General Knowledge

1. Who has described the BJP as Ku Klux Klan?

a. Arun Shourie

b. Jaswant Singh

c. Yashwant Sinha

d. Vasundhara Raje

Answer: b. Jaswant Singh

2. Which state has announced that it will have equitable standard school education from the next year?

a. Andhra Pradesh

b. Maharashtra

c. Tamil Nadu

d. Kerala

Answer:c. Tamil Nadu

3. Edward Kennedy, senator of   and brother of slain President John F Kennedy, died

recently.

a. Massachusetts

b. California

c. Ohio

d. Texas

Answer:a. Massachusetts

4. Which actor has showed interest in taking up franchise of an IPL team for 2011?

a. Hrithik Roshan

b. Saif Ali Khan

c. Akshay Kumar

d. Salman Khan

Answer:d. Salman Khan

5. Stefania Fernandez, who has been crowned Miss Universe 2009, belongs to

a. Greece

b. Mexico

c. Venezuela

d. Australia

Answer:c. Venezuela

6. Which of these films has won the best feature film award at the National Awards this year?

a. Chak De! India

b. Taare Zameen Par

c. Gandhi My Father

d. Kanchivaram

Answer:d. Kanchivaram

7. Name this agrarian festival which is celebrated by the farmers in Orissa for ‘eating the new

rice’

a. Lakshmi Puja

b. Durga Puja

c. Devasnana Purnima

d. Nuakhai

Answer:d. Nuakhai

8. Name the indigenously manufactured T-90 tanks which were recently showcased in Chennai

in a rolling out ceremony.

a. Bhishma

b. Arjun

c. Tank EX

d. Vijayanta

Answer: a. Bhishma

9. Who was the teenager who won the best golfer award at the Inter-Club Invitational Caddie

tournament?

a. Wasim Khan

b. Jeev Milkha Singh

c. Jyoti Randhawa

d. Shiv Kapur

Answer:a. Wasim Khan

10. ISRO will be launching its first   satellite that would help in studying the upper atmosphere

and test low-costing positioning system.

a. Russian

b. Swiss

c. Italian

d. German

Answer: b. Swiss

11. Who authored the book ‘The Science of Bharat Natyam’?

(a) Saroja Vaidyanathan
 (b) Yamini Krishnamurthi
 ( c) J. Sushila 
 (d) None of these

Answer a;

12.International Day for Disaster Reduction is observed on:

(a) 9th August
 (b) 13th October
 (c) 24th November 
 (d) 11th December

Answer-b;

13 Tianhe 1 , the world’s fastest supercomputer is made by

(a) United States 
(b) Japan 
(c) China 
(d) None of these

Answer :c

14 Which is India’s first ever Pollution Control Warship?

(a) Samudra Prahari 
(b) Nischaya 
(c) Varuna 
(d) None of these

Answer:a

15 Who became India’s youngest grandmaster?

(a) Parimarjan Negi 
(b) Dronavali Harika 
(c) Praveen Thipse 
(d) S P Sethuraman

Answer:d

16. K C Kulich International Award is associated with:

(a) Medicine 
(b) Economics 
(c) Journalism 
(d) Sports

Answer:c

17 ‘Open’ is the autobiography of which sports personality?

(a) Adam Gilchrest 
(b) Glenn Merges 
(c) Andre Agassiz 
(d) None of these

Answer-c

18. World Cup Football in 2022 is to be held at:

(a) Qatar 
(b) UK 
(c) Spain 
(d) France

Answer:a

19. Who is the first head of UN WOMEN?

(a) Laura Chinchilla 
(b) Julia Gillard 
(c) Mitchell blachettt 
(d) None of these

Answer:c

20.Which of the following committee is related to Corporatisation of Stock Exchanges?

(a) Bimal Jalan Committee 
(b) V Achuthan Committee 
(c) P M Nair Committee 
(d) None of these

Answer-a

21. Which is India’s newest stock exchange for currency derivatives

(a) BSE 
(b) NSE 
(c) United Stock Exchange (USE) 
(d) None of these

Answer :c

22. Jeevan Reddy Committee is related to

(a)Illegal mining 
(b) Armed Forces Special Power Act 
(c) Environmental Impact Assessment 
(d) None of these

Answer-b

23. Which of the following scheme is related with social security for unorganised sector?

(a) Swabhiman 
(b) Sabla 
(c) Swavalamban 
(d) None of these

Answer-c

24. Polavaram Project is located in which state?

(a) Andhra Pradesh 
(b) Maharashtra 
(c) Madhya Pradesh 
(d) Karnataka

Answer:a

25. David Perlman Award is given in which field?

(a) Sports 
(b) Music 
(c) Photography 
(d) Journalism

Answer-d

26.Which of the following committee has redefined the definition of Slums?

(a) Pranab Sen Committee
(b) Arjun Sen gupta committee 
(c) C Ibrahim Committee 
(d) None of these

Answer-a

27. Arrow-III is an anti missile system of

(a) France 
(b) Pakistan 
(c) Israel 
(d) UK

Answer-c

28 India’s first jail BPO is going to came up at

(a) Bangalore 
(b) Pune 
(c) Chennai 
(d) Hyderabad

Answer:a

29 World’s first aviation university coming up at

(a) Bangalore 
(b) Nice 
(c) Glasgow 
(d) Venice

Answer: a

30. Khoj lab has been launched by which group?

(a) Future Group 
(b) dell 
(c) IBM 
(d) Times group

Answer:a