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1. Alpha-keratin is a protein present in
which thing?
2. Where was the first session of the
Constituent Assembly held?
3. Which of the following is used as ‘a
moderator in nuclear reactor?
4. Which planet looks reddish in the night
sky?
5. What was the source of the blue gem
stone, lapis lazuli, for the people of Harappan culture?
6. Sachin Tendulkar scored his 100th
international century against which ‘country?
7. In baseball, the two opposing teams
consist of how many players?
8. The improper function of which results
in condition ‘Myxedema’ in human beings?
9. In 1610, Galileo Galilei discovered four
moons of which planet?
10. In the Vedic society, which was the term
used to denote a group of families?
11. Who was the Chairman ‘of the Union
Constitution Committee of the Constituent Assembly?
12. Which element that does not occur in
nature but can be produced artificially?
13. When had India a plan holiday?
14. How are Latitude and Longitude?
15. Which Philosophy holds that the world is
created and maintained by Universal Law?
16. Which book is authored by V.S. Naipaul?
17. Which can be used for biological control
of mosquitoes?
18. Which proclamation of National Emergency
automatically suspends?
19. The latitude of a place is the same as
which place?
20. What was the script used in the earliest
Tamil inscriptions?
Answer
1.
Wool 2. New Delhi 3. Graphite 4. Mars 5. Afghanistan 6. Bangladesh 7. 9 players
each 8. Thyroid gland 9. Jupiter 10. Grama 11. Jawaharlal Nehru 12. Plutonium
13. After the drought of 1966 14. Perpendicular to each other 15. Jain
Philosophy 16. AHouse for Mr. Biswas 17. Gambusia 18. Right to freedom 19.
Celestial pole 20. Brahmi
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1. In which technology do Cryogenic engines
find applications?
2. Shovna Narayan is a reputed personality
in which field?
3. During which Plan did prices show a
decline?
4. Which instrument used for finding out
wind-direction?
5. Which ports handled the north Indian
trade during the Gupta period?
6. Which vitamin is considered to be a
hormone?
7. On the basis of financial crisis how
many times has emergency been declared by the President of India?
8. Which is the element found on the
surface of the moon?
9. Why is ‘Beaufort Scale’ used?
10. Which Tomar ruler is credited to have
established Delhi?
11. ‘My Music, My Life’s the autobiography of
which person?
12. Which was the first talkie film of India?
13. Through which Translocation of food
materials in plants takes place?
14. When does Relative humidity decreases?
15. Who was the Sultan of Delhi who is reputed
to have built the biggest network of canals in India?
16. What type of Party system has been evolved
in India?
17. Aman with a dark skin, in comparison with
a man with a white skin, what will experience?
18. Which bank is the Banker of the Banks?
19. Where a large number of species are are
found within a small unit of area?
20. Krishnadeva Raya wrote a famous work,
namely Amuktamalyada, in which language?
Answer
1. Rocket technology 2. Classical dance 3.
First 4. wind vane 5. Broach 6. D 7. Not even once 8. Titanium 9. To measure
wind velocity 10. Anangpal 11. Pt. Ravi Shankar 12. Alam Ara 13. Phloem 14.
With increased temperature 15.
Feroze Shan Tughlaq 16. Multi-Party 17. Less heat and less cold 18. RBI 19. Wet
evergreen equatorial forests 20. Telugu
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1. Folk
painting ‘Madhubani’ is famous in which state?
2. Which is the tree requiring minimum
water for its growth?
3. Which post does the Constitution of
India does not mention?
4. Which country is the largest producer of
Bauxite?
5. Which Indian rulers was a contemporary
of Akbar?
6. How are Oxygen and ozone?
7. From where did India introduce
cultivation of tobacco/tapioca/ pineapple?
8. When was the Reserve Bank of India taken
over by the Government?
9. Which is found on the western coast of
continents between 30° and 40° latitudes?
10. Which school of paintings developed
independently during the Mughal Period?
11. In which is ‘Foot and Mouth Disease
‘found?
12. Who decides the number of Judges in a High
Court?
13. What denotes the smallest temperature?
14. In which latitudes largest quantities of
bauxite are found?
15. Which was the first English ship that came
to India?
16. Which tree, once very popular in social
forestry, is now taken to be environmental hazard?
17. Foot-and-Mouth disease in animals, a
current epidemic in some parts of the world, by which is this caused?
18. In which animal is respiration done by
skin?
19. The Ruhr-Westphalia region is a famous
industrial region of which country?
20. Which was the first newspaper to be
published in India?
Answer
1. Bihar 2. Babul 3. The Deputy Prime
Minister 4. Australia 5. Rani Durgawati 6. Allotropes 7. South America 8. 1948 9.
Mediterranean Climate Region 10. The Bijapur School 11. Cattle 12. President
13. 1° on the Kelvin scale 14. Tropical latitudes 15. Red Dragon 16. Eucalyptus
17. Bacterium 18. Frog 19. Germany 20. Bengal Gazette
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1. With
which does the power to extend or restrict the jurisdiction of the High Court
rest?
2. ‘Gobar gas’ contains mainly which gas?
3. Which is the biggest Public Sector
undertaking in the country?
4. Which rocks is transformed into marble?
5. Which ‘Englishmen were fellow of
Gandhiji in South Africa?
6. By which number the quality of gasoline’
sample is determined?
7. Due to bite of mad dog the disease
hydrophobia is caused by which virus?
8. Who appoints the Chief Election
Commissioner of India?
9. What is the principal reason for the
formation of metamorphic rocks?
10. Who said “I therefore want freedom
immediately, this very night, before dawn if it can be had”?
11. A temperature at which both the Fahrenheit
and the centigrade scales have the same value?
12. With which is the ‘Tennis court oath’
associated?
13. Which is the tax that takes away a higher
proportion of one’s income as the income rises?
14. Where is the Sargasso Sea located?
15. Who com merited that Cripps Mission was a
postdated cheese on a crashing bank?
16. Medicine for epilepsy is obtained from
which lichen?
17. Up to how much age can the Members of the
Union Public Service Commission function?
18. Which type of glass is used for making
glass reinforced plastic?
19. Which is the greatest known ocean depth
(which lies in the Pacific Ocean)?
20. At which one place did Mahatma Gandhi
first start his Satyagraha in India?
Answer
1. With the Parliament 2. Methane3.
Railways 4. Limestone 5. Polak 6. By its octane number 7. Rabies virus 8.
President 9. Extreme heat and pressure 10. Mahatma Gandhi 11. -40° 12. French
Revolution 13. Progressive tax 14. North Atlantic Ocean 15. Mahatma Gandhi 16.
Parmelia 17. 65 years 18. Quartz glass 19. 11,033 m 20. Champaran
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1. With
which country is “Orange’ Revolution” associated?
2. With which field was Pandit Bhimsen
Joshi associated?
3. What percentage of water is lost during
transpiration?
4. Which is the most populous city in the
world?
5. By which ruler was the practice of
military governorship first introduced in India?
6. Which country has the briefest
Constitution in the world?
7. When temperature is gradually decreased,
what is the specific heat of substance?
8. What is the mean of Invisible Export?
9. Which is the country with the highest
density of population in Europe?
10. Bhakt Tukaram was a contemporary of which
Mughal emperor?
11. Who was the first person to cross the Alps
with army?
12. What is the loss of water in the form of
water drops called?
13. Who was made the Home Minister when
Jawaharlal Nehru formed the Interim Government in 1946?
14. Which foreign country is closest to
Andaman Islands?
15. Who was called Zinda Pir (living saint) in
Mughal India?
16. Which metal is nontoxic in nature?
17. Which is the latest addition to the list
of UNESCO’s world heritage sites in India?
18. Which committee was assigned to recommend reforms
in the insurance sector?
19. Which State shares boundaries with the
maximum number of other States of India?
20. The first railway line in India was opened
in which year?
Answer
1. Ukraine 2. Music’s 3. 99% 4. Tokyo 5.
Greeks 6. USA 7. Decreased 8. Export Services 9. Netherlands 10. Jahangir 11.
Hannibal 12. Guttation 13. Sardar Patel 14. Myanmar 15. Aurangzeb 16. Gold 17.
Red Fort 18. Malhotra Commit- tee 19. Assam 20. 1853
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1. What
is Study of growth and development of embryo?
2. What is the minimum permissible age for
employment in any factory or mine?
3. Angular separation between two colours
of the spectrum depends upon which thing?
4. Which mountain range stretches from
Gujarat in west to Delhi in the north?
5. In which nomad man started settling?
6. Where is the headquarter of
International atomic Energy Agency is located?
7. The book ‘Diplomatic Encounter’ has been
written by which author?
8. What is the Study of pulse and arterial
blood pressure called?
9. The Himalayas are formed of parallel
fold ranges of which the oldest range?
10. Rigveda is divided into 10 books. Which
books are the oldest?
11. Who is competent to prescribe conditions
as for acquiring Indian citizenship?
12. Which is the element that has the highest
first ionization potential?
13. During which Plan did prices show a
decline?
14. Which state has the largest number of salt
lakes in India?
15. Who was the last of the 24th Jain
Tirthankaras?
16. Who is the author of the book ‘The Rights
of Man’?
17. What is considered as the easily
digestible source of protein?
18. When the Vice-President acts as President
he gets the emoluments of which post?
19. Which port especially developed for
exporting iron ore to Japan?
20. Which site, where Ashokan pillars exist,
has the bull capital?
Answer
1. Embryology 2. 14 years 3. Angle of
deviation 4. Aravallis 5. Neolithic Age 6. Vienna 7. Arundhati Roy 8.
Sphygmology 9. The Great Himalayan Range 10. Second and seventh 11. Parliament
12. Nitrogen 13. First 14. Rajasthan 15. Mahavira 16. Thomas Paine 17. Soyabean
18. President 19. Paradeep 20. Rampurva
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1. Total
internal reflection of light is possible when light enters from which thing?
2. The book ‘Worshipping False God’s is
written by which person?
3. When was the Rolling plan designed?
4. Which is a global biodiversity hotspot
in India?
5. During which reign was Kalidasa lived?
6. In the human body, Cowper’s glands form
a part of which system?
7. The resolution for removing the
Vice-President of India can be moved in which sabha?
8. Which transition metal is in liquid
state?
9. Which type of forest exhibits highest
bio-diversity?
10. Which Rashtrakuta ruler established a
victory pillar in Rameshwaram ?
11. Who directed the famous T.V. serial
‘Tandoori Nights’?
12. The UNESCO declared 2011 as which
International Year?
13. In absence of ribosome in cell which
functions does not take place?
14. Where are Tapovan and Vishnugarh
Hydroelectric Projects located?
15. Who was the last ruler of the Tughlaq
dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate?
16. To whom does the Public Accounts Committee
submit its report?
17. If a bar magnet is cut length wise into 3
parts, what will the total number of poles be?
18. Why does the Issue Department of the RBI
maintain against printing of note?
19. With which river is the Omkareshwar
Project associated?
20. The ruler which was not invited to join
the confederacy to fight against Vijaynagar in the battle of Talikota?
Answer
1. Water to air 2. Arun Shourie 3. 1978-83
4. Western Ghats 5. Chandragupta II 6. Reproductive system 7. Rajya Sabha alone
8. Mercury 9. Tropical rain forest 10. Krishna III 11. Saeed Jaffrey 12.
International Year of Chemistry 13. Protein synthesis 14. Uttarakhand 15.
Nasir-ud-din-Mahmud 16. The Speaker of the Lok Sabha 17. 6 18. Minimum Reserve
System 19. Narmada 20. Berar
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1. The
United Nations declared 2010 as which International Year?
2. Which tissue takes part in healing the
wounds?
3. Which is the highest and final judicial
tribunal in respect of the Constitution of India?
4. What is the state the main activity
associated with the fold mountain?
5. Who was the Afghan ruler of India whose
administrative system was emulated by the British?
6. Temporary hardness of water is due to
the presence of which thing?
7. Regatta is associated with which sports
event?
8. Rupee was devalued by what percent in
July 1991?
9. What is the term as the drainage pattern
developed on folded sedimentary rocks?
10. Whose tomb is ‘Biwi Ka Maqbara’?
11. Which energy does not have the problem of
pollution?
12. When the Madras State was renamed Tamil
Nadu?
13. What is a suitable unit for expressing
electric field strength?
14. Rotation of the earth causes deflection of
wind by which force?
15. Who organized a Maratha confederacy
against the English leading to the Third Anglo Maratha War?
16. Which woman has become the highest
individual scorer in an innings in Tests?
17. What is the name of the person that
controls a football match?
18. Which air pollutant affect the nervous
system of man?
19. Which are the chief characteristics of wet
and dry tropics?
20. By who was Shuddhi movement (conversion of
non-Hindus to Hinduism) started?
Answer
1. Rapprochemont of Cultures 2. Epithelium
tissue 3. Supreme Court 4. Earthquakes 5. Sher Shah 6. Magnesium bicarbonate 7.
Rowing 8. 20 Percent 9. Trellis 10. Aurangzeb’s wife 11. Sun 12. 1969 13. N/C
14. Coriolis force 15. The Peshwa 16. Kiran Baloch 17. An umpire 18. Lead 19.
Constant heating 20. Swami Dayanand Saraswati
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1. Which Union Territory attained statehood
in February, 1987 ?
2. Which oxyacid of halogen has maximum
acidic nature?
3. From when was the Zero Base Budgeting in
India first experimented?
4. What is most important reason for
dwindling forest resources today?
5. “The best and bravest of the military
leader of the rebels”- about whom was this said by Sir Hugh Rose?
6. Who is the leading wicket taker in the
history of Test cricket?
7. The greatest threat to organisms and
biodiversity in which process?
8. Which Article of the Constitution of
India makes a specific mention of Village Panchayats ?
9. How much of earth surface is covered by
the forests?
10. Who was the first Indian woman President
of the Indian National Congress?
11. The unidirectional property of a
pn-junction is useful for its use as which thing?
12. Who has been awarded the Prem Bhatia Award
for the year 2012?
13. Who is the chairman of 13th Finance
Commission?
14. The Himalyas are approximately how many
kilometers broad?
15. During India’s Freedom Struggle, which led
to the first ‘All India Hartal’?
16. Which animals have a diet mainly
consisting of bamboo?
17. Which Amendment of the Constitution of
India deals with the issue of strengthening of the Panchayati Raj?
18. Thermal decomposition of alkanes is known
as which name?
19. How many islands of India are located in
the Bay of Bengal?
20. In ancient India, at where was the
earliest capital of Magadha kingdom?
Answer
1. Goa 2. HClO4 3. April, 1987 4. Over
felling 5. Rani of Jhansi 6. Shane Warne 7. Process of habitat loss 8. Article
40, 9. 30 percent 10. Sarojini Naidu 11. Rectifier 12. P.R. Ramesh 13. Vijay
Kelkar 14. 150 to 400 15. Protest against Rowlatt Act 16. Red pandas 17. 73rd
18. Cracking 19. 204 20. Rajgir
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1. Amartya
Sen, the NRI Nobel laureate got the honour for which work?
2. Where India did made her debut in
Olympic football?
3. Which plant is used for green manuring
in India?
4. Which city is known as the ‘Manchester
of South India’?
5. The Government of India has decided to
declare river as ‘National River’?
6. What does the Preamble of our
Constitution contain?
7. Which energy of the electron at absolute
zero is called?
8. What is an essential attribute of
inflation?
9. Which city is known for silk wearing
industry?
10. Which Rajputa king defeated Muhammad Ghori
for the first time?
11. Where were first Olympic Games held?
12. What is the characteristic odor of garlic?
13. The source of India’s sovereignty lies in
which thing?
14. What can be the maximum duration of
totality for a solar eclipse?
15. Which region of India was ruled by Sultan
Zainul Abidin ?
16. Which is the vitamin that is most readily
manufactured in our bodies?
17. The celebrated novel ‘The Godfather ‘was
authored by which author?
18. What is the best means of saving during
inflation?
19. What is the total surface area of earth?
20. Sirajuddaulah was defeated by Lord Clive
in which battle?
Answer
1. Poverty and famines 2. London in 1948 3.
Sunhemp 4. Coimbatore 5. Ganga 6. The spirit of the Constitution 7. Fermi
energy 8. Increase in prices 9. Kanchepuram 10. Prithviraj III 11. 776 B.C. 12.
A sulphur compound 13. Preamble to the Constitution 14. 7 minutes 40 seconds
15. Kashmir 16. Vitamin D 17. Mario Puzo 18. Money 19. 510 million sq km 20.
Plassey
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1. In human body, which are the leg bones?
2. When the Vice-President acts as
President he gets the emoluments of which post?
3. Which of the following is good nuclear
fuel?
4. All the watches of a country are set
according to which time?
5. Near the banks of which river
excavations have brought to light that Indus Valley Civilization percolated to
far south?
6. Which book is entitled as ‘Bible of
Communism’?
7. Who is popularly known as ‘Nightingale
of India’?
8. In metabolism, how enzymes act?
9. If it is 4 P.M. on Monday at 150°W, what
will be the time at 150°E ?
10. The term nishka, which meant an ornament
in the Vedic period, was used in laterites, what did it denote?
11. In India, the concept of single
citizenship is adopted from which country?
12. Which is the essential element in all
organic compounds?
13. Which is the oldest ‘stock exchange of
India?
14. What are the ‘Temperate lows’?
15. Which are Tile earliest Buddhist
literatures that deal with the stories of the various birth of Buddha?
16. Dr. M. S. Swaminathan distinguished
himself in which field?
17. By which plants is the maximum fixation of
solar energy done?
18. In which year was the first no confidence
motion moved in the Lok Sabha after independence?
19. Which hot and dry winds those help in the
ripening or grapes in the Alps region?
20. Which language was used in the literature
of Sangam period?
Answer
1. Humerus and Femur 2. President 3.
Plutonium-239 4. Standard time of the country 5. Krishna 6. Das Kapital 7.
Sarojini Naidu 8. As catalyst 9. 12 Noon on Tuesday 10. Acoin 11. England 12.
Carbon 13. Bombay Stock Exchange 14. Sub-polar low pressure belts 15. Jatakas
16. Agriculture 17. Green plants 18. 1963 19. Foehn 20. Tamil
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1. What
is the wavelength of visible spectrum?
2. The fragments of which comet system
collided with Jupiter in July 1994?
3. The National Housing Bank was set up in
India as a wholly-owned subsidiary of which bank?
4. Wine production is mainly carried out in
natural region?
5. Which was the most important factor in
transforming ancient Indian society into feudal society?
6. Which animal resembles most to human
beings in terms of physical and mental capabilities?
7. From where can a Member of Parliament
claim immunity?
8. Salts of which element pre vide colours
to fireworks?
9. Where is the Postaz temperate grassland?
10. Which was the Chola king who conquered the
northern part of Sri Lanka and made it a province of his empire?
11. Where is the largest automobile
manufacturing centre in the world located?
12. ORT (Oral Rehydration Therapy) is
associated with the treatment of which disease?
13. To suspect HIV/AIDS in a young individual,
which symptom is mostly associated with?
14. Which is the chief industry of
Afghanistan?
15. Why did Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq transfer his
capital from Delhi to Daulatabad?
16. With which the executive power relating to
concurrent subjects remain?
17. We cannot see during a fog. Why?
18. Which situation makes a firm most
efficient?
19. Silk textiles are mainly produced in which
countries?
20. The Portuguese traveler, Nuniz visited
Vijayanagar during the reign of which ruler?
Answer
1. 3900-7600 A 2. Shoemaker-Levy 9 3.
Reserve Bank of India 4. Mediterranean region 5. Practice of land grants 6.
Chimpanzee 7. From civil cases only 8. Strontiur and barium 9. Hungary 10.
Rajaraja 11. Detroit 12. Diarrhea 13. Chronic diarrhoea 14. Carpet making 15.
To control South India better 16. The Centre 17. Because of scattering of light
18. Lowest average costs 19. China and India 20. Achyuta Raya
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1. Which
type of coal is difficult to light in the open air?
2. Leukemia or blood cancer is
characterized by abnormal increase of which cells?
3. How many subjects are in the Union list?
4. Which instrument used for recording
earthquake waves?
5. Which Mughal emperor gave land for the
construction of the Golden Temple at Amritsar?
6. What does Oxidation involve?
7. Among South Asian countries which one is
the Maternal Mortality Ratio (per 1,000 live births) lowest?
8. What is meant by ‘Underwriting’, the
term frequently used in financial sector?
9. ‘Caldera’ is a feature associated with
which thing?
10. Under the leadership of which Guru did the
Sikh become a political and military force?
11. Which Part of plant is important for the
life cycle of plant?
12. By which committee was Mandai Panchayats
recommended?
13. What will be if a pendulum clock be taken
from the earth to a revolving artificial satellite?
14. Which city is associated with the river
Mekong?
15. Which decisive battle was fought during
the Third Carnatic War between the English and the French?
16. Coolgardie lies in the Australian province
of which direction?
17. Gum Gopi Krishna was a maestro of which
dance form?
18. Which is an insectivorous plant?
19. A shipment with an accident at 30°E and
35°N. Where the ship was sailing?
20. Which gave an impetus to the growth of
militant nationalism on a widespread scale?
Answer
1. Peat 2. White blood cells 3. 97 subjects
4. Seismograph 5. Akbar 6. Loss of electrons 7. Bangladesh 8. Under valuation
of the assets. 9. Volcanoes 10. Guru Gobind Singh 11. Flower 12. Ashok Mehta
Committee 13. It will stop altogether 14. Phnom-Penh 15. Wandiwash 16. Western
Australia 17. Kathak 18. Pitcher plant 19. Mediterranean Sea 20. Partition of
Bengal
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1. Why
was the Panchayati Raj System adopted?
2. In colourful diamond, why are different
colours present?
3. From the view of International economy,
what does third World imply?
4. Which is a land-locked country?
5. The ruler of which State was removed
from power by the British on the pretext of misgovernance?
6. With which field was Satyajit Ray
associated?
7. Which plant is referred to as a living
fossil?
8. How long did the Constituent Assembly
take to finally pass the Constitution?
9. What is the country through which both
Equator and Tropic of Capricorn pass?
10. From where did the Quit India Movement
start?
11. Which physical quantities have the same
dimensions?
12. In which year did UN establish the UN
Conference on Trade and Development?
13. Which Committee was formed to suggest
means for eradicating black money?
14. The Karakoram Highway connects which pairs
of countries?
15. Which Indian revolutionary helped Subhash
Chandra Bose in raising ‘Indian National Army’?
16. Which crop would be preferred for sowing
in order to enrich the soil with nitrogen?
17. Who was the President of the Constituent
Assembly?
18. What is the number of unpaired electrons
in carbon atom?
19. Which latitude passes through India?
20. Who propounded that ‘destiny determines
everything, man is powerless?
Answer
1. Decentralise the power of democracy 2.
Due to impurities 3. The developing countries 4. Zimbabwe 5. Awadh 6. Direction
of films 7. Gingko 8. About 3 years since Dec 9, 1946 9. Brazil 10. Bombay on
Aug. 8, 1942 11. Momentum and impulse 12. 1964 13. Cheiliah Committee 14.
China-Pakistan 15. Rasbehari Bose 16. Gram 17. Dr. Rajendra Prasad 18. 2 19.
Tropic of Cancer 20. Ajivakas
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1. Which is UN Programme and not special
agency?
2. Who is the author of the famous novel
‘Gone with the Wind’?
3. Which mammal rolls itself into ball at
the time of danger?
4. Which State has the largest forest area?
5. Sufi Kalam, a type of devotional music,
is the characteristic of which state?
6. Which Directive Principle of State
Policy has NOT been implemented so far?
7. When some detergent is added to water,
what will be the surface tension?
8. What is the situation with increasing
unemployment and inflation termed?
9. Port Blair - the capital of Andaman and
Nicobar Islands, is located in which island?
10. What was the original name of Tansen, the
most famous musician at the court of Akbar?
11. Which Sanskrit poet called as the Indian
Shakespeare?
12. How many chambers are found in the heart
of frog?
13. Which amendments accorded precedence to
Directive Principle over Fundamental Rights?
14. Which is the biggest lake in India?
15. Which Indian ruler established embassies
in foreign countries? On modern lines?
16. In an atom the order of filling up of the
orbitals is governed by which principle?
17. Which decade is celebrated as United
Nations Decade for Women?
18. Which agency has the power to declare any
industrial unit as a potentially sick unit?
19. Which are the west-flowing rivers of
southern Indian which flow into Arabian Sea?
20. When was the Indus Valley Civilization
flourished?
Answer
1. UNEP 2. Charles Dickens 3. Hedgehog 4.
Gujarat 5. Kashmir 6. Uniform civil code for the citizens 7. Increases 8.
Stagflation 9. South Andaman 10. Ramtanu Pande 11. Kalidas 12. 3 13. 42nd
Amendment 14. Chilka Lake 15. Tipu Sultan 16. Aufbau principle 17. 1976-1985
18. BIFR 19. Narmada and Tapti 20. During 2500-1750 B.C
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1. Sex determination of child is done by
whose chromosome?
2. Who is authorized to decide over a
dispute regarding disqualification of a member of Parliament?
3. Who firstly demonstrated experimentally
the existence of electromagnetic wave?
4. Which is not essentially a species of
the Himalayan vegetation?
5. What are the main channels of our
knowledge about the Indus Valley Civilization?
6. When is International Human Solidarity
Day observed?
7. The United Nations declared 2001 as
which International Year?
8. What is the effect of overeruption of
hormone from pituitary gland?
9. Which type of forest covers the maximum
area in India?
10. What was the rate of land revenue as
'given in the dharma Shastra’s?
11. The Lok Sabha is called in session for at
least how many times in a year’?
12. Heating pyrites in air to remove Sulphur
is known as which name?
13. If the cash-reserve ratio is lowered by
the Central bank, what will be its effect on credit creation?
14. The Material multipurpose project is
located in which state?
15. What did the name ‘Ratnakara’ denoted in
ancient Indian historical geography?
16. ‘Queen’s berry Rules ‘is the name. Give to
the rules in which game?
17. By whom the concept of survival of the
fittest as advanced?
18. When can the salaries of High Court judges
be reduced?
19. Which shipyard is known for the
manufacture of bar gets, coasters and dredgers?
20. In which country was Buddhism first
propagated outside India?
Answer
1. Father 2. President 3. Hertz 4. Mahogany
5. Archaeological excavations 6. December 20 7. International Year of
Volunteers 8. Increase growth in lenght 9. Tropical moist deciduous forest 10.
1/6 11. Thrice 12. Roasting 13. Increase 14. Uttar Pradesh 15. The Indian Ocean
16. Boxing 17. Herbert Spencer 18. During a Financial Emergency 19. Garden
Reach Shipyard 20. Srilanka
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1. There
is no net transfer of energy by the particles of the medium in which waves?
2. Jaspal Rana is a distinguished athlete
in which game?
3. Which provides the largest part of the
demand for loanable funds in India?
4. Moho discontinuity lies at the depth of
approximately how many kilometers?
5. Who was well-known patron of the Mahayana
of Buddhism?
6. From the evolutionary point of view,
which is the most primitive animal?
7. By who are the Chief Justice and other
Judges of the High Court are appointed?
8. What is reduction of oxide with carbon
at high temperature called?
9. Which is the highest plateau in the
world?
10. Who authored the Tamil epic
'Silappadikaram' ?
11. S. Vijaya Lakshmi and Nisha Mohita are
associated with which game?
12. How many gold medals did India win at the
XIth Asian Games?
13. At what level does the Natura 2000 network
operate?
14. Which atmospheric layer that reflects
radio waves is called?
15. How Manimekalai is looked?
16. Where can the report of the UPSC
discussed?
17. Conversion of chemical energy into
electrical energy occurs in which thing?
18. What is the main source of revenue to meet
different expenditures?
19. What is a line on a map which joins places
having the same rainfall called?
20. Which Gupta king is famous for his
courageous stand against the Hunas?
Answer
1. Stationary waves 2. Shooting 3.
Corporate businesses 4. 400 km 5. Kanishka 6. Turtle 7. President 8. Smelting
9. Pamir Plateau 10. Ilango 11. Chess 12. One 13. European 14. Ionosphere 15.
As the Odyssey of Tamil 16. In Parliament before being accepted 17. Battery 18.
Internal borrowings 19. Isohyet 20. Skanda Gupta
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1. Which
game is Davis Cup associated with?
2. When did the last female Alpine ibex
disappear in France?
3. To whom is the resignation letter of a
State Public Service Commission member addressed?
4. Equatorial forest of the Amazon basin is
known as by which name?
5. To which work is Devichandra guptam
related?
6. Purification of petroleum is carried out
by which method?
7. Saraswati Samman is given annually for
outstanding contribution to which field?
8. From which sector is the largest
contribution in India’s National Income?
9. Thick stems and thorny wax coated leaves
are commonly found in which area?
10. Who is most famous for" the
establishment of an elaborate system of municipal administration?
11. What is the short upper part of the human
intestine next to the stomach?
12. Which is the State having the largest
population of scheduled castes?
13. Where will be the Time period in a
vibration magnetometer infinite?
14. Which is considered to cause an adverse of
effect on Indian monsoon?
15. Who was a lexicographer?
16. Who was the first Indian to be honoured
with a lifetime achievement Oscar Award?
17. What can be the maximum length of a
cricket bat?
18. Which technique can be used to establish
the paternity of a child?
19. Which region does not receive much
rainfall in the south-west monsoon season?
20. By whom was the city of Agra founded in
1504?
Answer
1. Tennis 2. 2000 3. Governor 4. Selvas 5.
Chandra Gupta II 6. Fractional distillation 7. Literature 8. Tertiary sector 9.
Deserts 10. Chandragupta Maurya 11. Duodenum 12. Utter Pradesh 13. At magnetic pole
14. El-nino 15. Amarslrnha 16. Satyajit Roy 17. 32” 18. Quantitative analysis
of DNA 19. Tamil Nadu coast 20. Sikandar Lodi
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1. Which country has the briefest
Constitution in the world?
2. Which petroleum refinery product has the
lowest boiling point?
3. In which policy India opted for ‘Mixed
Economy’?
4. In which state has India’s largest
private sector sea port been commissioned recently?
5. By whom was the 'Shahnama' written?
6. What is the distance between popping
crease and stumps on cricket pitch?
7. By whom was Gene first isolated?
8. Who was the Chairman of the Drafting
Committee of the Indian Constitution?
9. Which is the longest national Highway in
India?
10. In which region of India was the
Suharawadi order of Sufism popular?
11. By which impact is Nuclear fission is
caused?
12. Which was the first woman to climb Mount
Everest?
13. What is the task of the Planning
Commission?
14. How many PIN CODE Zone divided in the
country?
15. By whom was the Bhakti Movement first
organised?
16. By who was Insulin discovered?
17. How long did the Constituent Assembly take
to finally pass the Constitution?
18. Which is purest form of iron?
19. Automatic approval up to 51 % in the
infrastructure seedy was given in which year?
20. During which reign was the East India
Company founded in London?
Answer
1. USA 2. Gasoline 3. Industrial Policy of
1948 4. Andhra Pradesh 5. Firdausi 6. 3½ ft 7. Hargobind Khurana 8. B. R.
Ambedkar 9. NH 7 10. Punjab and Sind 11. Neutron 12. Junko Tabei 13.
Preparation of the plan 14. 8 15. Ramananda 16. Dr. F G. Banting 17. About 3
years since Dec 9, 1946 18. Wrought iron 19. 1991 20. Akbar
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1. Who
was known as ‘Lady with Lamp’?
2. Which Indian origin immigrants became
the Governor of Louisiana province of the USA in 2007 ?
3. From which part of the plant is turmeric
obtained?
4. In order of their distances from the
Sun, which planet lies between Mars and Uranus?
5. Which Rajput dynasties did not surrender
to Akbar?
6. How type of right is Right to
Information?
7. Which is used as a coolant in nuclear
reactors?
8. What does M3 include?
9. Comets revolve around which body?
10. Where was Shivaji crowned as an
independent king?
11. Meghnad Saha is known for his contribution
in which field?
12. Which part of cinchona plant yields
quinine?
13. Which right conferred by the Constitution
of India is also available to non-citizens?
14. Which layer of the earth is believed to
have the heaviest mineral materials of highest density?
15. Which saint name is associated with
Shivaji ?
16. Liquefied Petroleum Gas consists of mainly
which gases?
17. ‘Kandla’ situated on the Gulf of Kachchh
is well known for which purpose?
18. Which Mahatma Gandhi series of currency
notes issued by the RBI has “ecology” depicted on it ?
19. The mapping of which part of earth is most
difficult?
20. By whom wasIsland of Bombay was given to
the English Prince Charles II as dowry?
Answer
1. Florence Nightingale 2. Bobby Jindal 3.
Stem 4. Jupiter and Saturn 5. Sisodiya 6. Fundamental right 7. Liquid sodium 8.
M1 + T.D 9. Sun 10. Raigarh 11. Physics 12. Bark 13. Freedom to speech 14.
Central core 15. Ram Das 16. Methane, butane and propane 17. Export processing
zone 18. Rs. 100 19. Interior of the Earth 20. Portuguese
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1. Which
cytoplasmic organelles are treated as prokaryotic cells within the eukaryotic
cells?
2. What is the minimum age for election/appointment
as member of the Rajya Sabha ?
3. When milk is churned, how does the cream
separate from it?
4. In USA, which region receives heavy
rainfall throughout the year under the influence of Westerlies?
5. Which first Europeans came to India?
6. When did man first land on moon?
7. Which is the secondary source of light
in a fluorescent lamp?
8. Archaeopteryx had which reptilian
characters?
9. Which cold and dense air blowing down
the mountain slope during the night?
10. When was the monopoly of East India
Company in trade brought under the control of the British Crown?
11. What is the minimum age for being the
member of the Parliament?
12. Which elements are obtained from sea
weeds?
13. Which is the regulatory authority for
giving clearance for External Commercial borrowing?
14. Where are Grasses almost absent?
15. Who was impeached in England for his
actions in India?
16. By using which technique, is DNA
fingerprint done?
17. Which Bacteria convert atmospheric
nitrogen into nitrogenous compound?
18. Which was the first woman Governor of a
State in free India?
19. Which ecosystem covers the largest area of
the earth’s surface?
20. During which movement was ‘Mahatma’added
before Gandhiji’s name?
Answer
1. Glyoxysomes 2. 30 years 3. Due to the
centrifugal force 4. North-western 5. Portuguese 6. 1969 7. Mercury vapour 8.
Clawed wings, teeth on jaw, tail 9. Katabatic wind 10. 1773 A.D. 11. 25 years
12. Iodine 13. RBI 14. In tropical wet- evergreen forest 15. Warren Hastings
16. Southern Blotting 17. Nitrogen fixing bacteria 18. Mrs. Sarojini Naidu 19.
Marine Ecosystem 20. Champaran satyagraha
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1. Sound
travels faster in which thing?
2. Who was the first General-Secretary of
the Indian National Congress?
3. From when was the Zero Base Budgeting in
India first experimented?
4. Rainfall in the doldrums is of the
nature of which precipitation?
5. Which first Indian leader to undergo
imprisonment in 1882?
6. Which type of microorganism is most
widely used in industries?
7. What is the maximum number of elected
members in a State Assembly?
8. In fireworks, how is the green flame
produced?
9. Which term for natural vegetation is
associated with Siberia?
10. During the Indian Freedom struggle, who
started a journal “The Indian Sociologist” ?
11. Person is called ‘Desert Fox’?
12. National Agricultural Cooperative
Marketing Federation is known what?
13. Water will be absorbed by root hairs, then
how is when the external medium?
14. Which is not an important factor of
climate of an area?
15. By who was the Home Rule Movement in India
was started?
16. By whom are Zonal Council provided?
17. Who does a liquid drop tend to assume a
spherical shape?
18. With which Economic growth is usually
coupled?
19. Where is the thermal equator found?
20. After whose name was a women’s division of
the Indian National Army named?
Answer
1. Iron than in air 2. Dadabhai Naoroji 3.
April, 1987 4. Orographic precipitation 5. C. Vijiaraghavachari 6. Bacteria,
microalgae and fungi. 7. 500 8. Because of barium 9. Taiga 10. Shyamji Krishna
Varma 11. Gen. Rommel 12. NACMF 13. Hypotonic 14. Longitude 15. Annie Besant
and Tilak 16. By Parliamentary Act 17. Surface tension 18. Inflation 19. North
of the geographical equator 20. Rani Jhansi
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1. The United Nations declared 2013 as the
International Year of which cooperation?
2. What is an instrument for measuring the
rate of transpiration?
3. By whom was an inter-State Council set
up in 1990 under Article 263 of the Constitution?
4. Which reflects back more sunlight as
compared to other three?
5. Who started the newspaper Shome Prakash?
6. Which substance does not have a melting
point?
7. How many votes are entitled for members
of the UN Economic and Social Council?
8. In India, in which industry is maximum
number of workers employed?
9. Which is the soil formed by wind dust in
and around hot deserts?
10. In whose court was a Chinese embassy sent
by Tang emperor?
11. For which snake is the diet mainly
composed of their snakes?
12. On which date India became a Sovereign,
democratic republic?
13. What minimum number of non-zero
non-collinear vectors is required to produce a zero vector?
14. Where is Niagara Falls?
15. Which inscription mentions Pulkesin II’s
military success against Harshavardhana?
16. What is the present strength of members in
the Economic and Social Council of the UN body?
17. Which book was written by Graham Greene?
18. What structure is common to both earthworm
and cockroach?
19. Which Strait connecting Arabian Sea and
the Bay of Bengal?
20. Chandragupta Maurya figures prominently in
whose book?
Answer
1. Water Cooperation 2. Potometer 3.
President 4. Land covered with fresh snow 5. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar 6. Glass
7. One vote 8. Textile industry 9. Loess soil 10. Harshavardhana 11. Kinqcobra
12. Jan 26, 1950 13. 3 14. U.S.A. 15. Aihole Inscription 16. 54 17. The Power
and Glory 18. Ventral nerve cord 19. Palk Strait 20. Vishakhdatta
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1. Which
act made the Indian Legislature bicameral?
2. By which a mixture of sand and
naphthalene can be separated?
3. The ‘Uruguay Round’ negotiations
resulted in the establishment of which organization?
4. Durand line is the border common to
which two countries?
5. Who stated that there was no slavery in
India?
6. Which film was made by Satyajit Ray for
Children?
7. Which part of human brain is the
regulating centre for swallowing and vomiting?
8. What is the duration of proclamation of
Financial Emergency?
9. Which set of countries are completely
surrounded by land?
10. Which ruler had granted Diwani to the East
India Company?
11. By which Radio waves of constant amplitude
can be generated?
12. When International Day of Peace,
recognized by the UN is is observed?
13. In which year was ‘Rajiv Gandhi Grameen
Vidyutikaran Yojana’launched?
14. Where is the southernmost point of India
located?
15. Which factory in Bengal, was established
by the Portuguese?
16. Which is used to know the development of
fetus in uterus?
17. During the proclamation of National
Emergency which articles cannot be suspended?
18. Which oil is used in the floatation method
for the purification of ores?
19. What is the name of the group of languages
spoken by the largest number of people in India?
20. Which was the first metal used by man?
Answer
1. Government of India Act, 1919 2.
Sublimation 3. WTO 4. Pakistan and Afghanistan 5. Megasthenes 6. Sonar Killa 7.
Medulla oblangata 8. At the first instance two months 9. Mongolia, Zambia,
Bolivia 10. Shah Alam II 11. Oscillator 12. September 21 13. 2005 14. Great
Nicobar 15. Hoogly 16. Ultrasound 17. Articles 20 and 21 18. Pine oil 19.
Indo-Aryan 20. Copper
Page - 24
1. When
is International Day for Tolerance, recognized– the UN is observed?
2. Which is the only golfer to win the
Masters Tournament six times?
3. Who published the book ‘Origin of
species by natural selection in 1859’?
4. By which name does the Brahmaputra enter
into India?
5. In which Aryans first settled?
6. At present the Rajya Sabha consists of
how many members?
7. Which mirror is to be used to obtain a
parallel beam of light from a small lamp?
8. In which year was Minimum inflation in
post economic reform?
9. The Tibetan river ‘Tsangpo’enters India
through which State?
10. On which thing did the Buddhism and
Jainism both give stress?
11. The Asian Games were held in Delhi for the
first time in which year?
12. Which is most primitive ancestor of man?
13. Who was the first speaker of the Lok
Sabha?
14. In which city of India, the diurnal range
of temperature is maximum?
15. To whom the Sarnath's Lion Capital
attributed?
16. What is the Number of water molecules
present in Mohr’s salt?
17. The Dronacharya Award for Sports coaches
was instituted in which year?
18. What does Inflation imply?
19. In which season is the frequency of tropical
cyclones in the Bay of Bengal maximum?
20. Which silver coins Issued by the Guptas?
Answer
1. November 16 2. Jack Nicklaus 3. Darwin
4. Dihang 5. Punjab 6. 245 7. Concave mirror 8. 1999-2000 9. Arunachal Pradesh
10. Non-violence 11. 1951 12. Australopithecus 13. Malgaonkar 14. New Delhi 15.
Ashoka 16. 8 17. 1985 18. Rise in general price index 19. After summer 20.
Rupayaka
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