GK

GK

1. In which technology do Cryogenic engines find applications?

2. Shovna Narayan is a reputed personality in which field?

3. During which Plan did prices show a decline?

4. Which instrument used for finding out wind-direction?

5. Which ports handled the north Indian trade during the Gupta period?

6. Which vitamin is considered to be a hormone?

7. On the basis of financial crisis howmany times has emergency been declared by the President of India?

8. Which is the element found on the surface of the moon?

9. Why is ‘Beaufort Scale’ used ?

10. Which Tomar ruler is credited to have established Delhi?

11. ‘My Music, My Life’ is the autobiography of which person?

12. Which was the first talkie film of India?

13. Through which Translocation of food materials in plants takes place?

14. When does Relative humidity decreases?

15. Who was the Sultan of Delhi who is reputed to have built the biggest network of canals in India?

16. What type of Party system has been evolved in India?

17. A man with a dark skin, in comparison with a man with a white skin, What will experience?

18. Which bank is the Banker of the Banks?

19. Where are a large number of species are found within a small unit of area?

20. Krishnadeva Raya wrote a famous work, namely Amuktamalyada, in which language?

Answer :

1. Rocket technology 2. Classical dance 3. First 4. wind vane 5. Broach 6. D 7. Not even once 8. Titanium 9. To measure wind velocity 10. Anangpal 11. Pt. Ravi Shankar 12. Alam Ara 13. Phloem 14. With increased temperature 15. Feroze Shan Tughlaq 16. Multi-Party 17. Less heat and less cold 18. RBI 19. Wet evergreen equatorial forests

20. Telugu

GK

GK

1. Alpha-keratin is a protein present in which thing?

2. Where was the first session of the Constituent Assembly held?

3. Which of the following is used as ‘a moderator in nuclear reactor?

4. Which planet looks reddish in the night sky?

5. What was the source of the blue gem stone, lapis lazuli, for the people of Harappan culture?

6. Sachin Tendulkar scored his 100th international century against which’ country ?

7. In baseball, the two opposing teams consist of howmany players?

8. The improper function of which results in condition ‘Myxedema’ in human beings?

9. In 1610, Galileo Galilei discovered four moons of which planet?

10. In the Vedic society, which was the term used to denote a group of families?

11. Who was the Chairman’ of the Union Constitution Committee of the Constituent Assembly?

12. Which element that does not occur in nature but can be produced artificially?

13. When had India a plan holiday?

14. How are Latitude and Longitude?

15. Which Philosophy holds that the world is created and maintained by Universal Law?

16. Which book is authored by V.S. Naipaul ?

17. Which can be used for biological control of mosquitoes?

18. Which proclamation of National Emergency automatically suspends?

19. The latitude of a place is the same as which place?

20. What was the script used in the earliest Tamil inscriptions?

Answer :

1. Wool 2. New Delhi 3. Graphite 4. Mars 5. Afghanistan 6. Bangladesh 7. 9 players each 8. Thyroid gland 9. Jupiter 10. Grama 11. Jawaharlal Nehru 12. Plutonium 13. After the drought of 1966 14. Perpendicular to each other 15. Jain Philosophy 16. A House for Mr. Biswas 17. Gambusia 18. Right to freedom 19. Celestial pole 20. Brahm

General Knowledge Questions and Answers

General Knowledge Questions and Answers

Question (1) Who won the Best Footballer 2016 in the World?
Answer:- Cristiano Ronaldo.

Question (2) Who is the UN Secretary General?
Answer:- Antonio Guterres.

Question (3) What was ‘Word of the Year-2016’ according to the Dictionary.com?
Answer:- Xenophobia.

Question (4) NASA launched the ‘OSIRIS-REx’ Mission to collect samples from which asteroid?
Answer:- Asteroid Bennu.

Question (5) In Bihar, UNESCO has declared which place as a World Heritage Site?
Answer:- Bihar’s ancient Nalanda University.

Question (6) How many satellites in a single mission using PSLV C-34 launched in 2016?
Answer:- 20 satellites.

Question (7) Reliance Jio has launched which digital wallet service for peoples?
Answer:- JioMoney.

Question (8) Who has been appointed as Lt Governor of Puducherry for 2 years?
Answer:- Kiran Bedi.

Question (9) What do you mean by the Solar Wind?
Answer:- This is happen when sun release the continuous flow of charged particles and which permeates the solar system.

Question (10) Which is the second largest moon in our solar system?
Answer:- Titan (Saturn moon) is the second largest moon in our solar system.

Question (11) Mostly which gases found of the planet Jupiter?
Answer:- Hydrogen and Helium.

Question (12) What are the name of Galilean moons?
Answer:- Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto (moons of Jupiter).

Question (13) Which galaxy is closest to our galaxy?
Answer:- Andromeda galaxy.

Question (14) What is the age of Earth as calculated?
Answer:- Age of Earth is 4.543 billion years.

Question (15) Which planet have the ‘Great Red Spot’?
Answer:- Jupiter.

Question (16) What is the full form of NASA?
Answer:- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Question (17) What is the full form of ESA?
Answer:- European Space Agency.

Question (18)  Which service is used for sending or receiving mail on the internet?
Answer:- Email.

Question (19)  The term known as the electric meeting is what?
Answer:- Teleconferencing.

Question (20)  What do you mean by IP address?
Answer:- Internet protocol.

Question (21)  What do you mean by modem?
Answer:- This is the combined device for modulation and demodulation.

Question (22) Who set up the dual system of administration in Bengal?
Answer:- Robert Clive.

Question (23) Who give the first call of ‘India for Indians’ for Swarajya?
Answer:- Dayanand Saraswati.

Question (24) Who established a trading post in 1612 at Gujarat?
Answer:- British.

Question (25) What was the year of Regulating Act?
Answer:- In 1773.

Question (26) Who was the Founder Father of Aligarh movement?
Answer:- Sir Syed Ahmed Khan.
Question (27) Who was the founder of Brahma Samaj?
Answer:- Raja Ram Mohan Roy.
Question (28) The Indian National Congress was formed in?
Answer:- 1885.
Question (29) Ruler of Mysore was whom?
Answer:- Hyder Ali.
Question (30) When British Indian Association was founded in India?
Answer:-  October 29, 1851 at Calcutta.
Question (31) Who achived the discovery of ‘Vitamin C’?
Answer:- James Watson.
Question (32) Which gas is most popular as laughing gas?
Answer:- Nitrous oxide.
Question (33) To measure the Humidity in air, what instrument used?
Answer:- Hygrograph.
Question (34) What is the best source of Protein?
Answer:- Soyabean.
Question (35) What is the radiant energy of the sun is transmitted?
Answer:- Short waves.
Question (36) The Folded Earth book was written by?
Answer:- Anuradha Roy.
Question (37) Which rays is very helpful in Long distance photography?
Answer:- Infra Red rays.
Question (38) Name of vegetable which is also known as a flower?
Answer:- Broccoli.
Question (39) ‘Foundations of Biology’ concept given by whom?
Answer:- Jean Piaget.
Question (40) Which planet is commonly known as Dwarf Planet?
Answer:- Pluto.
Question (41) Name the suitable material for purify the water?
Answer:- Zeolites.
Question (42)  Who wrote the ‘Man in the Iron Mask’?
Answer:-  Alexander Dumas.
Question (43)  Who discovered the radium?
Answer:-  The Curies.
Question (44)  What was the world’s first high level programming language in 1957?
Answer:-  IBM FORTRAN.
Question (45)  What weapon was invented by Ernest Swinton which used in 1916?
Answer:-  Tank.
Question (46)  King Zog ruled which of the country?
Answer:-  Albania.
Question (47)  What is the staple food of one third of the worlds total population?
Answer:-  Rice.
Question (48)  Who was the first man into space?
Answer:-  Yuri Gagarin.
Question (49)  What is the IMF description?
Answer:-  International Monetary Fund.
Question (50)  Which car company makes the Celica?
Answer:-  Toyota.
Question (51)  Who discovered first the blood circulation?
Answer:-  William Harvey.
Question (52)  Who won an Oscar for best supporting actor in Spartacus 1960?
Answer:-  Peter Ustinov.
Question (53) Why pendulum clocks of slow in the summers?
Answer:- The length of the pendulum increases for summers.
Question (54) In 1885 who was the President of Congress?
Answer:- W.C.Barinerji.
Question (55) National Right Day is observe on?
Answer:- 10th December.
Question (56) Goal of extension education is what?
Answer:- To promote scientific outlook.
Question (57) For how many years is Sheep able to breed?
Answer:- 10 years.

Question (58) Where was the venue of Olympic 2014?
Answer:- Athens.

Question (59) Where and when was World Meteorological Organization established?
Answer:- Geneva – 1978.

Question (60) The Indian Home Rule Society in London, was started by whom?
Answer:- Shyamji Krishna Verma.

Question (61) In eye donation which part of donor’s eye is utilized?
Answer:- Cornea.
Question (62) The Indian Constitution provides for the appointment of adhoc judges in the?
Answer:- Supreme Court.
Question (63)  Which city hosted the 1980 Olympic Games?
Answer:- Moscow.
Question (64)  At which US nuclear plant did a nuclear accident occur in 1979?
Answer:- Three Mile Island.
Question (65)  Which is the world’s largest dry desert?
Answer:- Sahara.
Question (66)  Which is the world’s second largest desert?
Answer:- Australian.
Question (67)  In which athletics event did Bob Beamon hold the world record for 23 years?
Answer:- Long jump.
Question (68) What is the best conductor of electricity?
Answer:- Salt water.
Question (69) What is the average salinity of sea water?
Answer:- 3.5%.
Question (70) What is the function of heavy water in a nuclear reactor?
Answer:- Slow down the speed of neutrons.
Question (71) Who laid the foundation of nuclear science in the country?
Answer:- Homi J. Bhabha.
Question (72) The filament of an electric bulb is made of which metal?
Answer:- Tungsten.
Question (73) Which part of the cell is essential for protein synthesis?
Answer:- Ribosomes.
Question (74) Which is purest form of iron?
Answer:- Wrought iron.
Question (75) The Government of India has decided to declare river as ‘National River’?
Answer:- Ganga.

Question (76) Who was a contemporary of Alexander, the Great?
Answer:- Chandragupt Maurya.

Question (77) By whom was the first republic of the world established in Vaishali?
Answer:- Lichhavi.

Question (78) Which was the most famous educational centre during the period of Mauryan age?
Answer:- Taxila.

Question (79) In which state was the Nalanda University located in India?
Answer:- Bihar.

Question (80) Which Veda contains an account of magical charms and spells?
Answer:- Atharvaveda.

Question (81) By which was Yavanika (Curtain) introduced in Indian theatre?
Answer:- Greeks.

Question (82) Which is called ‘The Bible of Tamil Land’?
Answer:- Kural.

Question (83) Samudragupta has been given the title of ‘Indian Napolean’ by which historian?
Answer:- V. A. Smith.

Question (84) In which century did the famous Chinese pilgrim Fahien visit India?
Answer:- 5th century AD.

Question (85) Who was the last ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate?
Answer:- Mahmud Shah Tughlaq.

Question (86) Who founded four mathas in the four comers of India?
Answer:- Shankaracharya.

Question (87) Bhakt Tukaram was a contemporary of which Mughal emperor?
Answer:- Jahangir.

Question (88) Who was the most radia of the Bhakti Saints?
Answer:- Kabir.

Question (89) Which region of India was ruled by Sultan Zainul Abidin?
Answer:- Kashmir.

Question (90) Kirchhoff’s voltage law is based on the law of conservation of which thing?
Answer:- Energy.

Question (91) Two electron beams are traveling parallel to each other. What will be their reactions?
Answer:- Repel each other.
Question (92) Why is energy is continuously generated in the sun?
Answer:- Due to nuclear fusion.
Question (93) For electroplating a spoon, it is placed in the voltameter at which postion?
Answer:- The position of cathode.
Question (94) Which rays will deflect in electric field?
Answer:- Cathode rays.
Question (95) The refractive index of a given piece of transparent quartz is greatest for which light?
Answer:- Violet light.
Question (96) The absorption of radio waves by the atmosphere depends on which thing?
Answer:- Their frequency.
Question (97) Which asset can be mortgaged?
Answer:- Land and Building.
Question (98) Credit Cards are known by which another name?
Answer:- Plastic money.
Question (99) What is the name of cheque when a bank returns unpaid?
Answer:- Dishonor of the cheque.
Question (100) What is the mean of NEFT?
Answer:- National Electronic Funds Transfer system.

The awards are conferred in three categories:

The President of India, Ram Nath Kovind on March 20, 2018 presented the Padma awards to 43 eminent personalities at a Civil Investiture Ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

The awards are conferred in three categories:

Padma Vibhushan: For exceptional and distinguished service.

Padma Bhushan: For distinguished service of high order.

Padma Shri: For distinguished service in any field.

The Awards are conferred to people belonging to various disciplines or fields including art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports and civil service.

This year, the second highest civilian award- the Padma Vibhushan was conferred upon three personalities including music composer Illaiyaraja, classical musician Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan and Hindutva thinker P. Parameswaran.

Following is the full list of awardees:

Padma Vibhushan
Sl. No	Name	Field	State
1.	Shri Illaiyaraja	Art-Music	Tamil Nadu
2.	Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan	Art-Music	Maharashtra
3.	Shri Parameswaran Parameswaran	Literature and Education	Kerala

	Padma Bhushan
Sl. No		Name	Field	State
1.		Shri Philipose Mar Chrysostom	Others-Spiritualism	Kerala
2.		Dr.  Ramachandran Nagaswamy	Others-Archaeology	Tamil Nadu
3.		Prof. Ved Prakash Nanda (OCI)	Literature and Education	USA
4.		Pandit Arvind Parikh	Art-Music	Maharashtra