MPSC TEST SERIES 22

1. In which year Sri Lanka was discovered by the Portuguese?

a) 1498
b) 1505
c) 1610
d) 1718

2. Consider the following statements
1.The Portuguese provided cartaz to the ships carrying commodities.
2. Dutch’s first factory in India was established at Pulicat.
3. The English Ambassador Captain Hawkins arrived at Jahangir’s Court.
Which of the given statements is/are correct?

a) 1 and 2 only
b) 2 and 3 only
c) 1 and 3 only
d) All of the above

3. The land of Bombay was given to the English Prince Charles II as Dowry by the

a) Danish
b) Portuguese
c) Dutch.
d) English

4. Who was the founder of Madras city?

a) Robert Clive
b) Francis Day
c) Gabriel Boughton
d) Streysham Master

5. Which Portuguese governor introduced ‘the policy of Imperialism‘?

a) Francisco de Almeida
b) Nino da Cunha
c) William Hawkins
d) Alfonso de Albuquerque

26. Which Mughal ruler granted the permission to English East India Company to start a factory in Surat?

a) Bahadur Shah
b) Aurangzeb
c) Shahjahan
d) Jahangir

7. First European fort situated in India located in?

a) Surat
b) Goa
c) Cochin
d) Calicut

8. Who were the last foreigners to leave India?

a) The British
b) The Portuguese
c) The French
d) The Dutch

10. Which hospital in Mizoram has passed the three tests and received the certificate?

(a) Civil Hospital, Lunglei
(b) Civil Hospital, Aizawl
(c) Civil Hospital, Serchhip
(d) Civil Hospital, Champhai

11. What is “Caldwell 45”, recently highlighted by NASA?

(a) Spiral galaxy
(b) Asteroid
(c) Black hole
(d) Exo planet

12. What is the rank of India in the ‘Global Innovation Index (GII) 2024’?

(a) 35th
(b) 36th
(c) 37th
(d) 39th

14. Recently, who has been awarded the prestigious 2024 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize?

(a) Ruixiang Zhang
(b) Adinarayana Doddi
(c) Rita Sinha
(d) Alexander Dunn

15. Which African country recently reported an outbreak of the Marburg virus?

(a) Tanzania
(b) Kenya
(c) Somalia
(d) Rwanda

17. Who was recently elected as the New Prime Minister of Japan?

(a) Paetongtarn Shinawatra
(b) Shigeru Ishiba
(c) Min Aung Hlaing
(d) Philemon Yang

18. Which central minister has launched the web portal “Paridhi 24×25” and the AI Taxonomy e-book?

(a) S. Jaishankar
(b) Rajnath Singh
(c) Giriraj Singh
(d) Chirag Paswan

19. Indian-origin Ravi Ahuja has recently been appointed the new CEO of which company?

(a) Meta
(b) Microsoft
(c) Boeing
(d) Sony Pictures Entertainment