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Mixed GK

Description: GENERAL AWARENESS TEST
Number of Questions: 25
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Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:The headquarters of the “Citigroup Bank” are in

  1. Paris

  2. New York

  3. Iceland

  4. Davos


Correct Option: B

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Who is the managing director of the “Tata Tele services”?

  1. Jaipal Reddy

  2. Anil Sardana

  3. Ram Prakash

  4. Madhav Lal Raina


Correct Option: B

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

“Home Depot” is a

  1. super tanker missile

  2. new model from Godrej home appliances

  3. life insurance scheme launched by Birla

  4. hardware company


Correct Option: D

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Which Operating System was launched by Microsoft in 2011?

  1. Windows Vista

  2. Windows XP professional

  3. Linux

  4. Windows 7


Correct Option: D

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Which among the following is the world`s number 2 PC maker (2011)?

  1. Dell

  2. Microsoft

  3. Lenova

  4. Ace


Correct Option: A

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Who is the current (2011) Chairman of the Andhra Pradesh Human Rights Commission?

  1. Rakesh Mishra

  2. Karan Tilak

  3. B. Subashan Reddy

  4. Kakumanu Peda Peri Reddy


Correct Option: D

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Actor Sanjay Dutt contested the Lok Sabha Elections under the wings of

  1. BJP

  2. Samajwadi Party

  3. National Conference

  4. CPI (M)


Correct Option: B

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Lasantha Wickramatunga, who has assassinated, was the editor of Sri Lanka English weekly

  1. Sri Lankan Times

  2. Herald Weekly

  3. News Week

  4. Sunday Leader


Correct Option: D

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Which is a surface to surface missile?

  1. BrahMos

  2. Shaurya

  3. Sirius

  4. Zeal


Correct Option: B

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

The 20th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation was held in

  1. Beijing

  2. Cuba

  3. Lima

  4. Peking


Correct Option: C

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

“Smart Card” is

  1. students SIM card launched by AIRTEL

  2. Electronic ID card issued by the British Government

  3. new programme issued as a alternative for national identity card

  4. the card given for immigrants


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

This is a card for those migrating for jobs abroad. It contains the details of the work contract and the employer.

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

“Duckworth Lewis method” is associated with

  1. golf

  2. Polo

  3. hockey

  4. cricket


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Cricket (it was developed by Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis)

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Who eas re-elected as the president of the “Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee”?

  1. Avtar Singh

  2. Bindal Joshi

  3. Jain Ramesh

  4. Ramesh Ram


Correct Option: A

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Who won the “IAAF world athlete of the year award 2008”?

  1. Yelena Isinbayeva

  2. Ussain Bolt

  3. both a and b

  4. Michael Phelps


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Ussain Bolt (set world records in 100 and 200 m at Beijing Games) and Yelena Isinbayeva won the IAAF world athlete of the year 2008.

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Phrenoderma is the disease caused by the deficiency of

  1. vitamin A

  2. vitamin D

  3. minerals

  4. fatty acids


Correct Option: D

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

“Black water fever” is related to

  1. filiaria

  2. malaria

  3. typhoid

  4. avian flu


Correct Option: B

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Theperiod elapsing between the termination of labor and the return of the generative tract to its normal condition is known as

  1. ante-natal period

  2. puerperal period

  3. Neonatal Period

  4. intra uterine period


Correct Option: B

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

The word 'byte” become standard in the year _______?

  1. 1953

  2. 1964

  3. 1982

  4. 1909


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

1964 ( the 8 bit byte become the standard the with the IBM Standard computer 360

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Gandhi Irwin pact was in the year

  1. 1923

  2. 1931

  3. 1943

  4. 1922


Correct Option: B

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

“Sher Shah” belonged to the _______ dynasty.

  1. Kula

  2. Raja

  3. Aruna

  4. Suri


Correct Option: D

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Which among the following is known as the island of pearls?

  1. Bahrain

  2. Madagascar

  3. Mongolia

  4. Lhasa


Correct Option: A

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Which is the unit used to measure electro motive force?

  1. Ohm

  2. Volt

  3. Ampere

  4. Knot


Correct Option: B

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Which is commonly known as the 'whitest element”?

  1. Titanium dioxide

  2. Titanium acetate

  3. Sulphur monoxide

  4. Selenium chloride


Correct Option: A

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

______ celebrates the 2009 as the year of environment?

  1. Indian environmental social forum

  2. NGO

  3. Indian social Welfare front

  4. Indian Customs


Correct Option: D

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Name the book about the computers which won the “Pulitzer Prize”.

  1. Soul of a New Machine

  2. Computer Savvy

  3. The Life Through the Computer

  4. Computer and Machines


Correct Option: A
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