General Knowledge #27 Multiple Choice Questions

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE #27

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. Which kingdom acted as a bridge between North India and South India?

(a) Shakas

(b) Chola

(c) Pandyas

(d) Satavahanas

Answer: (d)

2. Where was the third Sangam assembly held?

(a) Tanjore

(b) Madurai

(c) Malabar

(d) Nasik

Answer: (b)

3. Sangam literatures are written in which of the following language?

(a) Sanskrit

(b) Telugu

(c) Tamil

(d) Kannada

Answer: (c)

4. When did Humayun recapture Delhi and re-established Mughal power in India?

(a) AD 1554

(b) AD 1549

(c) AD 1553

(d) AD 1555

Answer: (d)

5. Where did Sher Shah die in AD 1545?

(a) Sasaram

(b) Delhi

(c) Kalinjar

(d) Kannauj

Answer: (c)

6. Vasco da Gama was a ……………

(a) Spanish

(b) Portuguese

(c) Italian

(d) French

Answer: (b)

7. Which was the most important pre-Congress association?

(a) Indian Association

(b) East India Association

(c) Indian League

(d) Bombay Presidency Association

Answer: (a)

8. Who supposedly wanted to use the Congress as ‘Safety Valve’?

(a) A.O. Hume

(b) Dufferin

(c) Indian Nationalists

(d) British Officials

Answer: (a)

9. To whom, the Congress wanted to use as a ‘lightening conductor’?

(a) Dufferin

(b) A.O. Hume

(c) British Officials

(d) Indian Nationalists

Answer: (b)

10. Which of the following states is the largest producer of iron-ore in India?

(a) Odisha

(b) Madhya Pradesh

(c) Chhattisgarh

(d) Karnataka

Answer: (a)

11. Which is the India’s first corporate port?

(a) Nhava Sheva

(b) Ennore

(c) Tuticorin

(d) Kochi

Answer: (b)

12. Which is the most modernized port of India?

(a) Mumbai

(b) Vishakhapatnam

(c) Nhava Sheva

(d) Tuticorni

Answer: (c)

13. When was the National Anthem adopted by the Constituent Assembly?

(a) 24 January, 1950

(b) 26 January, 1950

(c) 15 August, 1947

(d) 26 January, 1948

Answer: (a)

14. Where was the President’s Rule imposed for the first time?

(a) Jammu & Kashmir

(b) Punjab

(c) Assam

(d) Bihar

Answer: (b)

15. Inter-State Council is established by whom?

(a) President

(b) Speaker

(c) Cabinet

(d) Supreme Court

Answer: (a)

16. When was the colour programme on television started in India?

(a) 15 August, 1979

(b) 15 August, 1981

(c) 15 August, 1982

(d) 15 August, 1986

Answer: (c)

17. Which was the first Indian satellite launched?

(a) Aryabhatta

(b) Rohini

(c) Insat 1A

(d) Insat 2A

Answer: (a)

18. Which was the first indigenously built Indian satellite?

(a) Aryabhatta

(b) Insat 2A

(c) Insat 1A

(d) Rohini

Answer: (b)

19. Where was the first hydel plant in India established?

(a) Darjeeling

(b) Arunachal Pradesh

(c) Assam

(d) Uttar Pradesh

Answer: (a)

20. Which was the first indigenously designed and built Indian Missile?

(a) Nag

(b) Trishul

(c) Prithvi

(d) Agni

Answer: (c)