General Awareness Practice Test Set-1
| 1. | Electron-volt is a unit of ______. | |
| Â | (1) | potential difference |
| Â | (2) | current |
| Â | (3) | energy |
| Â | (4) | power |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) energy
| 2. | Who among the following had written Kitab-ul-Hind that gave an incisive description of early 11th Century India? | |
| Â | (1) | Al-Kindi |
| Â | (2) | Al-Biruni |
| Â | (3) | Al-Bukhari |
| Â | (4) | Al-Khwarizmi |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Al-Biruni
| 3. | Which of the following schemes is aimed at helping accelerate the uptake of broadband internet services? | |
| Â | (1) | PM-DHWANI |
| Â | (2) | PM-INTERNET |
| Â | (3) | PM-WANI |
| Â | (4) | PM-VAARTA |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) PM-WANI
| 4. | ______ is the structural and functional unit of kidney. | |
| Â | (1) | Medulla |
| Â | (2) | Nephron |
| Â | (3) | Cortex |
| Â | (4) | Ureter |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Nephron
| 5. | Which of the following is the application of sciences such as physics, chemistry, biology, computer science and engineering to matters of law and to the identification of various facts of civilian investigation? | |
| Â | (1) | Kalology |
| Â | (2) | Morphology |
| Â | (3) | Psychology |
| Â | (4) | Forensic science |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Forensic science
| 6. | Which of the following is a process in which hot, less dense materials rise upward and are replaced by colder, more dense materials? | |
| Â | (1) | Convection |
| Â | (2) | Conduction |
| Â | (3) | Radiation |
| Â | (4) | Condensation |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Convection
| 7. | Which of the following places is famous for a copper mine? | |
| Â | (1) | Satna |
| Â | (2) | Gaya |
| Â | (3) | Khetri |
| Â | (4) | Keonjhar |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Khetri
| 8. | For which of the following franchise teams did Faf du Plessis play in IPL 2022? | |
| Â | (1) | Kolkata Knight Riders |
| Â | (2) | Mumbai Indians |
| Â | (3) | Royal Challengers Bangalore |
| Â | (4) | Delhi Capitals |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Royal Challengers Bangalore
| 9. | Baghmara Pitcher Plant Sanctuary is located in which of the following states? | |
| Â | (1) | Karnataka |
| Â | (2) | Assam |
| Â | (3) | Goa |
| Â | (4) | Meghalaya |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Meghalaya
| 10. | Gurdwara Patalpuri Sahib is located on the bank of river ______. | |
| Â | (1) | Sutlej |
| Â | (2) | Yamuna |
| Â | (3) | Ganga |
| Â | (4) | Beas |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Sutlej
| 11. | In which of the following years was the Planning Commission of India set up? | |
| Â | (1) | 1950 |
| Â | (2) | 1945 |
| Â | (3) | 1958 |
| Â | (4) | 1962 |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) 1950
| 12. | In which of the following years was the Second Round Table Conference in London held? | |
| Â | (1) | 1939 |
| Â | (2) | 1925 |
| Â | (3) | 1941 |
| Â | (4) | 1931 |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) 1931
| 13. | Which of the following statements about Swami Dayanand Saraswati is INCORRECT? | |
| Â | (1) | He was the founder of Arya Samaj. |
| Â | (2) | His birthplace was Gujarat. |
|  | (3) | He authored the book ‘Satyarth Prakash’. |
| Â | (4) | He was the founder of Brahmo Samaj. |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) He was the founder of Brahmo Samaj.
| 14. | Who among the following was one of the founders of the Hindustan Republic Association? | |
| Â | (1) | Ram Prasad Bismil |
| Â | (2) | Lala Lajpat Rai |
| Â | (3) | Jatindranath Mukherjee |
| Â | (4) | Surya Sen |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Ram Prasad Bismil
| 15. | Which of the following has the same dimension as that of linear momentum? | |
| Â | (1) | Impulse |
| Â | (2) | Energy |
| Â | (3) | Work |
| Â | (4) | Stress |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Impulse
| 16. | In Leh, the first ever ice climbing festival was celebrated in ______ valley in January 2021. | |
| Â | (1) | Markha |
| Â | (2) | Ripchar |
| Â | (3) | Dras |
| Â | (4) | Nubra |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Nubra
| 17. | Who among the following was elected as the President of Veterinary Council of India in January 2021? | |
| Â | (1) | Umesh Sharma |
| Â | (2) | Dipankar Seth |
| Â | (3) | Rajeev Arora |
| Â | (4) | KK Verma |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Umesh Sharma
| 18. | Which of the following is NOT a town/city on the west coast of India? | |
| Â | (1) | Karwar |
| Â | (2) | Mangalore |
| Â | (3) | Surat |
| Â | (4) | Gopalpur |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Gopalpur
| 19. | Who among the following won the ‘3rd Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize’ for his novel ‘The City and The Sea’ in December 2020? | |
| Â | (1) | Rajdeep Sardesai |
| Â | (2) | Siddhartha Sarma |
| Â | (3) | Raj Kamal Jha |
| Â | (4) | Shekhar Gupta |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Raj Kamal Jha
| 20. | Unique Transaction Reference number is a ______ character code used to uniquely identify a transaction in the RTGS system. | |
| Â | (1) | 45 |
| Â | (2) | 22 |
| Â | (3) | 34 |
| Â | (4) | 17 |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) 22
| 21. | Who among the following replaced Morarji Desai as the Prime Minister of India in 1979? | |
| Â | (1) | Jagjivan Ram |
| Â | (2) | Charan Singh |
| Â | (3) | Devi Lal |
| Â | (4) | Chandrasekhar |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Charan Singh
| 22. | Who among the following is a Padma Vibhushan awardee of 2022? | |
| Â | (1) | Tarlochan Singh |
| Â | (2) | Sumitra Mahajan |
| Â | (3) | Prabha Atre |
| Â | (4) | Mouma Das |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Prabha Atre
| 23. | Which of the following Articles of the Constitution of India states that there will be a Vice-President of India? | |
| Â | (1) | Article 56 |
| Â | (2) | Article 63 |
| Â | (3) | Article 75 |
| Â | (4) | Article 45 |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Article 63
| 24. | With which of the following sports is Ruia Gold Cup associated? | |
| Â | (1) | Water polo |
| Â | (2) | Swimming |
| Â | (3) | Badminton |
| Â | (4) | Bridge |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Bridge
| 25. | Which of the following is NOT used to make toothpaste? | |
| Â | (1) | Silica |
| Â | (2) | Aluminium Oxide |
| Â | (3) | Galena |
| Â | (4) | Limestone |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Galena
| 26. | The Mysore Palace was the residence of the ______. | |
| Â | (1) | Palas |
| Â | (2) | Wodeyars |
| Â | (3) | Chandelas |
| Â | (4) | Bundelas |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Wodeyars
| 27. | Who among the following assassinated Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie in London? | |
| Â | (1) | Sukhdev Thapar |
| Â | (2) | Surya Sen |
| Â | (3) | Madan Lal Dhingra |
| Â | (4) | Khudiram Bose |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Madan Lal Dhingra
| 28. | Which of the following Acts introduced federal features and provincial autonomy in the legislature and also made provisions for the distribution of legislative powers between the Centre and the provinces? | |
| Â | (1) | The Government of India Act, 1919 |
| Â | (2) | The Government of India Act, 1935 |
| Â | (3) | The Government of India Act, 1858 |
| Â | (4) | Indian Councils Act, 1909 |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) The Government of India Act, 1935
| 29. | Lakshya Sen is associated with which of the following sports? | |
| Â | (1) | Basketball |
| Â | (2) | Table tennis |
| Â | (3) | Badminton |
| Â | (4) | Lawn tennis |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Badminton
| 30. | Pattachitra art form is dedicated to which Lord in Hindu mythology? | |
| Â | (1) | Lord Ganesha |
| Â | (2) | Lord Jagannath |
| Â | (3) | Lord Brahma |
| Â | (4) | Lord Shiva |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Lord Jagannath
| 31. | With what do you divide thrust in a liquid to obtain the value of pressure? | |
| Â | (1) | Density |
| Â | (2) | Mass |
| Â | (3) | Volume |
| Â | (4) | Area |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Area
| 32. | Veer Surendra Sai was a freedom fighter from: | |
| Â | (1) | Sikkim |
| Â | (2) | Telangana |
| Â | (3) | Odisha |
| Â | (4) | Nagaland |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Odisha
| 33. | An elastic wave generated by an impulse such as an earthquake or an explosion is called ______. | |
| Â | (1) | tectonic shift |
| Â | (2) | sound wave |
| Â | (3) | seismic wave |
| Â | (4) | epicentre |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) seismic wave
| 34. | In which of the following states is the Rowa Wildlife Sanctuary situated? | |
| Â | (1) | Tripura |
| Â | (2) | Punjab |
| Â | (3) | Assam |
| Â | (4) | Haryana |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Tripura
| 35. | Who among the following persons was elected as the Vice President of Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union in December 2020? | |
| Â | (1) | Rakesh Mohan |
| Â | (2) | Hemant Pandey |
| Â | (3) | Bina Agarwal |
| Â | (4) | Shashi Shekhar Vempati |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Shashi Shekhar Vempati
| 36. | Where is the corporate office of RBL Bank located? | |
| Â | (1) | Srinagar |
| Â | (2) | Patna |
| Â | (3) | Bengaluru |
| Â | (4) | Mumbai |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Mumbai
| 37. | Who among the following was the founder of Homeopathy? | |
| Â | (1) | Samuel Hahnemann |
| Â | (2) | FG Hopkins |
| Â | (3) | Robert Koch |
| Â | (4) | Selman Waksman |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Samuel Hahnemann
| 38. | A channel of canal where water is forced to flow against the slope of land by upliftment is called ______. | |
| Â | (1) | Groundwater table |
| Â | (2) | Lift channel |
| Â | (3) | Flow channel |
| Â | (4) | Warabandi system |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Lift channel
| 39. | Who among the following wrote the novel ‘Rangbhumi: The Arena of Life’? | |
| Â | (1) | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Â | (2) | Abanindranath Tagore |
| Â | (3) | Munshi Pemchand |
| Â | (4) | Mahatma Gandhi |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Munshi Pemchand
| 40. | In which of the following years was the Mughal empire established by Babur? | |
| Â | (1) | 1699 |
| Â | (2) | 1526 |
| Â | (3) | 1578 |
| Â | (4) | 1634 |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) 1526
| 41. | In which of the following temples will you find Gopurams? | |
| Â | (1) | Golden Temple, Amritsar |
| Â | (2) | Bhabatarini Temple, Dakshineswar |
| Â | (3) | Dilwara Temple, Mount Abu |
| Â | (4) | Shiva Temple, Chidambaram |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Shiva Temple, Chidambaram
| 42. | Which of the following Buddhist sites is located in Uttar Pradesh? | |
| Â | (1) | Amaravati |
| Â | (2) | Sanchi |
| Â | (3) | Karle |
| Â | (4) | Sarnath |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Sarnath
| 43. | Which of the following Articles of the Constitution of India provides power to the President for promulgating ordinances? | |
| Â | (1) | Article 123 |
| Â | (2) | Article 77 |
| Â | (3) | Article 111 |
| Â | (4) | Article 143 |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Article 123
| 44. | The Ramon Magsaysay Award was established in the year ______. | |
| Â | (1) | 1982 |
| Â | (2) | 1957 |
| Â | (3) | 1962 |
| Â | (4) | 1965 |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) 1957
| 45. | According to National Education Policy 2020, vocational education will start from ______ with internships. | |
| Â | (1) | Class VII |
| Â | (2) | Class VI |
| Â | (3) | Class V |
| Â | (4) | Class VIII |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Class VI
| 46. | The concept of ‘Reservation of seats for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the House of the People’ is highlighted in Article ______ of the Constitution of India. | |
| Â | (1) | 330 |
| Â | (2) | 345 |
| Â | (3) | 361 |
| Â | (4) | 326 |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) 330
| 47. | In cricket which of the following fielding positions is behind the batsman? | |
| Â | (1) | Mid off |
| Â | (2) | Cover |
| Â | (3) | Mid-wicket |
| Â | (4) | First slip |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) First slip
| 48. | Where is the famous pilgrim spot of Sikhs, Sri Harmandir Sahib located? | |
| Â | (1) | Jalandhar |
| Â | (2) | Amritsar |
| Â | (3) | Patna |
| Â | (4) | Manali |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Amritsar
| 49. | Which of the following is a tributary of the river Brahmaputra that flows through Bhutan? | |
| Â | (1) | Sittaung River |
| Â | (2) | Chindwin River |
| Â | (3) | Wang Chhu River |
| Â | (4) | Ayeyarwady River |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Wang Chhu River
| 50. | Who among the following won the 10th National Ice Hockey Championship trophy in Gulmarg in January 2021? | |
| Â | (1) | National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) |
| Â | (2) | Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) |
| Â | (3) | Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) |
| Â | (4) | Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)
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