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Q.1 Who is the High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh as of June 2020?

Ans 1. Riva Ganguly Das

2. Narender Batra 3. Piyush Goel

4. Mohammad Mezbah Uddin Chowdhury

Question ID : 6549787025 Status : Answered Chosen Option : 4

Q.2 In the context of Mughal administration, which of the following is the most appropriate deﬁnition of 'Abwab'?

Ans 1. A tax levied on the lands over and above the original rent

2. A reward for good governance 3. A court jester

4. A clerk in the government treasury

Q.3 Who among the following authored the book 'The Great Indian Novel'?

Ans 1. Vikram Seth 2. Rohinton Mistry 3. Shashi Tharoor 4. Khushwant Singh

Q.4 Where was the largest solar project namely ‘Provision of Solar Photo Voltaic Powerplant 1.5 MW’ under the ‘Make in India’ initiative set up in November 2020?

Ans 1. Leh

2. Gulmarg 3. Shimla 4. Manali

Question ID : 6549787009 Status : Answered Section : General Awareness

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Q.5 GIMP is a/an ______.

Ans 1. text editor

2. diagnostic utility program 3. application software 4. operating system

Q.6 A ______ is a software program that travels the web locating and indexing websites for search engines.

Ans 1. python

2. penguin 3. spider 4. bug

Q.7 As per ‘Soils of India, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning report:

Publication Number 94’ which type of soil (order) is most abundantly available?

Ans 1. Mollisols 2. Alﬁsols 3. Inceptisols 4. Aridisols

Q.8 What is the rate at which a wave moves through water, and is measured in knots?

Ans 1. Wave height

2. Wave crest and trough 3. Wave speed

4. Wave frequency

Q.9 In which of the following states is India's ﬁrst pollinator park located?

Ans 1. Uttarakhand

2. Assam 3. Kerala 4. Odisha

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Q.10 With which of the following sports is Sebastian Korda associated?

Ans 1. Cricket 2. Badminton 3. Tennis 4. Volleyball

Q.11 In which of the following states is the Sambhar Lake located?

Ans 1. Gujarat 2. Punjab 3. Mizoram 4. Rajasthan

Q.12 What is the name of the instrument used for measuring the speed and rate of flow of a fluid that is flowing in a pipe?

Ans 1. Machmeter

2. Venturimeter

3. Odometer 4. Cryometer

Q.13 Which of the following Articles of the Constitution of India states that 'The President, or the Governor or Rajpramukh of a State, shall not be answerable to any court for the exercise and performance of the powers and duties of his oﬃce'?

Ans 1. Article 352 2. Article 384 3. Article 361 4. Article 396

Q.14 Which of the following is a large bean-shaped lymphoid organ in the human body?

Ans 1. Thymus

2. Spleen 3. Lymph node 4. Tonsil

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Q.15 Which of the following festivals is celebrated as a kite-ﬂying festival across India?

Ans 1. Makar Sankranti

2. Holi

3. Janmashtami 4. Durga Puja

Q.16 Who is the author of the book 'My Master'?

Ans 1. Raja Ram Mohan Roy 2. Rabindranath Tagore 3. Swami Vivekananda 4. Sri Aurobindo

Q.17 Who among the following won a silver medal in the women's 57 kg category at the Individual Wrestling World Cup held in Serbia in December 2020?

Ans 1. Anastasia Nichita 2. Aisuluu Tynybekova 3. Anshu Malik 4. Veronika Chumikova

Q.18 Which of the following states has the highest entrepreneurial activity in the infrastructure sector as per the Economic Survey 2019-20?

Ans 1. Sikkim 2. Jharkhand

3. Uttar Pradesh 4. Karnataka

Q.19 ‘Malabar 2020’, a naval exercise conducted in November 2020, saw the participation of ______ country/countries.

Ans 1. one

2. two 3. three 4. four

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Q.20 At the 1992 Summer Olympics, ______ became the ﬁrst woman to carry the ﬂag of India at the opening ceremony of any Olympics.

Ans 1. Nilima Ghose 2. PT Usha

3. Karnam Malleswari 4. Shiny Abraham Wilson

Q.21 Which of the following is NOT a new guideline for credit and debit card users given by Reserve Bank of India in October 2020?

Ans 1. The RBI has asked all the banks to disable online payments for all those debit and credit cards which have never been used for online or contactless transactions.

2. None of the card users will have an option to opt-in or opt-out of services on their credit/debit cards.

3. All new credit and debit cards issued by the banks will be only enabled for domestic transactions at ATMs and point of sale (PoS) terminals.

4. The RBI said that the debit card and credit card users from now on are allowed to set up their own transaction limits.

Q.22 Which of the following is a variety of oilseed?

Ans 1. Liberica 2. Taramira 3. Arabica 4. Robusta

Q.23 In which festival of Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh, are the bullocks and other cattles used for agriculture worshipped?

Ans 1. Pola festival

2. Jiviti Puja 3. Vata Poornima 4. Ganga Dussehra

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Q.24 The Chalukya dynasty was a major kingdom in the ______ part of India.

Ans 1. southern

2. northern 3. western 4. eastern

Q.25 ______ is a discipline of science that studies the origin and eventual fate of the universe.

Ans 1. Bromatology 2. Acarology 3. Cosmology 4. Desmology