ANSWER: A
Dulchi Pass is the oldest trail connecting Mandi and Kullu.
ANSWER: B
The Masrur Temples, also referred to as Masroor Temples or Rock-cut Temples at Masrur, is an early 8th-century complex of rock-cut Hindu temples in the Kangra Valley of Beas River in Himachal Pradesh, India. The temples face northeast, towards the Dhauladhar range of the Himalayas.
ANSWER: D
Himachal Pradesh government approved setting up of model schools on the lines of Kendriya Vidyalaya in five educationally backward blocks of Tissa, Mehla, Salooni and Pangi in Chamba district and Shillai block in Sirmour district.
ANSWER: B
Bakayang dance is famous in the Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh. In this dance form, the dancers perform in two or three rows. This dance is usually performed by women.
ANSWER: C
The Daranghati Sanctuary is located in Rampur Bushahr, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India. It has undisturbed forest areas.
ANSWER: C
The park is the first of its kind in Asia to be developed at the actual discovery site of fossils. The Park is located on the left bank of the Markanda River and is approachable by a link road 4 km from highway from Haryana.
ANSWER: A
Nahan town of H.P. was the first Skill Development Centre set up in H.P. in 2013 A.D.
ANSWER: B
The Swachh Bharat Mission – Gramin (SBM-G) programme, under the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, is a flagship programme of the Government of India. To accelerate the efforts to achieve Universal Sanitation Coverage and to put the focus on sanitation, the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India had launched the Swachh Bharat Mission on 2nd October 2014. Under the mission, all villages, Gram Panchayats, Districts, States and Union Territories in India declared themselves “open-defecation free” (ODF) by 2 October 2019, the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, by constructing over 100 million toilets in rural India. SBM-G is built upon hybrid deployment, made with the combination of High Availability Solution and Disaster Recovery Solution for SQL Server at a database level.
ANSWER: C
Approximately 24.85 percentage of total area of H.P. falls in Lahaul-Spiti District.
ANSWER: B
10000 ft is the approximate altitude of Shikari Devi temple situated in Karsog region of Mandi District of H.P.
ANSWER: D
Raja Bijai Chand of Bilaspur princely state was exiled from the state around 1903 A.D. and ordered to stay at Benaras.
ANSWER: C
In 1925 A.D. was the custom of Rit Marriage abolished in the Bushahr princely state.
ANSWER: C
In 1946 Ratesh was the smallest state/ Thakurai among the Shimla Hill states.
ANSWER: C
During the reign of Rudar Pal Raja of Kullu was Lahul conquered by the Raja of Chamba.
ANSWER: A
The quantum of land revenue in Bilaspur princely state which was paid in kind till 1863 was One-third of the produce.
ANSWER: B
Raja Balbir Sen of Mandi princely state was son of Ishwari Sen by a concubine.
ANSWER: B
The Gurkhas restored the territory of Kutlehar princely state which had been seized by Raja Sansar Chand of Kangra.
ANSWER: D
Justice Mehr Chand Mahajan (1889–1967) was the third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India. Prior to that he was the Prime Minister of the state of Jammu and Kashmir during the reign of Maharaja Hari Singh and played a key role in the accession of the state to India. Mehr Chand Mahajan was born on 23 December 1889 at Tika Nagrota in the Kangra district of Punjab, British India (now In Himachal Pradesh).
ANSWER: D
Tharoach was the last Thakurai to be granted Sanad by the British.
ANSWER: D
According to the Sanad granted to the Raja of Sirmaur in 1815 A.D. Kayar-Da-Dun of the following territories was returned to him.
ANSWER: C
Three is the number of members from the tribal areas in the H.P. Vidhan Sabha elected in 2012 A.D.
ANSWER: D
225 was the Consumer Price Index Numbers for industrial workers in H.P. during 2014-15.
ANSWER: C
Bhumpal the ancestral village of famous Hindi writer Yashpal in Hamirpur District of H.P.
ANSWER: A
Chini Tehsil of Mahasu District, 14 villages of Rampur Tehsil were transferred to constitute Kinnaur District in 1960 A.D.
ANSWER: D
Jaiwant Ram was the first Speaker of H.P. Vidhan Sabha (1952).
ANSWER: D
According to 2010-11 Agricultural census 87.95 is the percentage of small and marginal holdings in H.P.
ANSWER: B
Una district also recorded the highest overall population growth of 16.3 per cent, followed by Solan (15.9 per cent) and Sirmaur (15.5).
ANSWER: A
Gugga craftsman in the court of Raja Maru Varman of Chamba built the metal alloy (ashtdhatu) images at Bharmour and Chhatrari temples.
ANSWER: C
Adolescent girls of 11-18 years age-group are covered under the Kishori Shakti Yojna in H.P.
ANSWER: B
In 1976 Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act was passed in H.P.
ANSWER: C
Amrit Bazar Patrika started as a Bengali weekly in February 1868 in the village of Amrita Bazaar in Jessore district (now in Bangladesh). It was started by the Ghosh brothers to fight the cause of peasants who were being exploited by indigo planters. Sisir Kumar Ghosh was the first editor.
ANSWER: A
The Faraizi movement was a movement led by Haji Ali Hamza Awan in Eastern Bengal(Bihar) to give up un-Islamic practices and act upon their duties as Muslims. Founded in 1819, the movement protected the rights of tenants to a great extent.
ANSWER: D
The Indian Councils Act 1892 was an Act of British Parliament that introduced various amendments to the composition and function of legislative councils in British India. Most notably, the act expanded the number of members in the central and provincial councils.
ANSWER: B
The Hindu Mahasabha is a political party in India. The organisation was originally called Sarvadeshak Hindu Sabha (“Hindu Assembly for the entire country”). In 1921, it changed to the present name Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha. Godse and his fellow conspirators Digambar Badge, Gopal Godse, Narayan Apte, Vishnu Karkare and Madanlal Pahwa were identified as prominent members of the Hindu Mahasabha. Along with them, police arrested Savarkar, who was suspected of being the mastermind behind the plot.
ANSWER: B
Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna (22 January 1870 – 21 December 1968) was an Indian revolutionary, the founding president of the Ghadar Party, and a leading member of the party involved in the Ghadar Conspiracy of 1915. Tried at the Lahore Conspiracy trial, Sohan Singh served sixteen years of a life sentence for his part in the conspiracy before he was released in 1930. He later worked closely with the Indian labour movement, devoting considerable time to the Kisan Sabha and the Communist Party of India.
ANSWER: D
Sarojini Naidu – Nation in Making
ANSWER: C
There were two home rule leagues launched. Tilak launched the Indian Home Rule League in April 1916 at Belgaum. Annie Besant launched the Home Rule League in September 1916 at Madras. They had the common objective of achieving self-government in India.
ANSWER: A
From 1922 onwards the Indian Civil Service Examination began to be held in India also, first in Allahabad and later in Delhi with the setting up of the Federal Public Service Commission. The Examination in London continued to be conducted by the Civil Service Commission.
ANSWER: B
ANSWER: D
Boundary Commission, consultative committee created in July 1947 to recommend how the Punjab and Bengal regions of the Indian subcontinent were to be divided between India and Pakistan shortly before each was to become independent from Britain.
ANSWER: D
The Charter Act of 1853 granted them the right to visit India and liberty to preach Christianity there.
ANSWER: A
Syed Ahmed Khan – The Deoband Movement
ANSWER: B
The Society was founded by brothers Gaganendranath Tagore and Abanindranath Tagore in Calcutta in 1907. Following annual exhibitions of the Tagore School of Art, showing the latest works of artists in the new movement in Indian painting (initiated by Abanindranath Tagore, under the guidance of E.B.
ANSWER: D
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, poet and assistant headmaster of Hindu College, Calcutta, a radical thinker and one of the first Indian educators to disseminate Western learning and science among the young men of Bengal.
In 1838, after his death, members of the Young Bengal movement established a second society called the Society for the Acquisition of General Knowledge. Its main objective was to acquire and disseminate knowledge about the condition of the country.
ANSWER: C
3, 1, 4, 2
ANSWER: A
1 and 2
ANSWER: B
Raja Ravi Varma was an Indian painter and artist. He is considered among the greatest painters in the history of Indian art. His works are one of the best examples of the fusion of European academic art with a purely Indian sensibility and iconography.
ANSWER: A
The Victoria Memorial is a large marble building in Central Kolkata, which was built between 1906 and 1921. Sir William Emerson designed the Victoria Memorial Hall in Calcutta.
ANSWER: D
1 and 2
ANSWER: C
Hari Narian Apte – Oriya Literatu
ANSWER: C
Hundreds of writers have authored books on the great man. But it was Christian missionary Joseph Doke who had the unique distinction of writing the first biography of Bapu, reports Vivek Shukla. It is certainly not at all easy to count the biographies written on Gandhiji.
ANSWER: A
India’s Varna system is not an ideal one.
ANSWER: A
Vinoba Bhave and Jawaharlal Nehru were the first two Satyagraha is of Mahatma Gandhi in Individual Satyagraha.
ANSWER: B
2 and 3
ANSWER: C
The University education should be for meritorious students only.
ANSWER: C
Deficit financing effects investment adversely. When there is inflation in the economy employees demand higher wages to survive. If their demands are accepted it increases the cost of production which de-motivates the investors. Direct effect of deficit financing is that Pushes up prices.
ANSWER: C
In 2005 year was the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act Passed.
ANSWER: B
Vijay Kelkar committee to evaluate PPP in India was a committee set up to study and evaluate the extant public-private partnership (PPP) model in India. The committee was set up by India’s central government and headed by Vijay Kelkar. Vijay Kelkar Committee 2012 was related to Fiscal Consolidation.
ANSWER: D
Gross Domestic Saving consists of savings of household sector, private corporate sector, and public sector. The household sector is the largest contributor to domestic saving.
ANSWER: A
The Rolling Plan is a plan in which every year the performance of the plan is assessed and a new plan is made next year based on this assessment. Thus, both the allocation and targets are revised during this plan.
ANSWER: A
The literacy rate of Sikkim is 81.42%. Sikkim’s literacy rate has been upward and is 81.42% as in the 2011 population census. Of these, male literacy is 86.55 percent, while female literacy is 75.61 percent.
ANSWER: B
The headquarters of Western Coalfield Ltd. is located at Nagpur.
ANSWER: D
India and Nepal had signed a Treaty known as Mahakali Treaty in February’1996. Required field investigations for the Pancheshwar Multipurpose Project have been completed by a Joint Project Office (JPO-PI) in 2002.
ANSWER: A
The Mysore Plateau, also known as the South Karnataka Plateau, is one of the four distinct regions of India’s Karnataka region. A plateau divided into two parts called Malnad and Maidan. Malnad in Kannada means a mountainous country. It is divided into deep valleys covered with dense forests.
ANSWER: A
Indo – Sutlej Plain
ANSWER: B
Toda people are a Dravidian ethnic group who live in the Nilgiri Mountains of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
ANSWER: A
It is officially known as the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterflow Habitat and is referred to as the Convention on Wetlands most recently. It came into force in 1975 and came into force in India on February 1, 1982.
ANSWER: B
The major river basin is the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna , which is the largest with catchment area of about 11.0 lakh km2 (more than 43% of the catchment area of all the major rivers in the country). The other major river basins with catchment area more than 1.0 lakh km2 are Indus, Mahanadi, Godavari and Krishna.
ANSWER: B
Hyderabad
ANSWER: A
Lucknow is most eastward located. Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, lies in the middle of the Heritage Arc.
ANSWER: D
About 71 percent of the Earth’s surface is water-covered, and the oceans hold about 96.5 percent of all Earth’s water.
ANSWER: A
A lithosphere is the rigid, outermost shell of a terrestrial-type planet or natural satellite. On Earth, it is composed of the crust and the portion of the upper mantle that behaves elastically on time scales of up to thousands of years or more.
ANSWER: A
Igneous rocks form when magma (molten rock) cools and crystallizes, either at volcanoes on the surface of the Earth or while the melted rock is still inside the crust. All magma develops underground, in the lower crust or upper mantle, because of the intense heat there.
ANSWER: C
Bangalore is widely regarded as the “Silicon Valley of India” (or “IT capital of India”) because of its role as the nation’s leading information technology (IT) exporter. Indian technological organisations are headquartered in the city.
ANSWER: B
Nuclear energy can be used to create electricity, but it must first be released from the atom. In the process of nuclear fission, atoms are split to release that energy. A nuclear reactor, or power plant, is a series of machines that can control nuclear fission to produce electricity.
ANSWER: A
Compressed natural gas is now being used as better fuel than gasoline for running vehicles because of its Complete combustion and no unburnt release of carbon.
ANSWER: B
A convex mirror is preferred as a rear-view mirror in cars and vehicles as it gives a wider field of view, that helps the driver to see most of the traffic behind him. Convex mirrors always form an erect, virtual, and diminished image of the objects placed in front of it.
ANSWER: D
Chlorofluorocarbon (CFC), any of several organic compounds composed of carbon, fluorine, and chlorine. When CFCs also contain hydrogen in place of one or more chlorines, they are called hydro chlorofluorocarbons, or HCFCs. CFCs were originally developed as refrigerants during the 1930s.
ANSWER: C
Kwashiorkor is a type of malnutrition caused by protein deficiency. It mainly occurs in children who are weaning off breast milk, while marasmus can develop in infants. If your diet has a lot of carbohydrates and very little proteins, you may develop kwashiorkor.
ANSWER: A
State of Himachal Pradesh has launched the ‘RISHTA’ project. ‘RISHTA’ is a Rajiv Gandhi Illuminating Scheme for Hill Town Advancement project, which is a systematic smart LED-based street lighting project. This scheme is also known as Centralized Control and Monitoring System (CCMS) Smart Street Lighting Scheme.
ANSWER: A
Clement Richard Attlee, was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. He was Deputy Prime Minister during the wartime coalition government under Winston Churchill, and served twice as Leader of the Opposition from 1935 to 1940 and from 1951 to 1955.
ANSWER: D
Anti-Terrorism Day is observed on May 21 in India every year. The objective behind the observance of this day is to wean away from the youth from terrorism and the cult of violence by highlighting the suffering of common people and showing how it is prejudicial to the national interest.
It was on this day in the year 1991 that former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated. This year commemorates Rajiv Gandhi’s 30th death anniversary as India observes Anti-Terrorism Day.
ANSWER: B
GSAT-9 carries 12 Ku band transponders; each participating South Asian Country has access to a dedicated transponder for their communications. The standalone satellite has a liftoff mass of about 2,230 kg.
ANSWER: A
The Digi Yatra initiative seeks to promote paperless and hassle-free air travel. It is a biometrics-based digital processing system for passenger entry and related requirements at the airport. The Digi Yatra scheme will be implemented across various airports in a phased manner. It is planned to go live at selected airports in 2022, in its first phase. For availing Digi Yatra services, passengers would need to send the travel details through an app to the biometric boarding system of the departing airport.
ANSWER: C
The 2021 Sukma-Bijapur attack was an ambush carried out by the Naxalite-Maoist insurgents from the Communist Party of India (Maoist) against Indian security forces on 3 April 2021 at Sukma-Bijapur border near Jonaguda village which falls under Jagargunda police station area in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh.
ANSWER: C
Leila Seth was an Indian judge who served as the first woman judge on the Delhi High Court and became the first woman to become Chief Justice of a state High Court, Himachal Pradesh High Court, on 5 August 1991. She was also the first lady lawyer to be designated as a senior counsel by the Supreme Court of India.
ANSWER: C
Cauvery: The Cauvery is also known as the Dakshin Ganga or the Ganga of the South. The Kaveri (also known as the Cauvery) is a river in India that flows through Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
ANSWER: A
Bihar
ANSWER: B
Corporation tax is a tax imposed on the net income of the company. Description: Companies, both private and public which are registered in India under the Companies Act 1956, are liable to pay corporate tax. For the assessment year 2014-15, domestic companies are taxed at the rate of 30%.
ANSWER: D
Badruddin Tyabji was born in Cambay, near Bharuch, in October 1844 to a Shia Sulaimani Vohra family. His participation with the Congress was immediately accepted by the new body, as he was educated at Bombay’s Elphinstone and had relations with England.
The key point was that he was an educated Muslim who was aware of the problems that both Muslims and the country were facing. He was the party’s third President, and he helped to solidify the idea that the Congress served Muslims and Hindus at the time.
But, as a well-mannered gentleman, he avoided a squabble with the British as well as the large Hindu community. His main interest was law, and he became the first Indian Chief Justice of a High Court.
ANSWER: B
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, also known as V. M. Bhatt (born 27 July 1950), is a Hindustani classical music instrumentalist who plays the Mohan veena (slide guitar). Apart from his professional distinctions, Vishwa Mohan has an affable deposition. He is always interested to interact with other people. In a short period of time, he becomes very dear to everyone. Worthwhile to mention that he goes beyond his reach to help others.
ANSWER: A
Under Article 42 of the constitution, an amendment was added in 1976 and education became a concurrent list subject which enables the central government to legislate it in the manner suited to it. The 86th Constitutional amendment making education a fundamental right was passed by Parliament in 2002.
ANSWER: B
Knesset, (Hebrew: “Assembly”) unicameral parliament of Israel and supreme authority of that state.
ANSWER: A
Raj Kumar was the person who convinced Gandhiji to visit Champaran. He briefed the latter about the issues being faced by the farmers of the district and as to how were they exploited by the British colonial authorities. It was due to his efforts that farmers were freed from the forced Indigo cultivation.
ANSWER: A
Ravichandran Ashwin is an Indian international cricketer. An all-rounder who bats right-handed and bowls right-arm off-break, he plays for Tamil Nadu in domestic cricket and Delhi Capitals in the Indian Premier League.
ANSWER: B
Women’s Asia Cup: India Beat China 2-0 to Clinch Bronze Medal.
ANSWER: B
Sampriti is a joint military training exercise between India and Russia.
ANSWER: A
Thailand’s Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn was presented with the first ‘World Sanskrit Award’ for her exemplary contribution for the promotion of the language for the year 2015. Besides, American linguist and Indologist Prof. George Cardona was also presented with this award for the year 2016.
ANSWER: B
Cristiano Ronaldo
ANSWER: A
The Champions of the Earth award is UN’s highest environmental honour. This year’s award recognises laureates in four categories: Inspiration and Action, Policy Leadership, Entrepreneurial Vision, and Science and Innovation. For the 2021 prizes, UNEP received a record number of nominations from all over the world.
ANSWER: A
The first BRICS film festival was held at New Delhi from 2 to 6 September 2016.
ANSWER: D
The film ‘Daughter’ (Iranian) won the coveted Golden Peacock Award at the 47th International Film Festival of India (IFFI). It was directed by Reza Mirkarimi.
ANSWER: B
The Madhya Pradesh government will launch a scheme “Lalima Abhiyan” to make state free from anaemia, which will be effective from November 1, 2016. Under the campaign, free iron folic acid tablets will be provided in aaganwadis, academic institutions and hospitals.
ANSWER: A
A literacy programme christened ‘Jail Jyothi – jails without illiterates’, to ensure total literacy among inmates in prisons in Kerala. It is estimated that nearly 1,000 out of the 7,000-odd inmates in 53 jails across the State were illiterate.
ANSWER: A
Bharatmala Pariyojana is the second largest highway construction project in India, enhancing the connectivity of the nation. In 2017, the Central Government launched the Bharatmala Project to augment the cargo movement spurring international trade
ANSWER: A
The Ministry of Human Resource Development is planning to revive the Project Vishwajeet’ which was a 2016 initiative to ensure that IITs rank as top education institutes globally. Vishwajeet means ‘conquering the world’. This was what the Ministry aims to achieve. This 2016 initiative aimed to push seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) to the top rung in global academic rankings.
ANSWER: C
In October 2015, the union government has constituted a 10-member committee under the chairmanship of Justice RV Easwar, former judge of the Delhi High Court, to study the Income Tax Act, 1961 to identify the provisions that have given rise to litigation due to interpretative differences.
ANSWER: C
A joint endeavor of NASA, the European Space Agency, or ESA, and the Italian Space Agency, Cassini launched in 1997 along with ESA’s Huygens probe. The spacecraft contributed to studies of Jupiter for six months in 2000 before reaching its destination, Saturn, in 2004 and starting a string of flybys of Saturn’s moons.
ANSWER: A
‘Operation Sankat Mochan’ was launched by a Indian Air Force.
ANSWER: A
Shankha Ghosh, the well-known Bengali poet, critic and academician, has been selected for the prestigious 52nd edition of the Jnanpith Award (2016) by the Government of India (GoI) for his poetic idiom and experiments with various poetic forms mark his greatness as a creative talent.
ANSWER: A
TSR Subrahmanyam Committee which recently submitted its report to the government of India dealt with National Education Policy.
ANSWER: D
Richard Rahul Verma (born November 27, 1968) is an Indian-American lawyer and the former U.S. Ambassador to India from 2014 to 2017.Verma previously served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs at the U.S. Department of State from 2009 to 2011.He is currently the Executive Vice President of Global Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs at Mastercard, a position he has held since October 2020.
ANSWER: A
The Swedish Academy awarded Dylan the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” After declining the invitation to attend the traditional Nobel Prize banquet and ceremony on Dec.
ANSWER: C
As per provisions given in Article 280 of the Constitution of India, the President of India can constitute the Finance Commission and give its recommendations on the distribution of tax between the State Governments and Union Government and also amongst the states themselves.
ANSWER: A
Article 360 of the constitution mentions ‘Financial Emergency’. It only mentions that if any financial stability or credit situation is threatened, a financial emergency can be imposed. The power to impose this emergency vest with the President, if such action is advised by his council of ministers.
ANSWER: A
Gujarat- Gujarat has the longest coastline in India along its kathiawar region. The length of the Gujarat coastline is about 1600 km surrounded by the Arabian sea. Therefore, this is the correct option.
ANSWER: A
Shunglu Committee is a committee of three experts instituted to examine the alleged irregularities and cases of nepotism in the appointments across various Delhi state government departments under the Arvind Kejriwal led Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi.
ANSWER: B
Rajasthan: The Panchayati Raj System was first adopted by the state of Rajasthan. It is a system of local self-government in India. It was put in force in 1992 through the 73rd amendment to the Indian Constitution.
ANSWER: A
Under the Constitution of India, the head of the Executive is the President. All executive power is vested in him and all executive actions are taken in his name. He is, however, only a Constitutional Head of State acting on the aid and advice of the Council of Ministers and as such only the formal Executive.
ANSWER: A
The liver breaks fat to produce cholesterol.
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