Knowledge ka daily dose…
1. Which part of coconut is edible?
(a) Endosperm
(b) Mesocarp
(c) Endocarp
(d) Exocarp
2. Rana Pratap belonged to the Rajput dynasty of______.
(a) Kachwa
(b) Sisodiya
(c) Solanki
(d) Paramara
3. ‘The Commonwealth of Cricket’ is a book written by
(a) Ruskin Bond
(b) Sunil Gavaskar
(c) Ramachandra Guha
(d) Sourav Ganguly
4. What is the main constituent of the human bone?
(a) Phosphorus
(b) Calcium
(c) Zinc
(d) Iron
5. Goa was captured by:
(a) Vasco-da-gama
(b) Afonso de Albuquerque
(c) Sir Thomas Roe
(d) Duplex
6. Twiddle is associated with ________.
(a) Table Tennis
(b) Lawn Tennis
(c) Golf
(d) Swimming
7. The ‘Kaulinya system’ was introduced in Bengal by-
(a) Hemanta Sena
(b) Ballala Sena
(c) Lakshmana Sena
(d) Vijaya Sena
8. Mercury freezes at_______.
(a) – 75° degrees Celsius
(b) -38.83 degrees Celsius
(c) -39.89 degrees Fahrenheit
(d) – 750° degrees Celsius
9. Burma was separated from India in_______.
(a) 1937
(b) 1939
(c) 1935
(d) 1933
10. The Battle of Haldighati was fought between ________.
(a) Maharana Pratap and Akbar
(b) Akbar and Hemu
(c) Babur and Ibrahim Lodhi
(d) Babur and Rana Sanga
11. Select the one having pH < 7.
(a) Lemon juice
(b) Lime water
(c) Human blood
(d) Antacid
12. Which one among the following is the main ingredient in cement?
(a) Gypsum
(b) Limestone
(c) Clay
(d) Ash
13. Mangrove trees are grown in______.
(a) Ganga delta
(b) Eastern Ghats
(c) Brahmaputra Valley
(d) Cauvery delta
14. Who is the CEO of Google?
(a) Larry Page
(b) Sergey Brin
(c) Sundar Pichai
(d) Satya Nadella
15. Who founded the Forward Block?
(a) Subhas chandra Bose
(b) Rasbehari Bose
(c) Jadugopal Mukhopadhyay
(d) Hemchandra Ghosh
16. In which one of the following States is the Pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary located?
(a) Arunachal Pradesh
(b) Manipur
(c) Meghalaya
(d) Nagaland
17. A mammal that lays eggs:
(a) Talpa
(b) Echidna
(c) Pteropus
(d)Lemur
18. “Natural Selection” is the theory promulgated by-
(a) G. J. Mendel
(b) Charles Darwin
(c) T. H. Morgan
(d)None of the above
19. The author of world famous Harry Potter series is
(a) Arundhati Roy
(b) J K Rowling
(c) Taslima Nasrin
(d) Salman Rushdie
20. Which one of the following is not a hardware component of a computer?
(a) Printer
(b) Keyboard
(c) Mouse
(d) Memory