1. Who said “Tilak is the father of Indian unrest”.
(a) V. Chirol
(b) Louis Fischer
(c) Web Miller
(d) Lord Reading
2. Name of the super cyclone ‘Yaas’ was given by
(a) India
(b) Oman
(c) Sri Lanka
(d) Bangladesh
3. The boundary line of Sundarban was demarcated by
(a) Hamilton Saheb
(b) Major William Tolly
(c) Scott
(d) Dampier and Hodges
4. L.P.G is a mixture of:
(a) methane and butane
(b) propane and butane
(c) ethane and propane
(d) ethane and butane
5. Kurnool-Kudapa Canal is taken off from which of the following river?
(a) Cauvery
(b) Krishna
(c) Tapti
(d) Tungabhadra
6. Area-wise, West Bengal is roughly identical to
(a) Hungary
(b) Vietnam
(c) Denmark
(d) Switzerland
7. The famous Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize is given in the field of ______.
(a) Architecture
(b) Science and Technology
(c) Journalism
(d) Music
8. Mukutmanipur Dam is located across the following river:
(a) Subamarekha
(b) Dwarkeswar
(c) Barakar
(d) Kangsabati
9. Pakistan Resolution was taken on
(a) 16th August 1946
(b) 26th January 1935
(c) 14th April 1942
(d) 23rd March 1940
10. When was the First Industrial Policy resolution taken?
(a) 1956
(b) 1947
(c) 1948
(d) 1951
11. When was the University of Calcutta established?
(a) 1911
(b) 1817
(c) 1854
(d) 1857
12. Who was the editor of the nationalist newspaper ‘Sandhya’?
(a) Satish Chandra Mukhopadhyaya
(b) Bramhabandhab Upadhyay
(c) Sisir Kumar Ghosh
(d) Bhupendranath Datta
13. Sandhyakar Nandi was the court poet of the
(a) Mauryas
(b) Senas
(c) Hussain Shahis
(d) Palas
14. What was the original name of Titumir?
(a) Syed Amanullah Khan
(b) Syed Mir Nasar Ali
(c) Syed Amir Ali
(d) Syed Mir Miuhammad Khan
15. The following state is the highest producer of tin in India:
(a) Rajasthan
(b) Odisha
(c) Jharkhand
(d) Chhattisgarh
16. Gandhiji was influenced by:
(a) Tolstoy
(b) Dickens
(c) Marx
(d) Lincon
17. The confluence of Bhagirathi and Alakananda is located at
(a) Rudraprayag
(b) Devprayag
(c) Haridwar
(d) Allahabad
18. Hydraulic press is based on
(a) Archimedes’ law
(b) Pascal’s law
(c) Reynold’s law
(d) Bernouli’s law
19. Which among the following is the largest mica producing state of India?
(a) Jharkhand
(b) Rajasthan
(c) Odisha
(d) Andhra Pradesh
20. The highest peak of the Eastern Ghats is
(a) Mahendragiri
(b) Nilgiri
(c) Jindhagada
(d) Anaimudi