1. Who was the founder of ‘Missionaries of Charity’?
(a) Annie Besant (c) Jaya Prakash Narayan
(b) Mother Theresa ( ✔ ) (d) Sunil Datt
2. ‘A single step for man – a giant leap for mankind’ is a famous quote by ____________. (a) Winston Churchill (c) Neil Armstrong ( ✔ )
(b) Abraham Lincoln (d) John Keats
3. The song ‘Vande Mataram’ was written by __________________.
(a) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee ( ✔ ) (c) Rabindranath Tagore
(b) Mohammad Iqbal (d) Bismil Azimabadi
4. Who founded the ‘National Herald’ newspaper?
(a) BR Ambedkar (c) Ramnath Goenka
(b) Dadabhai Naoroji (d) Jawaharlal Nehru ( ✔ )
5. Who is the Editor-in-Chief of India Today?
(a) Shekhar Gupta (c) Jaideep Bose
(b) Aroon Purie ( ✔ ) (d) N Ravi
6. Who founded the ‘Arya Samaj’ Movement?
(a) Raja Ram Mohan Rai (c) Swami Dayanand Saraswati ( ✔ ) (b) Lala Lajpat Rai (d) Swami Vivekananda
7. The language having the highest number of speakers in the world is ___________. (a) English (c) Hindi
(b) Chinese (Mandarin) ( ✔ ) (d) Bengali
8. _________ is the tallest statue in the world, and stands at 182 meters tall. (a) Statue of Unity ( ✔ ) (c) Statue of Liberty
(b) Statue of Christ the Redeemer (d) Statue of Leshan Giant Budha 9. _____________ country is known as the Land of Midnight Sun.
(a) Sweden (c) Finland
(b) Norway ( ✔ ) (d) Poland
10. The largest number of newspapers/periodicals registered in any Indian language is ______.
(a) Bengali (c) Hindi ( ✔ )
(b) Tamil (d) Marathi
11. The rocket launching station of __________ is located in the French territory of French Guiana.
(a) Kourou ( ✔ ) (c) Woomera
(b) Kapustin (d) Leningrad
12. Lal Bahadur Sashtry gave us the slogan ___________.
(a) Jai Hind (c) Aaram Haram Hai
(b) Vande Mataram (d) Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan ( ✔ )
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13. The Statue of Liberty is made of copper, and is located in the city of ___________ in the USA.
(a) Houston (c) Washington DC
(b) New York ( ✔ ) (d) Texas
14. The language which has been adapted as the official language of maximum number of countries (59) is ___________.
(a) Chinese (c) English ( ✔ )
(b) Urdu (d) Arabic
15. Who gave the slogan “Freedom is my birth right, and I shall have it”? (a) Mahatma Gandhi (c) Subhas Chandra Bose
(b) Lala Lajpat Rai (d) Balgangadhar Tilak ( ✔ )
16. The country ____________ is known as ‘Gift of the Nile’.
(a) Congo (c) Kenya
(b) Sudan (d) Egypt ( ✔ )
17. The oldest nuclear powerplant in India is ____________.
(a) Kaiga (c) Tarapur ( ✔ )
(b) Kudankulam (d) Kalpakkam
18. “A Thing of Beuty Is Joy for Ever” is a famous quote by ______________. (a) John Keats ( ✔ ) (c) William Wordsworth
(b) Juleus Caeser (d) William Shakespeare
19. Before the 1971 war, Bangladesh was known as ______________.
(a) East Bengal (c) West Tripura
(b) East Pakistan ( ✔ ) (d) West Myanmar
20. There is a ‘Heavy water Plant’ in Odisha at _______________.
(a) Manuguru (c) Hazira
(b) Talcher ( ✔ ) (d) Sambalpur
21. Slogan “Inquilab Zindabad” was given by _____________.
(a) Shaheed Bhagat Singh ( ✔ ) (c) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Subhas Chandra Bose (d) Chandrasekhar Azad
22. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research is located at _____________. (a) Bengaluru (c) Chennai
(b) Hyderabad (d) Mumbai ( ✔ )
23. “Brevity is the soul of wit” is a famous quote by ________________. a) John Milton (c) William Shakespeare ( ✔ ) (b) Francis Bacon (d) William Wordsworth
24. ____________ is referred to as the ‘Land of Raising Sun’.
(a) Japan ( ✔ ) (c) Borneo
(b) Korea (d) New Zealand
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25. GLONASS, the space-based navigation system, is operated by ______________. (a) China (c) Europe
(b) Germany (d) Russia ( ✔ )
26. __________ is an instrument used to measure wind speed.
(a) Hygrometer (c) Barometer
(b) Anemometer ( ✔ ) (d) Udometer
27. ________ are lines on a map connecting places of equal atmospheric pressure. (a) Isobars ( ✔ ) (c) Isotherms
(b) Isohels (d) Isohelines
28. 23 ���� degree South is called the ______________.
(a) Tropic of Cancer (c) Arctic Circle
(b) Antarctic Circle (d) Tropic of Capricon ( ✔ )
29. Atmospheric pressure can be measured by the instrument _______________. (a) Hygrometer (c) Wind Vane
(b) Barometer ( ✔ ) (d) Udometer
30. All weather phenomena occur in the ___________ layer of atmosphere. (a) Mesosphere (c) Troposphere ( ✔ )
(b) Thermosphere (d) Stratophere
31. International Date Line passes through the ____________ Ocean.
(a) Atlantic (c) Pacitic ( ✔ )
(b) Indian (d) Australian
32. Time on ___________ meridian is designated as the Indian Standard Time. (a) 95 12 E (c) 76 12 W
(b) 67 12 E (d) 82 12 E ( ✔ )
33. The age of earth has been estimated to be around 4.54 __________ years. (a) Billion ( ✔ ) (c) Million
(b) Trillion (d) Zillion
34. The circumference of the earth around the equator in approx, ___________km. (a) 4,00,000 (c) 29,000
(b) 76,000 (d) 40,000 ( ✔ )
35. International Boundary between India and China is demarcated by the ____________. (a) Radcliffe Line (c) Maginot Line
(b) Macmohan Line ( ✔ ) (d) Durand Line
36. ____________ is the brightest planet as seen from earth.
(a) Jupiter (c) Mars
(b) Mercury (d) Venus ( ✔ )
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37. The star _____________ is nearest to the earth (other than the Sun). (a) Sirius (c) Alpha Centauri
(b) Proxima Centauri ( ✔ ) (d) Epsilon Eridani
38. The major galaxy closest to the milky way is.
(a) Black Eye (c) Andromeda ( ✔ )
(b) Butterfly (d) Cigar
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