Q Who among the following became the world’s first woman Prime Minister ?
1 Margaret Thatcher
2 Sirimavo Bhandarnaike
3 Indira Gandhi
4 Sheikh Hasina
Q The ‘Kalol’, ‘Mehsana’ and ‘Nawagam’ oil fields are associated with which state?
1 Rajasthan
2 Assam
3 Gujarat
4 Maharashtra
Q “Harmandir Sahib” , a famous religious site of the Sikhs, is located in which city?
1 Patiala
2 Jalandhar
3 Ludhiana
4 Amritsar
Q Who coined the phrase ‘Survival of the fittest‘ ?
1 Archimedes
2 Herbert Spencer
3 Charles Darwin
4 Albert Einstein
Q ___ is the oldest Trade Union Organisations in India.
1 CITU
2 AITUC
3 BMS
4 INTUC
Q World Bamboo Day is celebrated every year on ___
1 18th August
2 18th September
3 18th October
4 18th July
Q The Narora Atomic Power Station is situated in :
1 Maharashtra
2 Haryana
3 Uttar Pradesh
4 Rajasthan
Q Which was the first bank established in India in 1770 ?
1 Punjab National Bank
2 Oudh Commerical Bank
3 Bank of Hindustan
4 State Bank of India
Q Which of the following historical caves of India are located in the state of Bihar?
1 Barabar Caves
2 Ellora Caves
3 Kanheri Caves
4Ajanta Caves
Q Who among the following is considered as the ‘Father of Carnatic Music in India’ ?
1 Gopala
2 Purandardas
3 Narayan Tirtha
4 Krishna Bharati
Q When is Raksha Bandhan celebrated in India as per the Hindu calendar?
Ans 1. Amavasya, Shravan month
2. Poornima, Ashadha month
3. Amavasya, Ashadha month
4. Poornima, Shravan month
Q When did the Central Industrial Security Force come into existence in India ?
1 1989
2 1990
3 1969
4 1959
Q Who was the first Indian to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award for his contribution to community leadership ?
1 Arvind Kejriwal
2 Baba Amte
3 Archarya Vinobha Bhave
4 Verghese Kurien
Q In which year was the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) set up?
1 1990
2 1988
3 1989
4 1987
Q The term ”geography” was first coined by ____
1 Aristotle
2 Socrates
3 Eratosthenese
4 Herodotus
Q How many columns are there in a sheet of Excel 2010 ?
1 16024
2 1024
3 16384
4 1600
| Excel 2010 | Rows [ 1,048,576 ] , Columns [ 16384 ] |
Q Chaupakhya Festival is celebrated in the state of _____________.
1 Rajasthan
2 Jharkhand
3 Uttarakhand
4 Himachal Pradesh
Q In which year did India win its first Olympic gold in hockey?
1 1922
2 1956
3 1928
4 1960
Q On whose birth anniversary did Kanshi Ram found the Bahujan Samaj Party ?
1 Jyotirao Phule
2 BR Ambedkar
3 Periyar Ramaswamy
4 Waman Chindhuji Meshram
Q Which Goddess is associated with the Gangaur Festival celebrated in Central and Western India?
1 Goddess Saraswati
2 Goddess Lakshmi
3 Goddess Parvati
4 Goddess Kali
Q In which city of India did the East India Company set up their first trading centre ?
1 Ahmdabad
2 Surat
3 Mumbai
4 Kolkata
Q In which year did the 44th Amendment remove the right to property from the list of
fundamental rights?
1 1975
2 1978
3 1981
4 1973
Q Which of the following Articles of the Indian Constitution mentions that all executive actions of the Government of India shall be expressed to be taken in the name of the President?
1 Article 81
2 Article 67
3 Article 77
4 Article 54
Q Identify the third germinal layer found in triploblastic animals.
1 Mesoderm
2 Ectoderm
3 Coelom
4 Endoderm
The three germinal layer found in triploblastic animals : endoderm [ inner layer ] , ectoderm [ outerlayer ] and mesoderm [ middle layer ]
Q Who among the following designed the India Gate?
1 Lord Wavell
2 Lord Dalhousie
3 Edwin Lutyens
4 John Nash
Q The Yaoshang festival of Manipur is celebrated for ___ days
1 nine
2 two
3 five
4 seven
Q Gugga dance is a traditional folk dance of which of the following state ?
1 Kerala
2 Assam
3 Tamil Nadu
4 Haryana
Q The Zo-Mal-Lok folk dance is associated with which community ?
1 Chaimal community
2 Jamatia community
3 Lushai community
4 Lepcha community
Q As of 2024 , How many countries are member of the International Monetary Fund [ IMF ] ?
1 166
2 190
3 195
4 189
Q From which of the following cities did the Revolt of 1857 begin on 10 May 1857 in British India?
1 Meerut
2 Kanpur
3 Delhi
4 Jhansi
Q In India the principle of ‘procedure established by law’ is taken from which constitution ?
1 Japan
2 Irish
3 Canada
4 South Africa
Q Myanmar doesn’t share its boundary with which of the following states ?
1 Sikkim
2 Manipur
3 Mizoram
4 Nagaland
Four Indian states share the border with Myanmar : Arunachal Pradesh , Manipur , Mizoram and Nagaland
Q Pawl Kuts is a thanks giving festival celebrated for two days after the harvest in
_.
1 Haryana
2 Arunachal Pradesh
3 Mizoram
4 Telangana
Q Who among the following wrote the biography of Jahangir known as ”Iqbalnama-i-Jahangiri” ?
1 Mutamid Khan
2 Abdul Rahim Khan
3 Abul Fazl
4 Inayat Khan
Q Which form of classical dance is also known as Daasiyattam ?
1 Kuchipudi
2 Bharatnatyam
3 Mohiniyattam
4 Kathakali
Q Which of the following dance is particular to the women of the Kamad tribe ?
1 Mask dance
2 Garai dance
3 Terataal dance
4 Bhutia dance
Q The actinides series is a group of _____ metallic chemical elements .
1 12
2 15
3 9
4 18
Q Which of the following books was written by Swami Vivekananda ?
1 Ancient India
2 River of Smoke
3 The East and the West
4 No Secrets
Q Who among the following was the founder of the Khilji dynasty ?
1 Jalal-ud-din Firoz Khilji
2 Qutubuddin Mubarak Shah
3 Nasiruddin Khusrau Shah
4 Alauddin Khilji
Q Origin of State Bank of India [ SBI ] goes back to the year :
1 1951
2 1948
3 1806
4 1906
Q Which class of algae is commonly known as green algae ?
1 Rhodophyceae
2 Chlorophyceae
3 Phaeophyceae
4 Desmids
Q In which year was the Gender Inequality Index (GII) introduced in India?
1 2013
2 2000
3 2014
4 2010
Q Which among the following is the largest unit of memory of a computer system ?
1 Exabyte
2 Yottabyte
3 Petabyte
4 Zetabyte
Q Who among the following is the author of the book ‘Unaccustomed Earth’?
1 Arundhati Roy
2 Anita Nair
3 Jhumpa Lahiri
4 Shobha De
Q Who was the first Prime Minister of Pakistan ?
1 Liaquat Ali khan
2 Iskander Mirza
3 Muhammad Ali Jinnah
4 Shujaat Hussain
Q Which musical instrument does Gulfam Ahmed , who hails from Uttar Pradesh and has made contributions in the field of art, play apart from Sarod?
1 Afghani Rabab
2 Doyra
3 Zirbaghali
4 Afghani Ghichak
Q ‘Citius , Altius , Fortius’ , a Latin phrase meaning ‘faster , higher , stronger’ , is the official motto of which Games ?
1 Asian Games
2 Olympic Games
3 Commonwealth Games
4 FIFA World Cup
Q Who described the idea of evolution in his book , ”The origin of species” .
1 Charles Darwin
2 Roberrt Brown
3 Edward Jenner
4 Aristotle
Q The __ lies above the mesopause and is a region in which temperatures increase with height.
1 stratosphere
2 exosphere
3 thermosphere
4 troposphere
Q In which discipline is the Bidhan Chandra Roy Award given?
1 Law
2 Architecture
3 Sports
4 Medicine
Q Which traveller from Uzbekistan visited India in the 11th Century ?
1 Ibn Battuta
2 Al-Beruni
3 Mahmud Wali Balkhi
4 Seydi Ali Reis
Q Which of the following folk dances does NOT belong to the state of Madhya Pradesh?
Ans 1. Laho
2. Phulpati
3. Matki
4. Jawara
Q Where was the first Jute factory in India established?
1. Cuttack, Odisha
2 Ongole, Andhra Pradesh
3 Rishra, West Bengal
4 Raigarh, Chhattisgarh
Q What is the name of the world’s smallest spacecraft launched in India ?
1 Sparkle
2 Spring
3 Sprites
4 Star
Q Who is the author of the novel ‘Before We Visit the Goddess’?
1 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
2 Kiran Doshi
3 Arundhati Roy
4 Jhumpa
Q The Revolutionary Socialist Party was established in __.
1. 1936
2 1925
3 1940
4 1929
Q Who set up the task force on Supportive Policy and Regulatory Framework for MicroFinance in India in 1999?
1 RRB
2 Finance minister
3 NABARD
4 SBI
Q Decadal growth rate of population between 2001-2011 is ______.
Ans 1. 18.70 percent
2. 15.70 percent
3. 17.70 percent
4. 16.70 percent
Q The Paramhans Mandali was founded in 1840 at _ to work for the abolition
of caste.
1. Delhi
2 Calcutta
3 Bombay
4 Madras
Q Who is the author of the book named ‘Out of My Comfort Zone’ ?
1 Steve Waugh
2 Ricky Ponting
3 Adam Gilchirst
4 Mathew Hayden
Q The state of the embryo in which all the body parts can be identified is called ___
1 Foetus
2 Uterus
3 Zygote
4 Ovulation
Q Which of the following was the first planned city of the Mughals ?
1 Fatehpur Sikri
2 Mirzapur
3 Lahore
4 Lucknow
Q Famous musician Talvin Singh is associated with playing the _.
1 shehnai
2 flute
3 veena
4 tabla
Q Who dismissed Sachin Tendulkar in his last match ?
1 Narsingh Deonarine
2 Graeme Swan
3 Abdul Razzaq
4 Brett Lee
Q The Directive Principles of State Policy resembles the ‘Instrument of Instructions’ enumerated in the ________.
1 Government of India Act of 1909
2 Government of India Act of 1942
3 Government of India Act of 1935
4 Government of India Act of 1919
Q Which of the following god / goddess is NOT associated with Ratha Yatra festival of Puri , Odisha ?
1 Lord Balabhadra
2 Lord Shiva
3 Lord Jagannath
4 Devi Subhadra
Jagannath Ratha Yatra is dedicated to Lord Jagannath [ Lord Krishna ] . his sister Goddess Subhadra and his elder brother Lord Balabhara [ Balaram ]
Q Rulers belonging to Gujara -Pratihara , Rashtrakuta and Pala dynasties fought for control over ____
1 Jaipur
2 Kannauj
3 Patliputra
4 Ujjain
Q The Indian National Congress passed Purna Swaraj resolution in 1929 under the Presidentship of ____
1 Jawaharlal Nehru
2 Mahatma Gandhi
3 Lala Lajpat Rai
4 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Q Which of the following Sustainable Development Goals ensures availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all?
1 SDG 5
2 SDG 6
3 SDG 4
4 SDG 7
17 Sustainable Development Goals [ SDGs ]
| Goal 1 | No Poverty |
| Goal 2 | Zero Hunger |
| Goal 3 | Good Health and Well Being |
| Goal 4 | Quality Education |
| Goal 5 | Gender Equality |
| Goal 6 | Clean Water and Sanitation |
| Goal 7 | Affordable and Clean Energy |
| Goal 8 | Decent Work and Economic Growth |
| Goal 9 | Industry , Innovation and Infrastructure |
| Goal 10 | Reduced Inequality |
| Goal 11 | Sustainable Cities and Communities |
| Goal 12 | Responsible Consumption and Production |
| Goal 13 | Climate Action |
| Goal 14 | Life Below Water |
| Goal 15 | Life on Land |
| Goal 16 | Peace and Justice Strong Institutions |
| Goal 17 | Partnerships to achieve the Goal |