Quiz 240 | General Awareness For Civil Services Exam

1.From which place news paper "The Times" is published ?

A. London
B. Paris
C. Moscow
D. All of them



2.Who was the first Indian to pass Indian Civil Services ?

A. Rash Bihari Gosh
B. Satyendra Nath Tagore
C. Surendra Nath Banerjee
D. Lal Mohan Ghose



3.Which ape spends most of his time in trees?

A. Gorilla
B. Monkey
C. Sloth



4.Which of these books is not written by William Shakesphere ?

A. Hamlet
B. A Midsummer's Night Dream
C. Tales from Shakesphere
D. Othello



5.Who did the King originally want to choose to replace him as king?

A. Kooni
B. Lakshmana
C. Rama
D. Bharatha



6.Where did the term 'monsoon' originate from?

A. Iran (Persia)
B. India
C. Israel



7.Who was named the TIME person of the year 2010?

A. Orkut Buyukkokten
B. Jerry Yang
C. Mark Zuckerberg
D. Jimmy Wales



8.’Bhogi’, ‘Surya’, ‘Mattu’ and ‘Kanum’ are the parts of which four day long harvest festival of Tamilnadu ?

A. Bihu
B. Lohri
C. Pongal
D. Baisakhi



9.Named after the mount of Hindu god Vishnu, ‘Garuda’ is the national airline of which most Muslim populous country ?

A. Nigeria
B. Pakistan
C. Bangladesh
D. Indonesia



10.The planet that takes the highest time for completing a rotation is

A. Pluto
B. Venus
C. Earth



11.‘Aam Admi Bima Yojana’ is an insurance scheme for rural landless households introduced by—

A. National Insurance Co
B. Life Insurance Co
C. UTI
D. ICICI Life Prudential Co



12.Which Mughal empress was allowed to issue coins in her own name?

A. Jodha Bai
B. Nur Jahan
C. Mumtaz Mahal
D. Hamida Banu



13.Cobble-sized particles are most likely to be transported as part of a stream's:

A. Suspended load
B. Bed load
C. Dissolved load
D. Cobbles are too large to be transported by streams



14.India has also been conducting joint naval exercises named SIMBEX since 1993 with which of the following countries?

A. Singapore
B. South Africa
C. Sri Lanka



15.Recently the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved a proposal costing Rs 454.73 crore during 2007-2012 to strengthen Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) and its sub-institutes. In which year IARI was established originally ?

A. 1905
B. 1910
C. 1915



16.This bank has extended the period of its concessional financing scheme (which was to expire on April 30) to farmers against warehouse receipts by another 5 months (till September 30).

A. PNB
B. SBI
C. OBC



17.Bhagawad Gita was written by ?

A. Tulsidas
B. Chankya
C. Surdas
D. Ved Vyas



18.“Kafu” is a famous player of which sport

A. Boxing
B. Football
C. Basket Ball



19.The famous telefilm “Tamas” was based on a novel written by

A. Amritlal Nagar
B. Gulshan Nanda
C. Bhishm Sahani



20.Who invented the sandwich?

A. Queen Victoria
B. George Washington
C. Earl of Sandwich
D. John Montagu