Q Under the tutelage of ____________, the Indian football team won the gold medal in 1951 Asian Games, and finished fourth in the 1956 Olympics.
Ans 1. TM Varghese
2. Kartick Chandra Mukherjee
3. Syed Abdul Rahim
4. Sailen Manna
Q What is the period of Chillai Kalan, harshest spell of winter in Kashmir?
1 30 days
2 20 days
3 40 days
4 50 days
Q Who is the author of ‘Early History of India‘ ?
1 RC Majumdar
2 KA Nilakanta Sastri
3 Vincent Arthur Smith
4 RG Bhandarkar
Q In ethylene (C2H4 ), hybridisation of carbon atoms is:
1 Sp
2 sp2
3 sp3d
4 sp3
Q Whom did Lord Curzon entrust as architect for Victoria Memorial Hall?
1 Robert Chisholm
2 William Emerson
3 Herbert Baker
4 Henry Irwin
Q The Chinese Buddhist pilgrim Fa Hien visited India during the reign of which of the following Gupta emperors?
1 Vishnugupta
2 Chandragupta I
3 Ghatotkacha
4 Chandragupta II
Q Tansen , the Father of Hindustani music , belongs from which of the following places of Madhya Pradesh ?
1 Balaghat
2 Sawan
3 Behat
4 Depalpur
Q Which of the following countries is NOT one of the co-hosts of the ICC 2027 ODI World Cup?
1 Zimbabwe
2 South Africa
3 Namibia
4 Kenya
| ICC 2027 ODI World Cup | Zimbabwe , South Africa and Namibia |
| ICC 2031 ODI World Cup | India and Bangladesh |
Q Which Part of the Indian Constitution deals with the State Legislature?
1. Part VI
2 Part VII
3 Part IV
4 Part V
Q In which year was the Estimates Committee constituted for the first time in India?
1 1948
2 1949
3 1947
4 1950
Q Which of the following river forms the Dhuadhar falls?
1 Tapi
2 Narmada
3 Godavari
4 Mahanadi
Q Mysuru Dasara Festival is a __-day festival celebrated in Karnataka.
1 5
2 12
3 7
4 10
Q Warli painting is a style of tribal art created by the people of the Warli Tribe of
__.
1. Bihar
2 Kerala
3 Maharashtra
4 Assam
Q During the reign of which of the following Mauryan kings, the Kalinga War was fought?
1 Bindusara
2 Ashoka
3 Chandragupta
4 Dasaratha
Q Who composed Tabaqat-i-Nasiri in the Delhi Sultanate period?
1 Ziauddin Barani
2 Minhaj-us-Siraj
3 Amir Khusrau
4 Hasan Nizami
Q What are ribosomes made up of?
1 Only RNA
2 Only proteins
3 Only DNA
4 Proteins and RNA
Q 8 minute 20 seconds is the time taken by the sunlight to reach from sun to _?
1 Jupiter
2 Earth
3 Moon
4 Saturn
Q Who among the following is the author of the novel ‘Oliver Twist’?
Ans 1. Charlotte Bronte
2. EM Forster
3. Charles Dickens
4. Thomas Hardy
Q The five colours of the rings in the symbol of the Olympic Games are red, blue, green, yellow and _.
1 orange
2 grey
3 black
4 brown
Q The Toto tribe primarily resides in which state ?
1 Odisha
2 Sikkim
3 West Bengal
4 Tamil Nadu
Q The chemical symbol of potassium is _.
1. Ca
2 P
3 Li
4 K
Q In which year did the Constituent Assembly of India adopt the National Anthem?
1. 1950
2 1947
3 1952
4 1949
The National Anthem of India [ Jana Gana Mana ] , composed originally in Bengali by Rabindranath Tagore , was adopted in its Hindi version by the Constituent Assembly on 24 January , 1950
Q From 1928 to 1956, India won _______ consecutive Olympic gold medals while winning ______ consecutive matches in the game of hockey.
Ans 1. 6; 24
2. 5; 15
3. 6; 18
4. 3; 24
Q Which of the following books was written by Banabhatta?
1. Ashtadhyayi
2 Akbarnama
3 Harshacharita
4 Malavikagnimitram
Q The smallest and longest bones in the human body are ______ and _______, respectively.
Ans 1. stapes, fibula
2. tibia, femur
3. stapes, femur
4. nails, fibula
Q Which of the following songs do the peasants of Rajasthan sing while working in fields ?
1 Pankhida
2 Pandavani
3 Chhakri
4 Barhamasa
Q Which of the following songs do the peasants of Rajasthan sing while working in fields ?
1 Pankhida
2 Pandavani
3 Chhakri
4 Barhamasa
Q The Act that is also known as ‘Morley-Minto Reforms’ is:
1 Government of India Act, 1935
2 Rowlatt Act, 1919
3 Government of India Act, 1912
4 Indian Councils Act, 1909
Q Raziyya, the first female Muslim ruler, was the daughter of which Turkish ruler of India?
Ans 1. Shams-ud-din IItutmish
2. Ghiyasuddin Balban
3. Qutbuddin Aibak
4. Muiz-ud-din Bahram
Q The Nagzira Tiger Reserve is located in __________.
Ans 1. Goa
2. Maharashtra
3. Sikkim
4. Rajastha
Q Who among the following was the first Home Minister of India?
1. Gulzarilal Nanda
2 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
3 Gobind Ballabh Pant
4 Lal Bahadur Shastri
Q Who among the following was the first Gupta ruler to assume the title of Maharajadhiraja?
1. Samudragupta
2 Chandragupta I
3 Chandragupta II
4 Ramgupta
Q Who wrote the book ‘India: An Introduction’?
Ans 1. Lal Krishna Advani
2. Khushwant Singh
3. Jairam Ramesh
4. APJ Abdul Kalam
Q Which among the following is observed as the Constitution Day of India?
Ans 1. 26 November
2. 28 November
3. 27 November
4. 29 November
Q Gorichen is the highest peak in __.
1. Arunachal Pradesh
2 Assam
3 Sikkim
4 Manipur
Q Who among the following foreign travellers was an Italian merchant who visited the Vijayanagara Kingdom?
1. Niccola de Conti
2 Fernao Nuniz
3 Duarte Barbosa
4 Marco Ricci
Q Who among the following is the author of the book ‘A Fine Balance’?
1. Shashi Tharoor
2 Rohinton Mistry
3 Jhumpa Lahiri
4 Arundhati Roy
Q In which of the following years was the Gadar Party formed in the US
1. 1915
2 1924
3 1913
4 1919
Q When was the first complete Census conducted in India?
1 1882
2 1880
3 1887
4 1881
Q In which part of Article 44 of the Constitution of India is the provision for uniform civil code for the citizens contained?
1. Part III
2 Part VI
3 Part IV
4 Part II
Q Kabini is an important tributary of the river:
Ans 1. Cauvery
2. Krishna
3. Mahi
4. Godavari
Q Queen Victoria’s Proclamation declared that thereafter India would be governed by and in the name of the British Monarch through a Secretary of State on:
1. 27 October, 1858
2 1 November, 1858
3 12 August, 1858
4 16 September, 1860
Q Who is the author of the book ‘Lessons Life Taught Me, Unknowingly’?
Ans 1. Shilpa Shetty
2. Anupam Kher
3. Twinkle Khanna
4. Javed Akhtar
Q When was the All India Tennis Association (AITA) established in India?
Ans 1. 1912
2. 1934
3. 1956
4. 1920
Q Which citizen of the Republic of India was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in the year 2014?
1 C. V. Raman
2 Kailash Satyarthi
3 Rabindranath Tagore
4 Amartya Sen
Q Arubathu Moovar festival is annually celebrated in the Indian state of __________.
Ans 1. Gujarat
2. Manipur
3. Tamil Nadu
4. Himachal Pradesh
Q Which animal belonging to Phylum Coelenterata also known as the Portuguese manof-war?
Ans 1. Adamsia
2. Ancylostoma
3. Nereis
4. Physalia
Q In which year were the fundamental duties entered in the Constitution?
Ans 1. 1960
2. 1950
3. 1986
4. 1976
Q Who wrote the book ‘Poverty and Un-British Rule in India’?
Ans 1. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
2. Rabindranath Tagore
3. Jawaharlal Nehru
4. Dadabhai Naoroji
Q In which year has the Government of India instituted Arjuna Award to recognise outstanding achievement in national sports events?
1 1961
2 1963
3 1964
4 1962
Q Chenab, the largest tributary of the Indus, is formed by which of the following two streams?
Ans 1. Mandakini and Prabha
2. The Chandra and the Bhaga
3. The Chandra and the Prabha
4. The Bhaga and the Mandakini
Q Which of the following personalities started the Young Bengal Movement in India?
Ans 1. William Butler Yeats
2. Charles W Leadbeater
3. Emily Lutyens
4. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
Q Which of the following rulers has been identified with King Milinda and mentioned in the famous Buddhist text Milinda Panha?
1. Alexander
2 Eucratides
3 Menander
4 Demetrius
Q Nishagandhi Nritya Utsav is celebrated in which state of India?
1 Tamil Nadu
2 Kerala
3 Telangana
4 Karnataka
Q 2032 Summer Olympics will be hosted by which of the following cities?
Ans 1. Los Angeles
2. Tokyo
3. Brisbane
4. Paris
Q Identify the place where first rural session of India National was held?
Ans 1. Baizapur
2. Tezpur
3. Faradpur
4. Faizpur [ 1937 ]
Q Which of the following dances traditionally starts in the evening after preliminaries that include an invocatory drumming on the Maddalam and concludes only at daybreak?
Ans 1. Kathakali
2. Odissi
3. Bharatnatyam
4. Kathak
Q Who was the Chairperson of the National Planning Committee in 1938?
Ans 1. Mahatma Gandhi
2. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
3. Jawaharlal Nehru
4. Motilal Nehru
Q The atomic number of tungsten is:
Ans 1. 74
2. 72
3. 73
4. 71
Q As per the Census data, What was the density of population in India in 2011?
1. 822 persons/sq km
2 282 persons/sq km
3 328 persons/sq km
4382 persons/sq km
Q In which year was the famous shehnai player Ustad Bismillah Khan awarded the Bharat Ratna?
Ans 1. 2001
2. 1996
3. 1998
4. 2005
Q The Victoria Memorial Hall is located in the state of_______.
Ans 1. West Bengal
2. Uttar Pradesh
3. Punjab
4. Maharashtra
Q From which of the following countries did India borrow the parliamentary system of government?
Ans 1. Britain
2. Australia
3. Canada
4. Austria
Q Which Article of the Constitution of India lays down the maximum strength of the Rajya Sabha as 250?
Ans 1. Article 64
2. Article 56
3. Article 78
4. Article 80
Q In Harappa, the granary had rows of __ brick platforms for threshing the grains.
1 diagonal
2 spherical
3 circular
4 rectangular
Q Which geostationary weather satellite launched by the European Space Agency in 1977 that provides weather imaging of Earth at both visible light and infrared wavelengths?
1 Himawari
2 Meteosat
3 QuikSCAT
4 Landsat
Q Which of the following Articles of the Indian Constitution mentions that for every state there shall be a Legislature?
Ans 1. Article 90
2. Article 123
3. Article 56
4. Article 168
Q Whom among the following cricketers has co-written the book named ‘281 and beyond’?
1 Rahul Dravid
2 Ajay Jadeja
3 VVS Laxman
4 Suresh Raina
Q 73rd Amendment Act 1992 makes provisions for a 3-tier system of Panchayati Raj for all the states having population of above:
1 15 lakh
2 20 lakh
3 10 lakh
4 5 lakh
Q Identify the Sultan of Delhi who brought Bengal under the control of Delhi Sultanate and appointed his son Bughra Khan as the Governor of Bengal?
Ans 1. Balban
2. Alauddin Khalji
3. Muhammad Tughluq
4. Bahlul Lodi
Q Which of the following forts was built by Raja Rai Singh in 1588?
1 Amer Fort
2 Sonar Kila
3 Junagarh Fort
4 Kumbhal Garh
Q Who among the following is the author of the book ‘The Peacock Garden’?
1 Sudha Murty
2 Anita Desai
3 Indu Sundaresan
4 Arundhati Roy
Q The Battle of Khanwa was fought between the forces of the Babur and the Rajput forces led by:
1 Ibrahim Lodi
2 Rana Sanga
3 Medini Rai
4 Mahmud Lodi
Q Which of the following states is the least populated according to census 2011?
1 Manipur
2 Arunachal Pradesh
3 Kerala
4 Andhra Pradesh
Q Which feature of the Kuchipudi dance involves the feet of the dancer on the edges of a brass plate?
1. Tarangam
2 Jala Chitra Nitrayam
3 Manduk Shabdam
4 Tandava
Q Sonalika and Kalyan Sona , introduced in 1963 , are High Yielding Variety [ HYV ] seed of which crop ?
1 Wheat
2 Rice
3 Maize
4 Sugarcane
Q In _____ folk music , tales from Mahabharata are sung as a ballad.
1 Pandavani
2 Maand
3 Pankhida
4 Sohar
Q Jagoi is a major style of which of the following forms of Indian classical dance?
Ans 1. Sattriya
2. Kathak
3. Manipuri
4. Odissi
Q ‘Lotia‘ is sung in the ____ month during the festival-‘Lotia’
Ans 1 Chaitra
2 Poush
3 Maagh
4 Falgun / Phalguna
Q Which of the following peaks is known as ‘Temple of God’ in Uttarakhand ?
1 Hardeol
2 Deomali
4 Kalsubai
4 Reo Purgyil
Q Who started the process of decentralization of finance ?
1 Lord Mayo
2 Lord Lytton
3 Lord Rippon
4 Lord Canning
Q Which type of farming in India is practised on small patches of land with the help of primitive tools like hoe, dao and digging sticks, and family/community labour?
1 Primitive Subsistence Farming
2 Plantation farming
3 Rudimentary sedentary farming
4 Intensive Subsistence Farming
Q In respect of Arunachal Pradesh, the Governor has special responsibility under __ of the Constitution of India with respect to law and order and in discharge of his functions in relation thereto.
1 Article 359 A
2 Article 380 A
3 Article 371 H
4 Article 361 H
Q Which part of the Indian Constitution was borrowed from Germany?
1 Concept of Procedure Established by law
2 Concept of Concurrent List
3 Amendment of the constitution
4 Fundamental Rights can be suspended during Emergency