General Awareness

✳General Awareness...✳

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1. The common tree species in Nilgiri Hills is:
(A)Sal
(B)Pine
(C)Eucalyptus✅
(D)Teak

●Answer: The correct answer would be Eucalyptus. However, the Nilgiri Hills are famous for tea gardens, eucalyptus trees as well as Pine and Cyprus trees too.

👉2. Which of the following statements on Railway Budget 2011-12 is correct?
(A)There would be a 10% increase in fares for long distance train travel both by AC and NONAC classes
(B)There would be 15% increase in freight rates on all goods other than food grains
(C)There would be 15% increase in passenger fares for all classes for long distance and freights
(D)There would be no increase in fares for both suburban and long distance travel✅

●Answer: D is correct statement.

●3. The nuclear reactors which were damaged heavily due to strong Earthquake-cum-Tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, 2011 causing radiation leakage at:
(A)Fukushima✅
(B)Tokyo
(C)Kyoto
(D)None of them

●Answer: Fukushima.

👉4. First Indian Prime Minister to visit Siachen was ?
(A)Rajiv Gandhi
(B)Inder Kumar Gujaral
(C)Mammohan Singh✅
(D)None of them

●Answer: In June 2005, Manmohan Singh became the first Indian prime minister to visit Indian troops camped in igloos on the Siachen glacier.

👉5. Which of the following books has been written by Kishwar Desai?
(A)The Red Devil
(B)Witness the night✅
(C)Tonight this Savage Rite
(D)Earth and Ashes

●Answer: Witness the Night.

👉6. Which of the following folk / tribal dances is associated with Karnataka?
(A)Yakshagana✅
(B)Jatra
(C)Veedhi
(D)Jhora

Answer: Yakshagana.

👉7. Who of the following received the Sangeet Natak Academi’s Ustad Bismillah Khan Puraskar for 2009 in theatre?
(A)Omkar Shrikant Dadarkar
(B)Ragini chander sarkar
(C)Abanti Chakraborty and Sukracharjya Rabha✅
(D)K Nellai Maniknandan

●Answer: Abanti Chakraborty and Sukracharjya Rabha.

👉8. Which of the following country did not win any of the FIFA cup in 2002, 2006 and 2010?
(A)Brazil
(B)Argentina
(C)Spain
(D)South Africa✅

●Answer: South Africa

👉9. Who invented vaccination for small pox?
(A)Sir Frederick Grant Banting
(B)Sir Alexander Fleming
(C)Edward Jenner✅
(D)Loius Pasteur

●Answer: Edward Jenner

👉10. Who was the first Indian to become the member of British parliament?
(A)Bankim Chandra Chaterjee
(B)W C Banerjee
(C)Dadabhai Naoroji✅
(D)None of the above

◆Answer: First India MP was Dadabhai Naoroj