Saturday 9 June 2012

18) Basic General Knowledge Questions - Part 18

This section consists of 15 basic general knowledge questions.



1. Which among the following is the correct meaning of a word "Manigramam" used in medieval India?

(A)Association of Villages
(B)Complex of various markets
(C)Association of Merchants
(D)Unit of administration in a small village



2. The mutiny of 1857 started from which among the following places?

(A)Meerut
(B)Barrackpore
(C)Delhi
(D)Muzaffarpur



3. The term "Vitasta" in Rig Veda refers to which among the following rivers?

(A)Beas
(B)Jhelum
(C)Sutlej
(D)Ravi



4. "Go Back to Vedas". Who among the following gave this motto?

(A)Swami Vivekananda
(B)Swami Dayananda Saraswati
(C)Ramkrishna Paramahansa
(D)None of them



5. Who among the following is the writer of famous "Poverty and Un-British Rule in India"?

(A)Firoz Shah Mehta
(B)Dada Bhai Naoroji
(C)William Wedderburn
(D)A O Hume




6. Simon Commission had visited India during the times of which among the following Viceroys?

(A)Lord Irwin
(B)Lord Chelmsford
(C)Lord Willingdon
(D)Lord Linlithgow



7. Who among the following was the first Governor General of India, who used the device of separate electorates?

(A)The Earl of Minto
(B)The Lord Minto
(C)Lord Chelmsford
(D)Lord Reading



8. "Policy of Ring Fence or Buffer state" is associated with which among the following Governor Generals?

(A)Lord Cornwallis
(B)Warren Hastings
(C)Lord Auckland
(D)Lord Ellenborough



9. At which among the following places, the aeration zone is located in Earth's Lithosphere?

(A)Above earth surface
(B)Below earth surface & above Water Table
(C)Below Earth's surface and parallel to water table
(D)Below earth's surface and below water table



10. At which among the following points , the high tides are lower than usual and low tides are higher than usual ?

(A)New moon
(B)Full Moon
(C)Apogee
(D)Perigee




11. At which among the following sessions of the Muslim League, Mohammed Ali Jinnah had invented a new slogan "Divide and Quit" ?

(A)Lucknow Session 1931
(B)Karachi Session 1933
(C)Lahore Session 1940
(D)Karachi Session 1943



12. At which among the following sessions, the All India Muslim league passed the Pakistan Resolution on 23 March 1940?

(A)Karachi
(B)Hyderabad
(C)Lahore
(D)Lucknow



13. At which among the following temperatures, the indicator of Celsius and Fahrenheit thermometers will show the same reading?

(A)-40°C
(B)-65°C
(C)-25°C
(D)-32°C



14. At which of the following places, Green Pamphlet was issued by Mahatma Gandhi?

(A)Calcutta
(B)Surat
(C)Rajkot
(D)Sabarmati



15. At which of the following time, the Constituent Assembly decided that India should become a republic?

(A)June 1947
(B)September 1947
(C)June 1948
(D)May 1949

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