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

1. Which among the following always decreases in a Food chain across tropic levels?

a. Number

b. Accumulated chemicals

c. Energy

d. Number

2. Which among the following Ministry is running the "Village Grain Bank Scheme"?

a. Ministry of Agriculture

b. Ministry of Food and Public Distribution

c. Ministry of Tribal Affairs

d. Ministry of Rural Development

3. Which among the following is an incorrect statement:

a. The regulations relating to the issue of Indian Depository Receipts contained in Securities and Exchange Board of India.

b. The Standard Chartered PLC became the first global company to file for an issue of Indian depository receipts in India

c. The Indian Depository Receipts derive their value from the shares deposited with custodians.

d. In case of Indian Depository Receipts, The Custodian is always a foreign entity

4. Who among the following is Africas first democratically elected female president, (also won Nobel Peace Prize 2011)?

a. Sylvie Kinigi

b. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

c. Elisabeth Domitien

d. Rosalia Nghidinwa

5. Russell Tribunal is related to which among the following?

a. International Intellectual property issues

b. War Crimes

c. Crimes against women

d. Organized International Crime

6. Consider the following:
1.Financial Transaction Plan
2.Technical Assistance Special Fund
3.Financial Stability Board
Which among the above is/ are parts of International Monetary Fund?

a. 1

b. 1 & 2

c. 1, 2, 3

d. 1, 3

7. All the following announcements were made at the Delhi Durbar in 1911 except one. Identify that one:

a. Transfer of Capital from Calcutta to Delhi

b. Annulment of Partition of Bengal

c. Separation of Bihar , Orissa and Chhotanagpur from Bengal's Jurisdiction

d. Election of Indians to the various legislative councils in India

8. Trade of which among the following commodities faced a worst shortage in Japan because of the radiation leaking from the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi power station?

a. Green Tea

b. Coffee

c. Rice

d. Wheat

9. Recently, Kaushik Basu said that "Short-term growth can be compromised to contain higher inflation rate as the country needs to retain long-term growth prospects of the economy". Who is Kaushik Basu?

a. Deputy Governor of RBI

b. Member of Planning Commission

c. Chief economic advisor to the Finance Ministry

d. Chairman of Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council

10. Central Employment Guarantee Council overlooks the progress of which among the following scheme?

a. MGNREGA

b. Food for Works Programme

c. National Rural Livelihood Mission

d. All of them

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2. World Geography -Test-02

3. World Geography -Test-03

4. Geography of India -Test-01

5. Geography of India -Test-02

6. Geography of India -Test-03

7. Geography of India -Test-04

8. Geography of India -Test-05

9. History of India - Test - 01

10. History of India - Test - 02

11. History of India - Test - 03

12. History of India - Test - 04

13. History of India - Test - 05

14. History of India - Test - 06

15. History of India - Test - 07

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