GK Quiz - CATC Playtest

The Indian Constitution recognizes how many official languages?

• 18

• 22

• 24

• 14

Answer explanation

The Eighth Schedule to the Constitution consists of the following 22 languages:-

(1) Assamese, (2) Bengali, (3) Gujarati, (4) Hindi, (5) Kannada, (6) Kashmiri, (7) Konkani, (8) Malayalam, (9) Manipuri, (10) Marathi, (11) Nepali, (12) Oriya, (13) Punjabi, (14) Sanskrit, (15) Sindhi, (16) Tamil, (17) Telugu, (18) Urdu (19) Bodo, (20) Santhali, (21) Maithili and (22) Dogri.

Select all the Indian states that share a border with Nepal.

• Bihar

• Uttar Pradesh

• Sikkim

• Punjab

• West Bengal

Answer explanation

Arrange these events in the order they occurred in Indian history.

• Partition of Bengal

• First War of Indian Independence

• Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

• Dandi March

Order these Indian Nobel Laureates by the year they received the Nobel Prize (earliest to latest).

• Rabindranath Tagore

• Mother Teresa

• Amartya Sen

• Kailash Satyarthi

Arrange the following Indian space missions by their launch date (earliest to latest).

• GSAT-30

• Chandrayaan-1

• Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan)

• INSAT-1A

Match the Indian authors to their famous works.

• The Namesake

• Chetan Bhagat

• The God of Small Things

• Arundhati Roy

• Five Point Someone

• R.K. Narayan

• The White Tiger

• Jhumpa Lahiri

Match the Indian festivals with the states they are predominantly celebrated in.

• Maharashtra

• Ganesh Chaturthi

• Kerala

• Pongal

• West Bengal

• Onam

• Tamil Nadu

• Durga Puja

The first satellite built by India, named ________, was launched in 1975.

The Indian epic, the ________, is the longest poem in the world

________ is the highest civilian award in India.