1.Which Indian state would you be in if you were watching birds at Ranganathittu Birds Sanctuary, situated on an island in the Kaveri river?

Karnataka
Tamil Nadu
Andhra Pradesh

2. Which India born physicist invented the ‘Optical Fibre’ ?
Satyendra Nath Bose
Homi J. Bhabha
Narinder Singh Kapany

3. ‘Ace’, ‘Double fault’, ‘Smash’, Second service’, and ‘Game point’ terms are related with which sport ?
Tennis
Squash
Table Tennis

4. In which city would you come across ‘Deeksha Bhoomi’, where Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar had embraced Buddhism along with thousand of his Dalit followers on 14 October 1956 ?
Bodh Gaya (Bihar)
Sarnath (Uttar Pradesh)
Nagpur (Maharashtra)

5. The weapon based Dravidian martial art ‘Silambam’ is native of which south Indian state ?
Kerala
Tamil Nadu
Andhra Pradesh

6. The Constitution of India can be best described as :
Purely federal
Purely unitary
Partly federal and partly unitary

7. Which article of Indian Constitution gives right to the Attorney General of India to speak in Houses of Parliament or their committee?
Article 76
Article 89
Article 96

8. In which city would you come across Sidi Bashir Mosque, famous for its Shaking Minarets (Jhulta Minar) ?
Agra (Uttar Pradesh)
Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh)
Ahmedabad (Gujarat)

9. Diseases like ‘Marasmus’ and ‘Kwashiorkor’ are caused due to deficiency of which nutrient ?
Protein
Iodine
Vitamin D

10. Which US city is popularly known as the ‘City of the Golden Gate’ ?
New York
Washington
San Francisco
Los Angeles

Answers:- 1.Karnataka 2.Narinder Singh Kapany 3.Tennis 4.Nagpur 5.Tamil Nadu 6.Partly federal and partly unitary 7.Article 76 8.Ahmedabad  9.Protein 10.San Francisco

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