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General Awareness

Description: General Awareness and Current Affairs Test - Free General Knowledge Tests for Examination and Entrance Questions and Online Preparation and Practice Tests
Number of Questions: 25
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Capital formation in an economy depends on the

  1. total Income

  2. total demand

  3. total savings

  4. total production


Correct Option: D

In India, one-rupee coins and notes and subsidiary coins are issued by

  1. the Reserve Bank of India

  2. the Central Government

  3. the State Bank of India

  4. the United Trust of India


Correct Option: A

Prime cost is equal to

  1. variable cost plus administrative cost

  2. variable cost plus fixed costs

  3. variable cost only

  4. fixed cost only


Correct Option: B

Which of the following is not a Central Service?

  1. The Indian Police Service.

  2. The Indian Foreign Service.

  3. The Indian Audit and Accounts Service.

  4. None of these


Correct Option: D

Which Article of the Indian Constitution provides for the institution of Panchayati Raj?

  1. Article 36

  2. Article 39

  3. Article 40

  4. Article 48


Correct Option: C

An expenditure that has been made and cannot be recovered is called

  1. variable cost

  2. opportunity cost

  3. sunk cost

  4. operational cost


Correct Option: C

Article 1 of the Constitution declares India as

  1. Federal State

  2. Quasi-Federal State

  3. Unitary State

  4. Union of States


Correct Option: A

In a slanting hilly Indian terrain experiencing more than 200 cms of annual rainfall, which one of the following crops can be cultivated best?

  1. Cotton

  2. Jute

  3. Tobacco

  4. Tea


Correct Option: D

Motilal Nehru and Chittaranjan Das were the founder of the

  1. Communist Party of India

  2. Forward Block

  3. Socialist-Swarajist Party

  4. Swarajya Party


Correct Option: D

Lothal is a site where dockyards of which of the following civilizations were found?

  1. Indus Valley

  2. Mesopotamian

  3. Egyptian

  4. Persian


Correct Option: A

A high growth rate of population is characterised by

  1. high birth rate and high death rate

  2. high birth rate and low death rate

  3. low birth rate and low death rate

  4. low birth rate and high death rate


Correct Option: B

The atmosphere is heated mainly by

  1. insolation

  2. conduction

  3. radiation

  4. convection


Correct Option: C

'Buddha' means

  1. the Awakened

  2. the Religious Preacher

  3. the Genius

  4. the Powerful


Correct Option: A

How many minutes for each degree of longitude does the local time of any place vary from the Greenwich time?

  1. Two minutes

  2. Four minutes

  3. Six minutes

  4. Eight minutes


Correct Option: B

Who among the following is generally regarded as the pioneer of Local Self-Government in modern India?

  1. Ripon

  2. Lytton

  3. Mayo

  4. Curzon


Correct Option: A

Which one of the following can be synthesised by liver?

  1. Vitamin-A

  2. Vitamin-E

  3. Vitamin-D

  4. Vitamin-K


Correct Option: A

Naga, Khasi and Garo hills are located in the

  1. Purvanchal Range

  2. Karakoram Range

  3. Zaskar Range

  4. Himalaya Range


Correct Option: D

Which is widely used in the plastic industry for manufacturing bakelite?

  1. Ethyl alcohol

  2. Phenol

  3. Orth-cresol

  4. Catechol


Correct Option: B

The instrument used to measure the speed of the wind is called

  1. altimeter

  2. anemometer

  3. chronometer

  4. dosimeter


Correct Option: B

'IC' in computers stands for

  1. Integrated Charge

  2. Integrated Current

  3. Integrated Circuits

  4. Internal Circuits


Correct Option: C

Which of the following are not grown in the Kharif season?

  1. Bajra and rice

  2. Maize and jowar

  3. Barley and mustard

  4. Jowar and rice


Correct Option: C

Ripe grapes contain

  1. fructose

  2. sucrose

  3. galactose

  4. glucose


Correct Option: A

Which one of the following is pure water?

  1. Rain water

  2. Filter water

  3. Tubewell water

  4. Distilled water


Correct Option: A

As per National Family Health Survey-3 (2005-06), the average fertility rate in India has declined from 2·9 (obtained in NFHS-2) to

  1. 2·8

  2. 2·7

  3. 2·6

  4. 2·5


Correct Option: B

Heart murmur indicates a

  1. defective valve

  2. poor oxygenation

  3. dislocation of the heart

  4. improper development of muscles


Correct Option: A
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