1.

Name the father of Green Revolution in India :

(A) Norman Borlaug (B) Satish Dhawan

(C) M.S. Swaminathan (D) C.N.R. Rao

2. Which of the following is not a mammal ?

(A) Elephant (B) Tiger (C) Snake (D) Cat

3. Flow : River : : Stagnant : ?

(A) Rain (B) Stream (C) Pool (D) Canal’

4. What is the tenure of the Election Commission ?

(A) 3 years (B) 5 years (C) 6 years (D) 4 years

5. What is the name of India’s first manned mission ?

(A) Mangalyaan (B) Chandrayaan (C) Gaganyaan (D) Habitat III

6. Who wrote the national song – Vande Mataram ?

(A) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (B) Lala Lajpat Rai

(C) Rabindranath Tagore (D) Mahatma Gandhi

7. Who is the current Speaker of the Lok Sabha ?

(A) Meera Kumar (B) Sumitra Mahajan

(C) Somnath Chatterjee (D) None of the abo

8. Choose the figure which is different from the rest.

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9. A student obtained 78, 77, 68, 76, 78 marks in English, Maths, Physics, Biology and Chemistry

respectively. Find his average marks.

(A) 70.2 (B) 77.6 (C) 75.4 (D) 74.6

10. In final exam of class IX there are 50 students, in which 10% students failed. How many

students passed to class X ?

(A) 40 (B) 45 (C) 47 (D) 48

11. Which of the following modes of transport does NOT pollute the environment ?

(A) Car (B) Airplane (C) Bus (D) Cycle

12. Complete the series :

Root, Stem, Branch, _____ .

(A) Fertilizer (B) Leaf (C) Tree (D) Wood
13. Largest producer of silk in the world :

(A) India (B) China (C) Thailand (D) Myanmar

14. A can complete a piece of work in 80 days. He works for 10 days and then B alone finishes

the remaining work in 42 days. The two together could complete the work in :

(A) 24 days (B) 25 days (C) 30 days (D) 29 days

15. Who was the first Indian to travel to space ?

(A) Kalpana Chawla (B) Sunita Williams

(C) Rakesh Sharma (D) None of the above

16. Where did the Dandi March begin ?

(A) Wardha (B) Sabarmati Ashram

(C) Dandi (D) None of the above

17. ‘College’ is related to ‘Teachers’ in the same way as ‘Hospital’ is related to :

(A) Doctors (B) Patients (C) Medicine (D) Beds

18. . Melt : Liquid : : Freeze : ?

(A) Ice (B) Condense (C) Solid (D) Force

19. In which year did the Indian Ocean tsunami strike ?

(A) 2004 (B) 2010 (C) 2000 (D) 2006

20. Which of the following is NOT an example of social media ?

(A) Flipkart (B) Facebook (C) Twitter(D) Instagram

21. The capital of __________ is Shillong.

(A) Nagaland (B) Meghalaya (C) Mizoram (D) Sikkim

22. Which code comes into play once elections are announced ?

(A) Electoral Code (B) Fairness Code

(C) Model Code of Conduct (D) None of the above

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