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General Awareness Quiz 1

1. The quorum to constitute a meeting of either house of Parliament is

a) one-third of the total number of members of that house
b) one-third of the total number of members present
c) one-tenth of the total number of members of that house
d) one-tenth of the total number of members present

2. From which of the following are the words ‘Satyameva Jayate’ inscribed in our national emblem taken?

a) Mahabharata
b) Mundaka Upanishad
c) Kathopanishad
d) Ramayana

3. Which of the following defines a free-port?

a) allows duty-free imports
b) does not have any customs checking
c) allows free entry to goods from some specified countries
d) allows free entry to goods which are to be re-exported

4. Which of the following deals with economic offences?

a) MISA
b) NSA
c) TADA
d) COFEPOSA

5. Which princess stayed with Shahjahan when he passed his last days as a prisoner?

a) Jahanara
b) Roshanara
c) Zaibunnisa
d) Mumtaz Mahal

6. In which year was the Mughal dynasty in India founded?

a) 1526
b) 1536
c) 1546
d) 1556

7. Where was the first session of Indian National Congress held?

a) Bombay
b) Delhi
c) Calcutta
d) Madras

8. Which of the following contributes largely to the green-house gas effect?

a) ozone
b) carbon dioxide
c) carbon monoxide
d) water vapour

9. Which one of the following is a high-yielding variety of wheat?

a) Kalyansona
b) Hira
c) Moti
d) Jaya

10. Which of the following type of soils is very hard to cultivate?

a) red
b) alluvial
c) black
d) sandy

11. Which one of the following is not a green house gas?

a) methane
b) carbon dioxide
c) nitrous oxide
d) chlorofluorocarbons

12. Which of the following is not a product of vehicular pollution?

a) sulphur dioxide
b) carbon monoxide
c) hydrogen peroxide
d) hydro carbons

a) Chiron
b) Ceres
c) Pulsars
d) Ranger

14. The 2001 Nobel Prize for literature was won by an Indian writer. Who is s/he?

a) Salman Rushdie
b) VS Naipaul
c) Arundhati Roy
d) Vijay Tendulkar

15. Who became the acting Prime Minister after the death of Jawaharlal Nehru in 1964?

a) Morarji Desai
b) Gulzarilal Nanda
c) Indira Gandhi
d) BP Sinha

16. The Third Indo-Pak war erupted in

a) 1965
b) 1967
c) 1970
d) 1971

17. Name the Italian revolutionary whose leadership led to the unification of Italy?

a) Giuseppe Garibaldi
b) Benito Mussolini
c) Otto von Bismarck
d) Oliver Cromwell

18. Name the Italian painter who was the first to prepare a model of a helicopter?

a) Pablo Picasso
b) Vincent Van Gogh
c) Leonardo da Vinci
d) Raphael

19. Who is the inventor of the Telegraphic code?

a) Alexander Graham Bell
b) Thomas Alva Edison
c) Samuel Morse
d) JL Baird

20. Who is the author of the book, ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’?

a) Lyman Baum
b) DH Lawrence
c) Oscar Wilde
d) O Henry

21. Who is the creator of the fictional character ‘Sherlock Holmes’?

a) Joseph Conrad
b) Rudyard Kipling
c) James Joyce
d) Arthur Conan Doyle

22. Which of the following gases is used to extinguish fire?

a) nitrogen
b) carbon dioxide
c) carbon monoxide
d) ethane

23. What is the chemical symbol for gold?

a) Ag
b) Au
c) Ge
d) Hg

24. Where is the headquarters of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)?

a) Jakarta
b) Manila
c) Bangkok
d) Taipei

25. Where is the headquarters of the Interpol?

a) Paris
b) New York
c) London
d) Lyons

Answers

1. one-tenth of the total number of members of that house
2. Mundaka Upanishad
3. allows duty-free imports
4. COFEPOSA
5. Jahanara
6. 1526
7. Bombay
8. carbon dioxide
9. Kalyansona
10. red
11. nitrous oxide
12. hydrogen peroxide
13. Ceres
14. VS Naipaul
15. Gulzarilal Nanda
16. 1971
17. Giuseppe Garibaldi
18. Leonardo da Vinci
19. Samuel Morse
20. Oscar Wilde
21. Arthur Conan Doyle
22. carbon dioxide
23. Au
24. Jakarta
25. Lyons