General Knowledge

Pingali Venkayya is credited with designing the Indian National Flag, which was adopted in its present form in 1947.

Aristotle is the Greek philosopher who famously stated that man is by nature a social animal in his work, Politics.

The 2010 Men's Hockey World Cup was hosted by India in New Delhi.

Indifference curves represent combinations of goods that provide equal satisfaction; they slope downward from left to right because of the trade-off between goods.

Wheat is the most significant Rabi crop in India, typically sown in winter and harvested in spring.

Judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) are elected by the UN General Assembly and Security Council for a term of nine years.

Greenland is the largest island in the world, excluding continents like Australia.

The US President is not elected by a direct popular vote but by the Electoral College, where electors are chosen by the states.

Ghana Bird Sanctuary, now known as Keoladeo National Park, is located in Bharatpur, Rajasthan.

Questionnaires are considered objective methods because they provide structured, quantifiable data, whereas interviews and observations can be more subjective.

Sir Thomas Roe was an English diplomat who visited the court of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir in 1615.

Andha Yuga is a famous Hindi play written by the poet and playwright Dharamvir Bharati.

The 10th Schedule of the Indian Constitution, added by the 52nd Amendment, contains the anti-defection law.

The Panchatantra is an ancient Indian collection of interrelated animal fables in Sanskrit, attributed to Vishnu Sharma.

Oxalic acid is commonly used to remove ink stains from wood and other surfaces as it acts as a mild bleaching agent.

Ashtadhyayi is a foundational Sanskrit grammar treatise written by the scholar Panini.

Lala Lajpat Rai was a prominent Indian nationalist leader known as Punjab Kesari (Lion of Punjab).

The line 'A thing of beauty is a joy forever' is the opening line of the poem Endymion by John Keats.

Gitanjali is a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore, for which he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

According to census data, Bengali is the second most spoken language in India after Hindi.

The first synchronous census in India was conducted in 1881 under the administration of Lord Ripon.

Charles Lamb used the pen name Elia for his essays, most notably in the collection Essays of Elia.