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

1. Which of the following states in India has on January 1, 2010 launched an scheme E-samadhan which is Online Grievance Monitoring System?

a. Haryana

b. Himachal Pradesh

c. Uttarakhand

d. Rajasthan

e. New Delhi

2. Any disease which has a name with a suffix encephalitis is a disorder of ______?

a. Nerves

b. Brain

c. Bones

d. Liver

e. Lungs

3. Which of the following articles makes the Supreme Court a Court of Record ?

a. 127

b. 128

c. 129

d. 130

e. 131
What is a Court of Record?

4. What is the number of member countries of Council of Europe ?

a. 36

b. 49

c. 47

d. 51

e. 40

5. ICICI Merchant Services is a newly formed joint venture (JV) between ICICI Bank which of the following payment processing company ?

a. First Data Corporation

b. First Virtual Holdings

c. Fiat money

d. Canadian Commercial Bank

e. United Commercial Bank, USA

6. Global Hand washing Day was first observed in the wake of UN announcing which of the following years as " International Year of Sanitation "?

a. 2004

b. 2006

c. 2008

d. 2007

7. In which year, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was awarded Nobel Prize for Raman effect?

a. 1926

b. 1927

c. 1928

d. 1930

e. 1931

8. Where is located India's largest petrochemical complex?

a. Maharastra

b. Gujarat

c. Rajasthan

d. Assam

e. None of them

9. BIMSTEC comprises seven countries which ring the Bay of Bengal namely India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Thailand. In 2010 which of the following countries hold chairmanship of this body?

a. India

b. Sri Lanka

c. Myanmar

d. Thailand

e. Nepal

10. Consider the following statements regarding Operation Flood:
1. Operation flood is world's largest Integrated Dairy Development Programme
2. Dr. Verghese Kurien is the Pioneer of Operation Flood
3. Operation flood was started in 1970 by Amul Dairy
Bring out the correct statements:

a. 1 only

b. 1 & 2 only

c. 2 & 3 only

d. 1 & 3 only

e. all 1, 2, & 3