1. Who is the Famous Statistician of India?
(a) Dootika Vats
(b) Siva Athreya
(c) Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar
(d) C. Radhakrishna Rao
2. The dance form ‘Dandia’ is synonymous with ____.
(a) Navratri
(b) Onam
(c) Bihu
(d) Ganesh Chaturthi
3. Sound is produced by __________ objects.
(a) Perpetual
(b) Uniform
(c) Stable
(d) Vibrating
4. Who was famous for portraying the character of ‘King Oedipus’?
(a) Utpal Dutta
(b) Bibhas Chakraborty
(c) Ashoke Mukhopadhyaya
(d) Sambhu Mitra
5. A rocket left the earth to land on the moon and returned to the earth. It will require the greatest energy to:
(a) Lift from the earth
(b) Land on the moon
(c) Lift from the moon
(d) Land on the earth
6. Somatic diploid nucleus is termed as:
(a) Pro-nucleus
(b) Amphinucleus
(c) Heminucleus
(d) Heterokaryon
7. Which one of the following is not a Pyrimidine base?
(a) Thymnine
(b) Uracil
(c) Guanine
(d) Cytosine
8. ‘Come Away with me’ – whose album is it?
(a) Madonna
(b) Britney Spears
(c) Shakira
(d) Nora Jones
9. Amar Pal is famous for:
(a) Lok-geeti
(b) Nazrul-geeti
(c) Dwijendra-geeti
(d) Atulprasadi
10. Who wrote ‘Saheb- Bibi-Gulam’ ?
(a) Bimal Kar
(b) Subodh Ghose
(c) Ramapada Chaudhury
(d) Bimal Mitra
11. ‘Ode to the West Wind’ is written by :
(a) P. B. Shelley
(b) W. Wordsworth
(c) T.S. Eliot
(d) John Keats
12. The earliest evidences of tool-making were found in which of the following districts of West Bengal?
(a) Burdwan
(b) Midnapore
(c) Birbhum
(d) All of these
13. Amongst the states of India lowest sex ratio is found in :
(a) Bihar
(b) Orissa
(c) Punjab
(d) Madhya Pradesh
14. The play ‘Bhalo Manush’ was directed by :
(a) Rudraprasad Sengupta
(b) Debesh Chattopadhyay
(c) RadharamanTapadar
(d) Sambhu Mitra
15. Kathakali dance developed in the State :
(a) Tamil Nadu
(b) Kerala
(c) Karnataka
(d) Andhra Pradesh
16. Who wrote ‘Sahaj-Path’?
(a) Abanindranath Tagore
(b) Rabindranath Tagore
(c) Iswarchandra Vidyasagar
(d) Madhusudan Dutta
17. How many national five year plans have been introduced so far ?
(a) 7
(b) 5
(c) 4
(d) 12
18. Vulcanisation is the process heating rubber with 3-5% of –
(a) Sulphur
(b) Lime
(c) Potassium permanganate
(d) Naphthalene
19. Which of the following is the largest nerve?
(a) Vagus
(b) Olfactory
(c) Hypoglossal
(d) Glossopharyngeal
20. Which one is the first weekly Newspaper published in Bengali Language?
(a) Digdarshan
(b) Sambad Pravakar
(c) Tattobodhini
(d) Samachar Darpan