General Knowledge-95

Q Which author wrote the autobiography ‘Baluta‘?

1 Daya Pawar

2 Nirmal Verma

3 Chitra Mudgal

4 Teji Grover

Q Folk songs in _ are called Raganis.

1 Uttar Pradesh

2 Madhya Pradesh

3 Haryana

4 Bihar

Q The fibres, such as nylon and polyester , that are made from chemical substances are called :

1 Wool

2 Natural fibres

3 Synthetic fibres

4 Silk

Q Who among the following was the founder of ‘Vikramshila Vishwavidyalaya’?

1 Mahipala I

2 Dharmapala

3 Govindapala

4 Ramapala

Q The festival of Pushkaralu is celebrated to promote the cultural heritage of which Indian state?

1 Tamil Nadu

2 Karnataka

3 Kerala

4 Andhra Pradesh

Q Who founded Natal Indian Congress to fight against racial discrimination ?

1 Vallabhbhai Patel

2 Jawaharlal Nehru

3Mahatma Gandhi

4 Subhash Chandra Bose

Q Who discovered the atomic number based on X-ray wavelength in 1913?

1 AEB de Chancourtois

2 Dmitri Mendeleev

3 Henry Moseley

4 RA Millikan

Q Which folk music is based on the Mahabharata with Bhima portrayed as hero?

1 Mando

2 Alha

3 Pandavani

4 Dandiya

Q Who discovered a principle that states that the buoyant force on an object is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object?

1 Niels Bohr

2 Isaac Newton

3 Archimedes

4 Galileo Galilei

Q Identify the Mughal emperor who was imprisoned for the rest of his life in Agra after the war of succession among his sons.

1 Aurangzeb

2 Bahadur Shah I

3 Shah Jahan

4 Jahadar Shah

Q Who among the following people was popular as the ‘Nightingale of India’ ?

1 Margaret Thatcher

2 Sarojini Naidu

3 Sister Nivedita

4 Madeleine Slade

Q The popular depiction named ‘Ravana Shaking Mount Kailash’ is depicted in which of the following caves ?

1 Kanheri

2 Ellora

3 Ajanta

4 Hatigumpha

Q Who among the following is best known for his plays ‘Yayati’ and ‘Tughlaq’?

1 Viju Khote

2 Shreeram Lagoo

3 Girish Karnad

4 Mohammed Zahur Khayyam

Q The zone separating the troposphere from the stratosphere is called the ____.

1 Stratomerge

2 Tropopause

3 Tropomerge

4 stratospause

Q In which of the following years was the first radio show broadcast in India ?

1 1923

2 1936

3 1911

4 1927

Q __ is the oldest hockey tournament in India.

1 Beighton Cup

2 Bombay Gold Cup

3 Obaidullah Khan Gold Cup

4 MCC Murugappa Gold Cup

Q What is the crude birth date of India as per Census 2011 ?

1 20.5 %

2 21.8 %

3 20 %

4 28 %

Q Bastar Dussehra is celebrated in which of the following states ?

1 Uttar Pradesh

2 Chhattisgarh

3 Jharkhand

4 Haryana

Q What is the name of the supercomputer developed by Tata Group in 2007.

1 Cray 3

2 PARAM

3 EKA

4 HITAC S-300

Q Who is the author of the famous book ‘Kamayani’?

1 Sumitranandan Pant

2 Mahadevi Verma

3 Jaishankar Prasad

4 Maithili Sharan Gupt

Q RK Bijapure played which of the following musical instruments ?

1 Harmonium

2 Tabla

3 Ravanahatha

4 Sitar

Q The Village and Small Scale Industries Committee is also referred to as the ___

1 Mahalanobis Committee

2 Karve Committee

3 Munshi Committee

4 Chakravarty Committee

Q Bylakuppe Monastery (Namdroling) is situated in which state of India?

1 Karnataka

2 Arunachal Pradesh

3 Maharashtra

4 Himachal Pradesh

Q Rajasthani architecture is also known as:

1 Indo-Saracenic

2 Maru-Gurjara [ or Solanki style ]

3 Greco-Roman

4 Sharqi

Q Which Assamese artist was known as Sudhakantha?

1 Hiteswar Saikia

2 Hem Barua

3 Hema Bharali

4 Bhupen Hazarika

Q Which of the following novels was written by George Orwell?

1 Brave New World

2 Fahrenheit 451

3 Animal Farm

4 Pride and Prejudice

Q In which of the following dances do dancers balance pots containing lit lamps on their heads ?

1 Koli dance

2 Laho dance

3 Chari dance

4 Dhangari Gaja dance

Q Name the space shuttle in which Kalpana Chawla , an Indian-American astronaut, died in 2003.

1 Discovery

2 Columbia

3 Atlantis

4 Challenger

Q Dharmapala is known to have founded which of the following universities near Bhagalpur in Bihar?

1 Takshila

2 Valabhi

3 Nalanda

4 Vikramashila

Q Alarippu, Jatiswaram, Shabdam, Varnam and Tillana are regular patterns of which of the following classical dance forms of India?

1 Sattriya

2 Bharatanatyam

3 Manipuri

4 Kathak

Q Upper Fort Aguada is situated in which state of India?

1 Karnataka

2 Tamil Nadu

3 Goa

4 Manipur

Q Which of the following created the famous Tom and Jerry Cartoon?

1 E.C. Segar

2 Joseph Barbera

3 Martin Goodman

4 Walt Disney

Q How many players are there in water polo team?

1 7

2 9

3 6

4 8

Q Karaga, one of the oldest festivals of __, is celebrated in honour of
Goddess Shakti.

1 Karnataka

2 Andhra Pradesh

3 Kerala

4 Tamil Nadu

Q Dhuska is the most popular food item of state of __ .

1 Andhra Pradesh

2 Jharkhand

3 Kerala

4 Punjab

Q In which year Goa was captured by Portuguese?

1 1515

2 1410

3 1510

4 1610

Q Who created FORTRAN – the first high-level computer programming language ?

1 John Backus

2 Marc Andreessen

3 Larry Ellison

4 Dan Bricklin

Q Which is the largest coalfield in India in the Jharkhand-Bengal belt?

1 Bokaro

2 Raniganj

3 Jharia

4 Karanpura

Q What was the original name of Swami Dayanand Saraswati?

1 Daya Shankar

2 Mula Sankara

3 Ravi

4 Narender

Q What is the calling code of Nepal ?

1 +977

2 +975

3 +94

4 +92

Q Bacteria are the sole members of the Kingdom __.

1 Monera

2 Animalia

3 Fungi

4 Protista

Q The 44th Amendment to the Constitution removed the right to property from the list of Fundamental Rights and converted it into a simple legal right in which year?

1 1975

2 1979

3 1980

4 1978

Q Mayadhar Raut is an exponent of the Indian classical dance form __.

1 Kuchipudi

2 Odissi

3 Bharatnatyam

4 Kathak

Q On 31 October 1940, who among the following was arrested for offering individual Satyagraha to protest against India’s forced participation in Second World War?

1 Saifuddin Kitchlew

2 Subhas Chandra Bose

3 Jawaharlal Nehru

4 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Q The result of the experiment of scattering alpha particles by gold foil in 1911 by __ established the nuclear model of the atom.

1 Einstein

2 J J Thomson

3 Ernest Rutherford

4 Niels Bohr

Q The executive power of the Union is vested in the _.

1 Parliament

2 President

3 Prime Minister

4 Cabinet

Q What was the ruling period of Jalaluddin Khalji?

1 1296-1316

2 1324-1351

3 1290-1296

4 1320-1324

Q To which State of India does the Sattriya dance belong?

1 Assam

2 Arunachal Pradesh

3 Andhra Pradesh

4 Kerala

Q Varanam’ is a composition usually played at the _ of a recital.

1 middle

2 beginning

3 beginning as well as at the end

4 end

Q Which of the following oilfields is NOT located in Gujarat?

1 Kosamba

2 Naharkatiya

3 Nawagam

4 Kalol

Oilfields

Digboi [ Assam ] , Naharkatiya [ Assam ] , Kosamba [ Gujarat ] , , Nawagam [ Gujarat ] , Kalol [ Gujarat ]

Q The Charminar was constructed by which of the following dynasties?

1 Pandya dynasty

2 Chera dynasty

3 Chalukya dynasty

4 Qutb Shahi dynasty [ Muhammad Quli Qutub Shah ]

Q Which of the following soil types is rich in soil nutrients such as calcium carbonate , magnesium , potash and lime ?

1 Red soil

2 Black soil

3 Yellow soil

4 Laterite soil

Q Which of the following is a dance performed by the women, who are positioned in a circle and dance to a tune while clapping their hands rhythmically?

1 Kolattam

2 Kummi

3 Karakattam

4 Mayil Aattam

Q Who among the following was given the title of ‘Queen of Kathak’ by Gurudev
Rabindranath Tagore?

1 Rukmini Devi Arundale

2 Sanjukta Panigrahi

3 Shanta Rao

4 Sitara Devi

Q In which country is the ‘Kachin Manaw Festival’ celebrated?

1 Sri Lanka

2 Myanmar

3 Nepal

4 Maldives

Q In his ‘Drain of Wealth’ argument, who among the following stated that Britain was completely draining India?

1 Lala Lajpat Rai

2 Dadabhai Naoroji

3 Bal Gangadhar Tilak

4 Badruddin Tyabji

Q The Quit India Resolution was ratified in the _ session of Indian National
Congress to launch the movement.

1 Bombay

2 Bankipur

3 Lucknow

4 Nagpur

Q Which type of muscles do the uterus, iris of the eye, and bronchi contain?

1 Smooth muscles

2 Striated muscles

3 Skeletal muscles

4 Cardiac muscles

Q Which Mughal rulers intervention in the succession and internal politics of the Rathor Rajputs of Marwar led to their rebellion ?

1 Aurangzeb

2 Babur

3 Akbar

4 Shah Jahan

Q Which of the following provisions of the Indian constitution is borrowed from the constitution of Canada?

1 Concept of Republic

2 Advisory jurisdiction of the Supreme court

3 Independence of judiciary

4 Concept of concurrent list

Q Which five-year plan was based on the ideas of Mahalanobis?

1 Fourth five-year plan

2 First five-year plan

3 Third five-year plan

4 Second five-year plan

Q Which of the following buildings was designed by F.W. Stevens ?

1 The Town Hall, Bombay

2 Bombay Secretariat

3 Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaja Terminus [ Victoria Terminus ]

4 Horniman Circle [Elphinstone Circle ]

Q Which treaty was imposed by the five nuclear weapon powers and five permanent members of the UN Security Council on the rest of the world in 1968 ?

1 Non Aligned Treaty

2 Non-Proliferation Treaty

3 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

4 North Altantic Treaty Organization

Q During a National Emergency, the term of Lok Sabha can be extended for:

1 three months at a time

2 six months at a time

3 one year at a time

4 two years at a time

Q A huge system of billions of stars and cloud of dust and gases is known as :

1 World

2 Galaxy

3 Universe

4 Constellation

Q In which year was the Arms Act disallowing Indians from possessing arms passed?

1 1876

2 1877

3 1875

4 1878

Q What is the size of a standard table tennis ball?

1 42 mm

2 39 mm

3 40 mm

4 41 mm

Q Chemical formula for the marble is __.

1 CaO

2 Ca(OH)2

3 CaCO3

4 CO2

Q Carnatic music is confined to ______.

Ans 1. Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan

2. Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala

3. Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Haryana

4. Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Haryana

Q The _____ Dance Festival is oragnized by the Kerala Tourism Development Corporation .It is celebrated twice a year , once in the month of October-November and then in the month of March-April in Kanakakuunnu palace compound , in the city of Trivandrum or Thiruvananthapuram , Kerala .

1 Hampi Dance Festival

2 Mamallapuram Utsav

3 Nishagandhi Festival

4 Natyanjali Utsav

Q In which year was Raziyya removed from the throne of the Delhi Sultanate?

1 1238

2 1244

3 1236

4 1240

Q What is the average height of troposphere?

1 50 km

2 13 km

3 30 km

4 6 km

Q Warli Painting is the folk painting of __ state of India.

1 Maharashtra

2 Mizoram

3 Manipur

4 Karnataka

Q In which year Mahatma Gandhi organised a satyagraha in the Kheda district of Gujarat in the support of peasants?

1 1918

2 1916

3 1919

4 1920

Q Identify the structure that controls the size of the pupil.

1 Vitreous humour

2 Iris

3 Ciliary muscles

4 Cornea

Q In which language did Aryabhata write the book titled Aryabhatiyam ?

1 Telugu

2 Hindi

3 Tamil

4 Sanskrit

Q Who wrote the Indian patriotic song, ‘Sare Jahan se acchha, Hindustan hamara’?

1 Rabindranath Tagore

2 Bankim Chandra Chattterjee

3 Mohammad Iqbal

4 Mahatma Gandhi

Q Little Andaman in the south is separated from the Nicobar Islands by the __.

1 10 Degree Channel

2 7 Degree Channel

3 9 Degree Channel

4 8 Degree Channel

Q Who among the following devised a policy that came to be known as the Doctrine of Lapse?

1 Lord Dalhousie

2 Lord Minto

3 Lord Hastings

4 Lord Cornwallis

Q As per the census of 2011, what is the annual growth rate in population of India from2001 to 2011?

Ans 1. 2.16 percent

2. 2.22 percent

3. 1.97 percent

4. 1.64 percent

Q The materials through which objects can be seen but not clearly are called ___materials.

1 lustre

2 opaque

3 translucent

4 transparent

Q Who among the following wrote the book ‘Chanakya’s Chant’?

1 Amish Tripathi

2 Samit Basu

3 Ashwin Sanghi

4 Novoneel Chakraborty

Q The Mughals were descendants of two great lineages of rulers. From their mother’s side, they were descendants of __, ruler of the Mongol tribes, China and Central Asia.

1 Humayun

2 Aurangzeb

3 Genghis Khan

4 Timur

Q The All India Muslim League was formed at Dacca in which year?

1 1905

2 1904

3 1906

4 1907

Q In which year was the third battle of Panipat fought?

1 1765

2 1761

3 1767

4 1763

Q One-third of the members of the State Legislature Council retire every __ years.

1 sixth

2 fourth

3 fifth

4 second

Q In the higher latitudes (50° – 70°) of Northern hemisphere the spectacular Coniferous forests are found. These are also called as __.

1 Veld

2 Tundra

3 Taiga

4 Llanos

Q He is perhaps best known for his speech at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago in 1893. Who is ‘he’ referred to?

1 Swami Vivekananda

2 Keshab Chandra Sen

3 Swami Dayanand Saraswati

4 Mahatma Gandhi

Q The folk dance ‘Cheraw’ is primarily associated with which Indian state?

1 Sikkim

2 Assam

3 Mizoram

4 Manipur

Q After independence, the Census Act was enacted in India in the year __.

1 1960

2 1955

3 1948

4 1962

Q What is the circumference of the International Football Association Board (IFAB) approved football?

1 80 – 82 cms

2 78 – 80 cms

3 68 – 70 cms

4 70 – 72 cms

Q Which of the following scientists grouped the elements into triads?

1 Henry Moseley

2 Dimitri Mendeleev

3 Johann Wolfgang Dobereiner

4 John Newlands

Q Where was the first cement plant located in India in the year 1904?

1 Jaipur

2 Rajkot

3 Chennai

4 Hyderabad

Q In which of the following states is the Behdienkhlam festival celebrated in the month of July ?

1 Tripura

2 Meghalaya

3 Manipur

4 Mizoram

Q What is the approximate east-west extent [ in km ] of India from Arunachal Pradesh to Kutch ?

1 2900

2 2500

3 2100

4 2400

Q The inaugural winners of the Hero Indian Super League (ISL) was ATK, which is a football club based in _.

1 Kolkata

2 Chennai

3 Mumbai

4 Bengaluru

Q Brahmo Samaj was formed in which year ?

1 1828

2 1875

3 1867

4 1873

Q Who is the author of the book named ‘Godan’ ?

1 Munshi Premchand

2 Rabindranath Tagore

3 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

4 Ramdhari Singh Dhinkar

Q What is the approximate distance [ in km ] of the moon from Earth ?

1 3,84, 400

2 4,84,400

3 2,84,400

4 1,84,400

Q Who wrote the biography of Harshavardhana named ‘Harshcharita‘ ?

1 Banabhatta

2 Kalidasa

3 Chand Bardai

4 Herisena

Q All green plants and certain blue-green algae which can produce food by photosynthesis are called _____

1 Producers

2 Consumers

3 Decomposers

4 Bacteria

Q What is the approximate area of India [ in lakh sq km ] ?

1 3.28

2 4.28

3 2.28

4 1.28

Q Who was the scholar entrusted by Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni to write an account of subcontinent ?

1 Al-Baruni

2 Malik Jayasi

3 Amir Khusrow

4 Shah Latif

Q Which is the oldest veda among four Vedas ?

1 Rigveda

2 Yajurveda

3 Samaveda

4 Atharveda

Q Which part of Indian Constitution deals with ‘The Union and its Territories’ ?

1 Part I

2 Part II

3 Part III

4 Part IV A

Q The Western Ghats and Eastern Ghats meet at which of the following places in South India ?

1 Satpura Hills

2 Nallamalla Hills

3 Nilgiri Hills

4 Mahendragiri Hills

Q Of the football clubs listed below, which is the oldest in India?

1 Bombay FC

2 Calcutta FC

3 Madras FC

4 FC Kochin

Q The forty minutes raga’ is an album composed by _ .

1 Amjad Ali Khan

2 Ali Akbar Khan

3 Hariprasad Chaurasia

4 Bhimsen Joshi

Q Who was India’s 12th Prime Minister?

1 Inder Kumar Gujral

2 Atal Bihari Vajpayee

3 PV Narasimha Rao

4 Manmohan Singh