General Awareness Question Papers
19th August 2017 (Shift-1)
Question-26: The collection of all possible combinations of the goods and services that can be produced from a given amount of resources and a given stock of technological knowledge is called the ____________ of the economy.
Options:
1) Resource Probability Set
2) Production Probability Set
3) Resource Possibility Set
4) Production Possibility Set
Correct Answer: Production Possibility Set
Question-27: If at a price, market supply is greater than market demand, we say that there is ________ in the market at that price.
Options:
1) Equilibrium
2) Excess Demand
3) Excess Supply
4) Marginal Revenue
Correct Answer: Excess Supply
Question-28: In which year was All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) founded?
Options:
1) 1949
2) 1999
3) 1972
4) 1997
Correct Answer: 1972
Question-29: Which Fundamental Right in the Indian Constitution includes equal access to shops, bathing, ghats, hotels etc?
Options:
1) Right to Liberty and Personal Freedom
2) Right to Freedom of Religion
3) Right to Equality
4) Cultural and Educational Rights
Correct Answer: Right to Equality
Question-30: For how many days did Mahatma Gandhi’s volunteers of the Salt satyagrah walked?
Options:
1) 24
2) 36
3) 12
4) 6
Correct Answer: 24
Question-31: The Tomara Rajputs, were defeated in the middle of the twelfth century by the Chauhans of _________.
Options:
1) Ayodhya
2) Ajmer
3) Dwarka
4) Gwalior
Correct Answer: Ajmer
Question-32: India is the ______ largest country in the world.
Options:
1) 3rd
2) 5th
3) 7th
4) 9th
Correct Answer: 7th
Question-33: The place on the earth’s surface above the focus is called the __________.
Options:
1) focus
2) incentre
3) epicentre
4) circumcentre
Correct Answer: epicentre
Question-34: The male sex accessory ducts include vasa efferentia, epididymis, vas deferens and______.
Options:
1) Cervix
2) Rete Testis
3) Glands
4) Seminiferous Tubules
Correct Answer: Rete Testis
Question-35: The meristem which occurs between mature tissues is known as _________meristem.
Options:
1) Intercalary
2) Primary
3) Lateral
4) Apical
Correct Answer: Intercalary
Question-36: Which of the following Phylum are also called flatworms?
Options:
1) Mollusca
2) Chordata
3) Ctenophora
4) Platyhelminthes
Correct Answer: Platyhelminthes
Question-37: In the formula average velocity = (u + v) /2, u is the ___________.
Options:
1) Final velocity
2) Initial displacement
3) Initial velocity
4) Final displacement
Correct Answer: Initial velocity
Question-38: Vocal chords in women are _______________ than vocal chords in men.
Options:
1) 5mm shorter
2) 15mm shorter
3) 5mm longer
4) 15mm longer
Correct Answer: 5mm shorter
Question-39: The web uses the __________ to request and serve web pages and programs.
Options:
1) Hyper Text Marketing Language
2) Hyper Text Markup Language
3) Hotmail Text Markup Language
4) Home Text Markup Language
Correct Answer: Hyper Text Markup Language
Question-40: What is the name of the acid in grapes?
Options:
1) Lactic acid
2) Formic acid
3) Acetic acid
4) Tartaric acid
Correct Answer: Tartaric acid
Question-41: Which fibre is also called as artificial silk?
Options:
1) Nylon
2) Rayon
3) Polyester
4) Acrylic
Correct Answer: Rayon
Question-42: During the past century, the temperature of Earth has increased by ________.
Options:
1) 0.6oC
2) 1.6oC
3) 2.6oC
4) 3.6oC
Correct Answer: 0.6oC
Question-43: ______________ scheme was launched by the Central Government to give financial services to weaker section of society.
Options:
1) Sukanya Samridhi Yojana
2) Bal Swachta Mission
3) Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana
4) Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Yojana
Correct Answer: Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana
Question-44: Who discovered Uranus?
Options:
1) Sir Isaac Newton
2) William Henry Fox Talbot
3) William Herschel
4) Nicolaus Copernicus
Correct Answer: William Herschel
Question-45: Who was the host nation of 2015 Men’s Rugby World Cup?
Options:
1) New Zealand
2) South Africa
3) Australia
4) England
Correct Answer: England
Question-46: Who started construction of Nalanda (Mahavihara) ?
Options:
1) Dharampala
2) Ashoka
3) Kumaragupta
4) Harihara
Correct Answer: Kumaragupta
Question-47: Who is not amongst the winners of Nobel Prize 2016 for Chemistry?
Options:
1) Jean-Pierre Sauvage
2) J. Michael Kosterlitz
3) Sir J. Fraser Stoddart
4) Bernard L. Feringa
Correct Answer: J. Michael Kosterlitz
Question-48: Which of the statements given below are correct?
1. The author of the novel ‘Missile Gap’ is Charles Stross.
2. The author of the novel ‘Bird Box’ is Victor LaValle.
3. The author of the novel ‘The City and the City’ is China Mieville.
Options:
1) 1 and 2
2) 2 and 3
3) 1 and 3
4) 1, 2and 3
Correct Answer: 1 and 3
Question-49: Which country was India’s largest overseas investment destination in the year 2015-16?
Options:
1) Mauritius
2) Switzerland
3) Saudi Arabia
4) Australia
Correct Answer: Mauritius
Question-50: China does not share its border with which Indian state?
Options:
1) Bihar
2) Arunachal Pradesh
3) Himachal Pradesh
4) Sikkim
Correct Answer: Bihar