Railway Recruitment Cell Eastern Railway : Group D Question Paper

Railway Recruitment Cell Eastern Railway

Group ‘D’ Solved Paper (Q No 01-50) Exam Held on 09.11.2014
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1. Chauri Chaura incident took place on–

1. February 5, 1922 
2. January 5, 1921 
3. March 5, 1923 
4. April 10, 1924

2. Rana Sangha was defeated by Babur in 1527 in the battle of–

1. Panipat 
2. Haldtghat 
3. Chausa 
4. Khanwa

3. Treaty of Salbai took place in the year–

1. 1780 
2. 1781 
3. 1782 
4. 1783

4. 'Ramacharitmanas' was written by–

1. Tulsidas 
2. Namdev 
3. Gyandev 
4. Kabir

5. The famous Bengali novel 'Pather Dabi' was written by–

1. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay 
2. Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
3. Bibhuti Bhusan Bandyopadhyay 
4. Rabindranath Tagore

6. Freedom fighters Bhagat Singh. Rajguru and Sukhdev were executed on–

1. 23rd August. 1931 
2. 23rd March. 1931 
3. 31st March. 1931 
4. 29th March. 1931

7. The last powerful and significant Gupta king who defeated the Hunas was–

1. Kumaragupta 
2. Chandragupta III 
3. Mahagupta 
4. Sikandragupta

8. Who founded 'Khudai Khid-matgar' ?

1. Abul Kalam Azad 
2. Muhammad Barkatullah 
3. Hakim Azmal Khan 
4. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

9. Who was the Venetian traveller to the Vijayanagar empire?

1. Nicolo di Conti 
2. Megasthenes 
3. Vasco da Gama 
4. IbnBatuta

10. Whose clarion call to the nation was- 'Arise, Awake and Stop not till the goal is reached' ?

1. Rabindranath Tagore 
2. Dayananda Saraswati 
3. Swami Vivekananda 
4. Aurobindo Ghosh

11. Civil Disobedience Movement was started by Gandhiji in the year–

1. 1929 
2. 1930 
3. 1931 
4. 1932

12. Who was the British Prime Minister when India achieved independence?

1. Ramsay Macdonald 
2. Winston Churchill 
3. Clement Atlee 
4. Stafford Cripps

13. Poona Pact (1932) was between Gandhiji and–

1. Vallabbhai Patel 
2. Rajendra Prasad 
3. Lord Irwin 
4. B. R. Ambedkar

14. Satyashodhak Samaj was founded by–

1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak 
2. Jyotiba Phule 
3. Gopal Krishna Gokhale 
4. Govind Ballabh Pant

15. Who was the ninth Guru of the Sikhs?

1. Guru Ramdas 
2. Guru Govind Singh 
3. Guru Teg Bahadur 
4. Guru Amardas

16. Vasco da Gama set foot on the Indian soil in the year–

1. 1487 
2. 1488 
3. 1489 
4. 1498

17. Shivaji assumed the title 'Chatrapati' in the year–

1. 1670 
2. 1672 
3. 1673 
4. 1674

18. Who was the proponent of 'Din-i-Ilahi' ?

1. Shah Jahan 
2. Jehangir 
3. Humayun 
4. Akbar

19. Which Indian national leader was popularly known as 'Deshbandhu'?

1. Motilal Nehru 
2. Chittaranjan Das 
3. Surendranath Banerjee 
4. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

20. Who was the writer of Buddhacharita'?

1. Vasumitra 
2. Asvaghosha 
3. Panini 
4. Visakhdutta

21. In which country is the volcanic mountain Mt Catopaxi situated?

1. U.S.A. 
2. Mexico 
3. Italy 
4. Ecuador

22. What is the special branch of Geology by which earthquake is studied?

1. Anthropology 
2. Epilogy
3. Seismology 
4. Earthology

23. Northern half of Western Ghats is known as–

1. Sahyadri 
2. Malayadri 
3. Satpura 
4. Nilgiri

24. Ranathambore wild life sanctuary is located in the state of–

1. Gujrat 
2. Assam 
3. Karnataka 
4. Rajasthan

25. What type of mountain is the Andes?

1. Block 
2. Fold 
3. Residual 
4. Volcanic

26. The river which is known as 'Sorrow of Bengal is–

1. Mahanadi 
2. Subarnarekha 
3. Tista 
4. Damodar

27. The Hwang Ho plains in China is an example of–

1. Erosional Plains 
2. Structural Plains 
3. Coastal Plains 
4. Depositional Plains

28. Which is the largest river of Peninsular India?

1. The Krishna 
2. The Kaveri 
3. The Godavari 
4. The Pennar

29. Tributary joining the Ganga from the south is–

1. Yamuna 
2. Son 
3. Tapi 
4. Gomati

30. The plateau of Malwa in India is one of the examples of–

1. Piedmont Plateau 
2. Continental Plateau 
3. Intermontane Plateau 
4. None of these

31. The atmospheric layer which reflects radio-waves is called–

1. Exosphere 
2. Ionosphere 
3. Stratosphere 
4. Troposphere

32. Alloys like brass and bronze are examples of which kind of mixture?

1. Solid in Solid 
2. Solid in Liquid 
3. Solid in Gas 
4. Gas in Solid

33. Sulphur dioxide is an example of–

1. Acidic oxide 
2. Basic oxide 
3. Neutral oxide 
4. Amphoteric oxide

34. The three primary colours are–

1. Blue, Green and Red 
2. Blue, Yellow and Red 
3. Yellow, Orange and Red 
4. Violet, Indigo and Blue

35. The specific heat of water is–

1. Zero 
2. Half 
3. Three fourth 
4. One

36. The reverberation of sound in a hall results due to continued–

1. Reflection 
2. Interference 
3. Diffraction 
4. Absorption

37. In an electric kettle, water becomes hot by–

1. Conduction 
2. Radiation 
3. Moving particles 
4. Convection

38. Galvanising is coating iron with–

1. Nickel 
2. Zinc 
3. Chromium 
4. Copper

39. Among the following the compound used as a fertilizer is–

1. Copper sulphate 
2. Ammonium sulphate 
3. Sodium sulphate 
4. Aluminum sulphate

40. Deficiency of iron causes–

1. Nervous disorders 
2. Heart diseases 
3. Anemia 
4. Impairment of vision

41. The constituents of German Silver are–

1. Copper, Nickel, Tin 
2. Copper and Silver 
3. Copper, Nickel and Chromium 
4. Copper, Nickel, Zinc

42. First organic compound prepared in the laboratory was–

1. Urea 
2. Acetic acid 
3. Ammonium sulphate 
4. Calcium cynamide

43. An astronaut in an earth satellite will observe sky as–

1. Deep red 
2. Sky blue 
3. Deep blue 
4. Black

44. The chemical name of common salt is–

1. Sodium chloride 
2. Potassium chloride
3. Sodium carbonate 
4. Potassium carbonate

45. Relative humidity is measured by–

1. Anemometer 
2. Thermometer 
3. Chronometer 
4. Hygrometer

46. A non-material kind of pollution is–

1. Land pollution 
2. Air pollution 
3. Noise pollution 
4. Water pollution

47. The chemical name of vitamin B is–

1. Riboflavin 
2. Cobalamine 
3. Ascorbic acid 
4. Thiamin

48. The process by which solids are transformed directly into the vapour state is known as–

1. Distillation 
2. Sedimentation 
3. Decantation 
4. Sublimation

49. Temperature is measured by–

1. Anemometer 
2. Thermometer 
3. Seismometer 
4. Barometer

50. S.I. unit of heat is–

1. Faraday 
2. Watt 
3. Joule 
4. Kelvin

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