Graduate Level Questions - 48

1176. In which year 14 banks were nationalised during the prime ministership of Indira Gandhi?

(a) 1959   (b) 1949  

(c) 1969   (d) 1979

Answer: (c)

1177. Yakshagana is a folk dance drama of:

(a) Kerala (b) Tamil Nadu

(c) Andhra Pradesh (d) Karnataka

Answer: (d)

1178. Where is Chennakesava temple?

(a) Belur (b) Halebid

(c) Madurai (d) Hampi

Answer: (a)

1179. Tiger state of India:

(a) Gujarat (b) Rajastan

(c) Madhya Pradesh (d) Assam

Answer: (c)

1180. Who repaired Sudarshan lake?

(a) Rudradaman (b) Kanishka

(c) Pushyamitra (d) Devabhuti

Answer: (a)

1181. Satavahanas were also known as:

(a) Memaluks (b) Ikshakus

(c) Andhra Bhrityas (d) Rajputs

Answer: (c)

1182. Who revived Nalanda University?

(a) Harsha (b) Sasanka

(c) Pulikesin I (d) Baktiyar Khalji

Answer: (a)

1183. Muhammad bin Tughlaq shifted the capital of the Sultanate from Delhi to:

(a) Agra (b) Tughlaqabad

(c) Daulatabad (d) Siri

Answer: (c)

1184. Tomb of Aurangazeb’s wife Rabia Durrani is known as ‘Poor man’s Taj Mahal’. It is situated in:

(a) Agra (b) Sikandra

(c) Aurangabad (d) Delhi

Answer: (c)

1185. Vasco da Gama reached India for the second time in:

(a) 1502    (b) 1503  

(c) 1504   (d) 1505

Answer: (a)

1186. Who organised a raid on Chittagong government armoury in 1930 April?

(a) Bhagat Singh (b) Uddham Singh

(c) Chandrasekhar Azad  (d) Surya Sen

Answer: (d)

1187. Who was the Viceroy when the first Census was held in 1872?

(a) Mayo (b) Curzon

(c) Hardinge II (d) Minto I

Answer: (a)

1188. Who wrote ‘India Wins Freedom’?

(a) C Rajagopalachari (b) Maulana Azad

(c) Dr Rajendraprasad (d) Jawaharlal Nehru

Answer: (b)

1189.  The first Muslim to become the President of  Indian National Congress:

(a) Dadabhai Navroji (b) Pheroz Shah Mehta

(c) Maulana Azad (d) Badruddin Thyabji

Answer: (d)

1190 .During which agitation Gandhiji gave the slogan’ Do or die’?

(a) Salt satyagraha (b) Champaran Satyagraha

(c) Quit India movement (d) Kheda satyagraha

Answer: (c)

1191. The famous speech delivered by Jawaharlal Nehru during the moments of transfer of power in 1947, is known as:

(a) I have a dream (b) Tryst with destiny

(c) History will absolve me (d) None of these

Answer: (b)

1192. ‘Project Arrow’ is related to:

(a) Postal system (b) Telecommunication

(c) Railway (d) Newspaper

Answer: (a)

1193. The four languages added to the Eighth Schedule recently:

(a) Manipuri, Konkani, Nepali, Santhali

(b) Dogri, Maithili, Konkani, Bodo

(c) Dogri, Maithili, Santhali, Bodo

(d) Dogri, Maithili, Sindhi, Nepali

Answer: (c)

1194. The total number of nominated members in Parliament:

(a) 14    (b) 24   

(c) 12    (d) 17

Answer: (a)

1195. The Twelfth Schedule was added to the Constitution was added by...... Amendment:

(a) 74th    (b) 75th  

(c) 73rd   (d) 62^nd

Answer: (a)

1196. The most powerful upper house of the Legislature in the world:

(a) American Senate  (b) House of Lords in Britain

(c) Rajya Sabha in India (d) Duma in Russia

Answer: (a)

1197. The birth day of Rajiv Gandhi is observed as:

(a) National youth day (b) Anti terrorism day

(c) Sadbhavana divas (d) None of these

Answer: (c)

1198. The idea of the formation of SAARC was first mooted by:

(a) HM Ershad (b) Yahya Khan

(c) Indira Gandhi (d) Premadasa

Answer: (a)

1199. “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains” this statement is related to:

(a) Rousseau (b) Plato

(c) Dr. Johnson (d) Karl Marx

Answer: (a)

1200. Who among the following got Nobel Prize and Oscar?

(a) Walt Disney (b) Winston Churchill

(c) George Bernard Shaw  (d) Bertrand Russel

Answer: (c)

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