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1. Scientific study of plant Pollen, spores and certain microscopic planktonic organism is called

Palynology

2. Branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians is called

Herpetology

3. Study of the micro anatomy of cells, tissues and organs as seenthrough a microscope is called

Histology

4. Kala Bhavana, founded in 1919 is a noted Institution of education and research in visual arts. It is located in

West Bengal

5. Which pass connects Tawang with Lhasa?

Bum La pass

6. Poush Mela displays local artisans displaying folk dances, music,food and culture of

West Bengal

7. In March 2019, who among the following was appointed as India' first Lokpal?

Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghosh

8. The invasion of Timur in ______ AD marked the end of Tughlaq Empire

1398

9. Janku is a unique cultural custom followed in ________ as a Celebration of life

Nepal

10. As a reaction to Rowlatt Act, ___________ was organized as National Humiliation Day.

6th April 1919

11. Who was the first Indian to receive the Raman Magsaysay Award for his contribution to community leadership?

Acharya Vinoba Bhave

12. What is the term used to describe the angular distance of a place North or South of Earth's equator?

Latitude

13. Which of the following is the third stage in the metamorphosis of a butterfly

Pupa

14. In economic terms what do you mean by 'intermediate goods'?

Goods sold between industries for the resale or production Join our telegram channel click here of other goods.

15. The Maximum strength of the Bangladeshi Parliament is 350

1. How many provinces is the country of Nepal divided into?

7

2. Which world leader is awarded the St Andrew the Apostle, the Highest order of the Russian Federation in the year 2019?

Narendra Modi

3. Which of the following kings is regarded as the founder of the Kingdom of Nepal?

Prithvi Narayan Shah

4. The term 'Putt' is used in the sport

Golf

5. Which of the following plants is carnivorous?

Venus flytrap

6. Which tribe of Pakistan performs a traditional dance form called 'Waziri Dance'?

Pashtun

7. The Khilafat movement of 1920 was organized as a protest against the injustice done to

Turkey

8. How many Canine teeth does an adult human have?

4

9. Adal Tinkering Labs is an initiative by which of the following institutions?

NITI Aayog

10. Who among the following was one of the governors during the reign of Alauddin Khilji?

Giyasuddin Tughlaq

11. TV remote control work on the principle of

Infrared waves

12. Who was appointed as the director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre for a period of 3 years in March 2019?

Ajit Kumar Mohanty

13. Government of India nominated member of NITI Aayog __________ , to head the Food and Agricultural Organisation in March 2019.

Ramesh Chand 29.

14. Who founded the Sayyid dynasty?

Khizr Khan

15. Majuli, the largest river island in the world is located in

Assam

1. Which of the following passes is known as the Gateway connecting Jammu and Srinagar?

Banihal pass

2. ____________ in Himachal Pradesh is a famous tourist attraction

Rohtang Pass

3. A sustained rise in the general price level in an economy is called Inflation

4. Who founded the Indian Statistical Institute on 17 December 1931?

PC Mahalanobis

5. _______ Dance, performed by Buddhist to ward off evil spirits, is dance form of Himachal Pradesh.

Chham

6. The Musi and Bhima are tributaries of the river Krishna

7. The Malimath Committee report deals with Criminal justice System reforms

8. Who attacked and looted the famous Somnath Temple in 1026 AD?

Mahmud of Ghazni

9. Which country was the first to implement Goods and Service Tax?

France

10. Which of the following is mined in the Badampahar mines of Odisha?

Hematite

11. Sundari, a well-known species of trees is found in Mangrove forest

12. The Tata Iron and Steel company was established by Dorabji Tata in

1907

13. Who was the first female Director General of Police in Puducherry?

Sundari Nanda

14. Which of the following elements is a metalloid? Silicon

15. Methyl propane is an isomer of n-butane

1. According to The Economist Intelligence Unit Report, "World wide Cost of Living Survey 2019", which of the following is not one of the three cheapest cities in India?

Mumbai

2. Which of the following places was ruled by the Wadiyar dynasty?

Mysore

3. Name the first ever judge of the Supreme Court against whom the motion of impeachment was introduced into parliament in independent India

Justice Ramaswamy

4. In March 2019 who was sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Goa

Pramod Sawant

5. JJ Thomson received the Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of

Electrons

6. Which Queen died fighting Mughal Armies while defending the Garha Katanga in 1564?

Rani Durgavati

7. Which gas in its solid state is known as dry ice? Carbon dioxide

8. The Olympic Council of Asia has decided to reintroduce which sport in 2022 Asian games?

Cricket

9. The property of catenation is predominant in Carbon

10.. Thoda, a sport dance belongs to which Indian state? Himachal Pradesh

11. The only gold medal for India was won by _______ at 38th GeeBee boxing tournament held at Finland.

Kavinder Singh Bisht

12. Which edition of India Indonesia coordinated Patrol 'IND-INDO CORPAT) was held at Andaman and Nicobar Islands?

33rd

13. Who is the founder of Facebook? Mark Zuckerberg

14. The Indian National Association was established by Anand Mohan Bose

15. Which of the following biosphere reserve was the first to be established by government of India?

Nilgiri Biosphere

1. Which is the group of folk dance of Sikkim performed in honour of mount Kanchenjunga, The Guardian diety of the sikkimese people?

Chu-Faat

2. The idea of residual powers in Indian constitution has been taken from

Canada

3. Name the pass in Uttarakhand which is used by pilgrims to Kailash- Mansarovar Yatra

Lipu Lekh

4. Buckminsterfullerene is an allotrope of

Carbon

5. Name the first ever female Prime Minister in the world

Sirimavo Bandaranaike

6.. Which panel set up by the government of India suggested total decontrol of the sugar industry?

Rangarajan panel

7. In India, the Project Tiger was started in

1973

8. Who was the first ever female secretary general of SAARC?

Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed

9. Which of the following states passed the Maintenance of Household Registers bill in March 2019

Odisha

10. Which of the following public sector undertakings was accorded the Maharathna status in February 2013?

BHEL

11. Which of the following is the traditional musical instrument of the Limboo community of Sikkim?

Chyap-Brung

12. How many mahajanapadas existed in 7th and early 6th century BC?

16

13. Which of the following has a strong fruity fragnance?

Ethyl acetate

14. Name the gland that controls The functioning of other endocrine glands?

Pituitary gland 75. Which team won the R

15. Which team won the Ranji Trophy final 2017?

Vidarbha

1. Name the first Indian Budget carrier to join the International Air Transport Association?

SpiceJet

2. Which of the following is an aldehyde? Propanal

3. In March 2019, social media platforms and the Internet and Mobile Association of India presented a ____________ for the General Election 2019 to the Election Commission of India.

Voluntary Code of Ethics

4. Who was the founder of the Chalukya Dynasty? Pulakeshin I

5. Which article of the Constitution deals with Uniform Civil Code?

Article 44

6. The Special Olympics World Games 2019 was inaugurated at

Abu Dhabi

7. Which was the first working prototype of internet? ARPANET

8. Which of the following is not one of the monarchial states that existed in the 7th and early 6th century BC in India?

Vaishali

9. Name the state Chandragupta I got in dowry from the Lichchhavis?

Pataliputra

10. As of May 2019, which political party does actor Raj Babbar belongs to?

Indian National Congress

11. Who bagged the fourth carnot prize 2018 for his contribution towards sustainable energy solutions?

Piyush Goyal

12. Which period in Indian history is known as Delhi Sultanate Period?

1206 AD and 1526 AD

13. Mihira Bhoja who was the ruler of Pratihara

14. Which amendment eliminated the right to property as a fundamental right?

44th

15. Who won the 85th Ranji Trophy title in 2019? Vidarbha

1. Which of the following economic activities employs the maximum number of people in India?

Agriculture

2. Baglihar dam is constructed on which river Chenab

3. Who is the author of the book 'Rajatarangini'?

Kalhana

4. In which part of the Indian Constitution are Centre-state relations mentioned?

Part XI

5. Who was the first female chief justice of a state High Court in India?

Leila Seth

6. The amount of light entering into eye can be controlled and regulated by

Pupil

7. 'Mithun' a cattle breed is found in

Arunachal Pradesh

8. Veer Kunwar Singh Jayanti is celebrated in which state?

Bihar

9. Which cells in our body are popularly known as 'soldiers of human body'?

White blood cells

10 Which hormone leads to the expulsion of milk from the breast during suckling?

Prolactin

11. The festivals of Marabats and Badgayas celebrated in _____________directly confronts social evils and criticize their perpetrators through a procession with effigies.

Nagpur

12. The Nanda Devi peak is located in

Uttarakhand

13. Which of the following is a communicable disease?

Measles

14. . In 2019, Kazakhstan renamed its capital Astana to

Nursultan

15. If there is a lack of money supply in comparison to the supply of goods and services, then the possible consequence would be

Deflation

1. Which of the following has the highest protein content per gram?

Soya bean

2. Who won the inaugural Pro Volleyball League title in 2019?

Chennai Spartans

3. Vikramshila University was founded by Dharmapala

4. 21 March 2019 was celebrated by the UN as World Down Syndrome Day and the theme was

"Leave no one behind"

5. Which of the following destroys the ozone layer? Chlorine

6. Who founded and named the science of electromagnetism?

Andre Marie Ampere

7. Who was the first Muslim ruler whose empire covered almost the whole of India up to its extreme south?

Alauddin Khilji

8. Where is the Bandipur National Park located? Karnataka

9. The popular Bagh cave paintings are found in Madhya PradeshPradesh

10. What is deposited on Iron in the process of galvanization?

Zinc

11. The Badami Chalukyas first had their capital at ____________ before they moved into Badami.

Aihole

12. In February 2019, India won how many gold medal/s at Ma kran Cup Boxing championship in Iran?

One

13. Who won a gold medal at the Makran cup boxing in Iran?

Deepak Singh

14. World _________ Day 2019 was observed on 22nd March with the theme 'leaving no one behind'? –

Water

15. Which of the following Ministries implemented the mid day meal scheme?

Ministry of Human Resource Development

1. Which was the first Muslim dynasty that ruled India? Slave dynasty

2. Lok Adalats have been created under Legal Services Authority Act

3. Which is the longest national highway in India? NH 44

4. Name the ISRO Chairman and Padma Bhushan Awardee who Join our telegram channel click here created and unleashed a historical moment when Mars Orbiter became the first Indian spacecraft to enter Martian orbit in a maiden attempt.

K Radhakrishnan

5. Who was the slave of Muhammad Ghori and became the ruler after the death of his master and founded the slave dynasty?

Qutubuddin Aibak

6 __________ Which connects Sikkim with Tibet was closed after the Chinese aggression on India in 1962 but was reopened in 2006 as the Governments of the two countries decided to enhance their trade through land routes.

Nathu La

7. Who was awarded the Rabindranath Tagore literary prize 2019 for the novel 'Solo'? –

Rana Das Gupta

8. The colourful art named 'Nandana block print' is practised in Tarapur village of

Madhya Pradesh

9. Which of the following comes under the Quaternary sector?

Information technology

10. Right to move freely throughout the territory of India is a fundamental right under article.

Article 19

11. Which of the following metal is the most ductile metal?

Gold

12. International Day of Forests 2019 was observed on 21st March.The theme is

Forests and Education

13. Which Indian received the Nobel Peace Prize after Mother Teresa?

Kailash Satyarthi

14. ________ was observed nationwide from 24th to 30th April, 2019

World Immunization Week

15. Rust needs three components to occur Iron, Oxygen and moisture

1. Which team created history in its second Twenty 20 International against Ireland by achieving the highest ever T20 total at the Rajiv Gandhi International cricket stadium in Dehradun, Uttarakhand?

Afghanistan

2. Which of the following article promotes equal justice and free Legal Aid for all the citizens?

Article 39A

3. The _______ was a group of seven members of parliament from the United Kingdom, constituted to suggest constitutional reforms for British India.

Simon Commission

4. Who became the first Indian golfer to win on the 'Ladies European tour' in 2016?

Aditi Ashok

5. __________ was the first and only Muslim woman to ever sit on the Throne of Delhi.

Razia Begum

6. The Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Manthan Yojana was launched by

Narendra Modi

7. The Banking Regulation Act was passed in India in 1949

8. Which of the following acid is found in Apple? Malic acid

9. The Indian passport was ranked _______ in the 'Global passport index report 2019'.

67th

10. Article _______ of the Constitution of India gives the election commission the power to supervise election to the Parliament and state legislature.

324

11. Who among the following succeeded the Mughal Throne in the year 1556?

Akbar

12. Who was the first woman judge of the Delhi High Court?

Leela Seth

13. Which of the following is a vocal form of Hindustani classical music-

Dhrupad,khyal,and tarana

14. Varkala, Chowara, Chavakkad and Nattika are beaches in the state of

Kerala Varkala chacha

15. The highest railway station in India is located in the state of

West Bengal

1. _______ was the oldest member of the 16th Lok Sabha Lal Krishna Advani

2. The National Board for Micro, Small And Medium Enterprises meets once every ______ months in a year.

6

3. The Khajuraho Temples are located in the state of Madhya Pradesh

4. What is India's rank in 2019 World Happiness Report? 140th

5. Minimum Support Price is recommended by The Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices

6. _______ is the oldest Golf Course outside the United Kingdom.

Royal Calcutta Golf Club, Kolkata

7. In March 2019, India extended a financial Grand of ________ Nepalese rupees for the construction of an Educational campus in Nepal under the development of partnership program.

35.5 million

8. Which of the following are among the few carbon containing compounds not classified as organic?

Cyanides

9. In case of death of the President and Vice President of India who will act as the President of India?

Chief Justice of India

10. In March 2019, Superstats, and new metrics to analyse the game of_________ was launched by Indian Institute of Technology Madras visages and ESPNcricinfo experts.

Cricket

11. __________ was named for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India's person of the year for 2018?

Sonam Kapoor

12. The motto of Special Olympics world games 2019 was Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt

13. Global Business Summit 2019 was held in New Delhi

14. Bihar Diwas is celebrated on 22nd March

15. In which of the following Forts of Rajasthan 'chattris' (cenotaphs) are built in honour of Jaimal and Kalla , Heroes who laid down their lives in the 1568 seige by emperor Akbar?

Chittorgarh Fort

1. The leader of the Bhakti movement focusing on Lord Rama was

Ramananda

2. Which is the most popular state according to the 2011 census?

Uttar Pradesh

3. Metal oxides are _______ in nature Basic

4. The terms 'Jet and Sawar' are related to which of the following administrative systems?

Mansabdari system

5. The leader of the Bhakti movement focusing on Lord Rama was

Vice President of India

6. The Vivekananda Rock Memorial is located in Kanyakumari

7. Tsunami is caused by Underwater volcanic activity

8. Who was the first Mughal emperor in India? –Babur

9. In March 2019, Indian- American Television personality and food expert ______was appointed by the United Nations Development Programme as its new goodwill ambassador

Padma Lakshmi

10. Asian Development Bank in its Outlook supplement has retained India's growth forecasts at 7.3% for the current fiscal (2018-19) and________ % for the following financial year (2019-20)

7.6%

11. What is marble cancer? Corrosion of marble due to acid rain

12. Which of the following gases reduces the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood?

Carbon monoxide

13. Admiral _______ assumed command of the Indian Navy on 31st May 2019 as the 24th Chief of the Naval Staff

Karamveer Singh

14. Pollination by Birds is called Ornithophily

15. The leading light of the Rama cult was saint-poet _______ who also wrote the poem ‘Ramacharithamanasa’?

Thulasidas

1. On March 23rd, India observes __________ day as a tribute to Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru on their death anniversary

Shaheed Divas

2. Which of the following is the longest rivers in India? Brahmaputra

3. . Akbar was succeeded by his son Salim who took the title of _______meaning Conqueror of the world.

Jahangir

4. Who was the prime minister of India during the emergency between the year 1975 to 1977?

Indira Gandh

5. The Victoria Memorial, conceived by Lord Curzon, represent the architectural climax of _______ city

Kolkata

6. World ______ Day was observed on 23rd march with theme 'the sun,the Earth and the weather

Meteorological

7. Indian Naval Officer Commander __________ became the only participate in the prestigious Golden Globe Race, which commencedf Join our telegram channel click here Les Sables d'Olonne Harbour in France on 1 July 2018.

Abhilash Tomy

8. Pierre Curie shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics with his wife Marie Curie and Henri Becquerel for their discoveries related to

Radioactivity

9. .A _________ occurs when a government's total expenditure exceed the revenue that it generates, excluding money from borrowings.

Fiscal deficit

10. Who won the Nobel Prize in 1996 for his neurone doctrine?

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

11. Which of the following was the most important characteristic of India's trade throughout the colonial period?

Export surplus

12. William Crookes was a physical chemist who discovered and named the element ________

Thallium

13. Justice __________ , who retired from the Supreme Court of India on 6 july 2018, has been appointed as the new chairperson of the National Green Tribunal.

Adarsh Kumar Goel

14. Which Indian monument was built by Maharaja Swami Pratap Singh in the year 1799?

Hawa Mahal

15. The Red Fort and the Jama Masjid in Delhi was built by Shah Jahan

1. _________ won a silver medal at the 38th GeeBee boxing tournament which was held at Finland?

Mohammed Hussamuddin

2. Name the longest river in Asia Yangtze

3. Electron was discovered in the year 1897 by_______ JJ Thomson

4. Humayun's heir ________ was born in exile and was only 13 years old when his father died.

Akbar

5. Who had built Taj Mahal for his wife Mumtaz Mahal along the banks of the Yamuna river in Agra?

Shah Jahan

6. Which river passes through maximum number of countries?

Danube

7. In its Global Economic Outlook report, Fitch Ratings cut India's economic growth forecast for the next financial year 2019-20 starting from April 1 to ______% from its previous estimate of 7%.

6.8

8. Which Constitution Amendment Act provided for free and compulsory elementary education to all children?

86th

9. Who received the very first Nobel Prize in physics in 1901 for his discovery of X rays?

William Rontgene

10. Brazilian physicist and astronomer _________ was awarded the 2019 Templeton prize, worth $1.4 million, for his work blending science and spirituality.

Marcelo Gleiser

11. In March 2019, a science teacher from rural Kenya named _______won the prestigious Global Teacher Prize 2019, worth $1 million, which honours the world's best teacher

Peter Tabichi

12. The maximum number of nominated members to Lok Sabha is

2

13. Who was the fifth of the ten Sikh gurus? Guru Arjun Dev

14. The Almatti Dam project on the Krishna river was an issue between which states?

Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh

15. The Qutub Minar was named after the Sufi saint _______

Khwaja Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Khaki

1. The Suri King _________ was defeated by Humayun to regain his Kingdom. –

Sikandar Suri

2. Shifting cultivation is also known as _______ in northeast India.

Jhum

3. Flying Officer _________ of the Indian Air Force created history by becoming the first Indian woman to fly her first solo fighter flight in a Russian made MiG-21 fighter.

Avani Chaturvedi

4. .______ is famous for outstanding specimen of Buddhist art and architecture belonging to the period between 3rd Century BC and 12th century AD.

Sanchi

5. Who decides on the issue related to the disqualification of a member of Lok Sabha under 10th schedule?

Speaker

6. In March 2019, the Government of _______ launched the 'Lose to Win’ program to assist overweight employees shed extra kilos and adopt a Healthy lifestyle.

UAE

7. Who invented the atomic battery in 1912? Henry Moseley

8. In March 2018, Indian actress ________ was named as the new Ambassador of the international award winning non profit organisation, Educate Girls.

Katrina KaifC

9. The base financial year for the calculation of the all-India Index of Industrial Production (IIP) is

2011-12

10. _______ codified the first two laws of thermodynamics and deduced that the absolute zero of temperature is -273.15°C. she was honoured for this with the naming of the Kelvin temperature scale.

William Thomson

11. ._______ is an important road link between Srinagar on one side and Kargil and Leh on the other side

–Zoji la

12. The phrase 'survival of the fittest' as a way of describing the mechanism of natural selection was coined by

Herbert Spencer

13. The interest rate charged by banks on short term loans to their largest, most secure and most creditworthy customers is called

Prime lending rate

14. Night blindness is caused by the deficiency of vitamin A

15. The Indus water Treaty was signed between India and ______

Pakistan

1. About 70% of the sun is made up of – Hydrogen

2. Which of the following Indian authors is one of the four screenplay writers of the movie 'Kai Po Che'?

Chetan Bhagat

3. When was the constitution of Pakistan enforced? 1973

4. Which of the following is the highest altitude lake of Pakistan?

Paristan lake

5. Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) is calculated as a percentage of each banks ___________

Net demand and time liabilities

6. The former princely state of Tripura in the North Eastern part of India was ruled by __________ dynasty

Manikya

7. _____________ assumed the title of 'Gangaikondachola' or the Conqueror of the river Ganga.

Rajendra Chola I

8. Bhavai is a traditional dance form of Gujarat

9. DNA is stored majorly in _________ of the cell. Nucleus

10. Who among the following is the only Indian to have won the Amateur World title in both snooker and billiards?

Pankaj Advani

11. The 'Friendship Highway' is a road that connects China to ________

Nepal

12. In which year was the battle of Goa fought? 1510

13. Who is the author of the book 'India Shastra: Reflections on the nation in our time' ?

Shashi Tharoor

14. Which is the highest mountain peak in Maharashtra? Kalsubai Shikar

15. What does the Lorenz Curve indicate? Income distribution

1. Asian games, also known as Asiad is held every ____ years.

4

2. ________ built the world famous Harmandir Sahib, popularly Known as the Golden Temple in Amritsar.

Guru Arjan Dev

3. Deficiency of which nutrient cause’s night blindness?

Vitamin A

4. During whose reign did the Chinese Traveller Hiuen Tsang visited India?

Harshavardhana

5. The theory that Dinosaurs were driven to extinction by the aftermath of a large asteroid impact on earth was given by ________.

Luis Alvarez

6. ________ was the first person to isolate Methane Gas. He discovered that methane mixed with the air could be exploded using an electric spark.

Alessandro Volta

7. ________ won gold medal in the men's freestyle wrestling 65 kg category at the Dan Kolov 2019 wrestling event.

Bajrang Punia

8. One of the prominent Buddhist structures in India ______ Stupa at Sarnath was constructed by the great mauryan King Ashoka.

Dhamekh

9. Which of the following elements is an actinide?

Curium

10. Law of octaves says that if the chemical elements are arranged according to increasing atomic weight, those with similar physical and chemical properties occur after each interval of _______ elements.

7

11. A situation where the expenditure of the government exceeds its revenue is called

Budget deficit

12. The Global Business Summit, launched on 15 January 2015 is a flagship initiative of the _______ group.

Times

13. Special Olympics is held every _____ years.

Two

14. The power to summon the houses of the Parliament is vested with the

President

15. Superstats, a new platform to analyse the game of Cricket, comprises of three metrics

Luck index, Smart stats, Forecaster

1. In February 2019, flight lieutenant ________ created history by becoming the first Indian women flight engineer.

Hina Jaiswal

2. Safdarjung's tomb set in the middle of a garden was built by Nawab Shuja Ud Daula in

Delhi

3. ______ married Mehrunisa whom he gave the title of Nur Jahan.

Jahangir

4. Which of the following element is a Lanthanide?

Cerium

5. Which pass connects Uttarakhand and Tibet and is situated in the north of Gangotri?

Muling La

6. The Parliament of India consists of President, houses of the people and Council

of States

7. In his periodic table, Mendeleev could not assign a correct position to

Hydrogen

8. A nautical mile is equal to ______

1852 metres

9. Which activist journalist from Karnataka was shot dead in September She was posthumously conferred the Anna Politkovskaya award 2017.

Gauri Lankesh

10. Which strait separates the islands of Java and Sumatra?

Sunda

11. Who died in 1605, nearly 50 years after his ascension To The Throne? He was buried outside of Agra at Sikandra

Akbar

12. Swaroop Rawal, an Indian teacher at Lavad Primary School in ______was in the running for the prestigious Global teacher prize 2019 which honours the world's best teacher.

Gujarat

13. Who has been called the architect King as during his reign the world witnessed the unique development of Arts and culture of the Mughal Empire?

Shah Jahan

14. It was under the reign of ________ that the Mughal Empire reached its peak in matter of area.

Aurangzeb

15. Who gave the 'law of octaves'? Newlands

1. Indian origin campaigner ________ was named UK's most influential black person of the year on 25 October 2017. –

Gina Miller

2. Who among the following was the first Indian origin recipient of the prestigious pulitzer prize?

Gobind Behari Lal

3. Of which Indian state is 'Gamocha' a cultural symbol?

Assam

4. How many members are present in the Sri Lankan parliament?

225

5. What is the popular name of Ascorbic Acid? Vitamin C

6. Viyahula Giddha is a popular folk dance performed during marriages in the Indian state of

Punjab

7. Who became the first Indian player to represent India at the Wimbledon tennis championship of independent India?

Ramanathan Krishnan

8. The explosion of crackers is an example of Combustion 280

9. World Global Recycling day was observed on _______ in 2019.

18th March

10. Who among the following was the first President of Pakistan?

Iskander Mirza

11. An economic condition when there is one buyer and many seller sis called

Monopsony

12. Which of the following is a vestigial organ? Appendix

13. Which of the following countries has the largest parliament in the world?

China

14. Which one of the following is the brightest star in the Orion Constellation?

Rigel

15. What is the dominant chemical present in vinegar? Ethanoic acid

1. Which of the following Indian islands lies in the Bay of Bengal?

Andaman and Nicobar

2. Mahatma Gandhi formed the Natal Indian Congress in the year

1894

3. What is the geographical name given to a deep and narrow Valley consisting of steep sides created by weathering and erosion by rivers, wind, rain and tectonic activity?

Canyon

4. The first Anglo Burmese war ended with the signing of the

Treaty of Yandabo

5. Who among the following is the author of the book 'A Passage to England'?

Nirad C Chaudhuri

6. Who authored 'A century is not Enough' in 2018?

Sourav Ganguly

7. Who among the following became the first woman to win the Abel prize 2019?

Karen Uhlenbeck

8. In which year did independent India win its first Olympic gold in the game of hockey?

1948

9. Silent Valley National Park is located in

Kerala

10. The Bangladesh Liberation war ended onc

16th December 1971

11. What is the name given to the graph that shows all the combinations of two commodities that a consumer can afford at the given market prices and within the particular income level in economic terms?

Budget line

12. Who was the first female Shooter from India to reach number one in world ranking by the international shooting sport Federation 2014?

Heena Sidhu

13. The Hindustan Socialist Republican Association was formed in the year

1928

14. Which is the busiest seaport in Pakistan?

Port of Karachi

15. What is the definition for the term 'hibernation'? A state of reduced metabolic activity during

winter season among some animals

1. A traditional battery contains which of the following chemicals?

Sulphuric acid

2. In which year was the term Gross Happiness Index coined by the fourth king of Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuck?

1972

3. Mother Teresa the founder of Missionaries of Charity was born on

26th August 1910

4. In 2018, Amnesty International stripped _____ of the ambassador on science award given in 2009.

Aung San Suu kyi

5. The sepoy mutiny in India started from Meerut

6. What is the term of the elected representatives of a grama panchayat?

5 years

7. Marfati songs are traditional folk songs of Bangladesh

8. Which scientist discovered the penicillin? Alexander Fleming

9. Which of the following stars is nearest to the sun? Proxima centauri

10. Name the national bird of Bhutan Raven

11. The term 'cherry-picking' is used in which sports? Basketball

12. Which of the following creatures is oviparous? Frog

13. The summer solstice 2019 in the Northern hemisphere will occur on

21st June

14. Jorwe culture was a chalcolithic archaeological site located in the present day Indian state of

Maharashtra

15. Which of the following acid is present in ant bites? Formic acid

1. Which of the following authors received the Jnanpeeth award in 2018?

Amitabh Ghosh

2. In India, 24th January is observed as which one of the following days?

National Girl Child Day

3. Which of the following is a smallest bird in the world? Bee Hummingbird

4. Who was named as the chief executive officer of ICC in January 2019?

Manu Sawhney

5. Who was the Indian Army chief at the time of Bangladesh Liberation war?

Sam Manekshaw

6. The demand for a commodity or service which is a consequence of the demand for something else is called

Derived demand

7. In which year was the East India Company incorporated for the exploitation of trade with east and Southeast Asia and India?

1600

8. Which economist gave the theory of opportunity cost? Gottfried Haberier

9. Who among the following wrote the book 'A history of the sikhs’

Khushwant Singh

10. Vijay Hazare was a famous Indian player associated with the sport of

Cricket

11. Fertile riverine Alluvial soil is best suited for producing Rice

12. The energy derived from the heat of earth is called Geothermal energy

13. Which article of the Constitution of India talks about the provisions for impeachment of the president of India?

Article 61

14. Identify the foreigner who has been conferred the second highest civilian award in India, Padma vibhushan for exceptional and distinguished service in 2019?

Ismail Omar Guellah

15. In January 2019, _____ was name the world number one boxer by International Boxing Association

Mary Kom

1. What is the chemical name of baking soda? Sodium hydrogen carbonate

2. As per Mankiw's principle of Economics, the standard of living of a country depends on the country's

Ability to produce goods and services

3. Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura became States under North Eastern Areas (reorganization) Act, 1971

4. Which instrument is used to measure the intensity of light produced by an unknown source in terms of a standard source?

Photometre

5. When the output is equal to zero, the variable cost is Zero

6. Kazi Nazrul Islam is the national poet of Bangladesh

7. Which Indian Archer won the gold medal in the women's recurve event at the 2018 Hyundai archery World Cup?

Deepika Kumari

8. 'India of My dreams' is a book of compilation of passages from writings and speeches of

Mahatma Gandhi

9. Who was the longest serving prime minister of Bangladesh?

Sheikh Hasina

10. In which year did Vasco da Gama landed in Calicut? 1498

11. Who among the following was the first chief minister of Kerala?

EMS Namboodiripad

12. Name the women of Indian Origin who was appointed chief executive officer of Pepsico in the year 2006?

Indra Nooyi

13. The 'Diphu Pass' which is the tri junction between India, Myanmar and China is on which border line?

Macmohan line

14. Who was the first president of the Republic of China? Yuan Shikai

15. Which is the unit of measuring intensity of sound? Decibels

1. In January 2019 which became the first Indian state to implement 10% reservation for the economically weaker sections?

Gujarat

2. The Indian Badminton player who won the Canadian Open Women's Doubles title in 2015 along with Ashwini Ponnappa was

Jwala Gutta

3. Daringbadi hill station is located in Indian state of ________

Odisha

4 According to _______ pressure is equal to the force divided by the area on which it acts.

Pascal's law

5. Who discovered the first vaccine for smallpox? Edward Jenner

6. Which Indian state launched the PRANAM Commission to protect the parents of Government employees?

Assam

7. The constitution of India was amended for the first time in which year?

1951

8. Which Indian author wrote the book 'The English Teacher'?

R.K Narayan

9. In which province of China is the Huangguoshu National Park located which houses the world's largest waterfall cluster?

Guizhou

10. World Water Day is celebrated on 22nd March

11. In 2019, Harshvardhan the Union Minister for environment, forest and limate change launched the India Cooling Action Plan (ICAP).On which day was ICAP released?

8th March

12. In which part of the female flower does fertilization takes place?

Ovary

13. The 'Tanakh' is the sacred text of which religion? Judaism

14. ___________ became the most successful Doubles player in the History of Davis Cup as on 2018.

Leander Paes

15. Which of the following was a port city of the Indus valley Civilization?

LothaI

1. Who was the last ruler of the Vaghela dynasty of Gujarat after whose defeate the kingdom was passed to Alauddin Khilji?

Karandev

2. __________ is well known for the golden beautification of the Harmandir Sahib Gurudwara in Amritsar, famously known as the Golden Temple

Ranjit Singh

3. Dashain is the grandest festival of _______

Nepal

4. Which Indian Badminton player was runner-up at the 2019 Swiss open tournament?

Sai Praneeth

5. Blue Litmus Paper turns _______ on contact with an acidic solution

Red

6. Name the tissue that transports food to various parts of a plant

Phloem

7. What effect will a decrease in demand and increase in supply Plant

Equilibrium price will fall

8. Which of the following is called the 'popular chamber'?

Lok Sabha

9. What is the dominant chemical present in detergent powder?

Sodium carbonate

10. A substantial increase in capital expenditure or revenue deficit leads to

Fiscal deficit

11. Which of the following Indian filmmakers was given the title of 'Ambassador of Interlaken' in 2011 at Switzerland?

Yash Chopra

12. The term 'Dolphin Kick' is associated with which sport?

Swimming

13. Which article of the Constitution of India provides that each Indian state will have a Governor?

Article 153

14. Which Indian batsman was the first to hit six consecutive sixes in first class cricket? –

Ravi Shastri

15. In the year ________ the Maratha empire ceased to exist with the Surrender of the Marathas to the British, ending the third Anglo Maratha war

1818

1. What is the distinctive characteristics of marsupials? They carry young ones in pouches

2. Which country is the largest producer of Wheat in the world?

China

3. To which Indian state does the tribe of 'Nyishi' belong? Arunachal Pradesh

4. Rajat has hypermetropia. What type of lens will be the ophthalmologist recommend to correct his vision?

Convex

5. ________ has been established as the annual 'International Day of Happiness'

20th March

6. What was India's rank among 156 countries in the Global Happiness Index 2019?

140th

7. Which state of India has the longest mainland coastline?

Gujarat

8. During World War II, the battle of Kohima and Imphal were fought in the year

1944

9. Who is the first Indian national to win the 'Sri Lanka Ratna' award?

Narasimham Ram

10. Who presides over the joint sitting of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha?

Speaker of Lok Sabha

11. Who is the author of the book 'Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings'?

Aung San Suu Kyi

12. Which instrument is used to measure blood pressure?

Sphygmomanometer

13. The term ________ is prefixed to scientific terms to describe something that is constant

Iso

14. In which year was the University Grants Commission (UGC) formally established?

1956

15. When was Indian Super League started?

2013

1. Under which article of the Constitution of India can members of the Anglo-Indian community be nominated to the LokSabha by the President?

Article 331

2. Burma become independent sovereign Republic in the year

1948

3. The river Ganga emerges from Gangotri Glacier and ends at

Bay of Bengal

4. Which of the following is the national bird of China?

Red crowned crane

5. Dolly, the first cloned living being created at Roslin institute in Scotland was a

Sheep

6. UN's Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) elected _______ to the 18 member committee 'CESCR' for the Asia Pacific seat in 2018.

Preeti Saran

7. When the fiscal deficit is high, what happens to prices?

There is no direct impact on prices

8. What is the chemical name of the Deadly poison 'Cyanide'?

Prussic acid

9. The term 'Blood Moon' is used to refer to

Lunar eclipse

10. Mitra Mela was a Revolutionary organisation founded by Veer Savarkar in the year

1900

11. How many international airports are there in India?

17

12. Which country in the world has the largest number of international borders? –

China

13. What is the value of all tangible resources such as raw materials and Labour that are used in the production process called?

Real Cost

14. During the Sao Joao festivities, Goans present ________ to each other

Fruits

15. The movement of the local farmers of Bardoli in Gujarat against the British in 1928 was led by ________.

Vallabhbhai Patel

1. Who was the first Indian to win the Miss Universe title?

Sushmita Sen

2. ________ is a hearing-impaired Indian golfer who won her first professional title at the age of 18. In March 2019, she became the second Indian women golfer to win on the : Ladies European Tour

Diksha Dagar

3. The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act was passed in the year

2006

4. An adult human body has _____ bones

206

5. ________ is the hottest planet in our solar system

Venus

6. The 'Instrument of Surrender' which ended the Portuguese rule in India was signed on _________

19th December 1961

7. Who among the following was given the title 'Quaid-i-Azam'?

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

8. In which year did the Indian Premier League started?

2008

9. Cathriona Grey of ________ was crowned Miss Universe in 2018.

Philippines

10 Who became the fastest Asian to cycle around the globe in 2018?

Vedangi Kulkarni

11. Which Indian author wrote the book 'Two Lives'?

Vikram Seth

12. ________ gases trap heat in the atmosphere which makes the Earth warmer, causing global warming.

Greenhouse

13. Who was the first Chinese to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Mo Yan

14. Which team won the Indian Premier League 2018? Chennai Super Kings

15. Bihar Diwas is annually celebrated on 22nd March

1. In March 2019, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation of India grounded which aircraft due to technical fault?

Boeing 737 Max 8

2. Which is the national sport of Sri Lanka? Volleyball

3. Which human body part can be well called the 'chemical factory’ of our body?

44Liver

4. A Marketplace in which A final good or services bought and sold is called

Product market

5. Opium Wars were fought between the British and ________

China

6. Rule _______ (of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha) does not involve a formal motion before the Parliament House, hence no voting can take place after the discussion on matters under this rule.

193

7. Which country won the South Asian Football Federation (SAAF) women's Championship in 2019?

India

8. Sir Thomas Roe visited the court of Mughal ruler ________

Jahangir

9. Which one of the following is the deepest gorge in the world?

Kali Gandaki gorge

10. Both Haemoglobin and myoglobin require _______ for formation

Iron

11. Nitrous oxide is the chemical name of

Laughing gas

12. Which of the following is the longest river in Pakistan that originates from lake Manasarovar?

Indus

13. Scientific study of rocks is called

Petrology

14. British East India company defeated the Portuguese in the _______

Battle of Suvali

15. Which country hosted the 2019 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup Hockey tournament?

Malaysia

1. How many provinces are there in Sri Lanka?

9

2. In China, 2019 (which starts on 5 February and ends on 24 9(January) is the year of the

Pig

3. A _________ is not constrained by prior work.

Greenfield project

4. Tipu Sultan and British East India company signed the Treaty of Mangalore in the year

1784

5. In India, which of the following articles of the Constitution of India provides for the formation of a new state?

Article 3

6. Which player has the record of scoring the most runs in the history of ICC World Cup?

Sachin Tendulkar

7. When was the 'Battle of Tukaroi' fought?

1575

8. What is the unit of measure of a magnetic field?

Tesla

9. What is the economic impact of increase in productivity of firms?

Increase in Gross Domestic Product

10. Who is the author of the book 'The Bird of Time: Songs of life, Death and the Spring'?

Sarojini Naidu

11. What is the other name for 'Orion' constellation?

Hunter

12. The process of changing from liquid to gas is called

Vaporization

13. The Special Olympics 2019 were held in

Abu Dhab

14. In which of the following state is the 'Lusei' dialect spoken?

Mizoram

15. In Parliament, who takes the final decision on whether a bill is a money bill or not?

Speaker

1. 'Rehuke khim' or 'cowrie shawl' our traditional Textiles of

Nagalandc

2. In the context of Indian Parliament what is 'Zero Hour'?

Time Join our telegram channel click here immediately after

Question Hour

3. Which of the following is called the 'Grand Canyon of India'?

Great Canyon of Gandikota

4. When was the Battle of Kanauj fought?

1540

5. Which document based on Indian society won an Academy Award in 2019?

Period : End of Sentence

6. What would happen to the demand curve when there is an increase in the price of substitute products?

Outward shift

7. The easternmost point of India is

Kibithu

8. Identify the element that is most prolific in the earth crust?

Oxygen

9. The Sahyadari mountains run from ________ to Kanyakumari, the southernmost part of India

Gujarat

10. The Aligarh movement was started by

Syed Ahmed Khan

11. The phrase 'Bend your back' is used in which sport?

Cricket

12. Which of the following Indians was one of the founders of Dartington Hall School in Japan?

Rabindranath Tagore

13. Where is the National War Memorial of India located?

New Delhi

14. Surendra Nath Banerjee and Anand Mohan Bose founded __________in Bengal in 1876.

Indian Association

15. Which is the largest recognised constellation?

Hydra

1. Chepu is a unique cultural symbol of

Nepal

2. Who among the following was the longest serving governor of an Indian state?

Padmaja Naidu

3. In which part of the body is blood produced?

Bone Marrow

4. In which year was the battle of saragarhi fought?

1897

5. As of April 2019 who is longest serving Chief Minister of an Indian state?

Pawan Kumar Chamling

6. Byopa is a traditional headgear of tribes belonging to

Arunachal Pradesh

7. Identify the part of brain that controls the maintenance of posture, balance and equilibrium.

Cerebellum

8. In December 2018, Havelock Island was renamed as

Swaraj Dweep

9. Which is the national sport of Bangladesh?

Kabaddi

10. Wind turbines convert _________ energy into mechanical power

Kinetic

11. Which of the following is the largest container port of India?

Jawaharlal Nehru port, Mumbai

12. Which theory in Economics proposes that countries export what they can most efficiently and plentifully produce?

Heckscher-Ohlin Model

13. Who is the author of the book 'The Buddha and his Dhamma'?

BR Ambedkar

14. Name the comprehensive pension management system developed by the Department of Telecom in December 2018.

SAMPANN

15. With which sport is the term bleeder associated?

Boxing

1. What was the theme of World AIDS Day 2018? Know your status

2. Which theory is used to make long run predictions about exchange rates in a flexible exchange rate system?

Purchasing Power Parity Theory

3. The study of insects is called –

Entomology

4. In which medical condition is the eye's optic nerve damaged and the condition worsens over time?

Glaucoma

5. Who was the first Russian Prime Minister to visit independent India?

Nikolai Bulganin

6. How many sessions of the Lok Sabha are normally held in a year?

3

7. Which state of India was ruled by the Ahom dynasty?

Assam

8. Which was the wettest place in India in 2018 as per the India Meteorological Department (IMD)?

Mahabaleshwar

9. Which of the following is the highest peak in Sri Lanka?

Mount Pedro

10. Who among the following was the last Nawab of Awadh?

Wajid Ali Shah

11. The East India company sent captain William Hawkins to the court of Emperor ________ in 1608 to seek permission to open a factory at Surat.

Jahangir

12. Wilson's disease is an inherited disorder in which excessive amounts of ________ accumulate in the body

Copper

13. ________was the first Chief Election Commissioner of India

Sukumar Sen

14. The approximate diameter of the sun is ________ times the diameter of earth.

109

15. Name the westernmost point of India

Ghuar Mota

1. The Ayushman Bharat Scheme introduced by the government of India provides medical coverage upto _______ per family per year.

Rs 5 Lakhs

2. Name the smallest district in India

Mahe

3. _______ was named The cleanest city in the Swachh Survekshan Survey 2019

Indore

4. What was the historical name of the city of Guwahati?

Pragjyotishpur

5. Which is called, City of Golden Temple?

Amritsar

6. The palace of Amritsar was given by Mughal Emperor Akabr to whom?

Guru Ramdas

7. Which section of IPC is applicable for death under negligence?

304 A

8. Sharavati Project is in which state?

Karnataka

9. Balimela Project is in which state?

Orissa

10. What does the Olympic flame symbolize? Continuity between new and ancient games

11. Which city is called as 'City of Golden Gate?

Sanfrancisco

12. The earth rotates on its axis from?

West to east

13. After declaration of financial emergency by the President, what is the period of operation without approval by the Parliament

Two Months

14. The United Kingom consists of which countries? England, Scotland, Wales and northern

Ireland

15. Who publishes employment news? Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

1. Which states in India are having their borders sharing with Myanmar?

Mizoram, Manipur, Tripura

& Meghalaya

2. Koyna Hydroelectric Power is located in which state? Maharastra

3. Who is the scientist made success of Green Revolution? Norman Borlaug

4. Which city is called as 'City of Eternal Springs'? -Quito

5. National Higway No. 2 connects which cities? Delhi & Kolkata

6. Where is located the national centre for Bio -Fertilizer? Ghaziabad

7. Which satellite helps to telecast TV Network all over India? Insat IB

8. Kanya Vidyadhan Yojna is in which state? Uttar Pradesh

9. With which country UNO has agreement of Oil with Food? Iraq

10. Who wrote the book : “My Kashmir: Conflict & Prospects of Enduring Peace”?

Mr. Habibullah

11. Who emerged as the fastest woman of Beijing Olympics? Ann Fraser

12. Who is the winner of European Grand Prix? Felipe Massa

13. Which country won sixteen God medals in Olympics 2008 at Beijing?

Germany

14. What does IUCN stands for? International Union for

conservation of nature

15. Who was given Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavna award 2007 N Radha Krishnana

1. What is CERN in LHC? CERN is a French Space Agency French acronym for (European Organization for Nuclear Research) and was in news due to LHC experiment recently

2. Who was given Dhyanchand Award for 2008?

Mukhbain Singh

3. Who is the governor of Reserve Bank of India?

D.Subarao

4. Which country won field Hockey title in Olympics?

Germany

5. Whom is related to bhaskar Ghosh committee? Cultural Scemes

6. The 306th Amendment Bill pertains to what? Cooperative Society

7. Project Sankalp is related to what?

HIV / AIDS

8. Micheil Saakashvili is president of which country?

Georgia

9. Which of the following acid is found in Apple?

Malic acid

10. World Food Day falls on what date?

16.Oct

11. What is the name of the swimmer of USA who won 8 gold Medals in Olympics?

Michael Phelps

12. Which one is the most competitive city of the world?

New York, Followed by London & Tokyo

13. By which year India will be 4 Degree Hotter?

40 years

14. Where in Gujrat, ancient Budhdha plaque is discovered recently?

Vadnagar in Gujarat

15. Controversial Pakistani Sceintist A.Q. Khan helped which of the Nation as to make atomic arms?

Libiya

1. Which sports team among Punjab, ralways, UP & Services have won 55th National Boxing Championship?

Railways

2. Microchip has recently turned (How many years?).

50 years of age

3. Recently the canbinet has increased hike of President, Vice President, and Governars by how much (in %)?

300%

4. Union Cabinet has recently approved Extradition Treaty with which country?

Iran

5. How many indigenous breeds of cattle India Currently possess?

27

6. When was essentials commodities act enacted?

1955

7. What is the third largest packed food in India consumed?

Aerated Soft drink

8. What is the rank of India’s market in Alcoholic beverages consumtion?

Third

9. Which country in south asia shared 62% of It’s global trade with India?

Nepa

10. Roger Federer recently won his which Grandslam?

13th Grand Slam

11. Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam has been appointed as chancellor of which school? –

IIST Thiruvanantpuram

12. Astra is which kind of missile? –

Air to Air

13. Who is Margaret Chan? Director General of WHO , recently

visited India

14. What is Deo Parliamentary Committee Probing? Cash for Votes scandal in Parliament

15. How many blocks have been recently decided to award for exploration of oil and gas by the Union Gas & Petroleum Ministry recently?

45

1. Which lone sailing ship of Indian Navy Has embarked upon voyage of four nations?

INS Tarangini

2. Who is the winner of ASCA Sooker Invitation Tournament?

Pankaj Advani

3. What is APEDA? Agricultural & Processed Food Products

Export Development Authority

4. Who has been given the Appan Menon Memorial Award 2008.2009? -

Delhi Union of Journalists

5. Which country has recently banned Indian Drug Company Ranbaxy’s Products?

USA banned 28 drugs of Ranbaxy

6. Who won recently Murugappa Gold Cup? Air India Beating Indian Oil

7. Which are the two institutes chosen for Shanti Swaroop Join our telegram channel click here Bhatnagar Science & Technology Award?

CIMAP & CSMCRI

8. What is the meaning of a secular state? The state regards religiosn as a private affair of

the decisions and does not DISCRIMINATE on this basis.

9. In which types of disputes Supreme Court of India Acts as Federal Court?

Interstate Disputes

10 For how long, A joint sitting of both the houses of Parliament may be convened to consider a bill which was passed by one house and pending in another house? -

6 months

11. The council of Ministers is collectively responsible to whom?

Lok Sabha (Article 75 (3) )

12. What is meaning of Lame Duck Session of Parliament?

Last session of the parliament

before dissolution of Loksabha

13. If a no. confidence motion is passed in Loksabha then what happens?

The whole council of ministers has to resign

14. Who elect Vice President? Members of Rajya Sabha & Loksabha.

15. Who was the President of Indian National Congress at the time of Independence? -

J.B. Kriplani

1. Who were the two martyrs, accused for killing English Officers in England and hanged later on?

Udhamsingh & MadanLal Dhingra

2. What was the date when Subhash Chandra Bose declared the formation of “interim Government of India”?

21.Oct.43

3. Who was the first President of Muslim League? Salimullah Khan

4. Civil Disobedience Law started with which event? Breaking Salt Law

5. Why Gandhi Irwin Pact was criticized? Lacked provisions of Gandhi Irwin Pact

6. Which was the socialist leader , who ran away from the Hazaribagh Prison and assumed the leadership of Quit India Movent?

Jaiprakash Narayan

7. During whose reign the Gandhara School of Art blossom?

Kanishka

8. Who defeated Harshvardhan on the bank of Narmada? –

Pulakesin II

9. During whose reign Grand Trunk Road was formed?

Shershah Sur

10. On the bank of which river the city of Vijayanagar is located?

Tungbhadra

11. What was the capital of Bahamani Kings?

Gulbarg

12. Who built Brihadeshwara temple in Tanjore?

Raja Raja Chola

13. The fort of Tughlaqabad near Delhi was formed by whom?

Ghiyasuddin Tuglaq

14. During the battle of Plassi, who was Nawab of Bengal?

Sirajuddola

15. Who among the Moghul Emperors was a perfect player of Veena?

Aurangazeb.

1. What is a soft currency? A currency having a falling exchange rate due to continuing balance of payments deficit

2. What is Greenback? US Dollar is also referred as Greenback.

3. Which company is establishing Oil Refinery at Bhatinda?

HPCL

4. In which state is located Kanker Ghati Park?

Chhattisgarh

5. Where is Mansarovar lake?

China

6. Where is Guru Shikhar? Guru Shikhar is highest peak of Aravali Mountains located at Mount Abu, in Rajasthan.

7. What does indicate the color of a star? Its Temperature

8. What is willy willy? A Tropical Cyclone at North West Australia

9. What makes international boundary between Tanzania & Uganda?

Victoria Lake

10. Where is Taylor Valley? USA

11. Which river is associated with TulBul Project? Jhelum

12. What is Hypoglycemia? Low Blood Sugar

13. From which part of the plant Opium is derived? Dried Latex

14. Glycogen is Stored in which part of the body? Liver

15. Where do we find cartilage in Human Body? Nose

1. During digestion Proteins are broken into what? Amino Acids

2. What is ‘Hit and Hide Virus’ RSV Virus

3. Who was the first cricketer to claim 500 wickets in test matches?

Courtney Walsh

4. What is Tenzin Gyatso? Dalai Lama is known as Tenzin Gyatso

5. What was the name of State Bank of India Before Nationalisation?

Imperial Bank of India

6. Who led a nonviolent movement in America for full civil rights for negros?

Martin Luther King

7. ‘Portrait Francoise’ was an art piece created by? Pablo Picasso

8. What is the original name of Santa Cluase? St. Nicolas

9. What is Zend_Avesta? Religious Book of Parsees

10. Who wrote the book? “The Man of Killed Gandhi”?

Manohar Malgaonkar

11. Whose Biography is “My Country My Life”? LK Advani

12. By which name the officer responsible for safe custody of land records during the Gupta Period was known as?

Karanika

13. What are Kayals? - Narrow water area attached with a main landin the form of

channel found in Kerala

14. Which river originates from Amarkantak? Narmada

15. Which Kind of Forests occupy the highest percentage in India Area Wise?

Tropical Deciduous

1. Which is Highest Peak in India? Nanda Devi (7817 meters), Kanchenjanga, Everest , Makalu

are in Nepal

2. What is Pensi A hill at Ladakh, which connects Sri Nagar with Leh

3. Whare is headquarter of Asian Development Bank?

Manila

4. Which is most mobile factor of production? Capital

5. What is present strength of Rajya Sabha.? 245

6. Who was the first India Scholar who treated Mathematics as a Different subject?

Aryabhatta

7. On what date Indo.US Nuclear cooperation treaty was signed?

October 11, 2008

8. Who headed IIM review Committee which recommended higher Government control on IIM?

RC Bhargava

9. On what date India launched its first Moon Mission Chandrayan?

October 22, 2008

10. Vehicle which put Chandrayan I into orbit? SLV.C.11

11. How many other countries have sent moon mission earlier?

Three, India is Fourth

12. Which IBSA summit concluded recently in New Delhi?

Third

13. What is ACD? Asia Cooperation Dialogue

14. Who is the new president of Maldives? Mohammed Anni Nasheed

15. Which state topped the Government’s Primary Education Development Index?

Kerala

1. What is EDI? Education Development Index

2. On what day National Consumer Rights Day is observed?

December 24.

3. Who was the batsman put on the top in recent Reliance ICC Test Ranking?

Mike Hussey

4. Where was the 4000 years old Pyramid found recently?

Egypt

5. Which country ranks top in gender equality? Norway

6. Who has written the book.Politics & Politic A Marxist Perspective?

Prakash Karat

7. Who was the first Indian to become the President of World Squash Federation?

N Ramchandran

8. What is Nerpa? A nuclear enabled submarine

9. Who is the new Vice President of USA? Joe Biden

10. Who won Singapore Open Golf Recently? Jeev Milkha Singh

11. Which state of India is least densely populated? Arunachal Pradesh

12. Which is the only country in South East Asia which is totally landlocked?’’

Laos

13. Where is security Printing Press? Hyderabad

14. What is the stretch of India from north to south? 3200 Kms

15. What is ASEAN and where is its headquarters? - Association of South East Asian Nations, Jakarta

1. Orissa shares its longest border with which state? Andhra Pradesh

2. Who founded PURA? PURA is providing Urban Amenities in Rural Areas, and

was founded by Honorable Former President APJ Abdul

Kalam

3. Who got the Qutub Minar Finished? Firoz Shah Tuglaq

4. Which Veda gives the first classification of PRAN (Respiration)?

Rig Veda

5. What do we call collection of Budhdha’s Teaching? Budhdha Charita

6. Who was the first Muslim President of Indian National Congress?

Badruddin Tayyabji

7. What is the name of the organism which causes malignant Malaria in Human?

Plasmodium Falciparum

8. Who plays important role in Protein synthesis in body?

Ribosomes

9. Who is the president of the world Bank? Robert Zoellick

10. What is the name of the Indian origin Management Guru awarded as greatest Thinker alive in the world by Thinkers 50?

CK PrahaladManagement

11. What are pneumatophores? The breathing roots of mangroves.

12. Who founded National Mela? - Naba Gopal Mitra

13. In which house of the Parliament, the presiding officer is not a member of the House?

Rajya Sabha

14. Who was the court Poet of Samudra Gupta? Harishena

15. Who was the first female president of Indian National Congress?

Sarojini Naidu

1. Who was accompanying Bhagat Sigh while throwing a Bomb at the central legislature at New Delhi?

Batukeshwar Datta

2. Who was the founder of Swadesh Bandhav samiti? Aswini Kumar Datta

3. What is a national income?

Sum total of factor Incomes

4. The constitution of India is rigid or flexible?

Both partially.

5. What is the reason that Sunadarbans were declared as world Heritage?

Because of Mangrove Forests and Biodiversity

6. Who was the Mughal emperor , from whom East India Company Secured Diwani?

Shah Aaalam II

7. Who was the governor General at the time of ‘Sepoy Mutiny’.

Canning

8. In whose court ,Amir Khusro was a Court Poet?

Alauddin Khilji

9. Who was the writer of Sundarkaand? Tulsidas, Sunadarkand is a part of Ramcharitamanas.

10. Which Mughal emperor was defeated by Shershah in 1540? –

Humayun

11. Who is famous as Father of Modern India? Raja Ram Mohan Roy

12. Who used the word ‘Swarajya’ First?

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

13. Who were associated with Lahore Conspiracy Case? Bhagat Singh, Rajguru & Sukhdev

14. Where did the formation of Azad Hind Fauj take Place?-

Singapore

15. What were the watchwords for French Revolution? Liberty , Equality and Fraterenity

1. Who was the author of ‘Common Sense’ , a revolutionary pamphlet of the American Revolution?

Thomas Paine

2. Who constructed Red fort of Delhi?

Shah Jahan

3. Which canal connects Baltic Sea and North sea?

Keil Canal

4. Detroit is famous for which industry?

Automobiles

5. Who was first to measure the circumference of Earth?

Eratosthenes

6. How much of longitude account for one hour?

15 degree

7. Which quality of iron ore is best based upon iron content?

Magnetite, followed by hematite>Limonite>Siderite

8. In which sea Sunda Trench Lies?

Indian Ocean

9. Amravati is a tributary of which river?

Kaver

10. Which river flows between Vindhyan & satpura ranges?

Narmada

11. In which only decade, India’s Population had shown negative growth?

1911.1921

12. Sun is visible little before actual sunrise, because of which phenomenon?

Atmospheric Refraction

13. What does a lens with .5D number mean? -A concave less with a focal length of 20 cms

14. What type of vibrations is produced in sitar wire? Stationary Transverse

15. A typical human ribcage consists of how many ribs?

24

1. What kind of forests cover maximum area in India

Tropical Dry Deciduous Forests

2. In West Bengal where the Silk Industry is found? Cooch Behar

3. Wher is located Saraswati Hydro.electric Project?

Karnataka

4. Who is the final authority to interpret the constitution?

Supreme Court

5. Who introduced Gurumukhi Script?

Guru Angad

6. In which year Rowlett Act was passed?

1919

7. Seleukas was defeated by?

Chandra Gupta Maurya

8. Who organized ‘Bratachari’ Movement?

Gurusaday Datta

9. What was the primary emphasis during 2nd 5 year Plan?

Basic & Key Industries

10. What kind of a valley Narmada flows through? -V.shaped Fluvial Valley

11. The constitution of India, established a parliamentary system of Government. This was Based on which country’s pattern?

-Britain

12. What was the name of writer of Bande Mataram?

Bankimchandra Chatterjee

13. Who was the first editor of ‘Yugantar’?

Barindra Ghosh

14. Where did ‘Tebhega’ movement occurred in 1946?

Bengal

15. Who was the founder of Muslim League of India?

Nawab Salim Ullah

1. Who accords recognition to political parties? Election Commission

2. Pitcher plant is what kind of a plant?

Insectivorous

3. Who founded Gadar Party in America?

Hardayal

4. In which session, the Indian National Congress adopted the resolution of ‘Poorna Swaraj’?

Lahore

5. Which genes on activation cause Cancer?

Oncogenes

6. What do we collectively call the Biochemical Processes taking place in Body?

-Metabolism

7. People perform better when they are in competition than they are alone, what is this concept?

Group Dynamics

8. The award for best film in IIFA in 2007 was given to which Film?

Rawng De Basanti

9. What is the resistance of a 200V.100W bulb?

400 ohm

10. Who has written ‘Train to Pakistan’?

Khushwant Singh

11. What is the name of the policy, related to revenue and expenditure of the Government?

-Fiscal Policy

12. India has a dispute with Bangladesh on distribution of water from which barrage?

Farakka Barrage

13. Panchayats were given constitutional status in which Amendment of Constitution?

73rd

14. Who was the founder of ‘Anushilan Samity’?

P. Mitra

15. Who was the Founder of Bahmani Kingdom?

Alauddin Bahaman Shah

1. Who founded Academic Association? Ishwarchadra Vidyasagar

2. Why Noonmati is famous A location for Pvt. Sector Oil Refinery

3. Linus Paluing received Nobel Prize for two times? Which was the area?

1954 Chemistry and 1962 Peace

4. What is the name of Japanese Prime Minister?

Yasuo Fukuda

5. Which day we observe world AIDS Day?

December 1st

6. The population growth rate in India is increasing or decreasing?

Decreasing

7. Who despite of being nonmember can participate in the business of either house of parliament?

Attorney General

8. Who appoints the chief Justice of Supreme Court of India?

president in consultation with judges of High Courts and

Supreme Court.

9. On which kind of soil cotton in India best grows on?

Black Soil

10. Who has responsibility of Maintaining Foreign exchange reserves in the country?

RBI

11. By what name “Abdul Gaffar Khan” was better known as?

Frontier Gandhi or seemant Gandi (in Hindi)

12. Who was the last independent Nawab of Bengal?

Siraj.ud.daula

13. Who founded Vikramasila.Vihara?

Dharampal

14. Who is Argentina’s first elected president? Ms. Chritina Fernadez de Kircher

15. How much growth was targeted in 11th 5 Year Plan?

9%

1. What was the topic, on which Einstein was awarded for Noble Prize?

Photoelectric Effect

2. How much blood does an adult heart pump in 1 hour?

300 liters

3. Who became the 52nd Prime Minister of Great Britain in June 2007?

Gorden Brown

4. Leishmania Donovani is a diseases transmitted by whom?

Sand Fly

5. The Governer of Lousiana in New Orleans in USA is an Indian Origin, what is his name?

Bobby Jindal

6. What do you call a parliament which has no party in clear majority?

Hung Parliament

7. Who has written ‘Ignited Minds’?

APJ Abdul Kalam

8. In which five year plan Rourkela & Durgapur Steel plants were conceived?

Second

9. What is lignite?

A Type of Coal

10. A constitutional body appointed by the president, every five years to review centre state financial relationships. What do we call it

Finance Commission

11. Who handed over the charge of Indian National Army to Netaji?

Ras Behari Bose

12. What kind of a tree is “sal”?

Deciduous

13. What is the major topographic feature of western Rajasthan?

Sand Dunes

14. Who was the first governor general of Independent India?

Lord Mountbatten

15. What is a common thing in Radio Wave, X Ray and Visible Light?

They all are electromagnetic waves

1. Which country is going to host 2014 FIFA World Cup?

Argentina

2. What do we call the instrument to measure blood pressure?

Sphygmomanometer

3. What is the most common mental disease?

Schizophrenia

4. What is helpful for pollination in flowers without petals?

Wind

5. What is the name of the vitamin that helps in clotting of Blood?

Vitamin K

6. What is the name of a process which is used by a retrovirus to Convert from RNA to DNA?

Reverse Transcriptase

7. What is the name of the disease which is characterized by “Complete loss of memory”?

Amnesia

8. Parkinson’s is a brain diseases which is characterized by loss of nerve cells in which part of the brain?

Cerebral Cortex

9. Who has written the book, “To a Hunger Free World”?

MS Swaminathan

10. Govt has launched a program IDSP to monitor certain diseases. What is the full form of this program?

Integrated Disease Surveillance Project

11. Govt. of India has launched a scheme ‘Swayamsidha”. Whom for?

Women

12. With which game Davis cup is associated?

Lawn Tennis

13. With Which game DCM trophy is associated?

Football

14. Volley, smash, Gambit, Service. What is the common thread among these terms?

They are related to Lawn Tenis

15. In which year first five year plan was launched?

1951

1. What is the normal period of Kharif Crop? Mid June to October end

2. What is the minimum age of President of India candidate?

35 year

3. Who has written the book”City of Joy”?

Dominique Lapierre

4. India’s first Defence University is set up in which state?

Hariyana

5. Raila Odinga is related to which country? He is Prime Minister of Kenya

6. Who has written the book “Sandy Storms”

Sandeep patil

7. “Amos.3 “satellite was launched by which country?

Israel

8. Recently Rahul Dravid completed his ten thousand runs in Test Cricket. In a match against which country did he achieve this?

South Africa

9. Who is father of Green Revoution? -Father of India's Green Revolution. Dr. M.S. Swaminathan and Father of Green Revolution.

Dr. Norman Borlaug

10. Where Buland darwaja”?

Fatehpur Sikari

11. Which ancient sage is called father of “Sanskrit”?

-Panini

12. What is the ratio of length and breadth of Indian National Flag?

3:2

13. Which was the first occasion when our national song was sung for the first time?

1896 session of Indian National Congress

14. When our national Anthem was was first sung? December 27, 1951 calcutta

15. How much is the playing time of our National Anthem?

Approx 52 seconds

1. What is the name of the first month of National Calendar of India?

Chaitra

2. Who built Jama masjid?

Shahjahan

3. Whose court visited Sir Thomas Roe?

Jehangir

4. Where is situated the battlefield of Plassy?

West Bengal

5. In which year the first battle of plassy was fought?

1757

6. In the third battle of Panipat, who defeated Mmarathas?

Afgans

7. In which year the battle of HaldiGhati was fought?

1576

8. In which year battle of Talikota was fought?

1565

9. What was the name of Harsha’s Capital?

Kannaauj

10. What was the name of the Chinese pilgrim who visited during the reign of Harshavardhana?

Hiuen Tsang

11. During whose reign Ajanta period was built?

Guptas

12. What was the real name of “Vikramaditya”?

ChandraGupta II

13. Which war strategy Shivaji Used against Moghuls?

Guerilla Warfare

14. Where is Vidyasagar Setu? Kolkata

15. “Thein Dam” is being constructed on which river?

Ravi

1. On which river the “Gandhi Sagar dam” is being constructed?

Chambal

2. Srisailam Hydroelectric Project is based upon which river?

Krishna

3. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?

Johannes Kepler

4. Who invented elevator?

EG Otis

5. .Who invented Radar?

Robert Watson Watt

6. Which country launched First satellite?

USSR

7. What are “Dog days”? Period during which the Dog star rises at

the same time of that of sun

8. What are Galileo Satellites?

4 moons of Jupiter

9. Which two countries are linked by Karakorm Pass?

India & China

10. “Upper Volta “is known by a new name. What is that?

Burkina Fasso

11. A series of wars fought over 116 years, between England & France and later Burgundy, is commonly named as?

Hundred Years War

12. India Post has launched a new postal service recently. What is its name?

World Net Express

13. Recently International Film Festival in India Concluded in December 2008. Where?

Panaji

14. On which Day we celebrate National Cadet Corps Day?

Nov. 23

15. In which Indian City was the first European Factory built by the Portuguese in 1500 AD?

Kozhikode (Earlier Calicut)

1. "Smriti ki Rekhayen", who is the writer of this memoir?

Mahadevi Verma

2. What is the name of the mural painting whose name is based upon a name of a Bihar District?

Madhubani

3. Who was the first Law Minister of India?

Dr. BR Ambedkar

4. What is full form of IPO?

Initial Public Offer

5. The states of India were reorganized on the basis of Language in which year?

1956

6. "Seed Therapy” is related to which disease?

Detection of Breast Cancer

7. World's Fourth Fastest Computer is built in India. What is its name?

Eka

8. "Republic" was written by whom?

Plato

9. Who is First India woman Grandmaster in Chess?

S Vijay Laxmi

10. What is the name of capital of Mizoram?

Aizawl

11. The world "Forestry Day" is observed on which date?

21st March

12. At present what is the percent area of the total geographical area of India is under forest cover?

20.64%

13. The year 2008 was observed / recognized by International Year of …………?

Coral Reefs

14. In which year the "Environment (Protection) Act” was formed?

1986

15. How many countries are the shareholders of IBRD?

185 member countries are shareholders

1. Who gives "Vachaspati Award"?

Birla Foundation

2. Who was the director of "Tare Zamin Par"?

Amir Khan

3. A business takeover procedure in which acquiring company uses its Own Shares to pay for the acquired......

Share Swap

4. "Chuni Goswami" is related to which sports?

Football

5. FIFA Cup helds at a regular interval of 4 year since 193 0. Which were the year when FIFA couldn't held?

1942 & 1946 due to WW.II

6. Which is the only country to win FIFA for 5 times?

Brazil

7. The Universe in a single Atom. This book has been written by whom?

Dalai Lama

8. Who has been the First Runner Up of Miss World 2008?

Parvathy Omnakuttan

9. 2009 Golden Pen of Freedom Award has been conferred to whom?

Najam Sethi

10. On what date we celebrate "Human Rights Day"?

December 10

11. Who is the Indian Business man who has ranked 6th among the top most powerful faces in the world in Forbes Magazine? M

Mukesh Ambanai

12. Who is the first Indian Actor to get Malaysian Title"Datuk"?

Shahrukh Khan

13. Who has been awarded the United Nations Human Right Awards

Benzir Bhutto

14. Saina Nehwal plays which sports?

Badminton

15. Who is declared the European Footballer of the Year?

Christiano Ronaldo

1. Warren Buffet has been recently in news due to American Newspaper Business Week List of Top ___?

Donors

2. Recently NABARD has approved a loan to UP for 5 irrigation projects? How much is this amount?

Rs. 205 Crore

3. What is the name of World's first Personal Super Computer?

Tesla

4. "Maradona " a football player who recently visited India belongs to which country?

Argentina

5. On what date World Laugher Day is celebrated ?

January 10

6. Who has recently topped the list of Australian Sports Earners?

Greg Norman

7. Who has been recently appointed as Deputy Speaker of House of Lords?

Lord Swaraj Paul

8. When we celebrate the International Holocaust Remembrance Day?

Jan 27

9. "Electra Gold Cup" is associated with which sports?

Table Tennis

10. According to Transparency International, what is India's rank in 2008 Bribe Payers Index?

4th

11. Who has been recently appointed as Director of State Bank of India?

R. Sridharan

12. Which Bank has recently won Nasscom. CNBC TV 18 IT User Award?

HDFC Bank

13. Who has been recently appointed the Deputy Chief Minister of master?

Chhagan Bhujbal

14. "India shall export Wheat to Nepal", This was a news recenlty. How much wheat

10000 tons

15. Which year has been fixed to achieve most of the Millennium Development Goals?

2015

1. MTNL has recently launched its 3G Services. From which city they have started this?

New Delhi

2. Who has been recently elected as Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh?

Dr. Raman Singh

3. Sania MirZa was conferred the Honorary Degree of "Doctor of Letters" by which University?

MGR University

4. "Omega Mission Hills World Cup" is related to which game?

Golf

5. How many Indians have been included in top 50 IAAF individual Ranking?

7

6. When do we observe "World Leprosy Day"? last sunday of january.

7. The divine faith was a monument of Akbar's folly and not his wisdom. What was divine faith?

Din.I.ilahi

8. Who founded Mughal Empire?

Babur

9. "Swaraj is my Birth right and I shall have it” Who said this?

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

10. What was the meaning of "Manigramam" in Medieval south India?

Association of Merchants

11. From where the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 got started?

Meerut

12. What is the meaning of "Sutudri" mentioned in Rig Veda?

The name of a river

13. "Go Back to Vedas" whose motto was this?

Swami Dayanand Saraswati

14. If worshipping stones one can find God, I would have worshipped a Mountain. "Who has said this?

Kabir

15. Jallianwalla Bagh massacre occurred in which year?

1919

1. One of the Indus Valley Cities had houses with doors in the main street. Which one?

Lothal

2. Whose work is "Poverty and Un.British Rule in India? Quot;?

Dadhabhai Naoroji

3. Which metal was traded in the trading of most ancient periods known?

Copper

4. What was the main item of Indian Export to RomanEmpire

Luxury Goods

5. In which year quit India Movement was launched?

1942

6. When the Simon commission visited India, who was the Viceroy of India?

Lord Irwin

7. Lakshmi Bai, Tantya Tope and Nana Saheb all were related to which mutiny?

1857

8. Who was the first Muslim King to conquer Deccan?

Ala.Ud.Din Khilji

9. Who was the first Governor General to adopt the device of separate electorates to win over the muslims faith?

Lord Minto.

10. What was the other name of Kautilya?

Chanakya

11. Ring Fence is associated with which English Official?

Warren Hastings

12. Agricultural Income Tax revenue goes to which government: Central or State?

State

13. Which operation is related to Milk Production?

Operation Flood

14. Issuing paper currency in India is a sole right of ….?

RBI

15. In which year Planning Commission in India Was Established?

1950

1. Our Constitution has envisaged how many types of Currencies?

3

2. Who calls the joint session of Parliament?

President

3. Sabaramati Ashram was established in which year?

1917

4. No confidence Motion against the Union Government can be initiated in Lokasabha or Rajya sabha or both?

Loksabha

5. What was the deity of Most Chola Temples?

Shiva

6. Where did the first session of Indian National Congress hold?

Bombay

7. In 'Gupta Period’. The largest number of coins were issued in which metal?

Gold

8. Where did Budhdha preach is first sermon?

Sarnath

9. What do we call the grasslands in South America?

Pampas

10. In what use we take Anemometer?

To measure wind velocity

11. In which ocean Marina Trench Found?

Pacific Ocean

12. Iodine turns from Brown to blue black on Potato cutting because of …….?

starch

13. How many valves are found in Human Heart?

two

14. What is the main function of Lymphocytes?

Production of Antibodies

15. Salivary glands secrete which enzyme?

Diastase

1. The highest specific heat is of …………?

water

2. What do we call the device which is used to locate submerged objects under sea?

Sonar

3. When a liquid boils, the Vapour Pressure is ………….Atmospheric Pressure? Hints: Equal to / Less

Equal to

4. For what purpose Heavy water is used in Nuclear Reactors?

Moderator

5. Many a times Police uses Tear Gas to disperse a mob. What does it contain?

Chlorine

6. Dada Saheb Falke award was given to which lady for the first time?

-Devika Ran

7. Where are the headquarters of International Court of Justice?

The Hague

8. 'Subroto Cup ' is associated with which game?

Football

9. What was the name of First Talkie film in India?

Alam Ara

10. Which cells in our body have the least generative power?

Brain Cells

11. Tughlaq, Khilji, Slave, Lodhi. What will be the right chronological order?

SlaveKhilji.Tughlaq.Lodhi

12. Which state of today is called "Empire of Satvahana Kings"?

Andhra Pradesh

13. Hampi is famous for what which monuments? Vijayanagar Empire

14. The battle of Talikota was fought in which year?

1565

15. Who built the temples of Halebid and Belur?

Hoysalas

1. One incident made Gandhi Ji call of Noncooperation movement. What was that?

Chauri Chaura Incident

2. Iltutmish had introduced a coin of 175 gms. This coin was made of which metal?

Silver

3. Two antilopes and a hunter has been noticed on a pot from cemetery H which Ancient Civilization?

Harappa

4. Under Maurya the 'Kumar " was responsible for which part of the administration?

Provincial governance

5. Aurangzed was a good player of which Musical Instrument?

Veena

6. What was the name of the muslim Scholar who came to India at the time of Mahmud of Ghazni?

Al.Beruni

7. The use of running waters even in palaces and pleasure resorts was a special feature of which architecture?

Mughal

8. What was the name of the versatile, genius, writer in Hindi, Persian, Arabic, in the reign of Akbar?

Abdur.rahim.khankhana (Raskhan)

9. According to Babur Nama what lured him to come to India?

Abundance of gold & Silver

10. After Chauri Chaura incident Gandhi ji went to talk with whom?

Lord Irwin

11. Mohammad Ghori's last expedition in India wasagainst whom?

Khokars in 1206

12. Kalidasa has written 'Malvikagnimitra'. In this drama the Hero Agnimitra was known to be a king of which dynasty?

Sunga

13. When Ahmed Shah Abdali did invaded India for the first time?

1748

14. Who wrote Akbaranama? And in Which language?

Abul Fazl , in Persian

15. What was the name of another work by Abul Fazl?

Ain I Akbari

1. In which Year Akbar Promulgated Din.i.ilahi?

1581

2. Who was one of the Generals of Ala.ud.din Khilji who ultimately became the First sultan of Tughlaq Dyanasty?

Ghazi Malik

3. The endeavour to ernestly to introduce a real element of local self-government was done by which Governor?

Lord Rippon

4. In Sikandara, the mausoleum of which Mughal Emperor situated?

Akbar

5. Which organisation gives Saraswati Samman? KK Birla Foundation

6. Thomas cup is associated with which game?

Badminton

7. On which date "National Consumer Rights Day” is celebrated?

24th December

8. Which railway line has been recently declared a world heritage site?

Shimla

9. By which year Chandrayaan II will be launched?

Kalka Shimla

10. Who has written the Book “Audacity of Hope"?

Barak Obama

11. Jawaharlal Nehru Award is given for contribution in which field?

International Understanding

12. .Who has been selected for 2009 women of Discovery Award?

Aparajita Datta

13. What is the range of Shaurya Missile?

700 kms

14. Who was given the Pride of India Award 2008? Dr. Rami Ranger and GS Bhalla

15. Which country has allowed FDI from India for the first time in history?

Nepal

1. NREGA guarantees how many days employment?

100 days

2. Prakash & Madakini Amte were given which award recently?

Magsaysay Award

3. "India, that is Bharat, shall be a union of states". This is in which article of Indian constitution?

Article 1

4. What do we call a rule of legislative procedure under which a further debate on a motion can be stopped?

Closure

5. When does a bill presented in parliament becomes an act?

After president has given his assent

6. The minimum age of candidate for the office of the President of India is…….yrs.

35

7. A candidate seeking elections to a state Legislative Assembly must have completed how many years?

25

8. Who can resolve the dispute between two houses of Parliament?

Loksabha Speaker

9. Finance commission is appointed by president for how many years?

5 years

10. The High Court consists of Chief Justice and other judges. Who determines other Judges?

President

11. Who can remove the judge of the High Court from his office before expiry of his time?

President on the recommendation of Parliament

12. A Judge of High court will address his resignation to…….?

The President

13. The judge of Supreme court of India Holds the office till he attains the age of ……yrs?

65

14. A member of Loksabha may vacate his seat before expiry of his time by writing to ………………?

Speaker

15. A minister of is not member of a legislative assembly has to win election within ……….months.

six

1. A money bill can originate in Loksabha or Rajya Sabha or both?

In Loksabha

2. What is the administrative authority at the 'block' level?

Panchayat Samiti

3. If a person is arrested and detained in Police, has to be produced before nearest Magistrate within…………period?

24 hrs

4. A session of the Loksabha is prorogued by order of………..?

President

5. Who decides a bill is money bill or not?

Speaker of the Loksabha

6. In 42nd amendment two more words have been added to the preamble. What are they?

Secular & Socialist

7. What are the five words of Preamble to the constitution of India?

Sovereign, Socialist, Secular, Democratic, Republic

8. Who can appoint ad hoc judges in Supreme Court?

The Chief Justice of India with the prior consent of the

President of India

9. A retired judge of High court can do private practice in which court?

In another court of same or higher level

10. An ordinance issued by a governor can remain in force on its own for a maximum period of .......months?

six

11. Which article of the constitution gives right to Equality?

Article 17.

12. Which article of our constitution forms the core chapter on Fundamental Rights?

Article 19

13. The number of categories of freedoms that an Indian Citizen can have?

6

14. Article 370 is applicable in which state?

J&K

15. Who can participate in the proceedings of both the houses without even being a member?

Attorney General

1. How many states India has at Present?

28

2. How many Union Territories India has at present?

7

3. In which state of India Sal Trees are concentrated?

Assam

4. One-horned Rhinoceros are found in which National Park?

Kaziranga in Assam

5. Where is a permanent seismological observatory located in India?

Latur

6. When a person travels from Kerla to Delhi, what kind of forests come on the way and in which ssequence

Tropical EvergreenSavanna-dry deciduous-deciduous

7. In which state of india about 50% of total silk is produced?

Karnataka

8. .Which state in India produces about 60% of India's Total salt?

Gujrat

9. Maximum raw silk comes from which state In India?

Karnataka

10. What is the name of the Bridge between India and Srilanka is called........bridge?

Adam's

11. .In which year, Arunachal Pradesh became a full fledged state?

1987

12. As per 2001 census, which one is the most literate religious community in India?

Jains

13. Banihal Pass is located in which state?

J & K

14. Ganga is known with which name in Bangladesh?

Padma

15. Funnel shapped location surrounded by Khasi, Garo & Jaintia Hills in Meghalaya, popular as a place withmaximum rain fall. What is the name?

ChIrrapunji

16. Chipko Movement is related to conservation of..........?

Forests and wildlife

1. Coir industry is concentrated in which state of India?

Kerala

2. Abhijit Vejjajiva a leader from which country? Thailand. Sworn in as 3rd prime minister in 4 months in December 2008

3. " Idea of Justice" who has written this book Amartya Sen

4. On what date India Observes "Central Excise Day"?

-February 24

5. Recently United Nations Talks on Climate change held at which place?

(2008)Pozanan in Poland

6. .Rehan Butt is related to which sports?- Hockey

7. Who is the sportsman selected by All India Football Federation as Player of the Year in November 2008?

Baichung Bhutia

8. Mohan Bagan team is best known for which sports?

Football

9. What does IBSA stand for? India, Brazil & South Africa

10. What is the full form of BIMSTEC? Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multisectoral Technical &

Economic cooperation

11. Which are the coutries in BIMSTEC? Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, SriLanka, Thailand, Nepal & Bhutan. The first five

are founder members

12. Rajan Committee is raleted to……………reform? Financial Sector

13. Ustad Allah Rakkha Khan is related to which instrument in Indian Clasical Music?

tabla

14. Palghat Mani plays which instrument in Indian Classical Music?-

Mridangam

15. What was the original name of "NurJahan Beghum"?-

Mehrunissa

1. In which language Baburnama was written originally? -

Chagtai Turk

2. Who was first to translate Baburnama in English? Annette Akroyd

3. What was the name of Akbar's Mother? Hamida Beghum ( Mariam Makani)

4. The son of Arjumand Banu Beghum who became Mughal Emperor in India later was……………?

Aurangzeb

5. Firdaus Manzil was the Title of which Mughal Emperor?

Shah Alam II

6. Amar Singh belongs to which party? Samajwadi Party

7. The RBI Governor reviews the Annual Monetary and credit policy every time after a gap of .........months?

three

8. Reserve Bank of India keeps changing the ratio which regulates the minimum reserve each bank must hold to customer's deposits. What this ratio called?

Cash Reserve Ratio

9. Which bank has the punchline"Much more to do with YOU in focus"?

-Andhra Bank

10. A new field of banking system made up of large scale banks that operate extensive networks of branches and provide different services. This new termed emerged in the banking field is...............?

Universal Banking

11. Providing credit and other financial services and products of very small amount to the poor’s in rural / semi/urban area is callled as …………..?

Micro Finance

12. What are Basel Norms? -Norms specially designed to control

various risk factors in bank operations

13. Ashok Mankad was a famous……………….player? Cricket

14. What was the 'name' of logo of Olympic 2008? Dancing Beijing

15. Who has written Midnight Children? Salman Rushdie

1. India has recently inaugurated her First Research Station in Arctic. What is its name?

Himadri

2. Who is ex.offcio.Chairman of the Rajya Sabha?- Vice President

3. "Short Corner" this term is mainly used in which game?

Hockey

4. Rajiv Gandhi Award is given for excellence in the field of ……………?

Sports & games

5. Member of European Union who has refused to honor Lisbon Treety?

-Ireland

6. Children up to which age are covered under Pulse Polio?

5 yrs

7. "The Last Mughal ' Has been written by? William

8. "Gandhi's Emissary" Who has writtten this book? Sudhir Ghosh

9. What is the unit of Intensity of sound? Decibel

10. "Rafael Nadal” is related to which sports? Lawn Tennis

11. R.S.Gavai is the governor of which state? Kerala

12. What is the name of the swiss Adventurer who recently made history by flying across English Channel?

Yves Rossy

13. In september 2008 a typhoon batterd some parts of China. What was its name?

Hagupit

14. Who is the new Prime Minister of Japan? Taro Aso

15. What is the name of Manned spacecraft,china

Shenzhou-7

1. Ryder cup is related to which game? Golf

2. Who won US Open 2008 Men & Women singles? Roger Federer & Serena Williams

3. The first summit of SAARC held at which place? Dhaka

4. SAFTA was signed at which summit of SAARC? 12th summit at Islamabad

5. Where 2009 summit of SAARC is is proposed to hold?

Male

6. Which coutries are in BRIC? Brazil, Russia, China & India

7. What do we call "Holding Assets in the form of Cash"?

Liquidity Preference

8. What is Greenback? US Dollar

9. Who has received Laureus World Sports man award for 2008?

Roger Federer

10. Zenedine Zidane related to which country's Football team?

France

11. Agha Khan cup is related to which game? Hockey

12. Koneru Humpy is related to which game? Chess

13. "Cricket My Style" is a book written by? Kapil Dev

14. Who was the first woman Justice of Indian Highcourt?

Leila Sheth

15. What is the joint River Valley Venture of India & Nepal?

Kosi

1. C.B. Bhave is related to which financial organisation?

SEBI

2. "Alai Darwaja" is a gateway to which monument? Qutub Minar

3. "The nobles were forbidden to hold banquets & Festivities, and make marriage alliances without sultan's permission.” Who was the sultan?

Ala-ud-din-Khilji

4. Ala-ud -din murdered whom before he acceded to the throne?-

Jalluddin Firoz

5. Who has written "Kitab- ul-Hind"? Alberuni

6. Albuqurque captured Goa from ruler of which state?

-Bijapur

7. Who conquered Goa is 1510AD? Alfonso de Albuquerque

8. What is the common thread between "Abdul Qadir Badauani", Naqib Khan & Shaikh sultan of thaneshwar?

They were Scholars of Akbar Court who rendered

9. Which ruler did not accept the Mughal Sway in 16th century?-

Maharana Pratap of Mewar

10. Balban, Iltutmish & QutubUdDin Aibak, what was the common thread among them?

They all were purchased slaves

11. Elizabeth I was contemporary of which mughal ruler?

Akbar

12. Who has written "Kalpsutra" BhadraBahu

13. "Arthshastra" was written by whom and in which period?

Kautilya in Maurya period

14. In which language Amir Khusro wrote mainly? Persian

15. "Amoghvarsha" belonged to which dynasty of kings?

Rastra Kuta

1. One son of Shahjahan got Atharva Veda translated. What was him name?

Dara

2. What is the most famous image constructed in Chola Kingdom?

Bronze image of Nataraja Shiva

3. An eminent machinery for meeting the famine conditions in India was evolved by which English Viceroy of India?

Lord Lytton

4. Where was constructed Lingaraj Temple?

Bhubneshwar

5. Kailashnath temple of Kanchipuram “show which style of architecture?

Nagra Style

6. In khajuraho, which temple show the Nagra Syle?

Kandaraiya Mahadev Temple

7. "Indica" an ancient classic was written by whom?

Megasthenes

8. In which year Annie Besant joined Indian National Congress?

1914

9. "Capture of Javali" was an act of?

-Shivaji

10. "Kalidasa" lived during the reign of which ruler?

ChandraGupta Vikramaditya

11. Who is Shakespere of India? –

Kalidasa

12. Who replaced Harshavardhana?

Nagbhatta I

13. Who was the first ruler of Vardhan Dynasty? Prabhakar Vardhan (Father of Harshavardhana)

14. In which centruy Hieun-Tsang came in Iindia

7th Century

15. Who has written Harshcharita?

Bāṇabhaṭṭa

1. Banbhatta wrote a novel Kadambari. Who was Kadambari in the novel?

The heroine of novel

2. TADA was enacted in which year? 1985

3. Which commission enquired the Godhara carnage?

-Nanavati Commission

4. Who is the Chairman of Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs?

-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

5. Where was the 9th India European Union Summit held in September 2008?

Marsielle , France

6. Where was the first Indo-EU summit held? And when?

Lisbon, June 2000

7. Who was the first president of Pakistan? -Iskandar Mirza

8. Recently United Nations General Assembly's which session held in New York HQ in September 2008?

63rd session

9. Which city has shown highest percapita in the country?

Chadigarh, fifth time in a row

10. What is the all India figure of per capita income in India?

Rs. 29642 (2006-2007)

11. What is the name of Britain's first state funded Hindu School

Krishna Avanti Primary School

12. Who has written the book "Faith of my Fathers"?

John Mc Cain

13. Who has won US open 2008 Men's singles? -Roger Federer

14. Bob Bryan & Mike Bryan were recently in news. For what?

They have won US Open Men's doubles 2008

15. Cara Black is related to which sports? Tennis, winner of US Open 2008 Women's double & also

mixed double.

1. Who shared the victory in mixed doubles in US Open 2008 with Cara Black?

Leander Paes

2. Shashank Manohar is related to which sports? Cricket, he is President elect of BCCI

3. Who is the new coach of Indian Hockey team?

M.K.Kaushik

4. What is the name of official mascot of FIFA 2010?

Zakumi

5. Pankaj Advani is related to which game?

Billiards

6. Subroto Cup is related to which sports?

Football

7. Jyoti Randhawa plays which sports?

Golf

8. Which breed of dogs is most popular in world?

Labrador

9. Titanic sank in which year?

1912

10. What is the full form of LED?

Light Emitting Diode

11. What was the external debt on India (Both Government and non Government) in the year ending March 2008?

$ 221.2 Billion

12. Lary Ellison is related to which company?

Oracle

13. The famous Industrial family "Walton's" are related to which company?

Wal-Mart

14. Sergey Brin & Larry Page are related to which company?

Google, they are co-founders

15. Paul Allen has been related to which company?

Microsoft

1. Punjab J.34 is a variety of which crop?

Cotton

2. Which public sector company of India has been recently declared as largest CO2 emitting company?-

NTPC

3. Which bank uses the slogan “Good People to Good Bank"?

Uco Bank

4. What was the earlier name of Kingfisher Red?

Air Deccan

5. "Parivartan" Scheme has been launched by which bank?

SBI

6. Recently which summit of SAARC held in Colombo?

15th

7. India pays how much of SAARC administrative expenditure?

32%

8. Which country has been admitted in SAARC recently (in 2005)?

Afghanistan

9. The first invasion upon India took place in 712 AD.Who was the invader?

Muhammad Bin Qasim

10. "Mid Day Meal Scheme" is a scheme for school children lunch. Which ministry has launched this sscheme

-Ministry of Human Resource Development

11. "Annapurna Scheme" is a scheme of which ministry?

Ministry of Rural Development

12. "20 Point Programme" was initiated in which year?

1975

13. What is the contribution of Agriculture in India's GDP?

17.6%

14. In which city International Statistical Education Center is situated?

Kolkata

15 On the lines of Central Government, which state has adopted the concept of 5 days week, recently?

Rajasthan

1. Where the next SAARC summit is proposed to held Male in Maldives

2. In August 2008, which company is India has been given the status of Mini Ratna?

Hindustan Copper Limited

3. National Youth Festival was held in which city in January?

Amritsar

4. Who among the Portuguese, French and English were the first to come to India to establish trade relationships?

Portuguese

5. "Kuyil Pattu" is a work of famous poet? What is his name?

Subrmanya Bharti

6. The governor of Madras who made a treaty with Tipu?

Lord McCartney

7. At which place East India Company opened its First factory?

Machilipatnam

8. In which year East India Company was brought under British parliamentary control?

-1773

9. Tantya Tope hailed from which place?

Gwalior

10. Nana saheb hailed from which place?

Kanpur

11. Who founded Seva Sadan in Bombay?

Bahram Ji Malabari

12. On what date Indian Rebellion of 1857 started?

10 May 1857

13 Swami Dayanand is related to which Samaj?

Arya samaj

14. Muhammad Bin Qasim defeated king of Sindh In 712 AD. What was the name of the King?

-Dahira

15. Babarnama is in which language?

Chagtai Persian

1. The Mughal emperor who was deported to Rangoon was?

Bahadur Shah Jafar

2. Who was the patriot in the 1857 mutiny who fled to nepal?

Nana Saheb

3. Which samaj was related to Swami Satyanand Agnihotri?

Dev Samaj

4. Jatiya Sarkar was related to which state?

Bengal, Tamaluk

5. Recently a postage stamp was released by President in the memory of which Army Field Marshal?

Field Marshal Manekshaw

6. Vijay Diwas is celebrated on what date every year?

December 16

7. In which city, situated at the confluence of sacred rivers Ganga and Gandak, is the biggest cattle fair of Asia held on Kartik Purnima?

Sonepur (Bihar)

8. Who is ISRO chairman?

G. Madhavan Nair

9. Recently first satellite built by ISRO was successfully put into its orbit for a foreign customer fetching a profit of $ 40 Million. What was its name?

W2M

10. What is the full form of GSLV? -Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle

11. A cyclone caused widespread devastation in Myanmar claiming 100000 lives in 2008. What was its name?

Nargis

12. Shaikh Haseena is from which party?

Awami League

13. Who is Bangladesh's father of nation?

Shekh Mujib-ur-rehman

14. Rajiv Ratan Awas Yojna is carried out by which state Govt.?

Delhi

15. What is the residence of Governor of Delhi called?

Raj Niwas

1. Which state in India has recently taken up the "World's Biggest Greening Project” recently?

Kerala

2. Which state has decided to raise separate unit of guards on the Lines of NSG to combat terrorist attacks?

Maharastra , Force 1

3. Recently a newly won chiefminister has taken "7 resolutions" to make his state "Goden State". Who is that -chief minister?

Shivraj Singh Chauhan of Madhya

Pradesh

4. Keoladeo Bird sanctuary is in which state?

Rajasthan

5. Arjun Atwal is related to which sports?

Golf

6. C. K. Nayadu Trophy is related to which sports?

Cricket

7. Women world Cup is proposed to hold in which. country in 2009?

Australia

8. "Manchester United Premier Cup" is related to which. Game?

Football

9. "BILT Open" is a tournament in the field of which. Game?

Golf

10. "Michael Phelps" is related to which sports?

swimming

11. TUF scheme is related to which industry?

Textiles

12. Recently where in India was held the second summit of BIMSTEC?

-New Delhi

13. Which element is used for the x-ray of elementary canal?

Barium

14. If a seed germinates while the fruit is still at the plant, then what is this concept called?

Vivipary

15. A bat is a bird. Is it right?

No, Bat is a mammal

1. A butterfly shaped gland in the body in front part of neck which regulates growth?

Thyroid

2. Why camels adapt in desert?

A hump with food as fats

3. A vitamin that acts with enzyme is called?

co-enzyme

4. What is the unit of heredity?

Gene

5. What is called a centre for the preservation of dry specimens of plants?

Herbarium

6. What is the fibrous connective tissue that joints bones? Together at joints?

Ligament

7. Which blood group is universal donor?

O group

8. Which chromosome among X & Y is imparted to a person by his mother only?

X

9. What is body Mass Index? Ratio of Body Weight divided by square of height in meters

10. Why liver gets damaged because of consumption of alcohol?

Excess Fat Storage

11. Beri Beri is caused because of deficiency of which. Vitamin?

Thiamine ( Vitamin B1)

12. The flower which we look at Sunflower is actually ………?

Inflorescence

13. The minute bodies in the cell called as powerhouse of body?

Mitochondria

14. The plant cell is easily distinguished from an animal cell due to which part?

Cell wall in plant cell

15. Among carbohydrates, proteins and fats, amino acid is the smallest unit of?

Proteins

1. A plant which lives on another plant but does not take. Food from it is called?

Entophyte or epiphyte Epiphyte

2. Green house effect is because of which gas?

Co2

3. Ethyl Alcohol is found in wine & other drinks. What is found in poisonous liquor which causes deaths in India frequently?

Methyl alcohol

4. How many bones are present in human body?

206

5. Which part controls "reflex Actions”?

-Spinal Cord

6. Calciferol is the name of which vitamin?

Vitamin D

7. What Tocoferol is normally called?

-Vitamin E

8. What is watergate?

A scandal

9. What is the name of the American Bullion?

Fort Knox

10. What is the capital of Morocco?

-Rabat

11. "Death Valley” is located in which part of USA?

California

12. Galileo Satellites are 4 moons of which planet?

Jupiter

13. What is old Faithful?

A Geyser in USA

14. Which type of coal has 90 % carbon and no smoke?

Anthracite

15. What is "willy willy”? Tropical Revolving Storm in North west Australian Waters

1.

Which are the “Low Countries" of Europe? Netherland and Belgium

2. What is the "land of White Elephant"?

Thailand

3. What is a "cirque"?

A bowl shaped depression caused by glacial erosion

4. "Cataract” apart from a disease in eye is referred to another thing in Geography?

A type of waterfall.

5. The tail of a comet is always pointing away /towards Sun? 124. When a man crosses the International Date Line from east to west, one day is added or reduced?

To west added, to east subtracted

6. How many million kilometers in a light year?

9.5 million years

7. Where "Maginot Line" was created after WWII? French Border with Germany & Itay

8. What is an “Isthmus”? A narrow strip of land connecting to larger lands

9. Among Venus, Earth, Mars & Saturn, which planet will take Maximum time to revolve around Sun?

Saturn

10. The planet nearest to Sun is?

Mercury

11. A youth full river shall give rise to which kind of valley?

V shapped

12. A warm surface ocean current from Gulf of Mexico towards Atlantic is called?

Gulf Stream

13. In China how much of world's population lives (in percentage).

25%

14. Recently Cabinet has approved the bill to be placed in parliament to raise FDI in Insurance from 26 % to……. %?

49

15. As per Forbes Magazine, who is richest Indian?

Mukesh Ambani

1. At what rate (in percentage) RBI has placed the GDP growth during first quarter of 2008.09?

7.9%

2. How much (in percentage) teledensity in India as per TRAI was at the end of 2008

30-64%

3. The' Currency Futures" started first at which exchange?

NSE

4. What status was given to Coal India Limited recently?

Navratna

5. What is PFRDA? Pension Fund Regulatory & Development Authority

6. NASSCOM has recently estimated that India animation industry will touch 5600 crore rupees by year……?

2012

7. ASEM is Asia Europe Meeting Summit. Recently where its seventh summit was held?

Beijing

8. "Craft Ind 2008" a fair to showcase India Handicraft Products. Where it was held recently (October 2008)?

-Jaipur

9. What is the new SLR (Statutory Liquidity Ratio) of RBI?

SLR (Statutory Liquidity Ratio)=24%

10. On what date World Forestry Day is celebrated?

March 21

11. Who was Prabhakaran?

-LTTE Chief

12. Subhash Chandra Bose "netaji" was given Bharat Ratna in which year?

1992

13. Fort william was built in the memory of which British King?

William III

14. Jim Corbet National Park is in Kumaon. Who was Jim Corbett?

Indian Born British Hunter

15. Who has written "Bharat Dardasha"?

Bhatendu

1. Which is the lightest metal in the periodic table? Lithium

2. How much distance is covered in marathon race? (Roughly in Miles)?

26 miles

3. Which king of Ancient India has been given the title" Indian Nepoleon" by VA Smith?

Samudra Gupta

4. What is the national Sports of USA?

Base Bal

5. Vyapaar Samhita was a business law, introduced by a famous Ancient Indian King. What was his name?

Ashoka the Great

6. What is the name of Neem in Botanical terms? Azadirachta Indica

7. Millet (Bajra) is a Kharif or Rabi Crop?

Kharif

8. What the winter crops or spring harvest are called in India?

Rabi Crop

9. At which place records show the most ancient happening of Olympics?

Olympia In Greece

10. How many languages and dialects are spoken in the world?

Approx. 9000

11. Which language has richest vocabulary?

English

12. Which is oldest Indian Language?

Tamil

13. Which book has been printed in maximum number of languages?

Bible

14. Only religious book published in shorthand till now is?

Bible

15. What is the oldest printed work in the word? The Hirak Sutra , 868 A.D.

1. Which one is the longest novel ever written? Les Hommes de Bonne Volonte

2. Who had written Mahabharata?

Ved Vyasa

3. Who has written AnandMath?

-Bankim Chandra Chatarjee

4. Who has written Apple Cart?

George Bernard Shaw

5. Who has written Arthshastra?

Koutilya

6. Who has written “AutoBiography of an Unknown Indian"?

Nirad C. Chaudhaury

7. Who has written the play “Bharat Bharti”? Maithili Sharan Gupta

8. Who has written "Bisarjan”?

Rabindra Nath Taigore

9. Who has written "Bunch of Old Letters"?

Jawahar Lal Nehru

10. Who has written “Das Kapital”?

Kar Marx

11. Who has written “Decent of Man"?

Charles Darwin

12. Who has written Discovery of India?

Jawahar lal Nehru

13. Who has written the novel “From here to an eternity"?

James Jones

14. Who has written" The Gardner”?

Rabindra Nath Tagore

15. "Gita Rahasya” has been written by who? Bal Gangadhar Tilak

1. Who has written “Glimpses of World History”. Who has written this?

Jawahar Lal Nehru

2. Who has written"Godan”?

Munshi Premchand

3. Who has written"Hindu View of Life”?

Dr. Radhkrishnan

4. "India Divided" was written by whom?

-Dr. Rajendra Prasad

5. Who has written Kumarsambhava?

-Kalidasa

6. Who has written “Life Divine”?

-Aurobindo Ghos

7. Who has written “My Truth”?

-Indira Gandhi

8. Who has written "Oliver Twist”?

Charles Dickens

9. . Who has written “Ratnavali”?

-Harshavardhana

10. Who interpreted Honeybee's languages to communicate?

-Karl Von Frish

11. Where is located the National Research Centre for Women in Agriculture?

Bhubneshwar

12. Who is the quickest bowler to take 700 wickets in test?

Muttiah Muralidharan

13. Who is known as Maker of Modern India? Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru

14. The only bowler in the history of Test Cricket to claim Hat-Trick in the first over of a match?

irfan Pathan

15. The First Indian Women to get an Olympic Medal?

Karnam Malleshwari

1. Trinidad & Tobago got independence in 1992. From which country?

Britain

2. ISO is International Organization for Standardization. Where are the headquarters?

-Geneva

3. Which one is India's southernmost PORT?

Tuticorin

4. United Arab Emirates is a federation of Emirates. How many Emirates?

Seven

5. State in India, where IIT & IIM both are present? Uttar Pradesh, IIT Kanpur & IIM Lucknow

6. English Legal Charter which led to development of Constitutional Law i?

Magna Carta

7. Who was the first chairman of Planning Commission?

Jawahar lal Nehru

8. Who has written "My Music My Love"?

Ravi shankar

9. Largest number of Districts in which Indian State? Uttar Pradesh

10. As per Hindu Mythology who is considered as Physician of Gods?

Dhanvantari

11. What is north to south extension of India?

3214

12. In which state Bodo Language is spoken? –

Assam

13. Where is National Institute of Oceanography

Panaji

14. There is a small village in Karnataka, where people speak Sanskrit. What is the name of the village?

Mattur

15. Where are the headquarters of UNESCO?

Paris

1. "The New Courier" is a publication, published by? UNESCO

2. Which amendment of constitution of India lowered the age of voting from 21 years to 18 years?

61st amendmen

3. Who has written “Unto This last”

-John Ruskin

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