General Awareness

Questions asked in various  Exams

1.Which of the following is the Punjabi
code for the illegal immigrants who go abroad
in a group on a visitor’s visa or a ‘sticker visa’
(take visa) and then simply vanish?

(a) Shikar
(b) Kabootar
(c) Tota
(d) Human Cargo

2.Universal receivers can receive blood
from:

(a) Group AB only
(b) Group O only
(c) Groups O, A, B, AB
(d) Groups A, AB
3.
Which female astronaut spent the max-
imum time in space?

(a) Lisa Norwak
(b) Kalpana Chawla
(c) Sunita Williams
(d) None of these

4.13th Asian Archery Championship was
held in:

(a) Myanmar
(b) Singapore
(c) Taiwan
(d) Sri Lanka

5.Name the company having the punch-
line “Customer power wins again”.

(a) Apollo Tyres
(b) MRF Tyres
(c) Radlab Tyres
(d) JK Tyres

6.Name the country in which MTNL

(Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited) has
won licences for operating cellular mobile, WLL
and International Long Distance (ILD) services.

(a) Kenya
(b) Nepal
(c) Afghanistan
(d) Mauritius

7.Which one of the following lenses
should be used to correct the defect of astig-
matism?

(a) Cylindrical lens
(b) Concave lens
(c) Convex lens
(d) Bifocal lens

8.Why is December 18 observed as
Minorities Rights Day?

(a) On this date in 1947 our Constituent
Assembly adopted the Articles 25 and
29 regarding the protection of minori-
ties

(b) On this date in 1992 the United Nations
adopted a declaration regarding the
protection of rights of minorities

(c) On this date in 1892, Abdul Kalam
Azad was born

(d) On this date in 1950 India gave the
assurance in the UN General Assembly
that it would protect the existence of
the national or ethnic, cultural, reli-
gious and linguistic identity of minori-
ties and encourage conditions for the
promotion of their identity

9.Which of the following projects has
been launched by the Ministry of Science and
Technology to protect India’s traditional
knowledge?

(a) Traditional Knowledge Bank
(b) Pride in Past
(c) Glorious India
(d) Traditional Knowledge Digital Library

10.The least populated State in India is:

(a) Goa
(b) Sikkim
(c) Manipur
(d) Madhya Pradesh

11.Which of the following Indian firms
has signed an agreement to acquire Australia-
based Expert Information Services Pvt. Ltd.
(Expert)?

(a) Sify
(b) Infosys
(c) TCS
(d) Wipro

12.A test tube baby means:

(a) a baby grown in a test tube
(b) embryo fertilized in uterus and devel-
oped in test tube
(c) embryo fertilized and developed in
uterus
(d) fertilization in vitro and then trans-
plantation in the uterus

13.What is ‘Teletext’?

(a) Flashing of telephone conversation on
TV screen
(b) Printing the text of the message on the
telex machine
(c) Connecting the local telephones with
outstation telephones without STD
codes
(d) Flashing of the text of news and
information on the TV screen

14.The causative agent of Tuberculosis is:

(a) Mycobacterium
(b) Aspergillus
(c) Rhabdovirus
(d) HIV

15.In which of the following States is
India’s largest producer of poultry products,
Venkateshwara Hatcheries group, situated?

(a) Tamil Nadu
(b) Kerala
(c) Maharashtra
(d) Karnataka

16.Which of the following is correctly
matched?

Organisation   &  Headquarters

1. International Monetary Fund  i. Manila

2. Asian Development Bank    ii. Lyons (France)

3. INTERPOL          iii. Brussels

4. NATO             iv. Washington DC

(A) iv i ii iii
(B) i ii iii iv
(C) ii iii iv i
(D) iii iv i ii

17.Which among the following is a mar-
tial dance?

(a) Kathakali
(b) Bamboo dance in Meghalaya
(c) Chhau of Mayurbhanj
(d) Bhangra of Punjab

18.8th March is observed as:

(a) International Day for Elderly People
(b) International Children’s Day
(c) International Women’s Day
(d) International Human Rights Day

19.Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was equated
with:

(a) Mazzini
(b) Cavour
(c) Garibaldi
(d) Bismarck

20.Mica is fond in which one of the fol-
lowing pairs of rocks?

(a) Slate—Sandstone
(b) Schist—Gneiss
(c) Limestone—Sandstone
(d) Shale—Limestone

21.The Tenth Plan aimed to reduce the
poverty ratio by 2007 to:

(a) 10%
(b) 30%
(c) 20%
(d) 5%

22.Which of the following Hollywood art
directors, who won 11 Oscar awards, designed
the Oscar statuette in 1926?

(a) Peter Jackson
(b) Cedric Gibbons
(c) Sean Penn
(d) Tim Robbins

23.During the Non-Cooperation Move-
ment, which award did Gandhiji return?

(a) Right Honourable
(d) Rai Bahadur
(c) Hind Kesari
(d) Kaiser-e-Hind

24.Capital : Output Ratio of a commodity
measures:

(a) its per unit cost of production

(b) the amount of capital invested per unit
of output

(c) the ratio of capital depreciation to
quantity of output

(d) the ratio of working capital employed
to quantity of output

25.Bhagirathi, a collection of poems in
Sanskrit by renowned scholar Govind Chandra
Pande, has been chosen for the presti-
gious____for 2003:

(a) Shalaka Samman
(b) Vyas Samman
(c) Kalidas Samman
(d) Saraswati Samman

26.The International Court of Justice
holds its sessions at its headquarters in:

(a) Lake Success
(b) Amsterdam
(c) The Hague
(d) Paris

27.What percentage of solar radiation
directly reaches the earth?

(a) 47
(b) 27
(c) 20
(d) 15

28.What percentage of the earth’s surface
is covered under water?

(a) 51
(b) 60
(c) 71
(d) 75

29.The removal of soil at a rate faster
than its formation is:

(a) Soil erosion
(b) Accelerated erosion
(c) Lateral erosion
(d) None of the above

30.The length of the year is greatest on
the:

(a) Mercury
(b) Earth
(c) Jupiter
(d) Pluto

31.The largest producer of sugar in the
world is:

(a) Brazil
(b) Indonesia
(c) Mexico
(d) Cuba

32.Which of the following cities is situat-
ed on the banks of River Tiber?

(a) Tokyo
(b) Rome
(c) Peking
(d) Berlin

33.The State in India with the largest
coastline is:

(a) Tamil Nadu
(b) Kerala
(c) Andhra Pradesh
(d) Maharashtra

34.Which is the most irrigated State in
India?

(a) UP
(b) Punjab
(c) Haryana
(d) Bihar

35.Tin yielding State in India is:

(a) Rajasthan
(b) Punjab
(c) Himachal Pradesh
(d) Jharkhand

36.The Rihand Dam is constructed on
tributary of which river:

(a) Chambal
(b) Sone
(c) Murali
(d) Periyar

37.The weight of the cricket ball is
approximately:

(a) 3.6 oz
(b) 4.3 oz
(c) 5.5 oz
(d) 6.5 oz

38.‘Breast Stroke’ is a term associated
with:

(a) Swimming
(b) Boxing
(c) Football
(d) Kabaddi

39.National game of Canada is:

(a) Cricket
(b) Football
(c) Ice Hockey
(d) Tennis

40.Name the first Arabic writer to be
awarded Nobel Prize for Literature:

(a) Salman Rushdie
(b) Gen Gaddafi
(c) Yasser Arafat
(d) Naguib Mah Fouz

41.Who among the following was the first
recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
award?

(a) Dhanraj Pillai
(b) Homi Matiwala
(c) Vishwanathan Anand
(d) Bahadur Prasad

42.The ‘Servants of India Society’ was
founded by:

(a) Annie Beasant
(b) Gopalakrishna Gokhale
(c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(d) Dadabhai Naoroji

43.Who defined democracy as a “Govern-
ment of the people, by the people and for the
people?”

(a) Ruskin
(b) Abraham Lincoln
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) Aristotle

44.The earliest of the holy books of the
Hindus is the:

(a) Gita
(b) Ramayana
(c) Mahabharata
(d) Vedas

45.Ashoka sent his son and daughter for
preaching of Buddhism to:

(a) Sumatra
(b) Cambodia
(c) Javadvipa
(d) Ceylon

46.The capital of Kanishka was:

(a) Taxila
(b) Multan
(c) Gandhara
(d) Purushapura

47.The famous financial advisor to Akbar
was:

(a) Todar Mall
(b) Abul Fazl
(c) Raja of Jodhpur
(d) Bairam Khan

48.Who among the following was the first
of a series of hereditary Peshwas hailing from
the Bhatt family?

(a) Balaji Biswanath
(b) Baji Rao
(c) Balaji Baji Rao
(d) Sambhaji

49.Indian Air Force was established in
the year:

(a) 1932
(b) 1947
(c) 1857
(d) 1950

50.In which year Planning Commission
was set up?

(a) 1956
(b) 1950
(c) 1940
(d) 1947

ANSWERS
1. (b) 2. (c) 3. (c) 4. (a)
5. (d) 6. (d) 7. (a) 8. (d)
9. (d) 10. (b) 11. (b) 12. (d)
13. (d) 14. (a) 15. (c) 16. (a)
17. (c) 18. (c) 19. (d) 20. (b)
21. (d) 22. (b) 23. (d) 24. (b)
25. (d) 26. (c) 27. (a) 28. (c)
29. (a) 30. (d) 31. (a) 32. (b)
33. (a) 34. (c) 35. (d) 36. (b)
37. (c) 38. (a) 39. (c) 40. (d)
41. (c) 42. (b) 43. (b) 44. (d)
45. (d) 46. (d) 47. (a) 48. (a)
49. (a) 50. (b)

Previous Questions From Global Business Operation Entrance Exam.

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)

General Awareness
Questions asked in GIC/LIC/OIC AAO Exam, held in May 2007

1.The first metal to be used by man was:

(a) aluminium
(b) copper
(c) iron
(d) silver

2.The present base year for calculating wholesale
price index number is:

(a) 1993-94
(b) 1991-92
(c) 1961-62
(d) 1950-51

3.For respiration in deep sea, divers use mixture
of:

(a) Oxygen and helium
(b) Oxygen and hydrogen
(c) Oxygen and carbon dioxide
(d) Oxygen and nitrogen

4.Who committed the most daring murder of Sir
Curzen Wyllie in 1907 in a public meeting in London?

(a) B.N. Dutta
(b) M.L. Dhingra
(c) Sardar Ajit Singh
(d) S.C. Chatterjee

5.The Supreme Court consists of a Chief Justice
and:

(a) 12 Judges
(b) 15 Judges
(c) 20 Judges
(d 25 Judges

6.The International Day for Elimination of Racial
Discrimination is observed on:

(a) 20th February (b) 21st February
(c) 20th March
(d) 21st March

7.‘New Horizons’ spacecraft was launched by
NASA to study which of the following planet?

(a) Mars
(b) Pluto
(c) Jupiter
(d) Mercury

8.Which of the following statements are true about
‘2011 Cricket World Cup’?

A. India will host the 2011 World Cup Final.
B. The two semi-final of the mega event will be held
in Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
C. The opening ceremony will be held in
Bangladesh.

D. UAE will host the matches which will be played
between India and Pakistan.
(a) only A, B and C
(b) only B, C and D
(c) only A, C and D
(d) only A and D

9.Which of the following trophies is related with
the game of ‘Football’?

(a) Mumbai Gold Cup
(b) Everest Cup
(c) Merdeka Cup
(d) V.C.C. Cup

10.On which date is Life Insurance Corporation of
India completed its 50 years?

(a) 5th July
(b) 3rd August
(c) 1st September
(d) 15th September

11.The minimum temperature at which a com-
bustible substance catches fire is called:

(a) fireless temperature
(b) ignition temperature
(c) static temperature
(d) optimum temperature

12.The temple of Konark was built by Narasimha
of the:

(a) Maratha Dynasty
(b) Chola Dynasty
(c) Ganga Dynasty
(d) Vijaynagar Empire

13.Rigveda Samhita denotes one-fourth of its
hymns to:

(a) Rudra
(b) Marut
(c) Agni
(d) Indra

14.Ahalyabai, the saintly queen of Maheshwar
(Central India) belonged to which dynasty?

(a) Scindhya dynasty
(b) Peshwa dynasty
(c) Holkar dynasty
(d) Rajput dynasty

15.Which one of the following is not a constitu-
tional body?

(a) Election Commission
(b) Union Public Service Commission
(c) Planning Commission
(d) Finance Commission

16.‘Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)‘ has
not yet been signed by:

(a) India
(b) China
(c) Canada
(d) United Kingdom

17.Jadugoda mines are famous for:

(a) iron ore
(b) mica deposits
(c) gold deposits
(d) uranium deposits

18.What is the Value Added Tax (VAT)?

(a) A single tax that replaces State Taxes like
surcharge, turnover tax, etc.
(b) A simple, transparent, easy to pay tax imposed
on consumers.
(c) A new initiative taken by the government to
increase the tax burden of high income groups.
(d) A new tax to be imposed on the producers of
capital goods.

19.What is the name of the World’s smallest
republic which has an area of 21 sq.km.?

(a) Vatican City (b) Palermo
(c) Namur
(d) Nauru

20.On Jan 10, 2007 India crossed another mile-
stone with the successful launch of PSLV-C7 which
injected into orbit for the first time four satellites, Car-
tosat-2, SRE-1, Lapan-Tubsat and Pehuensat-1. Which
one of them is an earth observation satellite?

(a) Cartosat-2
(b) SRE-1
(c) Lapan-Tubsat
(d) Pehuensat-1

21.Which bank has launched India’s first loan
disbursement card recently?
(a) SBI
(b) UTI
(c) IDBI
(d) ICICI

22.Who has been named “Businessman of the Year
for 2006” by Forbes Asia?

(a) Nandan Nilekani
(b) Mukesh Ambani
(c) Vijay Mallya
(d) Azim Premji

23.Who is the 37th Chief Justice of India?

(a) Ram Jethmalani (d) Y.K. Sabharwal
(c) Bijibhai Patnaik (d) K.G. Balkrishnan

24.‘Diet’ is a joint session of the Parliament of
which nation?
(a) China
(b) Japan
(c) Vietnam
(d) Germany

25.Who is the author of the book, Amitabh—The
Making of a Superstar?

(a) Tushar Raheja
(b) Vijay Singhvi
(c) Susmita Das Gupta
(d) Raj Kamal Jha

26.Ban-ki-Moon who took oath on 14th December
as U.N. Secretary General belonged to:

(a) South Africa
(b) South Korea
(c) Zimbabwe
(d) Yugoslavia

27.The first woman in the world to successfully do
a free fall para-jump over the South Pole from a height
of 12,000 feet in a minus 33 degree Celsius tempera-
ture, is:

(a) Sheetal Mahajan (b) Manisha Lamba
(c) Kangna Ranaut (d) Neha Ahuja

28.Paris is situated on the river:

(a) Danube
(b) Seine
(c) Tiber
(d) Avon

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