India Quiz - Part 15
1) Which city of India stands on the River Hooghly?
1) Lucknow
2) Ahmedabad
3) Kolkata (Calcutta)
4) Agra
2) Anil Kumble became the first Indian bowler to reach 500 Test wickets in 2006. How did he get his 500th wicket?
1) Run out
2) Bowled
3) LBW
4) Catch out
3) Syed Kirmani made his ODI debut in 1976 against New Zealand as a wicketkeeper. How many runs did India make in that match?
1) 254 all out
2) 222/9
3) 219/5
4) 154 all out
4) How many centuries in Tests did Sunil Gavaskar bag when he retired?
1) 23
2) 45
3) 34
4) 54
5) Who was the first Indian batsman to have achieved 300 runs in an innings in Tests?
1) Sachin Tendulkar
2) Sourav Ganguly
3) Bishen Singh Bedi
4) Virender Sehwag
6) Where did Mahendra Singh Dhoni make his ODI debut?
1) Chittagong
2) Dhaka
3) Hyderabad
4) Vishakapatnam
7) Who was the first Indian batsman to hit a century on Test debut against England at England's home?
1) Sachin Tendulkar
2) Abbas Ali Baig
3) Kapil Dev
4) Wassim Jaffer
8) Ajit Agarkar made his Test debut in 1998 as a bowler. How many wickets did he take in that match including both 1st and 2nd innings?
1) 2
2) 1
3) 5
4) 3
9) Who was named Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 2000?
1) Rahul Dravid
2) Sourav Ganguly
3) Sachin Tendulkar
4) Yuvraj Singh
10) How many wickets Kapil Dev had taken in Test matches when he retired?
1) 450
2) 430
3) 435
4) 434
11) Which batsman started his international cricketing career at the age of 16?
1) Suresh Raina
2) Sachin Tendulkar
3) Piyush Chawla
4) Rahul Dravid
12) Which foreign influence is seen in the rock cut architecture of India?
1) Arabic
2) Persian
3) Indo-European
4) Greek
13) The greeting "jai Hind "was started by which famous person?
1) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
2) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
3) Subhash Chandra Bose
4) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
14) Who is the founder of Advita philosophy?
1) Swami Vivekananda
2) Basaveshwara
3) Adi Shankaracharya
4) Sri Ramanujacharya
15) Who is the first Indian to be selected as President of the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs?
1) Dr APJ Abdul Kalaam
2) Dr P.J.Kurien
3) Dr M.S.Swaminathan
4) Dr Hargobind Khorana
16) The words 'secular' and 'socialist' were added to the Indian Constitution in 1975 by amending the
1) Preamble
2) Directive Principles
3) Fundamental Rights
4) All of the above
17) Late Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia was the Maharani of
1) Gwalior
2) Bhopal
3) Surat
4) Jaipur
18) Which was the largest and richest among the princely states of pre-Independence period?
1) Mysore
2) Gwalior
3) Jaipur
4) Hyderabad
19) The architecture of the city of Cochin in Kerala reflects the influence of...?
1) The British
2) The Portuguese
3) The Dutch
4) All of the above
20) Which city in India has built a 15.8 m high "Gandhi Stupa" dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi?
1) Ranchi, Jharkhand
2) Vadodara, Gujarat
3) Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh
4) Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
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