CTET Previous Year GK Questions

All three statements describe real features of the Indian Constitution, so all of them have to be counted. Universal adult suffrage was there from the first general election itself.

Mathura did stand on major trade routes, but those routes ran from the north-west to the east and from the north to the south, not from north to east and south to west as statement (A) puts it, so (A) is wrong as worded.

The German psychologist William Stern gave the term Intelligence Quotient in 1912, proposing that a child's mental age be divided by the actual age to express intelligence as a single number.

The Kothari Commission, which worked from 1964 to 1966, recommended the three language formula for schools, and the policy of 1968 later adopted it.

Iodine is the non-metal in the antiseptic painted on cuts and wounds, sold as tincture of iodine, which is a solution of iodine in alcohol.

All three are mixtures: wood is made of cellulose, lignin, water and resins, air is a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen and other gases, and sand is mostly silica mixed with mineral and shell grains.

Quick lime is calcium oxide, CaO, and not calcium carbonate, so it is the odd one out. Limestone, chalk and marble are all natural forms of calcium carbonate, CaCO3, differing only in how they were formed and in how hard they are.

Distilled water has had its dissolved salts removed, so it holds almost no free ions to carry charge and does not conduct electricity.

Time period is the time taken for one full oscillation, so it is the total time divided by the number of oscillations: 64 divided by 40 gives 1.6 seconds.

Insolation is the incoming solar radiation actually received by a unit area of the earth's surface, and how much of it a place receives decides how warm that place becomes.

The Himalayan region is home to wild goats such as the ibex and the tahr and to the snow leopard, which hunts them above the tree line, so pair (a) is right.

A block lying quietly on a table is in equilibrium, so the forces on it must add up to zero, but that does not mean there are no forces at all.

Mehrgarh, on the Bolan river in the Kachi plain of Baluchistan, is the earliest known farming village in the Indian subcontinent, occupied from about 7000 BCE.

A brand is the name, term, sign, symbol or design a seller gives a product so that buyers can tell it apart from everything else on the shelf.

When the British left in 1947, India had, besides the provinces under direct British rule, about 565 princely states whose rulers had accepted British paramountcy.

In the binary system every place stands for a power of two, and 257 is 256 plus 1, that is two raised to the eighth plus two raised to the zero.

James Mill did publish A History of British India in 1817 in three volumes, so the first statement is correct.

A primary source is one produced in the very period being studied, and the Allahabad Pillar Inscription, the prashasti composed by the court poet Harisena in praise of Samudragupta, was carved in the fourth century CE, inside the ancient period itself.

Chola temples such as the Brihadisvara temple at Thanjavur, built by Rajaraja I, were far more than places of worship.

All three are unicellular, which means a single cell carries out every job of life. In a unicellular organism that one cell manages nutrition, respiration, movement and reproduction, while a multicellular body shares the work among tissues and organs.