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1. The longest national highway in India NH7 is from:
(a) Varanasi - Kanyakumari (b) Agra -Mumbai
(c) Chennai- Kolkata          (d) Kolkata - Surat

Ans: a

2. The famous International Cricket stadium in Kanpur is:
(a) Chidambaram Stadium   (b) Eden Garden 
(c) Green Park Stadium (d) Chinnaswami Stadium

Ans: c

3. World Autism awareness day is on:

(a) January 21     (b) April 2 (c) September 8 (d) November 19

Ans: b

4. Indravati Tiger Reserve is a famous tiger reserve in the state of:

(a) Madhya Pradesh     (b) Karnataka      (c)Chhattisgarh   (d) Odisha

Ans: c

5. Round Revolution is associated with:

(a) Onion   (b) Egg/ Poultry            (c) Potato (d) Oil seeds

Ans: c

6. Sattriya is a famous dance form in the state of:

(a) Arunachal Pradesh             (b) Assam    (c)Sikkim         (d)Manipur

Ans: b

7. Scotland is known as:

(a) Land of Cakes                   (b) Land of Thousand Lakes

(c) Land of Windmills           (d) Land of White Elephants

Ans: a

8. Jai Prakash Narayan International Airport is in the state of:

(a) Patna, Bihar                      (b) Hyderabad, Telangana

(c) Nagpur, Maharashtra      (d) Ranchi, Jharkhand

Ans: a

9. City of Jamshedpur lies on the banks of river:

(a) Subarnarekha            (b)Narmada     (c)Krishna          (d) Gomati

Ans: a

10. Mayurbanj in Odisha is famous for:

(a) Glass bangles                    (b) Heavy vehicles

(c) Iron ore mining                (d) Electric Locomotives

Ans: c

11. Shalimar Garden in Srinagar is built by the Mughal empire:

(a) Aurangzeb     (b) Akbar (c) Jahangir         (d) Babar

Ans:  c

12. 'God of Antarctica’ is a book written by:

(a) Sandeep Unnithan           (b) Yashwardan Shukla

(c) Ravinder Sing                   (d) Salman Rushdie

Ans: b

13. Diesel Loco Modernization works which builds Diesel electric locomotives for Indian railway is situated at:

(a)Patiala, Punjab                            (b) Varanasi, UP

(c) Chittaranjan, West Bengal        (d) Kapurthala, Punjab

Ans: a

14. Recently, who has been appointed as the Mayor of Bonn city in Germany?

(a) Shashank Manohar          (b) Ashok Sridharan

(c) Anil ambani                      (d) Rana Kapoor

Ans: b

15. Hryvnia is the currency of:

(a) Syria     (b) Scotland        (c) Argentina      (d) Ukraine

Ans: d

16. Indian Railway together with which off the following organization have developed first environment friendly bio toilets?

(a) IIM, Allahabad        (b) IIT, Madras   (c) DRDO   (d) Paytm

Ans: c

17. Smart Village is associated with:

(a) Oomen Chandi                  (b) Jayalalitha

(c) N. Chandrababu Naidu    (d) Nitish Kumar

Ans: c

18. Who is the present President of African Development Bank?

(a) Jim Yong Kim         (b) Christine Lagarde

(c) Takehiko Nakao      (d) Akinwumi Adesina

Ans: d

19. CSR is the abbreviation of:

(a) Corporate Social Responsibility (b)Central Social Responsibility (c) Central Social Rejuvenation fund (d)Corporate Status Registration

Ans: a

20. Subash Chandra Bose became the President of INC for the second term in the year of:

(a) 1937      (b) 1938     (c) 1939     (d) 1940

Ans: c

21. Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015:

(a) Swetlana Alexievich     (b) Takaki Kajita      (c) William C Campbell

Ans: a

22. Which act introduced Dyarchy in India?

(a) GOI Act, 1909                  (b) GOI Act, 1919

(c) GOI Act, 1935                   (d) The Indian Independence Act, 1947

Ans: b

23. Which part of the constitution deals with Welfare state?

(a) Preamble                          (b) Directive Principles of State Policy

(c)Fundamental Rights                   (d) Schedule IV

Ans: b

24. Open market operations refers to:

(a) Borrowing by commercial banks from RBI

(b) Purchase and sale of Government securities by RBI

(c) Purchase and sale of bonds by the central government

(d) Lending by scheduled banks to non-scheduled banks

Ans: b

25. Which of the following is not a state tax?

(a)Estate duty     (b) Entertainment tax  (c) Excise duty on liquor

Ans: b

26. The mass nesting of the Olive Ridley sea turtles in India occurs at:

(a) Sunderbans             (b) Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary

(c)Pulicat lake               (d) Mangalajodi wetlands

Ans: b

27. Which element is essential for the transmission of impulses in nerve fibres?

(a) Sodium          (b) Iron      (c) Calcium                   (d) Zinc

Ans: a

28. Which of the following is a warm blooded animal?

(a) Bat        (b) Shark (c) Lizard             (d) Snake

Ans: a

29. which of the following is likely to be pollutant free alternative to petrol for automobiles?

(a) Acetylene       (b) Butane (c) Ethane  (d) Propane

Ans: d

30. The function of heavy water in a nuclear reactor is to:

(a) Slow down the speed of neutrons  

(b)Increase the speed of neutrons

(c) Cool down the reactor

(d) Stop the nuclear reaction

Ans: a

31. The anode in a dry cell consists of:

(a) Copper           (b) Graphite        (c) Cadmium      (d) Zinc

Ans: c

32. Pathogenic bacteria secretes:

(a) Interferons    (b) Antibodies    (c) Hormones     (d) Antigens

Ans: d

33. Reserpine is used to:

(a) Reduce high blood pressure      (b) Alleviate pain

(c) Increase blood pressure            (d) Cure arthritis

Ans: d

34. Desert plants would be characterized by:

(a) Vivipary   (b) Aerenchyma   (c) Aerial roots   (d) Sunken stomata

Ans: d

35. The liver fluke could be a serious infections where:

(a) People eat raw fish           (b) People walk barefoot in muddy areas

(c) Polished rice is eaten        (d) there are swamps

Ans: a

36. When sound waves travel from air to water, the quantity that remains unchanged is:

(a) Speed    (b) Frequency    (c) Wavelength   (d) Intensity

Ans: b

37. The density of sea water decreases as:

(a)Depth and salinity increase

(b)Depth increases and salinity decreases

(c)Depth and salinity increases

(d)Depth decreases and salinity increases

Ans: a

38. The improper function of which of the following causes Myxoedema inhuman beings?

(a) Adrenal Gland         (b) Liver     (c) Thyroid gland      (d) Pancreas

Ans: c

39. The Rotterdam Convention deals with:

(a) Seabed mining                  (b) Ozone depletion

(c) Anti dumping measures  (d) Limiting the use of toxic substances

Ans: d

40. Which of the following is not a part of sun's atmosphere?

(a) Chromosphere        (b) Photosphere             (c) Biosphere    (d) Corona

Ans: c

41. By what process is heat transmitted from the filament of an evacuated electric bulb to glass?

(a) Conduction    (b) Convection

(c) Radiation       (d) Heat cannot be transmitted through vacuum

Ans: c

42. The pupil of the eye adjusts automatically for:

(a) Short distance vision        (b) Color

(c) Object size                        (d) Amount of light

Ans: d

43. The shape of methane molecule is:

(a) Octahedral               (b) Tetrahedral

(c) Square planar          (d) Trigonal bipyramid

Ans: b

44. Second law of thermodynamics is about:

(a) Entropy               (b) Enthalpy        (c) Pressure     (d) Temperature

Ans: a

45. Recombinant technology is a new biotechnological approach for commercial production of:

(a) Monoclonal antibodies     (b) Interferon     

(c) Antibiotics                        (d) Alcohol

Ans: a

46. The ratio of blood cells to blood plasma is expressed as:

(a) Differential blood volume          (b) Haemotocrit

(c) Haemoconia                               (d) Haemostasis

Ans: b

47. Radioactivity is a property of

(a) X-ray    (b) UV light         (c) Excited electrons     (d) Atomic nuclei

Ans: d

48. Echoes of ultrasonic waves are used:

(a) In medical diagnosis         (b) For measuring depth of sea beds

(c) For detecting flaws in the interior of solids (d) All of the above

Ans: d

49. The unit used to count the speed of a printer:

(a) BIT       (b) PPM     (c) DPI       (d) CPM

Ans: a

50. Project loon developed by which of the following organization aims to provide internet access to rural areas?

(a) Facebook       (b) Twitter         (c) Google  (d) Microsoft

Ans: c