Q Which is the traditional ‘glove puppet show’ of Kerala?
1 Yampuri
2 Kundhei
3 Pavakoothu
4 Gombeyatta
Q Which of the following festivals is celebrated in honour of Hidimba Devi (wife of Bhima)?
1 Kajari
2 Halda
3 Doongri
4 Hareli
Q From the north most to south most point of India, what is the extent of India?
1 4109 km
2 3214 km
3 3785 km
4 2914 km
Q How many functional items have been placed in the 11th Schedule of the Indian Constitution?
1 29
2 20
3 59
4 39
Q Mahatma Gandhi abruptly called off the Non-Cooperation Movement when in __ a crowd of peasants set fire to a police station in Chauri Chaura.
1 April 1922
2 February 1922
3 June 1922
4 December 1922
Q In ruminants like cattle, bacteria present in __ helps in digestion of cellulose.
1 oesophagus
2 rumen
3 small intestine
4 large intestine
Q Nashik is also known as __ capital of India.
1 Gold
2 Orange
3 Wine
4Cotton
Q Onam is celebrated as the homecoming of which Ausura King?
1. Mahabali
2 Kansa
3 Devadutta
4 Yama
Q What is the approximate circumference of a cricket ball?
1 Around 9 inches [ 8.81 inches – 9 inches ]
2 Around 6 inches
3 Around 5 inches
4 Around 12 inches
Q __ was the capital city of the Vijaynagar Empire.
1 Kalyani
2 Hampi
3 Magadha
4 Kanchi
Q How is the condition of land productivity defined for primitive subsistence agriculture in India?
1. Medium
2 Very high
3 Low
4 High
Q The Servants of Indian Society was founded by _ in 1905.
1. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
2 Mahatma Gandhi
3 Subhas Chandra Bose
4 Lala Lajpat Rai
Q Ustad Mansur was a prominent painter in the court of which of the following Mughal rulers
1 Jahangir
2 Aurangzeb
3 Shah Jahan
4 Humayun
Q Which of the following dance forms is most famous among the Bhil tribe?
1. Bhagoriya
2 Padayani
3 Nati
4 Laho
Q Alvars were devotees of which Indian deity ?
1 Lord Vishnu
2 Lord Shiva
3 Lord Ganesha
4 Lord Krishna
Q The three English missionaries, Carey, Marshman and Ward, lived and worked in
1. the Dutch enclave of Chinsurahthe
2 Danish enclave of Serampore
3 the French enclave of Chandernagore
4 the Portuguese enclave of Bandel
Q __ dance is introverted and restrained compared to most other dances of India – the artist never establishes eye contact with the audience.
1 Manipuri
2 Bharatnatyam
3 Kathakali
4 Kuchipudi
Q ‘Ummatt-aat’ is a folk dance form performed in __.
1 Gangtok
2 Coorg
3 Itanagar
4 Kasauli
Q In which of the following Indian states will you find the Netarhat Mountains, also called ‘Queen of Chotanagpur’?
1. Odisha
2 Jharkhand
3 Chhattisgarh
4 West Bengal
Q The ‘Namami Gange Programme’ is an integrated Conservation Mission approved by the Union Government in :
1 June , 2014
2 June , 2015
3 June , 2016
4 June , 2017
Q The Government of India added the prefix ‘MG’ to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in the year _____
1 2009
2 1986
3 1993
4 2001
Q Who was associated with Vaisheshika School of Philosophy ?
1 Kanada
2 Gautama
3 Jaimini
4 Patanjali
Q ‘A Love Song From the North’ , ‘My Day Dream’ and ‘In the Forest’ are the poems written by_____
1 Sarojini Naidu
2 Ruskin Bond
3 Kiran Desai
4 Anita Desai
Q ‘The Banyan Tree’ poem written by ______
1 Rabindranath Tagore
2 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
3 Sarojini Naidu
4 Ruskin Bond
Q The British annexed Punjab after defeating the Sikhs in the Anglo-Sikh War in the year ?
1 1849
2 1835
3 1839
4 1845
Q The first lot of 33 declassified files relating to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was handed over by the Prime Minister ‘s Office [ PMO ] to the National Archives of India on 4 December______
1 2015
2 2019
3 2014
4 2018
Q The discovery and understanding of electromagnetic induction is based on a long series of experiments carried out by _____
1 Faraday and Henry
2 Rutherford
3 Einstein
4 Planck and Fermi
Q Languages like Nyishi , Apatani and Bokar are widely spoken in :
1 Arunachal Pradesh
2 Kerala
3 Madhya Pradesh
4 Odisha
Q Sakewa is a religious festival celebrated by the celebrated by the Kirat Khambu Rai community of ____
1 Sikkim
2 Odisha
2 Gujarat
4 Karnataka
Q Lord Hastings initiated the ____ where the East India Company claimed that its authority was supreme and hence its power was greater than that of Indian states ?
1 Policy of Paramountcy
2 Doctrine of Lapse
3 Imperial Policy
4 Government’s Stores Policy
Q Detritivores in the soil break down detritus into smaller particles. This process is called ___
1 fragmentation
2 mineralisation
3 catabolism
4 leaching
Q Which law states that for a solution of volatile liquids , the partial vapour pressure of each component of the solution is directly proportional to its mole fraction present in solution ?
1 Raoult’s law
2 Boyle’s law
3 Dalton’s law
4 Faraday’s law
Q Sagol Kangjei , an indigenous game of Manipur is similar to the modern day sports of :
1 Polo
2 Boxing
3 Cricket
4 Hockey
Q Hallisaka is a group dance native to which state of India ?
1 Gujarat
2 Goa
3 Rajasthan
4 Maharashtra
Q Birhor dance is a tribal folk dance from ____
1 Jharkhand
2 Karnataka
3 Himachal Pradesh
4 Punjab
Q In which state are the Sundargarh deposits of Manganese located ?
1 Odisha
2 Kerala
3 Gujarat
4 Maharashtra
Q Fondly called ‘Haryana Hurricane’ , who made his test debut in the year 1978 –
1 Kapil Dev
2 Sachin Tendulkar
3 Sunil Gavaskar
4 CK Naydu
Q The longest continuous wall in India , the second longest in the world , is at :
1 Kumbhalgarh Fort
2 Chittorgarh Fort
3 Kangra
4 Mehrangarh
Q ‘The Substance and the Shadow’ is the autobiography of :
1 Dilip Kumar
2 Dev Ananda
3 Priyanka Chopra
4 Karan Johar
Q Kalinjar Fort , which was strategically important during medieval times , is located in :
1 Uttar Pradesh
2 Goa
3 Kerala
4 Assam
Q ‘Marfati’ songs are the traditional folk songs of :
1 Bangladesh
2 Nepal
3 Afghanistan
4 Pakistan
Q The Article 371A deals with the special provision with respect to which of the following states?
1 Assam
2 Nagaland
3 Manipur
4 Sikkim
Q Who among the following authors wrote “The Living Mountain”?
1 Nitin Gokhale
2 Kabir Bedi
3 Amitav Ghosh
4 Anindya Dutta
Q What do the finger like outgrowths present in the inner walls of the small intestine known as?
1 Rumen
2 Intestinal juices
3 Villi
4 Pierce canal
Q Who among the following propounded the concept of ‘Rule of Law’?
1 Henri Fayol
2 A.V. Dicey
3 Max Weber
4 F.W. Taylor
Q When was the Asian Games organised in India for the second time?
1 1994
2 1986
3 1982
4 1998
Q Which of the following statements is CORRECT regarding Kambala festival?
I. It is a festival associated with agriculture.
II. It is an annual event, which features buffalo race.
1 Only I
2 Both I and II
3 Only II
4 Neither I nor II
Q Who won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his satirical work ‘Viklang Shraddha ka Daur’?
1 Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
2 Rahul Sankrityayan
3 Hari Shankar Parsai
4 Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
Q In which of the following state ruler Harichandra successfully established his
kingdom, who gave up his traditional profession and took to arms?
1 Kerala
2 Rajasthan
3 Karnataka
4 Awadh
Q The plant cell wall is mainly composed of _.
1 starch
2 proteins
3 lipids
4 cellulose
Q Who is the writer of the novel ‘Such a Long Journey’?
1 Vikram Seth
2 Shashi Deshpande
3 Rohinton Mistry
4 Cyrus Mistry
Q Which of the following statements is correct regarding the Veda Samaj?
I. It was founded in 1867.
II. It was founded in Madras.
1 Only II
2 Both I and II
3 Neither I nor II
4 Only I
| Veda Samaj [ 1864 ] | Keshab Chandra Sen and K. Sridharalu Naidu |
Q The Mughal emperor appointed the East India Company as the Diwan of Bengal in _.
1 1765
2 1762
3 1768
4 1758
Q The area of northern plain of India is spread over _ lakh square kilometres.
1 8
2 7
3 10
4 9
Q ‘Pinjar’ is a novel by _____.
1 Kiran Desai
2 Anita Desai
3 Amrita Pritam
4 Kamala Das
Q Which of the following temples is located at the centre point of the world’s magnetic equator?
1 Kailasanathar Temple
2 Meenakshi Temple
3 Chidambaram Temple
4 Srirangam Temple
Q Which Article of the Indian Constitution allows the State to make special provisions for the advancement of any socially and educationally backward class ?
Ans 1. Article
2. Article 17
3. Article 16
4. Article 18
Q Who among the following founded the secret Congress Radio, which broadcast messages of independence and anti-British propaganda and made significant contributions to the freedom struggle?
1 Sunitha Krishnan
2 Kalpana Datt
3 Usha Mehta
4 Aruna Roy
Q Which of the following industrial plants is supplied water from Bhadravati River?
1 Bokaro Steel Plant
2 Durgapur Steel Plant
3 Rourkela Steel Plant
4 Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Plant
Q Which among the following languages was added in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution in 1967?
I. Konkani
II. Sindhi
1 Only I
2 Both I and II
3 Only II
4 Neither I nor II
Q Which of the following statements is CORRECT with respect to basketball?
1 Each team is made up of 11 players, with only 7 allowed on the court at any time.
2 Each team is made up of 12 players, with only 5 allowed on the court at any time.
3 Each team is made up of 11 players, with only 4 allowed on the court at any time.
4 Each team is made up of 12 players, with only 8 allowed on the court at any time.