Sunday, October 9, 2011

Quiz 203 | General Awareness for Govt Exams

1.How many colours the sunlight spectrum has?

A. Three
B. Seven
C. Four
D. Five



2.Who scored Uruguay’s 2 goals against South Korea in Football World Cup 2010?

A. Maximiliano Pereira
B. Diego Lugano
C. Luis Suarez
D. Diego Forlan



3.In the Bible who interpreted the dreams of Pharaoh?

A. Joseph
B. Daniel
C. David
D. Samuel



4.Which planet in the Solar System is named after the Roman god of agriculture and harvest ?

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



5.Which American President in his famous Gettysberg speech defined democracy as the ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people’ ?

A. Abraham Lincoln
B. George Washington
C. John F. Kennedy
D. Theodore Roosevelt



6.Who became a friend of Samuel Johnson and later published his biography?

A. Christopher Marlowe
B. George Bernard Shaw
C. James Boswell
D. P. G. Wodehouse



7.Who authored the ‘Rajatarangini’, a historical chronicle of Kashmir ?

A. Kalidasa
B. Kalhana
C. Chankaya
D. Banabhatt



8.Which was Thomas Hardy’s first novel?

A. The poor man and the lady
B. Rich Dad Poor Dad
C. Think and grow rich
D. Think and grow poor



9.Which among the following does not come under ISOPOM scheme?

A. Oil Seeds
B. Pulses
C. Oil Palm
D. Rice



10.Who is the chief economic advisor of India. (The government has recently extended his tenure by three months on a temporary basis. )

A. Ashok Kumar Lahiri
B. SK Thorat
C. Arvind Virmani



11.Which country has recently announced a 'Skill Expo' in India in 2010?

A. Canada
B. New Zealand
C. Australia



12.Union government decided to set up a high-powered task force to review the unfinished tasks and make further suggestions for implementation for the revamp of defence management in India. Who was chosen to head the 14 member task force?

A. Admiral (retd.) Arun Prakash
B. Former bureaucrat Naresh Chandra
C. Air Chief Marshal (retd.) S. Krishnaswamy
D. Former Union Home Secretary V.K. Duggal



13.Which of the following are the members of CARICOM?

A. Angrilla, Antigua, Trinidad, Tobago
B. Barbados, Belize, St. Lucia, St. Vincent
C. Dommica, Grenade, Guyana, Jamaica
D. All of the above



14.Who was the first recipient of " Dronacharya Award " in 1985 ?

A. Syed Naeemuddin
B. Hargobind Singh Sandhu
C. M. Shyam Sunder Rao
D. O.M. Nambiar



15.In 1998, which internet search engine company was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin ?

A. Google
B. Alta Vista
C. Yahoo
D. Lycos



16.Jataka Tales, written in Pali language, are the previous birth stories of which religious Guru ?

A. Mahavira
B. Gautam Buddha
C. Guru Nanak Dev
D. Guru Gobind Singh



17.`Silicon Valley of India’ is the nickname of which south Indian city ?

A. Hyderabad
B. Bengaluru
C. Chennai
D. Thiruvananthapuram



18.Who wrote 'All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn…'?

A. Aldous Huxley
B. Julian Huxley
C. P. G. Wodehouse
D. Ernest Hemingway



19.The Sports Authority of India is was registered as a society in

A. 1982
B. 1983
C. 1984
D. 1985



20.The news agency Reuters belongs to which of the following country?

A. Palestine
B. Yugoslavia
C. Vietnam
D. UK

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