General Awareness : Multiple choice questions - 3

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Richard Flanagan 

1. Match the following–

List-I
(a) Chlorophyll
(b) Nostoc
(c) Transpiration
(d) Rust of wheat

List-II

1. Plant Disease
2. Photosynthetic pigment
3. Diazotroph
4.Loss of water from plant surface

Codes :

(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 2 3 4 1
(B) 4 3 1 2
(C) 2 4 3 1
(D) 3 4 2 1 (Ans : A)

2. Rainbows are produced when sunlight–

(A) Incident on rain drops hanging in the atmosphere is dispersed after suffering refraction
(B) Incident on rain drops hanging in. the atmosphere is dispersed after suffering refraction and internal reflection
(C) Incident on raindrops hanging in the atmosphere isdispersed after suffering reflection
(D) None of the given statements is correct

( Ans : B)

3. Which of the following comes under the jurisdiction ofboth the High Court and the Supreme Court?

(A) Protection against the violation of the Constitution
(B)Protection of Fundamental Rights
(C) Disputes between Centre and the States
(D) Disputesbetween the States inter se

( Ans : B)

4. One of the regions that receives rainfall from thenorth-easterly monsoon is–

(A) Assam
(B) Kerala
(C) West Bengal
(D) Tamil Nadu

(Ans :C)

5. The mercury and sodium street lamps light up becauseof–

(A) Atomic emission
(B) Electron absorption
(C) Atomicabsorption
(D) Electron emission ( Ans : A)

6. Which one of the following is an indigenously built lightc ombat aircraft of India?

(A) Vikrant
(B) Tejas
(C) Arjun
(D) Akash

( Ans : B)

7. Addition of excessive amounts of heat to a lake is referred to as–

(A) Green House effect
(B) Heat Bloom
(C) Thermalpollution
(D) Refrigeration effect

( Ans : C)

8. Movement of people from a village to a small town and later to a city is known as–

(A) inter-state migration
(B) step-wise migration
(C)forced migration
(D) intra-state migration

( Ans : B)


9. Which of the following is not correct about MahatmaGandhi?

(A) Gandhi advocated complete separation of politics fromreligion
(B) Gandhi supported close relation betweenreligion and politics
(C) Gandhi believed in the sanctity of means
(D) Gandhi believed in non-violence

(Ans : A)

10. The difference in the value of visible exports and visible imports is called–

(A) Balance of Trade
(B) Balance of Account
(C) BalanceSheet of items
(D) Balance of Payments

(Ans : A)

11. Man Booker Prize for 2014 is awarded to–

(A) Shashi Tharoor
(B) Lech Walesa
(C) Richard Flanagan
(D)Amrita Pritam

( Ans : C)

12. The purpose of choke in a flourescent lamp is–

(A) to decrease the current flow
(B) to decrease thevoltage momentarily
(C) to decrease the resistance
(D) to increase the currentflow

( Ans : C)

13. Catalytic converters are generally made from–

(A) Alkaline metals
(B) Transition metals
(C) Carbon
(D)Hydrogen

(Ans : B)

14. A person can jump higher on the moon's surface than onthe earth because–
(A) the acceleration due to gravity in moon is smaller thanthat on the earth
(B) the Moon is cooler than earth
(C) the moon's surface is rough
(D) the moon has noatmosphere

( Ans : A)

15. From the national point of view which of the followingindicates Micro Approach ?

(A) Study of sales of TISCO
(B) Inflation in India
(C) Per capita income in India
(D) Educated Unemployment inIndia

(Ans : C)

16. The only AICC session Gandhiji presided was held at–

(A) Lahore
(B) Calcutta
(C) Madras
(D) Belgaum

( Ans : D)

17. Bio-diversity is also known as–

(A) Within habitat diversity
(B) Between habitat diversity
(C) Ecosystem diversity
(D) Global diversity

(Ans : D)

18. The soft silvery metallic element which ionizes easilywhen heated or exposed to light and is present in atomicclocks is–

(A) Califonrium
(B) Cesium
(C) Calcium
(D) Cerium

( Ans : D)

19. Which one of the following is not a feature ofIndifference Curve?

(A) They do not interest each other
(B) They slopedownwards to the right
(C) They are concave to each other
(D) They are parallel toeach other

(Ans : C)

20. Which one of these animals is jawless?

(A) Shark
(B) Sphyma
(C) Trygon
(D) Myxine

( Ans : D)

21. The remedies to soil erosion are–

1. Contour bunding
2. Regulation of land use
3. Cutting oftrees
4. Allowing grazing of animals

(A) 1, 2
(B) 1, 3
(C) 2, 3
(D) 3, 4

(Ans : A)

22. Kautilya's ' Arthashastra' mainly deals with–

(A) Political state craft
(B) Economic doctrines
(C) Socialaspects
(D) Military aspects

(Ans : A)

23. Jaspal Rana is the name associated with which of thefollowing games–

(A) Weight lifting
(B) Boxing
(C) Shooting
(D) Archery

(Ans: C)

24. What is the speciality of WINDOWS-NT?

(A) Supports multi-processing
(B) Supports LAN and WAN
(C) Support Batch processing
(D) Supports real-timeprocessing

(Ans : B)

25. Ecosystem consists of–

(A) A population and its non- living elements
(B) A bioticcommunity
(C) Population
(D) A biotic community and its non-livingelements

(Ans : D)



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