General Knowledge TRB, TET, ACIO, Exams- Set-249

1. Which is India’s oldest iron and steel plant?

Answer:  TISCO at Jamshedpur

2. Belladonna medicine is obtained by which part of Atropa belladonna?

Answer:  From leaf

3. To whom does UPSC submit its annual report on its work?

Answer:  Minister The Union Home

4. Which city in India never experiences the Vertical rays of the sun at noon?

Answer:  New Delhi

5. By whom was the ‘Jaziya’ abolished?

Answer:  Akbar

6. Why is Weightlessness experienced in spaceships?

Answer:  Due to the absence of gravity

7. In which year, the Economic Community of West African States came into existence?

Answer:  1975

8. Which year is celebrated as the International Year of Astronomy?

Answer:  2009

9. Which is the most of India’s rainfall?

Answer:  Cyclonic

10. By whom was the capital of the Mughal Empire shifted from Agra to Delhi?

Answer:  Shahjahan

11. Which plant produces seed but not fruit?

Answer:  Cyrus

12. The President of the Indian Union has the same constitutional authority as which country?

Answer:  British Monarch

13. Which is a major constituent of Biogas?

Answer:  Methane

14. Which Grasslands do not support any trees?

Answer:  Steppes

15. Which was known as the Chalco-lithic Age?

Answer:  Copper-stone Age

16. Which industry in India was worst affected because of the partition?

Answer:  Jute and Cotton

17. Which is produced by rainwater action?

Answer:  Gully

18. Which ore contains both calcium and magnesium?

Answer:  Dolomite

19. Where is the greatest average annual precipitation?

Answer:  In the Philippines

20. Alberuni lived during the period of which king?

Answer:  Mahmud Ghaznavi

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