100 General Knowledge Questions and Answers - GK Quiz

Question: What is called as the "Roof of the World"? 1. 2. 3. 4. Indira Point Kanchenjunga Pamir Knot Indira Col

Answer: 3 Question: The illustrious names of Aryabhatta and Varahamihir are associated with the age of the 1. 2. 3. 4. Guptas Kushanas Mauryas Palas

Answer: 1 Question: Who generally acknowledged as the pioneer of local self government in modern India? 1. 2. 3. 4. Ripon Mayo Lytton Curzon

Answer: 1 Question: Which Article of the Constitution of India abolishes untouchability and forbids its practice in any form? 1. 2. 3. 4. Article 16 Article 17 Article 18 Article 15

Answer: 2

Question: The idea of Pakistan was first conceived by 1. 2. 3. 4. Muhammad Iqbal M. A. Jinnah Shaukat Ali Aga Khan

Answer: 1 Question: Which of the following countries has introduced "Direct Democracy"? 1. 2. 3. 4. Russia India France Switzerland

Answer: 4 Question: Inflation occurs when aggregate supply is 1. 2. 3. 4. More that aggregate demand Less than aggregate demand Equal to aggregate demand None of the above

Answer: 2 Question: Which State has the lowest per capita income in India? 1. 2. 3. 4. Bihar Orissa Rajasthan Gujrat

Answer: 2 Question: In the budget figures of the Government of India, fiscal deficit is 1. 2. 3. 4. Total expenditure - total receipts Revenue expenditure - revenue receipts Capital expenditure - capital receipts + market borrowings Sum of budget deficit and Government's market borrowings and liabilities

Answer: 1

Question: The eighth Joint Economic Group dialogue between China and India was held in January 2010 in Beijing, China after a gap of 1. 2. 3. 4. two years three years four years five years

Answer: 3 Question: According to the recently released World Bank Report, the Chinese economy grew by the close of fourth quarter of 2009 at the rate of 1. 2. 3. 4. 9.7 percent 10.7 percent 10.8 percent 11 percent

Answer: 2 Question: As per the quality of life Index 2010, which was released worldwide in January 2010, the united States occupies the 1. 2. 3. 4. Second Place Third Place Fifth Place Seventh Place

Answer: 4 Question: The India-France deal for civil nuclear corporation, which came into force in January 2010, had been signed between the two countries in 1. 2. 3. 4. September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008

Answer: 1 Question: Wodeyars were the ruler of 1. Princely State of Mysore 2. Princely State of Travancore

3. Vijayanagaram 4. None of these Answer: 1 Question: "Black Pagoda" is in 1. 2. 3. 4. Egypt Srilanka Madurai Konark

Answer: 4 Question: The meeting of the Rajya Sabha are presided over by the 1. 2. 3. 4. President Vice President Prime Minister Speaker

Answer: 2 Question: Lunar eclipse occurs on 1. 2. 3. 4. A new moon day A full moon day A half moon day both 1 and 2

Answer: 2 Question: Which of the following crops helps in nitrogen fixation? 1. 2. 3. 4. Rice Wheat Beans Maize

Answer: 3 Question: Detroit in the U. S. A. is known as the city of 1. Motor Car 2. Lights

3. Aeroplanes 4. Rockets Answer: 1 Question: The term "Fourth Estate" refers to 1. 2. 3. 4. Backward States Judiciary Press Tea Estate

Answer: 3 Question: SAIL's plant in Karnataka is situated at 1. 2. 3. 4. Bangalore Bhadravati Belgaum Hubli

Answer: 2 Question: At which of the following place Rajiv Gandhi died of human bomb explosion? 1. 2. 3. 4. New Delhi Chennai Sriperumbudur Colombo

Answer: 3 Question: Who is not the Speaker of the Lok Sabha ever? 1. 2. 3. 4. Somnath Chatterjee P. A. Sangma Meira Kumar Sushma Swaraj

Answer: 4 Question: The Governor General associated with the abolition of slavery was 1. Cornwallis

2. Bentinck 3. Dalhousie 4. Rippon Answer: 2 Question: The name of India's first carrier is 1. 2. 3. 4. INS Vikrant INS Nilgiri INS Kukri INS Himgiri

Answer: 1 Question: The general direct flow of summer monsoon in India is 1. 2. 3. 4. From South to North From South West to South East From South East to South West From South West to North East

Answer: 2 Question: World No-Tobacco Day is observed on 1. 2. 3. 4. May 25 May 31 May28 May 24

Answer: 2 Question: Which one of the following ecosystems covers the largest area of the earth's surface? 1. 2. 3. 4. Desert Ecosystem Grassland Ecosystem Mountain Ecosystem Marine Ecosystem

Answer: 4 Question: With which game is the Double Fault associated?

1. 2. 3. 4.

Lawn Tennis Football Cricket Hockey

Answer: 2 Question: Where is the oldest oil refinery in India located? 1. 2. 3. 4. Digboi Cochin Mathura Guwahati

Answer: 1 Question: The Siwaliks stretch between 1. 2. 3. 4. Indus and Sutlaj Potwar basin and Teesta Sutlaj and Kali None of these

Answer: 2 Question: Thalassaemia is a hereditary disease affecting 1. 2. 3. 4. Blood Lungs Heart Kidney

Answer: 1 Question: Polythene is industrially prepared by the polymerization of 1. 2. 3. 4. Methane Styrene Acetylene Ethylene

Answer: 4 Question: In cricket the length of pitch between the two wickets is -

1. 2. 3. 4.

24 yards 23 yards 22 yards 21 yards

Answer: 3 Question: Which one of the following is not the official language of the United Nations Organisation? 1. 2. 3. 4. Arabic Chinese Portuguese Spanish

Answer: 3 Question: Which countries are separated by Mac Mohan Line? 1. 2. 3. 4. India and Pakistan China and Tibet India and China India and Bangladesh

Answer: 3 Question: Which one of the following is a water soluble vitamin? 1. 2. 3. 4. Vitamin A Vitamin C Vitamin D Vitamin K

Answer: 2 Question: Among the following who was the Speaker in two Lok Sabhas? 1. 2. 3. 4. Rabi Ray Shivraj Patil P. A. Sangma G. M. C Balyogi

Answer: 4

Question: 'Lakshya' which is part of Indian Defence System is 1. 2. 3. 4. Surface of air missile Missile Firing Submarine multi Barrel rocket System Pilotless target aircraft

Answer: 4 Question: Which one of the following states has only one representatives each in Lok Sabha? 1. 2. 3. 4. Manipur, Meghalaya Himachal Pradesh and Jammu Kashmir Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura Mizoram and Nagaland

Answer: 4 Question: Who among the following is known as the guardian of the Public Purse in India? 1. 2. 3. 4. The Comptroller and Auditor General of India The President The Minister of Finance The parliament

Answer: 1 Question: Biological Oxygen demand (BOD) is used as a standard measure of 1. 2. 3. 4. Oxygen level in forest System Oxygen level in animals Oxygen level in water system Oxygen level in atmosphere

Answer: 3 Question: Which of the following Crops is of Kharif Season? 1. Soyabean 2. Linseed 3. lentil

4. Mustard Answer: 1 Question: Fruit most suitable for making jelly is 1. 2. 3. 4. Papaya Karunda Mango Banana

Answer: 3 Question: Who was the first chief Justice of Supreme court of Calcutta? 1. 2. 3. 4. Hyde Elijah Impey Lemaistre Monson

Answer: 2 Question: By which of the following Acts were the Commercial Rights of East India Company Abolished? 1. 2. 3. 4. Regulating Act of 1773 Charter Act of 1813 Charter Act of 1833 Charter Act of 1853

Answer: 3 Question: Who Was the founder of All India Muslim League? 1. 2. 3. 4. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan Nawab Saleem Ullah Khan Liyaqat Ali Khan Mohammad Ali Jinnah

Answer: 2 Question: Vishakhapatnam Steel Plant obtains its iron ore from the mines of 1. Bababudan 2. Bailadila

3. Dalli-Rajhra 4. Gurumahisaini Answer: 1 Question: The First Finance Commission was constituted in the year 1. 2. 3. 4. 1956 1953 1952 1951

Answer: 4 Question: Which one of the following Settlements comprised Zamindar as middleman to collect the land revenue? 1. 2. 3. 4. Mahalwari Settlement Ryotwari Settlement Permanent Settlement None of the above

Answer: 3 Question: Which of the following was the court language during the reign of Akbar? 1. 2. 3. 4. Hindi Urdu Persian Arabic

Answer: 3 Question: What were the districts called in the Vijaynagar empire? 1. 2. 3. 4. Nadu Khurram Kottam Janpad

Answer: 3 Question: Which was the first National News Agency of India?

1. 2. 3. 4.

The Indian Review The Free Press of India The Associated Press of India None of the above

Answer: 3 Question: The depiction of the stones of the previous lives of Gautama Buddha was first done in the art of 1. 2. 3. 4. Sarnath Pillar of Asoka Bharhut Stupa Ajanta Caves Eilora Caves

Answer: 2 Question: The British Parliament can do everything except make a woman a man and a woman a man?To whom is this statement ascribed? 1. 2. 3. 4. Dicey Hegal De Lolme none of above

Answer: 3 Question: Which of the following states did not come into being in 1987? 1. 2. 3. 4. Mizoram Arunachal Pradesh Goa Manipur

Answer: 4 Question: The number of Zonal Councils in India is 1. 2. 3. 4. Five Four Seven Eight

Answer: 1

Question: National Commission for Back ward Classes was established in 1. 2. 3. 4. 1994 1993 1995 1999

Answer: 2 Question: Indravati Hydroelectric Project is the multipurpose projet of 1. 2. 3. 4. Maharashtra state Gujarat state Orissa State Tamil Nadu state

Answer: 3 Question: Which sector contributes the maximum share in National income of India? 1. 2. 3. 4. Primary Secondary Tertiary All the above have equal share

Answer: 3 Question: Shankarlal Guru committee was associated With 1. 2. 3. 4. Agricultural Marketing Agricultural production Public Distribution System None of above

Answer: 1 Question: IMF is the result of 1. 2. 3. 4. Hawana Conference Rome Conference Brettonwood Conference Geneva Conference

Answer: 3 Question: The Difference between Gross Domestic product and Net Domestic product is 1. 2. 3. 4. Government Revenue Net Indirect Tax (Indirect Tax Subsidy) Consumption of fixed Capital Net Capital Formation

Answer: 4 Question: First share market in India was established in 1. 2. 3. 4. Delhi Mumbai Kolkata chennai

Answer: 2 Question: The acronym STD written on Telephone booth stands for 1. 2. 3. 4. Straight Telephone Dial Switch Telephone Dial Subscriber Telephone Dialing Save Telephone Dialing

Answer: 3 Question: India has signed a landamrk deal for sale of Dhruv Advance Light Helicopters (ALHs) with 1. 2. 3. 4. Venezuela Peru Ecuador Chile

Answer: 3 Question: Humidity is measured by which of the following instrument? 1. Barometer 2. Thermometer 3. Hygrometer

4. Hydrometer Answer: 3 Question: Rabindranath Tagore was awarded Noble Prize for his literary work named 1. 2. 3. 4. Geetanjali Rajtarangini Chokher Bali Kapal Kundala

Answer: 1 Question: Which of the following department of Indian Government takes care of education of children with physical disabilities? 1. 2. 3. 4. Ministry of Welfare Ministry of Sports Ministry of HRD Ministry of Rural Development

Answer: 1 Question: Amrita Pritam's work "A Revenue Stamp" is 1. 2. 3. 4. A book of stories A novel A biography An autobiography

Answer: 4 Question: "Nadi Ke Dweep" is the creation of 1. 2. 3. 4. Nirmala Verma Krishna Sobit Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh Sachidananda Heeranand Vatsyayan Agyeya

Answer: 4 Question: The poetic work "Rashmirathi" was written by 1. Maithilisharan Gupt

2. Mahadevi Verma 3. Ramdhari Singh Dinkar 4. Surya Kant Tripathi Nirala Answer: 3 Question: "Operation Black Board" refers to providing schools with 1. 2. 3. 4. Enough number of black boards New type of black boards Training for using new type of black boards All essential learning materials.

Answer: 4 Question: Transistors used in electronic equipments are mostly made of 1. 2. 3. 4. Silver Copper Silicon Carbon

Answer: 3 Question: The disease diphtheria affects 1. 2. 3. 4. Lungs Intestine Throat Body joints

Answer: 3 Question: Which of the following is the brightest planet as seen from the earth? 1. 2. 3. 4. Mercury Uranus Venus Mars

Answer: 3 Question: The Harry Potter series is written by 1. K K Rowling

2. K J Rowling 3. J K Rowling 4. A K Rowling Answer: 3 Question: The most common communicable disease is 1. 2. 3. 4. Influenza Typhoid Cholera Polio

Answer: 1 Question: Among the following, the richest source of protein is 1. 2. 3. 4. Ground Nut Rice Potato Apple

Answer: 1 Question: Taoism is a school of 1. 2. 3. 4. Chinese philosophy Japanese philosophy Buddhist philosophy Sri Lankan philosophy

Answer: 1 Question: Hydrogen is used instead of Helium to fill balloons for meteorology because 1. 2. 3. 4. of its low density It is not very reactive under normal conditions It is almost insoluble in water It can be prepared easily

Answer: 1 Question: The most abundant element in the earth's crust is

1. 2. 3. 4.

Silicon Aluminium Nitrogen Oxygen

Answer: 4 Question: Stainless steel is an example of 1. 2. 3. 4. A metallic compound A homogeneous mixture A heterogeneous mixture An inorganic compound

Answer: 1 Question: The Non-Cooperation Movement was ultimately withdrawn by Mahatma Gandhi 1. 2. 3. 4. On the directions of the Party On account of amicable settlement with the British On account of violent incidents at Chauri-Chaura On account of excessive repression by the Government

Answer: 3 Question: The Preamble of the Constitution after 42nd amendment declares India 1. 2. 3. 4. Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic Sovereign Democratic Republic Federal Democratic Republic Federal Socialist Democratic Republic

Answer: 1 Question: The International Date Line is the 1. 2. 3. 4. Equator 0 Longitude 88 East Longitude 180 Longitude

Answer: 4 Question: The real executive power under a Parliamentary Government rests

with 1. 2. 3. 4. The Parliament The King The Council of Ministers The Civil Servants

Answer: 3 Question: Who among the following was the first Maratha Ruler to get legal recognition from the Mughals? 1. 2. 3. 4. Sahuji Shivaji Balaji Baji Rao Sambhaji

Answer: 1 Question: The average solar day is approximately 1. 2. 3. 4. 24 hrs 24 hrs 15 minutes 24 hrs 52 minutes 24 hrs 15 Second

Answer: 1 Question: The constellation Sapta-Rishi is known to westerns as the 1. 2. 3. 4. Seven Monks Alpha Centauri Big Dipper Small Bear

Answer: 3 Question: One kilobyte is equal to 1. 2. 3. 4. 1000 bytes 1024 bytes 100 bytes 1023 bytes

Answer: 2

Question: Which of the following is a cellulose fiber? 1. 2. 3. 4. Cotton Wool Rayon Polyester

Answer: 1 Question: Which of the following is not an example of Operating System? 1. 2. 3. 4. Windows 98 BSD Unix Microsoft Office XP Red Hat Linux

Answer: 3 Question: Which of the following vitamins helps in the absorption of calcium? 1. 2. 3. 4. Vitamin A Vitamin B Vitamin C Vitamin D

Answer: 4 Question: Dengue fever is spread by 1. 2. 3. 4. Aedes aegypti mosquito Common House flies Anophilies mosquito Rodent like rats and squirrels

Answer: 1 Question: Which of the following is not a fundamental right of the Indian citizens? 1. 2. 3. 4. Right to property Right to freedom of expression Right to vote Right to remain silence

Answer: 1 Question: Which supercomputer is developed by the Indian Scientists? 1. 2. 3. 4. Param Super 301 Compaq Presario CRAY YMP

Answer: 1 Question: Genome is the key to tomorrow's medical practices because 1. 2. 3. 4. It unleashes an information revolution It provides a new outlook into medicine It is a new way of making drugs It can enable customized medicines.

Answer: 2 Question: Which of the following is not a missile tested in Indian Missile Programme? 1. 2. 3. 4. Agni Trishul Prithvi Arjun

Answer: 4 Question: Mahatma Gandhi started his struggle against apartheid in 1. 2. 3. 4. Natal Transvaal Johannesberg Champaran

Answer: 1