General Knowledge #16 Multiple Choice Questions

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE #16

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. Which of the following was staple crop of Rig Vedic people?

(a) Wheat

(b) Maize

(c) Rice

(d) Barley

Answer: (d)

2. Rig Veda is divided into how many mandals?

(a) X

(b) IX

(c) XV

(d) XII

Answer: (a)

3. Rig Vedic people were ……………

(a) pastoral

(b) nomadic

(c) cultivator

(d) semi-nomadic

Answer: (d)

4. Who built the city of ‘Hissar’?

(a) Mohammad Bin Tughlaq

(b) Firozshah Tughlaq

(c) Iltutmish

(d) None of the above

Answer: (b)

5. Who introduced the new measurement yard ‘Gaz-i-Sikandari’?

(a) Ibrahim Lodi

(b) Bahlol Lodi

(c) Sikandar Lodi

(d) None of the above

Answer: (b)

6. Which of the following is known as ‘Shiraz of the East’?

(a) Varanasi

(b) Patliputra

(c) Jaunpur

(d) Prayag

Answer: (c)

7. Where was the Ramakrishna Mission founded by Vivekananda in 1897?

(a) Bombay

(b) Vellore

(c) Belur

(d) Calcutta

Answer: (c)

8. Which of the following was the first political organisation in India?

(a) British India Association

(b) East India Association

(c) Bangabhasa Prakasika Sabha

(d) Landholders Society

Answer: (c)

9. Who founded the ‘Landholder’s Society’?

(a) Anand Mohan Bose

(b) John Adam

(c) Devendranath Tagore

(d) Dwarikanath Tagore

Answer: (d)

10. Which of the Indian state has the longest coastline?

(a) Maharashtra

(b) Tamil Nadu

(c) Andhra Pradesh

(d) Gujarat

Answer: (d)

11. Which is the highest peak of the Himalayas?

(a) Kanchenjunga

(b) Mount Everest

(c) Makalu

(d) K₂ (Mount Godwin Austin)

Answer: (b)

12. Which of the highest peak of India?

(a) K2

(b) Nanda Devi

(c) Dhaulagiri

(d) Mount Everest

Answer: (a)

13. National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) came into force in which year?

(a) 2002

(b) 2006

(c) 2004

(d) 2005

Answer: (b)

14. When was the Community Development Programme launched in India?

(a) 1950

(b) 1952

(c) 1951

(d) 1948

Answer: (b)

15. When was the Green Revolution in India launched?

(a) 1960-61

(b) 1971-72

(c) 1966-67

(d) 1979-80

Answer: (c)

16. What is the maximum strength of the Lok Sabha envisaged in the Constitution?

(a) 525

(b) 552

(c) 560

(d) 610

Answer: (b)

17. When a proclamation of Emergency is in force, the terms of Lok Sabha can be extended at a time by the Parliament for a period of ……………

(a) 3 months

(b) 6 months

(c) 1 year

(d) 2 years

Answer: (c)

18. When was the Community Development Programme launched in India?

(a) 2 October, 1952

(b) 2 October, 1948

(c) 2 October, 1950

(d) 2 October, 1955

Answer: (a)

19. Who was the first Asian woman to swim across the English Channel?

(a) Santosh Yadav

(b) Arati Saha

(c) Bula Choudhary

(d) None of the above

Answer: (b)

20. Who was the first woman to summit Everest?

(a) Santosh Yadav

(b) Bachhendri Pal

(c) Junko Tabei

(d) None of the above

Answer: (c)