Correct answer: (B) 10th December Human Rights Day is kept on 10 December, the day the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.
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Question 52
Who was the founder of the Indian National Army (INA)?
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Correct answer: (B) Mohan Singh The Indian National Army was founded in 1942 by Captain Mohan Singh. Subhash Chandra Bose took over its leadership in 1943 and gave it a new shape.
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Question 53
‘Tana Bhagat Movement’ was related to
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Correct answer: (B) Tribal Movement The Tana Bhagat movement was carried on in 1914 by the Oraon tribe under Jatra Bhagat, so it is a tribal movement.
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Question 54
In which State is Raksha Bandhan celebrated as ‘Tree Safety Day’?
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Correct answer: (C) Bihar In Bihar Raksha Bandhan is kept as Tree Safety Day, on which people tie a thread round trees and take a vow to protect them.
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Question 55
In which of the following states is black soil found?
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Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above Black soil was formed from the lava of the Deccan Trap and is spread over Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka. Uttarakhand is a Himalayan state where it is not found, so two options are correct.
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Question 56
How many species of flora and fauna are found in India?
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Correct answer: (A) 81,000 animal species and 47,000 plant species
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Question 57
Minerals are deposited and accumulated in the strata of which of the following rocks?
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Correct answer: (A) Sedimentary rocks Sedimentary rocks are formed layer upon layer, so minerals collect in their strata. Coal and petroleum are found in them too.
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Question 58
Which one of the following is a leguminous crop?
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Correct answer: (A) Pulse Pulses belong to the Leguminosae family, whose root nodules hold Rhizobium bacteria that fix nitrogen. Jowar and bajra are coarse cereals, not pulses.
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Question 59
Which two of the following extreme locations are connected by the East-West Corridor?
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Correct answer: (C) Silchar and Porbandar The East-West Corridor runs from Silchar in Assam to Porbandar in Gujarat, joining the eastern and western ends of the country. The North-South Corridor joins Srinagar and Kanyakumari.
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Question 60
Stalactite and stalagmite structures are formed by
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Correct answer: (B) underground water In limestone caves underground water dissolves calcium carbonate and drips; the form hanging from the roof is a stalactite and the one rising from the floor a stalagmite.
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Question 61
April 22 is celebrated as
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Correct answer: (A) World Earth Day 22 April is kept as World Earth Day. World Health Day falls on 7 April and World Ozone Day on 16 September.
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Question 62
The topographical map of India is prepared by which organization?
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Correct answer: (B) Survey of India The topographical map of India is prepared by the Survey of India, founded in 1767. The Geological Survey studies rocks and minerals and the Zoological Survey the animals.
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Question 63
Who first described the Revolt of 1857 as the ‘First Indian War of Independence’?
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Correct answer: (A) V. D. Savarkar Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, in his book ‘The Indian War of Independence, 1857’, called the revolt India's first war of independence. R. C. Majumdar disagreed with that view.
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Question 64
Which of the following events happened first?
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Correct answer: (A) Santhal Rebellion The Santhal rebellion was in 1855–56, Birsa Munda's Ulgulan in 1899–1900 and the Tana Bhagat movement in 1914. So the Santhal rebellion came first.
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Question 65
Which revolt is mentioned in Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s novel Anandamath?
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Correct answer: (A) Sannyasi Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's novel ‘Anandamath’ is set against the Sannyasi revolt, which took place in Bengal in the latter half of the eighteenth century. The song ‘Vande Mataram’ comes from this novel.
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Question 66
When were ‘Swadeshi’ and ‘Boycott’ first adopted as forms of struggle in India?
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Correct answer: (A) Partition of Bengal Swadeshi and boycott were first made forms of struggle in protest against the partition of Bengal in 1905—giving up foreign goods and using Indian ones.
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Question 67
Who was the President of the Indian National Congress at the Gaya Session of 1922?
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Correct answer: (A) Chittaranjan Das The Gaya session of 1922 was presided over by Chittaranjan Das. It was after this session that the Swaraj Party was formed over the question of entering the councils.
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Question 68
Who led the peasants of Bihar during the Non-Cooperation Movement?
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Correct answer: (B) Swami Vidyanand During the Non-Cooperation Movement the peasants of Bihar were led by Swami Vidyanand. Raj Kumar Shukla belonged to the Champaran Satyagraha.
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Question 69
Who founded Hindu College at Calcutta in 1817?
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Correct answer: (B) David Hare Hindu College at Calcutta was founded in 1817 by David Hare, with the help of Raja Ram Mohan Roy and others. Derozio joined later as a teacher.
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Question 70
Who said, “Congress is tottering to its fall and one of my great ambitions while in India is to assist it to a peaceful demise”?
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Correct answer: (C) Curzon The remark is Lord Curzon's; he called the Congress a tottering body and spoke of helping it to a peaceful end. The partition of Bengal did the very opposite.
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Question 71
The human eye forms the image of an object on its
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Correct answer: (B) retina
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Question 72
Sound waves travel fastest in
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Correct answer: (A) solids
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Question 73
Transfer of heat by convection can take place in
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Correct answer: (C) gases and liquids
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Question 74
The power of a lens is measured in
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Correct answer: (A) dioptre
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Question 75
Lightning can even burn a tree because it contains a tremendous amount of
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Correct answer: (B) electric energy
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Question 76
The phenomenon used in optical fibre for transmission of light energy is
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Correct answer: (A) total internal reflection
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Question 77
Which type of glass can cut off ultraviolet rays?
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Correct answer: (A) Crookes glass
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Question 78
The diffusion of light in the atmosphere takes place due to
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Correct answer: (B) dust particles
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Question 79
The velocity of electromagnetic waves in vacuum is
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Correct answer: (A) 3 × 10⁸ m/s
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Question 80
Kepler’s second law is based on
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Correct answer: (C) conservation of angular momentum
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Question 81
Which of the following is not a vector quantity?
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Correct answer: (A) Speed
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Question 82
Solar energy is converted into electrical energy through
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Correct answer: (C) photovoltaic cells
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Question 83
In which type of heat engine is a carburetor used?
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Correct answer: (A) Petrol engine
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Question 84
Which of the following processes will not produce new magnetic poles?
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Correct answer: (C) Running a current through a straight wire
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Question 85
Lenz’s law is based on the conservation of
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Correct answer: (A) energy
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Question 86
The poorest conductor of heat among the following is
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Correct answer: (B) lead
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Question 87
The unit of magnetic dipole moment is
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Correct answer: (C) ampere-metre²
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Question 88
The unit of inductance is
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Correct answer: (A) ohm-second
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Question 89
Cosmic rays are
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Correct answer: (A) charged particles
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Question 90
Which of the following is not an electromagnetic wave?
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Correct answer: (C) Beta ray
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Question 91
On heating, the resistance of a semiconductor
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Correct answer: (B) decreases
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Question 92
The internal energy of a gas in a cyclic process
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Correct answer: (C) remains unchanged
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Question 93
Which of the following is a better nuclear fuel?
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Correct answer: (B) Uranium 235
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Question 94
The unit of sound is
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Correct answer: (B) decibel
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Question 95
Domains are formed in which of the following substances?
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Correct answer: (C) Ferromagnetic
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Question 96
If the speed of sound in air at 0 °C is 332 metres/second, then at 35 °C the speed of sound in air will be
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Correct answer: (B) 353 metres/second
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Question 97
Which of the following is an intensive property?
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Correct answer: (A) Refractive index
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Question 98
The decreasing order of second ionization potential of C, N, O and F is