IMPORTANT CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS BASED ON BUDGET 2019-20

1. What is the name of new water conservation scheme announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during budget 2019 speech?

a)      Jal Jeevan Mission

b)      Jal Jyoti Mission

c)       Jal Sanrakshan Mission

d)      Samaan Jal Adhikar Mission

Answer: Jal Jeevan Mission

2. Name of education body announced by Nirmala Sitharaman to promote research in India.

a)      National Research Foundation

b)      National Scholars Foundation

c)       Research Institute of India

d)      All India Research Institute

Answer: National Research Foundation

3. The Union Government has proposed to make which two identity cards interchangeable?

a)      PAN and Aadhaar

b)      Aadhaar and Voter ID

c)       Metro card and Aadhaar

d)      Voter ID and PAN card

Answer: PAN and Aadhaar

4. How much amount is allocated in the Union Budget 2019 to boost credit in Public Sector Banks?

a)      Rs 20,000 crore

b)      Rs 50,000 crore

c)       Rs 70,000 crore

d)      Rs 90,000 crore

Answer: Rs 70,000 crore

5. The Union Budget 2019 targets what amount through the disinvestment of CPSEs including Air India?

a)      Rs 90,000 crore

b)      Rs 1,05,000 crore

c)       Rs 1,50,000 crore

d)      Rs 1,95,000 crore

Answer: Rs 1,05,000 crore

6. The Union Government has proposed modernization of which among the following in Budget 2019 to enable ease of living?

a)      Airport

b)      Bus Stands

c)       Metro Stations

d)      Railway stations

Answer:Railway stations

7. An encyclopedia is being developed on which among the following freedom fighters?

a)      Vallabhbhai Patel

b)      Subhas Chandra Bose

c)       Chandra Shekhar Azad

d)      Mahatma Gandhi

Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

8. Name the yojana that has been proposed by the Union Government for the fisheries sector?

a)      Pradhan Mantri Karamyogi Maandhan Yojana

b)      Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana

c)       Pradhan Mantri Matsya Shram Yojana

d)      Pradhan Mantri Bandargah Maandhan Yojana

Answer:Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana

9. The Budget 2019 reduces tax rate for companies having annual turnover up to Rs 400 crore. How much tax these companies need to pay now?

a)      10 percent

b)      15 percent

c)       20 percent

d)      25 percent

Answer: 25 percent

10. For which sector a new TV channel would be launched as announced in Budget 2019?

a)      Banking

b)      Start-ups

c)       Education

d)      Parenting

Answer: Start-ups

Most Important Indian Culture Question with Answer

1. The Sangai Festival is celebrated in __:

[A] Assam 

[B] Manipur 

[C] Mizoram 

[D] Nagaland 

Answer:Manipur 

2. The famous ‘Hornbill festival’ is celebrated in which of the following States of India? 

[A] Nagaand 

[B] Mizorm 

[C] Assam

 [D] Meghalaya 

Answer:Nagaland 

3. Gundecha brothers are well known exponents of which among the following styles of Hindustani Classical Music ? 

[A] Khayal 

[B] Tharana 

[C] Dhrupad 

[D] Thumri 

Answer: Dhrupad 

4. In which of the following city Elephant festival is celebrated annually? 

[A] Jaipur 

[B] Jodhpur 

[C] Kota 

[D] Ajmer 

Answer:Jaipur 

5.‘Me-Dam-Me-Phi’ festival is a festival of which the communities in North Eastern India? 

[A] Tai-Ahom 

[B] Deori Tribe 

[C] Garo 

[D] Khasi 

Answer:Tai-Ahom 

6.Today’s Gurmukhi, Dogri and Sindhi scripts have developed from which among the following scripts?

[A] Brahmi Script 

[B] Śāradā script 

[C] Tankari Script 

[D] Kushana Script 

Answer:Śāradā script 

7.Ezhuthachan Puraskaram is the highest literary award of which among the following Governments? 

[A] Kerala 

[B] Tamil nadu 

[C] Karnataka 

[D] Andhra Pradesh 

Answer:Kerala 

8.Which state Government confers the Basavashree award? 

[A] Gujarat 

[B] Maharashtra 

[C] Andhra Pradesh 

[D] Karnataka 

Answer:Karnataka 

9.A Fire temple is a place of worship for _____? 

[A] Sikhs 

[B] Zoroastrians 

[C] Buddhists 

[D] Shinto’s 

Answer:Zoroastrians 

10. Bageshwari Qamar is India’s first and only (possibly) woman player of which of the following music instruments? 

[A] Ghatam 

[B] Shehnai 

[C] Pakhawaj 

[D] Santoor 

Answer:Shehnai 

11.Which among the following material was used in Mathura School of Art? 

[A] Granite 

[B] White marble 

[C] Slate 

[D] Red Sandstone 

Answer: Red Sandstone 

12.As per Indian Mythology, Dhumravarna is an incarnation or avatara of _______? 

[A] Vishnu 

[B] Shiva 

[C] Ganesha 

[D] Hanuman 

Answer:Ganesha 

13.Which among the following is the oldest surviving rock-cut cave in India ? 

[A] Bagh Caves 

[B] Ellora Caves 

[C] Uday Giri Caves

[D] Barabar Caves 

Answer:Barabar Caves 

14.Which of the following cultural organizations was established by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the first Education Minister of independent India.? 

[A] Indian Council for Cultural Relations 

[B] Centre for Cultural Resources and Training 

[C] Lalit Kala Academy

[D] Sahitya Academy 

Answer:Indian Council for Cultural Relations 

15.In which of the following states of India, Yakshagana, a dance drama is popular 

[A] Tamil Nadu 

[B] Karnataka 

[C] Kerala 

[D] Madhya Pradesh 

Answer:Karnataka 

16. Which chapter of Mahabharata deals with fruitless efforts to bring about peace between the Kurus and the Pandavas ? 

[A] Vana Parva 

[B] Virat Parva 

[C] Udyog Parva 

[D] Drona Parva 

Answer:Udyog Parva 

17.With which of the following is most closely related Rgyud-bzi practiced in many parts of North India? 

[A] Medicine 

[B] Custom 

[C] Agriculture 

[D] Sports 

Answer:Medicine 

18.What is the earlier name of  “Leh Singhe-Khababs Festival”? 

[A] Ladakh Festival 

[B] Leh Darshan 

[C] Sindhu Darshan 

[D] Sindhu Festival 

Answer:Sindhu Darshan 

19.Which among the following sub-school of Vedanta is followed by ISCON? 

[A] Shuddhādvaita 

[B] Achintya Bhedābheda 

[C] Purnādvaita or Integral Advaita 

[D] Modern Vedānta 

Answer:Achintya Bhedābheda 

20.“Temple of the Emerald Buddha” is located in which country? 

[A] Cambodia 

[B] China 

[C] Nepal 

[D] Thailand 

Answer:Thailand 

Most Important Science GK Question ans Answer for SCC Exam

1. Carbon dioxide is called a greenhouse gas because

(A) Its concentration remains always higher than other gases
(B) It is used in photosynthesis
(C) It absorbs infrared radiation
(D) It emits visible radiation

Answer: It absorbs infrared radiation

2. What is the major role of a greenhouse gas that contributes to temperature rise of the earth’s surface?

(A)Transparent to both incoming sunlight and outgoing infrared radiation
(B) Stops both incoming sunlight and outgoing infrared radiation
(C) Lets outgoing infrared radiation pass through but stops incoming sunlight
(D) Lets incoming sunlight pass through but stops outgoing infrared radiation

Answer: Stops both incoming sunlight and outgoing infrared radiation

3. Which among the following nontoxic gases helps in formation of enzymes which ripen fruit?

(A) Acetylene
(B) Ethane
(C) Methane
(D) Carbon dioxide

Answer:Ethane

4.Which one among the following is strong smelling agent added to LPG cylinder to help in the detection of gas leakage?

(A) Ethanol
(B) Thioethanolamine
(C) Methane
(D) Chloroform

Answer:Thioethanolamine

5.The major component in LPG is

(A) Methane
(B) butane
(C) ethane
(D) propane

Answer:butane

6.The vertical movement of air is termed as

(A) wind
(B) Air Current
(C) Air turbulence
(D) Air mobility

Answer: Air Current

7.Which of the following is not a method of preparing oxygen?

(A) Electrolysis of water
(B) Fractional distillation of liquid air
(C) Decomposition of potassium permanganate
(D) Decomposition of manganese dioxide

Answer:Fractional distillation of liquid air

8.Oxygen and ozone are

(A) allotropes
(B) isomers
(C) isotopes
(D) isobars

Answer:allotropes

9. Ozone layer is present in

(A) Troposphere
(B) Ionosphere
(C) Stratosphere
(D) Exosphere

Answer:Ionosphere

10. Which is the lowest layer of the atmosphere?

(A) Troposphere
(B) Stratosphere
(C) Mesosphere
(D) Thermosphere

Answer:Troposphere

11. Which one of the following is a major constituent of Biogas?

(A) Carbon dioxide
(B) Methane
(C) Hydrogen
(D) Nitrogen Dioxide

Answer:Methane

12.Sea breeze is formed during

(A) Day time
(B) Night time
(C) Both
(D) Seasonal

Answer:Day time

13.The Refrigerant 'FREON' is

(A) Calcium Tetra Flouride
(B) Diflouro Dichloro Methane
(C) Flourspar and Felspar
(D) Hydrofluosilicic Acid

Answer:Diflouro Dichloro Methane

14.Now a days, Yellow lamps are frequently used as street lights. Which among the following gases, is used in these lamps?

(A) Sodium
(B) Neon
(C) Hydrogen
(D) Nitrogen

Answer:Sodium

15.The atmospheric air is held to the earth by

(A) Gravity
(B) Winds
(C) Clouds
(D) Rotation of the earth

Answer:Gravity

16.The Noble Gas used for the treatment of cancer is ___?

(A) Helium
(B) Argon
(C) Krypton
(D) Radon

Answer:Argon

17. The optimum dissolved oxygen level (in mg/litre) required for survival of aquatic organisms is

(A) 4 – 6
(B) 2 – 4
(C) 8 – 10
(D) 12 - 16

Answer:4 – 6

18.Troposphere is the hottest part of the atmosphere because

(A) it is closest to the Sun
(B) there are charged particles in it
(C) it is heated by the Earth’s surface
(D) heat is generated in it

Answer:it is heated by the Earth’s surface

19.Which of the following is the lightest gas?

(A) hydrogen
(B) helium
(C) xenon
(D) radon

Answer: hydrogen

20.What is the chemical name of Laughing Gas?

(A) Silver nitrate
(B) Sodium carbonate
(C) Calcium sulphat
(D) Nitrous oxide

Answer:Nitrous oxide

Most Important Indian Constitution Question with Answer

1.Which Article is for "Protection of interests of Minorities”?

(A) Article 26
(B) Article 27
(C) Article 29
(D) Article 30

Answer:Article 29

2.The plan to transfer power to the Indians and partition of the country was laid down in the?

(A) Cabinet Mission Plan
(B) Simon Commission
(C) Cripps Mission
(D) The Mountbatten Plan

Answer:The Mountbatten Plan

3 For the first time Indian Legislature was made "Bi-cameral" under:

(A) Government of India Act, 1861
(B) Government of India Act, 1892
(C) Government of India Act, 1915
(D) Government of India Act, 1919

Answer:Government of India Act, 1919

4.Which Act divided legislative powers between the Centre and Provinces?

(A) Government of India Act, 1935
(B) Government of India Act, 1919
(C) Government of India Act, 1892
(D) Government of India Act, 1861

Answer:Government of India Act, 1935

5. Who was the chairman of Drafting Committee?

(A) N Gopalaswamy
(B) K.M Munshi
(C) N Madhava Rao
(D) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

Answer:Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

6. Which Article is related with "Abolition of Untouchability”?

(A) Article 20
(B) Article 19
(C) Article 18
(D) Article 17

Answer: Article 17

7. "The Constitution should give India Domination Status", was a proposal in?

(A) Cabinet Mission Plan
(B) Cripps Mission
(C) The Mountbatten Plan
(D) Simon Commission

Answer:Cripps Mission

8. The first statute for the governance of India, under the direct rule of the British Government, was the

(A) Government of India Act, 1858
(B) Government of India Act, 1861
(C) Government of India Act, 1892
(D) Government of India Act, 1915

Answer:Government of India Act, 1858

9. Constitution of India was adopted by constituent assembly on?

(A) 25 October 1948
(B) 25 October 1949
(C) 26 November 1948
(D) 26 November 1949

Answer:26 November 1949

10. Which Act is associated with "Courts can interpret the rules and regulations.”?

(A) Regulating Act of 1773
(B) Pitts India Act of 1784
(C) Charter Act of 1793
(D) Charter Act of 1893

Answer:Charter Act of 1793

11. A separate Governor for Bengal to be appointed under the act?

(A) Pitts India Act of 1784
(B) Charter Act of 1793
(C) Charter Act of 1733
(D) Charter Act of 1753

Answer:Charter Act of 1753

12. Under which Act, the councils were having the power to discuss the budget and addressing questions to the executive.

(A) Government of India Act, 1858
(B) Government of India Act, 1861
(C) Government of India Act, 1892
(D) Government of India Act, 1915

Answer:Government of India Act, 1892

13. Which Act enabled the Governor General to associate representatives of the Indian People with the work of legislation by nominating them to his expanded council?

(A) Government of India Act, 1858
(B) Government of India Act, 1861
(C) Government of India Act, 1892
(D) Government of India Act, 1915

Answer:Government of India Act, 1861

14. Constitution of India came into effect from?

(A)15 January 1950
(B) 26 January 1950
(C)15 August 1950
(D) 15 January 1950

Answer:26 January 1950

15. Which Act was passed to consolidate the provisions of the preceding Government of India Acts?

(A) Government of India Act, 1858
(B) Government of India Act, 1861
(C) Government of India Act, 1892
(D) Government of India Act, 1915

Answer: Government of India Act, 1915

16. How much time it took for Constituent Assembly to finalize the constitution?

(A) 2 Years 11 Months 18 Days
(B) 2 Years 9 Months 8 Days
(C) 2 Years 7 Months 18 Days
(D) 2 Years 5 Months 20 Days

Answer:2 Years 11 Months 18 Days

17.Which Article is related to Equality before law?

(A) Art. 13
(B) Art. 14
(C) Art. 15
(D) Art. 16

Answer:Art. 14

18. Setting a supreme court was Calcutta is a part of?

(A) Regulating Act of 1773
(B)Pitts India Act of 1784
(C)Charter Act of 1793
(D) Charter Act of 1893

Answer:Regulating Act of 1773

19. Which Article is for "Protection against arrest and detention in certain cases"?

(A) Article 24
(B) Article 23
(C) Article 22
(D) Article 21

Answer:Article 22

20.The Christian Missionaries were allowed to spread their religion in India, under the Act?

(A) Pitts India Act of 1784
(B) Charter Act of 1813
(C)Charter Act of 1833
(D)Charter Act of 1853

Answer:Charter Act of 1813

Most Important Current Indian Economic Question With Answer

1. Which of the following schemes have been subsumed in the recently approved Ayushman Bharat – National Health Protection Mission (AB-NHPM)?

[A] Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY)
[B] Senior Citizen Health Insurance Scheme (SCHIS)
[C] National Life Insurance Scheme
[D] 1 & 2

Answer: 1 & 2

2. Which of the following is used to denote broad money?

 [A] M1
[B] M2
[C] M3
[D] M4

Answer:M3

3. Which among the following is NOT a subsidiary of RBI?
 [A] National Housing Bank
 [B] NABARD
[C] Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Limited
[D] SIDBI

Answer:SIDBI

4. Which among the following is a qualitative tool of monetary policy?

[A] Bank Rate
 [B] Credit Ceiling
 [C] Credit rationing
 [D] Cash Reserve Ratio

Answer:Credit rationing

5. Which among the following closest instrument to Gold ETF?

[A] Debenture
[B] G-Sec security
[C] Mutual Fund
[D] Commercial Paper

Answer:Mutual Fund 

6. Which among the following is NOT a pillar of Basel III?

[A] Minimum capital standards
[B] Supervisory review
[C] Market discipline
[D] Consolidation of assets

Answer:Consolidation of assets

7. What term is used for maximum capital which the company can raise in its life time?

[A] Authorized Capital
[B] Registered Capital
[C] Nominal Cap
[D] All of them

Answer: All of them

8. Which among the following was the first bank purely managed by Indians?

 [A] Oudh Commercial Bank
[B] Punjab National Bank
[C] Bank of India
[D]Allahabad bank

Answer:Punjab National Bank 

9. Inflation Indexed Bonds is pegged to ___?

[A] WPI
[B] CPI
[C] Both WPI and CPI
[D] None of the above

Answer: WPI 

10. Which of the following best defines a floating-rate bond?
 [A] A bond with a fixed interest rate and has better yield than varying interest rate bond
[B] A bond with a fixed interest rate and has lower yield than varying interest rate bond
[C] A bond with a varying interest rate and has better yield than fixed interest rate bond
[D] A bond with a varying interest rate and has lower yield than fixed interest rate bond

Answer: A bond with a fixed interest rate and has lower yield than varying interest rate bond

Most Important RRB Exam Question

1) Which instrument is used to measure electric current?

 A. Electrometer
 B. Rheostatee
 C. Volmeter
 D. Ammeter

Answer: Ammeter

2) Electric transformers are used to

 A. Filter current
 B. Regulate current
 C. Serve as fuse
 D. Change voltage

 Answer: Change voltage

3) One horse power is equal to

 A. 523 watts
 B. 746 watts
 C. 816 watts
 D. 719 watts

 Answer: 746 watts

4) Optics is the study of

 A. Nature and properties of light
 B. Old age, its phenomenon, disease etc
 C. Disease of the nervous system
 D. Symbolic representations

 Answer: Nature and properties of light

5) The gases used in different types of welding would include

 A. oxygen and hydrogen
 B. oxygen, hydrogen, acetylene and nitrogen
 C. oxygen, acetylene and argon
 D. oxygen and acetylene

 Answer: oxygen and acetylene

6) In which of the following activities silicon carbide is used?

 A. Making cement and glass
 B. Disinfecting water of ponds
 C. cutting very hard substances
 D. Making casts for statues

 Answer: cutting very hard substances

7) The average salinity of sea water is

 A. 3%
 B. 3.5%
 C. 2.5%
 D. 2%

 Answer: 3.5%

8) Which of the gas is not known as greenhouse gas?

 A. Methane
 B. Carbon dioxide
 C. Nitrous oxide
 D. Hydrogen

 Answer: Hydrogen

9) Which of the following are longest cells of human body?

 A. Pancreatic cells
 B. Epethelial cells
 C. Nerve cells
 D. Epidermal cells

 Answer: Nerve cells

10) Which organ is affected by Pneumonia disease?

 A. Skin and intestine
 B. Urinary tract
 C. Liver
 D. Lungs

 Answer: Lungs

11) Water passes from the soil into the root hair by a physical process called :

 A. Osmosis
 B. Diffusion
 C. Transpiration
 D. Absorption

 Answer: Osmosis

12) Evaporation of water is

 A. A process accompained by a chemical reaction
 B. An endothermic Change
 C. An exothermic change
 D. An process in which no heat exchange reaction

 Answer: An endothermic Change

13) The pitch of the sound is measured by its

 A. Intensity
 B. waveform
 C. Frequency
 D. Loudness

 Answer: Frequency

14) Which of the following acts as a resistance against disease in the body?

 A. Carbohydrates
 B. Red corpuscles
 C. Vitamins
 D. White corpuscles

 Answer: White corpuscles

15) Which of the following normally warms up faster when heat is applied?

 A. Water
 B. Glass
 C. Iron
 D. Wood

 Answer: Iron

16) The person suffering from “myopia” cannot see the objects at:

 A. Near distance
 B. Longer distance
 C. any distance
 D. Close to eye

 Answer: Longer distance

17) The group of metals Fe, Co, Ni may best called as

 A. Transition metals
 B. Main group metals
 C. Alkali metals
 D. Rare metals

 Answer: Transition metals

18) Heavy water is

 A. Deuterium oxide
 B. PH7
 C. Rain water
 D. Tritium oxide

 Answer: Deuterium oxide

19) The word CNG in the transport network system stands for

 A. Chlorine Natural Gas
 B. Commercial Natural Gas
 C. Compressed Natural Gas
 D. Condensed Natural Gas

 Answer: Compressed Natural Gas

20) Blood Pressure in humans is measured using the

 A. Sphygmomanometer
 B. Thermometer
 C. Anemometer
 D. None of the above

 Answer: Sphygmomanometer