General Awareness Practice Test - 2

General Awareness - 2

15 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Besides Hindi, how many other regional languages have been recognised in the Constitution of India?

  1. 11
  2. 13
  3. 15
  4. 21
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Where is the humerus bone located in the human body?

  1. Face
  2. Arm
  3. Leg
  4. Spine
  5. None of these
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following are Kharif crops?

  1. Rice, Cotton, Linseed, Mustard
  2. Wheat, Cotton, Barley, Oats
  3. Rice, Cotton, Groundnut, Soyabean
  4. Wheat, Chickpea, Linseed, Mustard
  5. Rice, Wheat, Mustard, Cotton
Question 4 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 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who among the following won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Chemistry?

  1. Arieh Warshel and Martin Karplus
  2. Michael Levitt, Eric Betzig and Brian Kobilka
  3. Robert Lefkowitz and Dan Shechtman
  4. William E. Moerner, Stefan W. Hell and Eric Betzig
  5. Ei-ichi Negishi and Richard F. Heck
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who among the following was not inducted as a Cabinet Minister in the first expansion of the Modi government?

  1. Manohar Parrikar
  2. J. P. Nadda
  3. Suresh Prabhu
  4. Jayant Sinha
  5. Birender Singh
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who among the following became the first ever male to be appointed as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador for South Asia?

  1. Amir Khan
  2. Shah Rukh Khan
  3. Harhan Khan
  4. Farhan Akhtar
  5. Amitabh Bachchan
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In 2014, the Union government accorded in-principle approval for setting up six more Software Technology Parks of India (STPIs) in which of the following states?

  1. Hyderabad
  2. Maharastra
  3. Odisha
  4. Tamil Nadu
  5. Rajasthan
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What was the revolutionary step in the status of women in Buddhist monasteries?

  1. Acceptance of nuns
  2. Sending women to spread Buddhism
  3. Education for women
  4. Preaching heads
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Mark Zuckerberg is the founder of

  1. LinkedIn
  2. Twitter
  3. Facebook
  4. Skyrock
  5. Friendster
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which country topped the Global Slavery Index released by the Walk Free Foundation in November 2014?

  1. China
  2. Pakistan
  3. Bangladesh
  4. India
  5. Uzbekistan
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Scientists from which of the following universities had confirmed that the world’s first inhalable Ebola vaccine passed animal tests?

  1. University of Pennsylvania
  2. University of Texas
  3. Harvard University
  4. New York University
  5. Stanford University
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In the 2014 presidential elections of Brazil, whom did Dilma Rousseff defeat in the runoff?

  1. Marina Silva
  2. Luciana Genro
  3. Eduardo Jorge
  4. Aecio Neves
  5. Jose Maria Eymael
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In November 2014, Terry Walsh resigned as the Chief Coach of the Indian _____ team.

  1. men's hockey
  2. women's hockey
  3. men's volleyball
  4. women's cricket
  5. women's volleyball
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who among the following was sworn in as the President of Chile in 2014?

  1. Ricardo Lagos Escobar
  2. Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
  3. Michelle Bachelet Jeria
  4. Patricio Aylwin Azocar
  5. Sebastian Pinera Echenique