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Q1:

2025: 19 May Shift 1

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Culture & Literature

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Match List-I with List-II

List-I	List-II
(Books)	(Authors)
(A) Kinship Organisation in India	(I) R. S. Sharma
(B) Perspectives in Social and Economic History of Early India	(II) V. S. Sukthankar
(C) On the Meaning of the Mahabharata	(III) Romila Thapar
(D) Cultural Pasts: Essays in Early Indian History	(IV) Iravati Karve

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(A) - (I), (B) - (II), (C) - (IV), (D) - (III)

(A) - (II), (B) - (I), (C) - (III), (D) - (IV)

(A) - (IV), (B) - (I), (C) - (II), (D) - (III)

(A) - (III), (B) - (IV), (C) - (I), (D) - (II)

Correct Answer

Option 3

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q2:

2025: 19 May Shift 1

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Match List-I with List-II

List-I	List-II
(Books)	(Authored/Edited by)
(A) The Other Side of Silence : Voices from the Partition of India	(I) Alok Bhalla
(B) India's Partition: Process, Strategy and Mobilization	(II) Urvashi Butalia
(C) Remembering Partition : Violence, Nationalism and History in India	(III) Mushirul Hasan
(D) Stories about the Partition of India	(IV) Gyanendra Pandey

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(A) - (II), (B) - (III), (C) - (IV), (D) - (I)

(A) - (I), (B) - (III), (C) - (IV), (D) - (II)

(A) - (I), (B) - (II), (C) - (IV), (D) - (III)

(A) - (III), (B) - (IV), (C) - (I), (D) - (II)

Correct Answer

Option 1

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q3:

2025: 19 May Shift 1

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Who has been awarded with Sahitya Akademi award 2024 for Hindi?

Gagan Gill

Mamta Kalia

Anamika

Badrinarayan

Correct Answer

Option 1

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q4:

2025: 16 May Shift 1

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Match List-I with List-II

List-I	List-II
(Book)	(Author)
(A) A Bend in the River	(I) John Milton
(B) Areopagitica	(II) P. B. Shelley
(C) A Suitable Girl	(III) V. S. Naipaul
(D) Adonis	(IV) Vikram Seth

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(A) - (I), (B) - (II), (C) - (III), (D) - (IV)

(A) - (II), (B) - (I), (C) - (III), (D) - (IV)

(A) - (I), (B) - (II), (C) - (IV), (D) - (III)

(A) - (III), (B) - (I), (C) - (IV), (D) - (II)

Correct Answer

Option 4

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q5:

2025: 16 May Shift 1

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Khayal is a _______

Classical Indian Dance

Folk Dance

Form of Hindustani Music

Form of Hindstani Musical Instrument

Correct Answer

Option 3

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q6:

2025: 15 May Shift 1

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Culture & Literature

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Who among the following is the author of The Great Indian Novel?

Shashi Tharoor

Sanjaya Baru

Amitav Ghosh

Vikram Seth

Correct Answer

Option 1

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q7:

2025: 15 May Shift 1

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Natyashastra, the earliest treatise on performing arts in Sanskrit, was written by who among the following?

Jayadeva

Bharata Muni

Kalidasa

Harshvardhana

Correct Answer

Option 2

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q8:

2025: 14 May Shift 2

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Match List-I with List-II

List-I	List-II
(Books)	(Authors)
(A) The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World	(i) Han Kang
(B) Man-eaters of Kumaon	(II) William Dalrymple
(C) Mother	(III) Maxim Gorky
(D) The Vegetarian	(IV) Jim Corbett

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(A) - (II), (B) - (IV), (C) - (III), (D) - (I)

(A) - (II), (B) - (IV), (C) - (I), (D) - (III)

(A) - (IV), (B) - (II), (C) - (III), (D) - (I)

(A) - (III), (B) - (IV), (C) - (II), (D) - (I)

Correct Answer

Option 1

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q9:

2025: 14 May Shift 1

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Which of the following books are correctly matched with their authors?

(A) Humayun Nama - Gulbadan Begum

(B) Akbar Nama - Abul Fazl

(C) Badshah Nama - Abdul Hamid Lahori

(D) Alamgir Nama - Muhammad Waris

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(A), (B) and (C) only

(A), (B) and (D) only

(A), (C) and (D) only

(B), (C) and (D) only

Correct Answer

Option 1

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q10:

2025: 14 May Shift 1

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Which of the following dance forms of India is wrongly matched with the state of its origination?

Sattriya - Assam

Bharatanatyam - Tamil Nadu

Mohiniyattam - Karnataka

Kuchipudi - Andhra Pradesh

Correct Answer

Option 3

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q11:

2025: 14 May Shift 1

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Culture & Literature

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Which of the following authors is wrongly matched with their books?

Maxim Gorky - Mother

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay- Pather Panchali

Edmund Wilson - Paradise Lost

Correct Answer

Option 4

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q12:

2025: 13 May Shift 2

General Knowledge

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Culture & Literature

Hard

Put the following Ramon Magsaysay awardees in chronological order of receiving awards?

(A) Tadashi Hattori

(B) Miriam Coronel Ferrer

(C) Firdausi Qadri

(D) Nguyen Thi Ngoc Phuong

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(A), (C), (B), (D)

(B), (A), (C), (D)

(B), (D), (C), (A)

(C), (A), (B), (D)

Correct Answer

Option 4

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q13:

2025: 13 May Shift 2

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Culture & Literature

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MAtch List-I with List-II

List-I	List-II
Books	Authors
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(A) Material Culture and Social Formation in Early India	(I) D.N. Jha
(B) Inscriptions of Ashoka	(II) D.C. Sircar
(C) Ashoka and the Decline of the Mauryas	(III) R.S. Sharma
(D) Early India: A Concise History	(IV) Romila Thapar

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(A) – (III), (B) – (II), (C) – (IV), (D) – (I)

(A) – (I), (B) – (III), (C) – (II), (D) – (IV)

(A) – (II), (B) – (I), (C) – (IV), (D) – (III)

(A) – (III), (B) – (IV), (C) – (I), (D) – (II)

Correct Answer

Option 1

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q14:

2025: 13 May Shift 2

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Culture & Literature

Easy

Who is the author of 'The City and its Uncertain Walls'?

Haruki Murakami

Louis Gluck

Orhan Pamuk

Holly Gramazio

Correct Answer

Option 1

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q15:

2025: 13 May Shift 2

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Culture & Literature

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Which of the following musicians belong to Carnatic music?

(A) Girija Devi

(B) Thyagaraja

(C) M.S.Subbulaxmi

(D) Muthuswami Dikshitar

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(A), (B) and (D) only

(A), (B) and (C) only

(A), (C) and (D) only

(B), (C) and (D) only

Correct Answer

Option 4

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q16:

2025: 13 May Shift 2

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Culture & Literature

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Annual Festival of Letters $2025$ of Sahitya Akademi was held between:

7-12 March $2025$

7-12 February $2025$

14-19 March $2025$

12-17 February $2025$

Correct Answer

Option 1

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q17:

2025: 13 May Shift 1

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Match List-I with List-II

List-I	List-II
Author	Novel/Play
(A) William Shakespeare	(I) Man of Destiny
(B) Lewis Carroll	(II) The Tempest
(C) E M Forster	(III) Through the Looking Glass
(D) Bernard Shaw	(IV) A Passage to India

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(A) - (I), (B) - (II), (C) - (III), (D) - (IV)

(A) - (II), (B) - (III), (C) - (IV), (D) - (I)

(A) - (III), (B) - (II), (C) - (I), (D) - (IV)

(A) - (III), (B) - (IV), (C) - (I), (D) - (II)

Correct Answer

Option 2

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q18:

2025: 13 May Shift 1

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Culture & Literature

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The first Tirthankara in Jainism is believed to be......

Arishtanemi

Sambhavnath

Rishabhnath

Mahavira

Correct Answer

Option 3

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q19:

2024

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Match List-I with List-II :
List-I Person	List-II Area of work
(A) Vishakhadatta	(I) Medicine
(B) Kartikeya Sarabhai	(II) Poet
(C) Charaka	(III) Environmentalist
(D) Satyendra Nath Bose	(IV) Mathematics

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :-

(A) - (I), (B) - (III), (C) - (IV), (D) - (II)

(A) - (II), (B) - (III), (C) - (I), (D) - (IV)

(A) - (II), (B) - (I), (C) - (III), (D) - (IV)

(A) - (III), (B) - (IV), (C) - (I), (D) - (II)

Correct Answer

Option 2

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q20:

2024

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Culture & Literature

Easy

Sri Ranganathswamy Temple which is situated in Tamil Nadu, is dedicated to which deity ?

Lord Shiva

Lord Vishnu

Goddess Durga

Goddess Lakshmi

Correct Answer

Option 2

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q21:

2024

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Match List-I with List-II :
List-I Centre of Handicraft	List-II State
(A) Mon	(I) Arunachal Pradesh
(B) Nalbari	(II) Assam
(C) Pasighat	(III) Meghalaya
(D) Tura	(IV) Nagaland

Match List-I with List-II:

(A) - (IV), (B) - (II), (C) - (I), (D) - (III)

(A) - (I), (B) - (III), (C) - (IV), (D) - (II)

(A) - (IV), (B) - (III), (C) - (I), (D) - (II)

(A) - (I), (B) - (II), (C) - (IV), (D) - (III)

Correct Answer

Option 1

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q22:

2023: 19 June Shift 1

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Ancient Indian Smriti texts do not include :

Sutras

Samhitas

Puranas

Ramayana

Correct Answer

Option 2

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q23:

2023: 19 June Shift 1

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Culture & Literature

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The tomb of famous musician 'Tansen' is located at :

Agra

Gwalior

Jhansi

Jaipur

Correct Answer

Option 2

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q24:

2023: 19 June Shift 1

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Which film won the 'Film of the Year' category award in the recent Dada Saheb Phalke National Film Festival Award 2022 ?

Shershaah

Pushpa : The Rise

KGF - 2

Tadap

Correct Answer

Option 1

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q25:

2023: 19 June Shift 1

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Culture & Literature

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Who won the 2022 'Jnanpith Award'

Jhumka Lahiri

Damodar Mauzo

Chitra Banerjee

Rumaan Alam

Correct Answer

Option 2

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q26:

2023: 19 June Shift 1

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Culture & Literature

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Which country of the world won the FIFA world cup maximum number of times ?

Brazil

France

Argentina

U.S.A

Correct Answer

Option 1

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q27:

2023: 15 June Shift 2

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Culture & Literature

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Match List - I with List - II.

List - I (Important Days)	List - II (Date)
(1) National Youth Day	(I) 28th February
(2) Army Day	(II) 12th January
(3) National Science Day	(III) 15th March
(4) National Safety Day	(IV) 4th March

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(1)-(II), (2)-(III), (3)-(IV), (4)-(I)

(1)-(II), (2)-(III), (3)-(I), (4)-(IV)

(1)-(III), (2)-(II), (2)-(I), (4)-(IV)

(1)-(IV), (2)-(III), (3)-(I), (4)-(II)

Correct Answer

Option 2

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q28:

2023: 15 June Shift 2

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Culture & Literature

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Which of the following was the mascot of the third edition of Khelo India University Games 2023?

Ritu

Jitu

Minku

Kitu

Correct Answer

Option 2

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q29:

2023: 15 June Shift 2

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Culture & Literature

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The National Sports Day in India is celebrated in the memory of whom?

Major Dhyan Chand

Dhanraj Pillay

Roop Singh

Abhinav Bindra

Correct Answer

Option 1

Correct Answer

Explanation

Q30:

2023: 11 June Shift 2

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Culture & Literature

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'An Area of Darkness' book is written by __________?

Louis Fischer

James Harriot

V. S. Naipaul

Adam Smith

Correct Answer

Option 3

Correct Answer

Explanation

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