1. Who helped Harshvardhan against Gaur king
Shashanka?
(A)
Pulkeshin-II
(B) Diwakar
mitra
(C)
Bhashkar varman
(D) Rajyavardhan
2. Who released Sahu the grandson of
Shivaji, from the mughal arrest?
(A)
Bahadur Shah - I
(B) Farrukhsiyar
(C)
Muhammad Shah
(D) Shah
Alam - II
3. Which of the following British officer
was impeached ?
(A) Warren Hastings (B) Clive
(C) Lord Hastings
(D) Cornwallis
4. Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan was also known as
(A) Young Turk (B) Young Gandhi
(A) Young Turk (B) Young Gandhi
(C) Afghan Gandhi
(D) Frontier Gandhi
5. Conversion of sound energy into
electrical energy is done by
(A) Solar cell (B) Gramophone
(C) Microphone (D) Loudspeaker
6. A small gap is left at the joints of
rails in a railway track to
(A) avoid
the tracks being distorted due to seasonal temperature variation
(B) avoid
the heating of tracks to high temperature
(C)
control the speed of train
(D) keep
the rail equidistant
7. Which of the following criterion is used
for any metal to be used as a cooking material?
(A) More
specific heat
(B)
More thermal conductivity
(C)
Less thermal conductivity
(D)
Less electrical conductivity
8. Sodium vapour lamps glow with yellow colour.
This is due to
(A) sublimation
of sodium to emit yellow colour
(B) the
emission of excess energy absorbed by sodium atoms in the yellow region of the
spectrum
(C)
the low ionisation energy of sodium
(D) its
ability to absorb all other colours except yellow
9. Saline and alkaline soils in India are
also called as
(A) Kallar (B) Khadar
(C) Regur (D) Bangar
10. Sea
water is saltier than rain water because
(A) rivers
wash away salts from earth and pour them into the sea
(B)
sea beds have salt producing mines
(C)
sea animals are salt producing
(D)
the air around the sea is saltish
11. Which one of the following is not
correctly matched?
(A)
Bhilai Steel Plant - Maharashtra
(B)
Bokaro Steel Plant - Jharkhand
(C)
Rourkela Steel Plant - Odisha
(D)
Durgapur Steel Plant - West Bengal
12.
The sugar present in DNA is
(A) Pentose
(B) Xylulose
(C) Hexose
(D) Heptulose
13.
A seed can germinate in the absence of
(A) adequate
light
(B) supply
of oxygen
(C) suitable
moisture
(D) suitable
temperature
14.
Capital Market Regulator is:
(A) RBI
(B) SEBI
(C) IRDA
(D) NSE
15.
Gandhiji published "Indian
Opinion" from –
(A) South Africa
(B) Ahmedabad
(C) London
(D) Port land
16. All the ecosystems taken together in a geographical
area form a bigger unit called:
(A) territory
(A) territory
(B) biome
(C) community
(D) biosphere
17. Who was the last Mughal emperor to sit on Pea-cock
throne?
(A)
Bahadur Shah - I
(B)
Muhammad Shah
(C)
Ahmad Shah
(D)
Bahadur Shah - II
18. The policy of racial discrimination
followed in South Africa was called:
(A) Civil
Rights Movement
(B) Apartheid
(C) Suffrage
(D) Non-Aligned
19. Monetary policy in India is formulated by:
(A) RBI
(A) RBI
(B) SEBI
(C)
CLB
(D) Finance Ministry
20. Consumer's surplus is the highest in the case
of:
(A) luxuries
(B) comforts
(C) necessities
(D) durable goods
22. Which one of the following pair of goods
is an example of Joint Supply?
(A) Ink
and Pen
(B)
Tooth brush and Paste
(C)
Wool and meat of sheep
(D)
Coffee and Tea
23. In Indian constitution the power to issue
a writ of ‘Habeas
corpus’ is vested only in -
(A)
The Supreme Court
(B) The
High Court
(C)
The Supreme Court and The High Court
(D) Lower
Court
24. Under which article the Parliament of
India can legislate on any subject in the state
list in national interest?
list in national interest?
(A) Article 229 (B) Article 230
(C) Article 247 (D) Article 249
25. Governments are classified as Parliamentary
and Presidential on the basis of
(A)
relation between the politician and civil
servants.
(B) written
and unwritten constitutions.
(C)
relation between the legislature and executive.
(D) rigid
and flexible constitutions.
26. Which of the following is a chief charateristics
of the Parliamentry system of Government in India?
(A)
Autocracy of the Parliament
(B) Responsible
Government
(C)
Non-Responsible Government
(D) Supremacy
of judiciary
27. Usually which one of the following is not
a member of National Development Council (NDC)?
(A)
Cabinet Ministers of union Government
(B) All
members of Planning Commission
(C)
Chief Ministers of all the states
(D) Governor
of all the states.
28. The High Court which has the distinction of
having the first woman Chief Justice is:
(A) Allahabad
High Court
(B)
Delhi High Court
(C)
Himachal Pradesh High Court
(D)
Guwahati High Court
29. Who was the first Muslim President of Indian
National Congress?
(A) Maulana
Abul Kalam Azad
(B)
Hasan Imam
(C)
M. A. Ansari
(D)
Badruddin Tyabji
30. Which of the following is the world's
largest desert?
(A) Gobi
(B)
Sahara
(C)
The Great Australian Desert
(D)
Arabian Desert
31. The rate of erosion in
a stream is lowest where .
(A) breadth
is greater
(B)
velocity is more
(C)
the river joins the sea
(D)
depth is greater
32. The
name 'Sahyadri' is related to
(A) Western
Ghats
(B)
Cyclone hazards
(C)
A rain- bearing wind
(D)
Himalayan Peak
33. Tides in the sea have stored in them __________ .
(A) Hydraulic
energy
(B)
Kinetic energy
(C)
Gravitational energy
(D)
A combination of all the three forms of energy
34. The source of energy in the Sun is ___________ .
(A) nuclear fission
(B) nuclear fusion
(C) radioactivity (D) electrical energy
35. Which one of the following materials is
used as controller in a nuclear reactor power generator?
(A) Cadmium
(B) Beryllium
(C) Graphite
(D) Heavy water
36. ________ is a type of
application software used for communication.
(A) FTP
(B) Word processing
(C) Database
(D) Image editing
37. MDI
stands for
(A) Multiple
Document Interface
(B) Multiple
Design Interface
(C)
Multiple Design Interaction
(D) Multiple
Document Interaction
38. Benazir Bhutto, the former Pakistan Prime Minister
was assassinated in
(A) Hyderabad
(B) karachi
(C) Rawalpindi
(D) Islamabad
39. Which
of the following is correctly matched?
Research Institutes Headquarters
(A) Leather
Research – Lucknow Institute
(B) Rice
Research – Cuttack Institute
(C)
Silk Research – Bangalore Institute
(D)
Sugar Research – Chennai Institute
40. Who was affectionately known as the 'Grand
Old Man of India'?
(A) Gopal
Krishna Gokhale
(B)
Mahatma Gandhi
(C)
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(D)
Dadabhai Naoroji
43. The Pulitzer Prize is associated with
which of the following?
(A) Environment
Protection
(B)
Civil Aviation
(C)
Journalism
(D)
Olympic Games
44. The heat treatment applied to milk before distribution
to stablize it and make it free from bacteried is called
(A) Homogenisation
(B) Pasteurisation
(C) Fermentation
(D)
Coagulation
45. The two metal ions that cause hardness to water are:
(A) Sodium,
Magnesium
(B)
Calcium, Magnesium
(C)
Sodium, Calcium
(D) Sodium, Potassium
46. Barack
Hussain Obama belongs to which of the following political parties?
(A) Labour
(B)
Democratic
(C)
Republican
(D) American
National Conference
47. Which of the following states issued the first
UID card.
(A) Gujarat
(B) Assam
(C) Maharastra
(D) West Bengal
48. According to the 2001 Census urban – rural
population ratio in India is about
(A) 25 : 75
(B) 35 : 65
(C) 32 : 68
(D) 28 : 72
49. In World Cup Cricket 2011, Sri Lanka defeated
which team in the semi-final?
(A) Netherlands
(A) Netherlands
(B) India
(C) South Africa
(D) New
Zealand
50. Recently Indian Navy punished Somalian sea
pirated in
(A) Near
Suez Canal
(B)
Bay of Bengal
(C)
Gulf of Aden
(D)
Near Red Sea
