Q The Ghode Modni dance, to celebrate the victory of warriors, is performed in which ofthe following states of India?
1 Goa
2 West Bengal
3 Karnataka
4 Tamil Nadu
Q Mawsynram receives the highest average annual rainfall in the world because the Monsoon Winds of the Bay of Bengal strike the _ hill.
1 Lugu hills
2 Khasi
3 Haflong
4 Netarhat
Q Who was the chairman of the House Committee of the Constituent Assembly of India?
1 B Pattabhi Sitaramayya
2 AV Thakkar
3 JB Kripalani
4 KM Munsi
Q Which is the first state in India to become fully organic?
1 Karnataka
2 Assam
3 Sikkim
4 Kerala
Q The National Rice Research Institute is located at __ in Odisha.
1 Cuttack
2 Puri
3 Sambalpur
4 Koraput
Q Where was the Fourth High Court established in India next to Calcutta, Bombay and Madras in 1866?
1 Chandigarh
2 Allahabad
3 Patna
4 Guwahati
Q Who was the leader of ‘Santhal Rebellion’ (1855-56)?
1 Nana Saheb
2 Kunwar Singh
3 Brisa Munda
4 Sidhu Murmu
Q Who proposed the Continental Drift Theory in 1912?
1 Abraham Ortelius
2 Alfred Wegener
3 Arthur Holmes
4 Thomas Edison
Q What was the secret society of revolutionaries organised by VD Savarkar in 1904 known as?
1 Yugantar
2 Abhinav Bharat
3 Sandhya
4 Ghadar
Q With which of the following states is the tribal festival named ‘Hal Punhya’ traditionally associated?
1 Jharkhand
2 Assam
3 Puducherry
4 Rajasthan
Q Which Part was added to the Indian Constitution by 74th Constitutional Amendment Act of 1992?
1 Part IX-A
2 Part IV-A
3 Part VII
4 Part XII
Q The head office of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) is located at .
1 Kolkata
2 Chennai
3 Mumbai
4 New Delhi
Q Which Indian philosopher was the founder of ‘Advaita Vedanta’?
1 Brihaspati
2 Gautama Buddha
3 Adi Shankaracharya
4 Maharshi Kanada
Q ‘Aamar Jiban’, is the autobiography written by an Indian woman. Who was she?
1 Sarojini Naidu
2 Rassundari Devi
3 Sucheta Kriplani
4 Annie Besant
Q When is Guru Nanak Jayanti celebrated in India as per the Hindu lunar calendar?
1 Kartika Poornima
2 Paush Poornima
3 Paush Amavasya
4 Kartika Amavasya
Q Who among the following was re-elected in 1938 as the president of the Indian National Congress session for 1939?
1 Satyendra Prasanna Sinha
2 Subhash Chandra Bose
3 Lal Mohan Ghosh
4 Pattabhi Sittaramayya
Q In which year did the Morarji Desai Government appoint the Second Backward Classes Commission under the chairmanship of BP Mandal?
1 1979
2 1984
3 1982
4 1975
Q The Securities and Exchange Board of India was established in the year:
1 1991
2 1993
3 1992
4 1994
Q Subansiri, Jia Bharali, Dhansiri and Puthimari are the major tributaries of which river?
1 Mahanadi
2 Godavari
3 Bhagirathi
4 Brahmaputra
Q Pushyabhuti dynasty, after Prabhakarvardhana, strengthened its position in the regions of Punjab and Haryana after defeating which of the following dynasties?
1 Chalukyas
2 Hunas
3 Maitrakas
4 Maukharis
Q Who was the director of the first indigenous Indian silent film – ‘Raja Harishchandra’?
1 Dadasaheb Phalke
2 Ardeshir Irani
3 N.G.Chitre
4 Amartya Sen
Q Which law states that endothermic animals from cold climates have smaller
extremities or appendages than closely related species from warm climates?
1 Allen’s rule
2 Reich’s rule
3 Harper’s rule
4 Moller’s rule
Q Where is the headquarters of International Solar alliance located ?
1 Gurugram
2 New Delhi
3 Bangalore
4 Chennai
Q Who issued the silver rupee , which remained a standard coin for centuries after the ruler?
1 Babur
2 Sher Shah Suri
3 Humayun
4 Akbar
Q Severe undernutrition due to the deficiency of food and energy is termed as
_.
1 kwashiorkor
2 wasting
3 marasmus
4 dementia
Q The Concept of “Justice” in the preamble of the Indian Constitution is taken from:
1 American Revolution
2 Russian Revolution
3 Glorious Revolution
4 French Revolution
Q How many teams participated in the 1975 Cricket World Cup?
1 10
2 14
3 12
4 8
| ICC Cricket World Cup [ 1975 ] | 8 teams [ Australia | West Indies | England | India | New Zealand | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | East Africa ] |
Q The _____ dam is built across the Subarnarekha river .
1 Bhairwa
2 Chandil
3 Barhi
4 Malay
Q The ______ festival is celebrated by the Ahom people of Assam on 31st January every year in memory of the departed.
Ans 1. Me-Dam-Me-Phi
2. TirthaMukh
3. Lampra Puja
4. Ashokastami
Q Who among the following was the first recipient of ‘Param Vir Chakra’, India’s highest military decoration?
1. Somnath Sharma
2 Dhan Singh Thapa
3 Piru Singh
4 Jadunath Singh
Q Among the following, whose autobiography is ‘Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography’?
Ans 1. Benazir Bhutto
2. Malala Yousafza
i 3. Urvashi Butalia
4. Kamala Das
Q The first Backward Classes Commission of India was headed by ______.
Ans 1. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
2. Kaka Kalelkar
3. Lokmanya Tilak
4. Nanaji Deshmukh
Q Who among the following was the author of the famous work “Sangita Ratnakara”?
1. Lochan Kavi
2 Sharngadeva
3 Jaidev
4 Ramamatya
Q In which language was the newspaper ‘Kesari’ published by Bal Gangadhar Tilak?
1 Bengali
2 Telugu
3 Marathi
4 Punjabi
Q The first Indian satellite , Aryabhatta , was launched on 19 April ______
1 1975
2 1977
3 1979
4 1973
Q In which year did India officially join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization [ SCO ] as a full-fledged member ?
1 2017
2 2016
3 2015
4 2014
Q What is the maximum possible strength for a Legislative Assembly of a state in India as per Indian Constitution?
1 550 seats
2 500 seats
3 300
4 400 seats
Q Article 371-B gives special provision to which state of India ?
1 Assam
2 Nagaland
3 Sikkim
4 Manipur
Q Which Schedule of the Indian Constitution was added by the 1st Constitutional Amendment Act of 1951?
1 Eleventh Schedule
2 Ninth Schedule
3 Seventh Schedule
4 Fifth Schedule
Q Who composed the Amuktamalyada, a work on statecraft in Telugu?
1 Krishnadeva Raya
2 Rama Raya
3 Harihara Raya
4 Praudha Raya
Q Stainless steel cookware contains ___.
1 chromium
2 magnesium
3 calcium
4 manganese
Q In which year did the Bhopal Gas Tragedy take place?
1 1982
2 1980
3 1984
4 1986
Q The National Youth Policy 2014 defines youth as population between the ages of __and _.
1 15; 25
2 20; 29
3 15; 29
4 10; 19
Q In the seventeenth century, Peter Mundy, a foreign traveller from __ visited
India.
1 France
2 Italy
3 England
4 Germany
Q Gases, especially oxygen and carbon dioxide, are essential for the survival of aquatic animals and plants. The gases from the atmosphere reach the aquatic animals and plants through:
1 condensation
2 diffusion
3 evaporation
4 sublimation
Q Which of the following social reform organisations was established in Madras in 1864?
1 The Veda Samaj
2 The Arya Samaj
3 The Brahmo Samaj
4 The Prarthana Samaj
Q Which of the following was used as the main electronic component in the second generation computers?
1 Microprocessor
2 Transistors
3 Vacuum Tubes
4 Integrated Circuits
Q Which state has two headquarters of Indian Railway Zones?
1 Rajasthan
2 Uttar Pradesh
3 Bihar
4 Assam
| Railway Zones in India | Headquarters |
| Eastern Railway | Kolkata |
| Central Railway | Mumbai |
| East Central Railway | Hajipur |
| Northern Railway | New Delhi |
| East Coast Railway | Bhubaneshwar |
| North Eastern Railway | Gorakhpur |
| North Central Railway | Allahabad |
| North Western Railway | Jaipur |
| North Frontier Railway | Maligaon, Guwahati |
| Southern Railway | Chennai |
| South Eastern Railway | Garden Reach, Kolkata |
| South Central Railway | Secunderabad |
| South Western Railway | Hubli |
| South East Central Railway | Bilaspur |
| West Central Railway | Jabalpur |
| Western Railway | Church Gate , Mumbai |