General Awareness Practice Test Set-7
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| 1. | Who among the following was the first Indian to win a seat in the House of Commons? | |
| Â | (1) | WC Bonnerjee |
| Â | (2) | Dadabhai Naoroji |
| Â | (3) | Hasrat Mohani |
| Â | (4) | MN Roy |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Dadabhai Naoroji
| 2. | In which of the following years were the first Commonwealth Games held in Canada? | |
| Â | (1) | 1956 |
| Â | (2) | 1909 |
| Â | (3) | 1930 |
| Â | (4) | 1912 |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) 1930
| 3. | ‘Oolong’ is a variant of ______. | |
| Â | (1) | tea |
| Â | (2) | rubber |
| Â | (3) | jute |
| Â | (4) | coffee |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) tea
| 4. | Hima Das is an Indian ______. | |
| Â | (1) | swimmer |
| Â | (2) | boxer |
| Â | (3) | cricketer |
| Â | (4) | sprinter |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) sprinter
| 5. | Who is the author of the book, ‘Walking with the Comrades’? | |
| Â | (1) | Sitaram Yechury |
| Â | (2) | Pupul Jayakar |
| Â | (3) | Prakash Karat |
| Â | (4) | Arundhati Roy |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Arundhati Roy
| 6. | Who among the following is the first ever woman fighter pilot to have taken part at a Republic Day Parade? | |
| Â | (1) | Avani Chaturvedi |
| Â | (2) | Anny Divya |
| Â | (3) | Mohana Singh Jitarwal |
| Â | (4) | Bhawna Kanth |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Bhawna Kanth
| 7. | Virupaksha Temple is situated in which of the following districts of Karnataka? | |
| Â | (1) | Bagalkot |
| Â | (2) | Chikkaballapur |
| Â | (3) | Ballari |
| Â | (4) | Bidar |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Ballari
| 8. | Who among the following Sikh Gurus founded the Tarn Taran Sahib? | |
| Â | (1) | Guru Arjan Dev |
| Â | (2) | Guru Gobind Sikh |
| Â | (3) | Guru Ram Das |
| Â | (4) | Guru Nanak Dev |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Guru Arjan Dev
| 9. | ______ is the water transporting tissue in plants. | |
| Â | (1) | Stele |
| Â | (2) | Xylem |
| Â | (3) | Phloem |
| Â | (4) | Cortex |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Xylem
| 10. | At which of the following places did Lord Buddha attain enlightenment? | |
| Â | (1) | Bodh Gaya |
| Â | (2) | Sarnath |
| Â | (3) | Rajgir |
| Â | (4) | Vaishali |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Bodh Gaya
| 11. | How many states does the World Bank aided ‘STARS’ project under the New Education Policy initially propose to cover? | |
| Â | (1) | Four |
| Â | (2) | Eight |
| Â | (3) | Six |
| Â | (4) | Ten |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Six
| 12. | Which of the following Himalayan peaks is NOT located in Nepal? | |
| Â | (1) | Annapurna |
| Â | (2) | Makalu |
| Â | (3) | Kamet |
| Â | (4) | Mount Everest |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Kamet
| 13. | Which of the following books was written by Panini? | |
| Â | (1) | Raghuvamsam |
| Â | (2) | Manusmriti |
| Â | (3) | Kathasaritsagara |
| Â | (4) | Ashtadhyayi |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Ashtadhyayi
| 14. | Who among the following is the first female from India to win a Grammy award? | |
| Â | (1) | Monali Thakur |
| Â | (2) | Tanvi Shah |
| Â | (3) | Palak Muchhal |
| Â | (4) | Neeti Mohan |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Tanvi Shah
| 15. | Which of the following is the expanded form of the abbreviation ‘Rep.’ used in the text of the Constitution of India? | |
| Â | (1) | Repealed |
| Â | (2) | Report |
| Â | (3) | Representative |
| Â | (4) | Republic |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Repealed
| 16. | In which of the following years was the Bombay Reorganization Act passed? | |
| Â | (1) | 1956 |
| Â | (2) | 1980 |
| Â | (3) | 1960 |
| Â | (4) | 1975 |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) 1960
| 17. | Spider webs are made up of ______, a natural fibre made up of protein. | |
| Â | (1) | fur |
| Â | (2) | silk |
| Â | (3) | wool |
| Â | (4) | hair |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) silk
| 18. | Which of the following is a characteristic of conservative force? | |
| Â | (1) | Work done by it in a round trip is not zero. |
| Â | (2) | Energy is dissipated as heat energy. |
| Â | (3) | Work done by it depends upon the path. |
| Â | (4) | Work done by it is completely recoverable. |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Work done by it is completely recoverable.
| 19. | Who among the following became the first Indian javelin thrower to win an Asian Games gold medal in 2018? | |
| Â | (1) | Shivpal Singh |
| Â | (2) | Neeraj Chopra |
| Â | (3) | Devender Singh |
| Â | (4) | Vipin Kasana |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Neeraj Chopra
| 20. | ‘Float Festival’ is one of the main festivals celebrated in ______. | |
| Â | (1) | Kanyakumari |
| Â | (2) | Madurai |
| Â | (3) | Kannur |
| Â | (4) | Puducherry |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Madurai
| 21. | Where is the Jai Hind bridge located in India? | |
| Â | (1) | Hyderabad |
| Â | (2) | Mumbai |
| Â | (3) | Kolkata |
| Â | (4) | Chennai |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Kolkata
| 22. | In the context of agricultural costs in India, what is MSP? | |
| Â | (1) | Midterm Supply Plan |
| Â | (2) | Maximum Selling Price |
| Â | (3) | Model Stability Product |
| Â | (4) | Minimum Support Price |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Minimum Support Price
| 23. | In reference to atomicity, argon is: | |
| Â | (1) | diatomic |
| Â | (2) | polyatomic |
| Â | (3) | triatomic |
| Â | (4) | monoatomic |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) monoatomic
| 24. | Who was the first Director-General of Archaeological Survey of India? | |
| Â | (1) | John Marshall |
| Â | (2) | Alexander Cunningham |
| Â | (3) | Lord Curzon |
| Â | (4) | Mortimer Wheeler |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Alexander Cunningham
| 25. | In which of the following years was the micro-credit scheme ‘Street Vendor’s AtmaNirbhar Nidhi’ (‘PM SVANidhi’) launched? | |
| Â | (1) | 2014 |
| Â | (2) | 2017 |
| Â | (3) | 2015 |
| Â | (4) | 2020 |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) 2020
| 26. | Which of the following plant hormones regulates growth, particularly by stimulating cell elongation in stems? | |
| Â | (1) | Ethylene |
| Â | (2) | Auxin |
| Â | (3) | Cytokinin |
| Â | (4) | Gibberellin |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Auxin
| 27. | ______ boundaries occur when plates collide and one plate is pushed under the other. | |
| Â | (1) | Divergent |
| Â | (2) | Transform |
| Â | (3) | Convergent |
| Â | (4) | Continental |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Convergent
| 28. | What do you call the property of an organism of self-regulation and the tendency to maintain a steady state within an external environment which is liable to change? | |
| Â | (1) | Irritability |
| Â | (2) | Metabolism |
| Â | (3) | Homeostasis |
| Â | (4) | Consciousness |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Homeostasis
| 29. | Which of the following organizations releases the Global Innovation Index? | |
| Â | (1) | INSEAD, Cornell University, WIPO |
| Â | (2) | UNDP |
| Â | (3) | WEF |
| Â | (4) | WTO |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) INSEAD, Cornell University, WIPO
| 30. | Which Schedule of the Indian Constitution demarcates the powers of the Union and the States, that is Union List, State List and Concurrent List? | |
| Â | (1) | Seventh Schedule |
| Â | (2) | Fourth Schedule |
| Â | (3) | First Schedule |
| Â | (4) | Third Schedule |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Seventh Schedule
| 31. | According to which of the following Articles of the Constitution of India shall a Money Bill not be introduced in a Legislative Council? | |
| Â | (1) | Article 189 |
| Â | (2) | Article 451 |
| Â | (3) | Article 198 |
| Â | (4) | Article 333 |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Article 198
| 32. | One of the major events of Ashoka’s reign was the convening of the ______ Buddhist Sangha (council) in 250 BCE in the capital Pataliputra. | |
| Â | (1) | Fourth |
| Â | (2) | Second |
| Â | (3) | Third |
| Â | (4) | First |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Third
| 33. | Where is the headquarters of the Badminton World Federation located? | |
| Â | (1) | Malaysia |
| Â | (2) | Singapore |
| Â | (3) | Switzerland |
| Â | (4) | Japan |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Malaysia
| 34. | ‘Panche’ is a traditional sarong worn by the men in the state of ______. | |
| Â | (1) | Kerala |
| Â | (2) | Karnataka |
| Â | (3) | Sikkim |
| Â | (4) | Assam |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Karnataka
| 35. | Who among the following was the first Indian badminton player to qualify for two events - mixed doubles and women’s doubles - in the Olympics? | |
| Â | (1) | Ashwini Ponnappa |
| Â | (2) | Saina Nehwal |
| Â | (3) | PV Sindhu |
| Â | (4) | Jwala Gutta |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Jwala Gutta
| 36. | Which book written by Douglas Stuart won him the Booker Prize 2020? | |
| Â | (1) | The White Tiger |
| Â | (2) | Hamnet |
| Â | (3) | Shuggie Bain |
| Â | (4) | The Testaments |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Shuggie Bain
| 37. | When a river originates from a hill and flows in all directions, the drainage pattern is known as ______. | |
| Â | (1) | dendritic |
| Â | (2) | trellis |
| Â | (3) | radial |
| Â | (4) | centripetal |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) radial
| 38. | Which of the following liquids has the highest pH? | |
| Â | (1) | Human blood |
| Â | (2) | Orange juice |
| Â | (3) | Milk of magnesia |
| Â | (4) | Lemon juice |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Milk of magnesia
| 39. | In medicine, ______ is a device such as a small metal plate or needle that carries electricity from an instrument to a patient for treatment or surgery. | |
| Â | (1) | a machmeter |
| Â | (2) | an electrode |
| Â | (3) | a venturimeter |
| Â | (4) | an electrolyte |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) an electrode
| 40. | The area served by a canal system through supply of water for irrigation and other purposes is called a ______. | |
| Â | (1) | command area |
| Â | (2) | gross irrigated area |
| Â | (3) | net irrigated area |
| Â | (4) | net sown area |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) command area
| 41. | Muhammad Ghori attacked Tabarhinda (Bhatinda) in 1191, a strategic point for ______. | |
| Â | (1) | Rana Kumbha |
| Â | (2) | Hem Chandra Vikramaditya |
| Â | (3) | Maharana Pratap Singh |
| Â | (4) | Prithviraj Chauhan |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Prithviraj Chauhan
| 42. | The Indian Forest Act 1927 was enacted after repealing which of the following Indian forest acts? | |
| Â | (1) | Indian Forest Act, 1865 |
| Â | (2) | Indian Forest Act, 1878 |
| Â | (3) | Indian Forest Act, 1882 |
| Â | (4) | Indian Forest Act, 1922 |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Indian Forest Act, 1878
| 43. | According to Ashokan edicts, how many years after becoming the king did Ashoka wage war on Kalinga? | |
| Â | (1) | Eight |
| Â | (2) | Six |
| Â | (3) | Five |
| Â | (4) | Seven |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Eight
| 44. | All the non-zero vectors are called ______. | |
| Â | (1) | equal vectors |
| Â | (2) | co-initial vectors |
| Â | (3) | coplanar vectors |
| Â | (4) | proper vectors |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) proper vectors
| 45. | G20 Leaders’ Summit 2020 was held virtually on 20th and 21st November 2020 and was presided by______. | |
| Â | (1) | Iran |
| Â | (2) | Saudi Arabia |
| Â | (3) | India |
| Â | (4) | Pakistan |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Saudi Arabia
| 46. | Which longitude has been selected as the Standard Meridian of India? | |
|  | (1) | 82°30’E |
|  | (2) | 82°32’E |
|  | (3) | 81°30’E |
|  | (4) | 82°31’E |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) 82°30’E
| 47. | Who among the following wrote the novel ‘Gora’? | |
| Â | (1) | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Â | (2) | Abanindranath Tagore |
| Â | (3) | Premchand |
| Â | (4) | Mahatma Gandhi |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Rabindranath Tagore
| 48. | Who among the following has been the longest-serving female chief minister of any Indian state, as on June 2022? | |
| Â | (1) | J Jayalalithaa |
| Â | (2) | Sheila Dixit |
| Â | (3) | Syeda Anwara Taimur |
| Â | (4) | Sucheta Kripalani |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Sheila Dixit
| 49. | Prithviraj Chauhan and Muhammad Ghori fought the battle of ______. | |
| Â | (1) | Tarain |
| Â | (2) | Chanderi |
| Â | (3) | Chausa |
| Â | (4) | Tallikota |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Tarain
| 50. | Who has the power to recommend the dismissal of the state government and suspension or dissolution of the state assembly? | |
| Â | (1) | Prime Minister |
| Â | (2) | Chief Minister |
| Â | (3) | Speaker of legislative assembly |
| Â | (4) | Governor |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Governor
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