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. Who wrote the book, ‘Why Socialism’?

(a) M N Roy

(b) Jayaprakash Narayan

(c) Mahatma Gandhi

(d) Acharya Narendra Dev

2. The percentage of nitrogen present in ammonium sulphate is 

(a) 30.5%               (b) 18%              (c) 21%             (d) 25%

3.  Ethanol consisting of 5% water is known as 

(a) rectified spirit             (b) absolute alcohol 

(c) dilute alcohol              (d) power alcohol

4. ‘Functional Finance’ is associated with

(a) Adams                           (b) Abba P. Lerner

(c) Adolph Wogner             (d) Adam Smith 

5. From which of the following banks did Madan Mohan Malviya take a loan for financing ‘The Hindustan Times’ ?

(a) Bank of Baroda

(b) State Bank of India

(c) Punjab National Bank

(d) Bank of Maharashtra 

6. The Eastward continuation of the Brazil Current is called 

(a) West Atlantic drift

(b) North Atlantic drift

(c) South Atlantic drift

(d) Counter Equatorial drift 

7. Trans-boundary pollution (or) Acid rain is caused by

(a) hydrocarbon

(b) nitrogen oxide and sulphur dioxide

(c) carbon monoxide

(d) carbon dioxide

8. A vacancy for the post of the President must be filled within 

(a) 1 month

(b) 3 months

(c) 6 months

(d) 12 months

9. Blood Groups were discovered by 

(a) Pavlov

(b) Alexander Fleming

(c) Willian Harvey

(d) Landsteiner

10. ‘Farad’ is the unit of

(a) resistance

(b) conductance

(c) capacitance

(d) inductance

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