General Knowledge Questions
General Knowledge Questions
General Knowledge Questions
1. Four
2. Five
3. Six
4. Seven
2. On which day was Maharashtra formed after separation from Bombay State?
1. 01 May 1960
2. 15 August 1947
3. 01 Nov 1956
4. 20 Oct 1962
3. Who of the following is the first recipient of Jnanpith Award for Marathi literature?
1. Vinda Karandikar
2. Vishnu Khandekar
3. Vasant Kanetkar
4. Vijay Tendulkar
4. At which of the following places in Maharashtra is the Takht Shri Hazur Sahib located (one of
the 5 important seats of Sikh authority)?
1. Aurangabad
2. Pune
3. Nagpur
4. Nanded
5. Khashaba Jadhav from Maharashtra who won the first individual medal for India in the
Olympics was associated with -
1. Wrestling
2. Boxing
3. Weighlifting
4. Swimming
6. Who of the following was the first person from Maharashtra to become a Grandmaster in
chess?
1. Abhijit Kunte
2. Swati Ghate
3. Pravin Thipsay
4. Tejas Bakre
1. Pattachitra
2. Kalamkari
3. Warli
4. Madhubani
1. Ayodhyecha Raja
2. Shyam Sundar
3. Maya Machhindra
4. Setu Bandhan
10. Who of the following was the first recipient of the Maharashtra Bhushan Award?
1. Lata Mangeshkar
2. Bhimsen Joshi
3. Sachin Tendulkar
4. Purshottam Deshpande
12. Which of these national parks is located within the city limits of Mumbai?
1. Onions
2. Grapes
3. Bananas
4. Mangoes
14. Lasalgaon is a famous market place in Maharashtra for the trading of -
1. Gold
2. Onions
3. Shares
4. Cattle
15. Which of the following caves in Maharashtra is not in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites
list?
1. Ajanta Caves
2. Ellora Caves
3. Elephanta Caves
4. Kanheri Caves
16. Which of the following districts of Maharashtra is well-known for its production of bananas?
1. Jalgaon
2. Ahmednagar
3. Nashik
4. Solapur
17. Which of the following places in Maharashtra is famous for cotton bedsheets which have
been given GI tag?
1. Amaravati
2. Solapur
3. Kolhapur
4. Sangli
18. At which of the following places is a branch of Mumbai High Court NOT located?
1. Aurangabad
2. Nagpur
3. Pune
4. Panaji
19. Who of the following is the author of the well-known book ‘History of Dharmasastra’?
20. In which city of Maharashtra was an Indian Institute of Management established in the year
2015?
1. Pune
2. Nagpur
3. Mumbai
4. Nashik
21. Who of the following established SNDT Women’s University, the first university for women
in India?
1. RG Bhandarkar
2. Dadabhai Naoroji
3. Dondo Kesav Karve
4. Bal Thackeray
1. Amaravati
2. Nagpur
3. Sangli
4. Ahmednagar
1. 82.3%
2. 79.6%
3. 86.7%
4. 80.8%
1. Chandrapur
2. Sindhudurg
3. Gadchiroli
4. Ratnagiri
25. Who of the following is known as the Mother of Orphans because of her work in looking
after abandoned children in Maharashtra?
1. Medha Patkar
2. Sindhutai Sapkal
3. Savitribai Phule
4. Rani Bang
1. 1963
2. 1965
3. 1961
4. 1957
1. Eminent Surgeons
2. Famous Artists
3. Sport Coaches
4. Expert Engineers
3. Nobel Prizes are not given for which of the following fields ?
1. Physics
2. Chemistry
3. Peace
4. Music
For outstanding contribution to which one of the following fields is Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
Prize given?
1. Literature
2. Science
3. Performing Arts
4. Social Service
Which is highest gallantry award for the personnel of armed forces in India?
1. Ashoka Chakra
2. Maha Vir Chakra
3. Param Vir Chakra
4. Kirti Chakra
Who among the following non-Indians was conferred India’s highest national award ‘Bharat
Ratna’ ?
1. Sam Nujoma
2. Martin Luther King
3. Zubin Mehta
4. Nelson Mandela
1. JJ Thomson
2. James Chadwick
3. Ernest Rutherford
4. Niels Bohr
3. An atom has a mass number of 37 and atomic number 17. How many protons does it have?
1. 20
2. 17
3. 54
4. 21
1. neutrons
2. neutron and proton
3. electron and proton
4. electron and neutron
5. Within an atom, the nucleus when compared to the extra nuclear part is
1. Backdoor programme
2. Target programme
3. Trojan horse
4. Host programme
1. four bits
2. one bit
3. ten bit
4. eight bits
3. The amount of time required by a storage device to retrieve data and programmes is its
1. Retrieval speed
2. Capacity
3. Memory
4. Access speed
4. ENIAC was
1. an electronic computer
2. an engine
3. a memory device
4. an electronic calculator
1. Fishing
2. Computer viruses
3. Spyware
4. Phishing
1. MANIAC
2. ENIAC
3. UNIVAC
4. EDSAC
7. A person who uses his or her expertise to gain access to other people's computers to get
information illegally or do damage can be called a
1. Hacker
2. Spammer
3. Analyst
4. Programmer
1. 4
2. 8
3. 16
4. 32
9. The process of transferring files from the Internet to your computer is called
1. Downloading
2. Uploading
3. File Transfer Protocol
4. Hypertext Transfer Protocol
10. The ____ shows all the web sites any pages that you have visited one a period of time.
1. Status bar
2. Task bar
3. History list
4. Tool bar
11. The language which provides basic building blocks for web pages is known as
1. HTML
2. C language
3. Java
4. Javascript
12. In the URL, http//:www.leadthecompetition.in, the portion labelled http is the ____
1. Host
2. Domain name
3. Protocol
4. Top-level domain
1. Floppy Disk
2. Hard Disk
3. CDROM
4. Flash Drive
14. A repair for a known software bug usually available at no charge on the internet is called a
1. Patch
2. Version
3. Tutorial
4. FAQ
1. Processor
2. Modem
3. USB Drive
4. Multiplexer
1. Backup file
2. Audio file
3. Temporary file
4. Deleted file
18. The window which shows icons for things like the mouse, sound, and display is called
1. My Computer
2. Explorer
3. Control Panel
4. Taskbar
20. Which of the following is not real security and privacy risks?
1. Hackers
2. Spam
3. Viruses
4. Identity theft
21. Which of the following defines the ability to recover and read deleted or damaged files from
a criminal’s computer?
1. Robotics
2. Simulation
3. Computer forensics
4. Animation
22. The difference between people with internet access and those without it is known as the
1. Digital divide
2. Internet divide
3. Web divide
4. Broadband divide
1. byte
2. bit
3. word
4. character
1. Macromedia Flash
2. Microsoft Powerpoint
3. Netscape Navigator
4. Adobe Dreamweaver
1. Spam
2. Spoof
3. Sniffer script
4. Spool
1. Psychology
2. Publishing
3. Statistics
4. Message sending
1. A drive
2. APC
3. A web browser
4. A file manager
29. Which of the following terms refers to unwanted and unsolicited e-mails received by us?
1. spam
2. subscriptions
3. rubbish
4. trash
1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
2. Who of the following was the acting Prime Minister of India twice on the death of Jawaharlal
Nehru and Lal Bahadur Shastri?
3. Who of the following was the first Prime Minister to visit Siachen?
1. Second
2. Third
3. Fourth
4. Fifth
5. Which of the following is the official residence of the Prime Minister of India?
6. Which Indian Prime Minister was the first to be awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously?
8. Who of the following did not hold any other cabinet post prior to becoming the Prime
Minister?
1. A - 2; B - 3; C - 1; D - 4
2. A - 4; B - 3; C - 1; D - 2
3. A - 4; B - 1; C - 3; D - 2
4. A - 3; B - 2; C - 1; D - 4
10. Who of the following was the first Prime Minister to present the Union Budget?
1. Indira Gandhi
2. H.D. Deve Gowda
3. Manmohan Singh
4. I.K. Gujral
12. Arrange the following in ascending order of lengths of their total tenure as Prime Ministers?
1. Indira Gandhi
2. Manmohan Singh
3. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
4. Jawahar Lal Nehru
1. 2 - 3 - 1 - 4
2. 3 - 2 - 1 - 4
3. 3 - 1 - 4 - 2
4. 2 - 1 - 4 - 3
13. Which constituency did Prime Minister Lal Bahadu Shastri represent?
1. Varanasi
2. Rae Bareli
3. Allahabad
4. Lucknow
14. Who administered the oath of office to the first Prime Minister of India, Shri Jawaharlal
Nehru?
1. Lord Mountbatten
2. C. Rajagopalachari
3. Rajendra Prasad
4. Justice HL Kania
17. Who of the following is/was the oldest to take the oath as the Prime Minister of India?
1. Next to Uttar Pradesh, which of the following States has the highest number of seats in the
Lok Sabha?
1. Bihar
2. Maharashtra
3. West Bengal
4. Andhra Pradesh
2. How many members are nominated by the President of India to the Lok Sabha?
1. 12
2. 4
3. 2
4. 8
4. As per the Constitution of India, the maximum permissible strength of the House of the People
or the Lok Sabha is
1. 552
2. 545
3. 530
4. 540
1. Which one among the following is the correct order of power consumption for light of equal
intensity?
CFL tube < Fluorescent tube < Incandescent bulb < Light emitting diode
Light emitting diode < CFL tube < Fluorescent tube < Incandescent bulb
CFL tube < Fluorescent tube < Light emitting diode < Incandescent bulb
Incandescent bulb < Light emitting diode < Fluorescent tube < CFL tube
220 V; 50 Hz
110 V; 60 Hz
220 V; 60 Hz
110 V; 50 Hz
4. The main power supply in India is at 220 V, whereas that in the US is at 110 V. Which one
among the following statements in this regard is correct?
5. Two similarly charged bodies are kept 5 cm apart in air. If the second body is shifted away
from the first by another 5 cm, their force of repulsion will be
1. doubled
2. halved
3. quadrupled
4. reduced to one-fourth
6. The resistance of a wire is 10Ω. If it is stretched ten times, the resistance will be
1. 1Ω
2. 10 Ω
3. 100 Ω
4. 1000 Ω
7. A house, served by a 220 V supply line, is protected by a 9 A fuse. What is the maximum
number of 60 watt bulbs that can be turned on in parallel?
1. 11
2. 22
3. 33
4. 44
8. Two metallic wires A and B are of same material and have equal length. If the cross-sectional
area of B is double that of A, then which one among the following is the electrical resistance of
B?
1. Twice that of A
2. 4 times that of A
3. 1/4 that of A
4. 1/2 that of A
9. Three resistance coils of 1 Ω, 2 Ω and 3 Ω are connected in series. If the combination is
connected to a battery of 9 V, what is the potential drop across the resistance coil of 3 Ω ?
1. 2.0 volt
2. 3.0 volt
3. 4.5 volt
4. 6.0 volt
10. An electric lamp of 100 watt is used for 10 hours per day. The ‘units’ of energy consumed in
one day by the lamp is
1. 1 unit
2. 0.1 unit
3. 10 units
4. 100 units
11. An electric iron of resistance 20 W takes a current of 5 A. The heat developed in joules in 30
s is
1. 5 kJ
2. 10 kJ
3. 15 kJ
4. 20 kJ
potential difference
electric power
electric energy
electric potential
13. Two copper wires A and B of length L and 2L respectively, have the same area of cross-
section. The ratio of the resistivity of wire A to the resistivity of wire B is
1. 4
2. 2
3. 1
4. 1/2
14. If the electrical resistance of a typical substance suddenly drops to zero, then the substance is
called
1. super conductor
2. semiconductor
3. conductor
4. insulator
15. The material used for electric fuse is an alloy of tin and lead. This alloy should have
reducing the distance of separation between the plates to half the original separation
doubling both the areas of the plates and the distance of separation between the plates
1. 1 and 4
2. 1 and 3
3. 3 only
4. 2 and 3
17. If two conducting spheres are separately charged and then brought in contact:
1. the total energy of the two spheres is conserved
2. the total charge on the spheres is conserved
3. both the total energy and charge are conserved
4. the final potential is always the mean of the original potential of the two spheres
18. Two pieces of metallic wire having equal length and equal volume placed in air have
different resistances. The two wires must:
19. If a heater coil is cut into two equal parts and only one part is used in the heater, the heat
generated will be:
doubled
four times
one-fourth
halved
20. A hollow metal ball carrying an electric charge produces no electric field at points:
22. How many sixty watt (60 W) bulbs may be safely used in a 240-V supply with 4-ampere
fuse?
1. 4
2. 8
3. 12
4. 16
23. The effective resistance of three equal resistances, each of resistance r, connected in parallel,
is
1. 3/r
2. r/3
3. 3r
4. r3
length of the wire, area of cross-section of the wire and material of the wire
length of the wire and area of cross-section of the wire but not on the material of the wire
material of the wire only but neither on the length of the wire nor on the area of cross-
section of the wire
length of the wire only but neither on the area of cross-section of the wire nor on the
material of the wire
always positive
always negative
zero
26. Which one of the following is the resistance that must be placed parallel with 12 Ω resistance
to obtain a combined resistance of 4 Ω?
1. 2Ω
2. 4Ω
3. 6Ω
4. 8Ω