General Knowledge #43 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) : Assam Jobs Guide

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE #43

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. When did Mahatma Gandhi return to India from South Africa?

(a) 1913

(b) 1915

(c) 1914

(d) 1917

Answer: (b)

2. In which year, the Champaran Satyagraha, Gandhiji’s first experiment of Satyagraha in India, took place?

(a) 1917

(b) 1916

(c) 1915

(d) 1919

Answer: (a)

3. In which year Ahmedabad Mill Strike and Kheda (Kaira) peasants’ struggle, led by Gandhiji, took place?

(a) 1919

(b) 1918

(c) 1920

(d) 1921

Answer: (b)

4. When was the Rowlatt Act passed?

(a) 1918

(b) 1920

(c) 1922

(d) 1919

Answer: (d)

5. Who shot dead Michael O’ Dwyer, the Lt. Governor of Punjab at the time of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?

(a) Udham Singh

(b) Kartar Singh Sarabha

(c) Bhagat Singh

(d) Madanlal Dhingra

Answer: (a)

6. Who renounced his ‘Knighthood’ after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?

(a) Mahatma Gandhi

(b) Rajendra Prasad

(c) Rabindranath Tagore

(d) Abul Kalam Azad

Answer: (c)

7. Which is the highest peak of Andes?

(a) Mount Aconcagua

(b) Mount Cotopaxi

(c) Mount Kilimanjaro

(d) Mount Chimborazo

Answer: (a)

8. Which is the highest active volcano in the world?

(a) Mount Cotopaxi

(b) Mount Kilimanjaro

(c) Mount Chimborazo

(d) Mount Aconcagua

Answer: (a)

9. Which is the highest peak of Australia?

(a) Mount Zeil

(b) Mount Bruce

(c) Mount Cradle

(d) Mount Kosciusko

Answer: (d)

10. Which continent is called ‘White Continent’?

(a) Australia

(b) Arctic

(c) Antarctica

(d) Greenland

Answer: (c)

11. Which is the coldest landmass on the earth?

(a) Antarctica

(b) Greenland

(c) Arctic

(d) Alaska

Answer: (a)

12. Which continent is also called ‘a continent for science’?

(a) Europe

(b) Asia

(c) North America

(d) Antarctica

Answer: (d)

13. Almost all dust particles and water vapour of the atmosphere are found in ……………

(a) troposphere

(b) stratosphere

(c) mesosphere

(d) thermosphere

Answer: (a)

14. In which atmospheric layer all the weather phenomena takes place?

(a) Troposphere

(b) Stratosphere

(c) Thermosphere

(d) Mesosphere

Answer: (a)

15. Who was the first woman recipient of Jnanpeeth Award?

(a) Mahadevi Verma

(b) Ashapurna Devi

(c) Mahasweta Devi

(d) Arundhati Roy

Answer: (b)

16. Who was the first recipient of Dadasaheb Phalke Award?

(a) Devika Rani

(b) B.N. Sircar

(c) Prithvi Raj Kapoor

(d) Kanan Devi

Answer: (a)

17. Which of the following is India’s first indigenous surface to surface missile?

(a) Prithvi

(b) Nag

(c) Astra

(d) Brahmos

Answer: (a)

18. Which of the following is an anti-tank missile?

(a) Trishul

(b) Akash

(c) Nag

(d) Astra

Answer: (c)

19. Which of the following is Intermediate Ballistic Missile of India?

(a) Akash

(b) Nag

(c) Agni-II

(d) Prithvi

Answer: (c)

20. ‘Pinaka’ is a ……………

(a) missile

(b) multi barrel rocket launcher

(c) pilotless aircraft

(d) None of the above

Answer: (b)