Who was recently selected as the ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year 2023?
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Correct answer: (C) Hayley Matthews (West Indies) The ICC Women's T20I Cricketer of the Year for 2023 was Hayley Matthews of the West Indies, an all-rounder effective with both bat and ball.
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Question 52
Who was crowned Miss World 2024 in Mumbai?
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Correct answer: (A) Miss Czech Kristina Pishkova The Miss World 2024 title was won at Mumbai by Kristina Pishkova of the Czech Republic.
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Question 53
In which country will the Clean Energy Investor Forum be organised by IPEF?
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Correct answer: (B) Singapore The Clean Energy Investor Forum of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) was held in Singapore.
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Question 54
India has acquired the right to operate the foreign Sittwe Port. It is in which country?
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Correct answer: (C) Myanmar Sittwe port is in the Rakhine province of Myanmar, and India has got the right to operate it. It is part of the Kaladan project, which will link north-east India to the sea.
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Question 55
The mangrove forest of the Ganga Delta is called
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Correct answer: (A) Sunderban The tidal forests of the Ganga–Brahmaputra delta are called the Sundarbans, named after the sundari tree. They are also a famous home of the tiger.
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Question 56
Which river frequently changes its course of flow in Bihar?
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Correct answer: (B) Kosi The Kosi shifts its channel again and again and lays down heavy silt, which is why it is called the ‘Sorrow of Bihar’.
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Question 57
Plant roots get water from soil as
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Correct answer: (C) Capillary water Roots draw the water held by capillarity in the fine spaces between soil particles. Hygroscopic water clings to the particles too tightly for the roots to pull it away.
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Question 58
How much larger is the equatorial diameter than the polar diameter?
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Correct answer: (B) 43 km The Earth is flattened at the poles, so its equatorial diameter is about 43 kilometres greater than the polar. That is why the Earth is called an oblate spheroid rather than a perfect sphere.
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Question 59
The Indian Standard Time (IST) is taken at which longitude?
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Correct answer: (A) 82.5° E Indian Standard Time is taken at 82°30′ E longitude, which passes near Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh and is 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of Greenwich.
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Question 60
In India, the ‘Green Revolution’ is credited to whom?
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Correct answer: (B) Dr. M.S. Swaminathan
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Question 61
The highest mountain peak of India is known as
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Correct answer: (B) Kanchenjunga The highest peak within India's own borders is Kanchenjunga (8,586 m). Everest stands on the Nepal–China border and K-2 in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, so neither counts as an Indian peak.
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Question 62
The Indian continent was earlier part of
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Correct answer: (A) Gondwanaland The Indian peninsula was once part of the great southern continent of Gondwanaland. Pangaea was the still older single landmass, which later split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
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Question 63
Who led the Revolt of 1857 in Bihar?
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Correct answer: (B) Kunwar Singh The 1857 revolt in Bihar was led by Kunwar Singh of Jagdishpur, who took on the British at the age of eighty. Tatya Tope and Nana Saheb were active in central India.
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Question 64
The spiritual side of nationalism was voiced by
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Correct answer: (C) Swami Vivekananda Swami Vivekananda gave nationalism a spiritual ground, seeing India's soul in its culture and religion. His ideas awakened self-respect among the young.
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Question 65
Which newspaper propagated strong nationalist views during India’s freedom struggle?
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Correct answer: (B) Amrit Bazar Patrika The ‘Amrit Bazar Patrika’ spread strong nationalist views during the freedom struggle. The ‘Pioneer’ and the ‘Statesman’ were pro-British papers.
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Question 66
Who intervened in a dispute between the workers and mill owners of Ahmedabad in 1918?
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Correct answer: (B) Mahatma Gandhi In 1918 Mahatma Gandhi intervened in the dispute between the workers and the mill owners of Ahmedabad, and brought about a settlement by going on a hunger strike.
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Question 67
Name the left-wing leader of Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha who popularised this in Bihar?
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Correct answer: (A) Karyanand Sharma
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Question 68
Muddiman Committee was appointed to report on the working of the
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Correct answer: (A) Dyarchy
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Question 69
“He was a great unifier in India who taught us not only bare tolerance of others but the willing acceptance of them as our friends and comrades in common undertakings” who said it?
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Correct answer: (C) Rajendra Prasad The remark is about Dr Rajendra Prasad, who taught not bare tolerance but the willing acceptance of others. He was India's first President.
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Question 70
Who proceeded to organise the Provisional Government of Free India outside the country?
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Correct answer: (C) Subhash Chandra Bose The Provisional Government of Free India—the Azad Hind government—was proclaimed by Subhas Chandra Bose at Singapore on 21 October 1943. The government Raja Mahendra Pratap set up at Kabul in 1915 was called the Provisional Government of India, and Rash Behari Bose built the Indian Independence League and the INA, whose leadership he later handed to Subhas Chandra Bose.
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Question 71
Who said, “No sobriety today and no drunkenness tomorrow; tomorrow is a serious matter”?
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Correct answer: (C) Imruʾ al-Qays
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Question 72
A pre-Islamic poet who did not compose poetry until he had matured.
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Correct answer: (A) Al-Nābigha al-Dhubyānī
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Question 73
He is not one of the poets who lived in both the pre-Islamic and Islamic eras.
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Correct answer: (A) ʿUmar ibn Abī Rabīʿah
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Question 74
An Islamic-era poet who was born in Medina on the night ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb died.
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Correct answer: (C) ʿUmar ibn Abī Rabīʿah
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Question 75
Who gave the al-Batrāʾ sermon?
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Correct answer: (B) Suḥbān Wāʾil
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Question 76
“The Book of Animals” was written by:
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Correct answer: (B) Al-Jāḥiẓ
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Question 77
One of the Abbasid-era men of letters.
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Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
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Question 78
The Abbasid poet nicknamed al-Muraʿath.
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Correct answer: (A) Abū Tammām
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Question 79
Who authored “The Book of Jewels and Hunting”?
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Correct answer: (C) Ibn al-Mu'tazz
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Question 80
Where was “Al-Sharif al-Radi” born?
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Correct answer: (A) In Baghdad
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Question 81
Who wrote “When the Wind of Faith Went Away”?
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Correct answer: (A) Najib al-Kilani
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Question 82
An Indian writer who died in 1999.
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Correct answer: (C) Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi
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Question 83
Where was Sheikh Ali al-Tantawi born?
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Correct answer: (E) None of the above
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Question 84
Who wrote “The Genius of the Friend”?
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Correct answer: (C) Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad
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Question 85
Mahmoud Taymur was born in the year---------
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Correct answer: (B) 1894 CE
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Question 86
Who wrote “The Gazes”?
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Correct answer: (A) Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti
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Question 87
“Al-‘Abarat” by al-Manfaluti
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Correct answer: (A) A collection of stories
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Question 88
Mustafa Lutfi was born in the year ------
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Correct answer: (E) None of the above
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Question 89
“Zaynab” is a ..... novel
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Correct answer: (B) An Egyptian rural novel
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Question 90
Muhammad Husayn Haykal was born in a village called ----
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Correct answer: (C) Kafr Ghanam
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Question 91
“Waladi” was written by
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Correct answer: (A) Muhammad Husayn Haykal
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Question 92
“Al-Ayyam” was written by
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Correct answer: (C) Taha Hussein
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Question 93
“Ala هامش al-Sira” was written by
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Correct answer: (B) Taha Hussein
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Question 94
Tawfiq al-Hakim was born ------
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Correct answer: (A) In Alexandria
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Question 95
Who wrote “The People of the Cave”?
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Correct answer: (B) Tawfiq al-Hakim
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Question 96
Naguib Mahfouz received the Nobel Prize for -------