1. Which of the following is rich in all the foods, carbohydrates, proteins and fats?
1. Rice grains
2. Cabbage leaves
3. Soyabean Seeds
4. Mango fruit
2. The highest civilian honour for a Sri Lankan national is ?
1. Srilankabhimanya
2, Srilanka Ratna
3, Srilanka Bhushan
4, srilanka Vibhushan
3. The artificial lake, Govind Sagar, is located in ?
1. Himachal Pradesh
2, Maharashtra
3. Tamil Nadu
4. Uttar Pradesh
4. Who was the first Russian President after the collapse of the USSR ?
1. Boris Yeltsin
2. Vladimir Putin
3. Dmitri Medvedev
4, Gorbachev
5. The International Warning System administered by the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration was started in the year ?
1. 1964
2. 1965
3. 1966
4. 1967
6. The present Governor of RBI is
1. Dr. Bimal Jalan
2. Dr. C. Rangarajan
3. Dr. YV Reddy
4, LG, Patel
7. Who is the richest man in the world ?
1. Warren Buffett
2. Lakshmi Mittal
3. Bill Gates
4. Ratan Tata
8. The Central Information Commission is headed by ?
1. Kuldeep Nair
2, Arun Shourie
3. Wajahat Habibullah
4. Pranab Roy
9. who is the Myanmarese Nobel Peace Prize Laureate who is now under detention ?
1. Winnie Mandela
2. Aung San Suu Kyi
3. William Shockley
4- None of the above
10. The current UN Secretary General is ?
1. Kurt Waldheim
2. Boutros Boutros Ghali
3. Kofi Annan
4. U. Thant
11. The present Chairperson of the Children's Film Society is ?
1. Jaya Bachchan
2, Madhuri Dixit
3, Nafisa Ali
4, Shabana Azmi
12. The first Indian to be elected President of the International Council of Science is ?
1. MG K Menon
2. Vikram Sarabhai
3, Goverdhan Mehta
4. R. Srinivasan
13. Who is the former president of India who was reffed to as the "Messiah of the Downtrodden"
1. Shankar Dayal Sharma
2. Venkatraman
3. Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy
4. K.R. Narayanan
14. The last Chairman of the Planning Commission is ?
1. Montek Singh Ahluwalia
2. Dr. Manmohan Singh
3. K.C. Pant
4. T.R Prasad
15. Indian Space Programme was launched in ?
1. 1961
2. 1962
3 1963
4 1964
16. The largest island of the world is
1. Borneo
2. Greenland
3. Sumatra
4, New Guinea
17. World's largest river is
1 Amazon
2. Nile
3. Congo
4. Darling
18. world's longest river is
1. Amazon
2. Nile
3. Congo
4. Darling
19. The study of sound is called
1. Aeronomy
2. acoustics
3. aetiology
4. astrology
20. The study of lakes is called
1. Lithology
2. Mycology
3. Metrology
4. limnology
21. The Biologist who discovered the Theory of Evolution was ?
1. Madam Curie
2. Charles Darwin
3. Louis Pasteur
4. Alfred Nobel
22. The largest planet is ?
1. Jupiter
2. Mercury
3. Venus
4. Neptune
23. The smallest planet is ?
1. Jupiter
2. Mercury
3. Venus
4. Neptune
24. The boundary line between France and Germany is called
1. Radcliffe Line
2. Durand Line
3. Maginot Line
4. 49th Parallel
25. Of the total number of States and Union Territories in India, how many are prone to disasters?
1. 22
2. 23
3. 24
4. 25
26. National Institute of Disaster Management is located at ?
1. New Delhi
2. Cuttack
3. Baroda
4. Surat
27. National Policy on Disaster Management was approved by the Union Cabinet in ?
1. 2009
2. 2008
3. 2010
4, 2007
28. Features of India's Underdeveloped Economy
1. Low per capita income
2. Low levels of living
3. Low productivity
4. All the above
29. Population of India in 1951 was
1, 341.1 million
2. 351.1 million
3, 361.1 million
4. 362.1 million
30. Causes of poverty in India
1. Low productivity
2. Jobless economic growth
3, Slow rate of economic development
4. All the above
