Sunday, August 21, 2011

Quiz 75 | General Knowledge of Today Quiz 5

1.Which portfolio did Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, the first woman cabinet minister in India, hold in the independent India’s first cabinet ?

A. Labour
B. Health
C. Education
D. Railways



2.What is the name of the first successfully cloned deer ?

A. Dawn
B. Deluxe
C. Deluxe
D. Dewey



3.What is the name of McDonald's clown mascot ?

A. Snoopy
B. Goofy
C. Ronald
D. Mack



4.Who among the following did not bag the Nobel Prize 2010 for Economics?

A. Christopher Pissarides
B. Peter Diamond
C. Dale Mortensen
D. Akira Suzuki



5.Government of India has recently proposed a National Population Register on the basis of a Pilot Project in the country at the time of 2011 Census. Which among the following is not an objective for this ?

A. to test check the process laid down in the Citizenship Rules, 2003
B. to judge the technological requirements of identity cards
C. to mitigate the effects of corruption in social distribution system



6.A judge of supreme court can be removed from his / her office by president on the basis of a resolution passed by which of the house by 2/3 majority ?

A. Lok Sabha
B. Rajya Sabha
C. Both Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha



7.What are Jim Carrey's parents' names?

A. Percy and Kathleen
B. David and Laura
C. Leonard and Muriel
D. James and Lucinda



8.Which of the following liquids is used in manufacturing dynamite?

A. Nitroglycerin
B. Sulphuric acid
C. Acetic acid
D. None of these



9.What name is given to the study or collection of money, coins or often medals ?

A. Lotology
B. Philately
C. Philography
D. Numismatics



10.Which of the following awards was conferred upon Smt. Aruna Asaf Ali for her role in the welfare of adult and women?

A. Tagore Literacy Award
B. UNSECO Literacy Award
C. Moorti Devi Award
D. Kalinga Prize



11.Who among the following got the 'Bharat Ratna' award, before becoming the President of India?

A. R. Venkatramanan
B. Dr. Zakir Hussain
C. V. V. Giri
D. Dr. Rajendra Prasad



12.The first Indian web Browser Epic contain how many Indian languages?

A. 10
B. 16
C. 12



13.Fenway Park is the home field of which Major League Baseball team?

A. Boston Red Sox
B. Montreal Expos
C. Chicago White Sox
D. New York Yankees



14.Mount Lokon, a volcano which started erupting on July 14 is located in..(2011)

A. France
B. Nepal
C. Indonesia
D. Japan



15.Which ministry has recently proposed to install a surveillance system (biometric tracing system), so that every move the employee makes can be tacked?

A. Ministry of Defense
B. Ministry of External Affairs
C. Home Ministry



16.Which among the following trench is not located in pacific Ocean ?

A. Idzu Bonin Trench
B. Pureto Rico Trench
C. Yap Trench



17.Uttar Pradesh shares it borders with how many states ?

A. 6
B. 7
C. 5



18.Neotel, the new name of telecommunication venture in South Africa, is owned by

A. Birla
B. Tata
C. Modi



19.What city was the capital of Australia before Canberra?

A. Melbourne
B. Dubbo
C. Goulburn
D. Grafton



20.The interior composition and structure of Earth have been deduced in part from:

A. studies of meteorites.
B. deep drilling projects.
C. analyses of the behavior of seismic waves.
D. all of these.



21.Which sea is connected to the Black Sea through the Dardanelles?

A. Dead
B. Mediterranean
C. Red
D. Caspian



22.Opium poppy is native to which country?

A. Turkey
B. Austria
C. Poland
D. Nigeria



23.Which was the first state of pre-independent India to issue a stamp?

A. Hyderabad
B. Mysore
C. Oudh
D. Kathiawar



24.Which cartoon character was originally created as a human character?

A. Mickey Mouse
B. Hobbes
C. Goofy
D. Garfield



25.Who, in collaboration with the Japanese, started the 'Indian National Army', in the hope of expelling the British from India?

A. Subhash Chandra Bose
B. Bhagat Singh
C. Mahatma Gandhi
D. Tantia Tope



26.The mysterious death of this writer has led some people to suspect that this man's death was faked. Who was he?

A. Earl of Oxford
B. Francis Bacon
C. Christopher Marlowe
D. Ben Jonson



27.Who was Walter Scott’s business partner?

A. Rob Roy
B. James Ballantyne
C. Jean Charpenter
D. William Forbes



28.The Euxine Sea was the ancient name for which body of water?

A. Dead Sea
B. Black Sea
C. Mediterranean Sea
D. Caspian Sea



29.Which place was occupied by India in telephone connections?

A. First
B. Second
C. Third
D. Fourth



30.A monarchy is described as?

A. A government who has a single leader and the power is inherited
B. A government whose leaders got the job by force
C. A government where the people have complete power
D. A government who has a single leader that is elected

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