Haryana Previous Year GK Questions

The iris is the coloured ring in front of the lens, formed by the front part of the choroid, and the muscles in it widen or narrow the pupil so that the right amount of light reaches the retina; in dim light the pupil opens wide and in bright light…

The British Government announced the Indian Statutory Commission in November 1927 under Sir John Simon to review the working of the Government of India Act, 1919; the commission itself reached Bombay on 3 February 1928 and submitted its report in 1930.

Ambala lies in the north-eastern corner of Haryana, inside the command of the canals drawn from the Yamuna system, and its fields are watered mainly by that flow supply rather than by any other source; the Dadupur head on the Western Yamuna Canal was built to carry water into this…

The correct answer, as marked in the paper, is D, Kankrej. The Kankrej of the Kutch and Banaskantha country is rated the best of the Indian dual purpose cattle breeds: it is the largest and heaviest of them, its bullocks have the fastest and most enduring gait of any Indian…

The Hariana is the indigenous cattle breed of the Rohtak, Hisar, Jind and Gurugram tract, a dual purpose animal that gives milk and whose bullocks were once the standard draught animal of the north western plains.

India has no bilateral free trade agreement with Brazil. Its only preferential link with Brazil is through the limited India-MERCOSUR Preferential Trade Agreement, which covers a short list of products at reduced duty and is not a free trade agreement.

The princely states were not a small fringe of the map. Standard accounts place their share at roughly two-fifths of the land area of the subcontinent, and some put it close to a half, with around a quarter of the population; about 565 states of every size, from Hyderabad and…

A byte is made up of eight bits, so half a byte is four bits, and four bits together are called a nibble.

The All India Congress Committee, meeting at Gowalia Tank in Bombay, passed the Quit India resolution on 8 August 1942, and Gandhi gave his Do or Die speech the same evening.

Masulipatnam, the port town of coastal Andhra Pradesh, was the great centre of the painted and block printed cotton that European traders bought as chintz, and the same town is still one of the two homes of kalamkari.

The Amatya, also called the Majumdar, kept the accounts of the kingdom and checked the income and expenditure of every district, which makes him the finance member of the eight.

In the colour code used for fire extinguishers, a black band or label marks a carbon dioxide extinguisher. The body of the cylinder is signal red and a coloured patch near the label tells you the filling at a glance, so the right cylinder can be picked in a hurry.

Fires are sorted into classes by what is burning, and Class A covers ordinary solid fuels — wood, paper, cloth, straw, rubber and many plastics.

Le Corbusier is counted as a French architect. He was born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret in Switzerland in 1887, settled in Paris, took French citizenship in 1930 and worked from France for the rest of his life.

Crown gall is caused by the bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens, which enters through a wound near the base, or crown, of the stem and makes the plant grow rough tumour-like swellings there.

The pulmonary artery is the one artery in the body that carries deoxygenated blood. It leaves the right ventricle and takes blood that has returned from the body's tissues to the lungs, where carbon dioxide is given up and fresh oxygen is picked up.

Mizoram is a full state, not a Union Territory. It was carved out of Assam as a Union Territory in 1972, and after the Mizo Accord of 1986 it became a state on 20 February 1987 under the 53rd Constitutional Amendment, on the same day as Arunachal Pradesh.

Animal tissues are grouped into four kinds — epithelial, muscular, connective and nervous — and areolar is not one of them, because it is only a type of connective tissue.

A wet chemical extinguisher sprays a fine mist of a potassium salt solution — usually potassium acetate, potassium citrate or potassium carbonate — so potassium is the working element inside it.

The domestic goat is treated as a subspecies of the wild goat, so its name carries three parts — the genus Capra, the species aegagrus and the subspecies hircus.