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This section includes 200950 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your General Knowledge knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 16801. |
Most fish do not sink in water because of the presence ofswim bladderair bladderair sacsair in spongy bones |
| A. | I and II are correct |
| B. | II and III are correct |
| C. | III and IV are correct |
| D. | I, II, III and IV are correct |
| Answer» B. II and III are correct | |
| 16802. |
Plants absorb dissolved nitrates from soil and convert them into ____. |
| A. | free nitrogen |
| B. | urea |
| C. | ammonia |
| D. | proteins |
| Answer» B. urea | |
| 16803. |
Plants synthesis protein from? |
| A. | Fatty acids |
| B. | Amino acids |
| C. | Sugar |
| D. | Starch |
| Answer» C. Sugar | |
| 16804. |
Movement of cell against concentration gradient is called ? |
| A. | Osmosis |
| B. | Active transport |
| C. | Diffusion |
| D. | Passive transport |
| Answer» C. Diffusion | |
| 16805. |
Plants receive their nutrients mainly from? |
| A. | Soil |
| B. | Light |
| C. | Atmosphere |
| D. | Chlorophyll |
| Answer» B. Light | |
| 16806. |
Pollination is best defined as? |
| A. | Germination of pollen grains |
| B. | Growth of pollen tube in ovule |
| C. | Visiting flowers by insects |
| D. | Transfer of pollen from anther to stigma |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16807. |
Ozone hole refers to? |
| A. | Hole in ozone layer |
| B. | Decrease in the ozone layer in troposphere |
| C. | Decrease in thickness of ozone layer in stratosphere |
| D. | Increase in the thickness of ozone layer in troposphere |
| Answer» D. Increase in the thickness of ozone layer in troposphere | |
| 16808. |
The Peasant and the Raj is the work of ……… |
| A. | Shirin Mehta |
| B. | D.N.Dhanagare |
| C. | A.R.Desai |
| D. | Eric Stokes |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16809. |
Author of ‘Culture ideology Hegemony Intellectual and Social consciousness in Colonial India’ is ……… |
| A. | Herman Kulke |
| B. | R.C. Majumdar |
| C. | K.N.Panikkar |
| D. | K.N.Ganesh |
| Answer» D. K.N.Ganesh | |
| 16810. |
Writing Social History is the book of ……… |
| A. | Ranajith Guha |
| B. | Cohn Bernard |
| C. | Sumit Sarkar |
| D. | Ania Loomba |
| Answer» D. Ania Loomba | |
| 16811. |
My Experiments with Truth is the work of ……… |
| A. | Mahadev Desai |
| B. | Shankarlal Banker |
| C. | Tara Chand |
| D. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16812. |
The title of ‘Viceroy’ was added to the centre of the Governor-General of India for the first time in |
| A. | 1856 A.D |
| B. | 1862 A.D |
| C. | 1858 A.D |
| D. | 1848 A.D |
| Answer» D. 1848 A.D | |
| 16813. |
Who of the following Governor Generals is associated with Subsidiary Alliance Systen? |
| A. | Lord Delhousie |
| B. | Lord Mayo |
| C. | Lord Wellesley |
| D. | Lord Cornwallies |
| Answer» D. Lord Cornwallies | |
| 16814. |
Pazhassi Samarangal (Malayalam) was written by … |
| A. | B.Sobhanan |
| B. | K.K.Kusuman |
| C. | Bhattacharya Sabya |
| D. | K.K.N.Kurup |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16815. |
In……….., the First National Trade union organization (The All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)) was established. |
| A. | 1920 |
| B. | 1917 |
| C. | 1908 |
| D. | 1904 |
| Answer» B. 1917 | |
| 16816. |
The background of the foundation of the Muslim League at ……….on 30 December 1906 may be traced back to the establishment of the Indian national congress in 1885. |
| A. | Bengal |
| B. | Simla |
| C. | Shahbag |
| D. | Dhaka |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16817. |
………. made a wirlwind tour of the country in 1916 and in his speeches he said,Swaraj is my birthright and I will have it |
| A. | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| B. | Gokhale |
| C. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| D. | Tilak |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16818. |
Hindu Mahasabha was founded in …………….. |
| A. | 1925 |
| B. | 1915 |
| C. | 1906 |
| D. | 1901 |
| Answer» C. 1906 | |
| 16819. |
Muslim League was established in December......... |
| A. | 1946 |
| B. | 1906 |
| C. | 1902 |
| D. | 1901 |
| Answer» C. 1902 | |
| 16820. |
When was the first Shivaji festival was held at Raigarh ? |
| A. | 1899 |
| B. | 1895 |
| C. | 1892 |
| D. | 1890 |
| Answer» C. 1892 | |
| 16821. |
The spark for the Swadeshi Movement was the ………….decision to partition Bengal. |
| A. | Portuguese |
| B. | Dutch |
| C. | British |
| D. | French |
| Answer» D. French | |
| 16822. |
The partition of Bengal had to be annulled in …………… |
| A. | 1929 |
| B. | 1928 |
| C. | 1911 |
| D. | 1907 |
| Answer» D. 1907 | |
| 16823. |
The inauguration of the Ganapati and Shivaji Festivals was done by ……… |
| A. | J.N.Mukherjee… |
| B. | Shyamaprasad mukherjee |
| C. | Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya |
| D. | Tilak |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16824. |
……., the viceroy of India decided to partition Bengal for administrative purposes,creating a new province of East Bengal and Assam, with a population of 31 million people and with its capital at Dhaka. |
| A. | Wellesley |
| B. | Lord Hastings |
| C. | Lord Rippon |
| D. | Lord Curzon |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16825. |
……… is the acknowledged high priest of the drain theory. |
| A. | J.N.Mukherjee |
| B. | J.N. Ghosh |
| C. | S N Bose |
| D. | Dadabhai Naoroji |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16826. |
Dadabhai Naoroji’s book ‘poverty and un British rule in India’ published in ………….analysed the nature of the British rule in India. |
| A. | 1946 |
| B. | 1908 |
| C. | 1901 |
| D. | 1898 |
| Answer» D. 1898 | |
| 16827. |
…………………….is remembered as the ‘Grand old man of India’. |
| A. | Amaresh Chakravarty |
| B. | Pulinbehari Sarkar |
| C. | Dadabhai Naoroji |
| D. | Ranade |
| Answer» D. Ranade | |
| 16828. |
The Bombay Association, the first political association in Bombay presidency was founded by ………….in 1852 |
| A. | Prankrishna Parija. |
| B. | Amaresh Chakravarty |
| C. | Pulinbehari Sarkar |
| D. | Dadabhai Naoroji |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16829. |
The Minto Morley reforms was in the year …… |
| A. | 1919 |
| B. | 1909 |
| C. | 1907 |
| D. | 1906 |
| Answer» C. 1907 | |
| 16830. |
1905 ………….laid the foundation of the ‘servants of India society’, with a view to the training of national missionaries for the service of India, and to promote by all constitutional means, the true interest of the Indian people. |
| A. | Ranade |
| B. | R. C. Dutt |
| C. | Dadabai Naoroji |
| D. | Gokhale |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16831. |
………………in his book ‘Economic history of India’ wrote ‘If India is poor today it is through the operation of economic causes |
| A. | R.P.Datt |
| B. | Ranade |
| C. | R.C. Dutt |
| D. | Dadhabai Naoroji |
| Answer» D. Dadhabai Naoroji | |
| 16832. |
The ‘political philosophy’ was the work of ………… |
| A. | Lala Lajpath Rai |
| B. | R. C. Dutt |
| C. | Dadabai Naoroji |
| D. | Gopala Krishna Gokhale |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16833. |
The second session of the congress met in Calcutta on December 1886, under the president ship of ……………. |
| A. | Ewacha |
| B. | Pherozeshah Mehta |
| C. | Kadambini Ganguli |
| D. | Dadabhai Naoroji |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16834. |
In 1884 …………founded the Indian National Union. |
| A. | W.C. Banerjee |
| B. | Lord Dufferin |
| C. | A.M. Bose |
| D. | A.O.Hume |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16835. |
The first organisation in the Madras Presidency to agitate for the rights of Indians was the Madras Native Association which was established by publicist ………………. Chetty in 1849. This organisation did not survive for long and was eventually disbanded |
| A. | R. Balaji Rao |
| B. | P. Anandacharlu |
| C. | S. Ramaswami Mudaliar |
| D. | Gazulu Lakshminarasu |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16836. |
The Indian National Congress was the first organized expression of Indian nationalism on an all India Scale………; a retired English LC.S officer played an important rule in its formation |
| A. | S.N.Sen |
| B. | W.C. Banerjee |
| C. | Man Mohan Gosh |
| D. | A.O.Hume |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16837. |
The Indian National Congress was founded in December 1885 at………… |
| A. | Gujarat |
| B. | Madras |
| C. | Calcutta |
| D. | Bombay |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16838. |
In May…………., S. Ramaswami Mudaliar and P. Anandacharlu established the Madras Mahajana Sabha. |
| A. | 1884 |
| B. | 1872 |
| C. | 1784 |
| D. | 1783 |
| Answer» B. 1872 | |
| 16839. |
Prior to the Indian Association Sisir Kumar Ghosh along with Sambhu Charan Mukherjee founded ……………in Calcutta on 25 September 1875. |
| A. | Bombay Presidency Association |
| B. | Madras Mahajana Sabha |
| C. | Indian National Congress |
| D. | The India League |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16840. |
Indian Association formed in ………….. was one of the pioneer political associations with an all India outlook |
| A. | 1876 |
| B. | 1874 |
| C. | 1776 |
| D. | 1769 |
| Answer» B. 1874 | |
| 16841. |
The partition of Bengal was occurred in ……………….. |
| A. | 1905 |
| B. | 1904 |
| C. | 1805 |
| D. | 1804 |
| Answer» B. 1904 | |
| 16842. |
The East India Association was founded by …………. in 1866. |
| A. | Dadabhai Naoroji |
| B. | debendranath Tagore |
| C. | Raja radhakanta dev |
| D. | Lord Lyveden |
| Answer» B. debendranath Tagore | |
| 16843. |
The Mohamedan Association was founded in ………….in 1856. |
| A. | Maharashtra |
| B. | Madras |
| C. | Adayar |
| D. | Calcutta |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16844. |
British Indian Association was founded on October 29, 1851 at……………. |
| A. | Bombay |
| B. | Madras |
| C. | Pune |
| D. | Calcutta |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16845. |
Calcutta medical college in…………. |
| A. | 1835 |
| B. | 1832 |
| C. | 1745 |
| D. | 1735 |
| Answer» B. 1832 | |
| 16846. |
The ……………. was run by Tarachand Chakravarty |
| A. | Bengal Spectator |
| B. | Enquirer |
| C. | Hesperus |
| D. | Quill |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16847. |
Krishnamohan started the ……………. in 1831 |
| A. | Bengal Spectator |
| B. | Quill |
| C. | Hindu Pioneer |
| D. | Enquirer |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16848. |
The Hindu Pioneer started in ………… |
| A. | 1838 |
| B. | 1834 |
| C. | 1831 |
| D. | 1827 |
| Answer» B. 1834 | |
| 16849. |
The Young Bengal group published the …………(Quest for Knowledge) for propagating their views. |
| A. | Enquirer. |
| B. | Hesperus |
| C. | Parthenon |
| D. | Jnananvesan |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16850. |
In ……… Derozio founded with his students the 'Academic Association' which organised debates on various subjects |
| A. | 1834 |
| B. | 1828 |
| C. | 1825 |
| D. | 1824 |
| Answer» C. 1825 | |