Knowledge ka daily dose…
1. The Ex-officio Secretary of NDC is
(a) Vice-Chairman of Planning Commission
(b) General Secretary of Lok Sabha
(c) Secretary of Finance Ministry
(d) Secretary of Planning Commission
2. Malik Kafur was general of
(a) Firuz Shah Tughalag
(b) Chandragupta Maurya
(c) Bimbisara
(d) Alauddin Khilji
3. Which is known as book of Melody?
(a) Rigveda
(b) Samveda
(c) Atharvaveda
(d) Yajurveda
4. Which animal gives both milk and eggs?
(a) Echidna
(b) Platypus
(c) Wombat
(d) All of the above
5. Who is considered as “The father of Biology”?
(a) Leeuwenhoek
(b) Carolus Linnaeus
(c) Lankester
(d) Aristotle
6. The Morley-Minto Reform was declared in the year _____.
(a) 1907
(b) 1909
(c) 1911
(d) 1919
7. Rihand Dam Project Provides irrigation to:
(a) Gujarat and Maharashtra
(b) Orissa and West Bengal
(c) Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
(d) Kerala and Karnataka
8. “India Wins Freedom” is the autobiography of_______.
(a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(b) Muhammad Ali
(c) Zakir Husain
(d) Syed Ahmed Khan
9. The Morley-Minto Reform was declared in the year _____.
(a) 1907
(b) 1909
(c) 1911
(d) 1919
10. Angkor Wat, a buddhist temple complex is built by
(a) Suryavarman II
(b) Jayasimha Vallabha
(c) Bhima
(d) Allauddin Khilji
11. A flying jet possesses ______.
(a) Potential energy
(b) Kinetic energy
(c) Wind energy
(d) Both kinetic and potential energy
12. National income ignores which of the following?
(a) Sales of a Firm
(b) Salary of employees
(c) Exports of the IT sector
(d) Sale of land
13. When was the University of Calcutta established?
(a) 1911
(b) 1817
(c) 1854
(d) 1857
14. India’s first digitalised Panchayat ward was ________.
(a) Kerala
(b) Maharashtra
(c) Gujarat
(d) Rajasthan
15. The biggest epic in the world is:
(a) Bible
(b) Mahabharata
(c) Janda Avesta
(d) Quran
16. __________ soil is covered largest area in India.
(a) Black cotton soil
(b) Red soil
(c) Alluvial soil
(d)Laterite soil
17. The Hirakud Dam is constructed across the river
(a) Mahanadi
(b) Godavari
(c) Cauvery
(d) Periyar
18. Which one of the following rivers does not originate in India?
(a) Sutlej
(b) Ravi
(c) Chenab
(d) Beas
19. What is the code name of the first Nuclear test of India?
(a) Chagai 1-1
(b) Smiling Buddha
(c) Project 596
(d) Shakti 1 – 1
20. The Human Development Index (HDI) is published by the ____________.
(a) World bank
(b) UNDP
(c) IMF
(d) NITI Aayog