General Knowledge - 65


Q1.

'Ao', 'Sema' and 'Konyak' are the principal languages of which north-eastern Indian state ?
(A) Manipur
(B) Meghalaya
(C) Mizoram
(D) Nagaland

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Q2.

In Solar System, which planet is the hottest ?
(A) Venus
(B) Mercury
(C) Jupiter
(D) Saturn

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Q3.

Which former Indian Prime Minister's birthday on 23 December is celebrated as 'Kisan Divas' (Farmer's Day) in India ?
(A) L.B.Shastri
(B) Charan Singh
(C) Morarji Desai
(D) Chandrasekhar

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Q4.

In 1885, who developed the vaccine for rabies ?
(A) Louis Pasteur
(B) Edward Jenner
(C) Alexander Fleming
(D) Robert Koch

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Q5.

Which revolutionary was the first to describe the 'Revolt of 1857' as 'India's First War of Independence' in his famous book titled 'The Indian War of Independence' ?
(A) Bhagat Singh
(B) Veer Savarkar
(C) Lala Har Dayal
(D) Chandrasekhar Azad

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Q6.

Who among the following was also known as the 'Little Corporal' ?
(A) Adolf Hitler
(B) Joseph Stalin
(C) Napoleon Bonaparte
(D) Mao Zedong

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Q7.

On 26 November 1960, between which cities was the first Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) service started in India ?
(A) Kanpur - Lucknow
(B) Mumbai - Pune
(C) Chandigarh - New Delhi
(D) Bengaluru - Chennai

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Q8.

Diego Garcia island, being used as a strategic American military base since 1966 when USA received it on lease for 50 years from UK, is located in which ocean ?
(A) Arctic Ocean
(B) Indian Ocean
(C) Pacific Ocean
(D) Atlantic Ocean

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Q9.

Which athlete won 100 m race Gold Medal at Beijing Olympic 2008, and also created new world record of 9.69 seconds ?
(A) Tyson Gay
(B) Asafa Powell
(C) Maurice Greene
(D) Usain Bolt

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Q10.

Which city houses the headquarters of the INTERPOL (International Criminal Police Organisation), the world's largest international police organisation ?
(A) Vienna (Austria)
(B) Brussels (Belgium)
(C) Lyon (France)
(D) The Hague (Netherlands)

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