Model GK Test Solved Practice Paper for Executive Trainees

Model GK Test Solved Practice Paper for Executive Trainees
General Knowledge MCQ Test Paper
1. Who is said to have fiddled when Rome
Was burning?
(a) Nero
(b) Hercules
(c) Achilles
(d) Julius Caesar
Answer. (a)

2. Who won four gold in athletics and
Equaled the record of Jessi Owens in 23rd
Olympics?
(a) P.T. Usha
(b) Frost
(c) Carl Lewis
(d) None of these
Answer. (c)

3. The instrument for measuring the altitude
Of celestial bodies is called:
(a) Speedometer
(b) Altimeter
(c) Sextant
(d) Spectrometer
(e) None of these
Answer. (c)

4. Instruments can be shielded from outside
Magnetic effects by surrounding them with:
(a) Glass shield
(b) Rubber shield
(c) Iron shield
(d) Brass shield
Answer. (b)

5. Who called Britain a nation of shopkeepers?
(a) Hitler
(b) Garibaldi
(c) Napoleon
(d) Mussolini
Answer. (c)

6. Chittor is associated with:
(a) Tyntya
(b) Nana Pharanvis
(c) Rana Pratap
(d) Shivaji
Answer. (c)

7. Laissez faire means:
(a) Right to interfere.
(b) A policy of non-interference by the State
(c) Let individuals be not left alone to do What they like
(d) Helping the poor by taxing the rich
Answer. (b)

8. Railway tracks are banked, on curves so that:
(a) Necessary centripetal force may be obtained from the horizontal component
of the weight of the train
(b) No frictional force may be produced between the wheels and the tracks
(c) The train may not fall down inward
(d) The weight of the train may be reduced
Answer. (a)

9. The meetings of the Rajya Sabha are
Presided over by:
(a) The Speaker
(b) President bf India
(c) Vice-President of India
(d) The Prime Minister
Answer. (c)

10. Why do some automobiles have additional Yellow headlights?
(a) Yellow light does not produce dazzling effect in the eyes of the people coming
From front
(b) Yellow light consumes less power
(c) Yellow light is able to penetrate the Fog and is thus able to illuminate the
Road better in fogy nights
(d) Both (a) and (b)
Answer. (c)

11. Who is the Chief Election commissioner of India?
(a) T.N. Sheshan
(h) R.K. Trivedi
(C) Dr. Ms. Gill
(d) Ram Dhan
(e) V.S. Rama Devi
Answer. (c)

12. A blind folded woman holding a balance in
Her hand is a symbol for:
(a) Peace
(b) Justice
(c) Distress
(d) Mourning
Answer. (b)

13. Who was the First President of U.S.A.?
(a) George Washington
(c) Thomas Jefferson
(c) Abraham Lincoln
(d) None of these
Answer. (a)

14. Nautical mile is:
(a) A unit of distance used in races
(b) A unit of distance used in navigagtion
(c) A unit of distance used in spae travel
(d) A unit of distance in air travel A
(e) None of these
Answer. (b)

15. What is the rate of interest payable on Savings Bank accounts by the Scheduled
Commercial Banks in India?
(a) 7 per cent
(b) 6.5 per cent
(c) 5 per cent
(d) 4.5 per cent
Answer. (d)

16. The name of the scientific satellite which
India launched into space from its own
Territory was:
(a) AryaBhatta
(b) Bhaskara
(c) Rohini
(d) Apple
Answer. (c)

17. Which of the following is the ruling party in Tamil Nadu at present?
(a) D.M.K.
(b) National Front
(C) Congress
(d) AIADMK
Answer. (a)

18. Cue is a term used in:
(a) Billiards
(b) Chess
(c) Bridge
(d) Cricket
Answer. (a)

19. When did India launch INSAT-11 D?
(a) 1993
(b) 1994
(c) l997
(d) 1995
Answer. (c)

20. The first woman to be Prime Minister in
The world was:
(a) Smt. Indira Gandhi
(b) Margaret Thatcher
(c) Smt. Sirimavo Bhandarnaike
(d) Kim Campbell
Answer. (c)

21. The organisation set by Government of
India to Promote Science and Technology is:
(a) NCPC
(b) NCAER
(c) NCERT
(d) NPS
(e) NCST
Answer. (e)

22. With which religion are the Dilwara Temples associated?
(a) Jainism
(b) Hindusim
(c) Buddhism
(d) Hinduism & Jainism both
Answer. (a)

23. Which scientific law states that a fluid in a Closed system exerts pressure
equally in all directions?
(a) Grahamis law
(b) Boyle’s law
(c) Perkin’s law
(d) Pascal’s law
Answer. (d)

24. Who invented crescography?
(a) Rutherford
(b) Edison
(c) Faraday
(d) J.C. Bose
Answer. (d)

25. Accra is the Capital of:
(a) Greece
(b) Cuba
(c) Ghana
(d) Lima
Answer. (c)