Gk -4

General Knowledge

Model Test Paper – 4

Q1.       After Sachin Tendulkar, who is the second cricketer to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award ?
            (A) Saurav Ganguly                                           (B) Rahul Dravid
            (C) Mahendra Singh Dhoni                                (D) Anil Kumble
Q2.       Which city houses the headquarters of Central Railway ?
            (A) Bhopal                    (B) Nagpur                   (C) Allahabad               (D) Mumbai
Q3.       Who was the first Indian Governor-General of independent India ?
            (A) Lord Mountbatten   (B) C.Rajagopalachari   (C) Rajendra Prasad      (D) Jawaharlal Nehru
Q4.       ’Bhogi’, ‘Surya’, ‘Mattu’ and ‘Kanum’ are the parts of which four day long harvest festival of Tamilnadu ?
            (A) Bihu                       (B) Lohri                      (C) Pongal                    (D) Baisakhi
Q5.       Wheeler Island, the site of India’s missile testing facility Integrated Test Range (ITR), is situated in which state?
            (A) Orissa                    (B) Andhra Pradesh      (C) Tamilnadu               (D) Kerala
Q6.       To whom does the President of India address his resignation ?
            (A) Chief Justice of India                                   (B) Prime Minister
            (C) Lok Sabha Speaker                                     (D) Vice President
Q7.       Apart from Russia, the territory of which country lies in both Europe and Asia continents ?
            (A) Turkey                   (B) Greece                   (C) France                    (D) Germany
Q8.       In 1998, who became the first Indian ever to be awarded the Wharton School Dean’s Medal ?
            (A) J.R.D.Tata                                                 (B) Dhirubhai Ambani  

            (C) N.R.Narayana Murthy                                 (D) Azim Premji
Q9.       Who is known as the ‘Father of Medicine’ ?
            (A) Herodotus               (B) Hipparchus             (C) Hippocrates            (D) Wilhelm Wundt
Q10.     ’Razmnama’ is the Persian translation of which Indian epic ?
            (A) Ramayana              (B) Mahabahrat            (C) Raghuvamsha         (D) Kumarsambhava
Q11.     After Hindi, which is the second most spoken language in India ?
            (A) Tamil                      (B) Marathi                   (C) Telugu                    (D) Bengali
Q12.     In terms of area, which is the largest country ?
            (A) Russia                    (B) Canada                   (C) China                      (D) United States of America
Q13.     Who was the first woman to receive the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award ?
            (A) Indira Gandhi          (B) Mother Teresa        (C) Aruna Asaf Ali       (D) M.S.Subbulakshmi
Q14.     Which is the only element whose atoms have no neutron ?
            (A) Helium                   (B) Oxygen                   (C) Nitogen                   (D) Hydrogen

Q15.     Challenger Deep, a part of Mariana Trench and the deepest point in the oceans, named after British ship   Challenger II which first surveyed it in 1951, is located in which ocean ?
            (A) Indian Ocean          (B) Pacific Ocean         (C) Atlantic Ocean        (D) Antarctic Ocean
Q16.     In 1922, Chittarajnan Das and Motilal Nehru founded which political party ?
            (A) Forward Block        (B) Swaraj Party           (C) Swatantra Party      (D) Ghadar Party
Q17.     According to Hindu mythology, which warrior was the possessor of ‘Chanrdrahas’ sword ?
            (A) Arjun                      (B) Kansa                     (C) Ravana                   (D) Parshuram
Q18.     In which state is the Dachigam National Park, famous for Hangul (Red Deer), located ?
            (A) Assam                    (B) Jammu & Kashmir (C) West Bengal            (D) Madhya Pradesh
Q19.     Which early 11th century traveller to India authored the books ‘Tahqiq-i-Hind’ and ‘Kitab-ul-Hind’ ?
            (A) Fi-Hien                   (B) Marco Polo             (C) Al Beruni                (D) Ibn Batuta
Q20.     Who was the first President of Pakistan ?
            (A) Ayub Khan             (B) Liaquat Ali Khan     (C) Iskandar Mirza        (D) Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Q21.     Which is the heaviest organ in the human body ?
            (A) Heart                     (B) Liver                      (C) Kidney                    (D) Stomach
Q22.     Which hill station was the summer capital of British India ?
            (A) Nainital                   (B) Mussoorie               (C) Darjeeling               (D) Shimla
Q23.     ’Hematite’ and ‘Magnetite’ are the principal ores of which metal ?
            (A) Iron                        (B) Nickel                     (C) Cobalt                     (D) Aluminium
Q24.     ’Biman’ is the national airline of which Asian country ?
            (A) Nepal                     (B) Bhutan                    (C) Bangladesh (D) Sri Lanka
Q25.     In 1581, which Mughal ruler started religious doctrine ‘Din-i-Ilahi’ (Divine Faith) ?
            (A) Babar                     (B) Akbar                     (C) Jehangir                  (D) Shahjahan
Q26.     From which country did India procure the aircraft carier Admiral Gorshkov, scheduled to join Indian Navy as         INS Vikramaditaya in 2012 ?
            (A) Russia                    (B) Germany                 (C) France                    (D) United States of America
Q27.     Which National Film Award is given to the Best First Film of a Director ?
            (A) Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus)                     (B) Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus)
            (C) Nargis Dutt Award                                      (D) Indira Gandhi Award
Q28.     ’Kalaripayattu’ is the traditional martial art of which Indian state ?
            (A) Punjab                    (B) Manipur                  (C) Kerala                    (D) Jammu & Kashmir
Q29.     Hazratbal Dargah, which houses the sacred hair of Prophet Mohammed, is situated in which city ?
            (A) Ajmer                     (B) Srinagar                  (C) Fatehpur Sikri          (D) Mumbai
Q30.     ’Struggle for Existence’ book is the autobiography of which Indian woman leader ?
            (A) Mayawati               (B) J.Jayalalitha                        (C) Sushma Swaraj       (D) Mamta Banerjee
Q31.     Who administers the oath of office to the President of India ?
            (A) Prime Minister        (B) Lok Sabha Speaker (C) Rajya Sabha Speaker (D) Chief Justice of India

Q32.     With which state is the Phulkari embroidery associated ?
            (A) Punjab                    (B) Gujarat                   (C) Karnataka               (D) Uttar Pradesh
Q33.     Which capital city houses the headquarters of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation         (SAARC) ?
            (A) Dhaka                    (B) Thimpu                   (C) Kathmandu (D) Islamabad
Q34.     Zend Avesta is the holy book of which religion ?
            (A) Islam                      (B) Judaism                  (C) Christianity              (D) Zoroastrianism
Q35.     Before Hyderabad, which city was the the capital of Andhra Pradesh (erstwhile Andhra State) ?
            (A) Warangal                (B) Kurnool                  (C) Vijayawada             (D) Visakhapatnam
Q36.     Who was the first Indian to win boy’s Wimbledon Singles title in 1954 ?
            (A) Ramanathan Krishnan                                 (B) Vijay Amritraj
            (C) Ramesh Krishnan                                        (D) Leander Paes
Q37.     At which place in Kerala was the first tide (ocean wave) generated electricity project of India established ?
            (A) Alapuzha                (B) Ezhimala                 (C) Vizhinjam                (D) Kozhikode
Q38.     In 1954, with which Chinese premier did Indian PM Jawaharlal Nehru sign Panchsheel (five principles of   peaceful co-existence) Pact ?
            (A) Mao Zedong           (B) Zhou Enlai              (C) Deng Xiaoping        (D) Hua Guofeng
Q39.     Who authored the ‘Rajatarangini’, a historical chronicle of Kashmir ?
            (A) Kalidas                   (B) Kalhana                  (C) Chankaya               (D) Banabhatt
Q40.     Who designed the Param Vir Chakra medal, India’s highest military award ?
            (A) Nek Chand             (B) Umesh Rao             (C) Bobby Kooka          (D) Savitri Khanolkar
Q41.     Who directed ‘Raja Harishchandra’ (1913), the first totally indigenous Indian feature film ?
            (A) Ardeshir Irani         (B) Dadasaheb Phalke   (C) V.Shantaram           (D) Sohrab Modi          

Q42.     Who is the ex-officio chairman of the Planning Commission of India ?
            (A) President                (B) Prime Minister        (C) Finance Minister      (D) RBI Governor
Q43.     What is the name of India’s longest river bridge, built over the river Ganga at Patna ?
            (A) Rabindra Setu         (B) Vidyasagar Setu      (C) Mahatma Gandhi Setu
            (D) Anna Indira Gandhi Bridge
Q44.     Who founded the Brahmo Samaj, initially known as Brahmo Sabha, in 1828 ?
            (A) Raja Ram Mohan Roy                                 (B) Debendranath Tagore
            (C) Mahadev Govind Ranade                             (D) Keshub Chandra Sen
Q45.     ’Tamasha’ is the popular folk theatre of which state ?
            (A) Punjab                    (B) Maharashtra           (C) Karnataka               (D) West Bengal
Q46.     In which city is the Central Rice Research Institute located ?
            (A) Karnal (Haryana)                                        (B) Shimla (Himachal Pradesh

            (C) Rajamundry (Andhra Pradesh)                     (D) Cuttack (Orissa)

Q47.     At which place Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth and the last Guru of Sikhs, created ‘Khalsa’ in 1699 ?
            (A) Anandpur (Punjab)                          (B) Amritsar (Punjab)
            (C) Patna (Bihar)                                              (D) Nanded (Maharashtra)
Q48.     Who is the first woman Air Marshal of India Air Force (IAF) ?
            (A) Punita Arora           (B) Harita Kaur Deol    (C) Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya
            (D) Padmavathy Bandopadhyay
Q49.     What is the boundary line demarcating India and China known as ?
            (A) Curzon Line            (B) Durand Line            (C) McMahon Line       (D) RadCliffe Line
Q50.     In 1958, which billiards player became the first Indian to win an individual world title in any sport ?
            (A) Wilson Jones           (B) Michael Ferreira      (C) Geet Sethi