Mental Exercise

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1. Tarikha-ul-Hind a famous (B) Allauddin Khalji 17. Which region is called the rice
history book was written by Al- Amir Khusro bowl of India ?
Beruni in (C) Sikandar Lodi (A) North-East Region
(A) Persian (B) Turkish Ibn-Batuta (B) Krishna-Godavari Delta
(C) Arabic (D) Urdu (D) Akbar the Great (C) Tamil Nadu
2. Mahavir Swamis mother name Abul Fazal (D) Haryana-Punjab
was 18. The Hirakud dam is on the
10. Who helped Lord William
(A) Upanga (A) Godavari river
Bentinck in abolishing the Sati
(B) Trishala system ? (B) Mahanadi
(C) Mahamaya (A) Ishwar Chand Vidyasagar (C) Tapti
(D) None of these (B) Raja Ram Mohan Roy (D) Narmada
3. Gandhiji started Quit India (C) Sardar Puran Singh 19. How many islands of India are
Movement after the failure of (D) Guru Hardayal located in the Bay of Bengal ?
(A) Cabinet Mission (A) 190 (B) 204
11. Why I am an Atheist was
(B) Cripps Mission written by (C) 309 (D) 413
(C) Mountbatten Plan (A) Bhagat Singh 20. Indias largest artificial lake is
(D) Poona Pact (B) Sardar Udham Singh (A) Hussain Sagar
4. The book Zafar Nama was (C) Subhash Chandra Bose (B) Sardar Sarovar
written by (D) Captain Shahnawaz (C) Govind Sagar
(A) Guru Gobind Singh 12. Common Weal and New (D) None of these
(B) Aurangzeb India were the papers of 21. The Godavari, the largest river of
(C) Guru Angad (A) Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Deccan, originates from
(D) Guru Tegh Bahadur (B) Annie Besant (A) Maharashtra
5. The city of Amritsar was foun- (C) Mahatma Gandhi (B) Andhra Pradesh
ded by (D) Abul Kalam Azad (C) Karnataka
(A) Guru Ramdas 13. Subhash Chandra Bose was (D) Madhya Pradesh
(B) Guru Gobind Singh elected the President of the
22. Pampas, the wide treeless grassy
(C) Guru Angad Indian National Congress in
plains belongs to
(D) Guru Amardas (A) 1937
(A) Africa
(B) 1938
6. Sangam age literature is written (B) North America
in (C) 1939
(C) South America
(A) Sanskrit (B) Prakrit (D) Both (B) and (C)
(D) Australia
(C) Tamil (D) Telugu 14. Which island territory was
23. Dry ice is made of
termed the Swaraj by INA ?
7. How many cities were in exis- (A) Solid Sodium nitrate
tence during Buddhas time ? (A) Andman
(B) Sri Lanka (B) Solid Magnesium oxide
(A) 2 (B) 4
(C) Nicobar (C) Solid Sodium oxide
(C) 8 (D) 12
(D) None of these (D) Solid Carbon dioxide
8. Kanishka, a famous Kushan King
was the 15. The Satpura mountain range lies 24. Which blood cells fight germs in
(A) First Kushan King between two rivers. They are a human body ?
(B) Second Kushan King (A) Narmada and Godavari (A) Plazma
(C) Third Kushan King (B) Ganga and Yamuna (B) White Blood Cells
(D) Last Kushan King (C) Tapti and Narmada (C) Red Blood Cells
(D) Tapti and Mahanadi (D) None of these
9. Among the following, which is
not correctly matched ? 16. Murrah is a breed of 25. The largest eye ball is found in
(A) Mahmood Gaznavi (A) Pig (B) Buffalo (A) Elephant (B) Cow
Alberuni (C) Goat (D) Dog (C) Lion (D) Horse

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