Quiz 223 | Current Affairs For IAS Exam

1.Which city is most expensive to hire an office or commercial place to rent?

A. Tokyo
B. London
C. Mumbai



2.Which of these has the largest river basin?

A. Brahmaputra
B. Godavari
C. Ganga



3.What is the national fruit of China?

A. Apricot
B. Kiwifruit
C. Avocado
D. Pomegranate



4.The landforms that are created by massive earth movements due to place tectonics are called

A. structural landforms
B. weathering landforms
C. erosional landforms
D. depositional landforms



5.___________ are specially designed computer chips that reside inside other devices, such as your car or your electronic thermostat.

A. Servers
B. Embedded computers
C. Robotic computers
D. Mainframes



6.The language in which Sangam literature was written in

A. Pali
B. Sanskrit
C. Prakrit
D. Tamil



7.Minimum number of unequal vectors which can give zero resultant are

A. two
B. three
C. four
D. more than four



8.Who were runners up in men’s doubles championship in French Open 2011?

A. Julian Knowle, Andy Ram
B. Juan Sebastian Cabal, Eduardo Shank
C. Bruno Soares, Marcelo Melo
D. Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupati



9.Ohm Laboratories is an American subsidiary of which of the following Pharma majors in India which was recently warned by US Food and Drug Administration for violating current good manufacturing practice norms?

A. Cadila Healthcare
B. Ranbaxy
C. Sun Pharmaceutical



10.Hymns composed by which among the following rulers have been incorporated in Guru Grantha sahib of Sikhs?

A. Jaydev
B. Swami Haridas
C. Namdev
D. Dhyaneshwar



11.ISRO on 2 May 2011 unveiled India’s fastest supercomputer named as__?

A. Param
B. SAGA-220
C. SAGA-200
D. Tianhe-1 A



12.The first indigenously manufactured helicopter cabin will roll out from the aerospace Special Economic Zone (SEZ) near which city?

A. Bangalore
B. Nasik
C. Lucknow
D. Hyderabad



13.Who was the only woman ruler of Delhi ?

A. Chand Bibi
B. Razia Sultan
C. Rani Durgavati
D. Rani Rudramma Devi



14.In the Mahabharata, who built the palace of the Pandavas at Indraprastha?

A. Agni
B. Maya
C. Vishwakarma
D. Indra



15.Poinsettia, the favorite Christmas flower, is a native of which country?

A. Bahamas
B. Argentina
C. Mexico



16.Which Indian singer found place in the CNN top 20 global music icons list?

A. A R Rehman
B. Lata Mangehkar
C. Asha Bhosle
D. None



17.Who got the Best Actress (Thriller/ Action) in Max Stardust Awards 2011 ?

A. Sonakshi Sinha - Dabangg
B. Prachi Desai - Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai
C. Vidya Balan - Ishqiya
D. None of These



18.In which fort would you come across the tomb (dargah) of Sufi saint Shaikh Salim Chisti ?

A. Chittorgarh (Rajasthan)
B. Mandu (Madhya Pradesh)
C. Golkonda (Andhra Pradesh)
D. Fatehpur Sikri (Uttar Pradesh)



19.What does the 92nd amendment in the Indian Constitution deal with?

A. Executive Powers
B. Inclusion of 4 new languages
C. Election of the Legislative Assembly
D. Alternative scheme for sharing taxes between Union Territories & states



20.At which place Maharashtra, did Kasturba Gandhi take her last breath?

A. Aga Khan Palace
B. Prince of Wales Museum
C. Town Hall
D. Tata Palace