THE HINDU DAILY QUIZ

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1. On which among the following dates, National Development Council was set up?
6th August 1952
9th August 1960
29th August 1960
15th September 1958
2. Who among the following edited and published the newspaper Indian Mirror in 1861?
Amitava Ghosh
Ravindranath Tagore
Manmohan Ghosh and Devendranath Tagore
B.K Chatterjee
3. Who among the following was the first woman president to chair the Indian National Congress at Kanpur session of 1925 ?
Sarojini Naidu
Annie Beasant
Indira Gandhi
Kanak Sharma
4. Which among the following states is not covered by the Chhota Nagpur Plateau ?
West Bengal
Orissa
Chhattisgarh
Assam
5. What among the following is a partially enclosed body of water along the coast where freshwater from rivers and streams meets and mixes with salt water from the ocean ?
Tide
Estuary
Ria
Lagoon
6. Which among the following was the single biggest item of import to the Vijayanagar empire?
Silk
Gold
Horses
Precious stones
7. Ibn Battuta, the famous Muslim explorer who came to India during regime of Mohammad Bin Tughlaq, belonged to which country ?
China
Japan
Iran
Morrocco
8. Who among the following propounded the ‘Safety Valve Theory’ of the foundation of Congress?
Lala Lajpat Rai
Mahatma Gandhi
Chandrasekhar Azaad
Sarojni Naidu
9. Agenda 21’ of Rio Summit, 1992 is related to :
Ozone Depletion
Sustainable development
Combating the consequences of population explosion.
Global Economy
10. The geosynchronous orbit, around the Earth with an orbital period that matches the Earth’s sidereal rotation period and allows the satellites to appear stationary, is directly above which among the following?
North Pole
Equator
South Pole
Tropic of Cancer
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1. In which of the following events India has won maximum number of Gold medals in the recently concluded Commonwealth Games-2014?
Wrestling
Badminton
Swimming
Atheletics
2. What is the name of India’s first multi-sensor moored observatory deployed in Arctic, recently?
IndESSO
IndARC
IndDruv
IndESSO
3. The 18th BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) ministerial meeting on Climate Change will be held in ___
New Delhi
Beijing
Durban
Rio De Jenerio
4. India’s Prakash Nanjappa, is associated with which of the following sports/events?
Badminton
Boxing
Football
Shooting
5. Which country has reported highest number of deaths from Ebola outbreak in recent times?
Sierra Leone
Liberia
South Africa
Guinea
6. Kishenpur wildlife sanctuary is located in _______?
Bihar
Punjab
Uttar Pradesh
Karnataka
7. What is the name of Google balloon-powered Internet Project
Project Loon
Project Internet
Project Free Int
Inter4U
8. Recently, what is the rank of India in World Press Freedom Index for freedom of press?
22
136
123
98
9. The only licensed flag production unit in India in located at which among the following places?
Mysore
Gorakhpur
Hubli
Delhi
10. The Governor General of India at the time of formation of the Indian National Congress was __?
Lord Canning
Lord Dufferin
Lord Chelmsford
Lord Dalhousie
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