1. Khangchendzonga National Park (KNP) has been named a world heritage site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). In which of the following Indian States is this situated?
1) Arunachal Pradesh
2) Meghalaya
3) Sikkim
4) Himachal Pradesh

2. Who is the youngest Chief Minister in India?
1) Sarbananda Sonowal (Assam)
2) Pema Khandu (Arunachal Pradesh)
3) Arvind Kejriwal (Delhi)
4) Akhilesh Yadav (Uttar Pradesh)

3. Who has been appointed as the first Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)?
1) Anurag Thakur
2) Ajay Shirke
3) Rahul Johri
4) Saurav Ganguly

4. Formation of fruit without fertilization is called?
1) Polyembryony
2) Polygamy
3) Pomology
4) Parthenocarpy

5. Htin Kyaw is the present President of which of the following countries?
1) Vietnam
2) Myanmar
3) Laos
4) Cambodia

6. Who among the following Indians received the Nobel Peace Prize?
1) Rabindranath Tagore
2) Haragovind Khorana
3) Amartya Sen
4) Kailash Satyarthi

7. London is situated on the banks of which of the following rivers?
1) Danube
2) Seine
3) Thames
4) Tiber

8. Who was the first Muslim woman ruler of India?
1) Chand Bibi
2) Razia Sultana
3) Nur Jahan
4) Begum Hazrat Mahal

9. Identify the odd sportsman?
1) H.S. Prannoy
2) Kidambi Srikanth
3) B. Sai Praneeth
4) P.R. Sreejesh

10. Which of the following are sites of protein synthesis in a cell?
1) Lysosomes
2) Chloroplasts
3) Ribosomes
4) Centrioles

11. Which of the following is mostly used in making pencils?
1) Black ash
2) Graphite
3) Fullerene
4) Charcoal

12. Who discovered the chemical element Radium?
1) Marie Curie
2) Joseph Priestly
3) Benjamin Franklin
4) Neils Bohr

13. National Science Day is celebrated every year on which of the following days?
1) November 11
2) February 28
3) April 30
4) March 30

14. Which of the following is the highest award in India in the field of literature?
1) Sahitya Academy Award
2) Saraswati Samman
3) Vyas Samman
4) Jnanpith Award

15. With which of the following are Golden Globe Awards associated?
1) Literature
2) Journalism
3) Social work
4) Films

16. Who acts as the channel of communication between the President and the Council of Ministers?
1) Vice President
2) Prime Minister
3) Lok Sabha Speaker
4) Attorney General

17. Who is the founder of “Din-IIlahi”?
1) Shah Jahan
2) Babur
3) Akbar
4) Kabir

18. Who is the winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize?
1) Eleanor Catton
2) Marlon James
3) James Flanagan
4) Hilary Mantel

19. Where is the headquarters of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)?
1) Dhaka
2) New Delhi
3) Kathmandu
4) Colombo

20. Who among the following is currently working as the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist
of the World Bank?
1) Subir Gokarn
2) Rakesh Mohan
3) Jagdeesh Bhagwati
4) Kaushik Basu

21. In which of the following seeds are not enclosed in fruits?
1) Monocotyledons
2) Dicotyledons
3) Gymnosperms
4) Angiosperms

22. Beriberi is caused by the deficiency of which of the following vitamins?
1) Vitamin B1
2) Vitamin B2
3) Vitamin B3
4) Vitamin B5

23. Sun Risers Hyderabad defeated which of the following teams in the final match of the Indian Premier League-9 on May 29, 2016?
1) Delhi Daredevils
2) Kolkata Knight Riders
3) Royal Challengers Bangalore
4) Rising Pune Supergiants

24. Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place in which of the following years?
1) 1916
2) 1917
3) 1918
4) 1919

25. Which of the following planets has almost the same size and mass as the Earth?
1) Mercury
2) Venus
3) Mars
4) Uranus

26. Who wrote the book “The Harmonies of the World”?
1) Isaac Newton
2) Albert Einstein
3) Johannes Kepler
4) Tycho Brahe

27. Who established Sunga dynasty after the fall of the Maurya Empire?
1) Pushyamitra
2) Agnimitra
3) Devabhuti
4) Vasudeva

28. Which one of the following books is not written by Kalidasa?
1) Meghduta
2) Raghuvamsha
3) Kumara Sambhava
4) Mudrarakshasa

29. Swami Dayanand Saraswati founded the Arya Samaj in which of the following years?
1) 1896
2) 1863
3) 1875
4) 1880

30. Where was the headquarters of Ghadar party?
1) Moscow
2) Berlin
3) Tokyo
4) San Francisc

31. What is the maximum strength of Rajya Sabha?
1) 238
2) 240
3) 250
4) 245

32. Nicolo Conti and Abdur Razzak visited which of the following empires?
1) Hoyasala empire
2) Rashtrakuta empire
3) Chalukya empire
4) Vijayanagara empire

33. Pampas grasslands are in which of the following countries?
1) Venezuela
 2) Colombia
3) Argentina
4) Australia

34. From which of the following countries was the procedure to make amendment to the Constitution borrowed?
1) Germany
2) USA
3) Canada
4) South Africa

35. Which of the following economic terms refers to the total satisfaction received from consuming
a good or service?
1) Utility
2) Demand
3) Supply
4) Elasticity

36. Which of the following articles deals with the National Emergency?
1) Article 352
2) Article 348
3) Article 368
4) Article 356

37. Which of the following human organs stores bile?
1) Liver
2) Gallbladder
3) Spleen
4) Pancreas

38. Constitution Day is celebrated on which of the following days?
1) January 26
2) January 24
3) November 26
4) November 24

39. Becquerel is the SI derived unit of?
1) Energy
2) Luminosity
3) Power
4) Radioactivity

40. Which of the following automakers appointed legendary football player Lionel Messi as the global brand ambassador?
1) General Motors
2) Ford Motors
3) Toyota
4) Tata Motors

Answers
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11) 2 12) 1 13) 2 14) 4 15) 4 16) 2 17) 3 18) 2 19) 3 20) 4
21) 3 22) 1 23) 3 24) 4 25) 2 26) 3 27) 1 28) 4 29) 3 30) 4
31) 3 32) 4 33) 3 34) 4 35) 1 36) 1 37) 2 38) 3 39) 4 40) 4

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1. Who among the following is not a member of the National Development Council? 
(a) The Prime Minister 
(b) The Member of NITI Aayog 
(c) The Chief Ministers of States 
(d) The President of India 
(Ans : d)

2. The rate of tax increase as the amount of the tax base increases is called– 
(a) Proportional tax 
(b) Progressive tax 
(c) Regressive tax 
(d) Degressive tax 
(Ans : b)

3. The supply-side economics lays greater emphasis on–
(a) Producer 
(b) Global economy 
(c) Consumer 
(d) Middle Man 
(Ans : a)

4. The founding father of “Theory of bureaucracy” was– 
(a) F.W. Taylor 
(b) Max Weber 
(c) Elton Mayo 
(d) Herbert Simon 
(Ans : b)

5. The United Nations Organisation came into existence in– 
(a) 1947 
(b) 1950 
(c) 1945 
(d) 1946 
(Ans : c)

6. Abdul Fazal was the son of which Sufi saint? 
(a) Sheikh Mubarak 
(b) Hazarat Khwaja 
(c) Nasiruddin Chirag 
(d) Baba Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki 
(Ans : a)

7. French revolution broke out in the year. 
(a) 1917 
(b) 1911 
(c) 1789 
(d) 1790 
(Ans : c)

8. The song “Vande Mataram” occurs in the book–
(a) Geetanjali 
(b) Anandmath 
(c) Indian People 
(d) Poverty and Un-British Rule in India 
(Ans : b)

9. Which mosquito is the carrier of Zika virus? 
(a) Culex 
(b) Aedes 
(c) Anopheles 
(d) Culiseta 
(Ans : b)

10. Geothermal energy is maximum utilised in–
(a) Iceland 
(b) New Zealand 
(c) Russia 
(d) Japan 
(Ans : a)

11. Root cap is derived from– 
(a) Dermatogen 
(b) Calyptrogen 
(c) Protoderm 
(d) Histogen 
(Ans : b)

12. The blotting technique used to identify the isolated protein is–
(a) Northern blotting 
(b) Western blotting 
(c) Southern blotting 
(d) Cloning 
(Ans : b)

13. Morphology of Chromosomes can be best studied at– 
(a) Interphase 
(b) Prophase 
(c) Metaphase 
(d) Zygotene 
(Ans : c)

14. The ‘Choke’ used with a tube light is basically–
(a) an inductor 
(b) a capacitor 
(c) a transformer 
(d) a resistor 
(Ans : a)

15. Curie is a unit of–
(a) radioactivity 
(b) energy of Gamma rays 
(c) intensity of Gamma rays 
(d) work function 
(Ans : a)

16. In Networks, WEP stands for– 
(a) Wireless Equivalent Privacy 
(b) Wired Extra Privacy 
(c) Wired Equivalent Privacy 
(d) Wireless Embedded Privacy 
(Ans : a)

17. For extinguishing fire, we use– 
(a) Hydrogen 
(b) Carbon Monoxide 
(c) Carbon Dioxide 
(d) Marsh gas (Ans : c)

18. The chemical name of quartz is–
(a) Calcium oxide 
(b) Calcium phosphate 
(c) Sodium phosphate 
(d) Sodium silicate 
(Ans : d)

19. Continuous chain of mountains that rise abruptly more or less parallel to the coastline of India is– 
(a) Aravalli 
(b) Satpura 
(c) Eastern ghats 
(d) Western ghats 
(Ans : d)

20. The biggest reserves of Thorium are in– 
(a) China 
(b) USA 
(c) India 
(d) France 
(Ans : c)

21. Which of the following became the first country in the world to legalise euthanasia? 
(a) Belgium 
(b) Netherlands 
(c) Denmark 
(d) Canada 
(Ans : b)

22. Which of the following countries won Euro Cup 2016 (football) ? 
(a) France 
(b) Germany 
(c) Portugal 
(d) Iceland 
(Ans : c)

23. Shivkumar Sharma is famous for playing the–
(a) Sitar 
(b) Flute 
(c) Santoor 
(d) Tabla 
(Ans : c)

24. Who among the following is popularly known as ‘Blade Runner’? 
(a) Usain Bolt 
(b) Oscar Carl Pistorious 
(c) Carl Lewis 
(d) Ben Johnson 
(Ans : b)

25. FCRA administered by the Ministry of Home Affairs stands for–
(a) Foreign Currency Regulation Act 
(b) Foreign Contribution Regulation Act 
(c) Foreign Contract Regulation Act 
(d) Foreign Cartel Restriction Act 
(Ans : b) 

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