1. Which is largest peninsular river in India?
(a) Krishna
(b) Godavari
(c) Cauvery
(d) Mahanadi
2. Who was the founder of the Jamia Milia Islamia?
(a) Dr. Zakir Hussain
(b) Maulana Muhammad Ali Johar
(c) Saukat Ali
(d) Agha Khan
3. The New President of the World Bank is
(a) Paul Walfowitz
(b) Ajay Banga
(c) Dominique Strauss-kahn
(d) Rodrigo Rato
4. Who led the Bardoli Movement?
(a) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
(b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Chamanlal
(d) Raja Gopalachari
5. Who is known as the Rocket Man of India?
(a) Vikram Sarabhai
(b) A P J Abdul Kalam
(c) K Sivan
(d) Rakesh Sharma
6. Pneumatophores or breathing roots occur in
(a) Hydrophytes
(b) Mangrove plants
(c) Xerophytes
(d) Epiphytes
7. The provision for separate electorate for Hindus and Muslims was made in
(a) Government of India Act, 1935
(b) Montague Cheimsford reforms
(c) Morley-Minto reforms
(d) Mountbatten Plan
8. Who founded “National Mela” ?
(a) Rajnarayan Bose
(b) Naba Gopal Mitra
(c) Jyotirindra Nath Tagore
(d) Akshay Kumar Dutta
9. Who among the following was not involved in the conspiracy against Siraj-ud-Daulah ?
(a) Manikchand
(b) Omichand
(c) Mohanlal
(d) Clive
10. The first woman President of the Indian National congress was:
(a) Annie Besant
(b) Kasturba Gandhi
(c) Vijayalakshmi Pandit
(d) Sarojini Naidu
11. Who defended Aurobindo Ghosh in the Alipur Bomb Case ?
(A) W. C. Bannerjee
(B) Surendra Nath Banerjee
(C) Bipin Chandra Pal
(D) Chittaranjan Das
12. The Calcutta University was founded in the year
(a) 1855
(b) 1856
(c) 1857
(d) 1858
13. Who among the following granted ‘Diwani’ to the East India Company ?
(a) Suja-ud-Daulah
(b) Aurangzeb
(c) Bahadur Shah I
(d) Shah Alam II
14. The Hundru falls are formed by the river ________.
(a) Umngot
(b) Subarnarekha
(c) Tsangpo
(d) Teesta
15. For which of the following the resistance decreases on increasing the temperature
(a) Copper
(b) Aluminium
(c) Germanium
(d) Tungsten
16. The driver’s mirror used in a motor car is ______
(a) Convex
(b) Two way
(c) Concave
(d) Plane
17. Who founded Mitramela?
(a) Deen Bandhu Mitra
(b) Bipinchandra Pal
(c) Rammohan Roy
(d) Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
18. In which year did the Legislative Council disappear in West Bengal?
(a) 1970
(b) 1969
(c) 1965
(d) None of these
19. When was Satyajit Ray’s first movie Pather Panchali released?
(a) 1951
(b) 1955
(c) 1958
(d) 1960
20. The official language of Mughal Empire was-
(a) Urdu
(b) Turkish
(c) Persian
(d) Turkish and other regional languages