- For international payments the Indian currency is linked to
1. British sterling (incorrect) 2. American dollar (correct)
3. International oil price (incorrect) 4. Gold standard (incorrect)
- Which of the following is not a film directed by Mira Nair?
1. Earth (correct) 2. Monsoon Wedding (incorrect)
3. Kamasutra (incorrect) 4. Salaam Bombay (incorrect)
- Who wrote the book ‘Precepts of Jesus’?
1. Devendranath Tagore (incorrect) 2. Raja Rammohan Roy (correct)
3. Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar (incorrect) 4. Keshab Chandra Sen (incorrect)
- Which Indian writer has not been awarded the Man Booker Prize?
1. Jhumpa Lahiri (correct) 2. Arvind Adiga (incorrect)
3. Kiran Desai (incorrect) 4. Arundhati Roy (incorrect)
- Kathakali is the famous dance of which of the following states?
1. Kerala (correct) 2. Karnataka (incorrect)
3. Andhra Pradesh (incorrect) 4. Tamil Nadu (incorrect)
- Which one of the following is used as antifreeze in automobile engines?
1. Propyl Alcohol (incorrect) 2. Ethanol (incorrect)
3. Ethylene Glycol (correct) 4. Methanol (incorrect)
- ISDN stands for –
1. International Services Digitised Network (incorrect) 2. Integrated Services Digital Network (correct)
3. Internal Digital Network (incorrect) 4. None of the above (incorrect)
- Who was the inventor of Radar?
1. Robert Watson (correct) 2. Fleming (incorrect)
3. Bush Wall (incorrect) 4. Austin (incorrect)
- Match list I with the list II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists:
List I (Battle) List II (Year)
A. First battle of Panipat 1. 1565
B. Battle of Plassey 2. 1526
C. Battle of Haldighati 3. 1757
D. Battle of Talikota 4. 1576
1. A B C D 2 3 4 1 (correct)
2. A B C D 2 4 3 1 (incorrect)
3. A B C D 1 4 3 2 (incorrect)
4. A B C D 1 3 4 2 (incorrect)
- Sati was declared illegal and punishable by the Regulation XVII during the Governor-Generalship of
1. Lord William Bentinck (correct) 2. Lord Canning (incorrect)
3. Lord Ripon (incorrect) 4. Lord Dalhousie (incorrect)
- Which one of the following slogans is attributed to Subhash Chandra Bose?
1. Jai Jawan Jai Kisan (incorrect) 2. Bande Mataram (incorrect)
3. Jai Hind (correct) 4. Inqilab Zindabad (incorrect)
- Where did Buddha attain Parinirvana?
1. Bodh Gaya (incorrect) 2. Kushinagara (correct)
3. Rajgriha (incorrect) 4. Vaishali (incorrect)
- Bande Mataram, the nationalist song, was part of
1. Durgesh Nandini (incorrect) 2. Saraswati Chandra (incorrect)
3. Grihadaha (incorrect) 4. Anand Math (correct)
- Operation Flood Programme was started in –
1. 1975 (incorrect) 2. 1970 (correct)
3. 1980 (incorrect) 4. 1985 (incorrect)
- Sivasamudra island is formed by the river
1. Ganges (incorrect) 2. Godavari (incorrect)
3. Krishna (incorrect) 4. Cauvery (correct)
- Who built the temple of Angkor Vat?
1. Surya Varman II (correct) 2. Jasya Varman VII (incorrect)
3. Yaso Varman (incorrect) 4. Hari Varman (incorrect)
- Who was the first Sufi saint in India?
1. Shaik Hamiduddin (incorrect) 2. Shaik Nizamuddin Auliya (incorrect)
3. Shaik Qutbuddin Auliya (incorrect) 4. Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti (correct)
- In Faziabad, the revolt of 1857 was led by
1. Ahmadullah (correct) 2. Bakht Khan (incorrect)
3. Khan Bahadur Khan (incorrect) 4. Nana Saheb (incorrect)
- How many items are contained in the Union list?
1. 66 items (incorrect) 2. 96 items (incorrect)
3. 97 items (correct) 4. 67 items (incorrect)
- The Bandung Conference (1955) was held in
1. Vietnam (incorrect) 2. Philippines (incorrect)
3. Indonesia (correct) 4. Egypt (incorrect)
- When did Muslim League celebrate the “Pakistan Day”?
1. Apr 25, 1920 (incorrect) 2. Feb 5, 1922 (incorrect)
3. July 14, 1942 (incorrect) 4. Mar 23, 1943 (correct)
- The ‘Rolling Plan’ concept in national planning was introduced by –
1. Indira Gandhi (incorrect) 2. The National Front Government (incorrect)
3. The Janata Government (correct) 4. Rajiv Gandhi (incorrect)
- Which is national river of India
1. Brahmaputra (incorrect) 2. Mahanadi (incorrect)
3. Ganga (correct) 4. Kosi (incorrect)
- The first chief Election Commissioner of India was
1. S.P. Sen Verma (incorrect) 2. Sukumar Sen (correct)
3. Dr. Nagendra Singh (incorrect) 4. K.V.K. Sundaram (incorrect)
- Indian Development Forum (IDF) was earlier known as –
1. Aid India Consortium (correct) 2. Aid India Bank (incorrect)
3. World Bank (incorrect) 4. None of the above (incorrect)
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