Rajasthan State General Awareness Quiz Test 11

Question 1. What is the name of the famous folk drama of Bhils?

(A) Rammat

(B) Tamasha

(C) Swang

(D) Gowari

Question 2. Which of the following areas of Rajasthan the Alibaksh Khyal is associated?

(A) Alwar

(B) Karauli

(C) Chittor

(D) Chidawa

Question 3. What is the name of ‘Centre for Art’ which was inaugurated by the president in Jaipur in April 1993 to protect the art’s heritage and encouragement of artists?

(A) Sanskritik Centre of Art

(B) Jawahar Centre of Art

(C) Rajiv Gandhi Centre of Art

(D) Indira Gandhi Centre of Art

Question 4. Sharad Rani is famous in which field?

(A) Dance

(B) Music

(C) Painting

(D) Literature

Question 5. Match the following ?

Question 6. Which of the following is not a musical instrument?

1. Surnai     
2. Algoja
3. Nagafani 
4. Kamyacha

Choose the correct option.

(A) Only 4

(B) 3 and 4

(C) 1 and 2

(D) 2, 3 and 4

Question 7. Who among the following was not the chairman of the Rajasthan State Human Rights Commission?

(A) Justice Kanta Bhatnagar

(B) Justice S. Sagir Ahmed

(C) Justice N.K. Jain

(D) Justice Premchand Jain

Question 8. When was the Rajasthan state information commission constituted? 

(A) 18th April 2007

(B) 18th April 2008

(C) 18th April 2005

(D) 18th April 2006

Question 9. Whose tenure among the following has been the longest as the chairman of Rajasthan Public Service Commission?

(A) D.S. Tiwari

(B) Mohammad Yakub

(C) C.R. Chaudhary

(D) Yatindra Singh

Question 10. Who is the chairperson of the Fifth Finance Commission of Rajasthan?

(A) Jyoti Kiran

(B) Manak Chand Surana

(C) B.D. Kalla

(D) Prabha Thakur

Question 11. What is not true about the Rajasthan State Human Rights Commission?

Read the following statement and select the correct answer from the codes given below.

1. The commission became fully functional from May 2000.
2. The commission comprises of one full-time chairman and two members.
3. A former chief justice or a former judge of a high court can become chairman of the commission.
4. Justice A.S. Godara was the chairman of the commission from July 2000 to July 2005.

(A) 2 and 3

(B) 2, 3 and 4

(C) 1, 3 and 4

(D) 1, 2, 3 and 4

Question 12. Which one of the following is not a cause of desertification in Rajasthan?

(A) Improper soil and water management

(B) Urbanisation

(C) Deforestation

(D) Overgrazing

Question 13. What fraction of Rajasthan’s land area is desert?

(A) About two-thirds

(B) Above half

(C) About one-third

(D) About one-fourth

Question 14. Desert Development Programme is being implemented in 16 districts of Rajasthan. This programme is being founded?

(A) 75% by Govt. of India and 25% by Govt. of Rajasthan

(B) In the ratio of 50-50 by both the Govt.

(C) 100% by Govt. of Rajasthan

(D) 100% by Govt. of India

Question 15. In which year was the Desert development programme started in Rajasthan?

(A) 1994-95

(B) 1982-83

(C) 1977-78

(D) 1960-61

Question 16. The author of ‘Pratyaksh Jeevan Shastra’ was?

(A) Pt. Nayanuram Sharma

(B) Heeralal Shastri

(C) Jamnalal Bajaj

(D) Manikya Lal Verma

Question 17. The name of the book authored by Chandabardai is?

(A) Prithvinath

(B) Prithvi Khyat

(C) Prithviraj Charit

(D) Prithviraj Raso

Question 18. The author of ‘Vamsa Bhaskar’ is?

(A) Surajmal Mishran

(B) Kaviraj Shyamal Das

(C) Gauri Shankar Ojha

(D) Bankidas

Question 19. ‘Hansawali’ an early work of Rajasthan literature was written by?

(A) Shridhar Vyas

(B) Hemchandra

(C) Isardas

(D) Asaiyat

Question 20. The writer of Rasik Ratnawali was ?

(A) Kavi Harishen

(B) Narhari Das

(C) Madhodas Dadhvadiya

(D) Nagaridas

Question 21. The writer of ‘Malti Madhav’ was?

(A) Harsh

(B) Shudrak

(C) Bhavbhuti

(D) Bhas

Question 22. One Rajasthan-born industrialist contributed a sum of ` 22,000 in the 1920s to C.V. Raman’s path-breaking research which won him the Nobel Prize?

(A) Ghanshyam Das Birla

(B) Magni Ram Bangur

(C) Jamshedjee Tata

(D) Purushotam Das Bajaj

Question 23. Who among the following has been awarded by the ‘Central Sangit Natak Academy’ for developing a typical method to teach Kathak dance to handicapped children?

(A) Smt. Rekha Vidhyarthi

(B) Guru Gauri Shankar

(C) Babulal Patani

(D) Pt. Durgalal

Question 24. Which State in India became the first state to win the P.A.T.A. Golden Award for marketing the state’s tourism potential?

(A) U.P.

(B) Bihar

(C) Rajasthan

(D) Karnataka

Question 25. Which artist associated with music was honoured with Rajasthan Ratna posthumously?

(A) Bhupen Hazarika

(B) Jagjit Singh

(C) Mohammad Rafi

(D) Khem Chand Prakash

Question 26. Who was the first Dronacharya Awardee of Rajasthan state?

(A) Gopal Saini

(B) Karan Singh

(C) Paramjeet Singh

(D) Ripudaman Singh

Question 27. ‘Sewan grass’ is mainly grown in which district? 

(A) Sikar

(B) Jaisalmer

(C) Jodhpur

(D) Barmer

Question 28. In which districts of Rajasthan ‘Khas’ grass is grown?

(A) Sawai Madhopur, Bharatpur and Tonk

(B) Ajmer, Bhilwara and Chittorgarh

(C) Dholpur, Kaurali and Alwar

(D) Kota, Bundi and Jhalawar

Question 29. Dhaman, Karad and Anjan are the ?

(A) Three heroes of Gawari dance

(B) Varieties of Grass in Rajasthan

(C) Varieties of caster seed in Gujarat

(D) Varieties of Sheep in Rajasthan

Question 30. An approximate area of Rajasthan covered under the Western desert is?

(A) 50%

(B) 40%

(C) Less than 30%

(D) More than 60%