GK TEST 5

Q1. After Sachin Tendulkar, who is the second cricketer to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award ? (A) Saurav Ganguly (B) Rahul Dravid (C) Mahendra Singh Dhoni (D) Anil Kumble ANS-) Mahendra Singh Dhoni Q2. Which city houses the headquarters of Central Railway ? (A) Bhopal (B) Nagpur (C) Allahabad (D) Mumbai ANS- Mumbai Q3. Who was the first Indian Governor-General of independent India ? (A) Lord Mountbatten (B) C.Rajagopalachari (C) Rajendra Prasad (D) Jawaharlal Nehru ANS- C.Rajagopalachari Q4. ’Bhogi’, ‘Surya’, ‘Mattu’ and ‘Kanum’ are the parts of which four day long harvest festival of Tamilnadu ? (A) Bihu (B) Lohri (C) Pongal (D) Baisakhi ANS- Pongal Q5. Wheeler Island, the site of India’s missile testing facility Integrated Test Range (ITR), is situated in which state ? (A) Orissa (B) Andhra Pradesh (C) Tamilnadu (D) Kerala ANS-) Orissa Q6. To whom does the President of India address his resignation ? (A) Chief Justice of India (B) Prime Minister (C) Lok Sabha Speaker (D) Vice President ANS- Vice President Q7. Apart from Russia, the territory of which country lies in both Europe and Asia continents ? (A) Turkey (B) Greece (C) France (D) Germany ANS- Turkey Q8. In 1998, who became the first Indian ever to be awarded the Wharton School Dean’s Medal ? (A) J.R.D.Tata (B) Dhirubhai Ambani (C) N.R.Narayana Murthy (D) Azim Premji ANS- Dhirubhai Ambani Q9. Who is known as the ‘Father of Medicine’ ? (A) Herodotus (B) Hipparchus (C) Hippocrates (D) Wilhelm Wundt ANS- Hippocrates Q10. ’Razmnama’ is the Persian translation of which Indian epic ? (A) Ramayana (B) Mahabahrat (C) Raghuvamsha (D) Kumarsambhava ANS-) Mahabahrat Q11. After Hindi, which is the second most spoken language in India ? (A) Tamil (B) Marathi (C) Telugu (D) Bengali ANS-) Bengali Q12. In terms of area, which is the largest country ? (A) Russia (B) Canada (C) China (D) United States of America ANS- Russia Q13. Who was the first woman to receive the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award ? (A) Indira Gandhi (B) Mother Teresa (C) Aruna Asaf Ali (D) M.S.Subbulakshmi ANS- Indira Gandhi Q14. Which is the only element whose atoms have no neutron ? (A) Helium (B) Oxygen (C) Nitogen (D) Hydrogen ANS- Hydrogen Q15. Challenger Deep, a part of Mariana Trench and the deepest point in the oceans, named after British ship Challenger II which first surveyed it in 1951, is located in which ocean ? (A) Indian Ocean (B) Pacific Ocean (C) Atlantic Ocean (D) Antarctic Ocean ANS-) Pacific Ocean Q16. In 1922, Chittarajnan Das and Motilal Nehru founded which political party ? (A) Forward Block (B) Swaraj Party (C) Swatantra Party (D) Ghadar Party ANS- Swaraj Party Q17. According to Hindu mythology, which warrior was the possessor of ‘Chanrdrahas’ sword ? (A) Arjun (B) Kansa (C) Ravana (D) Parshuram ANS-) Ravana Q18. In which state is the Dachigam National Park, famous for Hangul (Red Deer), located ? (A) Assam (B) Jammu & Kashmir (C) West Bengal (D) Madhya Pradesh ANS- Jammu & Kashmir Q19. WhicH early 11th century traveller to India authored the books ‘Tahqiq-i-Hind’ and ‘Kitab-ul-Hind’ ? (A) Fi-Hien (B) Marco Polo (C) Al Beruni (D) Ibn Batuta ANS- Al Beruni Q20. Who was the first President of Pakistan ? (A) Ayub Khan (B) Liaquat Ali Khan (C) Iskandar Mirza (D) Muhammad Ali Jinnah ANS- Iskandar Mirza Q21. Which is the heaviest organ in the human body ? (A) Heart (B) Liver (C) Kidney (D) Stomach ANS-) Liver Q22. Which hill station was the summer capital of British India ? (A) Nainital (B) Mussoorie (C) Darjeeling (D) Shimla ANS-) Shimla Q23. ’Hematite’ and ‘Magnetite’ are the principal ores of which metal ? (A) Iron (B) Nickel (C) Cobalt (D) Aluminium ANS- Iron Q24. ’Biman’ is the national airline of which Asian country ? (A) Nepal (B) Bhutan (C) Bangladesh (D) Sri Lanka ANS- Bangladesh Q25. In 1581, which Mughal ruler started religious doctrine ‘Din-i-Ilahi’ (Divine Faith) ? (A) Babar (B) Akbar (C) Jehangir (D) Shahjahan ANS-AKBAR Q26. From which country did India procure the aircraft carier Admiral Gorshkov, scheduled to join Indian Navy as INS Vikramaditaya in 2012 ? (A) Russia (B) Germany (C) France (D) United States of America ANS-RUSSIA Q27. Which National Film Award is given to the Best First Film of a Director ? (A) Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus) (B) Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) (C) Nargis Dutt Award (D) Indira Gandhi Award ANS- Indira Gandhi Award Q28. ’Kalaripayattu’ is the traditional martial art of which Indian state ? (A) Punjab (B) Manipur (C) Kerala (D) Jammu & Kashmir ANS-KERLA Q29. Hazratbal Dargah, which houses the sacred hair of Prophet Mohammed, is situated in which city ? (A) Ajmer (B) Srinagar (C) Fatehpur Sikri (D) Mumbai ANS-SRINAGAR Q30. ’Struggle for Existence’ book is the autobiography of which Indian woman leader ? (A) Mayawati (B) J.Jayalalitha (C) Sushma Swaraj (D) Mamta Banerjee ANS-SUSHMA SWARAJ Q31. Who administers the oath of office to the President of India ? (A) Prime Minister (B) Lok Sabha Speaker (C) Rajya Sabha Speaker (D) Chief Justice of India ANS- Chief Justice of India Q32. With which state is the Phulkari embroidery associated ? (A) Punjab (B) Gujarat (C) Karnataka (D) Uttar Pradesh ANS-KARNATKA Q33. Which capital city houses the headquarters of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) ? (A) Dhaka (B) Thimpu (C) Kathmandu (D) Islamabad ANS- Kathmandu Q34. Zend Avesta is the holy book of which religion ? (A) Islam (B) Judaism (C) Christianity (D) Zoroastrianism ANS-) Zoroastrianism Q35. Before Hyderabad, which city was the the capital of Andhra Pradesh (erstwhile Andhra State) ? (A) Warangal (B) Kurnool (C) Vijayawada (D) Visakhapatnam ANS-KURNOOL Q36. Who was the first Indian to win boy’s Wimbledon Singles title in 1954 ? (A) Ramanathan Krishnan (B) Vijay Amritraj (C) Ramesh Krishnan (D) Leander Paes ANS- Ramanathan Krishnan Q37. At which place in Kerala was the first tide (ocean wave) generated electricity project of India established ? (A) Alapuzha (B) Ezhimala (C) Vizhinjam (D) Kozhikode ANS-) Vizhinjam Q38. In 1954, with which Chinese premier did Indian PM Jawaharlal Nehru sign Panchsheel (five principles of peaceful co-existence) Pact ? (A) Mao Zedong (B) Zhou Enlai (C) Deng Xiaoping (D) Hua Guofeng ANS-) Zhou Enlai Q39. Who authored the ‘Rajatarangini’, a historical chronicle of Kashmir ? (A) Kalidas (B) Kalhana (C) Chankaya (D) Banabhatt ANS- Kalhana Q40. Who designed the Param Vir Chakra medal, India’s highest military award ? (A) Nek Chand (B) Umesh Rao (C) Bobby Kooka (D) Savitri Khanolkar ANS- Savitri Khanolkar Q41. Who directed ‘Raja Harishchandra’ (1913), the first totally indigenous Indian feature film ? (A) Ardeshir Irani (B) Dadasaheb Phalke (C) V.Shantaram (D) Sohrab Modi ANS- Dadasaheb Phalke Q42. Who is the ex-officio chairman of the Planning Commission of India ? (A) President (B) Prime Minister (C) Finance Minister (D) RBI Governor ANS- Prime Minister Q43. What is the name of India’s longest river bridge, built over the river Ganga at Patna ? (A) Rabindra Setu (B) Vidyasagar Setu (C) Mahatma Gandhi Setu (D) Anna Indira Gandhi Bridge ANS- Mahatma Gandhi Setu Q44. Who founded the Brahmo Samaj, initially known as Brahmo Sabha, in 1828 ? (A) Raja Ram Mohan Roy (B) Debendranath Tagore (C) Mahadev Govind Ranade (D) Keshub Chandra Sen ANS- Raja Ram Mohan Roy Q45. ’Tamasha’ is the popular folk theatre of which state ? (A) Punjab (B) Maharashtra (C) Karnataka (D) West Bengal ANS- Maharashtra Q46. In which city is the Central Rice Research Institute located ? (A) Karnal (Haryana) (B) Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) (C) Rajamundry (Andhra Pradesh) (D) Cuttack (Orissa) ANS- Cuttack (Orissa) Q47. At which place Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth and the last Guru of Sikhs, created ‘Khalsa’ in 1699 ? (A) Anandpur (Punjab) (B) Amritsar (Punjab) (C) Patna (Bihar) (D) Nanded (Maharashtra) ANS- Anandpur (Punjab Q48. Who is the first woman Air Marshal of India Air Force (IAF) ? (A) Punita Arora (B) Harita Kaur Deol (C) Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya (D) Padmavathy Bandopadhyay ANS- Padmavathy Bandopadhyay Q49. What is the boundary line demarcating India and China known as ? (A) Curzon Line (B) Durand Line (C) McMahon Line (D) RadCliffe Line ANS- McMahon Line Q50. In 1958, which billiards player became the first Indian to win an individual world title in any sport ? (A) Wilson Jones (B) Michael Ferreira (C) Geet Sethi (D) Manoj Kothari ANS- Wilson Jones