1. Which of the following is the lowest place of Earth?
(a) Death Valley
(b) Caspian Sea
(c) Dead Sea
(d) Sundarban Delta
2. How much time does it take for Mars to rotate on its own axis?
(a) 23.9 hours
(b) 24.6 hours
(c) 9.9 hours
(d) 10 hours
3. Who called Mahatma Gandhi ‘Indian Fakir’?
(a) Winston Churchill
(b) Clement Attlee
(c) Lord Irwin
(d) Simon
4. Who was the Mughal emperor during the Battle of Palashi?
(a) Alamgir II
(b) Siraj- ud- Daula
(c) Mirkashim
(d) Shah Alam II
5. Who founded the ‘Somapuri’ University?
(a) Kumaragupta
(b) Dharmapala
(c) Rampal
(d) Gopal
6. What is the current name of the river ‘Parushmi’ mentioned in the Rigveda?
(a) Jhelum
(b) Indas
(c) Ravi
(d) Ghaghar
7. Which of the following metals are present in Nichrome?
(a) Nickel, chromium, iron
(b) Nickel, chromium, lead
(c) Magnesium, nickel, iron
(d) Magnesium, chromium, Aluminium
8. Who discovered the ‘long radio wave’?
(a) Henri Biquiral
(b) Herschel
(c) Roentgen
(d) Marconi
9. Where is Corbett National Park located?
(a) Nainital
(b) Dehradun
(c) Varanasi
(d) Lakhimpur
10. West Bengal state belongs to which postal zone?
(a) 5
(b) 6
(c) 7
(d) 8
11. Who is the creator of the character of ‘Jayant-Manik’?
(a) Shivaram Chakraborty
(b) Hemendrakumar Roy
(c) Buddhadev Guha
(d) Samaresh Majumder
12. What are the people of Belgium called?
(a) Fleming
(b) Flick
(c) Johnbull
(d) Poole
13. Karl Marx’s grave in which country?
(a) Germany
(b) England
(c) Russia
(d) France
14. Who was the political guru of Subhash Chandra Bose?
(a) M. G. Ranade
(b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Gopala Krishna Gokhale
(d) Chittaranjan Das
15. ‘Yellow Book’ is the official book of which country?
(a) China
(b) Portugal
(c) France
(d) Germany
16. Who was the first Indian governor general of Independent India?
(a) C. Rajagopalchari
(b) Warren Hastings
(c) Rajendra Prasad
(d) Lord William Bentinck
17. “Win Chester Cup” is associated with which sport?
(a) Hockey
(b) Rowing
(c) Polo
(d) Basketball
18. Chikungunya is a mosquito-borne disease?
(a) Wife Aedes
(b) Female Anopheles
(c) Female Culex
(d) None Of These
19. What is the excretory organ of Cockroach?
(A) Coxal gland
(B) Nephridia
(C) Malpighian tubule
(D) Sniff gland
20. “Nelapattu Bird Sanctuary” is located in which state?
(a) Karnataka
(b) Kerala
(c) Tamil Nadu
(d) Andhra Pradesh