Wednesday 24 February 2016

GK Quiz-1


1)Who was the first Deputy Prime Minister of India?
  A) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
  B) B.R.Ambedkar
  C) Lal Bahadur Shastri
  D) Vallabhbhai Patel

Answer: D



2)    Where the Central Food Technology and Research Institute (CFTRI) is located?
     A) Chennai
     B) Mysore
     C) Hyderabad
     D) Bangalore

Answer: B


3)What is the minimum age limit to become the Governor of a state in India ?
  A) 30 years
  B) 35 years
  C) 25 years
  D) 18 years

Answer: B


4)    River Damodar is called 'Sorrow of Bengal' because it
     A) Gets flooded often causing havoc
     B) Causes maximum soil erosion
     C) Forms number of dangerous waterfalls
     D) Is not a perennial river

Answer: A


5)Which Marathi newspaper is the mouthpiece of Shiv Sena ?
  A) Lokmat
  B) Loksatta
  C) Sakal
  D) Saamna

Answer: D


6)    Which one of the following is the origin of the Brahmaputra river?
     A) Gangotri
     B) Yamunotri
     C) Chemayungdung
     D) Milam

Answer: C


7)    The first Secretary General of United Nations Organisation (UNO) was?
     A) Kurtt Waldheim
     B) Trygve Lie
     C) U. Thant
     D) Dag Hamarskjoeld

Answer: B


8)How salaries and allowances for the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha and the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha are fixed?

  A) by Lok Sabha
  B) by Rajya Sabha
  C) Members of the Parliament
  D) Parliament by Law

Answer: D


9)    Parliament enjoys the exclusive right to legislate on the subjects contained in
     A) The Union List
     B) The Concurrent List
     C) The State List
     D) Both A and B

Answer: A


10)Who was the first unanimously elected Speaker of Lok Sabha?

  A) Ganesh Vasudev Mavlankar
  B) M. A. Ayyangar
  C) Sardar Hukam Singh
  D) Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

Answer: B


11)Mohammed-bin-Qasim conquered Sind in the year

  A) 712 A.D.
  B) 812 A.D.
  C) 912 A.D.
  D) 1012 A.D.

Answer: A


12)    Very strong and cold icy winds that blow in the Polar regions are called
     A) Typhoons
     B) Tornadoes
     C) Blizzards
     D) Polar winds

Answer: D


13)Who was the author of the book 'India of My Dreams'?
  A) M. K. Gandhi
  B) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
  C) Jawaharlal Nehru
  D) J. B. Kriplani

Answer: A


14)The company NOKIA is based in which country?
  A) USA
  B) Britain
  C) China
  D) Finland

Answer: D


15)The Sikh Guru who was killed by the orders of Aurangzeb was?
  A) Guru Ramdas
  B) Guru Tegh Bahadur
  C) Guru Gobind Singh
  D) Guru Arjun Dev

Answer: B


16)    Chilka Lake is located in
     A) Bihar
     B) Rajasthan
     C) Maharashtra
     D) Odisha

Answer: D



17)Which of the following authority regulates insurance business in India?
  A) SEBI
  B) RBI
  C) IRDA
  D) CII

Answer: C


18)    By what name is Krishna Dvaipayana, author of the epic Mahabharat, better known ?
     A) Ved Vyas
     B) Tulsidas
     C) Ramanujacharya
     D) Valmiki

Answer: A


19)    Who is the only Indian batsman to score Triple Century in Test Cricket ?
     A) Virendra Sehwag
     B) Sachin Tendulkar
     C) Sunil Gavaskar
     D) V. V. Laxman

Answer: A


20)    The only cricketer to claim over 500 wickets in both Tests and One Day Internationals is?
     A) Shane Warne
     B) Anil Kumble
     C) Muttiah Muralitharan
     D) Wasim Akram

Answer: C


21)    The 'IBM-DOS' is a
     A) Single user operating system
     B) Multiuser operating system
     C) Batch operating system
     D) Time-sharing operating system

Answer: A



22)    Soft toy 'Teddy Bear' was named after which US president's nickname ?
     A) John F. Kennedy
     B) Theodore Roosevelt
     C) Abraham Lincoln
     D) George Washington

Answer: B


23)    Balban's greatest achievement was?
     A) defence against the Mongols
     B) curbing of the power of nobles
     C) establishment of peace and security
     D) suppression of revolts

Answer: C


24)    What was the code name of five nuclear tests conducted by India in May 1998, near Pokhran in Rajasthan ?
     A) Operation Vijay
     B) Operation Cactus
     C) Operation Shakti
     D) Operation Ashwamedh

Answer: C


25)    Which bank opened the first ATM in India?
     A) SBI
     B) ICICI
     C) HSBC
     D) Standard Chartered

Answer: C


26)    Who invented Smallpox Vaccine ?
     A) Edward Jenner
     B) Louis Pasteur
     C) Alexander Fleming
     D) Jonas Salk

Answer: A


27)    Who was the Viceroy of India during the Jalianwala Bagh tragedy in 1919?
     A) Lord Dalhousie
     B) Lord Chelmsford
     C) Lord William Bentinck
     D) Lord Irwin

Answer: B

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