General Awareness Practice Test Set-4
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| 1. | Who among the following persons was announced as the head of the Committee to protect language, culture and land in Ladakh by the Central Government in January 2021? | |
| Â | (1) | Piyush Goyal |
| Â | (2) | G Kishan Reddy |
| Â | (3) | Raj Kumar Singh |
| Â | (4) | Arjun Munda |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) G Kishan Reddy
| 2. | ______ is the ability of a single cell to produce a fertile, adult individual. | |
| Â | (1) | Mutation |
| Â | (2) | Cloning |
| Â | (3) | Totipotency |
| Â | (4) | Pluripotency |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Totipotency
| 3. | In which year did Atal Bihari Vajpayee undertake a bus journey to Lahore to sign a Peace Declaration? | |
| Â | (1) | 1994 |
| Â | (2) | 1999 |
| Â | (3) | 1997 |
| Â | (4) | 1991 |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) 1999
| 4. | Which of the following is one of the three ‘Domestic Systemically Important Banks’ in India? | |
| Â | (1) | State Bank of India (SBI) |
| Â | (2) | Federal Bank |
| Â | (3) | RBL Bank |
| Â | (4) | Axis Bank |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) State Bank of India (SBI)
| 5. | In which of the following years was the Indian Association established? | |
| Â | (1) | 1881 |
| Â | (2) | 1876 |
| Â | (3) | 1856 |
| Â | (4) | 1903 |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) 1876
| 6. | Who among the following took charge as Vice Chief of Army Staff in May 2022? | |
| Â | (1) | Chandi Prasad Mohanty |
| Â | (2) | Baggavalli Somashekar Raju |
| Â | (3) | SK Saini |
| Â | (4) | Manoj Pande |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Baggavalli Somashekar Raju
| 7. | Where does the river Brahmaputra originate? | |
| Â | (1) | Chemayungdung glacier of the Kailash range |
| Â | (2) | Glaciers of Mapchachungo |
| Â | (3) | Garhwal hills near Gairsain |
| Â | (4) | Milam glacier in the Nepal Himalayas |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Chemayungdung glacier of the Kailash range
| 8. | Who among the following freedom fighters wrote the poem ‘Vande Mataram’ in 1875? | |
| Â | (1) | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Â | (2) | Bankim Chandra Chatterjee |
| Â | (3) | Bipin Chandra Pal |
| Â | (4) | Bhagat Singh |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
| 9. | Mughal Emperor Shah Alam appointed the British East India Company as the Diwan of the province of Bengal in the year ______. | |
| Â | (1) | 1917 |
| Â | (2) | 1765 |
| Â | (3) | 1623 |
| Â | (4) | 1835 |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) 1765
| 10. | Who among the following wrote ‘The Light of Asia: The Poem that Defined the Buddha’ that will narrate the phenomenal poem ‘The Light of Asia’? | |
| Â | (1) | Jairam Ramesh |
| Â | (2) | Salman Rushdie |
| Â | (3) | Chetan Bhagat |
| Â | (4) | Shashi Tharoor |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Jairam Ramesh
| 11. | Which of the following popular kitchen ingredients is called the ‘sugar eating fungus’? | |
| Â | (1) | Baking powder |
| Â | (2) | Yeast |
| Â | (3) | Vinegar |
| Â | (4) | Ketchup |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Yeast
| 12. | According to which of the following Articles of the Constitution of India shall a Money Bill NOT be introduced in the Council of States? | |
| Â | (1) | Article 193 |
| Â | (2) | Article 354 |
| Â | (3) | Article 298 |
| Â | (4) | Article 109 |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Article 109
| 13. | Which Mughal prince translated the Upanishads into Persian in 1657? | |
| Â | (1) | Dara Shikoh |
| Â | (2) | Murad Mirza |
| Â | (3) | Sultan Luftallah |
| Â | (4) | Shah Suja |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Dara Shikoh
| 14. | Who among the following was the first General Secretary of All India Kisan Congress? | |
| Â | (1) | NG Ranga |
| Â | (2) | Acharya Narendra Dev |
| Â | (3) | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel |
| Â | (4) | Swami Sahajanand Saraswati |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) NG Ranga
| 15. | SIMBEX is a military exercise conducted between the defense forces of which of the following nations? | |
| Â | (1) | India and the US |
| Â | (2) | India and Singapore |
| Â | (3) | India and Sri Lanka |
| Â | (4) | India and Thailand |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) India and Singapore
| 16. | ‘Margomkali’, a ritual folk art form, is from the state of ______. | |
| Â | (1) | Assam |
| Â | (2) | Kerala |
| Â | (3) | Nagaland |
| Â | (4) | Punjab |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Kerala
| 17. | In which of the following months is the ‘Valvil Ori Vizha’ festival of Tamil Nadu celebrated? | |
| Â | (1) | August |
| Â | (2) | January |
| Â | (3) | June |
| Â | (4) | May |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) August
| 18. | Which of the following Indian cities is situated at the banks of Lake Pichola? | |
| Â | (1) | Agra |
| Â | (2) | Ahmedabad |
| Â | (3) | Kurnool |
| Â | (4) | Udaipur |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Udaipur
| 19. | Who was the President of the Athletics Federation of India as of January 2021? | |
| Â | (1) | Avinash Sable |
| Â | (2) | Adille Sumariwalla |
| Â | (3) | Amrish Kumar |
| Â | (4) | Rajeev Kumar |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Adille Sumariwalla
| 20. | Which of the following is one of the main causes of tides? | |
| Â | (1) | Gravitational pull of the Sun and the Moon |
| Â | (2) | Closed orbits of planets |
| Â | (3) | Rotation of Earth |
| Â | (4) | Solar flares |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Gravitational pull of the Sun and the Moon
| 21. | Which Article of the Constitution of India deals with the ‘Pardoning Power of the Governor’? | |
| Â | (1) | Article 189 |
| Â | (2) | Article 173 |
| Â | (3) | Article 161 |
| Â | (4) | Article 150 |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Article 161
| 22. | The vertebrae are a part of which of the following body systems in humans? | |
| Â | (1) | Lungs |
| Â | (2) | Spinal cord |
| Â | (3) | Kidney |
| Â | (4) | Heart |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Spinal cord
| 23. | Payment made to others for the purchase of factors of production is known as ______. | |
| Â | (1) | real cost |
| Â | (2) | explicit cost |
| Â | (3) | implicit cost |
| Â | (4) | money cost |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) explicit cost
| 24. | What was the theme for the 3rd Global RE-INVEST Renewable Energy Investors Meet & Expo 2020? | |
| Â | (1) | Solar and Renewable Energy Innovations |
| Â | (2) | Investment for Sustainable Energy Transmission |
| Â | (3) | Innovations for Sustainable Energy Transition |
| Â | (4) | Research for Scientific Renewable Energy |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Innovations for Sustainable Energy Transition
| 25. | The river Giri is an important tributary of the ______. | |
| Â | (1) | Godavari |
| Â | (2) | Cauvery |
| Â | (3) | Yamuna |
| Â | (4) | Brahmaputra |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Yamuna
| 26. | Who won the 2020 Academy Award for ‘Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role’? | |
| Â | (1) | Tom Hanks |
| Â | (2) | Joaquin Phoenix |
| Â | (3) | Leonardo DiCaprio |
| Â | (4) | Brad Pitt |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Brad Pitt
| 27. | Melatonin encodes proteins in cells to prevent ______ entry. | |
| Â | (1) | protozoan |
| Â | (2) | virus |
| Â | (3) | fungus |
| Â | (4) | bacterium |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) virus
| 28. | Yerla, Warna and Dindi are tributaries of the ______ river system. | |
| Â | (1) | Kaveri |
| Â | (2) | Brahmaputra |
| Â | (3) | Krishna |
| Â | (4) | Godavari |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Krishna
| 29. | Who among the following was the first to conclude that in vacuum all objects fall with the same acceleration g and reach the ground at the same time? | |
| Â | (1) | Albert Einstein |
| Â | (2) | Galileo Galilei |
| Â | (3) | Thomas Alva Edison |
| Â | (4) | Isaac Newton |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Galileo Galilei
| 30. | Which one of the following element is Monatomic unit? | |
| Â | (1) | Hydrogen |
| Â | (2) | Phosphorus |
| Â | (3) | Sulphur |
| Â | (4) | Gold |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Gold
| 31. | The language ‘Idu Mishmi’ is spoken in the state of ______. | |
| Â | (1) | Madhya Pradesh |
| Â | (2) | Kerala |
| Â | (3) | Punjab |
| Â | (4) | Arunachal Pradesh |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Arunachal Pradesh
| 32. | The river Ganga divides the state of Bihar into ______ parts. | |
| Â | (1) | three |
| Â | (2) | five |
| Â | (3) | two |
| Â | (4) | four |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) three
| 33. | Name the captain of the Indian men’s hockey team, as on June 2022: | |
| Â | (1) | Manpreet Singh Pawar |
| Â | (2) | Simranjeet Singh |
| Â | (3) | Lalit Upadhyay |
| Â | (4) | SV Sunil |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Manpreet Singh Pawar
| 34. | The story of Maynamati and Gopichandra is a part of which of the following literary works? | |
| Â | (1) | Sanskrit epics |
| Â | (2) | Chandimangal Kavya |
| Â | (3) | Manasamangal Kavya |
| Â | (4) | Nath literature |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Nath literature
| 35. | Who is the author of the book ‘Tarikh-i Dilkusha’? | |
| Â | (1) | Bhimsen |
| Â | (2) | Charaka |
| Â | (3) | Panini |
| Â | (4) | Sushruta |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Bhimsen
| 36. | As per Article ______ of the Constitution of India, English is the official language for all the high courts in the country. | |
| Â | (1) | 336 (1) |
| Â | (2) | 348 (1) |
| Â | (3) | 315 (1) |
| Â | (4) | 329 (1). |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) 348 (1)
| 37. | According to ‘The Ramayana’, Ratnakar was the other name of ______. | |
| Â | (1) | Valmiki |
| Â | (2) | Vishvamitra |
| Â | (3) | Durbasa |
| Â | (4) | Gautam |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Valmiki
| 38. | As of June 2022, who among the following was the Chairperson of the Central Board of Film Certification? | |
| Â | (1) | Shekhar Kapoor |
| Â | (2) | Asha Parekh |
| Â | (3) | Prasoon Joshi |
| Â | (4) | Rekha |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Prasoon Joshi
| 39. | How many microns are there in a metre? | |
| Â | (1) | 10000 |
| Â | (2) | 1000000 |
| Â | (3) | 1000 |
| Â | (4) | 100000 |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) 1000000
| 40. | Which of the following statements is related to positive economics? | |
| Â | (1) | Inequalities in the distribution of wealth and incomes should be reduced. |
| Â | (2) | More production of luxury goods is not good for a less developed country. |
| Â | (3) | Inflation is better than deflation. |
| Â | (4) | An increase in money supply implies a price rise in an economy. |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) An increase in money supply implies a price rise in an economy.
| 41. | What was the total number of goals scored in the finals of the FIFA World Cup 2018? | |
| Â | (1) | Five |
| Â | (2) | Six |
| Â | (3) | Three |
| Â | (4) | Four |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Six
| 42. | Mahavira, who was known in Pali literature as Nigantha Nataputta, founded a religion called ______. | |
| Â | (1) | Zoroastrianism |
| Â | (2) | Sikhism |
|  | (3) | Baháʼà |
| Â | (4) | Jainism |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Jainism
| 43. | To which neighbouring country was the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) sent in the year 1987? | |
| Â | (1) | Sri Lanka |
| Â | (2) | Burma |
| Â | (3) | Bhutan |
| Â | (4) | Nepal |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Sri Lanka
| 44. | Identify the state animal of Assam. | |
| Â | (1) | Elephant |
| Â | (2) | Snow Leopard |
| Â | (3) | Ox |
| Â | (4) | One-horned Rhino |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) One-horned Rhino
| 45. | Who among the following economists formulated the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility (DMU)? | |
| Â | (1) | Milton Friedman |
| Â | (2) | David Ricardo |
| Â | (3) | HH Gossen |
| Â | (4) | Adam Smith |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) HH Gossen
| 46. | What is the botanical name of mango? | |
| Â | (1) | Cocos nucifera |
| Â | (2) | Mangifera indica |
| Â | (3) | Monoon longifolium |
| Â | (4) | Casuarina |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Mangifera indica
| 47. | Who among the following along with Motilal Nehru was instrumental in the creation of the Swaraj Party? | |
| Â | (1) | Bipin Chandra Pal |
| Â | (2) | Chittaranjan Das |
| Â | (3) | Surendranath Banerjee |
| Â | (4) | Subhash Chandra Bose |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Chittaranjan Das
| 48. | Siddhendra Yogi, a doyen of the ______ dance form, was lauded as Adi Guru. | |
| Â | (1) | Kathakali |
| Â | (2) | Kuchipudi |
| Â | (3) | Bharatanatyam |
| Â | (4) | Kathak |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Kuchipudi
| 49. | ______ is the external agency applied on a body to change its state of rest or uniform motion. | |
| Â | (1) | Force |
| Â | (2) | Power |
| Â | (3) | Energy |
| Â | (4) | Heat |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Force
| 50. | Who among the following received the ‘Global GoalKeeper’ Award in 2019? | |
| Â | (1) | Nadia Murad |
| Â | (2) | Abiy Ahmed |
| Â | (3) | Narendra Modi |
| Â | (4) | Elon Musk |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Narendra Modi
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