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This section includes 1571 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Basic GK knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 801. |
When was India's first Human Development Report (HDR) released? |
| A. | April 2001 |
| B. | April 2002 |
| C. | August 2002 |
| D. | September 2002 |
| Answer» C. August 2002 | |
| 802. |
When did economic planning start in India? |
| A. | August 15, 1947 |
| B. | January 26, 1949 |
| C. | 1 April 1951 |
| D. | 1 May 1956 |
| Answer» D. 1 May 1956 | |
| 803. |
Who introduced the concept of Elasticity of Substitution? |
| A. | Hicks |
| B. | Marshall |
| C. | Keynes |
| D. | Schultz |
| Answer» B. Marshall | |
| 804. |
Which is the biggest item of expenditure of the government in the revenue account? |
| A. | Security expenditure |
| B. | Interest payment |
| C. | Grants |
| D. | Administrative Services |
| Answer» C. Grants | |
| 805. |
When was the Consumer Protection Act passed in India? |
| A. | 1963 |
| B. | 1986 |
| C. | 1995 |
| D. | 2003 |
| Answer» C. 1995 | |
| 806. |
"Whose answer is this fulfillment determines its own demand?" |
| A. | Adam Smith |
| B. | J.R. B. From |
| C. | Marshall |
| D. | Ricardo |
| Answer» C. Marshall | |
| 807. |
Money laundering bill is related to which of the following? |
| A. | Control over interest rates |
| B. | Reclassification of small and medium scale industries |
| C. | Prohibition on black money |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 808. |
Who is the Antyodaya program related to? |
| A. | Salvation of bonded laborers |
| B. | Bringing cultural revolution in India |
| C. | Demands of textile industry workers |
| D. | Uplift of the lowest poor even among the poor |
| Answer» E. | |
| 809. |
Which great man's name has been associated with the Central Government's ambitious National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA)? |
| A. | Lal Bahadur Shastri |
| B. | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| C. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| D. | Jayaprakash Narayan |
| Answer» D. Jayaprakash Narayan | |
| 810. |
With whom is the Blue Revolution related? |
| A. | Indigo cultivation |
| B. | Production of pulses |
| C. | Fisheries production |
| D. | Unprecedented progress in the field of education |
| Answer» D. Unprecedented progress in the field of education | |
| 811. |
Which of the following was called 'Deenbandhu'? |
| A. | Chittaranjan Das |
| B. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| C. | CF Andrews |
| D. | A. O. Hume |
| Answer» D. A. O. Hume | |
| 812. |
third battle of Panipat take place? |
| A. | 1760 |
| B. | 1761 |
| C. | 1762 |
| D. | 1763 |
| Answer» C. 1762 | |
| 813. |
What is the height of Everest peak? |
| A. | 8848 m |
| B. | 8088 m |
| C. | 9828 m |
| D. | 8642 m |
| Answer» B. 8088 m | |
| 814. |
Who was the Governor General of India at the time of the military rebellion of 1857? |
| A. | Lord Irwin |
| B. | Lord Reading |
| C. | Lord Canning |
| D. | Lord Chelmsford |
| Answer» D. Lord Chelmsford | |
| 815. |
Which of the following is a Dravidian style of temple construction? |
| A. | plane and peak |
| B. | Gopuram |
| C. | Manastambha |
| D. | Garbha Griha |
| Answer» B. Gopuram | |
| 816. |
Whose hymns are found in the Guru Granth Sahib, the religious scripture of the Sikhs? |
| A. | Swami Haridas |
| B. | Dhyaneshwar |
| C. | Namdev |
| D. | Jayadeva |
| Answer» E. | |
| 817. |
Kaladi in Ernakulam district of Kerala is the birth place of? |
| A. | Adi Shankaracharya |
| B. | Vallabhacharya |
| C. | Aryabhatta |
| D. | Chaitanya Mahaprabhu |
| Answer» B. Vallabhacharya | |
| 818. |
In which state are the famous Mukheshwar Temple and Anant Basudev Temple located? |
| A. | Andhra Pradesh |
| B. | Kerala |
| C. | Orissa |
| D. | Maharashtra |
| Answer» D. Maharashtra | |
| 819. |
In which state the famous Dree festival of North East India is celebrated? |
| A. | Arunachal Pradesh |
| B. | Manipur |
| C. | Meghalaya |
| D. | Assam |
| Answer» B. Manipur | |
| 820. |
Which of the following city of Punjab was earlier known as Ramdaspur? |
| A. | Patiala |
| B. | Jalandhar |
| C. | Chandigarh |
| D. | Amritsar |
| Answer» E. | |
| 821. |
Where is CD Bashir Mosque? |
| A. | New Delhi |
| B. | Ahmedabad |
| C. | Aligarh |
| D. | Agra |
| Answer» B. Ahmedabad | |
| 822. |
By whom was the Hussain Sagar Lake of Hyderabad built? |
| A. | Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah |
| B. | Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah |
| C. | Hazrat Hussain Shah Wali |
| D. | Sher Shah Suri |
| Answer» D. Sher Shah Suri | |
| 823. |
What is the Kishangarh School of Rajasthan famous for? |
| A. | Dance |
| B. | Architecture |
| C. | painting |
| D. | Sculpture |
| Answer» D. Sculpture | |
| 824. |
Who among the following was instrumental in designing New Delhi in collaboration with Edwin Lutyens? |
| A. | Thomas War Attwood |
| B. | John Able |
| C. | Herbert Baker |
| D. | Simon Bissell |
| Answer» D. Simon Bissell | |
| 825. |
Vyas Samman is given in which field? |
| A. | Literature |
| B. | Film |
| C. | Dance |
| D. | Music |
| Answer» B. Film | |
| 826. |
In which state is the Shor Mandir located? |
| A. | Orissa |
| B. | Maharashtra |
| C. | Tamil Nadu |
| D. | Andhra Pradesh |
| Answer» D. Andhra Pradesh | |
| 827. |
Which of the following is not in Rajasthan? |
| A. | Eklingji |
| B. | Karni Mata Temple |
| C. | Narwar Fort |
| D. | Junagadh Fort |
| Answer» D. Junagadh Fort | |
| 828. |
In which state Chapchar Koot festival is celebrated? |
| A. | Mizoram |
| B. | Assam |
| C. | Sikkim |
| D. | Karnataka |
| Answer» B. Assam | |
| 829. |
Which of the following temples was called the Black Pagoda by the Europeans? |
| A. | Kamakhya Temple-Assam |
| B. | Tirumala Tirupati Andhra Pradesh |
| C. | Jagannath Temple-Orissa |
| D. | Konark Sun Temple- Orissa |
| Answer» E. | |
| 830. |
Sattriya Nritya is a classical dance form of which Indian state? |
| A. | Manipur |
| B. | West Bengal |
| C. | Assam |
| D. | Mizoram |
| Answer» D. Mizoram | |
| 831. |
With which of the following is the reggud ring used in North India related? |
| A. | custom |
| B. | medicine |
| C. | Sports |
| D. | Agriculture |
| Answer» C. Sports | |
| 832. |
What is the first chapter of the Quran? |
| A. | Al-Fatiha |
| B. | Al-Adiyat |
| C. | Al-Fatih |
| D. | Al-Hijr |
| Answer» D. Al-Hijr | |
| 833. |
Yakshagana is a folk drama of which state? |
| A. | Punjab |
| B. | Bihar |
| C. | Uttar Pradesh |
| D. | Karnataka |
| Answer» E. | |
| 834. |
Which of the following was founded by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the first education minister of independent India? |
| A. | Center for Cultural Resources and Training |
| B. | Indian Council for Cultural Relations |
| C. | Lalit Kala Akademi |
| D. | Sahitya Akademi |
| Answer» C. Lalit Kala Akademi | |
| 835. |
Whose incarnation is Dhumravarna according to Indian mythology? |
| A. | Shiva |
| B. | Vishnu |
| C. | Ganesh |
| D. | Indra |
| Answer» D. Indra | |
| 836. |
What was used in the art school of Mathura? |
| A. | red sandstone |
| B. | Marble |
| C. | Slate |
| D. | graphite |
| Answer» B. Marble | |
| 837. |
Bageshwari Qamar is the first and only (probable) female player of which instrument? |
| A. | Dholak |
| B. | Sitar |
| C. | Shehnai |
| D. | Tabla |
| Answer» D. Tabla | |
| 838. |
The fire temple is the place of worship of which religion? |
| A. | Buddhist |
| B. | Parsi |
| C. | Hindu |
| D. | Jain |
| Answer» C. Hindu | |
| 839. |
What is Halegannad in the context of Karnataka? |
| A. | a book |
| B. | a custom |
| C. | an art |
| D. | a language |
| Answer» E. | |
| 840. |
Where is the only Swaminarayan temple located in Pakistan? |
| A. | Islamabad |
| B. | Karachi |
| C. | Peshawar |
| D. | Lahore |
| Answer» C. Peshawar | |
| 841. |
Which of the following king converted the Moti Masjid of Lahore into a Ratna Bhandar? |
| A. | Shah Jahan |
| B. | Jahangir |
| C. | Maharaja Ranjit Singh |
| D. | Farrukhsiyar |
| Answer» D. Farrukhsiyar | |
| 842. |
Which is the largest temple of India? |
| A. | Meenakshi Temple |
| B. | Ranganathaswamy Temple |
| C. | Tirupati Balaji Temple |
| D. | Angkor Wat Temple |
| Answer» C. Tirupati Balaji Temple | |
| 843. |
Who produced Harishchandra 1944? |
| A. | SS Vasan |
| B. | AV Maiyappan |
| C. | LV Prasad |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. LV Prasad | |
| 844. |
National Kabir Samman is given by the government of which state? |
| A. | Uttar Pradesh |
| B. | Maharashtra |
| C. | Punjab |
| D. | Madhya Pradesh |
| Answer» E. | |
| 845. |
Who was the first to calculate the national income in India? |
| A. | Sardar Patel |
| B. | Mahalanobis |
| C. | Dadabhai Naoroji |
| D. | V.K. R. V. Rao |
| Answer» D. V.K. R. V. Rao | |
| 846. |
What is the economic development of a country dependent? |
| A. | Natural Resources |
| B. | market size |
| C. | Capital Formation |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 847. |
The W. T. O. Where is the headquarters of? |
| A. | New York |
| B. | Geneva |
| C. | Uruge |
| D. | Doha |
| Answer» C. Uruge | |
| 848. |
Who controls the money supply? |
| A. | Finance Commission |
| B. | Planning Commission |
| C. | commercial bank |
| D. | Reserve Bank of India |
| Answer» E. | |
| 849. |
Where/Which is the highest waterfall in India? |
| A. | Hogenakkal Falls |
| B. | Shimla Falls |
| C. | Jog Falls |
| D. | Courtallam Falls |
| Answer» D. Courtallam Falls | |
| 850. |
Which is the most abundant region in jute production? |
| A. | Tamil Nadu |
| B. | West Bengal |
| C. | Odisha |
| D. | Kerala |
| Answer» C. Odisha | |