General Knowledge - Important Questions and Answers

• The first to establish regular trade with India was-

Answer:- Portuguese.

• The Indus Valley houses were built of-

Answer:- Bricks.

• The last Mughal Emperor was-

Answer:- Bahadur Shah.

• The first to start a joint stock company to trade with India were the-

Answer:- Dutch.

• Who said that there was no Slavery in India-

Answer:- Megasthenese.

• India derives its name from-

Answer:- The River Indus.

• A national religion called Din–i–Illahi was promulgated by-

Answer:- Akbar.

• Sea route in India was discovered by-

Answer:- Vasco–da–gama.

• Which one of the following was the port city of the Indus Valley Civilisation-

Answer:- Lothal.

• Which one of the following has enhanced its power most from the system of delegated legislation-

Answer:- Bureaucracy.

• Who among the following maintains that persons carried into the state their natural rights from the state of nature-

Answer:- Locke.

• According to Marx, the state came into being to-

Answer:- Legalize exploitation of the poor by the state.

• Who said that, “State is an organ of class rule, an organ for the oppression of one class by another …” –

Answer:- Marx.

• Which institution in a federal system is called ‘Balancing Wheel of the Constitution’ –

Answer:- Judiciary.

• The central point of social contract theory is that the state is-

Answer:- A man made institution.

• Who among the following Marxist thinkers has been described as ‘a genius theoretician’ –

Answer:- Gramsci.

• The thinkers of which country have common tendency to entrust sovereignty to an organ of the government-

Answer:- England.

• Who gave the view that A constitutional state ‘is one in which the powers of government, the rights of the governed and the relations between the two are adjusted’ –

Answer:- C. F. Strong.

• Which of the following countries has the beginning of Bureaucracy in the ‘spoil system’ –

Answer:- U.S.A. .

• ‘The reason why men enter into civil society is the preservation of their property’ Said by-

Answer:- Locke.

• A socialist state lays emphasis on-

Answer:- Economic security.

• In the theory of the origin of the state political consciousness is a factor in the-

Answer:- Evolutionary Theory.

• Who said that the development of art and science has spoiled man-

Answer:- Rousseau.

• ‘West Minister Model’ stands for a particular type of-

Answer:- Government.

• Who has called political parties ‘broker of ideas’-

Answer:- Lowell.