General Awareness Quiz

1. Which of the following Article of Indian Constitution propounds Equality before Law ?
(A) Article 15
(B) Article 13
(C) Article 14
(D) Article 12

2. Which of the Articles of the Constitution of India enshrines protection against arrest and detention in certain cases ?
(A) Article 22
(B) Article 23
(C) Article 25
(D) Article 26

3. Ozone layer lies in—
(A) Mesosphere
(B) Stratosphere
(C) Exosphere
(D) None of the above


4. Which Article of Indian Constitution says that “no tax shall be levied or collected except by authority of law” ?
(A) Article 265
(B) Article 266
(C) Article 268
(D) Article 270

5. Chemically Vitamin C is—
(A) Riboflavin
(B) Thiamin
(C) Ascorbic acid
(D) Niacin

6. Which of the following vitamins is not fat-soluble ?
(A) Vitamin A
(B) Vitamin C
(C) Vitamin D
(D) Vitamin E

7. The poem ‘Pagri Sambhal O Jatta’ which infused patriotic fervour in Punjab during freedom struggle was written by—
(A) Banke Dayal
(B) Lala Lajpat Roy
(C) Sardar Ajit Singh
(D) Ghulam Kader

8. ‘India’s First War of Independence’ is the book written by—
(A) Bhupendranath Dutt
(B) Ganesh Savarkar
(C) Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
(D) Lala Hardayal

9. The Gadar Party was set up in—
(A) 1913
(B) 1915
(C) 1914
(D) 1912

10. Kaiga Atomic Power Plant is situated in—
(A) Karnataka
(B) Maharashtra
(C) Uttar Pradesh
(D) Tamil Nadu

11. The maximum number of members that the Legislative Assembly of a State in India can have, is—
(A) 400
(B) 450
(C) 500
(D) 550

12. Bank rate is the rate at which the Reserve Bank of India provides loans to—
(A) Public Sector Undertakings
(B) Scheduled Commercial Banks
(C) Private Corporate Sector
(D) Non-Banking Financial Institutions

13. Who of the following founded the East India Association ?
(A) C. R. Das
(B) Dadabhai Noroji
(C) Devendra Nath Tagore
(D) V. D. Savarkar

14. Tipu Sultan died fighting the English forces under—
(A) Lord Cornwallis
(B) Lord Wellesley
(C) Lord Dalhousie
(D) Lord Hastings

15. The battle of Wandiwash was fought between—
(A) Marathas and Portuguese
(B) The English and the French
(C) The English and the Portuguese
(D) The Marathas and the English

16. Golden Quadrilateral Project is—
(A) Conversion of meter gauge into broad gauge
(B) Construction of four lane highways joining four metropolis of India
(C) Joining of four important rivers of North India and South-India
(D) Joining of four important cities of India with air transport

17. The first weekly Bengali newspaper ‘Samachar Darpan’ was published by—
(A) Harish Chandra Mukherjee
(B) Dinabandhu Mitra
(C) Marshman
(D) Vidyasagar

18. Where is the headquarters of Asian Development Bank situated at ?
(A) Jakarta
(B) Manila
(C) Singapore
(D) Bangkok

19. Who was responsible for the introduction of the Vernacular Press Act of 1878 ?
(A) Lord Mayo
(B) Lord Lytton
(C) Lord Rippon
(D) Lord Curzon

20. Gandhiji started Civil Disobedience Movement in—
(A) 1930
(B) 1931
(C) 1933
(D) 1942

Answers with Hints
1. (C) According to Article 14 of Indian Constitution—“The State shall not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal protection of the laws within the territory of India.
2. (A) Article 22 says that every person who is arrested and detained in custody should be produced before the nearest magistrate and he should be given the right to consult and to be defended by a legal practitioner.
3. (B) 4. (A) 5. (C)
6. (B) The fat soluble vitamins include vitamin A, D, E and K.
7. (A) 8. (C)
9. (A) The Gadar Movement took its birth on November 1, 1913 when Lala Hardayal set up the Gadar Party at San Francisco, the first President of which was Sohan Singh Bakhna.
10. (A) 11. (C) 12. (B) 13. (B) 14. (B)
15. (B) The battle of Wandiwash is also known as Third Carnatic War (1756–1763) and was fought between the English and the French.
16. (C) 17. (C) 18. (B) 19. (B) 20. (A)