1. Who was the first Indian to win the SAARC Literary Award in 2006?
Ans: Laxman Gaikwad
2. Who is the only writer to get the SAARC Literary Award twice?
Ans: Suman Pokhrel (Nepal)
3. Who is the author of 'No Full Stops in India'?
Ans: Mark Tully
4. In 1824, the Oriental Club was established for East India Company Officers. Where is it situated?
Ans: London
5. The science of which plant cultivation is known as Moriculture?
Ans: Mulberry
6. What is the name of the small version of football, mainly played indoors with five players in a side?
Ans: Futsal
7. Sports items that require physical contact mixed martial arts is known as?
Ans: Contact Sports
8. What are the examples of contact sports?
Ans: Rugby League, Rugby Union & American Football
9. The Isle of Wight is an island belongs to which country?
Ans: England
10. Post Office Savings Bank belongs to which List of the Constitution?
Ans: Union List
11. Which metal has the lowest value of thermal conductivity?
Ans: Manganese
12. Which metal is present in the insulin hormone?
Ans: Zinc
13. Weber is the SI unit of?
Ans: Magnetic flux
14. Name the economist who coined the term 'BRIC' to denote the four rapidly developing countries?
Ans: Jim O'Neill
15. What is the main objective of the Rashtriya Gokul Mission launched in July2014?
Ans: To conserve & develop indigenous breeds
16. Who is known as 'the Father of modern Ecology'?
Ans: Eugene Odum
17. What is the major non-gas contributor to the Earth's green house effect?
Ans: Clouds
18. What is the name of the geologic triple junction in the southern Indian Ocean where three tectonic plates meet?
Ans: Rodrigues Triple Point
19. Which is the largest ocean current of the Indian Ocean?
Ans: The Agulhas Current
20. Due to the presence of world famous poets, which country came to be known as 'The nest of singing Birds' in the medieval period?
Ans: England
21. Which social reformer made the efforts for the Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act of 1856?
Ans: Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
22. Which social reformer is considered as 'the Pioneer of Women's Education in India'?
Ans: Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
23. The Young Bengal Movement drew inspiration from which revolution?
Ans: French Revolution
24. Who said that 'If religion does not sanction social reform, then change religion'?
Ans: Gopalhari Deshmukh
25. Who was the first Sultan of Delhi to get recognition of the Khalif of Bagdad?
Ans: Iltumish
