General Awareness Practice Test Set-9
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| 1. | Who among the following is one of the founder members of Bhartiya Jana Sangh? | |
| Â | (1) | Baldev Singh |
| Â | (2) | KM Munshi |
| Â | (3) | Minoo Masani |
| Â | (4) | Shyama Prasad Mukherjee |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
| 2. | Who among the following was the first player from the Indian sub-continent to play for a European Football club (Celtic FC)? | |
| Â | (1) | Pradeep Kumar Banerjee |
| Â | (2) | Mohammed Salim |
| Â | (3) | Sailen Manna |
|  | (4) | Neville D’Souza |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Mohammed Salim
| 3. | Which Sultan established a separate department (Diwan-i-Amir Kohi) to take care of agriculture? | |
| Â | (1) | Khizr Khan |
| Â | (2) | Tughril Beg |
| Â | (3) | Jalal-ud-din Khalji |
| Â | (4) | Muhammad Bin Tughlaq |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Muhammad Bin Tughlaq
| 4. | In which present day state will you find the Megudi temple? | |
| Â | (1) | Tamil Nadu |
| Â | (2) | Karnataka |
| Â | (3) | Odisha |
| Â | (4) | Kerala |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Karnataka
| 5. | Through which of the following actions does the lithosphere move over the asthenosphere? | |
| Â | (1) | Weathering |
| Â | (2) | Plate tectonics |
| Â | (3) | Deposition |
| Â | (4) | Continental drift |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Plate tectonics
| 6. | ‘Ghoomar’ is a folk-dance form from the state of ______. | |
| Â | (1) | Tripura |
| Â | (2) | Jharkhand |
| Â | (3) | Bihar |
| Â | (4) | Rajasthan |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Rajasthan
| 7. | ______ is an economic scenario where a peculiar combination of low growth and rising inflation leads to high unemployment. | |
| Â | (1) | Recession |
| Â | (2) | Deflation |
| Â | (3) | Depreciation |
| Â | (4) | Stagflation |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Stagflation
| 8. | In which of the following countries were the first modern Olympic Games held? | |
| Â | (1) | China |
| Â | (2) | Spain |
| Â | (3) | United Kingdom |
| Â | (4) | Greece |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Greece
| 9. | Swami Vivekananda championed the supremacy of Vedantic philosophy in the Chicago (The US) Conference of World Religions held in the year ______. | |
| Â | (1) | 1898 |
| Â | (2) | 1893 |
| Â | (3) | 1878 |
| Â | (4) | 1884 |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) 1893
| 10. | Who among the following is the author of the book ‘Sea of Poppies’? | |
| Â | (1) | Vikram Chandra |
| Â | (2) | Salman Rushdie |
| Â | (3) | Amitav Ghosh |
| Â | (4) | Rohinton Mistry |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Amitav Ghosh
| 11. | Yashovigraha, Mahichandra and Chandradeva were the first three rulers of ______ dynasty. | |
| Â | (1) | Chauhans |
| Â | (2) | Maratha |
| Â | (3) | Gahadavala |
| Â | (4) | Wadiyar |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Gahadavala
| 12. | When is the National Voters Day observed by the Election Commission of India? | |
| Â | (1) | 26 June |
| Â | (2) | 25 January |
| Â | (3) | 6 May |
| Â | (4) | 15 August |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) 25 January
| 13. | In which year were the Fundamental Duties of citizens added to the Constitution of India by the 42nd Amendment? | |
| Â | (1) | 1982 |
| Â | (2) | 1964 |
| Â | (3) | 1950 |
| Â | (4) | 1976 |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) 1976
| 14. | Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq was the governor of ______ during the reign of Ala-ud-din Khilji. | |
| Â | (1) | Rajasthan |
| Â | (2) | Punjab |
| Â | (3) | Bengal |
| Â | (4) | Kashmir |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Punjab
| 15. | In terms of SI prefixes 10(-15) is called: | |
| Â | (1) | Atto |
| Â | (2) | Yocto |
| Â | (3) | Femto |
| Â | (4) | Zepto |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Femto
| 16. | Cyrus Poonawalla was awarded the Padma Bhushan in the field of ______ in January 2022. | |
| Â | (1) | politics |
| Â | (2) | science |
| Â | (3) | Trade and Industry |
| Â | (4) | Others - Agriculture |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Trade and Industry
| 17. | Who founded the Vikramshila University and revived the Nalanda University? | |
| Â | (1) | Gopala |
| Â | (2) | Vasudeva |
| Â | (3) | Shri Gupta |
| Â | (4) | Dharampala |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Dharampala
| 18. | According to the 2011 Census of India, which of the following is the second most populous state in the country? | |
| Â | (1) | Maharashtra |
| Â | (2) | Madhya Pradesh |
| Â | (3) | Rajasthan |
| Â | (4) | Gujarat |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Maharashtra
| 19. | ______ is used to measure the pressure inside the eyes of a person. | |
| Â | (1) | Tonometer |
| Â | (2) | Viscometer |
| Â | (3) | Odometer |
| Â | (4) | Machmeter |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Tonometer
| 20. | Which of the following is a cattle fair celebrated in the state of Himachal Pradesh? | |
| Â | (1) | Doongri Festival |
| Â | (2) | Ashwin Mela |
| Â | (3) | Manimahesh Fair |
| Â | (4) | Nalwari Fair |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Nalwari Fair
| 21. | Who among the following cricketers is a left-arm pace bowler? | |
| Â | (1) | Umesh Yadav |
| Â | (2) | Ishant Sharma |
| Â | (3) | Bhuvneshwar Kumar |
| Â | (4) | Ashish Nehra |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Ashish Nehra
| 22. | When was the flagship scheme of Skill India Mission launched in India? | |
| Â | (1) | 2015 |
| Â | (2) | 2010 |
| Â | (3) | 2019 |
| Â | (4) | 2008 |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) 2015
| 23. | Which of the following is the common name of a natural admixture mineral of zinc carbonate and hydrous zinc silicate? | |
| Â | (1) | Chalk |
| Â | (2) | Calamine |
| Â | (3) | Benzol |
| Â | (4) | Borax |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Calamine
| 24. | ‘Chinkara’ is a ______ musical instrument popular in the state of Madhya Pradesh. | |
| Â | (1) | stringed |
| Â | (2) | plate |
| Â | (3) | wind |
| Â | (4) | membrane |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) stringed
| 25. | A saturated geological unit which can yield water to the wells at a sufficient rate to support a well is called ______. | |
| Â | (1) | karst |
| Â | (2) | reservoir |
| Â | (3) | estuary |
| Â | (4) | aquifer |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) aquifer
| 26. | Who authored the book ‘Reporting India: My Seventy-Year Journey as a Journalist’? | |
| Â | (1) | Khushwant Singh |
| Â | (2) | Prem Prakash |
| Â | (3) | Anjan Sundaram |
| Â | (4) | Chetan Bhagat |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Prem Prakash
| 27. | What do you call a proportionate saving in costs gained by an increased level of production? | |
| Â | (1) | Isoquant |
| Â | (2) | Economies of scale |
| Â | (3) | Isocost |
| Â | (4) | Production function |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Economies of scale
| 28. | Victor Banerjee was awarded the Padma Bhushan in the field of ______ in January 2022. | |
| Â | (1) | politics |
| Â | (2) | science |
| Â | (3) | art |
| Â | (4) | Others - Agriculture |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) art
| 29. | The Periodic Law as we know it today owes its development to: | |
| Â | (1) | Niels Bohr |
| Â | (2) | Ernest Rutherford |
| Â | (3) | Dmitri Mendeleev |
| Â | (4) | JJ Thomson |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Dmitri Mendeleev
| 30. | In which of the following years was the first rocket launched in India? | |
| Â | (1) | 1973 |
| Â | (2) | 1948 |
| Â | (3) | 1977 |
| Â | (4) | 1963 |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) 1963
| 31. | Terrace farming is done on which of the following types of land? | |
| Â | (1) | Forests |
| Â | (2) | Plains |
| Â | (3) | Deserts |
| Â | (4) | Hills |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Hills
| 32. | Who authored ‘Akbarnama’? | |
| Â | (1) | Abdul Latif |
| Â | (2) | Abdus Samad |
| Â | (3) | Faizi |
| Â | (4) | Abul Fazl |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Abul Fazl
| 33. | In which year was ‘Target Olympic Podium Scheme’ (‘TOPS’) formulated by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports? | |
| Â | (1) | 2014 |
| Â | (2) | 2015 |
| Â | (3) | 2016 |
| Â | (4) | 2013 |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) 2014
| 34. | Which phenomenon deals with the scattering of light by molecules of a medium when they are excited to vibrational energy levels? | |
| Â | (1) | Huygens Effect |
| Â | (2) | Rayleigh Effect |
| Â | (3) | Raman Effect |
| Â | (4) | Maxwell Effect |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Raman Effect
| 35. | Which of the following gases is naturally formed via the anaerobic decay of phosphorus containing organic matter? | |
| Â | (1) | Phosgene |
| Â | (2) | Perchloryl fluoride |
| Â | (3) | Phosphine |
| Â | (4) | Phosphorus pentafluoride |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Phosphine
| 36. | Amai Mahalinga Naik was awarded the Padma Shri in the field of ______ in January 2022. | |
| Â | (1) | politics |
| Â | (2) | science |
| Â | (3) | art |
| Â | (4) | Others - Agriculture |
CORRECT ANSWER
(4) Others - Agriculture
| 37. | Which of the following Articles of the Constitution of India states that there would be no tax levied or collected EXCEPT by the authority of law? | |
| Â | (1) | Article 107 |
| Â | (2) | Article 265 |
| Â | (3) | Article 123 |
| Â | (4) | Article 301 |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Article 265
| 38. | In which of the following years did the Kakori Conspiracy case take place? | |
| Â | (1) | 1909 |
| Â | (2) | 1932 |
| Â | (3) | 1925 |
| Â | (4) | 1919 |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) 1925
| 39. | Who among the following authored ‘Poverty and Un-British Rule in India’? | |
| Â | (1) | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Â | (2) | Dadabhai Naoroji |
| Â | (3) | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Â | (4) | Jawaharlal Nehru |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Dadabhai Naoroji
| 40. | Who among the following wrote the non-fiction ‘The Paradoxical Prime Minister: Narendra Modi and His India’? | |
| Â | (1) | Salman Rushdie |
| Â | (2) | Shashi Tharoor |
| Â | (3) | Arundhati Roy |
| Â | (4) | Chetan Bhagat |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Shashi Tharoor
| 41. | According to which of the following Articles of the Constitution of India can the Parliament amend the Constitution? | |
| Â | (1) | Article 368 |
| Â | (2) | Article 129 |
| Â | (3) | Article 234 |
| Â | (4) | Article 103 |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Article 368
| 42. | The ‘Hemis Festival’ is celebrated in Ladakh on the 10th day of the Tibetan Lunar month. To which of the following lords is the festival dedicated? | |
| Â | (1) | Lord Vishnu |
| Â | (2) | Lord Ganesha |
| Â | (3) | Lord Padmasambhava |
| Â | (4) | Lord Shiva |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Lord Padmasambhava
| 43. | The scientific study of dreams is called ______. | |
| Â | (1) | kalology |
| Â | (2) | entomology |
| Â | (3) | oneirology |
| Â | (4) | morphology |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) oneirology
| 44. | Who wrote Samudragupta’s prashasti (a eulogy written in the form of poetry or prose, usually by court poets) at Allahabad? | |
| Â | (1) | Kalidasa |
| Â | (2) | Harishena |
| Â | (3) | Vagabhatta |
| Â | (4) | Amarsimha |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Harishena
| 45. | Which of the following pairs of cities became a part of UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network in 2019? | |
| Â | (1) | Kolkata and Ujjain |
| Â | (2) | Mumbai and Hyderabad |
| Â | (3) | Jaipur and Delhi |
| Â | (4) | Chennai and Varanasi |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Mumbai and Hyderabad
| 46. | All monetary transfers or kinds sent by migrants to their place of origin are called ______. | |
| Â | (1) | payments |
| Â | (2) | bills |
| Â | (3) | remittances |
| Â | (4) | drafts |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) remittances
| 47. | Subbanna Ayyappan was awarded the Padma Shri in the field of ______ in January 2022. | |
| Â | (1) | politics |
| Â | (2) | Science and Engineering |
| Â | (3) | art |
| Â | (4) | science |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Science and Engineering
| 48. | Which of the following is the other name for ‘Marsh Gas’? | |
| Â | (1) | Propane |
| Â | (2) | Butane |
| Â | (3) | Methane |
| Â | (4) | Ethane |
CORRECT ANSWER
(3) Methane
| 49. | Who among the following developed the Polio vaccine? | |
| Â | (1) | Jonas Salk |
| Â | (2) | Robert Koch |
| Â | (3) | FG Hopkins |
| Â | (4) | Edward Jenner |
CORRECT ANSWER
(1) Jonas Salk
| 50. | Which of the following is the only floating national park in India and the world? | |
| Â | (1) | Balpakram National Park |
| Â | (2) | Keibul Lamjao National Park |
| Â | (3) | Gugamal National Park |
| Â | (4) | Nagarhole National Park |
CORRECT ANSWER
(2) Keibul Lamjao National Park
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