Basic General Knowledge – Series 11

21) Who was the first Governor-General of East Indian Company ?

a) Lord Canning

b) Lord Wellesely

c) Lord Dalhousie

d) Warren Hastings

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Option – d)

22) Devaluation usually causes the internal price to

a) fall

b) rise

c) remain unchanged

d) None of these

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Option – c)

23) In the world, India tops in the production of

a) nickel

b) uranium

c) mica

d) manganese

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Option – c)

24) Water exists both as solid and liquid at

a) 1000C

b) 500C

c) 2.50C

d) 00C

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Option – d)

25) Which one of the following is not a vaccine ?

a) BCG

b) Anti-rabies

c) Polio vaccine

d) Progesterone

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Option – d)

26) Which one of the following coasts of India is most affected by violent tropical cyclones ?

a) Malabar

b) Andhra

c) Konkan

d) Gujarat

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Option – b)

27) Which of the following is the longest river ?

a) Nile

b) Amazon

c) Chang Jiang

d) Mississippi-Missouri

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Option – a)

28) Which of the following animals has the longest life span?

a) Elephant

b) Crocodile

c) Dog

d) Tortoise

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Option – d)

29) In which census did the density of population decrease as compared to the preceding census ?

a) 1901

b) 1911

c) 1921

d) 1931

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Option – c)

30) What is the maximum number of the elected members of Rajya Sabha ?

a) 250

b) 238

c) 245

d) 248

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Option – b)

31) The proportion of nitrogen in the open air is

a) 21% by volume

b) 50% by volume

c) 21% by weight

d) 78% by volume

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Option – d)

32) Neutron was discovered by

a) Einstein

b) Rutherford

c) Bohr

d) Chadwick

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Option – d)

33) Which of the following countries does not have a border with Afghanistan?

a) Iran

b) Georgia

c) Turkmenistan

d) Uzbekistan

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Option – b)

34) Which is the largest sea in the world?

a) South china Sea

b) Mediterranean

c) Black Sea

d) Baltic Sea

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Option – a)

35) Water is plants is transported by

a) cambium

b) phloem

c) epidermis

d) xylem

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Option – d)

36) The element which is the most abundant in the human body is

a) oxygen

b) carbon

c) iron

d) nitrogen

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Option – b)

37) Coolis tube is used to produce

a) Radio waves

b) Micro waves

c) X-rays

d) Gamma rays

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Option – c)

38) What is the chromosome number in a human ovum?

a) 24

b) 46

c) 48

d) None of these

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Option – b)

39) The river Jhelum has its source from

a) Mount Kailash

b) Rohtang Pass

c) Verinag

d) Kulu

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Option – c)

40) Where is ‘Pushkar Fair’ held?

a) Jodhpur

b) Ajmer

c) Jaipur

d) Udaipur

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Option – b)

41) Palk Strait separates India from

a) Pakistan

b) China

c) Andaman island

d) Sri Lanka

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Option – d)

42) Which is the smallest possible unit of a chemical compound?

a) Atom

b) Electron

c) Proton

d) Molecule

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Option – d)

43) Which one of the following is an indigenously built light combat aircraft of India ?

a) Akash

b) Vikrant

c) Tejas

d) Arjun

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Option – c)

44) The chairperson of the Lok Sabha designated as

a) Chairman

b) Speaker

c) Vice-President

d) President

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Option – b)

45)  Wood spirit is

a) methyl alcohol

b) ethyl alcohol

c) buthyl alcohol

d) prophyl alcohol

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Option – a)

46) Malik Kafur was whose General ?

a) Balban

b) Alauddin Khilji

c) Muhammad bin Tughluq

d) Firoz Shah Tughluq

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Option – b)

47) The English established their first factory in India at

a) Bombay

b) Surat

c) Sutanati

d) Madras

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