COMPONENT 1 : GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
1. What discovery are biologists James D. Watson and Francis Crick in 1953 famous for ?
(A) DNA structure (B) Synthetic Antigens
(C) Malaria germs (D) Cloning
2. Pyongyang is the capital city of which Asian country ?
(A) Thailand (B) North Korea
(C) South Korea (D) Japan
3. Which Indian freedom fighter was popularly called ‘Mahamana’ ?
(A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (B) Gopal Hari Deshmukh
(C) Madan Mohan Malaviya (D) Mahatma Gandhi
4. The largest city in India is :
(A) Lakshadweep (B) Kanyakumari
(C) Indira Point (D) Rameshwaram
5. Which is the largest orange-growing state ?
(A) Maharashtra (B) Punjab
(C) Orissa (D) Madhya Pradesh
6. Eritrea, which became the 182nd member of the UN in 1993, is in the continent of :
(A) Asia (B) Africa
(C) Europe (D) Australia
7. FFC stands for
(A) Foreign Finance Corporation (B) Film Finance Corporation
(C) Federation of Football Council (D) None of the above
8. Gravity setting chambers are used in industries to remove :
(A) SOX (B) NOX
(C) suspended particulate matter (D) CO
9. From the following , choose the set in which names of Secretary-Generals of the UNO are arranged in correct chronological order ?
(A) U Thant, Kurt Waldheim, Dag Hammarskjoeld, Trygve Lie
(B) Trygve Lie, Dag Hammarskjoeld, U Thant, Kurt Waldheim
(C) Trygve Lie, U Thant, Dag Hammarskjoeld, Kurt Waldheim
(D) U Thant, Dag Hammarskjoeld, Trygve Lie, Kurt Waldheim
10. Eugenics is the study of
(A) altering human beings by changing their genetic components
(B) people of European origin
(C) different races of mankind
(D) genetic of plants
11. Who wrote ‘War and Peace’ ?
(A) Leo Tolstoy
(B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Charles Dickens
(D) Kipling
12. Guru Gopi Krishna was a maestro of which of the following dance forma ?
(A) Kuchipudi (B) Kathak
(C) Manipuri (D) Bharatnatyam
13. The members of the Rajya Sabha are elected by :
(A) the people
(B) Lok Sabha
(C) elected members of the legislative assembly
(D) elected members of the legislative council
14. The power to prorogue the Lok Sabha rests with :
(A) the Speaker
(B) the President
(C) the Prime Minister
(D) the minister for Parliamentary affairs