Current Affairs & GK Questions- Part 12

Current Affairs & GK Questions- Part 12

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1. Baglihar Dam, also known as Baglihar Hydroelectric Power Project, in Jammu & Kashmir is built across which river ?

(A) Beas

(B) Chenab

(C) Jhelum

(D) Sutlej

Ans.(B) Chenab

2.Where was the first Indian Institute of Management (IIM) established in 1961 ?

(A) Kolkata

(B) Bengaluru

(C) Ahmedabad

(D) Lucknow

Ans.(A) Kolkata

3.Which India born physicist invented the 'Optical Fibre' ?

(A) C.V. Raman

(B) Satyendra Nath Bose

(C) Homi J. Bhabha

(D) Narinder Singh Kapany

Ans.(D) Narinder Singh Kapany

4. Which natural sugar is found in the milk ?

(A) Lactose

(B) Sucrose

(C) Maltose

(D) Fructose

Ans.(A) Lactose

5.What is the maximum number of votes which an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) can record ?

(A) 1840 votes

(B) 2840 votes

(C) 3840 votes

(D) 4840 votes

Ans.(C) 3840 votes

6.Which device is used to detect radioactivity ?

(A) Oscilloscope

(B) Geiger counter

(C) Geordie Lamp

(D) Kipp's apparatus

Ans.(B) Geiger counter

7.On the banks of which river is the Jamshedpur, the steel city of India, situated ?

(A) Tapti

(B) Narmada

(C) Subarnarekha

(D) Hooghly

Ans. (C) Subarnarekha

8.Which Indian city you would be in if you were standing on world's longest railway platform ?

(A) Jabalpur (M.P.)

(B) Kharagpur (W.Bengal)

(C) Mughalsarai (U.P.)

(D) Secunderabad (A.P.)

Ans.(B) Kharagpur (W.Bengal)

9. 'Freedom in Exile' book is the autobiography of which Nobel Peace Prize winner ?

(A) Yasser Arafat

(B) Nelson Mandela

(C) Dalai Lama XIV

(D) Aung San Suu Kyi

Ans.(C) Dalai Lama XIV

10.Which waterbody seprates the India from the island nation of Sri Lanka ?

(A) Bering Strait

(B) Palk Strait

(C) Strait of Gibraltar

(D) Strait of Magellan

Ans.(B) Palk Strait