Graduate Level Previous Questions | SET-1

1. Father of Civil Aviation in India:

(a) Jamshedji Tata (b) JRD Tata

(c) Ratan Tata (d) MS Swaminathan

2. The first European to invade India:

(a) Darius (b) Cyrus

(c) Seleucus (d) Alexander

3 .Cambay is famous for:

(a) Petroleum (b) Woolen products

(c) Locomotive (d) Dairy

4. Dilwara Jain temples are in:

(a) Mount Abu (b) Junagarh

(c) Palitana (d) Bhuavaneswar

5. Ahmedabad is on the banks of:

(a) Ganga and Yamuna (b) Narmada

(c) Sabarmati (d) Tapti

6. Haldia forms a part of ...... port.

(a) Mumbai (b) Paradweep

(c) Kolkata (d) Chennai

7. The Imperial Bank of India became State

Bank of India in:

(a) 1949 (b) 1950 (c) 1955 (d) 1960

8. The number of General insurance companies

in public sector India:

(a) 3 (b) 5 (c) 2 (d) 4

9 The Indus Valley site Lothal is in the state of:

(a) Rajastan (b) Punjab

(c) Haryana (d) Gujarat

10. What is known as ‘Adikavya’?

(a) Ramayan (b) Rig Veda

(c) Bhagavat Gita (d) Mahabharat

11. The first country to make silk cloths:

(a) China (b) India

(c) Egypt (d) Mesopotamia

12. The vehicle that carried Yuri Gagarin, the first

cosmonaut, to space on 12th April 1961

(a) Vostok-1 (b) Sputnik-1

(c) Vostok-VI (d) Sputnik-2

13.Which planet has the highest gravitational

force?

(a) Earth (b) Mars (c) Jupiter (d) Neptune

14. Which gland is known as ‘biological clock’?

(a) Pineal gland (b) Pituitary

(c) Thymus (d) Pancreas

15.Xerophthalmia is caused by the deficiency of

Vitamin:

(a) A (b) B2 (c) D (d) K

16.Alexander the Great passed away at:

(a) Alexandria (b) Taxilla

(c) Hindukush (d) Babylon

17.Who was called ‘the parrot of India’?

(a) Amir Khusrau (b) Faizi

(c) Abul Fazl (d) Tansen

18.Guru Nanak was born in:

(a) 1439 (b) 1469 (c) 1479 (d) 1489

19.Who wrote ‘Indian Unrest’?

(a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (b) Valentine Chirol

(c) Annie Besant (d) AO Hume

20. Who wrote ‘Lolitha’?

(a) Vladimir Nobokov (b) Tolstoy

(c) Maxim Gorkey (d) Victor Hugo

21. Who is the chairperson of the National

Advisory Council?

(a) Margarette Alwa (b) Sheila Dixit

(c) Sonia Gandhi (d) Pratibha Patil

22.Tumalapalli Uranium Mine is in the state of:

(a) Karnataka (b) Bihar

(c) Jharkhand (d) Andhra Pradesh

23.Who was in charge of the portfolio of finance

when 14 Indian banks were nationalised on

19th July 1969?

(a) Indira Gandhi (b) V.P.Singh

(c) YB Chawan (d) C Subramanyam

24. The headquarters of the National

Investigation Agency (NIA) formed in 2009:

(a) Mumbai (b) Chennai

(c) New Delhi (d) Kolkata

25. Woollen industrial units are largely

concentrated in the north Indian states

namely.......

(a) Punjab and Haryana (b) UP and MP

(c) Rajastan and Gujarat

(d) Jharkhand and Bihar

Answers

1(b) 2 (d) 3(a)4(a) 5(c) 6(c)7 (c) 8(d)9(d)

10(a)11(a) 12(a) 138(c) 14(a) 15(a)16(d) 17 (d)

18(a)19(b)20(a) 21 (c) 22(d) 23 (a) 24 (c) 25 (a)