Monday, 12 September 2011

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS _ 015

General Knowledge Questions

01.

 

In which state of India a lake is located which is also called the only Floating lake in the world due to the floating Phumdis  ?

Ans :   Manipur , LokTak Lake

02.

 

Andhra Pradesh Grameena Vikas Bank is a leading Regional Rural Bank of India . It is sponsored by which banks  ?

Ans :   State Bank of India

03.

 

Name the world’s tallest building 160-story, 2,717-foot, that officially opened in Dubai recently  ?

Ans :   Burj Khalifa

04.

 

Name the former police chief of Haryana who, after being convicted of molesting a 14-year-old girl, would be stripped of his police medal  ?

Ans :   SP.S Rathore.

05.

 

This state government has approved a Rs 30,000 crore steel plant project of ArcelorMittal  ?

Ans :   Karnataka

06.

 

Which city now has the world’s tallest hotel  ?

Ans :   Dubai

07.

 

Who is the author of the book ‘Managed Chaos’  ?

Ans :   Premshankar Jha

08.

 

Who has written the book ‘Return to Almora’  ?

Ans :   RK Pachauri

09.

 

Which country has decided to introduce controversial ethnicity and gender-based profiling at its airports, apparently for security reasons  ?

Ans :   United Kingdom

10.

 

Name the barrister of Indian-origin, who has been appointed as the Recorder by Queen Elizabeth in the United Kingdom  ?

Ans :   Kalyani Kaul

11.

 

Who is the author of ‘The Rediscovery of India’  ?

Ans :   Meghnad Desai

12.

 

Salman Rushdie’s visit to this site has angered the Muslim clerics, 21 years after the Fatwa against him over Satanic Verses. Name the monument he visited in a hush-hush manner  ?

Ans :   Taj Mahal, Agra

13.

 

A court in this country has set aside government’s ban on Christians using the name of Allah, saying that Christians have the Constitutional right to the word. Which country are we talking about  ?

Ans :   Malaysia

14.

 

Who is the author of ‘We Must Have No Price’, which scrutinizes several scams and takes up issue of internal security  ?

Ans :   Arun Shourie

15.

 

Who is the author of newly-released ‘A Tale of Two Revolts: India 1857 & the American Civil War’  ?

Ans :   Rajmohan Gandhi

16.

 

With which country will the DRDO tie-up to develop the Kaveri aero engine  ?

Ans :   France

17.

 

Which country’s top legislature has adopted an amendment to the renewable energy law mandating electricity grid companies to buy all the power produced by renewable energy generators  ?

Ans :   China

18.

 

An Indian Airline’s plane from Kathmandu, bound to Delhi, was hijacked in December 1999 by terrorists demanding release of their friends. Where did the terrorists take the plane  ?

Ans :   Kandhar, Afghanistan

19.

 

Where is the Chilka Lake is in  ?

Ans :   Orissa

20.

 

The clouds which causes continuous rain  ?

Ans :   Nimbus

21.

 

Tiger Airways belonged to  ?

Ans :   Singapore

22.

 

Total medal India acquired in the 12th Commonwealth Games  ?

Ans :   16

23.

 

Total number of M.P’s from Kerala  ?

Ans :   Loksabha MP’s and 9 Rajyasabha MP’s

24.

 

Speaker of the 12th Legislative Assembly in Kerala  ?

Ans :   K.Radhakrishnan

25.

 

Paper Gold is  ?

Ans :   Special Drawing Right

26.

 

Trichology is the study of  ?

Ans :   Hair

27.

 

Gandhi Irwin Pact was signed on  ?

Ans :   1931

28.

 

First Indian war of Independence began at  ?

Ans :   Meerat

29.

 

”Forward Policy” was initiated by  ?

Ans :   Lord Lytton

30.

 

Jamabandhi Reforms were the reforms of  ?

Ans :   Tipu Sultan

31.

 

Revenge movement broke out in  ?

Ans :   France

32.

 

Smart City project was signed on  ?

Ans :   13-05-2007

33.

 

Raja Ravi Varma Award 2007 was presented to  ?

Ans :   M.F.Hussain

34.

 

The Keralite participated in the Intenational Labour Organisation held in May-June 2007  ?

Ans :   Thampan Thomas

35.

 

Founder of Alappuzha City  ?

Ans :   Raja Kesava Das

36.

 

Insat 4B was launched by the European Space Agency Rocket called  ?

Ans :   Arian 5

37.

 

Psoriasis disease is evident in  ?

Ans :   Skin

38.

 

Market Regulations introduced by  ?

Ans :   Khiljis

39.

 

”Dhera Sachcha Sauda” is an organization of  ?

Ans :   Punjab

40.

 

Muziris had trade relation with  ?

Ans :   Rome

41.

 

”Ariyittuvazhcha”was the coronation ceremony of  ?

Ans :   Zamorins

42.

 

Author of “Coolie”  ?

Ans :   Mulkraj Anand

43.

 

The birth place of 24th Thirthankara  ?

Ans :   Kundala Grama( Mahaveeran was the 24th Thirthankara)

44.

 

The late entrant of the G8  ?

Ans :   Russia

45.

 

The hottest zone between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricon  ?

Ans :   Torrid Zone

46.

 

”Gavisti” a term related to  ?

Ans :   Vedic Culture

47.

 

Agama Sidhantha is the Sacred book of  ?

Ans :   Jains

48.

 

The King who abolished “Pulappedi”  ?

Ans :   Unni Kerala Varma(Veera Kerala Verma)

49.

 

Fastest Planet  ?

Ans :   Mercury

50.

 

The year of Colachal battle  ?

Ans :   1741

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