General Knowledge Pointers - 36

● Caldera is a feature associated with which thing?

Answer :- Volcanoes,

● On the shore of which country cold currents have cooling effect?

Answer :- Peru,

● Which city is nearest to the Tropic of Cancer?

Answer :- Kolkata,

● In which culture is the earliest evidence of silver in India found?

Answer :- Harappan Culture,

● Which Indus city was known for water management?

Answer :- Mohenjo-daro,

● Which is the most important divinity of Rigveda?

Answer :- Varuna,

● Which animal was known to ancient Vedic people?

Answer :- Lion,

● What is Apabhramsa?

Answer :- a work of the Jains,

● Who was a contemporary of Gautama Buddha?

Answer :- Vardhamana Mahavira,

● Which transferred his capital from Patliputra to Vaishali?

Answer :- Shishunaga,

● Which was initially the most powerful city state of Indian in the 6th century B. C. ?

Answer :- Magadh,

● In which century did Ashoka reign?

Answer :- Third century B.C.,

● To which region did Satavahanas belonged?

Answer :- Andhra region,

● who were the first to attribute coins to the kings?

Answer :- Indo Greeks,

● Which Gupta ruler defeated the Huna ruler, Mihirakula?

Answer :- Yasodharman,

● Vatapi was the capital of the which reign?

Answer :- Chalukyas,

● Who first divided his empire into Iqtas during the process of civil administration?

Answer :- Iltutmish,

● Who was the King who did not allow anybody to laugh in his court?

Answer :- Balban,

● By whom was Saka era founded?

Answer :- Kanishka,

● During which reign was Kalidasa lived?

Answer :- Chandragupta II,

● Which was the main source of royal income in medieval north India?

Answer :- Jaziyah,

● Let no man ask a man’s sect or caste. Whose dictum was this?

Answer :- Ramananda,

● For which the word Mansab stood?

Answer :- A rank,

● In which year was Goa captured by the Portuguese?

Answer :- 1510 A.D.,

● Who started the first newspaper in India?

Answer :- James A. Hickey,

● Who pioneered Khilafat Movement?

Answer :- Ali Brothers,

● Which was the first metal used by man?

Answer :- Copper,

● Which contains the Gayatri Mantra?

Answer :- Rigveda,

● By whom was the Fourth Buddhist-Council held?

Answer :- Kanishka,

● Between which was the ancient town of Takshasila located?

Answer :- Indus and Jhelum,

● During the Sangam Age, Uraiyur was the capital of which rular?

Answer :- Cholas,

● Who were the first to establish trade contacts with the Roman empire?

Answer :- Tamils,

● By whom was Decimal system introduced?

Answer :- Bhaskara,

● Which general of Alauddin Khalji conquered Deccan a number of times?

Answer :- Malik Kafur,

● Sher Shah died while fighting in which war?

Answer :- Kalinjar,

● Where was the first Cotton mill in India established?

Answer :- Bombay,

● By whom was the practice of Sati was declared illegal?

Answer :- Lord William Bentinck,

● By whom was the slogan Inquilab Zinda bad first raised?

Answer :- Bhagat Singh,

● On the which bank of river is the site of Harappa located?

Answer :- Ravi,

● Who was the great Hindu law-giver?

Answer :- Manu,

● Where had Buddha delivered maximum sermons?

Answer :- Sravasti,

● Shishunaga dynasty is credited to have destroyed which mahajanpada?

Answer :- Avanti,

● Mostly in which form was the literature of the Sangam Age written?

Answer :- Poetry form,

● who deciphered the Brahmi script?

Answer :- James Princep,

● Who Cholas was defeated by Krishna-III of Rashtrakutas?

Answer :- Parantaka-I,

● What was Karaj in the thirteenth century ?

Answer :- Tax on cultivation,

● Who was the earliest Sufi Saint to have settled at Ajmer?

Answer :- Sheikh Moinuddin Chisti,