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
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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 is the equatorial diameter larger than the polar diameter?
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Correct answer: (B) 43 km
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Question 59
At which longitude is Indian Standard Time (IST) taken?
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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, to whom is the ‘Green Revolution’ credited?
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Correct answer: (B) Dr. M. S. Swaminathan
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Question 61
India’s highest mountain peak is known as:
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Correct answer: (B) Kanchenjunga
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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 the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha who popularised it in Bihar.
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Correct answer: (A) Karyanand Sharma The left-wing leader Karyanand Sharma did the most to turn the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha into a mass movement, organising the peasants of the Munger region.
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Question 68
The Muddiman Committee was appointed to report on the working of:
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Correct answer: (A) Dyarchy The Muddiman Committee was appointed in 1924 to examine the working of the dyarchy introduced by the Act of 1919.
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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
Which one of the following statements is true in regard to the poem Beowulf?
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Correct answer: (B) Beowulf is an epic poem having a narrative tone
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Question 72
Which one of the following is an author of Historia Regum Britanniae?
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Correct answer: (A) Geoffrey of Monmouth
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Question 73
Which one of the following statements is true in regard to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?
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Correct answer: (C) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is anonymous, yet the author might have lived in England
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Question 74
Pandarus is a character in which one of the following poems?
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Correct answer: (A) Troilus and Criseyde
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Question 75
The book entitled ‘Troy Book’ has been written by which one of the following authors?
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Correct answer: (C) John Lydgate
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Question 76
The characters in The Canterbury Tales are supposed to set out on a pilgrimage to pray to which one of the following martyrs?
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Correct answer: (A) St. Thomas Becket
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Question 77
The idea of the ‘round table’ appears in which one of the following works of art?
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Correct answer: (C) Le Morte Darthur
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Question 78
Which one of the following is a meaning of the surname ‘Hythlodaeus’?
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Correct answer: (A) Learned in nonsense
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Question 79
Which one of the following is an author of Assertio Septem Sacramentorum?
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Correct answer: (B) Henry VIII
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Question 80
Which one among the following is an author of Ralph Roister Doister?
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Correct answer: (A) Nicholas Udall
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Question 81
In which one of the following treatises does the idea of ‘Mysomousoi’ appear?
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Correct answer: (B) Sidney’s The Defence of Poesie
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Question 82
For which one of the following dramas did Shakespeare utilise Thomas Lodge’s Rosalynde, Euphues’ Golden Legacie?
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Correct answer: (A) As You Like It
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Question 83
In which one of the following works do these observations appear: ‘We are all… Comedians in religions, “God, who is the Author of all our tragedies, hath written out for us, and appointed us all the parts we are to play”’?
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Correct answer: (B) The History of the World
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Question 84
Which one among the following has been called ‘well of English undefiled’?
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Correct answer: (C) Geoffrey Chaucer
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Question 85
“And ride in triumph through Persepolis!—Is not brave to be a King.” The above observations appear in which of the following works?
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Correct answer: (A) Tamburlaine the Great
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Question 86
‘The true end of Satire is the amendment of vices by correction.’ This observation has been made by which one of the following authors?
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Correct answer: (C) John Dryden
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Question 87
Which one among the following is an author of The Rover?
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Correct answer: (A) Aphra Behn
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Question 88
‘Millament’ is a character in which one of the following plays?
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Correct answer: (C) The Way of the World
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Question 89
The work entitled ‘The Analysis of Beauty’ has been written by which one of the following authors?
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Correct answer: (A) William Hogarth
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Question 90
The place of action in terms of The Battle of the Books is which one of the following places?
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Correct answer: (B) St. James’s Library
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Question 91
Which one of the following is an alternative title to Gulliver’s Travels?
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Correct answer: (A) Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World
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Question 92
‘Whatever is, is right’ is an observation that appears in which one of the following works of art?
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Correct answer: (C) An Essay on Man
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Question 93
In which month and year was the daily journal The Spectator founded?
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Correct answer: (A) March 1711
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Question 94
Which one of the following is an author of A Journal of the Plague Year?
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Correct answer: (A) Daniel Defoe
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Question 95
How many letter writers does the novel Clarissa have?
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Correct answer: (C) Four
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Question 96
A School for Scandal has been written by which one of the following dramatists?
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Correct answer: (B) Sheridan
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Question 97
‘Prefaces, Biographical and Critical’ is the other title for which one of the following works of art?
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Correct answer: (A) Lives of the Poets
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Question 98
In which one of the following works of art have ideas such as human happiness and social well-being been expounded?
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Correct answer: (A) Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
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Question 99
The Castle of Otranto belongs to which one of the following genres of fictional writings?
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Correct answer: (C) Gothic
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Question 100
Regarding Frankenstein, which one of the following statements is true?