Q Gangubai Hangal belonged to the __
1 Agra gharana
2 Kirana gharana
3 Banaras gharana
4 Gwalior gharana
Q Which sea route is the busiest in the world ?
1 The South Pacific sea route
2 The North Pacific sea route
3 The North Atlantic sea route
4 The Cape of Good Hope sea route
Q Who was the Defence Minister of India during Sino-Indian war of 1962 ?
1 V.K. Krishna Menon
2 George Fernandes
3 Y.B Chavan
4 Jagjivan Ram
Q Kagyed dance, a customary dance festival which is celebrated annually in Sikkim falls in which month?
Ans 1. May
2. October
3. December
4. August
Q Who among the following was the leader of ‘Paika Rebellion’ of 1817?
1 Baba Ram Singh
2 Veer Surendra Sai
3 Tirath Singh
4 Bakshi Jagabandhu Bidyadhara
Q Which of the following Acts introduced ‘provincial autonomy’ by discontinuing the application of dyarchy?
1 Charter Act of 1813
2 Government of India Act, 1919
3 Government of India Act, 1935
4 India Council Act, 1909
Q Which of the following articles of the Indian Constitution deals with the parliament and its proceedings ?
1 Article 36 to 51
2 Article 12 to 35
3 Article 79 t0 122
4 Article 51A
Q Which Committee identified the existence of legal provisions for implementation of some of the Fundamental Duties?
Ans 1. Justice Mulla Committee
2. Justice Verma Committee
3. Justice Sapre Committee
4. Justice VR Krishna Iyer Committee
Q The name of the strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska, is the:
Ans 1. Davis Strait
2. Bering Strait
3. Messina Strait
4. Florida Strait
Q The largest city in which country is NOT its capital but a port with an Arabic name that means ‘abode of peace‘?
1 Somalia
2 Oman
3 Tanzania
4 Brunei
| Largest city [ Tanzania ] | Dar es Salaam [ Abode of Peace ] |
| Capital | Dodomo |
Q Who founded India’s three stage Nuclear Power Programme ?
1 K Kasturirangan
2 Dr Homi Bhabha
3 Vikram Sarabai
4 Raja Ramanna
Q Which of the following Hindu festivals is celebrated in the Kartika month of the Hindu calendar?
1. Holi
2 Diwali
3 Raksha Bandhan
4 Makara Sankranti
Q Navegaon National Park is located in which state ?
1 Maharashtra
2 Tamil Nadu
3 Kerala
4 Andhra Pradesh
Q Who was the first Indian to win the ‘Booker Prize’ ?
1 Arundhati Roy
2 Kiran Desai
3 Aravind Adiga
4 Shashi Tharoor
Q Who was the founder of the Vakataka Dynasty in ancient India?
1 Sarvasena
2 Vindhyasakti
3 Rudrasena I
4 Pravarasena I
Q The traditional rod puppet form of West Bengal is known as ____
1 Yampuri
2 Putul Nautch
3 Pavakoothu
4 Gombeyatta
Q Where are the Headquarters of the Central Institute for Cotton Research located ?
1 Pune
2 Nagpur
3 Karnal
4 Cuttack
Q Which is the smallest flower in the world ?
1 Wolffia
2 Titan Arum
3 Cacti
4 Rafflesia
Q Which of is the regional music of Goa?
1 Sohar
2 Pandavani
3 Mando
4 Lotia
Q ‘Koman’ and ‘Kuruwa’ are the names of _ in India.
1 artificial lakes
2 tribes of Himalaya
3 slash and burn agriculture
4 peaks of Western Ghats
Q सल्तनत काल का पहला सुल्तान कौन था जिसने संस्कृत से फारसी में हिंदू ग्रंथों के अनुवाद की व्यवस्था की?
1 अलाउद्दीन खिलजी
2 फिरोज शाह तुगलक
3 मुहम्मद बिन तुगलक
4 सिकंदर खां लोदी
Q Which one of the following dance form is performed by Kuruba men in Karnataka ?
1 Fugdi
2 Kunbi
3 Dollu Kunitha
4 Dhalo
Q In which of the following sessions did the Indian National Congress decide to boycott the Simon Commission?
1 Poona session
2 Madras session
3 Bombay session
4 Allahabad session
Q The commonly used Vitamin B Complex is constituted of how many vitamins?
1 8
2 12
3 10
4 6
| Vitamin B Complex | B1 [ thiamine ] , B2 [ riboflavin ] , B3 [ niacin ] , B5 [ pantothenic acid ] , B6 [ pyridoxine ] , B7 [ Biotin ] , B9 [ folic acid ] , B12 [ cobalamin ] |
Q Minjar Mela is a popular fair of which of the following states?
1 Jammu & Kashmir
2 Himachal Pradesh
3 Punjab
4 Uttarakhand
Q The popular Indian spice, Asafoetida is obtained from roots of which plant?
1 Bacopa
2 Acacia
3 Ferula
4 Gratiola
Q ‘Vande Mataram’ was sung for the first time in the Calcutta session of the Congress under whose chairmanship?
1 Rahmatullah M. Sayani
2 Surendranath Banerjee
3 Maulana Azad
4 Dadabhai Naoroji
Q How many demands did Mahatma Gandhi make in his letter to Lord Irwin some of which were agreed to and came to be known as Gandhi-Irwin Pact ?
1 10
2 11
3 12
4 13
Q Which of the following is the State animal of Uttarakhand ?
1 Ox
2 Alphine Musk Deer
3 Hoolock Gibbon
4 Blackbuck
Q Which article of the Indian constitution contains the details about the election of President?
1 Article 54
2 Article 64
3 Article 44
4 Article 34
Q Kuttanad, the lowest point in India is located at how may meters below the sea level?
1 3.2 meters
2 4.2 meters
3 1.2 meters
4 2.2 meters
Q Who was the first chairman of the Press Council of India ?
1 Ranjana Prakash Desai
2 Justice J.R. Mudholkar
3 Justice N Rajagopala Ayyangar
4 Justice A N Grover
Q The Pratiharas who first had their capital at Bhinmal gained prominence during the rule of:
1 Kanishka
2 Nagabhatta I
3 Devpala
4 Nagarjuna
Q How many output ports are there in peripheral I/O ?
1 24
2 264
3 256
4 512
Q Who discovered the nucleus for the first time in cell ?
1 Robert Brown
2 Leeuwenhoek
3 Schwann
4 Huffmaster
Q In which state is the Ananthagiri Hills located?
1 Telangana
2 Andhra Pradesh
3 Kerala
4 Karnataka
Q Coal India Limited [ CIL ] , a Maharatna company under the Ministry of Coal has its headquarters in which of the following palaces ?
1 Kolkata
2 Mumbai
3 Chennai
4 New Delhi
Q Where does the oldest oil field of India located?
1 Gujarat
2 Assam
3 Arunachal Pradesh
4 Tamil Nadu
Q Silver Fiber Revolution is associated to:
1 Leather
2 Jute
3 Cotton
4 Oil seeds
Q When is National Panchayati Raj Day observed in India ?
1 10th April
2 24th April
3 10th May
4 24th May
Q For what ‘karewas’ the lacustrine deposit in Kashmir is known?
1 Saffron Cultivation
2 Shifting Cultivation
3 Terrace farming
4 Apple Orchards
Q Dree, an agricultural festival of Arunachal Pradesh, is celebrated in the month of ________.
Ans 1. June
2. July
3. August
4. May
Q Which of the following metal was used in India for the first time?
1 Aluminium
2 Copper
3 Silver
4 Iron
Q Which of the following novels is NOT written by Amish Tripathi?
1 The Secret of the Nagas
2 Sita-Warrior of Mithila
3 The Immortals of Meluha
4 The Rise of Sivagamine
| Amish Tripathi books | The Immortals of Meluha | The Secret of Nagas | The Oath of the Vayuputras | Sita – Warrior of Mithila | The Legend of Suheldev | Raavan – Enemy of Aryavarta |
Q Galvanisation is a method of protecting steel and iron from rusting by coating them with a thin layer of __.
1 zinc
2 tin
3 copper
4 aluminium
Q Who is the first Indian to receive Golden Globe Award [ 2009 ] ?
1 AR Rahman
2 Zakir Hussain
3 Anu Malik
4 Shiv Kumar Verma
Q Who was the first woman judge of Delhi High Court ?
1 Sujata Manohar
2 Ruma Pal
3 Leila Seth
4 Anna Chandi
Q Mayurjharna Elephant Reserve is located in which state of India?
1 West Bengal
2 Odisha
3 Jharkhand
4 Kerala
Q Which Article deals with the ‘Power of Parliament to amend the Constitution and procedure therefor’?
Ans 1. Article 352
2. Article 249
3. Article 368
4. Article 356
Q At the age of__________, Mahavira left home and went to live in a forest in search of enlightenment.
1 thirty-two
2 thirty
3 twenty-eight
4 twenty-nine
Q Which of the following book is written by Shashi Tharoor?
1 Mythologies
2 Bookless in Bagdad
3 Two Lives
4 Silent Spring
Q Wangala festival is celebrated by which of the following tribes?
Ans 1. Bhil tribe
2. Garo tribe
3. Tharu tribe
4. Bhutia tribe
Q Dr BR Ambedkar was awarded Bharat Ratna in which year ?
1 1954
2 1990
3 1981
4 1987
Q In which of the following states is Pachpadra lake located?
1 Tamil Nadu
2 Rajasthan
3 Madhya Pradesh
4 Odisha
Q To which ancient subject of India is the famous book ”Lilavati” refer to ?
1 Mathematics
2 Philosophy
3 Treatment
4 Chemistry
Q Who developed the Integrated Circuit Chip ?
1 Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce
2 Charles Babbage
3 John Mauchly
4 Blaise Pascal
Q In which state of India is the Chandra Prabha Wildlife Sanctuary located ?
1 Bihar
2 Gujarat
3 Uttar Pradesh
4 Chhattisgarh
Q The distance between each degree of latitude is about ______
1 69 miles [ 111 km ]
2 79 miles
3 89 miles
4 59 miles
Q The process of amendment has been mentioned in which part of the Indian Constitution ?
1 Part XX
2 Part XV
3 Part XIII
4 Part IVA
Q Mariana Trench , the deepest part of the world’s ocean is located in which ocean ?
1 Pacific Ocean
2 Artic Ocean
3 Altantic Ocean
4 Indian Ocean
Q Which social reformer among the following wrote the famous book ‘Satyarth
Prakash’?
1 Swami Vivekananda
2 Dayanand Saraswati
3 Swami Shraddhanand
4 Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Q In India, Teachers’ Day is celebrated annually on September 5 to mark the birthday of :
1 APJ Abdul Kalam
2 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
3 Savitribai Phule
4 Madan Mohan Malviya
Q According to Census 2011, which district displays the highest population?
1 Kollam
2 Thane
3 Pune
4 Ajmer
Q Which was India’s first 3D film ?
1 Raja Harishchandra
2 Alam Ara
3 Kisan Kanya
4 My Dear Kuttichathan
| First full-length feature film in India | Raja Harishchandra |
| First talkie movie made in India | Alam Ara |
| First color movie made in India | Kisan Kanya |
| First Indian film to be filmed in 3D | My Dear Kuttichathan [ Chhota Chetan ] |