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Q1. Rashtriya Madhyamic Siksha Abhiyan relates to

Higher Education

Teachers Education

Secondary Education

Professional Education

Q2. Umarupulavars seerapuranam is about the life of

Allah

Sitakathi

Hajira

Mohammed Nabi

Q3. Match the following :

Petrol Wells	Quantity
A. Mumbai High	1. 63%
B. Assam	2. 18%
C. Gujarat	3. 16%
D. Other States	4. 3%

a1, b3, c4, d2

a3, b1, c2, d4

a3, b1, c4, d2

a1, b3, c2, d4

Q4. Food and Agricultural Organizaiton is headquartered in

Paris

Geneva

Rome

Washington

Q5. Choose the correct statement :
1. Indian ranks first in Jute production.
2. India ranks third in sugar production.

1 only

2 only

Both

None of these

Q6. Light was hidden and Dark has Surrounded us this statement related to the assassination of Gandhi was said by

Mountbatten Prabhu

Rajaji

Patel

Nehru

Q7. Match the following :

Steel Plants	State
A. Rourkela	1. Jharkhand
B. Durgapur	2. Chattisgarh
C. Bhilai	3. Odisha
D. Bokara	4. West Bengal

a4, b3, c2, d1

a3, b4, c1, d2

a4, b3, c1, d2

a3, b4, c2, d1

Q8. Choose the correct statement : 1. In 2007 government of India creates NACIL by merging Indian Airlines and Air India. 2. Total length of Indias Coast is 7516 km.

1 only

2 only

Both

None of these

Q9. Which of the following was/were stressed by the Bhakti saints of the 15th and 16th centuries? 1. Idea of personal god 2. Purity of caste system 3. Futility of religious rites 4. Conception of nirguna brahma

1, 2

1, 3

3, 4

4 only

Q10. Match list I with II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the lists.

List I	List II
A. Coimbatore	1. Petroleum Refining
B. Rourkela	2. Rail Coach
C. Kapurthala	3. Iron and Steel
D. Barauni	4. Cotton Textile

a4, b3, c2, d1

a1, b2, c3, d4

a2, b3, c4, d1

a4, b2, c3, d1

Q11. Which of the earliest Engineering educational institution in India?

BHU (IT), Varanasi

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Roorkee Engineering College (I.I.T. Roorkee)

I.I.T. Kharagpur

Q12. Match list I with II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the lists.

Research Centre	Place
A. National Research Centre of Citrus	1. Nagpur
B. National Research Centre for Groundnut	2. Junagadh
C. Indian Institute of Sugar Technology	3. Andhra
D. National Research Centre of Oil Palm	4. Kanpur

a1, b2, c3, d4

a1, b2, c4, d3

a2, b1, c4, d3

a2, b1, c3, d4

Q13. Choose the wrongly matched pair :

Mizoram - Aizwal

Meghalaya - Shillong

Manipur - Imphal

Nagaland - Agartala

Q14. Match list I with II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the lists.

List I	List II
A. National Integration Day	1. December 10
B. National Unity Day	2. October 31
C. World Literacy Day	3. November 19
D. Human Rights Day	4. September 8

a1, b4, c2, d3

a3, b2, c4, d1

a1, b2, c4, d3

a3, b4, c2, d1

Q15. Match the following :

List I	List II
A.Pot Carrier	1. Vajrapani
B. Thunderbolt carrier	2. Avalokiteshwara
C. Lotus - bearer	3. Maitreya
D. Sword - holder	4. Manjushri

a4, b1, c2, d3

a3, b1, c4, d2

a3, b1, c2, d4

a4, b2, c3, d1

Q16. Find the mismatch in the following :

Spain - Madrid

Belgium - Brasilia

Italy - Rome

Austria - Vienna

Q17. What do you mean by Reserved Forest?

Reserved for hunting

Reserved for growing medicinal herbs

Reserved for commercial exploitation

Reserved for local use

Q18. The second largest linguistics unit in India is -

Hindi

Tamil

Telugu

English

Q19. Which is called the Gateway to the Pacific?

Suez Canal

Bering Sea

Panama

Gulf of Alaska

Q20. Which one of the following organisation is operating youth hostels around the world?

YMCA

CARE

WTO

UNESCO

Q21. Vestiophobia is the fear of -

Perfumes

Spectacles

Clothes

Ornaments

Q22. The only country with a national calender having 13 months in a year?

Egypt

Turkey

Ethiopia

Russia

Q23. Which is the correct regarding Samba season?
1. Sown - January
2. Harvest - July
3. Sown - July
4. Harvest - January

3 & 4 only

1 & 2 only

1 only

2 only

Q24. The National Statistics Day is celebrated on -

July 29

June 29

January 29

June 11

Q25. The following regions of India are you most likely to come across the "Great Indian Hornbill: in its natural habitat -

Sand deserts of North-West India

Higher Himalayas of Jammu and Kashmir

Salt marshes of Western Gujarat

Western Ghats

Q26. The following regions of India are you most likely to come across the "Great Indian Hornbill: in its natural habitat -

Sand deserts of North-West India

Higher Himalayas of Jammu and Kashmir

Salt marshes of Western Gujarat

Western Ghats

Q27. What is Greenhouse Gas Protocol?

It is an International accounting tool for government and business leaders to understand, quality and manage greenhouse gas emissions.

It is an initiative of the United Nations to offer financial incentives to developing countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to adopt eco-friendly technologies.

It is an inter-governmental agreement ratified by all the member countries of the United Nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to specified levels by the year 2022

It is one of the multilateral REDO + Initiatives hosted by the World Bank

Q28. With reference to Astrosal. The astronomical observatory launched by India, which of the following statements is/are correct? 1. Other than USA and Russia, India is the only country to have launched a similar observatory into space. 2. Astrosat is a 2000 kg satellite placed in an orbit at 1650 km above the surface of the Earth. Select the correct answer using the code given below :

1 only

2 only

Both 1 and 2

Neither 1 nor 2

Q29. For the first time in our country, which of the following States has declared a particular butterfly as State Butterfly?

Arunachal Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh

Karnataka

Maharashtra

Q30. Consider the following pairs :
Famous Place Region
1. Bodhgaya Baghelkhand
2. Khajuraho Bundelkhand
3. Shirdi Vidarbha
4. Nasik Malwa
5. Tirupati Rayalaseema
Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

1, 2 and 4

2, 3, 4 and 5

2 and 5

1, 3, 4 and 5

Q31. Which of the following States has explored the possiblity of constructing an artificial inland port to be connected to sea by a long navigational channel?

Andhra Pradesh

Chattisgarh

Karnataka

Rajasthan

Q32. Central Rice Research Institute is located at -

Cuttack

Mumbai

Coimbatore

Kanpur

Q33. Windows 95 is a …

Computer Software

Computer Hardware

Fancy Furniture

None of these

Q34. In India Vespa Scooter is manufactured by

Bajaj

Vespa

LML

None of these

Q35. Self reliance as an object of planning was emphasised first in the

Second Plan

Third Plan

Fourth Plan

Fifth Plan

Q36. Which of the following is NOT an undertaking under the administrative control of the Ministry of Railways.

Container Corporation of India limited

Konkan Railways Construction Company Limited

Indian Railways Construction Company Limited

Diesel Locomotive Works, Varanasi

Q37. Which one of the following Railway Zones has the Maximum route kilometrage in India?

Southern

Central

Northern

Eastern

Q38. When was the oil and Natural Gas Commission set up?

1956

1957

1958

1960

Q39. Air travel services by Indian Airlines is NOT provided to

Oman

Kuwait

Thailand

Myanmar

Q40. Oil refineries are located in all of the following States except

Andhra Pradesh

Kerala

Madhya Pradesh

Tamilnadu

Q41. Who designed Suez Canal?

Ferdinand de lesseps

La Corubusier

Nasser

None of these

Q42. Khorana is well known for

deciphering the genetic code

discovery of penicillin

heart transplantation

None of these

Q43. Roentgen discovered

X-rays

Encephalograph

Anti-Polio

Electrons

Q44. Match list I with II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the lists.

Plant Products	Plants
A. Quinine	1. Sugarcane
B. Mollasses	2. Chincona
C. Lodine	3. Hevea
D. Rubber	4. Sea Kelp

a2, b1, c4, d3

a2, b3, c4, d1

a4, b1, c2, d3

a1, b2, c3, d4

Q45. For the rear view, motorists use

plane mirror

concave mirror

convex mirror

cylindrical mirror

Q46. The ozone layer of the atmosphere is damaged by

Ultraviolet rays from the sun

Chloro Fluoro Carbons from cooling systems

Deforestation

Industrial pollution

Q47. A womans voice is shriller than a mans due to

higher frequency

higher amplitude

lower frequency

weak vocal chords

Q48. Thermos flask was invented by

Dewar

Daimler

Urey

None of these

Q49. Streptomycin was invented by

Fleming

Walkman

Curie

None of these

Q50. Prof. S. Chandrasekar is associate with

Astrophysics

Chemistry

Geology

None of these

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