Quiz on General Awareness 10

1.According to ARC(Administrative Reforms Commission) reports, government servants should be sacked after ____ years of service if found unfit to continue ?

a)14  b)15  c)16  d)18  e)20

2.Who is the secretary general of NATO ?

a)Giampaolo di Paola   b)Anders Fogh Rasmussen  c)Poul Nyrup Rasmussen  d)Lars Løkke Rasmussen  e)Ray Henault

3.Which country tested the long-range Shahab-3 missile recently ?

a)North Korea  b)India  c)Iraq  d)Iran  e)Pakistan

4.Which of the following is not in the list of UNESCO world heritage sites in India ?

1)Kalka-Shimla Railway  2)Humayun's Tomb  3)Keoladeo national Park 4)Tirumala Tirupathi Devastanam(TTD)

a)only 1 & 2

b)only 3

c)only 4

d)only 3 & 4.

e)All are listed in Heritage sites.

5.According to the survey conducted by the Transparency International India, which two states are the most corrupt states ?

a)J & K,Bihar  b)Bihar,Jharkhand  c)Jharkhand,Chattisgarh  d)Bihar Chattisgarh  e)Jharkhand,Madhya pradesh

6.Which of the following is true regarding 11th Five year plan ?

a)Accelerate GDP growth from 8% to 10% and then maintain at 10% in the 12th Plan in order to double per capita income by 2016-17

b)Create 70 million new work opportunities.

c)Reduce infant mortality rate to 28 and maternal mortality ratio to 1 per 1000 live births

d)Reduce educated unemployment to below 5%.

e)All are true

7.According to Economic Survey 2008-09, the per capita income was Rs_______ ?

a)29,901  b)30,674  c)31,278  d)33,010  e)34,563

8.With which of the following countries India has signed an agreement to facilitate employment of workers between two countries and promote orderly recruitment and deployment of workers ?

a)Srilanka  b)Malaysia  c)China  d)Mayanmar  e)Australia.

9.The rate at which banks lend money to the RBI is known as ?

a)Repo rate  b)Reverse repo rate  c)Call rate  d)Bank rate  e)CRR.

10.Which is the first company to launch Wi-Max services in India ?

a)VSNL  b)Tata Telecommunications  c)Airtel  d)Reliance  e)MTNL

11.US has signed a deal with which of the following countries to supply Uranium to the US nuclear industry ?

a)India  b)Australia  c)Canada  d)Russia  e)France

12.The United Nations has declared 2009 as the International Year of __________ ?

a)Education  b)Planet Earth  c)Astronomy  d)Terrorism  e)Poverty

13.India usually launches it satellites from Satish Dawan Space Centre, in which state it is located ?

a)Tamilnadu  b)karnataka  c)Gujarat  d)Andhra Pradesh  e)Rajasthan

14.Which state introduced a scheme called 'Pratibha Kira Yojana' to promote higher education among girls ?

a)Gujarat  b)Haryana  c)Bihar  d)Uttar pradesh  e)Madhya pradesh

15.Which committee recommended the abolition of tax rebates ?

a)Kelkar Committe  b)Chelliah Committee  c)Shome Committe  d)Abhijit Sen Committee  e)Shome Committee.

16.The World’s First ‘Self-Watering’ plants have been discovered in which of the following countries ?

a)US  b)France  c)Israel  d)India  e)Japan

17.After Kapil dev,which person has  joined the  Territorial Army(TA),the part time citizen’s force which functions as a ‘vital adjunct’ to the regular army .

a)Vinod Kambli  b)Rajini kanth  c)Sourav Ganguly  d)Kamal hasan  e)Mohan lal

18.D.C.M Trophy is associated to which of the following sports ?

a)Cricket  b)Football  c)Hockey  d)Chess  e)Volley ball

19.Indian Govt. took how many stimulus packages to fight economic slowdown ?

a)3  b)1   c)2  d)4  e)none.

20.World Water day is celebrated on ?

a)Feb 2nd  b)March 21st  c)April  22nd   d)May 22nd  e)march  22nd.