General Knowledge Questions

1. Who was the first Indian to win the SAARC Literary Award in 2006?

Ans: Laxman Gaikwad

2. Who is the only writer to get the SAARC Literary Award twice?

Ans: Suman Pokhrel (Nepal)

3. Who is the author of 'No Full Stops in India'?

Ans: Mark Tully

4. In 1824, the Oriental Club was established for East India Company Officers. Where is it situated?

Ans:  London

5. The science of which plant cultivation is known as Moriculture?

Ans: Mulberry

6. What is the name of the small version of football, mainly played indoors with five players in a side?

Ans: Futsal

7. Sports items that require physical contact mixed martial arts is known as?

Ans: Contact Sports

8. What are the examples of contact sports?

Ans: Rugby League, Rugby Union & American Football

9. The Isle of Wight is an island belongs to which country?

Ans: England

10. Post Office Savings Bank belongs to which List of the Constitution?

Ans: Union List

11. Which metal has the lowest value of thermal conductivity?

Ans: Manganese

12. Which metal is present in the insulin hormone?

Ans: Zinc

13. Weber is the SI unit of?

Ans: Magnetic flux

14. Name the economist who coined the term 'BRIC' to denote the four rapidly developing countries?

Ans: Jim O'Neill

15. What is the main objective of the Rashtriya Gokul Mission launched in July2014?

Ans: To conserve & develop indigenous breeds

16. Who is known as 'the Father of modern Ecology'?

Ans: Eugene Odum

17. What is the major non-gas contributor to the Earth's green house effect?

Ans: Clouds

18. What is the name of the geologic triple junction in the southern Indian Ocean where three tectonic plates meet?

Ans: Rodrigues Triple Point

19. Which is the largest ocean current of the Indian Ocean?

Ans: The Agulhas Current

20. Due to the presence of world famous poets, which country came to be known as 'The nest of singing Birds' in the medieval period?

Ans: England

21. Which social reformer made the efforts for the Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act of 1856?

Ans: Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

22. Which social reformer is considered as 'the Pioneer of Women's Education in India'?

Ans: Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

23. The Young Bengal Movement drew inspiration from which revolution?

Ans: French Revolution

24. Who said that 'If religion does not sanction social reform, then change religion'?

Ans: Gopalhari Deshmukh

25. Who was the first Sultan of Delhi to get recognition of the Khalif of Bagdad?

Ans: Iltumish