1.Koodiyattam is a:

(a) traditional dance of Kerala
(b) special food prepared in Thailand
(c) city of Tamil Nadu
(d) dress prepared in Goa

2.Where is the National Institute of Virology
situated?

(a) Delhi
(b) Kolkata
(c) Chennai
(d) Pune

3.Which of the following is wrongly matched?

(a) Hirakud : Mahanadi
(b) Nagarjuna Sagar : Cauvery
(c) Bhakra Nangal : Sutlej
(d) Pochamped : Godavari

4.When was the Planning Commission set up in
India?

(a) 1949
(b) 1950
(c) 1951
(d) 1952

5.Galileo was born in:

(a) Pisa
(b) Bethlehem
(c) Jerusalem
(d) Rome

6.What is the name of the capital of Peru?

(a) Oslo
(b) Abuja
(c) Lima
(d) Kigali

7.Which is called ‘Pearl of Orient’?

(a) Zanzibar
(b) Rome
(c) Norway
(d) Sri Lanka

8.What was the old name of ‘Taiwan’?

(a) Saigon
(b) Formosa
(c) Taipei
(d) Chile

9.Who is the author of the book Speed Post?

(a) Mulak Raj Anand (b) Shobha De
(c) Arundhati Roy (d) Khuswant Singh

10.‘Yen’ is the name of the currency of:
(a) Japan
(b) Italy
(c) Netherlands (d) Indonesia

11.Which combination of cities and industries
they are associated with, is wrong?

(a) Buenos Aires—Dairy Product
(b) Detroit—Ship Building
(c) Havana—Cigars
(d) Johannesberg—Gold Mines

12.For international payments, the Indian
currency is linked to:

(a) American Dollar
(b) British Sterling
(c) International Oil Price
(d) Gold Standard

13.GNP (Gross National Product) is the money
value of:

(a) final goods and services produced annually with
economy.

(b) annual service generation in the economy.
(c) tangible goods available in the economy.
(d) tangible goods produced annually in the economy.

14.Match the following:

1. Fertiliser            A. Basic industries
2. Petroleum             B. Strategic industries
3. Automobile            C. Critical industries
4. Arms and Ammunition   D. Goods based industries

(a) A-4, B-2, C-3, D-1 (b) A-4, B-1, C-2, D-3
(c) A-1, B-4, C-2, D-3 (d) A-4, B-4, C-3, D-1

15.The main function of I.M.F. is to:

(a) finance investment loans to developing countries.
(b) act as a private sector lending arm of the World Bank.
(c) help to solve balance of payment problems of member countries.
(d) arrange international deposits from banks.

16.In which year was the new currency ‘Euro’
introduced?

(a) 1996 (b) 1997 (c) 1998 (d) 1999

17.Solar system was discovered by:

(a) Kepler
(b) Galileo
(c) Copernicus
(d) Eratosthenes

18.What is the name of the first woman space
tourist?

(a) Jullian Moore (b) Paula Radcliffe
(c) Namira Salim (d) Anousheh Ansari

19.What is the name of the writer of Indian origin
whose novel The Inheritance of Loss has bagged ‘Man
Booker Prize’?

(a) Vikram Seth (b) Arundhati Roy
(c) Salman Rushdie (d) Kiran Desai

20.Khagendra Thapamagur of Nepal is the world’s
smallest person. His height and weight respectively are:

(a) 20 inch and 4.5 kg
(b) 21 inch and 4.0 kg
(c) 22 inch and 4.0 kg
(d) 23 inch and 4.5 kg

21.In which year “Human Rights Resolution” was
adopted by the UN:

(a) 1945
(b) 1946
(c) 1947
(d) 1948

22.Cholera bacillus was discovered by:

(a) Joseph Lister (b) Louis Pasteur
(c) Robert Koch (d) Ronald Ross

23.Which one of the following was an important
port of the eastern coast during Gupta period?

(a) Kalyan
(b) Tamralipti
(c) Sopara
(d) Baroch

24.With which game Serena Williams is associated?

(a) Football
(b) Hockey
(c) Swimming
(d) Tennis

25.In which South American country does one find the Atacama desert?

(a) Chile
(b) Peru
(c) Colombia
(d) Brazil

26.The first aircraft to fly around the world with out refuelling was:

(a) Challenger
(b) Colombia
(c) Discoverer
(d) Voyager

27.Which of the following plays the most impor-
tant role in the distribution of revenue between Centre
and the States?

(a) Planning Commission
(b) Finance Commission
(c) Inter-State Council
(d) National Development Council

28.Haemorrhage is caused by the deficiency of
Vitamin:

(a) A
(b) D
(c) E
(d) K

29.Which of the following represents the name of
the first missile boat built in India?

(a) Chitra
(b) Vibhuti
(c) Chakra
(d) Maitri

30.International women’s Day is celebrated every
year on:

(a) January 26
(b) March 8
(c) August 26
(d) December 8

ANSWERS

1. (a) 2. (d) 3. (b) It is on Krishna river.
4. (b) 5. (a) 6. (c) 7. (d)
8. (b) 9. (b) 10. (a) 11. (b)
12. (a) 13. (a) 14. (c) 15. (c)
16. (d) 17. (b) 18. (d) 19. (d)
20. (a) 21. (b) 22. (c) 23. (b)
24. (d) 25. (a) 26. (d) 27. (b)
28. (d) 29. (b) 30. (b)