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General Knowledge
1. Computer follows a simple principle called GIGO which means:
- a) Garbage input good output
- b) Garbage in garbage out
- c) Greater instructions greater output
- d) Good input good output
Correct Answer: (b)
2. "Wings of Fire" is a book authored by:
- a) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- b) Amit Chaudhary
- c) APJ Abdul Kalam
- d) Bharat Karnad
Correct Answer: (c)
3. Under Article 226 of the Constitution of India every High Court has the power to issue Writs. One of the following is not a writ:
- a) Quo Warranto
- b) Mandamus
- c) Ultimum supplicium
- d) Prohibition
Correct Answer: (c)
4. Which one of the following is landlocked country:
- a) Bulgaria
- b) Hungary
- c) Romania
- d) Ukraine
Correct Answer: (b)
5. What is psephology?:
- a) Statistical study of elections voting, etc.
- b) Study of rainfall pattern
- c) Study of gene disorder
- d) None of the above is true
Correct Answer: (a)
6. The common refrigerant used in domestic refrigerator is:
- a) Neon
- b) Oxygen
- c) Nitrogen
- d) Freon
Correct Answer: (d)
7. Which of the following food items is rich in iron?:
- a) Rice
- b) Apple
- c) Pulses
- d) Orange
Correct Answer: (b)
8. For which of the following crop does India have the largest cultivated area in the world:
- a) Wheat
- b) Rice
- c) Pulses
- d) Cotton
Correct Answer: (a)
9. This State contributes 70% of India's coffee and silk. Name this state:
- a) Karnataka
- b) Assam
- c) Rajasthan
- d) Punjab
Correct Answer: (a)
10. Which principle states that when a body is partially or totally immersed in a fluid, it experiences an upward thrust equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by it:
- a) Newton's
- b) Pascal's
- c) Archimedes
- d) Hooke's
Correct Answer: (c)
11. Which one of the following statements is not correct about Sierra Leone:
- a) It means mountain of Lion
- b) It lies on the West African bulge between Guinea and Liberia
- c) It is known for prevention of cruelty to animals
- d) The name of this area was originally given by Portuguese sailors
Correct Answer: (c)
12. Find out the wrong statements:
- a) Kuchipudi is a dance form of Kerala
- b) The Khalsa (The pure) was founded by Guru Gobind Singh
- c) The founder of Zoroastrianism was Zoroaster
- d) The world's highest observatory is located in J & K
Correct Answer: (a)
13. Hemis Gumpa festival which is internationally known is of which State:
- a) Jammu and Kashmir
- b) Himachal Pradesh
- c) Rajasthan
- d) None of the above is correct
Correct Answer: (a)
14. Beri-Beri is caused by the lack of vitamin:
- a) C
- b) D
- c) B1
- d) A
Correct Answer: (c)
15. The tide produced in an ocean when the pull on the Earth by the Sun and Moon is unidirectional is called:
- a) High tide
- b) Spring tide
- c) Neap tide
- d) Low tide
Correct Answer: (b)
16. Safdarjung's tomb was built by:
- a) Shauja-ud-Daula
- b) Aurangzeb
- c) Muhammed-bin Tughlaq
- d) Humayun
Correct Answer: (a)
17. The vitamin useful in alcoholism is:
- a) Thiamine
- b) Pyridoxine
- c) Folic acid
- d) Ascorbic acid
Correct Answer: (a)
18. Which is naturally occurring anti-malarial drug?:
- a) Quinacrine
- b) Artimisinine
- c) Mefloquine
- d) Mepacrine
Correct Answer: (b)
19. Drug retail sale licences are issued by:
- a) Drug Controller of India
- b) Union Health Minister
- c) Drug Controller Authorities of the States
- d) Director of Health Service
Correct Answer: (c)
20. Vitamin K is necessary for:
- a) Prevention of rickets
- b) Prevention of pernicious anaemia
- c) Formation of prothrombin
- d) Formation of DNA
Correct Answer: (c)
21. Aldo sterone regulates:
- a) Blood Glucose
- b) Serum Calcium
- c) Urine Concentration
- d) Sodium Absorption
Correct Answer: (d)
22. Cream gets separated from milk when it is churned because of:
- a) Gravitational force
- b) Cohesive force
- c) Centrifugal force
- d) Frictional force
Correct Answer: (c)
23. Speed of sound is maximum in:
- a) Solid
- b) Liquid
- c) Gas
- d) Same in all cases
Correct Answer: (a)
24. Newton is a unit of:
- a) Work
- b) Energy
- c) Force
- d) Acceleration
Correct Answer: (c)
25. Point out the incorrect statement:
- a) The fundamental rights guaranteed under article (freedoms) remain suspended while a proclamation of emergency is made by the President
- b) A writ petition cannot be directly moved in the Supreme Court
- c) The maximum gap between two sessions of Parliament can be six months.
- d) Majority of States in India have unicameral legislature
Correct Answer: (b)
26. The Gulf Stream is an ocean current which begins:
- a) Off the coast of Florida
- b) From the Bay of Bengal
- c) Gulf countries coastline
- d) In the Philippines
Correct Answer: (a)
27. Which of the following instruments can be used for measuring the speed of an aeroplane:
- a) Venturimeter
- b) Orifice plate
- c) Rotameter
- d) Pilot tube
Correct Answer: (d)
28. It is an industrial process of producing ammonia by the reaction of nitrogen with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst:
- a) Solvay Process
- b) Bayer Process
- c) Haber Process
- d) Bessemer Process
Correct Answer: (c)
29. India is its largest producer and it is found in the black sand on the beaches near Cape Comorin, the southernmost part of India:
- a) Beryllium
- b) Kyanite
- c) Lignite
- d) Ilmenite
Correct Answer: (b)
30. Which schedule of the Constitution contains provisions as to disqualifications of MPs and MLAs on the ground of defection?:
- a) 8th
- b) 11th
- c) 12th
- d) 10th
Correct Answer: (d)
31. EURO crisis and the sick men of Europe are the related terms. Identify the sick men of Europe:
- a) Portugal and Greece
- b) Portugal, Greece and Spain
- c) Italy, Portugal and Slovenia
- d) Portugal, Greece, Spain, Italy and Slovenia
Correct Answer: (b)
32. The Government of India has taken a decision to observe the current decade (2010-2020) as the decade of innovation and for the purpose the National Innovation Council will be set up headed by:
- a) K. Kasturirangan
- b) R. A. Mashelkar
- c) Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
- d) Sam Pitroda
Correct Answer: (d)
33. First Nuclear Power Plant in Bushehr. The country referred here is:
- a) North Korea
- b) Kazakhstan
- c) Iran
- d) Argentina
Correct Answer: (c)
34. Arrange the following devices in ascending order of the speed:
a. RAM b. Hard disk
c. Cache d. Floppy
- a) dbac
- b) bdac
- c) badc
- d) abdc
Correct Answer: (a)
35. The honour of being one millionth word of the English language went to:
- a) Noob
- b) Jai Ho
- c) Slumdog
- d) Web 2-0
Correct Answer: (d)
36. "Parliament has no right to reduce or abolish fundamental rights". This refers to the Supreme Court decision in the matter of:
- a) Keshvanand Bharti vs State of Kerala
- b) Golakhnath vs State of Punjab
- c) Shankar Prasad vs Union of India
- d) A. K. Gopalan vs State of Madras
Correct Answer: (a)
37. She started her career as an IFS officer and was unanimously elected the 15th Lok Sabha Speaker. She was elected to Lok Sabha and representing a constituency in the State of:
- a) Madhya Pradesh
- b) Jharkhand
- c) Bihar
- d) West Bengal
Correct Answer: (c)
38. First Indian woman who reached Antartica:
- a) Ujjawala Patil
- b) Pritisu Gupta
- c) Mahel Musa
- d) Geeta Ghosh
Correct Answer: (c)
39. Which Schedule of the Consitution of India describes the allocation of seats in the Council of States:
- a) Fourth
- b) Third
- c) Tenth
- d) Eight
Correct Answer: (a)
40. Match the following:
Field | Nobel Prize Winner 2010 |
---|---|
A. Medicine | 1. Liu Xiaobo |
B. Peace | 2. Andre Geim & Konstantin |
C. Literature | 3. Robert G. Edwards |
D. Physics | 4. Mario Vargas Llosa |
- a) A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1
- b) A-3, B-1, C-2, D-4
- c) A-1, B-3, C-4, D-2
- d) A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2
Correct Answer: (d)
41. Which country won the first Gold Medal of the Commonwealth Games recently held in New Delhi?:
- a) Nigeria
- b) India
- c) England
- d) Australia
Correct Answer: (a)
42. Citizenship Act, 1955 provisions may be broadly divided into three parts: acquisition of citizenship, termination of citizenship and supplementary provisions. How many modes have been provided by Act for acquiring the citizenship of India?
- a) Three
- b) Four
- c) Five
- d) Two
Correct Answer: (b)
43. After years of negotiations, which countries finally went ahead and signed a $7.6 billion cross-border gas pipeline deal in June, 2010 that would be operational in Mid-2014:
- a) India & Pakistan
- b) Pakistan & Iran
- c) India, Pakistan & Iran
- d) India, Pakistan, Afghanistan & Iran
Correct Answer: (b)
44. Who will have its leader elected as Leader of Opposition and given the status and facilities to the rank of Cabinet Ministers?
- a) The opposition party with the largest number of MPs
- b) The opposition party with the largest number MPs and whose number is at least 1/100 of the total House
- c) The opposition party with the largest number of MPs and whose number is at least 1/10 of the total House
- d) None of the above is correct
Correct Answer: (b)
45. The mass of a body at the centre of earth is:
- a) Less than at the surface
- b) Remains constant
- c) More than at the surface
- d) Zero
Correct Answer: (b)
46. The compounds leading to origin of life were:
- a) Urea and nucleic acids
- b) Amino acids and urea
- c) Proteins and nucleic acids
- d) Protein and amino acids
Correct Answer: (c)
47. The highest producing State of Cardamom in India is:
- a) Sikkim
- b) Assam
- c) Meghalaya
- d) None of these
Correct Answer: (d) - Kerala
48. The Keibul Lamjao, the only floating National Park in the World, is in:
- a) Assam
- b) Meghalaya
- c) Manipur
- d) Mizoram
Correct Answer: (c)
49. East West corridor comprising National Highways connecting:
- a) Silchar to Probander
- b) Kolkata to Mumbai
- c) Patna to Surat
- d) None of these
Correct Answer: (b)
50. The enzyme that converts glucose to ethyl alcohol is:
- a) Invertase
- b) Maltase
- c) Zymase
- d) Diastase
Correct Answer: (c)