Knowledge ka daily dose…
1. Thillana is a format of
(a) Kuchipudi
(b) Odissi
(c) Bharatanatyam
(d) Kathak
2. Who is the father of English Poetry?
(a) Milton
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Chaucer
(d) Charles Dickens
3. Indian School of Mines is located in
(a) Dhanbad
(b) Asansol
(c)Tatanagar
(d) Rourkela
4. Which of the following fields A. Nageshwara Rao is associated with?
(a) Sports
(b) Literature
(c) Motion Pictures
(d) Politics
5. The hardest substance available on earth is
(a) Gold
(b) Iron
(c) Diamond
(d) Platinum
6. The pension of a high court judge is charged to the
(a) Consolidated Fund of India
(b) Consolidated Fund of the state where he last served
(c)Consolidated Funds of the different states where he has served
(d) Contingency Fund of India
7. We hear of two envoys being sent to the Roman kings, one in 27-28 AD to the court of Augustus and the other in 110-20 AD to the court of
(a) Cartius
(b) Trajan
(c)Nero
(d) Brutus
8. The temperature increases rapidly after
(a) ionosphere
(b) exosphere
(c)stratosphere
(d) troposphere
9. The most commonly used bleaching agent is
(a) alcohol
(b) carbon dioxide
(c) chlorine
(d) sodium chlorine
10. The Arjuna Awards were instituted in the year
(a) 1965
(b) 1961
(c)1963
(d) 1957
11. The head quarters of Sahitya Akademi is at
(a) Mumbai
(b) Chennai
(c) New Delhi
(d) Kolkata
12. ‘Mirchchhakatika’ was written by
(a) Vikramaditya
(b) Shudraka
(c)Kalhana
(d) Banabhatta
13. The ‘Char Minar’ is in
(a) Ahmedabad
(b) Hyderabad
(c)Delhi
(d) Sikri
14. Ms. Vijaya Mehta has earned distinction in which of the field?
(a) Theatre
(b) Film Direction
(c)Classical Dance
(d) Journalism
15. In which of the following activities silicon carbide is used?
(a) Making cement and glass
(b) Disinfecting water of ponds
(c) cutting very hard substances
(d) Making casts for statues
16. The president can dissolve the Lok Sabha on
(a) advice of the prime minister
(b) advice of the chief justice of India
(c)recommendation of Lok Sabha
(d) recommendation of the Rajya Sabha
17. To conquer and annex Peshawar and Punjab, Mahmud of Ghazni defeated
(a) Ghurids
(b) Arabs
(c)Karkotakas
(d) Hindushahis
18. The largest glaciers are
(a) mountain glaciers
(b) alpine glaciers
(c) continental glaciers
(d) piedmont glaciers
19. The most abundant rare gas in the atmosphere is
(a) He
(b) Ne
(c) Ar
(d) Xe
20. The Nobel Prize was first awarded in
(a) 1976
(b) 1958
(c) 1901
(d) 1972