Q Rajini Gabra and Harni Gabra is the cultural festival of which of the following Indian states ?
1 Assam
2 Gujarat
3 Mizoram
4 West Bengal
Q Who was the first winner of the Arjuna Award in Kabaddi?
1 Sahanand Mahadev Shetty
2 Manjeet Chhillar
3 Ajay Thakur
4 Bholanath Guin
Q Which are the most explosive of the earth’s volcanoes?
1 Caldera
2 Composite
3 Mid ocean ridge
4 Flood basalt
Q Who is considered as the father of statistics in India ?
1 RC Dutt
2 Dadabhai Naoroji
3 NR Madhav Menon
4 Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Q The Kullu valley with the Lahaul and Spiti valleys of Himachal Pradesh is connected by the ___
1 Bara-Lacha pass
2 Nathula pass
3 Rohtang pass
4 Mayali pass
Q Irregular growth of teeth is due to the deficiencies of vitamin __.
1 K
2 A
3 B
4 D
Q Kolkata metro rail was opened for commercial services in ___
1 1980
2 1984
3 1990
4 2002
Q Sheorinarayan fair is held in which of the following states ?
1 West Bengal
2 Chhattisgarh
3 Madhya Pradesh
4 Jharkhand
Q In plants, which hormone helps the cells to grow longer ?
1 Cytokinin
2 Jasmonate
3 Ethylene
4 Auxin
Q Which of the following element has maximum density ?
1 Lead
2 Mercury
3 Osmium
4 Platinum
Q Which one of the following is known as the ‘Roof of the World’ ?
1 Pamir Plateau
2 Anatolia Plateau
3 Zargos Plateau
4 Elburz Plateau
Q ‘The Story of My Experiments with Truth’ is an autobiography of __.
1 Mahatma Gandhi
2 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
3 Jawaharlal Nehru
4 Bhimrao Ambedkar
Q Which of the following Schedules of the Constitution of India have immunity from
Judicial Review?
1 4th
2 6th
3 10th
4 9th
Q Which of the following regions in India is nicknamed as the storehouse of minerals ?
1 Deccan Plateau
2 Western Ghats
3 Chota Nagpur
4 Himalayas
Q The National Rice Research Institute is located at __ in Odisha.
1 Cuttack
2 Puri
3 Sambalpur
4 Koraput
Q The Mahabodhi Temple is in which of these states?
1 Uttar Pradesh
2 Bihar
3 Chhattisgarh
4 Madhya Pradesh
Q In which year did Mihir Sen create history by being the only man to swim the five oceans in one calendar year?
1 1958
2 1966
3 1949
4 1950
Q Rashtrakuta ruler Dantidurga died without a male heir and was succeeded by his uncle__________.
1 Indra I
2 Govinda I
3 Krishna I
4 Amoghavarsha I
Q Who among the following Muslim social reformers propagated his ideas through a magazine ‘Tahdib-ul-Akhlaq’?
1 Muhammad Qasim
2 Rashid Ahmad
3 Ghulam Ahmed
4 Syed Ahmed Khan
Q What is the name of the engineer who brought to light the ruins of Hampi ?
1 Edward Barlow
2 Matthew Boulton
3 Colonel Colin Mackenzie
4 James Atkinson
Q Which among the following was a member of the Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly ?
1 Dr KM Munsi
2 BN Rao
3 TT Krishnamachari
4 N Madhav Ran
The Drafting Committee had seven members that included Alladi Krishnaswami Ayyar , N Gopalaswami , BR Ambedkar [ Chairman ] , KM Munshi , Mohammad Saadulla , BL Mitter and DP Khaitan
Q Sattriya was recognised in __ as a Classical Dance by Sangeet Natak Akademi.
1 2000
2 2010
3 2020
4 2005
Q Alarmel Valli is an Indian classical dancer and choreographer and a foremost exponent of the __ dance form of Bharatanatyam.
1 Tarangam style
2 Pandanallur style
3 Vazhuvoor style
4 Melattur style
Q Who among the following leaders founded the women’s wing of Congress in 1940?
1 Lakshmi Sahgal
2 Sarojini Naidu
3 Sucheta Kriplani
4 Aruna Asaf Ali
Q Which of the following is the darkest, or least reflective object in the Solar System with an albedo of 0.03?
1 9P/Tempel 1
2 2P/Encke
3 1P/Halley
4 19P/Borrelly
Q Tattvabodhini Sabha was founded in ____.
1 1866
2 1822
3 1875
4 1839
Q 10 nibbles are equal to ___ bits.
1 20
2 40
3 60
4 80
Q A sucrose molecule contains ___ carbon atoms.
1 6
2 12 [ C12H22O11 ]
3 15
4 18
Q Who among the following wrote ‘Nirmala’ ?
1 Munshi Premchand
2 Jaishankar Prasad
3 Shrilal Shukla
4Ramdhari Singh
Q भारतीय संविधान के किस अनुच्छेद में उल्लेख है कि कलात्मक या ऐतिहासिक रुचि के प्रत्येक स्मारक
या स्थान या वस्तु की रक्षा करना राज्य का दायित्व होगा?
1 अनुच्छेद 51
2 अनुच्छेद 47
3 अनुच्छेद 45
4 अनुच्छेद 49
Q KV Prasad , SV Rajarao , Umalayapuram Sivaraman, Palghat Mani Iyer , Karaikudi R Mani and Palghat Raghu are noted players of which of the following instruments?
1 Pakhawaj
2 Sarangi
3 Ghatam
4 Mridangam
Q National Highways Authority of India [ NHAI ] was set up in ___
1 1984
2 1986
3 1988
4 1992
Q Who has excavated the ancient city of Indus Valley Civilisation of Harappa ?
1 DR Sahni
2 Mathew Field
3 SR Rao
4 RD Banerjee
Q The National Institute of Nutrition is located in:
1 Hyderabad
2 Karnal
3 Shimla
4 Cuttack
Q Hanukkah is a _____ festival.
1 Jain
2 Jewish
3 Sikh
4 Buddhist
Q Veeranatyam is an ancient form of dance from which of these states?
1 Kerala
2 Andhra Pradesh
3 Karnataka
4 Tamil Nadu
Q Which famous chemist refuted the theory of ‘vitalism’ by saying that organic
substances can only be produced from living things?
1 John Dalton
2 Antoine Lavoisier
3 Friedrich Wohler
4 Marcellin Berthelot
Q The voting age was reduced from 21 years to 18 years by the __ Constitutional
Amendment Act of 1988.
1 51st
3 61st
3 71st
4 41s
Q Who among the following Russian political leaders visited India as part of Republic Day celebrations in the year 2007?
1 Dmitry Medvedev
2 Boris Yeltsin
3 Vladimir Putin
4 Mikhail Mishustin
Q Who is the author of ‘Kamayani’ , the epic poem that is considered as one of the greatest literary works in Hindi ?
1 Jaishankar Prasad
2 Mohan Rakesh
3 Bankim Chandra
4 Rabindranath Tagore
Q Which of the following art forms of Kerala is in UNESCO’s list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity ?
1 Kutiyattam
2 Theyyam
3 Chakyar Koothu
4 Thiruvathirakali
Q Chandragupta II got his daughter married into which of the following dynasties?
1 Vakataka dynasty
2 Naga dynasty
3 Shunga dynasty
4 Pushyabhuti dynasty
Prabhavati Gupta was the daughter of Chandragupta II . She was married to Rudrasena II of the Vakataka Dynasty
Q According to the Census of India 2011, what was the percentage of Sikh communities in the total population in India?
1 0.4%
2 79.8%
3 14.2%
4 1.7%
| Total Population [ 2011 Census ] : 121.09 crores | Hindu : 96.63 crore [ 79.8% ] , Muslim : 17.22 crore [ 14.2% ] , Christian : 2.78 crore [ 2.3% ] , Sikh : 2.08 crore [ 1.7% ] , Buddhist : 0.84 crore [ 0.7% ] , Jain ; 0.45 crore [ 0.4% ] , Other Religions & Persuasions [ ORP ] : 0.79 crore [ 0.7% ] and Religion Not Stated : 0.29 crore [ 0.2% ] |