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Tuesday 11 August 2015

General Knowledge Test - Day 36

1) The commander of Alauddin Khilji’s forces during his Deccan Campaigns was __?
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2) Gravity setting chambers are used in industries to remove
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3) The Chola empire reached its zenith under
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4) If a large number of people are enclosed in a room, then 
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5) The parliament is empowered to make laws on any subject of the state list during 
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6) who was the first Chairman of Finance Commission of India?
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7) What is the full form of https ?
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8) Who is the founder of Van Mahotsav ?
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9) The President of the constituent Assembly was
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10) Which of the following terms is used to define the sheath like structure around the epicotyl in the germinating seed of grass?
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11) Name of first Indian to get Jnanpeeth Award ?
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12) Who among the following appoints the prime minister of India?
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13) Development means economic growth plus
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14) Which among the following ranks in Indian Air Force is the highest ?
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15) When was the North-Eastern frontier Railway (NEFR) established?
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16) National Income is based on the ?
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17) ______is not aim of he monetary policy of RBI?
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18) Article 1 of the Constitution declares India as
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19) Who among the following appoints the Prime Minister of India? A. Lok Sabha B. Rajya Sabha C. President of India  
D. Chief Justice of Supreme Court
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20) X–rays travel with the velocity of
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21) The blue colour of the clear sky is due to
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22) Name the continent where 'Tundra' type of climate is not found
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23) Which of the states of Indian federation has a separate constitution? A. Goa B. Himachal Pradesh C. Jammu and Kashmir  D. Tamil Nadu
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General Knowledge Answers - Day 36

Answers:

1) Malik Kafur The Delhi Sulatanate – Khilji Dynasty : Malik Kafur was the commander of Alauddin Khilji’s forces during his Deccan Campaigns.

2) suspended particulate matter

3) Rajendra Chola 1

4) Oxygen decreases and carbon dioxide increases

5) Emergency

6) K.C neogy

7) Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

8) K.M. Munshi

9) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

10) Coleoptile

11) G. Shankar Kurup

12) President

13) Social change

14) Air Commodore

15) 15th Jan, 1958

16) Production of goods and services

17) To control pressure of inflation

18) Union of States

19) President of India

20) light

21) Dispersion of light 

22) Africa

23) Jammu and Kashmir

Sunday 9 August 2015

General Knowledge Test - Day 35

1) Famous sculptures depicting art of love built some time in 

950 AD – 1050 AD are

2) Vijayanagara is compared to the Chola for

3) Kanchi was the capital of (Railways, 1991)

4) Krishnadevaraya was the ruler of (Transmission Executive's Exam. 1992)

5) Who was the founder of Sunga dynasty?

6) The Chola king who conquered the northern part of Sri Lanka and made it a province of his empire, was

7) Which among the following Sultans of Delhi abolished the 
‘Zakat’ on grain ? [A] Alauddin Khilji [B] Mohammad-bin-Tughlaq [C] Firoz Shah Tughlaq [D] Sikandar Lodi

8) What is the full form of SIM ?

9) Who are the guardians of Fundamental rights?

10) Chlorophyll in plants refelcts which of the following 
colours when illuminated by sunlight?

11) First President of India ?

12) The most important river of Orissa is?

13) Sellers market denotes a situation where

14) The Indial Institute of Science is located at

15) The headquarters of North-Eastern railway is situated at

16) Net National Product of a country is?

17) Basic infrastructure facilities in economics are known as?

18) Who proposed the Preamble before the Drafting Committee of the Constitution

19) Which gas is used for the preparation of Soda water

20) Who is the father of discoveries?

21) As you go down into a well, your weight

22) Who is known as 'the father of Indian missile technology'?

23) Which country became the 28th member of the European Union?


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General Knowledge Answers - Day 35

Answers:

1) Khajuraho temples

2) Display of wealth

3)  Pallavas

4) Vijayanagar

5) Pushyamitra

6) Rajaraja

7) Sikandar Lodi The Delhi Sulatanate – Lodi Dynasty : Sikandar Lodi was the Sultan of Delhi between 1489 to 1517 AD. He was a laborious, generous and just ruler. Owing to a transient shortage of maize, he abolished the zakat on grain and it was not renewed by any subsequent Sultan. The prices of all necessary articles remained low during his period.


8) Subscriber Identity Module

9) Supreme Court and High Court

10) Green

11) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

12) Mahanadi

13) Demand exceeds supply

14) Bangalore

15) Gorakhpur

16) GDP minus depreciation Allowances

17) Working capital

18) Jawaharlal Nehru

19) Carbon Dioxide

20) Archimedes

21) decreases slightly

22) Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

23) Croatia

Thursday 6 August 2015

General Knowledge Test - Day 34

1) The irrigation tax was charged on the farmers for the first time by which among the following Sultans?
[A] Alauddin Khilji [B] Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq [C] Mohammad Tughlaq [D] Firoz Tughlaq


2) Each year World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day is celebrated on

3) The political and cultural centre of the Pandyas was

4) The water in an open pond remains cool even in hot summer because

5) Rule of law prevails in

6) A seismogram records which types of earthquake waves

7) when the first Finance Commission of India is formed?

8) Which is the longest river in peninsular India ?

9) The system of dual citizenship exists in

10) Owing to which of the following reasons, great deal of emphasis is laid on the cultivation of soya bean now a days?

11) Name of first president of Indian National Congress ?

12) Name the plant important in sericulture?

13) The monetary unit of Bangladesh is

14) The world famous ajanta caves are situated in the state of

15) What is the length of North-Eastern Frontier Railway (NEFR)?

16) ____________method of measurement of National Income?

17) A firm sells new shares worth Rs.1000 directly to individuals. This transcation will cause?

18) By virtue of which Act, Diarchy was introduced in India

19) Which one of the following types of waves are used in a night vision apparatus?

20) DRDL stands for

21) In which of the following states in English the Official Language?

22) what is the rhino"s horn made of?

23) Vijayanagara is compared to the Chola for?


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General Knowledge Answers - Day 34

Answers:

1) Firoz Tughlaq 
Firoz Shah Tughlaq was the cousin brother of Muhammad Bin Tughlaq, and became the ruler of Delhi on 23rd march 1351 A.D. He imposed only four taxes sanctioned by Islamic viz., kharaj (land tax), khams (1/5 of the looted property during wars), Jizya (religious tax on the Hindus), and Zakat (2½per cent of the income of the Muslims which was spent for the welfare of Muslim subjects and their religion). He imposed irrigation tax after getting it sanctioned from the Ulema.


2) May 8

3) Madurai

4) Water absorbs heat less rapidly than the atmosphere

5) Democracy

6) P - waves then S - waves then L - waves

7) 1951

8) Godavari River

9) USA

10) High Quality protein

11) W.C. Banerjee

12) Mulberry

13) Takka

14) Maharashtra

15) 3700 Km

16) Investment Method

17) No impact on GDP

18) Government of India Act, 1919

19) Infra-red waves

20) Defence Research and Development Laboratory

21) Nagaland

22) Hair

23) Display of wealth

Wednesday 5 August 2015

General Knowledge Test - Day 33

1) Famous sculptures depicting art of love built some time in 950 AD – 1050 AD are?

2) The content of water is greater than fats, the plasma is more than proteins, proteins are more than fats and fats less than plasma. Which constitutes the major Part of the human body ? 

3) Which of the following feature of Indian constitution was borrowed from U.S.A.?
1. Rule of law
2. Fundamental Right
3. Rigid Constitution
4. Directive principles of state policy


4) Which among the following is a Tamil grammatical treatise ? [A] Pattupattu [B] Ettutogai [C] Silappadikaram [D] Tolkappiam


5) Which Prime Minister first take steps for Nationalization  of Banks?

6) Which is the Biggest Museum ?

7) The Election Commission can be removed by

8) Which of the following statement is true regarding the carrot?
a) Main root is modified for food storage
b) main stem is modified for food storage
c) Stem and root store food.
d) Root hairs are modified to hold soil.

9) Name of first speaker of Lok Sabha ?

10) Who is the signatory on the Indian currency notes in denomination of two rupees and above?

11) "one people, one state, one leader" was the policy?

12) A. Nageshwara Rao is asociated which of the following fields ?

13) What is the position of the Indian Railway in the world according to the length of rail lines?

14) Depreciation is equals to

15) WHAT are the main component of basis social infrastructure of an economy?

16) Which foreign country is closest to Andaman Islands?

17) The river that flows through Delhi is

18) Veda which is partly in prose and partly in verses is ___ ?

19) smallest ocean in the world?

20) Who among the following was a Satavahana ruler?
a) Rudradaman (b) Nahapana(c) Vasisthiputra Pulumayi 
(d) Mahendravarman

21) The state having largest area under waste land is

22) Which of the following tress has become the focal point of a raging controversy?

23) Shora is the parliament of  _______?



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General Knowledge Answers - Day 33

1) Khajuraho temples
     The Khajuraho Group of Monuments is a group of Hindu and Jain temples in Madhya Pradesh, India. About 175 kilometres southeast of Jhansi, they are one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in India.


2) Water

3) Fundamental Right

4) Tolkappiam 
The Tolkappiyam is a work on the grammar of the Tamil language It is written in the form of short formulaic compositions and comprises three books – the Ezhuttadikaram, the Solladikaram and the Poruladikaram.It deals with orthography, phonology, morphology, semantics, prosody and the subject matter of literature.


5) Indira Gandhi
    Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was the fourth Prime Minister of India, the first woman Prime Minister of India and central figure of the Indian National Congress party.
  



6) British Museum, London

7) The Parliament

8) Main root is modified for food storage

9) G.V. Mavlankar from 1952-1957
      Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar popularly known as Dadasaheb was an independence activist, the President of the Central Legislative Assembly, then Speaker of the Constituent Assembly of India.



10) Governor, Reserve Bank of India

11) Hitler
       Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.



12) Motion Picture

13) Fourth

14) GNP-NNP

15) Education, Health, Civil Amenities

16) Myanmar

17) Yamuna

18) Yajurveda Adhyayas of Yajur Veda, made up partly of verses and partly of prose, contain a number of prayers and sacrificial formulae. Extensive details for carrying out different sacrifices are given in the chapters of the Yajur Veda.

19) Arctic ocean

20) Vasisthiputra Pulumayi

21) Rajastan

22) Eucalyptus
        Eucalyptus  is a diverse genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. Members of the genus dominate the tree flora of Australia.


23) Afghanistan

Tuesday 4 August 2015

General Knowledge Test - Day 32

1) Gobar gas contains mainly 

2) Each year World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day is celebrated on

3) The inscriptions of Ashoka and the Brahmi script were deciphered by ___?

4) The parliament is empowered to make laws on any subject of the state list during

5) Which income is exempt under the India Income Tax Act

6) The country which lost the largest number of people in the 2nd world war ?

7) In the Parliamentary system of India, the Executive is subordinate to 

8) which of the following term is used for flowering plants?

9) Name of first Indian to get Bharat Ratna Award ?

10) Fascism believed in leadership of

11) The largest river in India is ?

12) The Hindustan Shipyard is located at ?

13) 3. Radio was invented by:
(A) John L. Baird
(B) Charles Babbage
(C) Faraday
(D) Marconi


14) Demand of commodity mainly depends upon?

15) The General Budget is presented in the parliament normally in the month of

16) Guru Gopinath was an exponent of

17) What is the position of the Indian Railway in the world according to the length of rail lines?

18) GDP is defined as the value of___

19) The staple food of the Vedic Aryan was

20) The first Muslim President of the Indian National Congress

21) when did baseball originate in the US?

22) Which of the following will you use to remove rust stains on cloth ?

23) Which national highway joins Agra to Mumbai ?
NH 1
NH 2
NH 3
NH 4


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General Knowledge Answers - Day 32

Answers:

1) Methane

2) May 8

3) James Princep 
James Princep (1799-1840) was an English scholar, orientalist and antiquary. He was the founding editor of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and is best remembered for deciphering the Kharosthi and Brahmi scripts of ancient India. He was the first to decipher the inscriptions of Ashoka and the Brahmi script.


4) Emergency

5) Agricultural Income

6) Japan

7) The Legislature

8) Angiosperms
    The flowering plants, also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants.
     


9) Dr. S Radhakrishnan
       Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was an Indian philosopher and statesman who was the first Vice President of India and the second President of India from 1962 to .


10) One man

11) Ganga

12) Vishakapatnam

13) Marconi
       Guglielmo Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. 


14) Purchasing Power

15) February

16) Kathakali

17) Fourth

18) Final GOods and service produced in an economy in a year

19) Milk and its products

20) Rahimulla Sayani
      Rahimtulla M. Sayani,was an Indian politician who served as the President of the Indian National Congress for one term, succeeding Surendranath Banerjea.




21) 19th century

22) Lime

23) NH 3 joins Agra - Gwaliar - Indore - Nasik - Mumbai.
It is 1161 Km long.

NH 1 joins Delhi - Ambala - Amritsar - Indo-pak-border.
It is 546 Km long.

NH 2 joins Delhi - Agra - Kanpur - Varanasi - Kolkata.
It is 1490 Km long

Monday 3 August 2015

General Knowledge Test - Day 31

1) When a man circles round the earth in a satellite, then

2) When and where was the All India Kisan Sabha formed? 

3) Total No of Codes in Indian Finanial System Code (IFSC) system is

4) At which among the following sites of Indus Valley Civilization, the rows of distinctive fire altars with provision of ritual bathing have been found ? [A] Mohen-jo-daro [B] Harappa [C] Kalibangan [D] Lothal 


5) For the Olympics and World Tournaments, the dimensions of basketball court are?

6) How many coastal states are in India ?

7) The chemical name of common salt is ?

8) _____________ terms is used to define the phenomenon for the fruit formed without fertilisation? A) Amitosis B) Parthenogenesis c) Oogenesis d) Parthenocarpy

9) Name of first Indian Pilot ?

10) Deficiency of Iron leads to ?

11) All electioneering campaigns during the time of elections are stopped?

12) Who appoints the Chief Election Commissioner of India?

13) Which of the following is a violin player ?

14) Kishori Amonkar is famous in which of the following fields ?

15) How much distance was traveled by first train of India?

16) which one of the following is a development expenditure?

17) During colonial period, British capital was manily invested in?

18) Which among the following a unit of measurement is known as Papergold?

19) Which ' water Body ' separates Andaman and Nicobar Islands?

20) The state that has the largest number of Cotton textile mills?

21) The earliest evidence of rice cultivation comes from which among the following valleys?


22) The first metal used by the man was ?

23) Of these who got the Saraswati Samman?
(A) Madhavi Kutty
(B) Lalithambika Antharjanam
(C) Sugathakumari
(D) Balamani Amma



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General Knowledge Answers - Day 31

ANSWERS:

1) Mass remains constant but weight becomes zero

2) in 1929 - Bihar

3) 11

4) Kalibangan 
Kalibangan – is an archaeological site where Ploughed Field, Bones of Camel, Circular and Rectangular Graves, distinctive fire (Vedic ) altars with provision of ritual bathing have been found.

5) 28 m x 15 m

6)  9

7) Sodium Chloride
   Sodium chloride , also known as salt, common salt, table salt or halite, is an ionic compound with the chemical formula NaCl, representing a 1:1 ratio of sodium and chloride ions.


8) Parthenocarpy
    In botany and horticulture, parthenocarpy (literally meaning virgin fruit) is the natural or artificially induced production of fruit without fertilization of ovules. The fruit is therefore seedless.





9) J.R.D. Tata in 1929

10) Anaemia

11) 36 hours before the actual poll

12) President

13) C. Jogns: V.C. Jog

14) Music

15) 34 km

16) Irrigation Expenditure

17) Services

18) Petro Dollar
    a notional unit of currency earned by a country from the export of petroleum.





19) 10 Degree Channel 

20) Maharashtra

21) Belan Valley 
    Belan Valley, Allahabad is one of the regions the earliest evidence of rice cultivation has come.


22) Copper

23) Balamani Amma
    Nalapat Balamani Amma was an Indian poet who wrote in Malayalam. She was a prolific writer and was known as the Poetess of Motherhood. Amma, Muthassi, and Mazhuvinte Katha were some of her well known works.









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