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STATIC GK
BEST QUESTIONS
2021

(a) Chattisgarh (b) Odisha

1. ‘Aaluyattu’ is a folk-dance form from the state (c) Tripura (d) Assam
of_______. 12. Kalbelia folk songs and dance forms are an
(a) Goa (b) Nagaland (c) Kerala (d) Haryana expression of the Kalbelia community’s traditional
2. “Bolak-aat’ is a_____from the state of Karnataka. way of life. It is associated with which of the
(a) music form (b) painting form following states?
(c) dance form (d) sculpting form (a) Maharashtra (b) Haryana
3. The ’Lezim’ dance form is peculiar to which of (c) Rajasthan (d) Punjab
the following states? 13. “Bhand Pather” is the dance form of which of the
(a) Karnataka (b) Bihar following states?
(c) Maharashtra (d) Gujarat (a) Goa (b) Kashmir (c) Haryana (d) Sikkim
4. _____is one of the most popular folk dances of 14. Which of the following is a dance form in Mizoram
Odisha.
participated exclusively by ’village guests’?
(a) Giddha (b) Hojagiri (c) Dalkhai (d) Rauf
(a) Khuallam (b) Cheraw (c) Solakia (d) Chailam
5. Ghoomar is a folk-dance form from the state
15. What do you call an event where a computer
of_______. becomes unresponsive due to either a program or
(a) Tripura (b) Rajasthan (c) Bihar (d) Jharkhand the system itself becoming unresponsive and no
6. Which of the following is a dance form in longer taking input?
Mizoram participated exclusively by ‘village (a) Booting (b) Hanging
guests’? (c) Ejecting (d) Moving
(a) Khuallam (b) Cheraw 16. In rhe context of computers, what is Ubuntu?
(c) Solakia (d) Chailam (a) An open-source operating system sponsored
7. With which of the following classical dances is by Canonical Ltd.
‘Kottakkal Sivaraman’ associated? (b) A search engine by Mozilla Foundation.
(a) Mohiniyattam (b) Odissi (c) An anti-virus software by Microsoft.
(c) Kathakali (d) Bharatanatyam (d) An android-based search engine by
8. “Ranapa”. a folk dance form of Odisha. consists of
Microsoft.
17. A file with the_______file extension is a Word
enacting chapters from the life of Lord_______.
Open XML Macro-Enabled Document file.
(a) Indra (b) Ram (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
(a) .docm (b) .pdf (c).docx (d).org
9. To which of the following states does the dance
18. Which of the following is the output device of
drama ‘Khyal’ belong?
a computer?
(a) Rajasthan (b) Gujarat
(a) Plotter (b) Pen drive
(c) Madhya Pradesh (d) Punjab (c) Joystick (d) Scanner
10. Which of the following is a dance form of West 19. A is an ordered list in which all insertions and
Bengal where there is a confluence of dancing, deletions are made at one end.
singing, drama and recital? (a) front (b) rear (c) stack (d) queue
(a) Bhavai (b) Alkap (c) Tippani (d) Iludo 20. While working m MS Office software, which of
11. ‘Maimata* is a popular dance of the Kaloi the following commands will you give on a US
community from the state of keyboard layout to undo the previous action?
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(a) Ctrl + U (b) Ctrl + Z hockey association formed?
(c) Ctrl + C (d) Ctrl + N (a) Spain (b) The UK (c) The US (d) India
21._______is the easy way to check your favorite 32. Who among the following was the first player
websites for updates without having to visit from the Indian subcontinent to play for a
them all. European Football club (Celtic FC)?
(a) PDF (b) RSS (c) HTML (d) URI (a) Sailen Manna (b) Mohammed Salim
22. Who among the following was the first Finance
(c) Neville D’Souza (d) Pradeep Kumar Banerjee
Minister of Independent India?
33. In which of the following countries were the first
(a) KC Neogy (b) CD Deshmukh
modern Olympic Games held?
(c) RK Shanmukham Chetty (d) Liaquat Ali Khan
(a) The United Kingdom (b) Greece
23. What was the name of the first artificial satellite
(c) Spain (d) China
launched by India in 1975?
34.In which of the following years was the first rocket
(a) Panini (b) Sushruta
launched in India?
(c) Aryabhatta (d) Charaka
(a) 1948 (b) 1973 (c) 1963 (d) 1977
24.Who among the following was the first Indian to
win a seat in the House of Commons? 35. Who among the following was appointed as the
(a) MN Roy (b) Dadabhai Naoroji first woman Chairperson of BCCC (Broadcasting
(c) WC Benerjee (d) Hasrat Mohani Content Complaints Council) by IBF (Indian
25. Who among the following is the first-ever woman Broadcasting Foundation)?
fighter pilot to have taken part at a Republic Day (a) Indra Nooyi (b) Kiran Mazumdar
Parade? (c) Chitra Ramakrishna (d) Gita Mittal
(a) Anny Divya (b) Bhawna Kanth 36. When was the First Law Commission set up in
(c) Mohana Singh Jitarwal (d) Avani Chaturvedi independent India?
26. In which of the following years were the first (a) 1955 (b) 1951 (c) 1952 (d) 1956
Commonwealth Games held in Canada? 37. Which of the following satellites is India’s first
(a) 1930 (b) 1909 (c) 1912 (d) 1956 Earth imaging satellite in a geostationary orbit?
27. Who was the first Director-General of (a)RISAT-lA (b) RISAT-2BR2
Archaeological Survey of India? (c)GISAT-l (d) Oceansat-3
(a) Lord Curzon (b) Alexander Cunningham 38. Who among the following became the first Lokpal
(c) Mortimer Wheeler (d) John Marshall of India?
28. Who among the following is the first female from (a) Dilip B Bhosale (b) Pradip Kumar Mohanty
India to win a Grammy award? (c) Pinaki Chandra Ghose (d) Ajay Kumar Tripathi
(a) Monali Thakur (b) Palak Muchhal 39. In which year did India host the Commonwealth
(c) Tanvi Shah (d) Neeti Mohan Games?
29. Who among the following became the first Indian (a) 2018 (b)20I0 (c) 2006 (d)2014
javelin thrower to win an Asian Games gold medal 40. Who among the following was the first Indian
in 2018? Governor of the Reserve Bank of India?
(a) Vipin Kasana (b) Devender Singh (a) KC Neogy (b) CD Deshmukh
(c) Neeraj Chopra (d) Shivpal Singh (c) Liaquat Ali Khan (d) Morarji Desai
30. Who among the following was the first Indian 41. Which of the following was the first High Court
badminton player to qualify for two events - established in India?
mixed doubles and women’s doubles - in the (a) Bombay (b) Calcutta (c) Delhi (d) Madras
Olympics? 42. Which Indian film was the first film to win the
(a) PV Sindhu (b) Saina Nehwal ‘Palme d’Or’ at Cannes Film Festival?
(c) Jwala Gutta (d) Ashwini Ponnappa (a) Mother India (b) Mughal-e-Azam
31. In which of the following countries was the first (c) Neecha Nagar (d) Ram Aur Shyam
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43. Who among the following was the first Indian to (b) Brazil 2016 Olympic Games
win the Miss World beauty pageant? (c) London 2012 Olympic Games
(a) Reita Faria (b) Aishwarya Rai (d) Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
(c) Diana Hayden (d) Priyanka Chopra 54. Who among the following was the first para-
44. Who among the following cricketers is a left-arm athlete to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna?
pace bowler? (a) Mariyappan Thangavelu
(a) Ashish Nehra (b) Ishant Shanna (b) Devendra Jhajharia
(c) Bhuvneshwar Kumar (d) Umesh Yadav (c) Vanin Singh Bhati
45. Birdie, eagle and albatross are all terms used (d) Naresh Kumar Sharma
in_______. 55. Who was the first Test cricket captain of an
(a) golf (b) polo (c) baseball (d) football independent Indian cricket team.
46. Who among the following became the first ever (a) Vijay Hazare (b) Hemu Adhikari
Indian female wrestler to win an Olympic medal? (c) Bishan Singh Bedi (d) Lala Amarnath
(a) Sakshi Malik (b) Babita Kumari 56. Which of the following nations won the first T20
(c) Kavita Devi (d) Vinesh Phogat World Cup in 2007?
47. With which sport are Vijay Amritraj and Anand (a) Pakistan (b) Sri Lanka (c) India (d) Bangladesh
Amritraj associated? 57. Who among the following is a professional Indian
(a) Table tennis (b) Cricket gymnast?
(c) Lawn tennis (d) Football (a) Ngangom Bala Devi (b) Dipa Karmakar
48. Manilombi Singh was a_______ player from (c) Mary Kom (d) Yashasvi Jaiswal
Manipur. 58. Which two Indians became the first pair to reach
(a) hockey (b) football (c) volleyball (d) cricket the finals of all Grand Slams in a year in the Open
49. Indian athlete Joshna Chinappa represents the era. Winning the French Open and Wimbledon as
country in: top seeds?
(a)judo (b)squash (a) Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi
(c) discus throw (d) kabaddi (b) Yuki Bhambri and Leander Paes
50. Which of the following animals is made to race in (c) Rohan Bopanna and Mahesh Bhupathi
the traditional sport called ‘Kambala’ in (d) Rohan Bopanna and Yuki Bhambri
Karnataka? 59. With which of the following sports is Samiya Imad
(a) Horse (b) Dog (c) Buffalo (d) Goat Farooqui associated?
51. In which of the following cities is the (a) Basketball (b) Badminton
headquarters of the All India Chess Federation (c) Tennis (d) Boxing
situated? 60. In which of the following states are the snake
(a) Chennai (b) Bengaluru boat races held in the months of August and
(c) Hyderabad (d) Mumbai September?
52. Where is the headquarters of the Khelo India (a) Jharkhand (b) Arunachal Pradesh
Youth Games? (c) Kerala (d) Telangana
(a) Mumbai (b) New Delhi 61. At the 1992 Summer Olympics, who became the
first woman to carry the flag of India at the opening
(c) Guwahati (d) Kolkata
ceremony of any Olympics.
53. In which Olympic Games did Karanam Malleswari
(a) Karnam Malleswari (b) Shiny Abraham Wilson
become India’s first woman to win an Olympic
(c) PT Usha (d) Nilima Ghose
medal?
62. With which of the following sports is Sebastian
(a) Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games
Korda associated?

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(a) Cricket (b) Badminton 74. Who among die following won a bronze medal at
(c) Volleyball (d) Tennis the World Athletics Championship in Paris in
63. Who among the following is the first Indian pistol 2003?
shooter to reach number one in world rankings by (a) Krishna Poonia (b) Seema Punia
the International Shooting Sport Federation? (c) PT Usha (d) Anju Bobby George
(a) Heena Sidhu (b) Kajal Saini 75. Which player from Pakistan is credited with 10
(c) Tejaswini Sawant (d) Suma Shirur British Open tides and six World Championship
64. With which of the following sports is Murugappa crowns in professional squash?
Gold Cup associated? (a) Jahangir Khan (b) Azam Khan
(a) Table tennis (b) Hockey (c) Hashim Khan (d) Farhan Zaman
(c) Football (d) Cricket 76. Which of the following schools in Shillong is the
65. Indian boxer Lovlina Borgohain plays in which of first Khelo India Sports school in North East India?
the following categories? (a) Mawroh Government LP School
(a) 69 kg (b)9Ikg (c)81kg (d) 75 kg (b) Assam Rifles Public School
66. What was the total number of gold medals won (c) Army Public School
by India at Commonwealth Games 2018? (d) Government Boys Higher Secondary School
(a) 44 (b) 33 (c) 26 (d)18 77. Who among the following was the first female
67. With which of the following sports is Indian hockey player to have won the Rajiv Gandhi Khel
sportsperson Bhavani Devi associated? Ratna Award?
(a) Wrestling (b) Boxing (c) Fencing (d) Rowing (a) Gurjit Kaur (b) Reena Khokhar
68. Who among the following is the only Indian to (c) Rani Rampal (d) Lilima Minz
have won an individual gold medal at the 78. _______was the first athlete to win an Olympic
Olympics? medal for Sri lanka.
(a) Vijender Singh (b) Abhinav Bindra (a) Parami Wasanthi Maristela (b) Duncan White
(c) P. V. Sindhu (d) Kamam Malleswari (c) Greshan Dananjaya (d) Susanlhika Jayasinghe
69. Who among the following represented India at 79. Annu Rani is the first Indian woman to cross a
the international level in shooting? distance of 60 m in _______throw.
(a) Aditi Chauhan (b) Anjum Moudgil (a) javelin (b) discus (c) Shot put (d) hammer
(c) Amit Panghal (d) Ashalata Devi 80. Who is the second Indian footballer to play 100
70. In which Olympic Games did Shabana Akhtar, the international games?
first female athlete to represent Pakistan, (a) Bhaichung Bhutia (b) Sunil Chhetri
participate? (c) Gurpreet Singh Sandhu (d) Udanta Singh
(a) Beijing Olympics (b) Atlanta Olympics 81. Who among the following won the 2002
(c) Sydney Olympics (d) Barcelona Olympics International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF)
71. How many bits does an IP address consist of? Champion of Champions combined-air-rifie event
(a) 24 (b) 32 (c) 16 (d) 12 to become the first Indian to win that
72. Who among the following is the first table tennis competition?
player to win the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award? (a) Anjali Bhagwat (b) Manu Bhaker
(a) Manika Batra (b) Sharath Kamal (c) Rahi Samobat (d) Anisa Sayyed
(c) Poulomi Ghatak (d) Soumyajit Ghosh 82. Who among the Following had written Kitab-ul-
73. With which of the following sports is the FedEx Hind that gave an incisive description of early
Cup associated? 11th Century India?
(a) Golf (b) Tennis (a) Al-Kindi (b) Al-Bukhari
(c) Football (d) Badminton (c) Al-Biruni (d) Al-Khwarizmi

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83.Who among the following wrote the novel (b) Premchand (c) Mahatma Gandhi
‘Rangbhumi: The Arena of Life’? (d) Abanindranath Tagore
(a) Mahatma Gandhi (b) Munshi Pemchand 94. Who is the audior of the book ‘Ethical Religion’?
(c) Abanindranath Tagore (d) Rabindranath Tagore (a) Bipan Chandra (b) Vinoba Bhave
84.Who among the following is the author of the (c) Swami Vivekananda (d) Mahatma Gandhi
book ‘Democrats and Dissenters’? 95. Who among the following is one of the authors
(a) Arun Shourie (b) Ramchandra Guha of “The Hitman: The Rohit Sharma Story’?
(c) Nalini Singh (d) Gurucharan Das (a) G Krishnan (b) S Hareesh
85. Who among the following is the author of the (c) Sanjana Desai (d) Anupam Kher
book “Interpreter of Maladies’? 96. Who authored the book  Reporting India: My
(a) Arundhati Roy (b) Anita Nair Seventy-Year Journey as a Journalist’?
(c) Sudha Murty (d) Jhumpa Lahiri (a) Khushwant Singh (b) Anjan Sundaram
86. Who wrote the book ‘The Quest for Equity in (c) Chetan Bhagat (d) Prem Prakash
Development’? 97. Who among the following is the author of the
(a) Amartya Sen (b) Montek Singh Ahluwalia book ‘Sea of Poppies’?
(c) Raghuram Rajan (d) Manmohan Singh (a) Amitav Ghosh (b) Salman Rushdie
87. Who among the following wrote “The Light of (c) Rohinton Mistry (d) Vikram Chandra
98. Who among the following wrote the non-fiction
Asia: The Poem that Defined the Buddha’ that will
The Paradoxical Prime Minister: Narendra Modi
narrate the phenomenal poem “The Light of Asia’?
and His India’?
(a) Shashi Tharoor (b) Salman Rushdie
(a) Shashi Tharoor (b) Arundhati Roy
(c) Chetan Bhagat (d) Jairam Ramesh
(c) Salman Rushdie (d) Chetan Bhagat
88. Who is the author of the book. ‘Men in White - A
99. Who among the following authored “Poverty and
Book of Cricket’?
Un-British Rule in India’?
(a) Boria Mazumdar (b) Mukul Kesavan
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru (b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Harsha Bhogle (d) Sanjay Manjrekar
(c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Dadabhai Naoroji
89. Who among the following is the author of the
100. Who is the author of the book ‘Pathway to God’?
book ‘Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to (a) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
India’? (b) Mahatma Gandhi
(a) Ramchandra Guha (b) Shashi Tharoor (c) Sri Aurobindo (d) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Ashwin Sanghi (d) VS Naipaul 101. Who among the following is the author of the
90. Who among the following is the author of the book ‘Amnesty’?
book ‘Abode of Love’? (a) Chetan Bhagat (b) Aravind Adiga
(a) Shankar Dayal Sharma (b) Narendra Modi (c) Amish Tripathi (d) Vikram Seth
(c) APJ Abdul Kalam (d) Manmohan Singh 102. Who among the following is the author of the
91. Who is the author of the book. ‘Walking with the book “40 years with Abdul Kalam - Untold Stories’?
Comrades’? (a) Chetan Bhagat (b) YS Rajan
(a) Pupul Jayakar (b) Prakash Karat (c) Sivathanu Pillai (d) Sarabjit Singh
(c) Sitaram Yechury (d) Arundhati Roy 103. Who is the author of the book •Hit Refresh’?
92. Identify the author of the book ‘The English (a) Kazi Nazrul Islam (b) Jagmohan Bhanver
Teacher’. (c) Aishwarya Rai (d) Satya Nadella
(a) Salman Rushdie (b) Vikram Seth 104. Who is the author of the book ‘Wise and
(c) RK Narayan (d) Khushwant Singh Otherwise’?
93. Who among the following wrote the novel ‘Gora’? (a) Sudha Murty (b) Amish Tripathy
(a) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Arundhati Roy (d) Chetan Bhagat

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105. Who among the following is the author of die (b) Indira Gandhi (c) Sarojini Naidu
book *A Fine Balance’? (d) Rajendra Prasad
(a) Amitav Ghosh (b) Shashi Tharoor 117. Who is the author of the novel  %Burnt Sugar’?
(c) Rohinton Mistry (d) Arvind Adiga (a) Avni Doshi (b) Salman Rushdie
106. Who among the following is the author of the (c) Kinin Desai (d) Vikas Bahl
book ‘Cross Connection: The Big Circus 118. Which of the following books did the famous
Adventure’? cricketer Sunil Gavaskar author?
(a) Aditya Chopra (b) Rajkumar Rao (a) Democracy’s XI: The Great Indian Cricket Story
(c) Harman Baweja (d) Jugal Hansraj (b) Runs ‘n Ruins
107. Who among the following wrote the book (c) Playing It My Way (d) Captain Cool
‘Indomitable Spirit’? 119. Who is the author of the book ‘Poskcm’?
(a) Amartya Sen (b) S Radhakrishnan (a) Rohit Bal (b) Manish Malhotra
(c) APJ Abdul Kalam (d) Raghuram Rajan (c) Sabyasachi Mukherjee (d) Wendell Rodricks
108. ‘Wings of Fire* is an autobiography of_______. 120. Who among the following had authored ‘Buddha
(a) Mahatma Gandhi (b) Sachin Tendulkar Gaya: The Hermitage of Sakya Muni’ in 1878?
(c) Barack Obama (d) APJ Abdul Kalam (a) Alexander Cunningham
109. The book ‘Indian Parliamentary Diplomacy - (b) Rajendralala Mitra
Speaker’s Perspective’ is authored by_______. (c) HH Cole (d) John Marshall
(a) Om Birla (b) Meira Kumar 121.Who among the following is the author of the
(c) Shivraj Patil (d) Balram Jhakar epic story ‘Manucharitra’?
110. Sarbpreet Singh is the author of which of the (a) Banbhatt (b) Ponna
following books? (c) Chand Bardai (d) Allasani Peddana
(a) Night of the Restless Spirits: Stories from 1984 122. Siddhendra Yogi, a doyen of the dance form, was
(b) Grandparents* Bag of Stories lauded as Adi Guru.
(c) 40 years with Abdul Kalam – Untold Stories (a) Bharatanatyam (b) Kuchipudi
(d) The Wrong Family (c) Kathakali (d) Kadiak
111. Who is the author of the book ‘My Master’? 123. Ustad Iqbal Ahmed Khan, a recipient of the
(a) Swami Vivekananda (b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy Sangeet Natak Academy Award, belongs to
(c) Sri Aurobindo (d) Rabindranath Tagore the_______Gharana.
112. Who among die following authored the book (a) Delhi (b) Jaipur-Atrauli
The Great Indian Novel’? (c) Gwalior (d) Agra
(a) Rohinton Mistry (b) Vikram Seth 124. Who among the following politicians was the
Home Minister of India in Rajis7 Gandhi’s cabinet
(c) Shashi Tharoor (d) Khushwant Singh
from I986to 1989?
113. Whose autobiography is titled ‘The Substance
(a) Madhavrao Scindia (b) Ajit Kumar Panja
and the Shadow’?
(c) Buta Singh (d) Ashoke Kumar Sen
(a) Kishore Kumar (b) Rajesh Khanna
125. With which of the following musical instruments
(c) Raj Kapoor (d) Dilip Kumar
is the musician Zakir Hussain associated?
114. Who authored the book ‘Jinnah: His Successes.
(a) Tabla (b) Tanpura
Failures, and Role in History’?
(c) Vichitra veena (d) Dhol
(a) Khushwant Singh (b) Intizar Husain
(c) Ishtiaq Ahmed (d) Ishrat Husain
116. Who among the following is die author of‘The
Brahma Sutra – The Philosophy of Spiritual life’?
(a) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

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