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35 GK Questions and answers with related facts are given below. This will be helpful for all Competitive Exams.
1. How many players are there in a team in Basketball?
(a) 11 (b) 5 (c) 12 (d) 6
2. Taxes paid by a producer on the production of some commodity is:
(a) Profession tax (b) Income tax
3. The element with atomic number 20 is:
(a) Iron (b) Zinc (c) Calcium (d) Titanium
4. The most common synthetic fibre known as artificial silk
(a) Nylon (b) Rayon (c) Polythene (d) Polyester
5. An animal which conserves water for a very long time:
(a) Rat (b) Kangaroo rat (c) Rhinoceros (d) Cat
6. During the Russian, Revolution Bolsheviks were led by:
(a) Lenin (b) Karl Marx (c) Mussolini (d) Hitler
7. The atom bomb was dropped in Hiroshima on:
(a) February 20, 1950 (b) August 30, 1949
(c) August 6, 1945 (d) April 24, 1939
8. A square solid has ——— faces
(a) four (b) six (c) eight (d) ten
9. The instrument used to detect planets and other objects in the sky
(a) Periscope (b) Radar (c) Telescope (d) None of these
10. Queen Victoria issued a proclamation in the year:
(a) 1858 (b) 1835 (c) 1848 (d) 1935
11. Which state has the highest production of silk in India?
(a) Kerala (b) Karnataka
(c) Tamil Nadu (d) Andhra Pradesh
12. Anna Karenina was written by
(a) Tolstoy (b) Wordsworth
(c) John Milton (d) Charles Dickens
13. Tin is purified by
(a) liquation (b) distillation (c) electrolysis (d) reduction
14. The British Governor-General who won the title Maker of Modern India:
(a) Lord William Bentinck (b) Lord Dalhousie
(c) Lord Ripon (d) Lord Cornwallis
15. The world’s first artificial satellite:
(a) Luna - 3 (b) Sputnik (c) Aryabhatta (d) Explorer - I
16. The famous fishing center of Kerala:
(a) Mavelikara (b) Vadagara (c) Neyyattinkara
(d) Neendakara
17. A country with a high per capita income is a
(a) Developed country (b) Developing country
(c) Capitalist country (d) Socialist country
18. Rights co-exist within a democratic country
(a) privilege (b) duties (c) needs (d) liberty
19. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose organized I.N.A. to
(a) attack China (b) help Britain in World War II
(c) fight for India's freedom (d) fight against Congress
20. The disorder of the eye caused by the image falling in front of the retina
(a) Short sight (b) Long sight (c) Squint (d) Astigmatism
21. The author of The Discovery of India:
(a) Sarojini Naidu (b) Gandhiji (c) Jawaharlal Nehru (d) Tagore
22. Water-gas is a mixture of:
(a) carbon and hydrogen (b) carbon monoxide and hydrogen
(c) oxygen and carbon (d) carbon monoxide and carbon
23. Crop failure is a common phenomenon in the Indian agricultural field because the farmers depend on –––– for
water.
(a) seasonal rains (b) irrigation canals
(c) wells (d) pump sets
24. Excessive alcohol consumption causes:
(a) Hepatitis (b) Cirrhosis (c) Jaundice (d) None of these
25. The author of Das Kapital
(a) Mussolini (b) Lenin (c) Karl Marx (d) Hitler
Name the following:
26. Who introduced the word Jai-Hind?
27. Currency of Kuwait
28. The most poisonous snake in Kerala
29. The Chairman of the Communist Party of China who died in 1976
30. Name the collection of maps pertaining to a region
31. The main source of power and heat for the earth
Match the following:
A B
32. Taj Mahal (a) Karnataka
33. Smallpox (b) Edward Jenner
34. Kolar mine (c) Alexander Fleming
35. Tolstoy (d) Kayamkulam
36. Hill station (e) Agra
(f) Russia
(g) Perambur
Answers
1. (b) 5.
— Women’s team has 6 players.
— Basketball was invented by James Naismith of America in 1891.
— Cricket as well as Football team has eleven players.
2. (c) Excise duty.
— Excise duty is the major revenue source of India government.
3. (c) Calcium.
— Zinc – 30.
— Iron – 26.
— Titanium – 22.
4. (b) Rayon.
— Caprolactam is used to make nylon.
— Caprolactam is made from cyclohexane. There is a caprolactam plant in Alappuzha.
5. (b) Kangaroo rat.
6. (a) Lenin.
7. (c) August 6, 1945.
— The bomb was nicknamed “The Little Boy”.
8. (b) Six.
9. (b) Radar.
— RADAR– Radio Detecting and Ranging.
— Dr. Albert H. Taylor and Leo C. Young were the inventors of Radar.
10. (a) 1858.
— Queen Victoria’s proclamation on November 1, 1858 declared that thereafter India would be governed by
and in the name of the British Monarch through a Secretary of State.
— The Governor–General was given the title of Viceroy which meant the
representative of the Monarch.
11. (b) Karnataka.
— China is the largest producer of silk in the world. Brazil stands first in sugar production.
12. (a) Tolstoy.
13. (a) Liquation.
14. (b) Lord Dalhousie.
15. (b) Sputnik.
— Sputnik was launched into space on October 4, 1957 by Russia.
— Explorer-1 was the first artificial satellite of America, launched in 1958.
— Luna-3, the Russian satellite sent pictures of the far side of the moon in 1959.
16. (d) Neendakara.
17. (a) Developed country. — India is a developing country.
18. (b) Duties.
19. (c) Fight for India's freedom.
20. (a) Short sight.
21. (c) Jawaharlal Nehru.
22. (b) Carbon monoxide and hydrogen.
— Water-gas is produced by passing steam over white coke.
— Coalgas is a mixture of methane, hydrogen and carbon monoxide.
— Methane is known as marsh-gas.
— LPG gas or domestic gas is a mixture of hydrocarbons such as propane, butane and pentane.
23. (a) Seasonal rains.
24. (b) Cirrhosis.
25. (c) Karl Marx.
— Mein Kampf is the autobiography of Hitler.
26. Subhash Chandra Bose. — He was also the founder of INA. He coined the slogan "Dilli Chalo".
27. Kuwait Dinar.
28. King Cobra.
29. Mao Tse-tung.
30. Large Scale Maps.
31. Sun.
32. (e) Agra.
33. (b) Edward Jenner.
34. (a) Karnataka. — Bharat Gold Mines is the new name of Kolar Gold Mines.
35. (f) Russia.
36. (g) Perambur.
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