Basic General Knowledge Quiz 1 (60 MCQs)

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1. Typhoid is a disease of
2. Paleontology is a branch of science that deals with the
3. ..... is known as the 'Rice Bowl of India" ?
4. Plorence(Chadwick) is the associated place for which of the following sport?
5. Which of the following metals was not known to Indus Valley people?
6. The credit of developing the polio vaccine goes to
7. The trophy know by the name of Grand Prix is associated with
8. Free surface of a liquid behaves like a sheet and tends to contract to the smallest possible area due to the
9. Modern Indo-Aryan languages are based on an ancient language called
10. K.S. Ranjit Singhji was
11. The proposed date of implementing GST is
12. Which is the place of worship for Judoists?
13. The air we inhale is mixture of gases. Which of the following gases in the mixture is highest in percentage?
14. The branch of science that studies cells is called
15. What is the theme of the 2016 Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM)?
16. The 2005 Australian Open Tennis Championship titles for men's and women's singles were won, respectively by
17. Radio Carbon Dating is use to estimate the age of
18. What is Operation Flood?
19. NREGA was renamed 'MNREGA' on
20. The first field Marshal of India was
21. The last or 13th NAM (Non-aligned Movement) conference was held on
22. Dr. Urjit Patel has been appointed the new Governor of RBI. He is ------------ Govornor of RBI.
23. Pakistan left the Commonwealth in 1972, but rejoined as 49th member of the Commonwealth in
24. Which of the following is not a feature of Indian Foreign Policy?
25. When did Ashoka became emperor of India?
26. Hockey was introduced in the Asian Games in
27. The rapidly growing mass of phytoplankton covering the surface water of a lake or pound is known as
28. When was Zoroaster, the founder of Zoroastrianism born in Media(Iran)?
29. When was Prophet Mohamed, the founder of Islam, born?
30. Of the blood groups A, B, AB and O, which one is transfused into a person whose blood group is A?
31. The significance of the lotus symbol is
32. The largest ocean in the world is
33. Guwahati High Court is the judicature of
34. Where Christmas festival is celebrated in summer?
35. The first Indian and Asian to receive the Noble Prize in Physics was
36. The National Game of India is
37. G-15 is an economic grouping of
38. What is the normal red blood count per cubic mm?
39. The country's first indigenously built missile boat was
40. The drug produced through bio-technology for cancer treatment is
41. Richter scale is used for measuring
42. UNESCO (United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) was established in
43. For seeing objects at the surface of water from a submarine under water, the instrument used is
44. Each year World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day is celebrated on
45. Eritrea, which became the 182nd member of the UN in 1993, is in the continent of
46. The credit of inventing the television goes to
47. Which of the following does not contain a coinage metal?
48. Major Somnath Sharma who was honoured with Paramveer Chakra posthumously in 1947 belonged to
49. The total number of Judges of the International Court of Justice is
50. Under article 61 of the UN Charter, the membership of the Economic and Social Council was which of the following years from 27 to 54?
51. The Indian Air Force celebrated its Golden Jubilee in
52. The Zika virus is spread by
53. Panipat is modern name
54. Which country's Parliament became first in the world to run fully on solar energy?
55. In which of the following states in English the Official Language?
56. Which of the following is the lightest metal?
57. The largest airport in the world is
58. Which of the following wild life sanctuaries is in Assam?
59. Which gas is used for the preparation of Soda water
60. First University in India was founded at