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Modern History › Advent of Europeans
Who among the following Europeans were the last to come to pre-independence India as traders?
(a)
Dutch
(b)
English
(c)
French
(d)
Portuguese
(C)
Modern History › Council Acts, Commissions
The first Factory Act restricting the working hours of women and children and authorizing local governments to make necessary rules was adopted during whose time?
Lord Lytton
Lord Bentinck
Lord Ripon
Lord Canning
Modern History › Freedom Movement Personalities
Who among the following wrote the book ‘Babuvivah’?
Raja Rammohan Roy
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Pandita Ramabai
Rabindranath Tagore
(B)
The song ‘Amar Sonar Bangla’ written during the Swadeshi Movement of India inspired the liberation struggle of Bangladesh. Who wrote this song?
Rajni Kanta Sen
Dwijendralal Ray
Mukunda Das
(D)
Off Topics › Books
Who among the following wrote the book – Ayodhya: 6 December 1992?
Chandra Shekhar
P.V. Narasimha Rao
Jaswant Singh
Arun Shourie
Who wrote the book ‘The Story of the Integration of the Indian States’?
B.N. Rau
C. Rajagopalachari
Krishna Menon
V.P. Menon
Off Topics › National,International Prize(Not Nobel)
The Pulitzer Prize is associated with which one of the following ?
Environmental protection
Olympic games
Journalism
Civil Aviation
Off Topics › Sports
Who was Leander Paes’s partner when he won the Doubles Final in the US Open Tennis Tournament 2006?
Max Mirnyi
Martin Damm
Bob Bryan
Mike Bryan
Who among the following was chosen as the FIFA World Player of the Year for the year 2006?
Zinedine Zidane
Fabio Cannavaro
Ronaldinho
Thierry Henry
Polity › Amendment
Which of the following Constitution Amendment Acts seeks to limit the size of the Councils of Ministers at the Centre and in a State to 15% of the total number of members?
91st
93rd
95th
97th
(A)