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MOST IMPORTANT GENERAL ABILITY QUESTIONS FOR VARIOUS COMPETITIVE EXAM
These questions cover all the important topics in GK or General Studies (GS) from where questions are expected and have been asked in the Previous Papers.
- Dadabhai Naoroji put forward the 'drain of wealth' theory in which he stated that Britain was completely draining India, in which year
- 1867
- The Quit India Movement or the India August Movement was launched at which session of the All-India Congress Committee
- Bombay Session in 1942
- Konkanivarman, also known as Dharmamahadhiraja was the founder of which dynasty
- Ganga Dynasty
- In 1969, the 18th State of the Republic of India was created out of which Indian State
- Meghalaya was created out of Assam
- Ramachandra also known as Ramadeva, was a ruler of which dynasty of Devgiri in the Deccan region
- Seuna (Yadava) dynasty
- Name the former Indian athlete who is famously known as ‘Payyoli Express’
- P. T. Usha
- Who wrote the books ‘Commentary on the Holy Bible’ and ‘Asbab-e-Baghawat-e-Hind’ (Reasons for the Indian Revolt of 1857)
- Sir Syed Agmad Khan
- In which year Bahadur Shah II ascended to the throne of Delhi and became the emperor
- 1837. He was also known as Bahadur Shah Zafar
- In the reign of Ashoka, the third Buddhist meeting was held in 255 BC in
- Pataliputra
- The European portion of Turkey is known as Thrace, while the Asian portion is called
- Anatolia or Asia Minor
- The Shunga dynasty was established by who, after the fall of the Maurya Empire
- Pushyamitra Shunga. He assassinated Brihadratha, the last Mauryan ruler
- The Third Battle of Panipat took place in 1761 at Panipat, between the Maratha Empire and invading forces of the
- King of Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Abdali
- Russian chemist Dimitri Mendeleev started the development of the periodic table, arranging chemical elements by atomic mass in which year
- 1869
- Since 1955 the national income estimates are being prepared by which organisation
- Central Statistical Organisation
- The earth has 360 imaginary lines called longitudes. The time difference between each longitude (each degree) is
- 4 minutes
- The volcanic mountain, ‘Mt. Kilimanjaro’ is the highest mountain in Africa. It is located in
- Tanzania
- James Prinsep was an English scholar, orientalist and antiquary. He was the founding editor of the Journal of the
- Asiatic Society of Bengal
- RBI was formed under the Reserve Bank Of India Act 1934. It was nationalized in which year
- 1949 on 1st of January
- The Finance Commission was established by the President of India under Article 280 in which year
- 1951
- The ‘Gandhian plan’ was brought out in 1944 by
- Acharya S.N. Agarwala
- Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, popularly known as Badshah Khan or the Frontier Gandhi, founded which movement in the year 1929
- Khudai Khidmatgar ("Servants of God"). He was also called Bacha Khan - Who formed “Independent Labour Party” to contest the elections in the Bombay province
- Dr. B. R. Ambedkar in August, 1936 - The book, Discovery of India was written by Jawahar Lal Nehru from which jail
- Ahmednagar Fort Jail. The book was published in 1946 - Which leader joined Muslim League in 1913, although he continued to be a Congress member as well until 1920
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- Gandhiji first came in contact with the Congress and its leaders in which year
- 1901, Calcutta session under the president ship of Dinshaw Wacha - The Satavahanas, who supported Buddhism as well as Brahmanism, patronized which language
- Prakrit language instead of Sanskrit language - The foundation stone of Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) was laid by
- Sufi Saint Mir Mohammed Muayyinul Islam popularly known as Hazrat Mian Mir
- Fitch Ratings is a company that gives credit ratings and does research in this field. It is headquartered in
- New York and London. It was established in 1914
- Scientist who first proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves
- Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
- Name the tenth and last ruler (1822 to 1856) of Awadh, was also an accomplished poet and playwright
- Wajid Ali Shah
- Subsidiary Alliance was framed by Lord Wellesley, the Governor-General of India from 1798 . It was actually used for the first time by who
- French Governor-General Marquis Dupleix
- The Omkareshwar Dam is a gravity dam on which river in Khandwa district, Madhya Pradesh
- Narmada River
- Himadri Station, established in 2008, is India's first Arctic research station. It is located at which place
- Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway
- What was the original name of Tansen, the famous musician in the court of Akbar
- Ramtanu Pande
- 'Surkhi ' was started in Indian architecture by the sultans of which period
- Sultanate Period
- The members of the Central Administrative Tribunal are appointed by
- President of India
- In which year, the Indian National Committee for Space Research or INCOSPAR was established
- 1962 by veteran nuclear scientist Homi J Bhabha
- The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to combat global warming was signed in which year
- 1992
- In which year, the Kingdom of Awadh officially became a British protectorate
- May 1816
- In which cell organelle, the biochemical processes of respiration and energy production occur
- Mitochondria
- Money Bill can’t be originated in Rajya Sabha. This bill is defined in which article of the Constitution
- Article 110
- Kabuliwala, a story of a merchant from Afghanistan, is written by Rabindranath Tagore in
- 1892
- The Article 343 of the Indian Constitution says that the official language of the Union shall be Hindi in which script
- Devanagari script
- The National Highway 1A connects Leh to Kashmir Valley through which pass
- Zoji La Pass
- India won its individual Gold medal at the Olympics for the first time in 2008, by
- Abhinav Bindra
- Famous Arab Traveller Ibn Batuta came to India in about 1333 AD during the reign of
- Muhammad bin Tughluq
- Bird pollination is the pollination of flowering plants by birds. It is also known as
- Ornithophily
- Out of the seven Fundamental Rights, 'Right to Property' was removed by the 44th Constitutional amendment in
- 1978
- The highest active volcano in the world is
- Ojos del Salado
- Chairman of the Committee on the functions of the Constituent Assembly
- G.V. Mavalankar
- National Anthem was sung for the first time on
- 27 December 1911
- Sthanakvasi is a sect of Svetambara Jainism founded by a merchant named Lavaji in
- 1653 AD
- First session of the Constituent Assembly held at
- New Delhi
- The Hindustan Mazdoor Sabha was founded in West Bengal in the year
- 1948
- Date on which the interim government of India was formed
- September 2, 1946
- According to the Tinkathia System, farmers were under compulsion to grow Indigo on
- 3/20th Of Their Land
- The Governor-General and Viceroy of India during the formation Interim Government of India
- Lord Viscount Wavell (1943 - 1947)
- Who was the first editor of the Kesari, a weekly journal sponsored by Chiplunkar and aided by Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1881)
- Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
- Increased plant growth due to increased concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is called
- Carbon Fertilisation
- From the constitution of which country the process of removal of supreme court judges has been taken
- USA
- According to Einstein’s theory, light, just like any other form of matter, is affected by
- Gravity
- The National Calendar was adopted by the government of India on
- 22 March 1957
- The farming in the regions where farmers are specialised in vegetables only, is known as
- Truck Farming
- Dholavira situated in Kutch district of Gujarat, is an important place for which civilization
- Sandhava Civilisation
- Muntakhab-ul-Lubab by Khafi Khan deals with the administration of
- Aurangzeb
- A dense, towering vertical cloud, forming from water vapor carried by powerful upward air currents
- Cumulonimbus
- Kuka movement slowly faded away with the death of Ram Singh in
- 1885
- Eight degree channel separate Lakshadweep from
- Maldives
- The main objective of the (9th) Ninth Five-Year Plan was
- Growth with Social Justice and Equality
- While Public Accounts Committee members belong to both houses of parliament, Estimates Committee members belong to only
- Lok Sabha
- The administrative reforms commission was formed under the chairmanship of Morarji Desai. Its tenure was from
- 1966 to 1970
- Ideals of Justice in preamble and Fundamental Duties have been taken from the Constitution of
- USSR
- The Medieval Chola king, who led an expedition to North India upto the river Ganges between 1019 and 1024
- Rajendra Chola I
- Indian constitutions Schedule which contains the list of recognized languages
- Eighth Schedule
- The Cripps mission was an attempt by the British to secure full Indian cooperation and support in World War II. It came to India in
- March 1942
- Four UN member states have never accepted the Non-Proliferation Treaty, these are India, Israel, Pakistan and
- South Sudan
- French were the last to come to pre-independence India as traders in 1664. Their first factory was established in
- 1668 in Surat
- Lala Lajpat Rai popularly known as Punjab Kesari founded the Home Rule League of America in 1917 in
- New York
- The first dynasty to start the practice of tax-free land grant to Brahmans and Buddhist monks
- Satavahana Dynasty
- The Constituent Assembly met for the first time in New Delhi on 9 December, 1946 in the Constitution Hall which is now known as the
- Central Hall of Parliament House
- Konark sun temple is a UNESCO world heritage site located in Odisha. It is also known by the Britishers as
- Black Pagoda
- The world’s first rocket was used by Tipu Sultan in the war against the
- British (Anglo-Mysore)
- Taj Mahal was constructed by the Mughal ruler Shah Jahan for his wife Mumtaz Mahal in
- 1632
- Under Integrated Guided Missile Development programme the first missile test-fires was
- Prithvi in 1988
- Bromine is the third lightest halogen evaporating very easily. It has the lowest melting point of - -7.2 °C
- First uranium mine in India which commenced its operation in 1967 is
- Jaduguda Mine in Jharkhand
- First Battle Of Tarain was fought in the year 1191 between Muhammad Ghori and Prithviraj Chauhan. The second Battle Of Tarain was fought between the same ruler in
- 1192
- Open Market Operations of RBI refers to the buying and selling of
- Government Bonds
- Manas National Park, a UNESCO Natural World Heritage site, is located in Assam. It is well known for
- Wild Water Buffalo
- Name of the Passage, Which connects South Andaman and Little Andaman
- Duncan Passage
- A duck is able to float on water as its feathers secrete oil that lowers the
- Surface Tension Of Water
- The device, which is used to measure the amount of Heat involved in a chemical reaction
- Calorimeter
- The Brahmaputra River originates on the Angsi Glacier. It is also called in Tibet language as
- Yarlung Tsangpo
- National Development Council was formed in the year
- 1952
- Anaerobic respiration is a type of respiration that does not use
- Oxygen
- “Rule of Law Index" is released by
- World Justice Project
- Ranthambore Fort is located in Jaipur, Rajasthan. The fort is known for the glory of King Hammir Dev of
- Chauhan Dynasty
- Positioned in far-western Asia, just to the east of the Caspian Sea, the Aral sea is located in the countries of Kazakhstan and
- Uzbekistan
- Circulatory System was discovered by
- William Harvey
- In living organisms, the genome is stored in long molecules of DNA called
- Chromosomes
- The standard US protocol for flash pasteurization of milk, 71.7 °C (161 °F) for 15 seconds in order to kill
- Coxiella burnetii
- Which Government of India Act had a separate Preamble
- Government of India Act 1919
- CH3OH is highly poisonous in very small amounts too. CH3OH is the chemical formula of
- Methanol or Methyl Alcohol
- In which case, the Supreme Court held that the Preamble was not part of the Constitution
- Berubari Case
- Ptyalin is an enzyme in the saliva that catalyzes the hydrolysis of starch into
- Maltose and Dextrin
- The oldest national park in India which was established in 1936 as Hailey National Park to protect the endangered Bengal tiger
- Jim Corbett National Park Located In Uttarakhand
- Ferric Chloride ( Fe3+ ) is used to stop
- Bleeding
- Which branch of Science deals with the study of Mountains
- Orology
- The President has full powers to summon and prorogue either house of Parliament or to dissolve
- Lok Sabha (not Rajya Sabha)
- Which act provided for the establishment of a Public Service Commission in India for the first time
- Government of India Act, 1919
- Zojila tunnel is located in
- Jammu and Kashmir
- Volcan de Fuego, which means "Volcano of Fire” is an active stratovolcano in
- Guatemala
- Chairman or Head of the Committee on the Rules of Procedure
- Rajendra Prasad
- On 7 June 1893, Gandhi was thrown off a train in South Africa at which railway station
- Pietermaritzburg Railway Station
- Eravikulam National Park is situated in Kerala. It is famous for the protection of endangered
- Nilgiri Tahr
- Eukaryotes, unlike Prokaryotes, are organisms whose cells have a nucleus enclosed within
- Membranes
- Dudhsagar Falls is a four-tiered waterfall located on the Mandovi River in the Indian state o
- Goa
- The term Arya appears in Rig Veda for how many times
- 36 times
- Founder of the Tughlaq dynasty was
- Ghias Uddin
- Lysosomes are also known as
- Suicidal Bag Of Cells
- Deuce is the sports term associated with - Badminton
- The SI unit of intensity of sound is
- Watt Per Square Meter
- Chittaranjan Das was the founder-leader of the Swaraj Party in Bengal during British occupation in India. He was popularly known as - Deshbandhu
- The Bombay Reorganization Act, 1960, decided the state of Bombay to establish two states of Bombay and
- Gujarat
- James Chadwick discovered - Neutrons
- Ezra Cup is associated with which sport
- Polo
- Twelfth Five Year Plan was made for the duration of 2012 to 2017. Its main theme is - “Faster, More Inclusive and Sustainable Growth”.
- Which amendment abolished Titles and special privileges of Rulers of Princely States
- 26th Amendment
- Plants which grow in salty water near sea shore are called as - Halophytes
- Gas used for the artificial ripening of the fruits
- Ethylene
- University of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay were set up during the period of Lord Canning in the year
- 1857
- Canal that connects the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean
- Panama Canal
- Tso Moriri also known as lake Moriri or Mountain lake is situated in Jammu and Kashmir. It is a type of
- Salty Lake
- Harshacharita was written by
- Bana Bhatt
- Crops which are grown during the winter season ( October-March ) are called
- Rabi crops
- Asia's first Atomic Station
- Tarapur Atomic Power Station
- Ashoka ruled almost the entire Indian subcontinent from 268 to 232 BCE. He was the grandson of the founder of the Maurya Dynasty,
- Chandragupta Maurya
- The Founder of Prarthana Samaj was
- Atma Ram Pandurang
- Mirage is an illusion that gives the appearance of a pool of water in the desert due to the phenomena of 'total internal reflection' and
- ‘Refraction’.
- Lord Canning was crowned the first Viceroy of British India from
- 1856 to 1862
- At Kalibangan, fire altars have been discovered, similar to those found at
- Lothal
- Victoria waterfalls located on the Zambezi River in
- Zambia in Africa
- The Tehri Dam is the Highest dam in India and the 8th highest in the world. It is built on the river
- Bhagirathi
- First bank to be established by Indians was Awadh Commercial Bank in
- 1881
- After about 100-120 days of being in the circulation, RBCs are removed through a process called
- Eryptosis
- Bhavani river originates from Nilgiri hills of the Western Ghats, and enters which National Park in Kerala
- Silent Valley National Park
- Amir Khusro was a poet and musician and served in the court of
- Ghiyasuddin Balban
- Dampa Tiger Reserve or Dampha Tiger Reserve is located in
- Mizoram
- Visva-Bharati University is a public central government funded university located in Santiniketan, West Bengal. It was founded by
- Rabindranath Tagore
- “Abhinav Bharat Society” aka “Young India Society” was a secret society founded by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and his brother Ganesh Damodar Savarkar in
- 1903
- Regur soil is most suitable for Cotton cultivation in India. It is also known as
- Black soil
- Mauna Loa is the largest active volcano on Earth. It is located on the
- Hawaii Islands of the United States
- Article 348 states that all proceedings in the Supreme Court and all the High Court shall be done in
- English
- Young Italy movement was a political movement founded in 1831 by
- Giuseppe Mazzini
- The arrival of Babur in India led to the establishment of which dynasty in the region
- Timurid Dynasty
- In the summer season, the ITCZ ( InterTropical Convergence Zone ) shifts
- Northwards
- First Muslim president of Indian National Congress
- Badruddin Tayyabji
- Strait of Dover connects North Sea with the
- English channel
- In human body vitamins B1, B2, B12, and K are produced in the
- Intestines
- Vellore mutiny was sparked by new uniform regulations in the year
- 1806
- In 1668, the first French factory in India was established in
- Surat
- Anandmath is a novel written by Sri Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. The novel contains the song
- Vande Mataram
- Zemu Glacier drains to the east side of Kanchenjunga. The importance of this glacier is that it is a key water source for the
- Teesta River
- President of the committee under whose recommendation Panchayati Raj in India was established
- Balwant Rai Mehta
- The vocal organ of songbird is called the
- Syrinx
- Sir Creek is a 96 km tidal estuary on the border of India and
- Pakistan
- Alexander defeated Porus in the battle of Hydaspes. Now river Hydaspes is known as river
- Jhelum
- Gautam Buddha preached in the language
- Pali
- Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar system followed by
- Saturn
- Humayun's Tomb situated in Delhi, was built by Hamida banu Begum. It was designed by
- Mirza Ghiyas
- Dachigam National Park is located in Jammu and Kashmir. The park name ( Dachigam ) literally means
- Ten Villages
- Largest sugarcane producing State in India
- Uttar Pradesh
- Pigeons are also known as nature's radar because of their
- Sensitive Hearing
- Commonly known as the father of microbiology and considered the first microbiologist
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
- Producing oil since early 1950, the Ghawar oil field is the world's largest oil field located in which country
- Saudi Arabia
- Jog Falls is located in
- Karnataka
- Human Rights Day is observed on
- 10th December
- Penicillin is extracted from Microorganism
- Fungus
- Where is Keoladeo National Park located
- Bharatpur
- Sericulture is related to the study of
- Silkworms
- The author of 'Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights'
- Salman Rushdie
- "Diamond ' is associated to which sports
- Baseball
- The first Tirthankara of the Jains
- Rishabhnath
- ‘The founding father' of space programmes in India
- Dr Vikram A Sarabhai
- Shore Temple is located at
- Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu
- X-rays was invented by
- Roentgen
- What is the chief constituent of the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG )
- Butane
- Author of the book "The god of small things"
- Arundhati Roy
- Beighton Cup is related to Which sports
- Hockey
- INS Vikrant was decommissioned from Indian Navy in
- 1997
- What is the chemical name of the Aspirin
- Acetylsalicylic acid
- Dynamite was invented by
- Alfred Nobel
- Father of Modern Genetics is
- Gregor Mendel
- Chemical formula of Chloroform
- CHCl3
- Deuterium is an isotope of metal
- Hydrogen
- Brihadeeswarar Temple is located in
- Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
- General formula for an Alkane is
- C(n)H(2n+2)
- Meghdootam was written by
- Kalidas
- Gautam Buddha give his first sermon in
- Sarnath
- Barometer was invented by
- Evangelista Torricelli
- Forest (Conservation) Act was passed in
- 1980
- Slave Dynasty was established by
- Qutb al-Din Aibak
- Nuclear sizes are expressed in a unit called " Fermi" which is a unit of length equal to
- 1×10^-15 metre
- Gas used as a coolant for air conditioners, refrigerators, freezers
- Freon
- The hottest planet of Solar System is
- Venus
- Molecular formula of Sugar (Table Sugar)
- C12H22O11
- Gas synthesized using Haber’s Process is
- Ammonia (NH3)
- Mughal Dynasty was established by
- Babur
- Velocity of Sound in the Air
- 332m/sec
- Gas known as 'Marsh Gas'
- Methane
- Guru Shikhar Peak is located in
- Rajasthan
- ISRO was formed
- August 15, 1969
- Name of the largest volcano in the solar system
- Olympus Mons
- Cinnabar is the main Ore of Metal
- Mercury
- The first Hindi newspaper
- Udant Martand also known as The Rising Sun
- Photosynthesis takes place inside inside plant cells in
- Chloroplast
- The first speaker of Lok Sabha
- Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar
- Entomology is the study of
- Insects
- Gland in the Human Body also known as Master Gland
- Pituitary Gland
- Man also known as the Frontier Gandhi
- Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
- Golconda Fort situated is situated in
- Hyderabad
- Who discovered by Blood Group
- Karl Landsteiner
- From the constitution of which country the concept of Judicial Review has been taken
- USA
- Type of vegetation which has special characteristics to withstand very high rate of evaporation
- Xerophytic
- According to which system, every ruler in India had to accept to pay a subsidy to the British for the maintenance of British army
- Subsidiary Alliance System
- Name of the successor of Gautama Buddha and also known as future Buddha, yet to come to save the world
- Maitreya
- Rumi Darwaza was built by Asaf-ud-Daula and is believed to be identical to an old gate in Istanbul called
- Bab-i-Humayun
- Mughal emperor Akbar built the Buland Darwaza in 1601 to commemorate his victory over
- Gujarat - In 2016, which island became the first island to be made a district in India
- Majuli
- Sela Tunnel is located in which state
- Arunachal Pradesh - Act on salt tax that granted British the monopoly to collect and produce salt from the sea was passed in which year
- 1882
- Borail Wildlife Sanctuary is located in the southernmost part of which state in India
- Assam
- How many countries have ratified the Geneva Convention
- 196
- For conserving India's national animal, the tiger, ‘Project Tiger’ was launched in the year
- 1973
- What is the name of Kerala's largest temple festival
- Thrissur Pooram
- Which city has become the world's southernmost city after its status upgraded from hamlet to city
- Puerto Williams, Chile
- Which strait is nearest to the International Date line
- Bering Strait
- Who was called “Baron of Plassey” in recognition of his services to the company in Bengal
- Robert Clive
- During Lord Canning’s tenure Income Tax was introduced. He served as the Governor General of India from
- 1856 to 1862
- Since when did National Scheduled Tribes Commission came into existence
- 2004 - Which country became the first to deploy an all-women contingent to a UN peacekeeping mission
- India in the year 2007 - The nomination of a governor by the Union and his appointment by the President in India is based on the
- Canadian model of government - Archaeological Survey of India was founded in 1861. Who became its first Director-General
- Alexander Cunningham
- Name the descendant of Brihadratha, who founded the empire in Magadha
- Jarasandha - Which Article of the Indian Constitution gives SC the authority to review its judgements
- Article 137
- Who was the first chief and founding father of the worlds largest border guarding force, BSF
- K F Rustamji, IPS
- Which monument was built in 1783 at the place where Guru Teg Bahadur was beheaded by Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1675
- Gurdwara Sis Ganj Sahib - The NABARD was established on the recommendations of which committee
- Shri B. Sivaraman Committee of 1979 - Meson are subatomic particles composed of a quark and an antiquark. It was discovered by
- Frank Powell in 1947 in cosmic-ray interaction
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