1. Losoong festival is celebrated in which of the following states?
A) Tripua
B) Arunachal Pradesh
C) Sikkim
D) Kerala

2. Which is the India’s first digital state?
A) Goa
B) Tamil Nadu
C) Kerala
D) Karnataka
 
3. “And Then One Day: A Memoir” is an autobiography of
C) Kapil Dev
B) Anupam Kher
C) Naseeruddin Shah
D) Lal krishna Advani

4. Who invented vaccination for smallpox?
A) Sir Frederick Grant Banting
B) Sir Alexander Fleming
C) Edward Jenner
D) Loius Pasteur

5. Which is the first organic state in India?
C) Uttarakhand
B) Sikkim
C) Manipur
D) Assam

6. All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi was established in which year?
a) 1952
b) 1956
c) 1962
d) 1966

7. Which of the following Organisations gives the Kalinga Prize for popularising science?
A) UNESCO
B) CSIR
C) UGC
D) UNEP

8. Nobel Prizes are not given for which of the following fields?
A) Physics
B) Chemistry
C) Peace
D) Music

9. Booker Prize is given in the field of
A) Medicine
B) Adventure
C) Fiction writing
D) Science

10. On which river has “Naranarayan Setu” been built?
A) Ganga
B) Brahmaputra
C) Mahanadi
D) Godavari

Answers:
1:C, 2:C, 3:C, 4:C, 5:B, 6:B, 7:A, 8:D, 9:C, 10:B.

1. The significant rise in production of which commodity is referred as `Yellow Revolution' ?
2. What is the length of a Cricket pitch, measured between two sets of wickets ?
3. Which associate of Mahatma Gandhi founded Paunar Ashram near Wardha in Maharashtra ?
4. Where is the headquarters of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) ?
5. Gayatri Mantra is addressed to which Hindu god ?
6. What is the name of India's first electric Car ?
7. In which battle was Prithviraj Chauhan, the ruler of Delhi, decisively defeated by Afghan ruler Muhammad Ghori ?
8. Which element is necessarily present in all acids ?
9. Which IT entrepreneur authored the book `Business at the speed of thought' ?
10. In which mountain range is the Siachen Glacier, the world's longest glacier, located ?

Answers :

1. Oilseeds
2. 22 yards
3. Vinoba Bhave
4. Mumbai
5. Surya
6. Rewa
7. Second Battle of Tarain (1192)
8. Hydrogen
9. Bill Gates
10. Karakoram 

1. Who signs one rupee currency note of India ?
2. Who wrote the 'Das Capital', an extensive treatise on political economy ?
3. Who was the first law minister of independent India ?
4. Arabica, Robusta and Liberica are the varieties of which popluar beverage ?
5. Which Indian classical dance form, native of Andhra Pradesh, was developed by Siddhendra Yogi from Bhamakalapam dance drama ?
6. Where is the headquarters of the National Institute of Oceanography located ?
7. Which European country is known as the 'Land of a thousand lakes' ?
8. Which is the nearest star to the Sun ?
9. Which gas is commonly known as 'Laughing Gas' ?
10. Which is the only continent through which all three main latitude lines - Equator, Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn - passes ?

Answers : 

1. Finance Secretary
2. Karl Marx
3. B.R.Ambedkar
4. Coffee
5. Kuchipudi
6. Dona Paula (Goa)
7. Finland
8. Proxima Centauri
9. Nitrous Oxide
10. Africa

1. Kavaratti, an island town, is the capital of which Indian union territory ?
2. Garba dance is native of which Indian state ?
3. Antarctica is the largest cold desert in the world. Which is the largest hot desert in the world ?
4. Sadakat Ashram memorial in Patna is dedicated to which former President of India ?
5. Who discoverd Penicillin ?
6. In Mumbai terror attacks on 26 Nov. 2008, what was the code name of security forces commando action against terrorists ?
7. At which temprature, Celsius and Fahrenheit scales will show same reading ?
8. Launched on 1st July 1822, which newspaper is the Asia's oldest extant daily ?
9. Who is the first Indian woman to graduate from the Harvard Business School ?
10. In domestic LPG cylinders, a small quantity of which foul smelling chemical is added to act as a warning agent in case of any gas leakage ?

Answers :   

1. Lakshadweep
2. Gujarat
3. Sahara
4. Rajendra Prasad
5. Alexander Fleming
6. Operation Black Tornado
7. minus 40 degree
8. Mumbai Samachar
9. Naina Lal Kidwai
10. Ethyl Mercaptan

1. After Sachin Tendulkar, who is the second cricketer to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award ?
2. Which city houses the headquarters of Central Railway ?
3. Who was the first Indian Governor-General of independent India ?
4. 'Bhogi', 'Surya', 'Mattu' and 'Kanum' are the parts of which four day long harvest festival of Tamilnadu ?
5. Wheeler Island, the site of India's missile testing facility Integrated Test Range (ITR), is situated in which state ?
6. To whom does the President of India address his resignation ?
7. Apart from Russia, the territory of which country lies in both Europe and Asia continents ?
8. In 1998, who became the first Indian ever to be awarded the Wharton School Dean's Medal ?
9. Who is known as the 'Father of Medicine' ?
10. 'Razmnama' is the Persian translation of which Indian epic ?

Answers :   

1. Mahendra Singh Dhoni
2. Mumbai
3. C.Rajagopalachari
4. Pongal
5. Orissa
6. Vice President
7. Turkey
8. Dhirubhai Ambani
9. Hippocrates
10. Mahabahrat