SYJC (Science & Commerce) GK Exam

   P.D. Turakhia Junior College [ SYJC Comm. & SC. ]

Dt :-27/11/2013/Time :- 3.00pm to 4.30pm Marks :- 100

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE EXAMINATION

Instructions : 1. Answer all questions. 2. Each question carries one mark.

                           3. Mark (√) your options on the answer sheet provided to you

  1) Which one of the following is essentially a solo dance?

           (A)  Kuchipudi   (B)   Kathak   (C)  Manipuri   (D)  Mohiniattam

  2) Sutlej River originates from?

  (A) India  (B) China (C) Pakistan (D) None of these

  3) Entomology is the science that studies

  (A) Human Behaviour  (B) Insects  (C) Origin of Technical Terms (D) Formation of fossil and rocks

  4) The members of the Rajya Sabha are elected by

  (A) the people  (B) Lok Sabha  (C) elected members of the legislative assembly (D) elected      members of the legislative council

  5) Which of the following is NOT written by Munshi Premchand?

  (A) Gaban  (B) Godan  (C) Guide (D) Mansarovar

  6) For which of the following disciplines is Nobel Prize awarded?

  (A) Physics and Chemistry (B) Physiology or Medicine (C) Literature, Peace and Economics (D) All  of t he above

  7) Who was the first Indian to win the World Amateur Billiards title?

  (A) Geet Sethi (B) William Jones (C) Michael Ferreira (D) Manoj Kothari

  8) Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology is located at

  (A) Dehradun (B) Shimla (C) Kulu (D) Sikkim

  9) Who has been awarded the first lifetime Achievement Award for his/her contribution in the field of    Cinema?

  (A) Ashok Kumar (B) Saira Bano (C) Guru Dutt (D) Raj Kapoor

  10) What is part of a database that holds only one type of information?

  (A) Report (B) Record (C) Field (D) File

  11) Hitler party which came into power in 1933 is known as

  (A) Labour Party (B) Nazi Party (C) Democratic Party  (D) Ku Klux Klan  

    Fill in The Blanks From 12 to 16 :

   Marriages were arranged in the    (12)__Hindu Society. These marriages were mostly     (13)__. For the      families of the boys and girls were     (14)___to each other. They were equal in social and     (15) __ Status.  Their    (16)__ and outlook on life were common.

  12) (A) rational  (B) modern (C) traditional  (D) fashionable

  13) (A) successful (B) faliure (C) incompatible  (D) suitable

  14) (A) unknown (B) known (C) familiar (D) unfamiliar

  15) (A) political (B) religious (C)spiritual (D) economical

  16) (A) habits   (B) looks    (C) actions   (D) jobs

  17) Look at this series: 2, 1, (1/2), (1/4), ... What number should come next?

  (A) (1/3)   (B) (1/16)    (C) (1/8)   (D) (2/8)

  18) Who is the first Indian woman to win an Asian Games gold in 400m run?

  (A) P.T.Usha (B) Kamaljit Sandhu (C) K.Malleshwari (D) M.L.Valsamma

  19) B. C. Roy Award is given in the field of

  (A) Medicine (B) Journalism (C) Environment (D) Music

  20) Which is the highest gallantry award in India?

  (A) Param Vir Chakra (B) Kirti Chakra (C) Vir Chakra (D) Param Vishishtat Seva Medal

  21) The power to decide an election petition is vested in the

  (A) Parliament (B) Supreme Court  (C) High courts (D) Election Commission

  22) Which word cannot be formed from the letters of the word INTELLEGENCE?

  (A) ENTICE(B) GENTLE (C) INTENT (D) ENGINE

  23) Which chemical was an important symbol in our struggle for freedom?

  (A) Glucose (B) Medicine  (C) Fertilizer(D) Sodium Chloride

  24) the Islamic New year Starts with the month of

  (A) Ramzan (B) Muharram (C) Bil Haj(D) Shaban

  25) Which Indian river originates in Maharashtra and flows through Karnataka & Andhra Pradesh to meet the  Bay of Bengal in Andhra Coast?

  (A)cauvery (B) godavari (C) mahanadi (D)Krishna

  26) Who wrote the famous book - 'We the people'?

  (A) J.R.D. Tata (B) Khushwant Singh (C) Nani Palkhivala (D) T.N.Kaul

  27) Bijapur is known for its

  (A) Gol Gumbaz (B) statue of Gomateswara (C) heavy rainfall (D) severe drought condition

  28) On November 15, 1989, which cricket legend debuted in Team India

  (A) Kapil Dev (B) Sachin Tendulkar (C) Mahindra Singh Dhoni (D) Rahul Dravid

  29) The moon is ________  billion years old

  (A) 2.6 (B) 4.1 (C) 1.5 (D) 4.5

  30) India Won World Cup in the year

  (A) 2001 (B) 1999 (C) 2011 (D) 2013

  31) Cucumis Melo  is generally know as

  (A) Muskmelon  (B) Plum (C) Watermelon (D) Orange

  32) Who gave Milkha Singh the title of ‘Flying Sikh’

  (A) Abdul Khaliq (B)APJ Abdul Kalam (C) General Ayub Khan (D) Indira Gandhi

  33) The Proposed 29^th State Of Telangana Consists of how many district?

  (A) 9    (B) 20   (C)  18 (D) 10

   

   Read the sentence n select the appropriate for the underlined word

  34) If you placed  ice in warm water, it soon melts.

  (A) will place   (B) place   (C) would place   (D) No improvement

  35)  Their product is marketed more imaginatively  this season

  (A) is been marketed  (B) is marketing  (C) is being marketed    (D) No improvement

  36) How Many copies did we sent with the order?

  (A) Did we send  (B) Have we send  (C)  Sent we  (D) No improvement

  37) The lead character in the film 'The Bandit Queen' has been played by

  (A) Shabama Azmi (B) Pratiba Sinha (C)  Seema Biswas (D) Rupa Ganguly

   From 38 to 43 Choose A word that is a necessary  part of the given word

  38) Book

  (A)Pages (B)Fiction (C)Pictures  (D)Learning

  39)Harvest

  (A) Stock Pile  (B) Tractor  (C) Crop (D) Autumn

  40) Language

  (A) Accent  (B)  Words  (C) Style (D) Tone

  41)Election

  (A) 5 year  (B) Parliament (C)  Nation (D) Voter

  42) Pain

  (A) Hurt  (B) Burn (C) Cut (D) Noise

  43)Shoe

  (A) Leather  (B) Walking (C) Sole (D) Lace

  44) FFC stands for

   (A) Foreign Finance Corporation  (B) Film Finance Corporation (C)  Federation of Football Council     (D) None of these

  45) ‘Bagh', a village in Gwalior is famous for

  (A) Sculptures  (B)  Architecture (C)  Cave Painting (D) All of the above

  46) Who is the first Asian Winner of Nobel Prize?

  (A)  C. V. Raman  (B)  Rabindranath Tagore  (C)  Mother Teresa  (D) Rajiv Gandhi

  47) '.MOV' extension refers usually to what kind of file?

  (A) Image file  (B) Audio file  (C)  Animation/movie file (D) MS Office document

  48) The original name of of Lord Vorldemort  in the famous “Harry Potter Series” is

  (A) Zac Micheal   (B) Tom Riddle  (C) John Grint  (D) Albus Smith

  49) In India the first television programme was broadcasted in

  (A)   1959 (B) 1965 (C) 1957 (D) 1976

  50) Which city is known as 'Electronic City of India'?

  (A) Chennai   (B) Kolkata (C) Bangalore (D)Mumbai

   Select the word which does not belong to the group

   51) (A) Dil  (B) Basil  (C) Mayonnaise (D) Parsely

   52)  (A) Tulip   (B)  Bud  (C) Rose  (D) Jasmine

   53) (A)  Dodge   (B) Duck  (C) Flee  (D) Avoid

   54) (A)  Tape   (B)  Cord (C)  Yarn  (D) Twine

   55) (A) Noun    (B) Preposition  (C) Adverb (D) Punctuation

   56) Brass gets discoloured in air because of the presence of which of the following gases in air?

   (A) Oxygen   (B) Carbon Dioxide   (C) Hydrogen Sulphide (D) Nitrogen

   57)  The only Park in the world in which 4 types of the great felines (the tiger, the leopard, the snow  leopard & the cloud leopard) are found is

  (A) Jim Corbet National Park  (B) Gir Forest (C) Sunderban  (D) The Namdapja National Park

   58) Ricky Ponting is also known as what?

  (A)  Punter  (B)  The Rickster   (C)  Ponts   (D) Ponter

  59) The popular TV serial 'Neem ka Ped' was written by

  (A) Ashapurna Devi (B) Sharad Joshi  (C)  Harivansh Rai Bachachan  (D) Rahi Masoom Raza

  60) The Nobel Prize was first awarded in

  (A)  1976  (B) 1958 (C) 1901 (D) 1972

     Identify  the  Missing Letter

   61) B₂CD, _____, BCD₄, B₅CD, BC₆D

  (A) BC₃D   (B) B₂C₃D  (C) B₂C₂D (D) BCD₇

  62) ELFA, GLHA, ILJA, _____, MLNA

  (A) OLPA    (B) KLLA (C)  KLMA  (D) LLKA

  63) ZA₅, Y₄B, XC₆, W₃D, _____

  (A) E₇V (B) V₂E  (C) VE₅ (D) VE₇

   

   64)  Malus Domestica  is commonly know as

   (A) Apple   (B) Custard Apple (C)  Wood Apple  (D) Pine Apple

   65) Sachin Tendulkar became the 1^st batsman in the history of ODIs to score 10,000 runs in

   (A) 1998   (B) 2001  (C) 2007  (D) 2010

   66) The year 2013 marks the ____ Birth Anniversary of India’s 1^st  Prime Minster Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

   (A) 75^th     (B) 124^th   (C) 100^th  (D) 200^th

   67)The Proposed 29 State Of India Telangana is to be formed by the division of of which state

   (A)  Madhya Pradesh  (B)  Bihar (C) Andhra Pradesh  (D) Karnataka

   68) Fastest shorthand writer was

   (A)  Khudada Khan (B) Dr. G. D. Bist  (C) J.R.D. Tata  (D) J.M. Tagore

   69) Galileo was an Italian astronomer who

   (A) developed the telescope  (B) discovered four satellites of Jupiter  (C) discovered that the  movement of pendulum produces a regular time measurement (D) All of the above

   70) Mara runs faster than Gail. Lily runs faster than Mara. Gail runs faster than Lily. If the first two    statements are true, the third statement is

  (A) True   (B) Don’t know  (C) False  (D) Uncertain

   71) Marathon is to race as hibernation is to

  (A)  winter  (B) bear  (C) dream   (D) sleep

  72) Who wrote 'War and Peace'?

  (A) Mahatma Gandhi   (B) Leo Tolstoy (C) Charles Dickens  (D) Kipling

  73) The CEO of popular social site Facebook is

  (A)  Bill Gates  (B) Steve Jobs  (C)  Sabir Bhatia (D) Mark Zuckerberg

  74) Which of the following is used in pencils?

  (A)  Graphite  (B) Silicon  (C)  Charcoal  (D) Phosphorous

  75) Twitter was founded in the year

  (A)  2010  (B) 2006 (C) 2004 (D) 2012

  76) The sum of ages of 5 children born at the intervals of 3 years each is 50 years. What is the age of  the youngest child?

  (A)  4 years   (B) 10 years  (C) 8 years (D) None of these

  77) Find the Odd One - 8, 27, 64, 100, 125, 216, 343

  (A) 27   (B) 343 (C) 100 (D) 125

  78) If Today is Monday. After 61 days, it will be:

  (A) Wednesday   (B) Saturday  (C) Thursday  (D) Monday

  79) Which of the following is a prime number ?

  (A)  33  (B) 81 (C) 93 (D) 97

  80) he journalist who refused to accept 'Padma Bhushan' was?

  (A) Shekaran Nair   (B) Khushwant Singh (C) Ratan Thiyam (D) Arun Shourie

  81) The hardest substance available on earth is

  (A)  Diamond  (B) Gold (C) Graphite  (D) Iron

  82) Which of the following is used as a lubricant?

  (A) Graphite   (B) Silica  (C) Iron Oxide (D) Diamond

  83) What is common between Kutty, Shankar, Laxman and Sudhir Dar?

  (A)  Film Direction  (B)  Drawing Cartoons (C) Drawing Cartoons  (D) Classical Dance

  84) Who developed Yahoo?

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

  85)  The Indian to beat the computers in mathematical wizardry is

  (A)  Rina Panigrahi  (B) Ramanujam (C)  Shakunthala Devi (D) Raja Ramanna

  86) The most Effective measure against injustice adopted by Gandhiji was

  (A) Picketing   (B) Fasting (C) Stoppage of work (D) Hijrat

  87) The historic 1929 Lahore Session of the Indian Ntional Congress was presided over by

  (A) Lala Lajpat Rai   (B) Motilal Nehru (C) Mahatma Gandhi  (D)  Jawaharlal Nehru

   88) Arjuna Award is given for

   (A)  Exceptional service in slum dwellers  (B) Outstanding performance in sports  (C) Bravery on    battlefield (D) Exceptional service in emergency  

   89) Which scientist discovered the radioactive element radium?

   (A)  Marie Curie  (B) Isaac Newton (C) Albert Einstein (D) Benjamin Franklin