General Awareness | Miscellaneous Part-1

General Awareness | Miscellaneous Part-1

Feb 8, 2025 - 14:37 Updated: Feb 9, 2025 - 12:49
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1. Which of the following famines of the 19th century in India has been described as 'Sea of Calamity'?

Bihar Famine of 1873
Rajputana Famine of 1868-69
Madras Presidency Famine of 1866-67
Orissa Famine of 1866-67

2. In Indian context, the attitude of 'Paternalism in Governance' is associated with

Thomas Munro
Charles Grant
Holt Mackenzie
Macaulay

3. The Anglo-Afghan relations in the 19th century were influenced by the fear of whose expansion towards India?

Afghanistan
France
Iran
Russia

4. The Indian Famine Code, 1883 was prepared by

Hunter Commission
Hartog Commission
Strachey Commission
Indigo Commission

5. Who remarked about the East India Company that "The Company is an anomaly but it is part of a system where everything is an anomaly"?

Warren Hastings
G.B. Macaulay
Lord Clive
Henry Dundas

6. Who said, "Political Freedom is the life breath of a nation"?

Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Aurobindo Ghosh
Bipin Chandra Pal
Mahatma Gandhi

7. Who was the first Speaker to discard the official wig and presided over the house wearing the Gandhi cap?

Satya Narayan Sinha
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
G.V. Mavlankar
Sanjeeva Reddy

8. Which death anniversary of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar will fall in 2016?

58th
59th
60th
61st

9. Who among the following Indian is known as Gurudev?

Rabindra Nath Tagore
C. Rajagopalachari
Lala Lajpat Rai
B.R. Ambedkar

10. In which year Rabindra Nath Tagore died?

1869
1911
1941
1765

11. Who amongst the following had called Rabindra Nath Tagore as 'the Great Sentinel'?

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Mahatma Gandhi
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Subhash Chandra Bose

12. Who gives the Slogan 'Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan'?

Lal Bahadur Shastri
Subhash Chandra Bose
Devi Lal
Morarji Desai

13. Who said, "Freedom is almost within reach, we have to seize it"?

Mahatma Gandhi
Subhash Chandra Bose
Jawaharlal Nehru
Shaukat Ali

14. Who of the following had written, "India's salvation will not be achieved under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi"?

M.A. Jinnah
Clement Richard Attlee
Winston Churchill
Subhash Chandra Bose

15. In which year was the first cloth mill established in Bombay?

1842
1845
1850
1854

16. The founder of Boy Scouts and Civil Guides movement in India was

Charles Andrews
Robert Montgomery
Richard Temple
Baden-Powell

17. Who among the following had been described as the high priest of Communism in India?

Jawaharlal Nehru
Acharya Narendra Dev
M.R. Masani
Ashok Mehta

18. Who one of the following is the biographer of Jawaharlal Nehru?

Frank Moraes
Dom Moraes
Louis Fischer
Webb Miller

19. Who is known as father of Dyarchy?

Lord Clive
Hector Munaro
Lord Macaulay
Sir Leonil Cartis

20. Of the following events, which stands third in chronological order?

Champaran Movement
Non-Co-operation Movement
Quit India Movement
Dandi March

21. Which lady contributed the largest in the Indian Politics after 1947?

Aruna Asaf Ali
Kamla Rani Singh
Tarkeshwari Sinha
Rabari Devi

22. Who raised the demand of 'Complete Independence' for the first time in 1921?

Maulana Muhammad Ali
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Mahatma Gandhi
Maulana Hasrat Mohani

23. Who has hailed Mohd. Ali Jinnah most responsible for the partition of India?

Lord Curzon
Lord Irwin
Lord Linlithgow
Lord Mountbatten

24. Who amongst the following presided over the All Parties Muslim Conference held at Delhi on 31st December, 1928?

Agha Khan
M.A. Jinnah
Faiz Hussain
Karim Jalal

25. Who among the following is popularly known as the Frontier Gandhi'?

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Jarin Das
Maulana Muhammad Ali

26. What was the name of the movement started by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan against British?

Red Shirt
Quit India
Khilafat
None of these

27. The native State of Tripura became involved in the Freedom movement early in the 20th century because

The kings of Tripura were always anti-British
The Bengal revolutionaries took shelter in Tripura
The tribes of the state were fiercely freedom loving
There were already some groups fighting against the kingship and its protector, the British

28. Rajendra Prasad belonged to

Uttar Pradesh
Bihar
Madhya Pradesh
None of the above

29. Jagat Narayan Lal was sent to

Bankipur Jail
Camp Jail
Bhagalpur Jail
Hazaribagh Jail

30. The Samadhis of Kasturba and Mahadev Desai are situated in the premises of

Agha Khan Palace, Poona
Yervada Jail
Ahmadnagar Fort Jail
Alipur Central Jail

31. The tomb of Kasturba Gandhi is situated in the premises of

Alipur Central Jail
Ahmadnagar Fort Jail
Agha Khan Palace Pune
Yerwada Jail

32. The year of Bengal Famine in which millions of people died is

1942
1943
1944
1945

33. Which part of India remained under Portuguese control after 15th August, 1947?

Goa
Sikkim
Pondicherry
Andaman & Nicobar

34. The first Indian to contest election to the British House of Commons was

Dada Bhai Naoroji
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Feroz Shah Mehta
W.C. Bannerjee

35. Who was the first Indian selected as a member of the British Parliament?

R.C. Dutt
Dadabhai Naoroji
Rammohan Roy
Meghnad Desai

36. The first communist Government of India was established in the province of

Tamil Nadu
Andhra Pradesh
Kerala
West Bengal

37. Which of the following session of the Indian National Congress, Gandhi said, 'Gandhi may die, but Gandhism will remain forever'?

Ramgarh Session, 1940
Lahore Session, 1929
Calcutta Session, 1928
Karachi Session, 1931

38. The 'Deepavali Declaration' issued in the year 1929 was related to the

Communal problem
Dominion status
Labour leaders
Untouchability

39. In which year was the Wavell Plan presented?

1942
1943
1944
1945

40. Who said 'Imperialism is dead as Dodo'?

Ramse MacDonald
Winston Churchill
Clement Attlee
Lord Wavell

41. Who said "Here is a revolution taking place and we should move quickly"?

Sir Stafford Cripps
Lord Pattrick Lawrence
Lord Wavell
A.B. Alexander

42. In which city the first atomic bomb was exploded?

Hiroshima (Japan)
Kabul
Lisbon
Rome

43. 'Operation Vijay' was conducted against which nation?

China
Bangladesh
Nepal
Pakistan

44. Kisan Diwas is celebrated on

23rd March
23rd June
23rd September
23rd December

45. The first Indian to win Nobel Prize was

C.V. Raman
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Hargovind Khurana
Amartya Sen

46. Who was the chairperson of first All India Socialist Youth Congress?

Subhash Chandra Bose
Acharya Narendra Dev
Jawaharlal Nehru
J.B. Kriplani

47. Alipur Central Jail is situated at

Mumbai
Kolkata
Chennai
Delhi

48. 'Operation Polo' is associated/connected with

Quit India Movement
Civil Disobedience Movement
Military Action in Junagarh State
Military Action in Hyderabad State

49. The 'Secretariat Building' of which State is known as 'Writer's Building'?

Assam
West Bengal
Maharashtra
Karnataka

50. In India 'Teacher's Day' is celebrated on

8th March
1st March
14th July
5th September

51. Karl Marx explained the process of class struggle with the help of which one of the following theories?

Empirical liberalism
Existentialism
Darwin's theory of evolution
Dialectical materialism

52. The present day calendar is based on

Julian Calendar
Gregorian Calendar
Jewish Calendar
Muhammadan Calendar

53. 'Falun Gong' is becoming a popular movement in

Japan
China
South Korea
All of the above

54. Religious Organisation established by Mother Teresa is called

Sisters of Charity
Missionaries of Charity
Organisation of love
Charity for all

55. Civil Service Day is celebrated on

21st September
15th August
21st April
22nd June

56. The first lady Prime Minister in the world, was

Golda Meir
Sirmao Bhandarnaike
Indira Gandhi
Margarett Thatcher

57. Among the following which is named the official residence of the British Prime Minister.

London House
Burkingham Palace
10 Downing Street
None of the above

58. China occupied Tibet in

1960
1959
1961
1962

59. Bangladesh was established as an independent nation after the Indo-Pakistan War of

December, 1970
March, 1970
March, 1971
December, 1971

60. In which year did the USSR become Russia?

1989
1990
1991
1992

61. When occurred unification of Germany?

2 October, 1990
3 October, 1990
5 October, 1990
10 October, 1990

62. The main cause of participation of the USA in 2nd World War, 1941 was

War occurred between European powers
American Bankers had loans Germany
Neutral Foreign policy of USA
Invasion of Pearl Harbour

63. First President of United States of America was

George Washington
John Adams
Abraham Lincoln
J.F. Kennedy

64. Which of the following was the President of United States of America who have resigned from the post of President?

Bill Clinton
Richard Nixon
George W. Bush
None of the above

65. Which country is concerned to Bishop Desmond Tutu?

South Africa
Nicaragua
Mauritius
Namibia

66. Who is credited with making of real paper in China?

Tsai-lun
Va Waugh
Chin
Kun-zun

67. Much discussed 'God Particle' is

Neutrino
Leptons
Higgs Boson
Mesons

68. The branch of Physics that deals with the motion of very small particles is called

Field Theory
Particle Physics
Quantum Mechanics
Atomic Physics

69. The latest Android mobile operating system-6.0 is named as

Marshmallow
Jelly Bean
Kitkat
Lollipop

70. Science of time measurement is

Horology
Cosmology
Tomography
Hydrology

71. The study of friction and lubrication is

Cryogenics
Selenology
Horology
Tribology

72. National Physical Laboratory is situated in

New Delhi
Chennai
Bengaluru
Kolkata

73. National Chemical Laboratory is situated at

Lucknow
New Delhi
Pune
Hyderabad

74. Tata Institute of Fundamental research is located in

Bangalore
Kolkata
Delhi
Mumbai

75. Laser is a device for producing

Spontaneous radiation
Dispersed radiation
Scattered radiation
Stimulated radiation

76. The world's highest ground-based telescopic observatory is located at

Colombia
India
Nepal
Switzerland

77. Who is the scientist in whose honour the 'Chandra X-ray telescope' has been named

Chandrashekhar Venkat Raman
Jagdish Chandra Bose
Prafulla Chandra Roy
Subramanyam Chandrashekhar

78. Who is the first astronaut in space?

Yuri Gagarin
Alan Shephard
S. Titov
John Yung

79. Who among the following is world's first woman cosmonaut?

Bachendri Pal
Junko Tabei
Valentina Tereshkova
Sally Ride

80. Moon is

A Star
A Planet
A Satellite
A Meteorite

81. A.T.M. means

Automatic Transaction Machine
Automatic Transfer Machine
Automated Teller Machine
Advance Transaction Machine

82. The tail of a comet always points

Away from the Sun
Towards the Sun
Towards North-East
Towards South-East

83. Highly dense stars are called

Supernova
Neutron stars
Binary stars
Asteroid

84. The percentage of nuclear energy in India's total energy generation is

60%
27%
10%
3%

85. Which technology of the 21st century can do wonders in device miniaturization?

Atomic laser technique
Nanotechnology
Geneocology
Hydroponics

86. In the state of weightlessness, the size of candle's flame will be

Longer
Smaller
Spherical
Constant

87. 'Hydrocarbon Vision 2025' is associated with

Storage of petroleum products
Euro I and Euro II vehicles
Green House effect
None of the above

88. Which one of the following devices is used to cool the engine of the vehicles?

Polygraph
Turbine
Radiator
Quadrant

89. In automatic wrist watches energy is provided by

Manual binding
Battery
Liquid crystal
Different movements of our hand

90. In which one of the following locations is the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project to be built?

Northern Spain
Southern France
Eastern Germany
Southern Italy

91. Which country was the first, after the ban on India was lifted by the Nuclear Suppliers Group, to sign an agreement that would allow supply of civil nuclear technology to India?

USA
Italy
Russia
France

92. 'Dakshin Gangotri' is located in

Uttarakhand
Arctic
Himalaya
Antarctica

93. The recent research station set up in the Antarctica is called

Bharti
Dakshini Gangotri
Maitri
None of the above

94. The first heavy water plant was established in

Bangalore
Bhopal
Nangal
Hyderabad

95. Which one of the following is paramagnetic in nature?

Iron
Hydrogen
Oxygen
Nitrogen

96. Which of the following is in liquid form at room temperature?

Lithium
Sodium
Francium
Cerium

97. The magnetic needle points to

East
West
North
Sky

98. The working of the quartz crystal in the watch is based on the

Photoelectric effect
Johnson effect
Piezo-electric effect
Edison effect

99. Liquid crystals are used in

Wrist Watches
Display Devices
Pocket Calculators
All of the above

100. 'Indian Institute of Naturopathy and Yogic Science' is located at

Pune
Lucknow
Hyderabad
Bangalore