Q. Who was the last Governor General of the East India Company and the first Viceroy under the Crown?

 ◉ lord canning

✅ Correct

 ◉ lord allenborough

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ Lord William Bentinck

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ Lord Charles Metcalfe

❌ Incorrect

Q. Who finally rebuilt the Qutub Minar as we see it today?

 ◉ iltumish

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ Qutb al-Din Aibak

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ Muhammad bin Tughlaq

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ Firoz Tughlaq

✅ Correct

Q. What was the official language of the Sultans?

 ◉ Arabic

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ Urdu

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ Hindi

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ Farsi

✅ Correct

Q. On what was the Varna system based in the early Vedic period?

 ◉ on business

✅ Correct

 ◉ on the states

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ on palaces

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ none of these

❌ Incorrect

Q. Who was the first Governor General of Bengal?

 ◉ sir john macpherson

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ earl cornwallis

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ sir john shore

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ lord warren hastings

✅ Correct

Q. Exploitation of workers is said to exist when-

 ◉ wages < marginal revenue product

✅ Correct

 ◉ Empire < Marginal Revenue Product

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ Landlord < Marginal Income Product

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ none of these

❌ Incorrect

Q. Which period of three years was considered as "Plan Holiday" in the country?

 ◉ 1965-68 AD

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ 1966-69 AD

✅ Correct

 ◉ 1967-70 AD

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ 1964-67 AD

❌ Incorrect

Q. An increasing per capita income would indicate a better welfare if it is accompanied by

 ◉ Changed income distribution in favor of the poor

✅ Correct

 ◉ change in income of the rich

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ increase in the income of the poor

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ none of these

❌ Incorrect

Q. By nature "indirect taxes" are-

 ◉ descending order

✅ Correct

 ◉ direct tax

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ duty export

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ duty import

❌ Incorrect

Q. Where was the concept of Special Economic Zone (SEZ) first introduced?

 ◉ in china

✅ Correct

 ◉ In England

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ in russia

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ Australia

❌ Incorrect

Q. Which was the first project scheme of "Biosphere Reserves" in India?

 ◉ Under Garhwal Division

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve

✅ Correct

 ◉ wavelength space observatory

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ ozone biosphere reserve

❌ Incorrect

Q. What is the other name of Eastern Coastal Plain?

 ◉ Coromandel Coast Plain

✅ Correct

 ◉ Soromandel Coastal Plain

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ Doromandal Coastal Plain

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ none of these

❌ Incorrect

Q. Which language was given the status of classical language by the central government?

 ◉ tamil

✅ Correct

 ◉ Urdu

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ Assamese

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ Hindi

❌ Incorrect

Q. The expression "Gram Sabha" correctly denotes-

 ◉ to the electoral college for the panchayat

✅ Correct

 ◉ for Zilla Parishad

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ for gram sabha

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ none of these

❌ Incorrect

Q. In single transferable voting system, every voter can express-

 ◉ no choice

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ three options

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ only one option

✅ Correct

 ◉ only two options

❌ Incorrect

Q. Coins made of metal first appeared in-

 ◉ in the time of Buddha

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ in the Harappan Civilization

✅ Correct

 ◉ later vedic period

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ during the Mauryan period

❌ Incorrect

Q. In which year was the "House of the People" named as 'Lok Sabha'?

 ◉ in 1952 AD

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ in 1954

✅ Correct

 ◉ in 1955 AD

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ in 1950

❌ Incorrect

Q. A body absorbs maximum heat when it is-

 ◉ black and rough

✅ Correct

 ◉ white and cream

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ white and rough

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ black and white

❌ Incorrect

Q. The safety fuse wire used in domestic electrical appliances is made of a metal whose

 ◉ low melting point

✅ Correct

 ◉ have a low specific gravity

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ reduce resistance

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ conductivity is low

❌ Incorrect

Q. A bottle of sodalime is held by the neck and rapidly rotated in a vertical circle. Near which part of the bottle will the bubbles collect?

 ◉ bubbles in the bottle

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ bottom center

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ near the neck

✅ Correct

 ◉ near the bottom

❌ Incorrect

Q. Which cell is called Digestive bag?

 ◉ lysosome

✅ Correct

 ◉ cell

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ mechanisms

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ molecular biology

❌ Incorrect

Q. Osteocytes are found in-

 ◉ in the liver

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ in the lungs

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ in bone

✅ Correct

 ◉ outside the heart

❌ Incorrect

Q. Allosomes are

 ◉ sex chromosomes

✅ Correct

 ◉ shell

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ Virus

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ bacteria

❌ Incorrect

Q. Which is the enzyme that coagulates milk into curd?

 ◉ kinetics

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ renin

✅ Correct

 ◉ cofactor

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ maltase

❌ Incorrect

Q. Electrolysis of aqueous solution of copper sulphate using copper electrodes gives-

 ◉ Copper at the anode and oxygen at the cathode

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ Copper dissolves at cathode and anode to give copper

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ hydrogen at the cathode and oxygen at the anode

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ copper at the cathode and oxygen at the anode

✅ Correct

Q. Which inert gas can form compounds?

 ◉ oxygen

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ nitrogen

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ helium

✅ Correct

 ◉ hydrogen

❌ Incorrect

Q. Pyrrhote is obtained by burning the ore-

 ◉ hydrogen

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ methane

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ sulfur dioxide gas

✅ Correct

 ◉ nitrogen

❌ Incorrect

Q. What is the name of the first functional electronic digital computer?

 ◉ UNIVAC

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ ENIAC

✅ Correct

 ◉ EDSAC

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ EDVAC

❌ Incorrect

Q. What is the full form of D.T.P. ?

 ◉ desk top publishing

✅ Correct

 ◉ total top publishing

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ desk tend publishing

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ Direct Top Publishing

❌ Incorrect

Q. The mass of the planet Jupiter is approximately-

 ◉ one-thousandth of the mass of the Sun

✅ Correct

 ◉ Pansova fraction of the mass of the Sun

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ one-hundredth the mass of the sun

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ half the mass of the sun

❌ Incorrect

Q. What is the height of Burj Dubai (New Jam) Burj Khalifa, the tallest tower in the world?

 ◉ 810 m

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ 820 meters

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ 815 m

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ 818 meters

✅ Correct

Q. What is the number of judges in the International Court of Justice?

 ◉ 18

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ 15

✅ Correct

 ◉ 17

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ 20

❌ Incorrect

Q. Who wrote the book "The Zigzag Way"?

 ◉ Kiran Desai

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ Chetan Bhagat

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ Shashi Deshpande

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ Anita Desai

✅ Correct

Q. The famous Persian poet Firdausi was a contemporary of which ruler?

 ◉ Mahmud of Ghazni

✅ Correct

 ◉ Skandagupta

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ Jalaluddin Firoz Khilji

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ Bairam Khan

❌ Incorrect

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