Top 50 Solved GK (General Knowledge) Questions for NDA Exam

Solved GK (General Knowledge) Question for NDA 2017

1. Where has the ‘Great Bath’ been excavated? Mohenjo-Daro


2. What materials were used in making Harappan weapons? Stone , Copper and Bronze


3. Which Gupta rurer is known as the ‘Indian Napoleon’? Samudragupta


4. In which year did Nicolo Contivisit Vijiayanagar ? 1420


5. Who built the famous ‘ Victory Tower’ and ‘VijayaStambha’ at chittor to celebrate his victory over Malwa ?
   
   
   
   1. Rana Kumbha
   
   
   
   


6. The Bengal Gazette or Calcutta General Advertiser brought out in 1780 by James Augustus Hickey


7. Hsuan-Tsang (also spelt YaanChwang ) visited Indian during the reign of Harsha


8. Ancient literture refers to five fold division of India. The term ‘Aparanta’ or ‘Pratichya’ refers to
   
   
   
   1. Western India
   
   
   
   


9. What was the main motto of Ramkrishna Mission? To provide social service to the people


10. Who was first to accept the ‘Sub-sidiary Alliance’ ?                                                     The Nizam of Hyderabad


11. As the evidence from Koldihwa in the Belan Valley shows rice seems to have been domesticated in India by about : 7000 B.C.


12. Among the few four Vedas, which one is a collection of spells and charms ? Atharvaveda


13. The Brahmanas, the Aranyakas and the Upnishadas are attached to one or the other of :
    
    
    
    1. The four Vedas
    
    
    
    


14. MurshidQuli Khan became the diwan of Bengal in : 1700 AD


15. The two popular assemblies which seems to have formed as essential feature of the government during the Age of Rig Veda are : Sabha and Samiti


16. During the Age of Rig Veda, the grains are collectively called : Yava and Dhanya


17. The Second Anglo-Mysore War took place between : 1780-1784 AD


18. Which period is referred as the Classical Age or Golden Age of Ancient India?
    
    
    
    1. Gupta Period (319- 334 AD)
    
    
    
    


19. Akbar the great Mughal Emperor Proclaimed a new religion Din-e-Ilahi in : 1581


20. Guru Nanak Dev-the founded of Sikh religion was born in                                         The year 1469


21. Who estabilshed ‘The Khalsa’ in 1699 ?
    
    
    
    1. Guru Gobind Singh (Tenth Guru of Sikhs)
    
    
    
    


22. Subhash Chandra Bose was elected the president of the Indian National Congress in
    
    
    
    1. The year 1939 at its Tripuri Session
    
    
    
    


23. Where did The Tebhaga Movement of Peasants occur in 1946 ? Bengal


24. Who founded the Ahmedabad Textile LabourAssociation ? MahatamaGhandhi


25. ‘Anekktavad’ is a core theory and Philosophy of which religion ? Jainism


26. The founder of Sunga dynasty was Pushyamitra Sunga


27. The East India Company secured the Dewani from
    
    
    
    1. Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II (1728-1806)
    
    
    
    


28. Who wrote Raghuvansam, Kumarsambhavam, Malvikagnimitram and Abhigyanshakuntalam
    
    
    
    1. Kalidasa
    
    
    
    


29. ‘The Loyal Mohammadans of India’ was the newspaper brought out by :
    
    
    
    1. Sayyid Ahmad Khan
    
    
    
    


30. Who founded the ‘Servants of Indian Society ‘ in 1905 Gopal Krishna Gokhle


31. The biographyofHarshvardhan – Harshcharita was written by : Banabhatta


32. Huin-Tsang, the Chinese traveller visited India during the reigon of :
    
    
    
    1. Harshvardhan’sregion during fifth century A.D.
    
    
    
    


33. The famous book of Huin-Tsang which forms an invaluable source to ancient Indian History is
    
    
    
    1. Si-Yu-Ki
    
    
    
    


34. The three great Chinese Pilgrims who visited India in search of Knowledge , manuscripts and relics between the fifth and seventh centuries A.D. are
    
    
    
    1. Fa Hien, Huin-Tsang, and I- Tsing
    
    
    
    


35. Katyayanaprakarna is book on grammar of : Pali Language


36. The first Carnatic War between the French and the England took place between : 1746 and 1748


37. Swami Vivekanand was born : On January 12, 1863 in Calcutta


38. Who was the commander of revolt of 1857 in Rohilkhand ? Ahmadullah


39. Who wrote the book “The Wonder that was India” ? L. Basham


40. Who said that “The Mythology, as well as cosmogony of the Egyptians ,Greeks and Romans were borrowed from the doctrines of the Brahmins” NanthanielHalhed


41. Vedic Literature includes : Vedas, the Brahmanas , the Aranyakas and the Upanishads


42. The first definite mention of Bharata as a region is to be found in :
    
    
    
    1. Panini who lived about sixth century B.C.
    
    
    
    


43. The Palaeolithic Age in India is divided into three phases namely :
    
    
    
    1. Lower Palaeolithic (Handaxe and cleaver industries) , Middle Palaeolithic (Tools made onflakes ) and upper palaeolithic  ( Tools made on flakes and blades )
    
    
    
    


44. The Harappan civilization was discovered in 1920-21 following excavation :
    
    
    
    1. By R. D. Banerjee (at Mohenjodaro) and By D. R. Sahni (at Harappa)
    
    
    
    


45. Nizam-ul-MulkAsaf Jah founded the state of Hyderabad in : 1724


46. Tipu Sultan was the Sultan (ruler) of Mysore from : 1782 to 1799


47. The Sikh Khalsa was formed to instil a strong martial spirit in the Sikhs by :
    
    
    
    1. Tenth Sikh Guru GuruGovind Singh in 1699
    
    
    
    


48. The Chief of Sukarchakiyamisl (a Sikh confederacy ) was : Maharaja Ranjit Singh


49. Which Sultan of Delhi established a separate agriculture department which planned rotation of crops ?
    
    
    
    1. Mohammad Bin Tughlaq
    
    
    
    


50. The Dharm Chakra Pravartan mentioned in the Buddist test is :
    
    
    
    1. The first sermon delivered by Buddha at Sarnath