General Knowledge - Current Affairs, General Awareness Quiz - Questions and Answers, GK for UPSC, Bank PO & All Exams

1. Various Cooperative societies of the agriculturists and Agricultural Banks were established during the time of Lord Curzon. What was the most appropriate reason for this?

a. Lord Curzon wanted to improve the condition of agriculture in India

b. The money lenders had refused to advance loans to peasants

c. India was plagued with several famines

d. Lord Curzon was given a mandate to work for the welfare of peasants

2. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has been posthumously honored with which among the following awards for his contribution to music technology?

a. Grammy Award

b. Telly Award

c. UNESCO Mozart Medal

d. MTV Award

3. As per the recently released Census Data for 2001-10, in how many states of India, the child sex ratio has been reported to be low?

a. 12

b. 17

c. 19

d. 22

4. Romancing with Life is the autobiography of which among the following bollywood legends?

a. Shahsi Kapoor

b. Shammi Kapoor

c. Devanand

d. Rajesh Khanna

5. Who among the following is the new chairman of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard)?

a. Umesh Chandra Sarangi

b. Prakash Bakshi

c. H R Khan

d. R K Singh

6. Recently, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard made a strong pitch for uranium sale to India. What is Australia's current rank among World Uranium Suppliers?

a. First

b. Second

c. Third

d. Fourth

7. RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. What is the full form of RSS ?

a. Realtime Site Summary

b. RDF Site Summary

c. Realtime Site Statistcs

d. Random Site Summary

8. For how many days, a MNREGA beneficiary must have worked during the preceding financial year , to get eligible for Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY)?

a. 15 days

b. 30 days

c. 45 days

d. 60 days

9. Moody’s Investors Service has recently cut its rating government of which of the following countries' debt by one notch Aaa to Aa3?

a. United States

b. Japan

c. Greece

d. Spain

10. Which among the following was the first movie of Dev Anand?

a. Ziddi

b. Hum Eik Hain

c. Taxi Driver

d. Kala Pani

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Panipuri

The Panipuri is a popular street snack in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal. It consists of a round, hollow puri, fried crisp and filled with a mixture of flavored water (pani), tamarind chutney, chili, chaat masala, potato, onion and chickpeas. It is generally small enough to fit completely into one s mouth. It is a popular street food dish in Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi, Lucknow, Karachi, Lahore, Chittagong, Dhaka and Kathmandu. In North India it is known as Gol Gappa. The name gol gappa refers to the crisp sphere (gol) that is placed in the mouth and eaten (gappa) one at a time. Pani comes from the Hindi word for water and puri (or poori) is the name of an Indian bread made by deep frying in oil. Dogras, Kashmiris, Bhaderwahis, Gujjars, Paharis, Ladakhis, Himachalis of North India called it Gol Gappa . It is known as bataasha in the Western region of Uttar Pradesh. Bataasha is something which gets smashed with application of a slight pressure; the bataasha gets smashed as soon as it is placed inside the mouth. It is known as Phuchka in Eastern Indian states like Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal, also in Bangladesh. Because of the bursting sound in the mouth when it is eaten, called gup chup in Odisha,Hyderabad and South Jharkhand. Gol-Gappa or Pani Pataase in Madhya Pradesh, Gup-Chup or Gol-Gappa or Panipuri in Chhattisgarh. In several parts of Gujarat and Kutch. It is commonly known as pakodi, not to be confused with pakoda.