Q Name the National bird of Bhutan .
1 Raven
2 Chukar
3 Junglefowl
4 Grey-Peacock pheasant
Q Folk dance ‘Jatra’ is originated from the state of :
1 Tamil Nadu
2 Kerala
3 West Bengal
4 Rajasthan
Q The upper portion of the Earth is known as:
1 Lithosphere
2 Mesosphere
3 Troposphere
4 Stratosphere
Q Hola Mohalla is a festival associated with which religion/belief?
1 Islam
2 Sikhism
3 Buddhism
4 Jainism
Q ___ is a Serbian Australian motivational speaker born with with tetra-amelia syndrome, a rare disorder characterised by the absence of all four limbs.
1 Dave Ramsey
2 Tony Robbins
3 Nick Vujicic
4 Eckhart Tolle
Q Who was the Indian Army Chief at the time of Bangladesh Liberation War ?
1 Sam Manekshaw
2 Roy Bucher
3 KM Cariappa
4 Rob Lockhart
Q Lui Ngai Ni is a fesstival that is associated with which of the following states?
1 Manipur
2 Assam
3 Meghalaya
4 Mizoram
Q Which of the following is an Autobiography of the famous author Khushwant Singh?
1 Truth, Love & a Little Malice
2 The Story of my experiments with truth
3 Wings of fire
4 My Times: An Autobiography
Q ‘Uttar Ramcharita’ was the composition of which of the following poets ?
1 Bhavabutti
2 Jaidev
3 Hemachandra
4 Kalhan
Q Pratham Bank , the first Regional Rural Bank of India , had its Head Office in which state ?
1 Rajasthan
2 Punjab
3 Uttar Pradesh [ Moradabad ]
4 Madhya Pradesh
Q Rudrasena II of which of the following dynasties married Prabhavatigupta, the daughter of Chandragupta II of the Gupta dynasty?
Ans 1. Vakataka
2. Chalukya
3. Pallava
4. Pushyabhuti
Q How many athletes were selected to represent India at the 1924 Paris Summer
Olympics?
1 10
2 12
3 8
4 11
Q In order to celebrate earth’s environment and raise public awareness about pollution, which of the following days is observed worldwide as Earth Day each year ?
1 22th April
2 21st April
3 23th April
4 24th April
Q ISRO launched India’s first lunar probe mission[ Chandrayaan – 1 ] in October 2008. Who was the Chairman of ISRO at that time ?
1 K Kasturirangan
2 K Radhakrishnan
3 G Madhavan Nair
4 AS Kiran Kumar
Q According to the 2011 census, how many districts were there in India?
1 610
2 570
3 640
4 680
Q The cause of a redox reaction is the:
1 transfer of neutrons between two reactants
2 transfer of electrons between two products
3 transfer of electrons between two reactants
4 exchange of halogens between two reactants
Q Which Indian author wrote the book ‘The English Teacher’ ?
1 RK Narayan
2 Kiran Desai
3 Ruskin Bond
4 Chetan Bhagat
Q The Vernacular Press Act was enacted during the regime of which viceroy of India ?
1 Lord Dalhousie
2 Lord Rippon
3 Lord Lytton
4 Lord Hastings
Q Who led the Young Bengal Movement ?
1 Henry Vivian Derozio
2 Raja Ram Mohan Roy
3 Keshav Chandra Sen
4 Devendra Nath Tagore
Q Solheim Cup is associated with which of the following games?
1 Golf
2 Badminton
3 Football
4 Hockey
Q ____ are called the amphibians of the plant kingdom.
1 Gymnosperms
2 Angiosperms
3 Bryophytes
4 Pteridophytes
Q Black soil is also known as ‘Black _ Soil’.
1 Cotton
2 Bajara
3 Maize
4 Rice
Q Where was the first successful textile mill established in India?
1 Jaipur
2 Surat
3 Mumbai
4 Kolkata
Q Which among the following is the deepest lake in the world?
1 Victoria
2 Baikal
3 Titicaca
4 Caspian
Q In which Olympic Games did Karnam Malleswari become India’s first woman to win an Olympic medal?
1. London 2012 Olympic Games
2 Brazil 2016 Olympic Games
3 Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
4 Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games
Q Which of the following dances is a dance form from Madhya Pradesh ?
1 Macha
2 Cheraw
3 Raut Nacha
4 Ottam Thullal
Q Jaimal and Patta were the warriors who were given charge of defending the fort of ___
1 Raisen
2 Ajmer
3 Udaipur
4 Chittor
Q Taxus wallichiana Zucc (Himalayan yew) is a medicinal plant found in which of the following states?
1 Assam
2 Jharkhand
3 Himachal Pradesh
4 Uttarakhand
Q According to the inscriptions, Pushyamitra Shunga was a devotee of which of the following Gods?
1 Krishna
2 Indra
3 Rama
4 Shiva
Q Which of the following Articles of the Indian Constitution mentions that ‘The State shall, in particular, direct its policy towards securing that the ownership and control of the material resources of the community are so distributed as best to subserve the common good’?
1 Article 39(b)
2 Article 39(a)
3 Article 39(c)
4 Article 39(d)
Q Which of the following cities is known as ‘The Queen of the Arabian Sea‘ ?
1 Port Blair
2 Mumbai
3 Kochi
4 Visakhapatnam
Q Which of the following Indian films was NOT nominated for an Oscar award ?
1 Salaam Bombay
2 Mother India
3 The Guide
4 Lagaan
| As of 2025, Only 3 Films have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film | Mother India [ 1957 ] || Salaam Bombay [ 1988 ] || Lagaan [ 2001 ] |
Q In which year was the new currency symbol of the Indian rupee [₹ ] officially adopted ?
1 2008
2 2009
3 2010 [ designed by Uday Kumar ]
4 2011
Q The __ gland, which hangs by a thin stalk from the hypothalamus, is called the master gland of the human body.
1 thyroid
2 adrenal
3 pituitary
4 pancreas
Q __ was the first Test cricket captain of an independent Indian team.
1. Hemu Adhikari
2 Lala Amarnath
3 Vijay Hazare
4 Bishan Singh Bedi
Q Who is the author of the book ‘Wise and Otherwise’?
1 Sudha Murty
2 Arundhati Roy
3 Amish Tripathy
4 Chetan Bhagat
Q What is the minimum lane width in Swimming in metres ?
1 2.10 m
2 2.11 m
3 2.12 m
4 2.13 m [ 7 feet ]
Q When haloalkanes and aryl and vinyl halides react with magnesium metal they yield which reagent?
1 Tollens’ reagent
2 Fehling reagent
3 Grignard reagent
4 Hinsberg reagent
Q The Pandya Kingdom was first mentioned by Megasthenes, who said that their kingdom was famous for pearls.Their capital was:
1 Thanjavur
2 Kaveripatnam
3 Madurai
4 Uraiyur
Q Which of the following gases plays an important role in welding titanium, aluminium, stainless steel, and magnesium?
1 Fluorine
2 Chlorine
3 Argon
4 Neon
Q Which of the following Acts gave the government enormous powers to repress political activities, and allowed detention of political prisoners without trial for two years?
Ans 1. Rowlatt Act, 1919
2. Indian Slavery Act, 1843
3. India Contract Act, 1872
4. Criminal Tribes Act, 1871
Q Khudai Khidmatgars, a non-violent movement among the Pathans was started by __.
1 Sachindra Bakshi
2 Bakht Khan
3 Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
4 Alluri Sitarama Raju
Q Name the chemist who proved that the atomic number of an element is a more fundamental property than its atomic mass , which led to modification in the Mendeleev’s Periodic law table ?
1 John Newlands
2 Henry Moseley
3 Johann Dobereiner
4 Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
Q Which was the first vehicle to soft-land safely on the surface of the Moon ?
1 Apollo 17
2 Luna 9 [ 1966 ]
3 Ranger 6
4 Sputnik 25
Q Which infantry battalion was involved in the killing of all of its white officers in the Revolt of 1857 ?
1 20th Native Infantry
2 1st Native Infantry
3 41st Native Infantry
4 21st Native Infantry
Q The Treaty of Purandar, 1665 was signed between __ and Shivaji.
1 Baji Rao
2 Nader Shah
3 Jai Singh I
4 Dara Shikoh
Q The term Blue Line is associated with which of the following games?
1 Ice Hockey
2 Badminton
3 Basketball
4 Table Tennis
Q Who is the First Tribal [ Woman ] President of India ?
1 Pratibha Patil
2 Draupadi Murmu
3 Annie Besant
4 Sarojini Naidu
Q In which year did the Government of India approve ISRO’s proposal for the first Indian Moon Mission, Chandrayaan-I ?
1 2001
2 2003
3 2002
4 2005
Q In which year were the ‘Kalbelia’ folk songs and dances of Rajasthan included in UNESCO’s representative list of Intangible Cultural Heritage ?
1 2010
2 2021
3 2008
4 2012
Q Who among the following is a famous Santoor player?
1 Pandit Ravi Shankar
2 Ustad Zakir Hussain
3 Pandit Shivkumar Sharma
4 Ustad Bismillah Khan
Q Which city of India celebrate the famous Elephant Festival annually on the day of Holi ?
1 Ajmer
2 Jaipur
3 Jodhpur
4 Jaisalmer
Q Who among the following poets wrote under the pen name ‘Nirala’?
Ans 1. Maithili Sharan Gupta
2. Suryakant Tripathi
3. Jaishankar Prasad
4. Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
Q Which of the following committees had recommeded to incorporate the Fundamental Duties in the Indian Constitution ?
1 Sarkaria Commission
2 BN Patil Committee
3 Swaran Singh Committee
4 Balwant Rai Mehta Committee
Q The phrase ‘Survival of the fittest’ as a way of describing the mechanism of natural selection was coined by _____
1 Herbert Spencer
2 Louis Pasteur
3 Marie Curie
4 Charles Babbage
Q ‘The Tanakh’ is the sacred text of which religion/sect ?
1 Judaism
2 Taoism
3 Zen Buddhism
4 Confucianism
Q World Water Day is annually celebrated on :
1 22 March
2 22 April
3 22 May
4 22 June
Q To which country does the famous ‘Zulu‘ tribe belong ?
1 India
2 Myanmar
3 South Africa
4 Kenya
Q When was National Rural Health Mission launched ?
1 15th August 2005
2 12th April 2005
3 1st January 2000
4 30th December 2003
Q When was the Constitution of Pakistan enforced ?
1 1973
2 1965
3 1952
4 1947
Q Which economist gave the theory of Opportunity Cost ?
1 Gottfried Haberier
2 Adam Smith
3 John Keynes
4 Milton Friedman
Q Which of the following Constitutional Amendment Acts led to formation of the Goods and Services Tax Council?
1 103rd Constitutional Amendment Act
2 102nd Constitutional Amendment Act
3 101st Constitutional Amendment Act
4 100th Constitutional Amendment Act
Q Name the leader whose opposition led to the disappearance of all hopes of compromise between the Congress and the Muslim League in 1928.
1 Sir Muhammad Iqbal
2 MR Jayakar
3 Jawaharlal Nehru
4 Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Q In which year was the East India Company incorporated for the exploitation of trade with East and Southeast Asia and India ?
1 1600
2 1605
3 1596
4 1612
Q ‘Jorwe culture’ was a Chalcolithic archaeological site located in the present day Indian state of _____
1 Maharashtra
2 Assam
3 Bihar
4 Gujarat
Q In which of the following years was Sanchi declared as a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Ans 1. 1989
2. 1994
3. 1998
4. 2001
Q With a stretch of about 724 km , which river is one of the most important rivers of peninsular India ?
1 Beas
2 Tapi
3 Palar
4 Bhavani
Q In which state Lemru Elephant Reserve is located ?
1 Chhattisgarh
2 Jharkhand
3 Odisha
4 West Bengal
Q Who holds the record for most Olympic medals ?
1 Michael Phelps [ 23 ]
2 Oscar Swahn
3 Lorner Johnstone
4 Mary Hanna
Q Udayin shifted the capital of Magadha from ___ to Patliputra.
1 Sarnath
2 Rajagriha
3 Taxila
4 Kaushalambi
Q The revolution of 1857 started in May from which of the following cantonments in India?
1 Lucknow
2 Jhansi
3 Meerut
4 Kanpur
Q Which of the following unicellular organism causes kala-azar ?
1 Ascaris
2 Tapeworm
3 Leishmania
4 Liver fluke
Q Where is the headquarters of the World Intellectual Property Organisation [ WIPO ] situated ?
1 Paris
2 Geneva
3 Tokyo
4 Washington DC
Q The southernmost Jyotirlinga temple is located in which Indian state ?
1 Tamil Nadu
2 Kerala
3 Karnataka
4 Andhra Pradesh
