General Knowledge Question and Answers_Part 3

Father of civil Aviation in India

Ans : J.R.D. Tata

What are Coast Guards

Ans : an emergency service that rescues people in difficulties at sea and acts against smuggling

The paramilitary force of India setup to provide security to Industrial undertakings owned by the Government is

Ans : Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)

From where was GSAT-1 launched

Ans : Sriharikota

The first human-made objects to reach altitudes above 80 km is

Ans : V-2s, a rocket

The slogan associated with French Revolution

Ans : Liberty, Equality and Fraternity

In 1815 Napoleon was defeated in the battle of

Ans : Waterloo

Whose period was known as the Golden Age of Rome?

Ans : Augustus Caesar

The king ruled in the period of French revolution

Ans : Louis 16th

The political party of Hitler

Ans : National Socialist Party (Nazi)

Brown shirts were associated with

Ans : Hitler

The political party of Mussolini

Ans : Fascist Party

Black shirts were associated with

Ans : Mussolini

Who organized 'Red Army'

Ans : Trotsky

Pentagon is

Ans : the defence department of USA

The movement of a plant part toward or away from a source of heat is called

Ans : Thermotropism

The movement or growth of an organism or part of an organism in response to a chemical stimulus

Ans : Chemotropism

Plant that will only grow in water or in a very moist environment

Ans : Hydrophytes

Plant that needs moderate amounts of moisture for growth is known as

Ans : Mesophytes

Plant that can survive and grow in direct sunlight or that grows best in direct sunlight is called

Ans : Heliophytes

Plant that is adapted to living through seasonal changes in heat, cold, dryness, or moisture, for example, by shedding leaves during a dry season is called

Ans : Tropophyte

Green plant pigment used in photosynthesis is called

Ans : Chlorophyll

What is responsible for yellow, orange, or red color in flowers and fruits

Ans : Chromoplasts

The pigment found in plants that gives them their green color

Ans : Chlorophyll

Nal Sarovar Bird Sanctuary is located in which state

Ans : Gujarat

Months in Hebrew calendar

Ans : Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, Elul, Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet

Elementary education covers children in the age group

Ans : 6 to 14 years

The National song ‘Vande Mataram’ was composed by

Ans : Bankim Chadra Chatterjee

The National emblem was adopted by the Government of India in the year

Ans : 26th January, 1950

The design of the National Flag was adopted in the year

Ans : 22nd July 1947

The playing time of the full version of the National Anthem is approximately equal to

Ans : 52 sec

The first regular census in India was taken in the year

Ans : 1881

First computer literate Panchayat in India is

Ans : Vellanad (Kerala State)

The longest highway in India runs from

Ans : Varanasi to Kanyakumari, NH – 7, 2369 km

Which Indian town has been selected as the first 'Eco Town' of India

Ans : Panipat

Which element helps in the flowering of plants

Ans : Phosphorous

General Knowledge Question and Answers_Part 2

Saccharin, a substance 375 times sweeter than sugar is obtained from

Ans : Toluene, occurring in Coal tar

Name a food material which contains phosphorus

Ans : Onion

Usually, base changes the colour of litmus from

Ans : Red to Blue

The number of molecules contained in 1mole of a gas is called

Ans : Avogadro number

Name the product obtained by the destructive distillation of wood

Ans : Charcoal

The charcoal used for decolorizing of sugar is

Ans : Activated charcoal

Who discovered natural radioactivity

Ans : Hentry Bequeral

Hydrogen was discovered by

Ans : Cavendish

Who invented Microprocessor

Ans : Ted Hoff

Name the scientist who proposed Doppler Effect

Ans : Christian Doppler

Who discovered Argon

Ans : Ramsay

Name the scientist who proposed pH value

Ans : Sorenson

Who discovered the Law of Gravitation

Ans : Sir Isaac Newton

Who discovered penicillin

Ans : Alexander Fleming

. Who invented dynamite

Ans : Alfred Nobel

The Nobel Prizes were established by

Ans : Alfred Bernhard Nobel

Booker prize is given to the field of

Ans : Fiction writing

The winner of the Jnanapeetam award for the first time

Ans : G. Sankara Kurup

Oscar Award is associated with

Ans : Cinema

Indira Gandhi Paryavaran Puraskar is given in which field

Ans : UNESCO

World Solar Energy Day

Ans : 3rd May

Commonwealth Day

Ans : Second Monday in March

World Employment Day

Ans : June 5

World Architectural Day

Ans : July 1

National Maritime Day

Ans : 5th April

Anti Terrorist Day

Ans : 21st May

World Anti-smoke Day

Ans : 31st May

''General Knowledge Facts''

1.  Ice Cream was discovered by Gerald Tisyum.
2. The number regarded as lucky number in Italy is thirteen.
3. Napoleon suffered from alurophobia which means Fear of cats.
4. The aero planes were used in war for the first time by Italians. (14 Oct.1911)
5. Slavery in America was abolished by Abraham Lincoln.
6. The Headquarters of textile manufacturing in England is Manchester.
7. The famous Island located at the mouth of the Hudson River is Manhattan.
8. The founder of plastic industry was Leo Hendrik Baekeland.
9. The country where military service is compulsory for women is Israel.
10. The country which has more than 10,000 golf courses is USA.
11. The famous painting 'Mona Lisa' is displayed at Louvre museum, Paris.
12. The earlier name for tomato was Love apple.
13. The first President of USA was George Washington.
14. The famous words 'Veni Vidi Vici' were said by Julius Caesar.
15. The practice of sterilization of surgical instruments was introduced by Joseph Lister.
16. The number of countries which participated in the first Olympic Games held at Athens was nine.
17. Mercury is also known as Quick Silver.
18. Disneyland is located in California, USA.
19. The country which built the first powerful long range rockets is Germany.
20. Sewing Machine was invented by Isaac M. Singer.
21. Adding Machine was invented by Aldrin.
22. The national emblem of Spain is Eagle.
23. Archimedes was born in Sicily.
24. The total area of Vatican City is 0.272 square kilometers.
25. The largest temple in the world is Angkor Wat in Kampuchea.
26. The largest dome in the world is Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, USA.
27. The largest strait in the world is Tartar Strait.
28. The Mohenjo-Daro ruins are found in Larkand District of Sind, Pakistan.
29. The largest city of Africa is Cairo.
30. The founder of KODAK Company was Eastman.
31. The 'Cape of Good Hope' is located in South Africa.
32. The Heathrow Airport is located in London.
33. The neon lamp was invented by Georges Claude.
34. The last letter of the Greek alphabet is Omega.
35. The place known as the land of Lincoln is Illinois.
36. The US state Utah is also known as Beehive state.
37. The Kalahari Desert is located in Africa.
38. The Patagonian desert is located in Argentina.
39. The person known as the father of aeronautics is Sir George Cayley.
40. The most densely populated Island in the world is Honshu.
41. The two nations Haiti and the Dominion Republic together form the Island of Hispaniola.
42. The largest auto producer in the USA is General Motors.
43. The largest auto producing nation is Japan.
44. The famous 'General Motors' company was founded by William Durant.
45. The country that brings out the FIAT is Italy.
46. The first actor to win an Oscar was Emil Jannings.
47. The first animated colour cartoon of full feature length was Snow White and Seven Dwarfs.
48. The first demonstration of a motion picture was held at Paris.
49. The first country to issue stamps was Britain.
50. The actor who is considered as the biggest cowboy star of the silent movies is Tom Mix.
51. The Pentagon is located at Washington DC.
52. The world's largest car manufacturing company is Toyota Motors, JAPAN.
53. The world's biggest manufacturer of bicycles is Hero Cycles, India.
54. The world's oldest underground railway is at London.
55. The White House was painted white to hide fire damage.
56. The largest oil producing nation in Africa is Nigeria.
57. The longest river in Russia and Europe is Volga River.
58. The first Emperor of Germany was Wilhelm.
59. The last French Monarch was Louis Napoleon III.
60. "History is Bunk" was said by Henry Ford.
61. The term 'astrology' literally means Star Speech.
62. Togo is situated in Africa.
63. Coal is also known as Black Diamond.
64. The first Boxer to win 3 gold medals in Olympics was Laszlo Papp.
65. The first ruler who started war games for his soldiers was Genghis Khan.
66. The first cross word puzzle in the world was published in 1924 by London Sunday Express.
67. The lightest known metal is Lithium.
68. The Atacama Desert is located in North Chile.
69. The oil used to preserve timber is Creosote oil.
70. The founder of USA was George Washington.
71. The first talkie feature film in USA was 'The Jazz Singer'.
72. The chemical name of laughing gas is Nitrous oxide.
73. The US state North Carolina is also known as Tar Heel state.
74. The US state Tennesse is also known as Volunteer state.
75. The US state Indiana is also known as Hoosier state.
76. The US state Kentucky is also known as Blue Grass state.
77. The US state known as 'Pine Free State' is Vermont.
78. The US state known as 'Mountain State' is West Virginia.
79. The US state known as 'Land of 1000 Lakes' is Minnesota.
80. The popular detective character created by Agatha Christie is Hercule Poirot.
81. The Pakistani President who died in an air crash was Zia-ul-Huq.
82. Yoghurt means Fermented milk.
83. Yankee is the nickname of American.
84. The International court of Justice is located in Hague, Holland.
85. The headquarters of World Bank is located at Washington DC.
86. Victoria Falls was discovered by David Livingstone.
87. The technique to produce the first test tube baby was evolved by Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards.
88. The oldest residential university of Britain is the Oxford University.
89. The name of the large clock on the tower of the House of Parliament in London is called Big Ben.
90. Prado Museum is located in Madrid.
91. The number of keys in an ordinary piano is Eighty eight.
92. 'Man is a Tool Making Animal' was said by Benjamin Franklin.
93. The term 'anesthesia' was coined by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
94. The first man to reach Antarctica was Fabian Gottlieb.
95. The Kilimanjaro volcano is situated in Tanzania.
96. The invention that is considered to have built America is Dynamite.
97. Words that contains all the vowels: Authentication, Remuneration, Education, Automobile, Miscellaneous and many more.
98. Words that contain all the vowels in order: Facetious and Abstemious.
99. Words that contain all the vowels in reverse order: Uncomplimentary, Unproprietary, Unoriental and Subcontinental.
100. Words with no vowel in them: Myth, Fly, Sky, Dry, Cry, Rhythm, Crypt.
101. Which country declares independence on 18th Feb 2008? - Kosovo.
102. Who was the founder of the kindergarten education system? - German educator Friedrich Froebel
103. What is the scientific name of Vitamin C? - Ascorbic Acid
104. What is the full form of GPRS? - General Packet Radio Service
105. Which was the first university established in the world? - Nalanda University
106. What is full form of CEO, CFO & CIO titles? Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer & Chief Information Officer.

General Knowledge Ques and Ans_Awards

Sl. No.	Questions	Answers
1.	Which of the following is an award instituted by UNESCO? (a) Aryabhatta awards (b) Kalinga Prize (c) Abdus Salam Prize (d) None of these	Answer: (b)
2.	Which of the following is India’s highest decoration for valour? (a) ParamVir Chakra (b) Mahavir Chakra (c) Vir Chakra (d) Asoka Chakra	Answer: (a)
3.	Which of the following is India’s highest honour in the field of literature? (a) VyasSamman (b) KalidasSamman (c) Jnanpith Award (d) SaraswathiSamman	Answer: (c)
4.	Which of the following is India’s highest peace-time gallantry award? (a) Mahavir Chakra (b) Ashoka Chakra (c) Vir Chakra (d) ParamVir Chakra	Answer: (b)
5.	Which of the following is the world’s top environmental conservation award? (a) Golden Bear Award (b) Golden Panda Award (c) Golden Globe Award (d) Golden Palms Award	Answer: (b)
6.	Which of the following wing awards are limited only for the Asians? (a) Jawaharlal Nehru Award  (b) Alternative Nobel Prize (c) Magsaysay Award    (d) Man Booker Prize	Answer: (c)
7.	Which one of the following awards instituted by KK Birla Foundation is given to an individual for outstanding work on Indian philosophy, culture and art? (a) SaraswathySamman (b) VyasSamman (c) Shankar Puraskar (d) KalidasSamman	Answer: (c)
8.	Which one of the following awards is given for contribution to poetry? (a) Kabir award (b) KalidasSamman (c) SaraswathySamman (d) VyasSamman	Answer: (a)
9.	Which one of the following awards was instituted by the KK Birla Foundation? (a) SaraswatiSamman (b) Kabir Award (c) KalidasSamman (d) Jnanpith Award	Answer: (a)
10.	Which one of the following is India’s highest civilian honour? (a) Bharat Ratna (b) Padma Bhushan (c) PadamaVibhushan (d) Padma Sri	Answer: (a)
11.	Which person or organisation received the Nobel Prize three times so far? (a) Medame Curie (b) Linus Pauling (c) AlexenderFlemming (d) International Committee of the Redcross	Answer: (d)
12.	Who among the following actors has won the Chevalier Award instituted by the French Government? (a) MG Ramakrishnan (b) Raj Kumar (c) ShivajiGaneshan (d) Kamal Hasan	Answer: (c)
13.	Who among the following has won the Polar Music Award instituted by the Royal Music Academy, Sweden? (a) Sakir Hussein (b) Pundit Ravi Shankar (c) Bismillah Khan (d) Allah Rakha Khan	Answer: (b)
14.	Who was the first winner of the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding? (a) U Thant (b) Martin Luther King (c) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (d) Yehudi Menuhin	Answer: (a)
15.	Who among the following national leaders have won the highest civilian honours of Pakistan? (a) Jawaharlal Nehru (b) Morarji Desai (c) LalBahadurShastri (d) Indira Gandhi	Answer: (b)
16.	Who among the following was selected for the 2001 Dada SahebPhalke Award? (a) DevAnand (b) LataMangeshkar (c) RamanandSagar (d) Yash Chopra	Answer: (d)
17.	Who among the following was the first to win the Booker Prize? (a) William Golding (b) PH Newby (c) JM Coetzee (d) Peter Carey	Answer: (b)
18.	Who among the following was/were selected for the 12th South Indian Education Society Awards in December 2009? (a) SomnathChatterjee (b) M. Annadurai (c) E. Sridharan and SatyaVratShastri (d) All of the above	Answer: (d)
19.	Who amongst the following was honoured with the Jawaharlal Nehru Award forInternational Understanding fiven away recently? (a) Mr. UmaruYarAdua (b) Mr. LuizInacio Lula da Silva (c) Mr. Vladimir Putin (d) OlafurRagnar	Answer: (d)
20.	Who amongst the following won the Men’s single title of Australian Open Tennis 2008? (a) Novak Djokovic (b) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (c) Jonathan Erlich (d) Andy Ram	Answer: (a)
21.	Who of the following won the Nobel Prize for his work on Photoelectric effect? (a) Albert Einstein (b) Werner Heisenberg (c) Steven Weinberg (d) Max Planck	Answer: (a)
22.	The highest peace time gallantry award in India : (a) Padma Bhushan (b) Ashok Chakra (c) S.S. Bhatnagar award (d) Padma Vibhushan	Answer: (b)
23.	Who was the first foreigner to win the Bharat Ratna? (a) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (b) Winston Churchill (c) Nelson Madela (d) Benazir Bhutto	Answer: (a)
24.	Who was the first Indian to win the Booker Prize? (a) Arundathi Roy (b) Salman Rushdie (c) VS Naipaul (d) JhumpaLahiri	Answer: (b)
25.	Who was the first recipient of Nehru Award for International Understanding? (a) Martin Luther King (b) Mother Teresa (c) U. Thant (d) Dr. Jonas Salk	Answer: (a)
26.	Who was the first scientist to win the Bharat Ratna Award? (a) S Chandra Sekhar (b) C V Raman (c) J C Bose (d) Hargobind Khorana	Answer: (b)
27.	Who was the first to win the Nobel Prize for literature? (a) Albert Camus (b) Ernest Hemingway (c) Knut Hamson (d) Rene Sully Prudhome	Answer: (d)
28.	With reference to Stree Shakti Puraskar, for which of the following is "Devi AhilyaBaiHolkar Award" given? (a) Administrative skills (b) Achievements in Scientific Research (c) Achievements in Sports and Games (d) Courage and valour	Answer: (a)
29.	Who was the first winner of Gandhi Peace Prize? (a) AT Aryaratne (b) Julius Nerera (c) Nelson Mandela (d) None of these	Answer: (b)
30.	Who was the first winner of Ramon Magsaysay Award? (a) VinobhaBhave (b) LalBahadurShastri (c) Jaya Prakash Narayan (d) None of these	Answer: (a)
Sl. No.	Questions	Answers
1.	The Annual Academy awards are better known as (a) Nobel Prize (b) Magsasay Award (c) Oscar Award (d) None of these	Answer: (c)
2.	Who was the first winner of SaraswathySamman? (a) Rama Kant Path (b) DrHarivanshraiBachchan (c) Vijay Tendulkar (d) DrHarbajan Singh	Answer: (b)
3.	World Professional Billiards Champion PankajAdvani accepted the Eklavya award, the highest recognition for a sportsperson in which state? (a) Delhi (b) Karnataka (c) Tamil Nadu (d) Kerala (e) Andhra Pradesh	Answer: (b)
4.	The committee of the Norwegian Parliament Awards the prize for: (a) Economics (b) Peace (c) Medicine (d) Literature	Answer: (b)
5.	The Fifth National Winter Games were organized in - (a) Jaipur (b) Gulmarg (c) Hyderabad (d) Chennai (E) Delhi	Answer: (b)
6.	The first Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Literature is (a) Mother Teresa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Sorijini Naidu (d) C.V. Raman	Answer: (b)
7.	The highest gallantry Award in India is (a) Ashok Chakra (b) Paramvir Chakra (c) Mahavir Chakra (d) ParamVishista Chakra	Answer: (b)
8.	The most coveted Award at the 61st Cannes Film Festival was received by— (a) ‘Hunger’ (b) Line of Passage (c) ‘The Class’ (d) Three Monkeys	Answer: (c)
9.	The Prize for the oddest book title in a year is known as –  (a) The Diagram Prize  (b) The Bizarre Prize  (c) The Bibliophile Prize  (d) The Cenotaph Prize	Answer: (a)
10.	The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Awarded the Noble Prize in: (a) Physics (b) Economics (c) Chemistry (d) (a) and (c)	Answer: (d)
11.	The Winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee Contest is _____. (a) Ravi Kumar (b) Sameer Mishra (c) Kuljit Singh (d) None of these	Answer: (b)
12.	U-Tant Award is given for: (a) Social Service (b) Contribution to east-west understanding (c) Community leadership (d) Journalism	Answer: (a)
13.	When did Amnesty International win the Nobel Prize? (a) 1917 (b) 1949 (c) 1977 (d) 1982	Answer: (c)
14.	When did Mother Teresa win the Nobel Peace Prize? (a) 1979 (b) 1975 (c) 1981 (d) 1982	Answer: (a)
15.	When did Red Cross win the Nobel Peace Prize for the first time? (a) 1917 (b) 1977 (c) 1949 (d) 1956	Answer: (a)
16.	When was the Nobel Prize for literature instituted? (a) 1956 (b) 1969 (c) 1972 (d) 1975	Answer: (b)
17.	Which American Gallantry award is given to the soldier who is wounded in action? (a) Iron Cross  (b) Purple Heart  (c) Congressional Medal  (d) Victoria Cross	Answer: (B)
18.	Which country has initiated ‘Malcolm Baldridge Award' for Quality’?  (a) USA  (b) UK  (c) France  (d) Japan	Answer: (d)
19.	Which Indian Business Magazine has initiated the ‘Best Product Design Award’? (a) Business India  (b) Business Today  (c) Outlook Business  (d) Business Week	Answer: (d)
20.	Which is the highest literary prize given by the Government in India? (a) SaraswatiSamman     (b) KalidasSamman   (c) SahityaAkadami Award   (d) Jnanpith Award	Answer: (c)
21.	Which is the Prize in Mathematics, equivalent to Nobel Prize? (a) Newton Prize  (b) Gauss Prize  (c) Fields Prize  (d) Cambridge Prize	Answer: (c)
22.	Which of the following authors won the Booker Prize twice? (a) Margaret Atwood (b) Ian Mc Ewan (c) J. M. Coetzee (d) Graham Swift	Answer: (c)
23.	Which of the following awards is given for contribution to poetry? (a) Kabir Award (b) KalidasSamman (c) SaraswathySamman (d) VyasSamman	Answer: (a)
24.	Which of the following awards is given to the Best Parliamentarian? (a) Gujar Mal Modi Award (b) J B Pant Award (c) Nehru Award (d) none of those	Answer: (b)
25.	Which of the following awards was instituted by Shanti Prasad Jain? (a) VyasSamman (b) Shankar Samman (c) Jnanpith award (d) Kabir Award	Answer: (c)
26.	Which of the following awards was instituted by the Indian National Congress in its Centenary Year? (a) Gandhi Peace Prize (b) Nehru Award (c) Indira Gandhi award for National Integration (d) Mahatma Gandhi Peace Award	Answer: (c)
27.	Which of the following awards was instituted in 1992 to mark the golden jubilee of the Quit India Movement? (a) Rajiv Gandhi KhelRatna Award (b) Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Award (c) Rajiv Gandhi Excellence Award (d) Rajiv SmritiPuraskar	Answer: (b)
28.	Which of the following cities will host 2012 Olympics Games? (a) Paris   (b) New York   (c) London   (d) Madrid	Answer: (c)
29.	Which of the following films won the best Film Award in 65th Golden Globe Awardsceremony ? (a) Away from her (b) Atonement (c) No Country for Old Men (d) I’m Not there	Answer:: (b)
30.	Which of the following is an award instituted by the Madhya Pradesh Government? (a) Dhanvantari Award (b) Kabir Award (c) SaraswathiSamman (d) Arjuna Awards	Answer: (b)

General Knowledge Ques and Ans::>

1. The third carnatic war was fought in
(a) 1730-32
(b) 1748-54
(c) 1700-61
(d) 1720-21
Ans: (a)1748-54

2. Berar was annexed to the British empire by
(a) lord Curzon
(b) Dalhousie
(c) lord Cornwallis
(d) lord Wellesey
Ans: (c) lord Cornwallis

3. "woods despatch" of 1854 resulted in the
(a) establishment of Indian universities
(b) Abolition of Sati system
(c) Establishment of technical schools
(d) Abolition of child marriage
Ans: (a)establishment of Indian universities

4. Vasco-da-gama landed in India at
(a) Bombay
(b) Cochin
(c) Madras

(d) Calicut
Ans: (d) Calicut

5. The founder of Muslim league
(a) M.A.Jinnah
(b) Sir Syed Ahmed
(c) Shaukut Ali
(d) Maulana Azad
Ans: (b) Sir Syed Ahmed

6. The period of the Indus Valley Civilization ranges from
(a) 2400-1700 BC
(b) 2500-2000 BC
(c) 2000-1500 BC
(d) 1000-500  BC
Ans: (a) 2400-1700 BC

7. The Vedas are the main source of information for which civilization
(a) Indus valley civilization
(b) The Aryans
(c) Jainism
(d) Buddhism
Ans: (b) The Aryans

 8. Alexander invaded India sometime around
(a) 500 BC
(b) 400 BC
(c) 525 BC
(d) 327 BC
Ans: (d) 327 BC

9. Gautham Buddha was born in the year

(a) 537 BC
(b) 400 BC
(c) 525 BC
(d) 563 BC
Ans: (d) 563 BC

10. When was Guru Nanak born

(a) 1469 BC
(b) 1538 BC
(c) 1345 BC
(d) 1432 BC
Ans: (a)1469 BC

11. Which line divides a circle into equal halves?
(a) Radius
(b) Diameter
(c) Secant
(d) Tangent
Ans: (b) Diameter

12. Who was the first Indian to hold the post of Governor General in India?
(a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
(b) Dr. K M Munshi
(c) C Rajagopalachari
(d) Annie Besant
Ans: (c) C Rajagopalachari

13. Who was the India’s first Deputy Prime Minister?
(a) Sardar Vallabhai Patel
(b) Morarji Desai
(c) Choudhary Charan Singh
(d) Jagjivan Ram
Ans: (a) Sardar Vallabhai Patel

14. Who was India’s first woman Cabinet Minister?
(a) Dr. Vijayalakshmi Pandit
(b) Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
(c) Dr. Annie Besant
(d) Sheila Dixit
Ans: (b) Rajkumari Amrit kaur

15. Which British Governor continued in that position even after India became Independent?
(a) Sir Archibald Nye
(b) Sir Henry Knight
(c) Lord William Bentinck
(d) Warren hastings
Ans: (a) Sir Archibald Nye

16. Who was the only Indian woman to become the president of the United Nations General Assembly?
(a) Indira Gandhi
(b) Reita Faria
(c) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
(d) None of the above
Ans: (c) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit 

17. Who was the first Vice-Chairman of the Planning Commission?
(a) C.M Trivedi
(b) D.P Dhar
(c) Shankarrao Bhaurao Chavan
(d) V.T Krishnamachari
Ans: (d) V.T Krishnamachari

18. Who was the first Indian woman to become a Governor of a state?
(a) Padmaja Naidu
(b) Sarojini Naidu
(c) Annie Besant
(d) Indira Gandhi
Ans: (b) Sarojini Naidu

19. The first Indian Commander -in-chief of free India was…
(a) Air Marshal S Mukherjee
(b) Gen. Rajendrasinhji
(c) General Cariappa
(d) Gen. Gopal Gurunath Bewoor
Ans: (c) General Cariappa 

20. Who was India’s first President?
(a) C. Rajagopalchari
(b) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
(c) Pandit Jawaharlala Nehru
(d) Lord Mountbatten
Ans: (b) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

21. Who was the first Indian woman to be decorated with Bharat Ratna?
(a) Indira Gandhi
(b) Mother Teresa
(c) Aruna Asaf Ali
(d) M.S Subbulakshmi
Ans: (a) Indira Gandhi

22. The term Grand Slam is associated with?
(a) Billiards
(b) Chess
(c) Cricket
(d) Bridge and Tennis
Ans: (d) Bridge and Tennis

23. Who was the first Test centurion in Indian Cricket?
(a) Vinu Makand
(b) C K Naidu
(c) Lala Amarnath
(d) Pankaj Roy
Ans: (C) Lala Amarnath

24. Which of the following describes Triathlon correctly?
(a) Swimming – Cycling – Marathon
(b) Cycling – Sprint – Hurdles
(c) Cycling – Swimming – Half Marathon
(d) Marathon – Swimming  - Cycling 
Ans: (a) Swimming – Cycling – Marathon 

25. Who was the author of the famous storybook 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'? 
a) Rudyard Kipling
b) John Keats
c) Lewis Carroll
d) H G Wells
Ans: c) Lewis Carroll