CHAPTER꞉ 1

ART AND CULTURE

1. Ustad Mohi Bahauddin Dagar is a legendary musician A) Madhya Pradesh B) Uttar Pradesh
associated with which of the following musical instruments? C) Himachal Pradesh D) Arunachal Pradesh
[RRB NTPC 2022]
13. Which of the following is NOT a traditional dance of
A) Sitar B) Rudra Veena
Rajasthan? [RRB ALP 2019]
C) Tabla D) Flute
A) Ghoomar B) Kathputli
2. Which popular folk dance of Himachal Pradesh has a C) Gair D) Dumhal
Yagya performed by the dancers at the end of the dance
14. In which state did Bharatanatyam originate? [RRB JE 2019]
performance as a homage to the Gods and Goddesses?
A) Odisha B) Gujarat
[RRB NTPC 2022]
A) Jawara B) Bihu C) Kerala D) Tamil Nadu
C) Kalbelia D) Nati 15. “Gudi Padwa” is an auspicious day that marks the
beginning of the traditional New Year for Marathi Hindus.
3. Which contemporary painter made a series of paintings on
Which Hindu month is it celebrated in? [RRB ALP 2019]
Mahatma Gandhi?
A) Vaisakha B) Bhadra
A. Amrita Shergill
C) Shravana D) Chaitra
B. Ram Kinkar
C. M.F. Hussain 16. Colossal statues of Kushana rulers have been found
D. Atul Dodiya installed in a shrine at Mat. Which of the following is that
[RRB NTPC 2016] state? [RRB NTPC 2022]
A) C B) D A) Bihar B) Uttar Pradesh
C) B D) A C) Madhya Pradesh D) Odisha

4. Which of the following folk dances is from Assam? 17. What is the national dress of Japan?
[RRB ALP 2019] A. Chador
A) Giddha B) Lezim B. Kilt
C) Nati D) Bagurumba C. Sarong
D. Kimono
5. Which of the following folk dances is from Himachal
[RRB NTPC 2016]
Pradesh? [RRB ALP 2019]
A) A B) B
A) Nati B) Lezim
C) C D) D
C) Bagurumba D) Giddha
18. Which temple in Thanjavur has chola architecture and was
6. Parshavnatha temple is located in which state?
built by Emperor Rajaraja? [RRB NTPC 2021]
[RRB Group D 2022]
A) Brihadisvara Temple B) Naganathaswamy Temple
A) Madhya Pradesh B) Rajasthan
C) Thirumananjeri Temple D) Lord Murugan Temple
C) Karnataka D) Kerala
19. The Wangala Festival is primarily celebrated in ______.
7. Which of the following folk dances is from Punjab?
[RRB NTPC 2022]
A) Bagurumba B) Lezim
A) Meghalaya B) Ladakh
C) Nati D) Giddha
C) Himachal Pradesh D) Uttarakhand
8. Which Veda contains the maximum number of verses?
20. Jat-Jatin is one of the most popular folk dance form of
[RRB Group D 2022]
which among the following states? [RRB NTPC 2022]
A) Rig Veda B) Atharva Veda
A) Madhya Pradesh B) Assam
C) Sama Veda D) Yajur Veda
C) Bihar D) Chhattisgarh
9. 'Khandvi' is a delicacy of which state of India? [RRB JE 2019]
21. Anthurium, named after a famous flower, is a major festival
A) Maharashtra B) Gujarat
of which of the following states? [RRB NTPC 2022]
C) Karnataka D) Odisha A) Nagaland B) Mizoram
10. Where is the famous Somnath temple located? C) Manipur D) Arunachal Pradesh
A. Tamil Nadu 22. Which of the following is a temple built out of marble by
B. Uttar Pradesh Vimal Shah? [RRB NTPC 2016]
C. Gujarat A) The Dilwara temple B) Brihadeeswarar temple
D. Rajasthan C) Omkareswar temple D) Ranakpur Adinath temple
[RRB NTPC 2016]
A) A B) D 23. Which of the following is the world's second-largest
C) B D) C language family? [RRB NTPC 2022]
A) Indo-European B) Sino-Tibetan
11. Which one of these is a harvest festival? [RRB ALP 2019] C) Niger-Congo D) Austronesian
A) Teej B) Janmashtami
24. Kuchipudi has its roots in which Indian State?
C) Deepawali D) Onam
[RRB ALP 2019]
12. In which state is the 'Solung' festival celebrated? A) Arunachal Pradesh B) Kerala
[RRB Group D 2022] C) Andhra Pradesh D) Himachal Pradesh
25. How many beats are there in the Hindustani classical taal A) Monpa B) Angami
named Dadra Taal? [RRB NTPC 2022] C) Hunas D) Apatani
A) 3 B) 6
39. Rengma is primarily a folk dance of ______.
C) 12 D) 9
A) Rajasthan B) Bihar
26. By which other name is the festival Gudi Padwa known in C) West Bengal D) Nagaland
Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh? [RRB NTPC 2022]
40. In which state is the five day religious festival of 'Shad
A) Baisakhi B) Ugadi
Nongkrem' celebrated? [RRB Group D 2022]
C) Akshay Tritiya D) Pongal
A) Andhra Pradesh B) Meghalaya
27. ______ received the 2021 Abhinandan Saroja National C) Uttar Pradesh D) Tripura
Award by the National Institute of Indian Classical Dance.
41. Which of the following states is the cradle of the folk music
[RRB NTPC 2022]
traditions of Saikuti Zai? [RRB NTPC 2022]
A) Aparna Satheesan B) Chandrashekhar Kambara
A) Orissa B) Mizoram
C) Priyadarshan D) Prabha Atre
C) Telangana D) Goa
28. _________ is an exclusive martial dance form of Manipur
42. The Dree Festival, an important agricultural festival, is
that includes unique display of skill, creativity and agility in
primarily celebrated by the Apatani tribe in the state of
which the performers enact a mock fight sequence
________. [RRB Group D 2022]
[RRB NTPC 2022]
A) West Bengal B) Kerala
A) Singhi Chamm B) Chakyar Koothu
C) Arunachal Pradesh D) Madhya Pradesh
C) Rangama D) Thang Ta
43. Famous 'Sangai Festival' is an annual cultural festival
29. The tribal people of which Indian state celebrate Sarhul
organized by which state of North-East India?
festival where a sal tree is worshipped for health and
[RRB NTPC 2021]
prosperity? [RRB NTPC 2022]
A) Manipur B) Meghalaya
A) Jharkhand B) Gujarat
C) Tripura D) Nagaland
C) Rajasthan D) Meghalaya
44. Which of the following is a popular dance and music
30. Pandit Jasraj, an Indian classical vocalist, belongs to which
combination of Andhra Pradesh that is similar to the stick
gharana?
dance? [RRB NTPC 2022]
A) Gwalior B) Mewati
A) Neuleu B) Kolannalu
C) Kirana D) Agra
C) Villu Pattu D) Dandiya
31. Which of the following is the largest fair in West Bengal?
45. Pandit Jasraj is an Indian classical vocalist, belonging to
[RRB Group D 2022]
the _________ gharana (Schools) of Hindustani classical
A) Raas Mela B) Jaydev Kenduli Mela
music. [RRB JE 2019]
C) Gangasagar Mela D) Ramkeli Mela, Malda
A) Mewati B) Agra
32. Madhavacharya (12th century) wrote Madhava Nidana C) Kirana D) Patiala
which contains ______ chapters exclusively on diagnosis of the 46. Pandit Bhimsen Joshi who received Bharat Ratna in 2008
diseases (nidana). [RRB NTPC 2022] was popular for the khayal form of singing and belonged to
A) 96 B) 60 the ______ Gharana. [RRB NTPC 2022]
C) 69 D) 90 A) Gwalior B) Kirana
33. 'Huli Vesha' is a popular folk dance in the coastal region of C) Patiala D) Agra
________. [RRB NTPC 2022] 47. The Sun temple at Konark, is popularly known as the
A) Kerala B) Odisha __________. [RRB NTPC 2022]
C) Gujarat D) Karnataka A) White Pagoda B) Black Pagoda
34. Pongal, a harvest festival is dedicated to the __________. C) Golden Pagoda D) Bronze Pagoda
[RRB NTPC 2022] 48. The Tamil language was declared as the classical
A) Goddess Saraswati B) God of Fire language of India in __________. [RRB Group D 2022]
C) Goddess Ganga D) Sun God A) 2005 B) 2002
35. Jon Beel Mela is the only fair in India where barter system C) 2004 D) 2003
is still used. In which state does it take place? [RRB NTPC 2021] 49. The Sarnath Lion Capital erected by the Mauryan Ruler
A) Tripura B) Assam Ashoka, was made up of ______. [RRB NTPC 2022]
C) Nagaland D) Manipur A) Sandstone B) Mica
36. Which of the following monuments was built by C) Iron D) Marble
Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah is said to be built to 50. Which style of singing is traditionally performed by men
commemorate the eradication of plague? [RRB NTPC 2016] with tenpura and pakhawaj as instrumental accompaniments?
A) Alai Minar B) Charminar [RRB NTPC 2022]
C) Fateh Buxj D) Qutub Minar A) Tarana B) Thumri
37. Buhsu Jiba is a festival celebrated in the state of ________. C) Dhrupad D) Ghazal
[RRB Group D 2022] 51. The Kambala festival of Karnataka is essentially associated
A) Sikkim B) Nagaland with what? [RRB ALP 2018]
C) Himachal Pradesh D) Odisha A) Cock fighting B) Buffalo race
38. The Losar festival, quite popular in Arunachal Pradesh is C) Tribal dance D) Bull fighting
mainly celebrated by the ______ tribe. [RRB NTPC 2022]
52. Shogatsu is the New Year festival of which of the following 62. What is the traditional language used in Bhaona which
country? [RRB NTPC 2022] was created by Sankardeva? [RRB NTPC 2022]
A) Brazil B) New Zealand A) Malayalam B) Sanskrit
C) Japan D) France C) Brajawali D) Tamil
53. Which state of India celebrates the 'Sangai Festival' in 63. The most popular folk dance of Tamil Nadu
November? [RRB ALP 2018] A) Karagam B) Koodiyattam
A) Gujarat B) Assam C) Yakshagana D) Kathakali
C) Manipur D) Tamil Nadu
64. Which of the following cities is famous for the iconic
54. Which traditional dye-painted figurative and patterned 'Kumbh Mela'? [RRB Group D 2022]
garment received the Geographical Indication (GI) tag in A) Ahmedabad B) Surat
2021? [RRB NTPC 2022] C) Prayagraj D) Lucknow
A) Thanka painting B) Karuppur Kalamkari
Painting 65. Nagananda, a Sanskrit play which tells the popular story
of Vidyadhar King Jimutavahana's self-sacrifice to save the
C) Pattachitra painting D) Mithila Painting
Nagas, is attributed to emperor ______ [RRB NTPC 2022]
55. The World Heritage Site Bhimbetka in MP is famous for A) Bindusara B) Ashoka
A. Forests C) Harsha D) Chandra Gupta I
B. Mountain ranges
66. With which state is the Nabakalebara festival associated?
C. Rock shelters
[RRB NTPC 2021]
D. Waterfalls [RRB NTPC 2016]
A) Odisha B) Assam
A) A B) B
C) Sikkim D) West Bengal
C) D D) C
67. The Gateway of India was built in the traditional ________
56. Which of the following is an anthropology museum that
style to welcome King George V and Queen Mary to India in
presents an integrated story of the evolution of man and
1911. [RRB NTPC 2021]
culture with special reference to India? [RRB ALP 2018]
A) Persian B) Western
A) The Indira Gandhi B) The Indira Gandhi Jantu
Sangrahalaya (IGS) Sangrahalaya (IGJS) C) European D) Indo-Saracenic style
C) The Indira Gandhi D) The Indira Gandhi Pustak 68. Which Indian state celebrates Makar Sankranti as 'Poush
Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (IGPS) Sankranti'? [RRB NTPC 2022]
Sangrahalaya (IGRMS) A) Maharashtra B) West Bengal
57. ______________ is one of India’s largest palaces, which is C) Himachal Pradesh D) Rajasthan
also known as ‘Amba Villa’ and it was the residence of the 69. Allarakha Qureshi who is popularly known as Alla Rakha,
Wodeyar monarch. is an Indian ______ player.
A. Mysore Palace A) Veena B) Dholak
B. Leh Palace C) Tabla D) Sitar
C. Mattancherry Palace
70. Raja Ravi Varma was famous in the field of [RRB JE 2019]
D. Hampi [RRB NTPC 2016]
A) Dance B) Literature Top
A) A B) C
C) Music D) Painting
C) D D) B
71. The _________ of Gunadhya is written in the Paisachi
58. The sayings or day-to-day teachings of Prophet
language. [RRB NTPC 2022]
Muhammad after his death were compiled by his followers
A) Mrichchhakatika B) Panchatantra
and called ______. [RRB Group D 2022]
A) Hadith B) Sunnah C) Brihatkatha D) Kathasaritsagara
C) Quran D) Sharia 72. From where does the Prime Minister address the nation on
the 15th of August? [RRB JE 2019]
59. Which of the following dance forms belongs to the state of
A) Parliament B) Chandni Chowk
Jammu and Kashmir? [RRB ALP 2019]
A) Rouf B) Bidesia C) Red Fort D) Alibag
C) Karma D) Swang 73. Kumbh Mela takes place in which of these cities of
60. The classical dance of Kathakali belongs to which Indian Madhya Pradesh -
A. Gwalior
state?
B. Bhopal
A. Odisha
C. Ujjain
B. Kerala
D. Indore
C. Andhra Pradesh
[RRB NTPC 2016]
D. Assam
A) D B) B
[RRB NTPC 2016]
A) B B) D C) A D) C
C) A D) C 74. Krishnanattam is a famous dance of which of the following
61. Which of the following is a classical Dravidian language? states?
[RRB Group D 2022] A. Andhra Pradesh.
A) Odia B) Tamil B. Karnataka.
C) Gujarati D) Bengali C. Kerala.
D. Tamilnadu.
A) A B) D A) Kathak B) Manipuri
C) B D) C C) Mohiniyattam D) Kuchipudi
75. The people of Sikkim celebrate Lhabab Dhuechen which is 89. Which of these schools of paintings is named after a
observed to mark the descent of ______ from heaven back to district in Bihar? [RRB JE 2019]
earth. [RRB NTPC 2022] A) Mewar B) Bundhi
A) Lord Vishnu B) Lord Buddha C) Madhubani D) Kangra
C) Lord Shiva D) Lord Mahaviira
90. Sarhul is the main festival of the tribal population of which
76. How many stages of life are prescribed in early Hindu of the following states? [RRB Group D 2022]
philosophy? [RRB Group D 2022] A) Jharkhand B) Nagaland
A) Four B) five C) Assam D) Meghalaya
C) Three D) two
91. The Prayag Sangeet Samiti at Prayagraj was established in
77. According to an early Indian philosopher, everything is the year _________ to teach Hindustani classical music.
made up of _________ basic elements. [RRB ALP 2018] [RRB NTPC 2022]
A) 2 B) 4 A) 1952 B) 1901
C) 3 D) 5 C) 1926 D) 1915

78. In Contemporary Carnatic music, how many Melakarta 92. The Kandariya Mahadeva temple dedicated to Lord Shiva
ragas are there? [RRB NTPC 2022] was constructed in c.999 CE by king Dhangadeva of the
A) 72 B) 82 _______. [RRB NTPC 2022]
C) 62 D) 52 A) Rashtrakuta dynasty B) Chalukya dynasty
C) Chandela dynasty D) Kalachuri dynasty
79. Which instrument does Dr. L. Subramaniam play?
[RRB NTPC 2016] 93. Who is Anjolie Ela Menon?
A) Sitar B) Sarod A. An Indian Politician
C) Violin D) Guitar B. Bharatanatyam dancer
C. A popular musician
80. Rechungma, Gha To Kito and Chi Rmu are the dance
D. Indian Female Artist
forms of ________. [RRB NTPC 2022]
[RRB NTPC 2016]
A) Sikkim B) Manipur
A) A B) B
C) Andaman and Nicobar D) Goa
Islands C) D D) C

81. Which of the following persons played the Shehnai at the 94. On the shores of the Bay of Bengal, the temple at Konark
Red Fort to celebrate the occasion of India's independence in was built in the ______. [RRB NTPC 2022]
August 1947? A) 10th century B) 12th century
A) Anant Lal B) Vasant Desai C) 13th century D) 11th century
C) Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan D) Bismillah Khan
95. The Panchatantra fables are thought to be composed by
82. What is Tamil New Year also known as? [RRB NTPC 2021] A. Mullah Nasruddin
A) Vishu B) Bestu Varas B. Vishnu Sharma
C) Varusha Pirappu D) Ugadi C. King Sudharshan
83. Kolkali is a folk art performed in __________. D. Tenali Raman
[RRB NTPC 2022] [RRB NTPC 2016]
A) Eastern part of Uttar B) Southern part of Gujarat A) B B) D
Pradesh C) C D) A
C) North Malabar region of D) Western part of Uttar 96. The spring festival celebrated by Konyak tribe of
Kerala Pradesh
Nagaland is known as ________. [RRB NTPC 2022]
84. Which of the following Indian States is famous for Paika A) Mopin B) Garia Pooja
dance? [RRB NTPC 2022] C) Myoko D) Aoleang Monyu
A) Kerala B) Tamil Nadu
97. Which of the following pairs of folk dance forms and states
C) Odisha D) Manipur
is NOT matched correctly? [RRB JE IT 2019]
85. Bon-geet (forest/nature song), is primarily a form of folk A) Maha Rasa – Manipur B) Lezim – Maharashtra
song of _________. [RRB NTPC 2022] C) Ghoomar – Kerala D) Nati – Himachal Pradesh
A) Meghalaya B) Himachal Pradesh
98. In the Punjabi festival of Lohri, which element of the
C) Manipur D) Assam
nature worshipped? [RRB ALP 2019]
86. Where are the Elephanta Caves located? [RRB JE 2019] A) Air B) Earth
A) Mumbai B) Jaipur C) Water D) Fire
C) Bengaluru D) Konark 99. Who among the following popularised the guitar as an
87. With which of the following states/union territories is the instrument in Hindustani classical music? [RRB NTPC 2022]
Siddi Dhamal Dance associated? A) Ustad Ali Akbar Khan B) Pandit Brij Bhushan Kabra
A) Andaman and Nicobar B) Gujarat C) Pandit Shivkumar Sharma D) Pandit Hariprasad
Islands Chaurasia
C) Ladakh D) Nagaland 100. Which Indian art form is practiced in the Mithila region of
88. Which of the following is essentially a solo dance? Bihar and Nepal? [RRB NTPC 2021]
A) Tanjore art B) Kalamezhuthu 113. _______ is not a folk dance of India.
C) Madhubani painting D) Pattachitra painting A. Mohiniattam
101. Which of these is NOT a type of string musical B. Lavani
instrument? [RRB ALP 2019] C. Kalbelia
A) Bass B) Violin D. Rouff
C) Tuba D) Cello [RRB NTPC 2016]
A) A B) B
102. Which of the following statues in an icon of freedom C) D D) C
designed by a French Sculptor?
114. Belur Math is located at꞉
A. Statue of Unity
B. Statue of Liberty A. West Bengal
C. Statue of Law B. Maharashtra
D. Statue of Zeus C. Uttar Pradesh
[RRB NTPC 2016] D. Tamil Nadu [RRB NTPC 2016]
A) C B) A A) D B) A
C) B D) D C) B D) C

103. Vishu is one of the very famous festivals of which of the 115. Maski, an archaeological site in ________ district, of
following states of India ? [RRB Group D 2022] Karnataka came into prominence with the discovery of a
A) Kerala B) Odisha minor rock edict of Emperor Ashoka by C. Beadon in 1915.
[RRB NTPC 2022]
C) West Bengal D) Gujarat
A) Udupi B) Yadgir
104. Identify the name of the traditional folk theatre form of C) Hassan D) Raichur
Maharashtra. [RRB NTPC 2021]
116. Sinhala is a major language in which of the following
A) Rasleela B) Nautanki
countries? [RRB NTPC 2022]
C) Tamasha D) Swang
A) Malaysia B) Indonesia
105. __________ is an Islamic finance term referring to the C) Sri Lanka D) Myanmar
obligation that an individual has to donate a certain
117. The thanksgiving festival of Pongal is primarily celebrated
proportion of wealth each year to charitable causes.
[RRB Group D 2022] in which state of India? [RRB ALP 2019]
A) Mudarabah B) Zakat A) Tamilnadu B) Rajasthan
C) Ijarah D) Musharakah C) Maharashtra D) Uttar Pradesh

106. Hindi continues to be the most widely spoken language in 118. In which city is St. Peter’s Basilica, one of the most famous
India at ________ of the population, and continues to grow at churches in Christianity, located? [RRB ALP 2018]
a rapid pace, mostly driven by higher population growth in A) Madrid B) Lisbon
Hindi speaking states as per census 2011. [RRB Group D 2022] C) Pisa D) Vatican City
A) 42.03% B) 41.03% 119. Where is the Sabarimala temple located?
C) 44.04% D) 43.63% [RRB NTPC 2020]
107. In which of the following states is the festival 'Chapchar A) Kerala B) Andhra Pradesh
Kut' celebrated? [RRB JE 2019] C) Odisha D) Maharashtra
A) Meghalaya B) Assam 120. In which of the following languages did Kalidasa write his
C) Mizoram D) Sikkim poem Meghaduta? [RRB NTPC 2022]
108. Which of the following is a folk dance popular during the A) Prakrit B) Sanskrit
harvest season in Punjab? [RRB JE 2019] C) Pali D) Hindi
A) Odissi B) Kathak 121. On which day is Gudi Padwa celebrated in the month of
C) Bhangra D) Garba Chaitra as per the Hindu calendar? [RRB NTPC 2022]
109. Hawa Mahal is a palace in ______. [RRB ALP 2019] A) Second B) Fourth
A) Jaipur B) Jodhpur C) Fifth D) First
C) Bikaner D) Udaipur 122. 'Onam' is one of the most important festivals of-
110. Which of the following works of Kalidasa is based on the [RRB JE 2019]
context of the birth of Kartikeya, the son of God Shiva and A) Gujarat B) Karnataka
Goddess Parvati? [RRB NTPC 2022] C) Kerala D) Maharashtra
A) Meghaduta B) Raghuvamsa 123. The Hemis Gompa festival is celebrated to celebrate the
C) Kumarasambhava D) Ritusamhara birth anniversary of Guru _______. [RRB NTPC 2022]
111. The Khajuraho dance festival was instituted by the A) Katyayana B) Patrul Rinpoche
Government of India in collaboration with the Madhya C) Marpa Lotsawa D) Padmasambhava
Pradesh Kala Parishad in the year ________. [RRB NTPC 2022] 124. Which trio among the following is referred to as 'The
A) 2015 B) 2005 Trinity of Carnatic music"? [RRB NTPC 2022]
C) 1975 D) 1995
112. The 'Gyana Panchami' is celebrated by the Jains on the
_______ day of Kartika. [RRB NTPC 2022]
A) fifth B) first
C) third D) ninth
A) Subbaraya Sastri, Madurai B) Manambuchavadi A) Shehnai B) Harmonium
Mani Iyer and Tyagaraja Venkatasubbayyar, Poochi C) Santoor D) Ghatam
Srinivasa Iyengar and
Subbaraya Sastri 133. In different parts of the country, New Year is celebrated
C) Tyagaraja, Muthuswami D) Madurai Mani Iyer, Tiger under different names. Match the following names with their
Dikshitar and Syama Sastri Varadachariar and Syama respective states꞉
Sastri List-I List-II
125. Khamba-Thoibi is an important form of performing arts 1. Vishu a. Tamil Nadu
of ______. [RRB NTPC 2022]
A) Nagaland B) Puducherry 2. Puthandu b. West Bengal

C) Manipur D) Lakshadweep 3. Gudi Padwa c. Kerala

126. 'Khajuraho' group of monuments can be found in 4. Poila Boisakh d. Maharashtra

A. Maharashtra [RRB NTPC 2022]
B. Bihar A) 1 - b, 2 - d, 3 - a, 4 - c B) 1 - b, 2 - c, 3 - d, 4 - a
C. Madhya Pradesh C) 1 - c, 2 - a, 3 - d, 4 - b D) 1 - d, 2 - a, 3 - b, 4 - c
D. Gujarat
134. Which of the following branches of language does NOT
[RRB NTPC 2016]
belong to the Indo-European family of languages?
A) C B) B
[RRB NTPC 2022]
C) A D) D
A) Italic B) Celtic
127. With which of the following fields is Zakir Hussain C) Germanic D) Finno-Ugric
associated? [RRB JE CE 2019]
135. Name of the painter of famous painting, ‘Mahishasura’.
A) Painting B) Literature
[RRB ALP 2019]
C) Music D) Sculpture
A) MF Hussain B) Amrita Sher-Gil
128. The Sattriya dance form was introduced by ________ in C) Raja Ravi Verma D) Tyeb Mehta
15th Century AD in Assam. 136. Tarana Singer, Pandit Rattan Mohan Sharma belongs to
A) Mahapurusha Srimanta B) Raja Bhag Chandra the ______ gharana [RRB NTPC 2022]
Sankaradeva
A) Mewati B) Agra
C) Guru Pankaj Charandas D) Jayaprabha Menon
C) Indore D) Dilli
129. What is Madhubani art? 137. Which of the following is the classical dance form of
A. The art of Storytelling erstwhile Andhra Pradesh? [RRB NTPC 2020]
B. The art of Gujarat A) Kathakali B) Kathak
C. A folk art practiced in Bihar C) Bharatnatyam D) Kuchipudi
D. The art of honey extraction
[RRB NTPC 2016] 138. Which ceremonial folk dance of Puducherry is related to
A) A B) D the Hindu epic Ramayana, performed at the Villianur temple
in Puducherry? [RRB NTPC 2022]
C) B D) C
A) Garadi B) Hulivesha
130. The Sattriya dance form was introduced in the ______ by C) Dalkhai D) Tippani
the great Vaishnava saint and reformer of Assam,
Mahapurusha Sankaradeva. [RRB NTPC 2022] 139. Golconda Fort was built during ______.
A) 11 th
century A.D B) 19 th
century A.D A. Vijayanagara Empire
B. Qutb Shahi dynasty
C) 15th century A.D D) 17th century A.D
C. Satavahana dynasty
131. Which among the following is located in the state of D. Hoysala Dynasty
Arunachal Pradesh? [RRB NTPC 2022] A) A B) D
A) Diskit Monastery B) Tawang Monastery C) C D) B
C) Hemis Monastery D) Thiksey Monastery
140. Which of the following is NOT a Percussion Instrument
132. Which of these musical instruments has a keyboard? used in Carnatic Music? [RRB NTPC 2022]
[RRB JE 2019] A) Mridangam B) Morsing
C) Mandolin D) Ghatam

ANSWER KEY
Q. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Ans B D B D A B D A B D D D D D
Q. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Ans D B D A A C B A B C B B A D
Q. 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42
Ans A B C C D D B B B A D B B C
Q. 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56
Ans A B A B B C A C B C C B D C
Q. 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70
Ans A A A A B C A C C A D B C D
 Q. 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84
Ans C C D D B A D A C A D C C C
Q. 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98
Ans D A B C C A C C C C A D C D
Q. 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112
Ans B C C C A C B D C C A C C A
Q. 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126
Ans A B D C A D A B D C D C C A
Q. 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140
Ans C A D C B B C D D A D A D C

He is considered one of the finest Indian artists of the

SOLUTIONS
1. The correct answer is Rudra Veena.
Ustad Mohi Bahauddin Dagar is the son of renowned North
Indian musician Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, he plays the Rudra
veena.
He performs Dagarbani-style Rudra veena.
Referring to Nayak Haridas Dagar of the 16th century, he
represents the 20th generation of the Dagar dynasty.
He received the highest honour for performing artists in
2012 when the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National
Academy for Music, Dance, and Drama, presented him with
the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award.
Large plucked string instruments, such as the Rudra veena,
are employed in Hindustani classical music, particularly
dhrupad.
It is one of the main veena varieties used in Indian classical
music and is distinguished by its powerful bottom
resonance.
The Rudra veena achieved great importance among
Mughal court musicians, and it is documented in court
records as early as Zain-ul Abidin's (1418–1470) reign.
2. The correct answer is Nati.
Nati
The very famous folk dance of Himachal Pradesh
is known as Nati.
Himachal has not forgotten about its rich culture and
historical heritage, even after modernisation.
Nati is mostly connected to Himachal Pradesh's Kullu
district.
The dance tells the story of Krishna and the Gopis and
represents the Raas Lila.
Tunis is the name given to musicians in this region and
they perform using the dhol, flute, nagara, karnal,
narsingha, and a shenai.
The dancers conduct a Yagya as a homage to the Gods
and Goddesses at the end of a Nati dance.
Folk
State Occasion
dance
Performed by the peasant community
Madhya
Jawara of Bundelkhand region's to mark the
Pradesh
good harvest and celebrate prosperity.
On Bihu, farmers and villagers pray to
Bihu Assam God and express their thankfulness for
the great harvest.
On the occasion of joy, it is performed
by the women of the Kalbelia
Kalbelia Rajasthan
community also known as Snake
Charmers on the tunes of Been.
3. Option 2 is correct.
Atul Dodiya made a series of paintings on Mahatma
Gandhi.
generation.
He is known for his Hyper-realist depictions of middle-class
Indian life, Series of watercolor paintings depicting
marginalized and poor sections of society, for example, a
plumber, a scribe, or a painter, etc.
In 1991, he reconstructed images from a forgotten
biography of Mahatma Gandhi. He used watercolors to
paint numerous historic events of Gandhi's life.
He also installed "Broken Branches" made in 2002 inspired
by the philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi in Venice Biennale
2019 (art exhibition).
4. The correct answer is Bagurumba.
Bagurumba is a folk dance of Assam a state of India.
State Folk dance
Bagurumba originated from the Bodo tribe
Assam
in Assam and Northeast India.
Giddha is the female counterpart of the
male Bhangra.
Bhangra is the energetic folk dance of
Punjab
Punjab which is accompanied by infectious
and catchy drum beats celebrated during
festivals.
Lezim is called "Lezium" in which dancers
carry small instruments called Lezim or
Maharashtra Lezium.
It is often played during the Ganesh
festival.
Nati is a traditional folk dance of Himachal
Pradesh.
Himachal
It is performed during cultural programs.
Pradesh
It is listed in Guinness Book of World
Records as Largest folk dance
5. The correct answer is Nati.
Nati is the folk dance from Himachal Pradesh.
Nati is a traditional folk dance of districts such as Chamba,
Kinnaur, Kullu, Shimla, and Sirmaur.
This folk dance holds the Guinness Book of World Record
for being the largest folk dance.
Lezim is the folk dance from Maharashtra.
Bagurumba is the traditional folk dance of the Bodo
tribe of Assam and Northeast Indian states.
Giddha is one of the most popular folk dance and it is
indigenous to Punjab.
6. The correct answer is Rajasthan.
Parshavnatha temple꞉
It is a Jain temple dedicated to Parshvanatha, the 23rd
Tirthankara in Jainism.
The temple is located in the city of Nakoda in the Barmer
district of Rajasthan.
The temple is also known as Nakoda Jain temple or Shri
Nakoda Parshvanath Jain Tirth.
CHAPTER꞉ 2

AWARDS AND HONOURS

1. Who was the first Indian to receive a Noble Prize? C. Dance
[RRB ALP 2019] D. Medicine
A) Rabindranath Tagore B) C V Raman [RRB NTPC 2016]
C) Mother Teresa D) Amartya Sen A) C B) A
C) D D) B
2. Pakistani film industry is known as _______
A. Pollywood 10. Which singer entered the Guinness World Records for the
B. Lollywood most single studio recordings?
C. Kollywood A) Asha Bhosale B) Mohammad Rafi
D. Mollywood C) Lata Mangeshkar D) Kishore Kumar
[RRB NTPC 2016] 11. Which of the following recipients of the Dadasaheb Phalke
A) C B) D Award received it posthumously? [RRB ALP 2019]
C) A D) B A) Vinod Khanna B) Satyajit Ray
3. Winner of Mixed doubles category in Wimbledon, 2015 is C) Naushad D) Durga Khote
______ 12. Who among the following was the first Indian woman to
A. Sania Mirza & Leander Paes win the Booker Prize? [RRB NTPC 2021]
B. Serena Williams & Roger Federer A) Anita Desai B) Amrita Pritam
C. Martina Hingis & Leander Paes C) Arundhati Roy D) Sarojini Naidu
D. Serena Williams & Novak Djokovic [RRB NTPC 2016]
13. Which Dadasaheb Phalke Award recipient produced and
A) A B) D
directed India’s first colour film, ‘Sairandhri’? [RRB ALP 2019]
C) B D) C
A) Sivaji Ganesan B) LV Prasad
4. The New York Times won the Pulitzer Prize, 2021, for which C) V Shanta ram D) Birendranath Sirdar
work in the prestigious Public Service category?
14. Who is the first sportsperson among the below to have
[RRB NTPC 2022]
A) The coverage of B) The coverage of the death won the Bharat Ratna award? [RRB ALP 2019]
Environmental issues of George Floyd A) Sachin Tendulkar B) Dhynachand
C) The coverage of the D) The working of the C) Abhinav Bindra D) Leander Paes
coronavirus pandemic government 15. The 'Vyas Samman', a literary award was first awarded in
5. Who was selected for the Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award the year ________. [RRB NTPC 2022]
2015 for his/her contribution to Indian music - A) 1988 B) 1991
A. Asha Bhosle C) 1999 D) 1990
B. Annu Malik 16. Which of the following countries has awarded Narendra
C. Bappi Laheri Modi with the "Order of St Andrew the Apostle?" [RRB JE 2019]
D. AR Rahman A) England B) Italy
[RRB NTPC 2016] C) Russia D) France
A) A B) B
17. Who was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize?
C) D D) C
[RRB JE 2019]
6. Who among the following has not been awarded the A) Mother Teresa B) Har Gobind Khorana
Padma Vibhushan Award? C) Rabindranath Tagore D) Amartya Sen
A. Viswanathan Anand 18. How many categories are there of Nobel Prize?
B. Edmund Hillary [RRB NTPC 2020]
C. Sachin Tendulkar A) 5 B) 7
D. Sunil Gavaskar C) 4 D) 6
[RRB NTPC 2016]
A) B B) A 19. Which language institution gives away the Bhasha Bharti
C) C D) D Samman award in India? [RRB Group D 2022]
A) Central Institute of Indian B) Kendriya Hindi Sansthan
7. Who was the first Indian citizen to receive the Nobel Prize in Languages
literature? [RRB Group D 2022] C) Rashtriya Sanskrit D) Central Hindi Directorate
A) Sarojini Naidu B) Sully Prudhomme Sansthan
C) Swami Vivekananda D) Rabindranath Tagore
20. The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize is annually awarded
8. Which Malayalam actor received the Special Jury National for outstanding achievement in which area? [RRB ALP 2018]
Award for the Telugu film ‘Janatha Garage’? [RRB ALP 2018] A) Tribal Art Forms B) Indian Classical Music
A) Prithviraj B) Suresh Gopi C) Science and Technology D) Literature
C) Mohanlal D) Mammootty
21. Who was the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize for
9. Dadasaheb Phalke Award is associated with which of the literature in 1913? [RRB NTPC 2021]
following fields? A) Rabindranath Tagore B) Annnadashankar Roy
A. Environment C) Humayun Kabir D) Bishnu Dey
B. Cinema
22. The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is awarded for significant A. Bhimsen Joshi
public achievement in which field? [RRB ALP 2018] B. A. R. Rahman
A) Films B) Journalism C. Lata Mangeshkar
C) Literature D) Sports D.MS subbulakshmi [RRB NTPC 2016]
A) B B) D
23. In which year did the Indian men's water polo team win
C) C D) A
the gold medal at the Asian Games?
A. 1970 33. Name the Sikkim Chief Minister who was honoured with
B. 2010 the Sustainable Development Leadership Award by The
C. 1951 Energy and Resources Institute. [RRB ALP 2018]
D. 1982 A) Nar Bahadur Bhandari B) Sanchaman Limboo
[RRB NTPC 2016] C) Pawan Chamling D) B. B. Gurung
A) B B) D 34. When was the provision of Bharat Ratna introduced?
C) C D) A [RRB NTPC 2020]
24. In which sport was Raghunandan Gokhale the first person A) 1954 B) 1950
to win the Dronacharya Award? [RRB JE 2019] C) 1955 D) 1952
A) Badminton B) Chess 35. The Norman Borlaug National Excellence Award is given
C) Table-Tennis D) Kabaddi for excellence in which research field? [RRB Group D 2022]
25. The Dr. B. C. Roy awards, instituted in 1962, are given to A) Agricultural Sciences B) Physical Sciences
eminent achievers primarily from which field? [RRB ALP 2018] C) Chemical Sciences D) Energy Sciences
A) Law B) Medicine 36. Who was the first recipient of the Bharat Ratna award and
C) Journalism D) Sports the founder of Swatantra Party (1959)? [RRB NTPC 2021]
26. Which among the following ministries gives Medini A) K M Munshi B) Jagjivan Ram
Puraskar every year? [RRB JE 2019] C) Baldev Singh D) C Rajagopalachari
A) Ministry of Environment B) Ministry of Culture 37. The Arjuna Awards given by the Government of India is for
and Forests
public achievement in which fo the following fields?
C) Ministry of Finance D) Ministry of Law [RRB ALP 2018]
27. Who is the director of the film ‘Poorna’, which depicts the A) Literature B) Poverty eradication
story of Poorna Malavath, the youngest girl to climb Mount C) Sports D) Economics
Everest? [RRB ALP 2018] 38. The first Indian to win an Olympic medal in badminton
A) B) was
Rahul Bose Anurag Kashyap
A. Syed Modi
C) D) B. Prakash Padukone
Gautham Vasudeva Menon Ayan Mukherjee C. Pullela Gopichand
28. Who is the first Indian cricketer to have grabbed BCCI's D. Saina Nehwal
Polly Umrigar Award three times? [RRB ALP 2018] [RRB NTPC 2016]
A) Virat Kohli B) Gautam Gambhir A) B B) D
C) Sachin Tendulkar D) M. S. Dhoni C) A D) C

29. Which state government confers the 'Basava Puraskara' 39. Who among the following is the youngest Nobel Laureate?
award? [RRB JE ME 2019] [RRB NTPC 2021]
A) Karnataka B) Andhra Pradesh A) Lawrence Bragg B) Nadia Murad
C) Gujarat D) Maharashtra C) Malala Yousafzai D) Tsung Dao Lee

30. Which Kannada writer received the Sahitya Academy 40. Who is the only woman to win the Nobel Prize in Science
Award for his novel 'Swatantryada Ota'? [RRB ALP 2018] and Chemistry twice?
A) Bolwar Mahammad Kunhi B) Girish Karnad A. Dorothy Hodgkin
C) C.N. Ramachandran D) Vaidehi B. Marie Curie
31. The Nobel prize awarding institue, Swedish Academy, is C. Maria Mayer
associated with which field? [RRB NTPC 2021] D. Ada Yonath
A) Peace B) Physiology [RRB NTPC 2016]
A) D B) C
C) Medicine D) Literature
C) A D) B
32. Who among the following is not a Bharat Ratna recipient?

ANSWER KEY
Q. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Ans A D D C C D D C D A A C C A
Q. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Ans B C C D A C A A C B B A A A
Q. 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
Ans A A D A C A A D C B C D
CHAPTER꞉ 3

BOOKS AND AUTHORS

1. Name the author of ‘The Incredible Adventure of Professor 14. Name the celebrity who has authored 'Mrs. Funnybones'?
Shonku’. [RRB ALP 2019] [RRB ALP 2019]
A) Rahul Bose B) Ritwik Ghatak A) Bipasha Basu B) Twinkle Khanna
C) Rabindranath Tagore D) Satyajit Ray C) Shraddha Kapoor D) Sonakshi Sinha
2. Who is the author of the book 'Lady Doctors꞉ The Untold 15. The science fiction book ‘The Extra-Terrestrial Delivery’ is
Stories of India's First Women in Medicine'? [RRB NTPC 2022] penned by which Indian author? [RRB ALP 2018]
A) Kunal Basu B) Kavitha Rao A) Sudipta Das B) Namitha Ghokhale
C) Jairam Ramesh D) Anuradha Roy C) Anosh Irani D) Samit Basu
3. Who wrote the novel 'The White Tiger'? 16. Vikram Seth is best known for his poem ______.
A) Chetan Bhagat B) Vikram Seth [RRB ALP 2019]
C) Khushwant Singh D) Aravind Adiga A) Lone Fox Dancing B) The Frog and the
Nightingale
4. Who is the author of the Indian English Novel ‘Sita꞉ Warrior
C) Father Returning Home D) Enterprise
of Mithila’ published in 2017? [RRB ALP 2018]
A) Robin Sharma B) Amish Tripathi 17. Who is the author of the book 'Shades of Saffron'?
C) Rahul Mehta D) Chetan Bhagat [RRB NTPC 2021]
A) Chidanand Rajghatta B) Kamla Bhasin
5. Who is the author of the Indian English Novel ‘Sita꞉ Warrior
C) Saba Naqvi D) Arundhati Roy
of Mithila’ published in 2017? [RRB ALP 2018]
A) Amish Tripathi B) Rahul Mehta 18. Which economist has written the book "The General
C) Chetan Bhagat D) Robin Sharma Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936)"?
[RRB NTPC 2022]
6. Which of the following sportspersons wrote the A) John Maynard Keynes B) Milton Friedman
autobiographical book "Ace Against Odds"? [RRB ALP 2018] C) Adam Smith D) Vincent Crawford
A) Saina Nehwal B) Anil Kumble
C) Yuvraj Singh D) Sania Mirza 19. Who is the author of the book 'Straight Drive'?
A. Kapil Dev
7. The author of ‘The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari’ is ______.
B. Sunil Gavaskar
[RRB ALP 2019]
C. Prakash Padukone
A) Arvind Adiga B) Robin Sharma
D. Vishwanathan Anand
C) Manohar Malgonkar D) Arundhati Roy [RRB NTPC 2016]
8. Which celebrity is the author of the book ‘An Unsuitable A) B B) C
Boy’? [RRB ALP 2018] C) D D) A
A) Khuswant Singh B) Shah Rukh Khan
20. Which Indian CM wrote his/her autobiography titled “My
C) Shatrughan Sinha D) Karan Johar unforgettable Memories”? [RRB ALP 2019]
9. RK Narayan is famous for his book ___________. A) Nitish Kumar B) Arvind Kejriwal
[RRB ALP 2019] C) Mamta Banerjee D) Jayalalitha
A) The Room on the Roof B) Two Livers
21. Which famous author used the pen name Madhavikutty?
C) Malgudi Days D) A suitable Boy [RRB NTPC 2020]
10. Who wrote the lyrical poem 'My Mother at Sixty-Six'? A) Nayantara Sehgal B) Toru Dutt
[RRB NTPC 2021] C) Kamala Das D) Balamani Amma
A) Robert Frost B) Ashokamitran
22. Who wrote the famous Hindi novel 'Tamas'?
C) Kamala Das D) Rabindranath Tagore
[RRB NTPC 2021]
11. Name the writer of the Book “One life is not Enough” A) Yashpal B) Nagendra
[RRB ALP 2019] C) Bhisham Sahni D) Trilochan
A) Karan Singh B) Shashi Tharoor
23. Who has written Bahuroopi Gandhi? [RRB NTPC 2021]
C) Natwar Singh D) Mani Shankar Aiyar
A) Jawaharlal Nehru B) Chakravarti
12. Who among the following is the author of the novel 'Red Rajagopalachari
Earth and Pouring Rain'? [RRB NTPC 2022] C) Amrita Pritam D) Anu Bandyopadhyaya
A) Suketu Mehta B) Vikram Chandra
24. Which Indian actor's biography is titled 'Anything but
C) Arundhati Roy D) Samanta Bhadra Khamosh' ? [RRB ALP 2018]
13. Who is the author of 'To Kill a Mocking Bird'? A) Raj Babbar B) Dharmendra
A. Umberto Eco C) Shatrughan Sinha D) Vinod Khanna
B. Salman Rushdie 25. Who has written the narrative history 'India after Gandhi’?
C. J. K. Rowling [RRB NTPC 2021]
D. Harper Lee A) Malathi Rao B) Ramachandra Guha
[RRB NTPC 2016] C) Rupa Bajwa D) Arundhati Roy
A) C B) B
26. Humayun-Nama was written by _____ [RRB NTPC 2020]
C) D D) A
A) Gulbadan Begum B) Babur A) Early Indus Civilisation B) Deeper Excavations at
C) Noor Jahan D) Akbar Mohenjo-daro
C) Archaeology of Mohenjo- D) Further Excavations at
27. Which author employed India’s obsession with cricket as
daro Mohenjo-daro
the theme for his recent book ‘Selection Day’? [RRB ALP 2018]
A) Vikram Seth B) Anil Menon 34. Which is the sixth of the eighteen books of the Indian epic
C) Amish Tripathi D) Aravind Adiga Mahabharata (written by Vyasa) that contains the widely
studied Bhagavad Gita? [RRB NTPC 2022]
28. Who is the author of the famous autobiography A) Sabha Parva B) Virata Parva
“Dreaming Big꞉ My Journey to Connect India”? C) Adi Parva D) Bhishma Parva
[RRB NTPC 2016]
A) Abdul Kalam B) Sam Pitroda 35. Which of the following has been written by Munshi
C) Nandan Nilekani D) Azim Premji Premchand? [RRB NTPC 2021]
A) Chidambara B) Kamayani
29. "Systema Naturae" was written by - [RRB JE 2019]
C) Sevasadan D) Yama
A) Haeckel B) Carolus Linnaeus
C) John Ray D) Aristotle 36. Who is the author of the Indian English Novel ‘When
Dimple Met Rishi’ published in 2017? [RRB ALP 2018]
30. Which Indian economist wrote the 2017 book ‘I Do What I A) Chetan Bhagat B) Rahul Mehta
Do’? [RRB ALP 2018] C) Sandhya Menon D) Nidhi Chanani
A) B)
Amartya Sen Urjit Patel 37. Who wrote the novel 'The God of Small Things'?
C) D) [RRB NTPC 2021]
Manmohan Singh Raghuram Rajan A) Arundhati Roy B) Kiran Desai
C) Chetan Bhagat D) Salman Rushdie
31. 'A Nation in Making' a book written by ____________.
[RRB NTPC 2022] 38. Which of these is NOT a novel written by Premchand?
A) Surendranath Banerjee B) G. K. Gokhale [RRB ALP 2019]
A) Godaan B) Gaban
C) Vallabhbhai Patel D) M. G. Ranade
C) Nirmala D) Deepshikha
32. The book 'Clear Light of Day' has been written by
__________. [RRB NTPC 2022] 39. Who wrote the book ‘Two Fates – The Story of My Divorce’,
A) Anita Desai B) Jhumpa Lahiri which is a parody of Chetan Bhagat’s ‘Two States – The Story
of My Marriage’? [RRB ALP 2018]
C) Kiran Desai D) Nikita Lalwani
A) Namita Gokhale B) Judy Balan
33. What is the name of the book written by Ernest Mackay C) Swati Kaushal D) Arundhati Roy
about archaeological excavations? [RRB NTPC 2020]
40. 'Viklang Shraddha ka Daur' is the work of which noted
writer? [RRB NTPC 2022]
A) Khushwant Singh B) Hari Shankar Parsai
C) Atal Bihari Vajpayee D) R. K. Narayan

ANSWER KEY
Q. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Ans D B D B A D B D C C C B C B
Q. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Ans A B C A A C C C D C B A D B
Q. 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
Ans B D A A D D C C A D B B

Amar Shonar Bangla.

SOLUTIONS
1. The correct answer is Option 4, i.e Satyajit Ray.
The book ‘The Incredible Adventure of Professor Shonku’
was written by Satyajit Ray.
Satyajit Ray was widely regarded as one of the greatest
filmmakers of all time.
Ray's first film, Pather Panchali (1955), won eleven
international prizes, including the inaugural Best Human
Document award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.
The Government of India honored him with the Bharat
Ratna, its highest civilian award, in 1992.
Ray is the second film personality after Chaplin to have
been awarded an honorary doctorate by Oxford
University.
Rabindranath Tagore꞉ Also known by his pen name Bhanu
Singha Thakur.
His compositions were chosen by two nations as national
anthems꞉ India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's
The Sri Lankan national anthem was inspired by his work.
Internationally, Gitanjali is Tagore's best-known collection
of poetry, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in
Literature in 1913.
Tagore was the first non-European to receive a Nobel
Prize in Literature and second non-European to receive a
Nobel Prize after Theodore Roosevelt.
2. The correct answer is Kavitha Rao.
Kavitha Rao is the author of "Lady Doctors꞉ The untold
stories of India's first women in Medicine.
Kavitha Rao unearths the extraordinary stories of six
women from the 1860s to the 1930s, who defied the idea
that they were unfit for medicine by virtue of their gender.
This book recovers the stories of India’s first women doctors,
often ignored by history. In this excerpt from Kavitha Rao’s
‘Lady Doctors꞉ The Untold Stories of India’s First Women in
Medicine, the story of Rukhmabai Raut.
CHAPTER꞉ 4

FAMOUS PEOPLE
1. Who is considered the world's first programmer? A) Dr. Homi Bhabha B) Raja Ramanna
A. Alan Turing C) APJ Abdul Kalam D) Jawaharlal Nehru
B. Ada Lovelace 12. The Gateway of India was erected to commemorate the
C. Tim Berners - Lee landing of ________ and Queen Mary at Apollo Bunder on
D. Steve Wozniak their visit to India in 1911. [RRB NTPC 2022]
[RRB NTPC 2016] A) King George III B) King George VI
A) B) Ada Lovelace C) King George V D) King George IV
Alan Turing
13. The first woman to serve as the President of India was꞉
C) Steve Wozniak D) Tim Berners - Lee
[RRB NTPC 2021]
2. Who launched ‘Shramdaan movement’ as a part of Swachh A) Sucheta Kriplani B) Sumitra Mahajan
Bharat and Swachh Puducherry initiative at Seliamedu village C) Rajkumari Amrit Kaur D) Pratibha Patil
in Puducherry? [RRB ALP 2018]
A) Lt Governor Kiran Bedi B) Nitish Kumar 14. Which of the following Prime Ministers was awarded
C) Prakash Javdekar D) Rajiv Bansal Bharat Ratna? [RRB NTPC 2016]
A) V. P. Singh B) Morarji Desai
3. Classical musician Shivkumar Sharma is associated with C) Charan Singh D) Manmohan Singh
which musical instrument? [RRB ALP 2019]
A) Shehnai B) Tabla 15. Who is popularly known as “The Picasso of India”?
C) Violin D) Santoor [RRB ALP 2019]
A) Kanu Desai B) Abanindranth Tagore
4. Name the spiritual leader who was honoured with a C) ramkinkar Baij D) M.F. Husain
humanitarian award by a prominent Jewish human rights
organization for promoting human dignity, interfaith relations 16. ______ was a blind poet who sang the glory of Krishna in
and tolerance among people. [RRB ALP 2018] his collection by the name 'Sursagar'. [RRB NTPC 2022]
A) B) A) Surdas B) Virdas
Asharam Bapu Baba Ramdev C) Chaitanya D) Vidyapati
C) D) 17. Who among the following is an Indian social activist
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Morari Bapu associated with Narmada Bachao Andolan? [RRB JE 2019]
5. _______ was the world's first female astronaut. A) Silverine Swer B) V. Mohini Giri
A. Svetlana Savitskaya C) Patricia Mukhim D) Medha Patkar
B. Valentina Tereshkova 18. What was the name of the spacecraft by which Rakesh
C. Sally Ride Sharma traveled to space?
D. Judith Resnik A. Soyuz T-11
[RRB NTPC 2016] B. Rockwell X-30
A) A B) B C. Spiral-EPOS
C) D D) C D. Mercury-Atlas 9
6. Which Indian female mountaineer recently created the [RRB NTPC 2016]
fastest record of scaling Mount Everest back-to-back twice A) A B) B
within 5 days? [RRB ALP 2018] C) C D) D
A) Bachendri Pal B) Premlatha Agarwal 19. Name the youngest-ever UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
C) Arunima Sinha D) Anshu Jamsenpa [RRB NTPC 2021]
7. Minati Mishra is associated with - [RRB JE ME 2019] A) Millie Bobby Brown B) Lily singh
A) Odissi B) Manipuri C) Lionel Messi D) Priyanka Chopra
C) Bharatanatyam D) Kathakali 20. Who is known as the Father of India’s Space Programme?
8. Classical musician Vilayat Khan is associated with which [RRB NTPC 2021]
musical instrument? [RRB ALP 2019] A) Vikram Seth B) Anuj Lall
A) Sitar B) Flute C) Vikram Sarabhai D) Aditya Sarabhai
C) Sarod D) Santoor 21. Who was the Raja of Burdwan when Permanent
9. ________ is the founder of National Orchestra of India. Settlement was imposed? [RRB NTPC 2021]
[RRB NTPC 2022] A) Tejchand B) Mehtab Chand
A) Uday Shankar B) Ananda Shankar C) Sangam Rai D) Abu Ray
C) Anoushka Shankar D) Ravi Shankar 22. Alassane Ouattara is꞉
10. Who among the following freedom fighters of India is A. The President of Ivory Coast
known as 'Frontier Gandhi'? [RRB NTPC 2021] B. The President of Indonesia
A) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad B) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan C. The President of Malaysia
C) Badruddin Tyabji D) Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari D. The Vice President of Maldives [RRB NTPC 2016]
A) A B) C
11. Who is regarded as the Father of the Indian Nuclear
C) B D) D
Program? [RRB NTPC 2021]
23. She / He gave up dancing and studied the sitar under the A) English B) Marathi
noted musician Ustad Allauddin Khan. She / He was also the C) Sanskrit D) Hindi
music director of All-India Radio from 1948 until 1956. Who
32. Who is considered the father of white revolution in India?
among the following was that person? [RRB NTPC 2022]
[RRB NTPC 2021]
A) Ravi Shankar B) Mamata Shankar
A) Arun Krishnan B) MS Swaminathan
C) Ananda Shankar D) Uday Shankar
C) Verghese Kurien D) Indira Gandhi
24. Find the person who does not belong to the group
33. Cristiano Ronaldo, the football player represents which
[RRB ALP 2018]
A) Pentala Harikrishna B) Vishwanadhan Anand country?
C) Saina Nehwal D) Koneru Hampi A. Brazil
B. Argentina
25. Which of the following individuals is NOT associated with C. Portugal
the musical instrument santoor? [RRB NTPC 2021] D. England
A) Ustad Amjad Ali Khan B) Tarun Bhattacharya [RRB NTPC 2016]
C) Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma D) Bhajan Sopori A) D B) A
26. Who among the following was the first woman President C) B D) C
of the General Assembly of UNO? [RRB JE 2019] 34. 'Dasbodh' is primarily a compilation of writings and
A) Vijayalakshmi Pandit B) Sarojini Naidu sermons of ______. [RRB NTPC 2022]
C) Chonira Belliappa D) Annie Besant A) Ramanuja B) Chaitanya
Muthamma
C) Samarth Ramdas D) Kabir
27. Who among the following founded the Banaras Hindu
35. ________ replaced Steve Ballmer as CEO of Microsoft.
University? [RRB JE 2019]
A. J. W. Thompson
A) Madan Mohan Malaviya B) Gopala Krishna Gokhale
B. Satya Nadella
C) Lala Lajpat Rai D) Jawahar Lal Nehru
C. Amy Hood
28. Who directed India's first publicly released film, Raja D. Bill Gates
Harishchandra? [RRB NTPC 2016]
A. V G Dhamale A) B B) C
B. V Shantaram C) A D) D
C. Bimal Roy 36. 'Amrita Devi Bishnoi National Award for Wildlife
D. Dada Saheb Phalke Conservation' is given in the memory of Amrita Devi Bishnoi.
[RRB NTPC 2016] She sacrificed her life to save which trees and where?
A) C B) A [RRB Group D 2022]
C) B D) D A) Khejri trees, Rajasthan B) Sal trees, West Bengal
29. Who served as the first Deputy Prime Minister of C) Khejri trees, West Bengal D) Sal trees, Rajasthan
independent India? 37. If Bill Gates had his way, by what name was Windows OS
A. K. Kamaraj planned to be released? [RRB NTPC 2021]
B. Morarji Desai A) Calculator B) Interface Manager
C. Sardar Vallabhbai Patel C) Control Panel D) Clipboard Viewer
D. C. Rajagopalachari
38. Goswami Tulsidas who composed Ramcharitmanas was
[RRB NTPC 2016]
born in the modern state of ________. [RRB NTPC 2022]
A) A B) B
A) Uttar Pradesh B) Tamil Nadu
C) D D) C
C) Maharashtra D) Karnataka
30. Which of the following cricketers was NOT awarded
39. The renowned singer MS Subbulakshmi was an Indian
honorary membership of MCC (Lords)?
Carnatic singer born in ________. [RRB NTPC 2022]
A. Mahendra Singh Dhoni A) Vellore B) Erode
B. Sourav Ganguly
C) Thanjavur D) Madurai
C. Virender Sehwag
D. Sachin Tendulkar 40. Who was the first Indian to travel in space?
[RRB NTPC 2016] A. Rakesh Sharma
A) A B) D B. Kalpana Chawla
C) B D) C C. Sunita Williams
D. Ravish Malhotra
31. Eminent Social reformer and Women’s education activist
[RRB NTPC 2016]
Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati was a great scholar of ______
A) B B) A
[RRB NTPC 2021]
C) D D) C

ANSWER KEY
Q. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Ans B A D C B D A A D B A C D B
Q. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Ans D A D A A C A A A C A A A D
Q. 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
CHAPTER꞉ 5

ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT

1. Which of the following statements is correct? A) Antimicrobials B) Aromatic compounds
[RRB Group D 2022] C) Chlorofluorocarbons D) Phenols
A) Biodegradable substances B) Non-biodegradable
13. The science that deals with the relationship of various
persist for a long time in the substances cannot be
environment. decomposed by physical organisms with their environment is known as- [RRB JE 2019]
processes like heat and A) Cytology B) Geology
pressure. C) Anthropology D) Ecology
C) Non-biodegradable D) Enzymes, bacteria or other 14. The Dibru-Saikhowa, Nameri and Orang National Park are
substances help the various saprophytes act on
members of the ecosystem. biodegradable substances all found in which state?
and decompose them. A. Andhra Pradesh
B. Assam
2. Which of the following is a wildlife sanctuary?
C. Arunachal Pradesh
[RRB Group D 2022]
D. Uttarakhand
A) Pachmarhi B) Sundarban
[RRB NTPC 2016]
C) Manas D) Nilgiri A) A B) B
3. Sariska National Park is located in ꞉ [RRB NTPC 2021] C) D D) C
A) Karnataka B) Uttarakhand
15. What does WCCB stand for in the context of Environment
C) Rajasthan D) Sikkim and Forest? [RRB NTPC 2021]
4. ______ are a subset of air pollution that refers to the tiny A) World Conservation B) World Crime Control
particles suspended everywhere in our atmosphere. Control Bureau Bureau
[RRB ALP 2019] C) Wildlife Crime Control D) Wildlife Conservation
A) Loan B) Aerosols Bureau Control Bureau
C) Genomes D) Humus 16. What is the Siberian ibex?
5. Normal average thickness of stratospheric ozone layer A. Mountain Lions
across the globe is around [RRB JE 2019] B. Large and heavily built goats
A) 200 DU B) 300 DU C. Mountain Deer
C) 500 DU D) 400 DU D. A Type of Horse
[RRB NTPC 2016]
6. Ramsar convention is related to which of the following?
A) B B) C
[RRB JE 2019]
C) A D) D
A) Forests B) Wetlands
C) Animal Protection D) Ozone Depletion 17. A greenhouse gas is a gaseous mixture capable of _____.
7. Which was India's first National Park? [RRB JE 2019] A. Equally visible and infrared
A) Jim Corbett National Park B) Kanha National Park B. More visible radiation than infrared
C. More infrared radiation than visible
C) Kaziranga National Park D) Gir National Park
D. Neither visible nor infrared radiation
8. Recycling is one of the best methods to decrease the [RRB NTPC 2016]
amount of waste generated. Some of its benefits are given A) A B) D
below. Which of the following is NOT an advantage of C) C D) B
recycling? [RRB Group D 2022]
A) It reduces waste sent to B) It is of economic benefit, as 18. In which of the following ways does acid rain affect plants?
landfills. it creates jobs. [RRB JE 2019]
C) It is expensive and uses D) It prevents pollution. A) By nourishing the nutrients B) By limiting nutrients from
energy. from the soil the soil
C) By balancing the nutrients D) By increasing the nutrients
9. Which government organisation is the principal regulator of in the soil from the soil
all the players operating in the Indian securities markets?
[RRB NTPC 2021] 19. Which of the following gases is NOT a major greenhouse
A) SEBI B) RBI gas that causes climate change?
C) IRDAI D) NABARD A) Carbon dioxide B) Methane
C) Carbon monoxide D) Nitrous oxide
10. Jim Corbett National Park is located in _______
[RRB NTPC 2020] 20. The first instrument for routine monitoring of total ozone
A) Gujarat B) Uttarakhand was developed by- [RRB JE 2019]
C) Karnataka D) Rajasthan A) William Sturgeon B) Samuel Langley
C) Robert Moog D) Gordon M. B. Dobson
11. The Asiatic lion population largely resides in the protected
park area of _______. [RRB Group D 2022] 21. ‘Bharat Stage Emission Standards’ refers to
A) Bhitarkanika National Park B) Gir National Park [RRB NTPC 2016]
C) Balphakram National Park D) Anamudi Shola National A) Vehicular pollution B) Industrial pollution
Park C) Water pollution D) Soil pollution

12. Which of the following classes of chemicals can damage 22. Which of the following is an in-situ conservation measure
the ozone layer? [RRB ALP 2019] taken by India? [RRB JE 2019]
A) Project Lion B) All of the options 34. An area designated for wildlife in which they have
C) Project Rhino D) Project Elephant unrestricted access to ecosystems and natural resources is
called a ______. [RRB Group D 2022]
23. Which of the following is the best definition of
A) protected area B) national park
'biodegradable' ? [RRB Group D 2022]
C) wildlife sanctuary D) biosphere reserve
A) Capable of B) A suitable and sufficient
depolymerization into carbon nutrient source for growth to 35. A scheme by the Government of India to maintain a viable
dioxide and water by the saprophytic organisms population of tigers in India since 1973 is꞉ [RRB NTPC 2021]
action of enzymes A) Wildlife Conservation B) Wildlife in India
C) Easily digested into smaller D) Capable of being broken C) Project Tiger D) Save the Tiger
molecules by action of down into harmless products
bacteria or bacterial enzymes by the action of microbes 36. Where is Okhla Bird Sanctuary located?
A. Himachal Pradesh
24. Tundra ecosystem is an example of- [RRB JE EC 2019]
B. NCR Region
A) Micro biological B) All of the options
C. Haryana
C) Marine D) No tree region
D. Punjab
25. Endemic species are those species of plants and animals [RRB NTPC 2016]
which are _________ . [RRB NTPC 2021] A) C B) B
A) found in a particular area B) in very good health C) A D) D
C) suffering from an epidemic D) found only in the forests
37. What is the cause of biomagnification (or bio-
26. Which of the following, like the Chipko Movement, aims to accumulation)?
protect forests in the Uttara Kannada district? A. Ozone.
[RRB NTPC 2021] B. Organo-chlorines.
A) Narmada Bachao Andolan B) Al Baydha Project C. Lichens.
C) Appiko Movement D) Delhi Chalo Movement D. Proteins.
27. There is also a global heritage site. [RRB NTPC 2016]
A. Kanha National Park A) D B) A
B. Vedathangal Bird Sanctuary C) B D) C
C. Keoladeo National Park 38. Which of the following is NOT a world heritage site?
D. Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary [RRB JE 2019]
[RRB NTPC 2016] A) Kaziranga National Park B) Periyar National Park
A) D B) A C) Manas Wildlife Sanctuary D) Nanda Devi National Park
C) B D) C
39. “Ozone Hole” is a - [RRB JE 2019]
28. A recently discovered bird species named ‘Himalayan A) Hole in the atmosphere B) Hole in the troposphere
Forest Thrush’ was found in________. [RRB NTPC 2016] C) Hole in the thermosphere D) Destruction of ozone layer
A) Dehradun B) Northeast India
40. Find the odd one out in relation world heritage sites.
C) Uttarakhand D) Ladakh Region
[RRB NTPC 2016]
29. Which of the following is NOT an abiotic component? A) Rashtrapati Bhavan B) ChatrapatiShivaji Terminus
[RRB NTPC 2020] C) Taj Mahal D) Sun Temple
A) Water B) Green plant
41. Which of the following is the unit of measurement of the
C) Sunlight D) Soil
“Ecological Footprint”? [RRB JE 2019]
30. Which of the following organisms shows a parasitic A) Global Hectare B) Gallon Per Capita
nutritive strategy? [RRB Group D 2022] C) Man Hour D) Cubic meter
A) Mushroom B) Cuscuta
42. In which of the following states is the Gir National Park
C) Amoeba D) Yeast
located? [RRB JE 2019]
31. Which of the following is not a greenhouse gas? A) Gujarat B) Kerala
A.Ozone C) Punjab D) Karnataka
B. Nitrous oxide 43. First of the major environmental protection act to be
C. Water vapor promulgated in India was [RRB JE 2019]
D. Hydrogen A) Noise pollution rules B) The water act
[RRB NTPC 2016] C) The air act D) The environment act
A) B B) C
C) D D) A 44. Which is the most important international agreement for
conserving all biodiversity? [RRB JE EE 2019]
32. Taj Mahal is said to be suffering from “Marble Cancer”. A) Convention on Ballast B) Convention on Biological
What is Marble Cancer? [RRB JE 2019] Water Diversity
A) Brown Carbon B) Acidic rain which corrodes C) UNCLOS D) CITES
marble
C) Large number of Fungi in D) All of the options 45. Temperature inversion is a condition in which the
Taj Mahal marbles temperature of the atmosphere- [RRB JE 2019]
A) Either increases or B) Remains same
33. Which of the following is NOT a world heritage site? decreases with altitude
[RRB JE EE 2019] C) Always decreases with D) Always increases with
A) Manas Wildlife Sanctuary B) Kaziranga National Park altitude altitude
C) Nanda Devi National Park D) Periyar National Park
46. Montreal protocol is related to- [RRB JE 2019] A) Cobalt B) Zinc
A) Nuclear weapons B) Protection of Wild Life C) Nickel D) Mercury
C) Protection of Whales D) Protection of Ozone layer 60. Reforestation means [RRB NTPC 2021]
47. Which of the following is an artificial ecosystem that is A) Visiting the forests B) Taking care of animals in
manmade? [RRB Group D 2022] the forests
A) Lake B) Crop field C) Planting new trees in the D) Reinforcing forests
C) Forest D) Pond destroyed forests

48. Kanha National Park is in which state? 61. What does SPM in the environment mean?
A. Uttar Pradesh A. Suspended Pollution Mark
B. Madhya Pradesh B. Suspended Particulate Matter
C. Rajasthan C. Suspended Particle Mode
D. Uttarakhand D. Suspended Particle Management.
[RRB NTPC 2016] [RRB NTPC 2016]
A) B B) C A) C B) B
C) D D) A C) A D) D

49. Where is the Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park 62. Which of the following is situated in Jammu and Kashmir?
located? [RRB JE 2019] [RRB NTPC 2020]
A) Karnataka B) Gujarat A) Pakhal Wildlife Sanctuary B) Dachigam National Park
C) Tamil Nadu D) Andhra Pradesh C) Jaldapara National Park D) Balpakram National Park

50. Which of the following is a Saprotroph? [RRB ALP 2018] 63. Where is the ozone hole located? [RRB Group D 2022]
A) Pigeon B) Mushroom A) Over the Equator B) Over the North and South
Poles
C) Algae D) Man
C) Over industrialised Europe D) Over Antarctica
51. The Tadoba National Park is located in which state of
India? [RRB Group D 2022] 64. Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin Sanctuary is located in
A) Uttar Pradesh B) Maharashtra which of the following states of India? [RRB JE EC 2019]
A) Assam B) Bihar
C) Bihar D) Rajasthan
C) Uttar Pradesh D) West Bengal
52. Which wildlife sanctuary was set up in West India for
preserving Indian lions? [RRB JE 2019] 65. The first Indian Reserve Forest is _________.
A) Ranthambore B) Keoladeo Ghana [RRB Group D 2022]
A) Jim Corbett National Park B) Pench National Park
C) Kaziranga D) The Gir Forest
C) Satpura National Park D) Kaziranga National Park
53. When was World Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF-India)
established? [RRB JE IT 2019] 66. National Air Quality Index is determined on the basis of
A) 1997 B) 1969 concentration of ________ pollutants. [RRB NTPC 2016]
C) 1956 D) 1976 A) 5 B) 6
C) 7 D) 8
54. Which of the following can be used for biological control
of mosquitoes? [RRB JE 2019] 67. Montreal protocol refers to -
A) Oil B) Ointments A) Substances that deplete B) Biosafety of genetically
C) Gambusia D) D. D. T ozone layer modified organisms
C) Global warming and D) Persistent organic fertilizers
55. Which of the following animals was under category of climate change
“critically endangered species” till 2008, later upgraded to
"endangered species"? [RRB JE EE 2019] 68. What is the environmental loss if many trees are cut in a
A) Sumatran Rhinoceros B) Asiatic Lion forest to get wood? [RRB Group D 2022]
A) It will give livelihood to B) It will let in more sunlight to
C) Panda D) Indian Tiger
many poor people. let smaller plants to grow.
56. In which year was Wildlife Protection Act implemented in C) It will provide open space D) It will lead to soil erosion
India? [RRB JE 2019] for other trees to grow. and degradation.
A) 1970 B) 1972
69. Degradation of global environment has not resulted in one
C) 1973 D) 1971
of the following. [RRB NTPC 2016]
57. The phenomenon of occurrence of additional species A) Biodiversity loss B) Increased Carbon-di-oxide
found in the ecotone or transitional zone between adjoining concentration in the
ecosystems is known as- [RRB JE 2019] atmosphere
A) Coolidge effect B) Raman effect C) Exposure to UV radiations D) Landfills
C) Root effect D) Edge effect 70. In which state is the Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary located?
58. A particular locality is focusing on three R’s - Recycle, [RRB NTPC 2021]
Reuse and Reduce - to decrease the production of non- A) Kerala B) Punjab
biodegradable waste. What will be the correct sequence to C) Bihar D) Karnataka
follow them? [RRB Group D 2022]
71. Where is the Simlipal Bio-Reserve located?
A) Reuse, Recycle, Reduce B) Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
A. Assam
C) Recycle, Reuse, Reduce D) Recycle, Reduce, Reuse
B. Meghalaya
59. The Minamata Convention in 2013 was held at Japan to C. Odissa
address the emissions of which heavy metal? [RRB NTPC 2021] D. West Bengal
 [RRB NTPC 2016] A) Incineration B) Landfills
A) D B) A C) Development of value- D) Composting
C) B D) C added products
72. Which of the following leads to global warming? 77. Where is Vansda National Park located? [RRB JE 2019]
[RRB Group D 2022] A) Assam B) Punjab
A) Increase in CO2 percentage B) Afforestation C) Uttarakhand D) Gujarat
in the air 78. Which is NOT a green house gas in earth's atmosphere?
C) Accumulation of plastic D) Increase in the levels of [RRB JE 2019]
waste atmospheric ozone A) Ozone B) Sulphur dioxide
73. The carbonaceous demand occurs due to oxidation of C) Carbon dioxide D) Methane
________. [RRB JE 2019]
79. The international protocol to protect the ozone layer in
A) Ammonia B) Organic matter
1987 was [RRB JE CE 2019]
C) Nitrogen D) Sulphur A) Vienna Convention B) Cartagena protocol
74. Which of the following is a tiger reserve? [RRB NTPC 2020] C) Kyoto protocol D) Montreal Protocol
A) Great Himalayan National B) Gir Wildlife Sanctuary
80. Where is the Masai Mara National Reserve?
park
A. Mali
C) Jim Corbett National park D) Kedarnath Wildlife
Sanctuary B. Kenya
C. Gabon
75. In which state are the Bharatpur and Ranthambhore
D. Zambia
National Parks located? [RRB JE 2019] [RRB NTPC 2016]
A) Uttar Pradesh B) Gujarat A) A B) D
C) Rajasthan D) Madhya Pradesh C) B D) C
76. Which of the following is the most environment-friendly
method of disposing of organic wastes? [RRB Group D 2022]

ANSWER KEY
Q. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Ans D C C B B B A C A B B C D B
Q. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Ans C A B B C D A B D D A C D B
Q. 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42
Ans B B C B D B C B C B D A A A
Q. 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56
Ans D B D D B A C B B D B C B B
Q. 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70
Ans D B D C B B D B C D A D D D
Q. 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80
Ans D A B C C D D B D C

SOLUTIONS BIODEGRADABLE
SUBSTANCE
NON-BIODEGRADABLE
SUBSTANCE
1.
The correct answer is Option B. Can be decomposed by physical
1. Decomposes naturally
Bacteria or other saprophytes break down or decompose processes like heat and pressure
in the environment
dead organisms, animal waste, and plant litter to obtain but not naturally.
nutrients by the action of enzymes. 2. Safe for the
In this way, decomposition occurs by Enzymes, bacteria, or Harmful to the environment.
environment.
other saprophytes.
3. Persist for a small
Persist for a longer period of time
Difference between Biodegradable substances and Non- period of time interval in
in the environment.
biodegradable substances. the environment.

Examples of Biodegradable substances are -

Human feces, Manure, Sludge from sewage treatment
plants, waste that come from slaughterhouses, Animal, and
plants that have died, wooden plants, books, cotton cloths,
fruit peels, and rotten fruits.
Examples of Non-biodegradable substances are -
Glass, Plastics, Metals, Pesticides, Aluminium cans, E-
wastes, Styrofoam, Razors, Carbon paper, Polythene.
CHAPTER꞉ 6

SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTIONS

1. A software program that has been developed to harm other D. 2000 [RRB NTPC 2016]
computers is called a/an _________. [RRB ALP 2019] A) C B) B
A) server B) LAN C) A D) D
C) malware D) operating system 15. X-Rays, which are now used on a day to day basis for
2. Four pairs of words are given. Find the odd one out. diagnosis in medicine, was discovered by? [RRB NTPC 2016]
[RRB NTPC 2016] A) Wilhelm Rontgen B) Niels Bohr
A) Saturn ꞉ Planet B) Sun ꞉ Star C) Ernest Rutherford D) Max Bon
C) Milky Way ꞉ Constellation D) Titan ꞉ Satellite 16. Who coined the word "Artificial Intelligence"?
3. Which among the following is the brain of the computer? [RRB NTPC 2021]
A. Software A) John Berger B) Charles Bachman
B. Hardware C) John McCarthy D) David Bradley
C. CPU 17. Which of the following branches of mathematics was
D. Monitor invented by Newton? [RRB ALP 2018]
[RRB NTPC 2016] A) Calculus B) Logic
A) A B) C
C) Algebra D) Geometry
C) D D) B
18. Why does the pole star appear to be fixed in one place
4. Name the scientist who discovered bacteria ?
while all other stars seem to move from east to west?
[RRB ALP 2019]
[RRB JE 2019]
A) Robert Koch B) James Chadwick
A) Because pole star is a B) Pole star is near the moon
C) Eugen Goldstein D) A V Leeuwenhoek planet
5. Microsoft Corporation was founded in [RRB NTPC 2016] C) Pole star is near the Sun D) Because the pole star is
A) 1979 B) 1981 situated in the direction of the
C) 1975 D) 1965 axis of Earth on which the
earth rotates
6. Henry Cavendish discovered ____ in 1766. [RRB ALP 2019]
19. A/An ______ is software used to maintain the security of a
A) oxygen B) hydrogen
private network.
C) helium D) chlorine
A) malware B) encryption
7. Who discovered that a current-carrying conductor would C) firewall D) clickbait
move when placed in a magnetic field? [RRB JE IT 2019]
20. Which is the official language for Android development?
A) Michael Faraday B) Andre Ampere
A. Java
C) Gustav Kirchhoff D) Nikola Tesla
B. COBOL
8. The mass per unit volume is called [RRB NTPC 2016] C. FORTRON
A) Force B) Work D. Ada
C) Density D) Pressure [RRB NTPC 2016]
9. Who founded Twitter? [RRB NTPC 2016] A) C B) B
A) Mark Zuckerberg B) Tim Cook C) A D) D
C) Noah Ark D) Evan Williams 21. Aaton Van Leewan Hock is famous for the discovery of
10. Which antibiotic was discovered by Alexander Fleming in ______.
1928? [RRB JE 2019] A. Microscope
A) Erithromycin B) Azithromycin B. Nylon
C) Penicillin D) Streptomycin C. Laser
D. Radio valve
11. Who was the first Indian to go into the space? [RRB JE 2019]
[RRB NTPC 2016]
A) Rakesh Sharma B) Kalpana Chawla
A) B B) C
C) Ravish Malhotra D) Sunita Williams
C) D D) A
12. Most of the _______ are formed by sand and silt deposited
22. When was INSAT 1B commissioned? [RRB NTPC 2021]
by rivers and sea waves. [RRB NTPC 2016]
A) 1985 B) 1983
A) Laterite and lateritic soils B) Alluvial soils
C) 1987 D) 1980
C) Peaty and Marshy soils D) Saline and alkaline soils
23. Which one is not a network protocol? [RRB NTPC 2016]
13. India's first graphene innovation center will be set up in
A) SSH B) HTML
which state? [RRB Group D 2022]
C) PPP D) POP
A) Maharashtra B) Punjab
C) Haryana D) Kerala 24. Who invented the World Wide Web? [RRB ALP 2019]
A) Tim Berner-Lee B) Robert E. Kahn
14. When was the ASLV used in India for the first time?
C) Vint Cerf D) Antonio Meucci
A. 1980
B. 1987 25. ______ was discovered by the Scottish physician Daniel
C. 1994 Rutherford in 1772. [RRB ALP 2019]
A) Helium B) Hydrogen A. Round Function
C) Chlorine D) Nitrogen B. Sandwich function
C. Switch function
26. Who invented dynamite?
D. Nested function [RRB NTPC 2016]
A. Alfred Nobel
A) C B) B
B. Philippus Paracelsus
C) D D) A
C. Louis Pasteur
D. Sir Humphrey Davy 37. Esc key in a windows keyboard is not used to
[RRB NTPC 2016] [RRB NTPC 2016]
A) A B) D A) Close a dialog - box B) Run a selected command
C) B D) C C) Cancel a command D) Close a selected drop down
list
27. Which one is considered as India's first supercomputer?
38. The distance between the Sun and Earth is estimated to
A. Aditya
be [RRB NTPC 2016]
B. Vikram - 100
C. Param 8000 A) 15.96 × 107 km B) 14.96 × 107 km
D. Shastra T C) 12.96 × 107 km D) 11.96 × 107 km
[RRB NTPC 2016]
39. An example of Full Duplex communication channel.
A) A B) B
A. Radio Broadcasting
C) D D) C
B. Television Broadcasting
28. Who designed the pendulum clock? C. Walkie-Talkie
A. Galileo Galilei D. Telephone conversation [RRB NTPC 2016]
B. Thomas Alva Edison A) D B) A
C. Frederick Jones C) C D) B
D. Davidson 40. Who was the first chairman of ISRO? [RRB NTPC 2016]
[RRB NTPC 2016]
A) Kasturirangan B) Vikram Sarabhai
A) A B) C
C) Homi K. Bhabha D) C. V. Raman
C) B D) D
41. Who propounded the homeopathic principle of ‘like cures
29. Which of the following disciplines attempts to explain the
like’? [RRB NTPC 2016]
concept of 'Temporal synthesis'? [RRB Group D 2022]
A) Hippocrates B) Samuel Hahnemann
A) Geomorphology B) History
C) Samuel Cockburn D) George Vithoulkas
C) Anthropology D) Philosophy
42. Which one is anti-virus? [RRB NTPC 2016]
30. Which of these scientists is NOT linked with the invention
A) CodeRed B) Melissa
of television? [RRB ALP 2019]
C) CryptoLocker D) Dr. Web
A) John Logie Baird B) Vladimir K Zworykin
C) Christiaan Huygens D) Philo Farnsworth 43. Which of the following is not true in relation to the Global
Positioning System? [RRB NTPC 2016]
31. To insert a line break this HTML tag is used.
A) It is a space-based B) It can not predict cyclones.
[RRB JE IT 2019] navigation system.
A) <br> B) <break>
C) It can be used to map D) It can be used for in-car
C) <Break> D) </> vehicular traffic. navigation
32. Which is NOT an Operating System? 44. The first gasoline-run car engine was developed by –
A. OS X [RRB NTPC 2016]
B. Windows 7 A) Henry Ford B) Karl Benz
C. DOS C) Hugh Chalmers D) Horace Elgin Dodge
D. C++
45. The Theory of Relativity is associated with꞉
[RRB NTPC 2016]
[RRB NTPC 2020]
A) D B) B
A) Albert Einstein B) WC Rontgen
C) C D) A
C) Newton D) Kelvin
33. An electric motor converts [RRB NTPC 2016]
46. The physical place where a computer stores information is
A) Mechanical energy into B) Thermal energy into
called __________. [RRB ALP 2019]
electrical energy. electrical energy.
A) Modem B) Hard disk
C) Electrical energy into D) Radiant energy into
mechanical energy. electrical energy. C) Wi-Fi D) POP

34. The Fiber Grid internet system was introduced by which 47. Gunpowder mainly contains
Chief Minister in India? [RRB JE 2019] A. Calcium sulfate
A) Manohar Parrikar B) Raman Singh B. Potassium nitrate
C) Chandrababu Naidu D) Arvind Kejriwal C. Lead sulphide
D. Zinc sulphide
35. Who invented ‘www’ ? [RRB NTPC 2021]
[RRB NTPC 2016]
A) Vint Cerf B) Robert E. Kahn A) A B) D
C) Charles babbage D) Tim Berners-Lee C) B D) C
36. In MS Excel, what is function inside another function 48. Which of the storage device of computers has now
called? become obsolete? [RRB NTPC 2016]
A) Floppy B) CD ROM A) USA B) UK
C) Pen drive D) Hard disk C) Canada D) Russia
49. Which was the first satellite to be sent into space? 61. Which of the following is a Space-Based Augmentation
[RRB JE 2019] System?
A) Sputnik 1 B) Vanguard 1A A. INSAT
C) Explorer 1 D) Rohini B. GAGAN
50. ________ is an interactive computer-generated experience C. GSAT
taking place within a simulated environment. [RRB JE 2019] D. SARAL
A) Augmented reality B) Artificial intelligence [RRB NTPC 2016]
A) C B) B
C) Internet of things D) Virtual reality
C) D D) A
51. The building up and movement of ships is based on
________. [RRB NTPC 2016] 62. What was invented by Alfred Nobel?
A) Archimedes’ principle B) Faradays laws A. Radium
B. X-ray
C) Fleming’s right hand rule D) Newton’s 2nd law of
motion C. Dynamite
D. The Solar System
52. A component that adds to a software program’s [RRB NTPC 2016]
functionality is called as ______ [RRB ALP 2019] A) A B) C
A) Plug-in B) Processor C) D D) B
C) Modem D) Server
63. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT Mendel's
53. Name the device used to connect computers for pea plant experiments? [RRB Group D 2022]
communication via telephone lines. A) Appearance of both the B) In the second-generation,
A. HUB tallness and shortness traits in or F2 generation which are
B. Switch F2 progeny indicated that the progeny of the F1 tall
C. Repeater both the traits were inherited plants, all the plants are tall.
in the F1 plants.
D. MODEM [RRB NTPC 2016]
A) D B) A C) Mendel used a number of D) He took a tall plant and a
contrasting visible characters short plant, produced progeny
C) C D) B
of garden peas – by crossing them and in the
54. The value of universal gravitation constant (G) was round/wrinkled seeds, resulting F1 progeny, all plants
determined by꞉ [RRB ALP 2018] tall/short plants. were tall.
A) Henry Cavendish B) Antoine L Lavoisier 64. In which direction does the tail of a comet point toward?
C) Issac Newton D) John Dalton [RRB NTPC 2016]
55. The ‘Father of Indian Space Program’ is _________. A) Away from the sun B) Towards the sun
[RRB NTPC 2016] C) Away from earth D) Towards the earth
A) Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam B) Dr. VikramA. Sarabhai 65. What is the name of the moon of Pluto? [RRB NTPC 2016]
C) Dr. K. Kaslnrirangan D) Prof. Satish Dhawan A) Charon B) Ganymede
56. ‘Akash’ developed by DRDO is C) Luna D) Triton
A. A surface-to-air missile system. 66. Astrosat is India's first
B. A surface-to-surface missile system A. Reconnaissance satellite
C. A air-to-surface missile system B. Remote sensing satellite
D. Not a missile system. C. Space observatory
[RRB NTPC 2016] D. Communication satellite
A) A B) B [RRB NTPC 2016]
C) D D) C A) C B) B
57. Satish Dhawan Space Centre is located in꞉ C) D D) A
[RRB NTPC 2016] 67. The planet Mars is also known as the ________.
A) Uttar Pradesh B) Madhya Pradesh [RRB NTPC 2016]
C) Andhra Pradesh D) Tamil Nadu A) Morning star B) Evening star
58. Thumba in Kerala is famous because ______. C) Red planet D) Blue plane
[RRB ALP 2018] 68. The first human to travel in space - [RRB NTPC 2016]
A) It is a rocket launching B) It has several tea gardens. A) Neil Armstrong B) Yuri Gagarin
station.
C) Edwin Aldrin D) Valentina Tereshkova
C) It has backwaters and D) It has an aryuvedic centre.
lagoons. 69. The first Indian Communication satellite is
[RRB NTPC 2020]
59. Louis Pasteur was known for discovery of [RRB NTPC 2016]
A) Rohini B) MOM
A) Polio vaccine B) Chicken pox vaccine
C) Aryabhatta D) APPLE
C) Small pox vaccine D) Rabies vaccine
70. Who among the following laid the foundation of chemical
60. The Hubble Space Telescope, which belongs to________,
science by establishing two important laws of chemical
captured the first-ever predicted supernova explosion
combination? [RRB ALP 2018]
[RRB NTPC 2016]
A) Ernest Rutherford B) Democritus 76. Every set in the dotted decimal format of IP address is
C) Joseph L. Proust D) Antoine L. Lavoisier called [RRB NTPC 2016]
A) Subnet B) Octet
71. Which vaccine is primarily used against tuberculosis?
C) Subset D) IP set
[RRB NTPC 2016]
A) BCG B) DPT 77. Which company has been associated with the
C) HiB D) Varicella development of Post-It and Scotch Tape? [RRB NTPC 2016]
A) Johnson and Johnson B) 3M
72. Which of the following is a probe to the Kuiper belt bodies?
C) Unilever D) Amazon
[RRB NTPC 2016]
A) Voyager 1 B) Van Allen Probe 78. A generator converts ________. [RRB NTPC 2016]
C) New Horizon D) Pioneer 11 A) Mechanical energy into B) Electrical energy into
electrical energy. chemical energy.
73. The theory behind stars twinkling is that [RRB NTPC 2016]
C) Thermal energy into D) Electrical energy into light
A) The refractive index of the B) The intensity of light
electrical energy. energy.
different layers of earth’s emitted by them changes with
atmosphere changes time 79. The computer system which does not require any storage
continuously; consequently device?
the position of the star’s
A. Analog
image changes with time.
B. Digital
C) The light from the star is D) The distance of the stars
C. Hybrid
scattered by the dust particles from the earth changes with
and air molecules in the time D. Third generation computer
earth’s atmosphere [RRB NTPC 2016]
A) B B) A
74. The first pico satellite of India is- [RRB JE 2019]
C) C D) D
A) INSAT B) STUDSAT
C) GSAT-4 D) ANUSAT 80. Himawari-9 is a Japanese _______ satellite. [RRB JE 2019]
A) Weather B) Communication
75. Mac OS was introduced by [RRB NTPC 2016]
C) Navigation D) Ground
A) IBM B) Microsoft
C) Apple D) Micromax

ANSWER KEY
Q. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Ans C C B D C B A C D C A B D B
Q. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Ans A C A D C C D B B A D A D A
Q. 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42
Ans B C A A C C D C B B A B B D
Q. 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56
Ans B B A B C A A D A A A A B A
Q. 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70
Ans C A D A B B B A A A C B D D
Q. 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80
Ans A C A B C B B A B A

SOLUTIONS 3. The Correct Answer is Option 2 i.e C.

1. Correct Answer-Option 3 - Malware

A software program that has been developed to harm other
computers is called a malware.
Malware is Malicious software.
The software is written and developed with the intent of
damaging devices, stealing data, etc.
Viruses, Trojans, spyware, and ransomware are also
malware.
A server is a computer or computer program which
manages access to a centralized resource or service in a
network.
LAN- Local Area Network. It interconnects several
computers within a limited area.
Operating system-It is a software for an interface between
a computer user and computer hardware.
2. Saturn is a planet,Sun is a star and Titan is a satellite of
Saturn but milkyway is not a constellation.
It is a galaxy in which solar system is found.
CHAPTER꞉ 7

SPORTS
1. What does the five interlinked rings in the Olympic flag A) Farhaan Behardien B) Aaron Phangiso
represent? [RRB JE 2019] C) Vernon Philander D) Stan Wawrinka
A) Oceans B) Sports
15. With which of the following games is Nomura Cup
C) Mountains D) Continents
associated? [RRB JE 2019]
2. Who is India's first woman grandmaster in chess? A) Golf B) Football
[RRB JE 2019] C) Badminton D) Basketball
A) Saheli Dhar B) Bhagyashree Thipsay
16. The first Commonwealth Games in 1930 was held in which
C) R. Khadilkar D) S. Vijayalakshmi
country? [RRB JE 2019]
3. When were the first Commonwealth Games held? A) Australia B) England
[RRB JE 2019] C) New Zealand D) Canada
A) 1954 B) 1942
17. The term "Bogey" is associated with- [RRB JE 2019]
C) 1918 D) 1930
A) Swimming B) Hockey
4. The suggestion of organising Asian Games was first made C) Golf D) Tennis
at the _____. [RRB JE 2019]
18. ______ is not a board game.
A) Conference of Asian B) Conference of Asian
Countries, New Delhi in 1947 Countries, New Delhi in 1943 A. Snake and ladder
C) Conference of Asian D) Conference of Asian B. Chess
Countries, New Delhi in 1952 Countries, New Delhi in 1956 C. Bridge
D. Checkers
5. Indian sports person Gagan Narang is associated with
[RRB NTPC 2016]
[RRB NTPC 2016]
A) A B) C
A) Archery B) Air rifle shooting
C) B D) D
C) Wrestling D) Badminton
19. Who is sometimes referred to as 'Payyoli Express'?
6. Ryder Cup is associated with which sport?
[RRB JE 2019]
A) Golf B) Table Tennis
A) Shiny Abraham B) Jyotirmoyee Sikdar
C) Cricket D) Hockey
C) P.T. Usha D) Anju Bobby George
7. With which of the following sports is Black Pearl associated?
20. Which is the oldest hockey tournament in India?
[RRB JE EE 2019]
[RRB JE 2019]
A) Snooker B) Golf
A) Beighton Cup B) Nehru Cup
C) Soccer D) Horse Racing
C) Ramaswamy Cup D) Durand Cup
8. Which of these sports is NOT a board (table) game?
21. Which country does Roger Federer represent in Lawn
[RRB JE 2019]
Tennis competitions? [RRB NTPC 2016]
A) Chess B) Squash
A) Serbia B) US
C) Carrom D) Billiards
C) Switzerland D) UK
9. Syed Modi International Grand Prix Gold Championship is
22. The periodicity of the Commonwealth games is
held every year at ________. [RRB NTPC 2016]
A. No fixed interval
A) Chandigarh B) Lucknow
B. 4 years
C) Delhi D) Hyderabad
C. 5 years
10. Lionel Messi is related to which of the following sports? D. 6 years
[RRB JE ME 2019] [RRB NTPC 2016]
A) Basketball B) Football A) B B) A
C) Golf D) Boxing C) D D) C
11. With which of the following sports was Sandeep Michael 23. With which of the following sports the 'Lady Ratan Tata
associated? [RRB JE IT 2019] Trophy' is associated? [RRB JE IT 2019]
A) Football B) Hockey A) Badminton B) Football
C) Badminton D) Tennis C) Hockey D) Archery
12. With which sport is the term ‘Freestyle’ connected with? 24. Deepa Karmakar is associated with which sport?
[RRB NTPC 2016] A. Swimming
A) Tennis B) Kho Kho B. Badminton
C) Kabaddi D) Swimming C. Gymnastics
13. With which sport is the term 'Beamer' associated? D. Athletics
[RRB JE EE 2019] [RRB NTPC 2016]
A) Cricket B) Football A) B B) D
C) Chess D) Hockey C) A D) C

14. Who among the following is/was not associated with 25. Who is the first Indian woman to swim across the English
Cricket? [RRB NTPC 2016] Channel?
A. Rashmi Sharma
B. Rupali Rapale 36. Which chess piece moves straight ahead but attacks
C. Aarti Saha cornerwise?
D. Shikha Tandon A. Knight
[RRB NTPC 2016] B.Rook
A) D B) B C.Bishop
C) C D) A D.Pawn
26. Who among the following is India's left-arm spinner who is [RRB NTPC 2016]
the lone cricketer to feature in both, the ODI and T20 teams of A) C B) D
the year announced by the ICC. [RRB ALP 2018] C) A D) B
A) Neetu David B) Ekta Bisht 37. _______ is not a sport of martial arts of India.
C) Anju Jain D) Mithali Raj A. Thang-Ta
27. For which of the following games is the "Indira Gandhi B. Silambam
Gold Cup" awarded? [RRB JE CE 2019] C. Pari-Khanda
A) Women's hockey B) Women's badminton D. Jailhouse Rock
C) Women's football D) Women's cricket [RRB NTPC 2016]
A) C B) A
28. In which year did Indian Men’s Hockey team win its first
C) B D) D
Olympic gold medal?
A. 1928 38. With which of the following games is the 'Bandodkar Gold
B. 1956 Trophy' associated? [RRB JE 2019]
C. 1975 A) Cricket B) Badminton
D. 1982 C) Football D) Basketball
[RRB NTPC 2016] 39. Nixan Gold Cup is associated with which sport?
A) D B) C [RRB JE 2019]
C) A D) B A) Basketball B) Badminton
29. With which sport is Laxmi Padiya associated? C) Football D) Volleyball
[RRB JE 2019] 40. Who among the following is NOT a hockey player?
A) Boxing B) Tennis [RRB JE 2019]
C) Football D) Hockey A) Jaipal Singh B) Mishal Banjamin Lakra
30. Which one of the following females athletes is not a C) Manohar Topno D) Birendra Lakra
squash player? [RRB ALP 2018] 41. The Winter Olympic Games came into being in꞉
A) Koneru Humpy B) Joshna Chinnappa [RRB JE CE 2019]
C) Dipika Pallikal D) Anaka Alankamony A) 1916 B) 1920
C) 1912 D) 1924
31. Who is Sabari kartik?
A. Famous Indian Karate Champion 42. With which game is Bhagyashree Thipsey associated?
B. Rugby player [RRB JE 2019]
C. Cricket player A) Chess B) Football
D. Kabaddi Champion C) Swimming D) Badminton
[RRB NTPC 2016] 43. What is the other name of Soccer? [RRB JE 2019]
A) B B) A A) Polo B) Football
C) C D) D C) Hockey D) Basketball
32. With which sport is Gurdev Singh Gill associated? 44. ‘Deuce’ is a term associated with ________
[RRB JE 2019] A) baseball B) cricket
A) Boxing B) Wrestling
C) hockey D) lawn tennis
C) Hockey D) Football
45. With which of the following sports is Manpreet Singh
33. Which is the national sport of USA? associated? [RRB JE 2019]
A. Water Polo A) Badminton B) Tennis
B. Rugby C) Hockey D) Football
C. Polo
46. With which of the following sports is Koneru Humpy
D. Baseball
[RRB NTPC 2016] associated? [RRB JE 2019]
A) C B) D A) Hockey B) Chess
C) B D) A C) Badminton D) Golf

34. Archery is the national game of- [RRB JE 2019] 47. With which sport is the Rovers Cup associated?
A) Sri Lanka B) Bhutan [RRB Group D 2022]
A) Rowing B) Hockey
C) Switzerland D) Denmark
C) Football D) Cricket
35. Who became the 1st player to win ATP (Association of
48. The game of football is also referred to as _______
Tennis Professionals) World Tour Finals for the 4th consecutive A. Rugby
time? [RRB NTPC 2016]
B. Poker
A) Novak Djokovic B) Rafael Nadal
C. Soccer
C) Serena Williams D) Roger Federer
D. Ping-Pong
 [RRB NTPC 2016] D. Snooker
A) D B) B A) C B) A
C) C D) A C) B D) D
49. Which sports personality is also known as the 'Payyoli 60. Which of the following term is associated with Hockey?
Express?' [RRB JE 2019] A. Faceoff
A) K.M. Beenamol B) P.T. Usha B. Kickoff
C) Jyotirmoyee Sikdar D) Shiny Abraham C. Offside
50. Michael Schumacher, a racing driver belongs to which D. Bodyline
country? [RRB NTPC 2016] [RRB NTPC 2016]
A) USA B) Germany A) A B) D
C) Canada D) Australia C) C D) B

51. With which of the following sports is Mithali Raj 61. The game of snooker is played with how many balls?
associated? [RRB JE CE 2019] A. 16
A) Basketball B) Golf B. 18
C) Cricket D) Football C. 22
D. 24
52. With which of the following games is the term 'Ground
[RRB NTPC 2016]
Stroke' associated? [RRB JE EE 2019]
A) B B) C
A) Cricket B) Hockey
C) D D) A
C) Badminton D) Tennis
62. With which of the following sports is Black Pearl
53. The book 'Six Machine꞉ I Don't Like Cricket I Love It' is the
associated? [RRB JE 2019]
autobiography of which is a Jamaican cricketer who plays
A) Snooker B) Soccer
international cricket for the West Indies. [RRB ALP 2018]
A) Andre Russell B) Chris Gayle C) Golf D) Horse Racing
C) Sunil Narine D) Darren Michael Bravo 63. In which of these countries were the first Asian Games
held? [RRB JE 2019]
54. Ajay Jayaram represents India in which of the following
A) India B) China
sports?
C) South Korea D) Japan
A. Shooting
B. Weightlifting 64. Who among the following is famously known as “The
C. Table tennis Haryana Hurricane”? [RRB NTPC 2016]
D. Badminton A) Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi B) Kapil Dev
[RRB NTPC 2016] C) Saina Nehwal D) Vijender Singh
A) C B) B 65. Bandodkar Trophy is associated with which sport?
C) A D) D [RRB JE EC 2019]
55. Deepika Kumari is associated with which sport? A) Hockey B) Cricket
[RRB JE 2019] C) Football D) Badminton
A) Tennis B) Archery 66. Out of the FIFA World Cup awards which one is awarded
C) Hockey D) Chess to the best goal keeper? [RRB NTPC 2016]
56. Name the international independent agency whose key A) Golden Boot B) Golden Ball
activities include scientific research, education, development C) Golden Glove D) Golden Cap
& monitoring of anti-doping capacities and code in all sports 67. With which sport was Arthur Pereira associated?
and all countries. [RRB JE 2019]
A. International Body Against Doping A) Volleyball B) Tennis
B. World Anti-Doping Agency C) Basketball D) Football
C. Play true, Play safe
68. When did India first take part in the Olympic Games?
D. International Body for Sports Ethics [RRB NTPC 2016]
[RRB JE 2019]
A) A B) C
A) 1920 B) 1972
C) B D) D
C) 1974 D) 1928
57. With which sport is Murugappa Gold Cup associated?
69. With which of the following is Fed Cup associated?
[RRB JE 2019]
[RRB JE 2019]
A) Golf B) Cricket
A) Women's cricket B) Women's tennis
C) Badminton D) Hockey
C) Hockey D) Men's cricket
58. Priyanka Nutakki is related to which of the following sports
70. Who was the first foreign coach appointed to the India
events? [RRB Group D 2022]
cricket team? [RRB JE 2019]
A) Hockey B) Badminton
A) Duncan Fletcher B) John Wright
C) Chess D) Wrestling
C) Greg Chappell D) Gary Kirsten
59. The Ryder Cup is associated with which of the following
71. Who was the first Asian to swim across the English
sports? Channel? [RRB JE 2019]
A. Cycling A) Anita Sood B) Mihir Sen
B. Horse race C) Arati Saha D) Taranath shenoy
C. Golf
72. Thomas Cup is associated with which of the following A) Cricket B) Hockey
sports? C) Tennis D) Football
A. Hockey 76. Which one of the following names is associated with golf?
B. Badminton [RRB NTPC 2016]
C. Football A) Gurmeet Singh B) H.S. Prannoy
D. Cricket [RRB NTPC 2016] C) S.S.P. Chawrasia D) Chetan Anand
A) C B) B
C) A D) D 77. With which of the following sports is the term 'double fault'
associated? [RRB JE 2019]
73. Which of the following sports originated in India? A) Tennis B) Baseball
[RRB JE 2019] C) Bridge D) Golf
A) Football B) Tennis
C) Kabaddi D) Cricket 78. With which sport is the term 'silly point' associated?
[RRB JE 2019]
74. In the 15th century, Babur made the game ______ popular A) Cricket B) Hockey
in India. C) Football D) Badminton
A. Golf
79. Narang Cup is associated with which sport? [RRB JE 2019]
B. Polo
A) Badminton B) Football
C. Kabaddi
C) Hockey D) Basketball
D. Karate
[RRB NTPC 2016] 80. Which of these is NOT a term used in tennis? [RRB JE 2019]
A) A B) B A) Deuce B) Second Serve
C) C D) D C) Slam Dunk D) Volley
75. With which of the following sports is Mahesh Bhupathi
associated? [RRB JE 2019]

ANSWER KEY
Q. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Ans D D D A B A C B B B B D A D
Q. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Ans A D C B C A C A C D C B A C
Q. 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42
Ans A A B D B B A B D C C B D A
Q. 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56
Ans B D C B C C B B C D B D B C
Q. 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70
Ans D C A A B B A B C C D A B B
Q. 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80
Ans B B C B C C A A A C

to achieve these titles.

SOLUTIONS She has won more medals than any other player for India in
1. the Chess Olympiads.
The Olympic flag has a white background, with five She won the national title six times, became the Asian zone
interlocked rings in the center. champion, Commonwealth Champion, two individual silver
The five interlocking rings, colored blue, yellow, black, medals at the Olympiad.
green, and red. She was awarded the Arjuna Award by the Indian
The five rings represent the five continents of the government in 2001.
world꞉ Europe, Asia, Africa, The Americas, and Oceania Bhagyashree Thipsay is an Indian chess player holding the
The symbol was originally designed in 1913 by de Coubertin title of Woman International Master.
(Released in 1914). 3. The Correct Answer is Option 4 i.e 1930.
Blue Europe The Commonwealth Games take place every four years.
The first Commonwealth Games were held in 1930 in
Yellow Asia
Hamilton, Canada.
Black Africa The last country to join the Commonwealth was
Rwanda(54th country) in 2009.
Green Oceania.Australia
UK, Birmingham is to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Red America 4. The correct answer is The Conference of Asian Countries,
2. S. Vijayalakshmi is India's first woman grandmaster in chess. New Delhi in 1947.
S. Vijayalakshmi is one of the greatest women chess The Asian Games are the oldest and most prestigious event
players of India. on the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) calendar, dating
Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi was born on 25 March 1979. back to the inaugural edition in 1951.
She holds the FIDE titles of International Master and The 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang,
Woman Grandmaster, the first female player in her country Indonesia was the 18th edition.