Mark-100 Time-50 Minute
Chung Sajak
1. Which is the highest sporting honor in India?
A) Arjuna Award
B) Dronacharya Award
C) Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award
D) Dhyan Chand Award
2. The Arjuna Award is presented for which of the following?
A) Sports coaching excellence
B) Lifetime contribution in sports
C) Outstanding performance in sports
D) Sports promotion at the university level.
3. Which award is given to coaches for producing medal winners in international sports events?
A) Arjuna Award
B) Dronacharya Award
C) Dhyan Chand Award
D) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy
4. What is the Dhyan Chand Award given for?
A) Coaching young athletes
B) Outstanding university in sports
C) Lifetime achievement in sports
D) Promoting rural sports
5. Which award is presented for the promotion and development of sports at various levels?
A) Arjuna Award
B) Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar
C) Dronacharya Award
D) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy
6. The Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy is awarded to the best:
A) Coach in India
B) Athlete in Olympic events
C) University for sports promotion
D) Sports journalist
7. Which award was earlier known as the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award?
A) Dhyan Chand Award
B) Arjuna Award
C) Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award
D) Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar
8. Who is the first Indian to win the Laureus World Sports Award in 2020?
A) P.V. Sindhu
B) Sachin Tendulkar
C) Abhinav Bindra
D) Virat Kohli
9. The “Wisden Cricketer of the Year” title has been awarded to which type of individuals?
A) Only bowlers
B) Only British cricketers
C) Outstanding cricketers worldwide
D) Only Indian domestic players
10. The Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy is associated with which award?
A) Olympic gold medal
B) Best cricket coach award
C) ICC Cricketer of the Year
D) Best university for sports
11. The Golden Foot Award is associated with which sport?
A) Cricket
B) Athletics
C) Football
D) Chess
12. Which Indian footballer was nominated for the Golden Foot Award?
A) Bhaichung Bhutia
B) Gurpreet Singh Sandhu
C) Sunil Chhetri
D) Sandesh Jhingan
13. The Ekalavya Award is a sports honor from which Indian state?
A) Kerala
B) Karnataka
C) Andhra Pradesh
D) Tamil Nadu
14. Which state presents the Sher-i-Kashmir Sports Award?
A) Punjab
B) Himachal Pradesh
C) Jammu & Kashmir
D) Uttarakhand
15. The Chhatrapati Shivaji Award is presented by which Indian state?
A) Gujarat
B) Maharashtra
C) West Bengal
D) Rajasthan
16. The Biju Patnaik Sports Award is a sports honor from which Indian state?
A) Odisha
B) Bihar
C) Jharkhand
D) Assam
17. Which state presents the Veer Abhimanyu Award for sports achievements?
A) Punjab
B) Haryana
C) Uttar Pradesh
D) Madhya Pradesh
18. The Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal is awarded for excellence in which field?
A) Athletics
B) Chess
C) Mountaineering
D) Marathon
19. The FIFA Puskás Award is given for what achievement?
A) Best goalkeeper performance
B) Best football coach
C) Best football team
D) Best goal of the year
20. The Houdini Award is associated with which game?
A) Badminton
B) Chess
C) Tennis
D) Archery
21. Who built the Taj Mahal in Agra?
A) Akbar
B) Humayun
C) Shah Jahan
D) Aurangzeb
22. The Red Fort in Delhi was built by which Mughal emperor?
A) Akbar
B) Babur
C) Shah Jahan
D) Jahangir
23. The Qutub Minar was started by Qutb-ud-din Aibak and completed by whom?
A) Iltutmish
B) Alauddin Khilji
C) Babur
D) Balban
24. What is the India Gate in Delhi primarily known as?
A) Triumphal Arch
B) Victory Tower
C) War Memorial
D) Fort Gate
25. Where is the Gateway of India located?
A) Kolkata
B) Mumbai
C) Chennai
D) Goa
26. The Charminar in Hyderabad was built by:
A) Aurangzeb
B) Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah
C) Tipu Sultan
D) Alauddin Khilji
27. The largest dome in India is found in which monument?
A) Taj Mahal
B) Jama Masjid
C) Gol Gumbaz
D) Charminar
28. The Sanchi Stupa, one of the oldest stone structures in India, was commissioned by:
A) Chandragupta Maurya
B) Harsha
C) Ashoka
D) Kanishka
29. The Ajanta Caves are known for:
A) Hindu rock temples
B) Mughal miniature paintings
C) Buddhist rock-cut cave monuments
D) Jain pilgrimage sites
30. The Ellora Caves in Maharashtra are famous because they:
A) Were built during the Mughal era
B) Are only Buddhist caves
C) Are a UNESCO World Heritage Site
D) Are natural caves
31. Where is the Mehrangarh Fort located?
A) Udaipur
B) Jodhpur
C) Jaipur
D) Bikaner
32. Which is the largest fort in India by area?
A) Red Fort
B) Gwalior Fort
C) Chittorgarh Fort
D) Amer Fort
33. The Gwalior Fort is located in which Indian state?
A) Rajasthan
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) Madhya Pradesh
D) Gujarat
34. The Amber Fort near Jaipur was built in which architectural style?
A) Dravidian
B) Mughal
C) Indo-Islamic
D) Rajput
35. The Mysore Palace is located in which Indian state?
A) Kerala
B) Tamil Nadu
C) Karnataka
D) Andhra Pradesh
36. Who built the Brihadeeswarar Temple in Tamil Nadu?
A) Rajendra Chola
B) Rajaraja Chola I
C) Kulothunga Chola
D) Karikala Chola
37. The Konark Sun Temple is designed in the form of a:
A) Lotus
B) Mountain
C) Ship
D) Chariot
38. Kedarnath Temple is dedicated to which deity?
A) Lord Vishnu
B) Lord Shiva
C) Lord Krishna
D) Goddess Durga
39. The Meenakshi Temple in Tamil Nadu is primarily dedicated to:
A) Goddess Lakshmi
B) Goddess Durga
C) Goddess Meenakshi
D) Goddess Saraswati
40. The Golden Temple in Amritsar is the holiest shrine of which religion?
A) Hinduism
B) Jainism
C) Sikhism
D) Buddhism
41. When was the Supreme Court of India established?
A) 1949
B) 1950
C) 1951
D) 1952
42. In which year was the Election Commission of India established?
A) 1947
B) 1950
C) 1952
D) 1955
43. Where is the headquarters of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)?
A) Kolkata
B) Delhi
C) Mumbai
D) Hyderabad
44. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India was established in which year?
A) 1949
B) 1955
C) 1971
D) 1960
45. When was the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) established?
A) 1930
B) 1926
C) 1950
D) 1947
46. In which year was the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) established?
A) 1960
B) 1947
C) 1963
D) 1971
47. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) was established in which year?
A) 1992
B) 1988
C) 1980
D) 1995
48. Which is the first Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) established in India?
A) IIT Delhi
B) IIT Bombay
C) IIT Madras
D) IIT Kharagpur
49. In which year was the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad established?
A) 1965
B) 1960
C) 1961
D) 1971
50. When was the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) founded?
A) 1962
B) 1965
C) 1969
D) 1972
51. When was the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) established?
A) 1948
B) 1950
C) 1958
D) 1962
52. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) was founded in which year?
A) 1940
B) 1942
C) 1945
D) 1948
53. In which year was the State Bank of India (SBI) established?
A) 1950
B) 1955
C) 1956
D) 1949
54. When was the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) established?
A) 1954
B) 1955
C) 1956
D) 1960
55. The National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India was set up in which year?
A) 1990
B) 1991
C) 1992
D) 1993
56. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) was established in which year?
A) 1940
B) 1942
C) 1950
D) 1960
57. In which year did Indian Railways begin operations?
A) 1850
B) 1851
C) 1853
D) 1857
58. Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) was established in which year?
A) 1965
B) 1973
C) 1971
D) 1975
59. When was the Press Trust of India (PTI) founded?
A) 1947
B) 1948
C) 1950
D) 1951
60. The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) was established in which city and year?
A) Mumbai, 1962
B) Pune, 1960
C) Chennai, 1959
D) Delhi, 1961
61. Who is credited with the invention of zero in mathematics?
A) Euclid
B) Aryabhata
C) Pythagoras
D) Archimedes
62. The Decimal System was first developed in which country?
A) Greece
B) Egypt
C) India
D) China
63. Who invented the radio?
A) Thomas Edison
B) Alexander Graham Bell
C) Nikola Tesla
D) Guglielmo Marconi
64. Who invented the telephone?
A) Michael Faraday
B) Alexander Graham Bell
C) Guglielmo Marconi
D) Nikola Tesla
65. Who is known as the inventor of the television?
A) John Logie Baird
B) Thomas Edison
C) Guglielmo Marconi
D) James Clerk Maxwell
66. The electric bulb was invented by which scientist?
A) Nikola Tesla
B) Alexander Graham Bell
C) Thomas Edison
D) Michael Faraday
67. Who invented dynamite?
A) Alfred Nobel
B) Alexander Fleming
C) Robert Boyle
D) Thomas Edison
68. X-rays were discovered by which scientist?
A) Wilhelm Roentgen
B) Ernest Rutherford
C) Marie Curie
D) J.J. Thomson
69. Who discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic?
A) Louis Pasteur
B) Edward Jenner
C) Alexander Fleming
D) Robert Koch
70. Insulin, used in the treatment of diabetes, was discovered by?
A) Watson and Crick
B) Banting and Best
C) Fleming and Nobel
D) Salk and Sabin
71. Who is credited with improving the Steam Engine significantly, making it practical for use?
A) George Stephenson
B) Thomas Newcomen
C) James Watt
D) Nikola Tesla
72. Who invented the first successful aeroplane?
A) Charles Lindbergh
B) Wright Brothers
C) Amelia Earhart
D) Igor Sikorsky
73. The first modern automobile was invented by which person?
A) Henry Ford
B) Karl Benz
C) James Watt
D) Rudolf Diesel
74. Who is known for advancing rocketry in India and is called the “Missile Man of India”?
A) Homi Bhabha
B) Vikram Sarabhai
C) Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
D) Satish Dhawan
75. Who is regarded as the “Father of the Computer”?
A) Steve Jobs
B) Alan Turing
C) Charles Babbage
D) Bill Gates
76. Who invented the World Wide Web (WWW)?
A) Vint Cerf
B) Tim Berners-Lee
C) Bill Gates
D) Larry Page
77. The concept of email was first implemented by whom?
A) Tim Berners-Lee
B) Bill Gates
C) Ray Tomlinson
D) Steve Jobs
78. Who developed the first effective vaccine for polio?
A) Edward Jenner
B) Albert Sabin
C) Jonas Salk
D) Alexander Fleming
79. What was the name of the first artificial satellite launched into space?
A) Aryabhata
B) Apollo 11
C) Sputnik 1
D) Explorer 1
80. What is Chandrayaan-3, launched in 2023, known for?
A) First Indian satellite
B) India’s mission to Jupiter
C) Successful soft landing on the Moon
D) India’s Mars mission
81. What is the smallest unit of computer memory?
A) Byte
B) Bit
C) KB
D) Nibble
82. How many bits are there in a byte?
A) 2
B) 4
C) 8
D) 16
83. How many bytes are there in 1 Kilobyte (KB)?
A) 1000
B) 1024
C) 512
D) 256
84. 1 Megabyte (MB) is equal to:
A) 1000 KB
B) 1024 KB
C) 2048 KB
D) 512 KB
85. What is the value of 1 Gigabyte (GB)?
A) 1000 MB
B) 1024 MB
C) 2048 MB
D) 512 MB
86. Which unit is larger than a Gigabyte (GB)?
A) Megabyte
B) Kilobyte
C) Terabyte
D) Byte
87. What is the role of RAM in a computer?
A) Stores permanent files
B) Runs the operating system
C) Temporarily holds data for active processes
D) Displays graphics
88. What is a feature of Dynamic RAM (DRAM)?
A) Doesn’t need refreshing
B) Is permanent memory
C) Requires continuous refreshing
D) Stores BIOS
89. How is Static RAM (SRAM) different from DRAM?
A) Uses magnetic storage
B) Slower than DRAM
C) Doesn’t require refreshing
D) Is used as hard drive
90. Which type of memory is non-volatile and stores permanent data?
A) RAM
B) DRAM
C) SRAM
D) ROM
91. What is EPROM?
A) A type of volatile memory
B) A ROM that can be erased and reprogrammed
C) A type of RAM
D) A type of cache memory
92. How is EEPROM erased?
A) By exposing to UV light
B) By electrical signals
C) By magnetic fields
D) By physical removal
93. Which storage device uses magnetic disks for data storage?
A) SSD
B) HDD
C) Flash Memory
D) Optical Disk
94. What is a key advantage of SSD over HDD?
A) Larger capacity
B) Uses magnetic storage
C) Faster data access and no moving parts
D) Lower cost
95. What is Cache Memory?
A) A large storage unit for long-term data
B) A small, high-speed memory near the CPU
C) A type of external storage
D) A type of virtual memory
96. What is Virtual Memory?
A) Physical RAM
B) A portion of hard drive used as extra RAM
C) Cache memory
D) ROM memory
97. Flash Memory is commonly used in:
A) Optical disks
B) Hard drives
C) USB drives and memory cards
D) Cache memory
98. Which of the following is an example of optical storage?
A) SSD
B) CD
C) Flash drive
D) RAM
99. Cloud Storage means:
A) Storing data on your local hard drive
B) Storing data on remote servers accessed via the internet
C) Storing data on USB drives
D) Storing data in RAM
100. What are Registers in a CPU?
A) Large external storage devices
B) Small storage units inside CPU for fast instruction processing
C) Secondary memory units
D) Part of virtual memory
