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1) The headquarters of European Union (EU) located at?
A) Geneva
B) Paris
C) Montreal
D) Brussels ✔
2) Which conquerer was born in Macedonia (Europe), died in Babylon (Asia) and buried in Alexandria (Africa)?
A) Napolean
B) Alexander the Great ✔
C) Changez Khan
D) Nadir Shah
3) To produce artificial rains, which chemical is used for Cloud Seeding ?
A) Copper Sulphate
B) Ammonium Nitrate
C) Silver Iodide ✔
D) Sodium Nitrate
4) In humans, how many chromosomes does a cell have?
A) 46 (23 pairs) ✔
B) 44 (22 pairs)
C) 42 (21 pairs)
D) 48 (24 pairs)
5) Who was popularly known as the 'Iron Man of India'?
A) Vallabhbhai Patel ✔
B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
C) Chandrashekhar Azad
D) Subhas Chandra Bose
6) During the reign of which ancient Indian ruler, did Chinese traveller Fa-Hien visit India?
A) Chandragupta Vikramaditya ✔
B) Chandragupta Maurya
C) Ashoka
D) Harshavardhana
7) By what name is spiritual guru Narendra Nath Datta, founder of Belur Math near Kolkata, better known ?
A) Swami Vivekanand ✔
B) Ram Krishna Pramhansa
C) Swami Prabhupad
D) Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Your Answer : B Correct Answer: A
8) 'Uhuru Peak' at Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest point of which continent ?
A) Antarctica
B) Africa ✔
C) America
D) North Australia
9) Soft toy 'Teddy Bear' was named after which US president's nickname ?
A) John F. Kennedy
B) Theodore Roosevelt ✔
C) Abraham Lincoln
D) George Washington
10) In February 2009, which Indian music maestro won the Grammy Award for his collaborative music album 'Golden Drum Project' ?
A) Amjad Ali Khan
B) Zakir Hussain ✔
C) Pt. Ravi Shankar
D) Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma
11) What is the name of Japanese art of aesthetic miniaturization of trees, by growing them in containers ?
A) Origami
B) Bonsai ✔
C) Sensei
D) Nikkei
12) Which among the following is popularly referred as 'Plastic Money' ?
A) Gift Cheque
B) Bearer Cheque
C) Credit Card ✔
D) Demand Draft
13) In terms of area, which is the smallest continent ?
A) South America
B) Asia
C) Australia ✔
D) Europe
14) Which was the first 'talkie' feature film made and shown in India ?
A) Raja Harishchandra (1913)
B) Kapala Kundala (1929)
C) Alam Ara (1931) ✔
D) Lanka Dahan (1917)
15) Who was the first soldier of the Indian armed forces to be awarded Param Vir Chakra, the highest military award of India ?
A) Naik Jadu Nath Singh
B) Major Dhan Singh Thapa
C) Major Som Nath Sharma ✔
D) Major Shaitan Singh
16) Which medieval empire did Harihar I and Bukka Raya I found in 1336 ?
A) Chola Empire
B) Gupta Empire
C) Maurya Empire
D) Vijayanagar Empire ✔
17) Which country was formerly known as 'Formosa' ?
A) Indonesia
B) Thailand
C) Cambodia
D) Taiwan ✔
18) In which city is the Central Building Research Institute located ?
A) Cuttack (Orissa)
B) Karnal (Haryana)
C) Nagpur (Maharashtra)
D) Roorkee (Uttarakhand) ✔
19) 'Nagananda', 'Ratnavali' and 'Priyadarshika' Sanskrit works were authored by which ruler ?
A) Chandragupta Maurya
B) Krishna Deva Raya
C) Chandragupta Vikramaditya
D) Harshavardhana ✔
20) In Solar System, which planet rotates the fastest on its axis ?
A) Venus
B) Saturn
C) Mercury
D) Jupiter ✔
21) Citrus fruits are considered a rich source of which vitamin ?
A) Vitamin A
B) Vitamin D
C) Vitamin B
D) Vitamin C ✔
22) Which close associate of Mahatma Gandhi was popularly known as 'Deenbandhu' ?
A) C.F.Andrews ✔
B) Jamnalal Bajaj
C) Vallabhbhai Patel
D) Vinoba Bhave
23) Which bamboo eating member of bear family is the symbol of World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) ?
A) Giant Panda ✔
B) Red Panda
C) Rhinoceros
D) Cheetah
24) Who wrote the novel 'Train to Pakistan' ?
A) Khushwant Singh ✔
B) Dharamvir Bharti
C) Mulk Raj Anand
D) R.K.Narayan
25) On which date, the arrival date of Mahatma Gandhi in India from South Africa, is the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas celebrated?
A) 9 January ✔
B) 10 January
C) 11 January
D) 12 January
26) For red colour, compounds of which element are commonly used in fireworks ?
A) Strontium ✔
B) Sodium
C) Manganese
D) Barium
27) In which city is the Tropical Forest Research Institute (TFRI) located ?
A) Jabalpur (M.P.) ✔
B) Dehradun (Uttarakhand)
C) Jodhpur (Rajasthan)
D) Shimla (H.P.)
28) Who is the only person to be honoured with both 'Bharat Ratna' and 'Nishan-e-Pakistan', the highest civilian awards of an respectively ?
A) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
B) Morarji Desai ✔
C) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
D) Mohammed Iqbal
29) In which city is the Lotus Temple, the Bahai house of worship, located ?
A) Chennai
B) New Delhi ✔
C) Kolkata
D) Mumbai
30) On the banks of which river, did Mahatma Gandhi establish Satyagraha Ashram in Ahmedabad ?
A) Godavari
B) Sabarmati ✔
C) Krishna
D) Narmada
31) What element is added to steel (which is iron with a little carbon) to make stainless steel ?
A) Silicon
B) Chromium ✔
C) Phosphorus
D) Sulphur
32) In 1206, who founded the Slave Dynasty, in India ?
A) Iltutmish
B) Razia Sultan
C) Qutubuddin Aibak ✔
D) Balban
33) What was the code name of five nuclear tests conducted by India in May 1998, near Pokhran in Rajasthan ?
A) Operation Vijay
B) Operation Cactus
C) Operation Shakti ✔
D) Operation Ashwamedh
34) 'The Argumentative Indian' book was authored by which Indian ecomonist ?
A) Jagdish Bhagwati
B) Manmohan Singh
C) Nani Palkhivala
D) Amartya Sen ✔
35) In 1990, which district of Kerala became the first fully literate district of India ?
A) Thrissur
B) Palakkad
C) Kozhikode
D) Ernakulam ✔
36) In humans, which portion of brain controls hunger, thirst and body temprature ?
A) Hypothalamus ✔
B) Medulla
C) Thalamus
D) None of the above
37) Who was the Prime Minister of Britain when India got independence ?
A) Clement Attlee ✔
B) Winston Churchill
C) Neville Chamberlain
D) Stanley Baldwin
38) At which of the following Indus valley civilization site would you come across world's earliest known dock ?
A) Ropar (Punjab)
B) Lothal (Gujarat) ✔
C) Banawali (Haryana)
D) Kalibangan (Rajasthan)
39) Who created the fictional character 'Swami' in his debut novel 'Swami and Friends' ?
A) Ruskin Bond
B) R.K.Narayan ✔
C) Rudyard Kipling
D) V. S. Naipaul
40) Which ocean is popularly known as the 'Herring Pond' ?
A) Indian Ocean
B) Pacific Ocean
C) Atlantic Ocean ✔
D) Arctic Ocean
41) In 1925, who founded the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Nagpur ?
A) Lala Har Dayal
B) Vir Savarkar
C) Keshava Baliram Hedgewar ✔
D) M.S.Golwalkar
42) Galena is the principal ore of which element ?
A) Iron
B) Mercury
C) Copper
D) Lead ✔
43) Idukki Dam in Kerala is built across which river ?
A) Kaveri
B) Pamba
C) Godavari
D) Periyar ✔
44) By what Indian name is the fighter aircraft 'Jaguar', jointly developed by Britain and France, inducted into Indian Air Air Force (IAF) fleet ?
A) Gajraj
B) Vajra
C) Baaz
D) Shamsher ✔
45) Which natural sugar is found in the milk ?
A) Lactose ✔
B) Maltose
C) Fructose
D) Sucrose
46) 'Nepali', 'Lepcha', 'Bhutia' and 'Limbu' are the main spoken langauges of which Indian state ?
A) Sikkim ✔
B) Mizoram
C) Meghalaya
D) Manipur
47) On 15 May 1952, who became the first speaker of the Lok Sabha ?
A) G.V.Mavalankar ✔
B) Harilal J. Kania
C) S.Radhakrishnan
D) Sukumar Sen
48) Which royal poet of Delhi Sultanate is regarded as the 'Father of Qawwali' ?
A) Amir Khusro ✔
B) Nayak Charju
C) Baiju Bawra
D) Tansen
49) Which Article of the Indian Constitution gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir ?
A) Article 370 ✔
B) Article 352
C) Article 360
D) Article 350
50) Coined by French priest Henri Didon, 'Citius, Altius, Fortius' (Swifter, Higher, Stronger) slogan is the motto of which tournament ?
A) FIFA World Cup
B) Olympic Games ✔
C) Asian Games
D) Commonwealth Games
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