Current Affairs & GK Questions- Part 3

Current Affairs & GK Questions- Part 3

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1. In terms of area, which is the smallest state in India?

(A) Goa

(B) Sikkim

(C) Nagaland

(D) Tripura

2. Who is the first indian woman to win Olympic medal ?

(A) P.T.Usha

(B) Shiny Abraham

(C) Karnam Malleshwari

(D) Kunjarani Devi

3. Which is the longest bone in human body ?

(A) Femur

(B) Fibula

(C) Radius

(D) Stapes

4. Who was the first Deputy Prime Minister of India?

(A) B.R.Ambedkar

(B) Lal Bahadur Shastri

(C) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

(D) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

5. Which city houses the headquarters of International Cricket Council (ICC)?

(A) Dubai

(B) London

(C) Monaco

(D) Sharjah

6. 'My Music, My Life' and 'Raga Mala' books are the autobiographies of which music maestro ?

(A) Zakir Hussain

(B) Amjad Ali Khan

(C) Pt.Shiv Kuamr Sharma

(D) Pt.Ravishankar

7. Which European country is known as the 'Land of a thousand lakes' ?

(A) Denmark

(B) Sweden

(C) Norway

(D) Finland

8. After Hindi, which is the second most spoken language in India ?

(A) Tamil

(B) Marathi

(C) Telugu

(D) Bengali

9. 'By God's Decree', 'Cricket my style' and 'Straight from the Heart' are the autobiographies of which Indian cricketer?

(A) Sunil Gavaskar

(B) Ajit Wadekar

(C) Sandeep Patil

(D) Kapil Dev

10. In 1998, which internet search engine company was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin?

(A) Google

(B) Alta Vista

(C) Yahoo

(D) Lycos

11. Deficiency of which vitamin leads to 'Rickets' (softening of bones) ?

(A) Vitamin A

(B) Vitamin B

(C) Vitamin C

(D) Vitamin D

12. Where was the 5th BRICS Nations Summit (2013) held recently?

(a) New Delhi

(b) Durban

(c) Beijing

(d) Moscow

13. Millennium Dome, where Priyanka Chopra was crowned Miss World in 2000, is located in which European city?

(A) Paris (France)

(B) London (UK)

(C) Moscow (Russia)

(D) Rome (Italy)

14. Who invented Bicycle?

(a) Leo H Baekeland

(b) Karl Benz

(c) Evangelista Torricelli

(d) Kirkpatrick Macmillan 

15. To which country does the present UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon belongs? 

(a) Ghana

(b) North Korea

(c) South Korea

(d) Sweden

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Current Affairs & GK questions- Part 2

Current Affairs & GK questions- Part 2

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1. Where was the 11th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas meet held during January 2013?

(a) Jaipur, Rajasthan

(b) Bhubaneswar, Odisha

(c) Kochi, Kerala

(d) New Delhi

2. World Literacy Day is observed on?

(a) Sep 5

(b) Aug 6

(c) Sep 8

(d) Oct 24

3. The 'Char Minar' is in?

(a) Ahmedabad

(b) Hyderabad

(c) Delhi

(d) Sikri

4. Potassium nitrate is used in?

(a) Fertiliser

(b) Medicine

(c) Salt

(d) Glass

5. What is a URL?

(a) A type of UFO

(b) A computer software program

(c) An acronym for Uniform Resources Learning

(d) The address of a document or "page" on the World Wide Web

6. The book 'Gulliver's Travels' was written by?

(a) Alexandra Dumas

(b) Charles Lamb

(c) Charles Dickens

(d) Jonathan Swift

7. Dronacharya Award is given to?

(a) The Best Sportsman

(b) The Best Singer

(c) The Best Sports Coach

(d) The Best Actor

8. Who won the Nobel Prize for Literature 2012?

(a) Mo Yan

(b) Gao Xingjian

(c) Tomas Tranström

(d) Hillary Mantel

9. Full Form of C T Scan?

(a) Computer Touch Scan

(b) Computerised Tomography

(c) Computerised Touching Scan

(d) Carbo Touching Scan

10. Who declared that "Swaraj is my birth right and I must have it " ?

(a) Balagangadhar Tilak

(b) Bhagat Singh

(c) Subash Chandra Bose

(d) Mahatma Gandhi

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

(a) C.V. Raman

(b) Satyendra Nath Bose

(c) Homi J. Bhabha

(d) Narinder Singh Kapany

12. 'Kyat' is the official currency of which Asian country?

(a) Nepal

(b) Myanmar

(c) Bhutan

(d) Sri Lanka

13. Which apparatus is used to measure the blood pressure?

(a) Hygrometer

(b) Chronometer

(c) Thermometer

(d) Sphygmomanometer

14. What is the name of the new version of office software launched by the microsoft on 04 March 2013?

(a) Office 8

(b) Office 2013

(c) Office 38

(d) Office 365

15. When did Margaret Thatcher became the first women Prime Minister of Britain?

(a) 1998

(b) 1989

(c) 1979

(d) 1800

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Postal/Sorting assistant (PA/SA) Exam- Model Questions

Postal/sorting assistant (pa/sa) exam- model questions

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1. Which Indian State shares boundary with maximum number of other states?

(a) Uttar Pradesh

(b) Bihar

(c) Jharkhand

(d) Madhya Pradesh

2. Which among the following films have bagged the Indira Gandhi Award for the best debut film in the recent National Film Awards?

(a) Chittagong and Dhag

(b) Dhag and 101 chodiyangal

(c) Chittagong and Vicky Donor

(d) Chittagong and 101 chodiyangal

3. When was the Indian Constitution finally adopted?

(a) 26 Jan. 1950

(b) 26 Nov. 1949

(c) 15 Aug. 1947

(c) 15 Aug. 1949

4. The boys sing very well, .................?

(a) don't they

(b) aren't they

(c) do they

(d) does they

5. The first non-congress Prime Minister of India?

(a) Charan Singh

(b) A.B. Vajpai

(c) I.K.Gujral

(d) Moraji Desai

6. Name the Indian State, which has largest number of representation in Lok Sabha?

(a) Rajastan

(b) Madhya Pradesh

(c) Uttar Pradesh

(d) Gujrat

7. The antonym of 'Professional'?

(a) Amateur

(b) Tradesman

(c) Labour

(d) Customer

8. The Dandi March of Gandhiji was in ?

(a) 1928

(b) 1929

(c) 1930

(d) 1931

9. In which city the Asian Games first took place in 1951?

(a) Hong kong

(b) Tokyo

(c) New Delhi

(d) Kuala Lampur

10. 'Immortal' means?

(a) having moral values

(b) ancient

(c) living for ever

(d) morally wrong

11. Who directed the world famous film 'The Gandhi'?

(a) Ben Kingsley

(b) Satyajit Ray

(c) Mrinal Sen

(d) Richard Attenborough

12. The chemical that is found in largest quantity in sun?

(a) Helium

(b) Hydrogen

(c) Oxygen

(d) Carbon

13. The difference between 3/4th of 64 and 2/3rd of 48 is equal to:

(a) 16

(b) 24

(c) 32

(d) 20

14. The Finmeccanica defence company, which was recently making news in context with bribery allegation on HeliCopter dealings is from which country?

(a) Germany

(b) France

(c) Italy

(d) Israel

15. Buenos Aires is the capital of which country?

(a) Italy

(b) Argentina

(c) Singapore

(d) Belgium

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General Knowledge & Current Affairs Questions- Part 1

General Knowledge & Current Affairs Questions- Part 1

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1. Which country is also known as the 'Rainbow Nation'?
(A) Australia
(B) United Kingdom
(C) Switzerland
(D) South Africa

2. Who is generally considered as the inventor of the 'Periodic Table', a tabular method of displaying the chemical elements ?

(A) Gregor Mendel
(B) James Chadwick
(C) Dmitri Mendeleev
(D) Ernest Rutherford

3.  'Ace', 'Double fault', 'Smash', Second service', and 'Game point' terms are related with which sport?

(A) Tennis
(B) Squash
(C) Table Tennis
(D) Badminton

4.  Which among the following instrument is used for measuring wind speed?

(A) Anemometer
(B) Hygrometer
(C) Galvanometer
(D) Spectrometer

5.  Which national film award is given to the 'Best Feature Film on National Integration’?

(A) Indira Gandhi Award
(B) Nargis Dutt Award
(C) Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus)
(D) Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus)

6. Which coastal town in Gujarat is world famous for its ship-breaking industry?

(A) Okha
(B) Kandla
(C) Alang
(D) Veraval

7. What name is given to the study or collection of money, coins or often medals?

(A) Lotology
(B) Philately
(C) Numismatics
(D) Philography

8.  'Bandar Seri Begawan' is the capital city of which Asian country?

(A) Laos
(B) Brunei
(C) Vietnam
(D) Taiwan

9. Kaziranga National Park, famous for hosting two-thirds of world's Indian Rhinoceroses (Great One-horned Rhinoceroses), is located in which Indian state ?

(A) Assam
(B) Meghalaya
(C) Manipur
(D) West Bengal

10. 'Playground of Europe' is the nickname of which European country?
(A) Greece
(B) Monaco
(C) Germany
(D) Switzerland

11. Pyongyang is the capital city of which Asian country?

(A) Thailand
(B) North Korea
(C) South Korea
(D) Indonesia

12. Which scientist is often referred to as the 'Father of the Atom Bomb’?

(A) Enrico Fermi
(B) J. Robert Oppenheimer
(C) Albert Einstein
(D) Ernest Rutherford

13.  The Union Territory of Puducherry (old name - Pondicherry) falls under the jurisdiction of which High Court?

(A) Madras High Court
(B) Kerala High Court
(C) Andhra Pradesh High Court
(D) Karnataka High Court

14. 'Land of Thunderbolt' is the nickname of which Asian country?

(A) Nepal
(B) Bhutan
(C) Thailand
(D) Myanmar

15. Which among the following Grand Slam tennis tournament is played on clay court?

(A) US Open
(B) Wimbledon
(C) Australian Open
(D) French Open

16.  'Goal' is the autobiography of which Indian sportsman?

(A) Wilson Jones
(B) Dhyan Chand
(C) K.D. Singh Babu
(D) Chunni Goswami

17. India won the test series against Australia by 4-0 and hence they lifted which trophy on Sunday 24 March 2013?

[A] Indo-Aust Trophy
[B] DLF Cup
[C] Border-Gavaskar Trophy
[D] Pepsi Cup

18. Who is the present CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General of India)?

[A] Vinod Rai
[B]Murli Manohar Joshi
[C]G.E.Vahanvati
[D]Tejender Khanna

19.  Who is the first Women Chief Justice of High Court in India?

[A] Shanno Devi
[B]Rajkumari Amrita Kaur
[C]Fatima Bibi
[D]Leela Seth

20. When is the NRI Day celebrated?

[A] 10th March
[B]26th February
[C]21st December
[D]09th January

21. Which city in India is known as
"Silicon Valley of India"?

[A] Hyderabad
[B] Bangalore
[C] Gurgaon
[D] Pune

22.  Who was the first Chief Election Commissioner of India?

[A] A. K. Gopalan
[B] Vallabhbhai Patel
[C] B. R. Ambedkar
[D] Sukumar Sen

23. What was the code name of the five nuclear tests conducted by India at Pokhran test site in Rajasthan, in May 1998?

(A) Operation Pawan
(B) Operation Shakti
(C) Operation Vijay
(D) Operation Kalki

24. With which sport are the national tournaments 'Durand Cup' and 'Santosh Trophy' associated?

(A) Hockey
(B) Cricket
(C) Football
(D) Tennis

25. How many years does the US President serve during one term?

(A) 2 years
(B) 3 years
(C) 4 years
(D) 5 years

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