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General Awareness Quiz 4

1. Which one of the following species is capable of seeing objects both in the front and the behind?

a) deer
b) monkey
c) cat
d) cuckoo
e) owl

2. Which one of the following will cause blindness on consumption?

a) glycerin
b) kerosene
c) vinegar
d) methyl benzene
e) methyl alcohol

3. In electric bulb the gas used is

a) Nitrogen
b) Hydrogen
c) Oxygen
d) Inert gas
e) None of these

4. Pak Strait separates

a) India and Pakistan
b) India and Burma
c) India and Sri Lanka
d) India and Afghanistan
e) Pakistan and Afghanistan

5. What is the Japanese art of flower arrangement called?

a) Ikebota
b) Ikebana
c) Origami
d) Bonsai
e) Ikefasa

6. ‘I have no doubt that a day would come when the family of cosmonauts is joined by a citizen of Republic of India.’ Whose words were these?

a) Jawaharlal Nehru
b) Vikram Sarabhai
c) Satish Dhawan
d) VR Rao
e) Yuri Gagarin

7. Which country’s Legislature or Parliament is called Storting?

a) Sweden
b) Norway
c) Denmark
d) Poland
e) Switzerland

8. Who said ‘Our religion is ‘Don’t touch me. I am holy’?

a) Annie Besant
b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
c) Mahatma Gandhi
d) Swami Vivekananda
e) Dr BR Ambedkar

9. ‘Give us good mothers and I shall give you a good nation.’ Who said this?

a) Mahatma Gandhi
b) Napoleon
c) Winston Churchill
d) Abraham Lincoln
e) Hitler

10. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some to be chewed and digested. Who said this?

a) Ruskin Bond
b) Bertrand Russell
c) Francis Bacon
d) Bernard Shaw
e) William Shakespeare

11. White House is the official residence of the US President. Whose official residence is called the Elysee Palace?

a) North Korean President
b) South Korean President
c) Vietnamese President
d) French President
e) None of these

12. What are Blue Dwarfs and Red Giants?

a) Pygmies and the Caucasians
b) Young stars and old stars
c) Old stars and young stars
d) Native and hybrid varieties of milch cattle
e) Short term and long term crops in wheat

13. Which one of the following is known as the ‘Land of the Thunder Dragon?’

a) Nepal
b) Tibet
c) Bhutan
d) Myanmar
e) Afghanistan

14. The enzyme pepsin converts

a) Carbohydrates to sugars
b) Proteins and amino acids
c) Proteins and peptones
d) Fats of fatty acids glycerol
e) none of these

15. General Dyer, who was responsible for the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre, was shot dead by

a) Hasrat Mohani
b) Sohan Singh Bhakne
c) Udham Singh
d) VVS Iyer
e) Har Kishen Tikhde

16. Which of the following is the capital of Bulgaria?

a) Sofia
b) Danube
c) Rio de Janerio
d) Belgrade
e) none of these

17. Who asserted that ‘the end will justify the means’?

a) Adolf Hitler
b) Ronald Reagan
c) Machiavelli
d) Subhash Chandra Bose
e) Stalin

18. At what temperature the readings in the Centigrade and the Fahrenheit thermometers will be exactly same?

a) 40 degrees
b) 0 degree
c) minus 40 degrees
d) 32 degrees
e) none of these

19. Which of the following is not an aluminium company?

a) BALCO
b) INDAL
c) HINDALCO
d) NELCO
e) None of these

20. The highest fraction of Indian labour force is employed in the

a) Agricultural industries
b) Cultivation and agriculture
c) Household sector
d) Others
e) Manufacturing

21. Rediffusion is a

a) Courier company
b) A seed germinating company
c) An ad agency
d) An art school
e) A form of art

22. Which country has the highest number of cell phone users?

a) India
b) USA
c) China
d) Russia
e) Brazil

23. Dove, the beauty soap, is marketed in India by

a) P&G
b) HLL
c) Lakme
d) Godrej
e) Wipro

24. Who among the following is not a Magsasay Award winner?

a) Vinoba Bhave
b) Rajiv Gandhi
c) Kiran Bedi
d) Ela Bhatt
e) none of these

25. CTBT is a term associated with

a) Nuclear weapons
b) Central taxes
c) Trade sanctions
d) International terrorism
e) None of these

Answers

1. deer
2. methyl alcohol
3. Nitrogen
4. India and Sri Lanka
5. Ikebana
6. Vikram Sarabhai
7. Norway
8. Swami Vivekananda
9. Napoleon
10. Francis Bacon
11. French President
12. Young stars and old stars
13. Bhutan
14. Proteins and peptones
15. Udham Singh
16. Sofia
17. Machiavelli
18. minus 40 degrees
19. NELCO
20. Cultivation and agriculture
21. An ad agency
22. China
23. P&G
24. Rajiv Gandhi
25. Nuclear weapons