VCA – GK 09

The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts is in ________.
New Delhi
Anshu Gupta won the Ramon Magsaysay Award as the founder of ________.
Goonj
The smallest planet in our solar system is ________.
Mercury
India’s hockey team first won Olympic gold in ________.
1928
Zinc coating of iron surfaces is called ________.
Galvanization
One light-year is about ________ kilometers.
9.46 trillion
The park with two-thirds of the world’s one-horned rhino population is ________.
Kaziranga National Park
Marie Curie received Nobel Prizes in ________ and ________.
Physics (1903) & Chemistry (1911)
Normal human body temperature is about ________.
98.6 °F (37 °C)
The Forbidden City is in ________.
Beijing
The first civilian president of Myanmar was ________.
Htin Kyaw
Salar Jung Museum is in ________.
Hyderabad
Goa’s official language is ________.
Konkani
The ELISA test is used to detect antibodies against ________.
HIV
Twitter was co-founded by ________.
Jack Dorsey et al.
Pankaj Advani won his 13th World Snooker Championship by defeating ________.
Yan Bingtao
Gagan Narang and Abhinav Bindra are champions in ________.
Shooting
Pakistan’s parliament is called the ________.
Majlis-e-Shoora
Delhi’s second major airport (under development) is ________.
Jewar
Nagaland’s official language is ________.
English
Pluto’s largest moon is ________.
Charon
The opposition leader in the Rajya Sabha is ________.
Ghulam Nabi Azad
In 2015, India’s FDI limit in defense rose from 18% to ______%.
49.00%
Cadmium is used in nuclear reactors to absorb ________.
Neutrons
The old name of the ICC was ________.
Imperial Cricket Conference
The Western Ghats are a biodiversity hotspot mountain range known as the ________.
Western Ghats
The capital city of Syria is ________.
Damascus
Qutb Minar and Alai Darwaza were built by ________.
Alauddin Khilji
The Swaraj Party was co-founded by ________.
Motilal Nehru
The last ruler of the Chola dynasty was ________.
Rajendra Chola III
Atoms or ions with the same electronic configuration are called ________.
Isoelectronic
Tooth enamel consists primarily of ________.
Calcium phosphate
The most intelligent mammal is often considered the ________.
Dolphin
India’s ASLV program achieved success in ________.
1994
Narendra Modi surprised Nawaz Sharif on his birthday in ________.
Lahore, Pakistan
A galvanometer measures ________.
Electric current
Ginger is botanically classified as an ________.
Underground stem
The 2016 Women’s T20 World Cup captain of the West Indies was ________.
Stafanie Taylor
The ABO blood group system was discovered by ________.
Karl Landsteiner
World Animal Day falls on ________.
04/10/25
H. S. Prannoy is a ________ player.
Badminton
The first female Muslim prime minister in the world was ________.
Benazir Bhutto
Google’s CEO is ________.
Sundar Pichai
Amitabh Bachchan is brand ambassador for “Atulya Bharat” in ________.
UK
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for malaria research went to ________.
Sir Ronald Ross
A light bulb’s filament is made of ________.
Tungsten
Pashupatinath Temple is located in ________.
Nepal
Jupiter’s largest moon is ________.
Ganymede
The newest IIM is located in ________.
Andhra Pradesh
The Chief Justice of India (2015) was ________.
T. S. Thakur
The capital of Manipur is ________.
Imphal
Subhas Chandra Bose founded the ________.
All India Forward Bloc
A white flag is the universal sign of ________.
Surrender
The Santosh Trophy is contested in ________.
Football
Atal Bihari Vajpayee is among the Prime Ministers awarded the ________.
Bharat Ratna
Both Raina and Dhoni play for the ________.
Chennai Super Kings
Commemorative coins for Dr. B. R. Ambedkar include denominations of ₹10 and ₹125.
TRUE
Radish is an ________.
Edible root
The Jnanpith Award for 2015 was given for the book titled ________.
Amruta²
Mary Kom hails from ________.
Manipur
CDM in banking stands for ________.
Cash Deposit Machine
Birju Maharaj is a master of ________.
Kathak
The Jaistambh monument is in ________.
Raipur, Chhattisgarh
Milkha Singh is known as the “Flying ________.”
Sikh
The Marathi daily Kesari was founded by ________.
Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Alassane Ouattara is President of ________.
Ivory Coast
The former planet eliminated from the solar system is ________.
Pluto
Dinosaurs dominated Earth during the ________.
Mesozoic Era
The study of the liver is called ________.
Hepatology
AAP was founded on ________.
26/11/12
The world’s happiest country is often ranked as ________.
Denmark
The element with atomic number 3 is ________.
Lithium
The 2014 Saraswati Samman was awarded to ________.
Veerappa Moily
Mizoram’s capital is ________.
Aizawl
One astronomical unit (AU) is about ________ kilometers.
149.6 million
Oxygen has atomic number ________.
8
Digestive acid in the stomach is ________.
HCl
Venus’s atmosphere is mostly ________.
Carbon dioxide
The current chairman of Yes Bank is ________.
R. G. Ravikumar³
The Indian women’s T20 captain in 2016 was ________.
Mithali Raj
The ancient name of Allahabad was ________.
Prayag
The Gupta dynasty was founded by ________.
Chandragupta I
TCP in networking stands for ________.
Transmission Control Protocol
PM Modi unveiled the statue of Basaveshwara in ________.
London⁴
Galvanization coats iron or steel with ________.
Zinc
The Red Planet is ________.
Mars
The first modern Summer Olympics took place in ________.
1896
India’s first lunar probe was ________.
Chandrayaan-1
H. S. Prannoy plays ________.
Badminton
The bounce of a rubber ball is an example of Newton’s ________ law.
Third
Belur Math is located in ________.
West Bengal
The 2015 Wimbledon mixed doubles champions were ________.
Martina Hingis & Leander Paes
The Thomas Cup is contested in ________.
Badminton
Andrology is the medical specialty dealing with diseases of ________.
Men
Indira Point is located in ________.
Andaman & Nicobar Islands
The world’s first cashless country is often cited as ________.
Sweden
Gautama Buddha delivered his first sermon at ________.
Sarnath
Sachin Tendulkar has not received the ________ Award.
Dhyan Chand
India’s only Indian Governor-General was ________.
C. Rajagopalachari
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