Knowledge ka daily dose…
1. Who is the author of the play ‘Kallol’?
(a) Shambhu Mitra
(b) Utpal Dutta
(c) Rudraprasad Sengupta
(d) Ajitesh Banerjee
2. Nepanagar is related to which of the following industries?
(a) Fertilizer
(b) Newsprint paper
(c) Sugar
(d) Woolen textile
3. Who appoints the governor?
(a) Chief Minister
(b) President
(c) Vice President
(d) Prime Minister
4. What is correct about the zero hour?
(a) Formal permission is required
(b) Formal permission is not required
(c) Sometimes formal permission is required
(d) None of these
5. The Great Victorian Desert is located at –
(a) Australia
(b) India
(c) Egypt
(d) North Africa
6. Which is the largest unicellular algae?
(a) Virus
(b) Acetabularia
(c) Vaucheria
(d) Chlamydomonas
7. The author of ‘Runs and Ruins’ is-
(a) Kapil Dev
(b) Imran Khan
(c) Sunil Gavaskar
(d) Muthaiah Muralitharan
8. The headquarters of UNO are situated at –
(a) New York, USA
(b) Hague (Netherlands)
(c) Geneva
(d) Paris
9. Metro rail was started in Kolkata in –
(a) 1984
(b) 1986
(c) 1988
(d) 1989
10. Who is the CEO of Google?
(a) Larry Page
(b) Sergey Brin
(c) Sundar Pichai
(d) Satya Nadella
11. Which place is known as ‘Kashmir of Odisha’?
(a) Daringbadi
(b) Dhauli
(c) Berhampur
(d) Baripada
12. Golden rice is a rich source of ________.
(a) Vitamin A
(b) Vitamin B
(c) Vitamin C
(d) Vitamin K
13. How many times the Preamble was revised?
(a) Three times
(b) Two times
(c) One time
(b) It was not revised
14. Who propagated ‘Hind-Hindi-Hindu’?
(a) Lala Lajpat Rai
(b) Madan Mohan Malaviya
(c) Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
(d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
15. What is the total area of India?
(a) 8,511,965 sq km
(b) 3,897,950 sq km
(c) 5,926,780 sq km
(d) 3,287,590 sq km
16. According to Buddhism the cause of all sorrow is –
(a) Maya
(b) Kama
(c) Trishna
(d) Krodh
17. Summer sleep in animals is termed as ________.
(a) Hibernation
(b) Aestivation
(c) Camouflage
(d) Metachrosis
18. The hardest substance available on earth is-
(a) Gold
(b) Iron
(c) Diamond
(d) Platinum
19. Balmuralikrishna is an exponent of
(a) Lok-geeti
(b) Kheyal
(c) Tappa
(d) Carnatio Sangeet
20. The state having the largest area of forest cover in India is
(a) Madhya Pradesh
(b) Assam
(c) Arunachal Pradesh
(d) Haryana