General Knowledge - India Focus
Challenging general knowledge questions covering Indian history, geography, polity, science, sports, and current affairs
Questions
In the british system, one gallon equals (litres)
- 3.785
- 2.965
- 6.001
- 4.546
The shortest rail station name is lb which is located in
- Rajasthan
- Orissa
- Tamil nadu
- Kerala
The vikrama Era started in
- 58 BC
- AD 58
- 78 BC
- AD 78
Which of the following is not a fibre plant?
- Mesta
- Jute
- Hemp
- Cocoa
Which of the following states shares a border with seven states?
- Madhya Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh
- Tripura
- Assam
The first person to call rabindra nath Tagore as Gurudev was
- Netaji subhash Chandra Bose
- Vallabh bhai Patel
- Mahatma Gandhi
- C.R. Das
Aveo is a car brand owned by
- GM
- Ford
- Nissan
- Honda
Which Indian state has become the first to announce pensions for AIDS victims under the madhubana pension yojna scheme?
- Manipur
- A.P.
- Orissa
- Tripura
The original name of swami dayanand saraswati was
- Mool shankar
- Dyan shankar
- Gowri shankar
- Abhi shankar
Which governor general took the initiative of establishing the kaziranga wild life sanctuary?
- Lord Curzon
- Lord Cornwallis
- Rippon
- Lord Dalhousie
In Feb 08, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh laid the foundation stone for India's largest hydroelectric power project, the dibang power project, which is located in
- Arunachal Pradesh
- Meghalaya
- Mizoram
- Sikkim
The narita international airport is located in
- Moscow
- Turin
- Tokyo
- Shanghai
When a ship crosses the International Date Line west to east it
- Gains one day
- Loses one day
- Gains 12 hours
- Loses 12 hours
The largest population of scheduled tribes is found in
- Sikkim
- Mghalaya
- Madhya Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh
The total number of members in a legislative council should not exceed that of a legislative assembly by
- one fourth
- two third
- half
- one third
Which sensitive instrument is used to measure relative humidity?
- Bolometer
- Anemometer
- Hygrometer
- Odometer
Deodhar trophy is associated with
- Hockey
- Football
- kabadi
- Cricket
The type of unemployment mostly found in India can be characterized as
- disguised
- frictional
- cyclical
- structural
The deputy chairman of the planning commission
- holds the rank of a cabinet minister
- is always the planning minister
- is always the prime minister
- is always an economist of repute
Which of the following pair of states- high courts is mismatched?
- Kerala- ernakulam
- Rajasthan - Jodhpur
- Madhya Pradesh - Bhopal
- Karnataka - Bangalore
The widely used antibiotic, penicillin is produced by
- Synthetic means
- A bacterium
- A fungus
- An alga
Name the tax collected by monarchs from the people in Vedic period
- Vidhata
- Varman
- Bali
- Kara
Which of the following were the main characteristics of the Indus valley civilization?
- Pucca houses
- Well laid roads
- Drainage system
- Town planning
The position of earth when it is nearest to the sun is called
- Perihelion
- Perigee
- Aphelion
- Apogee
The period of high inflation and low economic growth is termed as
- recession
- stagnation
- stagflation
- depression