General Knowledge Exam: January 2014

P.D. Turakhia Junior College of Commerce & Science

Date :-24/12/2013 Time :- 12.30pm to 2.00pm Marks :- 100

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE EXAMINATION(FYJC)

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

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

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

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

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

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

3) Entomology is the science that studies

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

4) Arrange the words according to the English Dictionary : 1. Advertise 2. Admit 3. Addition 4. Adhesive

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

5) The word that cannot be formed from the word HISTORICAL

(A) ASTRO (B) CHARIOT (C) CHAOS (D) RICHES

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

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

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

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

8) The Islamic New year Starts with the month of

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

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) The UNO Headquarter is at

(A) New York (B)London (C) Moscow (D) San Fransico

11) The gas present in the stratosphere which filters out some of the sun's ultraviolet light and provides an effective shield against radiation damage to living things is

(A)Helium (B)Oxygen (C)Ozone (D) Methane

12) Golden Temple is situated in

(A)Mumbai (B)Amritsar (C)Delhi (D)Kolkata

13)Who developed Yahoo?

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

14) The main cause of Energy radiation from sun is

(A) Fusion Reaction (B)Chemical Reaction (C) Fission Reaction (D) Diffusion Reaction

15) Which of the following is NOT a Member of the G-15

(A) China (B)Malaysia (C)Pakistan (D) Indonesia

16) 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

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) The famous book Malgudi Days is written by

(A) Deepak Chopra (B)Rabindranath Tagore (C) Arundhati Roy (D) R.K.Narayan

19) When was the first Asian Games held in India

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) Pollination is best defined as

(A) germination of pollen grains (B) transfer of pollen from anther to stigma (C) visiting flowers by insects (D) None of the above

22) India Won World Cup in the year

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

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

24Rabindranath 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

25) Grand Central Terminal, Park Avenue, New York is the world's

(A) longest railway station (B) highest railway station (C) largest railway station (D) None of the above

26) Which of the following is NOT associated with the UNO?

(A) ILO (B) ASEAN (C) WHO (D) None of the Above

27) Bijapur is known for its

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

28) Plants receive their nutrients mainly from

(A) Chlorophyll (B) Soil (C) Atmosphere (D) Light

29) The great Victoria Desert is located in

(A) Canada (B) West Africa (C) North America(D) Australia

30) The largest 4 digit number exactly divisible by 88 is:

(A) 9944 (B) 9768 (C)9988 (D) 8888

31) 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

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

34) The most commonly used bleaching agent is

(A) Sodium Chloride (B) Alcohol (C)Chlorine (D)Nitrogen

35) Find the correct Spelling

(A)Corrageous (B) Courageous (C)Coragageous (D) Courageaous

36) Find the correct Spelling

(A)Changable (B) Changeble (C) Changablle (D) Changeable

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

38) The largest glaciers are

(A) mountain glaciers (B) piedmont glaciers (C) continental glaciers (D) alpine glaciers

39) '.MPG' extension refers usually to what kind of file?

(A) Audio File (B) Animation/movie file (C) Word File (D) Image File

40) Golf player Vijay Singh belongs to which country?

(A) Fiji (B) India (C) Japan (D) USA

41) Guwahati High Court is the judicature of

(A) Assam (B) Nagaland (C)Arunachal Pradesh (D) All the above

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

43) Fire temple is the place of worship of which of the following religion?

(A) Taoism (B) Judaism (C) Shintoism (D) Zoroastrianism

44) Lala Lajpat Rai is also known as

(A) Sher-e - Punjab (B) Punjab Kesari(C) Both (a) & (b)(D) None of the Above

45) Who is the father of Geometry?

(A) Euclid (B) Aristotle (C) Pythagoras (D) Kelper

46) The largest country of the world by geographical area is

(A) Vatican City (B) USA (C) Russia (D) China

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) Find Odd One out - 6, 9, 15, 21, 24, 28, 30

(A) 28 (B) 15 (C) 30 (D)9

49) The Nobel Prize was first awarded in

50) Film and TV institute of India is located at

(A) Rajkot (Gujarat) (B) Pune (Maharashtra) (C) Perambur (Tamilnadu) (D) Pimpri (Maharashtra)

51) Which of the following is used as the logo of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)?

(A) Deer (B)Camel (C) Lion (D)Panda

52) The largest gold producing country in the world is

(A) South Africa (B)China (C) India (D) USA

53) Guru Gobind Singh was

(A) the 10^th Guru of the Sikhs (B) founder of Khalsa, the inner council of the Sikhs in 1699 (C) author of Dasam Granth (D) All the above

54) India's first satellite is named after

(A) Aryabhatta (B) Bhaskara I (C) Albert Einstein (D) Bhaskara II

55) India's tallest stone statue of the Jain sage Gomateswara is at

(A) Mandu (B) New Delhi (C) Sravanabelagola (D) Mysore

56) The leading state in producing paper is

(A) Bihar (B) West Bengal (C) Orissa (D) Kerala

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)The most Effective measure against injustice adopted by Gandhiji was

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

59) The minimum age to qualify for election to the Lok Sabha is

(A) 25 Years (B)21 Years (C)18 Years (D)35 Years

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

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

Fill in the blanks with appropriate word from 61 to 65

Women have __61__made__62__in the corporate work place, but certainly not as much they had __63_. We have new laws, rules and __64__relating to women in work place, but what we have not changed much is male__65__.

61) (A) Seldom (B) Perhaps (C) Optimistically (D) Undoubtedly

62) (A) Progress (B) Attempts (C) Decisions (D) Efforts

63) (A) Prescribed (B) Expected (C) Informed (D) Encompassed

64) (A) Problems (B) Activities (C) Policies (D) Cases

65) (A) Achievements (B) Patterns (C) Population (D) Behaviour

66) The nucleus of an atom consists of

(A) electrons and neutrons (B) protons and neutrons (C) electrons and protons (D)All the above

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) 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

69) The CEO of popular social site Facebook is

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

70) Who was known as Iron man of India?

(A) Govind Ballabh Pant (B) Subhash Chandra Bose (C) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (D) Jawaharlal Nehru

71) Professor Amartya Sen is famous in which of the fields?

(A) Biochemistry (B) Economics (C) Physics (D)Electronics

72) Joule is the unit of

(A) Energy (B) Temperature (C) Heat (D) Pressure

73) In which season do we need more fat?

(A)Summer (B) Winter (C) Rainy Season(D)Spring

74) Which of the following was Satyajit Ray associated with?

(A) Classical music (B) Commercial art (C) Classical dance (D) Film Direction

75) Which of the following countries is not a member of SAARC?

(A)Pakistan (B) Afghanistan (C) Myanmar (D) Nepal

76) Twitter was founded in the year

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 65 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) Window is to pane as book is to

(A)Pages (B) Cover (C)Novel (D)Glass

81) The hardest substance available on earth is

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

82) Mohiniattam dance from developed originally in which state?

(A) Tamil Nadu (B)Kerala (C)Orissa (D)Karnataka

83) What is the centre of the Solar System

(A) Constellation (B)Sunspot (C) Black Hole (D) Sun

84) Which of the following is tropical grassland?

(A) Taiga (B) Savannah (C) Tundra (D) Prairies

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

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

86) Todar Mal was associated with

(A) Music (B) Land Revenue Reforms (C) Law & Order (D) Literature

87) 'OS' computer abbreviation usually means ?

(A) Open Software (B) Order Selection (C) Optical Sensor (D) Operating Software

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) The Rath Yatra at Puri is celebrated in honour of which Hindu deity

(A) Ram (B) Shiva (C) Jaganath (D)Vishnu

90)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

From 91 to 93 choose a word that is a necessary part of the word given

91) Swimming

(A) Pool (B)Water (C) Strokes (D) Life Jacket

92)School

(A) Class (B)Exams (C)Learning (D)Student

93) Guitar

(A) Rock (B)Strings (C)Band (D)Songs

94) The sum of first five prime numbers is:

(A) 11 (B)28 (C)26 (D)16

95) The Earth rotates on its axis from

(A) East to West (B) North to South (C) West to East (D)South to North

96) The Battle of Plassey was fought in

(A) 1768 (B) 1757(C)1842 (D) 1798

97) Which is the last Greek Alphabet

(A) Omega (B)Pi (C)Bye (D)Ze

98) The ratio of width of our National flag to its length is

(A)3:5(B)2:4 (C)2:3 (D)3:4

99) ICICI is the name of a

(A) bureau (B) chemical industry (C) financial institution (D) corporation

100) The nucleus of a hydrogen atom consists of

(A) 1 electron only (B) 1 proton + 2 neutron (C) 1 neutron only (D) 1 proton only

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