GENERAL QUIZ THREE

GENERAL AWARENESS: (4 tests)

TEST 1

1. Which is the largest flower of the world ?

Rafflesia Zinnia
poinsettia magnolia

2. Who wrote the book " Songs of Distant Earth " ?

Arthur C Clark Ray Bradbury
Karl Sagan Issac Asimov

3. What does the Greek word " Heureka" mean ?

Eureka Alas!
Heavens! Oh no!

4. During World War II , who was Nazi Germany's " Reichsfuehrer " ?
Hermann Goering Adolf Hitler
Heinrich Himmler Joes Goebbels

5. Name the author of " The Great Indian Novel " ?

Shashi Tharoor Vikram Seth
Amitav Ghosh Raja Rao

6. Which Peshwa First encouraged the Marathas to expand northwards at the expenses of the
Mughal Empire ?
Baji Rao I Balaji Vishwanath
Madhav Rao Balaji Baji Rao

7. What is the " String Theory " also known as ?

Theory of Linear Causality Theory of
Everything
Theory of Spiraling Causality Theory of Nothing

8. Who directed the film " Roshomon " ?

Satyajit Ray Sergei Eisenstein
Akira Kurosawa Adoor Gopalkrishna

9. Which Roman Caesar made his horse joint Consul and Co-Ruler along with himself ?
Claudius Caligula
Nero Theodosius

10. What was the Calcutta based daily " The Statement " called earlier ?
The Englishman The Imperial Herald
The Bengal Gazette The Metropolitan

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Correct Answers for Test 1

1 Rafflesia
2 Arthur C. Clark

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3 Eureka
4 Heinrich Himmler
5 Shashi Tharoor
6 Baji Rao I
7 Theory of Everything
8 Akira Kurosava
9 Caligula
10 The Englishman

TEST 2
1. Article 343 of the constitution provides that
To move the supreme court for enforcement of fundamental rights
The official language of the union shall be in the Devanagari script
The president is the supreme commander of the armed forces
The parliament has the power to increase the number of judges of the high court

2. When was the FM stereo radio launched by AIR ?

1984 1988
1980 None of these

3. The greatest producer of Apples in the world is

England India
Russia France

4. To remove a judge of the Supreme Court from office there should be

a notice of one month given
a unanimous decision taken by the president and the prime-minister
at least one charge leveled against him
a two third majority agreement in the parliament

5. The Report that probed the 1992-93 Mumbai communal riots was named
Justice Srikrishna Report Justice Sriram Report
Justice Khusro Report None of these

6. What is " Jini " ?

A computer programme A networking technology
A computer language None of these

7. How many languages are officially recognised by the Indian Constitution ?

18 19
17 20

8. The black hole is the final stage of a star whose mass is

equal to the mass of Sun
less than the mass of Sun
more than five times the mass of the Sun
None of these

9. The first country to have a motorway was

France Germany
England. Japan

10. How many Schedules does the Indian Constitution have ?

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10 11
12 13

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Correct Answers for Test 2

1 The official language of the Union shall be in devnagari script
2 1988
3 Russia
4 two-third majority agreement in the parliament
5 Justice Srikrishna Report
6 Networking technology
7 18
8 more than five times the mass of the Sun
9 Germany
10 12

TEST 3
1. Who was the only woman in Nehru's kitchen cabinet in 1947?
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur Sarojini Naidu
Krishna Hatheesingh Vijayalaxmi Pandit

2. What was the technical term used for the 'Star Wars' project?
Stellar Defense Project Stellar Defense
Initiative
Strategic Defense Initiative Strategic Missile
Shield

3. Who wrote the novel Rebecca?

Alexander Dumas Honore de Balzac
Jean-Paul Sartre Daphne du Maurier

4. Where is the Indian Police Academy located ?

Guntur Hyderabad
Khadakwasla Shimla

5. Who ruled the Magadhan Empire as a tribute-paying feudatory of the Huns under Mihirgula?
Samudra Gupta Shri Gupta
Skanda Gupta Vainya Gupta

6. Which Maratha chieftain accompanied Sadashiv Rao Bhau to the 3rd Battle of Panipat and
survived to establish a separate dynasty of his own?
Daulat Rao Sindhia Mahadji Sindhia
Fateh Singh Gaekwad Yashwant Rao
Holkar

7. When did the saying 'to be a quisling' come into being?

World War II World War I
the Zulu Wars the Boer War

8. Who is the present Chairperson of the Reserve Bank of India?

C. D. Rangarajan Jagdish Bhagwati

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Bimal Jalan N. K. Singh

9. Which world leader was known as the 'Iron Chancellor'?

Prince Otto von Bismarck Sir Winston
Churchill
Helmut Kohl Konrad Adenauer

10. Name the capital of Chatrapati Shivaji's kingdom.

Zanjira Satara
Singhgad Raigarh

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Correct Answers for Test 3

1 Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
2 Strategic Defense Initiative
3 Daphne du Maurier
4 Hyderabad
5 Vainya Gupta
6 Mahadji Sindhia
7 World War II
8 Bimal Jalan
9 Otto von Bismarck
10 Raigarh

TEST 4
1.To be recognized as a national party, a political party must be a recognized party in atleast -?

Three states Four states

Five states Six states

2.Citizens of which one of the following Caribbean Islands enjoy all US rights except voting
rights?
Bahamas Bermudas
Jamaica Puerto Rico

3.Hieroglyphics were developed by the -?

Indians Mayans

Chinese Chola, Pandya, Chera

4.The electorate system for president in India is based on-?

Adult franchise Separate Electorate
Indirect election system Multi-Vote system

5.The member of the NAFTA includes -?

USA, Canada, Mexico USA, Canada, UK
USA, UK, Russia USA, UK, Mexico

6.Cash crops of India includes-?

Paddy and jawar Maize, Jawar and Paddy
Cotton and Sugarcane Ground nut and Cotton

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7.Who was the founder of first Sufi order in India?
Khwaja Qutub - Ud – din Bakhtiar Kaki Shaikh Nizam ud din Auliya
Khwaja Muinud-din Chisti Shaikh Nasir Ud-din Mahmud

8.Who was the pioneer of the ‘Panchayati Raj’ for introducing local self-government in British
India?
Warren Hastings Lord William Bentinck
Lord Canning Lord Ripon

9.The traveler from the west who visited the Bahmani Kingdom in 1417 was?
Marco Polo Nicolo Conti
Vasco de Gama Ibn Batuta

10.Who categorized blood in to four groups-?

Robert Brown Karl Landsteiner
Louis Pasture Robert Hook

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Correct Answers for Test 4

1 Four states
2 Puerto Rico
3 Egyptians
4 Indirect election system
5 USA, Canada, Mexico
6 Cotton and Sugarcane
7 Khwaja Qutub - Ud – din Bakhtiar Kaki
8 Lord Ripon
9 Nicolo Conti
10 Karl Landsteiner

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