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General Awareness Quiz 5

1. The violent and tropical cyclones in China and Japan are known as

a) Hurricanes
b) Tornadoes
c) Typhoons
d) Willy-willies

2. Ornithology is the study of

a) snakes
b) ornaments
c) precious gems
d) birds

3. The mode of propagation of heat from the sun to earth is

a) conduction
b) convection alone
c) radiation alone
d) convection and radiation

4. An electric motor is used to convert

a) electrical energy into mechanical energy
b) mechanical energy into kinetic energy
c) mechanical energy into electrical energy
d) higher voltage to lower voltage

5. One micron is equal to

a) 10-6m
b) 10-5 m
c) 10-4 m
d) 10-3 m

6. The time at any point on the earth’s surface calculated when the sun reaches its highest position in the sky is known as

a) local time
b) sidereal time
c) solar time
d) standard time

7. A traveler is thirsty in a desert at 15 degree E and 25 degree S. The desert in the question is

a) Kalahari
b) Patagonia
c) Sahara
d) Mohave

8. Which one of the following is a cold water current?

a) Canary current
b) Caribbean Current
c) Guinea Current
d) Kuro-shio Current

9. Which one of the following is not a sea port?

a) Cairo
b) Dublin
c) Lisbon
d) Rotterdam

10. Which one of the following is a land-locked country?

a) Albania
b) Bulgaria
c) Hungary
d) Romania

11. Which one of the following terms is used for the region of low atmospheric pressure?

a) anticyclone
b) cyclone
c) hurricane
d) thunderstorm

12. Who among the following is associated with the concept of Civil Disobedience?

a) Voltaire
b) Thomas Paine
c) HD Thoreau
d) Thomas Hobbes

13. Who wrote ‘Das Capital’?

a) Engel
b) Lenin
c) Karl Marx
d) Adam Smith

14. Who among the following was a proponent of the Rights of Man?

a) Voltaire
b) Thomas Paine
c) HD Thoreau
d) Thomas Hobbes

15. Who chaired the Constituent Assembly set up to prepare a draft on the Constitution of free India?

a) Dr Rajendra Prasad
b) Dr BR Ambedkar
c) Jawaharlal Nehru
d) C Rajagopalachari

16. Who was the first Indian to enter the Indian Civil Service?

a) Satyendra Nath Tagore
b) CC Desai
c) SN Banerjee
d) Subash Chandra Bose

17. The Vedic god Purandara was the same as

a) Varuna
b) Indra
c) Yama
d) Rudra

18. Who were the first Europeans in modern times to enter into trade relations with India?

a) Dutch
b) Portuguese
c) French
d) British

19. The two basic values of a constitutional government are

a) stability and liberty
b) liberty and equality
c) equality and fraternity
d) stability and justice

20. To be appointed as Advocate General of the State, the person should possess qualifications necessary for appointment as

a) a judge of the Supreme Court
b) a judge of the High Court
c) a state governor
d) chief minister of the state

21. State governors hold office

a) during good behaviour
b) during the pleasure of the Chief Minister
c) During the Pleasure of the President
d) For a fixed and unalterable term

22. Hay fever and Asthma belong to the category of

a) deficiency diseases
b) degenerative diseases
c) hormonal diseases
d) allergies

23. Which of the following is an element?

a) silica
b) Magnesia
c) Glass
d) Graphite

24. Which of the following legislatures is universally acclaimed as the ‘Mother of Parliaments’?

a) Congress of the United States
b) British Parliament
c) Federal Assembly of Switzerland
d) Canadian parliament

25. The function of a catalyst in a reaction is to

a) decrease the rate of the reaction
b) increase the rate of the reaction
c) increase the pressure of the reactants
d) decrease the pressure of the reactants

Answers

1. Typhoons
2. birds
3. radiation alone
4. mechanical energy into electrical energy
5. 10-6m
6. local time
7. Kalahari
8. Kuro-shio Current
9. Cairo
10. Albania
11. anticyclone
12. HD Thoreau
13. Karl Marx
14. Thomas Paine
15. Dr Rajendra Prasad
16. SN Banerjee
17. Indra
18. Portuguese
19. stability and justice
20. a judge of the High Court
21. During the Pleasure of the President
22. allergies
23. Graphite
24. British Parliament
25. increase the rate of the reaction