General Knowledge Mcq

8/10/2019 General Knowledge Mcq

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1. As per 2001 census of

India, the total number of

million cities in the country

is

(A) 25

(B) 30

(C) 35

(D) 40

2. The country with thelargest of petroleum reserves

in the world is

(A) Iran

(B) Iraq

(C) Saudi Arabia

(D) Russia

3. The three leading petroleum

producing countries in correct

descending order are

(A) Saudi Arabia, U.S.A. and

Russia(B) U.S.A., Saudi Arabia and

Iran

(C) Saudi Arabia, U.S.A. and

Iran

(D) U.S.A., Saudi Arabia and

Mexico


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4. The largest producer of

silver in the world is

(A) Canada

(B) Mexico

(C) U.S.A.

(D) Australia

5. The largest exporter of

fish in the world is(A) Norway

(B) U.K.

(C) Canada

(D) J apan

6. Which one of the followingStates has the highest

percentage of Scheduled Caste

population ?

(A) Tamil Nadu

(B) Punjab

(C) Rajasthan(D) West Bengal

7. The Indian National

Congress was founded by

(A) Lala Lajpat Roy

(B) Lord Dufferin

(C) Lord Ripon


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(D) Allen Octavian Hume

8. Annie Besant arrived in

India in

(A) 1893

(B) 1895

(C) 1890

(D) 1904

9. In which state are theMahadeo hills located ?

(A) Bihar

(B) Rajasthan

(C) Madhya Pradesh

(D) Chhattisgarh

10. From economic point of

view the most important rocks

of India are

(A) Dharwar

(B) Gondwana

(C) Vindhyan(D) Cuddappah

11. To which of the following

did Aurangzeb give title Deen

Panah ?

(A) Mohammad Azam

(B) Azam


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(C) Kam Bakhash

(D) None of the above

12. Nadir Shah invaded India

in

(A) 1740

(B) 1739

(C) 1745

(D) 1746

13. During which of the

following Mughal Emperors

rule was the third battle of

Panipat fought ?

(A) Alamgir II

(B) Bahadur Shah II(C) Akbar Shah II

(D) Shah Alam II

14. During 1707 to 1759, in a

span of just five decades how

many Mughal Emperors hadascended the throne ?

(A) Eight

(B) Nine

(C) Seven

(D) Six

15. The Atmiya Sabha was


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founded by

(A) Swami Vivekanand

(B) Raja Rammohan Roy

(C) Swami Dayanand

(D) Ramakrishna Paramhansa

16. How many departments are

there in the Ministry of Home

Affairs ?

(A) 6(B) 7

(C) 5

(D) 4

17. In India the smallest

million city is(A) Allahabad

(B) Amritsar

(C) Faridabad

(D) Rajkot

18. National AuthorityChemical Weapons Convention

(CWC) has been set up under

the administrative control of

(A) Prime Ministers Office

(B) Cabinet Secretariat

(C) Central Secretariat

(D) Home Ministry


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19. According to 2001 census,

the least urbanised State of

India is

(A) Assam

(B) Bihar

(C) Himachal Pradesh

(D) Sikkim

20. In which one of thefollowing crops does Madhya

Pradesh stand first in India

in area and production ?

(A) Cotton

(B) Millet

(C) Sugarcane(D) Soyabean

Answers with Hints

1. (C) As per Census of 2001

No. of million cities in India

is 35 with Greater Mumbaitopping the list while Rajkot

as the smallest million city.

2. (C) Saudi Arabia has proven

oil reserves2642 billion

barrels (about 19% of the

world total petroleum

reserves) which is the highest


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of any country in the world.

3. (A) Saudi Arabia (first)

U.S.A. (second) and Russia

(third) are the three leading

petroleum producing countries

in decreasing order.

4. (B)

5. (A) Norway is the second

largest exporter of fish

commodities after China in theworld.

6. (B) Punjab with 289% has

the highest percentage of

Scheduled Castes population in

India.

7. (D) 8. (A) 9. (C)10. (A) The most important

rocks from economic point of

view are Dharwar rocks.

11. (C) 12. (B)

13. (D) The third battle of

Panipat was fought betweenMarathas and Ahmad Shah Abdali

in 1761 which gave crushing

blow to the rising Maratha

supremacy because Marathas

were badly defeated in this

battle.

14. (A)


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15. (B) In 1815 Raja Rammohan

Roy founded the Atmiya Sabha

with objective to reform the

Hindu Society.

16. (A) 17. (D)

18. (B) National Authority,

Chemical Weapons Convention

(CWC) was set up under

resolution of Cabinet

Secretariat dated May 5, 1997to fulfil the obligation

enunciated in the Chemical

Weapons Convention initially

signed by 130 countries in a

conference concluded in 1993.

To prohibit stockpiling ofchemical weapons.

19. (C)

20. (D) Madhya Pradesh ranks

first in production of

Soyabean.

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General Awareness Quiz

1. Which of the following


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Article of Indian Constitution

propounds Equality before Law

?

(A) Article 15

(B) Article 13

(C) Article 14

(D) Article 12

2. Which of the Articles of

the Constitution of Indiaenshrines protection against

arrest and detention in

certain cases ?

(A) Article 22

(B) Article 23

(C) Article 25(D) Article 26

3. Ozone layer lies in

(A) Mesosphere

(B) Stratosphere

(C) Exosphere(D) None of the above

4. Which Article of Indian

Constitution says that no tax

shall be levied or collected

except by authority of law ?


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(A) Article 265

(B) Article 266

(C) Article 268

(D) Article 270

5. Chemically Vitamin C is

(A) Riboflavin

(B) Thiamin

(C) Ascorbic acid

(D) Niacin

6. Which of the following

vitamins is not fat-soluble ?

(A) Vitamin A

(B) Vitamin C

(C) Vitamin D(D) Vitamin E

7. The poem Pagri Sambhal O

J atta which infused patriotic

fervour in Punjab during

freedom struggle was writtenby

(A) Banke Dayal

(B) Lala Lajpat Roy

(C) Sardar Ajit Singh

(D) Ghulam Kader

8. Indias First War of


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Independence is the book

written by

(A) Bhupendranath Dutt

(B) Ganesh Savarkar

(C) Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

(D) Lala Hardayal

9. The Gadar Party was set up

in

(A) 1913(B) 1915

(C) 1914

(D) 1912

10. Kaiga Atomic Power Plant

is situated in(A) Karnataka

(B) Maharashtra

(C) Uttar Pradesh

(D) Tamil Nadu

11. The maximum number ofmembers that the Legislative

Assembly of a State in India

can have, is

(A) 400

(B) 450

(C) 500

(D) 550


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12. Bank rate is the rate at

which the Reserve Bank of

India provides loans to

(A) Public Sector Undertakings

(B) Scheduled Commercial Banks

(C) Private Corporate Sector

(D) Non-Banking Financial

Institutions

13. Who of the following

founded the East India

Association ?

(A) C. R. Das

(B) Dadabhai Noroji

(C) Devendra Nath Tagore(D) V. D. Savarkar

14. Tipu Sultan died fighting

the English forces under

(A) Lord Cornwallis

(B) Lord Wellesley(C) Lord Dalhousie

(D) Lord Hastings

15. The battle of Wandiwash

was fought between

(A) Marathas and Portuguese

(B) The English and the French


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(C) The English and the

Portuguese

(D) The Marathas and the

English

16. Golden Quadrilateral

Project is

(A) Conversion of meter gauge

into broad gauge

(B) Construction of four lanehighways joining four

metropolis of India

(C) J oining of four important

rivers of North India and

South-India

(D) J oining of four importantcities of India with air

transport

17. The first weekly Bengali

newspaper Samachar Darpan

was published by(A) Harish Chandra Mukherjee

(B) Dinabandhu Mitra

(C) Marshman

(D) Vidyasagar

18. Where is the headquarters

of Asian Development Bank


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situated at ?

(A) J akarta

(B) Manila

(C) Singapore

(D) Bangkok

19. Who was responsible for

the introduction of the

Vernacular Press Act of 1878 ?

(A) Lord Mayo(B) Lord Lytton

(C) Lord Rippon

(D) Lord Curzon

20. Gandhiji started Civil

Disobedience Movement in(A) 1930

(B) 1931

(C) 1933

(D) 1942

Answers with Hints1. (C) According to Article 14

of Indian ConstitutionThe

State shall not deny to any

person equality before the law

or the equal protection of the

laws within the territory of

India.


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2. (A) Article 22 says that

every person who is arrested

and detained in custody should

be produced before the nearest

magistrate and he should be

given the right to consult and

to be defended by a legal

practitioner.

3. (B) 4. (A) 5. (C)

6. (B) The fat solublevitamins include vitamin A, D,

E and K.

7. (A) 8. (C)

9. (A) The Gadar Movement took

its birth on November 1, 1913

when Lala Hardayal set up theGadar Party at San Francisco,

the first President of which

was Sohan Singh Bakhna.

10. (A) 11. (C) 12. (B) 13.

(B) 14. (B)

15. (B) The battle ofWandiwash is also known as

Third Carnatic War (17561763)

and was fought between the

English and the French.

16. (C) 17. (C) 18. (B) 19.

(B) 20. (A)

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