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SAMPLE PRACTICE SET - 02 GENERAL AWARENESS

1. ‘Diopter’ is the unit of measurement of ______. (a) Heat (b) Sound (c) Energy (d) Power of lens. 2. Britishers established Fort St. George as a trading outpost of East Company in (a) Varanasi (b) Chandigarh (c) (d) Jaipur 3. In India, the National Voter’s Day is celebrated on (a) 25th December (b) 25th January (c) 17th March (d) 17th January 4. What is the meaning of ex facie? (a) Making the face down (b) Beside the face of it (c) Behind the face it (d) On the face of it 5. The country which cloned a buffalo calf first is (a) Denmark (b) U.S.A. (c) Sweden (d) India 6. Who was conferred the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award during August, 2017? (a) Dhoni (b) (c) Devendra and Sardar Singh (d) 7. Name the Indian Gymnast who has become the first female Indian Gymnast to qualify for the Olympics. (a) Bisweshwari Nandi

(b) Anjubala (c) Rupinder Kaur (d) 8. Who won the T-20 Cricket World Cup for Women in 2016? (a) India (b) Australia (c) West Indies (d) England 9. Who among the following players won Men’s Singles Title, 2019? (a) Bob Bryan (b) Novak Djokovic (c) Gisela Dulko (d) Daniel Nestor 10. Identify the Indian player who has turned Hollywood filmmaker. (a) Vijay Amritraj (b) (c) (d) 11. Where will the next Olympic Games be held in 2020? (a) Tokyo (b) Berlin (c) Japan (d) Toronto 12. Which of the following rivers does not flow into the Bay of Bengal? (a) Godavari (b) Periyar (c) Kaveri (d) Krishna 13. Which of the following smart cities has become India’s first city to run on 100% Renewable Energy during Daytime? (a) Chandigarh (b) Puducharri (c) Gwalior (d) Diu 14. The last man to walk on moon died in January 2017. Who was he? (a) Neil Armstrong (b) Buzz Aldrin (c) Eugene Cernan (d) James Irwin 15. The term “Dirty Snowball” is related to ______(a) Comets (b) Meteorities

(c) Space debris primarily from space crafts (d) Asteroids 16. Which of the following planets has the maximum number of natural satellites? (a) Earth (b) Mars (c) Jupiter (d) Saturn 17. India has largest deposit of ...... in the world. (a) Gold (b) Copper (c) Mica (d) Silver 18. The border of which two countries is known as 49th parallel line? (a) Germany and France (b) USA and Canada (c) South Korea and North Korea (d) Germany and Poland 19. The length of the year is greatest on the (a) Mercury (b) Earth (c) Jupiter (d) Pluto 20. The largest producer of sugar in the world is (a) Brazil (b) Indonesia (c) Mexico (d) Cuba 21. Nelson Mandela Rules deal with (a) Apartheid (b) Truth and Reconciliation (c) Prison Management (d) Global Peace-making 22. Where is the temple of Angkor Wat located? (a) Singapore (b) Cambodia (c) Thailand (d) Indonesia 23. What is the significance of May 13, 1952 with regard to Indian polity? (a) First sitting of the Lok Sabha (b) First sitting of the Rajya Sabha (c) First sitting of the Supreme Court of India (d) Formation of the Election Commission of India

24. Which modern Indian historian has described the events of 1857 as “neither first nor National, nor a War of Independence”? (a) V.D. Savarkar (b) Dadabhai Naoroji (c) R.C. Majumdar (d) S.N. Sen 25. The earliest Codified Laws (Civil and Criminal) that defined and demarcated for first time in India during 335-345 A.D. was followed in the (a) Huna reign (b) Sakka reign (c) Mughal reign (d) Gupta reign 26. When was demonetization of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 notes announced by Prime Minister of India? (a) 6 November, 2016 (b) 7 November, 2016 (c) 8 November, 2016 (d) 9 November, 2016 27. Income Tax in India is 1. Indirect tax 2. Progressive tax 3. Direct tax 4. Proportional tax (a) 1 and 2 (b) 1 and 4 (c) 2 and 3 (d) 3 and 4 28. Planning Commission has been scrapped and replaced by a new think tank called: (a) National Institution for Transforming India Ayog (b) National Rural Development Commission (c) National Commission for Progress and Development (d) National Research and Development Commission 29. The Reserve Bank of India was established in the year: (a) 1858 (b) 1935 (c) 1947 (d) 1950 30. In India, the interest rate on Savings Accounts in all the nationalised commercial banks is fixed by? (a) Union Ministry of Finance (b) Union Finance Commission (c) Indian Banks’ Association

(d) None of the above 31...... is NOT a Central Government tax. (a) Income Tax (b) Custom Duty (c) Land Revenue (d) Service Tax 32. JNNURM means (a) Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (b) Jawaharlal Nehru Natural Urban Rural Mission (c) Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Rural Mission (d) None of these 33. A temporary tax levied to obtain revenue is called (a) Excise Duty (b) Sales tax (c) Surcharge (d) Cess 34. Who prepares National Income Estimates? (a) Central Statistical Organisation (b) National Sample Survey Organisation (c) Indian Statistical Institute (d) Planning Commission 35. Who invented the computer mouse? (a) Charles Babbage (b) Bill Gates (c) Douglas Engelbart (d) Narsimha Murthy 36. What is the full form of the scanning technique know as CAT? (a) Complete Anatomical Trepanning (b) Computerized Automatic Therapy (c) Computerized Axial Tomography (d) Complete Axial Transmission 37. What is the full form of DNA? (a) Deoxyribonucleic agent (b) Deoxyribonuclear acid (c) Deoxyribonucleus acid (d) Deoxyribonucleic acid 38. A feature ‘Bluetooth’ non common in mobile phones, gets its name from a: (a) Chinese 10th Century King (b) UK Software Company (c) Greek Goddess (d) Danish 10th Century King 39. Sphygomomanometer is used to test (a) Harmones Action

(b) Brain Tumour (c) Functions of Intestines (d) Blood Pressure 40. Which Hindi writer is known by the name of “Nirala”? (a) Suryakant Tripathi (b) Jaishankar Prasad (c) Sumitranandan Pant (d) Hazariprasad Dwivedi 41. Who wrote the book India Wins Freedom? (a) M. Hidayatulla (b) M.C. Chhagla (c) Abul Kalam Azad (d) Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed 42. Who is the author of the book “A Judge’s Miscellany”? (a) Justice H.R. Khanna (b) Justice Dalveer Bhandari (c) Lord M.R. Dennings (d) Justice M. Hidayatullah 43. The book titled ‘The Google Story’ has been authored by (a) David A. Vise (b) Shobha Dey (c) Fredrick Forsyth (d) Vikram Seth 44. Who wrote the book “Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power within india”? (a) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (b) Atal Behari Vajpayee (c) L.K. Advani (d) Arjun Singh 45. International Year of Biodiversity is/was/will be: (a) 2010 (b) 2011 (c) 2012 (d) 2014 46. The EIA is abbreviated form of (a) Environment Impact Assessment (b) Environment Implementation Arrangement (c) Environment Impact Apparatus (d) Environment institute of Awareness 47. Endosulfan is banned in India under the (a) Environment Protection Act, 1986 (b) Hazardous Chemical Rules, 2000 (c) Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, 2001 (d) All of the above

48. Wetland conservation is an obligation undertaken by India in (a) Ramsar Convention, 1971 (b) Convention on Biological Diversity, 1992 (c) Convention on Migratory Species, 1979 (d) U.N. Convention on Law of the Sea, 1982 49. First woman Prime Minister in the world was of: (a) Sri Lanka (b) Bhutan (c) India (d) Nepal 50. What is the Saudi Arabian currency called? (a) Dirham (b) Peso (c) Dinar (d) Riyal

SAMPLE PRACTICE SET - 02 GENERAL AWARENESS

ANSWER KEY

1 d 11 c 21 c 31 c 41 c

2 c 12 b 22 b 32 a 42 d

3 b 13 d 23 b 33 d 43 a

4 d 14 c 24 c 34 a 44 a

5 d 15 a 25 b 35 c 45 a

6 c 16 c 26 c 36 c 46 a

7 d 17 c 27 c 37 d 47 c

8 c 18 b 28 a 38 d 48 a

9 b 19 c 29 b 39 d 49 a

10 d 20 a 30 d 40 a 50 d