The following quiz will have 20 General Studies Multiple Chose Questions for West Bengal Civil Service preliminary exam and also helpful other competitive exams like State PSC (BPSC, JPSC, MPSC, OPSC, RPSC, PPSC, UPPSC etc.) exams, UPSC (CDS and NDA), Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) exams, Staff Selection Commission exams (CGL, CHSL and MTS) and other competitive exams.
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[B] Samaveda
[C] Yajurveda
[D] Atharvaveda
Correct Answer: [D] Atharvaveda
Explanation: There are four Vedas- (1) The Rig Veda: The Book of Mantra, (2) The Sama Veda: The Book of Song, (3) The Yajur Veda: The Book of Ritual and (4) The Atharva Veda: The Book of Spell
[B] Red sandstone
[C] Terracotta
[D] Ivory
Correct Answer: [A] Steatite
Explanation: Thousands of seals have been discovered by archaeologists from the Harappan sites. Most of the seals were made of steatite, which is a kind of soft stone. A few of them were also made of terracotta, gold, agate, chert, ivory and faience. The standard Harappan seal was square in shape with a 2X2 dimension. It is believed that the seals were used for commercial purposes.
[B] Elephant
[C] Rhinoceros
[D] Tiger
Correct Answer: [A] Cow
Explanation: Cow, camel, horse and lion were not depicted on seals. Unicorn (bull) was the animal most commonly represented on the seals.
[B] Mehrgarh
[C] Burzahom
[D] Paiyampalli
Correct Answer: [C] Burzahom
Explanation: Burzahom, which means ‘the place of birch’, is a Neolithic site situated 16 km north-west of Srinagar. The Neolithic people lived there on a lakeside in pits.
At Burzahom, domestic dogs were buried with their masters in their graves. This practice does not seem to be evident in any other Neolithic culture in India.
[B] Asteya (Non-stealing)
[C] Ahimsa (Non-violence)
[D] Satya (Truth)
Correct Answer: [A] Brahmacharya (Continence)
Explanation: Jainism taught five doctrines: (i) do not commit violence (ahimsa), (ii) do not tell a lie (sathya), (iii) do not steal (asteya), (iv) do not hoard/do not acquire property (aparigraha), and (v)observe continence (brahmacharya) – which constitutes the Mahavratas or five vows of Jainism.
[B] Ujjain
[C] Varanasi
[D] Mathura
Correct Answer: [D] Mathura
Explanation: Mathura was located at the junction of two famous ancient Indian trade routes i.e.Uttarapatha and the Daksinapatha. This was because Mathura represented the transitional zone between the Gangetic plains, having settled agriculture, and the sparsely populated pasture lands jutting into the Malwa plateau.
[B] Bal Gangadhar Tilak
[C] Motilal Nehru
[D] Subhash Chandra Bose
Correct Answer: [B] Bal Gangadhar Tilak
[B] Vishnu
[C] Vayu
[D] Aditi
Correct Answer: [B] Vishnu
Explanation: Indra, Agni, Soma, Varuna , Vayu , Aditi and Ushas are god/ godess of Rig Vedic period. And Vishnu, Rudra and prajapathi are gods of Later Vedic period.
9. If the mass of body is halved and its speed is doubled, what happens to the kinetic energy of the body?
[B] Become four times
[C] Becomes eight times
[D] Remains unchanged
Correct Answer: [A] Becomes double
Explanation: The Kinetic energy is the energy that an object has due to its motion. Kinetic Energy (Ek)= 1/2 mv2 [Where m = mass, v=velocity]
[B] Movement of plants towards water and moisture
[C] Movement of plants towards gases
[D] None of above
Correct Answer: [A] Movement of plants towards light
Explanation: In phototropism a plant bends or grows directionally in response to light. Shoots usually move towards the light; roots usually move away from it.
[B] Phylloquinone
[C] Riboflavin
[D] Retinol
Correct Answer: [B] Phylloquinone
Explanation: Scientific and Common Names of Vitamins
Form/Scientific Name | Common Name |
Retinol | Vitamin A |
Thiamine | Vitamin B1 |
Riboflavine | Vitamin B2 |
Pantothenic Acid | Vitamin B5 |
Pyridoxine | Vitamin B6 |
Niacin or Nicotinic Acid | Vitamin B3 |
Biotin | Vitamin B7 |
Folic Acid | Vitamin B9 |
Cobalamin | Vitamin B12 |
Ascorbic Acid | Vitamin C |
Calciferol | Vitamin D |
Tocopherol | Vitamin E |
Phytomenadione | Vitamin K |
[B] Nitrogen
[C] Phosphorus
[D] Oxygen
Correct Answer: [D] Oxygen
Explanation: Oxygen (65%) is present in maximum amount in human body. Other elements are Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Calcium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sulfur, Sodium, Chlorine, and Magnesium
[B] Gradually increasing
[C] Gradually decreasing
[D] None of these
Correct Answer: [A] Constant
[B] Natural Gas
[C] Wind Energy
[D] Tidal Power
Correct Answer: [B] Natural Gas
Explanation: The sources of energy which are exhaustible and being produced continuously in nature are called nonconventional energy or renewable sources energy. Energy generated by using wind, tides, solar, geothermal heat, and biomass including farm and animal waste as well as human excreta is example of nonconventional sources of energy.
[B] Greater
[C] The same
[D] Depends on the type of radio waves
Correct Answer: [C] The same
Explanation: Both the light waves and radio waves are electromagnetic radiations and move with same velocity.
[B] Karen Uhlenbeck
[C] Robert Langlands
[D] Yakov Sinai
Current Affairs March 2019
Correct Answer: [B] Karen Uhlenbeck
[B] Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai
[C] Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar
[D] Justice Tirath Singh Thakur
Current Affairs March 2019
Correct Answer: [A] Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose
[B] Sunil Gavaskar
[C] P Chidambaram
[D] Arun Jaitley
Current Affairs March 2019
Correct Answer: [A] Raghuram Rajan
[B] Mission Dhanush
[C] Mission Shakti
[D] Mission Buddha
Current Affairs March 2019
Correct Answer: [C] Mission Shakti
[B] International trade
[C] Copyright
[D] Generic drugs
Current Affairs March 2019
Correct Answer: [C] Copyright