Q Which of the following festivals is associated with boat race in Manipur?
1 Cheiraoba
2 Sanamahi Cheng Hongba
3 Hiyang Tannaba
4 Ningol Chakkouba
Q Who among the following is known as the ‘Father of Internet’ in the world?
1 Charles Babbage
2 Bill Gates
3 Vinton Cerf
4 Seymour Cray
Q Indian Standard Time is ahead of Greenwich Mean Time by _.
1 6 hours
2 5 hours 30 minutes
3 4 hours 30 minutes
4 3 hours 30 minutes
Q Viceroy _ officially declared Simla the summer capital of India in 1864.
1. Lord Lytton
2 William Bentinck
3 John Lawrence
4 Lord Curzon
Q The Ramayana by Sage Valmiki is also called the ‘_’.
1 Paramkavya
2 Adikavya
3 Mukhyakavya
4 Pradhankavya
Q The headquarters of Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority is located at _
1 New Delhi
2 Mumbai
3 Hyderabad
4 Chennai
Q Pampas are temperate grasslands in _.
1 Asia
2 South America
3 Africa
4 North America
Q The founder of the Pala empire was:
1 Rayala
2 Gopala
3 Devapala
4 Dharmapala
Q The traditional rod puppet of Bihar is known as __.
1. Bommalattam
2 Sakhi Kundhei
3 Yampuri
4 Malasutri Bhaulya
Q Which Article of the Indian Constitution mentions that it shall be the duty of every citizen of India to develop scientific temper?
1 51 A (j)
2 51 A (k)
3 51 A (h)
4 51 A (i)
Q Who was the first sailor to circumnavigate the globe ?
1 Vasco da Gama
2 Ferdinand Magellan
3 Christopher Columbus
4 James Cook
Q In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi started his famous salt march accompanied by _ of
his trusted volunteers.
1 78
2 82
3 64
4 56
Q Who founded the Tattvabodhini Sabha in 1839?
1 Surendranath Tagore
2 Abindranath Tagore
3 Debendranath Tagore
4 Rabindranath Tagore
Q V S Naipaul won the Booker Prize in 1997 for which of the following books?
1 A House for Mr Biswas
2 In a Free State
2 The Enigma of Arrival
4 A Bend in the River
Q In which of the following temples is the Ambubasi Fair celebrated every year?
Ans 1. Jagannath temple
2. Kamakhya temple
3. Kashi Vishwanath temple
4. Kedarnath temple
Q Which river originates in the hills of Sihawa in Dhamtari district in Chhattisgarh ?
1 Mahanadi
2 Godavari
3 Krishna
4 Narmada
Q Which of the following layers contains ozone?
1 Troposphere
2 Stratosphere
3 Thermosphere
4 Mesosphere
Q Nationalist Congress Party [ NCP ] was formed in which year ?
1 1999
2 1984
3 1998
4 1964
Q Which poet wrote under the pen name ‘Nirala’ ?
1 Suryakant Tripathi
2 Munshi Premchand
3 Rabindranath Tagore
4 Bankim Chandra
Q The Reserve Bank of India was nationalised on __.
1 March 1, 1949
2 January 1, 1949
3 October 1, 1949
4 April 1, 1949
Q In which Summer Olympics did PT Usha miss the bronze medal by 0.01 second in the Women’s 400 m Hurdles race ?
1 1984
2 1960
3 1980
4 1964
Q During the term of which prime minister of India were the privy purses given to the rulers of former princely states ended ?
1 Morarji Desai
2 Charan Singh
3 Indira Gandhi
4 Lal Bahadur Shastri
Q In which year was ‘Ramlila’ inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity ?
1 2008
2 2010
3 3016
4 2017
Q Who addressed Gandhiji as ‘One Man Boundary Force’ in 1947 ?
1 Lord Mountbatten
2 Churchill
3 Attlee
4 Linlithgow
Q ‘Maher Muneer’ play written by Sarojini Naidu in which language ?
1 Persian
2 Urdu
3 English
4 Telugu
Q Lucknow is situated on the banks of which of the following rivers?
1 Jhelum
2 Gomti
3 Hooghly
4 Yamuna
Q Who is referred to as the ‘Darwin of the 20th century’ ?
1 Ernst Mayr
2 Whittaker
3 Linnaeus
4 Diener
Q ‘Ramoji Film city’ is located close to which city ?
1 Hyderabad
2 Mumbai
3 Greater Noida
4 Bengaluru
Q Who designed India Gate, also called the All-India War Memorial?
1 Charles Corey
2 John Tailor
3 Edwin Lutyens
4 Fredrik Forsyth
Q Who founded the All India Harijan Sangh in 1932?
1 Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
2 Mahatma Gandhi
3 Sree Narayana Guru
4 Jyotiba Phule
Q Which schedule of the Indian Constitution contains provisions regarding the emoluments , allowances and privileges of the President of India?
1 1st Schedule
2 3rd Schedule
3 2nd Schedule
4 6th Schedule
Q On which river is the National Inland waterways between Sadiya and Dhubri situated?
1 Brahmaputra
2 Ganga
3 Barak
4 Godavari
Q The novel “Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard” is written by:
1 Kiran Desai
2 Jhumpa Lahiri
3 Chitra Banerjee
4 Amrita Pritam
Q Bell Metal is an alloy which is made up of __.
1 copper and tin
2 copper and zinc
3 copper and aluminium
4 copper and nickel
Q The Treaty of Purandar, 1665 was signed between __ and Shivaji.
1 Baji Rao
2 Nader Shah
3 Dara Shikoh
4 Jai Singh I
Q Which among the following is the deepest lake in the world?
1 Victoria
2 Baikal
3 Titicaca
4 Caspian
Q What is the name of the autobiography of Viswanathan Anand ?
1 Mind Master
2 Power of Concentration
3 Mind Blogging
4 Chess Master
Q The technique of shifting or slash and burn cultivation practiced by the ethnic tribal communities of the Arunachal Himalayas, is known as _ cultivation.
1 Shelter Belts
2 Terrace
3 Jhumming
4 Contour
Q (i) __ the traditional theatre form of Kashmir, is a unique combination of dance, music and acting whereas originally the theatre form Swang, was mainly (ii) _______based
1 (i) Rasleela, (ii) Dance
2 (i) Bhand Pather, (ii) Music
3 (i) Nautanki, (ii) Music
4 (i) Nautanki, (ii) Dance
Q The policy of ‘paramountcy’ was initiated under _.
1 Lord Cornwallis
2 Lord Dalhousie
3 Lord Hastings
4 Lord William Bentinck
Q Who was the President of India between the years 1987 and 1992?
1 Giani Zail Singh
2 R Venkataraman
3 Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
4 Shankar Dayal Sharma
Q As per the Census of India 2011, the total population of the country increased by _ between 2001 and 2011.
1 17.64%
2 15.28%
3 19.39%
4 12.53%
Q Which of the following pairs of ‘festival – state’ is correctly matched?
I. Kambala – Karnataka
II. Bonalu – Himachal Pradesh
1 Only I
2 Both I and II
3 Only II
4 Neither I nor II
Bonalu is a Hindu festival of Telangana where Goddess Mahakali is worshipped in Telangana
Q Which of the following were the two major internal land routes through which trade and commerce took place in the post-Mauryan period?
1 Pashchimpatha and Uttarapatha
2 Uttarapatha and Dakshinapatha
3 Dakshinapatha and Purvapatha
4 Dakshinapatha and Pashchimpatha
Q During the Second Five Year Plan, how many integrated steel plants were set up with foreign collaboration?
1 5
2 3
3 6
4 9
During the Second Five Year Plan (1956-61), three new integrated steel plants were set up with foreign collaboration : Rourkela in Orissa , Bhilai in Chhattisgarh and Durgapur in West Bengal.