GK quiz for competitive exams 2021
GK quiz for competitive exams 2021 for RBI, IBPS SO, IBPS Clerk, IBPS, CTET,TET, BED, SCRA, UPSC, SSC, PO, RRB.
- In which state is the Luuni River flowing?
Answer: Rajasthan - The largest producer of asbestos in the world.
Answer: India - Where is Santa Cruz airport?
Answer: Mumbai - Which was India’s first full-colour film?
Answer – Jhansi ki Rani - Who was the Chairman of the First Finance Commission of India?
Answer: K C. Niyogi - Which state is mostly populated by the poverty line in India?
Answer: Orissa - Black soil is the most suitable for which crop?
Answer: Cotton - World AIDS Day is celebrated?
Answer: December 1 - Where is the headquarters of the Coca-Cola Company located?
Answer: Atlanta - Minimum age should be for fighting the Lok Sabha election in India.
Answer: 25 years - When is International Women’s Day celebrated?
Answer – March 8 - Where is Kanha National Park located?
Answer – In Mandla - Where is the Dhruv of India’s nuclear reactor located?
Answer: Trombay - Where is the ‘Statue of Liberty’ located?
Answer – in New York - Where is the ‘Red Square’ located?
Answer: In Moscow - Aswan dam located in which River?
Answer: On the Nile River - What is ‘Pentagon’?
Answer: US Department of Defense’s Office - The Narmada is the origin of the river.
Answer: Amarkantak - The first digit of the PIN code is called.
Answer: Number of postal zones related to post office - Which water reservoir separates Europe from Africa?
Answer: Gibraltar - Where is Nhava Seva port located in India?
Answer: Near Mumbai - Which port is on the west coast?
Answer: Paradise - Where is the tin found in India?
Answer: Hazaribagh (Jharkhand) - Shivaji was arrested by which ambassador of Aurangzeb?
Answer: Raja Jaisingh - Which queen of Rajasthan had sent Rakhi to the emperor Humayun and urged for help against Bahadur Shah?
Answer: Queen Kannavati
- The Sardar Sarovar project is situated on which river?
Answer: on the Narmada River - Where is the railway wagon factory (CIMMCO) located in Rajasthan?
Answer: In Bharatpur - There were how many Indian princely states before independence.
Answer: 562 - When did the British Parliament pass the Indian Independence Act?
Answer: July 1947 - When did Lord Mountbatten, President of the Bharat Divas Parishad, announce the partition of India?
Answer: On 3 June 1947 - Who was the first person to talk about two Separate Nationals of India?
Answer – Muhammad Iqbal - Who was the founder of ‘Farvard Block’?
Answer – Subhash Chandra Bose - Even after the opposition of Gandhi, who was made the Congress president?
Answer – Subhash Chandra Bose - On 13th April 1919, the Jaliawala Bagh massacre in Amritsar protested against whose arrest?
Answer: Satyapal and Saifuddin Kichalu - In 1885, where was the first session (अधिवेसन) of the Indian National Congress, headed by Vyomkesh Chandra Banerjee?
Answer: Mumbai - Who had declared the partition of Bengal in 1905?
Answer – Lord Curzon - There is a minimum age limit for the election of the Lok Sabha in India.
Answer: 25 years - Which ruler defeated King Harshavardhana?
Answer: Pulakeshin II - Who first hindered Hindu law?
Answer: Manu - Where was the death of Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar?
Answer: Rangoon - Which year was the launch of color light signaling in India?
Answer – in 1928 - Lord Clive defeated to whom in the Battle of Plassey?
Answer – Sirajuddaula - When did the Indian National Congress demand full Swaraj?
Answer – in 1929 - What is famous for Kaziranga Reserve?
Answer – for a horny rhinoceros - In which city is the authentic time and local time of India is the same?
Answer: Allahabad - Which dance is related to dancer Sonal Mansingh?
Answer: Bharatanatyam - When was the Muslim League celebrating ‘Mukti Diwas’?
Answer – in 1929 - Who has invented the method of the depiction of Cubism?
Answer – Pablo Picasso - Nagasaki Nagar of Japan is situated on which island?
Answer – QiShu - Harmuz Water Treaty separates which two countries?
Answer: Iran and Oman
GK Questions and Answers : Set-7
- Which year was the first meeting of the Rajya Sabha held?
Answer – in 1952 - What is in Caga?
Answer: Nuclear energy production - Where is the headquarters of the United Nations Education, Science and Sanskrit Organization (UNESCO) located?
Answer – in Paris - In India, how many states and union territories are now divided by administrative vision?
Answer: 29 States and 7 Union Territories - What is pagoda?
Answer: Buddhist Temple - The zoristians are called.
Answer – People of agnostic race - Which country is called ‘Land of Golden Pagoda’?
Answer: Myanmar (Burma) - Humayun Naama is composed of whom?
Answer: Gulbadan Begum - Currently, the total length of India’s railroad is.
Answer – 64640 KM (verify from your side too) - Where does the Western and Eastern Ghats meet?
Answer: On Palghat - From what place did the remains of Harappa civilization come from?
Answer: Nagarjuna Konda - Who was the first recipient of the Human Rights Award?
Answer: Nelson Mandela - Which is the state of spices in India?
Answer: Kerala - How many army commandos are organized?
Answer: Five - What is ’10-Downing Street’?
Answer: Residence of the Prime Minister of England - Kalpana Chawla originally was from which place
Answer: Haryana (India) - 0 longitude that passes through Greenwich
Answer: Chief posthumous - Gorsoppa Waterfall is situated on which river?
Answer: Sharavati - What was the number of members of the draft constitution of Indian Constituent Assembly?
Answer – 7 - Who founded the ‘Hindustan Republican Association’ in 1924?
Answer: – Shachindranath Sanyal - During the Rigvedic period, the main deities of Brahmins were.
Answer: Som (सोम) - What is ‘Green Peace’?
Answer: An International Organization for Environmental Protection - In which style is the temple of Bhubaneswar, Puri, and Pilani built?
Answer: Nagar - In which state of India diamond is found?
Answer: Madhya Pradesh - The country’s first train that got the honor of I.S.O-9001.
Answer: Bhopal Express - The word ‘Third Eye’ is related to which game?
Answer: Cricket - Where is the southernmost point ‘Indira Point’ of India located?
Answer: Big Nicobar Islands - A minimum distance of two places on the globe is?
Answer: On the main longitude - In which tribe is the trend of seasonal migration found?
Answer – Bhutia - Who was the first president of the Indian Lok Sabha?
Answer: G. V. Mavlankar - Trirat of Jain religion.
Answer: Right-to-do, proper behaviour, right-thinking - When was the Indian Navy established in Cochin?
Answer: In January 1969 - Yamini Krnamamurthy is related to which dance?
Answer: Bharat Natyam dance - Forbes is the Satellite of which planet?
Answer: Mars - Uri Jeevan Power Project is in which state of India?
Answer: Jammu Kashmir - The Losang Festival is celebrated in which country?
Answer – Taiwan - In which area is the Pulitzer Prize awarded?
Answer: Journalism - The tourist day is celebrated on the date in the world?
Answer: 27 September - The first large-scale action of extremist revolutionaries is related to ‘Big Dacoity’?
Answer: East Bengal - What was the famous European traveller ‘Barnear’ by profession?
Answer: Doctor - Who is credited for the complete construction work of Qutub Minar?
Answer – Eltumish - Who was the last Mughal ruler to sit on the Mayur Throne (मयूर सिंहासन)?
Answer – Muhammad Shah - Who was the biggest obstacle in getting the throne of Shah Jahan on the death of Jahangir?
Answer: Shayariar - Where was the capital of Chalukya?
Answer: Watapi - In what period was the invention of the decimal system in India?
Answer: Gupta Kal (गुप्त कल) - Which Buddhist schism was divided into two distinct and independent sects, Buddhism ‘Hinayana’ and ‘Mahayana’?
Answer: 4th - Which is the Meeting point of Eastern and the Western Ghats?
Answer – Nilgiri Hills - The Chief Minister who served the longest term in India?
Answer: Jyoti Basu - Dilwara Temple at Mount Abu is of which religion?
Answer: Jain temple - Which continent is called the White Continent?
Answer – Antarctica - In which state is the Old Bird Sanctuary?
Answer: Rajasthan - Who is known as Frontier Gandhi?
Answer: Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan - Patliputra was the first capital of which Mauryan Empire
Answer – Chandragupta Maurya - Human Rights Day is celebrated.
Answer – December 10 - Which is the leading tea producing state of India?
Answer: Assam - Who was the 2nd woman of India to climb Mount Everest?
Answer – Santosh Yadav - Who was the first woman president of the Indian National Congress?
Answer: Annie Besant - Where is Jim Carbet Park located?
Answer – Uttaranchal - Somnath temple was destroyed by which invaders?
Answer – Mahmood Ghaznavi - Dada Saheb Phalke was the first person honored with the award.
Answer – Devika Rani - When was ‘U.N.O’ established?
Answer: 1945 - India exports the highest amount of commodity.
Answer – cotton cloth - Gram comes under which crop?
Answer: Pulses - Which is the longest railroad in India?
Answer: Northern Railway - Who was the 12th President of India?
Answer: – Dr. Abdul Kalam - Which state of India is the largest producer of rubber?
Answer: Kerala - In which state is the Bhankha Nangal Dam located?
Answer: Punjab - The great man Virsa Munda was from which state of India?
Answer: Jharkhand - Who is the supreme army commander of the Indian Army?
Answer: President - The distance between two tracks Railway ‘broad-gauge’ is?
Answer – 1.675 m - Where is the Central Railway Office?
Answer: In Mumbai - Which is the 29th state of India?
Answer: Telangana - The world’s largest desert.
Answer: Sahara - The first satellite launched by India.
Answer: Aryabhatta - Who conducts small cases in rural areas?
Answer – Sub-divisional authority - India’s largest gold producing state.
Answer: Karnataka - Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was most famous in which area?
Answer: Science - The largest rice producing state in India.
Answer: West Bengal - At which place nuclear testing mostly done?
Answer: Pokaran - Who is the author of the song Govind?
Answer: Jayadev - The name of the father of Gautam Budh was.
Answer – Shudhodhan - National Youth Day is celebrated on?
Answer – January 12 - Where was the first See ports established by the British in India?
Answer – Surat - Where is the National Defense Academy?
Answer: Khadgavasala - Which city is called the Unchanging City of the World?
Answer: Rome - India’s most literate state.
Answer: Kerala - India’s longest dam.
Answer: Hirakud Dam - Who built Fatehpur Sikri?
Answer: Mughal Emperor Akbar - Who was the first person to land on the moon’s surface?
Answer: Neil Armstrong - India’s most famous place for the oil sector.
Answer: Digboi-Assam - By which surname Japan’s capital Tokyo is known?
Answer – Osaka - Who gave the word Harijan?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi - Where is a very good yield in India?
Answer: In Karnataka - The folk dance ‘Kikali’ is famous in which state?
Answer: Haryana - The term ‘googly’ is related to which game?
Answer: Cricket - Which is the highest coal producing state?
Answer: Jharkhand - Where is Charminar located?
Answer: Hyderabad - Where did the Metro first started in India?
Answer: Calcutta - Golden Temple is located in which Indian city?
Answer: Amritsar - Rourkela is famous for which mineral?
Answer – iron - Mandal Commission came into force during the tenure of which Prime Minister?
Answer: North – V. P. Singh - What is SARS?
Answer: Viral Disease - Who is the father of the Green Revolution in India?
Answer: M.S. Swaminathan - The White Revolution is concerned with?
Answer: Milk - Godhra is famous for what?
Answer: To burn people in the train - Who was the last Mughal ruler?
Answer – Bahadur Shah Zafar - Who opposed Sati’s custom?
Answer: Raja Ram Mohan Roy - What is the full form of OBC?
Answer – Other Backward classes - Why is SAIL famous?
Answer: For steel production - Why the demand draft is crossed?
Answer – So that payment can be done only through a bank account - Where does Pushkar Mela organized?
Answer: – Jaipur - Where was the establishment of Azad Hind Fauj?
Answer: Singapore - What is India’s place in the world in terms of area?
Ans: – Seventh - Zakir Hussain is concerned with?
Answer: Tabla - The Samadhi of Lal Bahadur Shastri is situated at?
Answer – Vijay Ghat - Suez combines the canal.
Answer – to the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea - Who is the queen of the spices?
Answer: Cardamom - Who was the founder of Nazism?
Answer: Hitler - Who has run the ‘Din-i-Elahi’ religion?
Answer: Akbar - Who is called “Gharib Nawaaz”?
Answer: Khawaza Moinuddin Chishti - Where is the Qutub Minar?
Answer: In Delhi - The land between the mountain and the hill is called.
Answer: Valley - Where Saharia tribe is found?
Answer: In Rajasthan - By which colour the mountain and hills are represented in the map.
Answer: Red color - Which country is the Largest producer of silk?
Answer: China - Who was the Prime Minister of Pakistan at the time of Kargil war?
Answer: Nawaz Sharif - India’s national bird.
Answer: Peacock - When was the Indian National Congress established?
Answer – 1885 - Which shape is made from underground water?
Answer – Karstvideo - …………. is a Kharif crop.
Answer: Mecca - When the bajra crop is harvested?
Answer: October-November - Eskimo’s house is built by.
Answer – Snow - Before Delhi which city was the capital of India?
Answer: Calcutta (Presently – Kolkata) - A red triangle (Δ) is related to.
Answer: Family Welfare - Contour shows the line.
Answer: From the same elevation and shape to the sea level - Where the Kaveri River flows.
Answer: South India - Who is the creator of the Mahabharata?
Answer: Vedavas - Which is the most common tribe in Sri Lanka?
Answer: Sinhalese - Which cereals are burnt during Holika Dahan?
Answer: Barley (Jou) - Who got income from the registration fee in the village fair?
Answer: District Council - Who founded the ‘Khudai Khidmatgar’?
Answer: Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan - Where is the Ganges-Yamuna River’s meeting place?
Answer: In Allahabad - The northernmost mountain range of the Himalayas is called.
Answer – Hemadri - What was the name of Buddha’s childhood?
Answer – Siddhartha - India’s maritime border is how much longer?
Answer: 7500 KM - Megasthenes was the ambassador of?
Answer – Cellulose