Some of the Memory Based General Knowledge Questions of CLAT-2014

Q1. Name the first woman Chairman of the State Bank of India. Arundhati Bhattacharya
Q2. Who is the Prime Minister of Italy? Matteo Renzi
Q3. Which of the following was not a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? Justice HR Khanna
Q4. Name the highest gallantry award in peacetime situation. Ashok Chakra
Q5. Who is known as the ‘green judge’? Justice Kuldeep Singh
Q6. Who has been awarded the Arjuna Award for Chess? Abhijeet Gupta
Q7. Match the following – The correct answer from the given options is: VS Sampath – Chief Election
Commissioner; Madhava Menon – Founding Director of NLSIU; Justice RM Lodha – Chief Justice of
India.
Q8. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature – 2013? Alice Munro
Q9. Who was the first Jnanpith awardee? G. Sankara Kurup
Q10. Which planet has maximum number of natural satellites? Jupiter (67)
Q11. Who is the present Chief Justice of India? Justice R M Lodha
Q12. How many Bharat Ratnas have been awarded till date? 43
Q13. Who was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke award this year? Gulzar
Q14. Arrange the names in the chronological order of their visits to India (Fa Hein, Huein Tsang, Megasthenes,
and I-Tsing). Correct order: Magasthanese, Fa Hien, Huien Tsang, and I-Tsing.

Q15. The United Nations celebrated which year as the International Women’s year? 1975
Q16.  Malala Yousafzai is a national of which country? Pakistan
Q17. Who headed the 7th Pay Commission? Ashok Kumar Mathur 
Q18. Which gas is lighter than air? Hydrogen
Q19. The WTO summit in the year 2013 was held at? Bali, Indonesia
Q20. Find the wrongly matched international organisations and their headquarters. United Nations Industrial
Development Organization – Geneva
Q21. Viruses such as Parasites, and DNA are living or non-living? Both living and non-living
Q22.  Who is the chairperson of 14th finance commission? Y.V Reddy
Q23. Who is known as the father of modern genetics? Gregor Mendel
Q24. The Civil Disobedience Movement began from? Sabarmati Ashram
Q25. Which of the following does not favour Balance of Payments? Increasing export tarrif
Q26. When was the Reserve Bank of India established? 1st April 1935
Q27. When was DRDO established? 1958
Q28. Under which Mughal ruler did the East India Company establish its first factory? Jahangir (in 1615)

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Q29. Who is the chairperson of 20th law commission? Justice Ajit Prakash Shah
Q30. Planet which no longer belongs to the solar system? Pluto
Q31. Which satellite was launched on the PSLV C24? IRNSS-1B
Q32. What is the IMF’s growth rate prediction for India? 5.4 %
Q33.  Who was the first person to translate the Bhagwada Gita into English? Charles Wilkins
Q34. Who was the first attorney general of India? M C Setalvad
Q35.  Who was appointed as the brand ambassador of CRPF? MC Mary Kom
Q36.  When is the Law day celebrated? 26 November
Q37.  What does ATM stand for? Automated Teller Machine
Q38.  Which of the following are solubles? (Water, Chloroform, Ethanol, or All of the above).
Q39. Name the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. Raghuram Rajan
Q40. Which edition of the Lok Sabha elections are underway? 16th 
Q41. What does Buddha’s Bhumisparsa Mudra signify? Gesture of touching the Earth
Q42. Which holds office at the pleasure of the President? Governor
Q43. Who decides the interest rate for savings account in a bank? The banks themselves. (RBI did it until 2011)
Q44. Which of the following is not a Fundamental Duty? (1. to uphold and protect the sovereignty, unity and
integrity of India; 2. to develop the scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform; 3. to
provide opportunities for education by the parent the guardian, to his child, or a ward between the age of 6-
14 years as the case may be; or 4. To vote in public elections). The fourth one.
Q45. Which of the following ancient scripts is written from right to left? Kharosthi 
Q46. What causes the change in colours of the stars? Surface temperature
Q47.  The first five year plan was based on what model?  Harrod–Domar model
Q48. What was the first major newspaper in India? Bengal Gazette (1780)

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