General Awareness : Sample Questions For Various Exams

General Awareness Sample Questions

IAS/PSC/SSC/Banking Exam

Q.1.Dhronacharya Award was given to A.K. Bansal in July 2010. He is a 

• Cricket Coach 
• Badminton Coach 
• Hockey Coach 
• Kabadi Coach

Q.2.Who is related to Green Revolution in India?

• Meda Padkar  
• Dr. M.S. Swaminathan 
• Anand
• Varghese Kurian

Q.3.Akhaq Khan Shahryar, who won the Jnanpith Award for 2008, is a famous __ poet.

• Urdu 
• Telugu 
• Kashmiri  
• Marati 

Q.4. The headquarters of Kerala Coconut Development Corporation ?

• Alappuzha 
• Mannuthy 
• Thiruvananthapuram 
• Kollam

Q.5. The Country which won the 2006 Johannesburg Test

• India 
• West Indies
• Australia
• Pakistan

Q.6.The Headquarters of the SAARC is in?

• Kathmandu
• New Delhi 
• Dacca
• Islamabad

Q.7.Indian Patent Act was formed in the year ?

• 1970 
• 1975 
• 1977 
• 1980

Q.8. Which is the southernmost part of India?

• Tamil Nadu 
• Great Nicobar
• Kerala
• Andhra Pradesh

Q.9.What is used for Cutting Glass ?

• Gypsum 
• Diamond
• Iron 
• Tin 

Q.10.Name the Indian state having maximum number of members in Rajya Sabha

• Bihar 
• Uttar Pradesh
• Maharashtra
• Tamil Nadu

Q.11.On which riverbank is Goa located?

• Mandovi 
• Ganga
• Gomati 
• Sabarmati

Q.12.The largest freshwater lake in India is ? 

• Dal Lake 
• Powai Lake 
• Wular Lake 
• Chilka Lake

Q.13.Dilli Chalo and Jai Hind were coined by  ?

• Bhagat Singh 
• Subhash Chandra Bose 
• Gandhiji 
• Balagangadhar Tilak

Q.14.First Cyber Police Station established in India at

• Hyderabad 
• Bangalore
• Kolkatta
• Madhya

Q.15.State Bank of India was formed in

• 1955 
• 1949
• 1959
• 1935

Q.16.The first railway line in India was opened in __ year ?

• 1854 
• 1856 
• 1853
• 1857

Q.17.The persons who became the Chief Minister for the longest period in India ?

• E.K. Nayanar 
• Vasantha Sate 
• Jyothi Basu 
• K. Karunakaran

Q.18.The biggest public sector under taking in India is ?

• Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) 
• HMT 
• Indian Railways
• ITI 

Q.19.IMF was formed in ?

• 1942 
• 1944 
• 1945 
• 1946

Q.20.In which place the first Medical college was established in India ?

• Kolkota 
• Agra
• Bangalore 
• Delhi

Q.21.Manikaran Power Plant is in ?

• Arunachal Pradesh 
• Himachal Pradesh 
• Madhya Pradesh 
• Uttar Pradesh

Q.22.First Internal Affairs Minister of independent India ?

• Sardar Vallabhai Patel 
• Lal Bahadur Shastri 
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• V. Krishna Menon

Q.23.The Andolan Express runs between Singur and __

• Kolkata 
• Siliguri 
• Howrah 
• Dhaka

Q.24.Who introduced English education in India ?

• Cornwalis 
• Rippon 
• William Bentinck
• Delhousie 

Q.25.The only medal winner for India in Sydney Olympics 2000 ?

• Leander Paes 
• Karnam Malleswari 
• P.T.Usha
• Mahesh Bhupathi