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With which the executive power relating to concurrent subjects remain?
Answer :- The Centre,
● Up to how much age can the Members of the Union Public Service Commission
function?
Answer :- 65 years,
● A Municipal Corporation is set up in a city with howmuch population of not
less than?
Answer :- 10 lakh,
● Which language is Next to Hindi spoken by the largest number of people in the
Indian subcontinent?
Answer :- Bengali,
● Which is the Highest milk producer in India?
Answer :- U. P.,
● With which was Tarapore Committee associated?
Answer :- Fuller capital account convertibility,
● Who laid the foundation of nuclear science in the country?
Answer :- Homi J. Bhabha,
● A girl ate sweets while fanning the flies away. Due to this, she suffered
from a which disease?
Answer :- Cholera,
● Which is the highest grade of coal whose surface is shining and has the
highest calorific value?
Answer :- Anthracite,
● What is Refrigeration?
Answer :- A process in which the decomposition of food is delayed,
● How can the quantity of water vapour the atmosphere hold increases?
Answer :- With increase of temperature,
● Which substance is a bad conductor of electricity but a good conductor of
heat?
Answer :- Mica,
● Which hormone is responsible for the secretion of milk in mothers?
Answer :- Lactogenic hormone,
● What denotes the smallest temperature?
Answer :- 1° on the Kelvin scale,
● Which metal is used for making boats because it does not corrode by seawater?
Answer :- Titanium,
● Sweating during exercise indicates operation of which process in the human
body?
Answer :- Osmoregulation,
● What is the first large research reactor of India that uses U-233 as fuel?
Answer :- KAMINI,
● Who was the first Indian woman to swim across the English Channel?
Answer :- Arati Saha,
● Which is used as the logo of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)?
Answer :- Panda,
● Which country has the largest number of land-border neighbouring countries?
Answer :- Russia,
● Which train/railway passes through Germany, France, Austria, Hungary and
Romania?
Answer :- Orient Express,
● What is the range of Prithvi III, the naval version of Prithvi?
Answer :- 250 km-300 km,
● To which woman is the Chameli Devi Award given to an outstanding woman?
Answer :- A journalist,
● What was the greatest invention of man in Palaeolithic Age?
Answer :- Fire,
● The tornadoes are very strong tropical cyclones originating in which sea?
Answer :- Caribbean sea,
● Which region receives the rainfall throughout the year due to westerly winds?
Answer :- South Chile,
● Which son of Aurangazeb revolted against his father, weakening the latter’s
position against the Rajputs?
Answer :- Akbar,
● The birth place of Mahavir was –
Answer :- Kundigram near Vaishali,
● Sirajuddaula was defeated by Lord Clive in the battle of –
Answer :- Plassey,
● The earliest epigraphical evidence about Bhagavatism is –
Answer :- Besanagar Pillar inscription of Heliodorus,
● The famous work Tabaqat-i-Akbari was written by -
Answer :- Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmad,
● Which sites has yielded the cultural remains from Neolithic to Harappan
period?
Answer :- Mehrgarh,
● Which events of the Buddha’s life did not take place on the full moon of
Vaishakh month?
Answer :- Renunciation,
● Who established Delhi as the capital of Sultanate?
Answer :- Iltutmish
● The largest site of Indus Civilization in India is –
Answer :- Rakhigarhi,
● Who was the founder of Bahmani Kingdom in Deccan?
Answer :- Hasan Gangoo,
● Where for the first time Varna System is mentioned?
Answer :- Rigveda,
● The main centre of Chandella art was –
Answer :- Khajuraho,
● Who is credited with initiating a new Samvat –
Answer :- Lakshamanasena,
● Who divided the Mughal empire into provinces for the first time?
Answer :- Akbar,
● At which place the first meeting of Indian National Congress was held?
Answer :- Mumbai,
● Regvedic Gods are mentioned in –
Answer :- Boghajkoi inscription,
● Who among the following Gupta rulers conquered Huns –
Answer :- Skandagupta,
● Adi Shankar who later on became Shankaracharya was born in –
Answer :- Kerala,
● Which was the first great royal patron of Buddhism?
Answer :- Ashoka,
● Chachanama describes the history of which region?
Answer :- Sindh,
● In ancient India, at where was the earliest capital of Magadha kingdom?
Answer :- Rajgir,
● Which Mahajanapada was situated on the bank of river Godawari?
Answer :- Assaka,
● Which dynasty was ruling over North India at the time of Alexander’s
invasion?
Answer :- Nanda,
● Who was the President of Gaya Session of the Indian National Congress held in 1922 ?
Answer :- Chittaranjan Das,
● By which name is Jay Prakash Narayan known?
Answer :- Loknayak,
● Which country has the largest coastline?
Answer :- Canada,
● The largest producer of aluminium in the world is –
Answer :- USA,
● The Pennines (Europe), the Appalachians (America) and the Aravallis (India) are examples of–
Answer :- old mountains,
● Which is the largest metal trading centre?
Answer :- New York,
● The oldest oil field in India is –
Answer :- Digboi, Assam,
● In India, Yarlung Zangbo River is known as –
Answer :- Brahmaputra,
● Which is the driest station?
Answer :- Leh,
● Which States has not identified tribal community?
Answer :- Haryana,
● Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary is located at –
Answer :- Gurgaon,
● The forest area in India per person (in average hectare) is –
Answer :- 0.20,
● Nagarjuna Sagar Multipurpose Project is on which river?
Answer :- Krishna,
● THE WORLD BENEATH HIS FEET is a Biography of -
Answer :- Pulela Gopichand,
● What does infant mortality rate refer to?
Answer :- The ratio of number of children who die before their first birthday out of every 1000 live births,
● The Waghera Uprising happened in –
Answer :- Baroda,
● Who penned the Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamare dil me hai/Dekhna hai zor kitna baju-e-qatil me hai.”
Answer :- Bismil,
● Who raised the demand of Complete Independence for the first time in 1921?
Answer :- Maulana Hasrat Mohani,
● Identify the years those are closest to the founding of the Communist Party of India and the RSS respectively.
Answer :- 1925, 1925,
● When Swami Sahajananda Saraswati formed the All India United Kisan Sabha with the demand for the ‘nationalization of land and waterways’?
Answer :- just before his death,
● The Fitch Ratings has its headquarters in -
Answer :- New York,
● Who highlighted the plight of the peasants of Champaran by writing under pseudonyms like ‘Dukhi’, ‘Dukhi Atma’, ‘Dukhi Hridaya’ ?
Answer :- Peer Muhammad Moonis,
● Of which thing were the Indus Valley houses built?
Answer :- Bricks,
● Where is the Shrine of Hazarat Nizamuddin Auliya is situated?
Answer :- Delhi,
● Which Sultan of Delhi was refused an audience by Nizamuddin Auliya?
Answer :- Jalaluddin Firoz Khalji,
● Which philosophical system was founded by Vallabhacharya?
Answer :- Suddhadvaita,
● Bhakt Tukaram was a contemporary of which Mughal emperor?
Answer :- Jahangir,
● Who was the Hindu saint to have as disciple both Hindus and Muslims?
Answer :- Sri Chaitanya,
● Who was the first Bhakti saint to use Hindi for the propagation of his message?
Answer :- Ramananda,
● What is the percentage of radiant energy reflected back by surface called?
Answer :- Albedo,
● Which types of cloud rarely forms at height lower than 5000 metres?
Answer :- Nimbostratus,
● A sea-breeze front is a weather front created by a sea-breeze also known by which name?
Answer :- Convergence zone,
● What is a line on a weather map joining all places of equal pressure called?
Answer :- Isobar,
● Why is wind in the southern hemisphere is deflected towards left?
Answer :- Due to rotation of the earth,
● Local thunderstorms Norwesters are prominent in which state?
Answer :- West Bengal,
● If the atmosphere is cooled, what is its capacity for water vapour?
Answer :- Lowered,