Quiz 40: Basic General Knowledge →All Exams

1.Consider the following states:
1. Madhya Pradesh
2. Maharastra
3. Odisha
Chhattisgarh was carved out of which among the above states?
[A]Only 1
[B]1 & 2
[C]1 & 3
[D]1, 2 & 3

2.Who among the following is the chairman of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)?
[A]Prime Minister of India
[B]Minister of Science & Technology
[C]Secretary, Department of Technology
[D]None of them

3.CDRI is among the thirty eight laboratories that are functioning under the aegis of the council of scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) of India. Where is located CDRI (Central Drug Research Institute)?
[A]Bhopal
[B]Lucknow
[C]Kolkata
[D]Bangalore

4.Year 1757 is remembeered to which among the following battles?
[A]Battle of Plassey
[B]Battle of Chinsura
[C]Battle of Buxar
[D]Battle of Poona

5.Who among the following had written the Novel "Pather Panchali", which was base of the film of same name by Satyajeet Ray?
[A]Bankimchandra Chatterjee
[B]Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
[C]Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
[D]Shambhunath Pandit

6.Euro Cup is related to which sports?
[A]Badminton
[B]Football
[C]Table Tennis
[D]Hockey

7.Which among the following laws of Physics explain about the ellipitical orbits of planetary bodies?
[A]Newton's Law
[B]Kepler's Law
[C]Snell's law
[D]Coulomb's law

8.Which among the following is the longest National Highway of India?
[A]National Highway 4
[B]National Highway 7
[C]National Highway 8
[D]National Highway 10

Explanation
9.In which year, Uniguage Project was started in India?
[A]1991
[B]1992
[C]1993
[D]1994

10.Which among the following highway connects Sikkim with rest of India?
[A]National Highway 31A
[B]National Highway 32A
[C]National Highway 28
[D]National Highway 26A

11.In which among the following cities, world’s highest efficiency solar thermal cooling system was recently installed?
[A]Gurgaon
[B]Noida
[C]Ghaziabad
[D]Faridabad

Explanation
12.In which among the following states is being set up the National Institute of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management (NIFTEM)?
[A]Rajasthan
[B]Haryana
[C]Andhra Pradesh
[D]Karnataka

Explanation
13.In which of the following years, Rupee became the standard coin in India?
[A]1806
[B]1835
[C]1852
[D]1816

Explanation
14.In which year Calcutta became Capital of British India?
(A) 1768
(B) 1770
(C) 1772
(D) 1776

15.The Excavated Buddhist Site, Lalitgiri , which was notified as Centrally Protected in the year 1937, is located in which among the following states of India?
[A]Andhra Pradesh
[B]Odisha
[C]West Bengal
[D]Karnataka