GENERAL KNOWLEDGE - UPSC

1.Which Indian cricket player has won the Sir Garfield Sober Trophy for 2016?

Virat Kohli Ravichandran Ashwin Ajinkya Rahane Ravindra Jadeja

2.Which union ministry has launched an online film certification system “e-Cinepramaan” to promote transparency and ease of doing business?

Ministry of Science and Technology Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Ministry of Communications Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

3.Who has been chosen for the Glenfiddich’s Emerging Artist of the Year 2017?

Sitaram Swain Sunil Sethi Peter Nagy Feroz Gujral

4.Arun Sarma, who passed away recently, was the renowned personality of which field?

Law Science Sports Literary

5.Who has been appointed the new member to the Sports Authority of India (SAI)?

Vijender Singh Sania Mirza Siddhartha Upadhyay Sachin Tendulkar

Solved General Science Q&A

1.Which of the following will become the first e-commerce company to take membership of the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI)?

FreeCharge Amazon Paytm Clear trip

2.Which Indian bank has launched a unique credit card “Unnati” to spread credit inclusion?

ICICI Bank Punjab National bank Bank of India State Bank of India

3.Which country hosted the 3rd edition of World Conference on Environment?

Sri Lanka India Australia China

4.The tribal festival of nature worshipping “Sarhul” has started in which state?

Jharkhand Uttar Pradesh Madhya Pradesh Odisha

5.The Kaundinya Wildlife Sanctuary (KWLS) is located in which state?

Kerala Andhra Pradesh Tamil Nadu Odisha

2017 Current Affairs

1.Which Indian personality will lead Indian Parliamentary delegation in the 136th Assembly Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)-2017?

Narendra Modi Sumitra Mahajan Sushma Swaraj Rajnath Singh

2.Which country has become the world’s first country to ban metal mining nation wide?

Angola El Salvador Morocco Sudan

3.Which Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) has signed MoU with Indian Army to strengthen critical technological areas in the armed forces?

IIT Madras IIT Bombay IIT Indore IIT Roorkee

4.Indian Navy has recently launched Integrated Automatic Aviation Meteorological System (IAAMS) in which state?

Kerala Karnataka Tamil Nadu Andhra Pradesh

5.Who has been named the Asian Player of the Year 2016 in the senior men’s category by the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF)?

P R Sreejesh Dilip Tirkey Harmanpreet Singh SV Sunil

Solved General Science Q&A

1.At what rate percent per annum of compound interest, annually, will a sum be 16 times of

400% 200% 125% 100%

2.A sum of money amounts to Rs 5200 in 5 years and to Rs 5680 in 7 years at simple interest. The rate of

3% 4% 5% 6%

3.The difference between simple and compound interest on a certain sum of money for 2 years

Rs 2500 Rs 2400 Rs 2600 Rs 2000

4.Find out the wrong number in the sequence. 

5, 7, 13, 25, 44, 75, 117

7 13 25 44

5.Which of the following pair is incorrect?

State                     Population Density

I. West Bengal               1102

II. Kerala                        859

III. Tamil Nadu              555

IV. Arunachal Pradesh  19

V. Mizoram                     50

I, II, IV 

I, III, V 

I, IV, V 

II, III, V

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE - TNPSC

1.Pipe A can fill in 20 minutes and Pipe B in 30 mins and Pipe C can empty the same in 40 mins.If all of them work together, find the time taken to fill the tank

17 1/7 mins 20 mins 8 mins none of these

2.The first feminist in India was:

Raja Ram Mohan Roy Rabindranath Tagore Debendranath Tagore Keshava Chandra Sen

3.Which movement started as movement against reduction of rent and grant of permanent tenure in land, but later on assumed a communal completion?

Moplah Revolt Santhal Uprising Kheda Uprising Indigo Uprising

4.As per an announcement made in August 2015, which district of kerala is on its way to bedeclared as the first total HIV/AIDS literate district in the country after a special project titled” Jyothirgamaya” was implemented with the co-operation of 91 gram panchayats and four municipalities in the district?

Palakkad Ernakulam Erode Thiruvananthapuram

5.The birth centenary celebration of Rani Gaidinliu was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 24 August 2015. On this occasion a commemorative coin was released to recall Rani’s contribution to India’s freedom struggle. Rani Gaidinliu was associated with which India state?

Assam Tripura Nagaland Manipur

GK Quiz - TNPSC

1.Who appointed Harihara and Bukka to deal with rebellions in the Kampili Kingdom?

Alauddin Khilji 

Muhammad bin Tughlaq 

Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq 

Firuz Tughlaq

2.Who was the President of the Madras Home Rule League in 1916?

G. Subramania Iyer 

Annie Besant 

V. Shastri Chiplunkar 

George Arundale

3. Which of the following constitute capital account? 

1. Foreign loans 

 2. Foreign direct investment 

3. Private remittances 

4. Portfolio investment

 Select the correct answer using the codes given below

1, 2 and 3 

1, 2 and 4 

2, 3 and 4

1, 3 and 4

4.Disguise unemployment generally means

large numbers of people remain unemployed 

alternative employment is not available 

marginal productivity of labour is zero 

productivity of workers is low

5.The highest peak K2 of India is located at

Karakoram range 

Ladakh range

Zaskar range 

Pirpanjal range

Solved General Science Q&A

1.The use of ‘I knife’ in the medical field is

to detect cardiac disease to detect cholera to detect common cold to detect cancer

2.Which city, in July 2015, emerged as the first one to send its nomination to the Centre for the ‘Smart City’ Mission that was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier?

New Delhi Chandigarh Puducherry Ahmedabad

3.The length of a plot is three times its breadth. A playground measuring 800m2 occupies one sixth of the total area of the plot. What is the length of the plot?

130m 120m 40m 160m

4.What is the least number of square tiles required to pave the floor of a room 16 m 25 cm long and 9 m 10 cm broad?

315 175 350 530

5.Three solid spheres of metal whose radii are 1 cm, 6 cm and 8 cm are melted to form another solid sphere. The radius of new sphere is:

10.5cm 9.5 cm 10 cm 9 cm

solved General Science Q&A

1.Number of chromosomes in Down's syndrome is

46 47 48 49

2.Vivipary is a characteristic feauture of

Mesophytes Halophytes Xerophytes Hydrophytes

3.Moist vapour theory was given by

Aristotle Pythagoras Delepatius Darwin

4.Which of the following is called amphibians of Plant kingdom

Bryophytes Gymnosperm Angiosperm Bryophyta

5.which one of the following is not an ape

Gibbon Gorilla Orangutan Langur

General Science Quiz

1.Which one of the following is the correct matched.

Avalanche - Esker Drumlins - Accumulation of angular debris Exfoliation - Spheroidal weathering Scree - Sudden fall of ice mass

2.Other than spreading malaria, anopheles mosquitoes are also vectors of

dengue fever filariasis encephalitis Yellow fever

3.Which of the following Evergreen ornamental plant is called Monkey Puzzle

Pinus Gnetum Ginkgo Biloba Araucaria

4.Who is the father of Nano Science?

Eric Simpson John Napier Richard Feynman Heisbenberg

5.World has become a global village due to

Contraction Absorption Diffusion Conduction

General Science Q&A

1. Science of improving human race is

(A) eugenics
(B) epigenesis
(C) epistasis
(D) euthenics

Ans: (A)

2. A photon will have less energy, if its

(A) amplitude is higher
(B) frequency is higher
(C) wavelength is longer
(D) wavelength is shorter

Ans: (C)

3. Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is mainly a mixture of

(A) propane and butane
(B) butane and isobutane
(C) propane and isobutane
(D) propane and tetralin

Ans: (A)

4. One of the elements of direct democracy is

(A) refrendum
(B) equality
(C) free and fair election
(D) universal adult franchise

Ans: (A)

solved General Science Q&A

1. World's largest producer of gold is

(A) Saudi Arabia
(B) USA
(C) South Africa
(D) Canada

Ans:

2. When was Mizoram converted into a Union Territory?

(A) 1969
(B) 1972
(C) 1949
(D) 1951

Ans: (B)

3. Which is the world's longest railway line?

(A) Trans-Siberian line
(B) Texas Railway line
(C) Trans-Austin line
(D) Trans-American line

Ans: (A)

4. For a healthy adult Indian, the Body Mass Index (BMI) Should be in the range of

(A) 11.51 - 18
(B) 18.5 - 24.9
(C) 25-30
(D) None of the Above

Ans: (B)

5. Black hole is an object to be found

(A) at the bottom of oceans
(B) in the sky
(C) inside a current –carrying conductor
(D) None of the above

Ans: (A)