Practice Quiz set 1 - general awareness mcq Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams
Q-1) Who wrote Jungle Book?
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English author Rudyard Kipling wrote the Jungle Book in 1894. It is a collection of stories.
Q-2) The book ‘Natural History’ is written by
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The book ‘Natural History’ is written by Pliny. It is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire to the modern day and purports to cover all ancient knowledge.
Q-3) Who wrote the book ‘Systema Naturae’ ?
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‘Systema Naturae’ was one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carolus Linnaeus that introduced the binomial nomenclature. The first edition was published in 1735. The book listed about 10,000 species of organisms, of which about 6,000 were plants and 4,236 were animals.
Q-4) Which of the following sports is related to Dr. B. C. Roy Trophy?- Hockey
- Football
- Golf
- Lawn Tennis
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The BC Roy Trophy is an Indian football tournament for players under 19 years of age. The competition is held every year between the under-19 teams representing states of India.
Q-5) Who is Cornelius Fudge in the novel ‘Harry Potter’?
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Q-6) Mahatma Gandhi wrote his autobiography originally in
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Q-7) Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below:
List I
List II
A. Coolie
1. Mulk Raj Anand
B. Hinduism
2. Nirad C. Chaudhary
C. Gitanjali
3. Rabindra Nath Tagore
D. The judgement
4. Kuldip Nayyar
Codes: A B C D
| List I | List II |
| A. Coolie | 1. Mulk Raj Anand |
| B. Hinduism | 2. Nirad C. Chaudhary |
| C. Gitanjali | 3. Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| D. The judgement | 4. Kuldip Nayyar |
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Mulk Raj Anand (12 December 1905 – 28 September 2004) was an Indian writer in English, notable for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society. One of the pioneers of Indo-Anglian fiction, he, together with R. K. Narayan, Ahmad Ali and Raja Rao, was one of the first India-based writers in English to gain an international readership.
Nirad C. Chaudhuri was a Bengali?English writer and cultural commentator. He was born in 1897 in Kishoreganj, which today is part of Bangladesh but at that time was part of Bengal, a region of British India.
Rabindranath Tagore, sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region’s literature and music.
Kuldip Nayar is a veteran Indian journalist, syndicated columnist, human rights activist and author, noted for his long career as a left-wing political commentator.
Q-8) The writer of Indian National Movement : The Long-Term Dynamics is
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Q-9) Match the following:
List I
List II
(Books)
(Author)
A. Rich Like Us
1. Nirad C Chaudhari
B. Reflection on our Time
2. P N Haksar
C. Hinduism a religion to live by
3. Nayantara Sahgal
D. Bliss was it in that Dawn
4. Monoo Masani
Codes: A B C D
| List I | List II |
| (Books) | (Author) |
| A. Rich Like Us | 1. Nirad C Chaudhari |
| B. Reflection on our Time | 2. P N Haksar |
| C. Hinduism a religion to live by | 3. Nayantara Sahgal |
| D. Bliss was it in that Dawn | 4. Monoo Masani |
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Q-10) Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below the Lists.
List I
List II
(Author)
(Books)
A. Arundhati Roy
1. Malgudi Days
B. Khushwant Singh
2. God of Small Things
C. R. K. Narayan
3. What Went Wrong
D. Kiran Bedi
4. The Sikhs
Codes: A B C D
| List I | List II |
| (Author) | (Books) |
| A. Arundhati Roy | 1. Malgudi Days |
| B. Khushwant Singh | 2. God of Small Things |
| C. R. K. Narayan | 3. What Went Wrong |
| D. Kiran Bedi | 4. The Sikhs |
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Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories by R. K. Narayan published in 1943 by Indian Thought Publications. The book was republished outside India in 1982. The book includes 19 stories, all set in the fictional town of Malgudi, located in South India. Each of the stories portrays a facet of life in Malgudi.
The God of Small Things (1997) is the debut novel of Indian author Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the “Love Laws” that lay down “who should be loved, and how. Khushwant Singh is an Indian novelist and journalist. Singh’s weekly column, “With Malice towards One and All”, carried by several Indian newspapers, is among the most widely-read columns in the country.
"What Went Wrong?", a collection of The fortnightly column written by Kiran Bedi. Kiran Bedi (born 9 June 1949) is an Indian social activist and a retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer. Bedi joined the police service in 1972 and became the first woman officer in the IPS.