Q.1 The sound produced by a bat is -
(a) Ultrasonic
(b) Infrasonic
(c) Audible
(d) Subsonic
Q.2 When a bar magnet is cut into two equal halves, the pole strength of each piece -
(a) Becomes zero
(b) Remains the same
(c) Becomes Half
(d) Becomes Double
Q.3 One can distinguish a telescope from a microscope by observing -
(a) Colour
(b) Length and size of the lens
(c) Size of the lens
(d) Length
Q.4 One can distinguish a telescope from a microscope by observing -
(a) Colour
(b) Length and size of the lens
(c) Size of the lens
(d) Length
Q.5 The smallest flowering plant is -
(a) Azolla
(b) Ficus
(c) Wolffia
(d) Lemma
Q.6 A balloon filled with helium rises in air because–
(a) Helium pushes down on the air below the balloon
(b) The balloon is weightless
(c) Air exerts an upward force on the balloon
(d) Helium is less dense than air
Q.7 A large number of identical plants can be obtained in a short span of time through -
(a) Tissue culture technique
(b) hydroponics method
(c) Stem cuttings
(d) Large number of seeds of a single plant
Q.8 The approximate circumference of the Earth is -
(a) 20,000 km
(b) 13,000 km
(c) 30,000 km
(d) 25,000 km
Q.9 When did India Join the International Tsunami Warning System?
(a) 2005
(b) 2007
(c) 2006
(d) 2004
Q.10 ’Cod’ is a variety of -
(a) Amphibia
(b) Crop
(c) Coral
(d) Fish
Q.11 Which country was first to give the”right to vote”to women in elections?
a) India
b) Australia
c) New Zealand
d) Norway
Q.12 What is the unit of measurement for the length used in astronomy?
a) Tesla
b) Parsec
c) Ampere
d) Decibel
Q.13 Who said “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
a) Mahatma Gandhi
b) Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Lal Bahadur Shastri
d) Sarojini Naidu
Q.14 On 1 October 2012, HelpAge and UNFPA launched the landmark report, Ageing in the Twenty-First Century: A Celebration and a Challenge. According to the report, what will be the per cent of elderly people in the total population of India by 2050?
(A) 15 per cent
(B) 18 per cent
(C) 20 per cent
(D) 23 per cent
Q.15 On 2nd October 2012, a new edition of book written by Mahatma Gandhi is published with a new title by Oxford University Press. Name the book.
a) My Experiments with Truth
b) My Early Life: An Illustrated Story
c) Hind Swaraj
d) Discovery of India
Q.16 ____________ is celebrated as National Voluntary Blood Donation Day which is celebrated allover the country to create awareness of safe blood, which is possible only by regular voluntary blood donation.
a) October 1
b) September 1
c) June 14
d) July 14
Q.17 The prisoner was ___ to answering any of my questions.
(a) Inverse
(b) Adverse
(c) Reverse
(d) Averse
Q.18 All the employees of the firm are ___ to a fortnight’s holidays.
(a) Allowed
(b) Entitled
(c) Required
(d) Able
Q.19 The government is confident that the standard of living will begin to ___ again soon.
(a) Revive
(b) Lift
(c) Flourish
(d) Rise
Q.20 He married many times, yet happiness __ him and her remained miserable as before.
(a) Eluded
(b) Disappointed
(c) Escaped
(d) Absconded
Q.21 Where is Fort William located?
a) Goa
b) Kolkata
c) Chandigarh
d) Delhi
Q.22 Brihadeeswara temple is located in ?
a) Jammu & Kashmir
b) Kerala
c) Uttar Pradesh
d) Tamil Nadu
Q.23 India’s satellite launch-pad is located at
(a) Thumba
(b) Shri Hari Kota
(c) Ahmedabad
(d) Dehradun
Q.24 Which company launched its self-branded mobile phone in the Indian market known as the Facebook phone in September 2011?
a) HTC
b) Vodafone India
c) Nokia
d) Bharti Airtel
Q.25 ‘What Young India Wants’ is a book written by—
(A) Jasvinder Sanghera
(B) Chetan Bhagat
(C) Kermit Roosevelt
(D) Shazia Aziz
Q.26 Which of the folk / tribal dances is associated with the state of Karnataka?
a) Jatra
b) Yakshagana
c) Veedhi
d) Jhora
Q.27 _______________ has been appointed as the new Chief Justice of India on 13 September 2012.
a) V. N. Khare
b) Bhupinder Nath Kirpal
c) Altamas Kabir
d) Ranganath Misra
Q.28 Who was elected as the President of Indian Boxing Federation on 23 September 2012?
a) Abhishek Matoria
b) Abhay Singh Chautala
c) P.K. Muralidharan Raja
d) Dr C K Jerath
Q.29 Fear of heights is _____________ .
a) Aerophobia
b) Algophobia
c) Acrophobia
d) Angrophobia
Q.30 National Girl Child Day is celebrated on _________________every year.
a) 14 August
b) 24 January
c) 14 February
d) 13 September
Q.31 What does JPEG (a computer abbreviation) means?
a) Japanese Picture Embedded Graphic
b) Joint Protocol for Exchanging Graphics
c) Japanese Pixel Enhanced Graphic
d) Joint Photographic Experts Group
Q.32 With which musical instrument is Pt. Ravi Shankar associated?
a) Sarod
b) Sitar
c) Santoor
d) Tabla
Q.33 When is World Teacher’s Day celebrated?
a) 5th April
b) 5th August
c) 5th October
d) 5th September
Q.34 Internet company Yahoo Inc. launched its mobile browser on 23rd May. What is the name of the browser?
a) Axis
b) Chrome
c) Thunderhawk
d) Bing
Q.34 Expand the term MGNREGA.
a) Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
b) Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Generation Agency
c) Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Generation Act
d) None of these
Q.35 Which of the following Indian actors had previous name “Yusuf Khan”?
a) Naseeruddin Shah
b) Raaj Kumar
c) Dilip Kumar
d) Dev Anand
Q.36 In which among the following countries is Mojave desert located?
a) USA
b) Russia
c) Australia
d) Mexico
Q.37 GPRS is the abbreviated form of:
a) Globally Positioned Radio System
b) Globally Positioned Radio Service
c) General Packet Remote Synchronization
d) General Packet Radio Service
Q.38 Which company has launched, on 31st August 2012, its second- generation Series 9 notebook in India? The company claims that the device, which has a 13-inch screen, is the world’s thinnest and most compact notebook chassis.
a) Lenovo
b) Dell
c) Samsung
d) Apple
Q.39 Which of the following days is observed as “The International Day of Non-Violence”?
a) October 24
b) October 2
c) October 30
d) October 31
Q.40 Tiangong-1 is the world’s first space lab built by
a) Japan
b) China
c) North Korea
d) South Korea
(a) Ultrasonic
(b) Infrasonic
(c) Audible
(d) Subsonic
Q.2 When a bar magnet is cut into two equal halves, the pole strength of each piece -
(a) Becomes zero
(b) Remains the same
(c) Becomes Half
(d) Becomes Double
Q.3 One can distinguish a telescope from a microscope by observing -
(a) Colour
(b) Length and size of the lens
(c) Size of the lens
(d) Length
Q.4 One can distinguish a telescope from a microscope by observing -
(a) Colour
(b) Length and size of the lens
(c) Size of the lens
(d) Length
Q.5 The smallest flowering plant is -
(a) Azolla
(b) Ficus
(c) Wolffia
(d) Lemma
Q.6 A balloon filled with helium rises in air because–
(a) Helium pushes down on the air below the balloon
(b) The balloon is weightless
(c) Air exerts an upward force on the balloon
(d) Helium is less dense than air
Q.7 A large number of identical plants can be obtained in a short span of time through -
(a) Tissue culture technique
(b) hydroponics method
(c) Stem cuttings
(d) Large number of seeds of a single plant
Q.8 The approximate circumference of the Earth is -
(a) 20,000 km
(b) 13,000 km
(c) 30,000 km
(d) 25,000 km
Q.9 When did India Join the International Tsunami Warning System?
(a) 2005
(b) 2007
(c) 2006
(d) 2004
Q.10 ’Cod’ is a variety of -
(a) Amphibia
(b) Crop
(c) Coral
(d) Fish
Q.11 Which country was first to give the”right to vote”to women in elections?
a) India
b) Australia
c) New Zealand
d) Norway
Q.12 What is the unit of measurement for the length used in astronomy?
a) Tesla
b) Parsec
c) Ampere
d) Decibel
Q.13 Who said “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
a) Mahatma Gandhi
b) Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Lal Bahadur Shastri
d) Sarojini Naidu
Q.14 On 1 October 2012, HelpAge and UNFPA launched the landmark report, Ageing in the Twenty-First Century: A Celebration and a Challenge. According to the report, what will be the per cent of elderly people in the total population of India by 2050?
(A) 15 per cent
(B) 18 per cent
(C) 20 per cent
(D) 23 per cent
Q.15 On 2nd October 2012, a new edition of book written by Mahatma Gandhi is published with a new title by Oxford University Press. Name the book.
a) My Experiments with Truth
b) My Early Life: An Illustrated Story
c) Hind Swaraj
d) Discovery of India
Q.16 ____________ is celebrated as National Voluntary Blood Donation Day which is celebrated allover the country to create awareness of safe blood, which is possible only by regular voluntary blood donation.
a) October 1
b) September 1
c) June 14
d) July 14
Q.17 The prisoner was ___ to answering any of my questions.
(a) Inverse
(b) Adverse
(c) Reverse
(d) Averse
Q.18 All the employees of the firm are ___ to a fortnight’s holidays.
(a) Allowed
(b) Entitled
(c) Required
(d) Able
Q.19 The government is confident that the standard of living will begin to ___ again soon.
(a) Revive
(b) Lift
(c) Flourish
(d) Rise
Q.20 He married many times, yet happiness __ him and her remained miserable as before.
(a) Eluded
(b) Disappointed
(c) Escaped
(d) Absconded
Q.21 Where is Fort William located?
a) Goa
b) Kolkata
c) Chandigarh
d) Delhi
Q.22 Brihadeeswara temple is located in ?
a) Jammu & Kashmir
b) Kerala
c) Uttar Pradesh
d) Tamil Nadu
Q.23 India’s satellite launch-pad is located at
(a) Thumba
(b) Shri Hari Kota
(c) Ahmedabad
(d) Dehradun
Q.24 Which company launched its self-branded mobile phone in the Indian market known as the Facebook phone in September 2011?
a) HTC
b) Vodafone India
c) Nokia
d) Bharti Airtel
Q.25 ‘What Young India Wants’ is a book written by—
(A) Jasvinder Sanghera
(B) Chetan Bhagat
(C) Kermit Roosevelt
(D) Shazia Aziz
Q.26 Which of the folk / tribal dances is associated with the state of Karnataka?
a) Jatra
b) Yakshagana
c) Veedhi
d) Jhora
Q.27 _______________ has been appointed as the new Chief Justice of India on 13 September 2012.
a) V. N. Khare
b) Bhupinder Nath Kirpal
c) Altamas Kabir
d) Ranganath Misra
Q.28 Who was elected as the President of Indian Boxing Federation on 23 September 2012?
a) Abhishek Matoria
b) Abhay Singh Chautala
c) P.K. Muralidharan Raja
d) Dr C K Jerath
Q.29 Fear of heights is _____________ .
a) Aerophobia
b) Algophobia
c) Acrophobia
d) Angrophobia
Q.30 National Girl Child Day is celebrated on _________________every year.
a) 14 August
b) 24 January
c) 14 February
d) 13 September
Q.31 What does JPEG (a computer abbreviation) means?
a) Japanese Picture Embedded Graphic
b) Joint Protocol for Exchanging Graphics
c) Japanese Pixel Enhanced Graphic
d) Joint Photographic Experts Group
Q.32 With which musical instrument is Pt. Ravi Shankar associated?
a) Sarod
b) Sitar
c) Santoor
d) Tabla
Q.33 When is World Teacher’s Day celebrated?
a) 5th April
b) 5th August
c) 5th October
d) 5th September
Q.34 Internet company Yahoo Inc. launched its mobile browser on 23rd May. What is the name of the browser?
a) Axis
b) Chrome
c) Thunderhawk
d) Bing
Q.34 Expand the term MGNREGA.
a) Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
b) Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Generation Agency
c) Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Generation Act
d) None of these
Q.35 Which of the following Indian actors had previous name “Yusuf Khan”?
a) Naseeruddin Shah
b) Raaj Kumar
c) Dilip Kumar
d) Dev Anand
Q.36 In which among the following countries is Mojave desert located?
a) USA
b) Russia
c) Australia
d) Mexico
Q.37 GPRS is the abbreviated form of:
a) Globally Positioned Radio System
b) Globally Positioned Radio Service
c) General Packet Remote Synchronization
d) General Packet Radio Service
Q.38 Which company has launched, on 31st August 2012, its second- generation Series 9 notebook in India? The company claims that the device, which has a 13-inch screen, is the world’s thinnest and most compact notebook chassis.
a) Lenovo
b) Dell
c) Samsung
d) Apple
Q.39 Which of the following days is observed as “The International Day of Non-Violence”?
a) October 24
b) October 2
c) October 30
d) October 31
Q.40 Tiangong-1 is the world’s first space lab built by
a) Japan
b) China
c) North Korea
d) South Korea
