Sunday, 1 July 2012

93) Basic General Knowledge Questions - Part 93

This section consists of 15 questions.



1. Which among the following is offered in the INSPIRE Scheme?

[A]Free Education
[B]Scholarship
[C]Free Books
[D]Cash



2. Who headed the second Administrative Reforms Commission which released its report in December 2008?

[A]Veerappa Moily
[B]Salman Khursheed
[C]Hansraj Bhardwaj
[D]Arun Jaitley



3. Consider the following:

1. Advisory Body
2. Executive Body
3. Statutory Body
4. Constitutional Body

Which among the above terms are applicable to Law Commission of India?

[A]Only 1
[B]1 & 2
[C]1, 2 & 3
[D]1, 2, 3 & 4



4. Which among the following scheme was restructured into Lok Talim?

[A]National Program for Education of Girls at Elementary Level
[B]National Literacy Mission
[C]District Primary Education Programme
[D]Lok Jumbish Project



5. Which among the following was the first country to enter a formal agreement with India on Civil Nuclear Deal after NSG exempted India from its guidelines?

[A]USA
[B]France
[C]Russia
[D]Canada





6. In which year Dadara and Nagar Haveli became a Union Territory of India?

[A]1961
[B]1962
[C]1963
[D]1964



7. The Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) has scaled down its projection for the growth rate of the economy in 2011-12 to which among the following ? (August 1, 2011)

[A]8.5%
[B]8.7%
[C]8.2%
[D]8.0%



8. As per the recent rankings released by the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF), who among the following has been ranked No.1 in the world?

[A]Abhinav Bindra
[B]Ronjan Sodhi
[C]Samaresh Jung
[D]Gagan Narang



9. In India, elections for the MPs and MLAs are conducted under which among the following systems?

[A]First-past-the-post
[B]Single transferable vote
[C]Alternative vote
[D]Simple proportional representation



10. Megha-Tropiques is a cooperative experimental mission of ISRO and CNES, the space agencies of India and _______?

[A]France
[B]Russia
[C]Italy
[D]Germany





11. The Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System (IRNSS), is proposed to be a constellation of how many satellites?

[A]7
[B]12
[C]16
[D]22




12. Where is located the Central Agricultural University?

[A]Imphal
[B]Kohima
[C]Aizawal
[D]Pasighat



13. Recently world’s highest efficiency solar thermal cooling system was inaugurated at the Solar Energy Centre at which among the following places?

[A]Gurgaon
[B]Jaipur
[C]Hyderabad
[D]Bangalore



14. Which among the following place in Rajasthan is making news for becoming the site for first “National Manufacturing and Investment Zones” of India?

[A]Bhiwadi
[B]Nimrana
[C]Sitapura
[D]Jhotwara



15. What is the name of India’s Third Permanent Research Station at Larsemann Hills in Antarctica which is under construction at present?

[A]Maitri
[B]Bharti
[C]Bhagirathi
[D]Nandini