NICL Administrative Officer Previous Year Question Papers - Solved

NICL Administrative Officer Exam GK Questions 2015 - General Knowledge / Written Test Syllabus

Question 1.Which ruler of  Nurpur princely state was sent by Shah Jahan in AD 1645 to curb the Uzbeks of Balkh ?

A. Jagat Singh

B. Bas Dev (Basu)

C. Rajrup Singh

D. Prithvi Singh

Question 2. The name by which Ashoka is generally referred to in his inscriptions is

A. Priyadarsi

B. Dharmadeva

C. Chakravarti

D. Dharmakirti

Question 3. Magasthenese was the ambassador of

A. Seleucus Nikator

B. Alexander

C. Darius

D. The Persian

Question 4. Which of the following regions did not form the part of Ashoka's Empire ?

A. Kashmir

B. Taxila

C. Madras

D. Kannauj

Question 5. The term 'Dhamma' is

A. a Prakrit word

B. a Sanskrit word

C. a Pali word 

D. None of these

Question 6. Sarnath's Lion capital is attributed to

A. Harshavardhana

B. Kanishka

C. Ashoka

D. Chandragupta

Question 7. The first scholar, who read Ashokan edicts, was

A. Stuart Pigott

B. SN Rao

C. Adam Smith 

D. James Princep

Question 8. What was the script used in the earliest Tamil inscriptions ?

A. Dravidian

B. Pictographic

C. Brahmi

D. Kharoshthi

Question 9. Which language was used in the literature of Sangam period ?

A. Sanskrit

B. Tamil

C. Telugu

D. Kannada

Question 10. The highly polished monolithic Ashokan pillars were carved out of single pieces of a buff-coloured sandstone, usually mined from the quarries of 

A. Chunar near Mirzapur

B. Lauriya in Nandangarh 

C. Sarnath near Varanasi

D. Udayagiri near Bhubaneshwar

Answer : 1.(c), 2.(a), 3.(a), 4.(c), 5.(c), 6.(c), 7.(d), 8.(c), 9.(b), 10.(c).