General Knowledge India:August 17 Interactive Quiz
This is general knowledge quiz created on Aug-17-2011
- 1.Which Indian state is the largest producer in the world of the golden coloured 'Muga' silk ?
- A.
Assam
- B.
Orissa
- C.
West Bengal
- D.
Karnataka
- 2.Which Indian freedom fighter was popularly called 'Mahamana' ?
- A.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- B.
Jai Prakash Narain
- C.
Gopal Hari Deshmukh
- D.
Madan Mohan Malaviya
- 3.Which Indian state would you be in if you were watching birds at Ranganathittu Birds Sanctuary, situated on an island in the Kaveri river ?
- A.
Karnataka
- B.
Maharashtra
- C.
Tamil Nadu
- D.
Andhra Pradesh
- 4.'Anandmath', 'Durgeshnondini' and 'Kapalkundala' novels were authored by which Bengali writer ?
- A.
Rabindranath Tagore
- B.
Sharat Chandra Chatterjee
- C.
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
- D.
Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyay
- 5.Baglihar Dam, also known as Baglihar Hydroelectric Power Project, in Jammu & Kashmir is built across which river ?
- A.
Beas
- B.
Chenab
- C.
Jhelum
- D.
Sutlej
- 6.Where was the first Indian Institute of Management (IIM) established in 1961 ?
- A.
Kolkata
- B.
Bengaluru
- C.
Ahmedabad
- D.
Lucknow
- 7.On 28 May 2008, the Indian Air Force attained the Airborne Warning And Control System (AWACS) capability by procuring the Phalcon radar (mounted on Russian plane IL-76) from which country ?
- A.
France
- B.
Israel
- C.
Russia
- D.
Germany
- 8.Which India born physicist invented the 'Optical Fibre' ?
- A.
C.V. Raman
- B.
Satyendra Nath Bose
- C.
Homi J. Bhabha
- D.
Narinder Singh Kapany
- 9.Which was the only session of Indian National Congress (INC) presided over by Mahatma Gandhi ?
- A.
Surat (1907)
- B.
Belgaum (1924)
- C.
Lahore (1929)
- D.
Tripuri (1939)
- 10.On account of its numerous temples, which city is also known as the 'Cathedral City of India' ?
- A.
Madurai (Tamil Nadu)
- B.
Haridwar (Uttarakhand)
- C.
Bhubaneswar (Orissa)
- D.
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
- 11.Which Indian state does not have any scheduled tribe community ?
- A.
Sikkim
- B.
Haryana
- C.
Gujarat
- D.
Tamil Nadu
- 12.Which Ramon Magsaysay award winner founded the 'Asha for Education', a secular organisation dedicated to bring socio-economic change in India by focusing on basic education ?
- A.
Sandeep Pandey
- B.
Lakshmi Chand Jain
- C.
Pandurang Shastri Athavale
- D.
Mahesh Chandra Mehta
- 13.In which city would you come across 'Deeksha Bhoomi', where Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar had embraced Buddhism along with thousand of his Dalit followers on 14 October 1956 ?
- A.
Bodh Gaya (Bihar)
- B.
Sarnath (Uttar Pradesh)
- C.
Kushinagar (Uttar Pradesh)
- D.
Nagpur (Maharashtra)
- 14.The weapon based Dravidian martial art 'Silambam' is native of which south Indian state ?
- A.
Kerala
- B.
Tamil Nadu
- C.
Karnataka
- D.
Andhra Pradesh
- 15.Which Indian lady writer authored Onasis award winning play 'Harvest', highlighting the controversial issue of organ trading in poverty-stricken areas ?
- A.
Kiran Desai
- B.
Jhumpa Lahiri
- C.
Manjula Padmanabhan
- D.
Arundhati Roy
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