General Awareness (Exam Held on 16-5-2010) 1.

(A) (B) (C) (D) Ans India attained Dominion Status 15th January, 1947 15th August, 1947 15th August, 1950 15th October, 1947 : (B) on

2. Despotism is possible in a (A) One party state (B) Two party state (C) Multi party state (D) Two and multi party state Ans : (A) 3. Marx belonged to (A) Germany (B) Holland (C) France (D) Britain Ans : (A) 4. Which one of the following is the guardian of Fundamental Rights ? (A) Legislature (B) Executive (C) Political parties (D) Judiciary Ans : (D) 5. Sarkaria Commission was concerned with (A) Administrative Reforms (B) Electoral Reforms (C) Financial Reforms (D) Centre-State relations Ans : (D) 6. The Speaker of the Lok Sabha has to address his/her letter of resignation to (A) Prime Minister of India (B) President of India (C) Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha (D) Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Ans : (C) 7. A want becomes a demand only when it is backed by the (A) Ability to purchase (B) Necessity to buy (C) Desire to buy (D) Utility of the product Ans : (D) 8. The terms Micro Economics (A) Alfred Marshall (B) Ragner Nurkse (C) Ragner Frisch (D) J.M. Keynes Ans : (C) and Macro Economics were coined by

9. During period of inflation, tax rates should

(A) (B) (C) (D) Ans 10. (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans 11. (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans

Increase Decrease Remain constant Fluctuate : (A) Which is the biggest tax paying sector in India ? Agriculture sector Industrial sector Transport sector Banking sector : (D) Economics is what it ought to be. Normative economics Positive economics Monetary economics Fiscal economics : (A) This statement refers to

12. The excess the commodity (A) Price (B) Profit (C) Producers (D) Consumers Ans : (C) 13. (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans 14. (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans 15. (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans 16. (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans 17. (A) (B) (C)

of price a person is to pay rather than forego the consumption of is called surplus surplus

Silver halides are used in photographic plates because they are Oxidised in air Soluble in hyposolution Reduced by light Totally colourless : (B) Tetra Ethyl Lead (TEL) is A catalyst in burning fossil fuel An antioxidant A reductant An antiknock compound : (D) Curie point is the temperature at which Matter becomes radioactive A metal loses magnetic properties A metal loses conductivity Transmutation of metal occurs : (D) The isotope used for the production of atomic energy is U-235 U-238 U-234 U-236 : (A) The acceleration due to gravity at the equator Is less than that at the poles Is greater than that at the poles Is equal to that at the poles

(D) Does not depend on the earth s centripetal acceleration Ans : (A) 18. (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans 19. (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans 20. (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans 21. (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans 22. (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans 23. (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans 24. (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans 25. use (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans Which of the following is not a nucleon ? Proton Neutron Electron Positron : (C) The material used in the manufacture of lead pencil is Graphite Lead Carbon Mica : (A) Angle of friction and angle of repose are Equal to each other Not equal to each other Proportional to each other None of the above : (A) Processor s speed of a computer is measured in BPS MIPS Baud Hertz : (D) C language is a Low level language High level language Machine level language Assembly level language : (B) What happens to a person who receives the wrong type of blood ? All the arteries constrict All the arteries dialates The RBCs agglutinate The spleen and lymphnodes deteriorate : (C) NIS stands for National Infectious diseases Seminar National Irrigation Schedule National Immunisation Schedule National Information Sector : (C) If all bullets could not be removed from gun shot injury of a man, it may ca poisoning by Mercury Lead Iron Arsenic : (B)

26. (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans 27. (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans 28. (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans

Ringworm is a Bacterial Protozoan Viral Fungal : (D)

disease.

Pituitary gland is situated in The base of the heart The base of the brain The neck The abdomen : (B) Who discovered cement ? Agassit Albertus Magnus Joseph Aspdin Janseen : (C)

29. According to RBI s Report on the trend and progress of banking, the Non-perfor ming Assets (NPA s) in India for 2008-09 for Indian Banks in 2008 have stood at (A) 2 3 per cent (B) 2 6 per cent (C) 3 5 per cent (D) 5 2 per cent Ans : (B) 30. Windows 7, the latest operating system from Microsoft Corporation has anguages fonts. (A) 14 (B) 26 (C) 37 (D) 49 Ans : (B) 31. (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans 32. (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans 33. in (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans TRIPS and TRIMS are the terms associated with IMF WTO IBRD IDA : (B) A Presidential Ordinance can remain in force For three months For six months For nine months Indefinitely : (B) Which of the following Indonesian regions was a victim of massive earthquake 2004 ? Irian Jaya Sumatra Kalibangan Java : (B) DURANTO train was flagged off between Indian l

34. The first nonstop airconditioned

(A) (B) (C) (D) Ans

Sealdah New Delhi Mumbai Howrah Bangalore Howrah Chennai New Delhi : (A)

35. Which among the following agencies released the report, Economic Outlook for 2009-10 ? (A) Planning Commission (B) PM s Economic Advisory Council (C) Finance Commission (D) Reserve Bank of India Ans : (B) 36. India and U.S. have decided to finalize agreements related to which of the f ollowing ? (A) Trade and Investment (B) Intellectual Property (C) Traditional Knowledge (D) All of the above Ans : (D) 37. ? (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans Which one of the following states does not form part of Narmada River basin Madhya Pradesh Rajasthan Gujarat Maharashtra : (B)

38. Which of the following countries has recently become the third largest marke t for Twitter ? (A) China (B) India (C) Brazil (D) Indonesia Ans : (A) 39. (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans 40. (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans 41. (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans The exchange of commodities between two countries is referred as Balance of trade Bilateral trade Volume of trade Multilateral trade : (B) Soil erosion on hill slopes can be checked by Afforestation Terrace cultivation Strip cropping Contour ploughing : (A) Who coined the word Ptolemy Eratosthenese Hecataus Herodatus : (B) Geography ?

42. Which of the following is called the

ecological hot spot of India ?

(A) (B) (C) (D) Ans 43. (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans 44. (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans 45. (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans 46. for (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans 47. (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans 48. (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans 49. (A) (B) (C) (D) Ans 50. (A) (B) (C)

Western Eastern Western Eastern : (A)

Ghats Ghats Himalayas Himalayas

The art and science of map making is called Remote Sensing Cartography Photogrammetry Mapping : (B) The age of the Earth can be determined by Geological Time Scale Radio-Metric Dating Gravity method Fossilization method : (B) The monk who influenced Ashoka to embrace Buddhism was Vishnu Gupta Upa Gupta Brahma Gupta Brihadratha : (B) The declaration that Democracy is a Government the people was made by George Washington Winston Churchill Abraham Lincoln Theodore Roosevelt : (C) The Lodi dynasty was founded by Ibrahim Lodi Sikandar Lodi Bahlol Lodi Khizr Khan : (C) Harshavardhana was defeated by Prabhakaravardhana Pulakesin II Narasimhavarma Pallava Sasanka : (B) Who among the following was an illiterate ? Jahangir Shah Jahan Akbar Aurangazeb : (C) Which Governor General is associated with Doctrine of Lapse ? Lord Ripon Lord Dalhousie Lord Bentinck of the people, by the people;

(D) Lord Curzon Ans : (B)