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1. Who among the following Sikh Gurus had laid the foundation of Amritsar?(a) Guru Amar Das(b) Guru Ram Das(c) Guru Arjan Dev(d) Guru Har GovindAns: (b) The foundation of Amritsar was laid in 1577 by Guru Ram Das (1534-81).

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3. Which monument is known as “The National Monument of India”?(a) India Gate(b) Gateway of India(c) Raj Ghat(d) Red fortAns: (a) The India Gate, originally called the All India War Memorial, is the national monument of India. Located in New Delhi, it is a memorial to 82,000 soldiers of the undivided Indian Army who died in the period 1914–21.

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4. Who was the founder of Arya Samaj?

(a) Acharya Narendra Dev

(b) Dayanand Saraswati

(c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

(d) Acharya Vinoba Bhave

Ans: (b) The Arya Samaj (Noble Society) was founded in

Bombay by Swami Dayanand Saraswati on 7 April 1875.

Arya Samaj is a Hindu reform movement that promotes

values and practices based on the infallibility of the

Vedas.DI

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6. Which place is said to be the Manchester of South India?

(a) Coimbatore (b) Salem

(c) Thanjavur (d) Madurai

Ans: (a) Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu is often referred to as

the “Manchester of South India” due to its cotton production

and textile industries. It is also referred to as the “Pump

City” as it supplies nearly half of India’s requirements of

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7. A galvanometer can be converted into a voltmeter by

connecting with it a

(a) high resistance in parallel

(b) low resistance on parallel

(c) high resistance on series

(d) low resistance in series

Ans: (c) In order to convert a Galvanometer into

voltmeter, a very high resistance known as “series

resistance” is connected in series with the galvanometer. DILL

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8. In computer processing, ______ selects processes from the

pool and loads them into memory for execution.

(a) Job Scheduler

(b) Resource Scheduler

(c) CPU Scheduler

(d) Process Scheduler

Ans: (a) A job scheduler, also known as long term

scheduler, determines which programs are admitted to

the system for processing. It selects processes from the

queue and loads them into memory for execution.DI

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9. Pannalal Ghosh played which of the following musical

instruments?

(a) Flute (b) Sitar

(c) Violin (d) Santoor

Ans: (a) Pannalal Ghosh, also known as Amal Jyoti Ghosh,

was an Indian flute player. He was a disciple of Alauddin

Khan and is credited with popularizing the flute as a

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10. The beach sands of Kerala are rich in

(a) Calcium (b) Radium

(c) Thorium (d) Manganese

Ans: (c) The beach sand in Kerala contains one of the rich

deposits of thorium in the world. Thorium, also known

as the ‘strategic nuclear fuel of India,’ is a radioactive

material contained in a mineral called monazite in sand.

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11. During which of the following operating conditions of an

automobile, carbon monoxide content in exhaust gas is

maximum?

(a) Acceleration

(b) Cruising

(c) Idle running

(d) Deacceleration

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12. India’s first Railway University will come up at

(a) Vadodara, Gujarat

(b) Bengaluru, Karnataka

(c) Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

(d) Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

Ans: (a) The government, in January 2016, announced

that Vadodara in Gujarat will be home to the country’s

first railway university. The present campus for National

Academy of Indian Railways (NAIR), Vadodara, (at Pratap

Vilas Palace) will be initially used to start the railway

university.

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13. The Himalayas is the example of

(a) Fold mountains

(b) Block mountains

(c) Ancient mountains

(d) Residual mountains

Ans: (a) The Himalayas is an example of Fold mountains

that are created where two or more of Earth’s tectonic

plates are pushed together. At these colliding,

compressing boundaries, rocks and debris are warped

and folded into rocky outcrops, hills, mountains, and

entire mountain ranges.DI

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14. The largest irrigation canal in India is ________

(a) Yamuna canal

(b) Indira Gandhi canal

(c) Sirhand canal

(d) Upper Bari Doab canal

Ans: (b) The Indira Gandhi Canal is the largest irrigation

project India. It starts from the Harike Barrage at

Firozpur, below the confluence of the Satluj and Beas

rivers in the Indian state of Punjab and terminates in

irrigation facilities in the Thar Desert in Rajasthan.DI

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15. Even after sunset, the air near the Earth’s surface continue

to receive heat due to

(a) Insolation

(b) Terrestrial Radiation

(c) Conduction

(d) Convection

Ans: (b)

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16. At the Rio Olympics, who was the flagbearer of the Indian

contingent?

(a) Narsingh Yadav

(b) Abhinav Bindra

(c) Dipa Karmakar

(d) Sania Mirza

Ans: (b) India’s ace shooter Abhinav Bindra was the

flagbearer of the Indian contingent at the opening

ceremony of Rio Olympics. DIL

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18. The largest artery in human body is

(a) Aorta

(b) Capillary

(c) Vena cava

(d) Pulmonary vein

Ans: (a) The aorta is the largest artery of the human body.

It is an artery that directly arises from the heart itself and

descends through the thorax and into the abdomen.

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19. An eudiometer measures

(a) Atmospheric pressure

(b) Time

(c) Volume of gases

(d) Vapour pressure

Ans: (c) A eudiometer is a laboratory device that

measures the change in volume of a gas mixture

following a physical or chemical change. Applications of a

eudiometer include the analysis of gases and the

determination of volume differences in chemical

reactions.DI

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20. Trinitrotoluene is

(a) used to melt metals

(b) used to fuse two metals

(c) used as an abrasive

(d) used as an explosive

Ans: (d) Trinitrotoluene (C6H2(NO2)3 CH3), abbreviated as TNT,

is sometimes used as a reagent in chemical synthesis, but it

is best known as an explosive material with convenient

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22. One of the leading producers of asbestos in the world is

(a) Australia

(b) Russia

(c) Canada

(d) Armenia

Ans: (b)

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23. Beighton Cup is associated with which of the following?

(a) Cricket (b) Hockey

(c) Football (d) Volleyball

Ans: (b) Beighton Cup is one of the oldest field hockey

tournament running till date. Instituted in 1895, it is

organised by Bengal Hockey Association on Astro Turf

(artificial grass) at Sports Authority of India (SAI East) in

Kolkata.

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24. If Reserve Bank of India reduces the cash reserve ratio, it will :

(a) increase credit creation

(b) decrease credit creation

(c) have no impact on credit creation

(d) have no definite impact on credit creation

Ans: (a) Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) is a specified minimum

fraction of the total deposits of customers, which

commercial banks have to hold as reserves either in cash or

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25. Nitrification is the biological process of converting

(a) N2 into nitrate

(b) N2 into nitrite

(c) Ammonia into nitrite

(d) Ammonia into N2

Ans: (c) Nitrification is the biological oxidation of ammonia

or ammonium to nitrite followed by the oxidation of the

nitrite to nitrate.

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