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General Knowledge(G K)

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following countries has agreed to accept the payment of export of oil and petroleum products to India, in rupee terms instead of dollar or any other currency?

a)

Kuwait

b)

UAE

c)

Iran

d)

Iraq

e)

Libya

2.

As per the newspaper reports Government of India has finally agreed to purchase advanced MRMRs for its naval forces. What are these MRMRs?

a)

Aircrafts

b)

Warships

c)

Submarines

d)

Radar Systems

e)

Rocket Launcher

3.

Which of the following agencies/organizations decided to cancel 122 Licenses of 2G Spectrum issued by the Government of India to various companies and asked the Government to do the process afresh?

a)

comptroller and auditor general of India

b)

supreme court of India

c)

telecom regulatory authority of India

d)

confederation of Indian Industry

e)

reserve bank of India

4.

Who among the following is the Prime Minister of a country at present and has also won the Presidential Elections held in March 2012? (He had been President of the country twice in the past. This will be his third term as President. He will join office in July 2012),

a)

Mohammed Waheed Hassan

b)

Abd. Rabbo Mansour Hadi

c)

Daniel Ortega

d)

Vladimir Putin

5.

Which of the following countries approved a new constitution of the country in a referendum through secret voting held in February 2012?

a)

Libya

b)

Iraq

c)

Iran

d)

UAE

e)

Syria

6.

Which of the following countries has signed a 'Non-Aggression Pact' with Sudan?

a)

Uganda

b)

Kenya

c)

Ethiopia

d)

South Africa

e)

South Sudan

7.

General Clients of various banks in India can make a complaint to which of the following offices, on the issues related to deficiency in services which do not get resolved at banks level?

a)

Comptroller and auditor general of India

b)

Attorney general of India

c)

Ombudsman

d)

Indian Audit Bureau

e)

Indian Banks Association

8.

The sensitive index of National Stock Exchange of India is popularly known as..

a)

SENSEX

b)

CRIS

c)

CSE

d)

MCS

e)

NIFTY

9.

Which of the following countries decided to add 3000 more centrifuges to its Uranium enrichment programs, despite touch economic sanctions on it from various western countries?

a)

Syria

b)

Sudan

c)

Iran

d)

Libya

e)

Egypt

10.

Which of the following is the first calculating device?

a)

Abacus

b)

Calculator

c)

Turing Machine

d)

Pascaline

11.

Who invented mechanical calculator called Pascaline?

a)

Charles Babbage

b)

Blaise Pascal

c)

Alan Turing

d)

Lee De Fores

12.

Who among the following considered as the 'father of artificial intelligence'?

a)

Charles Babbage

b)

Lee De Forest

c)

John McCarthy

d)

JP Eckert

13.

Which was the world's first successful electronic computer?

a)

PARAM

b)

CRAY-1

c)

Pascaline

d)

ENIAC electronic Numerical Integrator and computer

14.

Which was first virus detected on ARPANET, the forerunner of the internet in the early 1970s?

a)

Exe Flie

b)

Creeper Virus

c)

Peeper Virus

d)

Trozen horse

15.

Plants which are adapted to grow in soils containing high concentration of salt are known as:

a)

Xerophytes

b)

Mesophytes

c)

Halophytes

d)

Thallophytes

16.

The bacterium ‘Escherichia coli’ is found mainly in:

a)

Human Intestine

b)

Pteridophytes

c)

Root Nodules of leguminous plants

d)

Paddy fields for nitrogen fixation

17.

Which among the following is not a ‘heriditary’ disease?

a)

Thalessemia

b)

Colour-Blindness

c)

Haemophilia

d)

Leukemia

18.

Penicillin’ which is used as an antibiotic is obtained from

a)

Bacteria

b)

Fungi

c)

algae

d)

Lichens

19.

The instrument that measures arterial blood pressure is known as :

a)

Pyknometer

b)

Hypsometer

c)

Sphygmoscope

d)

Sphygmomanometer

20.

Which among the following is not among Micronutrients required for plants?

a)

Molybdenum

b)

Magnesium

c)

Manganese

d)

Zinc

21.

Which among the following is the edible part in Rice?

a)

Fruit

b)

Cotyledons

c)

Endosperm

d)

Embryo

22.

The Lockheed C-130 transport plane is also known as ... ?

a)

Atlas

b)

Hercules

c)

Spartacus

d)

Zeus

23.

The most produced aircraft of all time is the Soviet World War II fighter the Ilyushin IL. True or False ?

a)

true

b)

false

24.

The performance of a hard drive or other storage device, meaning how long it takes to locate a file is called

a)

responce time

b)

access time

c)

quick time

d)

fast time

25.

Which of the following is the data storage device that is used to store very high resolution video formats?

a)

blu ray

b)

cd rom

c)

dvd

d)

floofy disk

26.

The first portable computer was created in April 1981 by a company called

a)

Osborne of IBM

b)

lenovo

c)

dell

d)

hp

27.

first portable mobile phone introduced by:

a)

motorola

b)

nokia

c)

samsung

d)

apple

28.

who introduced civil aviation in india :

a)

Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata( J R D TATA)

b)

Dheerubai ambani

c)

lakshmi mittal

d)

Shiv Narayan Birla

29.

who invented Bio Diesel:

a)

John diesel

b)

Benjamen diesel

c)

Nichlous diesel

d)

Franklin Diesel

e)

Nikolaus audust otto,Rudolf diesel

30.

who invented WHATSAPP in 2009

a)

Brain Acton,Jan Koum

b)

Steve Jobs

c)

Allen paul

d)

Bill Gates