Q Shri Jagannathji Mela is held at _.
1 Cuttack
2 Sambalpur
3 Jaipur
4 Alwar
Q Where is the oldest centre of lace work located in Gujarat?
1 Ahmedabad
2 Rajkot
3 Jamnagar
4 Kutch
Q Who among the following founded the Hyderabad city?
1 Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah
2 Jamsheed Quli Qutb Shah
3 Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah
4 Subhan Quli Qutb Shah
Q What is the total length of Golden Quadrilateral, built by the National Highways
Authority of India(NHAI)?
1 4658 km
2 5790 km
3 5978 km
4 5846 km
Q Which of the following mountain peaks is located in the Karakoram Range?
1 Trishul
2 Nanda Devi
3 K2
4 Kamet
Q Which biosphere of Southern Andhra Pradesh is home to many endemic species
including the famous Red Sanders and Slender Loris?
1 Cold Desert
2 Seshachalam
3 Pachmarhi
4 Agasthyamalai
Q The highest railway station in India [ Ghum ] is located in the state of ____
1 Sikkim
2 Nagaland
3 West Bengal
4 Himachal Pradesh
Q Who was the first Chief Justice of the High Court ?
1 Sir Elijah Impey
2 Barnes Peacock
3 Sir Maurice Linford
4 HJ Kania
Q The tribal dance Daang is associated with which Indian state?
1 Gujarat
2 Odisha
3 Madhya Pradesh
4 Karnataka
Q ‘Matters of Discretion’ is an autobiography by which former prime minister of India?
1. Chandra Shekhar
2. Inder Kumar Gujral
3. HD Deve Gowda
4. PV Narasimha Rao
Q The Majuli festival of North-East India is celebrated on the banks of which river?
1 Dhansiri
2 Kolong
3 Barak
4 Luit
Q The Self-Respect movement was led by whom among the following social reformers?
Ans 1. Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
2. EV Ramaswamy Naicker
3. Narayana Guru
4. Vinoba Bhave
Q Who among the following was the President of the Lucknow session of the Indian
National Congress in 1916?
1 Amrit Ranchoddas Seth
2 Bishan Narayan Dhar
3 Ambika Charan Majumdar
4 Jawaharlal Nehru
Q Which cycle consists of sedimentary and gaseous cycles?
1 Biogeo cycle
2 Biogeochemical cycle
3 Biogeogaseous cycle
4 Biochemical cycle
Q In which city of Gujarat will you find the Uparkot Buddhist Caves?
1 Bhavnagar
2 Vadodara
3 Junagadh
4 Anand
Q The institute established by Kaka Hathrasi in 1932 is:
1 Music Art Centre
2 Swar Sangam Kendra
3 Sangeet Karyalaya
4 Music Art Kendra
Q What is the period of Chillai Kalan, harshest spell of winter in Kashmir?
1 50 days
2 30 days
3 40 days
4 60 days
Q Kaikottikali dance is performed to celebrate which festival?
1 Baisakhi
2 Durga Puja
3 Makar Sankranti
4 Onam
Q Which of the following neighbours of India changed its capital in 2005?
1 Afghanistan
2 Bhutan
3 China
4 Myanmar
Q Dussehra is celebrated in __ month of the Hindu calendar.
1 Chaitra
2 Ashvina
3 Kartika
4 Asada
Q The decadal growth rate from 2001-2011 was recorded as _ according to the 2011
census.
1 17.64%
2 17.54%
3 15.64%
4 21.54%
Q The Rongker festival is celebrated by the Karbi tribe of ________.
Ans 1. Rajasthan
2. Assam
3. Himachal Pradesh
4. Ladakh
Q Who won the first Kalidas Samman in the field of classical dance?
1 Ram Kumar
2 KG Subramanyam
3 Rukmini Devi Arundale
4 Narayan Shridhar Bendre
Q Who among the following presided over the first meeting of the Indian constituent
assembly?
1 Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
2 Sachchidananda Sinha
3 Jawahar Lal Nehru
4 Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Q The rhythmic rise and fall of ocean water twice in a day is called __.
1 Tsunami
2 Ocean currents
3 Waves
4 Tides
Q Kathasaritsagara, a literary work, was originally composed in which of the following
languages?
1 Tamil
2 Prakrit
3 Sanskrit
4 Pali
Q The ‘Pietra Dura’ technique was majorly adopted by which of the following ruling
dynasties in India?
1 Tughlaq
2 Suri
3 Lodi
4 Mughal
Q Camellia sinensis is a plant that produces __.
1 tea
2 coffee
3 jute
4 sugarcane
Q The festival of Holi is celebrated in the Hindu month of _________.
Ans 1. Magha
2. Phalguna
3. Sravana
4. Ashadha
Q Which of the following is the Ladakhi dance that got its place in the Guinness Book of
World Records?
1 Kathok Chenmo
2 Shon dance
3 Shondol dance
4 Spao dance
Q The Nubra and Hunza rivers are tributaries of which river?
1 Damodar
2 Yamuna
3 Indus
4 Chambal
Q The Mouling National Park is located in ______.
Ans 1. Arunachal Pradesh
2. Goa
3. Karnataka
4. Tamil Nadu
Q According to the 2011 Census , the total percentage of Muslims in India is :
1 14.2 %
2 16.6 % %
3 12.4 %
4 10.2 %
Q The first budget of independent India was presented in ______.
Ans 1. 1955
2. 1952
3. 1947
4. 1950
Q The Sultan who was also known as ‘Lakh Baksh’ is:
1 Muhammad bin Tughlaq
2 Iltutmish
3 Qutbuddin Aibak
4 Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
Q ICAR–Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research is located in:
1 Ambala
2 Karnal
3 Rohtak
4 Kurukshetra
Q Each kho-kho team consists of 12 players, but during a contest, only ______ players from each team take the field.
Ans 1. 7
2. 9
3. 11
4. 8
Q The first session of the Indian National Congress was held at ______ in 1885.
Ans 1. Calcutta (Now Kolkata)
2. Bombay (Now Mumbai)
3. Madras (Now Chennai)
4. Allahabad (Now Prayagraj)
Q In which of the following Olympics did Abhinav Bindra win a gold medal for India?
Ans 1. Beijing 2008
2. London 2012
3. Athens 2004
4. Sydney 2000
Q With which of the following states is the tribal festival named ‘Madai’ traditionally associated?
Ans 1. Tripura
2. Chhattisgarh
3. Tamil Nadu
4. Himachal Pradesh
Q In which year was the first-ever Asian Games organised in New Delhi?
Ans 1. 1947
2. 1954
3. 1949
4. 1951
Q Ustad Asad Ali Khan was one of the masters of the _.
1 mridangam
2 rudra veena
3 sarangi
4 tanpura
Q Which of the following is a dance form of Meghalaya ?
1 Laho
2 Cheraw
3 Dalkhai
4 Rangma
Q Who among the following has written the book ‘The Other Side of Silence’?
1 Khuswant Singh
2 Amitav Ghosh
3 Amrita Pritam
4 Urvashi Butalia
Q Who among the following was the pioneer of widow remarriages in Maharashtra and also started a girls’ school in Poona along with his wife?
1 BR Ambedkar
2 Jyotirao Govindrao Phule
3 Gopal Hari Deshmukh Lokahitawadi
4 Mahatma Gandhi
Q Rani ki Vav, built in the 11th century CE is a stepwell located in the Indian state of
_.
1 Madhya Pradesh
2 Rajasthan
3 Gujarat
4 Uttar Pradesh
Q Loans upto what amount can be issued under the MUDRA Shishu Loan?
Ans 1. RS.50000
2. RS.60000
3. RS.30000
4. RS.10000
Q Which Committee suggested for the inclusion of Fundamental Duties?
1 Kothari Committee
2 Swaran Singh Committee
3 Sarkaria Committee
4 Balwant Rai Mehta Committee
Q Pattachitra style painting is one of the oldest and most popular art forms of _____
1 Odisha
2 Maharashtra
3 Rajasthan
4 Bihar
Q The Ramakrishna Mission set up in __.
1 1897
2 1907
3 1877
4 1887
Q The foul smell from a body specially during a sultry summer is due to the action of __ on sweat.
1 melanin
2 moisture
3 bacteria
4 virus
Q Who among the following presidents of India gave assent to the 100th Amendment of the Constitution of India?
1 Pranab Mukherjee
2 Ram Nath Kovind
3 APJ Abdul Kalam
4 Pratibha Devisingh Patil
Q Approximately how much percentage (nearest to integer) of total water on the surface of earth is accounted for by the oceans?
1 96
2 97
3 94
4 92
About 71 % of the Earth’s surface is water-covered , and the oceans hold about 96.5 % of all Earth’s water
Q In which year did one-third of the members of the Rajya Sabha retire for the first time?
1 1954
2 1958
3 1960
4 1956
Q In which of the following cities is the ‘Saptak Music Festival’ to celebrate Indian classical music usually held in the first week of January every year?
1 Chennai
2 New Delhi
3 Ahmedabad
4 Kolkata
Q On 14 September 1949, the Constituent Assembly accepted Hindi, written in the Devnagari Script, as the Official Language of the Union of India based on which formula?
1 Mitter-Khaitan formula
2 Ayyar-Ambedker formula
3 Munshi-Iyenger formula
4 Munshi-Saadulla formula
Q Chitra Visweswaran is a famous dancer of which of the following dance genres ?
1 Kuchipudi
2 Kathakali
3 Bharatnatyam
4 Sattriya
Q ‘Chapchar Kut’ is a festival from the state of _. It is celebrated during March
after the completion of the most arduous task of Jhum operation i.e., jungle clearing (clearing of the remnants of burning).
1 Mizoram
2 Nagaland
3 Jharkhand
4 Chhattisgarh
Q Which of the following states has the highest number of Assembly Constituencies?
1 Uttar Pradesh
2 Tamil Nadu
3 Gujarat
4 Maharashtra
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