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1. Which Article of the Constitution provides for the establishment of the Finance Commission

A) Article 263
B) Article 280
C) Article 324
D) Article 356

2. Which body recommends the distribution of tax revenue between the Centre and states

A) Election Commission
B) NITI Aayog
C) UPSC
D) Finance Commission

3. The residuary powers in India are vested in

A) States
B) President
C) Parliament
D) Supreme Court

4. Which Constitutional Amendment is known for anti-defection provisions

A) 42nd Amendment
B) 52nd Amendment
C) 44th Amendment
D) 61st Amendment

5. Who among the following presided over the Constituent Assembly after Dr. Sachchidananda Sinha

A) Rajendra Prasad
B) B. R. Ambedkar
C) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Vallabhbhai Patel

6. The doctrine of lapse was widely applied by

A) Lord Wellesley
B) Lord Ripon
C) Lord Hastings
D) Lord Dalhousie

7. The treaty that ended the First Carnatic War was

A) Treaty of Bassein
B) Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
C) Treaty of Paris
D) Treaty of Seringapatam

8. Who founded the Slave Dynasty in Delhi

A) Balban
B) Iltutmish
C) Qutb-ud-din Aibak
D) Razia

9. The author of Mudrarakshasa was

A) Kalidasa
B) Banabhatta
C) Bharavi
D) Vishakhadatta

10. Which Gupta ruler assumed the title Vikramaditya

A) Chandragupta II
B) Chandragupta I
C) Samudragupta
D) Kumaragupta

11. The Ryotwari system was introduced mainly in

A) Bengal and Bihar
B) Punjab and Awadh
C) Madras and Bombay
D) Assam and Orissa

12. The founder of the Khilji dynasty was

A) Alauddin Khilji
B) Jalaluddin Khilji
C) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
D) Ibrahim Lodi

13. Who founded the Servants of India Society

A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
B) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
C) Annie Besant
D) Lala Lajpat Rai

14. The Cripps Mission came to India in

A) 1942
B) 1940
C) 1941
D) 1946

15. Which river is known as the Dakshin Ganga

A) Narmada
B) Kaveri
C) Krishna
D) Godavari

16. The only active volcano in India is located in

A) Lakshadweep
B) Ladakh
C) Andaman and Nicobar Islands
D) Sikkim

17. Which is the highest peak of the Aravalli Range

A) Anaimudi
B) Guru Shikhar
C) Doddabetta
D) K2

18. The black cotton soil is also known as

A) Khadar
B) Bhabar
C) Laterite
D) Regur

19. Which state has the largest forest area in India

A) Arunachal Pradesh
B) Chhattisgarh
C) Madhya Pradesh
D) Odisha

20. The phenomenon of El Niño is associated with

A) Arabian Sea cooling
B) Pacific Ocean warming
C) Indian Ocean salinity
D) Atlantic current reversal

21. Which layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer

A) Troposphere
B) Mesosphere
C) Thermosphere
D) Stratosphere

22. The National Income in India is estimated at factor cost by

A) NSO
B) RBI
C) Finance Ministry
D) SEBI

23. Stagflation refers to

A) High growth with inflation
B) Deflation with growth
C) High inflation with unemployment
D) High exports with low imports

24. Open market operations are conducted by

A) NABARD
B) SEBI
C) SBI
D) RBI

25. The law of floatation is based on

A) Pascal’s law
B) Newton’s law
C) Archimedes’ principle
D) Ohm’s law

26. The SI unit of power is

A) Joule
B) Watt
C) Newton
D) Volt

27. Which vitamin deficiency causes night blindness

A) Vitamin A
B) Vitamin B12
C) Vitamin C
D) Vitamin K

28. Brass is an alloy of

A) Copper and tin
B) Iron and carbon
C) Copper and zinc
D) Aluminium and copper

29. The gas used in the manufacture of vanaspati from vegetable oil is

A) Oxygen
B) Hydrogen
C) Nitrogen
D) Chlorine

30. Which device converts chemical energy into electrical energy

A) Motor
B) Generator
C) Battery
D) Transformer

31. URL stands for

A) Uniform Resource Locator
B) Universal Record Link
C) Unified Reference Line
D) User Resource Locator

32. The author of Neel Darpan was

A) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
B) Dinabandhu Mitra
C) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
D) Rabindranath Tagore

33. The headquarters of the International Court of Justice is in

A) Geneva
B) New York
C) The Hague
D) Paris

34. The term albatross is associated with which sport

A) Cricket
B) Golf
C) Tennis
D) Polo

35. Which classical dance form is associated with Satriya traditions

A) Odisha
B) Manipur
C) Kerala
D) Assam

36. If the ratio of boys to girls is 5:3 and total students are 64, how many girls are there

A) 20
B) 32
C) 40
D) 24

37. A sum becomes double in 8 years at simple interest. In how many years will it become triple

A) 12 years
B) 18 years
C) 16 years
D) 20 years

38. In a row of 40 students, Ravi is 12th from the left and Aman is 9th from the right. How many students are between them

A) 19
B) 18
C) 20
D) 21

39. What is the next number in the series 121, 144, 169, 196, __

A) 210
B) 221
C) 256
D) 225

40. A train 180 m long crosses a pole in 12 seconds. Its speed is

A) 48 km/h
B) 50 km/h
C) 54 km/h
D) 60 km/h