Days and Years

1.The United Nations declared 1993 as a year of the

disabled 

forests 

girl child

indigenous people

2.Which day is observed as World Food Day?

September 10 

August 16 

November 4

October 16

3.The year 1985 was declared as the International Year of

Blind

Youth

Children

GandhiWomen

4.'Rosh Hashanah' is the new year's day of which communities?

Jews

Muslims 

Hindus

Shinto

5.World Literacy Day is observed on

Sep 5 

Aug 6 

Sep 8 

Oct 24

Sports

1.Sourav Ganguly made his Test debut in 1996.How many runs did he score in the 1st innings of that match?
132 131 32 99

2.Who was the first Indian batsman to hit a century on Test debut against England at England's home?
Sachin Tendulkar 
Abbas Ali Baig 
Kapil Dev 
Wassim Jaffer

3.Which of the following countries won the final of the triangular cricket series held in durban in februarry 1997 ?
India
New zealand 
South africa
Zimbabwe

4.Navjot Singh Sidhu had a marvellous start to his ODI cricketing career.How many sixes did he hit in his innings of 73 runs on debut?
3 6 5 10

5.Anil Kumble became the first Indian bowler to reach 500 Test wickets in 2006. How did he get his 500th wicket?
Run out Bowled LBW Catch out

Famous Places in India

1.National Archives is located at?

Calcutta Dehradun Bombay New Delhi

2.Sun Temple is situated at?

Konark Bangalore Haridwar Kerala

3.Under Mother Teresa's guidance, the Missionaries of Charit built near Asansol, a lep er colony is called

Peace City Sahara Shanti Nagar SOS

4.'Tin Bhiga' lease by India to Bangladesh, was a part of

West Bengal Assam Meghalaya Tripura

5.The National Institute of Community Development is located at

Chennai Pant Nagar Hyderabad Bangalore

World Organisations

1.Which of the following is Human Rights Organisation?

The French community The Organisation of African Unity The Arab League Amnesty International

2.The headquarters of International Atomic Energy Agency is located in

Vienna London Geneva Washington

3.The head quarters of the International Red Cross is situated in

Vienna Paris Hague Geneva

4.Which was the first country to withdraw from CENTO?

Iraq Afghanistan Turkey U.K.

5. Amnesty International has its headquarters at

Berlin New York Washington London

Biology

1. Monotremes are unique mammals because they

posses hair 

give birth to live young 

secret milk in a pouch 

lay eggs

2.Poison glands of snakes are homologous to

electric organs of fishes 

stings of rays

sebaceous glands of mammals

salivary glands of vertebrates

3.Radical vascular bundles are those in which

xylem is surrounded by phloem 

phloem is surrounded by xylem

xylem and phloem occur on the same radius 

xylem and phloem occur on the different radii

4.Organic Substances which, in very small amounts, control growth and development called

vitamins

hormones 

enzymes 

None of the above

5.Rain water helps to increase the ____ to some extent.

phosphorous contents 

nitrogen contents 

calcium contents

potash contents

Inventions

1.For over 500 years, paper was only available and sold as single sheets. In 1902, an inventive Australian used half size sheets of paper, a bit of glue and cardboard to create the what?

Notepad 

Calendar 

Notice Board 

Telephone Book

2.Who developed the idea of Crop Rotation?

Potato Peterson 

Turnip Townsend 

Cabbage Carlson 

Swede Svenson

3.CORN FLAKES - Who made them first?

Nabisco 

Kellogg 

Quaker 

Archers

4. William Frederick is credited with the invention of the modern frisbee in the mid 1950's. In 1957 the Wham-O Company bought his idea and the rest is history. They named the toy after William Frisbie who was a ________?

Pie maker

Owner of a pizza parlor

Student at Yale

Ceramic plate designer

5.Who came up with the idea for INSTANT MASHED POTATO?

S. Tuberosum 

W. Raleigh

E. Asselbergs

K. Edwards

Technology - GK

1.The NTSC (National Television Standards Committee) is also used in the country of...?

Japan France Germany England

2.What are three types of lasers?

Gas, metal vapor, rock Pointer, diode, CD Diode, inverted, pointer Gas, solid state, diode

3. 'DTP' computer abbreviation usually means ?

Digital Transmission Protocol DeskTop Publishing Data Type Programming Document Type Processing

4.Where is the headquarters of Intel located?

Redmond, Washington Tucson, Arizona Santa Clara, California Richmond, Virginia

5.The input used by an antenna or cable to a TV set uses frequencies called...?

IF RF AF SAP

Indian Geography

1.The Shimla Convention is an agreement that sets

Shimla as a tourist spot Shimla as the capital of Himachal Pradesh boundary between India and Tibet None of the above

2.Which of the following events took place in the Cenozoic era?

Formation of the rockies, India collides with Asia and the formation of the Himalayas and the Alps Formation of the Appalachians and central European mountains Splitting of India from Antarctic Breaking up of Pangaea

3.The oldest oil field in India is the ____ field, in ____

Anleshwar, Gujarat Bombay High, Maharashtra Nawagam, Gujarat Digboi, Assam

4. Unlike other parts of the Indian Coast, fishing industry has not developed along the Saurashtra coast because

there are few indentions suitable for fishing of overwhelming dependence on agriculture and animal husbandary the sea water is relatively more saline of industrial development leading to widespread pollution of coastal area

5.The mountain building in Himalayas began

about 45 million years ago when the continental plates of India and Eurasia converged on each other both (a) and (b) None of the above

Books and Authors

1. The author of controversial book 'Lajja' is a citizen of

Pakistan 
Indonesia 
Bangladesh
India

2.The book named 'Three Decades in Parliament' is a collection of the speeches of

A. B. Vajpayee 
Somnath Chatterjee
L. K. Advani 
N. G. Ranga

3.Who said 'Man is a political animal'?

Dante
Aristotle 
Socrates 
Plato

4.'The General Happiness is the end of the state' who said this?

Hegel 
Benthem 
Plato
Green

5.Who is the author of famous book 'The Judgement'?

Anthony Mascarenhasa
R. Vankataraman
Kuldip Nayar
Janardhan Turkur