1. Who is the author of the book ‘An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India’?
(a) Amrish Tripathi
(b) Hamid Ansari
(c) Shashi Tharoor
(d)Romesh Dutt
2. Which Indian State has the most number of airports?
(a) Uttarpradesh
(b) Delhi
(c) Maharashtra
(d) Gujarat
3. Which freedom fighter started the newspaper AI-Hilal?
(a) Maulana Shaukat Ali
(b) Maulana Abul Kalan Azad
(c) Chaudhry Khaleequzzaman
(d) Hakim Ajmal Khan
4. In which state is Damdama Lake situated?
(a) Karnataka
(b) Jharkhand
(c) Haryana
(d) Uttarakhand
5. Which of the following is a Harappan site located in Rajashan?
(a) Mohenjo Daro
(b) Suktagen Dor
(c) Kalibangan
(d)Lothal
6. The following was an Indian flute player?
(a) Shivkumar Sharma
(b) Zakir hussain
(c) Hariprasad Chaurasia
(d) Bismillah khan
7. In which of the following years the Jatiya Sarkar was formed in the Midnapur district of Bengal?
(a) 1939
(b) 1940
(c) 1941
(d) 1942
8. Which of the following is capital of Cambodia?
(a) Nicosia
(b) Hanoi
(c) Phnom Penh
(d) Dili
9. Which district of India is famous for diamonds?.
(a) Nashik District
(b) Panna District
(c) Kancheepuram District
(d) Koraput District
10. India’s national income was first measured by whom?
(a) William Digboi
(b) Dadabhai Naoroji
(c) Prof. P.C. Mahalanobis
(d) V.K.R.V Rao
11. Which of the following civilization is famous for its city/town planning?
(a) Indus Valley Civilization
(b) Mesopotamian Civilization
(c) Persian Civilization
(d) Egyptian Civilization
12. In which state the Panchmarhi hills are located?
(a) Rajasthan
(b) Madhya Pradesh
(c) Chhattisgarh
(d) Uttarakhand
13. Who wrote the play ‘Mudrarakshasa’ ?
(a) Somadeva
(b) Bodhayan
(c) Kalidas
(d) Vishakhadatta
14. The instrument used to study the laws of vibrating string is ____.
(a) Hydrometer
(b) Sonometer
(c) Sphygmomanometer
(d) Electrometer
15. Who is the author of the book ‘Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army and the War Within’?
(a) Shuja Nawaz
(b) SD Muni
(c) JN Dixit
(d) Shashi Tharoor
16. The Pritzker prize is an international award given to recognise contribution in the field of________.
(a) Literature
(b) Mathematics
(c) Architecture
(d) Medicine
17. Who was Oscar Wilde?
(a) Irish poet and playwright
(b) German Novelist
(c) English Dramatist
(d) Dutch Instrumentalist
18. In which part of India, the 2-day long Hemis religious festival is celebrated?
(a) Assam
(b) Ladakh
(c) Himachal Pradesh
(d) Goa
19. Who is the first to receive a Nobel Prize in Physics ?
(a) John Henry Dunet
(b) Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen
(c) Wangari Mathayi
(d) Linus Pauling
20. The Flower of Persia, the first short film in India, was directed by –
(a) Jamshedji Framji Madan
(b) Kishore Kumar
(c) Hiralal Sen
(d) Ashoke Kumar