Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Quiz 10 | General Knowledge Quiz IV

Question Set - I

1. Which among is the controversial project taken up by the Tamil Nadu?

A.  Irrigation Project on Kavery
B.  Construction of a flyover Rameswaram
C.  Demolition of Hindu temples on road widening in Chennai
D.  Rama Sethu Samudram

2. According to Greek Mythology, Pluto is considered as the “God of Beauty”.

A.  True
B.  False

3. Which management theory focuses on managing the total organization?

A.  Quantitative management
B.  Scientific management
C.  Behavioral management
D.  Administrative management

4. What is India's Rank in Global Political Risk Index as per recent report of political risk consultancy?

A.  9th
B.  11th

5. In which liquid component do the blood cells move about?

A.  Platelets
B.  Plasma
C.  White Blood cells

6. What is the term used for the pollution and damage caused by release of heated water into rivers and lakes that can harm animal and plant life?

A.  Thermal pollution
B.  Geothermal pollution
C.  Biothermal pollution

7. Insulin is a/an

A.  vitamin
B.  enzyme
C.  protein

8. Where is the largest Railway Platform in the world?

A.  Howrah(Kolkata)
B.  Kharagpur
C.  Nizamuddin
D.  Waltair

9. When pakistan first coin issued?

A.  03-09-1947
B.  03-01-1948
C.  02-02-1949
D.  25-10-1947

10. Name the largest freshwater lake in India?

A.  Dal Lake
B.  Powai lake
C.  Wular lake
D.  Chilka lake

11. Bismillah Khan is related to

A.  Flute
B.  Shehnai

12. Which bat and ball game is played by two teams with nine players each?

A.  Cricket
B.  Golf
C.  Baseball

13. Which city will open the world's largest solar power plant in New Year 2011?
  
A.   Chicago
B.   Sydney
C.   California
D.   Mumbai

14. What is Berar district in Maharashtra famous for?

A.  Mangoes
B.  Paper
C.  Cotton

15. Which of the following planets crossed the face of the sun (in transit) after 122 years recently ?

A.  Mars
B.  Venus
C.  Jupiter
D.  Saturn

16. Which field of science is related with the study of "Seismology"?

A.  Study of snakes
B.  Study of earthquakes
C.  Study of virus

17. The stories of Malgudi Days were written by

A.  Sankara Manchi Pardha Saradhi
B.  R.K Narayana
C.  K.R. Narayana
D.  R.K. Nayaner

18. Who is popularly known as 'Father of Indian Constitution'?

A.  Jawaharlal Nehru
B.  B.R.Ambedkar

19. Prashant Prakash and Kalki Koechlin are the winners of

A.  Padma Shree
B.  Metro Plus Playwright Award
C.  Assam Ratna

20. Which of these places grow apples in abundance?

A.  Leh
B.  Manali
C.  Ooty

21. Who has won the most women's Wimbledon titles?

A.  Monica Seles
B.  Billy Jean King
C.  Steffi Graf
D.  Chris Everett Lloyd

22. What is the name of the language you use to write a web page?

A.  HTTP
B.  FTP
C.  URL
D.  HTML

23. Which South American country is named after an explorer?

A.  Columbia
B.  India
C.  Sri lanka

24. The helicopter was invented by

A.  Wright Brothers
B.  Paul Cornu

25. Which country has the lowest rate of newspaper circulation per capita?

A.  India
B.  Italy
C.  Indonesia

Answer 's Set - I

1.
D
2.
B
3.
D
4.
B
5.
B
6.
A
7.
B
8.
B
9.
A
10.
C
11.
B
12.
C
13.
C
14.
C
15.
B
16.
B
17.
B
18.
B
19.
B
20.
B
21.
B
22.
D
23.
A
24.
B
25.
C

Question Set - II

26. Which of the following metropolitan city is not connected with The Golden Quadrilateral Indian Railways Project?

A.  New Delhi
B.  Mumbai
C.  Bangalore
D.  Kolkata

27. Who wrote “ARTHASASTRA”

A.  Chanakya
B.  Kautilya
28. What is the vehicle of Lord Kamadeva?

A.  Swan
B.  Owl
C.  Parrot

29. Which museum is the largest in India?

A.  Tagore Museum
B.  Indian Museum
C.  Subhash Chandra Bose Museum

30. Who and when built Akal Takht ?

A.  Guru Ram Das Ji, 1609
B.  Guru Hargobind Sahib, 1609
C.  Guru Hargobind Sahib, 1709

31. The Indian Standard Time (IST) is

A.  6 Hrs + GMT
B.  5 1/2 Hrs + GMT
C.  5 1/2 Hrs - GMT

32. Telephone service was introduced in India in 1881.

A.  True
B.  False

33. The folk dance of Kerala is

A.  Kutchipudi
B.  Yakshagan
C.  Mohiniattam

34. Who wrote the famous poetic drama 'Faust'?

A.  Leonardo da Vinci
B.  Wolfgang Von Goethe
C.  Anton Chekov
D.  Voltaire

35. Who described the war of 1857 as the first war of Independence?

A.  Mahathma Gandhi
B.  Balagangadhar Tilak
C.  Hedgewar
D.  V.D. Savarkar

36. Shaileja Kejriwal, a senior creative director, is associated with

A.  NDTV
B.  Lintas
C.  Star TV

37. During the reign of which emperor is the poet Kalidasa accepted to have lived?

A.  Bimbisara
B.  Chandragupta Vikramaditya
C.  Ashoka

38. Which State in India has famous Hill Station "Panchgani" ?

A.  Sikkim
B.  West Bengal
C.  Maharashtra

39. Which sports personality is known as “Thunder Bolt” and Lighting Bolt?

A.  Karl Lewis
B.  Yuvraj Singh
C.  Mike Tyson
D.  Usain Bolt

40. Where is Ferozeshah Kotla Ground?

A.  Mumbai
B.  Chennai
C.  Kolkata
D.  New Delhi

41. How many islands are there in the Caribbean Archipelago?

A.  7000
B.  3200
C.  6500

42. “No country for old men” is a

A.  book
B.  film
C.  Drama

43. Which Indian festival is celebrated once every twelve years?

A.  Ganesh Chaturthi
B.  Kumbhamela

44. The largest library in the world is the

A.   Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences,St. Petersburg, Russia
B.   New York Public Library,New York City
C.  United States Library of Congress, Washington DC

45. who among the following is the youngest man to win world heavy weight crown?

A. Mike Tyson
B. Mohammed ali
C. Viswanathan anand
D. None of the above

46. What is H2O?

A. Oxygen
B. Water
C. Hydrogen
D. None of the above
47. which among the following is a biggest sea by size?

A. Mediterrean sea
B. South china sea
C. Andaman sea
D. Arabian sea

48. Not including Russia, What is the mother tongue of the greatest percentage of Europeans?

A. Spanish
B. English
C. German

49. The term 'Anab shahi' refers to a variety of

A. Banana
B. Grapes

50. Which Indian Bank has been fined by securities and futures commision, hong kong,for dealing in securities without permission?

A. State bank of India
B. ABN AMRO
C. ICICI

Answer 's Set - II

26.
C
27.
B
28.
C
29.
B
30.
B
31.
B
32.
A
33.
C
34.
B
35.
D
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C
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B
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C
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D
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D
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B
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B
44.
C
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A
46.
B
47.
B
48.
C
49.
B
50.
C


Question Set - III


51. The World’s Largest Animal

A. Blue Whale
B. Horse
C. Cow
D. Whale shark
52. Which of the following fields A. Nageshwara Roa is associated with?

A. Sports
B. Literature
C. Motion Pictures
D. Politics

53. The term 'Pentium' is related to what?

A. Microprocessor
B. Hard Disk
C. Mouse
D. DVD

54. Which was the first Hindi Movie to receive the national award?

A. Kabuliwala
B. Do Aankhen Barah Haath
C. Mirza Ghalib
D. Anuradha

55. Recently where 20,483 players play chess simultaneously on one platform and make a Guinness Book of World Record.

A. London
B. Mexico
C. Ahmedabad
D. Sydney

56. 2010 Nobel Literature Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa is from which of the following countries?

A. China
B. Argentina
C. Peru
D. Brazil

57. Shiv Raj Puri who is in news recently in Fraud of Rs 350 crore was manager of

A. Central Bank of India
B. Citi Bank
C. Indian Bank
D. Punjab National Bank

58. 'The Sunset Club', that will be released on November 30th 2010 is written by

A. Shashi Tharoor
B. Khushwant Singh
C. Salman Rushdie
D. Arundhati Roy

59. Euro 2000 is related to which sport?

A. Cricket
B. Chess
C. Badninton
D. Football

60. The world's oldest known city is?

A. Damascus
B. Nodia
C. Mumbai

61. Who has written the book "Malgudi Days"?

A. Sinclair Lewis
B. R.K Narayan
C. George Bernard Shaw

62. Keira Knightley was 23 when Princess Diana died.

A. True
B. False
C. Neither true nor false
D. Answer not given

63. Where did the Aryans first settled in India?

A. Kalinga
B. Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh
C. Bengal and Bihar
D. Sindh and Punjab

64. Which of the following is a biggest desert in the world?

A. Tihar
B. Congo
C. Tasmania
D. Sahara

65. How many countries are paticipated in FIFA 2010 World Cup?

A. 34
B. 32
C. 30
D. 28

66. Who is named as the world’s most powerful woman-2010 according to an index put together by business magazine Forbes?

A. Chanda Kochhar
B. Melinda Gates
C. Indra Nooyi
D. Michelle Obama

67. Find the opposite word of STAGNATION?

A. Fixed
B. Redundant
C. Overworking
D. Developing

68. Baseball was orginated in Australia.

A. True
B. False

69. The particles of a gas are packed tightly together.

A. True
B. False

70. The new facility for Mobile Users to switch to a new service provider without changing the cell no is known as

A. CNP
B. MRP
C. MNP
D. RMP

71. Who wrote the novel Dracula?

A. Chetan bhagat
B. Rajkumar vyas
C. Bram Stoker

72. When Siam was renamed as Thailand?

A. 1940
B. 1929
C. 1938
D. 1939

73. The famous Dal Lake is in

A. Jammu
B. Amritsar
C. Srinagar
D. Lucknow

74. McDonald’s has restaurants in over 100 countries around the world.

A. True
B. False

75. The tagline "Connecting people" belongs to

A. Sony Ericson
B. Samsung
C. Nokia
D. Motorola
Answer 's Set - III

51.
A
52.
C
53.
A
54.
C
55.
C
56.
C
57.
B
58.
B
59.
D
60.
A
61.
B
62.
B
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D
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D
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B
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D
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D
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B
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B
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C
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C
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D
73.
C
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A
75.
C


Question 's Set - IV

76. Which is the smallest ocean in the world?

A. Atlantic
B. Pacific
C. Antarctica
D. Arctic

77. Which Indian business group holds the maximum stake in the mobile cellular service provider Spice?

A. Aditya Birla group
B. Bharti group
C. Essar group
D. BK Modi group

78. What should be added to make water a good conductor?

A. Oxygen
B. Acid
C. Milk
D. Petrol

79. What is the capital of the state of Gujarat?

A. Rajkot
B. Ahmedabad
C. Gandhinagar
D. Baroda

80. Canary Islands belongs to

A. Norway
B. Spain
C. Portugal

81. Who was the second man to set foot on the Moon?

A. Edwin Aldrin
B. John Glen
C. Alan Shepard

82. Which political party celebrating its 126th foundation day.

A. Samajwadi Party
B. Congress
C. BJP
D. Shivsena

83. An impala is a type of what?

A. Crocodile
B. Duck
C. Antelope
D. Bear
84. Who has performed the role of Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Spider-Man films?

A. Colin Farrell
B. John Travolta
C. Tobey Maguire

85. Under which Indian prime minister were guidelines for the divestment process first laid down?

A. Ramalinga Raju
B. Chandra Shekhar

86. Which among the following coal has highest carbon content?

A. Anthracite
B. Bituminous
C. Lignite

87. Which animal is the symbol of the WWF? (World Wildlife Fund)

A. Elephant
B. Panda
C. Tiger
D. Eagle

88. The "Salween" River risies in Eastern Tibet.Which country does it fall into?

A. China
B. Mongolia
C. Thailand
D. Myanmar

89. Manikaran is a pilgrim site located in?

A. Uttaranchal
B. Punjab
C. Jammu & Kashmir
D. Himachal Pradesh

90. "Lexus”, a luxury car is a product of

A. BMW
B. Nissan
C. Toyota

91. What colour does red litmus paper turn when in contact with alkaline?

A. Amber
B. Green
C. Blue
D. Black

92. The famous Emmy Awards are awarded for what?

A. Achievement in Television Industry
B. Achievement in Films Industry
C. Achievement in Music Industry
D. Achievement in Stage

93. Which sport is known as "the Turf"?

A. Horse racing
B. American Football
C. Polo
D. Bowls

94. Wrangler is famous for what?

A. Jeans
B. Brassiere
C. Shoes
D. Caps

95. The name 'McDonalds' came from the two brothers who originally owned 'Mcdonalds Hamburgers'. Who are they?

A. Dick & Mac
B. Dick & Sam
C. Mac & Don

96. Which famous CEO was featured in the endorsement ad for Microsoft XP with the quote, "When I saw Windows XP in action, I was amazed. How did Microsoft get hold of my wishlist?

A. Ratan Tata
B. Azim Premji
C. N R Narayana Murthy
D. Arun Jain

97. Name the company/organisation that became famous for a generous donation leading to the addition of new category of Economics, in 1969, in which the Nobel Prize is awarded?

A. GM
B. General Electric
C. Bank of Sweden
98. Which of the following countries is landlocked?

A. Italy
B. Switzerland
C. France

99. Who was the president of the USA when the world's first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

A. JF Kennedy
B. Harry Truman
C. Ronald Regan

100. What is the opposite of BEND?

A. die
B. destroy
C. straighten
D. defend

Answer 's Set - IV

76.
D
77.
B
78.
B
79.
C
80.
B
81.
C
82.
B
83.
C
84.
A
85.
B
86.
A
87.
B
88.
D
89.
D
90.
C
91.
C
92.
A
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A
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A
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A
96.
C
97.
C
98.
B
99.
B
100.
C



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