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1. (b) Jaipal Singh Munda was the Indian 9. (d) Bharata Muni was an ancient Indian
hockey team captain in the year 1928. Jaipal theatrologist and musicologist who wrote the
Singh Munda born in a Munda tribal family was Natya Shastra, a theoretical treatise on ancient
a politician, prolific writer and sportsman. He Indian dramaturgy and histrionics, especially
was the member of the Constituent Assembly Sanskrit theatre. Bharata Muni is considered as
which debated on the new Constitution of the the father of Indian theatrical art forms.
Indian Union. He captained the Indian field 10. (a) Maximum of 2 timeouts per game for a
hockey team to clinch gold in the 1928 Summer team is allowed. Time out lasts 30 seconds. In
Olympics in Amsterdam. official international competitions, two 60
2. (d) The ecosystem of a region is the biome. seconds technical time-out is used when the
A biome is collections of different kinds of leading team reaches the 8- or 16-point mark.
ecosystem. Savanna is the biome which has a 11. (b) The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also
long dry season. known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on
3. (a) At the 1991 World Championships in 13 April, 1919 when a crowd of nonviolent
Athletics (Tokyo), Powell broke Bob Beamon's protesters, along with Baisakhi pilgrims, who
almost 23-year-old long jump world record by 5 had gathered in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar,
cm (2 inches), leaping 8.95 m (29 ft 4 1⁄4 in). Punjab, were fired upon by troops of the British
4. (c) Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike, Indian Army under the command of Colonel
commonly known as Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Reginald Dyer.
was a Sri Lankan stateswoman. She became the 12. (a) Remotely Operated Vehicles are
world's first non-hereditary female head of vehicles which are controlled by an operator
government in modern history, when she was who is not in the vehicle. These can be
elected Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in 1960. operated by radio control, or through a cable
5. (a) In 1966 Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri was the or line connecting the vehicle to the operator’s
first Indian to receive the Bharat Ratna location.
posthumously. 13. (b) During the sultanate period, there was
6. (d) The Annexation of Goa was the process a term that is being used to describe the
in which the Republic of India annexed the measurement of land which is ‘Masahat’. Like
former Portuguese Indian territories of Goa, nowadays we are using cents and hectares for
Daman, and Diu, starting with the “armed measurement.
action” carried out by the Indian Armed Forces 14. (a) Latvia, with Riga as its capital city, thus
in December 1961. declared its independence on 18 November
7. (c) The Baltic Cup is an international football 1918. Between World War I and World War II
competition contested by the national teams of (1918–1940), Riga and Latvia shifted their focus
the Baltic States – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. from Russia to the countries of Western
Also, Finland has participated as a guest twice. Europe.
8. (a) In basketball, a hook shot is a play in 15. (b) Raja Rammohan Roy founded Brahmo
which the offensive player, usually turned Samaj in Calcutta on 20 August 1828. It was
perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the more of a reformist movement of Hinduism
ball with a sweeping motion of the arm farther which later got divided into Adi Brahmo Samaj
from the basket in an upward arc with a follow- and Sadharan Brahmo Samaj.
through which ends over his head.