Wednesday, March 08, 2017


Awards 

1. In which year was the Nobel Prize instituted?

a) 1896                                   b) 1901

c) 1876                                   d) 1900

2. Which country awards the Nobel Prize?

a) America                            b) England

c) Sweden                             d) Ireland

3. What was the full name of the person who is associated with Nobel Award?

a) Alfred Nobel                                b) Bernhard Nobel

c) Alfred Bernhard Nobel                d) Bernhard Alfred Nobel

4. Which of the following disciplines were included for Nobel Award in the beginning?

a) Physics/Chemistry/Biology/Medicine/Peace

b) Physics/Chemistry/Medicine/Peace/Economics

c) Physics/Chemistry/Medicine/Literature/Peace

d) Physics/Chemistry/Medicine and Physiology/Literature/Peace

5. Nobel Prize in which discipline has been awarded three times to the same person/organisation?

a) Medicine                                         b) Chemistry

c) Physics                                            d) Peace

6. Who was the oldest person so far to have been awarded Nobel Prize and what was his age at that time?

a) Prof. William Lawrence Bragg. 88 years

b) Prof. Francis Peyton Rous, 87 years

c) Prof. Frederic Sanger, 90 years

d) Sir Johan Bardeen, 89 years

7. Who was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics?

a) Dr. C.V. Raman                                    

b) Hargobind Khorana

c) Aryabhat

d) Nobody received the Nobel in Physics in India

8. Who Among the following Nobel Laureates is not an Indian citizen?

a) Rabindranath Tagore                       b) C.V. Raman

c) Mother Teresa                                 d) Hargobind Khorana

9. First women to win the Nobel Prize was:

a) Mother Teresa                      

b) Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi

c) Madam Marie Curie Klodowska

d) None of the above

10. Who among the following got the 'Bharat Ratna' award, before becoming the President of India?

a) R. Venkataraman                                b) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

c) Dr. Zakir Hussain                               d) V.V. Giri

11. First Bharat Ratna Award, instituted in 1954, was given to:

1. C. Rajagoalachari                         2. Dr. Radhakrishnan

3. Dr. C.V. Raman                            4. Dr. M. Viswesvarayya

a) 1 and 2                                        b) 1, 2 and 3

c) 1, 2 and 4                                    d) 1, 3 and 4

12. Who among the following was the first Indian to receive the Templeton Award?

a) Baba Amte                                b) Mother Teresa

c) Dr. S.Radhakrishnan                d) Vinoba Bhave

13. Who among the following is the first Asian Winner of Nobel Prize?

a) Mother Teresa                            b) Rabindranath Tagore

c) C.V. Raman                               d) None of these

14.Pulitzer prize is awarded for outstanding work in the field of:

a) Science and Technology 

b) Literature and Journalism

c) International Understanding 

d) Environmental

15. The first Indira Gandhi Award for International Justice and harmony has been give to:

a) Larry Pressler

b) Hussain Ibrahim Zaki

c) Yasser Arafat

d) Amnesty International 

16.B.C. Roy Award is given in the field of:

a) Journalism                       b) Medicine

c) Music                              d) Environment 

17. Who is the first non-Indian to receive the Bharat Ratna?

a) Martin Luther King

b) Mother Teresa

c) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

d) Zubin Mehta

18. The first recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award is:

a) Limba Ram                       b) Vishwanathan Anand

c) Kapil Dev                         d) Leander Peas

19. India's highest award given for exceptional work in art, literature and recognition of public service of the highest order is:

a) Param Vir Chakra                             b) Bharat Ratna

c) Jnanpith Award                                d) Kalinga Award 

20. Dronacharya Award is given to:

a) Fire fighting operation 

b) Archery

c) Significant contribution in the spread of literacy

d) Outstanding coaching in athletics

21. Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar awards are given for:

a) Excellence in film direction

b) Outstanding contribution to Science

c) Exploring new dimensions in creative writing in Indian languages

d) Creating mass awareness on Environmental issues

22. Who was the first Indian to receive the World Food Prize?

a) Dr. Verghese Kurien                 b) Dr. M.S. Swaminathan

c) Dr. Amita Patel                        d) None of these

Answers:- 1. b)  2. c)  3. c)  4. d)  5. d)  6. b)  7. a)  8. d)  9. c)  10. c)  11. b)  12. c)  13. b)  14. b)  15. c)  16. a)  17. c)  18. b)  19. b)  20. d)  21. b)  22. b) 
  


Races and Tribes

1. People of 'Bantu' family Inhabiting is South Africa are called as

a) Veddas                              b) Bindibu

c) Zulus                                d) Gaucho

2. Natives of the tundra region (very cold high latitude areas) in Canada and Greenland are called as ?

a) Eskimos                          b) Mulattos

c) Flemish                           d) Papuans

3. Inhabitants of Belgium are

a) Cossacks                         b) Flemish 

c) Samites                           d) Hamites

4. Of the following which is wrongly matched?

       Inhabitants                        Country

a) Croats                                   - Croatia

b) Moors                                   - Malaysia 

c) Magyars                                - Hungary

d) Cossacks                               - Southern and Eastern parts of Russia

5. 'Veddas' are the racial stock of 

a) South Africa                   b) Australia

c) Sri Lanka                        d) Hungary

6. Which of the following gourp inhabit in the parts of Kenya and Tanzania?

a) Afridis                               b) Swahili

c) Moors                                d) Masuds

7. People of the Asiatic Tundra ( Nortern Russia) are called

a) Samoyeds                           b) Mulattos 

c) Hamites                              d) Berbers

8. Red Indians are mainly found in 

a) North-Africa                    b) South-America

c) Canada                             d) North-America

9. Papuans Mainly Tribal in which country?

a) New Zealand                   b) New Guinea

c) Argentina                         d) Belgium

10. Mixed tribe of Arabs and Berber people of Morocco are called as?

a) Moors                           b) Masai

c) Magyars                        d) Mulattos

11. Massai ( They are generally cattle rearers) a  Negro tribe mainly found in?

a) Asiatic Tundra                      b) East Africa

c) Russia                                   d) Siberia

12. 'Maoris' are original inhabitants of 

a) Australia                      b) New Zealand 

c) Japan                            d) China

13. Which of the following Tribe found in East Africa?

a) Australia                       b) Afridis

c) Bindibu                         d) Finns

14. Kaffris (these people are considered a marital people) are mainly found in which country?

a) Former Yugoslavia                    b) Hungary

c) South Africa                              d) Morocco

15. 'Todas' Tribe are mainly found in which state?

a) Tamil Nadu                                b) Goa

c) Andhra Pardesh                         d) Chattisgarh

16. 'Afridis' are found in 

a) Iran                                      b) Pakistan

c) Tibet                                    d) Nepal

17. Of the following which is wrongly matched?

    Tribe/Race                              Found in

a) Uralis                                    - Kerala

b) Mina                                      - Rajasthan

c) Bhils                                      - Asom

d) Garos                                     - Meghalaya

18. Which of the following Tribal inhabitants of Kalahari Desert in Africa. (They are excellent Stalkers and Hunters)

a) Bushmen                          b) Bantus

c) Aborigines                       d) Kaffris

19. Which of the following Race are not found in Andaman Nicobar?

a) Shomens                            b) Sentinelese

c) Onges                                d) Gaddis

20. 'Santhals' are found in 

a) West Bengal                       b) Jharkhand

c) Orissa                                 d) All the above states

21. 'Moplahs' (a tribe in Muslims) are mainly found in which Indian state?

a) Sikkim                                b) Madhya Pradesh

c) Kerala                                 d) Bihar

22. Mathc the following

a) Lushias                                 1.Tripura

b) Lepchas                                2. Manipur

c) Kuki                                      3. Sikkim

d) Kota                                       4. Tamil Nadu

A B C D                                    A B C D 

a) 1 2 3 4                                   b) 1 3 2 4 

c) 4 3 2 1                                   d) 4 2 3 1

23. Jarawas are found in

a) Little Andaman                      b) Andhra Pradesh

c) Car Nicobar                            d) Kerala

24. Which of the following Tribe/Race found in Asom & Nagaland?

a) Angami                                  b) Ao

c) Nagas                                     d) All the above

25. Which is wrongly matched?

  Tribe/Race                        Found in 

a) Apatami                         - Arunachal Pradesh

b) Gaddis                           - Himachal Pradesh

c) Khasis                            - Orissa

d) Abors                             - Asom, Arunachal Pradesh

Answers:- 1. c)  2. a)  3. b)  4. b)  5. c)  6. b)  7. a)  8. d)  9. b)  10. a)  11. b)  12. b)  13. a)  14. c)  15. a)  16. b)  17. c)  18. a)  19. a)  20. d)  21. c)  22. b)  23. a)  24. d)  25. c)
         

Tuesday, March 07, 2017



Books And Authors (Set-4)

76. The book 'Conquest of Self' was written by

a) Thomas Hardy                      b) Aldous Huxley 

c) Charles Dickens                   d) Mahatma Gandhi

77. Who is the author of the book 'Freedom Behind Bars'?

a) Kiran Bedi                        b) Nelson Mandela

c) Jawaharlal Nehru              d) Sheikh Abdullah

78. 'Rukh Te Rishi' (The Tree and the Saintly) is a work written by

a) Vijay Tendulkar 

b) Ramakanth Rath

c) Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan

d) Dr. Harbhajan Singh

79. The Famous book 'Interpreter of Maladies' written by

a) Romiia Thapar                             b) Anita Nair

c) Jhumpa Lahiri                              d) K.P.S. Menon

80. Who is the author of 'Hindu view of Life'?

a) C.Rajagopalachari  

b) Ashok Singhal

c) Acharya Narendra Dev

d) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

81. 'The Naked Face', a very popular book is written by

a) Larry Collins                         b) Dominique Lapierre

c) Juan Benet                             d) Sidney Sheldon

82. Who is the author of the book 'By God's Decree'?

a) Kuldip Nayar                    b) Aurobindo Ghosh

c) Kapil Dev                         d) Sharat Chandra Chatterjee

83. Who is the author of the book 'Naked Triangle'?

a) R.K. Narayan                     b) Khushwant Singh

c) Balwant Gargi                    d) Amrita Pritam

84. Who wrote Madhushala?

a) Jaishankar Prasad                          b) Ramdhari Singh Dinkar

c) Mahadevi Verma                           d) Harivanshrai Bachchan

85. The Book 'Yesterday and Today' was written by

a) Khushwant Singh                 b) S.C. Chatterji

c) Sir Walter Scott                    d) K.P.S. Menon

86. From the following pairs, Find the one which does not match the works with the correct author

a) Ganadevata -  Tarashankara Bandopadhyaya

b) Durgesh Nandini - Sarat Chandra Chatterjee

c) Chemmeen - T Sivasankara Pillai

d) Chandalika - Rabindranath Tagore

87. Who among the following is the author of the book 'The Future of Freedom' Published recently?

a) Tamara Lipper                       b) Richard Wolfee

c) Peter Hudson                         d) Fareed Zakaria

88. 'A Secular Agenda' is a book written by

a) M.J. Akbar                            b) Prem Shankar Jha

c) Arun Shourie                        d) Mani Shankar Aiyar

89. 'Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha', a very popular book, is written 

a) Norman Angell                   b) Rodney Doyle 

c) Arnold Tonybee                  d) Juan Benet

90. Who wrote 'Dragon's Seed'?

 a) Pearls S.Buck                        b) Shakespeare

c) Shelley                                   d) Keats

91. The book 'Gulliver's Travels' was written by:

a) Charles Lamb                  b) Charles Dickens

c) Alexander Dumas            d) Jonathan Swift

92. 'Higher than Hopes' is a biography of:

a) Mother Teresa                 b) Nelson Mandela

c) Bishop Tutu                     d) None of these

93. The Celebrated novel 'The Goldfather' was authored by 

a) John Milton                          b) Victor Hugo

c) Mario Puzo                           d) Harold Robbins

94. The Book 'Satanic Verses' was written by

a) Gunnar Myrdal                   b) Agatha Christie

c) William Golding                 d) Salman Rushidie

95. Who among the following authored the book 'Plain Speaking'?

a) A.B. Vajpayee                   b) E.K. Nayanar

c) L.K. Advani                      d) N. Chandrababu Naidu

96. The author of the book 'A Brief History of Time; is 

a) Carl Sagan                        b) John Schwarz

c) Mrehael Green                 d) Stephen Hawking 

97. What is the title of A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's autobiography?

a) Me and Missle                  b) My Memories 

c) Sky is the Limit                d) Wings of Fire

98. Who is the author of the book 'New Dimension of India's Foreign Policy'?

a) A.B. Vajpayee                    b) Jaswant Singh

c) P.C. Alexander                   d) Yashwant Sinha

99. Who among the following wrote the book 'Algebra of Infinite Justice'?

a) Anita Desai                      b) Vikram Seth 

c) Arundhati Roy                 d) Rohington Mistry

100. The autobiography 'Living History' has been authored by

a) Margaret Atwood            b) Benazir Bhutto

c) Hillary Clinton                d) Monica Lewinsky 

101. The author of  'Business @ Speed of Thought' is 

a) Dick Fransis                      b) John Gray

c) Bill Gates                          d) David Baldexi

Answer:- 76. d)  77. a)  78. d)  79. c)  80. d)  81. d)  82. c)  83. c)
84. d)  85. d)  86. b)  87. d)  88. c)  89. b)  90. a)  91.  d)  92. b)   
93. c)  94. d)  95. d)  95. d)  96. d)  97. d)  98. a)  99. c)  100. c)
101. c) 


Books And Authors (Set-3)

50. 'A Voice of Freedom' is a book written by

a) Benazir Bhutto                             b) Corazon Aquino 

c) Nayantara Sehgal                         d) Arun San Suu Kyi

51. Who wrote the book' A Passage to India?

a) Minoo Masani                           b) Jawaharlal Nehru

c) Victor Banerjee                         d) E.M. Forster

52. 'My Own Boswell' is the autobiography of

a) James Boswell                          b) Winston Churchill

c) Lord Mountbatten                     d) M. Hidayatullah

53. Who wrote the book 'The Prince'?

a) V.S. Sharma                       b) Bernand Shaw

c) Emile Zola                         d) Niccolo Machiaveli

54. Which book is entitled as 'Bible of Communism'

a) Affluent Society                    b) War and Peace

c) Das Kapital                           d) Gulag Archipelago

55. Who wrote the book 'A Prisoner's Scrapbook'?

a) Nelson Mandela                    b) L.K. Advani

c) Bertrand Russel                     d) Jane Austen

56. Who is the author of famous book 'Midnight's' Children ?

a) Vikram Seth                          b) Nayantara Sehgal

c) Salman Rushdie                    d) V.S. Naipaul

57. The Novel 'Post Office' was written by

a) Rabindernath Tagore                       b) K.M. Munshi

c) R.D. Dinkar                                     d) Neeraj

58. Gunnar Myrdal has dealt with the problems of Asian Countries in 'Asian Drama' regarding

a) Modern countries                            b) Poverty

c) Military dictatorship                        d) Neo-colonialism

59. Famous play 'Macbeth' is written by

a) Leo Tolstoy                        b) William Shakespeare

c) John Milton                        d) Charles Dickens

60. The much discussed book 'The Indian Controversises' has been written by

a) Salman Rushdie                     b) Arun Shourie

c) Anita Desai                            d) Khushwant Singh

61. The book 'Friends and Foes' is written by

a) Abdul Kalam Azad                         b) Z.A. Bhutto

c) Sheikh Mujibur Rehman                d) Zia-ul-Haque

62. Who wrote the famous book - 'We the People'?

a) J.R.D. Tata                      b) Khushwant Singh

c) T.N. Kaul                        d) Nani Palkhivala

63. The book 'A Wounded Civilisation' was written by

a) Leo Tolstoy                     b) V.S. Naipaul

c) Lewis Caroll                   d) Ben Johnson

64.'India of our dreams' is a book written by

a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad                    b) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

c) Dr. C. Subramaniam                   d) M.V. Kamath

65. Who is the author of the best seller book 'No Full Stops in India'?

a) Shyam Lal                             b) E.M. Forster

c) Mark Tully                            d) Raj Mohan Gandhi

66. The famous book 'Anandmath' was authored by 

a) Rabindranath Tagore                b) Bankim Chandra Chetarji

c) Sarojini Naidu                          d) Sri Aurobindo

67. 'Step Across This Line' is a book written by

a) Rohinton Mistry                        b) Salman Rushdie

c) Vikram Seth                              d) V.S. Naipaul

68. The Author of the book 'Waiting for the Mahatma' is 

a) Amrita Pritam                        b) R.K. Narayan

c) N.A. Palkhiwala                    d) Manohar Malgonkar

69. Which of the following is not correctly matched?

a) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

b) Airport - Arthur Hailey

c) Bermuda Triangle - Lewis Wallace

d) Arabian Nights - Richard Burton

70. Who is the author of the controversial book 'Forbidden Verses'?

a) Abu Nawaz                     b) Salman Rushdie

c) D.H. Lawrence               d) Ms. Taslima Nasrin

71. Who is the author of 'Is Paris Burning'?

a) Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre

b) Salman Rushdie

c) Henry Kissinger 

d) None of these

72. 'The Gathering Storm' is written by

a) Winston Churchill                   b) Voltaire

c) George Washington                 d) Romain Rolland

73. The Book 'A Village By the Sea' was written by

a) Anita Desai                    b) Khushwant Singh

c) Mulk Raj Anand            d) Dominique Lapierre

74. 'Life Divine' was written by

a) Abul Fazal                   b) Mahatma Gandhi 

c) Vivekanand                 d) Sri Aurobindo

75. 'Netaji, Dead or Alive' has been written by

a) Khushwant Singh                     b) Mulk Raj Anand

c) Semar Guha                             d) Kuldip Nayar

Answer:- 50. c)  51. d)  52. d)  54. c)  55. b)  56. c)  57. a)  58. b)  59. b)  60. b)  61. c)  62. d)  63. b)  64. d)  65. c)  66. b)  67. b)  68. b)  69. c)  70. a)  71. a)  72. a)  73. a)  74. d)  75. c)   




Wednesday, March 01, 2017



Books And Authors (Set-2)

23. Who is the author of the book 'We Indians'?

a) Subramanya Swamy                     b) Khushwant Singh

c) Mulk Raj Anand                           d) Nirad C. Chaudhary

24. In which of the following novels, Charles Dickens is most autobiographical?

a) Great Expectations               b) David Copperfield

c) Tale of Two Cities                d) Old Curiosity Shop

25. The Book 'A Farewell to Arms' was written by

a) Charles Dickens                            b) Thomas Hardy

c) Ernest Hemingway                       d) Huxley

26. A Famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice' is written by

a) R.I. Stevenson                              b) George Eliot

c) Charles Dickens                           d) Jane Austen

27. Who has written the famous book 'Anna Karenina'?

a) Victor Hugo                                 b) Boris Pasternak

c) Lewis Carroll                               d) Leo Tolstoy

28. Who has written the book 'India wins Freedom'?

a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad                   

b) C. Rajagopalachari

c) Sardar Vallabhhai Patel

d) Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad

29. Who wrote the book 'Gandhi and Stalin'?

a) Rajmohan Gandhi                       b) Nelson Mandela

c) Louis Fisher                                d) Martin Luther

30.'Autobiography of An Unknown Indian', is a book written by which of the following?

a) R.K. Narayan                            b) Nirad C. Chaudhary

c) R.K. Laxman                            d) Rajmohan Gandhi

31. Who is the author of the famous book 'The Judgement?

a) Janardan Thakur                                b) R.Venkataraman

c) Authony Mascarenhas                      d) Kuldip Nayar

32. Who Wrote 'War and Peace'?

a) Mahatma Gandhi                             b) Rudyard Kipling

c) Leo Tolstoy                                      d) Charles Dickens 

33. Who among the following is the author of the book 'The Fall of A Sparrow'?

a) Pearl S.Buck                                b) Salim Ali

c) Eric Segal                                    d) Khushwant Singh

34. The author of 'Tamas' is

a) K.S. Duggal                             b) Bhishma Sahani

c) Khushwant Singh                    d) Mulk Raj Anand

35. Who is the author of the Book 'My Presidential Years'?

a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad                b) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

c) R. Venkataraman                    d) Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

36. Who is the author of the famous book 'Crossing the Threshold of Hope'?

a) Nelson Mandela                  b) Mother Teresa

c) Pope John Paul II                d) Alwin Toffler

37. 'Gita Govinda' is written by

a) Valmiki                              b) Tulsidas

c) Jaya Dev                           d) Maithili Sharan Gupta

38. The Book 'Broken Wings' was written by

a) Maithili Sharan Gupta                      b) R.K. Narayan

c) Amrita Pritam                                  d) Sarojini Naidu

39. The Book 'Prison Diary' was written by

a) Jai Prakash Narayan                 b) Atal Behari Vajpayee

c) Moraji Desai                            d) Jawaharlal Nehru

40. Who is the author of 'Freedom at Midnight'?

a) J.L. Nehru                         b) Acharya J.B. Kripalani

c) M.K. Gandhi                    d) Dominique Lapierre & Larry Collins

41. Which of the following pairs of books and authors is wrongly matched?

a) As You Like it - Boris Pasternak 

b) Dr. Zhivago - Boris Pasternak 

c) Good Earth - Jonathan Swift

d) Between The Lines - Kuldip Nayar

42. Which of the following books is written by R.N. Tagore?

a) Rakta Karabi                          b) Anand Math

c) Chidambara                           d) Durgesh Nandini

43. 'Years of Pilgrimage' is the autobiography of which of the following Indians?

a) Naresh Mehta                       b) K.K. Nair

c) Dr. Raja Ramanna                d) Dr. Sitakant Mohapatra

44. The famous book 'The Daughter of the East' is written by

a) Ms. Benazir Bhutto                 b) Ms. Taslima Nasreen

c) Ms. Aungsan Suu Kyi             d) Ms. Bandarnaike Sirimavo

45. Who among the following wrote 'Glimpses of World History'?

a) Mahatma Gandhi                        b) Rajendra Prasad

c) Mulk Raj Anand                         d) Jawaharlal Nehru

46. Lala Lajpat Rai is the author of the book

a) India Divided                  b) Hind Swaraj

c) Unhappy India                d) Mother India

47. Who Among the following is the author of the book 'The Impressionist?

a) Tarun Tejpal                    b) Vishnu Bhagat

c) Jaswant Singh                 d) George Fernandes

48. The book 'Gulliver's Travels' was written by

a) Charles Lamb                       b) Charles Dickens 

c) Alexander Dumas                d) Jonathan Swift

49. The Book 'To Live or Not to Live' was written by

a) Alexander Dumas                   b) Nirad C.Chaudhary

c) V.S. Naipaul                            d) George Eliot

23. b)  24. b)  25. c)  26. d)  27.d)  28. d)  29. c)  30. b)  31. d)  32. c)  33. b)  34. b)  35. c)  36. c)  37. c)  38. d)  39. a)  40. d)  41. c)  42. a)  43. c)  44. a)  45. d)  46. c)  47. c)  48. d)  49. b)


Books and Authors (Set-1)

1. Who wrote the book titled Runs and Ruins ?

a) Kapil Dev                           b) Imran Khan

c) Sunil Gavaskar                  d) None of these

2. Who wrote the Naked Triangle?

a) Balwant Gargi                      b) Khushwant Singh

c) Amrita Pritam                      d) None of these

3. Kautilya's Arthashastra is a 

a) Law book                    b) Treatise

c) Hymns                        d) Gazetteer

4. Who is the author of Swami and Friends?

a) R.K. Laxman                       b) R.K. Narayan

c) Mulk Raj Anand                 d) None of these

5. Panchatantra was written by

a) Bhasa                                  b) Jaya Deva

c) Vishnu Sharma                   d) Banabhatta

6. The Authors of Shahnama and Akbarnama are respectively

a) Firdausi and Abul Fazal

b) Abdul Fazal and Firdausi

c) Abul Fazal and Sheikh Sayed

d) None of these

7. Author of Arthashastra was

a) Kalidasa                              b) Kautilya

c) Bhavabhuti                         d) None of these

8. One of the great epics of Aryans, the Mahabharata Consists of 

a) 18 books and 10,000 Couplets

b) 18 Books and 5,000 Couplets

c) 15 Books and 10,000 couplets

d) 13 books and 10,000 couplets

9. The number of the Upanishads are 

a) Three Hundred                    b) Two Hundred 

c) Four hundred                      d) Five hundred

10. The author of Malavikagnimitra was

a) Harsena                        b) Kalidasa

c) Vatsabhatti                   d) Bhavabhuti

11. Meghadootam was written by

a) Bhavabhuti                                b) Kalidasa

c) Maharishi Ved Vyas                  d) Maharishi Valmiki

12. Rajatarangini was written by

a) jaya Devas                                b) Kalhana

c) Somadeva                                 d) Banabhatta

13. Which is the controversial book, some pages of which were kept sealed in the Calcutta Museum to be released after 40 years of independence in 1988?

a) Freedom at Midnight                 b) India wins Freedom

c) India Divided                             d) None of these

14. Mitakshara the ancient took was written by

a) Rajashekhara                   b) Vijneswara

c) Somadeva                        d) None of these

15.Match the following 

A. Bana                              1. The Fox and the Grapes

B. Asvaghosha                   2. Iliad

C. Homer                           3. Kadambari

D. Aesop                           4. Buddhacharita

A B C D                                  A B C D 

a) 3 2 1 4                            b) 3 1 4 2 

c) 2 4 1 3                            d) 3 4 1 2

16. Which of the following Acts enabied the Government of India to put a ban on The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie?

a) National Security Act                           b) Customs Act

c) Immoral Trafficking Act                      d) None of these

17. Who is the author of controversial book Gatha Adi Shree Guru Granth Sahib?

a) Akhilesh Jaiswal                           b) Dr. Piar Singh

c) Dr. Rita Joshi                                d) Dr. Piara Singh

18.Who is the author of 'Bharat-Bharati'?

a) Mahadevi Verma                        b) Ramdhari Singh Dinkar

c) Maithili Sharan Gupta               d) Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'

19. Who is the author of the book 'My Experiments with Truth'?

a) Micheal Anderson                        b) Jarnes Morris

c) Mahatma Gandhi                          d) Winston Churchill

20. Who is the author of the book 'Sword and the Sickle'?

a) R.K. Laxman                        b) K.P.S. Menon

c) R.K. Narayan                       d) Mulk Raj Anand

21. Which of the following pairs of books and authors is correct?

a) My India                       - V.V. Giri

b) Dark Room                   - R.K. Narayan

c) My Truth                      - Raj Mohan Gandhi

d) Untold Story                - Jagjit Singh Arora

22. Which of the following book has been written by Vikram Seth?

a) My God Died Young                b) Islamic Bomb

c) Look Back in Anger                 d) A Suitable Boy.

1. c)  2. a)  3. b)  4. b)  5. c)  6. a)  7. b)  8. a)  9. a)  10. b)  11. b)  12. b)  13. b)  14. b)  15. d)  16. b)  17. b)  18. c)  19. c)  20. d)  21. b)  22. d)   


Sports

1. The first recorded ancient Olympics was held in

a) 700 BC                              b) 776 BC

c) 310 BC                              d) 450 BC

2. Who started the ancient Olympic Games?

a) The Romans                     b) The Greeks

c) The Egyptians                  d) None of these

3. Who is said to be the father of Modern Olympics?

a) Robert Dover                   b) Pierre de Coubertin

c) Theodosius I                    d) Ernest Curits

4. In which year did the first modern Olympic Game take place?

a) 1908                                  b) 1904

c) 1896                                  d) 1895

5. The Symbol of the Summer Olympic Games comprises

a) Five rings of the same colour

b) Five rings of the different colours

c) Four blue rings

d) Four rings of the different colours

6. The Summer Olympic Games are normally held at intervals of

a) 2 years                        b) 3 years

c) 4 years                        d) 5 years

7. The Winter Olympic Games came into being in the year

a) 1908                                  b) 1912

c) 1916                                  d) 1924

8. The Commonwealth Games were earlier called

a) British Colonies Sports Festival

b) British Empire Sports Festival

c) Royal Colonial Games

d) None of the above

9. When did the first Commonwealth Games take place?

a) 1948                                b) 1930

c) 1934                                d) 1945

10. In which year were the first Asian Games held?

a) 1947                            b)1951

c) 1955                            d) 1958

11. Which among the following countries hosted the First Asian Games?

a) Indonesia                                   b) Former USSR

c) India                                          d) China

12. Which of the following games is Davis Cup associated with?

a) Volleyball                                  b) Badminton

c) Tennis                                       d) Handball

13. Ranji Trophy and Aga Khan Cup are associated with

a) Cricket and Football                           b) Cricket and Volleyball

c) Cricket and Hockey                            d) Badminton and Hockey

14. Which game is associated with the Durand Cup?

a) Hockey                                b) Football

c) Badminton                          d) Golf

15. The term 'Butterfly' stroke in sports in associated with 

a) Basketball                         b) Swimming

c) Rowing                            d) Golf

16. Santosh Trophy' is associated with which of the following sports

a) Cricket                             b) Hockey

c) Football                           d) Table Tennis

17. India first took part in the olympic Games in the year

a) 1920                                      b) 1928

c) 1972                                     d) 1974

18. The headquarters of International Olympic Committee is at 

a) Lausanne (Switzerland)                 b) Moscow (Russia)

c) Los Angeles (U.S.A.)                    d) New York (U.S.A.)

19. 'Bishop' is related to which sports?

a) Golf                                     b) Tennis

c) Chess                                   d) Swimming

20. The Olympic Flag was created in

a) 1912                                    b) 1913

c) 1917                                    d) 1915

21. Winbledon open held in which country?

a) U.S.A.                                  b) France

c) Australia                              d) England

22. What is the Motto of '2012 London Olympic games'

a) Make Britain Proud                        b) One World-One London

c) One World - One Dream                d) Unity by the Movement

23. The 29th Summer Olympics will be the held in 2008 at Beijing (China). What is the Muscot of the games

a) Beibei                                b) Jingjing

c) Huanhuan                         d) Yingying

e) Ninin

a) A, B, C                              b) A, B, C, D, E

c) A, D, E                              d) A, B ,C, D

24. Beijing Olympic games Motto is?

a) One world - One Dream                

b) Make China Proud

c) Two Nations - One Country

d) Unity by the Movement

25. About India's performance which of the following is wrongly matched?

a) In 2006 Melboume 'Commonwealth' games India's place-Fourth

b) In 2006 Colombo 'SAF' games India's Place - First 

c) In 2006 Doha 'Asian' games India's place - Eighth

d) In 2006 Germany 'World Cup Hokey' India's place - Third

26. Who created the record of youngest Grand Master in the world and Second youngest in the history of the game?

a) Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine)                  b) Parimarjan Negi (India)

c) Sandipan Chanda (India)                    d) David Howell (England)


Answer:- 1. b)  2. b)  3. b)  4. c)  5. b)  6. c)  7. d)  8. b)  9. b)  10. b)  11. c)  12. c)  13. c)  14. b)  15. b)  16. c)  17. a)  18.  a)  19. c)  20. b)  21. d)  22. a)  23. b)  24. a)  25. d)  26. b)

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