GENERAL

KNOWLEDGE AND
CURRENT AFFAIRS
Dr. T.K. Jain.
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 Supreme commandor of
Indian Armed force?
• President Pratibha Patil

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Which country produced
first atom bomb?
• USA.

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Who invented telephone?
• Graham bell

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 Minimum age for becoming
president of India?
• 35

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 World red cross day?
• 8 May.

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 ISRO headquarter?
• Bangalore

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 Capital of Chhatisgarh
• Raipur

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 GATT?
• General agreement of Tariff and
Trade?

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Chairman of constitution
drafting committee?
• B.R. Ambedkar

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 The heighest non-
military award of India
• Bharat Ratna

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 First cencus of India?
• 1872

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 Kisan Ghat is for whom?
• Charan Singh’s

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 First olympic took place
in ?
• Athenes in Greece.

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 Writer of Hamlet?
• Shakespeare

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 Myamar was separated
from India in ?
• 1935

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 Who discovered
radioactivity?
• Madam Curie

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 BBC stands for ?
• British Broadcasing corporation.

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 Arjuna Sengupta Panel
2006 was about?
• It gave recommendations on
unorganised sector labour.

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Who is convenor of National
security advisory board?
• M.K. Rasgotra (former foreign
secretary).

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Who is chairman of national
commission on farmers?
• M.S. Swaminathan

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 What is SIMI?
• Students Islamic Movements of India
(it has been declared unlawful in
India by Justice B.N. Chaturvedi
Tribunal under unlawful activites
prevention act 1967

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 What is rank of India in
HDI?
• India has 126th rank in Human
Develoment Index developed by
United Nations (out of 177 countries)
in 2006. the top rank holders are
Norway, Iceland, Australia, Ireland
and Sweden.

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What is the rank of India in
Economic Freedom Index?
• 53 rank.
• Top ranks are by Hongkong and
Singapore.

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What is the rank of India in
corruption perception
Index?
• 88 rank.
• The world’s cleanest countries are
iceland, Finland, newzealand.
• India has a score of 2.9 out of 10 and
shares the same rank as Armenia,
Benin, Moldova, Tanzania.

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 What is full form of
FMC?
• Forward markets commission

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 What is the share of
India in world exports?
• .9%

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 Justice Patkak
committee is about?
• Iraqi oil for food scam.

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 Who was founder of
Enron?
• Kenneth Lay (he died of heart attack
on 5 July 2006) Enron became
bankrupt in 2001.

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 What is JACIK?
• Japan, ASEAN, China, India and
Korea (they are forming a free trade
agreement).

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 What is GAS in fashion
apparel?
• Grotto S.P.A. (which is also called
GAS) is Italian fashion wear
company. It is in collaboration with
Raymond of India.

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 What is ZAPP in
garments?
• It is the brand relating to children
wear – launched by Raymond Ltd.

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What is PUMA in fashion
wear?
• It is sports wear including shoes
making company. It has opened
offices in India also – starting from
Chennai.

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Who have launched these
models?
• Verna, Aveo, Pleasure, gallardo,
murcielago, civic, cedia, gladiator,
blaze, zeus,x-treme, platina,shine.

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 These comapnyies have
launched these models of
automibilies
• Hyundai -Verna,chevrolet- Aveo, hero
honda -Pleasure, Lamborghini
-gallardo, Lamborghini - murcielago,
Honda - civic, Lancer - cedia, Yamaha
- gladiator, Kinetic -blaze, Suziki -
zeus,Hero honda- x-treme, Bajaj -
platina,Honda - shine.

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 After kolkata and delhi,
which other cities will also
have Metro trains?
• Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad,
Kochi and Mumbai.
• Kolkata Metro will be expanded soon.

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 Which is the train on
roof – recently started?
• Lhasa to Shimud (China) started in
2006.

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When did Gandhi ji used
Satyagrah first time?
• 11 Sept. 1906 in South Afrika against
registration law.

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 First movement of
Gandhi ji in India?
• Champaran Andolan in 1917 for
protecting indigo workers.

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 Who is CEO of Ford?
• Allen Mulailee

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 Who is CEO of news
corp.
• Rupord Murdoch

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Who is CEO of american
media co. Viycom
• Philip Doman

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 Who is chancellor of
Germany?
• Angela Merkel (she is also
considered world’s most powerful
lady as per different surveys)

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Who is foreign secretary
of USA?
• Condoleezza Rice.

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 Who is chief of
Afghanistan Human Rights
Commission?
• Seema Samar

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Who is the Deputy Prime
Minister of China?
• Wu Yi.

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What is RAM and ROM?
• Random Access Memory and Read
Only Memory.

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 What is IMAP?
• Internet Message Access Protocal.

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 What is LCD?
• Liquid Crystal Display.

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 What is 1mb?
• 1024 Kilobytes.

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 What is WAP?
• Wireless application protocal.

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 What is TFT?
• THIN FILM TECHNOLOGY
TRANSFER (COMPUTER
TERMINOLOGY).

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 What is FTP?
• File transfer Protocol

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 What is EDGE?
• Enhanced Data rates for GSM
Evolution. (a digital mobile phone
technology)

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 What is AWARE?
• Advertising that is part of softwares
is called aware.

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Fastest supercomputer in
India?
• Kabru (made in India)
• Integrity Superdome (imported)
• Fastest supercomputer in the world
is Blue Gene /L (70.72 teraflops)
made by IBM.

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 What is next to
internet?
• Internet 2 – is the project which has
been started by 34 US research
firms. Internet 2 will offer speed of
over 155mbps. (3000 times faster
than dial up modem) It will use fibre
optics etc.

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 What is IP telephony?
• Inernet protocol telephony.

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 When was windows
started?
• 1985 by microsoft.

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 How did internet start?
• It was started by pentagon as
ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECT
AGENCY in 1969, as ARPANET.

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 What is TCP/IP?
• Transmission control Protocol
internet protocol

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What is scintific name of
Indian National bird?
• Pavo Cristatus (linnaeus) is the name
of Peacock.

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 What is the scintific name
of Indian national animal?
• Panthera Tigris (linnaeus) is the name
of Tiger.

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 When was national song
sung for the first time?
• 1896 at INC.
• The song is composed in Sanskrit.
• National song, written by
Bankimchandra Chatterji was
translated into English by Aurobindo.

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Who is MD of Prudential
ICICI?
• Shikha Sharma

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 Who is chairman of
Trent Ltd.
• Simone Tata

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 Who will set up 12 million
tonne greenfield steel plant
in Orissa?
• Arcelor-Mittal – LN Mittal group.

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What is the share of LN
Mittal in Arcelor?
• 49%
• 51% is being held by Joseph Kinsch
• Mittal will be vice president of this
company.

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 What is administered
price?
• The prices which are set by
government are called administered
price or APM.

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 What is disinvestment?
• Sale of stake in PSUs by Govt. is
called disinvestment.

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 What is Keynes Model?
• It is based on depression of 1930 and
states that govt. should spend money
to create employement possiblities.

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 What is tobin tax?
• It is tax on financial sector – with
the help of this tax third world
countries can be supported.
• It is named after nobel laureate
James Tobin (1981) who said that
there should be tax on global capital
transfers.

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 What is CRR and SLR?
• Cash reserve ratio
• And
• Statutory liquidity ratio
• (these are fixed by RBI as per
monetary policy announced twice in a
year – once in April and once in
October).

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 Where is definition of
Money bill?
• It is given in article 110 of
constituton of India.

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What is 100 amendment
th

to constitution?
• It included Bodo, Santhili, Maithili,
and Dogri into constititon as official
languages in eighth schedule of
constitution.

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What is 99 amendment
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to constitution?
• It created Bodo territorial council.

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 What is 12 schedule
th

about?
• It is about municipal commissions and
nagar parishads.

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 What is Asian Highway
Network?
• India along with neighbouring
countries have signed an agreement
to form this network by 2010 – which
will create a network of 1.4 lakh km.

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 Biggest port of India?
• Mumbai.

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 River port in India?
• Haldia (kolkatta, west bengal).

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 Tidal port in India?
• Kandla

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 Deepest port in India?
• Vishakhapattnam

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 Oldest port of East
Coast (artificial port)?
• Chennai.

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First corporated port of
India
• Ennore

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 First fully mechanised
port of India?
• Nhava Shewa

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Which state has biggest
road network in India?
• Maharastra.

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 How many major ports
does India have?
• 12 major ports, 184 other ports on a
coast line spread over 5600 Km.

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