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1. Which State is the 'Sugar Bowl' of India ?

(A) Uttar Pradesh
(B) Himachal Pradesh
(C) Tamil Nadu
(D) Andhra Pradesh

Answer is (A) Uttar Pradesh

2. Which State has the longest coastline in India ?

(A) Gujarat
(B) Maharashtra
(C) Tamil Nadu
(D) Andhra Pradesh

Answer is (A) Gujarat

Total coastal length of India is 7517 Km. Out of this, coastal length of Indian states (coastal length of mainland India) is 5423 Km and the coastal length of all Islands (Andaman & Nicobar, Kavaratti islands) is 2094 Km. There are total 9 states and 4 Union Territories that forms Indian coastline. Gujarat forms the longest coastline of all Indian states. State with second long coastline is Andhra Pradesh. State with third long coastline is Tamil Nadu.

3. What is the average time taken by sun rays to reach the earth ?

(A) 400 seconds
(B) 450 seconds
(C) 500 seconds
(D) 600 seconds

Answer is (C) 500 seconds

4. Who invented CT scan ?

(A) Thomas Alva Edison
(B) Charles H. Townes
(C) Louis pasteur
(D) Godfrey Hounsfield

Answer is (D) Godfrey Hounsfield

5. What is the wavelength of vissible spectrum?

(A) 1300 Å - 3000Å
(B) 3900 Å - 7600Å
(C) 7800 Å - 8000Å
(D) 8500Å - 9800Å

Answer is (B) 3900 Å - 7600Å .

6.National Income can be calculated in all except one of the following ways :-

(A) Sum of all incomes
(B) Sum of all saving
(C) Sum of all outputs
(D) Sum of all expenditures

Answer is (B) Sum of all saving

7. Ohm's Law defines

(A) Resistance
(B) Current only
(C) Voltage only
(D) Both current and voltage

Answer is (D) Both current and voltage

8. Which Veda is important for India Music ?

(A) Sama Veda
(B) Yajur Veda
(C) Atharva Veda
(D) Rig Veda

Answer is (A) Sama Veda

9. Producer gas is a mixture of

(A) Carbon dioxide and Hydrogen
(B) Nitrogen and Argon
(C) Oxygen and Nitrogen
(D) Carbon monoxide and Nitrogen

Answer is (D) Carbon monoxide and Nitrogen

10. X-rays are

(A) Longitudinal wave
(B) Transverse wave
(C) Electromagnetic wave
(D) Elastic wave

Answer is (C) Electromagnetic wave

11. Which of the following compound is known as ‘‘King of chemicals’’ ?

(A) Sulphuric acid
(B) Sodium Hydroxide
(C) Hadrochloric acid
(D) Ammonium chloride

Answer is (A) Sulphuric acid

Sulphuric acid is called the King of Chemicals because it is used in the preparation of a very large number of other useful chemicals such as hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, dyes, drugs etc.

12. What was the name of the space shuttle that landed man on the moon ?

(A) Eagle
(B) Columbia
(C) Challenger
(D) Apollo

Answer is (D) Apollo

13. Galvanised iron is made by coating iron with?

(A) Zinc
(B) Nickel
(C) Chromium
(D) Sulphur

Answer is (A) Zinc

14. The IUPAC name of acetylene is

(A) Ethene
(B) Ethane
(C) Ethyne
(D) Ethylene

Answer is (C) Ethyne

15. Bad Loans in banking terminology are generally known as

(A) CBS
(B) NPA
(C) PLR
(D) CRR

Answer is (B) NPA

16. ‘Willow’ for a cricket bat is obtained from

(A) Tropical forest
(B) Rain forests
(C) Deciduous forest
(D) Coniferous forest

Answer is (C) Deciduous forest

17. Which one of the following rivers crosses the tropic of capricorn twice ?

(A) Vall
(B) Limpopo
(C) Nizer
(D) Zambezi

Answer is (B) Limpopo

The Mahi river passes through the tropic of Cancer twice. The Congo river passes through the Equator twice. The Limpopo river passes through the tropic of Capricorn twice

18. Which vein brings clean blood from the lungs into the heart ?

(A) Renal Vein
(B) Vena cava
(C) Pulmonary Vein
(D) Hepatic vein

Answer is (B) Vena cava

19. How many members are there in Public Accounts committee ?

(A) 28 Members
(B) 20 Members
(C) 30 Members
(D) 22 Members

Answer is (D) 28 Members

20. Washing soda is the common name for

(A) Sodium carbonate
(B) Calcium bicarbonate
(C) Sodium bicarbonate
(D) Calcium carbonate

Answer is (A) Sodium carbonate

What are the soaps ?

(A) Salts of silicates
(B) Mixture of glycerol and alcohols
(C) Sodium or potassium salts of heavier fatty acids
(D) Esters of heavy fatty acids

Answer is (C) Sodium or potassium salts of heavier fatty acids

22. ‘The latitude 'AA' on the map represents the

(A) Tropic of Cancer
(B) Tropic of Capricorn
(C) Equator
(D) None of the above

Answer is (C) Equator

23. The highest mountains on earth namely Mount Everest, K2, Kanchenjanga are located in

(A) The greater Himalayas
(B) The Lesser Himalayas
(C) The outer Himalayas
(D) None of the above

Answer is (A) The greater Himalayas

24. Tripitakas are sacred books of

(A) Jains
(B) Buddhists
(C) Hindus
(D) None of the above

Answer is (B) Buddhists

25. Which device is used to detect radioactivity ?

(A) Oscilloscope
(B) Geiger counter
(C) Geordie Lamp
(D) Kipp's apparatus

Answer is (B) Geiger counter