General Awareness Mock Test

Q1. The most important uranium mine of India is located at

Manavalakurichi
Gauribidanur
Vashi
Jaduguda

Q2.

Parliamentary forni of Government is also known as:

Responsive Government
Responsible Government
Federal Government
Presidential Government

Q3. The chief advocate of Fascism was

Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
St. Simon
Robert Owen

Q4. The minimum age of the member of Rajya Sabha is

25 years
21 years
30 years
35 years

Q5. Mahatma Gandhi got his inspiration for Civil Disobedience from

Tuoreau
Ruskin
Confucius
Tolstoy

Q6. India is considered as a ‘Republic’ Mainly because

the head of the State is elected.
it gained independence on 15th August 1947
it has its own written constitution
it is having a Parliamentary form of Government.

Q7. The first Indian selected for Indian Civil Service was

Surendra Nath Banerji
Sarojini Naidu
Lala Lajpat Rai
C. R. Das

Q8. One feature is common to the following bodies. Find it out. Supreme Court, Election Commission, UPSC, Office of CAG

They are advisory bodies.
They are extra constitutional bodies
They are controlled by legislature.
They are constitutional bodies.

Q9. How many members of the State Legislative Council are elected by the Assembly ?

th of the members
rd of the members
th of the members
th of the members

Q10. Girish Karnad is

a well known playwright and actor.
a recipient of Gnanpith Award
the President of the Film and Television Institute of Indian Society.
all the above.

Q11. Nine time Wimbledon Champion of Women’s Singles Match in Tennis is

Mary Joe Fernandaz
Jana Novotna
Iva Majoli
Martina Navrotilova

Q12 The book “The God of small things” is written by

Pupul Jayakar
Sobha De
Shekhar Kapoor
Arundhati Roy

Q13. Which of the following states is called Tiger State’ of India?

Himachal Pradesh
Gujarat
Madhya Pradesh
Assam

Q14. The district Primary Education Programme-a Centrally Sponsored Programme in India is supported by

International Monetary Fund
World Bank
UNESCO
Japanese Government

Q15. ‘Na Khatam Honewali Kahani’ (The never ending story) is an autobiography of

T.N. Seshan
Amitabh Bachchan
Sonia Gandhi
V.P. Singh

Q16. From where was India’s multipurpose telecommunication satellite INSAT-2 E launched?

Baikanour
Thumba
Sriharikota
Kourou

Q17. Antyodaya Programme is associated with

liberation of bonded labour
bringing up cultural revolution in India
demands of textile labourers
upliftment of the poorest of the poor

Q18. A few years ago an Indian city celebrated its 400th birthday. It is

Bangalore
Hyderabad
Trivandrum
Mumbai

Q19. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade was replaced by

North American Free Trade Association
South Asian Free Trade
World Trade Organisation
None of these

Q20. Which statement on the Harappan Civilisation is correct?

Horse sacrifice was known to them.
Cow was sacred to them.
Pashupati was venerated by them.
The culture was not generally static.

Q21. The First Tirthankara of the Jams was

Arishtanemi
Parshvanath
Ajitanath
Rishabha

Q22. The great silk route to the Indians was opened by:

Kanishka
Ashoka
Harsha
Fa-Hien

Q23. The capital of the Yadava rulers was

Dwarasamudra
Warangal
Kalyani
Devagiri

Q24. Which religious sect did the Chola Kings patronise ?

Jainism
Buddhism
Saivism
Vaishnavism

Q25. Tower of Victory (Vijaya Stambh) is located at

Delhi
Jhansi
Chittorgarh
Fatehpur Sikri

Q26. Who amongst the following leaders of “1857” was the first to lay down his/her life?

Kunwar Singh
Tantiya Tope
Rani Laxmi Bai of Jhansi
Mangal Pandey

Q27. The system of communal electorate in India was first introduced by

Indian Council Act of 1892.
Minto-Morley reforms of 1909
Montagu-Chelmsford reforms of 19279
Government of India of 1935

Q28. Which of the following is not a necessary condition for the development of India ?

Capital Accumulation
Resource discovery
Population growth
Technological development

Q29. Personal disposable income is

always equal to personal income.
always more than personal income.
equal to personal income minus direct taxes paid by household.
equal to personal income minus indirect taxes.

Q30. Which of the following most closely approximates our definition of oligopoly ?

The cigarette industry.
The barber shops
The gasoline stations
Wheat farmers

Q31. Who said ‘Supply creates its own demand’?

Adam Smith
J.B.Saw
Marshall
Ricardo

Q32. The Indian economy can be most appropriately described as a:

Capitalist economy
Socialist economy
Traditional economy
Mixed economy

Q33. Agricultural Technology is hard to spread because

it has to be adopted to local ‘ conditions.
rural people are not receptive
farmers are afraid to experiment on land for fear of failure.
all of the above.

Q34. Indirect tax means

there is not direct relationship between the tax payer and the government.
direct relationship between tax payer and the government.
tax base is income
the incidence and impact are on the same person on whom tax is imposed.

Q35. One of the essential conditions of perfect competition is

product differentiation
multiplicity of prices for identical products at any one time.
many sellers and a few buyers.
Only one price for identical goods at any one time.

Q36. Dehydration in human body is caused due to the loss of

vitamins
salts
hormones
water

Q37. Which of the following is the largest living bird?

Eagle
Peacock
Ostrich
Kiwi

Q38. In the case of test tube babies

egg is fertilized in the uterus.
embryo completes its development in a test tube.
embryo is placed in uterus after 2 months.
egg is fertilized outside mother’s body.

Q39. The age of trees is determined by its

girth
height
growth rings
general appearance

Q40. Kidney disease in man is caused by the pollutant

Cadmium
Iron
Cobalt
Carbon

Q41. Fruits of this plant are found underground

Potato
Carrot
Groundnut
Onion

Q42. A rare and endangered ani­mal in Silent Valley is

Musk deer
Tiger
Liontailed macaque
Rhinosores

Q43. A boat will submerge when it displaces water equal to its own :

volume
weight
surface area
density

Q44. The asteroids revolve round the Sun in between

Earth and Mars
Mars and Jupiter
Jupiter and Saturn
Saturn and Uranus

Q45. The Suez Canal connects

Mediterranean and Red seas.
Baltic and Caspian Seas.
Mediterranean and North Seas.
Red Sea and Caspian Sea.

Q46. Khasi and Garo Tribes mainly live in

Meghalaya
Nagaland
Mizoram
Manipur

Q47. Which one of the following areas is noted for mangrove vegetation ?

Lava forest of Kalimpong.
Sajnekhali forest of South 24 Parganas.
Dandakaranya forest of Orissa
Carbet National Park of U.P.

Q48. Extensive deserts occur in the western tropical regions of continents because

of easterly trade winds.
cold ocean currents flow along the western coasts.
of the effect of both the offshore easterly trade winds and cold ocean currents.

Q49. The sea bed sloping gradually and bordering the continent is known as

Coast
Continental Shelf.
Continental Platform.
Continental Slope.

Q50. Match list I with list II and find out the correct answer from the code below the Lists.
List I (Cottage Industrial Products)
(a) Silk Saree (b) Chikan
(c) Terracota (d) Brass
List II (Producing Centres)
(a) Moradabad (b) Gorakhpur
(c) Varanasi (d) Lucknow Code
     a b c d

1 2 3 4
3 4 2 1
4 3 1 2
2 1 4 3