GK Questions Quiz with Answers

The Prehistoric Age refers to the period before writing and development. The stone age is a prehistoric period in which weapons and tools were made of stone or organic materials such as bone, wood or horn.

Mahatma Gandhi led a non-violent Civil Disobedience Movement in colonial India known as the Salt March, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, the Dandi March, and the Dandi Satyagraha. By 1930, the Congress Party had announced that the only goal of the liberation movement should be Poorna Swarajya or total independence.

In 1961, drawing on the principles agreed at the Bandung Conference of 1955, the Non-Aligned Movement was formally established in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, through an initiative of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Ghanaian President Kwame ...

The cotton textiles which the Portuguese took back to Europe, along with the spices, came to be called "calico" (derived from Calicut), and subsequently calico became the general name for all cotton textiles.

The correct answer is All of the above. Hampi is an ancient village in the Indian state of Karnataka. Hampi's name is derived from that of the local mother goddess, Pampadevi. On the south bank of the River Tungabhadra is the 7th-century Virupaksha Temple, near the revived Hampi Bazaar.

Mughal Architecture is the blend of Indian and Persian elements that makes Mughal architecture so unique. Typical features include huge, onion-shaped domes crowning commemorative monuments, with smaller domed buildings and minarets standing symmetrically on either side.

The great Lichchavi clan ruled Vaishali in the sixth century BC, and the empire extended up to the hills of Nepal. The Lichchavi state is considered to be the first republican state of Asia.

Important Points In 1919, Gandhiji gave a call for a satyagraha against the Rowlatt Act that the British had just passed. The Act curbed fundamental rights such as the freedom of expression and strengthened police powers. Mahatma Gandhi, Mohammad Ali Jinnah and others felt that the government had no right to restrict people’s basic freedoms. They criticised the Act as “devilish” and tyrannical. Gandhiji asked the Indian people to observe 6 April 1919 as a day of non-violent opposition to this Act, as a day of “humiliation and prayer” and hartal (strike). Satyagraha Sabhas were set up to launch the movement. The Rowlatt Satyagraha turned out to be the first all-India struggle against the British government although it was largely restricted to cities. In April 1919 there were a number of demonstrations and hartals in the country and the government used brutal measures to suppress them. The Jallianwala Bagh atrocities, inflicted by General Dyer in Amritsar on Baisakhi day (13 April), were a part of this repression. On learning about the massacre, Rabindranath Tagore expressed the pain and anger of the country by renouncing his knighthood. Based on the above discussion, we can conclude that both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

Procedure for the election of the members of Rajya Sabha is adopted from the South African Constitution. 2. The ideal of justice (social, economic and political) in the preamble is adopted from Japanese Constitution.