GENERAL KNOWLEDGE #32
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
1. Kalidasa
was the court poet of whom of the following?
(a) Chandragupta I
(b) Chandragupta II
(c) Samudragupta
(d) Chandragupta Maurya
Answer:
(b)
2. The
Iron Pillar at Mehrauli (near Delhi) belong to which of the following?
(a) Gupta period
(b) Sultanate period
(c) Mauryan period
(d) Mughal period
Answer:
(a)
3. Two
well-known scientists, Aryabhatta and Varahamihira belonged to which of the
following?
(a) Mauryan period
(b) Kushana period
(c) Satavahana period
(d) Gupta period
Answer:
(d)
4. Who
built Akbar’s tomb at Sikandra near Agra?
(a) Aurangzeb
(b) Shah Jahan
(c) Akbar
(d) None of the above
Answer:
(c)
5. When
did Akbar die?
(a) AD 1607
(b) AD 1611
(c) AD 1600
(d) AD 1605
Answer:
(d)
6. Sir
Thomas Roe, the ambassador of English King, came to the Mughal court at Agra
during the reign of whom of the following?
(a) Akbar
(b) Jahangir
(c) Aurangzeb
(d) Humayun
Answer:
(b)
7. Who
started Home Rule League at Madras?
(a) S. Subramaniya Iyer
(b) Annie Beasant
(c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(d) Both ‘a’ and ‘b’
Answer:
(d)
8. When
did Jallianwala Bagh massacre at Amritsar take place?
(a) 13 April, 1919
(b) 16 April, 1919
(c) 18 April, 1919
(d) 21 April, 1919
Answer:
(a)
9. When
was ‘Swaraj Party’ formed by Motilal Nehru and Chittaranjan Das?
(a) 1924
(b) 1921
(c) 1923
(d) 1925
Answer:
(c)
10. Highest
decadal population growth rate in India was experienced by which of the
following?
(a) Bihar
(b) Sikkim
(c) Manipur
(d) Meghalaya
Answer:
(d)
11. Which
is the most urbanized state in India?
(a) Tamil Nadu
(b) Goa
(c) Maharashtra
(d) Uttar Pradesh
Answer:
(b)
12. What
is the percentage of literacy in India as per the 2011 census?
(a) 72%
(b) 74.04%
(c) 66.2%
(d) 72.26%
Answer:
(b)
13. Who
of the following is known as ‘Blood and Iron Man’?
(a) Sardar Patel
(b) Bismarck
(c) Hitler
(d) None of the above
Answer:
(b)
14. Which
of the following is the official document of UK?
(a) Blue Book
(b) Green Book
(c) Yellow Book
(d) Orange Book
Answer:
(a)
15. ‘Yellow
Book’ is the official document of which of the following?
(a) UK
(b) Germany
(c) France
(d) Italy
Answer:
(c)
16. ‘Orange
Book’ is the official document of which of the following?
(a) Germany
(b) Italy
(c) Portugal
(d) Netherlands
Answer:
(d)
17. The
place ‘Nirmal Hriday’ is associated with whom of the following?
(a) Rabindranath Tagore
(b) Mother Teresa
(c) Guru Nanak
(d) Baba Amte
Answer:
(b)
18. With
which of the following the place ‘Pavnar Ashram’ is associated?
(a) Acharya Vinoba Bhave
(b) Baba Amte
(c) Mother Teresa
(d) Jagjivan Ram
Answer:
(a)
19. ‘Anand
Van’ is associated with whom of the following?
(a) Vinoba Bhave
(b) Baba Amte
(c) Indira Gandhi
(d) Mahatma Gandhi
Answer:
(b)
20. ‘Phoenix
Farm’ is associated with whom of the following?
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Rabindranath Tagore
(d) None of the above
Answer:
(a)
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