Ref: GAT1002201 GENERAL AWARENESS TEST Time: 15 min.

(India Since Independence)

Directions for questions 1 to 50: Selectthecorrectalternativefromthegivenchoices.

1. The Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel 13. Which of the following religions is linked to Dilwara
Managementislocatedat temples?
(A) Panaji.    (B) Kochi. (A) Buddhism   (B) Vaishnavism
(C) Gwalior.   (D) Bengaluru. (C) Saivism    (D) Jainism
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2. WhereistheheadquartersofNike? 14. SacredGames,anovel,iswrittenby
 (A) Redmond,Washington  (A) RohintonMistry.  (B) VikramChandra.
 (B) OakBrook,Illinois  (C) PankajMishra.  (D) AmitavGhosh.
 (C) PaloAlto,California
15. The Konkan Rail Project is considered an
 (D) Beaverton,Oregon
engineering marvel. Which states are partners
intheKonkanRailProject?
3. In which year was colour television transmission
(A) Maharashtra,KarnatakaandGoa.
introducedinIndia?
(B) Maharashtra,KeralaandKarnataka.
 (A) 1984 (B) 1979 (C) 1982 (D) 1985
(C) TamilNadu,KeralaandMaharashtra.
(D) AndhraPradesh,TamilNaduandGoa.
4. TheKBKbeltisanendemicpovertyzonelocatedin 
(A) Bihar.    (B) Odisha. 16. Fourteen states were created on 1/11/1956 under
 (C) MadhyaPradesh. (D) UttarPradesh. theStateReorganizationAct.Whichistheoddman
 out?
5. The Gahirmatha Beach, home of the endangered (A) Sikkim    (B) Assam
OliveRidleySeaTurtle,islocatedinthestateof (C) AndhraPradesh  (D) Bihar 
 (A) WestBengal.  (B) Maharashtra.
 (C) Bihar.    (D) Odisha. 17. The Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural
 History(SACON)islocatedat
6. TheNationalFilmArchiveofIndiaislocatedat (A) Bharatpur.
(A) Pune.    (B) Kolkata. (B) Pulicat.
 (C) Bombay.   (D) Chennai. (C) Coimbatore.
 (D) SilentValleyNationalPark.
7. ChemicalnameofvitaminAis_______.
 (A) ascorbicacid  (B) calciferol 18. ‘India’strystwithdestiny’wasaspeechby
 (C) retinol    (D) tocoferol (A) JawaharlalNehru.
(B) MahatmaGandhi.
8. Which of the following is a project related to (C) C.Rajagopalchari.
urbaninfrastructure?  (D) MuhammadAliJinnah.
(A) NREGP   (B) BharatNirman
 (C) AMRUT   (D) PURA 19. BindeshwarPathakisassociatedwith
 (A) SEWA.    (B) SulabhInternational.
9. In which of the following states is Sattriya dance (C) CRY.    (D) PRADAN.
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popular?
20. TheBagliharwaterdisputeisbetweenIndiaand
(A) AndhraPradesh (B) Odisha
(A) Bangladesh.  (B) Pakistan.
(C) Assam   (D) Uttarakhand
 (C) Nepal.    (D) China.
10. Which of the following stock exchanges is the 21. India’s first state to be created on a linguistic basis
oldest? was
 (A) BSE    (B) NSE  (A) WestBengal.  (B) Punjab.
(C) NCDEX    (D) OTCEI  (C) AndhraPradesh. (D) TamilNadu.
11. 'It'sallinit'isthetourismpunchlineof 22. Which of the following is not a former
(A) JammuandKashmir. Frenchcolony?
(B) Telangana.  (A) Mahe    (B) Karaikal 
(C) Goa.    (C) Yanam    (D) DamanandDiu
(D) Kerala.
 23. The first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
12. WhatisthemaximumstrengthoftheLokSabhaand was
the Rajya Sabha as laid down in the Indian  (A) GaoXingjian. 
constitution? (B) RabindranathTagore.
(A) 535and300  (B) 552and250  (C) YasunariKawabata.
(C) 525and250  (D) 545and300 (D) V.S.Naipaul.
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24. Thefirstcricketer,toscoremorethan10,000runsin 38. WhichofthefollowingwasIndia’sfirsttalkie?
testcricketis  (A) AlamAra   (B) Zarina
 (A) SachinTendulkar. (B) AllanBorder.  (C) IndraSabha   (D) RajaHarishchandra
 (C) BrianLara.   (D) SunilGavaskar.
39. Which of the following companies was set up by
25. The headquarters of the Indian Space Research
Dorabji Tata in1919?
Organisationislocatedat
 (A) UnitedIndiaInsurance
 (A) Sriharikota.  
(B) NewIndiaAssurance
 (B) Hassan.
 (C) OrientalInsurance
 (C) Bengaluru. 
(D) NationalInsurance
 (D) Thiruvananthapuram.
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26. TheSundarban National Parkislocatedin 40. Whichcountry’sbasicphilosophyisthePancasila?
 (A) MadhyaPradesh. (B) Uttarakhand.  (A) Indonesia   (B) Bhutan
 (C) WestBengal.  (D) Karnataka.  (C) Nepal    (D) SriLanka
 
27. Whocoinedtheterm“Green Revolution”? 41. The state which shares an international border with
(A) M.S.Swaminathan (B) NormanBorlaug Myanmar,China,andBhutanis
(C) K.M.Munshi  (D) WilliamGaud (A) WestBengal.  (B) ArunachalPradesh.
 (C) Sikkim.    (D) Assam.
28. Whoistheauthorofthefamousbook'Godan'? 
 (A) RabindranathTagore 42. Among the largest countries in the world, what is
 (B) PremChand India’srankbyarea?
 (C) BankimChandraChatterjee (A) Fourth    (B) Fifth
 (D) TarashankarBandopadyaya (C) Sixth    (D) Seventh


29. TheKumbh MelaisNOTheldat 43. WhichofthefollowingisIndia’shighest civilian award?
 (A) Ujjain.    (B) Varanasi. (A) BharatRatna 
 (C) Nasik.    (D) Haridwar. (B) PadmaVibhushan

30. Whichofthefollowingisananti-tankmissile? (C) PadmaBhushan 
 (A) Prithvi    (B) Akash (D) PadmaShri
 (C) Nag    (D) Trishul
44. ThefirstGeneral ElectionswereheldinIndiain
31. ‘OnDemand’isthepunch-lineof (A) 1947. (B) 1950. (C) 1951. (D) 1955.
 (A) Microsoft.   (B) Intel. 
 (C) Canon.    (D) IBM. 45. Which source of energy accounts for about 67% of
 thetotalenergyconsumptioninthecountry?
32. The123AgreementisaCo-operationpactbetween (A) Thermal   (B) Hydro-electricity
Indiaand (C) Solar    (D) Nuclear
 (A) USA.    (B) Russia. 
 (C) Britain.    (D) Israel. 46. Who among the following was the second person

to receive “Dada Saheb Phalke Award”, after
33. Whichofthefollowingarticlesisrelatedto National
DevikaRani?
Emergency?
 (A) B.N.Reddy   (B) PrithviRajKapoor
 (A) Article360   (B) Article356
 (C) B.N.Sircar   (D) B.R.Chopra
 (C) Article352   (D) Article364

34. ThefirstLokSabha,whichwasdissolvedbeforethe 47. National Emergency can be extended to an
expiryofitsnormaltermwasthe indefinite period with an approval of parliament
 (A) ninth.    (B) fourth. every_______.
 (C) sixth.    (D) fifth.  (A) oneyear.   (B) threeyears.
  (C) sixmonths.   (D) twoyears.
35. Who among the following did not hold the office of 
the Vice-President of India before becoming the 48. In which State is India’s oldest oil well, Digboi,
PresidentofIndia? located?
 (A) R.Venkataraman  (A) WestBengal  (B) Gujarat
 (B) FakhruddinAliAhmed  (C) UttarPradesh  (D) Assam
 (C) ZakirHussain 
 (D) V.V.Giri 49. The procedure for the amendment of the Indian

constitutionismodelledonthatof
36. Where was India’s first shipyard built by Walchand
 (A) Ireland.    (B) Canada.
Hirachand intheearly1940s?
 (C) SouthAfrica .  (D) USA.
 (A) Tuticorin   (B) Mumbai

 (C) Visakhapatnam  (D) Kolkata
 50. Who is the first Union Finance Minister to present
37. WhichcountriesconstitutetheBRICSgroup? thebudgetthreetimesinarow?
 (A) Brazil,Russia,India,ChinaandSouthAfrica  (A) MorarjiDesai 
 (B) Britain,Russia,India,CanadaandSouthAfrica (B) YashwanthSinha
 (C) Brazil, Rwanda, Ivory Coast, Congo and  (C) ManmohanSingh
 SouthAfrica (D) P.Chidambaram
 (D) Brazil,Russia,India,CanadaandSouthAfrica
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