GENERAL KNOWLEDGE- Questions and Answers -4

76.What was the real name of Dayanand Saraswathy?

(a) Mul Sankar (b) Narendranath

(c) Gadhadhar (d) Moniya

Answer: (a)

77. Who gave the slogan ‘Dilli Chalo”?

(a) Gandhiji                                  (b) Bhagat Singh

(c) Subhas Chandra Bose        (d) Jawaharlal Nehru

Answer: (c)

78. In which year Gandhiji attended the Congress session for the first time?

(a) 1899 (b) 1900

(c) 1901 (d) 1902

Answer: (c)

79. The last Viceroy of British India:

(a)Wavell (b) Linlithgo

(c) Wellington (d) Mountbatten

Answer: (d)

80.Adisankara attained samadhi at Badrinath in:

(a) 820  (b) 825

(c) 840  (d) 850

Answer: (a)

81. Tulsidas was a contemporary of:

(a) Babur (b) Akbar

(c) Shah Jehan (d) Aurangazeb

Answer: (b)

82.The ninth Sikh guru who was killed by Aurangazeb:

(a) Arjan Dev (b) Har Rai

(c) Harkishan (d) Teg Bahadur

Answer: (d)

83.Who authored ‘Panchatantra’?

(a) Vishnugupta (b) Vishnu Sharma (c)

Kalidas (d) Bhasa

Answer: (b)

84.Who founded the Sunga dynasty?

(a) Pushyamitra (b) Brihadratha

(c) Devabhuti (d) Agnimitra

Answer: (a)

85.Who is regarded as the first Thirthankara of Jainism?

(a) Mahavira. (b) Parswanatha

(c) Bhadrabahu (d) Rishabha

Answer: (d)

86.In which Indian State Pahari language is spoken?

(a) Assam (b) Bihar

(c) Jharkhand (d) Himachal Pradesh

Answer: (d)

87.Rajiv Gandhi was born in:

(a) Allahabad (b) New Delhi

(c) Mumbai (d) Dehra Dun

Answer: (c)

88.Where is the headquarters of CAPART (Council for Advancedment of People’s Action and Rural Technology)?

(a) New Delhi (b) Mumbai

(c) Hyderabad  (d) Kolkata

Answer: (a)

89.Cotton textiles industry in India was started with the establishment of a textile mill in 1818 at Fort Glaster near ......

(a) Kolkata (b) New Delhi

(c) Mumbai (d) Ahmedabad

Answer: (a)

90.The slowest train in India connects Mettuppalayam and ......

(a) Coimbatore (b) Chennai

(c) Salem (d) Udagamandalam
Answer: (d)

91.Yercaud is a hill station in ...... in Shevaroy Hills .

(a) Tamil Nadu (b) Karnataka

(c) Andhra Pradesh (d) Orissa

Answer: (a)

92.Buddhist stupa at Bodh Gaya is on the banks of the river:

 (a) Falgu (b) Kshipra

(c) Narmada (d) Indravati

Answer: (a)

93.Which is regarded as the head stream of Ganga?

(a) Alakananda (b) Nandakini

(c) Bhagirathi (d) Dhauliganga

Answer: (c)

94.In which language the holy scriptures of Hinduism is originally written?

(a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit

(c) Sanskrit  (d) Pali

Answer: (c)

95.What fraction of the total area of the land area of the world is occupied by India?

(a) 1/32 (b) 1/52 
(c) 1/42 (d) 1/24

Answer: (c)

96.Decimal system was originated in:

(a) China (b) India 
(c) Greece (d) Egypt

Answer: (b)

97.In which country the first telephone exchange was established?

(a)USA (b) UK 
(c) France (d) Germany

Answer: (a)

98...... is the angular distance of a place north or south of equator:

(a) Longitude  (b) Latitude

(c) Meridian (d) Altitude

Answer: (b)

99.The longest night in northern hemisphere:

(a) September 23 (b) June 21

(c) December 22 (d) March 21

Answer: (c)

100.Reserve Bank of India which was started in 1935 nationalised in:

(a) 1946 (b) 1947 
(c) 1948 (d) 1949An

Answer: (d)

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