Basic General Knowledge Test 1

Hygrometer is used to measure ______________

a. Relative humidity

b. Purity of milk

c. Specific gravity of liquid

d. None of the above

Guarantee to an exporter that the importer of his goods will pay immediately for the goods ordered by him, is known as_______________

a. Letter of Credit (L/C)

b. Laissezfaire

c. Inflation

d. None of the above

If the plane of the earth's equator were not inclined to the plane of the earth's orbit_______________

a. The year would be longer

b. The winters would be longer

c. There would be no change of seasons

d. The summers would be warmer

In Air Force, Air Commodore has one rank higher than_______________

a. Squadron Leader

b. Air Vice-Marshal

c. Group Captain

d. Air Marshal

How many Dynes are there in 1 gram weight?

a. 900

b. 375

c. 981

d. 250

In which year during World War I, USA declared war on Germany, Britain defeated Turkey and captured Baghdad and Jerusalem?

a. 1917                                                                      

b. 1918

c. 1919                                                                      

d. 1920

Innocent III, who became pope in 1198 led_______________

a. The first crusade                                      

b. The second crusade

c. The third crusade                                     

d. The fourth crusade

In which year a resolution 'Uniting for Peace' was adopted by UN General Assembly?

a. 1950                                                                      

b. 1960

c. 1965                                                                      

d. 1980

Escape velocity of a rocket fired from the earth towards the moon is a velocity to get rid of the_______________

a. Earth's gravitational pull

b. Moon's gravitational pull

c. Centripetal force due to the earth's rotation

d. Pressure of the atmosphere

Free surface of a liquid behaves like a sheet and tends to contract to the smallest possible area due to the_______________

a. Force of adhesion

b. Force of friction

c. Centrifugal force

d. Force of cohesion

Excessive secretion from the pituitary gland in the children results in _______________

a. Increased height                                               

b. Retarded growth

c. Weakening of bones                                           

d. None of the above

Fa-Hien was _______________

a. The first Buddhist pilgrim of China to visit India during the reign of Chandragupta Vikramaditya

b. The discoverer of Puerto Rico and Jamaica

c. The first Buddhist pilgrim of India to visit China

d. None of the above

Mount Everest was captured by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in the year _______________

a. 1951          

b. 1952

c. 1953          

d. 1954

Karoline Mikkelsen was the first woman to_______________

a. Reach North Pole

b. Reach South Pole

c. Climb Mt. Everest

d. Set foot on the moon

King Hammurabi raised the first army of the world in_______________

a. 2000 BC

b. 1500 BC

c. 1480 BC

d. 1027 BC

Nuclear power is ____________ thermal power.

a. Cheaper than

b. Costlier than

c. Equal in amount

d. They cannot be related

Michael Faraday discovered_______________

a. Electromagnetism

b. Benzene, liquid gases and optical glass

c. The induction of electric current

d. All of the above

Mother Teresa won the Nobel Prize for Peace in_______________

a. 1992          

b. 1979

c. 1988          

d. 1954

Shares with a fixed rate of dividend that entitle their holders to priority payment over those who hold ordinary shares of a company are called_______________

a. Preference shares

b. Bull

c. Bear

d. Shareholder

Sculpture flourished during_______________

a. Egyptian civilization

b. Indus valley civilization

c. Chinese civilization

d. None of the above

Sir Humphry Davy was a British chemist who_______________

a. Invented the safety lamp for miners

b. Discovered the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide

c. Both (a) and (b)

d. None of the above

Sonia Nazario of "Los Angeles Times" was awarded Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for _______________

a. Commentary

b. Editorial writing

c. Music

d. Feature writing

Oxford university was founded in_______________

a. 1139 AD

b. 1163 AD

c. 215 BC

d. 55 BC

The American General who led the revolt against the British and declared American independence was_______________

a. George Washington

b. Bill Clinton

c. George Bush

d. None of the above

The first Afro-Asian Games were held in_______________

a. Hyderabad          

b. Sydney

c. Cairo         

d. Kuala Lumpur

The first meeting of the SAARC was opened in_______________

a. Dhaka, Bangladesh

b. Bangalore, India

c. Kathmandu, Nepal

d. Islamabad, Pakistan

The fighter force of Air Force is comprised of_______________

a. MIG-21 variant

b. MIG-23s, MIG-25s, MIG-27s, MIG-29s

c. Jaguars

d. All of the above

The credit of inventing the television goes to_______________

a. Faraday    

b. Baird

c. Edison       

d. Marconi

World War II was fought between_______________

a. Axis Power (Germany, Italy and Japan) against the Allies (Britain, USSR, USA, France)

b. Austria, Hungary, Turkey against France, USA, Japan

c. Both (a) and (b)

d. None of the above

The basic cause of World War II was_______________

a. An unjust Treaty of Versailles

b. Rice of the Nazi Party in Germany

c. Japan's policy of expansion and imperialism of England and France

d. All of the above