Q1. With which state is the Phulkari embroidery associated?

(a) Punjab
(b) Gujarat
(c) Karnataka
(d) Uttar Pradesh
(e) Madhya Pradesh
Q2. What is the name of India's longest river bridge, built over the river Ganga at
Patna?
(a) Rabindra Setu
(b) Vidyasagar Setu
(c) Mahatma Gandhi Setu
(d) Anna Indira Gandhi Bridge
(e) None of the above
Q3. 'Tamasha' is the popular folk theatre of which state?
(a) Punjab
(b) Gujarat
(c) Karnataka
(d) West Bengal
(e) Maharashtra
Q4. Bandipur National Park is situated in which of the following Indian state?
(a) Karnataka
(b) Kerala
(c) West Bengal
(d) Uttar Pradesh
(e) Madhya Pradesh
Q5. World Heritage Day is observed on which of the following date?
(a) April 18
(b) April 7
(c) April 27
(d) April 28
(e) April 21
Q6. Which city is served by Swami Vivekananda Airport?
(a) Tirupati
(b) Tezu
(c) Raipur
(d) Gangtok
(e) Agra
Q7. Where is Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Police Academy situated?
(a) Mussoorie

(b) Dehradun
(c) Chandigarh
(d) Hyderabad
(e) Pune
Q8. Which Indian IT expert started web-based e-mail service Hotmail in 1996?
(a) Lakshmi N. Mittal
(b) Vinod Dham
(c) Azim Premji
(d) N.R.Narayan Murthy
(e) Sabeer Bhatia
Q9. Lumbini, the birth place of Gautam Budhdha, is in which present country?
(a) Nepal
(b) Bhutan
(c) India
(d) Bangladesh
(e) Myanmar
Q10. The smallest Union Territory is .....?
(a) Andaman & Nicobar Islands
(b) Pondicherry
(c) Daman and Diu
(d) Lakshadweep
(e) Chandigarh
Q11. Mohiniattam dance from developed originally in which state....?
(a) Orissa
(b) Kerala
(c) Tripura
(d) Tamil Nadu
(e) Mizoram
Q12. The book of Parsis is.......?
(a) Avesta
(b) Tripitakas
(c) Baha'ism
(d) Torah
(e) None of the above
Q13. Who is the governor of Maharashtra?
(a) V.P. Singh Badnore
(b) Om Prakash Kohli
(c) Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao
(d) S. C. Jamir
(e) V. Shanmuganthan

Q14. Who is current Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister in Narendra Modi

government?
(a) Ananthkumar
(b) Kalraj Mishra
(c) Anant Geete
(d) Ravi Shankar Prasad
(e) Ramvilas Paswan
Q15. Capital of Egypt is?
(a) Tbilisi
(b) Cairo
(c) Conakry
(d) Djibouti
(e) Roseau

Solutions
S1. Ans.(a)
Sol. Phulkari embroidery technique from the Punjab region literally means flower
work, which was at one time used as the word for embroidery, but in time the word
Phulkari became restricted to embroidered shawls and head scarfs.
S2. Ans.(c)
Sol. Mahatma Gandhi Setu. Mahatma Gandhi Setu (also called Gandhi Setu or Ganga
Setu) is a bridge over the river Ganges connecting Patna in the south to Hajipur in the
north of Bihar. Its length is 5,750 metres (18,860 ft) and it is the longest river bridge
in India.
S3. Ans.(e)
Sol. Tamasha is a traditional form of Marathi theatre, often with singing and dancing,
widely performed by local or travelling theatre groups within the state of
Maharashtra, India. It has also been the subject of several Marathi films.
S4. Ans.(a)
Sol. Bandipur National Park, an 874-sq.-km forested reserve in the southern Indian
state of Karnataka, is known for its small population of tigers. Once the private
hunting ground of the Maharajas of Mysore, the park also harbors Indian elephants,
spotted deer, gaurs (bison), antelopes and numerous other native species.
S5. Ans.(a)
Sol. Every year World Heritage Day (WHD) is celebrated on 18th April to appreciate
that Heritage is the shared wealth of humankind and of societies. Our monuments and
sites can only be protected with the collective efforts of the international community.

S6. Ans.(c)
Sol. Swami Vivekananda Airport is the primary airport serving the state of
Chhattisgarh, India. The airport is centrally located at Mana, 15 km south of Raipur
between the old city and the new seat of the state government Naya Raipur. It is the
28th busiest airport in India.
S7. Ans(d)
Sol. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy (SVPNPA) is the Indian national
institute for training of Indian Police Service (IPS) officers before they are sent to
their respective state cadres to carry out their duties. The academy is in Hyderabad,
India.
S8. Ans(e)
Sol. Sabeer Bhatia (born 30 December 1968) is an Indian-American entrepreneur who
founded the webmail company Hotmail.com. He along with his colleague Jack Smith,
set up Hotmail on 4 July 1996. Into the 21st century, Hotmail is the world's second
largest e-mail provider with over 369 million registered users, a figure exceeded only
by Google's Gmail service.
S9. Ans(a)
Sol. Lumbini is a Buddhist pilgrimage site in the Rupandehi District of Nepal. It is the
place where, according to Buddhist tradition, Queen Mayadevi gave birth to
Siddhartha Gautama in 563 BCE. Gautama, who achieved Enlightenment some time
around 528 BCE, became the Gautama Buddha and founded Buddhism.
S10. Ans(d)
Sol. Lakshadweep formerly known as the Laccadive, Minicoy, and Aminidivi Islands is a
group of islands in the Laccadive Sea, 200 to 440 kilometres off the south western
coast of India. The archipelago is a Union Territory and is governed by the Union
Government of India. The islands form the smallest Union Territory of India: their
total surface area is just 32 km2.
S11. Ans(b)
Sol. Mohiniyattam is a classical Indian dance from Kerala. Mohiniyattam, also spelled
Mohiniattam is one of two classical dances of India that developed and remain popular
in the state of Kerala. The other classical dance form from Kerala is Kathakali.
S12. Ans(a)
Sol. The Zoroastrian holy book, called the Avesta, was written in the Avestan
language, which is closely related to Vedic Sanskrit. The Qissa-i Sanjan is a tale of the
journey of the Parsis to India from Iran.
S13. Ans.(c)
Sol. Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao is the present Governor of Maharashtra state of
India and Governor (addnl. charge) of Tamil Nadu state of India after being sworn in

on 2 September 2016. He took oath as the Governor of Maharashtra on 30 August

2014. He was Union Minister of State for internal affairs in the Vajpayee-led BJP Govt
government from 1999. He was elected to 12th and 13th Lok Sabha from Karimnagar
in Telangana as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate.
S14. Ans.(a)
Sol. H. N. Ananth Kumar is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata
Party. Since 1996 he has represented Bangalore South constituency in the Lok Sabha.
Ananth Kumar has served as Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers since May 2014 and
as Minister of Parliamentary Affairs since July 2016 in the Narendra Modi government.
S15. Ans.(b)
Sol. Cairo, Egypts sprawling capital, is set on the Nile River. At its heart is Tahrir
Square and the vast Egyptian Museum, a trove of antiquities including royal mummies
and gilded King Tutankhamun artifacts. Currency of Egypt is Egyptian pound.