The Indus Valley Civilization

1.

The main Characteristic of the Indus Valley Civilization was-Ans. Planning and system.

2.

To that age the Indus valley Civilization belongs?

Ans. Neolithic Age

3.

Which metals were largely create the tools and weapons of Harappa Civilization?
Ans. Copper and bronze.

4.

Who published the first Harappan seal?

Ans. Alexander Cunningham

5.

Indus Valley Civilization covered which modern day Indian states?

Ans. Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana, and Punjab

6.

Which metal was not known to the Harappan people?

Ans. Iron

7.

At which places in Indus Valley Civilization rice husks have been found?
Ans. Lothal and Rangpur.

8.

Who discovered the Indus site, Harappa?

Ans. Dayaram Sahni

9.

The Indus Valley Civilization extendedAns. from Balochistan to Gujarat.

10.

Which God the people of Indus Valley civilization was worshiped ?

Ans. Pasupati

Previous Years Exam from Ancient History

1. The source of Swastika symbol Indus Valley
2. Who is considered as the father of Indian archaeoloy Alexander Cunningham

3. Meter scale has been discovered from Harappa

4. Weapon never used by the Indus people Sword
5. What was the major industry in Chanhudaro? Bead making
6. The word Sindhan used by the Indus people denoted Cotton
7. Evidence of fractional burial has been excavated from Harappa

8. The word godhume used in the vedic period denote Wheat

9. Y ava denoted Barley
10. Term used to denote rice in the vedic text Vrihi

11. Vedic term sita denoted Ploughed field

12. Which veda mentions about wheel Rigveda
13. Vedi terms Urvara or kshetra denoted Cultivated field
14. The famous frog hymn in Rig Veda throws light to Vedic education
15. Who was considered as the god of the vedas? Varuna

16. Rigvedic term Duhitri denoted Milker of cows

17. Method used to calculate the number of cows in the Vedic period Ashtakarni
18. Part of which veda has prose part Yajur Veda
19. Who spread Aryan religion in South India Agasthya
20. Vedic term Aghanya denotes Cows

21. The term Bharata and Bharatavarsha were first used in Rig Veda
22. Upanishad which mentions the four Ashramas of Vedic period Jabala Upanishad
23. Largest number of hymns in Rigveda a are in praise of Indra
24. Edict which mentions about the relation between India and China Nagarjunakonda

25. First town in the vedic period to use burned bricks Kausambi
26. First reference about lending money for interest can be found in Satpatha Brahmana
27. Rigvedic paintings have been discovered from Bhagvanpura. It is in which
state Haryana
28. Upanishad which mentions about police system Brihadaranyaka Upanishads

29. God who was considered as God of Gods Varuna

30. Community which was considered as untouchables by the Buddhists. Chandalas
31. The language used by the Jains to spread their religion Prakrit
32. Who is considered as the St.John of Buddhism Ananda
33. Who is considered as Devil by the Buddhists Mara

34. Three daughters of Mara lust, emotion and desire

35. The ruler who persecuted Buddhists Pushyamitrasunga
36. Major philosophic school of Bhagvatism Vishishtadvaita
37. Earliest reference about Srikrishna can be found in Chandoghya Upanishad
38. Hindu God who found place in Greek literature Sri Krishna

39. Jain Thirthankara, who was related to Sri Krishna Rishabhadeva (Ist Thirthankara)

40. Tamil god of the Sangham age for War and Victory Kottavai
41. Saint who founded the Saivism Lakulisa
42. Tamil kingdom of the Sangham Age which sent an ambassador to the court of Roman
Emperor Augusts Pandyas
43. First Sangham was founded by Saint Agasthya

44. Famous poetess of the Sangham period Avvaiyar

45. Greeco-Roman traders who visited South India during the Sangham period were denoted
with the term Yavanas
46. Sangham work which describes about Buddhism Manimekhalai
47. The word used by Ashoka to denote Buddha Bhagavati

48. Ashokan inscriptions were desciphered by James prince in the year 1837
49. Indo-Greek ruler who had his boundaries upto Pataliputra Menander

50. Y uchi ruler who introduced gold coins for the first time Vima Kadphesus

Indian Geography:
1. What is the total length of Indian Coastal Area ?
Answer: 6083 Km (7516.6 Km, including Andaman and lakshadeep)
2. What is the number of states having coastal area ?
Answer: 9
3. Which States has the largest coastline in India ?
Answer: Gujarat
4. Which is the second maritime state (second largest coastline) in India ?
Answer: Andhara pradesh
5. Which state has least coastal area ?
Answer: Goa
6. What is the width of West Coast ?
Answer: 50 Km
7. What is the width of East Coast ?
Answer: 100Km
Important questions about Major Ports (Harbors) in India
Before studying ports in India you should know the states having coastal area, because all

the nine coastal states have ports.

1. Which are the states having coastal area ?
Answer: Gujarat , Maharashtra , Goa , Karnataka , Kerala < those are in West coast.
West Bengal , Odisha , Andhara Pradesh , Tamil Nadu < those are in East coast
2. Which is the Major port situated in Gujarat ?
Answer: Kandla(child of partition)
3. Which is the Tidal Port in Gujarat ?
Answer: Kandla
4. Which are the Major port situated in Maharashtra ?
Answer: Mumbai , Nhava Sheva
5. Which is the largest port in India ?
Answer: Mumbai
6. Which port is known as Jawaharlal Nehru Port ?
Answer: Nhava Sheva
7. Which is the Major port in Goa ?
Answer: Marma Goa
8. Which is the Iron ore exporting port in India ?
Answer: Marma Goa
9. Which is the Major port in Karnataka ?
Answer: New Mangalore Port
10. Which is the Major port in Kerala ?
Answer: Kochi
11. Which are the ports in West Bengal ?
Answer: Kolkata , Haldia(riverine port)
12. Which is the Major port in Odisha ?
Answer: Paradip Port---raw iron to japan
13. Which is the Major port situated in Andhara pradesh ?
Answer: Visakhapatnam
14. Which is the deepest port in India ?
Answer: Visakhapatnam
15. Which port is known as Jewel of all port ?
Answer: Visakhapatnam
16. Which are the ports in Tamil Nadu ?
Answer: Chennai , Tuticorin ports, Ennore Port

17. Which is the Oldest port in India ?

Answer: Chennai
18. Which is the Southern most port in India ?
Answer: Tuticorin ports
19. Which is the newest port in India ?
Answer: Port Blair

About INDIAN Constitution

1. When was the Constituent Assembly convened ?
Answer: 1946
2. When was the first session of the Constituent Assembly held ?

Answer: 9 December, 1946

3. Under which Plan was the Constituent Assembly constituted ?
Answer: Cabinet Mission Plan

4. Who was the President of the Constituent Assembly ?

Answer: Dr. Rajandra Prasad
5. Who was the Chairman of the Drafting Committee ?
Answer: B R. Ambedkar

6. When was the drafting of the Indian Constitution completed and adopted ?
Answer: 26 November, 1949
7. When was the Constitution of India put into effect ?

Answer: 26 January ,1950

8. Since when India became a Republic ?
Answer:26 January, 1950

9. Who was the first President of the India ?

Answer: Dr. Rajendra Prasad
10. Who was the first Vice- President of the Indian Union ?
Answer: Radhakrishnan

11. Who was the first Prime Minister of the Indian Union ?
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru
12. Who was the last Governor- General (Viceroy) of British India ?

Answer: Lord Mountbatten

13. Who was the first Governor- General of Independent India ?
Answer: Lord Mountbatten

14. When adopted the National Flag of India ?

Answer: July 21st 1947 by The Constituent Assembly

15. Who set forth the main objectives of the Constituent Assembly in the form of the Objective
Resolution ?

Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru

16. How many articles are there in the Indian Constitution ?
Answer: 448 Articles

17. How many Fundamental Rights have been guaranteed by the Indian Constitution ?
Answer: 6(six)
18. How many Fundamental Duties have been assigned to the citizens of India ?

Answer: 10(ten)
19. Who appoints the Prime minister of India ?
Answer: The President of India
20. How is the President of India elected ?

Answer: Every elected member of the legislative assembly of a State shall have as many votes as
there are multiples of one thousand in the quotient obtained by dividing the population of the
state by the total number of elected members of the Assembly;

21. What is the name of the Upper House of the Indian Parliament?
Answer: Rajya Sabha
22. What is the name of the Lower House of the Indian Parliament?

Answer: Lok Sabha

23. Who presides over the session of the Lok Sabha?
Answer: The Speaker
24. Who presides over the session of the Rajya Sabha?

Answer: The Vice-President of India

25. which article give special status to Jammu & Kashmir ?
Answer: Article 370

26. Who appoints the Governors of States?

Answer: The President of India
27. What is the total number of members in the Lok Sabha?
Answer: 552

28. What is the number of elected members in the Lok Sabha?

Answer: 530
29. How many members constitute the Rajya Sabha?

Answer: 250

30. How are the members of the Rajya Sabha elected?

Answer: Membership is limited to 250 members, 12 of whom are nominated by the President of
India for their contributions to art, literature, science, and social services.

31. who designed rupee symbol?

Answer: symbols adoption in July 2010 by D Udaya Kumar
32. who designed Indian flag ?

Answer: The Indian national flag was designed in 1916 by Pingali Venkayya from Vijayawada
33. What is the tenure of Lok Sabha?
Answer: 5 years
34. Which is the highest Judicial Court of India?

Answer: The Supreme Court

35. How many Judges constitute the Supreme Court?
Answer: 30 Judges

36. How many times till 2013 the Parliamentary Elections have been held?
Answer: 15 times
37. A citizen of how many years of age can cast vote?

Answer: 18 years
38. How many Indian Territories are there in the Indian Union?
Answer: 7 (seven)
39. How many times (January 2013) Indian Constitution has been amended?

Answer: 98 times
40. How many high court in India
Answer: India's unitary judicial system is made up of the Supreme Court of India at the national

level, for the entire country and the 24 High Courts at the State & Union territory level.

Important Questions about Borrowed Features in Indian Constitution

1 . From Which country Indian Constitution Borrowed Fundamental Rights ?
Answer: America (USA)
2. From Which country Indian Constitution Borrowed Supreme Court?
Answer: America (USA)
3. From Which country Indian Constitution Borrowed Preamble ?
Answer: America (USA)
4. From Which country India Borrowed Written Constitution ?
Answer: America (USA)
5. From Which country Indian Constitution Borrowed Fundamental Duties ?

Answer: Russia (USSR)

6. From Which country India Borrowed Fiv e year Plan ?
Answer: Russia (USSR)
7 . From Which country Indian Constitution Borrowed Speaker in Lok Sabha ?
Answer: Britain (UK)
8. From Which country Indian Constitution Borrowed Parliamentary Election ?
Answer: Britain (UK)
9. From Which country Indian Constitution Borrowed Election Commission ?
Answer: Britain (UK)
1 0. From Which country Indian Constitution Borrowed 'Suspension of Fundamental Rights during
the Em ergency' ?
Answer: Germ any
1 1 . From Which country Indian Constitution Borrowed Concurrent list ?
Answer: Australia
1 2. From Which country Indian Constitution Borrowed Federal Sy stem ?
Answer: Canada
1 3. From Which country Indian Constitution Borrowed Union - State List ?
Answer: Canada
1 4. From Which country Indian Constitution Borrowed Amendment of the Constitution ?
Answer: South Africa
1 5. From which country Indian Constitution Borrowed Directive principles
Answer: Ireland
Following are the borrowed features of constitution from different countries.
From U.K.

From U.S.

Nominal Head President (like Queen)

Cabinet Sy stem of Ministers

Post of PM

Parliamentary Ty pe of Gov t.

Bicameral Parliament

Lower House more powerful

Council of Ministers responsible to Lowe House

Speaker in Lok Sabha

Written Constitution

Ex ecutive head of state known as President and his being

the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces

V ice- President as the ex -officio Chairman of Rajy a Sabha

Fundamental Rights

Supreme Court

Prov ision of States

Independence of Judiciary and judicial review

Preamble

Remov al of Supreme court and High court Judges

Fundamental Duties

Fiv e y ear Plan

Concurrent list

Language of the preamble

Prov ision regarding trade, commerce and intercourse

From JAPAN

Law on which the Supreme Court function

From WEIMA R CONSTITUION

OF GERMANY

Suspension of Fundamental Rights during the emergency

From CANADA

Scheme of federation with a strong centre

Distribution of powers between centre and the states and

placing. Residuary Powers with the centre

Concept of Directive Principles of States Policy(Ireland

borrowed it from SPAIN)

Method of election of President

Nomination of members in the Rajy a Sabha by the President

From USSR

From AUSTRALIA

From IRELAND

Asked Questions about Constitution Amendments in competitive exams

1 . Which am endment is known as Mini constitution ?
Answer: 42 n d amendment (1976)
2. In which am endment did the Pream ble amended ?
Answer: 42 n d amendment
3. In which am endment did Right to property is removed from the Fundamental Rights ?
Answer: 44 t h am endment (197 8)
4. In which am endment did the v oting age is lowered form 21 to 1 8 ?
Answer: 61 st amendment (1989)
5.which am endment created the National Capital Territory of Delhi ?
Answer: 69 st am endment (1991)
6. Which am endment lead to the creation of Panchayat Raj ?
Answer: 7 3 st amendment (1992)

Latest GK questions about Constitution Articles in competitive exams

1 . Fundamental Right are granted to citizens under which Article ?
Answer: Article 12 to 35
2. 'Right to Equality' is guaranteed to the citizens of India under Article ?
Answer: Article 14
3. Article 17 of the Indian Constitution provides for ?
Answer: Abolition of Untouchability
4. Which article deals with Right to elementary Education ?
Answer: Article 21 A
5. Which article is known as Necessary Evil ?
Answer: Article 22
6. Which article has banned employment of children below the of 14 in hazardous industries and
factories ?
Answer: Article 24
7 . Which article is known as Heart and Soul of the Constitution ?
Answer: Article 32
*8.Which article deals with Organization of v illage panchayat?
Answer: Article 40
*9.Which article deals with Uniform civil code?
Answer: Article 44
1 0. Which article deals with the free and compulsory education to all children below 14 y ears of
age ?
Answer: Article 45
1 1 . Which Article deals with the Fundamental Duties ?
Answer: Article 51 A
1 2. Which Article relates to the establishment of Finance Commission ?
Answer: Article 280
*1 3. Which article of constitution deals with . Public Service Commissions for the Union and for the
States?
Answer: Article 315
1 4. Which is the Article that provides special status to the state of Jammu and Kashmir ?
Answer: Article 370
GK questions about Information Technology (IT) and fathers.
1 . Who is the Father of Com puter ?
Answer: Charles Babbage
2. Who is the Father of Com puter Science ?
Answer: Alan Turing

3. Who is the Father of artificial intelligence ?

Answer: Alan Turing
4. Who is the Father of Personal Com puter ?
Answer: Henry Edward Roberts
5. Who is the Father of Binary Code ?
Answer: Eugene Paul Curtis
6. Who is the Father of Binary Digit Computer ?
Answer: Konrad Zuse (worlds first binary digit computer >> Z1)
7 . Who is the Father of Digital Com puter ?
Answer: Howard Aiken
8. Who is the Father of Electronic Digital Computer ?
Answer: John Vincent Atanasoff
9. Who is the Father of Analog Computer ?
Answer: Lord Kelv in
1 0. Who is the Father of Super Com puter ?
Answer: Sey mour Cray
1 1 . Who is the Father of Indian Super Computer ?
Answer: Vijay Bhatkar
1 2. Who is the Father of Inform ation Technology ?
Answer: Claude Shannon