Q1. Who is the chairman of the NITI Aayog?
(a) President
(b) Prime Minister
(c) Vice President
(d) Finance Minister
(e) Defence Minister
Q2. Which canal connects Mediterranean Sea with Red Sea ?
(a) Erie Canal
(b) Indira Gandhi Canal
(c) Panama Canal
(d) Suez Canal
(e) None of the above
Q3. Which luxury train travels through Maharashtra and includes Goa in its journey ?
(a) Palace on Wheels
(b) Heritage on Wheels
(c) The Deccan Odyssey
(d) Golden Chariot
(e) None of the above
Q4. Where is Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Police Academy situated ?
(a) Mussoorie
(b) Dehradun
(c) Chandigarh
(d) Hyderabad
(e) Pune
Q5. Which indian IT expert started web-based e-mail service Hotmail in 1996 ?
(a) Lakshmi N. Mittal
(b) Vinod Dham
(c) Azim Premji
(d) N.R.Narayan Murthy
(e) Sabeer Bhatia
Q6. Which city is served by Jolly Grant Airport ?
(a) Jaipur
(b) Lucknow
(c) Dehradun
(d) Chandigarh
(e) Bhopal
Q7. Nathu La Pass, located in Sikkim, connects India with which country?
(a) Nepal
(b) Bhutan
(c) Myanmar
(d) Bangladesh
(e) China
Q8. Whose birthday on 29 August is celebrated as `National Sports Day’ in India?
(a) C.K.Naidu
(b) Dhyan Chand
(c) Milkha Singh
(d) Wilson Jones
(e) Sachin Tendulkar
Q9. Guru Shikhar, in Mount Abu, is the highest peak of which mountain range?
(a) Satpura
(b) Vindhya
(c) Aravali
(d) Himalaya
(e) None of the above
Q10. Which city is known as the `Big Apple’?
(a) Paris
(b) Tokyo
(c) Shanghai
(d) Sydney
(e) New York
Q11. What is the name of India’s first nuclear reactor?
(a) Apsara
(b) CIRUS reactor
(c) Dhruva reactor
(d) KAMINI
(e) None of the above
Q12. What is the common name of Indian national tree `Ficus Bengalensis’ ?
(a) Banyan
(b) Pepal
(c) Mango
(d) Iron wood
(e) Ashoka
Q13. Who among the following is considered as the father of Mobile Phone ?
(a) Percy Spencer
(b) Martin Cooper
(c) Tim Berners-Lee
(d) Edwin Land
(e) None of the above
Q14. The significant rise in production of which commodity is referred as `Yellow Revolution’ ?
(a) Grains
(b) Pulses
(c) Textile
(d) Fruits and Vegetables
(e) Oilseeds
Q15. In which mountain range is the Siachen Glacier, the world’s longest glacier, located ?
(a) Karakoram
(b) Himalayas
(c) Hindu Kush
(d) Tien Shan
(e) None of the above