IMPORTANT GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ           SET 1                               

1.Who amongst the following leaders of “1857” was the first to lay down his/her life?
a) Kunwar Singh
b) Tantiya Tope
c) Rani Laxmi Bai of Jhansi
d) Mangal Pandey

2.The system of communal electorate in India was first introduced by?
a) Indian Council Act of 1892.
b) Minto-Morley reforms of 1909
c) Montagu-Chelmsford reforms of 1919
d) Government of India of 1935

3.Tower of Victory (Vijaya Stambh) is located at ?
a) Delhi
b) Jhansi
c) Chittorgarh
d) Fatehpur Sikri

4.Who amongst the following leaders of “1857” was the first to lay down his/her life?
a) Kunwar Singh
b) Tantiya Tope
c) Rani Laxmi Bai of Jhansi
d) Mangal Pandey

5.The system of communal electorate in India was first introduced by?
a) Indian Council Act of 1892.
b) Minto-Morley reforms of 1909
c) Montagu-Chelmsford reforms of 1919
d) Government of India of 1935

6.Postal Voting is otherwise called?
a) Plural voting
b) Proxy Voting
c) Weighted Voting
d) Secret Voting

7.Stability of the Govt. is assured in ?
a) Parliamentary Form of Govt.
b) Presidential Form of Govt.
c) Plural Executive System
d) Direction Democracy

8.According to the Indian Constitution, the vacancy in the office of President shall be filled within?
a) 1 month
b) 6 months
c) 3 months
d) 1 year

9.Who is the Tennis star to be come World No. 1 seed at the youngest age ?
a) Steffi Garf
b) Monica Seles
c) Chris Evert
d) Martina Hingis

10.What is the Vishva Mohini?
a) Name for Indias beauty queen
c) The title given to lata Mangeshkar for her contribution to music
c) An Indian ship
d) A famous book on Indian Dance

11.The main function of the Trade Organization (WTO) is ?
a) enforcing of Uruguay Round Agreement
b) Facilitating multi- lateral trade relations of member countries and reviewing trade policies
c) administrating trade dispute settlement procedures
d) None of the above

12. Name the author of the book A Passage to England?
a) E.M Forster
b) Nirad C. Chaudhary
c) Vickram Seth
d) Eric Segal

13.Which is the long range Misile that was tested by Pakistan in the wake of India testing Agni II?
a) Ghauri II
b) Shaheen I
c) Hatf I
d) Hatf II

14. The Indian Navel ship being converted into a maritime museum is ?
a) Sagar Samrat
b) Kanishka
c) Samrat Ashoka
d) Vikrant

15. Prof. Amrtya Sen Sen is these days in the news because ?
a) he is internationally known as a leading social economist.
b) he has been awarded Bharat Ratna
c) he is recipient of Nobel Prize.
d) All of the above

16.The first country to legalize medically assisted suicide is ?
a) Australia
b) United States
c) Netherlands
d) Switzerland

17.The Baisaksghi festival of of the year 1999 is of great historical significance to Punjab be cause ?
a) commemorates the tercentenary of the foundation of khalsa panth
b) it being the last such festival of the twentieth century
c) of participation by a large number of Punjabis who are non residential Indians
d) None of the above

18.Exobiology deals with the study of ?
a) external characters of living organisms
b) life on the surface of the earth
c) life in the outer layers of the atmosphere
d) life in other planets and space

19.The Social system of the Harappans was ?
a) Fairly egalitarian
b) Slave – Labour based
c) Colour (Vernal) based
d) Caste based

20.Which of the fallowing vedas provides information about the civilization of the early vadic Age?
1) Rig – Veda
b) Yajur – Veda
c) Atharva – Veda
d) Sama – Veda

21.The university which became famous in the post – Gupta – Era was ?
a) Kanchi
b) Taxila
c) Nalanda
d) Vallabhi

22. Banabhatta was the court poet of which emperor?
a) Vikrama ditya
b) kumargupta
c) Harshvardhan 
d) Kanishka

23. The first Indian ruler who established the supremacy of Indian Navy in the Arbian Sea was?
a) Rajaraja I
b) Rajendra I
c) Rajadhiraja I
d) Kulottunga I

24. The meghal painting reaches its / zenith during the reign of ?
a) Akbar
b) Jahangir
c) Shahjahan
d) Aurangzeb

25.Permanent Revenue settlement of Bengal was introduced by ?
a) Clive
b) Hastings
c) Wellesley
d) Cornwallis