Important GK for govt exams

Question: Name the first Indian to qualify  for the Indian Civil Service.
Answer: Satyendranath Tagore

Question: In terms of area, which of the following is the largest tiger reserve in India?
Answer: Nagarjunsagar Srisailam

Question: In which state is the Kamakhya Temple located?
Answer: Assam

Question: Which article is related to Money Bill?
Answer: Article 110

Question: Who is known as the Father of local self government in India?
Answer: Ripon

Question: What is the currency of Russia?
Answer: Ruble

Question: Which of the following is the latest ‘Veda?’
Answer: Atharva Veda

Question: Oryza sativa is the botanical name of which of the following plants?
Answer: Rice

Question: Which of the following cities hosts the Kumbh Mela?
Answer: Prayagraj

Question: Which of the following instruments is used for measuring very high temperature?
Answer: Pyrometer

Question: Which of the following five year plans is also referred to as the Mahalanobis plan?
Answer: Second five year plan

Question: Which one from among the following planets is largest in size ?
Answer: Earth

Question: Who among the following musician associated with flute?
Answer: Hariprasad Chaurasia

Question: What is the full form of AIDS?
Answer: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Question: Which of the following is the largest tributary of the Brahmaputra?
Answer: Subansiri

Question: Which of the following mosquito is responsible for dengue infection?
Answer: Aedes

Question: What is the Capital of Bhutan?
Answer: Thimphu

Question: Sepoy mutiny first started at which place?
Answer: Meerut

Question: Where was the second Buddhist council held?
Answer: Vaishali

Question: At the time of its adoption, the Constitution of India contained how many schedules?
Answer: 8

Question: Ustad Bishmillah Khan is related to which musical instrument?
Answer: Shehnai

Question: ICC stands for ______________.
Answer: International Cricket Council

Question: A jet stream is a component of which of the following?
Answer: Westerly flow

Question: Salar Jung Museum is situated in which of the following cities?
Answer: Hyderabad

Question: What is the name of the Autobiography of Kapil Dev?
Answer: Straight from the Heart

Question: Which of the following is a primary function of Money?
Answer: Medium of Exchange

Question: Where is the National Defence Academy situated ?
Answer: Khadakwasla

Question: Whom did Mughal Emperor Akbar made a mansabdar?
Answer: Kamal Khan Gakkhar

Question: What is the symbol of the element Krypton?
Answer: Kr

Question: Who discovered ultra-short radio waves? 
Answer: J.C. Bose

Question: Who is the founder of ‘Din-i-Ilahi’?
Answer: Akbar

Question: What is the symbol of the element Bromine?
Answer: Br

Question: Where is the headquarter of WTO located?
Answer: Geneva

Question: When is National Girl Child Day observed annually in India?
Answer: 24 January

Question: Who discovered the electrons?
Answer: J.J. Thomson

Question: Which of the following musicians belonged to the state of Assam?
Answer: Bhupen Hazarika

Question: Which is the lowest layer of the atmosphere?
Answer: Troposphere

Question: Who was the first woman speaker of Lok Sabha?
Answer: Meira Kumar

Question: Which of the following is an example of bacterial disease?
Answer: Typhoid

Question: Which of the following Articles deals with protection of interests of minorities?
Answer: Article 29

Question: The Kumaon Himalaya is situated between which two rivers?
Answer: Satluj and Kali

Question: With which game is ‘Durand Cup’ associated ?
Answer: Football

Question: Which country has three capitals?
Answer: South Africa

Question: Who among the following was contemporary of Gautam Buddha?
Answer: Mahavir

Question: Which of the following is associated with the Golden Revolution in India?
Answer: Honey

Question: In which city is the headquarter of Tea Board of India?
Answer: Kolkata

Question: Which of the following planets has the most number of moons?
Answer: Saturn

Question: Which is the highest civilian award in India?
Answer: Bharat Ratna

Question: Which movement did Gandhiji start with the ‘Dandi March’?
Answer: Civil Disobedience Movement

Question: What is the term of the Rajya Sabha member?
Answer: Six years

Question: Who was known as ‘Devanampriya Priyadarshi’?
Answer: Ashoka Maurya

Question: Who invented the television?
Answer: J. L. Baird

Question: Which of the following era is called age of mammal ?
Answer: Cenozoic era

Question: Ziauddin Barani belonged to which period?
Answer: Delhi Sultanate

Question: Due to which of the following process water remains cool in an earthen pot?
Answer: Evaporation

Question: The festival of Kumbh mela is organized in India over the course of how many years?
Answer: 12

Question: In India how many states share coast line?
Answer: 9

Question: Where is Manas Tiger Reserve situated?

Answer: Assam

Question: Which of the following Trophies is related to Hockey?

Answer: Dhyan Chand Trophy 

Question: Which instrument is used to measure the depth of ocean ?
Answer: Fathometer

Question: What is the name of India’s first supercomputer?
Answer: PARAM 8000

Question: Jnanpith Award is honored in which field?
Answer: Literature

Question: ‘Photo finish’, is a term associated with which of the following sports?
Answer: Athletics

Question: Who among the following built the famous Khajuraho temples?
Answer: Chandel

Question: What is the capital of Portugal?
Answer: Lisbon

Question: “An Extraordinary Life, An Indian Destiny” is a biography of ______________.
Answer: Sonia Gandhi

Question: Who was the first person to swim across the English Channel? 
Answer: Captain Matthew Webb

Question: Which of the following is located in Odisha?
Answer: Bhitarkanika National Park

Question: Statue of Unity is located in which state?
Answer: Gujarat

Question: What is the full form of AFSPA?
Answer: Armed Forces Special Powers Act 

Question: The first discovery of rock paintings was made in India by ____________.
Answer: Archibold Carlleyle

Question: Vernal Equinox takes place on ______________.
Answer: 21st March

Question: In which year Chandrayaan-1 was launched?
Answer: 2008

Question: Where are the Elephanta Caves located?
Answer: Mumbai

Question: Which among the following state never had a woman chief-minister till date?
Answer: Maharashtra

Question: Where is Doda Betta Peak situated?
Answer: Nilgiri Hills

Question: Who was the first Indian to win Oscar award?
Answer: Bhanu Athaiya

Question: Which of the following city is the capital of Switzerland?
Answer: Bern 

Question: Which country has the largest number of world heritage sites?
Answer: Italy

Question: Mughal miniature painting reached its peak during the rule of _____ 
Answer: Jahangir

Question: The famous book “Gitanjali” written in __________ language.
Answer: Bengali

Question: Name the Indian who was associated with discovery of Mohenjodaro.
Answer: R. D. Banerjee

Question: Where is the headquaters of Eastern Air Command of Indian Airforce is present in India?
Answer: Shillong

Question: Who told that ‘Dams are temples of India’?
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru

Question: When was the First Indian Republic day celebrated?
Answer: 26th January 1950

Question: Which country is called “Land of the Thunder Dragon”?
Answer: Bhutan

Question: International Airport at Kolkata is known by the name  ______ .
Answer: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport

Question: Black ring in the Olympic flag represents which continent?
Answer: Africa

Question: In which year the NEP was introduced? 
Answer: 1991

Question: Who invented aeroplane?
Answer: Wright Brothers

Question: Which research station of India is located in Larsemann Hills, Antarctica?
Answer: Bharati

Question: Ruble is the currency of which of the following country?
Answer: Russia

Question: Where is Sahara desert situated?
Answer: In Africa

Question: Which Indian Scientist had the distinction of receiving not only the Nobel Prize but also the Bharat Ratna?
Answer: Dr. C.V. Raman

Question: Kharchi Puja is celebrated in which state of India?
Answer: Tripura

Question: The precursor of Indian National Congress was ___________.
Answer: Indian Association

Question: What is Talaq-e-biddat?
Answer: Its a form of instant divorce

Question: The term “Aerobics” is associated with which of the following games/sports?
Answer: Gymnastics

Question: Who has written Gitanjali ?
Answer: Rabindranath Tagore

Question: Teesta river is the tributary of _______.
Answer: Brahmaputra

Question: Which of the following Indian mines is one of the world’s largest uranium mine?
Answer: Tummalapalle mine

Question: Which Sikh Guru established the Khalsa Panth?
Answer: Guru Gobind Singh

Question: Who among the following developed the smallpox vaccine?
Answer: Edward Jenner

Question: Which dance is also known as ‘Dasiyattam’?
Answer: Bharatnatyam

Question: General sunscreen lotions provide protection from these rays?
Answer: Ultraviolet

Question: Which one is the first Veda?

Answer: Rigveda

Question: Lord Buddha was born in ______.
Answer: Lumbini, Nepal

Question: Indian National Congress was established in _______.
Answer: 1885

Question: The first battle of Panipat was between ________.
Answer: Babar & Ibrahim Lodhi

Question: Kathakali is a famous dance form of this state
Answer: Kerala

Question: Madhubani, a style of folk paintings, is popular in which of the following states in India?
Answer: Bihar

Question: In which state, ‘Gir National Park’ is situated?
Answer: Gujarat

Question: By what name is the Ganga known in Bangladesh?
Answer: Padma

Question: Which of the following country’s national currency is Ngultrum?
Answer: Bhutan

Question: What is the currency of Myanmar?
Answer: Kyat

Question: What is the capital of Bangladesh?
Answer: Dhaka

Question: Which of the following is a major characteristic of the Indian economy?
Answer: Mixed economy

Question: Government of India has introduced ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padao’ programme to address the issue of –
Answer: Decline in girl child sex-ratio

Question: Which was the first newspaper in India?
Answer: Bengal Gazette

Question: Who among the following was the first-ever Indian to receive the Bharat Ratna award?
Answer: Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

Question: What is the name of India’s first supercomputer?
Answer: PARAM 8000

Question: Quit India movement was launched in which year?
Answer: 1942

Question: In which state is Namdapha National Park located?
Answer: Arunachal Pradesh

Question: In which of the following years was the Satyagraha Ashram founded by Mahatma Gandhi?
Answer: 1915

Question: In which of the following states Gulf of Khambhat is situated?
Answer: Gujarat

Question: The World-first floating nuclear power plant was developed by which country?
Answer: Russia

Question: What is the currency of Myanmar?
Answer: Kyat

Question: What is the name of the new commercial arm of ISRO?
Answer: NSIL

Question: Which of the following dance forms does NOT belong to South India?
Answer: Kathak

Question: Which of the following book is called the Bible of Socialism?
Answer: Das Kapital

Question: Which of the following five year plan gave the slogan of Garibi Hatao?
Answer: 5th five year plan

Question: In which state Yaoshang festival is celebrated?
Answer: Manipur

Question: Nusantara will be the capital of which country?
Answer: Indonesia

Question: Which of the following is a direct tax?
Answer: Capital gains tax

Question: Which Indian State is known as ‘Land of Five Rivers’ ?
Answer: Punjab

Question: Which of the following countries shares the longest border with India?
Answer: Bangladesh

Question: ‘Golden Revolution’ is related to ________.
Answer: Horticulture and Honey

Question: Skill India mission comes under which ministry?
Answer: Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship

Question: Bhagavad Gita was said to have been compiled by ______.
Answer: Veda Vyasa

Question: Where is the capital of Myanmar country?
Answer:  Naypyidaw 

Question: Which among the following is the popular dance form of Maharashtra’s musical theatre?
Answer: Both 1 and 3

Question: Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana is also known as:
Answer: National Urban Livelihood Mission

Question: Who was the first Female Prime Minister of Sri Lanka?
Answer: Sirimavo Bhandar Nayke

Question: When did Mother Teresa win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: 1979

Question: Home to the snow leopard, the Hemis National Park, is located in:
Answer: Ladakh

Question: Which type of soil covers most of the Deccan Plateau?
Answer: Black soil

Question: 1971 war for liberation of Bangladesh was fought between ___________.
Answer: India and Pakistan

Question: Who was the president of the Indian National Congress during independence in 1947?
Answer: J. B. Kriplani

Question: Mangal Pandey was a sepoy at?
Answer: 34th Bengal Native Infantry

Question: Which of the following festivals is not a harvest festival of India?
Answer: Holi