Practice Test-1

Number of questions: 40 Time Allowed: 20 mins.

1. Who was the person behind the ‘Kuka movement’? 12. Panchayati Raj comes under
(a) Kunwar Singh (b) V. B. Phadke (a) Residual list (b) Concurrent list
(c) Guru Ram Singh (d) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (c) State list (d) Union list
2. In the 552 — strong Lok Sabha, how many 13. Which of the following constitutional amendments
members are there from the Union Territories? was responsible for deleting the right to property
(a) 10 (b) 20 from the list of fundamentals rights?
(c) 30 (d) 40 (a) 43rd amendment (b) 44th amendment
3. Which of the following personalities gave ‘The Laws (c) 48th amendment (d) 52nd amendment
of Heredity’? 14. Harshcharita and Kadambari are the works of
(a) Robert Hook (b) G. J. Mendel (a) Kalhan (b) Panini
(c) Chearles Darwin (d) William Harvey (c) Banabhatta (d) Patanjali
4. Name the personality who was also known as 15. When did the war of Americans Independence take
Deshbandhu. place?
(a) S. Radhakrishanan (b) G. K. Gokhale (a) 1770 (b) 1772
(c) Chittaranjan Das (d) Madan Mohan Malviya (c) 1774 (d) 1776
5. Which of the following is NOT the language 16. Which of the following countries is NOT a member
enshrined in the eighth schedule of the Indian of SAARC?
Constitution, as the language of the state?
(a) Maldives (b) Bhutan
(a) Nepali (b) Kashmiri
(c) Malaysia (d) Nepal
(c) English (d) Konkani
17. Bloemfontein is the judicial capital of
6. The capital of Uttarakhand is
(a) South Africa (b) Denmark
(a) Masoorie (b) Dehra Dun
(c) Columbia (d) The Netherlands
(c) Nainital (d) None of these
18. Which of the following planets is NOT a terrestrial
7. Geet Govind is a famous creation of planet?
(a) Banabhatt (b) Kalidas (a) Mercury (b) Venus
(c) Jayadev (d) Bharat Muni
(c) Earth (d) Saturn
8. Which of the following represents the Finance
19. What is the minimum age required to become the
Commissions that have been set-up so far?
President, Vice-President of India or Governor of
(a) 10 (b) 11 Indian state?
(c) 12 (d) 15 (a) 21 years (b) 25 years
9. World Trade Organization came into existence in (c) 30 years (d) 35 years
(a) 1992 (b) 1993 20. The Treaty of Versailles was signed in
(c) 1994 (d) 1995 (a) 1914 (b) 1916
10. According to the Constitution of India, which of (c) 1919 (d) 1923
the following is NOT one of the main organs of the
Government? 21. Which of the following personalities was the first
to climb Mount Everest twice?
(a) Legislature (b) Bureaucracy
(a) Tenzing Norway (b) Tamba Tsheri
(c) Executive (d) Judiciary
(c) Nawang Gombu (d) Phu Dorjee
11. In which year did the Cabinet Mission arrive in
India? 22. The controversial Tehri Dam was built over
(a) 1942 (b) 1943 (a) Ganga (b) Godavari
(c) 1945 (d) 1946 (c) Bhagirathi (d) Narmada
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23 Which of the following constitutional amendments 32. Topographical map of India is approved by
was responsible for the inclusion of Konkani, (a) Archaeological Survey of India
Manipuri and Nepali languages in the eighth
(b) Geographical Survey of India
schedule of the Constitution?
(c) Surveyor General of India
(a) 68th amendment (b) 70th amendment
(d) None of these
(c) 71st amendment (d) 76th amendment
24. Vincent van Gogh was a 33. This country is known as the ‘Sugar Bowl of the
World’. Identify it from the given options.
(a) German poet (b) Dutch painter
(a) Brazil (b) Cuba
(c) Polish scientist (d) French musician
(c) Mexico (d) Algeria
25. Who was the first premier of Pakistan?
34. The North-East Frontier Agency became the Union
(a) Liaquat Ali Khan
Territory of Arunachal Pradesh in
(b) Mohammad Ali Jinnah
(a) 1947 (b) 1950
(c) Ali Mohammad Khusro
(c) 1963 (d) 1972
(d) Mohammed Ayub Khan
35. Maastricht Treaty is related to
26. Telephone was invented by
(a) environment pollution
(a) J. L. Baird (b) Alexander Graham Bell
(b) European unification
(c) K. Macmillan (d) None of them
(c) landmines
27. The famous Chinese traveller Fa-hien came to India
(d) biological weapons
during the reign of
36. National Science Day is observed on
(a) Harshvardhan (b) Chandragupta II
(a) January 4 (b) February 28
(c) Kanishka (d) Samudragupta
28. Name the Governor-General and the first Viceroy (c) March 11 (d) August 5
of India during whose tenure the 1857 revolt took 37. Capital of East Timor is
place. (a) Kiev (b) Dili
(a) Lord Rippon (b) Lord Curzon (c) Grozny (d) Bratislava
(c) Lord Canning (d) Lord Hardinge 38. Can you identify this bowler who is the first in the
29. The absorption of ink by a blotting paper is based on history of the world cricket to have claimed
(a) Newton third law of motion 500 wickets in the One day Internationals?
(b) Bernoulli’s theorem (a) Shane Warne (b) Wasim Akram
(c) Pascal’s law (c) Courtney Walsh (d) Muttiah Muralitharan
(d) Capillary action 39. The first woman Chief Minister of an Indian state
is
30. The point in the orbit of any artificial satellite of
earth which is at the maximum distance from the (a) Sarojini Naidu (b) Indira Gandhi
earth is known as (c) Sucheta Kripalani (d) Rajkumari Amrita Kaur
(a) Perigee (b) Aphelion 40. This organelle of the human body is known as the
(c) Antipodes (d) Apogee ‘powerhouse of the cell’. Name it from the given
31. Mother Teresa won the Nobel Prize of peace in options.
(a) 1977 (b) 1979 (a) Golgi bodies (b) Mitochondria
(c) 1982 (d) 1984 (c) Lysosomes (d) Chloroplasm

Answer Key
1. (c) 2. (b) 3. (b) 4. (c) 5. (c) 6. (b) 7. (c) 8. (d) 9. (d) 10. (b)
11. (d) 12. (c) 13. (b) 14. (c) 15. (d) 16. (c) 17. (a) 18. (d) 19. (d) 20. (c)
21. (c) 22. (c) 23. (c) 24. (b) 25. (a) 26. (b) 27. (b) 28. (c) 29. (d) 30. (d)
31. (b) 32. (c) 33. (b) 34. (d) 35. (b) 36. (b) 37. (b) 38. (b) 39. (c) 40. (b)