GENERAL STUDIES-III 2019

1. What is the name of India’s first supercomputer?

(a) SAGA (b) PARAM 8000 (c) EKA (d) PARAM YUVA

2. Which one is the first IIT established in India?

(a) IIT Kharagpur (b) IIT Mumbai(c) IIT Chennai (d) IIT Kanpur

3. Who is known as the Father of Indian Space program?

(a) C.V. Raman (b) Vikram Sarabhai(c) APJ Abdul Kalam (d) Satish Dhawan

4. India’s first satellite Aryabhata was launched from ____

(a) Soviet Union (b) America (c) India (d) Israel

5. Internet in India was started by VSNL in the year ____

(a) 15th August, 1992 (b) 15th August, 2000(c) 15th August, 1995 (d) 26th August, 1997

6. A radar that detects the presence of an enemy aircraft uses ____

(a) Sound waves (b) Radio waves (c) Electric waves (d) Ultrasonic waves

7. The first mobile phone conversation take place in India between ____
(a) Jyoti Basu and Sukhram (b) Narasimha Rao and Sukhram
(c) Ambika Soni and Narasimha Rao (d) None of these

8. Who is the creator of World’s second and India’s first test tube baby Durga?
(a) Devi Prasad Shetty (b) Subhash Mukhopadhyay(c) Pratap Reddy (d) Naresh Trehan

9. Where is the National Institute of Ocean Technology located?

(a) Mumbai (b) Vishakhapatnam (c) Cochin (d) Chennai

10. On which river is Bhakra Dam built?

(a) Krishna River (b) Bhagirathi River(c) Sutlej River (d) Brahmaputra River

11. Who is the founder of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore?

(a) Sir A.G. Bourne (b) C.V. Raman (c) Vikram Sarabhai (d) Jamsetji Tata

12. Which day is celebrated as National Mathematics Day in India as a respect to S.

Ramanujan?
(a) 17 January (b) 22 December (c) 13 March (d) 30 August

13. Indian-American scientist Har Gobind Khorana won the Nobel Prize for his contribution
in
(a) Physics (b) Chemistry (c) Genetics (d) Mathematics
14. Who is the Chairman of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research?
(a) President of India (b) Vice-President of India
(c) Prime Minister of India (d) Union Minister of Science and Technology

15. Which one is India’s first satellite exclusively used for educational purpose?
(a) SARAL (b) RISAT-1(c) HAMSAT (d) EDUSAT

16. Where is Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) headquarter located?

(a) Delhi (b) Chennai(c) Mumbai (d) Bangalore

17. When was the first nuclear test conducted in India under the code-name of Smiling
Buddha?
(a) 1973 (b) 1974 (c) 1988 (d) 1996

18. Who is known as the Father of Indian Nuclear Programme?

(a) APJ Abdul Kalam (b) Raja Ramanna(c) Homi J Bhabha (d) Vikram Sarabhai

19. The basic function of technology ‘Blue Tooth’ is to allow ___

(a) landline phone to mobile phone communication
(b) signal transmission on mobile phones only
(c) satellite television communication
(d) wireless communication between equipment

20. Humidity can be measured by ____

(a) Hydrometer (b) Hygrometer(c) Pyrometer (d) Lactometer

21. The Defence Research and Development Organization of India has developed a missile
which can be launched from a submarine. What is it named?
(a) BrahMos (b) Astra (c) Prithvi-4 (d) K-15

22. Where was India’s first computer installed?

(a) Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (b) Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta
(c) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (d) Indian Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., Burnpur

23. The name of the white revolution is associated with ___

(a) Kurien Varghese (b) C. Rangarajan (c) M.S. Swaminathan (d) J.V. Narlikar

24. Venkataraman Ramakrishnan was jointly awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry in the year
2009 for the ___
(a) Theory of electron transfer (b) Studies of the structure and function of the ribosome
(c) Palladium catalysed cross couplings in organic synthesis
(d) Work in the area of olefin metathesis

25. India’s permanent Research Station ‘Dakshin Gangotri’ is located at ___

(a) Indian Ocean (b) Himalayas (c) Antarctica (d) Arabian Sea
26. Television broadcast for rural development programmes in India started in ____
(a) 1947 (b) 1957 (c) 1967 (d) 1977

27. Non-conventional source of energy best suited for India is ____

(a) Solar energy (b) Wind energy(c) Tidal wave energy (d) Nuclear energy

28. The acronym STD written on Telephone booth stands for ___
(a) Straight Telephone Dial (b) Switch Telephone Dial
(c) Subscriber Telephone Dialing (d) Save Telephone Dialing

29. Which of the following is not a missile tested in Indian Missile Programme?
(a) Agni (b) Trishul (c) Prithvi (d) Arjun

30. Which one is the first living creature sent to earth orbit?
(a) Albert, a monkey (b) Laika, a dog (c) Ham, a chimpanzee (d) Felix, a cat

31. India’s first remote sensing satellite (IRS 1A) was launched from ___
(a) Baikonour (b) Cape Kennedy(c) French Guiana (d) Sri Harikota

32. What was the name of the first space shuttle on which Kalpana Chawla flew to space in
1997?
(a) Atlantis (b) Endeavour (c) Columbia (d) Discovery

33. Which of the following instruments can be used for measuring the speed of an
aeroplane ?
(a) Venturimeter (b) Orifice plate(c) Rotameter (d) Pilot tube

34. Who is known as the inventor of Hydrogen bomb?

(a) Enrico Fermi (b) George Gamow(c) Edward Teller (d) Hans Bethe

35. Which gas is also known as laughing gas?

(a) Nitrogen (b) Nitrous Oxide (c) Chlorine (d) Methane

36. Which blood group is known as ‘Universal recipients’ group?

(a) AB group (b) A group (c) B group (d) O group

37. Pedology is the science related to the study of ____

(a) atmosphere (b) soil (c) pollutants (d) seeds

38. Cooking gas is a mixture of ____

(a) Carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide (b) Methane and ethylene
(c) Butane and propane (d) Carbon dioxide and oxygen
1. The concept of “Scientific Temper” was introduced in India by
(a) C.V. Raman (b) Jawaharlal Nehru (c) C.N.R. Rao (d) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

2. An Indian-born scientist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Padma Vibhusan,
and become President of the Royal Society is
(a) Jagadish Chandra Bose (b) C. V. Homi Jehangir Bhabha
(c) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (d) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekar

3. Who was popularly known as the Birdman of India?

(a) Salim Ali (b) Iskandar Mirza (c) Humayun Abdulali (d) Abbas Tyabji

4. An aerospace scientist who became the 11th President of India was

(a) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (b) Shankar Dayal Sharma
(c) Varahagiri Venkata Giri (d) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

5. National Science Day in India is observed on

(a) 28 February (b) 28 March (c) 18 April (d) 18 June

6. In Aadhaar, the most reliable biometric identification is scanning of the

(a) face (b) DNA fingerprint (c) hand geometry (d) iris

7. National Science Day in India is observed in honour of the Nobel laureate

(a) Chandrashekhara Venkata Raman (b) Rabindranath Tagore
(c) Amartya Sen (d) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

8. This mathematical symbol was first used in India

(a)2 (b) 1 (c) 0 (d) ±

9. Agni-V is
(a) an intercontinental ballistic missile (b) a medium-range ballistic missile
(c) an intermediate-range ballistic missile (d) a short-range ballistic missile

10. Ronald Ross received the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in
India, which is the discovery of the
(a) causes of cancer (b) etiology of diabetes mellitus
(c) transmission of malaria (d) first drug for tuberculosis

11. Bosons, subatomic particles, are named after

(a) Satyendra Nath Bose (b) Subhas Chandra Bose(c) Jagadish Chandra Bose (d) Amar Bose

12. Chandrashekhar limit is about the

(a) rate of expansion of the galaxy (b) size of white dwarf star
(c) number of protons in an element (d) speed of light in vacuum
13. The title “father of the Indian nuclear programme” is given to
(a) Venkatraman Radhakrishnan (b) Rajagopala Chidambaram
(c) Homi Jehangir Bhabha (d) Piara Singh Gill

14. The first satellite launched by India is

(a) Bhaskara (b) Aryabhata (c) Rohini (d) INSAT

15. In astronomy, Saraswati refers to

(a) the estimated size of the universe (b) the number of stars in Milky Way
(c) a supermassive blackhole (d) a supercluster of galaxies

16. India is home to a deadly infection called kala azar or visceral leishmaniasis which is
transmitted by
(a) sandflies (b) mosquitos (c) rats (d) fleas

17. ISRO stands for

(a) Indian Science Research Organisation (b) Indian Space Research Organisation
(c) International Space Research Operation (d) International Science Research Organisation

18. An infectious disease that is completely eradicated in India is

(a) diphtheria (b) dracunculiasis (c) smallpox (d) polio

19. A dye that was originally developed in India was

(a) magenta (b) indigo (c) red oxide (d) saffron

20. Three Indian scientists who had received the highest civilian award Bharat Ratna are
(a) C. N. R. Rao, C.V. Raman and A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
(b) C.V. Raman, V. Ramakrishnan and A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
(c) K. S. Chandrasekharan, C.V. Raman and A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
(d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, C.N.R. Rao and Homi Jehangir Bhabha

21. One of the most prestigious scientific awards in India is

(a) Infosys Prize (b) Aryabhata Award
(c) Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
(d) G. D. Birla Award for Scientific Research

22. Nobel Prize winner, Har Gobind Khorana was known for the discovery of
(a) pulsar (b) supermassive blackholes(c) DNA structure (d) genetic code

23. Crescograph is a device for measuring

(a) music (b) heartbeat (c) plant growth (d) rate of sound wave

24. Crescograph was invented by

(a) Jagadish Chandra Bose (b) Venkatraman Radhakrishnan(c) Ashoke Sen (d) C.V. Raman
25. An Indian scientist who made important contributions in quantum statistics was
(a) Shiraz Minwalla (b) Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
(c) Jagadish Chandra Bose (d) Satyendra Nath Bose

26. The first Director-General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) was
(a) Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar (b) Vikram Sarabhai
(c) Shrinivas Kulkarni (d) Siva Brata Bhattacherjee

27. Raman effect is about

(a) speed of light (b) event horizon (c) electrical conductance (d) scattering of photons

28. The first nuclear test explosion in India was in 1974 at

(a) Bombay (b) Pokhran (c) Kharagpur (d) Thar

29. The first pharmaceutical company in India was started by

(a) Prafulla Chandra Ray (b) Amiya Charan Banerjee
(c) K. S. Chandrasekharan (d) Debasish Ghose

30. Raj Reddy is internationally renowned for his works on

(a) solar car (b) LED light (c) radiology (d) artificial intelligence

31. Internet in India was started in 1995 by

(a) TATA (b) BSNL (c) VSNL (d) JIO

32. Malaria is transmitted by mosquito was discovered in India by

(a) Ronald Ross (b) J.B.S. Haldane(c) Charles Donovan (d) William Leishman

33. The first supercomputer in India PARAM 8000 was made in

(a) Delhi (b) Pune (c) Mumbai (d) Bangalore

34. The world’s second and India’s first test tube baby was nicknamed
(a) Ramayana (b) Guru Nanak (c) Krishna (d) Durga

35. The first Indian satellite to the Moon was

(a) Rohini RS-1 (b) Chandrayaan-1(c) Bhaskara Sega-I (d) INSAT 1

36. The first successful nuclear bomb test in India was nicknamed
(a) Smiling Buddha (b) Fat Boy(c) Praying Mantis (d) Holocaust

37. The first railway in India ran from

(a) Delhi to Agra (b) Pune to Kolkata(c) Hyderabad to Secunderabad (d) Bombay to Thane
 LO-2021
1. What is India’s first operational remote sensing satellite?
(a) IRS-1A (b) INSAT-1A (c) GSAT-1 (d) PSLV-D3

2. The first Indian Lunar probe under Chandrayaan program – Chandrayaan-1 was
launched from the site –
(a) Sriharikota (b) Wheeler Island(c) Balasore (d) None of the above

3. Who is known as the father of Indian nuclear programme?

(a) Raja Ramanna (b) APJ Abdul Kalam (c) Homi J Bhabha (d) Vikram Sarabhai

4. When was the first expedition to Antarctica started by India?

(a) 1971 (b) 1975 (c) 1980 (d) 1981

5. A new cheaper, quicker and pollution-free ‘soil-to-soil technology’ to manufacture

‘biofuel’ has been developed by researchers at –
(a) IIT-Gandhinagar (b) IIT-Jamshedpur(c) IIT-Kanpur (d) IIT-Kharagpur

6. The Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed a drug

named, ‘Lukoskin’. It is being used in the treatment of –
(a) Leukorrhea (b) Lung Cancer (c) Leucoderma (d) Leukemia

7. If a computer has more than one processor then it is known as?

(a) Uniprocess (b) Multiprocessor (c) Multithreaded (d) Multiprogramming

8. Who developed the World’s first water-based computer along with his team?
(a) Nitya Anand (b) Harish Chandra(c) Anna Mani (d) Manu Prakash

9. In which year did IT Act came into force in India?

(a) 1995 (b) 2000 (c) 2004 (d) 2008

10. TRAI recently suggested the following entity to be allocated 5 MHz spectrum in
the 700 MHz band for safety purpose on administrative basis.
(a) Indian Air Force (b) Indian Railways
(c) National Disaster Management Authority (d) National Security Council

11. The first nuclear test conducted by India under the code name of ‘Smiling
Buddha’ was in the year –
(a) 1973 (b) 1974 (c) 1975 (d) 1976

12. What is the full form of LTE in wireless communication?

(a) Long Time Enable (b) Link of Telecommunication Equipments
(c) Live Through Equipments (d) Long Term Evolution

13. Airtel launched 4G in India (Kolkata) becoming the first company to provide 4G
services in India. Which date was it?
(a) 12th March, 2011 (b) 10th April, 2012(c) 7th May, 2013 (d) 10th June, 2014
14. Theoretically, the capacity of data transfer in cellular network is inversely
proportional to the –
(i) Computing speed (ii) Range(iii) Size of memory
(a) (i) and (ii) (b) (ii) (c) (ii) and (iii) (d) None of the above

15. The main improvement of 5G over 4G would be –

(a) Transfer speed (b) Penetrability(c) Longer range (d) All of the above

16. Name the government service, which helps patients in booking online
appointments in government hospitals?
(a) Hospital Management System (HMS) (b) Health Monitoring System (HMS)
(c) Self Service System (SSS) (d) Online Registration System (ORS)

17. Name the government service, which allows government entities to procure
common goods and services without requiring them to go through painful tendering
system?
(a) Government e-Marketplace(GeM)
(b) Online Government Goods and Services (OGGS)
(c) e-Marketplace for Government (MFG)
(d) Government One-Stop Shop (GOSS)

18. Digital India was launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi with an
objective of connecting rural areas with high-speed Internet networks and improving
digital literacy. Which year was it launched?
(a) 2013 (b) 2014 (c) 2015 (d) 2016

19. What is the name of Indian Mars programme which was launched on 5th
November, 2013 and also put India as the first nation to become successful in the
first attempt?
(a) Mangalyaan (b) Chandrayaan (c) NISAR (d) Shukrayaan

20. A satellite was launched on 14th November, 2018 carrying transponders that
would bridge digital divide of users especially who are in Jammu and Kashmir and
North Eastern regions of India. What is the name of the satellite?
(a) GSAT-29 (b) GSAT-28 (c) GSAT-27 (d) GSAT-26

21. The PSLV and GSLV differs mainly because of –

(a) PSLV can deliver more payload than GSLV
(b) The delivery range of PSLV is more than that of GSLV
(c) PSLV is used for delivery of satellites to Sun-Synchronous circular polar orbits
(d) All of the above

22. The current Principal Scientific Adviser to the Govt of India is –

(a) Prof.Ajay KumarSood (b) Dr. R. Chidambaram
(c) Krishnamurthy Subramanian (d) Anand Singh Bhal
23. The government of India initiated instant transfer of money across accounts
through virtual payment account and was developed by NPCI –
(a) Net Banking (b) IMPS (c) NEFT (d) UPI

24. QR code stands for –

(a) Quick Read code (b) Quick Response code
(c) Quick Revert code (d) Quick Raise code

25. ___________ is a name of security intended to prevent data being read or

secretly modified, other than by the true sender and recipient(s) like in whatsapp.
(a) Point-to-point encryption (b) Username and password
(c) End-to-end encryption (d) Public Key encryption