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General Knowledge Quiz 7

a) Upanishads b) Aranyakas b) Sama Veda d) Rig Veda

2. Whose court did Kalidasa, the great Sanskrit poet adorn?

a) Chandra Gupta II b) Kumar Gupta c) Sundra Gupta d) Ashoka

3. Who was the founder of Magadh Empire?

a) Bindusar b) Ajathashatru c) Bimbisar d) Udaya

4. Who among the following leaders died as a result of injuries sustained during a protest demonstration against Simon Commission?

a) BG Tilak b) GK Gokhale c) Dadabai Naoroji d) Lala Lajpat Rai

5. Who founded the city of Amritsar?

a) Maharaja Ranjith Singh b) Guru Ram Das c) Guru Gobind Singh d) Guru Teg Bahadur

6. Who designed the famous assault rifle AK – 47?

a) Paul Harris b) Mikhail Kalashnikov c) Gary Kirsten d) Kenneth Kaunda

7. The principle of ‘Blood and Iron’ is associated with which world leader?

a) Winston Churchill b) Otto Von Bismarck c) Stalin d) Hitler

8. Who among the Indian prime Minister raised the slogan ‘Jai Jawan Jai Kisan’?

a) Indira Gandhi b) Lal Bahadur Shastri c) Jawaharlal Nehru d) Rajiv Gandhi

9. Who was the first chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India?

a) Vikram Sarabhai b) Homi J Bhaba c) Kasturirangan d) Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar

10. The concept of Public Interest Litigation originated in

a) United Kingdom b) Australia c) Canada d) USA

11. Which of the following was considered by Ambedkar as ‘the heart and soul of constitution’?

a) Freedom of speech b) right to equality c) right to constitutional remedies d) right to freedom of religion

12. Panchsheel was enunciated in

a) 1952 b) 1954 c) 1956 d) 1958

13. Who was the permanent chairman of the Constituent Assembly?

a) BR Ambedkar b) Dr Rajendra Prasad c) Sardar Vallabhai Patel d) Lord Mountbatten

14. Who appoints the judges of the Supreme Court and High Court?

a) Prime Minister b) Law Minister c) President d) Speaker of Lok Sabha

15. In India, the largest number of newspapers are published in

a) Hindi b) English c) Telugu d)Urdu

16. The Indian Institute of Science is located at

a) Mumbai b) Delhi c) Chennai d) Bangalore

17. What is the name of India’s first research station set up in Antarctica?

a) Dakshin Gangotri b) Maitree c) Ramnotri d) None of these

18. Which of the following bank was conducting transactions on behalf of British Government till 1935?

a) Reserve Bank of India b) Imperial Bank of India c) Hindustan Bank d) None of these

19. Which of the following is the highest peak in undisputed Indian Territory?

a) Kanchenjunga b) Nanga Parbat c) Mount Everest d) Nanda Devi

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

a) Kochi b) Paradeep c) Rameshwaram d) Vishakhapatnam

21. Which of the following is an inland drainage area?

a) Chilka Region b) Sambhar area c) Rann of Kutch d) Mansarovar lake

22. What is the forest type found in Sunderbans?

a) Mangrove b) tropical deciduous c) tropical evergreen d) temperate coniferous

23. Who is the goddess of love in Greek Mythology?

a) Artemis b) Aphrodite c) Hera d) Athena

24. Who was the first Asian to become the Secretary General of the UN?

a) Trygve Lie b) Dag Hammarskjold c) U Thant d) Dr Kurt Waldheim

25. Who is the only Indian tennis player to reach the semifinal of Wimbledon tennis singles?

a) Vijay Amritraj b) Leander Paes c) Ramanathan Krishnan d) Mahesh Bhupati

26. Who was the first winner of the Booker Prize?

a) William Golding b) PH Newby c) JM Coetzee d) Peter Carey

27. Who among the following writers refused the Nobel Prize for Literature?

a) Winston Churchill b) Tony Morisson c) Jean Paul Sartre d) Rene Sully Prudhomme

28. When did UNICEF win the Nobel Peace Prize?

a) 1965 b) 1959 c) 1969 d) 1975

29. What are the arteries supplying blood to the heart called?

a) Carotid arteries b) hepatic arteries c) coronary arteries d) pulmonary arteries

30. Which of the following accomplishes the transfer of genetic information from one generation to the next?

a) X-chromosome b) Y-chromosome c) DNA d) RNA

Answers

1. Upanishads
2. Chandra Gupta II
3. Bimbisar
4. Lala Lajpat Rai
5. Guru Ram Das
6. Mikhail Kalashnikov
7. Otto Von Bismarck
8. Lal Bahadur Shastri
9. Homi J Bhaba
10. United Kingdom
11. right to constitutional remedies
12. 1954
13. Dr Rajendra Prasad
14. President
15. Hindi
16. Bangalore
17. Dakshin Gangotri
18. Imperial Bank of India
19. Nanga Parbat
20. Rameshwaram
21. Rann of Kutch
22. Mangrove
23. Aphrodite
24. U Thant
25. Ramanathan Krishnan
26. PH Newby
27. Jean Paul Sartre
28. 1965
29. coronary arteries
30. DNA