1. ‘Desdemona’ is a character of the drama –
(A) The Tempest
(B) Romeo and Julict
(C) King Lear
(D) Othello, The Moor of Venice
2. ‘Green Park’ where test cricket is played, is located in –
(A) Chennai
(B) Ahmedabad
(C) Kanpur
(D) Johannesburg
3. ‘Touch me not’ plants shows –
(A) Nyctinasty
(B) Photonasty
(C) Geonasty
(D) Seismonasty
4. Sanjukta Panigrahi was famous for the dance –
(A) Manipuri
(B) Odissi
(C) Bharatnatyan
(D) Kaththak
5. Who introduced the ‘Subsidiary Alliance’ ?
(A) Dalhousie
(B) Wellesley
(C) Ripon
(D) Minto
6. The Chief Justice of India is _____.
(A) Heptullah
(B) Krishnan
(C) Balakrishnan
(D) Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud
7. Hyposecretion of thyroxine in children causes:
(A) myxedema
(B) cretinism
(C) Graves disease
(D) none of these
8. In which year Muslim League first gave the call for a separate State of Pakistan ?
(A) 1939
(B) 1940
(C) 194l
(D) 1942
9. The number of cranial nerves is (human being):
(A) 12 nerves
(B) 12 pairs of nerves
(C) 31 nerves
(D) 31 pairs of nerves
10. The word ‘Bergschurnd’ is associated with the –
(A) works of rivers
(B) works of winds
(C) works of glaciers
(D) works of waves
11. Balmuralikrishna is an exponent of:
(A) Lok-geeti
(B) Kheyal
(C) Tappa
(D) Carnatio Sangeet
12. Tunga Bhadra is a tributary of –
(A) Krishna river
(B) Cauvery river
(C) Godavari river
(D) Mahanadi river
13. The enzyme present in saliva –
(A) Erepsin
(B) Chymotrypsin
(C) Ptyaline
(D) Trypsin
14. Who is the founder of the Wikileaks ?
(1) Barrack Obama
(2) David Cameron
(3) General Pervez Musharraf
(D) Julian Assange
15. Shiv Kumar Sharma is famous for –
(A) Santoor Recital
(B) Sitar Recital
(C) Sarod Recital
(D) Flute Recital
16. What is the full form of ARMY?
(a) “Alert Regular Mobility Youth”
(b) “Alert Regulatory Mobility Young”
(c) “Alert Regular Mobility Youngsters”
(d) “Alert Regular Mobilise Young”
17. True desert in Rajasthan is known as –
(A) Bagar
(B) Khadar
(C) Marusthali
(D) Rohilkhand
18. Who has become the first female player to score a half-century in the Asian Games?
(A) Mithali Raj
(B) Harmanpreet Kaur
(C) Shafali Verma
(D) Smriti Mandhana
19. Buddha was born in –
(A) 523 BC
(B) 563 BC
(C) 623 BC
(D) 602 BC
20. Who is author of ‘Aranyer Adhikar’ ?
(A) Mahashweta Devi
(B) Ashapurna Devi
(C) Sangita Bandyopadhyay
(D) Mandakranta Sen