Ace the General

Awareness section in
XAT
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2016 2017 2018

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QUESTIONS
1. As per the Constitution, which among the
following is not a fundamental right granted to
the citizens of India?

1. Right to Equality
2. Right to Freedom
3. Right Against Exploitation
4. Right to Property
5. Right to Freedom of Religion
2. Christine Lagarde is:

1. a famous tennis player of yesteryears

2. an American stage and screen actress
3. the Managing Director of the International
Monetary Fund
4. the Chief Executive Officer of Nestle
5. a British political activist
3. Which Indian region is the only place in the world
where the Asiatic Wild Ass is found?

A) Sunderban
B) Leh and Ladakh
C) Coromandel
D) Rann of Kutchh
E) Andaman and Nicobar Islands
4. What can be the maximum number of members
of Rajya Sabha?

A) 245
B) 250
C) 255
D) 260
5. Which of the following posts is not mentioned in
Constitution?

A) Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha

B) Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha
C) Attorney General
D) Solicitor General
6. What is the minimum years of age for candidate
for office of the vice president?

A) 25
B) 30
C) 35
D) 38
7. President can proclaim a state of Financial
emergency under which among the following
articles?

A) Article 350
B) Article 352
C) Article 356
D) Article 360
8. For how many times, a person can become
President of India?

A) Once
B) Twice
C) Thrice
D) No limit
9. Port Blair is located on which of the following
Islands?

A) North Andaman
B) South Andaman
C) Middle Andaman
D) None of the above
10. In how many zones Indian Railway has been
divided?

A) 14
B) 16
C) 17
D) 20
11. Which among the following longitudes
determines Indian standard Time?

A) 85.5° E
B) 83.5° E
C) 82.5° E
D) 84.5° E
12. Hirakud Hydel Power station is located on which
River?

A) Chambal
B) Gandak
C) Mahanadi
D) Sonbhadra
13. Which among following is rich in Ozone?

A) Stratosphere
B) Mesosphere
C) Ionosphere
D) Troposphere
14. What is the Length of Coast line of India
including the cost line of Andaman and Nicobar
Island?

A) 5517 km
B) 7517 km
C) 6518 km
D) 7218 km
16. Between which stations was the first railway line
opened in India?

A) Calcutta to Raniganj
b) Bombay to Pune
C) Calcutta to Jamshedpur
D) Bombay to Thane
17. Vasco de Gama arrived at Calicut in

A) 1492
b) 1510
C) 1491
D) 1498
18. The Gayatri Mantra is contained in the

A) Rigveda
B) Mundak Upanishad
C) Dharmashastras
D) Puranas
19. Who among the following kings of Delhi was
famous for his market reforms?

A) Akbar
B) Allaudin Khilji
C) Mohd. Tughlaq
D) Malik Kafur
20. Buddhism got divided into two sects, namely

A) Diagambara and Shwetmbara

B) Nilambar and Pitambra
C) Mahayana and Hinayana
D) None of these
21. Who is called the “wisest fool” in Indian history?

A) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
B) Mohammed Tughlaq
C) Feroz Tughlaq
D) Aurangzab
22. The Ghadar party was based in

A) San Francisco
B) Berkeley
C) New York
D) Toronto
23. The Cabinet Mission came to India in

A) 1946
B) 1945
C) 1942
D) 1944
24. “The Grand Old Man of India” is a title given to

A) Gandhiji
B) Dada Bhai Nauroji
C) C.R. Dass
D) Justice Ranade
25. Who is the executive head of the state
government?

A) Chief minister
B) Governor
C) President
D) None of the above
26. On 30 June,2018, Tata Steel announced its 50-
50 joint venture with which German company to
create Europe's second-largest steel
manufacturing firm after Arcelor-Mittal?
(write the ans key)

1) Thyssenkrupp 2) Novolipetsk Steel

3) Severstal 4) Nucor Corporation
27. The 17th World Sanskrit Conference was held
from 9th July to 13th July,2018 in which of the
following cities:
(write the ans key)

1) Tokyo 2) Paris
3) Vancouver 4) Kuala Lumpur
28. Which of the following was, in July 2018,
crowned the best work of fiction from the last five
decades of the Man Booker Prize?

A) The English Patient

B) In a Free State
C) Moon Tiger
D) Wolf Hall
29. The iconic cluster of Victorian Gothic and Art
Deco buildings in which Indian city was inscribed
in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Site?

A) New Delhi
B) Mumbai
C) Kolkata
D) Bengaluru
30. India is negotiating a joint venture with which
neighbouring country to operate Mattala airport
which is loss-making but strategically located
near Chinese-controlled port?

A) Myanmar
B) Bangladesh
C) Sri Lanka
D) Nepal
31. Which of the following High Courts has
decriminalized begging while stating that
criminalizing begging violates fundamental rights
of some of the most vulnerable people in our
society?

A) Allahabad High Court

B) Bombay High Court
C) Madras High Court
D) Delhi High Court
32. Which Indian film won the “Best Film Award” at
the 3rd edition of BRICS Film Festival which took
place in Durban, South Africa?

A) Hichki
B) Newton
C) Sinjar
D) Irada
33. In order to create more employment
opportunities for women, the Union Government
announced 50% reservation for women in
upcoming recruitment of 9500-10000 jawans for
which of the following security forces?

A) Railway Protection Force (RPF)

B) Central Armed Police Force (CAPF)
C) Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB)
D) Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)
34. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its
latest report has projected how much GDP
growth for India in the 2018-19 fiscal?

A) 7.1%
B) 7.3%
C) 7.5%
D) 7.7%
35. Indira Banerjee made the headlines recently because:

A) She is the second Indian woman after Indra Nooyi to

be named the CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
B) By being appointed a judge of the Supreme Court,
she has joined an elite club of women judges of the
apex court since Independence.
C) She has become the first Indian female athlete to win
a gold medal in a track event at the World Athletics
Championships.
D) She has made history by becoming the first female
fighter pilot of India.
36. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet
(ACC) recently approved reappointment of Ram
Sewak Sharma for further period beyond August
2018 upto September 2020 as the Chairperson
of:
A) Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)
B) Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)
C) National Dairy Development Board (NDDB)
D) Indian Council of Agricultural Research
(ICAR)
37. Name the world famous author of Indian origin
who passed away recently, being only the
second ethnic Indian after the legendary
Rabindranath Tagore to win the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 2001.

A) Khushwant Singh
B) Ruskin Bond
C) V S Naipaul
D) Salman Rushdie
38. Imran Khan, who was declared winner in the
Pakistan General Elections 2018, is the chief of
which political party?

A) Awami National Party

B) Pakistan Muslim League – N
C) Pakistan People’s Party
D) Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
39. After which legendary physicist US space
agency NASA has named mankind’s first mission
to touch the Sun, this being the first instance a
mission has been named after a living scientist?

A) Carl Sagan
B) Stephen Hawking
C) Eugene Parker
D) Roger Penrose
40. Michelle Bachelet, the newly appointed UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights, had earlier
served as the first woman President of which
South American nation?

A) Chile
B) Argentina
C) Venezuela
D) Brazil
41. In one of its biggest strategic moves ever that
has opened new business opportunities, Soft-
drink giant Coca-Cola made an audacious move
into coffee and retail outlets with $5.1-billion
purchase of which UK-based global coffee
chain?

A) Starbucks
B) Costa Coffee
C) Caribou
D) Gloria Jean’s
42. The co-founder and executive chairman of which
global e-commerce giant (with market value of
$420-billion) recently announced his plan to
retire from the company he founded in 1999 to
pursue philanthropy in education?

A) Amazon
B) Rakuten
C) eBay
D) Alibaba
43. Indian IT major Infosys has signed a three-year
contract to become the official digital innovation
partner of which Grand Slam tournament?

A) Australian Open
B) US Open
C) French Open
D) Wimbledon
44. With the objective to boost the all-important
Indian dairy sector, Union Ministry of Agriculture
& Farmers Welfare launched which scheme with
a total investment outlay of Rs. 10,881 crore?

A) Dairy Entrepreneurship Development Scheme

(DEDS)
B) Cattle and Dairy Development Fund (CDDF)
C) Dairy Processing & Infrastructure
Development Fund (DIDF)
D) National Dairy Development Fund (NDDF)
45. Amitabh Chaudhry, currently the MD & CEO of
HDFC Standard Life Insurance who is credited
with the company’s emergence as the top private
insurer by market value, has been appointed as
the MD & CEO of which private sector bank from
January 1, 2019?

A) ICICI Bank
B) IndusInd Bank
C) Axis Bank
D) Kotak Mahindra Bank
46. As per data from the Reserve Bank of India’s
annual report, which country was the top source
of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into India in
2017-18?

A) Hong Kong
B) Mauritius
C) Singapore
D) UAE
47. Which famous Bollywood actor has been roped
in as the Brand Ambassador for the “Anti-Drug
Campaign” for 5 states(Punjab, Haryana,
Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan)
and 2 union territories(Delhi and Chandigarh), to
spread awareness about the ill-effects of drugs
and educate people on how to refrain from their
consumption?

A) Ranbir Kapoor B) Aamir Khan

C) Sanjay Dutt D) John Abraham
48. Who among the following has been elected as
the new (13th) President of Pakistan?

A) Aitzaz Ahsan
B) Maulana Fazl ur Rehman
C) Arif Alvi
D) Mamnoon Hussain
49. Former junior world champion Sakshi Choudhary
brought laurels to the country by emerging
victorious at the World Youth Championship in
which sport?

A) Wrestling
B) Boxing
C) Shooting
D) Cycling
50. By beating Serena Williams in the final, Naomi
Osaka became the first Japanese to win the
singles title at which of the following Grand Slam
tournaments?

A) Australian Open
B) US Open
C) Wimbledon
D) French Open
51. Which Indian state has been awarded the UN
Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO)
Future Policy Gold Award for becoming the
world’s first totally organic agriculture state?

A) Sikkim
B) Assam
C) Kerala
D) Tamil Nadu
52. William Nordhaus and Paul Romer have been
jointly awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in:

A) Chemistry
B) Peace
C) Physics
D) Economics
53. Which state topped the ‘Best State’ category in
the ‘Swachh Survekshan Grameen Awards 2018’
conferred by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at
the concluding session of the Mahatma Gandhi
International Sanitation Convention at
Rashtrapati Bhawan Cultural Centre?

A) Haryana
B) Gujarat
C) Maharashtra
D) Kerala
54. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)
will be working in collaboration with the space
agency of which country for India’s first manned
space mission, Gaganyaan?

A) Russia
B) France
C) China
D) US
55. As per the United Nations Report titled
‘Economic Losses, Poverty and Disasters 1998-
2017’, what is the amount of economic loss
incurred by India in the last 20 years due to
climate-related disasters?

A) $55.5 billion
B) $68.5 billion
C) $79.5 billion
D) $87.5 billion
56. The World Economic Forum (WEF) has
launched its new Centre for ‘Fourth Industrial
Revolution in India’ in which state?

A) Gujarat
B) Karnataka
C) Tamil Nadu
D) Maharashtra
57. In order to enhance the employability skills of the
Indian workforce, the Union Ministry of Skill
Development and Entrepreneurship has
launched ‘Closing the Skills Gap Task Force’ in
collaboration with:

A) World Economic Forum

B) World Bank
C) Education International
D) United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization
58. Which Indian financial institution launched
‘Udyam Abhilasha’, a national level
entrepreneurship awareness campaign that was
organized from 3-8 October, 2018?

A) Small Industries Development Bank of India

(SIDBI)
B) National Bank for Agriculture and Rural
Development (NABARD)
C) National Housing Bank (NHB)
D) Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI)
59. Tushar Mehta has been appointed as the new:

A) Attorney General of India

B) Solicitor General of India
C) Election Commissioner of India
D) Chief Justice of India
60. By grabbing silver medal at the 2018 Youth
Olympic Games, Tababi Devi Thangjam became
the first Indian athlete to win a medal at the
Olympic level (senior or junior) in which
discipline?

A) Boxing
B) Fencing
C) Swimming
D) Judo
61. Which legendary American singer will be
posthumously awarded the highest civilian honor
of the United States, the ‘2018 Presidential
Medal of Freedom’ by the US President, Donald
Trump?

A) Johnny Cash
B) Michael Jackson
C) Elvis Presley
D) Frank Sinatra
62. India has overtaken which country to become the
world’s second largest smartphone market in the
July-September 2018 quarter, according to a
report by research firm Canalys?

A) UK
B) Japan
C) China
D) US
63. Jack Dorsey is the CEO of which of the following
global companies?

A) LinkedIn
B) Yahoo
C) Twitter
D) Bloomberg
64. India has secured which rank among 190
countries in World Bank’s ‘Ease of Doing
Business (EODB) Index 2018’?

A) 77
B) 87
C) 97
D) 107
65. In commemoration of the historic event of hoisting of
the Tricolour for the first time on free Indian soil by
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose at Cellular Jail of Port
Blair (Andaman & Nicobar Islands), the Union
Ministry of Finance has announced to release a
monumental coin of which denomination?

A) Rs. 50
B) Rs. 75
C) Rs. 100
D) Rs. 125
66. Which of the following international banks has
set up $200 million fund for investing in
promising Indian Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises (MSMEs)?

A) Shanghai Pudong Development Bank

B) Maybank
C) DBS Bank
D) Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
67. In keeping with the long history of economic
cooperation between the two countries, India has
signed a loan agreement of Rs. 18.17 billion with
Japan for the construction of Turga Hydel Project,
aimed at boosting industrial development and
improving the standard of living in the state of:

A) Assam
B) West Bengal
C) Rajasthan
D) Telangana
68. Ashok Kumar Gupta has been appointed as the
Chairperson of which of the following
Commissions?

A) National Commission for Backward Classes

B) Atomic Energy Commission of India
C) Competition Commission of India
D) National Statistical Commission
69. Which veteran actor has resigned as Chairman
of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII),
thus becoming the first Chairperson of FTII to
resign before the completion of his full term?

A) Amol Palekar
B) Naseeruddin Shah
C) Anupam Kher
D) Girish Karnad
70. Name the Marvel Comics legend credited with
the creation of iconic fictional characters such as
Spider-Man, Hulk and Black Panther who passed
away currently at the age of 95.

A) Steve Ditko
B) Stan Lee
C) Jack Kirby
D) John Byrne
71. Ace Indian pugilist MC Mary Kom was honored
with the title “Meethoileima” (par excellent
queen) by the ………….. Government.

A) Sikkim
B) Manipur
C) Meghalaya
D) Arunachal Pradesh
72. Which global FMCG giant has agreed to acquire
British healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline’s
India consumer business, which includes the
prized health food drinks brand Horlicks?

A) Unilever
B) Nestle
C) Johnson & Johnson
D) Procter & Gamble
73. Accounting for 43% share of domestic air travel
market, which Indian airline became the first in
the country to have 200 aircraft in its fleet?

A) SpiceJet
B) Vistara
C) GoAir
D) IndiGo
74. Which of the following companies has acquired
select software assets of IBM at $1.8 billion,
making it the largest acquisition of a business by
an Indian IT services company?

A) Tata Consultancy Services

B) Infosys
C) HCL Technologies
D) Wipro
75. Name the social commerce platform being rolled
out by Amazon in India at a time when Facebook
and Instagram also plan to get a pie of the
growing e-commerce market in India.

A) Glitter
B) Spark
C) Atom
D) Quantum
76. According to a global economic research report,
which Indian city tops the list of world’s fastest
growing cities(in terms of GDP) between 2019
and 2035?

A) Chandigarh
B) Kochi
C) Surat
D) Indore
77. Name the 47-year-old associate professor at the
Hyderabad-based Indian School of
Business(ISB) who has been appointed as the
new Chief Economic Adviser to the Government
of India.

A) Krishnamurthy Subramanian
B) Debashish Chakrabarthy
C) Ritvik Ranjanam Pandey
D) Arvind Subramanian
78. Which country is expected to retain its position
as the world’s top recipient of remittances with
$80 million in 2018, as per latest World Bank’s
report ‘Migration and Development Brief’?

A) India
B) China
C) Mexico
D) Philippines
79. Amid escalating tension with Saudi Arabia, which
energy-rich West Asian nation has announced
that it will pull out of OPEC(Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries)?

A) Qatar
B) Iran
C) UAE
D) Iraq
80. The International Human Rights Day was
observed on December 10, like every year, to
commemorate the day when the United Nations
General Assembly adopted the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights at the Palais in
Paris in 1948. What was the theme for this year?

A) Stand up for the human rights

B) Rise for the human rights
C) Flourish with human rights
D) Spread the human rights
81. Match the dams and the States in which they are
situated :

Dam State
A. Hirakud (1) Chhatisgarh
B. Mettur (2) Orissa
C. Mahanadi (3) Karnataka
D. Almatti (4) Tamil Nadu

A) A(3) B(2) C(4) D(1) B) A(2) B(4) C(1) D(3)

C) A(1) B(3) C(2) D(4) D) A(4) B(1) C(3) D(2)
E) None of these
82. Read the following statements carefully–
I. Excise duty is a tax on manufacture or production
of goods and services.
II. Not all kinds of excise duty is collected by the
Central Government in India.
III. Excise duty is an indirect tax.
Which of the statements given above are correct?

A) Statements I and II B) Statements II and III

C) Statement I and III D) All of the above
E) None of the above
83. Minamata disease was caused by

A) Mercury
B) Lead
C) Cadmium
D) Zinc
E) None of these
84. Which of the following are true with respect to
GST
1. A 4-tier GST tax structure was decided upon at
the first day of the two-day GST Council meeting.
2. The minimum and maximum GST rates are 5%
and 28% respectively.
3. GST bill was passes in Rajya Sabha on 4th
August 2016.

A) 1 and 3 B) 2 only
C) 3 only D) 1 and 2 E) 1, 2 and 3
85. Who the author of the book titled “The Modi
Doctrine: New Paradigms in India's Foreign
Policy”

A) Anirban Ganguly
B) Gurang Chkrabarty
C) Anand Mukherjee
D) Steve Kristenstien
E) Krishnan Ayyar
86 Usha Ananthasubramanian was dismissed by
the govt recently as MD and CEO of which of the
following banks? Her powers were seized earlier.

A) Dena Bank
B) Allahabad Bank
C) Canara Bank
D) Bank of India
E) Corporation Bank
87. The West Bengal Green University will soon be
renamed after which famous personality?

A) Rani Lakshmibai
B) Rani Rashmoni
C) Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
D) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
88. Which one of the following is the only species of
apes found in India?

A) Hoolock Gibbon
B) Chimpanzee
C) Orangutan
D) Bonobo
E) None of these
89. Bancassurance is

A) An insurance scheme to insure bank deposits

B) An insurance scheme to insure bank
advances
C) A composite financial service offering both
bank and insurance products
D) A bank deposit scheme exclusively for
employees of insurance companies
E) None of these
90. The gulf that separated Finland and Europe in
Sweden is called?

A) The gulf of Lions

B) The gulf of Genoa
C) The gulf of Venice
D) The gulf of Bothnia
E) None of these
91. Which of the following firms has announced to
formally launch its messaging app ‘Kimbho’?

A) Paytm
B) Patanjali
C) Bharti Airtel
D) Reliance Jio
E) IBM
92. Stephen Hawking is a famous :

A) Economist
B) Physicist
C) Writer
D) Historian
E) Painter
93. Which country will conduct the world’s first
experiment to test a small prototype of ‘Space
Elevator’ in space using two mini satellites?

A) China
B) Russia
C) Japan
D) France
E) US
94. The highest mountain of Europe is :

A) Mt Etna
B) Stromboli
C) Mont Blanc
D) Ural Mt.
E) Mt. Elbrus
95. The birth anniversary of which freedom fighter is
celebrated as National Education Day (NED) in
India?

A) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

B) J B Kripalani
C) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
96. Which of following is not a classical Language in
India ?

A) Sanskrit
B) Odia
C) Malyalam
D) Tamil
E) Parsi
97. The power to vote money for public expenditure
rests in India with ___:

1. Lok Sabha
2. Rajya Sabha
3. Legislative Assembly
4. Legislative Council
Choose the correct option from the codes given
below:

A) Only 1 & 2 B) Only 1 & 3

C) Only 1, 2 & 3 D) 1, 2, 3 & 4 E) Only 1, 2 & 4
98. ____________ also known as Jawaharlal Nehru
Port, is the largest container port in India.

A) Nal Seva
B) Nhava Sheva
C) Kava
D) JTPT
E) Diva
99. Who among the following will be the chairman of
the Fifteenth Finance Commission?

A) Arvind Mehta
B) Ramesh Chand
C) NK Singh
D) Ashok Lahiri
E) Anoop Singh
100. What does Ashoka’s wheel in the national flag
represent ?

A) Wheel of peace
B) Wheel of prosperity
C) Wheel of Authority
D) Wheel of Freedom
E) Wheel of the law
101. The sequence that contains a wrong match between car
manufacturers and their country of origin:

A) Bugatti-France, Opel-Germany, Ferrari-Italy, Jaguar-

England
B) Cherry Automobile-U.K, Rolls-Royce-U.K, Austin-
U.K, Kia-Korea
C) First Automobile Works-China, The First Cars-Japan,
Lancia-Italy, Saab-Sweden
D) Volvo-Sweden, Audi-Germany, Skoda-Czech
Republic, Tatra-Austria
E) Volkswagen-Germany, Audi-Germany, Opel-
Germany, Mercedes Benz-Germany
102. Who among the following was known as the
'Saint of the Gutters' ?

A) Baba Amte
B) Mother Teresa
C) C.F. Andrews
D) Jyotirao Phule
E) Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak
103. The ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha is

A) President of India
B) Vice-President of India
C) Prime Minister
D) Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha
E) None of these
104. India is NOT a self dependent country in the
production of __________

A) Wheat
B) Rice
C) Crude Oil
D) Sugar
E) Vegetables
105. Milk cooperatives have been very successful in
which of the following states in India ?

A) Orissa
B) West Bengal
C) Assam
D) Kerala
E) Gujarat
106. ‘A Long Walk To Freedom’ is the memoir of

A) Bill Gates
B) Nelson Mandela
C) Tony Blair
D) George Bush
E) Stephen Hawking
107. Pararchute is a brand of

A) Hindustan Lever
B) Proctor & Gamble
C) Marico
D) Dabur
108. India has been ranked at which position among
119 countries on the ‘Global Hunger Index 2018’
prepared by Welthungerhilfe and Concern
Worldwide?

A) 78th
B) 89th
C) 103rd
D) 110th
th
E) 115
109. Name the National Investment Promotion and
Facilitation Agency which recently won the ‘UN
Award for Excellence in Promoting Investments
in Sustainable Development’ at the World
Investment Forum, Geneva.

A) India Funds
B) Bharat Nivesh
C) Invest India
D) Investathon
E) Bharat Fund
110. Which of the following is NOT associated with
parliamentary working in India?

A) Prorogue
B) Adjournment
C) Dissolve
D) Dismiss
E) None of these
111. Which of the following does NOT come under the
purview of the Election Commission?

A) To conduct elections to the office of the Prime

Minister
B) To conduct elections to the office of the
President
C) To give recognition to political parties
D) To assign election symbols to political parties
E) None of these
112. Which of the following is the correct definition of
Poverty?

Poverty is a social phenomenon in which a

section of the society is unable to______

A) get job oriented education

B) fulfil its basic necessities of life
C) have a good accommodation
D) access potabte water near its house
E) avail good medical facilities in a nearby area
113. Which of the following books is authored by
bestselling author Chetan Bhagat?

A) A Suitable Bay
B) An Unsuitable Bay
C) Two Lines
D) The Girl of My Dreams
E) One Indian Girl
114. Which countrie’s cabinet has agreed to abolish
the death penalty.

A) Malaysia
B) Indonesia
C) Japan D) USA E) China
115. Which of the following dances is not a classical
dance?

A) kathakali
B) Garba
C) Odissi
D) Manipuri
116. Gandhiji expounded his economic ideas in

A) Hind Swaraj
B) My Experiments with Truth
C) Unto the Last
D) Economics of Permanence
117. Consumer Price Index Measures:

A) Changes in the price level of consumer goods

B) Changes in the price level of services
C) Changes in the price level of goods and
services
D) Market tendencies influencing sale / purchase
118. “Roof of the World” is the title given to

A) The Rockies
B) The Andies
C) The Pamirs
D) None of these
119. Petrol is usually found in

A) Metamorphic rocks
B) Sedimentary rocks
C) Igneous rocks
D) None of these
120. The famous Borobudur temple is in

A) Indonesia
B) Thailand
C) Surinam
D) Cambodia
121. Asteroids are found between the planets

A) Mars and Jupiter

B) Mercury and Venus
C) Earth and Venus
D) Jupiter and Saturn
122. Which among the following gas is most
responsible for global warming?

A) Nitrous oxide
B) Methane
C) Carbon di-oxide
D) CFCs
123. Mount Sinabung volcano, which erupted
recently, is located in which country?

A) Indonesia
B) Japan
C) Mexico
D) United States
124. Antartica’s which sea has been declared as
world’s largest marine protected area?

A) Caspian Sea
B) Black Sea
C) Ross Sea
D) Dead Sea
125. A____________ is a document from a bank
guaranteeing that a seller will receive payment in
full as long as certain delivery conditions have
been met.

A) Bid Bond Guarantee

B) Security receipts
C) Letter of Credit
D) Letter of Guarantee
126. BCSBI is an independent and autonomous
institution to monitor and ensure that the Codes
and Standards adopted by the banks are
adhered to. What does BCSBI stands for in the
financial language?

A) Business Codes and Standards Bureau of

India
B) Banking Codes and Standards Code of India
C) Banking Codes and Systems Bureau of India
D) Banking Culture and Standards Board of India
127. The 'Dibang Wildlife Sanctuary' is situated in the
Indian State of _____

A) Himachal Pradesh
B) Arunachal Pradesh
C) Uttar Pradesh
D) Andhra Pradesh
128. The first venture of Mahatma Gandhi in all India
politics was

A) Bardoli Satyagraha
B) Champaran Satyagraha
C) Ahamdabad Mill Strike
D) Non Cooperation Movement
129. The Head Quarters of the World Intellectual
Property Organisation (WIPO) is located in the
city of

A) Athens
B) Vienna
C) Geneva
D) Rio de Janeiro
130. The name of the Bombay Stock Exchange
Building is ________

A) BSE House
B) Dalal Street Towers
C) Phiroze Jeejebhoy Towers
D) SENSEX 101
131. Which automobile tycoon built one of the world's
tallest skyscrapers at the height of the American
Depression in 1929?

A) Henry Ford
B) Walter Chrysler
C) Karl Benz
D) William C Durant
132. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has
awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics to three
scientists for their:

A) Decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and

the observation of gravitational waves
B) Groundbreaking inventions in the field of Laser
Physics
C) Theoretical discoveries of topological phase
transitions and topological phases of matter
D) Discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows
that neutrinos have mass
133. Who has been elected as the first Muslim Mayor
of London?

A) Sadiq Khan
B) Mohammad Asif
C) Salim Khan
D) Sabika Khan
134. Mark the wrong combination

A) James Watt: Steam Engine

B) A.G. Bell: Telephone
C) J.L. Baird: Television
D) J. Perkins: Penicillin
135. Match the name of the organization with the name of
the city in which it is headquartered

Organization Headquarters
I. International Monetary Fund a. Lausanne
II. International Olympic Committee b. Geneva
III. International Labour Organisation c. Washington
IV. International Chamber of Commerce d. Paris

A) I-d; II-c; III-a; IV-b

B) I-a; II-b; III-d; IV-c
C) I-c; II-a; III-b; IV-d
D) I-b; II-d; III-c; IV-a
136. Which of the following statements about NATO is
NOT correct?

A) NATO is a collective defence organization in

Europe
B) The US is an ex officio member of NATO
C) Turkey is a member of NATO
D) NATO has 28 independent member States
137. Which of the following reports and the
organizations which bring them out is wrongly
paired?

A) World Investment Report: UNCTAD

B) State of Food Insecurity in the World: FAO
C) Global Competitiveness Report: WTO
D) Human Development Report: UNDP
138. What words were inscribed in the first postage
stamp issued in India after independence?

A) Vande Mataram
B) Satyameva Jayate
C) Jai Hind
D) Azad Hind
139. Cartels is a form of

A) Collusive oligopoly
B) Non-collusive oligopoly
C) Monopoly
D) Monopolistic competiton
140. Geomorphology is the science of

A) Stars
B) Earthquakes
C) Landscape forms on earth’s surface
D) Internal structure of the earth
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