?The furious fifties? is:
(a) A famous group of bandits
(b) winds at 500S latitude
(c) winds at 500N latitude
The destruction of the Marathas as a menace to the British hegemony in India may be ascribed to: (a) Warren Hastings (b) Lord Cornwallis (c) Lord Wellesley (d) Lord Amherst
Classical Sanskrit poetry of India is: (a) predominantly secular (b) predominantly religious (c) a mixture of religious and secular (d) Nothing can be said definitely
Who is considered the hero of Mahabharata? (a) Yudhisthira (b) Arjuna (c) Abhimanyu (d) Krishna
Who wrote the book ?The God of Small Things? ? (A) Khushwant Singh (B) Arun Shourie (C) Salman Rushdie (D) Arundhati Roy
Match List-I (Famous Person) with List-II (Well-known As) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists : List-I List-II (Famous Person) (Well-known As) A. Giriraj Kishore 1. Poet B. Karan Thapar 2. Sportsperson C. Sitakant Mohapatra 3. T.V. Journalist D. Yasin Merchant 4. Writer A B C D (a) 4 2 1 3 (b) 1 3 4 2 (c) 4 3 1 2 (d) 1 2 4 3
During the Indian freedom struggle, ?The Deccan Educational Society? was founded by 1 B.G.Tilak 2 Dadabhai Naoroji 3 G.K.Gokhale 4 M.G.Ranade
Who was warded the Golden Boot in the Euro 2004? (a) Theodoros Zangorakis (b) Milan Baros (c) Ronaldo (d) Wayne Rooney
The Articles of the Constitution of India which deal with the Directive Principles of State Policy are 1 26 to 41 2 30 to 45 3 36 to 51 4 40 to 55
?Lakshya? successfully test flown from Chandipur-on-sea in Bangalore in 2003 is: (A) Pilotless target aircraft (B) Surface-to-air Missile (C) Surface-to-surface Missile (D) A jet fighter
The richest vegetable source of Vitamin A (1) Liver (2) Egg (3) Carrot (4) Sunlight
Landscapes of the limestone region are called: (a) Karst landscape (b) Califronia landscape (c) Alaska landscape
The President of India controls the Parliament: (a) directly (b) through the Chief Justice (c) through the Cabinet of Ministers headed by the Prime Minister (d) through the agency of the Defence Minister