Famous Personalities

1.Who is known as 'Desert Fox'?

Bismarck

Eisenhower 

Gen. Rommel

Walter Scott

2.The title of 'sparrow' given to

Napoleon

Major General Rajinder Singh 

T. T. Krishnamachari

Sardar Patel

3.Ms Kim Campbell is the first woman Prime Minister of

Portugal 

Canada 

Switzerland 

Congo

4.The first Indian to swim across English channel was

V. Merchant 

P. K. Banerji 

Mihir Sen

Arati Saha

5.Dr. Joon Lew of korea, the recipient of international Gandhi Award is known for his service in the?

Eradication of leprosy

Campaigning against AIDS 

Against Drugs 

Against child labour

Indian Economy

1.Resurgent India Bonds were issued in US dollar, Pound Sterling and

Japanese Yen Deutsche Mark Euro French Franc

2.Which of the following is not an undertaking under the administrative control of Ministry of Railways?

Container Corporation of India Limited Konkan Railway Corporation Limited Indian Railways Construction Company Limited Diesel Locomotive Works, Varanasi

3. Redistribution polices geared to reduce economic inequalities include

progressive tax policies land reforms rural development policies All the above

4.In India, which one among the following formulates the fiscal policy?

Planning Commission Ministry of Finance Finance Commission The Reserve Bank of India

5.The budget deficit means

the excess of total expenditure, including loans, net of lending over revenue receipts difference between revenue receipts and revenue expenditure difference between all receipts and all the expenditure fiscal deficit less interest payments

Physics

1.Supersonic plane fly with the speed

less than the speed of sound of sound greater than the speed of sound of light

2.Mach number is used in connection with the speed of

sound aircraft spacecraft ships

3.On a stationary sail boat, air is blown from a fan attached to the boat. The boat

moves in opposite direction in which the air is blown does not move moves in the same direction in which air blows spins around

4.Rainbow is due to

absorption of sunlight in minute water droplets diffusion of sunlight through water droplets ionisation of water deposits refraction and reflection of sunlight by water droplets

5.Stars which appear single to the naked eye but are double when seen through a telescope are

novas and supernovas binaries asteroids quasars

Famous Personalities

1.Who is the Flying Sikh of India?

Mohinder Singh Joginder Singh Ajit Pal Singh Milkha singh

2.Ben kingsley is associated with which of the following fields?

Politics Social Service Sports Motion Pictures

3.Who headed the committee on 'computerisation' in Indian Banks(1988)?

C. Rangarajan R.N. Malhotra S. Venkitramanan M.Narasimhan

4.Who is the famous Sarod player?

Hari Prasad Zakir Hussain Ram Narain Amjad Ali Khan

5.Sanjay Dutt, a noted film actor was held under

TADA Narcotics Act Act 302 Anti - Defection Act

Indian History

1.Visakhadatta sketches the event after the death of Samudragupta in his work

Mudrarakasam Devi Chand Guptam Mrichekakatika Malavikagnimitra

2.The Vedas contain all the truth was interpreted by

Swami Vivekananda Swami Dayananda Raja Rammohan Roy None of the above

3.To evolve a peaceful settlement of the conflict between India and China, which of the following non-aligned Afro-Asian nations participated in a conference held in December 1962?

Burma (now Myanmar), Combodia, Indonesia and UAR Burma, Sri Lanka, Combodia and Indonesia Burma, Indonesia, Ghana and Sri Lanka All of the above

4.The text of the document called Mahzar, by which Akbar assumed the role of supreme arbiter in the matters of religion is found in

Nizamuddin's Tabaqat-I-Akbari Arif Quandahari's Tarikh-I-Alfi Abul Fazl's Akbarnama Badauni's Muntakahab-ut-Tawarikh

5.To meet the educational needs of the people, the Madarasa-I Nasiri was built in the region of

Qutub-ud-din Aibak Iltutmish Ruknuddin Firoz Shah Jalal-id-din Khilji

World Organisations

1.The international township built near Pondicherry in India in coloration with UNESCO is called

Elbaville Auroville Gayaville Broadway

2. The non-permanent members of the Security Council of the UN elected by the General Assembly for two years term at present include (2-year term which begins on the January 1, 2011)

Japan, India, Hungary, Venezuela Morocco, Cape, Verde, Belgium, Russia Zimbabwe, Venezuela, India, France Colombia, Germany, India, Portugal, South Africa

3.Which of the following countries is not a member of G-15?

Jamaica Indonesia Colombia Peru

4.The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (ESCAP) is located at

Manila Singapore Kuala lumpur Bangkok

5.The International Court of Justice is located at

Geneva Hague Amsterdam Vienna

Indian Culture

1.Thillana is a format of

Kuchipudi Odissi Baharatanatyam Kathak

2.'Madhubani', a style of folk paintings, is popular in which of the following states in India?

Uttar Pradesh Rajasthan Madhya Pradesh Bihar

3.Kathak is a classical dance of

North India Tamilnadu Manipur Kerala

4.The dance encouraged and performance from the temple of Tanjore was

Kathakali Odissi Kathak Bharatanatyam

5.Which of the following places is famous for Chikankari work, which is a traditional art of embroidery?

Lucknow Hyderabad Jaipur Mysore

Technology

1.Sometimes computers and cache registers in a foodmart are connected to a UPS system. What does UPS mean?

United Parcel Service Uniform Product Support Under Paneling Storage Uninterruptable Power Supply

2. The electromagnetic coils on the neck of the picture tube or tubes which pull the electron beam from side to side and up and down are called a...?

Transformer Yoke Capacitor Diode

3.The transformer that develops the high voltage in a home television is commonly called a...?

Tesla coil Flyback Yoke Van de Graaf

4.What do we call a collection of two or more computers that are located within a limited distance of each other and that are connected to each other directly or indirectly?

Inernet Interanet Local Area Network Wide Area Network

5.What was the first ARPANET message?

"lo" "hello world" "mary had a little lamb" "cyberspace, the final frontier"

Indian Geography

1.Which of the following groups of rivers originate from the Himachal mountains?

Beas, Ravi and Chenab Ravi, Chenab and Jhelum Sutlej, Beas and Ravi Sutlej, Ravi and Jhelum

2.Which of the following groups of states has the largest deposits of iron ore?

Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka Bihar and Orissa Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra West Bengal and Assam

3.Which of the following union territories of India has the highest density of population per sq km?

Pondicherry Lakshadweep Delhi Chandigarh

4.which atomic power station in India is built completely indigenously?

Kalpakkam Narora Rawat Bhata Tarapore

5.The south-west monsoon contributes ____ of the total rain in India.

86% 50% 22% 100%