Q.1

TheAustralian Open Tennis Championship titles for men's and women's singles were won, respectively by

  • Pete Sampras and Steffi Graf
  • Rafael Nadal and Venus Williams
  • Andre Agassi and Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario
  • Marat Safin and Serena Williams
Q.2

Pan - American Highway, north-west Alaska to Southernmost Chile is the worlds

  • longest road
  • highest road
  • busiest road
  • None of the above
Q.3

Radioactive substances can be produced readily in

  • an electron gun
  • an atomic pile
  • a transistor
  • a Wilson cloud chamber
Q.4

Penicillin is widely used as

  • an antiseptic
  • a disinfectant
  • an antibiotic
  • an insecticide
Q.5

The first launch of the missile 'Trishul' was made in

  • February, 1988
  • May, 1989
  • June, 1990
  • September, 1995
Q.6

The basic cause of World War II was

  • an unjust Treaty of Versailles
  • rise of the Nazi Party in Germany
  • Japan's policy of expansion and imperialism of England and France
  • All of the above
Q.7

The first chairman of the Africa fund committee was

  • Late Rajiv Gandhi
  • Late Indira Gandhi
  • Late Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
  • None of the above
Q.8

The common pesticides which are in use consist of

  • PCBs
  • organochlorines
  • olefins
  • heterocyclic compounds
Q.9

The first NAM (Non-Aligned Movement) conference was held at

  • Belgrade (Yugoslavia)
  • Caire (Egypt)
  • Lusaka (Zambia)
  • Algeria (Algeria)
Q.10

People who secretly indulge in anti-national or anti-government activities and help the enemy are called

  • Second column
  • Third column
  • Fourth column
  • Fifth column
Q.11

The first Dada Saheb Phalke Award, given inwas received by

  • Devika Rani
  • Pankaj Mullick
  • Kanan Devi
  • Sohrab Modi
Q.12

The exhaled air contains

  • carbon dioxide only
  • a mixture which has more carbon dioxide than oxygen
  • a mixture of carbon dioxide, nitrogen and oxygen in which nitrogen has the highest percentage
  • a mixture of carbon dioxide and nitrogen
Q.13

The first foreigner to receive Bharat Ratna was

  • Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
  • Nelson Mandela
  • C.V. Raman
  • None of the above
Q.14

The founder member of EFTA are

  • Austria, Denmark, Norway
  • Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland
  • UK, Austria, Sweden
  • All of the above
Q.15

The first historical mention of the holding of the ancient Olympic Games occurred about

  • 2000 years ago
  • 2250 years ago
  • 2500 years ago
  • 2775 years ago
Q.16

The first Winter Olympic Games were held at

  • Innsburck (Austria)
  • Lake Placid (USA)
  • Chamonix (France)
  • Calgary (Alberta)
Q.17

Pressure cooker cooks rice faster because

  • it always lets the steam escape
  • high pressure crushes the hard covering of rice grains
  • it does not let the heat energy escape easily
  • high pressure raises the boiling point of water
Q.18

TheRight Livelihood Honorary Award honors ____, when the jury recognizes "for his steadfast work over many years for a world free of nuclear weapons".

  • New Zealand's former Prime Minister David Lange
  • Martin Almada (Australia)
  • Martin Green (Australia)
  • None of the above
Q.19

The corps of Military Police central school is situated at

  • Bangalore
  • West Bengal
  • Trimulgherry
  • Secunderabad
Q.20

The country, which was admitted to the membership of the United Nations in Septemberis

  • Macedonia
  • East Timor
  • Andorra
  • Eritrea
Q.21

The committee of the Norwegian Parliament awards the prize for

  • economics
  • peace
  • medicine
  • literature
Q.22

The award instituted to honor outstanding agricultural scientists is

  • Bhatnagar Award
  • Dadabhai Naoroji Award
  • Borlaug Award
  • Arjuna Award
Q.23

The dance in Himachal Pradesh, performed indoor, solo or duet, especially when life comes to a standstill during cold winter is

  • Luddi dance
  • Munzra
  • Giddha parhaun
  • Rouf
Q.24

India became a member of the United Nations in

  • 1945
  • 1947
  • 1959
  • 1960
Q.25

The first recipient of Bharat Ratna award inwas

  • S. Radhakrishnan
  • C. Rajagopalachari
  • C.V. Raman
  • Jawaharlal Nehru
Q.26

The command from a superior officer or a judge to a subordinate right given to a person to act in the name of another, is

  • Mandamus
  • Mandate
  • Manifesto
  • Modvat
Q.27

The full-fledged Commonwealth Games were first organized in ____ at ____

  • 1930; Hamilton in Canada
  • 1934; London in England
  • 1932; Sydney in Australia
  • 1936; Cardiff in UK
Q.28

The first General Elections in India took place in

  • 1948
  • 1950
  • 1952
  • 1954
Q.29

The first Afro-Asian Games were held in

  • Hyderabad
  • Sydney
  • Cairo
  • Kuala Lumpur
Q.30

The college of Military Engineering is situated at

  • Kirkee (Pune)
  • Mhow
  • Dehradun
  • Chennai
Q.31

Super conductivity is a phenomenon in which the resistance of a substance

  • increases with temperature
  • decreases with temperature
  • does not change with temperature
  • becomes zero at very low temperature
Q.32

The first permanent Indian oceanographic station, 'Dakshin Gangotry' during Antarctic Expedition, was set up in

  • April/March 1984
  • Dec. 1982/Jan 1983
  • Nov. 1985/Feb 1986
  • Dec. 1988/March 1989
Q.33

The date of operation of first open heart surgery in India was

  • July 6, 1959
  • August 12, 1991
  • June 20, 1990
  • January 11, 1985
Q.34

The battle tanks designed and developed by the Defence Research and Development Organization in collaboration with Heavy Vehicles Factory and Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited are

  • Vijayanta
  • T-55 and T-72
  • Arjun
  • All of the above
Q.35

The battle tanks that have been modernized to keep pace with the latest technology development is

  • Vijayanta
  • T-55 and T-72
  • Arjun
  • All of the above
Q.36

India's tallest stone statue of the Jain sage Gomateswara is at

  • Mysore, Karnakata
  • New Delhi
  • Sravanabelagola, Karnataka
  • Mandu, Madhya Pradesh
Q.37

India played its first cricket Test Match in

  • 1922
  • 1932
  • 1942
  • 1952
Q.38

India has

  • largest turmeric production
  • largest tea production
  • largest ginger production
  • All of the above
Q.39

How much districts are there in Meghalaya?

  • 11
  • 2
  • 5
  • 9
Q.40

The credit of developing the polio vaccine goes to

  • Jones Salk
  • Alb E. Sabin
  • J.L. Baird
  • J. Perkins
Q.41

The Awards conferred by the Hollywood Foreign press Association which is given annually for creditable efforts in film direction, are

  • Golden Bear Award
  • Oscar Award
  • Owen Global Prize
  • Golden Globe Award
Q.42

Wright Brothers are regarded inventors of the

  • Balloon
  • Bicycle
  • Aeroplane
  • None of the above
Q.43

The corresponding Gregorian date of the saka month, Bhadra is

  • July 23
  • August 23
  • September 23
  • October 23
Q.44

The first meeting of the SAARC was opened in

  • Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Bangalore, India
  • Kathmandu, Nepal
  • Islamabad, Pakistan
Q.45

The electron was first identified by

  • J. J. Thompson
  • J. Kepler
  • D. Rutherford
  • James Chadwick
Q.46

The first Indian to be awarded the Oscar for lifetime achievements in Cinema inwas

  • Satyajit Ray
  • Bhanu Athaiya
  • Dilip Kumar
  • Amitabh Bachchan
Q.47

The chief administrative office of the UNO, which co-ordinates and supervises the activities of the UNO, is

  • the International court of justice
  • the General Assembly
  • the secretariat
  • the Trusteeship council
Q.48

How much districts are there in Punjab?

  • 13
  • 17
  • 22
  • 15
Q.49

How many non-permanent Security Council (UNO) members are from Afro-Asian countries?

  • 5
  • 15
  • 2
  • 1
Q.50

In which year during World War I, USA declared war on Germany, Britain defeated Turkey and captured Baghdad and Jerusalem?

  • 1917
  • 1918
  • 1919
  • 1920
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