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Correct answer: (C) Cricket ‘Bat’
By the Peshawar High Court's ruling of January 2024, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf got back its electoral symbol, the cricket ‘bat’.
Correct answer: (C) 1968
The African Convention for the Conservation of Natural Resources was held in 1968.
Correct answer: (C) Irrigation
In India water is used most for irrigation—the greater part of all consumption goes to farming.
Correct answer: (B) March 22, commemorating separation from the Bengal Presidency
Bihar Diwas is kept on 22 March, the day in 1912 when Bihar was separated from the Bengal Presidency and became a province of its own.
Correct answer: (A) 1934
The Congress Socialist Party was formed at Patna in 1934; Jayaprakash Narayan and Acharya Narendra Dev were among its founders.
Correct answer: (B) 8
Take xy = p. Then x² + y² = 1 − 2p, so x⁴ + y⁴ = (1 − 2p)² − 2p² = 2p² − 4p + 1. Setting that equal to 17 gives 2p² − 4p = 16, that is p² − 2p = 8—the very value asked for.
Correct answer: (B) 12.5 years
Under simple interest, doubling means the interest equals the principal—100% interest. At 8% a year it takes 100 ÷ 8 = 12·5 years.
Correct answer: (B) Baku, Azerbaijan
The UN Climate Change Conference 2024 (COP29) was set for Baku in Azerbaijan in November 2024.
Correct answer: (A) Vinegar
Vinegar is a true solution of an acid in water, so it is not a colloid. Blood and smoke are both colloids.
Correct answer: (B) France
France became the first country in the world to write the right to abortion into its Constitution.
Correct answer: (C) Diffusion of auxins towards the shady side of the shoot
When light falls on a shoot the auxin diffuses to the shady side, where the cells then grow longer—so the stem appears to bend towards the light.
Correct answer: (C) 10√2 metres
The longest pole will equal the diagonal of the room: √(8² + 6² + 10²) = √200 = 10√2 metres.
Correct answer: (A) Pokhara
The Government of Nepal has declared Pokhara the tourism capital of the country.
Correct answer: (C) Morena (Madhya Pradesh)
The Gharial Breeding Centre has been set up at Morena in Madhya Pradesh, on the bank of the Chambal.
Correct answer: (C) Calcutta Public Library in March 1836
The National Library of India begins its journey with the Calcutta Public Library, opened in March 1836.
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
The formation of the Simon Commission was announced on 8 November 1927, which is not among the options.
Correct answer: (C) Gulf of Khambhat
Tidal and wave energy needs a high tide, and in India the highest tides come in the Gulf of Khambhat. Tidal energy does not come into question for the Ganga at all.
Correct answer: (C) Torch bulb
A torch bulb's resistance changes as it heats, so the relation between current and voltage is no longer a straight line—that is non-ohmic resistance.
Correct answer: (C) Parallel
Street lamps are connected in parallel, so that if one goes out the rest keep burning and each gets the full voltage.
Correct answer: (C) Copper
Ghatshila in Jharkhand is famous for the production of copper.
Correct answer: (A) Kartar Singh Sarabha
Among the chief revolutionary leaders of the Ghadar movement was Kartar Singh Sarabha, hanged at the age of nineteen.
Correct answer: (C) Panchsheel Agreement
The Panchsheel Agreement of 1954 set out five principles of peaceful coexistence between India and China, but it did not settle the border dispute, and war followed in 1962.
Correct answer: (C) Nyaya
The Gupta–Vakataka age saw the growth of the Nyaya school of philosophy, which rests on logical reasoning and debate.
Correct answer: (A) 241 miles
The Dandi March, from Sabarmati to Dandi, was of about 241 miles (some 385 km) and took 24 days.
Correct answer: (C) Assurbanipal (668–627 BCE)
The Assyrian emperor Assurbanipal had a great library built at his capital Nineveh, where thousands of clay tablets were kept.
Correct answer: (A) It resulted in the execution of several nationalist leaders
The immediate outcome of the Yen Bai mutiny of 1930 was that the French government executed several Vietnamese nationalist leaders.
Correct answer: (A) 1907
The Tata Iron and Steel Company (TISCO) was established in 1907 and became India's first large-scale steel producer.
Correct answer: (C) It led to a trade surplus due to increased exports
In the First World War Britain's demand rose, India's exports grew and a trade surplus followed.
Correct answer: (C) Germany and Soviet Union
The Battle of Stalingrad was fought between Germany and the Soviet Union, and it turned the course of the Second World War.
Correct answer: (B) Lord Canning
After the Crown took over direct rule in 1858, Lord Canning became India's first Viceroy and Governor General.
Correct answer: (A) Harsha
Harsha ruled in the seventh century and is known for his patronage of Buddhism and his support of learning and the arts.
Correct answer: (A) Mountain passes
Mula, Mashkat and Bolan are all mountain passes of the western frontier, through which people have moved since ancient times.
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
The Tebhaga Movement demanded that the sharecropper be given two-thirds of the crop, leaving the landlord one-third. The third option turns that round, so none of the options is correct.
Correct answer: (C) Mein Kampf
Hitler's autobiography is ‘Mein Kampf’ (My Struggle), in which he set out his political ideology and his plans for Germany.
Correct answer: (B) Kalibangan (Rajasthan)
Evidence of a ploughed field has been found at Kalibangan in Rajasthan—the clearest sign of ploughing in the Harappan civilisation.
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
None of the three led this rising of 1816—Banda Singh Bahadur had died in 1716 and Bhagat Singh belongs to a far later time. So the answer is ‘None of the above’.
Correct answer: (B) 1878
The Vernacular Press Act was passed in 1878 by Lord Lytton, putting hard restrictions on newspapers in the Indian languages.
Correct answer: (A) Courier system
‘Yam’ in the Mongol empire was the courier system—a chain of horse stations by which messages travelled far and very fast.
Correct answer: (C) Treaty of Versailles
The League of Nations was established as a result of the Treaty of Versailles of 1919.
Correct answer: (A) Giuseppe Mazzini
Giuseppe Mazzini is called the father of Italian unification; Garibaldi was called its sword and Cavour its brain.
Correct answer: (C) Alexander Cunningham
The first Director of the Archaeological Survey of India was Alexander Cunningham, called the father of Indian archaeology.
Correct answer: (B) Assimilation Policy
Under Australia's Assimilation Policy, Aboriginal children were taken from their families and brought up in white households—that generation is called the ‘Stolen Generations’.
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
The immediate cause of the Khilafat Movement was the Treaty of Sèvres with Turkey, which stripped the Caliph of his authority. All three options are wrong.
Correct answer: (A) Ambika Charan Mazumdar
The Lucknow session of 1916 was presided over by Ambika Charan Mazumdar, and it was there that the Congress and the Muslim League made their pact.
Correct answer: (C) Jharkhand
The Tana Bhagat movement began among the Oraon tribals of Jharkhand under Jatra Bhagat, and it stayed non-violent.
Correct answer: (B) Highlighting India’s economic exploitation by British colonialism
Dadabhai Naoroji's book set out the theory of the ‘drain of wealth’, showing that British rule was exploiting India economically.
Correct answer: (A) 1946
The Royal Indian Navy mutiny broke out at Bombay in February 1946, and it showed the British that even the forces were no longer with them.
Correct answer: (B) Hindered industrial development by promoting imports
The railways carried British goods into the inland markets and raw material out to the ports, which pressed Indian industry down rather than helping it grow.
Correct answer: (C) Rowlatt Act
The Rowlatt Act of 1919 allowed arrest and detention without trial, which is why it was called the ‘black law’.
Correct answer: (C) Japanese invasion of Manchuria
When Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931 the League of Nations could do nothing—its influence began to fall from there.