Airport Authority Of India Placement Paper : ATC General Awareness Questions

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Airport Authority Of India

Assistant Traffic Controller Model Questions

Airports Authority of India (AAI) was constituted by an Act of Parliament and came into being on 1st April 1995 by merging erstwhile National Airports Authority and International Airports Authority of India. The merger brought into existence a single Organization entrusted with the responsibility of creating, upgrading, maintaining and managing civil aviation infrastructure both on the ground and air space in the country.

AAI Assistant Traffic Controller (Jr. Executive ) 
Examination General Awareness Questions Based On Memory......

1. Which of the following stars lies nearest to our solar system ?

• Barnard’s Star
• Sirius A
• Alpha Centauri A
• Proxima Centauri

2. Of the total water on the earth, fresh water reserves constitute approximately—

• 5•8%
• 4•5%
• 2•59%
• 1•2%

3. The term ‘Bishop’ in sports is related to—

• Chess
• Hockey
• Badminton
• Bridge

4. Yakshagan is the famous dance form of the State of—

• Orissa
• Andhra Pradesh
• Tamil Nadu
• Karnataka

5. Balance of Payments means—

• Difference between export and imports
• Balance to be paid to the exporters
• Balance to be paid to the industrialists
• Balance coming in allocation of funds for States

6. A light year is equivalent to about—

• 365 days
• Six million miles
• Six billion miles
• Six trillion miles

7. Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland are together called—

• Slovakia
• Scandinavia
• Netherlands
• Australasia

8. The device used for locating submerged objects under sea is—

• Sonar
• Radar
• Laser
• Maser

9. Which article of the Constitution provides the Parliament the power to ammend Constitution ?

• 376
• 370
• 368
• 390

10. What is the name of the first successfully cloned deer ?

• Dawn
• Deluxe
• Demor
• Dewey

11. The idea of motion pictures was propounded by—

• N. R. Finsen
• T. A. Edison
• J. L. Baird
• Berliner

12. In Greek mythology, Apollo is the god of which of the following ?

• Love
• Peace
• Prophecy
• Medicine

13. NASA’s new space telescope is—

• Wise
• Rise
• Barack
• Telle

14. Bull fighting is the national game of—

• Italy
• Poland
• Spain
• Sudan

15. In a rare recognition, the Government of Mauritius decides to introduce a book written by Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank in the School Syllabus of the island nation, what is the name of the book ?

• Sound of Hills
• Sparsh Ganga
• Heaven
• Amrit

16. Who has been selected for the ‘Niwano Peace Prize, 2010’ for her contribution to the uplift of poor women in India ?

• Ela Bhatt
• Jhumpa Lahiri
• Punam Suri
• Mandakni Apte

17. On which of the following dates in 2010 did the safeguard agreement with regard to civilian nuclear facilities between India and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) come into force ?

• February 28
• February 21
• February 11
• February 4

18. The tax which the kings used to collect from the people in the Vedic period was called—

• Bali
• Vidatha
• Varman
• Kara

19. The cells which are responsible for the production of antibodies are—

• Red blood cells
• Neutrophils
• Lymphocytes
• Platelets

20. Correct expansion of the term ‘http’ in Internet address is—

• Hybrid text transfer protocol
• Hyper text transfer protocol
• Higher transfer text protocol
• Higher text transfer protocol

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