1. Which of the following is the first man to win two Golden Ball Awards?
(a) Lionel Messi
(b) Emi Martinez
(c) Cristiano Ronaldo
(d) Enzo Fernandez
2. The chauri-chaura incident took place in the year –
(a) 1920
(b) 1922
(c) 1925
(d) 1930
3. Goa is situated on the banks of which river?
(a) Hooghly
(b) Gomti
(c) Ganadak
(d) Mandovi
4. Gastric juice has a pH about ________.
(a) 1.5 to 3.5
(b) 5 to 6
(c) 6 to 8
(d) 8.5 to 9.5
5. A music director of “Pather Panchali” was –
(a) Ali Akbar Khan
(b) Hemanta Mukherjee
(c) Ravi Sankar
(d) Salil Chowdhury
6. Who is the author of ‘Vikramorvasiyam’?
(a) Banabhatta
(b) Sudraka
(c) Kalidasa
(d) Bhavabhuti
7. SMS is very popular these days. It stands for –
(a) Short Mobile Service
(b) Short Message Service
(c) Short Mail Service
(d) None of the above
8. Radioactivity was discovered by-
(a) Henri Becquerel
(b) Madam Curie
(c) Rutherford
(d) Chadwick
9. Who is the founder of the Indian National Army?
(a) Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon
(b) Mohan Singh
(c) Shah Nawaz Khan
(d) Prem Sahgal
10. Kalkut is pen-name of –
(a) Raj Shekhar Basu
(b) Buddhadev Basu
(c) Samaresh Basu
(d) Jaydev Basu
11. The largest oil refinery in India is located at:
(a) Haldia
(b) Jamnagar
(c) Mathura
(d) Mumbai
12. What percent of the population resides in rural areas of India?
(a) 68.8%
(b) 64.5%
(c) 50.9%
(d) 70.5%
13. Nautanki is a folk dance of which among the following states?
(a) Uttar Pradesh
(b) Kerala
(c) Karnataka
(d) Andhra Pradesh
14. Birminghamin U.K. is famous for_______.
(a) Iron and steel industry
(b) Sugar industry
(c) Paper industry
(d) Aluminium industry
15. X-rays were discovered by:
(a) Marie curie
(b) Edward Jenner
(c) Robert Koch
(d) Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
16. In which year was UNICEF founded?
(a) 1948
(b) 1946
(c) 1945
(d) 1949
17. A clinical thermometer reads the temperature from ______.
(a) 25°C to 32°C
(b) 38°C to 48°C
(c) 32°C to 38°C
(d) 35°C to 42°C
18. The book ‘Target 3 Billion’ is written by _____.
(a) Pranab Mukherjee
(b) Shankar Dayal Sharma
(c) A.P.J Abdul Kalam
(d) Ram Nath Kovind
19. Kamba Ramayanam is composed in which language ?
(a) Sanskriti
(b) Tamil
(c) Telagu
(d) Malayalam
20. Anthracite is a type of:
(a) Iron ore
(b) Coal
(c) Radioactive mineral
(d) Manganese