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General Knowledge

1. (a) Uttarakhand (b) Punjab

(c) Jammu and Kashmir (d) Uttar Pradesh
Option A
Explanation: In Uttarakhand , a crucial bridge on the Munsyari Milam Road near the Indo -China Border in
Pithoragarh which was collapsed recently, has been rebuilt by the Border Road Organisation(BRO) in a record time
of five days.

2. Under which country presidency, G20 Extraordinary Virtual Education Ministers’ Meet was held?
(a) India (b) Saudi Arabia (c) China (d) Nepal
Option B
Explanation: Union Minister of Human Resource and Development, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank represented India
in the G20 Extraordinary Virtual Education Minister’s Meet under the presidency of Saudi Arabia.

3. The archaeological site of Harappa is presently situated in__________.

(a) India (b) Bangladesh (c) Pakistan (d) Nepal

(c) Harappa is now a site in central Punjab, Pakistan and its takes its name from a modern village located near the former
course of the Ravi River.

4. In which of the following historical sites has a dockyard been found?

(a) Lothal (b) Kalibangam (c) Ropar (d) Banwali

(a) Lothal was the trading centre during the Indus Valley Civilization. It had a dockyard for exporting the products.

5. Recently Fianna Fáil leader Micheal Martin has been elected as the new Prime Minister of which country?
(a) Afghanistan (b) Uganda (c) Iceland (d) Ireland
Option D
Explanation: Fianna Fáil leader Micheal Martin has been elected as the new Prime Minister of the Republic of
Ireland following the formation of a historic coalition government.

6. Who was conferred with the lifetime achievement award for his contribution to statistics on the occasion of Statistics
Day?
(a) C Rangarajan (b) Raghuram Rajan (c) Viral Acharya (d) Dinesh Dixit
Option A
Explanation: Former Reserve Bank of India governor C Rangarajan conferred with the lifetime achievement award
for his contribution to statistics on the occasion of Statistics Day.

7. Which Act of 1999 was aimed at facilitating and promoting the orderly development and maintenance of foreign
exchange market and external trade and payments in India?
(a) FENA (b) FELA (c) FERA (d) FEMA

(d) Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999, replaced the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1973, because of the
ineffectiveness of the latter in restricting expansion of transnational companies, particularly after the government’s pro-
liberalization policies of 1991.

8. Which is the largest organization in India in terms of conducting regular socio-economic surveys?
(a) NSSO (b) ISI
(c) Central Statistical Organization (d) Registrar General and Census Commission of India

(a) National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO), as the name says, does this under its four divisions. A unit under the
central Ministry of Statistics, it has been in place since 1950.

9. The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) was set up by the Government in February, 1964 on the
recommendations of the Committee on Prevention of Corruption headed by:
(a) K. Santhanam. (b) B.P. Mandal. (c) Naresh Chandra. (d) RajendraSachar.
 Explanation: (a) CVC was set up by the Government of India in February, 1964 on the recommendations of the
Committee on Prevention of Corruption , headed by Shri K. Santhanam Committee, to advise and guide Central
Government agencies in the field of vigilance.

10. The famous slogan “Government of the people, by the people, for the people” was given by__________.
(a) Benjamin Franklin (b) Geoffrey Chaucer
(c) Abraham Lincoln (d) George Washington

(c) In 1863 Abraham Lincoln made a speech which ended with this hope “that this nation, under God, shall have a new
birth of freedom- and that the government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth”. These
words have been quoted since then as the supreme vindication of representative government.

11. Name the 17th century Dutch settlement which was renamed New York in 1664.
(a) New Amsterdam (b) New Netherlands
(c) New Balkan (d) New Chicago

(a) New Amsterdam was renamed New York on September 8th, 1664 in honour of the then Duke of York.

12. Which country will take the first tourist on a space walk in 2023, under the terms of a new contract with a US
partner?
(a) India (b) Russia (c) China (d) Japan
Option B
Explanation: Russia’s Energia space corporation said it will take the first tourist on a space walk in 2023, under the
terms of a new contract with a US partner.

13. On whose name,NASA has decided to rename its headquarters?

(a) Mary W. Jackson (b) William SmitH (c) Marcus Stonis (d) Elisa Somay
Option A
Explanation: NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced the agency’s Washington, D.C., headquarters
building will be named after Mary W. Jackson, its first African American female engineer who helped inspire the
story behind the book and film “Hidden Figures.”

14. What is the rank of India in terms of money parked by its citizens and enterprises with Swiss banks at the end of
2019?
(a) 70th (b) 74th (c) 75th (d) 77th
Option D
Explanation: India has moved down three places to 77th rank in terms of money parked by its citizens and
enterprises with Swiss banks at the end of 2019, while the UK has retained its top position, as per the latest data
from Switzerland’s central bank.

15. Which Indian weightlifter to get Arjuna Award for 2018, after IWF drops doping charges?
(a) Sanjita Chanu (b) Pinki Raikwar (c) Suman Rao (d) Deepika Pachouri
Option A
Explanation: Two-time Commonwealth Games gold medal winning weightlifter K. Sanjita Chanu, who was recently
exonerated from doping charges, will get the Arjuna award for 2018, said Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWLF)
Secretary Sahdev Yadav.

16. Which city topped in the Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2020′ by startup Genome?
(a) London (b) NewYork (c) NewDelhi (d) California
Option D
Explanation: Two Indian cities made it onto the top 40 of the world’s most favourable ecosystems to build a
globally successful startup, topped by the Silicon Valley in California.

17. Which two countries have beaten Colombia to win the bid to host the 2023 Women’s World Cup?
(a) England and Australia (b) NewZealand and England
(c) India and Nepal (d) Australia and NewZealand
Option D
Explanation: Australia and New Zealand have beaten Colombia to win the bid to host the 2023 Women’s World
Cup.

18. The Ryotwari Settlement was introduced by the British in the ___________.
 (a) Bengal Presidency (b) Bombay Presidency
(c) Madras Presidency (d) Madras & Bombay Presidencies

(d) The Ryotwari Settlement was introduced in the Madras and Bombay Presidencies by Sir Thomas Munro, the erstwhile
Governor of Madras. The Ryotwari System was a system of revenue collection to collect revenues from the cultivators of
agricultural lands.

19. Which one of the following was an emigre Communist Journal of M.N. Roy?
(a) Kisan Sabha (b) The Worker (c) vanguard (d) Anushilan

(c) The Vanguard was the Journal of the émigré Communist Party of India. It was first published in 1922.

20. The Indus valley people were worshippers of__________.

(a) Shiva (b) Mitra (c) Varuna (d) Mother Goddess

(a) The seals in the Indus Valley civilization depict a man, such as a Yogi surrounded by buffalo, tiger, elephant,
rhinoceros, and deer. The Yogi appears to a proto Shiva.

21. The slogan “No taxation without representation” was raised during which revolution?
(a) Russian Revolution (b) Industrial Revolution
(c) American Revolution (d) French Revolution

(c) The slogan “No taxation without representation” was raised during the American Revolution in Boston Tea Party which
took place in 1773.

22. The chemically inactive gas present in the atmosphere is:

(a) Nitrogen (b) Argon (c) water vapour (d) oxygen

(b) An inert gas is a gas which does not undergo chemical reactions under set of given conditions. It does not form any
stable compound at room temperature. Argon is third most abundant gas in the atmosphere. It is a noble gas with atomic
number 18. .

23. A sudden fall in the barometric reading indicates_________.

(a) Rain (b) Storm (c) fine weather (d) extreme cold

(b) Barometer reading is related to atmospheric pressure which is suddenly fall in storm.

24. Lunar eclipse does not occur every month because_________.

(a) The Sun’s orbit is not always in the same plane as the Moon
(b) The Moon revolves at a slower speed than the Earth
(c) The Moon’s orbit is not all the time in the same plane as the Earth
(d) None of the above

(c) A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon enters the Earth's shadow. ... They do not happen every month
because the Earth's orbit around the sun is not in the same plane as the Moon's orbit around the Earth.

25. Which among the following Indians is known as one of the inventors of Fiber Optics?
(a) Subrah Iyar (b) Narinder Singh Kapany
(c) Ajay Bhatt (d) Rajeev Motwani

(b) Narinder Singh was named as one of the seven ‘Unsung Heroes’ by Fortune magazine in their ‘Businessmen of the
Century’ issue.