TECHNICAL QUIZ

ROUND 1

1.In a mortar, the binding

material is
A. cement
B. sand
C. surkhi
D. cinder.
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2. The condition that causes vapour

locking in a brake system is
A. overheating of the fluid due to
frequent brake application
B. overcooling of the brakes during high
speed driving
C. keeping the vehicle without use for
an extended period
D. an excessively high engine speed on
a downhill road

3. During Airport Service Quality Awards

(ASQ) 2015, which of the following has
conferred with Best Airport by Size (5
-15 million passengers per year) ?
A. Jaipur International Airport
B. Chhatrapati Shivaji International
Airport
C. Indira Gandhi International Airport
D. Rajiv Gandhi International Airport
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4. When parallel resistors are of

three different values, which has
the greatest power loss?
A. The smallest resistance
B. The largest resistance
C. They have the same power loss.
D. Voltage and resistance values are
needed

5. When a 15 V input pulse with a

width equal to two time constants is
applied to an RC integrator, the
capacitor charges to
A. 15 V
B. 12.9 V
C. 8.6 V
D. 19.45 V
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6. In which decade was the American

Institute of Electrical Engineers
(AIEE) founded?
A. 1850s
B. 1880s
C. 1930s
D. 1950s

7. During Asias 50 Best Restaurants

2016 event, which of the following
has been voted as the Best
Restaurant in India ?
A. Khyber
B. Indian Accent
C. Tuscany Gardens
D. Villa Maya
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8. The number of simultaneous

equations to be solved in the slope
deflection method, is equal to :
A. the degree of statical indeterminacy
B. the degree of kinematic
indeterminacy
C. the number of joints in the structure
D. none of the above
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9. Who developed Yahoo?

A. Dennis Ritchie & Ken Thompson
B. David Filo & Jerry Yang
C. Vint Cerf & Robert Kahn
D. Steve Case & Jeff Bezos

10. The portion of a crankshaft which

rests on cylinder block is called
main journal.
A. Yes
B. No

11. What is the product-over-sum result

of 150 and 6800?
A. 150
B. 146.7
C. 0.006
D. 6800

12. International Finance Corporation

(IFC) launched which of the
following Masala Bonds to mobilise
Rs 30crore from Japanese retail
investors ?
A. Urisashi Masala Bonds
B. Urihashi Masala Bonds
C. Urivashi Masala Bonds
D. Uridashi Masala Bonds
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13. An integrator consists of a 3.3 k resistor

and a 2 F capacitor. A single 30 V, 6 ms
pulse is applied to the input. How much
will the capacitor charge?
A. 10.3 V
B. 30 V
C. 12.09 V
D. 17.91 V

14. What is part of a database that holds

only one type of information?
A. Report
B. Field
C. Record
D. File

15. Melbourne based South Asian

community has conferred which of the
following with achievement award ?
A.Priyanka Chopra
B.Varun Dhawan
C.Shah Rukh Khan
D.Randeep Hooda

16. Maximum size of a fillet weld for a

plate of square edge is
A. 1.5 mm less than the thickness of the
plate
B. one half of the thickness of the plate
C. thickness of the plate itself
D. 1.5 mm more than the thickness of
the plate
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17. A baffle plate is fitted inside the oil

pan to prevent the oil from
splashing when it is subjected to
vibration and other movement
during vehicle operation.
A. True
B. False

18. Which of the following country has

declared an emergency after a major
oil pipeline burst affecting two
rivers ?
A.Guyana
B.Chile
C.Peru
D.Brazil
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19. The voltage across any branch of a

parallel circuit:
A. varies as the total current varies
B. is inversely proportional to total
circuit resistance
C. is equally applied to all branch
conductance's
D. is dropped in proportion to each
branch resistance
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20. Referring to Problem 5, how long

will it take the capacitor to
discharge if the internal resistance
of the pulse source is 100 ?
A. 300 s
B. 600 s
C. 900 s
D. 1.5 ms
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21. The 31st edition of food & fair

festival AAHAR was inaugurated
in New Delhi by?
A. Najma Heptullah
B. Maneka Gandhi
C. Smriti Irani
D. Harsimrat Kaur Badal
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22. OS' computer abbreviation usually

means ?
A. Order of Significance
B. Open Software
C. Operating System
D. Optical Sensor

23. Pick up the polymineralic rock from

the following:
A. Quartz sand
B. Pure gypsum
C. Magnesite
D. Granite

24. The centre has given approval to

Mega food park to be set up at
Khammam district situated in?
A. Andhra
B. Telengana
C. Kerala
D. Karnataka
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25 The motion of the cam is transferred

to the valves through
A. pistons
B. rocker arms
C. camshaft pulley
D. valve stems
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26. What is the total power loss if 2

k and 1 k parallel-connected
resistors have an IT of 3 mA?
A. 6 W
B. 36 W
C. 6 Mw
D. 36 Mw

27. Which state becomes ninth state to

join UDAY scheme?
A. Jammu & Kashmir
B. Punjab
C. Rajasthan
D. Haryana

28. With an RL integrator, at the instant

of the rising pulse edge,
A. all the input voltage is across the
resistor
B. all the input voltage is across the
inductor
C. 63 percent of the input voltage is
across the resistor
D. 63 percent of the input voltage is
across the inductor
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29. In which decade with the first

transatlantic radio broadcast occur?
A. 1850s
B. 1860s
C. 1870s
D. 1900s

30. Co-branded Credit card is a tie-up

between Ferrari and which of the
following banks?
A. ICICI
B. HDFC
C. Axis
D. Federal Bank
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31. The treatment that should be given

to the water from a deep tube well is
A. pre-settling only
B. coagulation and flocculation only
C. filtration only
D. disinfection only

32. When bevel gears connect two

shafts whose axes intersect at an
angle greater than a right angle and
one of the bevel gears has a pitch
angle of 90, then they are known as
A. angular bevel gears
B. crown bevel gears
C. internal bevel gears
D. mitre gears
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33. Which of the websites has partnered

with KTH Royal Institute of
technology for developing speech
website?
A. Google
B. Yahoo
C. Wikipedia
D. Bin search
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34 What is the dc source voltage?

A. 78 V
B. 39 V
C. 13 V
D. 0 V

35. March 15 is celebrated across the

world as?
A. World Human rights day
B. World Consumer rights day
C. World Health day
D. World Kidneys day

36. MPG' extension refers usually to

what kind of file?
A. WordPerfect Document file
B. MS Office document
C. Animation/movie file
D. Image file

ROUND 2

1. The intercept of a staff

A. is maximum if the staff is held truly
normal to the line of sight.
B. is minimum if the staff is held truly
normal to the line of sight.
C. decreases if the staff is tilted away from
normal
D. increases if the staff is tilted towards
normal.
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2 The army cycle team with the theme

Cycle to Recycle started from
Pangsau pass to create awareness
about environment protection is a
journey of?
A.500Kms
B.1000Kms
C.2000Kms
D.100Kms
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3.A cycle consisting of one constant

pressure, one constant volume and
two isentropic processes is known as
A. Carnot cycle
B. Stirling cycle
C. Otto cycle
D. Diesel cycle

4. Which state education board has

made National Anthem compulsory
in all Schools?
A. Maharashtra
B. Madhya Pradesh
C. West Bengal
D. Himachal Pradesh
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5 What is the current flow through R1,

R2, and R3?
A. 1A, 1A, 1A
B. 1A, 2A, 3A
C. 3A, 3A, 3A
D. 3A, 2A

6. As per a MoU signed with the

Government of Andhra Pradesh in
March 2016, in which city Cisco will
set up an IoE Innovation Centre to
foster regional innovation?
a) Visakhapatnam
b) Kurnool
c) Vijayawada
d) Srikakulam
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7 The purpose of choke in tube light

is?
A. To decrease the current
B. To increase the current
C. To decrease the voltage
momentarily
D. To increase the voltage
momentarily
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8. Which bank in the third week of

March 2016 became the first bank to
commence the sale of Indian Gold
Coin in the domestic market?
A. Punjab and Sind Bank
B. Indian Overseas Bank
C. Bank of India
D. Canara Bank
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9. In a reinforced concrete beam-column,

the increase in the flexural strength along
with the increase in the axial strength
occurs
A. beyond the elastic limit of the material
B. when the yield of the tension
reinforcement governs the strength
C. when the crushing of the concrete in the
compression zone governs the strength
D. never
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10. As per the UNESCO eAtlas of

Gender Inequality in Education,
this many million girls between 6
and 15 age are out of school in the
world.
a) 43 million
b) 53 million
c) 63 million
d) 73 million
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11. The efficiency and work ratio of a

simple gas turbine cycle are
A. low
B. very low
C. high
D. very high

12. Who on 18 March 2016 was

appointed as the Managing
Director of Pfizer India?
A. S Sridhar
B. G Sridhar
C. Vimal Kathuriya
D. Jawahar Nath
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ROUND 3

1.The most common format for a

home video recorder is VHS. VHS
stands for...?
A. Video Home System
B. Very high speed
C. Video horizontal standard
D. Voltage house standard
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2. Identify the state that classified its

country liquor as Heritage Spirit of
state on 17 March 2016.
A. Kerala
B. Assam
C. Goa
D. Sikkim
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3. Made from a variety of materials,

such as carbon, which inhibits the
flow of current...
A. Choke
B. Inductor
C. Resistor
D. Capacitor

4. Name the Indian city which hosted

the first-ever World Sufi Forum,
which was inaugurated by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi on 17
March 2016.
a) New Delhi
b) Lucknow
c) Jaipur
d) Hyderabad
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5. Interest rates of PPF has been

slashed from 8.7% to?
a) 8%
b) 8.2%
c) 8.1%
d) 7.5%

6. At which position did Indias Prime

Minister Narendra Modi stood in 30
most influential People on the
internet list?
a) 10
b) 15
c) 30
d) 20