IMPORTANT GENERAL KNOWLEDGE AND GENERAL AWARENESS QUESTIONS FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMS

1) Where is the National Remote Sensing Agency situated ?
1) Bangalore
2) Dehradun
3) Shadnagar
4) Chennai

Ans: Shadnagar

2) The first underground railway in India was opened in 1984 in
A) Mumbai
B) Chennai
c) Kolkata
D) Bangalore

Ans: Kolkata

3) Which of the following personalities inspiredGreen Revolution in India ?
A) R.A. Kidwai
B) N.E. Borlaug
C) K.M. Panikkar
D) M.S. Ssaminathan

Ans: N.E. Borlaug

4) The headquarters of the National Power Training Institute is located in
A) Lucknow
B) Faridabad
C) Bhopal
D) Hyderabad

Ans: Faridabad

5) Which Iraqi scientist known as Dr. Germ for her role in Iraqs biological weapons programme recently surrendered to coalition forces ?
A) Maleeha Lodhi
B) Salma Pervez
C) Saleema Garib
D) Rihab Rashid Taha

Ans: Rihab Rashid Taha

6) National Science Centre is located at
A) Delhi
B) Bangalore
C) Bombay
D) Kolkata

Ans: Delhi

7) Who among the following was the first woman Chief Justice of a High Court ?
A) Geeta Mukherjee
B) Leila Seth
C) Sujata Manohar
D) Rani Jethmalani

Ans: Leila Seth

8) The Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy which trains Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officers is situated at
A) Mussoorie
B) Dehradun
C) Srinagar
D) Khandala

Ans: Mussoorie

9) Whose Samadhi in Delhi is called Vijay Ghat ?
A) Rajiv Gandhi
B) Jagjiwan Ram
C) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Lal Bahadur Shastri

Ans: Lal Bahadur Shastri

10) Indian School of Mines is located in which of the following cities ?
A) Ranchi
B) Rourkela
C) Asansol
D) Tatanagar

Ans: Tatanagar

11) National Institute of Aeronautical Engineering is located at
A) Bangalore
B) Lucknow
C) Dehradun
D) Kanpur

Ans: Dehradun

12) The first Financial service Park for industry is being set up at
A) Pune
B) Surat
C) Gurgaon
D) Bangalore

Ans: Gurgaon

13) The largest and the oldest museum of India is located in the state/union territory of
A) Andhra Pradesh
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) Wesh Bengal
D) New Delhi

Ans: Wesh Bengal

14) Indias first Ladies Special Subruban train was started by which of the following zones of Inidian Railways ?
A) Northern
B) Southern
C) Centreal
D) Western

Ans: Western

15) First railway line in India was laid in
A) 1835
B) 1853
C) 1917
D) 1923

Ans: 1853

16) Where is Chitrakut situated ?
A) Maharashtra
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) Bihar
D) Madhya Pardesh

Ans: Uttar Pradesh

17) The highest airfield in India is
A) Bhuntar
B) Pantnagar
C) Chushul
D) Parapani

Ans: Chushul

18) C.D.R.I. is located at
A) Lucknow
B) Mysore
C) Nagpur
D) Madras

Ans: Lucknow

19) The first nuclear reactor in India is
A) Dhruva
B) Harsha
C) Apsara
D) Vipula

Ans: Apsara

20) First Governor General of India, after independence was
A) C. Rajagopalachari
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Lord Mountbatten
D) Rajendra Prasad

Ans: Lord Mountbatten