Monday, September 12, 2011

Quiz 165 | Questions For TANCET Exam

1.The Ottoman Empire was based in what modern-day country?

A. Israel
B. Rome
C. Russia
D. Turkey



2.Which imaginary line, located at zero degrees latitude, divides the earth into Northern and Southern hemispheres ?

A. Prime Meridian
B. Equator
C. Tropic of Cancer
D. Tropic of Capricorn



3.India's tallest stone statue of the Jain sage Gomateswara is at

A. Mysore, Karnakata
B. New Delhi
C. Sravanabelagola, Karnataka
D. Mandu, Madhya Pradesh



4.Who won the Stirling Prize for 2010?

A. Zaha Hadid
B. Allen John
C. Zubin
D. None of these



5.Who launched Israel's TECSAR satellite?

A. America
B. India
C. China
D. None of these



6.When is Easter celebrated?

A. First Sunday after full moon on or after vernal equinox
B. Last Sunday of February
C. First Sunday of March



7.Lumbini, the birth place of Gautam Budhdha, is present in which country ?

A. Bhutan
B. Nepal
C. India
D. Bangladesh



8.The groundwater that occurs when flow of the subterranean water is not confined by the presence of impermeable layers is called

A. unconfined groundwater
B. confined groundwater
C. aquifer
D. artesian



9.On which date, the arrival date of Mahatma Gandhi in India from South Africa, is the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas celebrated ?

A. 9 January
B. 12 January
C. 15 January
D. 30 January



10.Which among the following best describes Break Even Point ?

A. The point where the revenues from a business operation equal the total costs
B. The point where the revenues from a business operation equal the variable costs
C. The point where the fixed costs of a business operation equal the variable costs



11.Maastricht Treaty is related to which of the following ?

A. Climate Change
B. Europe Unification
C. Nuclear Nonproliferation



12.In the Union Budget 2009-10, one handloom mega cluster in each of which two states has been decided to set up?

A. Rajasthan & West Bengal
B. West Bengal & Tamil Nadu
C. Tamil nadu & Rajasthan



13.Who has been recently felicitated with Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Peace and Reconciliation?

A. Bill Gates
B. Aung San Suu Kyi
C. Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim



14.The 30 manuscripts dating from 1800 to 1500 B.C., kept in the Bhandarkar Institute in Pune, are the oldest scriptures of the Hindu religion were included in the UNESCO's inscriptions for Memory of the World Register in 2007. These manuscripts are of ?

A. Mahabharta
B. Rigveda
C. Yajurveda



15.Recently the government and financial sector regulators have prevailed on Insurance Australia Group (IAG) to route its investment in a general insurance venture with in its Indian partner through Singapore instead of a Mauritian subsidiary. Who is the loc

A. State Bank of India
B. Punjab National Bank
C. ICICI



16.Which of the following diseases is caused by the deficiency of iron in human body?

A. Anaemia
B. Scurvy
C. Dermatosis
D. Beri-Beri



17.The Belgian chemist Jan Baptista van Helmont discovered which gas?

A. Nitrogen
B. Oxygen
C. Hydrogen
D. Carbon dioxide



18.Coconut oil is a common ingredients in which part of India?

A. In southern India.
B. In eastern India
C. In North India.
D. Along the western coast especially in Kerala.



19.Which among the following was steel plant of India is sometimes called India’s First Swadeshi Steel Plant?

A. Bengal Iron Works Company
B. TISCO
C. Bokaro Steel Plant



20.Where did Dante Alighieri die?

A. Lisbon
B. Paris
C. Ravenna
D. Verona



21.Which one of the following is responsible for blue baby syndrome?

A. Fluoride
B. Nitrate
C. Arsenic
D. Lead



22.Among the following four official styles in the competitive swimming, which swimming style is the slowest ?

A. Butterfly
B. Backstroke
C. Front Crawl (Freestyle)
D. Breaststroke



23.Who was chosen as the Under-23 Player of the league?

A. Ishant Sharma
B. Manish Pandey
C. Rohit Sharma
D. Naman Ojha



24.Which of the following states has highest share of irrigated land in its total cultivated land?

A. Haryana
B. Punjab
C. Tamil Nadu
D. Bengal



25.From the given options, identify India’s software exporter that opened a development centre in Sao Paulo in Brazil.

A. TCS
B. Infosys
C. Satyam

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