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Q.No.1. Who was the first Chairman of University Grants Commission (UGC) ? 

Ans - Dr Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar 

Q.No.2. Who was the founder of University Grants Commission (UGC) ? 

Ans - Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

Q.No.3. When University Grants Commission (UGC) was setup in India?

Ans — 28 December 1953

Q.No.4. When did Shivaji assume the title of "Chhatrapati " ?

Ans - 1674 

Q.No.5. Which peak of India is known as the "treasures of Great Snow' ?

Ans - Kangchenjunga mountain range, Sikkim

Q.No.6. Who first introduced railways in India ?

Ans - Lord Dalhousie

Q.No.7. When was World Trade Organisation (WTO) set up ?

Ans - 1995

Q.No.8.  Who coined the term ecosystem ?

Ans - Arthur G. Tansley

Q.No.9. Where is the Central institute of Education Technology situated?

Ans - NIE Campus, NCERT in New Delhi

Q.No.10.  Where is the Institute for Scientific Information located ? 

(ISI) was founded by Eugene Garfield in 1960.

Ans - Philadelphia in 1956.

Q.No.11. Where is the National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR), located ?

Ans - New Delhi, India

Q.No.12. What is the meaning of Decachotomy ?

Ans - Decachotomy is the principle of Decimal Classification of resources means division one into ten; deca means ten. chotomy means division.

Q.No.13. Who discovered electron ?

Ans - Joseph John Thomson

Q.No.14. In which year was the capital of India shifted from Calcutta to Delhi ?

Ans - 1911

 Q.No.15. Where is the Indira Mount located ? 

Ans - Antarctic Ocean

Q.No.16. When was Bangladesh separated from India ?

Ans - 1971, 16 December

Q.No.17. Who was the first woman president of the United Nations General Assembly?

Ans - Vijay Lakshmi Pandit 

Q.No.18. Where is Human Resource Development Institute located ?

Ans - Located in Hyderabad

Q.No.19. What is the oldest Indian linguistic text?

Ans - Ashtadhyayi

Q.No.20. Who conferred the title of 'Mahatma' upon  Gandhiji ?

Ans - Rabindranath Tagore

Q.No.21. Who is known as the 'father of Indian civil services?

Ans - Lord Cornwallis

Q.No.22. What does the first digit in the PIN code indicate? 

Ans - Zone 

Q.No,23. When was the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) first used in India? 

Ans - 1982

Q.No.24. Which Indian state is known as the 'Land of Five Rivers'? 

Ans -  Punjab 

Q.No.25. Who was the founder of Sankhya School of Philosophy ? 

Ans - Kapil Muni

Q.No.26. How many hymns are there in Rigveda ?

Ans - 1028 hymns

Q.No.27. The term  'Grand Slam' is associated with which sports? 

Ans - Tennis

Q.No.28. Who is the author of the famous book 'Ramcharitmanas' ? 

Ans - Tulsidas

Q.No.29. The term 'Duck'' is associated with which sport?

Ans - Cricket

Q.No.30. Who is the author of the famous book 'The Social Contract' ? 

Ans - Rousseau

Q.No.31. Where is the National Institute of Oceanography situated? 

Ans - Panaji, Goa

Q.No.32. Who discovered the treatment of Rabies ?

Ans - Louis Pasteurin

Q.No.33. Who was the first engineer of India? 

Ans - Bharat Ratna Awardee Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya 

Q.No.34. Where is the Indian Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) located ? 

Ans - Chennai

Q.No.35. When did the Co-operative movement start in India ? 

Ans - 1904

Q.No.36. Who gave the greeting ' Jai Hind' ? 

Ans - Subhas Chandra Bose

Q.No.37. Who is the author of the famous book 'Ramcharitmanas' ? 

Ans - Tulsidas

Q.No.38. Where is the Central institute of Education Technology situated?

Ans - NIE Campus, NCERT in New Delhi

Q.No.39. Which number is known as 'Ramanujan

Number'?

Ans  - 1729

Q.No.40. Which woman was the first ever recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award ? 

Ans - Devika Rani 

Q.No.41. Who wrote the book Indica?

Ans - Megasthenes

Q.No.42.Who is known as the father of geometry ? 

Ans - Euclid

Q.No.43. Where is world's largest airport? 

Ans - King Fahd International Airport (DMM) — Dammam, Saudi Arabia.

Q.No.44. Who is called the father of Ayurveda ?

Ans - Charaka

Q.No.45. Who is known as the "Father of Indian Civil Aviation" ? 

Ans - First Indian pilot: J.R.D. Tata 

Q.No.46. Who was known as the ' Liberator of the Press'?

Ans - Governor General Metcalfe (1835 - 1836)

Q.No.47. Which place is known as the “Key to the Mediterranean"?

Ans - Gibraltar

Q.No.48. What is the name of present Governor of RBI?

Ans - Shri Shaktikanta Das, Retd IAS 

Q.No.49. Who has directed the film 'Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara'?

Ans - Jahnu Baruah

Q.No.50. Who is the author of the book 'Long Walk to Freedom' ?

Ans - Nelson Mandela

Q. No.51.Who was  known as 'Gurudev' ?

Ans - Rabindranath Tagore

Q.No.52. When and where did Industrial Revolution start first?

Ans - 1700s, Great Britain 

Q.No.53. What is the fastest land animal?

Ans - The Cheetah

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