1. What was Khutba?
Answer: A sermon read in the name of the ruler at Friday prayers.
2. Which Article of the Indian Constitution is related to the election of the Vice President?
Answer: Article 66.
3. Who was known as Amitraghata?
Answer: Bindusara.
4. Who first used the term ‘Indus Civilization’?
Answer: John Marshall.
5. What is the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC)?
Answer: A government organization represented by the Central Government and the governments of West Bengal and Jharkhand.
6. How many municipal towns are there in West Bengal at present?
Answer: 125 (the number may vary with administrative changes).
7. Which country has an area roughly identical to that of West Bengal?
Answer: Hungary.
8. Between which longitudes does West Bengal lie?
Answer: Approximately 85°50′ E to 89°50′ E.
9. How many lenses does a compound microscope have?
Answer: Two lenses.
10. In which year was the India–Bangladesh agreement on sharing Ganga water signed?
Answer: 1996.