Quiz on General Knowledge 2010 - 55

1.      In which state the first ever Railway Line (Rangpo-Sivok) has started?

a)Meghalaya    b)Arunachal Pradesh    c)Tripura   d)Manipur   e)Sikkim

2.      The second International Exhibition and Conference on Civil Aviation, India Aviation 2010 is held at _________?

a)Bangalore     b)Hyderabad     c)Chennai    d)Delhi    e)Mumbai

3.      Who has been named for India’s top science award in recognition of his distinguished services to the country?

a)S.N Bose    b)S Ramunujan    c)G.N Ramachandran    d)C R Rao    e)None

4.      Government has approved for setting up of Indian Community welfare fund(ICWF) in 18 Indian Missions. Which of the following is true regarding ICWF?

a)The fund is aimed for helping only Overseas Indians

b)The fund will have budgetary support of 480 lakhs for three years

c)It provide emergency medical care, air passage to stranded workers

d)Both b & c.

e)All of the above

5.      The Panchayati Raj System was first started in which state?

a)Kerala    b)Rajasthan   c)Uttar Pradesh    d)Tamilnadu    e)Gujarat

6.      Raman Magsaysay Award is given in the field __________?

a)Community Leadership   b)Government service     c)Public service    d)Journalism    e)All of these

7.      The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) Inflation for all commodities soared to ____percent in December 2009?

a)1.25    b)5.52    c)7.31   d)8.56    e)none of these

8.      Currently, India's trade with the ASEAN economies stands at _____ billions?

a)$10    b)$20    c)$30   d)$44  e)$50

9.      Which of the following has received the Prime Minister's Trophy for emerging as the best performing steel plant in the country for the years 2006-07 and 2007-08?

a)Bhilai Steel Plant     b)Tata Steel    c)Arcelor mittal    d)Vizag Steel   e)Essar Steel

10. Which Chief Minister conferred the Polio Champion award for his support and encouragement in endorsing polio immunization programme?

a)K Rosiah    b)M Karunanidhi    c)Nitish Kumar   d)Narendra Modi   e)Sheila Dikshit

11. Recently Bharti Airtel has acquired the ________ based Zain telecom for $10.7 billions?

a)UAE     b)South Africa      c)Kuwait    d)Dubai     e)none of these

12. Former National Security Adviser(NSA) MK Narayanan has become the new governor of _______________?

a)Jharkhand    b)West Bengal    c)Chhattisgarh   d)Bihar    e)Andhra Pradesh

13. Who won the 2010 Australian Open Men’s Title?

a)Del Potro     b)Rafael Nadal     c)Roger Federer   d)Novak Djokovic  e)none of these

14. Which Indian State became the first in the country to issue solar tariff order in January 2010?

a)Gujarat   b)Maharashtra    c)Punjab    d)Rajasthan   e)Andhra Pradesh

15. Which film has adjudged the best film in the 56^th National film awards?

a)Fashion     b)Jodha Akbar      c)Rock On    d)Antaheen   e)Kanchivaram

16. Recently India successfully test fired Astra Missile. Astra is a _________?

a)Surface-to-Surface    b)Surface-to-Air    c)Air-to Air   d)Air-to-Surface    e)None

17. Who is the new Disinvestment Secretary?

a)Sunil Mitra    b)P V Bhide    c)R S Pandey   d)Sunderasan    e)Sumit Bose

18. Who among the following is not a winner of 2009 Padma Vibhusan awards?

a)Ebrahim Alkazi     b)Y V Reddy    c)V Ramakrishnan    d)Prathap Chandra Reddy    e)B K Chaturvedhi

19. A/c to a UN report, _____ percent of world’s oral language will disappear within the next 100 years?

a)40     b)55     c)75      d)90    e)95

20. Which country recorded the highest number of polio cases in 2009?

a)India    b)China     c)Sudan    d)Kenya    e)South Africa

Quiz On General Awareness 2010 - 54

1.      Recently Central Government has approved the ____ percent of Reservation in Panchayats and _____percent of reservation in Parliament and State legislatures for women?

a)33%, 50%    b)50%, 50%     c)33%, 33%    d)50%, 33%    e)none of these

2.      A High level Meeting of Trade Ministers of World Trade Organization(WTO) in September 2009 held in ________?

a)Doha    b)Geneva     c)Delhi    d)Davos    e)Brussels

3.      RBI has decided to introduce polymer notes on trial basis of 1 billion pieces of RS. _____ denomination notes?

a)10    b)20     c)50     d)100   e)5

4.      The Union Cabinet approved for setting up of ________ new IIMs in different states in India, so that the total number of prestigious B-schools to 13?

a)3    b)5    c)7   d)9    e)none of these

5.      A/c to a report released by government committee in August 2009, _____ percent of India’s total population are poor?

a)41%     b)29%     c)51%    d)55%    e)38%

6.      A/c to a repot released by National Climate Data Centre in 2009, which of the following month is the hottest month for the world’s oceans in almost 130 years of record keeping?

a)April    b)May    c)June    d)July    e)August

7.      Which of the following organizations released the report “Towards Universal Access 2009”?

a) WHO   b)UNESCO    c)UN    d)UNICEF   e)ILO

8.      What is the target for the India & Russia bilateral trade by 2010?

a)$7 billion     b)$10 billion    c)$15 billion   d)$20 billion   e)none of these

9.      The Trilateral Russia India China (RIC) summit held in _________?

a)Delhi    b)Bangalore   c)Chennai    d)Mumbai   e)Hyderabad

10. A/c to survey, which has been topped the list with 54.4% of rural households belonging to backward category?

a)Uttar Pradesh    b)Bihar    c)Tamilnadu   d)Chhattisgarh   e)none of these

11. Which State contributes maximum foodgrains productions in India?

a)Maharashtra     b)Punjab    c)Haryana    d)Gujarat    e)Uttar Pradesh

12. Jens Stoltenberg re-elected the prime minister of _____________?

a)Norway    b)Sweden    c)Hungary   d)Finland   e)None of these

13. As per the World Investment Report released by UNCTAD, India has crossed the __________ milestone in FDI through equity since 2000 upto 2009(july)?

a)$50 billion     b)$100 billion    c)$150 billion    d)$200 billion   e)none

14. The 2006 Jnanpith Award was conferred to ___________?

a)Kunwar Narayan    b)Ravindra Kelkar    c)Satya Vrat Shastri   d)both b & c e)none

15. The 2009 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in October 2009 held in _________?

a)Russia    b)Egypt    c)Tajikistan    d)Kazakhstan   e)China

16. The 8^th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas was celebrated in _______?

a)Chennai    b)Mumbai    c)Bangalore    d)Delhi   e)none of these

17. Who won the 76^th National Billiards Championship?

a)Pankaj Advani    b)Geeth Sethi    c)Devendra Joshi    d)Dhruv Sitwala   e)None of these

18. India’s first Unmanned Air Vehicle(UAV) is __________?

a)Tejas     b)Rustom     b)Lakshya     d)Gagan    e)Nishant

19. CAPART is an autonomous organization under ministry of _____________?

a)Agriculture   b)Rural Development    c)Urban Development    d)Finance    e)Trade and Industry

20. Who received the Golden Pen of Freedom Award 2009?

a)Prannoy Roy    b)Barkha dutt    c)John Berger   d)Nijam Sethi   e)Karan Thapar

General Knowledge Quiz 2010 - 53

1. Palakkad is the country’s first fully electrified district in India. Palakkad is in which state?

a)Uttar Pradesh    b)Delhi    c)Tamilnadu    d)Kerala   e)Gujarat

2. Recently RBI approved the currency futures in ___________?

a)Euro    b)Pound    c)Yen    d)All the above    e)none

3. Which country unveiled the $81 billion stimulus package to prevent the country’s economy slipping back into recession?

a)UK    b)France    c)US    d)Germany    e)Japan

4.  Matti Vanhanen recently visited India. He was the Prime minister of _________?

a)Netherlands   b)Sweden   c)Hungary   d)Finland   e)Spain

5. Which Country has agreed to supply coal to Worlds largest consumer of Coal(China), of a record $60 billion deal for the next 20 years?

a)India   b)US   c)Australia   d)South Africa   e)Mongolia

6. Recently which domestic cricket team created a world record chase of 541runs in First class cricket?

a)South Zone   b)Rest of India  c)Central zone   d)North zone   e)West Zone

7. Which Year has been declared as the Warmest Year since 1901, by Indian Meteorological Department(IMD)?

a)2009   b)2008   c)2002   d)2000  e)none of these

8. Which Indian has been appointed as the member of U.S President Barack Obama’s committee on Arts and Humanities?

a)Jhumpa Lahiri    b)Arvind Adiga    c)Arundathi Roy   d)Kiran Desai   e)none of these

9.  J.D Salinger has recently passed away. He was a famous ________?

a)Journalist    b)Economist    c)Writer   d)Painter    e)none of these

10. Which Country has offered to help the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) to strengthen its quality control system?

a)US    b)European Union    c)Japan   d)Maldives   e)none

11. Paramananda Jha is the first vice president of which country?

a)India    b)Pakistan   c)Bhutan   d)Srilanka   e)Nepal

12. In which Country the first state funded Hindu school started its operations in Jan 2010?

a)US    b)UK    c)Bangladesh     d)South Africa    e)Pakistan

13. Who among the following visited the three nation tour of Zambia, Malawai and Botswana in January 2010?

a)Prathibha Patel    b)Manmohan Singh    c)S M Krishna    d)Hamid Ansari   e)P Chidambaram

14. Letika Saran has become the second woman to head a state police force in the country after Kanchan Chaudry Bhattacharya in Uttarakhand. She was the DGP of ___________?

a)Andhra Pradesh    b)Tamilnadu    c)Delhi    d)Madhya Pradesh    e)none of these

15. Who won the Ranji Trophy?

a)Karnataka    b)Tamilnadu    c)Mumbai    d)Hyderabad   e)Uttar Pradesh

16. Who won the Chennai Open Tennis Tournament?

a)Maric Cilic     b)Stansila Wawrinka   c)Marcel Granollers   d)Santigao Ventura  e)none

17. India’s first Aero Sports Centre was inaugurated in which state?

a)Karnataka    b)Bihar    c)Chattisgarh    d)delhi   e)Haryana

18. Which Organization decided to ban the sale of Enrichment and Reprocessing Technology(ENR) to countries that had not signed Non-proliferation Treaty(NPT)?

a)G-5    b)G-8    c)G-77    d)G-20   e)none of these

19. Who is the author of the book ‘A Passage to India’?

a)Bankin Chandra    b)Sarojini Naidu     c)E.M Foster    d)Abdul Fazal   e)Louis Fischer

20. Vineet Nayyar is associated with ______________?

a)Mahindra Satyam     b)RBI    c)RCom     d)TRAI   e)Infosys