1. Which is the oldest Development Financial Institution of India?
Answer: IFCI
2. What is a powerful eye irritant present in smog?
Answer: Sulphur dioxide
3. Where is respiratory centre situated?
Answer: Medulla oblongata
4. Which part of the Earth’s surface receives the highest amount of insolation?
Answer: Tropical deserts
5. Which are manuals of instruction in the form of brief rules?
Answer: Sutras
6. Who is the head of the National Defence Committee?
Answer: Home Minister
7. Who was the first Indian to be a Fellow of the Royal Society of London?
Answer: Srinivas Ramanujan
8. Prof. Amartya Sen has earned worldwide distinction in which field /area?
Answer: Economics
9. Mist is a result of which thing?
Answer: Condensation
10. At where an example of Chola architecture can be seen?
Answer: Tanjore
11. How is the relative permeability of a diamagnetic material?
Answer: Less than unity
12. Which gland in human body is popularly called ‘Adam’s apple’?
Answer: Thyroid
13. Which was the first woman Governor of a State in free India?
Answer: Mrs. Sarojini Naidu
14. The intensity of insolation depends on which line?
Answer: Latitude
15. Between which the famous Battle of Takkolam in South India was fought?
Answer: Cholas and Rashtrakutas
16. In India, the bank NABARD does not provide refinance to which bank?
Answer: Export-Import Banks
17. Crusade for human rights is associated with which name?
Answer: Jimmy Carter
18. Which nontoxic gas helps in formation of enzymes which ripen fruit?
Answer: Acetylene
19. Which desert is famous for its deposits of nitrates?
Answer: Atacama
20. Which queen enjoyed political power along ‘with her husband?
Answer: Nur Jahan
