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1. Which one of the following has the largest shipyard in India?
(a) Kolkata
(b) Kochi
(c) Mumbai
(d) Vishakapatnam
Ans:- (b)
2. Who is known as “The Wizard of Hockey”?
(a) Maurice Richard
(b) Bobby Hull
(c) Manzoor Hussain
(d) Major Dhyanchand
Ans:- (d)
3. A high-refractive-index polymer (HRIP) is a polymer that has a refractive index greater than ____
(a) 0.50
(b) 1.0
(c) 1.20
(d) 1.50
Ans:- (d)
4. Thin lamination is used in a transformer to reduce:
(a) Eddy’s current losses
(b) Hysteresis losses
(c) Corona losses
(d) None of the above
Ans:- (a)
5. Kathakali is a major dance form of which state?
(a) Tamilnadu
(b) Kerala
(c) Karnataka
(d) Andhra Pradesh
Ans:- (b)
6. Which of the following is an INCORRECT sequence of Mughal rulers?
(a) Jahangir, Shah Jahan, Aurangzeb
(b) Akbar, Shah Jahan, Jahangir
(c) Babur, Humayun, Akbar
(d) Akbar, Jahangir, Shah Jahan
Ans:- (b)
7. Which of these states of India is the recently revoked ‘Article 370’ associated with?
(a) Assam
(b) Sikkim
(c) Nagaland
(d) Jammu & Kashmir
Ans:- (d)
8. Bhavai and Kalbelia as traditional dance forms, owe their genesis to which Indian state?
(a) Punjab
(b) Rajasthan
(c) Assam
(d) Odisha
Ans:- (b)
9. Who is the only scientist in the world to have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice?
(a) Linus Carl Pauling
(b) Roger D. Kornberg
(c) Madame Curie
(d) Frederick Sanger
Ans:- (d)
10. The American scientist Edwin Hubble’s name is associated with which of these theories?
(a) Lattice Gauge Theory
(b) Quantum Chromodynamics Theory
(c) Partial Coherence of Light Theory
(d) The Big Bang Theory
Ans:- (d)
11. Which of the following is NOT a vertebrate?
(a) Mammal
(b) Fish
(c) Snail
(d) Birds
Ans:- (c)
12. In which of the following countries was the 95th edition of the prestigious Hastings International Chess Congress held?
(a) Belgium
(b) France
(c) Australia
(d) England
Ans:- (d)
13. Which of the following festivals means ‘Merrymaking of the Gods’?
(a) Diwali
(b) Lai Haraobao
(c) Makar Sankranti
(d) Pongal
Ans:- (b)
14. When we cut an onion, the synthase enzyme converts the amino acid sulfoxides of the onion into which acid?
(a) Citric acid
(b) Nitric acid
(c) Sulphuric acid
(d) Sulfenic acid
Ans:- (d)
15. The last recognized king of the Gupta line was:
(a) Samudragupta
(b) Bimbisara
(c) Ashoka
(d) Vishnugupta
Ans:- (d)
16. What is the name of the phenomena (driven by the scattering of light) in which mountain tops acquire a rosy or orange hue around sunrise and sunset?
(a) Brillouin scattering
(b) Circle of confusion
(c) Alpenglow
(d) Barrel distortion
Ans:- (c)
17. Which of these is the energy conversion that happens in the process called photosynthesis?
(a) Potential energy to chemical energy
(b) Light energy to chemical energy
(c) Heat energy to chemical energy
(d) Heat energy to light energy
Ans:- (b)
18. Who was the then Governor-General of British India, when ‘Sati Pratha’ became illegal and punishable?
(a) Lord Cornwallis
(b) Lord Wellesley
(c) Lord William Bentinck
(d) Warren Hastings
Ans:- (c)
19. Which of the following is an Indian Research Station in the Antarctica Region?
(a) Orcadas
(b) Maitri
(c) Hope Bay
(d) Mawson
Ans:- (b)
20. Who is the author of the delightful and anecdotal history of Indian cricket titled – ‘A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport’?
(a) Sanjay Singh
(b) Ramachandra Guha
(c) Bipin Chandra
(d) Romila Thapar
Ans:- (b)