1. What is the common name of sodium carbonate?
(a) Baking soda
(b) Bleaching powder
(c) Washing soda
(d) Common salt
2. The period of life when the body undergoes changes leading to reproductive maturity is called:
(a) Adulthood
(b) Adolescence
(c) Childhood
(d) Infancy
3. Who was the founder of Bahmani Kingdom?
(a) Alauddin Bahman Shah
(b) Firoz Shah Bahmani
(c) Ahmad Shah
(d) Mahmud Gawan
4. CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General) of India acts as?
(a) The guardian of public finance
(b) The guardian of people’s liberties
(c) The chief legal advisor of the Government
(d) All of the above
5. What was the fissionable material used in the bombs dropped at Nagasaki (Japan) in the year 1945?
(a) Sodium
(b) Potassium
(c) Plutonium
(d) Iron
6. Who organised the ‘Council of Barabhais’?
(a) Madhav Rao Narayan
(b) Baji Rao II
(c) Mahadji Scindia
(d) Nana Phadnavis
7. When did the Akali Movement Started?
(a) 1901
(b) 1911
(c) 1920
(d) 1931
8. Which of the following places was the headquarter of Portuguese in India?
(a) Calicut
(b) Goa
(c) Kochi
(d) Mahe
9. Who was the founder of Indian Reform Association’ in 1870?
(a) Raja Rammohan Roy
(b) Kesava Chandra Sen
(c) Devendranath Tagore
(d) Eswarachandra Vijay Sagar
10. Where was the headquarters of the Theosophical Society established in India?
(a) Calcutta
(b) Poona
(c) Bombay
(d) Adyar
11. Who founded the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1784?
(a) Lord Macaulay
(b) Sir William Jones
(c) Lord Cornwallis
(d) Warren Hastings
12. Who among the following British Governor-General or Viceroy served for the longest period in India?
(a) Lord Curzon
(b) Lord Irwin
(c) Lord Dalhousie
(d) Lord Cornwallis
13. The number of electrons present in H+ is ________.
(a) 1
(b) 0
(c) 2
(d) 4
14. Cloves are obtained from which of the following parts of the plant?
(a) Dried leaves
(b) Dried stems
(c) Dried seeds
(d) Dried flower buds
15. The Bangladesh Liberation War ended on ____.
(a) 14th November 1972
(b) 16th December 1971
(c) 17th October 1971
(d) 2nd October 1974
16. Nasik city is situated on the bank of river ____________.
(a) Yamuna
(b) Godavari
(c) Jhelum
(d) Bhima
17. Ghazi Malik was the founder of which dynasty?
(a) Tughlaq
(b) Khilji
(c) Sayyid
(d) Lodi
18. Qutub ud-Din Aibak was the founder of which dynasty ?
(a) The Lodi dynasty
(b) The Tughlaq dynasty
(c) The Slave dynasty
(d) The Khilji dynasty
19. Wheat is a_______.
(a) cereal
(b) kind of bread
(c) type of farming
(d) kind of soil
20. Malik Kafur was general of –
(a) Firuz Shah Tughalag
(b) Chandragupta Maurya
(c) Bimbisara
(d) Alauddin Khilji