General Awareness 2

GENERAL AWARENESS: (8 tests) 1.Connect the following Manhattan, Apollo, Hedwig, Cartman, Guinness. Greek Gods Red Hat Linux Versions Record Books Famous Scientists 2. Who coined the term Pakistan while he was at Cambridge? Choudhary Rahmat Ali Zia Ul Haq Mehboob Khan Maqboor Khan 3. What term was coined by Don Hoeffler in a 1971 article published in the magazine "Electronic News"? World Wide Web Internet Silicon Valley Mobile 4. Which breed of dog is named because its ears resemble the wings of a butterfly? Papillon Doberman Zololo Pamerian 5. The Greeks have the longest, Japan the shortest, and Saudi Arabia none at all. What? National animal National Anthem River Mountains 6. Sampuran Singh is better known to Hindi movie watchers by the pen-name that he adopted. What was the pen-name? Dara Singh Dharmendra Asrani Gulzar 7. What is the lowest string in violin called? A-String F-Sting

G-String S-String

8.Two US scientists Herb Faber and Dan O' Connor devised an insulating material as a substitute for mica, and formed a company to commercially sell the product. Their company was taken over by Cyanamid. The trade name used by the scientists is protected by law, however it is used as a generic name for any product in this class. What is the trade name? Plastic ForMica Polystrene Teflon 9. Which is the largest cigarettes company in the world? Phillip Morris BAT ITC Virgin 10. Which magazine's logo is Pegasus, the winged horse and claims to be the "The world's largest circulation magazine"? People Readers Digest

Fortune

Time

Correct Answers 1 Red Hat Linux 2 Choudhary Rahmat Ali 3 Silicon Valley 4 Papillon 5 National Anthem 6 Gulzar 7 G-String 8 ForMica 9 Phillip Morris 10 Readers Digest

1.Who was the pioneer of the ‘Bhoodan’ movement? Thakkar Bapa Vinoba Bhave

D.K.Karve Jayprakash Narayan

2. In which language did Buddha preach his followers? Hindi Sanskrit Prakrit Magdhi 3. Which one of the following Indian states is not bisected by the Tropic of Cancer? Orissa Gujarat Rajasthan West Bengal 4. Who was the first recipient of Jnanpith Award? G.Shankar Kurup Uma Shankar Jo 5. Who signed the peace agreement ‘Shimla pact’? Indira Gandhi- Zia Ul Haq Bhutto Indira Gandhi – Benazir Bhutto Bhutto

Ravindra Nath Taigor Premchand Indira Gandhi – Zulfikar Ali Rajeev Gandhi - Benazir

6. On the bank of which river did Alexander and Porus fight? Beas Jhelum Ganga Sindh 7. Which of the following has been India’s highest foreign exchange earning crop? Cotton Jute Coffee Silk

8.Who was the first recipient of ‘Bharat Ratna’? M. Vishveshwaraya Jawaher lal Nehru

C.Rajgopalachari Gandhi

9. In which city is the ‘August Kranti Maidan’ situated? Kolkata Delhi Chennai Mumbai 10. Who was the most learned scholar of Taxila who wrote the grammar of the Sanskrit language? Chankya Valmiki Varahmihir Panini --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Q.No Result Correct Answers 1 Vinoba Bhave 2 Prakrit 3 Orissa 4 G Shankar Kurup 5 indira Gandhi-Zulfikar Ali Bhutto 6 Jhelum 7 Jute 8 C.Rajgopalachari 9 Mumbai 10 Panini

1. In which country Vengaboys based? USA UK

Netherlands Germany

2. In which year India was granted the test status? 1920 1930

1926 1932

3. In which language were the Vedas composed? Pali Sanskrit

Prakrit Hindi

4. Which state is known as the ‘granary of India’? UP Punjab

Haryana Maharashtra

5. When was the project tiger launched? 1970 1975

1973 1980

6. Which international game originated in Pune? Chess Polo

Cricket Badminton

7. Which country is the originator of chess? Russia U.K

India Czech Republic

8.What was the original name of Gautam Buddha? Vardhaman Devdutta

Siddharth Rahul

9. Which is the home of Asiatic lion? Corbett National Park Dudhawa National Park 10. When was the National Anthem sung first? 1911 1947

Kanha National park Gir National Park 1929 1950

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Detailed Analysis Q.No Result Correct Answers 1 Netherlands 2 1926 3 Sanskrit 4 punjab 5 1973 6 Badminton 7 India 8 Siddharth 9 Gir Natoional Park 10 1911

1. Which river originates from the Mansarover Lake? The Ganga The Brahmaputra

The Yamuna The Indus

2. How many spokes are there in the ‘Chakra’ of our national flag? 12 16 24 30 3. In which state of India is the Himalayan Peak Kanchenjunga situated? Sikkim Assam Himachal Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh 4. Who is the author of "Half a Life"? Harold Laski Shakespeare 5. Who played the Character James Bond first? David Niven George Lazemby

V.S. Naipaul Karan Singh Sean Connery Roger Moore

6. Which was the most importunate structure found at Mohenjo Daro ? Great bath Tower Palace Temple 7. How far in to the sea do the territorial waters of India extend? 6 nautical miles 10 nautical miles 12 nautical miles 15 nautical miles 8.Between which cities does the Himsagar Express run? Shri Nagar to New Delhi Kanyakumari Jammu to Mumbai

Jammu Tawi to Jammu to New Delhi

9. Which is considered to be the oldest form of classical dance? Odissi Kathakali Kathak Mohiniattam 10. On which west flowing river is the Jog falls located? The Saravati river The Kaveri

The Krishna The Narmada

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Q.No Result Correct Answers 1 The Brahmputra 2 24 3 Sikkim 4 V.S.Naipaul 5 David Niven 6 Great Bath 7 12 nauticle Miles 8 JammuTawi To Kanyakumari 9 odissi 10 The Sarvati River

1. Which is the largest flower of the world ? Rafflesia poinsettia

Zinnia magnolia

2. Who wrote the book " Songs of Distant Earth " ? Arthur C Clark Bradbury Karl Sagan

Issac Asimov

3. What does the Greek word " Heureka" mean ? Eureka Heavens!

Alas! Oh no!

4. During World War II , who was Nazi Germany's " Reichsfuehrer " ? Hermann Goering Hitler Heinrich Himmler Goebbels 5. Name the author of " The Great Indian Novel " ? Shashi Tharoor Amitav Ghosh

Ray

Adolf Joes

Vikram Seth Raja Rao

6. Which Peshwa First encouraged the Marathas to expand northwards at the expenses of the Mughal Empire ? Baji Rao I Balaji Vishwanath Madhav Rao Balaji Baji Rao

7. What is the " String Theory " also known as ? Theory of Linear Causality Everything Theory of Spiraling Causality Nothing 8. Who directed the film " Roshomon " ? Satyajit Ray Eisenstein Akira Kurosawa Gopalkrishna

Theory of Theory of

Sergei Adoor

9. Which Roman Caesar made his horse joint Consul and Co-Ruler along with himself ? Claudius Caligula Nero Theodosius 10. What was the Calcutta based daily " The Statement " called earlier ? The Englishman Herald The Bengal Gazette Metropolitan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------Detailed Analysis Q.No Result Correct Answers 1 Rafflesia 2 Arthur C. Clark 3 Eureka 4 Heinrich Himmler 5 Shashi Tharoor 6 Baji Rao I 7 Theory of Everything 8 Akira Kurosava 9 Caligula 10 The Englishman

1. Article 343 of the constitution provides that To move the supreme court for enforcement of fundamental rights The official language of the union shall be in the Devanagari script

The Imperial The

The president is the supreme commander of the armed forces The parliament has the power to increase the number of judges of the high court 2. When was the FM stereo radio launched by AIR ? 1984 1980

1988 None of these

3. The greatest producer of Apples in the world is England Russia

India France

4. To remove a judge of the Supreme Court from office there should be a notice of one month given a unanimous decision taken by the president and the prime-minister at least one charge leveled against him a two third majority agreement in the parliament 5. The Report that probed the 1992-93 Mumbai communal riots was named Justice Srikrishna Report Justice Sriram Report Justice Khusro Report None of these 6. What is " Jini " ? A computer programme A computer language

A networking technology None of these

7. How many languages are officially recognised by the Indian Constitution ? 18 19 17 20 8. The black hole is the final stage of a star whose mass is equal to the mass of Sun less than the mass of Sun more than five times the mass of the Sun None of these 9. The first country to have a motorway was France England.

Germany Japan

10. How many Schedules does the Indian Constitution have ? 10 11 12 13 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Q.No Result Correct Answers 1 The official language of the Union shall be in devnagari script 2 1988 3 Russia 4 two-third majority agreement in the parliament 5 Justice Srikrishna Report 6 Networking technology 7 18 8 more than five times the mass of the Sun 9 Germany 10 12 1. Who was the only woman in Nehru's kitchen cabinet in 1947? Rajkumari Amrit Kaur Naidu Krishna Hatheesingh Pandit 2. What was the technical term used for the 'Star Wars' project? Stellar Defense Project Defense Initiative Strategic Defense Initiative Missile Shield 3. Who wrote the novel Rebecca? Alexander Dumas Balzac Jean-Paul Sartre Maurier 4. Where is the Indian Police Academy located ? Guntur Khadakwasla

Sarojini Vijayalaxmi

Stellar Strategic

Honore de Daphne du

Hyderabad Shimla

5. Who ruled the Magadhan Empire as a tribute-paying feudatory of the Huns under Mihirgula? Samudra Gupta Shri Gupta Skanda Gupta Vainya Gupta 6. Which Maratha chieftain accompanied Sadashiv Rao Bhau to the 3rd Battle of Panipat and

survived to establish a separate dynasty of his own? Daulat Rao Sindhia Sindhia Fateh Singh Gaekwad Rao Holkar 7. When did the saying 'to be a quisling' come into being? World War II the Zulu Wars 8. Who is the present Chairperson of the Reserve Bank of India? C. D. Rangarajan Bhagwati Bimal Jalan 9. Which world leader was known as the 'Iron Chancellor'? Prince Otto von Bismarck Churchill Helmut Kohl Adenauer 10. Name the capital of Chatrapati Shivaji's kingdom. Zanjira Singhgad

Mahadji Yashwant

World War I the Boer War Jagdish N. K. Singh Sir Winston Konrad

Satara Raigarh

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Q.No Result Correct Answers 1 Rajkumari Amrit Kaur 2 Strategic Defense Initiative 3 Daphne du Maurier 4 Hyderabad 5 Vainya Gupta 6 Mahadji Sindhia 7 World War II 8 Bimal Jalan 9 Otto von Bismarck 10 Raigarh 1.To be recognized as a national party, a political party must be a recognized party in atleast -?

Three states Five states

Four states Six states

2.Citizens of which one of the following Caribbean Islands enjoy all US rights except voting rights? Bahamas Bermudas Jamaica Puerto Rico 3.Hieroglyphics were developed by the -? Indians

Mayans

Chinese

Chola, Pandya, Chera

4.The electorate system for president in India is based on-? Adult franchise Separate Electorate Indirect election system Multi-Vote system 5.The member of the NAFTA includes -? USA, Canada, Mexico USA, UK, Russia

USA, Canada, UK USA, UK, Mexico

6.Cash crops of India includes-? Paddy and jawar Cotton and Sugarcane

Maize, Jawar and Paddy Ground nut and Cotton

7.Who was the founder of first Sufi order in India? Khwaja Qutub - Ud – din Bakhtiar Kaki Khwaja Muinud-din Chisti

Shaikh Nizam ud din Auliya Shaikh Nasir Ud-din Mahmud

8.Who was the pioneer of the ‘Panchayati Raj’ for introducing local self-government in British India? Warren Hastings Lord William Bentinck Lord Canning Lord Ripon 9.The traveler from the west who visited the Bahmani Kingdom in 1417 was? Marco Polo Nicolo Conti Vasco de Gama Ibn Batuta 10.Who categorized blood in to four groups-? Robert Brown Louis Pasture

Karl Landsteiner Robert Hook

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.No Result Correct Answers 1 Four states 2 Puerto Rico 3 Egyptians 4 Indirect election system 5 USA, Canada, Mexico 6 Cotton and Sugarcane 7 Khwaja Qutub - Ud – din Bakhtiar Kaki 8 Lord Ripon 9 Nicolo Conti 10 Karl Landsteiner