General Knowledge Quiz for CDS & CAPF : 5th JUNE
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Q1.Who among the following
Europeans were the last to come to pre-independence India as traders?
(a) Dutch
(b) English
(c) French
(d) Portuguese
Q2. Which Freedom Fighter from
Bengal died at the age of 18?
(a) Khudiram Bose
(b) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(c) Chittaranjan Das
(d) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Q3. Which of the following
planets is tilted at 90°, so it almost rolls around the Sun and hence, it is also called a ‘Lying planet’?
(a) Venus
(b) Jupiter
(c) Uranus
(d) Neptune
Q4. Which of the following canal gets
water from Sutlej and Beas rivers in India?
(a) Buckingham Canal
(b) Indira Gandhi Canal
(c) Sethu Canal
(d) Ganga Canal
Q5. Which one of the following
trains/railways pass through Germany, France, Austria, Hungary and Romania?
(a) Trans-Siberian
(b) Cape-Cairo
(c) Orient Express
(d) Union and Central Pacific
Q6.Which one of the following
laws are used to describe the relationship between the changes in unemployment
and changes in real GDP of an economy?
(a) Say’s Law
(b) Engel’s Law
(c) Okun’s Law
(d) Cambell’s Law
Q7.Match Column I and Column II.
Column I Column II
A. Elements in group I A 1. Inert gas
B. Elements in group zero 2. Alkali metal
C. Elements of d-block 3. Inner-transition
element
D. Elements of f-block 4.
Transition element
Codes
A B
C D
(a) 2 1 4 3
(b) 1 4 3 2
(c) 4 3 2 1
(d) 3 2 1 4
Q8.Which one of the following is
useful in the treatment of the scurvy disease?
(a) Mango
(b) Papaya
(c) Aonla
(d) Ber
Q9. What is the most conspicuous the salient feature of people with ‘progeria’?
(a) More hair on the body
(b) Less immunity to
opportunistic
(c) The faster rate of aging
(d)Suffer from infertility
Q10.Which of the following
organelles of a cell are/are involved in photosynthesis?
(a) Chloroplast
(b) Mitochondrion
(c) Endoplasmic reticulum
(d) Golgi bodies
SOLUTION
S1.Ans.(c)
Sol. Portugese – 1498
Dutch - 1602
English – 1599
French - 1664
S2. Ans.(a)
Sol. Khudiram Bose was an Indian
Bengali revolutionary, one of the youngest revolutionaries early in the
revolutionary movement for Indian independence. On the day of his hanging, he
was only 18 years, 8 months and 8 days old.
S3. Ans.(c)
Sol. The Uranian system has a
unique configuration because its axis of rotation is tilted sideways, nearly
into the plane of its solar orbit. It's north and south poles, therefore, lie
where most other planets have their equators.
S4. Ans.(b)
Sol. The Indra Gandhi canal is
fed from the Sutlej, Beas and Ravi tributaries of the Indus River.
S5. Ans.(c)
Sol. The "Orient
Express" proper runs from Calais and Paris to Bucharest, passing through
France, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Romania.
S6. Ans.(c)
Sol. Okun's law investigates the
statistical relationship between a country's unemployment rate and the growth
rate of its economy. That rule of thumb describes the observed relationship
between changes in the unemployment rate and the growth rate of real gross
domestic product.
S7. Ans.(a)
Sol. Group 1A — The Alkali
Metals.
Group 0 – The Noble Gases/Inert
gases
The d-block elements are called
transition metals
S8. Ans.(c)
Sol. Aonla is used for the treatment
of scurvy disease.
S9. Ans.(c)
Sol.
Progeria is a rare genetic condition that causes a person to age prematurely.
Children with progeria appear healthy, but by the age of 2 years, they look as
if they have become old too fast.
S10. Ans.(a)
Sol. In
plants, photosynthesis takes place in chloroplasts, which contain the
chlorophyll.
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