1. The Sun shines vertically on the  C.

 Jupiter
equator  D. Saturn
 A. throughout the year  Check Answer | Discussion
 B. for 6 month 7. Which was the first metal used by
 C. twice a year   man ?
 D. once a year  A. Copper   
 Check Answer | Discussion  B. Silver
2. The mean radius of the earth is  C. Bronze
approximately  D. Brass
 A. 3200 km  Check Answer | Discussion
 B. 6400 km   8. Which of the following crops would
 C. 9600 km be preferred for sowing in order to
 D. 12800 km enrich the soil with nitrogen ?
 Check Answer | Discussion  A. Wheat
3. The Earth rotates around its axis  B. Mustard
from  C. Sunflower
 A. North to South  D. Gram  
 B. East to West  Check Answer | Discussion
 C. South to North 9. In the dotted area in the map of
 D. West to East    India, the average annual rainfall
 Check Answer | Discussion varies between
4. If the difference in time between two  A. 20-40 cm
places were 2 hours and 20 minutes,  B. 40-100 cm  
the difference in their longitudes would  C. 100-200 cm
be  D. 200-400 cm
 A. 30°  Check Answer | Discussion
 B. 35°   10. If the starts are seen to rise
 C. 40° prependicular to the horizon by an
 D. 45° observer, he is located on the
 Check Answer | Discussion  A. Equator   
5. The hottest planet is  B. Tropic of Cancer
 A. Mercury  C. South Pole
 B. Venus     D. North Pole
 C. Jupiter
 D. Saturn 11. Who among the following was the
 Check Answer | Discussion first to state that the Earth was
6. Which planet looks reddish in the spherical ?
night sky ?  A. Arostotle   
 A. Mercury  B. Copernicus
 B. Mars     C. Ptolemy
 D. Strabo 17. Among the following which planet
 Check Answer | Discussion takes maximum time for one revolution
12. In which of the following industries around the Sun ?
did Indians have a large share from  A. Earth
the beginning ?  B. Jupiter   
 A. Cotton     C. Mars
 B. Jute  D. Venus
 C. Coal mining  Check Answer | Discussion
 D. Sugar 18. The distance between two
 Check Answer | Discussion consecutive longitudes (91°E and
13. The only major industry in the 92°E) at the poles is
hands of the Indian capitalists during  A. 0 km  
the late ninteenth century was  B. 18 km
 A. jute  C. 25 km
 B. mining  D. 111 km
 C. iron and steel  Check Answer | Discussion
 D. cotton textile   19. The visible range of solar radiation
 Check Answer | Discussion is
14. During the Neolithic age in india,  A. 100-400 nm
the only metal known to the people  B. 400-700 nm  
was  C. 740-10000nm
 A. iron  D. None of these
 B. copper     Check Answer | Discussion
 C. gold 20. The commodity with account for
 D. silver the maximum volume of goods
 Check Answer | Discussion transported by the Railways in India is
15. Which one of the following planets  A. iron and steel
takes the same number of days for  B. coal  
rotation and revolution ?  C. mineral oil
 A. Mars  D. non-ferrous metallic ores
 B. Venus   
 C. Mercurey 21. The ore of aluminium is
 D. Jupiter  A. bauxite   
 Check Answer | Discussion  B. chalcopyrites
16. 'A star which appear blue' is  C. hematite
 A. cooler than the Moon  D. fluospar
 B. hotter than the Sun    Check Answer | Discussion
 C. as hot as the Sun 22. Singhbhum is famous for
 D. cooler than the Sun  A. coal
 Check Answer | Discussion  B. iron
 C. copper  B. Churu, Rajasthan
 D. Both'b' and 'c'    C. Mawsynram, Meghalaya  
 Check Answer | Discussion  D. Chamba, Himachal Pradesh
23. Which of the following is a correct  Check Answer | Discussion
sequence? 28. The present forest area of India,
 A. Devprayag, Nandprayag, Rudraprayag, according to satellite data, is
Vishnuprayag, Karnaprayag  A. increasing
 B. Vishnuprayag, Nandprayag,  B. decreasing  
Karnaprayag, Rudraprayag,  C. static
Devprayag     D. decreasing in open forest area but
 C. Rudraprayag,Vishnuprayag, increasing in closed forest area
Nandprayag, Karnaprayag, Devprayag  Check Answer | Discussion
 D. Devprayag,, Nandprayag, Karnaprayag, 29. The percentage of earth surface
Rudraprayag, Vishnuprayag covered by India is
 Check Answer | Discussion  A. 2.4  
24. The Homolographic projection has  B. 3.4
the correct representation of  C. 4.4
 A. baring  D. 5.4
 B. distance  Check Answer | Discussion
 C. shape 30. The only zone in the country that
 D. area   produces gold is also rich in iron is
 Check Answer | Discussion  A. North-eastern zone
25. What is the predominant type of  B. North-western zone
Indian agriculture?  C. North-western zone  
 A. Commercial agriculture  D. None of the above
 B. Extensive agriculture
 C. plantation agriculture 31. The Salal Project is on the river
 D. subsistence agriculture    A. Chenab  
 Check Answer | Discussion  B. Jhelum
26. The refineries are Mathura, Digboi  C. Ravi
and Panipat are set up by  D. Sutlej
 A. Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd.  Check Answer | Discussion
 B. Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. 32. The Yarlung Zangbo river, in India,
 C. Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.   is known as
 D. Crude Distillation unit of Madras  A. Ganga
Refineries Ltd.  B. Indus
 Check Answer | Discussion  C. Brahmaputra  
27. The India's highest annual rainfall  D. Mahanadi
is reported at  Check Answer | Discussion
 A. Namchi, Sikkim
 33. The principal copper deposits of 38. What is the new name of
India lie in which of the following Rajahmundry, the historic and cultural
places? city of Andhra Pradesh that was
 A. Hazaribag and Singbhum of Bihar   announced on 25 July 2015?
 B. Khetri and Daribo areas of Rajasthan  A. Rajamahendravaram  
 C. Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh  B. Rajamahan
 D. Siwaliks in Uttar Pradesh and in  C. Rajamundravam
Karnataka  D. Rajyamundaram
 Check Answer | Discussion  Check Answer | Discussion
34. The pass located at the southern 39. Union Govt. on 9 June 2015 added
end of the Nilgiri Hills in south India is Which three more cities into the
called National Capital Region (NCR)?
 A. the Palghat gap    A. Modi Nagar, Panipat and Rohtak
 B. the Bhorghat pass  B. Panipat, Sonipat and Hisar
 C. the Thalgat pass  C. Rampur, Moradabad and Alwar
 D. the Bolan pass  D. Muzaffarnagar, Jind and Karnal  
 Check Answer | Discussion  Check Answer | Discussion
35. The southernmost point of 40. Which State forest department has
peninsular India, that is, Kanyakumari, set up the satellite tracking system to
is check the forest fire incidents during
 A. north of Tropic of Cancer summer season?
 B. south of the Equator  A. Agartala
 C. south of the Capricorn  B. Nagaland
 D. north of the Equator    C. Jammu & Kasmir
 Check Answer | Discussion  D. Himachal Pradesh  
36. The percentage of irrigated land in
India is about  A. Alakananda Valley
 A. 45  B. Lahaul Valley
 B. 65  C. Nelong Valley  
 C. 35    D. Niti Valley
 D. 25  Check Answer | Discussion
 Check Answer | Discussion 42. Which district of West Bengal was
37. The Paithan (Jayakwadi) Hydro- declared as the first Open Defecation
electric project, completed with the Free (ODF) district in the country on
help of Japan, is on the river 30 April 2015?
 A. Ganga  A. Kolkata
 B. Cauvery  B. Bardhaman
 C. Narmada  C. Hooghly
 D. Godavari    D. Nadia  
 Check Answer | Discussion  Check Answer | Discussion
 43. The Andhra Pradesh government  D. Sutlej
today said it would adopt which  Check Answer | Discussion
method for the selection of master 48. When it is noon IST at Allahabad in
developer for its proposed state capital India, the time at Greenwich, London,
area? will be
 A. Swiss Challenge Method    A. midnight ,GMT
 B. US Challenge Method  B. 1730 hours
 C. Lowest and Best Bid Method  C. 0630 hours  
 D. All  D. None of the above
 Check Answer | Discussion  Check Answer | Discussion
44. Rajya Sabha on 6 April 2015 49. The originating in the Himalayan
unanimously passed a historic bill to mountain complex consists of how
operationalise the Land Boundary many distinct drainage systems of the
Agreement with which country that Indian Subcontinent?
provides for exchange of territories to  A. Two
settle the border issue which was  B. Three  
pending since 41 years?  C. Four
 A. Pakistan  D. Five
 B. Nepal  Check Answer | Discussion
 C. SriLanka 50. The pass located at the southern
 D. Bangladesh   end of the Nilgiri Hills in south India is
 Check Answer | Discussion called
45. The two states of India, most richly  A. the Palghat gap  
endowed with iron ore, are  B. the Bhorghat pass
 A. Bihar and Orissa    C. the Thalgat pass
 B. Madhya Pradesh and Orissa  D. the Bolan pass
 C. Bihar and West Bengal
 D. Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal 51. Which of the following events took
 Check Answer | Discussion place in the Cenozoic era?
46. The India's highest annual rainfall  A. Formation of the rockies, India collides
is reported at with Asia and the formation of the
 A. Namchi, Sikkim Himalayas and the Alps  
 B. Churu, Rajasthan  B. Formation of the Appalachians and
 C. Mawsynram, Meghalaya   central European mountains
 D. Chamba, Himachal Pradesh  C. Splitting of India from Antarctic
 Check Answer | Discussion  D. Breaking up of Pangaea
47. The Salal Project is on the river  Check Answer | Discussion
 A. Chenab   52. The outer Himalayas lie between
 B. Jhelum  A. the lease Himalayas and the Indo
 C. Ravi Gangetic plain  
 B. the foot hills and the Indo Gangetic
plain
 C. the greater Himalayas and the lesser
Himalayas
 D. Indo-Gangetic plains and the peninsula
 Check Answer | Discussion
53. Which of the following food grain
crops occupies the largest part of the
cropped area in India?
 A. Barley and maize
 B. Jowar and bajra
 C. Rice   the Mansarover Lake in the Great
 D. Wheat
 Check Answer | Discussion
54. The significant shifts in Indian
agriculture during green revolution
include
 A. non-food grains reported some
spectacular progress and shift in the
cropping pattern
 B. major food grains, in the eastern regions
productions decreased and in the northern
states increased
 C. both (a) and (b)   
 D. None of the above
 Check Answer | Discussion
55. The principal copper deposits of
India lie in which of the following
places?
 A. Hazaribag and Singbhum of Bihar   
 B. Khetri and Daribo areas of Rajasthan
 C. Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh
 D. Siwaliks in Uttar Pradesh and in
Karnataka
 Check Answer | Discussion
56. The typical area of sal forest in the
Indian peninsular upland occurs
 A. on the western ghats
 B. between the Tapti and the Narmada
 C. to the north-east of the Godavari
 D. on the Malwa plateau  
 Check Answer | Discussion
57. The only state in India that
produces saffron is
 A. Assam
 B. Himachal Pradesh
 C. Jammu and Kashmir  
 D. Meghalaya
 Check Answer | Discussion
58. Three important rivers of the Indian
subcontinent have their sources near
Himalayas. These rivers are
 A. Indus, Jhelum and Sutlej
 B. Brahmaputra, Sutlej and Yamuna
 C. Brahmaputra, Indus and Sutlej  
 D. Jhelum, Sutlej and Yamuna
 Check Answer | Discussion
59. Which of the following is a
peninsular river of India?
 A. Gandak
 B. Kosi
 C. Krishna  
D. Sutlej
 Check Answer | Discussion
60. The oldest oil field in India is the
____ field, in ____
 A. Anleshwar, Gujarat
 B. Bombay High, Maharashtra
C. Nawagam, Gujarat
 D. Digboi, Assam  
61. The south-west monsoon
contributes ____ of the total rain in
India.
 A. 86%  
 B. 50%
 C. 22%
 D. 100%
 Check Answer | Discussion
 62. The year ____ is called a Great  B. of its large size and extent among the
Divide in the demographic history of peninsular rivers  
India.  C. there are a fairly large number of
 A. 1901 pilgrimage centres situated on its banks
 B. 1921    D. its length is nearly the same as that of
 C. 1941 the river Ganges
 D. 1951  Check Answer | Discussion
 Check Answer | Discussion 68. Which of the following countries
63. Which of the following areas or leads in the production of aluminium
regions is most prone to earthquakes? and its products in the world?
 A. Ganga-Brahmaputra valley    A. Australia
 B. Deccan plateau  B. France
 C. Plains of northern India  C. India
 D. Western ghats  D. USA  
 Check Answer | Discussion  Check Answer | Discussion
64. The pennines (Europe), 69. Which of the following factors are
Appalachians (America) and the responsible for the rapid growth of
Aravallis (India) are examples of sugar production in south India as
 A. old mountains   compared to north India?Higher per
 B. young mountains acre field of sugarcaneHigher sucrose
 C. fold mountains content of sugarcaneLower labour
 D. block mountains costLonger crushing period
 Check Answer | Discussion  A. I and II
65. The oldest rocks in India are  B. I, II and III
reported from  C. I, III and IV
 A. Dharwar region, Karnataka    D. I, II and IV  
 B. Aravalli range, Rajasthan  Check Answer | Discussion
 C. Vindhyan range, Madhya Pradesh 70. Which of the following crops needs
 D. Siwalik range, Punjab maximum water per hectare?
 Check Answer | Discussion  A. Barley
66. The natural region which holds the  B. Maize
Indian subcontinent is  C. Sugarcane  
 A. equatorial climate change region  D. Wheat
 B. hot deset
 C. monsoon   71. The present forest area of India,
 D. mediterranean according to satellite data, is
 Check Answer | Discussion  A. increasing
67. The river Godavari is often referred  B. decreasing  
to as Vridha Ganga because  C. static
 A. it is the older river of India
 D. decreasing in open forest area but  D. Pondicherry
increasing in closed forest area  Check Answer | Discussion
 Check Answer | Discussion 77. The percentage of irrigated land in
72. Which of the following are true India is about
regarding Jhum cultivation in India?It is  A. 25
largely practiced in AssamIt is referred  B. 35  
to as 'slash and burn' techniqueIn it,  C. 65
the fertility is exhausted in a few years  D. 45
 A. I, II and III    Check Answer | Discussion
 B. II and III 78. The mountain building in
 C. I and II Himalayas began
 D. I and III  A. None of the above
 Check Answer | Discussion  B. both (a) and (b)  
73. The percentage of India's total  C. when the continental plates of India and
population employed in agriculture is Eurasia converged on each other
nearly  D. about 45 million years ago
 A. 40%  Check Answer | Discussion
 B. 50% 79. The southernmost point of
 C. 60% peninsular India, that is, Kanyakumari,
 D. 70%   is
 Check Answer | Discussion  A. north of the Equator  
74. The oldest oil refinery in India is at  B. south of the Capricorn
 A. Digboi, Assam    C. south of the Equator
 B. Haldia, near Kolkata  D. north of Tropic of Cancer
 C. Koyali, near Baroda  Check Answer | Discussion
 D. Noonmati, Assam 80. Which of the following types of soil
 Check Answer | Discussion are mostly confined to river basins and
75. The Yarlung Zangbo river, in India, coastal plains of India?
is known as  A. Red soils
 A. Mahanadi  B. Laterite soils
 B. Brahmaputra    C. Black soils
 C. Indus  D. Alluvial soils  
 D. Ganga
 Check Answer | Discussion 81. The percentage of earth surface
76. Which of the following union covered by India is
territories of India has the highest  A. 5.4
density of population per sq km?  B. 4.4
 A. Chandigarh  C. 3.4
 B. Delhi    D. 2.4  
 C. Lakshadweep  Check Answer | Discussion
 82. The most ideal region for the 87. The state having a largest area of
cultivation of cotton in India is forest cover in India is
 A. the Deccan plateau    A. Assam
 B. the Rann of Kutch  B. Madhya Pradesh  
 C. the Indo-Gangetic valley  C. Haryana
 D. the Brahmaputra valley  D. Arunachal Pradesh
 Check Answer | Discussion  Check Answer | Discussion
83. Which of the following drainage 88. The proportion of forest to the total
systems fall into Bay of Bengal? national geographical area of India as
 A. Both (a) and (b)   envisaged by National Forest Policy is
 B. Luni, Narnada and Tapti  A. 42.3%
 C. Mahanadi, Krishna and Cauvery  B. 38.3%
 D. Ganga, Brahmaputra and Godavari  C. 33.3%  
 Check Answer | Discussion  D. 30.3%
84. Which of the following groups  Check Answer | Discussion
accounts for over 90 per cent of India's 89. Which of the following factors are
annual coal production? responsible for India's failure to fully
 A. West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh and exploit the inland fisheries during the
Tamil Nadu last five decades?Silting and pollution
 B. Orissa, Madhya Pradesh and Tamil of the inland water
Nadu bodiesDeforestation in the catchment
 C. Bihar, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh areas of the riversLack of marketing
 D. Bihar, Orissa and West Bengal   facilities Select the correct answer
 Check Answer | Discussion from the codes given below
85. The northern boundary of the  A. II and III
peninsular plateau of Indian runs  B. I and III  
parallel to the Ganga and the Yamuna  C. I and II
from Rajmahal hills to a point near  D. I, II and III
 A. Jaipur  Check Answer | Discussion
 B. Delhi   90. The number of major ports in India
 C. Gwalior is
 D. Allahabad  A. 15
 Check Answer | Discussion  B. 13  
86. The Radcliffe line is a boundary  C. 8
between  D. 5
 A. India and Afghanistan
 B. India and Myanmar 91. Which of the following has a
 C. India and China potential for harnessing of tidal energy
 D. India and Pakistan   in India?
 Check Answer | Discussion  A. Chilka lake
 B. Backwaters of Kerala  D. Mizoram
 C. Gulf of Mannar
 D. Gulf of Cambay  
 Check Answer | Discussion
92. The number of major languages,
recognized in the Indian Union as
official language, are
 A. 9
 B. 12
 C. 22  
 D. 15
 Check Answer | Discussion
93. The only private sector refinery set
up by Reliance Petroleum Ltd. is
located at
 A. Chennai
 B. Mumbai
 C. Jamnagar  
 D. Guwahati
 Check Answer | Discussion
94. Which of the following
geographical features have played a
great unifying role in strengthening the
forces of homogeneity of the Indian
people?The expanses of water
surrounding the peninsulaThe
Himalayan MountainsThe vastness of
the countryThe presence of the Indian
ocean
 A. I, II, III and IV  
 B. I and II
 C. II
 D. I

1. Which state cabinet on 27 May 2015

withdrew the Armed Forces (Special
Powers) Act (AFSPA) in a state cabinet
meeting?
 A. Tripura  
 B. Jammu & Kasmir
 C. Assam