Knowledge ka daily dose…
1. Who was the first person to calculate the circumference of the Earth?
(a) Aristarchus
(b) Ptolemy
(c) Eratosthenes
(d) Hipparchus
2. Which metal is liquid at room temperature?
(a) Sodium
(b) Mercury
(c) Lead
(d) Tin
3. Who was the founder of the Maurya Empire?
(a) Ashoka
(b) Chandragupta Maurya
(c) Bindusara
(d) Bimbisara
4. Which Mughal emperor built the Jama Masjid in Delhi?
(a) Akbar
(b) Babur
(c) Shah Jahan
(d) Jahangir
5. Who is known as the “Father of Genetics”?
(a) Charles Darwin
(b) Gregor Mendel
(c) James Watson
(d) Alfred Wallace
6. What is the name of the boundary line between India and China?
(a) Radcliffe Line
(b) McMahon Line
(c) Durand Line
(d) Line of Control
7. In which year was the Non-Cooperation Movement launched?
(a) 1919
(b) 1920
(c) 1922
(d) 1923
8. What is the hardest natural substance on Earth?
(a) Iron
(b) Diamond
(c) Granite
(d) Quartz
9. Which country is known as the “Land of the Midnight Sun”?
(a) Norway
(b) Sweden
(c) Finland
(d) Iceland
10. Who is regarded as the architect of the Indian Five-Year Plans?
(a) Lal Bahadur Shastri
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) PC Mahalanobis
(d) Sardar Patel
11. Which element has the highest melting point?
(a) Carbon
(b) Tungsten
(c) Platinum
(d) Iron
12. Which Indian state has the largest forest cover?
(a) Madhya Pradesh
(b) Arunachal Pradesh
(c) Maharashtra
(d) Kerala
13. Which Nobel laureate is famous for the discovery of the neutron?
(a) Ernest Rutherford
(b) James Chadwick
(c) Niels Bohr
(d) JJ Thomson
14. What is the study of fossils called?
(a) Archaeology
(b) Paleontology
(c) Anthropology
(d) Geology
15. Who was the first woman President of India?
(a) Pratibha Patil
(b) Indira Gandhi
(c) Sarojini Naidu
(d) Meira Kumar
16. What does “GDP” stand for in economics?
(a) Gross Domestic Product
(b) General Domestic Production
(c) Gross Development Product
(d) General Development Program
17. Who wrote the book “Discovery of India”?
(a) Rabindranath Tagore
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) Subhas Chandra Bose
18. Which mountain range is known as the “Roof of the World”?
(a) Alps
(b) Andes
(c) Himalayas
(d) Pamir
19. Which gas is responsible for the greenhouse effect?
(a) Nitrog en
(b) Oxygen
(c) Carbon dioxide
(d) Hydrogen
20. Who proposed the theory of relativity?
(a) Isaac Newton
(b) Albert Einstein
(c) Galileo Galilei
(d) Stephen Hawking