General Knowledge

1) Who is popularly known as the “Nightingale of India”?

a) Sarojini Naidu

b) M.S Subbulakshmi

c) Mahadevi Verma

d) Lata Mangeshkar

2) The first Speaker of the Lok Sabha was:

a) Rabi Ray

b)M Ananthasayanam Ayangar

c) Hukam Singh

d) G.V. Mavalankar

3) The book Prison Diary was written by:

a) Mahatma Gandhi

b) V.D. Savakar

c) Jaya Prakash Narain

d) Morarji Desai

4) The new name given to Calcutta city is:

a) Kalighat

b) Kalicutta

c) Kolkatta

d) Kolkata

5) ISI mark is not given to which of the following products?

a) Electrical goods

b) Hosiery goods

c) Biscuits

d) Cloth

6) Which day every year is observed as the World Health Day?

a) May 13

b) June 30

c) Appril 07

d) September 30

7) The origin of the phrase “United Nation” is associated with which one of the following personalities?

a) Jawaharlal Nehru

b) Franklin Roosevelt

c) Charles de Gaulle

d) Woodraw Wilson

8) The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (ESCAP) is located at:

a) Kuala Lumpur

b) Bangkok

c) Manila

d) Singapore

9) Which of the following is the head quarter of the World Bank?

a) The Hague

b) Washington

c) Paris

d) London

10) Which one of the following countries is not a member of the Shanghai-5?

a) China

b) Kazakhistan

c) Russia

d) Vietnam

11) What is the currency of South Africa?

a) Guilder

b) Pound

c) Shekel

d) Rand

12) Who was the first woman among the following to become the Prime Minister of a country in the world?

a) Benazir Bhutto

b) Indira Gandhi

c) Margaret Thatcher

d) Sirimavo Bandarnaike

13) Which animal is the symbol of the World Wildlife Fund?

a) Tiger

b) Giant Panda

c) Hornbill

d) White Bear

14) Who was the first President of All India Trade Union Congress?

a) Dewan Chaman Lal

b) Lala Lajapat Rai

c) N.G. Ranga

d) Swami Sahajanand

15) Which one of the following is an important tribe of the Dhauladhar Range?

a) Abor

b) Gaddi

c) Lepcha

d) Tharu

16) Which one of the following cities does not have the special econom zone?

a) Chennai

b) Kandla

c) Kochi

d) Surat

17) Which one of the following cities is not connected by National Highway No. 3?

a) Agra

b) Bhopal

c) Dhule

d) Gwalior

18) Which one of the following programmes is not included in the Swarn Jayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana?

a) IRDP

b) TRYSEM

c) DWCRA

d) JRY

19) Who took the charge of Prime Ministership immediately after the dead of Jawaharlal Nehru?

a) Indira Gandhi

b) Morarji Desai

c) Gulzarilal Nanda

d) Lal Bahadur Shastri

20) Which one among the following is least like the others?

a) Kathakali

b) Bhangra

c) Kuchipudi

d) Bharat Natyam

21) Which one of the following is not correctly matched?

a) Fiji – Suva

b) Finland – Oslo

c) Guyana – George Town

d) Lebanon – Beirut

22) The author of the book ‘Animal Farm’ is

a) Leo Tolstoy

b) George Orwell

c) John Dryden

d) S.M. Ali

23) Which one of the following is referred to as the “golden Hand Shake”?

a) Honouring VIP’s

b) Voluntary Retirement Scheme

c) Wishing bon voyage

d) Receiving distinguished gues

24) “India House” is located in:

a) New Delhi

b) Kolkata

c) London

d) New York

25) The largest flightless bird which can run at a great speed:

a) Penguin

b) Kiwi

c) Ostrich

d) Emu

26) International Finance Corporation is the ancillary istitution of the:

a) UNO

b) IDO

c) IMF

d) IBRD

27) Television was introduced in India in:

a) Sep 15, 1959

b) Sep 05, 1959

c) Sep 25, 1959

d) Sep 30, 1959

28) Losooong is a festival which is celebrated in:

a) Tibet

b) Arunachal Pradesh

c) Sikkim

d) Kerala

29) Which of the following countries is now known as Myanmar?

a) Kampuchea

b) Northern Rhodesia

c) Burma

d) Laos

30) Who said “Man is a Political Animal”?

a) Socrates

b) Plato

c) Aristotle

d) Dante

31) Persons may change but rules should not change is the principle of:

a) Absolute Monarchy

b) Constitutional Government

c) Unwritten Constitution

d) Republic

32) Kuchipudi is a dance style which originated from:

a) Kerala

b) Andhara Pradesh

c) Manipur

d) Tamil Nadu

33) Currency of Japan is called:

a) Yen

b) Dollar

c) Pound

d) Lira

34) The first Secretary General of the United Nations was:

a) Dag Hammarskjoeld

b) U.Thant

c) Kurt Walheim

d) Trygve Lie

35) Padma Subramaniam is an exponent of classical dance:

a) Kuchipudi

b) Odissi

c) Bharatnatyam

d) Manipuri

36) Shiv-Hari, the popular musical duo, plays which of the following instrument?

a) Tabla and Guitar

b) Santoor and Flute

c) Piano and Drums

d) None of these

37) Which of the following is called the “Mother of Parliament”?

a) The German Parliament

b) The American Parliament

c) The French Parliament

d) The British Parliament

38) Which of the following places is not Pak occupied Kashmir?

a) Gilgit

b) Skardu

c) Muzaffarabad

d) Kargil

39) Who among the following was not a Vice President before becoming President of India?

a) V.V. Giri

b) R. Venkararaman

c) S.Ramakrishnan

d) Giani Zail Singh

40) Which one of the following projections is used chiefly in navigation?

a) Mercator’s

b) Mollweid’s

c) Bonne’s

d) Lamber’s

41) Which of the following years is known as the “Year of great divide” with regard to population growth in India?

a) 1911

b) 1921

c) 1947

d) 1951

42) Which one of the following is the World Environment Day?

a) April 22

b) May 01

c) May 31

d) June 05

43) The cost of nest best alternative is known as:

a) Real Cost

b) Social Cost

c) Opportunity Cost

d) Over head cost

44) Kamasutra is written by:

a) Kalamandalam Nair

b) Ananda Coomaraswamy

c) Birju Maharaj

d) S.H. Vastyayan

45) December 10, is regarded as a red letter day for the whole world because it is the:

a) International Labour Day

b) Human Rights Day

c) United Nations Day

d) Science Day

46) Given below is a list of traditional dreses of women along with states. Which one of them is not correctly matched?

a) Boku - Sikkim

b) Mekhala - Assam

c) Mundu – Chhattisgarh

d) Pheran – Kashmir

47) The book “The Proudest Day” deals with the story of:

a) Internation of Indian States

b) India’s Independence

c) Pokhran nuclear explosion

d) Formation of the NDA Government at the Centre

48) March 8, is ovserved as:

a) World Environment Day

b) Heritage Day

c) International Women’s Day

d) Youth Day

49) The ‘Kumbha Mela’ comes round once in:

a) 7 years

b) 5 years

c) 10 years

d) 12 years

50) Who among the following has written the book entitled ‘Autobiography of an Unknown India’?

a) Kuldip Nayyar

b) V.S. Naipaul

c) Nirad C. Choudhuri

d) N.A. Palkhivala

51) The abbreviation IGNOU stands for:

a) Indian Government’s Nuclear Option Ultimatum

b) Indira Gandhi National Open University

c) Inter-Governmental and Non official Understandings

d) Informal Group on National Occupational Utilities

52) The author of the book ‘The Gin Drinkers’ is:

a) Arundhti Roy

b) Anita Desai

c) Sagarika Ghose

d) Shobha De

53) 1^st December, of every year is observed to mark:

a) World Habitat Day

b) Univesal Children’s Day

c) World AIDS Day

d) Annivesary of United Nation

54) The famous Salar Jung Museum is situated in:

a) Assam

b) Telangana

c) Jammu and Kashmir

d) Uttar Pradesh

55) Consumer Day is celebrated every year on:

a) April 01

b) October 23

c) March 15

d) December 05

56) Subhas Mukhopadhya is associated with which one of the following fields?

a) Politics

b) Sports

c) Literature

d) Social service

57) The international Nautical Mile is equal to:

a) 1852 meters

b) 1825 meters

c) 2000 meters

d) 1582 meters

58) The Asian Development Bank has its headquaters in:

a) Kathmandu

b) Manila

c) Colombo

d) Tokyo

59) Who among the following Indians has presided over the UNESCO?

a) Dr. Zakir Hussain

b) Dr. Ramaswami Mudaliar

c) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

d) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

60) World Health Day is observed on?

a) April 07

b) April 09

c) April 18

d) April 20

61) Which of the following contries is now known as Cambdia?

a) Northern Rhodesia

b) Laos

c) Kampuchea

d) Comoros

62) Who was the first Indian to become the member of British Parliametn?

a) W.C. Bonnerjee

b) M. Malabari

c) D.N. Wacha

d) Dadabhai Naoroji

63) Whois the writer of the book ‘Interpreter of Maladies’?

a) Jhumpa Lahiri

b) Arundhati Roy

c) Vikram Seth

d) Geeta Mehta

64) Which of he following is a morning Raag?

a) Sohini

b) Bhairavi

c) Kalabati

d) Sarang

65) Who is the writter of the poetry “Deep Shikha”?

a) Ramdhar Singh Dinkar

b) Shankar Dayal Sharma

c) Subhara Kumari Chauhan

d) None of these

66) The compilation of ‘Meri Ekawan Kavitayen’ (My 51 Poems) is written by:

a) Atal Behari Vajpayee

b) Harivanshrai Bachchan

c) Dharam Vir Bharah

d) Shivmangal Singh ‘Suman’

67) Who among the following is the writer of “Anand Math”

a) Harindra Nath Chattopadhyay

b) Rabindranath Tagore

c) Mulk Raj Anand

d) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

68) In which Shakespearian is Desdemona a Character?

a) Hamlet

b) Othello

c) Merchant of Venice

d) As You Like It

69) The famous work of Leo Tolstoy is:

a) Merchant of Venice

b) Illiad

c) War and Peace

d) Great Expectations

70) Who said, “Fools rush in wher angels fear to tread”?

a) The Bible

b) John Milton

c) Alexander Pope

d) Dr. Samuel Johnson

71) Who is the writer of the novel ‘God of Small Things’?

a) Arundhati Roy

b) Jhumpa Lahiri

c) Kapil Dev

d) Mahasweta Devi

72) The capital of Mizoram is:

a) Imphal

b) Shillong

c) Kohima

d) Aizawl

73) Who is the author of the book ‘The Name Sake’?

a) Shashi Desh

b) Jhumpa Lahire

c) Kapil Dev

d) Benazir Bhutto

74) Which of the following is the 28^th State of India?

a) Jharkhand

b) Uttarakhand

c) Chhattishgarh

d) Gorkhaland

75) Guernica was painted by:

a) Leonardo da Vinci

b) Michelangelo

c) Picasso

d) Raphael

76) The “Last Supper” is a world famous painting by:

a) Paul Gugin

b) Leonardo Da Vinci

c) Rapael

d) Rembrandt

77) “Bhogali Bihu” is a festival of:

a) Assam

b) Orissa

c) Gujarat

d) Rajasthan

78) Classical dance having its roots in Tamil Nadu is:

a) Kathakali

b) Kathak

c) Kuchipudi

d) Bharat Natyam

79) Jamini Roy distinguished himself in:

a) Dancing

b) Colour photography

c) Instrumental music

d) Painting

80) Which of the following countries is not a member of the UNO?

a) Sweden

b) Taiwan

c) Australia

d) Norway

81) Which Indian Jurist held the office of the President of International Court of Justice?

a) H.R. Khanna

b) K.S. Hegde

c) Nagendra Singh

d) R.S. Pathak

82) Who was the first Indian to be the President of UN General Assembly?

a) Natwar Singh

b) V.K. Krishna Menon

c) Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit

d) Romesh Bhandari

83) What is the correct sequence of the formation of the following States of India?

1) Andhara Pradesh 2) Haryana 3) Kerala 4) Meghlaya

a) 1, 3, 2, 4

b) 1, 3, 4, 2

c) 3, 1, 2, 4

d) 3, 1, 4, 2

84) The ‘First Lady’ of the Indian silver screen is:

a) Madhubala

b) Devika Rani

c) Durga Khote

d) Nargis Dutt

85) Arunachal Pradesh has borders with:

a) Bhutan, China, and Myanmar

b) Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar

c) Bangladesh, China, and Myanmar

d) Bhuran, China, and Bangladesh

86) Tha talkie film Alam Ara was produce in

a) 1912

b) 1913

c) 1931

d) 1934

87) The head quartersof UNESCO is:

a) Paris

b) Washington DC

c) Geneva

d) Swizerland

88) The head quarters of WHO is:

a) Paris

b) Geneva

c) Washington DC

d) Rome

89) The author of the book ‘India Wins Freedom is:

a) Abdul Kalam Azad

b) Rajendra Prasad

c) Annie Besant

d) Lala Lajpat Rai