 1999
4 18 May , 2002
Q Who provided the basic theory about the nature of matter ?
1 Mandel
2 Lavoisier
3 John Dalton
4 John Milton
Q Which of the following cities is known as ‘The City of Palaces‘ in India ?
1 Jaipur
2 Kolkata
3 Chennai
4 Luckow
Q Which of the following bank was established in India at Calcutta under European Management [ in 1770 ] ?
1 Bank of India
2 Bank of Hindustan
3 Indus Bank of India
4 The Madras Bank
Q Which of the following earthquake waves is more destructive?
1 Body Waves
2 S-Waves
3 Surface waves
4 P-Waves
Q Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu is set up in collaboration with:
Ans 1. US
2. France
3. Russia
4. Australia
Q Which of the following palaces is located in Mysore, Karnataka?
1 Kowdiar Palace
2 Amba Vilas Palace
3 Ujjayanta Palace
4 Kangla Palace
Q ____ is a traditional Indian sport, whereby athletes perform various types of gymnastics moves and hold various poses on a vertical wooden pole.
1. Kalaripayattu
2. Dhop Khel
3. Mallakhamb
4. Yubi Lakpi
Q What is the name of the autobiography written by the 14th Dalai Lama?
1 My Country My Life
2 Living with the Himalayan Masters
3 Freedom in Exile
4 Long Walk to Freedom
Q ‘Rangoli Bihu’ one of the major festival of Assam is celebrated in the month of :
1 April
2 May
3 June
4 July
Q Which Rajput ruler of Mewar in 1576 fought the Battle of Haldighati and then fled the field on his horse , Chetak ?
1 Maharana Pratap
2 Rana Amar Singh
3 Maharaja Udai Singh
4 Raja Man Singh
Q Who among the following physicists wrote an autobiography ‘Autobiographical Notes’?
1 Michael Faraday
2 Albert Einstein
3 Isaac Newton
4 James Maxwell
Q Which state has the highest number of Ramsar Sites in India ?
1 Uttar Pradesh
2 Tamil Nadu
3 Maharashtraa
4 Madhya Pradesh
Q Who built the Buland Darwaza , which is lcoated in Fatehpuri Sikri ?
1 Noor Jahan
2 Akbar
3 Babar
4 Shah Jahan
Q Which of the following High Courts were established in 1866?
1 Allahabad High Court
2 Kerala High Court
3 Gujarat High Court
4 Bombay High Court
Q Who was the first Indian woman to win the Miss World title ?
1 Reita Faria
2 Priyanka Chopra
3 Aishwarya Rai
4 Sushmita Sen
Q Vivekananda Rock Memorial is in which state of India ?
1 Kochi , Kerala
2 Kanyakumari , Tamil Nadu
3 Hyderabad , Telangana
4 Mysuru , Karnataka
Q United Nations Day is celebrated every year on :
1 22th October
2 23rd October
3 24th October
4 26th October
Q Theophrastus is called father of :
1 Zoology
2 Botany
3 Biology
4 Alexander von Humboldt
Q Who of the following was invented and popularized Mohan Veena ?
1 Annapurna Devi
2 Pt Ram Narayan
3 Pt Ravi Shankar
4 Pt Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
Q Who built the Shahi [ Royal ] road to strengthen and consolidate his empire from the Indus valley to the Sonar valley in Bengal , and it was renamed the GT road during the British period ?
1 Alam Shah
2 Sher Shah [ Farid Khan ]
3 Aurangazeb
4 Bahadur Shah Zaffar
Q Megalopolis a Greek word meaning ”great city” , was popularised by ___ [ 1957 ]
1 Pattrick
2 Griffin
3 Jean Gottman
4 Lewis Mumford
Q Which of the following is the headquarters of World Health Organisation ?
1 Vienna
2 Paris
3 Geneva
4 New York
Q The region where all of the light from the source is blocked is called :
1 Shadow
2 Umbra
3 Penumbra
4 Antumbra
Q The C++ programming language was developed at AT & T Bell Laboratories in the early ___ by Bjarne Stroustrup
1 1990s
2 1980s
3 1970s
4 1960s
Q How many times has India entered the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup [ ODI ] finals ?
1 Three
2 Four [ 1983 , 2003 , 2011 and 2023 ]
3 Five
4 Two
Q Name the place in India where one can find the Zero Mile Stone consisting of four horses and a pillar made up of sandstone.
1 Bhopal
2 Nagpur
3 Surat
4 Indore
Q The Reserve Bank of India was established on 1 April 1935 with a share capital of Rs __ crore
1 1 cr
2 5cr
3 10 cr
4 15 cr
Q Who was the renowned Indian Carnatic singer and the first artist to receive both the Bharat Ratna and the Ramon Magasaysay award ?
1 Asha Bhosle
2 MS Subbulakshmi
3 Lata Mangeshkar
4 M Balamuralikrishna