1. The headquarters of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) is located at:
(a) New Delhi
(b) Bengaluru
(c) Dehradun
(d) Mumbai
2. ‘IAGO’ is a character of the drama
(A) Hamlet
(B) Arms and the Man
(C) Justice
(D) Othello
3. The function of nervous tissues is to conduct messages:
(A) In half part of the body
(B) In the lower part of the body
(C) In the upper part of the body
(D) Throughout the body
4. With reference to Indian economy, what is the full form of FDI?
(A) Foreign Domestic Intelligence
(B) Foreign Direct Intelligence
(C) Foreign Direct Investment
(D) Foreign Domestic Investment
5. Name of the Indian ambassador to Ukraine:
(a) Rudendra Tandon
(b) Dinesh Bhatia
(c) Shri Harsh Kumar Jain
(d) Ajaneesh Kumar
6. Choose the incorrect physical property of non-metals.
(A) Generally they have low density.
(B) They are not sonorous.
(C) They are brittle in nature.
(D) They have high tensile strength.
7. Which of the following plant belongs to pteridophytes?
(A) Fern
(B) Riccia
(C) Pinus
(D) Cycas
8. In which month does the Earth’s Perihelion position occur?
(A) June
(B) January
(C) September
(D) March
9. One of these substances contains no oxygen. Which one?
(A) cryolite
(B) bauxite
(C) dolomite
(D) epsom salt
10. Which of the following is a dimensionless quantity ?
(A) Volume
(B) Acceleration
(C) Kinetic energy
(D) Refractive Index
11. Rectified spirit is a
(A) mixture of 95% ethanol + 5% methanol
(B) mixture of 95% ethanol +5% H20
(C) mixture of 95% ethanol + 5% pyridine
(D) 100% ethanol
12. The single acid which dissolves gold is –
(A) Nitric acid
(B) Hydrochloric acid
(C) Selenic acid
(D) Aqua regia
13. The Wular lake is situated to the
(A) North east of Srinagar
(B) North west of Srinagar
(C) South east of Srinagar
(D) South west of Srinagar
14. A Tale of Two Cities was written by
(A) Sir Walter Scott
(B) Charles Dickens
(C) R. L Stevenson
(D) T.S. Eliot
15. ‘Bhrantibilas’ is a novel by
(A) Iswarchandra Vidyasagar
(B) Debendranath Tagore
(C) Rammohan Roy
(D) Azizul Haque
16. In which district of West Bengal did ‘Chhow’ dance originate?
(A) Uttar Dinajpur
(B) West Midnapore
(C) Bankura
(D) Purulia
17. The river Ajay flows between
(A) Damodar and Rupnarayan
(B) Rupnarayan and Kangsabati
(C) Subarnarekha and Rupnarayan
(D) Damodar and Mayurakshi
18. Who is the first Indian to hit a Triple century in Test Cricket?
(A) Virender Sehwag
(B) V.V.S. Laxman
(C) Sachin Tendulkar
(D) Sunil Gavaskar
19. The character ‘James Bond’ was created by
(A) Ian Fleming
(B) Harold Robins
(C) James Hadley Chase
(D) Jules Verne
20. ‘Anna Karenina’ was composed by
(A) Tolstoy
(B) Gorky
(C) Dostoevsky
(D) Turgenev