Graduate Level Questions - 41

1001. Most of the Constitution of India has been erected on the debris of:

(a) Govt. of India Act, 1935

(b) Indian Independence Act

(c) Govt. of India Act, 1919

(d) None of these

Answer: (a)

1002. The British crown assumed soveregnty over India from East India Company, through the ......

(a) Indian Council’s Act 1861

(b) Govt of India Act, 1858

(c) Indian Council Act, 1892

(d) Govt. of India Act, 1919

Answer: (b)

1003.  Minto-Morley Reforms were introduced in:

(a) 1892   (b) 1861 

(c) 1909   (d) 1919

Answer: (c)

1004.  What was also known as Montague-Chelmsford Reforms?

(a) Govt of India Act, 1858

(b) Indian Council Act, 1892

(c) Indian Council Act, 1909

(d) Govt. of India Act, 1919

Answer: (d)

1005. The reform which introduced the element of election in indirect manner for the first time:

(a)  Indian Council Act, 1861

(b) Indian Council Act, 1892

(c) Indian Council Act, 1909

(d) Govt. of India Act, 1919

Answer: (b)

1006.  Who presided over the first All Kerala Conference of Congress held in Ottappalam in 1921:

(a) C.Sankaran Nair (b) T.Prakasam

(c) Jawaharlal Nehru (d) Annie Besant

Answer: (b)

1007. The first Malayali to take part in a session of Indian National Congress:

(a) C.Sankaran Nair (b) G.P.Pillai

(c) K.Kelappan (d) Mancheri Ramayyar

Answer: (b)

1008. Who was the president of the unit of Indian National Congress formed in Travancore in 1937?

(a) Pattom Thanu Pillai

(b) Changanessey Parameswaran Pillai

(c) P.S.Nataraja Pillai (d) G.Ramachandran

Answer: (b)

1009. Travancore State Congress was formed in 1938 in a meeting held at Rashtreeya Hotel, Thiruvanananthapuram. It was presided over by:

(a) C.V. Kunjuraman (b) Pattom Thanu Pillai

(c) G.Ramachandran (d) P.S.Nataraja Pillai

Answer: (a)

1010. The first president of the Travancore State Congress:

(a) Pattom Thanu Pillai (b) P.S.Nataraja Pillai

(c) C.V. Kunjuraman (d) C.Kesavan

Answer: (a)

1011. The ‘Dronacharya Award’ is given to:

(a) Coaches (b) Umpires

(c) Sports editors (d) Sports Journalists

Answer: (a)

1012. The torch used to kindle the Olympic flame is first lit at:

(a) Athens   (b) London 

(c) Vatican  (d) Olympia

Answer: (d)

1013. Who was the first Indian to win the World Amateur Billiards title?

(a) Geeth Sethi (b) Wilson Jones

(c) Prakash Padukone (d) None of these

Answer: (b)

1014. The Jawahar Institute of Mountaineering and Winter Sports is located at

(a) Pahalgam (b) Darjeeling

(c) New Delhi (d) Shimla

Answer: (a)

1015. In which Indian state did the game of Polo originate?

(a) Meghalaya (b) Tripura

(c) Asom (d) Manipur

Answer: (d)

1016. In which year Eiffel Tower was built in Paris?

(a) 1879 (b) 1889

(c) 1892 (d) 1899

Answer: (b)

1017. Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of USA was assassinated in:

(a) 1863 (b) 1865

(c) 1867 (d) 1869

Answer: (b)

1018. Queen Victoria of England passed away in:

(a) 1899 (b) 1900

(c) 1901 (d) 1902

Answer: (c)

1019. Robert Peary became the first man to reach north pole in:

(a) 1911 (b) 1910

(c) 1909 (d) 1098

Answer: (c)

1020. Who led the revolution in China in 1911 that ended the rule of Manchu (Qing) dynasty?

(a) Mao Zedong (b) Sun Yat Sen

(c) Chiang Kaishek (d) Deng Xio Ping

Answer: (b)

1021. Who faced inquisition as he questioned Geocentric theory?

(a) Newton  (b) Ptolemy 

(c) Galileo  (d) Kepler

Answer: (c)

1022. Who was known as ‘the magician of Menlo Park’?

(a) Edison (b) Einstein

(c) Oppenheimer (d) Daimler

Answer: (a)

1023. Who formulated ‘Laws of Gravitation’?

(a) Dunlop (b) Faraday

(c) Edison (d) Isac Newton

Answer: (d)

1024. The Indian who got Nobel Prize for the study about stars:

(a) CV Raman (b) S Chandrasekhar

(c) Meghanath Saha (d) JC Bose

Answer: (b)

1025. Who discovered Safety Razor?

(a) Gillette (b) James Puckle

(c) Waterman (d) Dunlop

Answer: (a)
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