Repeatedly Asked Question in SSC Examination PDF

Repeatedly Asked Question in SSC Examination
1) Which one of the following is a concept of Food d) Monopolistic

security System?
a) Buffer Stock Answer: b)
b) Minimum support price
c) Fair Price shop 6) Which one of the following is also regarded as
d) Mid day Meals Disguised unemployment?
a) Underemployment
Answer: a) b) Frictional unemployment
c) Seasonal unemployment
2) What is the accepted average calorie d) Cyclical unemployment
requirement for rural area in India?
a) 2100 Answer: a)
b) 2200
c) 2300 7) Who gave the 'General Equilibrium Theory'?
d) 2400 a) J. M. Keynes
b) Leon Walras
Answer: d) c) David Ricardo
d) Adam Smith
3) “Neo – Malthusian Theory” is associated with
which of the following? Answer: b)
a) Employment
b) Poverty 8) Which of the following is not true about a
c) Resource Scarcity Demand Draft?
d) Income a) It is a negotiable instrument.
b) It is a banker's cheque.
Answer: c) c) It may be dishonoured for lack of funds.
d) It is issued by a bank.
4) Match the following
Sector - Example Answer: c)
1. Primary - a. Consultacy
2. Secondary - b. Apiculture 9) Who among the following gave monistic
3. Tertiary - c. Shoe Factory theory of sovereignty?
a) Austin
a) 1 – b, 2 – c, 3 – a b) Darwin
b) 1 – c, 2 – a, 3 – b c) Aristotle
c) 1 – a, 2 – c, 3 – b d) Marx
d) 1 – c, 2 – b, 3 – a
Answer: a)
Answer: a)
10) Who takes the decision regarding the savings
5) In which market form, a market or an and loan activities in a Self Help Group (SHG)?
industry is dominated by a single seller? a) Private Bank
a) Oligopoly b) Reserve Bank of India
b) Monopoly c) Members of group
c) Duopoly d) Non Government Organizations
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Answer: c) Answer: c)
11) Which amongst the following is not in the list 16) Match the following.
of Maharatna? Term Meaning
a) Coal India Limited Globlisation a. Process of reducing or
b) Steel Authority of India Limited removing restrictions on
c) Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited international trade
d) Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited Privatization b. Process of interaction
and integration among the
Answer: c) people. Companies and
government of different
12) When there is only one buyer and one seller of
nations
product, it is called situation.
Liberalizations c. Called as
a) Public monopoly
denationalization or
b) Bilateral monopoly
disinvestment
c) Franchised monopoly
d) Monophony
a) 1-c, 2-a, 3-b
Answer: b) b) 1-b, 2-c, 3-a
c) 1-b, 2-a, 3-c
13) Which among the following sponsors Regional d) 1-c, 2-b, 3-a
Rural Banks (RRB'S)?
a) Reserve Bank of India Answer: b)
b) Foreign Banks
c) National Commercial Banks 17) In which market form, a market or industry is
d) Co-Operative Banks dominated by a few firms?
a) Perfect Competition
Answer: c) b) Monopoly
c) Oligopoly
14) Union Cabinet approves amendments in M- d) Monopolistic
SIPS to attract investment in electronics
manufacturing. What is the full form of M-SIPS? Answer: c)
a) Modified Sustainable Investment Package Scheme
b) Modified Special Information Package Scheme
c) Modified Special Incentive Package Scheme
d) Modern Socialist Incentive Package Scheme
Answer: c)
15) Which among the following is not an account

under Balance of Payment?
a) Current Account
b) Capital Account
c) Official Reserves Account
d) Unilateral Payments Account
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18) Which amongst the following is not a 23) An economic system combining private and
component of monetary policy in India? state enterprise is called as _____
a) Repo rate a) Market economy
b) Moral suasion b) Centrally planned economy
c) Credit Rationing c) Private economy
d) Public Debt d) Mixed economy
Answer: d) Answer: d)
19) Which one of the following is not an 24) What was the main motive of Third Five Year
instrument of credit control in India? Plan in India?
a) Rationing of credit a) Development
b) Direct Action b) Agriculture
c) Open Market operations c) Financial inclusion
d) Variable Cost reservations d) Economic reform
Answer: d) Answer: b)
20) Which among the following is an example of 25) Courier service comes under which sector?
micro-economic variable? a) Primary
a) National Income b) Secondary
b) Aggregate Supply c) Tertiary
c) Employment d) Both Secondary and Tertiary
d) Consumer's Equilibrium
Answer: c)
Answer: d)
26) Whose recommendation is mandatory to
21) Which of the following rate is charged by impeach the president of India from his office
banks to their most credit worthy customers? before the completion of his/her term?
a) Prime Lending Rate a) The Prime Minister
b) Statutory Liquidity Rate b) The speaker of the Lok Sabha
c) Bank Rate c) The chief Justice of India
d) Repo Rate d) The two houses of the Parliament
Answer: a) Answer: d)
22) Medium term loans are provided for a period 27) How many types writ are there in the Indian
of _______. constitution?
a) 1 year to 2 years a) 5
b) 15 months to 3 years b) 4
c) 15 months to 4 years c) 3
d) 1 year to 3 years d) 2
Answer: d)
Answer: a)
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28) How many fundamentals Duties are

mentioned in Indian constitution? 33) In Indian constitution, the method of election
a) Five of President has been taken from which country?
b) Seven a) Britain
c) Nine b) USA
d) Eleven c) Ireland
d) Australia
Answer: d)
29) Part IV of constitution of India deals with Answer: c)
which of the following?
a) The Union 34) What is the literal meaning of the term "Quo-
b) The States Warranto"?
c) Fundamental Rights a) We command
d) Directive principles of State Policy b) To forbid
c) By what authority (or) warrant
Answer: d) d) None of these
30) Which of the following are constituents of Answer: c)

Indian Parliament?
(i) The President 35) In Indian constitution, the method of election
(ii) The Council of States (Rajya Sabha) of President has been taken from which country?
(iii) The House of the People (Lok Sabha) a) Britain
a) (ii) and (iii) b) USA
b) (i) and (ii) c) Ireland
c) (i) and (iii) d) Australia
d) (i), (ii) and (iii)
Answer: c)
Answer: d)
36) Which of the following has the supreme
31) Who among the following is the executive head command of the Indian Defence Forces?
of state in India? a) Prime Minister of India
a) Prime Minister b) Defence Minister of India
b) President c) Council of Ministers of India
c) Cabinet Secretary d) President of India
d) Finance Secretary
Answer: d)
Answer: b)
37) Anti-defection law is given in which schedule
32) Who administers the oath of the President of of Indian constitution?
India? a) Second Schedule
a) Governor General of India b) Tenth Schedule
b) Chief Justice of India c) Third Schedule
c) Prime Minister of India d) Fourth Schedule
d) Vice President of India
Answer: b)
Answer: b)
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38) Who appoints Governor of a state in India? b) Part III

a) Prime Minister of India c) Part V
b) Council of Minister d) Part IV A
c) Judge of Supreme Court
d) President of India Answer: d)
44) What is the minimum age for becoming a
Answer: d) Governor of state in India?
a) 30 years
39) What is the literal meaning of 'Certiorari'? b) 25 years
a) We command c) 35 years
b) To have the body of d) 45 years
c) To forbid
d) To be certified (or) to be informed Answer: c)
Answer: d) 45) Which of the following is a feature of federal

Government?
40) Who among the following is not a member of a) Supremacy of Parliament
any of the two houses of our country? b) Supremacy of Judiciary
a) Prime Minister c) Division of powers between federal and state
b) Finance Minister Government
c) President d) Single citizenship
d) Railway Minister
Answer: c)
Answer: c)
46) Under which article, President of India can
41) Which article of Indian constitution has the proclaim Financial emergency?
provision for National Emergency? a) Article 325
a) Article 350 b) Article 349
b) Article 352 c) Article 360
c) Article 312 d) Article 355
d) Article 280
Answer: c)
Answer: b)
47) Under which article, President of India can
42) Who selects the Social Audit Committee under proclaim constitutional emergency?
MGNREGA scheme? a) Article 32
a) Chief Minister b) Article 349
b) Gram Sabha c) Article 356
c) Mayor d) Article 360
d) B.D.O.
Answer: c)
Answer: b)
48) How many members of upper house (Rajya
43) Fundamental duties are mentioned in which of Sabha) can be nominated by President of India?
the following part of Indian Constitution? a) 10
a) Part II b) 12
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c) 14 Answer: b)
d) 16
54) What is the name of the court poet of King
Answer: b) Harshavardhana?
a) Tulsidas
49) Which of the following is justiciable in nature? b) Banabhatta
a) Fundamental Duties c) Surdas
b) Directive principles of state policy d) Raskhan
c) Fundamental Rights
d) None of these Answer: b)
Answer: c) 55) In which battle was siraj ud – Daulah Defeated

by Lord Clive?
50) Which of the following Amendments is also a) Battle of plassey
known as the 'Mini Constitution' of India? b) Battle of Buxer
a) 7th Amendment c) Battle of Panipet
b) 42nd Amendment d) Battle of Haldighati
c) 44th Amendment
d) 74th Amendment Answer: a)
Answer: b) 56) Todarmal was the famous revenue minister of

which Mughal Emperor?
51) Who has built the Vijay Stambha (Tower of a) Shah Jahan
Victory) in chittorgarh? b) Bahadur Shah Jafar
a) Maharana Pratap c) Akbar
b) Rana Kumbha d) Aurangazeb
c) Rana Sanga
d) Kunwar Durjan singh Answer: c)
Answer: b) 57) The second Battle of Tarain was fought

between _____.
52) Who gave the slogan “Back to Vedas (Vedo ki a) Alexander and Porus
aur lauto)” ? b) Jai Chand and Mohammed Ghori
a) Guru Nanank Dev Ji c) Akbar and Hemu
b) Dayanand Saraswati d) Mohammed Ghori and Prithviraj Chauhan
c) Swami Vivekananda
d) Raja Ram Mohan Rai Answer: d)
Answer: b) 58) Which among the following Mughal Emperor

was illiterate?
53) Who built the Konark''s Sun Temple? a) Shah Jahan
a) Anantavarman Chodaganga Deva b) Aurangzeb
b) Narasimhadeva I c) Akbar
c) Kapilendra Deva Routaray d) Jahangir
d) Purushottam Dev
Answer: c)
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59) Who wrote 'Akbarnama'? Answer: c)

a) Abul Fazal
b) Faizi 64) In 1917, which movement was launched by
c) Abdur Rahim Mahatma Gandhi from Champaran?
d) Abdul Qadir a) Satyagraha
b) Non co-operation movement
Answer: a) c) Quit India movement
d) Swadeshi Movement
60) Which Sikh Guru initiated 'The Khalsa'?
a) Guru Nanak Dev Answer: a)
b) Guru Gobind Singh
c) Guru Angad Dev 65) Bishnoi movement was started against which
d) Guru Tegh Bahadur of the following?
a) Cutting of Trees
Answer: B b)Inequality of Women
c) Killing of Animals
61) Who raised the slogan “Swaraj is my Birth d) Increasing Pollution
right and I Shall have it”?
a) Mahatma Gandhi Answer: a)
b) Subhash Chandra Bose
c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak 66) Who was given the title of "The Ambassador
d) Lala Lajpat Rai of Hindu - Muslim Unity" for being the architect
and mastermind of the historic Lucknow Pact?
a) Sir Sayyad Ahmad Khan
Answer: c)
b) Fazl-ul-Haq
62) Who was the first Governor General of c) Syed Mohammad Sharfuddin Quadri
Bengal? d) Muhammad Ali Jinnah
a) Robert Clive
b) William Bentick Answer: d)
c) Warren Hastings
d) Charles Cornawallis 67) Who was the founder of Banaras Hindu
University?
a) Sukumar Dutt
Answer: c)
b) Madan Mohan Malvia
63) Which one is the correct chronological order c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
of the following events? d) Motilal Nehru
I. Quit India Movement
II. Shimla Conference Answer: b)
III. Poona Pact
IV. Cabinet Mission 68) Who led the Bardoli Satyagraha movement?
a) Mahatma Gandhi
a) II, IV, I, III
b) Rabindra Nath Tagore
b) III, IV,II, I
c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
c) III, I, II, IV
d) Chittaranjan Das
d) IV, II, III, I
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Answer: c) 74) Which emperor wrote the play 'Nagananda' in

Sanskrit language?
69) Who is known as the 'Father of Indian a) Prabhakaravardhana
Unrest'? b) Harshavadhana
a) Anant Singh c) Chandragupta II
b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak d) Bindusara
c) Bhagat Singh
d) Dadabhai Naoroji Answer: b)
Answer: b) 75) Who was the first female emperor of India?

a) Noor Jahan
70) Who amongst the following was the successor b) Razia Sultana
of Sikh Guru Har Krishan? c) Rani Rudrama Devi
a) Guru Angad Dev d) Queen Didda
b) Guru Tegh Bahadur
c) Guru Hargobind Answer: b)
d) Guru Amar Das
76) pH of the human blood is ____.
Answer: b) a) Slightly Acidic
b) Highly Acidic
71) Lord Cornwallis is known for _. c) Slightly Basic
a) Permanent revenue settlement of Bengal
d) Highly Basic
b) Attacking the caste system
c) Land revenue settlement of United States Answer: c)
d) Ryotwari settlement of Madras
77) Auxiliary bud develops into which of the
Answer: a) following part of the plant?
a) Fruit
72) Who was the founder of the Ghadar Party?
b) Leaf
a) Basant Kumar Biswas
c) Branch
b) Sohan Singh Bhakna
d) Roots
c) Ram Prasad Bismil
d) Bhagat Singh
Answer: c)
Answer: b)
78) Xylem helps in transportation of which of the
following?
73) In which year (in AD) was the East India
Company established? a) Food
a) 1664 b) Water
b) 1632 c) Nutrients
c) 1600 d) Both Food and Water
d) 1608
Answer: b)
Answer: c)
79) Which part of plant gives us Safforn?
a) Roots
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b) Petals 83) Which among the following has segmented

c) Stem body?
d) Stigma a) Phylum Mollusca
b) Phylum Arthopoda
Answer: d) c) Phylum Annelida
d) Phylum Coelenterata
80) Which of the following transports water from
the roots of the plants to its leaves? Answer: c)
a) Xylem
b) Phloem 84) Red rot is a disease caused to which of the
c) Both Xylem and Phloem following plant?
d) Cortex a) Paddy
b) Sugarcane
Answer: a) c) Mustard
d) Wheat
81) Which of the following trees shed their leaves
once in a year? Answer: b)
a) Deciduous Trees
b) Coniferous Trees 85) Red data book contains data of which of the
c) Evergreen Trees following?
d) Both a) and b) a) All plant species
b) All animal species
Answer: a) c) All endangered species
d) All extinct species
82) Plant tissues are of how many types?
a) 3 Answer: c)
b) 2
c) 5 86) Which of the following is not a plant
d) 6 hormone?
a) Gibberellic
Answer: a) b) Auxins
c) Cytokinins
d) Thyroxin
Answer: d)
87) Photosynthesis takes place in the presence of

chlorophyll and _.
a) Water
b) Nutrients
c) Carbon-dioxide
d) Sunlight
Answer: d)
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88) Cinnamon is obtained from which part of the a) Red blood cells
plant? b) White blood cells
a) Stem c) Plasma
b) Bark d) Nerves
c) Roots
d) Fruits Answer: a)
Answer: b) 94) Which of the following function is performed

by the kidneys in the human body?
89) What is the role of Pneumatophores? a) Excretion
a) Protect plant from animals b) Respiration
b) Get oxygen for respiration c) Digestion
c) Supports plant in standing upright d) Transportation
d) Helps plant for pollination
Answer: a)
Answer: c)
95) Synapse gap is present between which of the
90) Who proposed five kingdom classifications? following?
a) Ernst mayr a) Two neurons
b) R H whittaker b) Brain and Spinal Cord
c) M. W. Beijernick c) Two Kidneys
d) D. I. Ivanovsky d) None of these
Answer: b) Answer: a)
91) What is the name of a group of similar cells 96) Which organ has finger like outgrowths which
performing a specific function? are called as Villi (Singular Villus)?
a) Tissue a) Large Intestine
b) Organ b) Bladder
c) Organ system c) Small Intestine
d) Cellular organization d) Stomach
Answer: a) Answer: c)
92) Cattle quickly swallow grass and store it in 97) Which among the following is not a connective
their _. tissue?
a) Rumen a) Blood
b) Esophagus b) Bone
c) Small intestine c) Skin
d) Salivary glands d) Cartilage
Answer: a) Answer: c)
93) Which of the following carries oxygen to

various parts of human body?
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98) Nephron is related to which of the following a) Kerala

system of human body? b) Gujarat
a) Circulatory system c) Andhra Pradesh
b) Excretory system d) Tamil Nadu
c) Reproductive system
d) Respiratory system Answer: b)
Answer: b) 104) Gravitational Force is maximum at which of

the following place?
99) Which Vitamin is obtained from Sun rays? a) At Equator
a) Vitamin A b) At tropic of Cancer
b) Vitamin C c) At Tropic of Capricorn
c) Vitamin K d) At Poles
d) Vitamin D
Answer: d)
Answer: d)
105) Amazon River flows through which of the
100) What is the name of the hormone produced following country?
by thymus gland? a) USA
a) Thyroxine b) France
b) Auxins c) Brazil
c) Cytokinins d) Canada
d) Thymosin
Answer: c)
Answer: d)
106) What is the other name of Sahyadri Range?
101) Which Indian state is the largest in terms of a) Lesser Himalayas
the total area covered? b) Shivaliks
a) Maharashtra c) Western Ghats
b) Madhya Pradesh d) Eastern Ghats
c) Rajasthan
d) Tamil Nadu Answer: c)
Answer: c) 107) Who discovered bacteria?

a) Antonie Ven Leeuwenhoek
102) What was invented by Zacharias Jansen? b) Robert Brown
a) Jet Engine c) Robert Hook
b) Radium d) Robert Koch
c) Microscope
d) Electric Lamp Answer: a)
Answer: c) 108) India has longest international border with

which country?
103) Which Indian state has the longest coastline ? a) Bhutan
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b) Nepal 113) Which of the following is most important for

c) Bangladesh absorption of heat radiated from the Sun as well
d) Pakistan as from the Earth?
a) Carbon dioxide
Answer: c) b) Oxygen
c) Carbon monoxide
109) What is the name of the tropical cyclones in d) Nitrogen
the China Sea?
a) Hurricanes Answer: c)
b) Tornado
c) Twister 114) Which of the following is the most abundant
d) Typhoon metal on Earth's crust?
a) Magnesium
Answer: d) b) Iron
c) Copper
110) Which among the following country is not a d) Aluminium
part of Scandinavia?
a) Norway Answer: d)
b) Finland
c) Sweden 115) Soil having high content of aluminum and
d) Denmark iron oxide is also known as _____.
a) Meadow soil
Answer: b) b) Pedalfer soil
c) Chernozen soil
111) With which country India exchanged its d) Podzol soil
border maps?
a) China Answer: b)
b) Sri Lanka
c) Pakistan 116) Where was the 'Azad Hind Fauj' founded?
d) Bangladesh a) Singapore
b) Thailand
Answer: d) c) Britain
d) Italy
112) Marble comes under which category of
rocks? Answer: a)
a) Sedimentary
b) Igneous 117) Strait of Malacca separates which two land
c) Metamorphic masses?
d) None of these a) Malay Peninsula and Indonesian Island of Sumatra
b) Africa and Europe
Answer: c) c) India and Sri Lanka
d) North America and South America
Answer: a)
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118) The latitude which passes through Sikkim 123) Himalayan mountain range falls under which
also passes through _____. type of mountains?
a) Haryana a) Block Mountain
b) Rajasthan b) Residual Mountain
c) Uttarakhand c) Accumulated Mountain
d) Himachal Pradesh d) Fold Mountain
Answer: b) Answer: d)
119) Which of the following region is covered by 124) 'Norwesters' are thunder storms which are
tropical evergreen forest? prominent in ______.
a) Eastern Ghat a) India and Bhutan
b) Vindhyanchal b) Bhutan and Nepal
c) Aravalli c) India and Bangladesh
d) Western Ghat d) Bangladesh and Myanmar
Answer: d) Answer: c)
120) The final boundary between the Earth and 125) A difference between 2 longitudes at equator
the outer space is called _. is nearby equivalent to ____ km.
a) Magnetosphere a) 101
b) Ionosphere b) 111
c) Mesopause c) 121
d) Magnetopause d) 91
121) 49th Parallel is the boundary line between 126) Which of the following winds are hot dust
which two countries? laden and blow from Sahara desert towards
a) USA and Canada Mediterranean Region?
b) North and South Vietnam a) Sirocco
c) Germany and France b) Loo
d) Brazil and Chile c) Foehn
d) Mistral
Answer: a)
Answer: a)
122) How does La-Nina affect the Pacific Ocean?
a) Decreases salinity of ocean 127) Which metal is responsible for itai – itai
b) Cools downs the temperature of water disease?
c) Maintains stable temperature of water a) Cadmium
d) Increases salinity of ocean b) Nickel
c) Chromium
Answer: b) d) Mercury
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Answer: a) Answer: a)
128) Which of the following diseases is caused by 133) What is a bug in computer terminology?
female Anopheles mosquito? a) A virus
a) Chicken Pox b) A program
b) Malaria c) An error in program
c) Black Fever d) Magnetic disk storage device
d) Cholera
Answer: c)
Answer: b)
134) FORTRAN is not used for _____.
129) Which of the following micro-organism (I) Drawing pictures
causes diseases like polio and chicken pox? (II) Carrying out mathematics computations
a) Bacteria a) Only (I)
b) Protozoa b) Only (II)
c) Algae c) Both (I) and (II)
d) Virus d) Neither (I) nor (II)
130) Which disease is caused by Nickel? 135) C++ is _________.

a) Itai Itai a) An operating system
b) Dermatitis b) A programming language
c) Learning disability c) A software
d) Asthma d) None of these
Answer: b) Answer: b)
131) What is the Full form of “LAN”? 136) Which among the following is a 'Modifier
a) Line Area Network key'?
b) Linear Area Network a) Control
c) Local Area Network b) Shift
d) Land Area Network c) Alt
d) All options are correct
Answer: c)
Answer: d)
132) In which graphics, digital photos and scanned
images are typically stored with extension such as 137) An IP address is ____ bit number.
.bmp, .png, .jpg, or .gif? a) 8
a) Bitmap b) 32
b) Pixels c) 64
c) Plane d) 104
d) Both bitmap and pixels
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Answer: b) a) Alexander Fleming

b) Bill Gates
138) CAD stands for _______. c) Micheal Faraday
a) Common Aided Design d) Charles Babbage
b) Computer Aided Design
c) Complex Aided Design Answer: d)
d) Communication Aided Design
144) In computer terminology, what is the full
Answer: b) form of FTP?
a) Final Transfer Position
139) What is the full form of JPEG? b) File Transfer Position
a) Joint Photographic Experts Group c) File Transfer Packet
b) Joint Protocol Experts Graphics. d) File Transfer Protocol
c) Joint Programming Experts Graphics
d) Joint Project Experts Group Answer: d)
Answer: a) 145) What is the major aim of Pradhan Mantri

Ujjwala Yojana?
140) Netscape Navigator is a ___________. a) To provide electricity
a) Graphical user interface b) To provide LED bulbs
b) Programming language c) To provide LPG connections
c) Web browser d) To construct village roads
d) Processor
Answer: c)
Answer: c)
146) Who discovered the cholera causing germ?
141) Which key is used to move to next line in a a) Filippo pacini
Ms-Word document? b) Robert Koch
a) Enter key c) M. Laveran
b) Escape key d) Felix Hoffman
c) Shift key
d) Return key Answer: a)
Answer: a) 147) First state to implement Saur Sujala Yojana

is _______.
142) Who invented Dynamite? a) Chattisgarh
a) J B Dunlop b) Uttaranchal
b) Alfred Nobel c) Gujarat
c) James Simons d) Maharashtra
d) Peter Hargreveas
Answer: a)
Answer: b)
148) Who discovered television?
143) Who is called as 'Father of Modern a) Michael Faraday
Computer'?
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b) Joseph Henry d) Satjajit Ray

c) Abbe Caselli
d) John Baird Answer: b)
Answer: a) 154) “Ace Against Odds” is an autobiography of

which sports person?
149) Who discovered malaria causing germs? a) Vishwanathan Anand
a) Christiaan Bernard b) Sania Mirza
b) Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran c) Abhinav Bindra
c) Dmitry Ivanovsky d) Anjali Bhagwat
d) Martinus William Beijerinck
Answer: b)
Answer: b)
155) Who is the author of the book titled
150) Who was the inventor of frozen foods? 'Numbers Do Lie'?
a) Alfred Nobel a) Anil Menon
b) Clarence Birdseye b) Akash Gupta
c) Frank Whittle c) Ian Chapell
d) Ives McGaffey d) Kuna; Basu
151) Who amongst the following is a renowned 156) Who is the author of the book titled
vocalist? 'Selection Day'?
a) Kaushalaya Reddy a) Aravind Adiga
b) Manjit Bawa b) Anil Menon
c) Raja Ravi Verma c) Krishna Sobti
d) Pt. Jasraj d) Arunava Sinha
Answer: d) Answer: a)
152) In which city is the Forest Research Institute 157) 'The World Outside My Window' is written
of India located? by which author?
a) New Delhi a) Emily Bronte
b) Hyderabad b) Ruskin Bond
c) Dehradun c) I. Jan Austen
d) Shimla d) Henry Fielding
Answer: c) Answer: b)
153) Who is the author of the book titled “Citizen 158) Who amongst the following is the author of
and Society” ? the book "Rekha : The untold story" a biography
a) Pranab Mukerjee on a veteran actress Rekha?
b) Hamid Ansari a) Yasser Usman
c) Nandan Nilekani
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b) Anand Neelakantan a) Sada-e-Sarhad

c) Ram Kamal Mukherjee b) Maitree bus
d) K. Vijay Kumar c) Yaad-e-Shaheed
d) Dosti bus
Answer: a)
Answer: a)
159) Which of the following is a book written by
Shashi Tharoor? 164) Any undesirable change in physical, chemical
a) It’s not about you or biological characteristics of air, land, water or
b) Invisible People soil is called?
c) An Era of Darkness a) Greenhouse effect
d) Democrats and Dissenters b) Solid wastes
c) Pollution
Answer: c) d) Deforestation
160) “My Story” is an autobiography of which Answer: c)

famous cricketer?
a) Kumar Sangakara 165) In which city of India is Charminar located?
b) Kevin Peterson a) Pune
c) Brendon Mccullum b) Delhi
d) Michael Clarke c) Aurangabad
d) Hyderabad
Answer: d)
Answer: d)
161) Who is the author of the book 'Akhada: The
Authorized Biography of Mahavir Singh Phogat'? 166) Jama Masjid of Delhi was built in which
a) Rabi Thapa century?
b) Saurabh Duggal a) 15th
c) Salman Rushdie b) 16th
d) Tana French c) 17th
d) 18th
Answer: b)
Answer: c)
162) What is the name of the autobiography of
Sachin Tendulkar? 167) Who is a major driving force behind the
a) Numbers Do Lie 'Narmada Bachao Andolan'?
b) Playing it my way a) Anna Hazare
c) Once upon a Time b) Medha Patkar
d) What is Remembered c) Shantha Sinha
d) Manasi Pradhan
Answer: b)
Answer: b)
163) The Delhi - Lahore Bus is officially known as
_.
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168) Who amidst the following is a distinguished

painter? Answer: b)
a) Uday Shankar
b) Sonal Mansingh 173) Which of the statements given below are
c) Amrita Shergill correct?
d) Yamini Kirshnamurthy 1. The author of the novel 'Forty Thieves' is Thomas
Perry.
Answer: c) 2. The author of the novel 'Half of a Yellow Sun' is
Jennifer Egan.
169) How many Indian states share their 3. The author of the novel 'Middlesex' is
boundaries with Nepal? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
a) 3 a) 1 and 2
b) 4 b) 2 and 3
c) 8 c) 1 and 3
d) 5 d) 1, 2 and 3
170) Who amongst the following is a renowned 174) Who authored the book titled 'Jinnah often
Indian classical dancer? came to our House'?
a) Palghat Mani Iyer a) Kiran Doshi
b) Madhumati b) Salman Rushdie
c) Sonal Mansingh c) K. Vijay Kumar
d) Siddheshwari Devi d) Yasser Usman
Answer: c) Answer: a)
171) Which one of the following films was not 175) Match the following
directed by Satyajit Ray? Term - Associated Sports
a) Shatranj ke khiladi 1. No Ball - a. Hockey
b) Charulata 2. Goal - b. Cricket
c) Jalsaghar 3. Knockout - c. Boxing
d) Gumnam a) 1-b, 2-a, 3-c
b) 1-c, 2-a, 3-b
Answer: d) c) 1-b, 2-c, 3-a
d) 1-c, 2-b, 3-a
172) Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritwa
Abhiyan provides facility of free health check-up Answer: a)
and required treatment on _____ day of every
month. 176) Who is known for the invention of 'World
a) 1st Wide Web'?
b) 9th a) Sir Tim-Berners-Lee
c) 15th b) Maxwell
d) 30th c) Martin Cooper
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d) S A Forbes Answer: c)
Answer: a) 182) Match the following

Sports Player
177) Which of the following was invented by Sir 1. Mithali Raj - a. Hockey
Humphry Davy? 2. Poonam Rani - b. 3000mSteeplechase
a) Safety Pin 3. Lalita babar - c. Cricket
b) Steam Engine a) 1- c, 2 – b, 3 – a
c) Safety Lamp b) 1 – a, 2 – b, 3 – c,
d) X-Rays c) 1 – a, 2 – c, 3 – b
d) 1 – c, 2 – a, 3 – b
Answer: c)
Answer: d)
178) Who among the following devised the
technique IVF (In vitro Fertilization)? 183) “Rovers Cup” is associated with which of the
following Sport?
a) Sir Frank Whittle a) Foot Ball
b) Robert Edwards b) Hockey
c) Edward Jenner c) Golf
d) Dr. Martin Cooper d) Basket Ball
179) Who invented Pentium Chip? 184)How many players are there in a team of
a) C. Kumar Patel Volleyball?
b) Tom Gunter a) 2
c) Vince Emery b) 4
d) Vinod Dham c) 6
d) 8
180) Who pioneered diagnostic ultrasound? 185) Match the following

a) Alexander Fleming F1 Race - Winner
b) Ian Donald 1. F1 Australian Grand Prix - a.
c) A. Laveran Sebastian vettel
d) Robert Koch 2. F2 Russian Grand prix - b. Lewis
Hamilton
Answer: b) 3. F3 Chinese Grand Prix - c.
Valteri Bottas
181) What was invented by J. B. Dunlop?
a) 1-a, 2-b, 3-c
a) Airplane
b) 1-b, 2-a, 3-c
b) Car
c) 1-b, 2-c, 3-a
c) Rubber Tyre
d) 1-a, 2-c, 3-b
d) Rubber Boot
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Answer: d) 190) Match the Following

Temple - Lord
186) Match the Following 1. Lingaraja Temple, Orisha - a. Lord
Term - Sport Mahavira
1. Birdie - a. Tennis 2. Tijara Mandir, Rajasthan - b. Lord
2. Volley - b. Cricket Vishnu
3. Hit Wicket - c. Golf 3. Venkateswara Temple, Tirupati - c. Lord
a) 1-b, 2-c, 3-a Shiva
b) 1-c, 2-a, 3-b a) 1-b, 2-c, 3-a
c) 1-a, 2-c, 3-b b) 1-c, 2-a, 3-b
d) 1-c, 2-b, 3-a c) 1-a, 2-c, 3-b
d) 1-b, 2-a, 3-c
Answer: b)
Answer: b)
187) Sai Praneeth is associated with which of the
following sport? 191) Which of the following country is not a
a) Hockey member of BRICS association?
b) Badminton a) Brazil
c) Chess b) Russia
d) Boxing c) Iceland
d) China
Answer: b)
Answer: c)
188) 'Wimbledon' is a place associated with which
of the following sports? 192) In which year did Kyoto Protocol came into
a) Lawn tennis force?
b) Badminton a) 2004
c) Hockey b) 2005
d) Cricket c) 2006
d) 2007
Answer: a)
Answer: b)
189) Match the Following
Festival State 193) Kyoto Protocol's (an international treaty to
1. Gangar - a. West Bengal reduce greenhouse gas emissions) first meeting
2. Ganesh Chaturthi - b. Rajastan was held at which country?
3. Durga Puja - c. Maharashrta a) USA
a) 1-b, 2-c, 3-a b) Germany
b) 1-c, 2-a, 3-b c) Japan
c) 1-b, 2-a, 3-c d) Switzerland
d) 1-a, 2-c, 3-b
Answer: c)
Answer: a)
194) Which of the following pair is INCORRECT?
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a) Amjad Ali Khan - Tabla 199) Dandia is a form of dace associated with
b) Ustad Bismillah Khan - Shehnai which of the following state?
c) Hema Malini - Bharatnatyam a) Haryana
d) Shambhu Maharaj - Kathak b) Punjab
c) Gujarat
Answer: a) d) Rajasthan
195) The Mosque with "shaking minarets" is Answer: c)

situated in which Indian city?
a) Kanpur 200) Which among the following is national water
b) Ahmedabad animal of India?
c) Jaipur a) Crocodile
d) Ranchi b) Turtle
c) Alligator
Answer: b) d) Gangetic Dolphin
196) Which of the following pair is incorrect? Answer: d)

a) Muthuswami Dikshitar - Carnatic Music
b) Parveen Sultana - Singer 201) Which among the following is not a direct
c) M.S. Gopalakrishnan - Violinist tax?
d) Nandlal Bose – Flute a) Income tax
b) Wealth tax
Answer: d)
c) Corporate tax
d) None of these
197) Which of the following country doesn't
matches to its famous tourist place?
Answer: d)
a) China - Great Wall of China
b) Bhutan - Paro Taktsang 202) Which of the following pair/pairs is/are
c) Nepal - Pashupatinath Temple INCORRECT?
d) Sri Lanka - Padmanabhaswamy Temple I. Golden revolution - Fruits production
II. Blue revolution - Increasing production of
Answer: d) fertilizers
III. Yellow revolution - For the production of eggs
198) Match the Following
a) Only I
Dancer - Dance
b) Only II
1. Radha Reddy - a. Bharatnatyam
c) Both I and II
2. Padma Subrahmanyum - b. Kathak
d) Both II and III
3. Sitara Devi - c. Kuchipudi
a) 1-b, 2-a, 3-c
Answer: d)
b) 1-c, 2-b, 3-a
c) 1-c, 2-a, 3-b 203) MTNL comes under which of the following
d) 1-a, 2-c, 3-b category?
a) Navratna
Answer: c)
b) Maharatna
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c) Mini Ratna a) Levels of Income and Capital

d) None option is correct b) Satisfaction derived from two goods
c) Income from two businesses
Answer: a) d) Relationship between expenditure and savings
204) Which among the following is not an Answer: b)

instrument of fiscal policy?
a) Taxation 209) In which of the following market forms a
b) Public expenditure firm does not exercise control over price?
c) Public debt a) Mixed Competition
d) Credit Rationing b) Monopoly
c) Oligopoly
Answer: d) d) Perfect Competition
205) Which of the following equation is/are Answer: d)

INCORRECT?
I. NI = NDP + Net Foreign Income 210) Which of the following is represented by
II. GNP = GDP + Net Foreign Income 'Lorenz Curve'?
III. NDP = GNP - Depreciation a) Employment
Only (I) and (II) b) Inflation
Only (III) c) Deflation
Only (II) and (III) d) Income Distribution
Only (II)
206) Which of the following is called GDP 211) In a centrally planned economy, the plans all
Deflator? the important activities in the economy.
a) Ratio of nominal to real GDP a) Industrialists
b) Ratio of nominal to real GNP b) Citizens
c) Ratio of nominal to real CPI c) Government
d) Ratio of real to nominal GNP d) Judiciary
Answer: c)
Answer: a)
207) Which organisation monitors the banks in

actually maintaining cash balance?
a) State Bank of India
b) Reserve Bank of India
c) Grameen Bank of India
d) None of these
Answer: b)
208) What does indifference curve represent?
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212) _________ says that if we keep increasing the level. But after reaching a certain level of
employment of an input, with other inputs fixed, employment, it starts falling.
eventually a point will be reached after which the a) Law of diminishing marginal product
resulting addition to output (i.e., marginal product b) Law of variable proportions
of that input) will start falling. c) The Short Run
a) Law of diminishing marginal product d) The Long Run
b) Law of variable proportions
c) The Short Run Answer: b)
d) The Long Run
217) The closest example of a centrally planned
Answer: a) economy is the for the major part of the 20th
Century.
213) The ________ exchange rate is the relative a) USA
price of foreign goods in terms of domestic goods. b) India
a) Artificial c) Soviet Union
b) Nominal d) Japan
c) Fixed
d) Real Answer: c)
Answer: d) 218) ____________ is the relationship between the

variable input and output, keeping all other inputs
214) ___________ is an alternative way of are held constant.
representing the production function. a) Total product
a) The Short Run b) Average product
b) The Long Run c) Isoquant
c) Isoquant d) The Long Run
d) Average product
Answer: a)
Answer: c)
219) What was the main motive of Third Five
215) In a market system, the central problems Year Plan in India?
regarding how much and what to produce are a) Rural development
solved through the coordination of economic b) Agriculture
activities brought about by ______ signals. c) Financial inclusion
a) Supply d) Economic reform
b) Demand
c) Price Answer: b)
d) Stock Market
220) An economic system combining private and
Answer: c) state enterprise is called as _____
a) Market economy
216) _________ says that the marginal product of b) Centrally planned economy
a factor input initially rises with its employment c) Private economy
d) Mixed economy
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c) United States of America

Answer: d) d) Bangladesh
221) Which of the following right has been Answer: a)

removed from fundamental rights and converted
to a simple legal right? 226) In the Indian Parliamentary System, 'Vote on
a) Right to life and personal liberty Account' is valid for how many months (except the
b) Right to property year of elections)?
c) Right to education a) 2 months
d) Right to freedom of religion b) 3 months
c) 6 months
Answer: b) d) 9 months
222) Which of the following does not come under Answer: a)

Fundamental Duty?
a) To safeguard public property 227) India has taken the concept of 'Judicial
b) To protect and improve the natural environment Review' from which country's constitution?
c) To promote harmony a) United States
d) To protect freedom of speech and expression b) United Kingdom
c) Canada
Answer: d) d) Ireland
223) Comptroller and Auditor General of India is Answer: a)

appointed for how many years?
a) 2 228) How many times a person can be elected as
b) 4 the President of India?
c) 6 a) One time
d) 5 b) Two times
c) Three times
Answer: c) d) No bar
224) Who is the custodian of Contingency Fund of Answer: d)

India?
a) The Prime Minister 229) Which of the following is not a fundamental
b) Judge of Supreme Court duty?
c) The President a) To abide by constitution and respect the National
d) The Finance Minister Flag
b) To promote harmony and brotherhood
Answer: c) c) To uphold and protect the sovereignty
d) Abolition of titles except military and academic
225) Which of the following Country doesn't have
a written Constitution? Answer: d)
a) United Kingdom
b) Australia
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230) Which article can be used by The President

of India to declare financial emergency? Answer: c)
a) Article 32
b) Article 349 235) "United Nations Organization" is listed in
c) Article 360 the _______ list given in the Seventh Schedule in
d) Article 365 the Constitution of India.
a) Union
Answer: c) b) State
c) Global
231) The Poona Pact was signed between d) Concurrent
Mahatma Gandhi and _.
a) Muhammad Ali Jinnah Answer: a)
b) Lord Irwin
c) Subhash Chandra Bose 236) There are total parliamentary seats (Rajya
d) B. R. Ambedkar Sabha constituency) in Punjab.
a) 7
Answer: d) b) 1
c) 18
232) Which Governor General abolished the 'Sati d) 10
System' in India?
a) Lord Canning Answer: a)
b) Lord Ripon
c) Lord Wiliam Bentinck 237) Constituent Assembly of India was founded
d) Lord Dalhousie in the year _____.
a) 1940
Answer: c) b) 1946
c) 1947
233) ______________ means that the Supreme d) 1950
Court will reconsider the case and the legal issues
involved in it. Answer: b)
a) Original Jurisdiction
b) Writ Jurisdiction 238) Which Fundamental Right in the Indian
c) Appellate Jurisdiction Constitution allows citizens to move the court if
d) Advisory Jurisdiction they believe that any of their Fundamental Rights
have been violated by the State?
Answer: c) a) Cultural and Educational Rights
b) Right to Constitutional Remedies
234) Which amendment of the Constitution of c) Right against Exploitation
India increased the age of retirement of High d) Right to Freedom of Religion
Court judges from 60 to 62 years?
a) 10th Answer: b)
b) 12th
c) 15th
d) 245th
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239) _____________ means cases that can be

directly considered by the Supreme Court without Answer: a)
going to the lower courts before that.
a) Original Jurisdiction 243) Match the Following
b) Writ Jurisdiction Battle - Year
c) Appellate Jurisdiction 1. Battle of Buxar - a. 1576
d) Advisory Jurisdiction 2. Battle of Plassey - b. 1764
3. Battle of Haldighati - c. 1757
Answer: a) a) 1 – a, 2 – c, 3 – b
b) 1 – b, 2 – c, 3 – a
240) Under which of the following jurisdiction can c) 1 – c, 2 – b, 3 – a
any individual, whose fundamental right has been d) 1 – b, 2 – a, 3 – c
violated, can directly move the Supreme Court for
remedy? Answer: b)
b) Writ Jurisdiction 244) Big landlords or warrior chiefs in the seventh
c) Appellate Jurisdiction century were acknowledged as _______ by the
d) Advisory Jurisdiction existing kings?
a) Rashtrakutas
Answer: b) b) Chalukya
c) Samantas
241) Match the following d) Brahmanas
Social Reform Movement - Founder
1. Arya Samaj - Raja Ram Answer: c)
Mohan Roy
2. Brahmo Samaj - Dayananda 245) The queen with the title Didda ruled over
Saraswati which part of India between 980 - 1003?
3. Veda Samaj - Atmaram a) Avadh
Pandurang b) Kashmir
4. Prathna Samaj - Keshab c) Sindh
Chandra sen and K. sridharalu Naidu d) Bengal
a) 1-b , 2-a, 3-c , 4-d
b) 1-b , 2-a , 3-d , 4-c Answer: b)
c) 1-a , 2-b , 3-d , 4-c
d) 1-b , 2-d , 3-a , 4-c 246) The Agra fort was built by _.
a) Shah Jahan
Answer: b) b) Akbar
c) Jahangir
242) Who is the most prominent god of 'Rig d) Babur
Veda'? Answer: b)
a) Indra
b) Agni 247) The Red fort in Delhi was the residence of
c) Pashupati emperors of which dynasty in the 16th century?
d) Vishnu a) Rajput
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b) Khalji d) Swadeshi Movement

c) Tughluq
d) Mughal Answer: c)
253) During their rule the British persuaded or

Answer: d)
forced cultivators in Madras to grow _.
a) Jute
248) The Mongols under ___________ invaded b) Tea
Transoxiana in north-east Iran in 1219. c) Sugarcane
a) Timur Lang d) Rice
b) Nadir Shah
c) Ahmed Shah Abdali Answer: d)
d) Genghis Khan
forced cultivators in Punjab to grow _.
Answer: d)
a) Jute
b) Tea
249) Indian Mughal paintings originated during c) Sugarcane
the rule of which Mughal Emperor? d) Wheat
a) Humayun
b) Akbar Answer: d)
c) Jahangir
d) Shah Jahan 255) Jama Masjid of Delhi was built by?
a) Akbar
b) Humayun
Answer: a) c) Babar
d) Shah Jahan
250) Who was the first Governor General of
India? Answer: d)
a) Lord William Bentick
b) Lord Dalhousie 256) During their rule the British persuaded or
c) Lord Cornwallis forced cultivators in Bengal to grow ____.
d) None of these a) Jute
b) Tea
Answer: a) c) Sugarcane
d) Wheat
251) Who shot dead John Saunders on 17th
December 1927? Answer: a)
a) Bhagat Singh
b) Mangal Panday 257) The boundary between Earth's crust and
c) Sukhdev mantle is _.
d) Bipin Chandra Pal Singh a) Moho discontinuity
b) Lehman discontinuity
Answer: a) c) Conrad discontinuity
d) Gutenberg discontinuity
252) Sardar Vallabhbai Patel was the leader of
_. Answer: a)
a) Bhoodan Movement
b) Rowlatt Satyagraha 258) Doldrums pressure belts lies in between
c) Bardoli Satyagraha which of the following latitudes?
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a) 5o N to 5o S Answer: a)
b) 35o to 60o N and S
c) 25o to 35o N and S 264) Which is the highest peak in Andaman and
d) 35o to 45o N and S Nicobar islands?
a) Mount Koya
Answer: a) b) Mount Diavolo
c) Saddle Peak
259) Which of the following planet is also known d) Mount Thuiller
as 'Earth's twin'?
a) Mercury Answer: c)
b) Venus
c) Jupiter 265) Which of the following neighbouring country
d) Saturn of India is not a landlocked country?
a) Nepal
Answer: b) b) Myanmar
c) Bhutan
260) Which of the following imaginary lines join d) Afghanistan
places with same level of rainfalls?
a) Contour lines Answer: b)
b) Isobaths lines
c) Isohyets lines 266) Which type of forests majorly comprises of
d) Isobar lines lichens and mosses?
a) Taiga forests
Answer: c) b) Tundra forests
c) Temperate mixed forests
261) Which of the following has maximum bio- d) Tropical ever green forests
diversity?
a) Desert Answer: b)
b) River
c) Polar Region 267) Which of the following has maximum diurnal
d) Tropical Region temperature difference?
a) Desert
Answer: d) b) Mountains
c) Plateau
262) Takshashila University was located between d) Ocean
which two rivers?
a) Indus and Jhelum Answer: a)
b) Jhelum and Ravi
c) Beas and Indus 268) Which of the following is NOT a primary
d) Satluj and Indus green house gas in the earth's atmosphere?
a) Methane
Answer: a) b) Ozone
c) Nitrous oxide
263) Which Indian state has the largest share of d) Hydrogen
the Wastelands in India?
a) Gujarat Answer: d)
b) Andhra Pradesh
c) Madhya Pradesh 269) Which type of forest is most widespread in
d) Rajasthan India?
a) Tropical Evergreen Forests
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b) Tropical Deciduous Forests c) Kaveri

c) Montane Forests d) Mahanadi
d) Mangrove Forests
Answer: a)
Answer: b)
275) If the orbit of a planet is an ellipse then what
270) In the north-west, India shares its land is the point at which the Sun is located called?
boundaries with which country? a) Centre
a) Sri Lanka b) Circumcentre
b) Myanmar c) Incentre
c) Bangladesh d) Focus
d) Pakistan
Answer: d)
Answer: d)
276) India has a land boundary of about km.
271) The part of the Himalayas lying between a) 5200
Satluj and Kali rivers is known as _. b) 10200
a) Punjab Himalaya
c) 15200
b) Nepal Himalayas
c) Kumaon Himalayas d) 20200
d) Assam Himalayas
Answer: c)
Answer: c)
277) The Patkai hills belong to which mountain
272) ___________ is the process of restoring a ranges?
forest that once existed but was removed at some a) Himachal
point of time in the past. b) Purvanchal
a) Deforestation
c) Himgiri
b) Reforestation
c) Greenhouse d) Hindu Kush
d) Jhum cultivation
Answer: b)
Answer: b)
278) Which of the following rivers flows from
273) ______________ scheme launched by the India to Pakistan?
Central Government to eliminate open defecation a) Satluj
by constructing toilets for households, b) Ghaghra
communities.
c) Betwa
a) Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
b) Gram Uday Se Bharat Uday Abhiyan d) Tapi
c) Stand up India scheme
d) National RU URBAN Mission Answer: a)
Answer: a) 279) In the biosphere living beings are inter-

related and interdependent on each other for
274) The northern plain of India has been formed survival. This life supporting system is known as
by the interplay of the three major river systems,
the _____.
namely- the Indus, the Ganga and the ______.
a) Brahmaputra a) Ecosystem
b) Krishna b) Mountain range
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c) Forest d) Respiratory system

d) Atmosphere
Answer: d)
Answer: a)
285) What is the SI unit of intensity of sound?
280) The part of the Himalayas between Tista and a) Decible
Dihang rivers is known as Himalayas. b) Newton
a) Nepal c) Heartz
b) Kashmir d) Tesla
c) Assam
d) Jammu Answer: a)
Answer: c) 286) Which colour is formed when Blue and

Green are mixed?
281) pH of the human blood is ____. a) Cyan
a) Slightly Acidic b) Brown
b) Highly Acidic c) Black
c) Slightly Basic d) Violet
d) Highly Basic
Answer: a)
Answer: c)
287) What is an exothermic reaction?
282) Which component in tobacco makes it a) Reaction in which heat is released.
harmful for human consumption? b) Reaction in which heat is absorbed.
a) Morphine c) Reaction in which neither heat is released nor
b) Nicotine absorbed.
c) Heroin d) None of these
d) None of these
Answer: a)
Answer: b)
288) What are the main components of Brass
283) What is full form of BOD? Alloy?
a) Biological Oxygen Deficit a) Copper and Zinc
b) Biological Oxygen Difference b) Copper and Strontium
c) Biological Oxygen Demand c) Copper, Zinc and Nickel
d) Biological Oxygen Distribution d) Copper and Nickel
284) Alveoli is related to which of the following 289) What is study of fungus known as?
system of human body? a) Physiology
a) Circulatory system b) Phrenology
b) Excretory system c) Mycology
c) Reproductive system d) Biology
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290) Which of the following bacteria is responsible 295) Which of the following is an ore of iron?
for the formation of curd? a) Dolomite
a) Lycopodium b) Epsom Salt
b) Yeast c) Siderite
c) Lacto-bacillus d) Galena
d) Fungus
291) How many pairs of ribs are there in human 296) How does a Unicellular Organism
body? reproduce?
a) 13 a) Cell division
b) 11 b) Cell reproduction
c) 12 c) Cell synthesis
d) 14 d) Fragmentation
292) When a ball is thrown vertically upwards, 297) What is the full form of DNA?
which of the following quantities remains constant a) Diribo nucleic acid
during its motion? b) Di nucleic acid
a) Energy c) Dual nitrogen acid
b) Displacement d) Deoxyribonucleic acid
c) Velocity
d) Acceleration Answer: d)
Answer: a) 298) Which among the following is/are female

hormones?
293) What is the SI unit of heat energy? (i) Estrogen
a) Joule (ii)Progesterone
b) Newton (iii)Testosterone
c) Calorie a) (i) and (iii)
d) Kelvin b) (i) and (ii)
c) (ii) and (iii)
Answer: a) d) Only (iii)
294) What is the common name of Sodium Answer: b)

Bicarborate?
a) Baking Soda 299) For which of the following game, players
b) Washing Powder must have the knowledge of Pascal's law?
c) Plaster of Paris a) Climbing
d) Fly Ash b) Paragliding
c) Rafting
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d) Scuba diving c) Vitamin K

d) Vitamin A
Answer: d)
Answer: D
300) What is the value of the Least Distance of
Distinct vision (in cm) for a normal human being? 305) The right portion of human heart receives
a) 2.5 blood.
b) 25 a) Pure
c) 58 b) Impure
d) 60 c) Mixed
d) None of these
Answer: b)
Answer: b)
301) Which among the following is used to treat
Indigestion? 306) Which of the following is the largest gland in
a) Antacid human body?
b) Antiseptic a) Thyroid
c) Analgesic b) Liver
d) Antibiotic c) Kidney
d) Pancreas
Answer: a)
Answer: b)
302) Which of the following cannot be beaten into
Sheets? 307) On which principle does the hydraulic lift
a) Gold works?
b) Silver a) Newton's law
c) Potassium b) Pascal's law
d) Aluminum c) Archimedes's law
d) Joule's law
Answer: c) Answer: b)
303) Minamata disease is a nervous disorder 308) At what temperature (in degree celsius), the
caused by eating fish, polluted with _ . numerical values on Celsius and Fahrenheit scales
a) Iron become equal?
b) Mercury a) -40
c) Lead b) 40
d) Nickel c) 273
d) -273
Answer: b)
Answer: a)
304) Night Blindness is caused by deficiency of
which of the following Vitamin? 309) What is the process of conversion of solid
a) Vitamin B state directly to gaseous state called?
b) Vitamin C C a) Evaporation
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b) Condensation d) 5
c) Sublimation
d) Distillation Answer: b)
Answer: c) 315) In which of the following class can we put

Adrenaline?
310) What are the main components of Bronze a) Hormone B
Alloy? b) Enzyme
a) Copper and Zinc c) Protein
b) Copper and Tin d) Fat
c) Zinc and Nickel
d) Aluminium and Nickel Answer: a)
Answer: b) 316) Supercooling is cooling of liquid ______.

a) Below melting point
311) Which of the following causes fly ash? b) Below freezing point
a) Hydroelectric Power Station c) At melting point
b) Coal Combustion Power Plant d) Above melting point
c) Nuclear Power Plant
d) Tidal Power Plant Answer: b)
Answer: b) 317) When light passes from one medium to

another, this phenomenon of change in its
312) Who developed the theory of relativity? direction is called _______.
a) Issac Newton a) Refraction
b) Charles Darwin b) Diffraction
c) Marie Curie c) Propagation
d) Albert Einstein d) No option is correct
313) Which blood group is universal donor? 318) Which of the following is also known as
a) O+ Carbolic Acid?
b) O- a) Phenol
c) AB- b) Hydroxide
d) AB+ c) Sulphuric Acid
d) Ethanol
Answer: B
Answer: a)
314) In how many parts is the human brain
divided? 319) Potato, tomato and brinjal are three different
a) 2 species but all belong to which genus?
b) 3 a) Solanum
c) 4 b) Panthera
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c) Felis b) Aluminium
d) Tigris c) Salts
d) Iron
Answer: a)
Answer: c)
320) The first formed primary xylem elements are
called _. 325) Which base is present in milk of magnesia?
a) Metaxylem a) Magnesium hydroxide
b) Protoxylem b) Ammonium hydroxide
c) Xylem fibres c) Sodium hydroxide
d) Xylem parenchyma d) Calcium hydroxide
321) Nereis, Pheretima (Earthworm) and 326) Who discovered Sodium?

Hirudinaria (blood sucking leech) are examples of a) Humphry Davy
which Phylum? b) William Henry Fox
a) Coelenterata c) J.J.Thomson
b) Aschelminthes d) Karl Benz
c) Annelida
d) Arthropoda Answer: a)
Answer: c) 327) In the names Mangifera indica (mango),

Solanum tuberosum (potato) and Panthera leo
322) In humans, the sound is produced by the (lion), what does the three names, indica,
_. tuberosum and leo, represent?
a) Oesophagus a) Binomial Nomenclature
b) Larynx b) Taxonomic Hierarchy
c) Medulla c) Identification
d) Epiglottis d) Specific Epithet
323) The vocal cords in men are about long. 328) _______ are chlorophyll-bearing, simple,
a) 10mm thalloid, autotrophic and largely acquatic (both
b) 20mm fresh water and marine) organisms.
c) 30mm a) Pteridophytes
d) 40mm b) Bryophytes
c) Algae
Answer: b) d) Gymnosperms
324) Most liquids that conduct electricity are Answer: c)

solutions of acids, bases and _.
a) Copper
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329)Animals like annelids and arthropods etc 332) Kelvin (K) is the unit of measurement of
where the body can be divided into identical left _.
and right halves in only one plane, exhibit _____ a) Density
symmetry. b) Pressure
a) Coelenterata c) Mass
b) Radial d) Temperature
c) Ctenophora
d) Bilateral Answer: d)
Answer: d) 333) What is the process of rust forming on iron

called?
330) The sliding friction is than the static friction. a) Rusting
a) Double b) Crystallisation
b) Same c) Shovel
c) Greater d)Spade
d) Smaller
Answer: a)
Answer: d)
334) _________ acts as a shield absorbing
331) ______ optical data storage is a technology ultraviolet radiation from the sun.
where data is stored in multiple layers in the a) Chlorofluorocarbons
optical disc. b) Stratosphere
a) 3D c) Ozone hole
b) 30D d) Greenhouse
c) 300D
d) 3000D Answer: b)
Answer: a) 335) RBCs are formed in the ______ in the adults.

a) Blue bone marrow
b) Red bone marrow
c) White bone marrow
d) Black bone marrow
Answer: b)
336) The later (second) formed primary xylem

elements are called ______.
a) Protoxylem
b) Metaxylem
c) Xylem parenchyma
d) Xylem fibres
Answer: b)
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337) In science a push or pull of an object is called 342) Other name of Platelets is?
_____. a) Leucocytes
a) Pick b) Erythrocytes
b) Lift c) Platelets
c) Force d) Thrombocytes
d) Shut
Answer: d)
Answer: c)
343) In stems, the protoxylem lies towards the
338) There are how many vocal cords in the centre and the metaxylem lies towards the
human voice box? periphery of the organ. This type of primary
a) One xylem is called _.
b) Two a) Xylem fibres
c) Three b) Xylem parenchyma
d) Four c) Exarch
d) Endarch
Answer: b)
Answer: d)
339) The attribute _______ specifies (in pixels)
the distance between two adjacent cells. 344) ___________ is the second largest animal
a) Width phylum.
b) Height
c) Cellpadding a) Mollusca
d) Cellspacing b) Chordata
c) Coelomates
Answer: d) d) Anneldia
340) What is the name of the acid in an ant's Answer: a)

sting?
a) Acetic acid 345) In a qualitative way, the tendency of
b) Citric acid undisturbed objects to stay at rest or to keep
c) Formic acid moving with the same velocity is called ________.
d) Lactic acid a) Force
b) Acceleration
Answer: c) c) Friction
d) Inertia
341) Which base is present in soap?
a) Sodium hydroxide Answer: d)
b) Silicon dioxide
c) Calcium hydroxide 346)The time taken by a pendulum to complete
d) Ammonium hydroxide one oscillation is called its ____
a) Maximum speed
Answer: a) b) Average speed
c) Time period
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d) Time interval d) Instruction
Answer: c) Answer: c)
347) Metals react with sodium hydroxide to 352) The __________ uses an addressing scheme
produce ______. known as URL to indicate the location of files on
a) oxygen gas the web.
b) sodium a) JavaScript
c) water b) World Wide Web
d) hydrogen gas c) SQL
d) String
Answer: d)
Answer: b)
348) Which base is present in lime water?
a) Sodium hydroxide 353) Albert Sabin is known for developing_.
b) Magnesium hydroxide a) Smallpox vaccine
c) Calcium hydroxide b) Polio vaccine
d) Ammonium hydroxide c) Penicillin
d) Hepatitis B vaccine
Answer: c)
Answer: b)
349) Presence of large amounts of nutrients in
waters also causes excessive growth of _______ 354) Who invented the Centigrade scale?
algae. a) Anders Celsius
a) Biomagnification b) Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
b) Algal bloom c) William Thomson
c) planktonic d) Wright Brothers
d) Eutrophication
Answer: a)
Answer: c)
355) Who discovered electron?
350) Which system is used by the Digital a) E. Goldstien
Computers to encode data and Programs? b) J. J. Thomson
a) Decimal c) Ernest Rutherford
b) Binary d) J. Chadwick
c) Hexa decimal
d) Octal Answer: b)
Answer: b) 356) Who invented radar?

a) Fred Morrison
351) In MICR, what does 'I' stand for? b) A. H. Taylor and Leo C. Young
a) Interactive c) Van Tassel
b) Information d) W. K. Roentgen
c) Ink
Answer: b)
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357) 'Queensbury rules' is code of rules that 362) Who invented the electrocardiogram (ECG)?
directly influences which of the following sport? a) Willem Einthoven
a) Tennis b) Edward Jenner
b) Boxing c) Antonio de Ulloa and Charles Wood
c) Polo d) Karl Benz
d) Billiards
Answer: a)
Answer: b)
363) In which city of India is Dhamek Stupa
358) Who has written the book 'The Ministry of located?
Utmost Happiness? a) Pune
a) Chaitanya Padukone b) Delhi
b) Amitav Ghosh c) Varanasi
c) Pramod Kapoor d) Hyderabad
d) Anundhati Roy
Answer: c)
Answer: d)
364) The Samjhauta Express runs between Delhi
359) What is the full form of ISDN? to which city in Pakistan?
a) International Service Digital network a) Karachi
b) Indian Service Digital Network b) Islamabad
c) Integrated Service Digital Network c) Quetta
d) Internal Service Digital Network d) Lahore
Answer: c) Answer: d)
360) Which among the following is not an input 365) Which nation is not a part of the South Asian
device? Free Trade Area?
a) Plotter a) China
b) Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) b) Sri Lanka
c) Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) c) Bhutan
d) Barcode Reader d) India
Answer: a) Answer: a)
361) Teach Text' is a text editor in which of the 366) Gol Gumbaz was designed by?
following operating systems? a) Ustad Ahmad of Lahouri
a) Windows b) George Wittet
b) Google Chrome c) Henry Irwin
c) Mozilla Firefox d) Yaqut of Dabul
d) Macintosh
Answer: d)
Answer: d)
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367) SAARC Agriculture Centre (SAC) is based in 372) Citizen of which neighbouring country does
which city? not require a passport or visa to enter India?
a) Islamabad a) Pakistan
b) Dhaka b) Bangladesh
c) Colombo c) Nepal
d) Kathmandu d) China
Answer: b) Answer: c)
368) _____________ is the number of deaths in the 373) __________ is the number of individuals of
population during a given period. the population who left the habitat and gone
a) Natality elsewhere during the time period under
b) Mortality consideration.
c) Immigration a) Natality
d) Emigration b) Mortality
c) Immigration
Answer: b) d) Emigration
369) Buland Darwaza is located in? Answer: d)

a) West Bengal
b) Gujarat 374) Which of the following river originates in
c) Uttar Pradesh Nepal and flows into the Ganges?
d) Tamil Nadu a) Kosi
b) Jhelum
Answer: c) c) Chenab
d) Ravi
370) Which of the following award is given for
distinguished service in any field including service Answer: a)
rendered by the Government servants?
a) Ashok Chakra 375) With which other country does Bangladesh
b) Dada Saheb Phalke Awards share its border besides India?
c) Arjuna Award a) China
d) Padma Shri b) Laos
c) Bhutan
Answer: d) d) Myanmar
371) Bikaner school, Jaipur school, Marwar Answer: d)

school, Mewar school are all schools of?
a) Miniature paintings 376) Mattancherry Palace is located in?
b) Rajput paintings a) West Bengal
c) Madhubani paintings b) Kerala
d) Cave paintings c) Rajasthan
d) Karnataka
Answer: b)
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Answer: b) 381) In Microsoft Word, _______ allows us to

move selected paragraphs to the right.
377) Which of the following is an award given by a) Decrease Indent
the Government of India to recognize outstanding b) Increase Indent
achievement in National sports? c) Double Indent
a) Ashok Chakra d) Single Indent
b) Dada Saheb Phalke Awards
c) Arjuna Award Answer: b)
d) Padma Shri
382) A few organisms can tolerate and thrive in a
Answer: c) narrow range of temperatures. Such organisms
are called ___________.
378) Which is the only train which runs between a) Osmotic
Kolkata and Dhaka? b) Eurythermal
a) Dosti Express c) Stenothermal
b) Maitree Express d) Hydrothermal
c) Bangla Express
d) Padma Express Answer: c)
Answer: b) 383) Based on the common features like presence

of notochord and dorsal hollow neural system,
379) Which of the statements given below are animals like fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds
correct? along with mammals are included in which
1. The author of the novel 'Dodgers' is Don Winslow. Phylum?
2. The author of the novel 'Forty Thieves' is Bill a) Mammalia
Beverly. b) Chordata
3. The author of the novel 'The Corrections' is c) Primata
Thomas Perry. d) Insecta
a) 1 and 2
b) 2 and 3 Answer: b)
c) 1 and 3
d) 1, 2 and 3 384) The members of phaeophyceae are commonly
called _____ algae.
Answer: d) a) Green
b) Brown
380) Who discovered Electron? c) Red
a) Enrico Fermi d) Yellow
b) Robert Noyce
c) J.J.Thomson Answer: b)
d) James Dyson
385) Asterias (Star fish), Echinus (Sea urchin),
Answer: c) Antedon (Sea Lily) are all examples of which
Phylum?
a) Echinodermata
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b) Annelida 390) Blue Vitriol is another name for which of the

c) Platyhelminthes following?
d) Arthropoda a) Copper Sulphate
b) Oxygen
Answer: a) c) Copper
d) Magnesium Oxide
386) During uniform motion of an object along a
straight line, the ______ remains constant with Answer: a)
time.
a) Time 391) The rubbing surface of a matchbox has
b) Velocity powdered glass and a little red _.
c) Acceleration a) Antimony
d) Distance b) Aarsenic
c) Silicon
Answer: b) d) Phosphorus
387) The impression of an image persists on the Answer: d)

retina for about of a second.
a) 1/10th 392) A few organisms can tolerate and thrive in a
b) 1/8th wide range of temperatures. Such organisms are
c) 1/16th called ___________.
d) 1/5th a) Osmotic
b) Eurythermal
Answer: c) c) Stenothermal
d) Hydrothermal
388) Acetic Acid is another name for which of the
following? Answer: b)
a) Vinegar
b) Baking Soda 393) ___________ is the breaking up of the rocks
c) Copper Sulphate on the earth's surface.
d) Magnesium Oxide a) Erosion
b) Weathering
Answer: a)
c) Attrition
d) Abrasion
389) The reaction of Copper Sulphate and Iron
produces Iron Sulphate and _____.
Answer: b)
a) Vinegar
b) Ash 394) The method of soil conservation in the coastal
c) Baking Soda and dry regions where rows of trees are planted to
d) Copper check the wind movement to protect soil cover is
called?
Answer: d)
a) Mulching
b) Contour barriers
c) Rock dam
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d) Shelter belts d) Shah Jahan
395) Biological names are generally derived from 400) Arrest of ______ in 1930 led to angry
which language? demonstrations in streets of Peshawar.
a) French a) Abdul Ghaffar Khan
b) Latin b) Abul Kalam Azad
c) Mexican c) Zakir Hussain
d) German d) Muzaffar Ahmed
396) The members of rhodophyceae are commonly 401) The closest example of a centrally planned
called _____ algae. economy is the for the major part of the 20th
a) Green Century.
b) Brown a) USA
c) Red b) India
d) Yellow c) Soviet Union
d) Japan
Answer: c)
Answer: c)
397) Aurelia (Medusa) and Adamsia (Polyp) are
examples of which Phylum? 402) ____________ is the relationship between the
a) Ctenophora variable input and output, keeping all other inputs
b) Annelida are held constant.
c) Coelenterata a) Total product
d) Aschelminthes b) Average product
c) Isoquant
Answer: c) d) The Long Run

forced cultivators in Punjab to grow _. Answer: a)
a) Jute 403) From which of the following, is the GDP of a
b) Tea country not derived from?
c) Sugarcane a) Agricultural sector
d) Wheat b) Industrial sector
c) International sector
Answer: d) d) Service sector
399) Jama Masjid of Delhi was built by? Answer: c)

a) Akbar
b) Humayun
c) Babar
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404) ___________ is the set of all possible d) 5

combinations of the two inputs that yield the same Answer: c)
maximum possible level of output.
a) The Short Run 409) Who is the custodian of Contingency Fund of
b) The Long Run India?
c) Isoquant a) The Prime Minister
d) Average product b) Judge of Supreme Court
c) The President
Answer: c) d) The Finance Minister
405) The __________ exchange rate is the price of Answer: c)

one unit of foreign currency in terms of domestic
currency. 410) Which of the following Country doesn't have
a) Artificial a written Constitution?
b) Nominal a) United Kingdom
c) Fixed b) Australia
d) Real c) United States of America
d) Bangladesh
Answer: b)
Answer: a)
406) Which of the following right has been
removed from fundamental rights and converted 411) Who started construction of Nalanda
to a simple legal right? (Mahavihara) ?
a) Right to life and personal liberty a) Dharampala
b) Right to property b) Ashoka
c) Right to education c) Kumaragupta
d) Right to freedom of religion d) Harihara
407) Which of the following does not come under 412) The Chola kingdom mostly ruled which
Fundamental Duty? region of India?
a) To safeguard public property a) East
b) To protect and improve the natural environment b) West
c) To promote harmony c) North
d) To protect freedom of speech and expression d) South
408) Comptroller and Auditor General of India is 413) In which year was All India Anna Dravida
appointed for how many years? Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) founded?
a) 2 a) 1949
b) 4 b) 1999
c) 6 c) 1972
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d) 1997 c) Alluvial soil

d) Old crystalline rocks
Answer: c)
Answer: c)
414) For how many days did Mahatma Gandhi's
volunteers of the Salt satyagrah walked? 419) Energy in the form of heat is wasted when a
a) 24 machine is operated. This heat is generated due to
b) 36 ______.
c) 12 a) Burning
d) 6 b) Friction
c) Combustion
Answer: a) d) Lubrication
415) Name the Commission that came to India in Answer: b)

1928 to reform India's constitutional system.
a) Rowlatt Act 420) The incident ray, the at the point of
b) Pitt's India Act incidence and the reflected ray all lie in the same
c) Partition of Bengal plane.
d) Simon Commission a) Surface
b) Tangent
Answer: d) c) Normal
d) Angle of reflection
416) Name the British General who was
responsible for the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre. Answer: c)
a) Hastings
b) Cornwallis 421) ___________ is obtained by evaporation of
c) Dyer sea.
d) Dalhousie a) Sugar
b) Iron
Answer: c) c) Salt
d) Steel
417) How many union territories does India have
as of June 2018? Answer: c)
a) 7
b) 6 422) The passage of an electric current through a
c) 5 conducting liquid causes _____.
d) 4 a) Galvanisation
b) Evaporation
Answer: a) c) Physical Reaction
d) Chemical Reaction
418) The northern plain of India is formed of
_. Answer: d)
a) Metamorphic soil
b) Igneous rocks
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423) __________ being a higher category, is the b) Production Probability Set

assemblage of families which exhibit a few similar c) Resource Possibility Set
characters. d) Production Possibility Set
a) Order
b) Species Answer: d)
c) Genus
d) Class 428) In the Indian Parliamentary System, 'Vote on
Account' is valid for how many months (except the
Answer: a) year of elections)?
a) 2 months
424) Sexual reproduction in Algae that takes place b) 3 months
through fusion of two dissimilar size gametes is c) 6 months
called? d) 9 months
a) Zoospores
b) Anisogamous Answer: a)
c) Isogamous
d) Oogamous 429) India has taken the concept of 'Judicial
Review' from which country's constitution?
Answer: b) a) United States
b) United Kingdom
425) ________ is not a storage device. c) Canada
a) iPod d) Ireland
b) Pen drives
c) Linux Answer: a)
d) Flash Disks
430) There are total parliamentary seats (Rajya
Answer: c) Sabha constituency) in Sikkim.
a) 11
426) __________ of an input is defined as the b) 19
change in output per unit of change in the input c) 10
when all other inputs are held constant. d) 1
a) Marginal product
b) Production function Answer: d)
c) Total product
d) Average product 431) What is the name of the scheme for the
Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC)
Answer: a) beneficiaries launched in Delhi region?
a) Sakushal Humesha
427) The collection of all possible combinations of b) Kahin bhi kabhi bhi
the goods and services that can be produced from c) Jeevan Arogya
a given amount of resources and a given stock of d) Shramik Kalyan
technological knowledge is called the ______ of the
economy. Answer: b)
a) Resource Probability Set
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432) _______ is issued when the court finds that a Answer: b)

particular office holder is not doing legal duty and
thereby is infringing on the right of an individual. 437) Beyond the ______ , the Himalayas bend
a) Habeas Corpus sharply to the south and spread along the eastern
b) Mandamus boundary of India.
c) Prohibition a) Zoji La Pass
d) Quo Warranto b) Dihang gorge
c) Bhutan border
Answer: b) d) Nepal Border
433) Group of Monuments at Hampi was built by? Answer: b)

a) Harihara and Bukka
b) Udayin and Shishunaga 438) The animals in which the body cavity is
c) Devavarman and Vainya absent are known as _.
d) Maravarman and Sirmara a) Coelomates
b) Wild
Answer: a) c) Pseudocoelomates
d) Acoelomates
434) Dara Shikoh was killed in conflict with his
brother _. Answer: d)
a) Jahangir
b) Aurangzeb 439) According to the Second Law of Motion, for a
c) Babur given force, acceleration is inversely proportional
d) Shah Jahan to the ____ of an object.
a) Density
Answer: b) b) Volume
c) Force
435) In 1916 Mahatma Gandhi travelled to ____ to d) Mass
inspire the peasants to struggle against the
oppressive plantation system. Answer: d)
a) Dandi
b) Sabarmati
c) Champaran
d) Chauri Chaura
Answer: c)
436) According to an estimate, almost ___ percent
forests have been lost in the tropics, compared to
only 1 percent in the temperate region.
a) 20
b) 40
c) 60
d) 80
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440) The coil wire in the electric room heater or a) 60N

electric cooking heater is called _____. b) 600N
a) Circuit c) 100N
b) Element d) 10N
c) Filament
d) Cells Answer: c)
Answer: b) 445) Mahatma Gandhi returned to India from

____ in January 1915.
441) In Microsoft Excel, the ______ () function a) South Africa
returns the largest value among the values passed b) England
as arguments. c) USA
a) HIGHEST d) Russia
b) MORE
c) HIGH Answer: a)
d) MAX
446) Todarmal was the famous revenue minister
Answer: d) of which Mughal Emperor?
a) Shah Jahan
442) Which of the statements given below are b) Bahadur Shah Jafar
correct? c) Akbar
1. The author of the novel 'Dodgers' is Don Winslow. d) Aurangazeb
2. The author of the novel 'Forty Thieves' is Bill
Beverly. Answer: c)
3. The author of the novel 'The Corrections' is
Thomas Perry. 447) Which among the following Mughal Emperor
a) 1 and 2 was illiterate?
b) 2 and 3 a) Shah Jahan
c) 1 and 3 b) Aurangzeb
d) 1, 2 and 3 c) Akbar
d) Jahangir
Answer: d)
Answer: c)
443) The side mirrors of vehicles are of which type
of mirrors? 448) Which Sikh Guru initiated 'The Khalsa'?
a) Convex a) Guru Nanak Dev
b) Concave b) Guru Gobind Singh
c) Plane c) Guru Angad Dev
d) Inverted d) Guru Tegh Bahadur
Answer: a) Answer: b)
444) If the mass of an object is 60 kgs, what will be 449) Which acid is released when an Ant Bites?
its weight on the moon? (N=Newton) a) Hydrochlocric Acid
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b) Formic Acid 454) "Trade unions" is listed in the list given in

c) Acetic Acid the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India.
d) Phosphoric Acid a) Union
b) State
Answer: b) c) Global
d) Concurrent
450) If at a price, market supply is greater than
market demand, we say that there is _______ in Answer: d)
the market at that price.
a) Equilibrium 455) __________ writ is issued by a higher court
b) Excess Demand (High Court or Supreme Court) when a lower
c) Excess Supply court has considered a case going beyond its
d) Marginal Revenue jurisdiction.
a) Habeas Corpus
Answer: c) b) Mandamus
c) Prohibition
451) In India the reform policies were first d) Quo Warranto
introduced in which year?
a) 1951 Answer: c)
b) 1971
c) 1991 456) Who built the Konark''s Sun Temple?
d) 2001 a) Anantavarman Chodaganga Deva
b) Narasimhadeva I
Answer: c) c) Kapilendra Deva Routaray
d) Purushottam Dev
452) How many times a person can be elected as
the President of India? Answer: b)
a) One time
b) Two times 457) In which battle was siraj ud – Daulah
c) Three times Defeated by Lord Clive?
d) No bar a) Battle of plassey
b) Battle of Buxer
Answer: d) c) Battle of Panipet
d) Battle of Haldighati
453) Which of the following is not a fundamental
duty? Answer: a)
a) To abide by constitution and respect the National
Flag 458) Match the following
b) To promote harmony and brotherhood Social Reform Movement - Founder
c) To uphold and protect the sovereignty 1. Arya Samaj - Raja Ram
d) Abolition of titles except military and academic Mohan Roy
2. Brahmo Samaj - Dayananda
Answer: d) Saraswati
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3. Veda Samaj - Atmaram 463) Sardar Vallabhbai Patel was the leader of
Pandurang _.
4. Prathna Samaj - Keshab a) Bhoodan Movement
Chandra sen and K. sridharalu Naidu b) Rowlatt Satyagraha
a) 1-b , 2-a, 3-c , 4-d c) Bardoli Satyagraha
b) 1-b , 2-a , 3-d , 4-c d) Swadeshi Movement
c) 1-a , 2-b , 3-d , 4-c
d) 1-b , 2-d , 3-a , 4-c Answer: c)
Answer: b) 464) The National Highway 1A connects Leh to

Kashmir Valley through the _____ pass.
459) Prince Khurram was the name of the future a) Khyber
Emperor _______. b) Zoji la
a) Shah Jahan c) Nathula
b) Jahangir d) Karakoram
c) Babur
d) Akbar Answer: b)
Answer: a) 465) India is the _____ largest country in the

world.
460) In 1917, which movement was launched by a) 3rd
Mahatma Gandhi from Champaran? b) 5th
a) Satyagraha c) 7th
b) Non co-operation movement d) 9th
c) Quit India movement
d) Swadeshi Movement Answer: c)
Answer: a) 466) Auxiliary bud develops into which of the

following part of the plant?
461) Who led the Bardoli Satyagraha movement? a) Fruit
a) Mahatma Gandhi b) Leaf
b) Rabindra Nath Tagore c) Branch
c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel d) Roots
d) Chittaranjan Das
Answer: c)
Answer: c)
467) Netscape Navigator is a ___________.
462) Who was the founder of the Ghadar Party? a) Graphical user interface
a) Basant Kumar Biswas b) Programming language
b) Sohan Singh Bhakna c) Web browser
c) Ram Prasad Bismil d) Processor
d) Bhagat Singh
Answer: c)
Answer: b)
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468) Who is known as the 'Father of Indian 473) Which of the following function is performed
Unrest'? by the kidneys in the human body?
a) Anant Singh a) Excretion
b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak b) Respiration
c) Bhagat Singh c) Digestion
d) Dadabhai Naoroji d) Transportation
469) Xylem helps in transportation of which of the 474) Which organ has finger like outgrowths
following? which are called as Villi (Singular Villus)?
a) Food a) Large Intestine
b) Water b) Bladder
c) Nutrients c) Small Intestine
d) Both Food and Water d) Stomach
470) Plant tissues are of how many types? 475) Which among the following is not a
a) 3 connective tissue?
b) 2 a) Blood
c) 5 b) Bone
d) 6 c) Skin
d) Cartilage
Answer: a)
Answer: c)
471) Cinnamon is obtained from which part of the
plant? 476) The __________ of a firm is a relationship
a) Stem between inputs used and output produced by the
b) Bark firm.
c) Roots a) Marginal product
d) Fruits b) Production function
c) Total product
Answer: b)
d) Average product
472) What is the name of a group of similar cells
Answer: b)
performing a specific function?
a) Tissue 477) A _______ deficit is financed by net capital
b) Organ flows from the rest of the world, thus by a capital
c) Organ system account surplus.
d) Cellular organization a) Current Account
b) Savings Account
Answer: a)
c) Capital Account
d) Asset Account
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d) Evaporation
Answer: a)
Answer: a)
478) Which article can be used by The President
of India to declare financial emergency? 483) A change in which a substance undergoes a
a) Article 32 change in its physical properties is called ______.
b) Article 349 a) Chemical Properties
c) Article 360 b) Physical Properties
d) Article 365 c) Chemical Change
d) Physical Change
Answer: c)
Answer: d)
479) The Poona Pact was signed between
Mahatma Gandhi and _. 484) The place on the earth's surface above the
a) Muhammad Ali Jinnah focus is called the _____.
b) Lord Irwin a) Focus
c) Subhash Chandra Bose b) Incentre
d) B. R. Ambedkar c) Epicentre
d) Circumcentre
Answer: d)
Answer: c)
480) In which year was All India Anna Dravida
Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) founded? 485) During the past century, the temperature of
a) 1949 Earth has increased by ______.
b) 1999 a) 0.6oC
c) 1972 b) 1.6oC
d) 1997 c) 2.6oC
d) 3.6Oc
Answer: c)
Answer: a)
481) "Population control and family planning" is
listed in the ______ list given in the Seventh 486) According to the categories of land
Schedule in the _______ Constitution of India. mentioned in the Chola inscriptions ______ was
a) Union known as the land for the maintenance of schools?
b) State a) Vellanvagai
c) Global b) Brahmadeya
d) Concurrent c) Shalabhoga
d) Devadana
Answer: d)
Answer: c)
482) What is the process of melting also called?
a) Fusion 487) Which of the following is an Indian military
b) Galvanisation decoration awarded for valour, courageous action
c) Crystallisation or self- sacrifice away from the battlefield?
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a) Ashok Chakra 492) In due course of time the meander loop cuts
b) Dada Saheb Phalke Awards off from the river and forms a cut-off lake, also
c) Arjuna Award called an _________ lake.
d) Padma Shri a) Ox-bow
b) Oasis
Answer: a) c) Lagoon
d) Tectonic
488) The Tomara Rajputs, were defeated in the
middle of the twelfth century by the Chauhans of Answer: a)
________.
a) Ayodhya 493) The oceanic crust mainly consists of silica
b) Ajmer and _.
c) Dwarka a) Magnesium
d) Gwalior b) Iron
c) Manganese
Answer: b) d) Sulphur
489) Who shot dead John Saunders on 17th Answer: a)

December 1927?
a) Bhagat Singh 494) A change in which no new substances are
b) Mangal Panday formed is called _.
c) Sukhdev a) Physical Change
d) Bipin Chandra Pal Singh b) Chemical Change
c) Rusting
Answer: a) d) Galvanisation
490) Lord Cornwallis is known for _. Answer: a)

a) Permanent revenue settlement of Bengal
b) Attacking the caste system 495) The property of metal by which it can be
c) Land revenue settlement of United States drawn into wires is called _.
d) Ryotwari settlement of Madras a) Maleability
b) Viscosity
Answer: a) c) Ductility
d) Tensile strength
491) Sultan Mahmud was a ruler of ________
a) Persia Answer: c)
b) Ghazni
c) Lahore 496) A multicellular organism grows by ____.
d) Arab a) Cell addition
b) Cell explosion
Answer: b) c) Cell implosion
d) Cell division
Answer: d)
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502) The demand for normal good increases with

497) CAD stands for _______. ________ in the consumer's income.
a) Common Aided Design a) Increase
b) Computer Aided Design b) Decrease
c) Complex Aided Design c) Constant
d) Communication Aided Design d) Double
498) The web uses the _____ to request and serve 503) Which Governor General abolished the 'Sati
web pages and programs. System' in India?
a) Hyper Text Marketing Language a) Lord Canning
b) Hyper Text Markup Language b) Lord Ripon
c) Hotmail Text Markup Language c) Lord Wiliam Bentinck
d) Home Text Markup Language d) Lord Dalhousie
499) Magnesium oxide (MgO) + Water (H2O) =? 504) ______________ means that the Supreme
a) [Mg(OH)] Court will reconsider the case and the legal issues
b) [Mg2(OH)] involved in it.
c) [Mg(O2H)2] a) Original Jurisdiction
d) [Mg(OH)2] b) Writ Jurisdiction
c) Appellate Jurisdiction
Answer: d) d) Advisory Jurisdiction
500) What is the unit of calorific value? Answer: c)

a) kN/kg
b) kJ/kg 505) Which amendment of the Constitution of
c) kW/sec India increased the age of retirement of High
d) kCal/sec Court judges from 60 to 62 years?
a) 10th
Answer: b) b) 12th
c) 15th
501) __________ is defined as the output per unit d) 245th
of variable input
a) Marginal product Answer: c)
b) Production function
c) Total product 506) "United Nations Organization" is listed in
d) Average product the ______ list given in the Seventh Schedule in
the Constitution of India.
Answer: d) a) Union
b) State
c) Global
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d) Concurrent b) New Delhi

c) Mumbai
Answer: a) d) Kolkata
507) There are total _____ parliamentary seats Answer: b)

(Lok Sabha constituency) in West Bengal.
a) 42 512) Who amongst the following was the successor
b) 2 of Sikh Guru Har Krishan?
c) 4 a) Guru Angad Dev
d) 40 b) Guru Tegh Bahadur
c) Guru Hargobind
Answer: a) d) Guru Amar Das
508) "Prevention of cruelty to animals" is listed in Answer: b)

the _____ list given in the Seventh Schedule in the
Constitution of India. 513) Who invented Velcro?
a) Union a) Thomas Edison
b) State b) William Harvey
c) Global c) George de Mestral
d) Concurrent d) Robert Boyles
509) ___________ makes laws on matters included 514) ________ was imprisoned for the rest of his
in Union List and Concurrent List. life by Aurangzeb.
a) Lok Sabha a) Akbar
b) Ministry of Defence b) Shah Jahan
c) Prime Minister's Office c) Jahangir
d) Securities and Exchange Board of India d) Babur
510) According to the categories of land 515) Name the estuary on the border of India and
mentioned in the Chola inscriptions ______ was Pakistan?
known as the land donated to Jaina institutions a) Daman Creek
a) Vellanvagai b) Sir Creek
b) Brahmadeya c) Karwar Creek
c) Shalabhoga d) Mandovi Creek
d) Pallichchhandam
Answer: b)
Answer: d)
516) As the river enters the plain it twists and
511) Where is Humayun's Tomb is located? turns forming large bends known as _____.
a) Hyderabad a) Crooks
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b) Fections
c) Rounds 521) Which of the statements given below are not
d) Meanders correct?
1. The author of the novel 'A Visit from the Goon
Answer: d) Squad' is Edward P Jones.
2. The author of the novel 'The Corrections' is
517) According to Central Pollution Control Jonathan Franzen.
Board (CPCB), particulate size micrometers or 3. The author of the novel 'The Known World' is
less in ____ diameter are responsible for causing Jennifer Egan.
the greatest harm to human health. a) 1 and 2
a) 0.5 b) 2 and 3
b) 2.5 c) 1 and 3
c) 5 d) 1, 2 and 3
d) 10
Answer: c)
Answer: d)
522) Mattancherry Palace is located in?
518) ______________ scheme launched by the a) West Bengal
Central Government aims to spur social, economic b) Kerala
and infrastructure development in rural areas by c) Rajasthan
developing a cluster of 300 Smart Villages. d) Karnataka
a) Soil Health Card
b) Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission Answer: b)
c) Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana
d) Pradhanmantri rojgar yojna 523) Match the Following
Temple - Lord
Answer: b) 1. Lingaraja Temple, Orisha - a. Lord
Mahavira
519) Which of the following was invented by Sir 2. Tijara Mandir, Rajasthan - b. Lord
Humphry Davy? Vishnu
a) Safety Pin 3. Venkateswara Temple, Tirupati - c. Lord
b) Steam Engine Shiva
c) Safety Lamp a) 1-b, 2-c, 3-a
d) X-Rays b) 1-c, 2-a, 3-b
c) 1-a, 2-c, 3-b
Answer: c) d) 1-b, 2-a, 3-c
520) Who discovered the colour photography? Answer: b)

a) Robert Noyce
b) Enrico Fermi 524) What is the common characteristic of the
c) John Logie Baird elements of the same group in the periodic table?
d) James Clerk Maxwell a) Electrons in outer most shell
b) Total number of electrons
Answer: d) c) Total number of protons
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d) Atomic weight
Answer: a) Sabha constituency) in Punjab.
a) 7
525) Which is the only train which runs between b) 1
Kolkata and Dhaka? c) 18
a) Dosti Express d) 10
b) Maitree Express
c) Bangla Express Answer: a)
d) Padma Express
529) Constituent Assembly of India was founded
Answer: b) in the year _____.
a) 1940
526) Short run marginal cost curve cuts the b) 1946
average variable cost curve from ______ at the c) 1947
minimum point of average variable cost. d) 1950
a) Top
b) Below Answer: b)
c) Right
d) Left 530) Which Fundamental Right in the Indian
Constitution includes equal access to shops,
Answer: b) bathing, ghats, hotels etc?
a) Right to Liberty and Personal Freedom
527) A commodity market has a _______ b) Right to Freedom of Religion
structure, if there is one seller of the commodity, c) Right to Equality
the commodity has no substitute, and entry into d) Cultural and Educational Rights
the industry by another firm is prevented.
a) Perfect Competition Answer: c)
b) Monopoly
c) Oligopoly 531) ____________ means that the President of
d) Monopolistic Competition India can refer any matter that is of public
importance or that which involves interpretation
Answer: b) of Constitution to Supreme Court for advice.
b) Writ Jurisdiction
c) Appellate Jurisdiction
d) Advisory Jurisdiction
Answer: d)
532) "Betting and gambling" is listed in the _____

list given in the Seventh Schedule in the
Constitution of India.
a) Union
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b) State
c) Global 537) During their rule the British persuaded or
d) Concurrent forced cultivators in Assam to grow _.
a) Jute
Answer: b) b) Tea
c) Sugarcane
533) Who is the most prominent god of 'Rig d) Wheat
Veda'?
a) Indra Answer: b)
b) Agni
c) Pashupati 538) Akbar was ________ years old when he
d) Vishnu became emperor.
a) 16
Answer: a) b) 19
c) 13
534) Match the Following d) 10
Battle - year
1. Battle of Buxar - a. 1576 Answer: c)
2. Battle of Plassey - b. 1764
3. Battle of Haldighati - c. 1757 539) The longitudinal valley lying between lesser
a) 1 – a, 2 – c, 3 – b Himalaya and the ______ are known as Duns.
b) 1 – b, 2 – c, 3 – a a) Himadri
c) 1 – c, 2 – b, 3 – a b) Himachal
d) 1 – b, 2 – a, 3 – c c) Shiwaliks
d) Tibet
Answer: b)
Answer: c)
535) The _________were the successors of Timur,
the ruler of Iran, Iraq and modern-day Turkey. 540) Nepal shares a border with which other
a) Rajputs country besides India?
b) Khaljis a) China
c) Mughals b) Bhutan
d) Tughluq c) Bangladesh
d) Afghanistan
Answer: C
Answer: a)
536) Who was the founder of Banaras Hindu
University? 541) In Microsoft Excel, the ____() function
a) Sukumar Dutt returns the smallest value among the values
b) Madan Mohan Malvia passed as arguments.
c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad a) LEAST
d) Motilal Nehru b) LESS
c) MIN
Answer: b) d) LOW
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d) Tensile strength
Answer: c)
Answer: c)
542) A _______ is a collection of letters, digits,
punctuation characters, and so on. 547) A multicellular organism grows by ____.
a) Numbers a) Cell addition
b) String b) Cell explosion
c) Arrays c) Cell implosion
d) Boolean Values d) Cell division
543) _________ Software are freely available and 548) The male sex organs in a flower is the
can be edited and customized by anyone. _.
a) Free Source a) Zoospores
b) Open Source b) stamen
c) Easy Source c) pistil
d) Unpaid Source d) Chlorophyceae
544) During their rule the British persuaded or 549) In animals like Annelids, Molluscs, organs
forced cultivators in Madras to grow ____. have associated to form functional systems, each
a) Jute system concerned with a specific physiological
b) Tea function. This pattern is called __________ system
c) Sugarcane level of organization.
d) Rice a) Organ
b) Open
Answer: d) c) Closed
d) Coelom
545) A change in which no new substances are
formed is called _. Answer: a)
a) Physical Change
b) Chemical Change 550) Contact force is another name for _.
c) Rusting a) Friction
d) Galvanisation b) Magnetic force
c) Electrostatic force
Answer: a) d) Muscular force
546) The property of metal by which it can be Answer: d)

drawn into wires is called _.
a) Maleability 551) Which fibre is also called as artificial silk?
b) Viscosity a) Nylon
c) Ductility b) Rayon
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c) Polyester
d) Acrylic 556) "Taxes on lands and buildings" is listed in
the ________ list given in the Seventh Schedule in
Answer: b) the Constitution of India.
a) Union
552) The short run average cost curve is ____ b) State
shaped. c) Global
a) U d) Concurrent
b) V
c) X Answer: b)
d) W
Answer: a) 557) "Foreign jurisdiction" is listed in the list
given in the Seventh Schedule in the Constitution
553) If the ______ firm has zero costs or only has of India.
fixed cost, the quantity supplied in equilibrium is a) Union
given by the point where the marginal revenue is b) State
zero. c) Global
a) Perfect Competition d) Concurrent
b) Monopoly
c) Oligopoly Answer: a)
d) Monopolistic Competition
558) Which Fundamental Right in the Indian
Answer: b) Constitution includes abolition of untouchability?
a) Right to Liberty and Personal Freedom
554) Which Fundamental Right in the Indian b) Right to Freedom of Religion
Constitution allows citizens to move the court if c) Right to Equality
they believe that any of their Fundamental Rights d) Cultural and Educational Rights
have been violated by the State?
a) Cultural and Educational Rights Answer: c)
b) Right to Constitutional Remedies
c) Right against Exploitation 559) What is the name of the court poet of King
d) Right to Freedom of Religion Harshavardhana?
a) Tulsidas
Answer: b) b) Banabhatta
c) Surdas
555) _____________ means cases that can be d) Raskhan
directly considered by the Supreme Court without
going to the lower courts before that. Answer: b)
b) Writ Jurisdiction 560) The Arabic work of al-Biruni that gave an
c) Appellate Jurisdiction account of the subcontinent is called _.
d) Advisory Jurisdiction a) Kitab - Al Hind
b) Kitab - Al Bharat
Answer: a) c) Pustak - Al Hind
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d) Pustak - Al Bharat a) Earthquake

b) Cyclone
Answer: a) c) Flood
d) Landslide
561) Who was given the title of "The Ambassador
of Hindu - Muslim Unity" for being the architect Answer: d)
and mastermind of the historic Lucknow Pact?
a) Sir Sayyad Ahmad Khan 566) The material carried by the glacier such as
b) Fazl-ul-Haq rocks big and small, sand and silt gets deposited,
c) Syed Mohammad Sharfuddin Quadri which are called glacial ______.
d) Muhammad Ali Jinnah a) Moraines
b) Deltas
Answer: d) c) Plateaus
d) Grooves
562) Who raised the slogan “Swaraj is my Birth
right and I Shall have it”? Answer: a)
a) Mahatma Gandhi
b) Subhash Chandra Bose 567) The process of depositing a layer of zinc on
c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak iron is called _____ .
d) Lala Lajpat Rai a) Galvanisation
b) Crystallisation
Answer: c) c) Rusting
d) Baking
563) The longitudes of main land of India extends
between _. Answer: a)
a) 68°7' E and 97°25' E
b) 68°7' W and 97°25' W 568) ___________ is the most ecologically relevant
c) 68°7' N and 97°25' N environmental factor.
d) 68°7' S and 97°25' S a) Water
b) Temperature
Answer: a) c) Light
d) Soil
564) ________ is separated from India by a
narrow channel of sea formed by Palk Strait and Answer: b)
the Gulf of Mannar.
a) Sri Lanka 569) A healthy adult man has, on an average,
b) Myanmar _____
c) Bangladesh (in millions) of RBCs mm-3 of blood.
d) Pakistan a) 5 - 5.5
b) 4 - 4.5
Answer: a) c) 3 - 3.5
d) 6 - 6.5
565) ___________ are defined as the mass
movement of rock, debris or earth down a slope. Answer: a)
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570) The female sex organs in a flower is the 575) The salt concentration (measured as salinity
_. in parts per thousand), is less than % in inland
a) Zoospores waters.
b) Stamen a) 5
c) Pistil b) 20
d) Chlorophyceae c) 50
d) 75
Answer: c)
Answer: a)
571) The force of friction between two surfaces
will increase if: 576) The method of soil conservation in which
a) A layer of lubricant is kept between the two stones, grass, soil are used to build barriers along
surfaces contours and trenches are made in front of the
b) The two surfaces are pressed harder barriers to collect water is called?
c) Air gap is created between the two surfaces a) Mulching
d) Iirregularities on both the surfaces are removed b) Contour barriers
c) Rock dam
Answer: b) d) Terrace farming
572) _________ is an example of intrusive igneous Answer: b)

rock.
a) Conglomerate 577) The demand for an inferior good decreases
b) Shale with _____ in the consumer's income.
c) Sandstone a) Increase
d) Granite b) Decrease
c) Constant
Answer: d) d) Double
573) Fire extinguishers emit which gas? Answer: a)

a) Carbon monoxide
b) Chlorine 578) Goods for which the quantity that a
c) Carbon dioxide consumer chooses, increases as the consumer's
d) Nitrogen income increases and decreases as the income
decreases are called?
Answer: c) a) Inferior goods
b) Normal goods
574) What is formed when Magnesium is burnt? c) Complementary goods
a) Baking Soda
d) Substitute goods
b) Calcium Carbonate
c) Ash Answer: b)
d) Vinegar
579) Under which of the following jurisdiction can
Answer: c) any individual, whose fundamental right has been
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remedy? Answer: a)
b) Writ Jurisdiction 584) Who has built the Vijay Stambha (Tower of
c) Appellate Jurisdiction Victory) in chittorgarh?
d) Advisory Jurisdiction a) Maharana Pratap
b) Rana Kumbha
Answer: b) c) Rana Sanga
d) Kunwar Durjan singh
580) _____________ means cases that can be
directly considered by the Supreme Court without Answer: b)
going to the lower courts before that.
a) Original Jurisdiction 585) Who wrote 'Akbarnama'?
b) Writ Jurisdiction a) Abul Fazal
c) Appellate Jurisdiction b) Faizi
d) Advisory Jurisdiction c) Abdur Rahim
d) Abdul Qadir
Answer: a)
Answer: a)
Sabha constituency) in Tripura. 586) Bishnoi movement was started against which
a) 7 of the following?
b) 1 a) Cutting of Trees
c) 18 b) Inequality of Women
d) 10 c) Killing of Animals
d) Increasing Pollution
Answer: b)
Answer: a)
Sabha constituency) in Maharashtra. 587) Who was the first Governor General of
a) 11 Bengal?
b) 19 a) Robert Clive
c) 10 b) William Bentick
d) 1 c) Warren Hastings
d) Charles Cornawallis
Answer: b)
Answer: c)
Constitution states that all persons shall be 588) ________, succeeded to the throne of
equally protected by the laws of the country? Ferghana in 1494 when he was only 12 years old.
a) Right to Equality a) Humayun
b) Right to Freedom b) Akbar
c) Right against Exploitation c) Jahangir
d) Right to Freedom of Religion d) Babur
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Answer: d) 594) An male reproductive system, the testes are

situated outside the abdominal cavity within a
589) Charminar was built by? pouch called __________.
a) Humayun a) Glands
b) Mohammed Quli Qutab Shah b) Scrotum
c) Ashoka c) Testicular Lobules
d) Narasimha d) Seminiferous Tubules
590) The land mass of India has an area of _____ 595) Which of the following is not among the 3
million square km. main classes of Algae?
a) 1.28 a) Chlorophyceae
b) 2.28 b) Rhodophyceae
c) 3.28 c) Phaeophyceae
d) 4.28 d) Gymnosperms
Answer: c)
Answer: d)
591) Ajanta and Ellora caves are situated in which
state of India? 596) Sycon (Scypha), Spongilla (Fresh water
a) Kerala
sponge) and Euspongia (Bath sponge) are
b) Odisha
examples of which Phylum?
c) Maharashtra
a) Coelenterata
d) Jammu & Kashmir
b) Platyhelminthes
c) Ctenophora
Answer: c)
d) Porifera
592) The force exerted by a magnet is an example
Answer: d)
of ______
a) Non-contact force
597) If the force applied on the object is in the
b) Muscular force
direction opposite to the direction of motion, the
c) Contact force
speed of the object ______.
d) Electrostatic force
a) Increases
b) Stops
Answer: a)
c) Decreases
593) _________ influences the rate of weathering d) No effect
and humus in soil formation.
Answer: c)
a) Flora & Fauna
b) Time
598) The SI unit of acceleration is _.
c) Parent rock
a) Meters per seconds squared
d) Climate
b) Meters per second
c) Seconds per meter
Answer: d)
d) Seconds per meter squared
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603) The demand for a inferior good increases

Answer: a) with ______ in the consumer's income.
a) Increase
599) Order Primata comprising monkey, gorilla b) Decrease
and gibbon is placed in class Mammalia along c) Constant
with order Carnivora that includes? d) Double
a) Giraffe, Camels and Elephants
b) Crocodile, Lizard and Snake Answer: b)
c) Lion, Leopard and Tiger
d) Tiger, Cats and Dogs 604) Goods for which demand move in the
opposite direction of the income of the consumer
Answer: d) are called?
a) Inferior goods
600) In roots, the protoxylem lies towards b) Normal goods
periphery and metaxylem lies towards the centre. c) Complementary goods
Such arrangement of primary xylem is called d) Substitute goods
_.
a) Xylem fibres Answer: a)
b) Xylem parenchyma
c) Exarch 605) Under which of the following jurisdiction can
d) Endarch any individual, whose fundamental right has been
Answer: c) remedy?
601) Which is the only one example of Mollusca b) Writ Jurisdiction
Phylum? c) Appellate Jurisdiction
a) Locust d) Advisory Jurisdiction
b) Butterfly
c) Scorpion Answer: b)
d) Octopus
606) ________ means that the President of India
Answer: d) can refer any matter that is of public importance
or that which involves interpretation of
602) If the speed of an object moving along a Constitution to Supreme Court for advice.
straight line keeps changing, its motion is said to a) Original Jurisdiction
be ______. b) Writ Jurisdiction
a) Uniform c) Appellate Jurisdiction
b) Periodic d) Advisory Jurisdiction
c) Circular
d) Non-uniform Answer: d)
Answer: d) 607) "Forests" is listed in the ______ list given in

the Seventh Schedule in the Constitution of India.
a) Union
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b) State a) Lactic acid

c) Global b) Formic acid
d) Concurrent c) Acetic acid
d) Tartaric acid
Answer: d)
Answer: d)
Constitution states that all persons shall be 613) The male sex accessory ducts include vasa
equally protected by the laws of the country? efferentia, epididymis, vas deferens and _.
a) Right to Equality a) Cervix
b) Right to Freedom b) Rete Testis
c) Right against Exploitation c) Glands
d) Right to Freedom of Religion d) Seminiferous Tubules
609) The second Battle of Tarain was fought 614) The meristem which occurs between mature
between _. tissues is known as meristem.
a) Alexander and Porus a) Intercalary
b) Jai Chand and Mohammed Ghori b) rimary
c) Akbar and Hemu c) Lateral
d) Mohammed Ghori and Prithviraj Chauhan d) Apical
610) Prince Salim was the name of the future 615) Which of the following Phylum are also
Emperor _____. called flatworms?
a) Babur a) Mollusca
b) Humayun b) Chordata
c) Jahangir c) Ctenophora
d) Akbar d) Platyhelminthes
Answer: c) Answer: d)
611) The substances which reduce friction are 616) In the formula average velocity = (u + v) /2, u
called ______. is the _.
a) Irregularities a) Final velocity
b) Lubricants b) Initial displacement
c) Adhesives c) Initial velocity
d) Viscous d) Final displacement
612) What is the name of the acid in grapes? 617) Vocal chords in women are _____ than vocal
chords in men.
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a) 5mm shorter Answer: a)

b) 15mm shorter
c) 5mm longer 622) The strength of a force is usually expressed
d) 15mm longer by its _.
a) Motion
Answer: a) b) Direction
c) Interaction
618) Lion, Leopard and Tiger are all species of d) Magnitude
which genus?
a) Solanum Answer: d)
b) Panthera
c) Felis 623) Magnesium (Mg) + Oxygen (Ob: = ?
d) Tigris a) Mg2O
b) MgO4
Answer: b) c) O2Mg
d) MgO
619) _________ are made up of sclerenchymatous
cells. These are generally absent in the primary Answer: d)
phloem but are found in the secondary phloem.
624) What is the reaction between an acid and a
a) Xylem fibres base called?
b) Xylem parenchyma a) Desalination
c) Phloem parenchyma b) Crystallisation
d) Phloem fibres c) Neutralisation
d) Sublimation
Answer: d)
Answer: c)
620) What type of a body plan does coelenterates,
ctenophores and echinoderms have? 625) In the names Mangifera indica (mango),
a) Annelida Solanum tuberosum (potato) and Panthera leo
b) Radial (lion), the terms Mangifera, Solanum and
c) Bilateral Panthera represent the higher level of?
d) Platyhelminthes a) Taxon
b) Taxonomic Hierarchy
Answer: b) c) Specific Epithet
d) Binomial Nomenclature
621) If the speed of an object moving along a
straight line is constant, its motion is said to be Answer: a)
_.
a) Uniform 626) Which of the following is one of the
b) Periodic commercial products obtained from Gelidium and
c) Circular Gracilaria and are used to grow microbes and in
d) Non-uniform preparations of ice-creams and jellies?
a) Agar
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b) Chlorella
c) Spirullina Answer: b)
d) Gymnosperms
628) In an acid base reaction which product is
Answer: a) produced along with a salt?
a) Hydrogen gas
627) Taenia (Tapeworm), Fasciola (Liver fluke) b) Oxygen gas
are examples of which Phylum? c) Carbon dioxide
a) Coelenterata d) Water
b) Platyhelminthes
c) Annelida Answer: a)
d) Arthropoda
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87) Photosynthesis takes place in the presence of

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205) Which of the following equation is/are Answer: d)

207) Which organisation monitors the banks in

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222) Which of the following does not come under Answer: a)

223) Comptroller and Auditor General of India is Answer: a)

224) Who is the custodian of Contingency Fund of Answer: d)

230) Which article can be used by The President

239) _____________ means cases that can be

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253) During their rule the British persuaded or

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