Dear PaGaLGuY readers, as we all know, General Knowledge is an important component of a number of competitive examinations such as the UPSC Civil Services Examination, Banking Entrance Examinations, SSC CGL/CHSL Examinations, MBA Entrance Examinations, Combined Defence Services Examination, etc. In order to help you practise and improve your General Knowledge, we hereby present this General Knowledge quiz.
Given below are a few General Studies questions from previous years’ actual exams. Leave your answers/ responses in the comments section below and soon we’ll let you know the correct answers!
1. Which of the following is also known as a vegetative fertiliser?
(a) Generative fertilisation
(b) Syngamy
(c) Triple fusion
(d) Fusion of one male gametophyte with oospore
2. Which of the following is a good conductor of electricity?
(a) graphite (b) diamond (c) sodium fluoride (d) sodium chloride
3. The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity Campaign is based in
(a) London
(b) Italy
(c) Montreal
(d) Toronto
4. The first scientific analysis of Socialism was given by
(a) Karl Marx
(b) Wales
(c) Pigou
(d) Dickinson
5. The Aryans divided the life of a man into four
(a) periods (b) communities (c) discipline (d) ashrams
6. Kanishka – I patronised which of the following religions?
(a) Mahayana Buddhism
(b) Hinayana Buddhism
(c) Hinduism
(d) Jainism
7. DNA differs from RNA in having nitrogenous base
(a) Adenine
(b) Guanine
(c) Cytosine
(d) Thymine
8. Which of the following is called philosopher’s wool?
(a) Zinc Chloride
(b) Zinc Oxide
(c) Zinc Nitrate
(d) Zinc Bromide
9. The Indian Planning Commission was set up in
(a) 1947
(b) 1951
(c) 1961
(d) 1950
10. Who authored the book ‘Such a long Journey’?
(a) Khushwant Singh
(b) Salman Rushdie
(c) Amitav Gosh
(d) Rohinton Mistry
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