Famous Personalities

1.Who is the father of Geometry?

Aristotle Euclid Pythagoras Kepler

2.What is common between Kutty, Shankar, Laxman and Sudhir Dar?

Film Direction Drawing Cartoons Instrumental Music Classical Dance

3.Who was known as Iron man of India?

Govind Ballabh Pant Jawaharlal Nehru Subhash Chandra Bose Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

4.The Indian to beat the computers in mathematical wizardry is

Ramanujam Rina Panigrahi Raja Ramanna Shakunthala Devi

5.Jude Felix is a famous Indian player in which of the fields?

Volleyball Tennis Football Hockey

Indian History

1.The Battle of Plassey was fought in

1757 1782 1748 1764

2.The territory of Porus who offered strong resistance to Alexander was situated between the rivers of

Sutlej and Beas Jhelum and Chenab Ravi and Chenab Ganga and Yamuna

3.Under Akbar, the Mir Bakshi was required to look after

military affairs the state treasury the royal household the land revenue system

4.Tripitakas are sacred books of

Buddhists Hindus Jains None of the above

5.The trident-shaped symbol of Buddhism does not represent

Nirvana Sangha Buddha Dhamma

World Organisations

1.Which of the following is not associated with the UNO?

ILO WHO ASEAN All of the above

2.The chairmanship/presidency of the UN Security Council rotates among the Council Members

every 6 months every 3 months every year every month

3.Which of the following is not a chief organ of the United Nations Organisations?

International Labour Organisation Security Council International Court of Justice General Assembly

4.Permanent Secretariat to coordinate the implementation of SAARC programme is located at

Dhaka New Delhi Colombo Kathmandu

5.The Indian delegation to the first World Conference on Human Rights was led by

Dr. Manmohan Singh Farooq Abdullah Dinesh singh Alam Khan

Indian Culture

1.The ratio of width of our National flag to its length is

3:5 2:3 2:4 3:4

2.Rabindranath Tagore's 'Jana Gana Mana' has been adopted as India's National Anthem. How many stanzas of the said song were adopted?

Only the first stanza The whole song Third and Fourth stanza First and Second stanza

3.'Natya - Shastra' the main source of India's classical dances was written by

Nara Muni Bharat Muni Abhinav Gupt Tandu Muni

4.'Dandia' is aPopular dance of

Punjab Gujarat Tamil Nadu Maharashtra

5.The words 'Satyameva Jayate' inscribed below the base plate of the emblem of India are taken from

Rigveda Satpath Brahmana Mundak Upanishad Ramayana

Technology - GK

1.What frequency range is the High Frequency band?

100 kHz 1 GHz 30 to 300 MHz 3 to 30 MHz

2.The first step to getting output from a laser is to excite an active medium. What is this process called?

Pumping Exciting Priming Raising

3.Which motor is NOT suitable for use as a DC machine?

Permanent magnet motor Series motor Squirrel cage motor Synchronous motor

4.After the first photons of light are produced, which process is responsible for amplification of the light?

Blackbody radiation Stimulated emission Planck's radiation Einstein oscillation

5.Which is NOT an acceptable method of distributing small power outlets throughout an open plan office area?

Power Poles Power Skirting Flush Floor Ducting Extension Cords