21. Which of the following was the first Harappan site excavated in Independent India?
(A) Desalpur
(B) Ropar
(C) Lothal
(D) Kalibangan

22. Prashasti of Samudragupta in the form of a poem in Sanskrit was composed by which poet that was inscribed on the Ashokan pillar at Allahabad?
(A) Bhasa
(B) Banabhatta
(C) Harishena
(D) Bharavi

23. Khizr Khan was a ruler of Delhi, belonged to which of the following dynasties ?
(A) Tughlaq Dynasty
(B) Lodi Dynasty
(C) Sayyid Dynasty
(D) Turkish Dynasty

24. By whom the Fort William College located at Kolkata was founded in year 1800 ?
(A) Richard Wellesley
(B) Jonathan Duncan
(C) Warren Hastings
(D) Lord William Bentinck

25. Match the following events of the Indian National Movement with the year they had taken place:
(i) Peasant movement in Bardoli (a) 1921
(ii) Mahatma Gandhi visited Noakhali (b) 1918
(iii) Gandhiji began wearing a loincloth (c) 1946
(iv) Mill workers strike in Ahmedabad (d) 1928
(A) (i)-(d), (ii)-(b), (iii)-(c), (iv)-(a)
(B) (i)-(b), (ii)-(c), (iii)- (d), (iv)-(a)
(C) (i)-(d), (ii)-(c), (iii)-(a), (iv)-(b)
(D) (i)-(d), (ii)-(c), (iii)-(b), (iv)-(a)

26. The teachings of Mahavira and his followers were transmitted orally for several centuries, they were written down about 1500 years ago, presently. those are available at which of the following places?
(A) Shravasti, Uttar Pradesh
(B) Shravanabelagola, Karnataka
(C) Valabhi, Gujarat
(D) Patna, Bihar

27. The Government of India Act, 1935 was the longest Act passed by the British Parliament for India. The Act originally passed, being very lengthy, was divided into two separate acts namely, the Government of India Act, 1935 and ___________ .
(A) Government of Burma Act, 1935
(B) Government of Cripps Act, 1935
(C) Government of White Act, 1935
(D) Government of Dhaka Act, 1935

28. The partition of Bengal infuriated people all over India and Swadeshi Movement had taken place in deltaic Andhra, it was known by which of the following names?
(A) Vande Movement
(B) Revolutionary Movement
(C) Vandemataram Movement
(D) Home Rule Movement

29. After suspending the Non-Cooperation movement in the year 1922, Gandhiji was arrested at Ahmedabad and sentenced to simple imprisonment for how many years ?
(A) Three
(B) Six
(C) Eight
(D) Four

30. All the space between particles of soil and gaps between rocks are filled with water, the upper limit of this layer is called:
(A) Water Level
(B) Water Layer
(C) Water Table
(D) Water Bed

31. Subhash Chandra Bose had come to East Asia on an invitation from which of the following on June 13, 1943 ?
(A) Barindra Kumar Ghosh
(B) Chittaranjan Das
(C) Saratchandra Bose
(D) Rasbihari Bose

32. Which part of the Himalayas is composed of unconsolidated sediments brought down by rivers?
(A) The Assam Himalaya
(B) The Kumaon Himalaya
(C) The Purvachal Range
(D) The Shiwalik Range

33. Which of the following is also called “Brown Coal” ?
(A) Lignite
(B) Sub-bituminous
(C) Coke
(D) Anthracite

34. El-Nino is the complex weather system that appears once every three to seven years. Here what is the meaning of the word El-Nino ?
(A) Child Christ
(B) Monsoon Child
(C) Early Monsoon
(D) Happy Monsoon

35. Which of the following desert contains large sand dunes up to 250 metres (820 feet) high and the largest contiguous area of sandy desert on Earth ?
(A) The Sonora Desert
(B) The Rub al Khali Desert
(C) The Atacama Desert
(D) The Namib Desert

36. Where was the first Export Processing Zone (EPZ) of Asia set up in India?
(A) Kandla, Gujarat
(B) Santa Cruz, Maharashtra
(C) Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
(D) Falta, West Bengal

37. Which edition of the Five-Year Plan aimed at accelerating food grain production, increasing employment opportunities & raising productivity with focus on ‘food, work & productivity’. and that was very successful
(A) First
(B) Seventh
(D) Fifth
(C) Sixth

38. Who among the following was “the father of Indian Economic planning”?
(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) Dr. Norman Borlaug
(C) M. Visvesvaraya
(D) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

39. During its first phase, Operation Flood linked 18 of India’s premier milksheds with consumers in India’s four major metropolitan cities. Which of the following cities was not the part of this operation ?
(A) Bengaluru
(C) Mumbai
(B) Chennai
(D) Kolkata

40. Which chapter of the Equal Remuneration Act, 1976 contains payment of remuneration at equal rates to men and women workers and other matters?
(A) Chapter I
(B) Chapter IV
(C) Chapter III
(D) Chapter II