1. Alpha-keratin is a protein present in which thing?
Answer: Wool
2. Where was the first session of the Constituent Assembly held?
Answer: New Delhi
3. Which of the following is used as ‘a moderator in a nuclear reactor?
Answer: Graphite
4. Which planet looks reddish in the night sky?
Answer: Mars
5. What was the source of the blue gemstone, lapis lazuli, for the people of Harappan culture?
Answer: Afghanistan
6. Sachin Tendulkar scored his 100th international century against which’ country?
Answer: Bangladesh
7. In baseball, the two opposing teams consist of how many players?
Answer: 9 players each
8. The improper function of which results in condition ‘Myxedema’ in human beings?
Answer: Thyroid gland
9. In 1610, Galileo Galilei discovered four moons of which planet?
Answer: Jupiter
10. In the Vedic society, which was the term used to denote a group of families?
Answer: Grama
11. Who was the Chairman’ of the Union Constitution Committee of the Constituent Assembly?
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru
12. Which element does not occur in nature but can be produced artificially?
Answer: Plutonium
13. When had India a planned holiday?
Answer: After the drought of 1966
14. How are Latitude and Longitude?
Answer: Perpendicular to each other
15. Does philosophy hold that the world is created and maintained by Universal Law?
Answer: Jain Philosophy
16. Which book is authored by V.S. Naipaul?
Answer: A House for Mr. Biswas
17. Which can be used for biological control of mosquitoes?
Answer: Gambusia 18. Right to freedom
18. Which proclamation of National Emergency automatically suspends?
Answer: Right to freedom
19. The latitude of a place is the same as which place?
Answer: Celestial pole
20. What was the script used in the earliest Tamil inscriptions?
Answer: Brahmi
