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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:

FieldNobel Prize Winner 2010
A. Medicine1. Liu Xiaobo
B. Peace2. Andre Geim & Konstantin
C. Literature3. Robert G. Edwards
D. Physics4. 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)