Thursday, August 11, 2011

Quiz 61 | Basic General Knowledge Questions for All Competitive Exam

1.Conference of Parties to the Stockholm Convention in Geneva on 29 April 2011 approved the recommendation for elimination of production and use of which of the following?

A. Endosulfan
B. Neonicotinoids
C. Organophosphates
D. Metarhizium anisopliae



2.Which Indian lady writer won the Commonwealth Award for her first novel 'Difficult Daughters' ?

A. Kiran Desai
B. Manju Kapur
C. Jhumpa Lahiri
D. Arundhati Roy



3.To improve upon the standards of cleanliness and hygiene in coaches on Indian Railways, On Board Housekeeping Services (OBHS) scheme has been introduced in how many pairs of Indian Railways as per a recent report ?

A. 98
B. 110
C. 170
D. 280



4.What was the main objective of the FRBM Act which was enacted by Parliament in 2003?

A. Bring Liquidity
B. Bring Fiscal Discipline
C. Bring Trade equilibrium



5.Who forced Mary (Tudor) to be lady-in-waiting to infant Elizabeth?

A. Anne Boleyn
B. Anne of Cleves
C. Catherine Howard
D. Catherine Parr



6.Who founded the 'Sevagram Ashram' near Wardha in Maharashtra ?

A. Vinoba Bhave
B. Mahatma Gandhi
C. Jyotirao Phule
D. Anna Hazare



7.How do we denote the number 400 in Roman numerals?

A. CD
B. CC
C. LC



8.The metals used for joining wires in electronic circuit boards_____.

A. Silver
B. Lead
C. Mercury
D. Gold



9.Who excommunicated Elizabeth I?

A. Pius V
B. Julius III
C. Paul IV
D. Clement VIII



10.The Grand Trunk Road (GT Road), running from Peshawar in Pakistan to Sonargaon in Bangladesh, was built by which ruler ?

A. Babur
B. Akbar
C. Sher Shah Suri
D. Humayun



11.Which of the following Articles provides for securing for all citizen a uniform civil code throughout the territory of India?

A. Article 44
B. Article 45
C. Article 46
D. Article 47



12.In which of the following months Quami Ekta Week or National Integration Week is celebrated every year ?

A. October
B. November
C. December
D. January



13.An example of Protozoa, Anthropod, Aves, Mammal and Reptile is respectively _________?


A. Amoeba. Lizard, Scorpion , Bat, Hen
B. Amoeba, Scorpion, Hen, Bat , Lizard
C. Amoeba, Scorpion, Bat ,Hen, Lizard



14.The gradient of a stream that drops 10 feet over a horizontal distance of two miles is:

A. 20 feet per mile
B. 10 feet per mile
C. 5 feet per mile
D. 2.5 feet per mile



15.In 'Letting in the Jungle', who is Mowgli's chief ally in his destruction of the village?

A. Baloo
B. Grey Brother
C. Raksha
D. Hathi



16.How old was Charlie's second wife, Lita, when he first met her?

A. 14 years old
B. 18 years old
C. 12 years old
D. 16 years old



17.Which of the following methods did Hitler use to earn money while in Vienna?

A. Painting portraits
B. Painting murals
C. Painting homes
D. Painting postcards



18.Which novel of Walter Scott has the scene of Walter Raleigh spreading his cloak on muddy water for Elizabeth to walk on?

A. Kenilworth
B. Ivanhoe
C. The Wild Huntsman
D. Lenore



19.What caused Robert Louis Stevenson’s death?

A. Accident
B. Brain haemorrage
C. Cholera
D. Drowning



20.Who was the first Indian to be awarded the Victoria Cross?

A. Agan Singh Rai
B. Netra Bahadur
C. Khudadad Khan



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