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1. Chilka is an example of ______Lake. 9. The coal belt of Peninsular India developed (A) Crater during the ______period. (B) Lagoons It is a brackish water lagoon (A) Tertiary situated at the mouth of Daya (C) Glacial (B) Pleistocene River. (D) Aeolian (C) Carboniferous (D) None of the above 2. ______is the source of River Chambal. (A) Malwa Plateau 10. ______is the oldest denudation (B) Aravalli Range It originates on the south mountain of India. slope of Vindhya and drains (C) Vindhyan Range Malwa Range (A) Eastern Ghat (D) Satpura Range (B) Nilgiri Hills (C) Aravalli 3. Ganga is an example of ______River. (D) Zaskar (A) Consequent (B) Subsequent 11. Khardung-la pass joins ______. (C) Antecedent (A) Leh and Chumbi Valley (D) None of the above (B) Leh and Siachen Glacier

The Rivers that existed before the upheaval of the Himalayas and (C) Uttarakhand and Tibet cut their courses southward by making gorges in the mountains (D) Valley of Kashmir and Kargil

4. Dalma Trap is located in ______state of 12. According to Indus Water Treaty India got the India. exclusive right to use the water of three rivers (A) Bihar Singhbhum district and among them one is (B) Orissa of Jharkhand (A) Jhelum (C) Jharkhand (B) Ravi (D) None of the above (C) Chenab (D) Indus 5. The HDI of India for the year 2017 is______. (A) 0.635 13. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan was launched in the (B) 0.640 Rank: 130 year ______. Category: Medium Human (C) 0.645 (A) 2000 Launched in 2000. Development (D) 0.650 (B) 2001 Source: PRSIndia (C) 2002 (D) 2003 6. According to the Census of India 2011, the sex ratio of West Bengal is ______. 14. Kannada belong to ______language (A) 947 group. (B) 948 Sex Ratio: 950 (A) Austric (C) 938 Child Sex Ratio: 956 (B) Aryan (D) 958 (C) Sino Tibetan (D) Dravidian 7. ______is the highest peak of Meghalaya Plateau. 15. ______has one of the four training (A) Nokrek centres of National Disaster Response Force. (B) Shillong (A) Delhi (C) Mirik (B) Hyderabad (D) None of the above (C) Bangalore (D) Bhopal Hyderabad, Tekanpur, Coimbatore, Highest peak of Khasi Hills: Shillong Chandigarh. There is no exclusive Highest peak of Garo Hills: Nokrek training centre for NDRF.

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16. The National Fire Service College is located at 24. Sal tree is found in ______forest. (A) Ahmedabad (A) Moist tropical (B) Chennai Construction of National (B) Alpine (C) Nagpur Disaster Response Academy (C) Dry tropical started in Nagpur (D) Allahabad (D) None of the above

17. In 2005 the Indian government enacted an 25. ______is the largest west flowing river of act for prevention and mitigation of disaster. It is Peninsular India. known as ______. (A) Tapi (A) Disaster Prevention Act (B) Sabarmati (B) Disaster Mitigation Act (C) Narmada (C) Disaster Management Act (D) None of the above (D) None of the above 26. Mandakini and Alaknanda meet at ______. 18. ______is not a drought prone area. (A) Rudraprayag (A) Kalahandi [Orissa] (B) Karan Prayag (B) Purulia [West Bengal] (C) Allahabad (C) Nellai [Tamil Nadu] (D) Devprayag (D) Assam Valley [Assam]

19. IMD has defined severe drought when 27. The Indus originates from the glacier of deficiency of rainfall ______exceeds of ______range. normal rainfall. (A) Pir Panjal (A) 25% (B) Kailash (B) 40% (C) Zaskar (C) 50% (D) Saltora (D) 75 % 28. ____ coastal plain stretches from Daman to 20. In the year ______Tsunami occurred in the Goa. coastal areas of India. (A) Kerala (A) 2003 (B) Konkan (B) 2006 (C) Utkal (C) 2004 (D) Gujarat (D) 2005 29. ___ Hill range is also known as Sahayadris. 21. The famous earthquake of January 26, 2001 (A) Western Ghats took place at ______. (B) Eastern Ghat (A) Uttarkashi (C) Vindhyas (B) Bhuj, Gujarat (D) Satpuras (C) Andaman and Nicobar (D) Kinnaur 30. ______pass is in Arunachal Pradesh. (A) Bum La 22. Saline soil is found in ______. (B) Jelep la (A) Estuary of Narmada (C) Nathu La (B) Malwa plateau (D) Betla (C) Meghalaya plateau (D) Rajmahal hills 31. ______plateau is separated from the main peninsular plateau of India by the wide gap 23. Tropical moist deciduous is not found in __. of Garo-RajMahal gap. (A) West Bengal (A) Madhya Bharat Pathar (B) Bihar (B) Meghalaya (C) Gujarat (C) Chhotonagpur Plateau (D) Odisha (D) Malwa

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32. The Marwar plain is found in ______. 40. ______is declared as a National Park in (A) Rajasthan the year 2014 and become the newest national (B) Gujarat park of India. (C) Maharashtra (A) Dachigam (D) Uttar Pradesh (B) Gorumara (C) Jaldapara 33. The Zojila pass is located in ______(D) Inder Kila state of India. (A) Jammu and Kashmir 41. ______National Park is located in the (B) Himachal Pradesh state of Jharkhand. (C) Sikkim (A) Bhitarkanika (D) Arunachal Pradesh (B) Betla (C) Bandipur 34. The famous ______Glacier is located at (D) Bandhavgarh Nubra Valley. (A) Baltora 42. ______is the first National Park was (B) Punmah established in India in the year 1936. (C) Siachen (A) Bandhavgarh (D) Kanchenjunga (B) Gir (C) Indira Gandhi 35. ______Valley lies in between Pir Panjal (D) Jim Corbett and Zaskar range. (A) Kangra 43. Indian Standard Time is ______ahead of (B) Kashmir Greenwich Mean Time. (C) Kullu (A) 6 hours 30 minutes (D) Dun (B) 4 hour 30 minutes (C) 5 hours 30 minutes 36. The Dravidian Rock System is found in _____ (D) 6 hours 15 minutes region. (A) Krishna Valley 44. ______is a Central University in West Bengal. (B) Chota Nagpur Plateau (A) Gour Banga University (C) Spiti Valley (B) Rabindra Bharati University (D) Damodar Valley (C) Viswa Bharati University (D) University of Calcutta 37. Barren Island Wildlife Sanctuary is located in (A) Dadra and Nagar Haveli 45. 100 Smart Cities Mission was launched by (B) Pondicherry Indian government in the year ______. (C) Andaman and Nicobar Island (A) 2014 (D) Lakshadweep (B) 2015 (C) 2016 38. ______is the highest producer of milk in (D) 2013 India. (A) Uttar Pradesh 46. Doordarshan is a broadcasting agency of (B) Andhra Pradesh (A) Prasar Bharati (C) Haryana (B) Akashvani (D) Rajasthan (C) Gyan Bharti (D) National Film Development Corporation 39. The Indian Wildlife Protection Act was passed in the year ____. 47. The full form of abbreviation NLM is ______. (A) 1962 (A) Northern Line of Monsoon (B) 1972 (B) Normal Line of Monsoon (C) 1975 (C) Northern Limit of Monsoon (D) 1965 (D) Normal Limit of Monsoon

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Monsoon (NLM) is the northernmost boundary of India up to 55. Who killed Michael O'Dwyer the governor of which Monsoon rains have advanced on any given day. NLM is directly Punjab who had ordered the brutal firing on the related to the onset and advance of Monsoon. The term NLM starts innocent people at Jallianwala Bagh? flowing right from the onset to the withdrawal of Monsoon. (A) Madan Lal Dhingra 48. IISCO has an iron and steel plant at (B) Sardar Udham Singh (A) Rourkela (C) Sohan Singh Bhakra (B) Burnpur (D) Kanailal Dutta (C) Shimoga (D) Visakhapatnam 56. The founder president of the Harijan Sevak Sangh, founded by Mahatma Gandhi was 49. Wet temperate forest is found in ____ region (A) Mahadev Desai of India. (B) GD Birla Amrit Lal Thakkar-Secretary (A) Nilgiri Himalayan wet temperate (C) Amrit Lal Thakkar forest: Nepal to Assam (B) Eastern Ghats (D) BR Ambedkar Nilgiris: Here wet (C) Kashmir Himalayas temperate forest is called (D) Kutch Peninsula Sholas. 57. The day Mahatma Gandhi launched the Non Cooperation Movement a great national leader 50. Black soil is mostly found in ______states of died he was India. (A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale (A) Maharashtra and Gujarat (B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (B) Maharashtra and Rajasthan (C) Phiroz Shah Mehta (C) Andhra Pradesh and Kerala (D) Chitta Ranjan Das (D) Bihar and Madhya Pradesh 58. A public service commission was established 51. The Congress decided to raise a Swaraj Fund in India for the first time by of one crore rupees for: (A) The Indian Council act 1892 (A) Organising the Non - Cooperation Movement (B) The Act of 1909 (B) Memorial of Bal Gangadhar Tilak (C) The Government of India Act 1919 (C) Building the headquarters of the Congress (D) The Government of India Act 1935 (D) Supporting the families of political workers. 59. After the Surat split in 1907 the second split 52. The historic Lucknow Session of the Congress in the Congress took place in 1918 on the issue of in 1916 was presided over by (A) Lucknow Pact (A) Annie Besant (B) Montague Declaration (B) R.N. Mudholkar (C) Election of Mrs Annie Besant as president of (C) Ambika Charan Majumdar INC in 1917 (D) Madan Mohan Malviya (D) Both A and C

53. The brain behind the bomb attack on Viceroy 60. The European Organisation in India which Lord Hardinge at Chandni Chowk Delhi in launched agitation against the Ilbert Bill was December 1912 was (A) European Defence Association (A) Ras Bihari Bose (B) Indo British Association (B) Bhai Parmanand (C) Anti Ilbert Bill League (C) Sachindra Nath Sanyal (D) European Rights Front (D) Shobhan Lal Pathak 61. Who was a great Indian revolutionary who 54. After the partition of Bengal the two new was a professor of Sanskrit and philosophy at the provinces which came into existence were University of Berkeley and Stanford and died as a (A) East Bengal and Bengal Sanyasi in Philadelphia? (B) East Bengal and West Bengal (A) Shyamaji Krishna Verma (C) East Bengal and Assam (B) Lala Hardayal (D) East Bengal and North Bengal (C) Bhai Parmanand (D) Ramchandra Bhardwaj

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62. Who edited the Bengali weekly Jugantar and 68. The Nehru Committee report got a decent Basumati? burial at the hands of the Congress at the (A) Barindra Ghosh ______session of INC. (B) Aurobindo Ghosh (A) Calcutta (C) Ganesh Ghosh (B) Madras (D) Anand Mohan Bose (C) Lahore (D) Bombay 63. Madan Lal Dhingra murdered Curzon Wylie in London who was a/an 69. Who was the first to unfurl Indian national (A) Advisor to the Secretary of State for India flag, the parent and precursor of the flag of (B) Secretary of State for India independent India? (C) Former Governor of the Punjab (A) Madam Bhikaji Cama (D) Law member of the Viceroy's Executive (B) Dadabhai Naoroji Council (C) Raja Mahendra Pratap (D) Taraknath Das

64. Gopal Hari Deshmukh is popularly known as 70. Who gave the title of Rani to the Naga woman ‘Lokahitawadi’ because leader Gaidinliu? (A) He was a great philanthropist and social (A) Subhas Chandra Bose worker (B) Jawaharlal Nehru (B) He distributed money and medicines to the (C) Thakkar Bapa poor and the needy (D) Mahatma Gandhi (C) He edited a monthly magazine the Lokahitawadi 71. Who founded a social organisation the Jat Pat (D) All of the above Torak Mandal in 1922 for breaking the caste barrier among the Hindus? (A) Bhai Parmanand 65. The Vaikom Satyagraha was launched in 1924 (B) Dr BR Ambedkar for (C) MG Ranade (A) Opening the temple to the low caste Hindus (D) Keshab Chandra Sen (B) Fighting against the exploitation by the landlords 72. Which of the following was not a leader of the (C) Removal of press restrictions all India Hindu Mahasabha? (D) Democratisation of the administration of (A) VD Savarkar Travancore state (B) Bhai Parmanand (C) Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee 66. Who of the following acted as President of (D) MR Jayakar Indian National Congress for six consecutive years? 73. Dadabhai Naoroji was elected to the British (A) Jawaharlal Nehru House of Commons as a member of the __ Party. (B) Dadabhai Naoroji (A) Conservative (C) Abul Kalam Azad (B) Liberal (D) Gopal Krishna Gokhale (C) Labour (D) Labour Liberal combine 67. Which of the following revolutionary and terrorist organisation had a large number of 74. Bal Gangadhar Tilak was given the epithet of young women revolutionaries? Lokmanya during (A) Jugantar (A) Swadeshi movement (B) Anushilan Samiti (B) Revolutionary movement (C) Bharat Mata society (C) Home Rule movement (D) Indian Republican Army (D) His imprisonment in 1908

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75. The only Indian prince who actively (B) Feeling head slowly gained around that the participated in the revolutionary movement within people had to suffer the consequences of the and outside India was crime committed by Bhagat Singh etc. to remove (A) Raja Mahendra Pratap such a feeling HSRA decided to send two (B) Kunwar Singh members to commit a crime and then to court (C) Chhatrapati Shahu arrest. (D) Raja Ripudaman Singh (C) To create a sensation all over India in order to remove political lethargy 76. The issue of discussion and stalemate at the (D) All of the above second round table conference related to (A) Communal problem 82. Jatin Das as accused in Lahore Conspiracy (B) Federal structure Case on whose death the family of the Irish (C) Demand for Purna Swaraj Martyr Teren Macswiney send condolence (D) Representation of depressed classes message to the family of Jatin Das died after undertaking of fast of ______days. 77. Who of the following was not hanged in the (A) 56 famous Kakori Train Dacoity Case? (B) 63 (A) Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil (C) 72 (B) Roshan Lal (D) 81 (C) Ashfaq Ullah Khan (D) Surya Sen 83. Subhash Chandra Bose was unanimously elected president of INC at the Haripura Session 78. The Chittagong Armoury Raid had been held in February planned by (A) 1936 (A) Surya Sen (B) 1937 (B) Chandra Dutta (C) 1938 (C) Vidhan Ghosh (D) 1939 (D) Jatin Das 84. What was the fundamental difference between 79. The true greatest women revolutionaries of Subhash Chandra Bose and Gandhi Nehru group the national movement Pritilata Waddedar and which led to the defeat of Gandhiji's candidate for Kalpana Dutta were revolutionary co-worker of the Presidentship of the INC? (A) Surya Sen (A) Gandhiji had a personal dislike for Subhash (B) Bhagat Singh Chandra Bose (C) Batukeshwar Dutt (B) Bose had radical and socialist ideas (D) Chapekar Brothers (C) Bose wanted to exploit the war between Germany and Britain to India's advantage and 80. Who murdered Sanders, Assistant said England's necessity is India's opportunity Superintendent of Police, Lahore for assaulting (D) Insinuations made by Bose against Gandhiji Lala Lajpat Rai? that he was not keen on carrying on national (A) Bhagat Singh struggle (B) Batukeshwar Dutt (C) Sukhdev 85. The Tripuri Session of INC of March 1939 was (D) Rajguru a historical event on account of (A) The victory of Subhash Chandra Bose as 81. Why did Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt president of INC against Gandhiji's nominee threw a bomb on the floor of the Central Assembly Pattabhi Sitaramayya in New Delhi and in the process got themselves (B) The resignation of entire working committee arrested? except Subhash Chandra Bose and his brother (A) After the murder of Sanders at Lahore the Sharat Chandra Bose people were suffering terribly at the hands of the (C) The resolution to frame a constitution of free Police India

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(D) Rejection of the British foreign policy by the 92. Lord Mountbatten's declaration on the INC freedom of India and its partition is known as (A) The August Plan 86. After leaving the Congress Subhash Chandra (B) The June 3rd Plan Bose organised the forward bloc in (C) The June 2nd Plan (A) 1939 (D) The Partition Plan (B) 1938 (C) 1940 93. A brilliant and patriotic Anglo-Indian teacher (D) 1941 Henry Vivian Derozio, was the founder of (A) The Young Bengal Movement 87. The main principle of Mahatma Gandhi famous (B) The Indian National Union Basic Education System or Wardha scheme was (C) The Servants of India Society (A) Learning through activity (D) The British India Association (B) Learning through productivity (C) Earning and Learning 94. Match the authors with their works: (D) Learning and Spinning (a) Dr Rajendra Prasad (i) The National Voice (b) Abul Kalam Azad (ii) India Divided 88. Match the following events with the date of (c) VD Savarkar (iii) India Wins Freedom their occurrence: (d) C Rajagopalachari (iv) Indian War of (a) August Offer (i) August 9 - 11, 1942 Independence (b) Arrival of Cripps Mission (ii) July 14, 1942 (c) Quit India Resolution (iii) March 23, 1942 (a) (b) (c) (d) (d) The Great August Uprising (iv) August 8, 1940 (A) ii iii iv i (B) iii ii i iv (a) (b) (c) (d) (C) i ii iii iv (A) iv iii . ii i (D) ii iii i iv (B) iii ii i iv (C) iv ii iii i 95. Certain movements of early 20th century (D) iv iii i ii described as ‘Movement from below’ were (A) Caste movements 89. The four brigades of Indian National Army (B) Revolutionary movements were named after (C) Peasant and tribal movements (A) Lal, Bal, Pal & Subhash (D) Socio religious movements (B) Surya, Chandra, Jatin & Bhagat (C) Ganga, Jamuna, Narmada & Kaveri 96. Match the authors and their works: (D) Gandhi, Azad, Nehru & Subhash (a) Sceptred Flute (i) Mahatma Gandhi (b) Savitri (ii) Sarojini Naidu (c) India and The World (iii) Aurobindo Ghosh 90. The first provincial government of free India (d) Conquest of Self (iv) Jawaharlal Nehru was inaugurated by Subhash Chandra Bose at (a) (b) (c) (d) (A) Imphal (A) i ii iii iv (B) Kohima (B) iv iii ii i (C) Singapore (C) ii iii iv i (D) Rangoon (D) ii i iv iii

91. British Prime Minister Attlee made the historic 97. What approximately was the number of announcement of the end of British rule in India princely states which legally become independent on at the lapse of British paramountcy on August 15 (A) February 20, 1947 1947? (B) August 16, 1946 (A) 300 (C) March 7, 1947 (B) 600 (D) December 9, 1946 (C) 150 (D) 700

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98. Ridiculing the idea of Swaraj in 1903 who 105. The Pallava-Chola style of architecture is said, "Only mad men outside lunatic Asylum could commonly known as think or talk of independence".? (A) Pallava (A) Lord Curzon (B) Chola (B) Lord Hardinge (C) Nagara (C) Gopal Krishna Gokhale (D) Dravida (D) Pheroze Shah Mehta 106. The largest standing Army of Sultanate 99. During the British rule the only British King to directly paid by the state was created by visit India and hold is magnificent Durbar was (A) Iltutmish (A) Edward VII (B) Alauddin Khilji (B) George V (C) Muhammad Bin Tughlaq (C) James II (D) Sikandar Lodhi (D) Edward VI

100. Muslim organisation, which proposed during 107. Muslim Kingdom of Golconda grew up on the the First World War that Muslims should ruins of the old Hindu Kingdom of participate and try to reach an accord with the (A) Devagiri Congress, was (B) Dwarasamudra (A) Muslim League (C) Warangal (B) Ahmadiyya movement (D) Kanchi (C) Ehrar League (D) Deoband Movement 108. Which of the following did not form part of the contingents maintained by the mansabdars? 101. Which of the following is not a feature of (A) Cavalrymen Lothal? (B) Artillerymen (A) Discovery of a dockyard (C) Bowman (B) Rectangular and circular fire altars for animal (D) Musketeers sacrifice (C) Depiction of a ship on a seal 109. The chief Dutch export from the Coromandel (D) Evidence of the use of plough ports was (A) Textiles (B) Indigo 102. Who was the propounder of the Ajivika sect? (C) Spices (A) Purana Kasapa (D) Saltpetre (B) Pakudhha Kaccayana (C) Makkali Goshala 110. Which of the following is not one of the (D) Ajitha Kesakambalin arrangements made by the English after defeating the Marathas in the third Anglo Maratha war? 103. The spies during the Sangam age was known (A) The Peshwaship was abolished as (B) Holkar was forced to enter into a Subsidiary (A) Spasas Alliance (B) Dutas (C) The Gaikwad enter into a Subsidiary Alliance (C) Orrars (D) This small Kingdom of Satara formed out of (D) Sanjayans Peshwa Dominions was given to Pratap Singh

104. Lands, during the post Gupta period, were 111. Who is known as ‘Plato of the Jat tribe’? classified on the basis of (A) Rajaram (A) Being cultivated and uncultivated (B) Churaman (B) Being irrigated and unirrigated (C) Badan Singh (C) Crops being grown on the field (D) Surajmal (D) All of the above

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112. The Nawab of Awadh who was appointed the 118. Which of the following was the chief Wazir of Mughal Empire was organiser of the revolt of 1857 in Bihar? (A) Saadat Khan (A) Amar Singh (B) Safdar Jung (B) Kunwar Singh (C) Asaf Ud daulah (C) Pir Ali (D) Nasiruddin (D) Imaad Uddin

113. After Bengal the English secured the rights of 119. Which of the following consequences of the duty free trade in the dominions of British rule did not affect the Muslim middle (A) Raja of Banaras classes? (B) Nawab of Awadh (A) The tyranny of the British Indigo planters (C) The Nizam of Hyderabad (B) The disbandment of the nawabs forces (D) The Jats of Bharatpur (C) The abolition of the rural police (D) The resumptions of imams land which provided sustenance to the learned 114. A remarkable feature of the spread of landlordism was the growth of 120. The first session of all India Trade Union (A) Aristocracy Congress held in Bombay in 1920, it was presided (B) Capitalism over by (C) Sub-infeudation (A) Jawaharlal Nehru (D) Cultivation (B) V V Giri (C) Lala Lajpat Rai (D) NM Joshi 115. When did the Company lost its monopoly of Indian trade which was thrown open to all Britain? 121. What was the solution found by BR (A) 1813 Ambedkar in later years after independence to (B) 1833 end the hardship of schedule class people? (C) 1853 (A) More representation (D) 1793 (B) Separate electorate (C) Embracing the Buddhism (D) Organised movement 116. The extension of the cultivation of Indigo, cotton, opium, tea and coffee in India, besides 122. During the first twenty years of Congress, benefiting the British planters, also benefited which of the following acted as president of INC (A) The zamindar thrice? (B) Small merchants (A) Surendra Nath Banerjee (C) Both A and b (B) Dadabhai Naoroji (D) The Indian bankers (C) Gopal Krishna Gokhale (D) Sankaran Nair

117. What was the primary reason for the failure 123. Aurobindo Ghosh was brilliantly defended by of Mahalwari Settlement in checking the process (A) Chitta Ranjan Das of destruction of the village communities? (B) WC Banerjee (A) It was introduced only as a temporary (C) Motilal Nehru measure to be replaced ultimately by the (D) Tej Bahadur Sapru Rawatwari system (B) Individual rights in the land where recognised 124. Hindustan Socialist Republican Association and guaranteed by the state movement ended with the death of (C) There were several defects and lacunae in the (A) Bhagat Singh implementation of measure (B) Ram Prasad Bismil (D) It made with severe opposition from certain (C) Chandra Shekhar Azad sections of the village community. (D) Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee

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125. Congress gave the idea of a United India and (A) Surendra Nath Banerjee accepted partition, because (B) Dadabhai Naoroji (A) The country was sinking into a civil war (C) Pheroze Shah Mehta (B) The Congress leaders felt that partition was a (D) MG Ranade lesser evil than a civil war (C) The Congress leaders succumbed to the 131. The first president of the Indian National Temptation of power and struck a deal with the Congress was British (A) Allan Octavian Hume (D) The interim government had become an Arena (B) Womesh Chandra Banerjee of struggle (C) Surendra Nath Banerjee (D) Dadabhai Naoroji 126. Mahatma Gandhi first experimented with his technique of Satyagraha in 132. Who said “the Congress is tottering to its fall (A) Champaran and one of my great ambitions, while in India, is (B) Kheda to assist it to its peaceful demise”? (C) Ahmedabad Mill Strike (A) Syed Ahmed Khan (D) Anti Rowlatt Act agitation (B) Raja Shiv Prasad (C) Lord Dufferin 127. A senior Congress leader, who held that the (D) Lord Curzon Quit India Movement was misguided and detrimental to India's long-term interest, was 133. Arrange the following events in the correct (A) Tej Bahadur Sapru chronological order: (B) Jai Prakash Narayan (I) Partition of Bengal (C) C Rajagopalachari (II) Varanasi session of Indian National Congress (D) JB Kripalni (III) Calcutta Session of the INC (IV) Foundation of Muslim League 128. Match the following social reformer of the (A) I II III IV 19th Century with their individual contribution: (B) II I III IV (a) Ram Mohan Roy (i) Abolition of Sati (C) I II IV III (b) Keshab Chandra (ii) Inter-caste (D) I III II V Sen marriage, widow remarriage and 134. The immediate cause of the Surat split of emancipation of 1907 between the moderate and extremist was women (A) The boycott of the moderates by the (c) Jyotiba Phule (iii) Removal of untouchability extremists (d) Dayanand (iv) Shuddhi movement (B) The election of the President of Indian Saraswati and rejection of National Congress hereditary caste (C) The Swaraj resolution system (D) The extremists’ resolution of swadeshi, (a) (b) (c) (d) boycott, national education and self-government (A) i ii iii iv (B) ii i iii iv 135. The Calcutta Session of Indian National (C) ii i iv iii Congress of 1906 marks a turning point in the (D) i ii iv iii history of the Congress because (A) It marks the end of 20 years of Indian 129. The precursor of the Indian National National Congress Congress was (B) It marked the end of moderate phase of the (A) Indian Association of Calcutta Indian National Congress (B) Indian National Conference (C) Adopted the Resolution regarding boycott, (C) British Indian Association Swadeshi, national education and self-government (D) The Indian Union (D) It was the last session where the Indian National Congress was dominated by the old 130. The name Indian National Congress was guard given by

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136. Who was designated as Neo-Nationalist? 141. Match the epithets of the following national (A) Extremists leaders: (B) Revolutionaries (C) Moderates (a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (i) Lokmanya (D) Swarajist (b) CF Andrews (ii) Dinabandhu (c) Madan Mohan Malviya (iii) Mahamana 137. The Indian National Congress became both (d) Lala Lajpat Rai (iv) Punjab Kesari Indian and national in reality as well as in rare, at the (a) (b) (c) (d) (A) Surat session of 1907 (A) i ii iii iv (B) Calcutta session of 1906 (B) ii i iii iv (C) Lucknow session of 1916 (C) iii ii i iv (D) Lahore session of 1929 (D) iv iii ii i

138. Match the papers or periodicals with the 142. The following was not the result of the Home national leader who published them. Rule Movement of Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Annie (a) Abul Kalam Azad (i) Bombay Chronicle Besant? (b) Pheroze Shah Mehta (ii) Al-Hilal (A) The Indian National Congress and the Muslim (c) Mrs Annie Besant (iii) Young India League both thought of starting a passive (d) Mahatma Gandhi (iv) New India resistance to the movement. (a) (b) (c) (d) (B) The Home Rule campaign virtually ousted the (A) ii i iv iii moderates from the political field. (B) i ii iii iv (C) The Indian National Congress became the (C) ii i iii iv Congress of Tilak and Besant. (D) iii ii i iv (D) The movement generated a cultural awakening in India. 139. Arrange the following events in the correct chronological order. 143. Jatin Das who died on September 13, 1929 I. Bombing on Lord Hardinge after a long hunger strike in prison, had been II. Transfer of capital from Calcutta to Delhi arrested in connection with III. Outbreak of the First World War (A) Murder of Sanders IV. Gandhiji's arrival in India (B) Throwing of bombs in the Assembly at Delhi (C) Lahore Conspiracy Case (A) II I IV III (D) Meerut Conspiracy Case (B) I II III IV (C) III I II IV 144. Who is regarded as the ‘Mother of Indian (D) II I III IV Revolution’? (A) Annie Besant 140. Match the founders of the following (B) Snehalata Wadkar revolutionary organizations: (C) Sarojini Naidu (D) Madam Bhikaji Rustom Cama (a) Anushilan Samiti (i) VD Savarkar

(b) Abhinav Bharat (ii) Barindra Kumar Ghosh 145. The President of the Lahore Session of the (c) Ghadar Party (iii) Lala Hardayal Indian National Congress of December 1929 which (d) Hindustan socialist (iv) Sachindra Nath passed the Purna Swaraj Resolution was Republican Army Sanyal and Bhagat Singh (A) Motilal Nehru

(B) Jawaharlal Nehru (a) (b) (c) (d) (C) Srinivas Iyengar (A) ii i iii iv (D) Subhash Chandra Bose (B) i ii iii iv

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146. The famous ‘Purna Swaraj Declaration’ which 151. The longest border of India is with says, “We hold it to be a crime against man and ______(4096 kilometre). God to submit any longer to a rule that has (A) Nepal caused this fourfold disaster to our country.” was (B) Bhutan prepared by (C) Afghanistan (A) Jawaharlal Nehru (D) Bangladesh (B) Mahatma Gandhi (C) Motilal Nehru 152. India is not the leading producers of the (D) All of the above ______spices. (A) Cumin seeds 147. The greatest merit of the Gandhi-Irwin pact (B) Cardamom was that (C) Ginger (A) The Indian National Congress agreed to join (D) Chili the Second Round Table Conference (B) For the first time the Indian National Congress 153. The present habitat of ______tribe is was cheated on a footing of equality as a political mainly in the plateau regions of Bihar, Jharkhand, opponent Odisha and West Bengal. (C) Gandhi the half-naked Fakir ascended the (A) Bhils staircase of the Vice Regal lodge (B) Nagas (D) The Indian National Congress gained a status (C) Santhals and authority to speak for political India (D) None of the above

148. Opposition to the Gandhi-Irwin pact was 154. Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh is famous for mainly production of ______. (A) Because of the execution of Bhagat Singh (A) Millet Sukhdev and Rajguru (B) Cotton (B) Because the Indian National Congress reneged (C) Tobacco the Purna Swaraj pledge (D) Sugarcane (C) Because of suspension of Civil Disobedience Movement (D) Because the pact was a self-delusion 155. The National Air Monitoring Programme was initiated by (A) National Disaster Management Agency 149. After the Gaya Session of Indian National (B) State Pollution Control Board Congress in December 1892 a new party was (C) National Pollution Control Board formed by Motilal Nehru and CR Das, its name (D) Indian Meteorological Department was (A) National liberal party (B) The Congress Khilafat Swarajya party 156. The southernmost point of India is (C) Swarajya Party ______, located at 6⁰45’ N. (D) Swarajya Congress Party (A) Indira Point (B) Kanyakumari 150. The Meerut Conspiracy Case, in which 27 (C) Dras accused persons were defended by Jawaharlal (D) Chennai Nehru and K N Katju related to the members of the 157. Bangladesh access the Enclaves in (A) Ghadar party Coochbehar through ______corridor. (B) Hindu Mahasabha (A) Tin Bigha (C) Indian National Congress (B) Darjeeling (D) Communist Party of India (C) Jalpaiguri (D) None of the above

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158. The basic objective of ______is to 166. In the year 1988, India launched the first provide all weather connectivity to all villages. remote sensing satellite ______. (A) SGSY (A) IRS - 1A (B) IAY (B) INSAT 1D (C) DPAP (C) INSAT 1A (D) PMGSY (D) None of the above

159. Varanasi is an example of ______city. (A) Defence 167. Jawaharlal Nehru Port is situated at about 14 (B) Administrative km south of _____ city. (C) Port (A) Chennai (D) Eclectic (B) Mumbai (C) Goa 160. Malda district of West Bengal is famous for (D) Kolkata (A) Sericulture (B) Horticulture 168. According to the census department of (C) Apiculture Government of India, a class III urban place has a (D) Aquaculture population between ______. (A) 10000 to 19999 161. ______is the largest producer of (B) 20,000 to 49999 sugarcane in India. (C) 50000 to 99999 (A) Maharashtra (D) None of the above (B) Gujarat (C) Uttar Pradesh (D) Madhya Pradesh 169. ______state has the highest literacy rate among the North Eastern states of India. 162. Sheets, rods, plates and utensils from _____ (A) Mizoram are manufactured by Mill at Belur, West Bengal. (B) Nagaland (A) Iron and steel (C) Manipur (B) Copper (D) Tripura (C) Bronze (D) Aluminium 170. States of India has more females in number than males with the sex ratio of 1084/1000 163. India is the largest exporter of ______. according to Census of India, 2011. (A) Orange (A) Karnataka (B) Pear (B) West Bengal (C) Cashew nuts (C) Kerala (D) Strawberry (D) Orissa

164. Bamboo, rags, Rice bran are the main raw material of ______industry. 171. According to Census of India, 2011 the crude (A) Chemical birth rate of the country is _____ per 1000. (B) Fertilizer (A) 25.8 (C) Cotton (B) 23.8 (D) Paper (C) 26.8 (D) 21.8 165. ______is the largest producer of tea. (A) West Bengal 172. Many people of state ______speak Kinnauri. (B) Tamil Nadu (A) Jammu and Kashmir (C) Assam (B) Himachal Pradesh (D) Karnataka (C) Uttar Pradesh (D) Uttarakhand

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173. ______is a minority group in India 181. In the year ______the first census of who are followers of Zoroastrianism. India was conducted. (A) Jains (A) 1911 (B) Parsis (B) 1872 (C) Buddhists (C) 1921 (D) Christians (D) 1891 182. ______census year recorded a negative 174. Lepcha, Assamese, Bhutia are type of growth rate of -0.31 in India. ______language family. (A) 1931 (A) Sino-Tibetan (B) 1921 (B) Austric (C) 1941 (C) Dravidian (D) 1911 (D) Indo Aryan 183. India and Pakistan boundary dispute over 175. ______is the main occupation of the ______creek. Toda tribe of Southern India. (A) Sir (A) Hunting (B) Kari (B) Pastoralism (C) Kajhar (C) Fishing (D) None of the above (D) Agriculture 184. By ______amendment constitutional 176. ______is a tribe of North East India. status was given to the Panchayat System. (A) Oraon (A) 74th (B) Chenchu (B) 73rd (C) Angami (C) 72nd (D) Irula (D) 62nd

177. ______is not a potential area for 185. Integrated Urban Development project was generation of geothermal energy. initiated during ______Five Year Plan. (A) Son Valley (A) Fourth (B) Damodar Valley (B) Fifth (C) Western Ghats (C) Sixth (D) None of the above (D) Seventh

178. Blue Revolution is aimed at increasing the 186. Tilaiya Dam is on ______River. production of ______. (A) Barakar (A) Milk (B) Damodar (B) Poultry (C) Konar (C) Shrimp (D) None of the above (D) Indigo 187. Ukai dam is on Ukai River which is a 179. ______is not a SEZ of India. tributary of ______River. (A) Falta (A) Narmada (B) Noida All of them are SEZ (B) Mahanadi (C) Indore (C) Tapi (D) Surat (D) Ganga

180. According to Census of India 2011, the child 188. Shivasamudram Dam is constructed on sex ratio of India is ______River. (A) 920 (A) Narmada (B) 914 (B) Mahanadi (C) 941 (C) Krishna (D) 921 (D) Kaveri

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189. Bundelkhand is famous for production of 197. According to Koppen's climatic classification, ______mineral. Kerala has ______climate. (A) Diamond (A) Tropical monsoon (B) Mica (B) Tropical moist (C) Copper (C) Tropical Savanna (D) Iron (D) Cold humid winter

190. ______is the largest producer of Mica. 198. The Western disturbances cause winter (A) Bihar precipitation in North West regions of Indian (B) Jharkhand subcontinent. It originates from ______. (C) Andhra Pradesh (A) Mediterranean Sea (D) Madhya Pradesh (B) Aral Sea (C) Caspian Sea 191. Copper is found in large quantities at _____ (D) None of the above (A) Durgapur (B) Ghatshila 199. ______crosses the Himalayas and (C) Nagpur brings dry and stable weather in winter in India. (D) Mayurbhanj (A) Easterly Jet streams (B) Westerly Jet streams 192. India is the second largest producer of (C) Both easterly and westerly jet streams ______, after Zimbabwe. (D) South Eastern monsoon wind (A) Iron India processes second largest reserves (B) Manganese of Manganese in the world after 200. Chandra Taal is located in ______valley. (C) Zinc Zimbabwe; 430 million tonnes; India is (A) Kashmir the world’s fifth largest producer. (D) Lead (B) Lahaul and Spiti (C) Dun 193. Salem is famous for production of _____ iron (D) None of the above ore. (A) Hematite (B) Magnetite (C) Limonite (D) Siderite

194. Introduction of Joint Forest Management was an important objective of ______. (A) National Forest Policy, 1988 (B) Man and Biosphere Programme (C) Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 (D) None of the above

195. Woods of Sundari tree is used mainly for making ______. (A) Railway sleepers (B) Boat making (C) Cricket bat (D) None of the above

196. ______forecast flood in India. (A) Indian Meteorological Department (B) Central Flood Forecasting Organisation (C) Central Flood and Disaster Forecasting Organisation (D) None of the above

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