Q Ponmudi hill station is in ____
1 Kerala
2 Tamil Nadu
3 Ladakh
4 Sikkim
Q Who discovered Urea ?
1 Friedrich Wohler
2 Daniel Rutherford
3 William Herschel
4 Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Q Pandavani is a folk singing style popular in the state of :
1 Bihar
2 Chhattisgarh
3 Jharkhand
4 Uttar Pradesh
Q In RNA of humans , adenine pairs with__________.
1 uracil
2 guanine
3 thymine
4 cytosine
Q What is the name of the large-plucked string instrument used in Carnatic classical music and made from the Jackwood Tree?
1 Ghatam
2 Saraswati Veena
3 Violin
4 Banjo
Q Who among the following is NOT considered as the trinity of Carnatic music?
1 Muthuswami Dikshitar
2 Tyagaraja
3 Shyama Shastri
4 Charumathi Ramachandran
| Trinity of Carnatic Music | Tyagraja | Syama Sastri | Muttusvami Dikshitar |
Q Of which region of India ‘Dosmochey’ is a major festival ?
1 Sikkim
2 Ladakh
3 Arunachal Pradesh
4 Kohima
Q Who among the Mughal emperors built Buland Darwaza or the loft gateway at
Fatehpur Sikri?
1 Akbar
2 Aurangzeb
3 Jahangir
4 Humayun
Q ‘Straight from the Heart: An Autobiography’ is the autobiography of which of the following Indian cricketers?
1. Kapil Dev
2 Sourav Ganguly
3 Yuvraj Singh
4 Sachin Tendulkar
Q Which of the following is the longest beach in the world?
1. Playa Novillero Beach, Mexico
2. Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
3. Praia do Cassino Beach, Brazil
4. Padre Island, Texas
Q Dr BC Roy Trophy is associated with :
1 Hockey
2 Football
3 Badminton
4 Cricket
Q Who is considered as the ‘linchpin of the Government’?
Ans 1. Vice-President
2. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
3. Prime Minister
4. President
Q The Arya Samaj was founded by Swami Dayanand Saraswati in:
Ans 1. 1875
2. 1880
3. 1888
4. 1867
Q Who presented the ‘The Black Budget of India’ ?
1 Vashwantrao Chavan
2 Nirmala Sitharaman
3 RK Shanmukham Chetty
4 Morarji Desai
Q Which of the following is the autobiography of the international athlete Maria Sharapova?
1. But Seriously
2. Unbreakable
3. Open
4. Unstoppable: My Life So Far
Q Where is Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research [ IGIDR ] situated ?
1 Ranchi
2 Mumbai
3 Chennai
4 Bengaluru
Q Which of the given layer of the atmsophere has the lowest density ?
1 Ionosphere
2 Exosphere
3 Mesosphere
4 Stratosphere
Q Raas Leela was first introduced as a dance form in 1779 by _________, , an 18th century Meitei emperor.
1 Ningthou Ching-Thang Khomba
2 Guru Bipin Singh
3 Shankardev
4 Siddendra Yogi
Q __ is a mask dance popular in South Malabar
1 Kummattikali
2 Nati
3 Natpuja
4 Loor
Q Alarmel Velli is recognised as a classical dancer of __ dance form.
1 Bharatanatyam
2 Kathak
3 Sattriya
4 Manipuri
Q Who among the following Sultans of the Delhi sultanate started the practice of Sijda and Paibos?
1 Ghiyas ud din Balban
2 Illtutmish
3 Qutbuddin Aibak
4 Aram Shah
Q Which Part of the Constitution deals with Fundamental Rights?
1 Part III
2 Part II
3 Part IV-A
4 Part XX
Q Which of the following describes ‘gopurams’?
1 Stupa Gateways
2 Tomb Gateways
3 Temple Gateways
4 Church Gateways
Q Who among the following leaders of British India became the first female Indian President of the Indian National Congress in 1925?
1 Sarojini Naidu
2 Annie Besant
3 Aarti Saha
4 Aruna Asaf Ali
Q Narendra Nath Datta, the prime follower of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa is also known
as:
1 Swami Vivekananda
2 Munshi Premchand
3 Rabindranath Tagore
4 Bankim Chandra Chhatterjee
Q In which Indian state is Jaitak Fort located?
1 Himachal Pradesh
2 Goa
3 Maharashtra
4 Karnataka
Q ‘At the close of play’ is an autobiography of which sportsperson?
1 Ricky Ponting
2 Shane Warne
3 Adam Gilchrist
4 Mathew Hayden
Q Who said ”Separate electorate will be suicidal to the minorities and will do them tremendous harm” ?
1 Govind Ballabh Pant
2 RV Dhulekar
3 B Pocker Bahadur
4 Sardar Vallabhbahi Patel
Q Who among the following is revered as the Father of Ecology in India?
1 Meghnad Saha
2 Ramdeo Misra
3 Har Gobind Khorana
4 Subrahmanyan Chandrashekhar
Q Who among the following Indian music directors introduced Western tunes in the Hindi film industry, who was popularly known as ‘Pancham Da’?
1 Rahul Dev Burman
2 AR Rahman
3 Gulzar
4 Omkar Prasad Nayyar
Q Who took the name of Pandit Harishankar Brahmachari and lived in a hut on the bank of Satar river?
1 Chandra Shekhar Azad
2 Bhagat Singh
3 Subhas Chandra Bose
4 Surya Sen
Q Which is largest continental shelf in the world?
1 The Siberian shelf
2 The shelf in the Pacific Ocean
3 The Indian Ocean shelf
4 The shelf of India
Q Kuchipudi is one of the major dance forms of India that originated in the state of _.
1 Kerala
2 Assam
3 Andhra Pradesh
4 Tamil Nadu
Q Who is known as ‘father of Civil Services in India’ ?
1 Charles Cornwallis
2 Lord Rippon
3 Lord Lytton
4 Lord Canning
Q ‘Hauz-i-Shamsi’ was built by which ruler ?
1 Iltutmish
2 Qutb-din-Aibak
3 Razia Sultan
4 Balban
Q Who drafted the resolution on Fundamental Rights for the Karachi Session of Congress in 1931 ?
1 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
2 Mahatma Gandhi
3 Rajendra Prasad
4 BR Ambedkar
Q When was the battle of Khatoli fought ?
1 1517
2 1527
3 1528
4 1540
Q Hojagiri is a tribal dance form of the Reang community associated with which of the following state / union territories ?
1 Tripura
2 Manipur
3 Meghalaya
4 Mizoram
Q Thomas Edison was __ inventor who received the historic patent for the light
bulb.
1 a British
2 a German
3 a Dutch
4 an American
Q Blood has a fluid matrix called __ , in which RBCs , WBCs and platelets are suspended.
1 Saliva
2 Lymph
3 Pasma
4 Cerebrospinal fluid
Q What percent of the population resides in rural areas, according to the Census of India 2011?
1 68.8 %
2 31.2 %
3 17.64 %
4 82.64 %
Q Which Part of the Indian Constitution deals with ‘Amendment of the Constitution’?
Ans 1. Part VII
2. Part IX
3. Part XX
4. Part V
Q Which among the following festivals does NOT belong to Meghalaya ?
1 Behdienkhlam
2 Aoling
3 Wangala
4 Nongkrem
Q Where is the Brihadeshwar temple situated ?
1 Thanjavur
2 Konark
3 Madurai
4 Mahabalipuram
Q Who started the newspaper ‘Sambad Kaumudi’ in 1921 ?
1 Bal Gangadhar Tilak
2 Raja Ram Mohan Roy
3 Mahatma Gandhi
4 Motilal Nehru
Q The Tansen festival is held in memory of the great musician in his native place of which city ?
1 Gwalior
2 Bhopal
3 Indore
4 Ranchi
Q Which state is associated with Sattriya dance ?
1 Assam
2 Andhra Pradesh
3 Kerala
4 Manipur
Q The Dogri language is spoken in which state / ut ?
1 Jammu and Kashmir
2 Assam
3 Kerala
4 Karnataka
Q Where is the Nobel Peace Prize awarded ?
1 Oslo
2 Tokyo
3 Stockholm
3 Newyork
Q Do aspa and sih aspa was introduced in the reign of :
1 Jahangir
2 Babur
3 Akbar
4 Humayun
Q Mughal Emperor Akbar abolished the pilgrimage tax in :
1 1563
2 1573
3 1576
4 1583
Q Myntdu river flows in which state of India ?
1 Meghalaya
2 Goa
3 Maharashtra
4 Karnataka
Q Golconda Fort was built by which dynasty in the 13th century ?
1 Kakatiya
2 Chola
3 Chalukya
4 Periyar
Q On 13th December , 1946 ____moved the Objective Resolution in the Constituent Assembly of India
1 Sucheta Kripalani
2 Sarojini Naidu
3 Dr Rajendra Prasad
4 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Q Indian National Association was founded by Surendranath Banerjee and Anandamohan Bose in :
1 1876
2 1905
3 1873
4 1875
Q Phawngpui is the highest mountain peak of :
1 Mizoram
2 Manipur
3 Meghalaya
4 Himachal Pradesh
Q In which of the following Performing Arts, Mizhavu is the major musical instrument ?
1 Koodiyattam
2 Odissi
3 Sattariya
4 Kuchipudi
Q Dhimsa dance performed by porja caste women in :
1 Andhra Pradesh
2 Himachal Pradesh
3 Assam
4 Rajasthan
Q The ‘Bharthari’ folk song is mainly sung in which region of Madhya Pradesh ?
1 Malwa
2 Lotia
3 Mando
4 Baul
Q Which element is a greenish yellow gas with a characteristics smell at room temperature ?
1 Iodine
2 Chlorine
3 Carbon monoxide
4 Hydrogen sulphide
Q Who was the author of a part of ‘Kavirajamarga’, the earliest known Kannada poem?
1 Amoghavarsha I
2 Sandhyakar Nandi
3 Kaliadasa
4 Ashvaghosha
Q Onam is celebrated in which Malayalam months ?
1 Chingam
2 Kanni
3 Thulam
4 Vrischikam
Q Palghat Mani Iyer is famous for playing which instrument ?
1 Mridangam
2 Tabla
3 Ghatam
4 Sitar
Q The name of Norway’s Parliament is
1 Storting
2 Folketing
3 Sejm
4 Riksgad
| Countries and their Parliament | Afghanistan [ Shora ] , Bangladesh [ Jatia ] , Bhutan [ Tsogdu ] , India [ Sansad ] , Croatia [ Sabor ] , Israel [ The Knesset ] , Mongolia [ Great People’s Khural ] , Denmark [ Folketing ] , Sweden [ Riksdag ] , Japan [ Diet ] , Iceland [ Althing ] , Poland [ Sejm ] , Myanmar [ Pyithu Hluttaw ], Russia [ Duma ] , Germany [ Bundestag ] |
Q Who was the Founder of Aravidu dynasty ?
1 Tirumala
2 Sadasiva Raya
3 Rama Raya
4 Bukka
Q ‘Tabal Chongli’ is a form of folk dance associated with ?
1 Assam
2 Jammu and Kashmri
3 West Bengal
4 Haryana
Q ___ dance is performed only by the unmarried girls of the Malwa community .
1 Saila
2 Phulpati
3 Laho
4 Nati
Q Yampuri -The Traditional Rod Puppetry of which state of India ?
1 Bihar
2 Andhra Pradesh
3 Rajasthan
4 Tamil Nadu
Q The headquarters of Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research is located at ?
1 Dhanbad
2 Cuttack
3 Shimla
4 Karnal
Q Which state has the largest share (according to length) of National Highways in India?
1 Maharashtra
2 Uttar Pradesh
3 Tamil Nadu
4 Karnataka
Q Which of the following statements is TRUE about the number of ‘million plus cities’ in India during 2001 to 2011?
1 Increased from 35 to 53
2 Increased from 45 to 53
3 Decreased from 53 to 43
4 Decreased from 53 to 35
Q Vide 61st amendment of Constitution of India, which of the following amendments was made?
1 Attempt was made to reduce the powers of supreme Court and High Courts
2 The voting age was reduced from 21 to 18
3 Fundamental duty was added
4 Right to property was removed from the list of fundamental rights
Q Who is known as ‘Father of Yellow Revolution in India’ ?
1 Sam Pitroda
2 Vishal Tiwari
3 Hiralal Chaudhari
4 Durgesh Patel
| Father of Blue Revolution in India | Hiralal Chaudhari and Arun Krishnan |
| Father of Pink Revolution in India | Durgesh Patel |
| Father of Silver Revolution in India | Indira Gandhi |
| Fathe of Yellow Revolution in India | Sam Pitroda |
| Father of Red Revolution in India | Vishal Tewari |
| Father of Golden Revolution in India | Nirpakh Tutaj |
| Father of White Revolution in India | Verghese Kurien |
| Father of Green Revolution in India | MS Swaminathan |