Ans: Psychoactive drug (Sleeping pill)
2. What is NIRDESH?
Ans: National Institute for Research and Development in Defence Shipbuilding
3. Where is the NIRDESH located?
Ans: Chaliyam (Kozhikode)
4. Who laid the foundation stone for the NIRDESH on January 4, 2011?
Ans: A K Antony
5. When was the Indian Coast Guard formally established?
Ans: 18 August 1978
6. Which Committee recommended for the establishment of Coast Guard?
Ans: Rustamji Committee
Ans: Rustamji Committee
7. Which country's official name is Divehi Jumhuriya?
Ans: The Maldives
8. Who was the first member of Lok Sabha to be expelled under the Anti defection law in 1998?
Ans: Lalduhoma
9. Who was the founder of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan?
Ans: KM 'Munshi
10. Which freedom fighter was known as ‘Kappalottiya Thamizhan'?
Ans: Chidambaram Pillai
11. Who was the first posthumous recipient of Bharat Ratna?
Ans: Lal Bahadur Shastri
12. Where is the famous Valley of Flowers' National Park?
Ans: Uttarakhand
13. Electricity is a subject in which List of the Constitution?
Ans: Concurrent List
14. Which organ produces the hormone renin?
Ans: Kidneys
15. The allocation of revenues between the Union and State Governments is done by:
Ans: Finance Commission of India
16. Who was the chairman of the first Finance Commission?
Ans: K.C.Neogy
17. Which Indian economist coined the term 'Hindu rate of growth'?
Ans: Raj Krishna
18. Which sector accounts for about 57 percent of the Indian GDP?
Ans: Service Sector
19. Which bank of Kerala was acquired by the SBI in 1985?
Ans: Bank of Kochin
20. Which river crosses the equator in the V shape?
Ans: Congo River
21. Which grassland lies on both sides of the equator roughly between 5 degrees and the tropics?
Ans: Savannah
22. In which year was the Life Insurance Corporation of India was founded?
Ans: September 1, 1956
23. Which model was followed by the second five year plan?
Ans: Mahalanobis Model
24. India conducted the first nuclear test during which five year plan?
Ans: Fourth
25. The language of the songs used for Kathakali is:
Ans: Manipravalam
26. Which dance form is the last one to get the status of classical dance by the Sangeet Nataka Akademy?
Ans: Sattriya
27. Which is the oldest surviving dance form of India on the basis of the archaeological evidences?
Ans: Odissi
28. Who was the first Indian to become Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army?
Ans: Field Marshal K M Cariappa
29. Which is the highest rank awarded in the Indian Army?
Ans: Field Marshal
30. Who was the first Field Marshal of the Indian Army?
Ans: SHFJ Manekshaw (1973)
31. Who was the second Field Marshal of Indian Army?
Ans: KM Cariappa (1986)
32. Who is known as 'the Father of Indian Economics'?
Ans: Dadabhai Naoroji
33. Who is known as 'the Father of Indian Economic Reforms'?
Ans: PV Narasimha Rao
34. Who was the Prime Minister of India to initiate the Economic liberalisation in 1991?
Ans: PV Narasimha Rao
35. Name the Finance Minister of India at the time of the economic liberalisation in 1991?
Ans: Manmohan Singh
