Graduate Level Questions - 53

1301. In which country Three Mile Island nuclear disaster was occurred in 1979?

(a) USA (b) UK

(c) Ukraine (d) China

Answer: (a)

1302. China was officially declared republic in:

(a) 1912 (b) 1913 (c) 1914 (d) 1915

Answer: (a)

1303. The first country to win the world cup cricket thrice:

(a) West Indies (b) Pakistan

(c) England  (d) Australia

Answer: (d)

1304. The first team to win Santosh trophy:

(a) Bengal (b) Kerala

(c) Karnataka (d) Tamil Nadu

Answer: (a)

1305. Which is known as the sorrow of Bengal:

(a) Kosi (b) Damodar

(c) Mahanadi (d) Brahmaputra

Answer: (b)

1306. Which organisation was founded by Henri Dunant?

(a) Amnesty International (b) Boy Scouts

(c) Lions Club (d) Red Cross

Answer: (d)

1307. The first to get two Booker prizes:

(a) Salman Rushdie (b) Peter Carey

(c) Ben Okri (d) JM Coetzee

Answer: (d)

1308. “We have to now fight for peace with the same courage and the determination as we fought against aggression” Whose words are these?

(a) FD Roosevelt (b) Jawaharlal Nehru

(c) Lal Bahadur Shastri (d) Indira Gandhi

Answer: (c)

1309. Who wrote ‘Pritvirajaraso’?

(a) Chandbardai (b) Faizi

(c) Tulsidas (d) Surdas

Answer: (a)

1310. Abdul Rahman Tunku was the first prime minister of:

(a) Malaysia (b) Singapore

(c) Brunei (d) Indonesia

Answer: (a)

1311. Name of which Indus valley site means ‘black bangles’?

(a) Harappa  (b) Dholavira

(c) Kalibangan (d) Banawali

Answer: (c)

1312. The founder of Chola empire:

(a) Simhavishnu (b) Vijayalaya

(c) Harihara (d) Simuka

Answer: (b)

1313.  Who was the Viceroy when Indian National Congress was formed in 1885?

(a) Dufferin (b) Reading

 (c) Mayo (d) Curzon

Answer: (a)

1314.  Whom Gandhiji called ‘the great sentinel’?

(a) Rajendraprasad (b) Subhas Chandra Bose

(c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Nehru

Answer: (c)

1315. The year of foundation of Muslim League:

(a) 1903 (b) 1904 (c) 1907 (d) 1906

Answer: (d)

1316.  The Indian president who translated ‘The Republic’ of Plato:

(a) VV Giri (b) Zakkir Hussain

(c) S Radhakrishnan (d) Rajendraprasad

Answer: (b)

1317.  The first to become the prime minister of India while he/she was a member of Rajya Sabha:

(a) Lal Bahadur Shastri (b) Indira Gandhi

(c) Rajiv Gandhi (d) PV Narasimha Rao

Answer: (b)

1318. The budget is presented in the Lok Sabha by the Finance Minister in the name of the ......of India.

(a) President (b) Prime Minister

(c) RBI Governor (d) Speaker

Answer: (a)

1319. The Winter session of Lok Sabha begins in the month of:

(a) September  (b) October

(c) November (d) December

Answer: (c)

1320. Motions of no confidence against the government can only be introduced and passed in the......

(a) Lok Sabha (b) Rajya Sabha

(c) Either House (d) None of these

Answer: (a)

1321. The number of schedules in the Constitution of India when it was brought into force:

(a) 12 (b) 10 (c) 9 (d) 8

Answer: (d)

1322.  The Indian who headed a new sect ‘The Order of the Star of the East” at the age of 20:

(a) Rajaneesh (b) Jiddu Krishnamurthy

(c) Shri Shri Ravisankar (d) Chinmayananda

Answer: (b)

1323.  Kublai Khan was the emperor of:

(a) Russia  (b) Egypt 

(c) China   (d) Persia

Answer: (c)

1324. The nationality of Akiro Kurasova, the world famous film maker:

(a) France  (b) Russia

(c) Japan  (d) China

Answer: (c)

1325. Number of members in the first ministry of Kerala

including Chief Minister:

(a) 12    (b) 11   (c) 13    (d) 10

Answer: (b)
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