General Knowledge Exam: 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

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

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

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

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

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

90) A hall is 15 m long and 12 m broad. If the sum of the areas of the floor and the ceiling is equal to the sum of the areas of four walls, the volume of the hall is:

(A) 720 cu.m (B) 7500 cu.m (C) 750 cu.m (D) 75000 cu.m

91) The central banking functions in India are performed by the

(A) Central Bank Of India (B) Reserve Bank Of India (C) State Bank Of India (D) Punjab National Bank

92) In the last one decade, which one among the following sectors has attracted the highest foreign direct investment inflows into India?

(A) Chemicals Other than Fertilizers (B) Service Sector (C) Telecommunication (D) Food Processing

93) Ms. Bachendri Pal had undertaken a unique expedition for focusing attention on which of these?

(A) Sprit of Adventure (B) The Girl Child (C) National Integration (D) One Nation one Family

94) A television remote uses

(A) infrared waves (B) cosmic waves (C) ether waves (D) microwaves

95) Which Indian State Shares its Boundaries with largest number of States

(A) Madhya Pradesh (B) Assam (C) Maharashtra (D) Chhattishgarh

96) Find the correct Spelling

(A) Embaras (B) Embarass (C) Embarres (D) Embarrass

97) Rabindranath Tagore's 'Jana Gana Mana' has been adopted as India's National Anthem. How many stanzas of the said song were adopted?

(A) Only the first stanza (B) Third and Fourth stanza (C) The whole song (D) First and Second stanza

98) When is the World Population Day observed?

(A) May 31 (B) December 10 (C) October 4 (D) July 11

99) Who among the following is not a recipient of 'Dada Saheb Phalke' Award?

(A) Ashok Kumar (B) Ramanand Sagar (C) Raj Kapoor (D) V. Shantaram

100) The words 'Satyameva Jayate' inscribed below the base plate of the emblem of India are taken from

(A) Rigveda (B) Satpath Brahmana (C) Mundak Upanishad (D) Ramayana

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