General knowledge of india - 16

General Knowledge

Q1.	Gol Ghar, a beehive shaped structure built in 1786 to store grains for the British Army, is located in which city ? (A) Meerut (B) Chennai (C) Kolkata (D) Patna
Q2.	In humans, which dark brown pigment is responsible for the skin colour ? (A) Melanin (B) Bilirubin (C) Carotene (D) Hemoglobin
Q3.	Who wrote the famous novel 'Devdas' ? (A) Rabindranath Tagore (B) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (C) Sharat Chandra Chatterjee (D) Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyay
Q4.	Which freedom fighter was popularly known as 'Lokpriya' ? (A) Gopinath Bordoloi (B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (C) Chittaranjan Das (D) Jayaprakash Narain
Q5.	Which battle lead to the disintegration of Vijayanagar empire of south India ? (A) Battle of Plassey (1757) (B) Battle of Buxar (1764) (C) Battle of Talikota (1565) (D) Battle of Seringapatam (1799)
Q6.	In which city is the Indian Institute of Pulses Research located ? (A) Lucknow (B) Nagpur (C) Indore (D) Kanpur
Q7.	Pinaka, the multi barrel rocket launcher produced in India, is named after which Hindu God's bow ? (A) Indra (B) Shiva (C) Vishnu (D) Brahma
Q8.	Which scale is used to measure the Acid or Alkali (Base) content of a substance ? (A) Mohs scale (B) Beaufort scale (C) Richter scale (D) pH scale
Q9.	Which disease, named after a Japanese city where it was first observed, is caused by severe Mercury poisoning ? (A) Argyria (B) Minamata (C) Itai-itai (D) Devon colic
Q10.	Who was the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of Royal Society (FRS) ? (A) Srinivasa Ramanujan (B) Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia (C) Jagadish Chandra Bose (D) Meghnad Saha

Answers :

Q1.    (D) Patna
Q2.    (A) Melanin
Q3.    (C) Sharat Chandra Chatterjee
Q4.    (A) Gopinath Bordoloi
Q5.    (C) Battle of Talikota (1565)
Q6.    (D) Kanpur
Q7.    (B) Shiva
Q8.    (D) pH scale
Q9.    (B) Minamata
Q10.   (B) Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia

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General knowledge of india - 15

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Q1.	In which sport, each team consists of four male and four female players ? (A) Baseball (B) Volleyball (C) Korfball (D) Hockey
Q2.	What is the term of a member of Rajya Sabha ? (A) 3 years (B) 4 years (C) 5 years (D) 6 years
Q3.	In which state is the Kanchenjunga, the second highest mountain peak in India, located ? (A) Sikkim (B) Jammu & Kashmir (C) Himachal Pradesh (D) Uttarakhand
Q4.	What does the Pisciculture refers to ? (A) Beekeeping (B) Fish Farming (C) Silk Farming (D) Dairy Farming
Q5.	In 1906, at the founding session of all India Muslim League in Dhaka, who became the first president of the party ? (A) Mohammed Ali Jinnah (B) Syed Ahmed Khan (C) Mohammed Iqbal (D) Nawab Salimullah Khan
Q6.	Which is the longest National Highways in India ? (A) Kolkata - Hazira (NH6) (B) Chennai - Baharagora (NH5) (C) Varanasi - Kanyakumari (NH7) (D) Pathankot - Samakhiali (NH15)
Q7.	How do we better know nineteenth century spiritual guru Gadadhar Chatterjee ? (A) Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (B) Ramakrishna Paramhans (C) Swami Dayanand Saraswati (D) Swami Vivekanand
Q8.	Stapes, the smallest and the lightest bone in human body, is the part of which organ ? (A) Ear (B) Hand (C) Foot (D) Lungs
Q9.	Which mineral is mined at Jayamkondam in Tamil Nadu ? (A) Zinc (B) Lignite (C) Copper (D) Gold
Q10.	Who authored the book 'A Brief History of Time' ? (A) Jack Welch (B) Bill Gates (C) Deepak Chopra (D) Stephan Hawking

Answers :

Q1.    (C) Korfball
Q2.    (D) 6 years
Q3.    (A) Sikkim
Q4.    (B) Fish Farming
Q5.    (D) Nawab Salimullah Khan
Q6.    (C) Varanasi - Kanyakumari (NH7)
Q7.    (B) Ramakrishna Paramhans
Q8.    (A) Ear
Q9.    (B) Lignite
Q10.   (D) Stephan Hawking

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General knowledge of india - 13

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Q1.	Designed by Bengali architect Vidhyadhar Bhattacharya, which city is known as 'Pink City' ? (A) Jaipur (B) Jodhpur (C) Bengaluru (D) Chandigarh
Q2.	Which metal is used to make electric bulb filaments ? (A) Copper (B) Silver (C) Tungsten (D) Aluminium
Q3.	Who was the first Viceroy of India ? (A) Lord Mayo (B) Lord Dalhousie (C) Lord Canning (D) Lord Curzon
Q4.	In terms of both area and population, which is the smallest country in the world ? (A) Nauru (B) Monaco (C) Tuvalu (D) Vatican City
Q5.	Which portfolio did Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, the first woman cabinet minister in India, hold in the independent India's first cabinet ? (A) Labour (B) Health (C) Education (D) Railways
Q6.	Palghat Gap, about 20 miles wide mountain pass between the Nilgiri Hills and the Anaimalai Hills, connects Kerala to which state ? (A) Tamil Nadu (B) Karnataka (C) Maharashtra (D) Andhra Pradesh
Q7.	Named after the mount of Hindu god Vishnu, 'Garuda' is the national airline of which most Muslim populous country ? (A) Nigeria (B) Pakistan (C) Bangladesh (D) Indonesia
Q8.	At which town in Andhra Pradesh, famous for silk sarees, did Vinoba Bhave start the Bhoodan Movement in 1951 ? (A) Vijayawada (B) Rajahmundry (C) Pochampally (D) Warangal
Q9.	'Daughter of the East' book is the autobiography of which Asian woman leader ? (A) Indira Gandhi (B) Benazir Bhutto (C) Aung San Suu Kyi (D) Maghawati Sukarnoputri
Q10.	Which country was formerly known as 'Upper Volta' ? (A) Namibia (B) Ethiopia (C) Botswana (D) Burkina Faso

Answers :

Q1.    (A) Jaipur
Q2.    (C) Tungsten
Q3.    (C) Lord Canning
Q4.    (D) Vatican City
Q5.    (B) Health
Q6.    (A) Tamil Nadu
Q7.    (D) Indonesia
Q8.    (C) Pochampally
Q9.    (B) Benazir Bhutto
Q10.  (D) Burkina Faso

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