Friday, January 21, 2011

Solved paper General Awareness

Solved paper General Awareness
1. The science of map-making is
(1) Cartography
(2) Geography
(3) Carpology
(4) Geology
2. Who is known as ‘the father of Indian missile technology ?
(1) Dr. U.R. Rao
(2) Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
(3) Dr. Chidambarain
(4) Dr. Homi Bhabha
3. Which of the following cities towns lies to the northern-most latitude?
(1)Patna
(2) Allahabad
(3) Panchmarhi
(4) Ahmedabad
4. Which of the following Twenty-20 Cricket Rules is not correctly stated?
(1) Each inning has a time limit of 75 minutes. For every over bowled after that, the batting side gets extra 6 runs
(2) If a batsman fails to reach the crease within 90 seconds after the fall of wicket, the bowling side gets 5 penalty runs
(3) A bowler can bowl a maximum of 6 oven per innings
(4) Fielding restrictions are applicable for the first six overs of the innings
5. Who is the author of “A River Sutra”?
(1) V. S. Nalpaul
(2) Nirad C. Choudhuri
(3) Gita Mehta
(4) Vikram Seth
6. Which of the following Indian banks became the first to touch a market capitalisation of Rs. 1,00,000 crore in India?
(1) lClCl
(2) HDFC
(3) SBI
(4) PNB
7. The capital of IMF is made up by contribution of the
(1) credit
(2) deficit financing
(3) member nations
(4) borrowings
8. Who among the following is a non- resident Indian?
(1) An Indian tourist in America
(2) A person of Indian origin working as a Computer Engineer in America
(3) A person of Indian origin employed in the U.N.O. office at New Delhi
(4) The Indian manager of State Bank of India branch in London
9. Where is the National Academy of Agricultural Research Management located?
(1) Dehradoon
(2) Hyderabad
(3) New Delhi
(4) Itanagar
10. Which kind of power accounts for the largest share of power generation in India?
(1) hydro-electricity
(2) thermal
(3) nuclear
(4) solar
11. Who was the President of Indian National Congress when the Mountbatten Plan of Independence was accepted?
(1) Jawaharlal Nehru
(2) Sardar Patel
(3) Maulana Azad
(4) Acharya .J B. Kripalani
12. Age of a candidate to contest Parliamentary election should not be lesser than
(1) 18 years
(2) 21 years
(3) 25 years
(4)26 years
13. Who developed the idea that “means justify the ends”?
(1) Kautilya
(2) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(3) Swami Dayanand Saraswati
(4) Máhatma Gandhi


14. Who said that ‘the real seat of taste is not the tongue, but the mind?
(1) Aurobindo Ghosh
(2) Mahatma Gandhi
(3) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(4) Swami Vivekananda
15. Which Amendment Act intro duced changes in the preamble to the Indian Constitution?
(1) the 38th Amendment Act. 1975
(2) the 40th Amendment Act, 1976
(3) the 42nd Amendment Act, 1976
(4) the 44th Amendment Act, 1979
16. The ‘interval between two sessions of either House of Parliament should not exceed
(1) three months
(2) six months
(3) nine months
(4) twelve months
17. The caves and rock-cut temples at Ellora are
(1) Hindu and Buddhist
(2) Buddhist and Jam
(3) Hindu and Jam
(4) Hindu, Buddhist and Jam
18 The original name of Tansen. The most famous musician at the court of Akbar was
(1) Lal Kalwant
(2) Banda Bahadur
(3) Ramatanu Pande
(4) Markandey Pande
19. Provincial Autonomy was one of the important features of the Act of
(1)1935
(2) 1919
(3)1909
(4) 1858

20. The Seven Pagodas of Mahabalipuram are a witness to the art patronised by the
(1) Pallavas
(2) Pandyas
(3) Cholas
(4) Cheras
21. Who was the Governor-general of India during the Revolt of
1857?
(1) Lord Dalhousie
(2) Lord Canning
(3) Lord Mayo
(1) Lord Ripon
22. Name the clan Buddha belonged to?
(1) Gnathrika
(2) Mauiya
(3) Sakya
(4) Kuru

23. Which of the following will never get the vertical rays of the sun?
(1)Mumbai
(2) Chennal
(3) Thlruvanthapuram
(4) Srinagar
24. During which decade did the population of India record a negative growth rate?
(1) 1921—31
(2) 1911—21
(3) 1941—51
(4) 1931—41

25. Which of the following combinations is correct?
(1) NABARD . Industrial Loans
(2) IDEI- Short term loans
(3) RBI- Long term finance
(4) RRB - Agricultural finance


Answers:
1 1
2 2
3 1
4 3
5 3
6 3
7 3
8 2
9 2
10 2
11 4
12 3
13 4
14 2
15 3
16 2
17 4
18 3
19 1
20 1
21 2
22 3
23 4
24 1
25 4

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