2500 Model Questions and Answers
(Chapter: 14)
01 The famous wildlife sanctuary in Gujarat :
Gir
02 The first Muslim ruler in India who proved his efficiency in Civil Administration:
Sher Shah
03 How many times the length of our National Flags is to its width :
One and half times
04 The venue of Salt Satyagraha in Kerala :
Payyannur
05 Governor-General who banned Sati :
William Bentinck
06 The first ruler of the Sena Dynasty :
Vijayasena
07 The first ship of the Indian Navy which circumnavigated the world :
INS Tharangini
08 The convicts of Mahatma Gandhi murder case were sentenced to death at:
Ambala Jail
09 A poisonous chemical used for artificial ripening of fruits:
Carbide
10 The capital city of which country is located below sea level :
The Netherlands
11 Silumin is an alloy of :
Aluminium and Silicon
12 The first leftist leader to become the Speaker of Lok Sabha :
Somnath Chatterjee
13 The country with the largest number of official languages:
South Africa
14 The most industrially developed South American Country:
Brazil.
15 Who deciphered cuneiform script :
Henry Rollinson(1835)
16 Who was nicknamed as Lokmanya :
Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
17 The windiest continent:
Antarctica
18 The first Malayalee to win Kendra Sahitya Academy Award :
R. Narayana Panicker (1955)
19 The first couple to share Nobel Prize :
Pierre Curie & Mary Curie (1903, Physics)
20 The Lok Sabha which had the longest term :
5 Sabha
21 River Churni in ancient days is the present day :
Periyar
22 Holy Book of Sikhs :
Guru Granth Sahib
23 Satheesh Dhawan Space Centre is at :
Sriharikota
24 The largest quantity of Carbon dioxide effluence is done by :
U.S.A..
25 The last Maurya Ruler :
Brahadrada
26 Who wrote ‘Satyarth Prakash’:
Dayanand Saraswati
27 The largest mountain in the solar system is :
Mount Olympus (Mars)
28 World’s largest producer of coffee :
Brazil
29 The National Air Service of Germany :
Lufthansa
30 Golan Hills which were part of Syria was conquered in 1967 by :
Israel
31 The Malayalam film with Gujarat earthquake as background :
Kazhcha
32 The first Indian State where the facility of remitting property tax at Post Offices was implemented :
Kerala
33 The political party launched by Medha Patkar :
People’s Political Front
34 The largest plateau in Kerala :
Wayanad
35 The British ruler who ruled for the longest duration :
Queen Elizabeth II
36 The only non living organelle in the cell :
Vacuole
37 The edible part of Yam is its: Stem
38 The traveller who guided the Dutch to reach India :
Linschoten
39 The animal with a highly developed brain :
Man
40 The water in the dam exerts pressure :
in all directions
41 Tomato was cultivated for the first time in :
South America
42 The kitchen of cell :
Chlorophyll
43 The largest continent :
Asia
44 Among the Tughlaq rulers, who was almost ritualistic:
Firoz Shah Tughlaq
45 The fluid that gives softness to skin and hair :
Sebum
46 ‘The Picture of Dorian Grey’ is a work of :
Oscar Wilde
47 The element, which is a significant atomic energy source present in the black soil of Kerala Sea coast :
Thorium
48 The second Asian Writer to win Nobel Prize for Literature:
Yasunari Kawabata (1968 Japan).
49 The real name of Shah Jahan :
Khurram
50 The coastline of Tamil Nadu is known as :
Coromandel coast
51 The city founded by Krishnadevaraya :
Nagalapur
52 The unit of distance in the sea :
Nautical mile
53 The country which produced the largest number of feature films in India :
India
54 Samjhauta Express connects Delhi with:
Lahore
55 Thar Express runs between Jodhpur and :
Karachi
56 Fighter plane Mirage is supplied by :
France
57 During the reign of which Delhi Sultan did Rani Padmini perform Jauhar:
Alauddin Khilji
58 The country which stands first in Wool production :
Australia
59 Panchayati Raj and Nagarpalika Bills failed in the Rajya Sabha when the Prime Minister was:
Rajiv Gandhi
60 The lake Sudarshan renovated by Rudradaman is in :
Gujarat
61 Gandharam is the present day :
Afghanistan
62 The first Nobel price for literature was conferred to :
Sully Prudhomme
63 The first Muslim woman space traveller:
Anousheh Ansari
64 The first secretary of Sahitya Pravarthaka Sahakarana Sangham :
Karur Neelakanta Pillai
65 Founder of the World Wide Web :
Tim Berners Lee
66 District without coastline and shares boundaries only with other districts of Kerala: Kottayam
67 Birth place of Shadkala Govinda Marar :
Ramamangalam
68 Who represented Indian woman for the round table conference :
Sarojini Naidu
69 Ore of Potassium:
Carnallite
70 Where is Papanasam beach:
Varkala
71 Viceroy during the first Round Table Conference :
Lord Irwin
72 Wildlife sanctuary for wild asses :
Gujarat
73 National animal prior to Tiger :
Lion
74 The last Peshwa ruler :
Bajirao II (1795-1818)
75 Who propounded postal stamp :
Rolland Hill
76 The first woman Acting President in the world belonged to :
Mongolia
77 Thaekkinkadu maidanam is in :
Thrissur
78 Cell Wall of plant cells are made of :
Cellulose
79 Konkani language is an offshoot of :
Indo Aryan Language
80 Sahara desert is in the continent of :
Africa
81 The bird with bag in its beak :
Pelican
82 The first Secretary of Kerala State Library Council :
I.V.Das
83 The most popular among the Chauhan Kings :
Prithviraj Chauhan
84 Typhoon hot air blows in :
China
85 Sarkaria Commission studied about :
Central-State relations
86 The officiating Dewan of Travancore when Sir C.P.Ramaswami Aiyar resigned: P.G.N.Unnithan
87 The first satellite for education purposes :
Edusat
88 Name the first speaker of the Central Legislative Assembly formed in 1921:
Sir Frederic Whyte
89 Components of Gunmetal :
Copper, Zinc and Tin
90 Medical city of the world :
Vienna
91 The first available inscriptions of Venad rulers :
Tharisapalli Copper Plate
92 The first woman President Isabel Peron ruled :
Argentina
93 Who invented cement:
Joseph Aspdin
94 “I have seen many saints and seers. But never someone who was greater than or equal to Sree Narayana Guru who said this :
Rabindranath Tagore
95 Konkan railway came into being :
1998
96 Script used during Indus Valley Civilization:
Pictographic
97 The Second Woman Prime Minister in the world :
Indira Gandhi
98 The first Malayalee to become Union Finance Minister:
John Mathai
99 When Subhas Chandra Bose was the Congress President (1938) the Chairman of the National Planning Committee was :
Jawaharlal Nehru
100 In which year the foundation for the Portuguese Fort at Kochi was laid :
1503
(Chapter: 14)
01 The famous wildlife sanctuary in Gujarat :
Gir
02 The first Muslim ruler in India who proved his efficiency in Civil Administration:
Sher Shah
03 How many times the length of our National Flags is to its width :
One and half times
04 The venue of Salt Satyagraha in Kerala :
Payyannur
05 Governor-General who banned Sati :
William Bentinck
06 The first ruler of the Sena Dynasty :
Vijayasena
07 The first ship of the Indian Navy which circumnavigated the world :
INS Tharangini
08 The convicts of Mahatma Gandhi murder case were sentenced to death at:
Ambala Jail
09 A poisonous chemical used for artificial ripening of fruits:
Carbide
10 The capital city of which country is located below sea level :
The Netherlands
11 Silumin is an alloy of :
Aluminium and Silicon
12 The first leftist leader to become the Speaker of Lok Sabha :
Somnath Chatterjee
13 The country with the largest number of official languages:
South Africa
14 The most industrially developed South American Country:
Brazil.
15 Who deciphered cuneiform script :
Henry Rollinson(1835)
16 Who was nicknamed as Lokmanya :
Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
17 The windiest continent:
Antarctica
18 The first Malayalee to win Kendra Sahitya Academy Award :
R. Narayana Panicker (1955)
19 The first couple to share Nobel Prize :
Pierre Curie & Mary Curie (1903, Physics)
20 The Lok Sabha which had the longest term :
5 Sabha
21 River Churni in ancient days is the present day :
Periyar
22 Holy Book of Sikhs :
Guru Granth Sahib
23 Satheesh Dhawan Space Centre is at :
Sriharikota
24 The largest quantity of Carbon dioxide effluence is done by :
U.S.A..
25 The last Maurya Ruler :
Brahadrada
26 Who wrote ‘Satyarth Prakash’:
Dayanand Saraswati
27 The largest mountain in the solar system is :
Mount Olympus (Mars)
28 World’s largest producer of coffee :
Brazil
29 The National Air Service of Germany :
Lufthansa
30 Golan Hills which were part of Syria was conquered in 1967 by :
Israel
31 The Malayalam film with Gujarat earthquake as background :
Kazhcha
32 The first Indian State where the facility of remitting property tax at Post Offices was implemented :
Kerala
33 The political party launched by Medha Patkar :
People’s Political Front
34 The largest plateau in Kerala :
Wayanad
35 The British ruler who ruled for the longest duration :
Queen Elizabeth II
36 The only non living organelle in the cell :
Vacuole
37 The edible part of Yam is its: Stem
38 The traveller who guided the Dutch to reach India :
Linschoten
39 The animal with a highly developed brain :
Man
40 The water in the dam exerts pressure :
in all directions
41 Tomato was cultivated for the first time in :
South America
42 The kitchen of cell :
Chlorophyll
43 The largest continent :
Asia
44 Among the Tughlaq rulers, who was almost ritualistic:
Firoz Shah Tughlaq
45 The fluid that gives softness to skin and hair :
Sebum
46 ‘The Picture of Dorian Grey’ is a work of :
Oscar Wilde
47 The element, which is a significant atomic energy source present in the black soil of Kerala Sea coast :
Thorium
48 The second Asian Writer to win Nobel Prize for Literature:
Yasunari Kawabata (1968 Japan).
49 The real name of Shah Jahan :
Khurram
50 The coastline of Tamil Nadu is known as :
Coromandel coast
51 The city founded by Krishnadevaraya :
Nagalapur
52 The unit of distance in the sea :
Nautical mile
53 The country which produced the largest number of feature films in India :
India
54 Samjhauta Express connects Delhi with:
Lahore
55 Thar Express runs between Jodhpur and :
Karachi
56 Fighter plane Mirage is supplied by :
France
57 During the reign of which Delhi Sultan did Rani Padmini perform Jauhar:
Alauddin Khilji
58 The country which stands first in Wool production :
Australia
59 Panchayati Raj and Nagarpalika Bills failed in the Rajya Sabha when the Prime Minister was:
Rajiv Gandhi
60 The lake Sudarshan renovated by Rudradaman is in :
Gujarat
61 Gandharam is the present day :
Afghanistan
62 The first Nobel price for literature was conferred to :
Sully Prudhomme
63 The first Muslim woman space traveller:
Anousheh Ansari
64 The first secretary of Sahitya Pravarthaka Sahakarana Sangham :
Karur Neelakanta Pillai
65 Founder of the World Wide Web :
Tim Berners Lee
66 District without coastline and shares boundaries only with other districts of Kerala: Kottayam
67 Birth place of Shadkala Govinda Marar :
Ramamangalam
68 Who represented Indian woman for the round table conference :
Sarojini Naidu
69 Ore of Potassium:
Carnallite
70 Where is Papanasam beach:
Varkala
71 Viceroy during the first Round Table Conference :
Lord Irwin
72 Wildlife sanctuary for wild asses :
Gujarat
73 National animal prior to Tiger :
Lion
74 The last Peshwa ruler :
Bajirao II (1795-1818)
75 Who propounded postal stamp :
Rolland Hill
76 The first woman Acting President in the world belonged to :
Mongolia
77 Thaekkinkadu maidanam is in :
Thrissur
78 Cell Wall of plant cells are made of :
Cellulose
79 Konkani language is an offshoot of :
Indo Aryan Language
80 Sahara desert is in the continent of :
Africa
81 The bird with bag in its beak :
Pelican
82 The first Secretary of Kerala State Library Council :
I.V.Das
83 The most popular among the Chauhan Kings :
Prithviraj Chauhan
84 Typhoon hot air blows in :
China
85 Sarkaria Commission studied about :
Central-State relations
86 The officiating Dewan of Travancore when Sir C.P.Ramaswami Aiyar resigned: P.G.N.Unnithan
87 The first satellite for education purposes :
Edusat
88 Name the first speaker of the Central Legislative Assembly formed in 1921:
Sir Frederic Whyte
89 Components of Gunmetal :
Copper, Zinc and Tin
90 Medical city of the world :
Vienna
91 The first available inscriptions of Venad rulers :
Tharisapalli Copper Plate
92 The first woman President Isabel Peron ruled :
Argentina
93 Who invented cement:
Joseph Aspdin
94 “I have seen many saints and seers. But never someone who was greater than or equal to Sree Narayana Guru who said this :
Rabindranath Tagore
95 Konkan railway came into being :
1998
96 Script used during Indus Valley Civilization:
Pictographic
97 The Second Woman Prime Minister in the world :
Indira Gandhi
98 The first Malayalee to become Union Finance Minister:
John Mathai
99 When Subhas Chandra Bose was the Congress President (1938) the Chairman of the National Planning Committee was :
Jawaharlal Nehru
100 In which year the foundation for the Portuguese Fort at Kochi was laid :
1503
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