Q Which state organises the Lokrang Festival?
1 Arunachal Pradesh
2 Uttar Pradesh
3 Madhya Pradesh
4 Himachal Pradesh
Q Who built the Geldria Fort at Pulicat in Tamil Nadu?
1 Dutch
2 French
3 Portuguese
4 British
Q Simuka was the founder of which of the following dynasties of the post Mauryan era?
1 Kushana
2 Parthians
3 Kanva
4 Satavahana
Q Who was the captain of the Indian hockey men’s team in the 1936 Berlin Olympics?
1 Sayed Jaffar
2 Roop Singh
3 Ahmed Khan
4 Dhyan Chand
Q Which of the following Sun temples is built by Raja Bhimdev I of the Solanki dynasty?
1 Martand Sun temple
2 Modhera Sun Temple
3 Surya Narayana Temple
4 Shri Surya Narayana Swami Temple
Q Who among the following emphasised and propagated that “the Vedanta is the religion of all and not of the Hindus alone”?
1 Raja Ram Mohan Roy
2 Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
3 Swami Vivekanand
4 Swami Dayanand Saraswat
Q In which of the following years was the Brahmo Samaj established by Raja Ram
Mohan Roy?
1 1825
2 1828
3 1820
4 1818
Q Where is the headquarters of the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) situated?
1 Kolkata
2 Hyderabad
3 Mumbai
4 Bengaluru
Q _ is a song used to mourn the death of the loved ones.
1 Banvarh
2 Mando
3 Fughri
4 Deknni
Q Which of the following dance forms is also known as the ‘Royal Dance of Ladakh’?
Ans 1. Yak dance
2. Jabro dance
3. Shondol dance
4. Koshan dance
Q The constituent assembly adopted the national song on _____.
1 July 22, 1950
2 Jan 24, 1950
3 Jan 25, 1952
4 March 25, 1951
Q Who succeeded Alivardi Khan as Nawab of Bengal in 1756?
1 Mir Qasim
2 Shuja-ud-daula
3 Siraj-ud-daula
4 Mir Jafar
Q Which of the following is the chemical formula for Nitre (saltpeter)?
1 KCl.MgCl2
2 KNO3
3 KCl
4 KAl2O3
Q Who was the first woman president of Indian National Congress?
1 Annie Besant
2 Nellie Sengupta
3 Indira Gandhi
4 Sarojini Naidu
Q The headquarters of Food and Agricultural Organisation is located in _.
1 London
2 Rome
3 Paris
4 New York
Q Which of the following books was translated as ‘The Razmnama’ (Book of Wars) during the reign of Akbar?
1 Ramayana
2 Babur Nama
3 Mahabharata
4 Akbar Nama
Q The Indian Government annexed __ in 1948 under the code name ‘Operation Polo’.
1 Hyderabad
2 Gwalior
3 Mysore
4 Baroda
Q The Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve is located in the state of ______.
Ans 1. Rajasthan
2. Uttarakhand
3. Andhra Pradesh
4. Madhya Pradesh
Q Devadasi National Award is given at the dance festival held at the pilgrim centre in the state of _.
1 Kerala
2 Odisha
3 West Bengal
4 Tamil Nadu
Q Which set of Articles in the Constitution of India are known as ‘Cultural and Educational Rights’?
1 Articles 19-20
2 Articles 29-30
3 Articles 14-15
4 Articles 23-24
Q Which type of electromagnetic radiation was discovered by Johann Wilhelm Ritter in 1801?
1 X-rays
2 Ultraviolet rays
3 Infrared rays
4 Gamma rays
Q Which of the following movements was started in the year 1930 by Mahatma Gandhi?
1 Non-Cooperation Movement
2 Civil Disobedience Movement
3 Khilafat Movement
4 Quit India Movement
Q Gangaur Festival is celebrated in honour of the Goddess __ mostly by the
womenfolk of Rajasthan.
1 Sita
2 Lakshmi
3 Parvati
4 Durga
Q Which among the following books were NOT written by Rabindranath Tagore?
1 The Post Office
2 Gardener
3 Magic Seeds
4 Gora
Q Members of which phylum are known as sponges?
1 Cnidaria
2 Porifera
3 Annelida
4 Ctenophora
Q Which Indian Cricketer is known as “The Wall” ?
1 Sachin Tendulkar
2 Rahul Dravid
3 Harbhajan Singh
4 Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Q The _ committee was set up to make recommendations about the fundamental
duties.
1 Swaran Singh
2 Swaminathan
3 Bibek Debroy
4 Balwant Ray Mehta
Q C2H5OH is the chemical formula of _____.
1 propene
2 ethanol
3 methane
4 butyne
Q The Rigveda Samhita comprises of _ books.
1 13
2 10
3 11
4 7
Q Where is the Motera Stadium [ also known as Narendra Modi Stadium ] located?
1 Varanasi
2 Indore
3 Ahmedabad
4 Pune
Q Garba folk dance belongs to which of the following states of India?
1 Madhya Pradesh
2 Maharashtra
3 Gujarat
4 Rajasthan
Q Minamata disease is a nervous disorder caused by eating fish , polluted with ______
1 Mercury
2 Iron
3 Lead
4 Nickel
Q Guru Shikhar, the highest point of Rajasthan, lies on the _.
1 Eastern Ghats
2 Western Ghats
3 Aravalli Range
4 Karakoram Range
Q_ , popularly known as ‘Ali Gauhar’, was defeated in the Battle of Buxar.
1 Akbar II
2 Shah Alam I
3 Shah Alam II
4 Bahadur Shah II
Q The SI unit of electric current is _.
1 candela
2 kelvin
3 ampere
4 mole
Q The layer of very rare air above the mesosphere is called the _.
1 exosphere
2 thermosphere
3 troposphere
4 stratosphere
Q The Red Fort was commissioned by which of these emperors?
1 Qutb-ud-din Bakhtiyar Khilji
2 Shah Jahan
3 Jahangir
4 Mohammad Bin Tughlaq
Q Who was the first woman to head a democratic government in Pakistan?
1 Halimah Yacob
2 Sheikh Hasina
3 Benazir Bhutto
4 Khaleda Zia
Q Gangkhar Puensum, the highest unclimbed mountain in the world, is located at ____
1 Bhutan
2 Sri Lanka
3 Iraq
4 Myanmar
Q The Olympic symbol – widely known throughout the world as the Olympic rings – is the visual ambassador of Olympism for billions of people. Which among the following is NOT one of the colours of a ring?
1 White
2 Green
3 Black
4 Red
There are 5 rings in Olympic symbol which represents the five continents [ Blue , Yellow , Green , Red and Black ]
Q Cobalamin is the scientific name of which of the following vitamins?
1 C
2 B3
3 B12
4 D
Q In which of the following places the Allahabad High Court has its bench?
1 Gorakhpur
2 Agra
3 Lucknow
4 Noida
Q When a Kabaddi game is on, how many players are there on each side?
1 7
2 8
3 6
4 5
Q Rangam – a future telling ceremony is associated with ___
1 Dasara Procession
2 Kolatam
3 Bathukamma
4 Secundrabad Bonalu
Q Gipmochi mountain lies between China, Bhutan and the Indian state of:
1 Manipur
2 Assam
3 Sikkim
4 Arunachal Pradesh
Q Which one of the following books was NOT written by R.K. Narayan ?
1 The Man-Eater of Malgudi
2 Swami and Friends
3 Midnight’s Children
4 The Vendor of Sweets
Q The __ was established in 1964 under an Act of Parliament as a wholly owned
subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of India.
1 Central Bank of India
2 Industrial Development Bank of India
3 State Bank of India
4 Bank of Baroda