GENERAL AWARENESS SAMPLE PAPERS
(PSC/SSC/BANK/CSAT/IES EXAMS)
Q.1.Which Indian state is the largest producer in the world of the golden coloured 'Muga' silk ?- Orissa
- West Bengal
- Assam
- Karnataka
Q.2.Which Indian freedom fighter was popularly called 'Mahamana' ?
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- Jai Prakash Narain
- Gopal Hari Deshmukh
- Madan Mohan Malaviya
Q.3.Which Indian state would you be in if you were watching birds at Ranganathittu Birds Sanctuary, situated on an island in the Kaveri river ?
- Karnataka
- Maharashtra
- Tamil Nadu
- Andhra Pradesh
Q.4.'Anandmath', 'Durgeshnondini' and 'Kapalkundala' novels were authored by which Bengali writer ?
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Sharat Chandra Chatterjee
- Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
- Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyay
Q.5.Which among the following grassland region is also known as the "World's Breadbasket" ?
- Pampas of Argentina
- Prairies of North America
- Savannas of Africa
- Steppes of Russia
Q.6.'Ace', 'Double fault', 'Smash', Second service', and 'Game point' terms are related with which sport ?
- Tennis
- Squash
- Table Tennis
- Badminton
Q.7.Baglihar Dam, also known as Baglihar Hydroelectric Power Project, in Jammu & Kashmir is built across which river ?
- Beas
- Chenab
- Jhelum
- Sutlej
Q.8.Where was the first Indian Institute of Management (IIM) established in 1961 ?
- Kolkata
- Bengaluru
- Ahmedabad
- Lucknow
Q.9.What line connects the points on a map that receive equal amounts of rainfall ?
- Isobar
- Isohel
- Isotherm
- Isohyet
Q.10.Which Australian state was formerly known as "Van Diemen's Land" ?
- Victoria
- Queensland
- Tasmania
- New South Wales
Q.11.On 28 May 2008, the Indian Air Force attained the Airborne Warning And Control System (AWACS) capability by procuring the Phalcon radar (mounted on Russian plane IL-76) from which country ?
- France
- Israel
- Russia
- Germany
Q.12.'Marasmus' and 'Kwashiorkor' diseases are caused due to deficiency of which nutrient ?
- Sodium
- Protein
- Iodine
- Vitamin D
Q.13.Which among the following is the largest Buddhist monastery in India ?
- Ghum monastery (West Bengal)
- Rumtek monastery (Sikkim)
- Twang monastery (Arunachal Pradesh)
- Kursha monastery (Jammu & Kashmir)
Q.14.According to 2001 cencus, which state has the highest literacy rate ?
- Goa
- Mizoram
- Tripura
- Kerala
Q.15.Which India born physicist invented the 'Optical Fibre' ?
- C.V. Raman
- Satyendra Nath Bose
- Homi J. Bhabha
- Narinder Singh Kapany
Q.16.Where is the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, the apex training institution for senior members of the civil services in India, located ?
- Mussoorie (Uttarakhand)
- Mount Abu (Rajasthan)
- Darjeeling (West Bengal)
- Kodaikanal (Tamil Nadu)
Q.17.Which ancient Indian sage authored the 'Yog Darshan' ?
- Jaimini
- Gautam
- Kapil Muni
- Patanjali
Q.18.Which city houses the headquarters of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the world's 'Atoms for Peace' organisation set up in 1957 within the United Nations family ?
- Tokyo (Japan)
- Vienna (Austria)
- Geneva (Switzerland)
- New York (USA)
Q.19.Which Asian city was formerly known as 'Batavia' ?
- Yangon (Myanmar)
- Hanoi (Vietnam)
- Jakarta (Indonesia)
- Beijing (China)
Q.20.Which seventh century Indian mathematician was the first in the world to treat 'zero' as a number and show its mathematical operations ?
- Aryabhatta
- Medhatithi
- Brahmagupta
- Bhaskaracharya
- Star Asia
- BBC Asia
- Al Jazeera
- Khaleed Times
- Ruias
- Ambanis
- Goenkas
- Kanorias
- Escudo
- Guilder
- Mark
- Schilling
- 18
- 15
- 21
- 12
- Ashcroft
- Powell
- Rumsfeld
- Cheney
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