ARENA OF GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

 1. Which of the following is called the ‘Land of the Golden Pagoda’?

(a) Myanmar (b) China (c) Japan (d) North Korea

2. The famous Vishnu Temple at Angkor Wat in Cambodia was built by

(a) Shrutavarman (b) Suryavarman II (c) Indravarman (d) Aniruddha

3. Who built Shantiniketan?

(a) Guru Ramdas (b) Maharaja Pratap Singh

(c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Pruthvi Raj Chouhan

4. Gateway of India was built by

(a) Frank Lloyd Wright (b) George Wittet (c) Frank Gehry (d) Zaha Hadid

5. Where was Mahatma Gandhi born?

(a) Madhya Pradesh (b) Assam (c) Rajasthan (d) Gujarat

6. Out of the following, which country is dependent on others for the raw material for its Iron-Steelindustry ?

(a) England (b) Australia (c) Japan (d) Turkey

7. Which one of the following countries is the largest producer of uranium in the world ?

(a) Canada (b) South Africa (c) Namibia (d) U.S.A.

8. The largest producer of gold in the world is

(a) Australia (b) Canada (c) Russia (d) South Africa

9. The busiest and the most important sea route of the world is

(a) North Pacific Sea Route (b) North Atlantic Sea Route

(c) South Atlantic Sea Route (d) Indian Ocean Route

10. Which of the following sets of countries are referred to as ‘The Golden Crescent’ the largest opium industry in the world?

(a) Myanmar, Laos and Thailand (b) Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq

(c) Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran (d) Myanmar, Malaysia and Thailand

11. What was the basis for constituting the Constituent Assembly of India ?

(a) The Resolution of the Indian National Congress

(b) The Cabinet Mission Plan, 1946

(c) The Indian Independence Act, 1947

(d) The resolutions of the Provincial/State Legislatures of the Dominion of India

12. From the Constitution of which country the provision of Federation was borrowed while framing the Constitution of India ?

(a) USA (b) UK (c) Canada (d) Switzerland

13. Who among the following was not a member of the Constituent Assembly established in July 1946 ?

(a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad (b) K M Munshi (c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) Abul Kalam Azad

14. Who was the Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constitution ?

(a) J. B. Kripalani (b) Rajendra Prasad (c) J. L. Nehru (d) B. R. Ambedkar

15. India is a republic because—

(a) it is democratic country (b) It is a parliamentary democracy

(c) the head of the state is elected for a definite period

(d) All of these

16. When the speed of car is doubled, then what will be the braking force of the car to stop it in the same distance?

(a) Four times (b) Two times (c) Half (d) One-fourth

17. The dimension of which of the following is the same as that of impulse?

(a) Volume (b) Momentum(c) Torque (d)Change in the rate of momentum

18. Which among the following is the fundamental quantity?

(a) Volume (b) Time (c) Velocity (d) Force

19. When a ring of metal is heated what happens to its hole?

(a) Expands (b) Contracts

(c) It expands or contracts according to its diameter

(d) It expands or contracts according to its coefficient of expansion

20. If the diameter of a capillary is doubled, then the rise of water in it will be

(a) Two times (b) Half (c) Four times (d) No change

                                                                 ANSWERS 

1. (a) 2. (b) 3. (c) 4. (b) 5. (d) 6. (c) 7. (a) 8. (a) 9. (b) 10. (c)

11. (b) 12. (c) 13. (c) 14. (d) 15. (c) 16. (a) 17. (b) 18. (b) 19. (a) 20. (b)