General Knowledge - 5 (Fire Operator Exam)

General Knowledge - 5

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Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In October 2014, which Bollywood actor was appointed as the Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF for South Asian region?

  1. Salman Khan
  2. Aamir Khan
  3. Shah Rukh Khan
  4. Abhishek Bachchan
  5. Amitabh Bachchan
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Vermiform appendix is attached to the

  1. colon
  2. duodenum
  3. cecum
  4. ileum
  5. rectum
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is the oldest IIT?

  1. IIT Bombay
  2. IIT Kharagpur
  3. IIT Kanpur
  4. IIT Delhi
  5. IIT Madras
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who among the following won four gold medals at the Track Asia Cup Cycling Championship 2014?

  1. Manorama Devi
  2. Deborah
  3. Sunita Devi
  4. Anjana
  5. Kezia Verghese
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who is the author of the book ‘Unaccustomed Earth’?

  1. Vikram Seth
  2. Chetan Bhagat
  3. Salman Rushdie
  4. Jhumpa Lahiri
  5. Arundhati Roy
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The 100th birth anniversary of late Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz was celebrated on 1st April 2014. He was a Mexican

  1. politician
  2. musician
  3. writer
  4. freedom fighter
  5. painter
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who among the following was chosen for Japan’s top national award 'The Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers' 2014?

  1. Toshiki Kaifu
  2. Narendra Modi
  3. Tsutomu Hata
  4. Manmohan Singh
  5. Yohei Kono
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is observed on 25th November every year?

  1. World Diabetes Day
  2. International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
  3. International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
  4. International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
  5. International Day for Older Persons
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In November 2014, with which of the following countries did India sign an MoU on technical cooperation in the railway sector?

  1. Republic of Korea
  2. Australia
  3. China
  4. France
  5. Germany
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In June 2014, India became a permanent signatory of the Washington Accord. At present (2014), how many permanent signatories are there in the Washington Accord?

  1. 15
  2. 22
  3. 17
  4. 20
  5. 13
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who became the first speaker of Telangana Legislative Assembly?

  1. Sirikonda Madhusudhana Chary
  2. Padma Devender Reddy
  3. K. Jana Reddy
  4. T. Harish Rao
  5. Jogu Ramanna
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who among the following was designated as the new Finance Secretary by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) in April 2014?

  1. R. P. Watal
  2. Arvind Mayaram
  3. Ravi Mathur
  4. G. S. Sandhu
  5. Rajiv Takru
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Sumitra Mahajan was unanimously elected as the Speaker of the 16th Lok Sabha. Which constituency has she been representing since 1989?

  1. Mandi
  2. Indore
  3. Ranchi
  4. Jhunjhunu
  5. Jalpaiguri
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of NASA’s spacecraft designed to take humans into deep space?

  1. NASA Space
  2. Orbital
  3. Orion
  4. Space Dream
  5. Fly US
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who among the following was appointed as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of e-retailer Flipkart in 2014?

  1. Sanjay Baweja
  2. C. Ramakrishnan
  3. Asok Kumar Sinha
  4. Shobinder Duggal
  5. N. H. Bhansali