Combined Graduate Level (Tier-I)

1. Who was the Viceroy at the time of Quit India Movement?
(A) Lord Irwin (B) Lord Mountbatten
(C) Lord Wavell (D) Lord Linlithgow
Ans : (D)

2. Who was the other Congress leader who joined with Motilal Nehru to start the Swaraj Party in 1923 ?
(A) G. K. Gokhale (B) B. G. Tilak
(C) Chittaranjan Das (D) M. K. Gandhi
Ans : (C)

3. What is the first sermon of Buddha called as ?
(A) Mahaparinirvansutta (B) Brahmajalasutta
(C) Dhammachakkapabattanasutta (D) Kachchayanagottasutta
Ans : (C)

4. From which of the following banks did Madan Mohan Malaviya take loans for financing “The Hindustan Times” ?
(A) State Bank of India (B) Punjab National Bank
(C) Bank of Maharashtra (D) Bank of Baroda
Ans : (B)
5. Who wrote the book “Why Socialism” ?
(A) Jayaprakash Narayan (B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Acharya Narendra Dev  (D) M .N. Roy
Ans : (A)

6. Multi-purpose river valley projects are the “New temples of modern India”.
The above statement is made by–
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru (B) Motilal Nehru
(C) Mahatma Gandhi (D) Rajiv Gandhi
Ans : (A)

7. Where are the Todas found?
(A) Madhya Pradesh  (B) Tamil Nadu
(C) Rajasthan (D) Arunachal Pradesh
Ans : (B)

8. The eastward continuation of the Brazil current is called–
(A) North Atlantic drift (B) South Atlantic drift
(C) Counter Equatorial drift (D) West Atlantic drift
Ans : (B)

9. Which of the following is an endemic species?
(A) Nicobar pigeon (B) Horn bill
(C) Indian Rhino (D) Pink-head duck
Ans : (A)

10. The natural disaster in which carbon-dioxide suddenly erupts from a deep lake water is known as–
(A) Liminic (B) Lacaustrine
(C) Fluvial (D) Glacial
Ans : (A)