GENERAL AWARENESS 1100 MCQ’S QUESTIONS (d) transmit or absorb light of different colours 11. Which of the following is not a weighted code? 1. ATM is the abbreviated form of: (a) Excess 3 – Code (a) Automatic Teller Machine (b) Binary Number System (b) Automated Teller Machine (c) Decimal number System (c) All Time Money (d) BCD Number System (d) Automatic Tally Machine 12. ‘Residex’ is associated with: 2. The Chairman of NITI Ayog is……… (a) Share prices (a) Industry Minister (b) Price inflation (b) Prime Minister (c) Mutual fund prices (c) Finance Minister (d) Land prices (d) Commerce Minister 13. Ozone saves the biosphere by absorbing high energy 3. The film ‘Phoolan Devi’ was directed by: radiations called……. (a) Raj Kapoor (a) Infra-red (IR) (b) Shashi Kapoor (b) Gamma rays (c) Shekhar Kapoor (c) Ultraviolet rays (UV) (d) Anik Kapoor (d) X-rays 4. Which of the following is not a scheme/programme started 14. Birju Maharaj is a well known exponent of: by the NDA Government? (a) Manipuri dance (a) Mission Indradhanush (b) Kathak (b) Jan Dhan Yojana (c) Odissi (c) Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (d) Kathakali (d) MNREGA 15. In the absence of the earth’s atmosphere, sky would 5. We are able to walk on earth without slipping because of: appear………. (a) Gravitational force (a) blue (b) Frictional force (b) deep red (c) Viscous force (c) white (d) Centrifugal force (d) black 6. Majority of the fungal bionts of lichens belong to: 16. Who was elected the Prime Minister of Nepal recently? (a) Baridiomycetes (a) Keshav Kumar Budhathoki (b) Ascomycetes (b) Khadga Prasad Sharma Koli (c) Gomycetes (c) Sushil Koirala (d) Deuteromycetes (d) Pushpakamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ 7. Which of the following has open vascular system? 17. Which lobe of human brain is associated with hearing? (a) Cockroach (a) Frontal lobe (b) Human (b) Parietal lobe (c) Rat (c) Temporal lobe (d) Birds (d) Occipital lobe 8. The warm and cold ocean currents are caused by: 18. Which of the following is not soluble in water? (a) Prevailing winds (a) Lead sulphate (b) Earth’s rotation (b) Zinc sulphate (c) Variations in density of sea water (c) Potassium sulphate (d) All of these (d) Sodium sulphate 9. Who was known as the Second founder of the Maratha 19. Activated charcoal is used to remove colouting matter from Empire? pure substances by………… (a) Balaji Bishwanath (a) Bleaching (b) Balaji Baji Rao (b) Oxidation (c) Baji Rao I (c) Adsorption (d) Madhav Rao (d) Reduction 10. Purpose of an optical filter is to: 20. Chernobyl disaster is the result of pollution by………. (a) reflect lights of different colours (a) Oil spill (b) dispense light into component colours (b) Acid rain (c) refract light to different colours (c) Carbon dioxide For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 1 GENERAL AWARENESS 1100 MCQ’S QUESTIONS (d) Radioactive waste (c) Carbon 21. Which of the following caused radioactive pollution along (d) Silver the coast of Kerala? 31. Which mechanism is used by the computer virus ‘worm’ to (a) Plutonium duplicate itself? (b) Zinc (a) Swap (c) Thorium (b) Increment (d) Radium (c) Spawn 22. In mammals, an important role of excretion is played by: (d) Swarm (a) Large intestine 32. The second Green Revolution aims at increasing agricultural (b) Kidneys output to promote: (c) Lungs (a) Availability of easy credit to big farmers (d) Liver (b) Co-operative farming 23. Pellagra and Scurvy are caused by which pair of vitamin (c) Inclusive growth deficiency respectively………… (d) Development of rural sector (a) Vitamin C and Vitamin D 33. The Union Government of 22 May, 2016 appointed whom as (b) Vitamin B-12 and Vitamin C the new Lieutenant governor of the Union Territory (UT) of (c) Vitamin C and Vitamin A Pondicherry? (d) Vitamin A and Vitamin B-12 (a) Kiran Bedi 24. Who appoints the Finance Commission in India? (b) Kalyan Singh (a) Governor, R.B.I. (c) Ram Naik (b) CAG of India (d) Mukul Sangma (c) President of India 34. The rate of tax increase as the amount of the tax base (d) Central Finance Minister increases in called: 25. The term ‘Macro Economics’ was used by…… (a) Proportional tax (a) J.M. Keynes (b) Progressive tax (b) Ranger Frisch (c) Regressive tax (c) Ranger Nurkse (d) Degressive tax (d) Prof. Knight 35. Vikram Shila University was founded by : 26. Who was the first chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia (a) Chandra Gupta Maurya University at Aligarh? (b) Kanishka (a) Abdul Ghaffar Khan (c) Dharampala (b) Rajkumari Amrit Kaur (d) Pulakesin II (c) Hakim Ajmal Khan 36. The tree species most commonly used in social forestry is : (d) Sir Sayyad Ahmad Khan (a) Peepal 27. Who were the patrons of Sangama Literature? (b) Gulmohar (a) Nayakas (c) Eucalyptus (b) Chandellas (d) Mango (c) Pandyas 37. The most productive ecosystem in the biosphere is : (d) Solankis (a) Desert 28. Where in India was the first French factory established? (b) Open Ocean (a) Surat (c) Estuary (b) Pondicherry (d) Tundra (c) Chandannagore 38. What type of force acts on a car moving around a curve? (d) Masulipatnam (a) Centrifugal force 29. Which algorithm is used to decide the path to transfer the (b) Cohesive force packets from source to destination? (c) Centripetal force (a) Routing (d) Gravitational force (b) Pathing 39. Which phenomenon is responsible for the echo of sound (c) Selecting wave? (d) Directing (a) Reflection 30. Which one of the following is an ohmic conductor? (b) Refraction (a) Germanium (c) Interference (b) Silicon (d) Polarization For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 2 GENERAL AWARENESS 1100 MCQ’S QUESTIONS 40. In the following list of devices, which device is used in (a) Mrs Sucheta Kripalani datalink layer? (b) Miss Padmaja Naidu (a) Repeaters (c) Mrs Tarkeswari Sinha (b) Routers (d) Mrs Sarojini Naidu (c) Application gateway 51. Which of the following is an application protocol? (d) Bridge (a) HTTP 41. Which of the metals has the maximum thermal conductivity? (b) TCP (a) Iron (c) IP (b) Aluminium (d) UDP (c) Silver 52. Which one of the following is not a scheme/project of the (d) Copper present Government? 42. Who is the author of Meghdoot? (a) AMRUT (a) Shundraka (b) Swachh Bharat (b) Vishakhadatta (c) AYUSH (c) Kalidasa (d) Jan Dhan Yojana (d) Chanakya 53. Which of the following was India’s first interplanetary 43. One of the best solutions to get rid of non-biodegradable mission? waste is : (a) Chandrayaan Mission (a) Burning (b) Mangalyaan Mission (b) Dumping (c) Aryabhatta Mission (c) Burying (d) Philae Mission (d) Recycling 54. Why the Earth is having its own atmosphere? 44. The Sharda Act is related to : (a) Winds (a) Upliftment of scheduled tribes (b) Clouds (b) Upliftment of minorities (c) Gravity (c) Child Marriage (d) Rotation of the Earth (d) Empowerment of women 55. Stars twinkle but planets do not twinkle because: 45. In the battle of Panipat, Babar faced the armies of : (a) they emit light of a constant intensity (a) Jaichand (b) their distance from the earth does not change with time (b) Hemu (c) they are very far away from the earth resulting in (c) Daulat Khan decrease in intensity of light (d) Ibrahim Lodi (d) they are nearer to the earth and hence we receive a 46. “Smart Money” term is used for : greater amount of light and therefore minor (a) Credit Card variations in intensity are not noticeable (b) Internet Banking 56. Which of the following in not true about X-rays? (c) e-Banking (a) have low penetrating power (d) Cash with Public (b) travel with the speed of light 47. The supply-side economics lays greater emphasis on……. (c) can be reflected or refracted (a) Producer (d) can affect photographic plates (b) Global economy 57. Sending a frame to a group stations is knows as : (c) Consumer (a) Single casting (d) Middle Man (b) Spreading 48. The founding father of “Theory of bureaucracy” was: (c) Multicasting (a) F. W. Taylor (d) Casting (b) Max Weber 58. Prince of Wales Cup is associated with ……… . (c) Elton Mayo (a) Rugby (d) Herbert Simon (b) Golf 49. The United Nations Organisation came into existence in: (c) Polo (a) 1947 (d) Chess (b) 1950 59. A drainage pattern where a river is joined by its tributaries (c) 1945 approximately at right angles is : (d) 1946 (a) Dendritic 50. Who was the first lady Governor of an Indian State? (b) Trellis For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 3 GENERAL AWARENESS 1100 MCQ’S QUESTIONS (c) Rectangular (a) Global warming (d) Radial (b) Salination 60. Who was the founder of the Indian Reform association in (c) Eutrophication 1870? (d) Biomagnification (a) Debendranath Tagore 70. Which of the following pairing is incorrect? (b) Keshab Chandra Sen (a) Hygrometer –Water vapour content of the atmosphere (c) Rammohan Roy (b) Lactometer –Specific gravity of liquids (d) Dayanand Saraswati (c) Anemometer –Speed of the wind 61. Which Constitutional Amendment Act deals with the (d) Seismograph –Earthquakes disqualification of MPs and MLAs? 71. Money transfer through mobile is called : (a) 42nd Amendment Act (a) IFSC (b) 52nd Amendment Act (b) ATM (c) 62nd Amendment Act (c) IMPS (d) 32nd Amendment Act (d) IFS 62. Which of the following increases the rate of heart beat? 72. The founder of Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save Child (a) Peripheral nerves Movement) is : (b) Sympathetic nerves (a) Malala Yousafzai (c) Parasympathetic nerves (b) Sane Guruji (d) Cranial nerves (c) Salman Khan 63. The deficiency of Niacin-a vitamin of B complex group (d) Kailash Satyarthi causes the disease…….