Haryana 2021 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

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.

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.

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.

The alveoli are the tiny balloon-like air sacs at the ends of the smallest airways, and their thin walls are the surface where gases are exchanged.

The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad, has four members — India, the United States, Japan and Australia — and Indonesia is not one of them.

A Council of Ministers is a body made up of ministers, so it comes into being only once each of them has been sworn in.

In a database such as Microsoft Access, the view that shows a table as rows and columns, looking like a spreadsheet grid, is called Datasheet view.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote in The Social Contract (1762) that the English people are free only during the election of members of Parliament, and are slaves once the election is over.

The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) is the oldest arm of the World Bank Group and the body people mean when they say 'World Bank'.

The Parliamentary Committee headed by Sardar Hukam Singh, then Speaker of the Lok Sabha, examined the demand for a Punjabi-speaking state and recommended the division of Punjab.

The Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) is the share of a bank's deposits that it must keep with the Reserve Bank of India in cash, and the bank earns no interest on this money.

Nagaland became a state on 1 December 1963, carved out of Assam. Haryana followed on 1 November 1966, when the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 divided Punjab on the basis of the Shah Commission's report.

Gandhi presided over the Congress only once, at its session held at Belgaum (now Belagavi in Karnataka) in December 1924.

Every Mughal mansab was expressed by two numbers, the zat rank and the sawar rank. Akbar organised the mansabdari system in the 1570s so that every noble and officer, civil or military, had a place on one graded ladder.