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Disha Publication AFCAT G.K Question Bank
Disha Publication AFCAT G.K Question Bank
1. Which one of the following Indus Valley Civilization sites 14. Who was the first ruler of the Slave dynasty?
evidence of a stadium?
(a) Qutubuddin Aibak (b) Iltutmish (a) Harappa (b) Kalibangan (c) Sultan Mahmud (d) Balban (c) Mohenjodaro (d)
Dholavira 15. Who abolished Iqta system?
2. Indus Valley Civilization was discovered by: (a) Qutubuddin Aibak (b) Iltutmish
(c) Cunningham (d) Wheeler
(a) Dayaram Sahni (b) R. D. Banerji (c) Balban (d) Alauddin Khilji 16. The Turkish brought with them musical instruments.
3. Who is the most important God in Rigaveda? (a) Rabab and Sarangi (b) Sitar and Flute
(a) Agni (b) Indra (c) Veena and Tabla (d) Tanpura and Mridanga (c) Varun (d) Vishnu 17. Amir Khusro wrote his famous masanavi
Ashiqa on the
4. The expounder of Yoga philosophy was : order of (a) Patanjali (b) Shankaracharya (a) Alauddin Khilji (b) Khizra Khan (c) Jaimini (d)
Gautam (c) Rai Karan (d) Rani Kamla Devi
5. The river most mentioned in Rigveda is : 18. The Sultan who desecrated the Puri Jagannath temple and Jwalamukhi temple at Kangra
was
(c) Saraswati (d) Gandakk (c) Firoz Shah Tughlaq (d) Sikandar Lodk
(c) Badauni (d) Ahmad Yadgat (a) Tipu Sultan (b) Hyder Alk
27. Mansabdari system of the Mughals had its origin in (c) Krishnadeva Raya (d) Rajaraja II
(a) Persia (b) Arabia 37. The statement, We have crippled over enemy without mak- (c) Central Asia (d) India ing our friends
too formidable, is associated with
28. The offsprings of which Mughal emperor were born in a (a) Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
Sufis Khanqah instead of the Mughal haramA (b) Third Anglo-Mysore Wat
29. Which one of the following was the first English ship that
came to IndiaA 38. To overthrow the British rule, Kuka Movement was organised in
42. Who among the following British persons admitted the Re- (c)
Bharuch (d) Mumbai volt of 1857 as a national revolt?
34. Who among the following introduced Cashewnut, Pineapple (a) Lord Dalhousie (b) Lord Canning and Tobacco in
India?
43. Poverty and the Un-British Rule in India was written by (c)
French (d) Portuguese
(a) Dadabhai Naoroji
35. Who was Sir George Oxenden?
(a) Barua Committee (b) Ramaswamy Committee (c) Sikri Committee (d) Swarn Singh Committee
129. Which one of the following is not a part of the basic struc- ture of the Indian Constitution ? (a) Rule of law (b) Secularism
(c) Republican form of government (d) Parliamentary form of government
130. What was the duration in the making of Indian Constitution ? (a) 1 Year 10 Months and 12 Days (b) 2 Years 10 Months and 5 Days
(c) 2 Years 11 Months and 18 Days (d) 3 Years 6 Months and 7 Days
131. To be officially recognized by the speaker of Lok Sabha as an opposition group, a party or coalition of parties must have at least
(a) 50 memberu (b) 60 memberu (c) 80 memberu (d) 1/3 of total members of the Lok Sabhc
132. How many times has Financial Emergency been declared in India so far? (a) 5 times (b) 4 times (c) once (d) Never
133. Which one of the following taxes is levied and collected by the Union but distributed between union and states? (a) Corporation tax
(b) Tax on income other than on agricultural income
(c) Tax on railway fares and freightu (d) Customu
134. Which of the following subjects lies in the concurrent list? (a) Agriculture (b) Education (c) Police (d) Defence
135. According to our Constitution, the Rajya Sabha (a) is dissolved once in two years. (b) is dissolved every five years. (c) is dissolved
every six years. (d) is not subject of dissolution
136. If the position of President and Vice-President are vacant, who officiates as the President of India? (a) The Prime
Minister (b) The Chief Justice of India
(c) The Speaker of Lok Sabha (d) None of these
137. Voting right by the youth at the age of 18 years was exer- cised for the first time in the general election of (a) 1987 (b) 1988
(c) 1989 (d) 1990 138 The Council of Ministers is collectively responsible to which
140. The speaker of the Lok Sabha can resign his office by ad- dressing his resignation to (a) The President (b) The Prime Minister
(c) The Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha (d) The Chief Justice of India
141. A committee appointed in 1977 to review working of the Panchayti Raj was chaired by
(a) Balwant Rai Mehta (b) Ashok Mehta (c) K.N. Katju (d) Jagjivan Ram
142. Panchayati Raj in India represents: (a) Decentralization of powers (b) Participation of the people (c) Community development (d)
All of these
of the following? 143. National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme was launched
(a) Prime Minister (b) President initially in:
(c) Rajya Sabha (d) Lok Sabha (a) 100 districts (b) 200 districts (c) 330 districts (d) All the districts
139. Right to vote is a 144. When was the concept of the HDI introduced by the United
(a) Social right (b) Personal right Nations Development Programme?
(c) Political right (d) Legal right (a) 1990 (b) 1991 (c) 1993 (d) 1995
145. In India, the first Municipal Corporation was set up in which one among the following?
(b) connect India digitally with other worlds economies (c) link all railways digitally (d) display the government data and statistics
by means
of displayed digits
148. The mobile court in India is brainchild of: (a) Justice Bhagwati (b) Mr. Rajiv Gandhi (c) Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (d) Mrs. Pratibha
Patil
149. Which one of the following Amendments of the Constitu- tion of India deals with the issue of strengthening of the Panchayati
Raj?
(a) 42nd (b) 44th (c) 73rd (d) 86th
150. The disputes regarding the election of the President and Vice-President of India are decided by the-
(a) Parliament (b) Election Commission (c) Supreme Court (d) High Court
151. Acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in India is ap- pointed by the (a) Chief Justice of Supreme Court (b) Prime Minister
(c) President (d) Law Ministet
152. The system of Judicial Review exists in (a) India only (b) U.K. only (c) U.S.A only (d) India and U.S.A
153. The Supreme Court of India was set up by the (a) Regulating Act, 1773 (b) Pitts India Act, 1984 (c) Charter Act, 1813 (d) Charter
Act, 1833
154. The first High/Supreme Court judge, who voluntarily made his assets public is
(a) Justice D.V.S. Kumar (b) Justice K. Chandra (c) Justice K. Kannan (d) Justice V.C. Srivastava
155. Which of the following writs literally means we commandA 165. The mirror used by a dentist to examine the
teeth of patients
iu
(a) Habeas Corpus (b) Mandamus (a) Concave (b) Convez
171. The special technique used in ships to calculate the depth (a)
Charless law of ocean beds is (b) Boyles law (a) LASER (b) SONAR
(c) Archimedes principle (c) sonic boom (d) reverberation (d) Bernoullis principle 172. When a body is stationary, then
162. At which temperature the centigrade and Fahrenheit scales (a) there is no force acting on it are equal?
22 2
178. Acid rain is caused due to air-pollution by (c)N (d) CO 2 2
(a) carbon dioxide 190. The water and mineral salts are transported to the various organs by which of the following?
180. Which has maximum calorific value? (a) Tree (b) Grass
(c) Aristotle (d) Theophrastus (c) Ichthyology (d) Lepidopterology 200 The scientist who firstly explained about the blood circula-
211. What term denotes the organisms getting their food from
tion others ?
(a) A. Leeuwenhoek (b) William Harve{ (a) Heterotrophs (b) Autotrophs
(c) J.G. Mendel (d) Ronald Rou (c) Producers (d) Synthesizers
201. Which of the following is not a water pollutant ? 212. Supersonic jet causes pollution by thinning of (a) Zinc (b) Copper (a)O layer
3
(b) C layer (c) Nickel (d) Sulphur dioxide (c) SO layer (d) O layer
2 2 2
202. Eco-Mark is given to the Indian products that are 213. The concept of carbon credit originated from which one of the following ?
(a) Pure and unadulteratef (a) Kyoto protocol (b) Earth summit
(b) Rich in proteins (c) Doha round (d) Montreal Protocol (c) Environment-friendly 214. Which one of the following energy is
most utilized in biom- (d) Economically viable ass ? 203. The United Nations Convention on climate change ratified (a)
Atomic energy (b) Solar energy by more than 50 countries became effective on (c) Geothermal energy (d) Tidal energy (a) March
21, 1994 (b) May 21, 1995 215. Which one of the following is not included under the basic (c) June 21, 1996 (d) June 21, 1999
component of the environment ? 204. The orderly sequence of change in the vegetation of an area (a) Abiotic component (b)
Biotic component over time is described as (c) Energy component (d) Spatial component (a) biomes (b) succession 216. The use of
fossil fuels is responsible for the increase in the (c) trophic level (d) climax amount of which gas in the atmosphere ? 205. Which
one of the following trees is considered to be an (a) Nitrogen (b) Carbondioxide environmental hazard ? (c) Ozone (d) Argon (a)
Babool (b) Amaltas 217. Which one of the following is not helpful in maintaining (c) Neem (d) Eucalyptus ecological stability?
206. Solar radiation plays the most important role in the (a) Ecosystem complexity (a) Carbon cycle (b) Oxygen cycle (b)
Ecosystem diversity (c) Water cycle (d) Nitrogen cycle (c) Ecosystem uniformity 207. Endangered species are listed in (d)
Homeostatic mechanism (a) Dead Stock Book (b) Red Data Book
(c) Live
218. A pesticide which is a chlorinated hydrocarbon is sprayed
Stock Book (d) None of these
on a food crop. The food chain is: Food crop Rat Snake
208. Mangrove forests in Asia are largely concentrated in Hawk. In this food chain, the highest concentration of the pesticide would
accumulate in which one of the following ?
209. Which one of the following is not related to water pollution ? 219. Earth summit was held in (a) Eutrophication (a) Chicago
(b) Nitrification (b) Copenhagen (c) Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) (c) Rio de Janeiro (d) Oil slicks (d) London 210. Which one of
the following is designated as the lungs of 220. The use of microorganism metabolism to remove pollutants the world ? such as
oil spills in the water bodies is known as (a) Mangrove forests (a) biomagnification (b) Mid-latitude mixed forests (b) bioremediation (c)
Taiga forests (c) biomethanation (d) Equatorial evergreen forests (d) bioreduction
221. With which sport the term Caddie is associated? 234. The sportsperson Soma Biswas is associated with
(a) Polo (b) Golf (a) Sailing (b) Hocke{ (c) Bridge (d) Billiards (c) Golf (d) Athleticu
Who is the highest wicket taker in the world in one day cricket?
222. 235. Which one of the following countries had hosted the first winter Paralympic Games?
(a) Kapil Dev
start? the 400 m raceA (a) 1857 (b) 1877 (a) 1955 (b) 1958 (c) 1897 (d) 1898
259. The journalist who refused to accept Padma Bhushan was? (a) Shekaran Nair (b) Khushwant Singh
(c) Ratan Thiyao (d) Arun Shourie
260. Which among the following states has won the 10th Na- tional Award for Excellence work in Mahatma Gandhi Na- tional
Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)? (a) Madhya Pradesh (b) Karnataka (c) West Bengal (d) Haryana
261 Admiral Gorshkov, the Soviet aircraft carrier imported by India is now named (a) INS Vikrant (b) INS Vikramaditya (c) INS
Virat (d) INS Vishaal
262. Which of the following organizations has Sarvatra Sarvottam Suraksha as its slogan? (a) Border Security Forece
(b) Sikh Light Infantr{ (c) Indian Air Force (d) National Security Guarf
263. At which of the following places is the Headquarters of South Western Air Command located?
(a) Vadodara (b) Jodhput (c) Pune (d) Gandhinagat
264. Who of the following was the Chief of Army at the time of Indo-Pak war of 1971? (a) General PP Kumaramangalam (b) Field
Marshall SHFJ Manekshaw
(c) General JN Chaudhark (d) General KS Thimayyc
265. Which of the following was the first aircraft inducted by the Indian Air Force (then Royal Indian Air Force) in 1932? (a) de
Havilland Tiger Moth (b) Westland Wapiti
(c) Supermarine Spitfire (d) Fairchild Packet
266. Which one among the following is the unit raised to protect the naval assets?
(a) Sagar Rakshak Bal (b) Sagar Suraksha Bal (c) Sagar Prahari Bal (d) Sagar Nigrani Bal
267. Indian Army's counter-insurgency school is situated in (a) Kanker (b) Srinagar (c) Tezpur (d) Vairengte
268. Dhanush, a missile inducted into the Indian Navy (a) is a customized and naval variant of Prithvi missile (b) has a
range of 700 km (c) can be launched from an aircraft (d) cannot carry nuclear warheads
269. The commando unit of the Indian Air Force is named (a) Baaz (b) Garud (c) MARCOS (d) Ghatak
270. On which of the following dates is the Navy Day celebrated in India?
(a) January 15 (b) October 8 (c) December 4 (d) February 3
271. Lt Commander Abhilash Tomy of the Indian Navy became the first Indian to complete a solo, unassisted, non-stop
circumnavigation of the world in 2013. What was the name of the vessel used by him?
(a) INSV Mandovi (b) INSV Mhadek (c) INS Abhimanyu (d) INS Abha{
272. At which of the following places is the Indian National De- fence University being set up? (a) Medak, Andhra Pradesh (b) Amethi,
Uttar Pradesh
(c) Gurgaon, Haryanc (d) Kasargod, Keralc
273. At which of the following places is the College of Defence Management located?
(a) Dehradun (b) Pune (c) Secunderabad (d) Chennak
274. The highest official rank of Air Force is _________. (a) Air Marshal (b) Supreme Marshal (c) Air Chief Marshal (d) Chief of Air
Force
275. DRDL stands for (a) Defence Research and Development Laboratary (b) Department of Research and Development Laboratory (c)
Differential Research and Documentation Laboratary (d) None of the above
276. Who was the first Indian Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army ? (a) Gen. K.M. Cariappa (b) Vice-Admiral R.(D) Katari
(c) Gen. Maharaja Rajendra Singhjk (d) None of the above
277. Which was the first missile boat of India? (a) INS Vinash (b) INS Khukri (c) INS Shakti (d) INS Ajay
278. Which was the first tanker naval ship in India? (a) INS Vinash (b) INS Khukri (c) INS Shakti (d) INS Ajay
279. Which was the first nuclear reactor in India? (a) Apsara (b) CIRUS (c) Dhruva (d) Kaiga
280. Who among the following is associated with first nuclear explosion in Pokhran?
(a) (C)N.R. Rao (b) Homi.J.Bhabhc (c) Anil Kakodkar (d) Raja Ramannc
281. When was UAV Nishant induct? (a) 1996 (b) 1998 (c) 2000 (d) 2003
282. Which is the first indigenous aircraft of India? (a) HT-2 (b) Mikoyan MiG-25 (c) HF-25 MKI (d) Sukhoi Su-30 MKI
283. Which is the first trisonic aircraft of India? (a) HT-2 (b) Mikoyan MiG-25 (c) HF-25 MKI (d) Sukhoi Su-30 MKI
284. Which is the first tactical surface-to-surface missile of In- dia?
(a) Akash (b) Trishun (c) Nag (d) Prithvk
285. Which is the first long-range multiple-target missile in In- dia?
(a) Akash (b) Agnk (c) Brahmos (d) Prithvk
286. When was INS Prahar inducted in Indian Navy? (a) 1991 (b) 1992 (c) 1993 (d) 1997
287. Cryogenic engines are used in (a) rockets and spacecrafts (b) atomic reactors (c) defrost refrigerators (d) doing research connected
with superconductivity.
288. What is the source of electrical energy in an artificial satel- lite ? (a) Solar cells (b) Mini nuclear reactor
(c) Dynamq (d) Thermopile
289. The fastest super computer of the world is (a) Param Yuva II (b) Tianhe-2 (c) IBM Road runner (d) Titan
290. Which one of the following organisations is not related to science and technology ?
(a) DST (b) CSIT (c) ICSSR (d) DAG
291. Satish Dhawan Space Centre is located in (a) Vishakhapatnam (b) Goa (c) Sriharikota (d) Chennai
292. HAL is related to manufacturing of (a) Telecommunication equipments (b) Aircrafts (c) Space missiles (d) War missiles
293. If an apple is released from an orbiting spaceship, it will (a) fall towards the earth (b) move of a lower speed (c) move along with
the spaceship at the same speed (d) move at a higher speed
294. Missile Astra is a (a) land to land missile (b) land to air missile (c) air to air missile (d) water to land missile
295. When did India make first nuclear weapon explosion ? (a) 15th May, 1964 (b) 18th May, 1974 (c) 11th May, 1989 (d) 13th May,
1998
296. Which one of the following is not a space satellite? (a) SLV-3 (b) RS-D1 (c) IRS-1D (d) INSAT-2D
297. Mobile IP provides two basic functions (a) route discovery and registration (b) agent discovery and registration (c) IP binding and
registration (d) none of the above
298. Which is a satellite based tracking system that enables the determination of a persons position? (a) Bluetooth (b) WAP
(c) Short message service (d) Global positioning systeo
299. The first operational remote sensing satellite from India was (a) IRS-P6 (b) P4 (c) IRS 1A (d) CARTOSAT 1
300 The fastest computer developed by the NASA is (a) Columbia (b) Pleiades (c) Blue Gene (d) Param