General Knowledge - General Awareness Quiz - Questions and Answers, GK 2010

1. For which of the following energies production in India , there is an incentive scheme called Generation Based Incentives has been launched?

a. Coal Based

b. Gas based

c. Hydropower

d. Renewable energy

e. all of them

2. Since which year the government of India started recognizing the 'Primitive Tribal Groups' (PTGs) as more backward communities among the tribal population groups ?

a. 1965

b. 1969

c. 1975

d. 1978

e. 1982

3. What name was given to the first assault launched in the world's highest battlefield, Siachen Glacier by the Indian Armed Forces in 1984?

a. Operation Vijay

b. Operation Meghdoot

c. Operation Black Sky

d. Operation Ganga

e. Operation Storm

4. In which of the following country 52 U.S. diplomats were held hostage for 444 days in the end of Eightees decade?

a. Iraq

b. Iran

c. USSR

d. Afghanistan

e. North Korea

5. Which of the following is the name of the organization created to provide full employment and self reliance to the womenfolk in India?

a. OECD

b. ROSCA

c. SVP

d. SEWA

6. Which of the following city was known as Avanti in ancient India?

a. Varanasi

b. Ujjain

c. Patna

d. Rohtak

e. Alwar

7. With which of the following countries, India has signed First Tax Information Exchange Agreement?

a. Belize

b. Bermuda

c. Guyana

d. Honduras

8. Poverty and Un-British Rule in India by Dadabhai Naoroji , was the original classic work on poverty in India. In which year this work was published?

a. 1897

b. 1901

c. 1905

d. 1908

e. 1910

9. From which of the following countries India is due to receive Nerpa submarine ?

a. Israel

b. South Korea

c. France

d. Russia

e. None of them

10. Consider the following matches:
1. Ashtapradan : Maratha Empire
2. AshtaDiggaja : Vijaynagar Empire
3. Navaratna : Chandra Gupta I
4. Dahasala : Administration of Akbar
Which among the above are matched correctly?

a. Only 1

b. Only 1 & 2

c. Only 1, 2, 3,

d. Only 1, 2 , 4

General Knowledge

1. World Geography -Test-01

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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