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)
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