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General Awareness - 5 (2014)

General Awareness - 5

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which of the following sessions of the Indian National Congress was the demand for Constituent Assembly made for the first time?

  1. Lucknow Session
  2. Haripura Session
  3. Tripuri Session
  4. Faizpur Session
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

According to Koeppen classification, letter code Cfa denotes which of the following climatic types?

  1. Mediterranean
  2. Marine west coast
  3. Humid subtropical
  4. Tropical wet and dry
  5. Tropical monsoon
Question 3 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 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The Reserve Bank of India was established in the year

  1. 1858
  2. 1935
  3. 1947
  4. 1950
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following companies announced that it will split itself into two separate publicly traded companies in October 2014?

  1. IBM
  2. HP
  3. Microsoft
  4. Dell
  5. Intel
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who is the founder of the Slave Dynasty of India?

  1. Iltutmish
  2. Ibn Battuta
  3. Qutubuddin Aibak
  4. Mohammed Bin Qasim
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

After occupying Persia in 331 BC, Alexander crossed the Hindukush in the year_________ to recover Indian land once under his predecessors.

  1. 329 BC
  2. 327 BC
  3. 322 BC
  4. 325 BC
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In October 2014, the government launched an austerity drive to trim the fiscal deficit to ____ per cent of GDP in 2014-15.

  1. 4.5
  2. 4.1
  3. 4.7
  4. 3.9
  5. 4.3
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following multinational companies completed its acquisition of Motorola Mobility from Google in 2014?

  1. Lenovo
  2. Toshiba
  3. Samsung
  4. Apple Inc.
  5. Panasonic
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

India’s first One Stop Crisis Centre (OSCC) for women who are victims of violence, named Gauravi was launched in which of the following cities?

  1. Mumbai
  2. Kolkata
  3. Patna
  4. Bhopal
  5. Ranchi
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who is the founder of Oracle Corporation?

  1. Bill Gates
  2. Larry Ellison
  3. Andrew S. Grove
  4. Marc Andreesen
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Give the chemical name of milk of magnesia.

  1. Calcium hydroxide
  2. Magnesium hydroxide
  3. Ammonium hydroxide
  4. Sodium hydroxide
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the daily water consumption recommended for an individual to live healthy?

  1. 1 litre
  2. 2 litres
  3. 3 - 5 litres
  4. 6 - 10 litres
  5. No recommendation
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In June 2014, the cabinet of which of the following states approved two schemes, namely pension scheme for farmers and scheme to air-lift doctors to remote areas of the state?

  1. Haryana
  2. Madhya Pradesh
  3. Uttarakhand
  4. Tamil Nadu
  5. West Bengal
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

BCG vaccine against tuberculosis contains

  1. antibodies against M. tuberculosis
  2. iInactive M. tuberculosis in a measured quantity
  3. active M. tuberculosis
  4. inactivated virus
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