SOCIAL SCOENCE

 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1.      When was the first Five Year Plan introduced?

Answer: 1st April 1951 (1st April 1951  – 31st march, 1960).

2.      When was the first meet of NITI Aayog held?

Answer: 8th Feb 2015.

3.      When from the operation of NITI Aayog started?

Answer: 1st Jan 2015

4.      When was the Planning Commission of India started?

Answer: March 1950.

5.      What does NITI stand for?

Answer: National Institution for Transforming India.

6.      Who is the Chairman of NITI Aayog?

Answer: The Prime Minister.

7.      When was the first Annual Plan introduced?

Answer: April 1966  (April 1966-31st March 1969).

8.      When was the first Human Development Report published?

Answer: In 1990.

9.      When was the twelfth Five Year Plan started?

Answer: April 2012.

10.    Which five Year Plan gave priority to reducing poverty?

Answer: 6th Five-Year Plan.

11.     When was the Northeastern Council constituted?

Answer: 1972.

12.    What does refer to the Expansion of collective choice to the people which includes economic, social, cultural and political choice?

Answer: Human Development.

13.    What does refer to the process of integration of the economy of a nation with the economics of the rest of the world?

Answer: Globalization.

14.    What does devote an instrument to attain a set of well-defined objectives within a definite time period as determined by a central planning agency?

Answer: Economic Planning.

15.    When did the 10th Five-Year Plan begin?

Answer: 1st April 2002.

 

MONEY AND BANKING

1.      When was NABARD established?

Answer: 1982.

2.      Where is the Head Quarter of the Reserve bank of India?

Answer: Mumbai.

3.      When was the Bank of Hindustan first set up in India?

Answer: 1770.

4.      Which is the world’s oldest Central bank?

Answer: Risk bank of Sweden.

5.      Which bank is the Central bank of India?

Answer: Reserve bank of India.

6.      When was the reserve bank of India set up?

Answer: in 1935.

7.      Where is the Head Quarter of NABARD?

Answer: Mumbai.

8.      Where is the Head Quarter of SIDBI?

Answer: Lucknow.

9.      What is the full form of SIDBI?

Answer: Small Industries Development Bank of India.

10.    When was the bill for setting up SIDBI passed?

Answer: 1989.

11.    From which year was the operation of SIDBI started?

Answer: 1990.

12.    Which bank was first set up in Assam in 1926?

Answer: Gauhati Bank.

13.     To which bank has the function of RBI in rural credit been transferred?

Answer: NABARD.

14.    How many RRBs are in India according to the census 2011?

Answer: 57.

15.     What does lack of self-sufficiency lead to?

Answer: Interdependence.

16.     Which festival is related to the traditional Barter system in Assam?

Answer: Jonbeel Mela.

17.    Which money is known as Nervous money?

Answer: Hot Money.

18.     Which bank was first set up in India in 1770?

Answer: Bank of Hindustan.

19.     What Percent of the Total Population of India had a Bank account according to the census of 2011?

Answer:  36%.

20.    What does money on the wings refer to?

Answer: Hot Money.

21.    Which is the Agricultural bank of India?

Answer: NABARD.

22.     In 1975, how many Regional Rural banks (RRBs) were set up in India?

Answer: 5.

24.    What was the second stage in the evolution of money?

Answer: Animal Standard.

25.    What was the third stage of the evolution of money?

Answer: metallic Standard.

26.     What was the fourth stage of the evolution of money?

Answer: Coinage.

27.    What was the fifth stage of the evolution of money?

Answer: Paper Money.

28.    Which type of money is the product of an Economic offence?

Answer: Black Money.

 

INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION-THE UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION

1.      Where is the Head Quarter of NATO?

Answer: Brussels.

2.      When is World Human Rights Day celebrated?

Answer: 10th December.

3.      How many judges are there in the International Court of justice?

Answer: 15.

4.      When was the Human Rights Commission of the UNO established?

Answer: 1946.

5.      How many states put signatures on the UN charter?

Answer: 51 states.

6.      Where is the Head Quarter of Amnesty International?

Answer: London.

7.      When did the National Human Rights come on the act?

Answer: On 8th January 1994.

8.      When did World War – I (first) break out?

Answer: 1914.

9.      When did World War-ii (second) break out?

Answer: 1939.

10.    Who is the present General Secretary of the UNO?

Answer: Ben-ki-moon.

11.     Where is the Head Quarter of the World Economic Forum?

Answer: Geneva.

12.    When was the Human Rights Commission of UNO set up?

Answer: 16th Feb 1946.

13.    When was the National Human Rights Commission of India formed?

Answer: 28th Sept 1993.

14.    Where is the Head Quarter of the Asia Pacific Economic Corporation?

Answer: Singapore.

15.    What is the full form of APEC?

Answer: Asia pacific Economic Corporation.

16.    When was the United Nations formed?

Answer: 24th October 1945.

17.    Where is the Head Quarter of SAARC?

Answer: Kathmandu.

18.    Where is the head Quarter of UNO?

Answer: New York.

19.     At present, how many members are there in UNO?

Answer: 193.

20.     In which conference total of 51 states put signatures on UN Charter?

Answer: San Francisco Conference.

21.     What is the judicial organ of the UNO?

Answer: International Court of justice.

22. How many judges International Court of justice formed with?

Answer: 15

23. How many total numbers of Article is in UN Charter?

Answer: 111 articles.

24. How many total numbers of permanent numbers are there in the Security Council?

Answer: 5

25. How many total numbers of member are there in the economic and Social Council?

Answer: 54

26. Where is the Head Quarter of the International Hockey Federation?

Answer: Lousen, Switzerland.

27. Where is the Head Quarter of the International Renewable Energy Agency?

Answer: Abu Dhabi.

28. Where is the Head Quarter of the International Cricket Council?

Answer: Dubai.

29. Where is the Head Quarter of FIFA?

Answer: Zurich.

30. Where is the Head Quarter of ASEAN?

Answer: Jakarta.

31. Where is the Head Quarter of the Commonwealth Nation?

Answer: London.

32. What is the full form of IREN?

Answer: International Renewable energy Agency.

33. What is the full form of IHF?

Answer: International Hockey Federation.

34. What is the full form of ICC?

Answer: International Cricket Council.

35. What is the full form of FIFA?

Answer: Federation Internationale de Football Association.

36. What is the full form of ASEAN?

Answer: Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

37. What is the full form of WEA?

Answer; World Economic Forum.

38. What is the full form of SAARC?

Answer: South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation.

 

 INDIAN DEMOCRACY

1. When was the draft copy of the Indian constitution handed over to Dr Rajendra Prasad?

Answer: On 26th November 1949.

2. When was the first sitting of the Constituent Assembly held?

Answer: On 9th December 1946.

3. Who presided over the first sitting of the Constituent Assembly of India?

Answer: Dr Sachidananda Sinha.

4. Who was the President of the Constituent Assembly?

Answer: Dr Rajendra Prasad.

5. Who was the Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Indian Constitution?

Answer: Dr B. R. Ambedkar. 

6. Whom does the President of India appoint as the Chairman of the North East Council?

Answer: One of the Governors of the North East states.

7. In which Article of the Indian Constituion has India been declared as a "Union of the States?"

Answer: Article No - 1.

8. When was the 42nd Amendment of the indian Constitution taken place?

Answer: 18th Dedcember 1976.

9. Whic country is regarded as the 'Homelend of federation?'

Answer: United States of America.

10. Which word was incorporated in the Preamble of Indian Constitution through the 42nd Amendment in 1976?

Answer: Socialist.

11. Where was the federal system first introduced?

Answer: United States of America.

12. How many sittings were held in relation to the preparation of the Indian Constitution?

Answer: 11.

13. When was the Constitution of India adopted?

Answer: 26th November 1949.

14. When did the Constitution of India come into force?

Answer: 26th January 1950.

15. Which county's constitution does India's Parliamentary Democracy follow?

Answer: England.

16. When did the Cabinet Mission come to India?

Answer: March 1946.

17. Who is the head of the state of India?

Answer: The President.

18. Who is the head of England?

Answer: King or Queen of England.  

19. When was the Sarkaria Commission formed?

Answer: 1983.

20. Under which amendment were the words 'Socialist' and 'Secular' incorporated in the Preamble?

Answer: The 42nd Amendment.

PARTITION OF BENGAL AND SWADESHI MOVEMENT

1. Who was the viceroy of India during the Bengal Partition?

Answer: Lord Curzon.

2. During whose tenure was 'The Partition Plan of Bengal' executed?

Answer: Lord Curzon.

3. When was the Anti-Partition Movement of Bengal initiated?

Answer: 7th August 1905.

4. During whose Governor Generalship were the regime Tenant Act 'Rayotari' and 'Mahalwari' systems introduced in India?

Answer: Lord Cornwallis.

5. When did the Partition of Bengal come into force?

Answer: 16th October 1905.

6. In 1905, which British Administrator helped in the formation of the Muslim League?

Answer: Lord Minto.

7. When was the 'Swadeshi and Boycott' adopted as the method of struggle for the first time?

Answer: During the visit of Simon Commission to India.

8. Who composed the song 'Vande Matarm?"

Answer: Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.

9. Which movement was started after the partition of Bengal?

Answer: The swadeshi Movement.

10. When was the regulating Act introduced?

Answer: 1773.

11. When did the unification of Bengal take place?

Answer: December 12, 1911.

12. When was the Assam Province formed?

Answer: February 7, 1874.

13. When was boycott of British goods adopted as a nation policy?

Answer: 1905.

14. Who was the leader of the Swadeshi in Madras?

Answer: Chidambaram Pillai.

15. In which year was the partition of Bengal made by Lord Curzon cancelled?

Answer: 1911.

16. Who led the Swadeshi Movement in Delhi?

Answer: Saye Haidar Raja.

17. Who led the agitation against the partition of Bengal?

Answer: Surendranath Banerjee.

18. Who was the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal during the partition of Bengal?

Answer: Andrew Fraser.

19. Where was the first Indian Industrial Summit held?

Answer: Varanasi.

20. When was the All India Muslim League established?

Answer: 30th December, 1906.

21. What was to be capital of the proposed Eastern Bengal and Assam?

Answer: Dhaka.

22. When was the Allahbad Treaty signed?

Answer: 1765.

23. When was the Bengal National College established?

Answer: 15th August, 1906.

24. Who edited the 'Sandhya' in 1906?

Answer: Brahma Bandhab Upadhyay.

25. When was the National Education Council established?

Answer: 11th March 1906.

26. By what name is the National Education Council also known?

Answer: Jatiya Shiksha Parishad.

27. Who wrote the National Anthem of independent Bangladesh?

Answer: Rabindranath Tagore.

28. Who were the chief architects of the Swadeshi movement?

Answer: Aurobindo Ghosh, Bipin Chandra Pal, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, etc.

29. Which song became the theme song of the Indian National movement?

Answer: Vande Mataram.

30. Who created a new province named ‘East Bengal and Assam’ by adjoining East Bengal to Assam?

Answer: Lord Curzon.

31. Name the two Commissioners who helped lord Curzon during the partition of Bengal.

Answer: Andrew Fraser and J. Bamfylde.

32. When did Lord Curzon send the proposal for the Partition of Bengal to the Secretary of state for India, in London for necessary approval?

Answer: On 2^nd February 1905.

33. In which journal was ‘Bangar Sarbanash’ published?

Answer: Sanjibani.

34. When was ‘Bangar Sarbanash’ published?

Answer: 6^th July 1904.

35. Who edited ‘Bangar Sarbanash’?

Answer: Krishna Kumar Mitra.

36. Where was the first protest meeting against the proposed partition of Bengal held?

Answer: Khulna.

37. In which college did the students walk out from their classroom for the first time to take part in the movement against the partition?

Answer: Ripon College.

38. What is the present name of Ripon College?

Answer: Surendranath College.

39. What was the patriotic song, recited by the students, written by Mukunda Das, calling for boycotting foreign goods?

Answer: Hey Banga Janani, Swarna Prashabini.

40. Who wrote the song ‘Bangalir pran Bangalir Mon, Ek houk he Bhagawan’?

Answer: Rabindranath Tagore.

41. Under whose leadership was the ‘Bangiya Kala Sansad’ established?

Answer: Abanindranath Tagore.

42. Who was the editor of ‘the dawn’?

Answer: Satish Chandra Mukherjee.

43. Under whose leadership was ‘The National Education Council’ formed?

Answer: Rasbihari Bose.