01) The Jim Corbett National Park is situated in which state of India?
a) Karnataka
b) Bihar
c) Uttarakhand
d) Rajasthan
02) Who among the following was an eminent physician?
a) Morarji Desai
b) Bidhan Chandra
Roy
c) Jyoti Basu
d) Aruna Asaf Ali
03) Zika virus first discovered in 1947 and is named after the
Zika _______ in Uganda.
a) Desert
b) River
c) Hill
d) Forest
04) Article 300A of the Constitution of India deals with:
a) Financial
emergency
b) All – India
services
c) Right to
education
d) Right to
property
05) The food Corporation of India was set up in _______ under
the Food Corporations Act, 1964 with the primary objective of purchasing,
storing, moving/ transporting, distributing and selling foodgrains and other
foodstuffs.
a) 1972
b) 1969
c) 1965
d) 1970
06) The Radcliffe Line demarcates India’s border with which of
the following countries?
a) Bangladesh
b) Nepal
c) Pakistan
d) China
07) A safety seat belt in a car exerts a force on our body to:
a) Facilitate
some kind of backward motion
b) Make our
forward motion faster
c) Rule out any
kind of backward motion
d) Make our
forward motion slower
08) Ostriches were found in India during the Palaeolithic
period. Large quantities of ostrich egg. Shells were found at _______.
a) Inamgaon
b) Patne
c) Patna
d) Chirand
09) Which of the following Committees is associated with the
‘Ecology of Western Ghats’?
a) Gadgil
Committee
b) Sarkaria
Committee
c) Khan Committee
d) Mishra
Committee
10) During which of the following sessions of Indian National
Congress did Subhash Chandra Bose resign from the Presidentship of INC?
a) Tripuri
b) Calcutta
c) Jaipur
d) Haripura
11) The East India Company acquired a charter from the ruler of
England, Queen Elizabeth I, granting it the sole right to trade with the East
in the year:
a) 1600
b) 1800
c) 1401
d) 1500
12) Chemical disinfection of drinking water can be done using:
a) Bromine
b) Fluorine
c) Chlorine
d) Iodine
13) Who is the Visitor of the Pondicherry University?
a) Lt. Governor
of Puducherry
b) Vice President
of India
c) President of
India
d) Prime Minister
of India
14) In 2020, Scientists from Agharkar Research Institute, Pune,
discovered two new species of a plant group known as pipeworts, from the:
a) Thar Desert
b) Himalayas
c) Western Ghats
d) Eastern Ghats
15) As per the Indian Minerals Yearbook 2015, which state is the
largest producer of mica in India?
a) Odisha
b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Telangana
d) Andhra Pradesh
16) The Consumer Price Index or CPI is an index used to
calculate the _______ of a country.
a) Forex
b) GDP growth
c) Income tax
d) Retail
Inflation
17) Which of the following is a cause of pollution of water
resources?
a) Dead aquatic
plants
b) Deforestation
c) Dead aquatic
animals
d) Radioactive
substances
18) In December 2020, which of the following states launched a
campaign called ‘Varasat’ to curb property and land-related disputes in rural
areas?
a) Uttar Pradesh
b) Bihar
c) Odisha
d) Rajasthan
19) In 2020, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
(CSIR) and KPIT Technologies successfully ran trials of India’s first Hydrogen
Fuel Cell (HFC) prototype car running on an indigenously developed fuel cell
stack at CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, _______.
a) Delhi
b) Chandigarh
c) Pune
d) Hyderabad
20) With which of the following states does Tripura share a
common border?
a) Arunachal
Pradesh
b) West Bengal
c) Assam
d) Nagaland
21) Gandhiji started his famous Dandi March from:
a) Sevagram
Ashram
b) Sabarmati
Ashram
c) Porbandar
House
d) Agra Fort
22) Who among the following won the ‘ICC Spirit of Cricket Award
of the Decade’ in December 2020?
a) Sachin
Tendulkar
b) Kumar
Sangakkara
c) Jacques Kallis
d) MS Dhoni
23) On which day does India observe National Consumer Day?
a) 23rd
August
b) 24th
December
c) 1st
January
d) 5th
January
24) The _______ receives blood from the right atrium and pumps
it to the lungs, where it is loaded with oxygen.
a) Right
ventricle
b) Left ventricle
c) Left atrium
d) Mitral valve
25) Malicious software is any program or file that is harmful to
a computer user. Which of the following is malicious software?
a) Malware
b) Nero Burning
ROM
c) Bonjour
d) CCleaner
26) Regur Soil is another name of:
a) Black Soil
b) Alluvial Soil
c) Laterite Soil
d) Red and Yellow
Soil
27) Which state became the first ‘Har Ghar Jal State’ in India
with 100% tap water connections in October 2020?
a) Goa
b) Gujarat
c) Haryana
d) Punjab
28) Which of the following Articles of the Constitution of India
cites that it is the duty of every citizen of India to develop a scientific
temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform?
a) 73
b) 65B
c) 51A
d)
29) Which of the following micro-states/micro-nations formally
joined the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on 16 October 2020 becoming the
crisis lender’s 190th member state?
a) Sealand
b) Liechtenstein
c) Andorra
d) San Marino
30) Who among the following is NOT included in the ICC Men’s T20
Team of the Decade as per the list released by International Cricket Council
(ICC) on 27 December 2020?
a) Lasith Malinga
b) Pat Cummins
c) Jasprit Bumrah
d) Rashid Khan
31) The Kudankulam Civilian Nuclear Power Plant was built by
India in joint collaboration with _______.
a) France
b) Russia
c) Japan
d) Germany
32) A _______ is a passive two-terminal electrical component
that implements electrical resistance as circuit element.
a) Capacitor
b) Resistor
c) Diode
d) Transistor
33) Who among the following discovered vaccination against
anthrax?
a) Maurice
Hilleman
b) Edward Jenner
c) Robert Koch
d) Louis Pasteur
34) Ansupa lake is situated in _______.
a) Odisha
b) Assam
c) Uttarakhand
d) Bihar
35) A simple pendulum consists of a small metallic ball or a
piece of stone suspended from a rigid stand by a thread. The metallic ball is
called the _______ of the pendulum.
a) Hinge
b) Bob
c) Knob
d) Head
36) Which of the following is NOT necessarily a part of a school
laboratory compound microscope?
a) Mirror
b) Objective lens
c) Eye-piece
d) Camera
37) With reference to computers and the internet, which of the
following appears to be harmless but actually produces harmful results?
a) Worm
b) Trojan horse
c) Patch
d) Virus hoax
38) As of December 2020, how many RAMSAR sites does India have?
a) 47
b) 38
c) 49
d) 42
39) As of December 2020, Neiphiu Rio is the Chief Minister of
_______.
a) Sikkim
b) Nagaland
c) Arunachal
Pradesh
d) Manipur
40) Which of the following is NOT a type of rock?
a) Igneous
b) Metamorphic
c) Ox-bow
d) Sedimentary
41) Which of the following is NOT a noble gas?
a) Argon
b) Boron
c) Krypton
d) Neon
42) The velocity-time graph for uniform motion of a car is:
a) A straight
line with non-zero slope and intercept
b) A parabola
c) A straight
line passing through the origin
d) A straight
line parallel to the time axis
43) Which of the following Sultanats was ruled by the Nizam
Shahi Dynasty?
a) Golconda
b) Ahmednagar
c) Bijapur
d) Berar
44) Union Budget 2020-21 allocated _______ crore for the overall
healthcare sector.
a) Rs 69,000
b) Rs 35,000
c) Rs 75,000
d) Rs 82,000
45) The National Education Policy 2020 has set the target to
increase public investment in the education sector to reach _______ per cent of
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at the earliest.
a) 8
b) 7.5
c) 6
d) 7
46) Which of the following sports will make its Olympic Games
debut at the 2024 Paris Games (2024 Summer Olympics)?
a) Cricket
b) Bowling
c) Breaking
d) Kabaddi
47) Who among the following launched E-Sapada, a web portal and
mobile app on Good Governance Day in December 2020?
a) Prakash
Javadekar
b) Narendra Singh
Tomar
c) Mahendra Nath
Pandey
d) Hardeep S Puri
48) Which of the following statement is correct?
a) 2 members of
the Lok Sabha are nominated by the Speaker of the Lok Sabha
b) 12 members of
the Rajya Sabha are nominated by the President
c) 4 members of
the Lok Sabha are nominated by the President.
d) 2 members of
the Rajya Sabha are nominated by the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha.
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