General Knowledge Quiz for CDS & INET : 11th OCTOBER

Dear Students, Defence Adda is providing you all with this quiz on General Knowledge questions for CDS, AFCAT, CAPF, INET, and other Defence Examinations.
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 ‘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. Bilateral monopoly situation
is
(a) when there are only two
sellers of a product
(b) when there are only two
buyers of a product
(c) when there is only one buyer
and one seller of a product
(d) when there are two buyers and
two sellers of a product
Q7. In a streamline flow,
________ at every point in the fluid remains same.
(a) Force
(b) Pressure
(c) Velocity
(d) Speed
Q8. _________ gets converted to
phosgene, when exposed to sunlight.
(a) Chloroform
(b) Acetone
(c) Benzene
(d) Propylene
Q9. What would happen if the pancreas is defective:
(a) Digestion will not take
properly
(b) Insulin and glucagon are not
formed
(c) Blood formation will stop
(d) Blood pressure will increase
Q10. Which drug is used as an
Anti-Inflammatory?
(a) Metformin
(b) Diazepam
(c) Latanoprost
(d) Prednisone
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. Its 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.'Bilateral Monopoly' A market
that has only one supplier and one buyer. The one supplier will tend to act as
a monopoly power, and look to charge high prices to the one buyer. The lone
buyer will look towards paying a price that is as low as possible.
S7. Ans.(c)
Sol. In a streamline flow,
velocity at every point in the fluid remains same.
S8. Ans.(a)
Sol.Phosgene can form from
chloroform, in presence of oxygen and UV light.
S9. Ans.(b)
Sol. The pancreas is a mixed
gland which secretes digestive enzyme and the beta cells of islets of
Langerhans secrete insulin, alpha cells secrete glucagon, delta cells secrete somatostatin
hormone. If the pancreas is defective by any of the reason, then the formation
of insulin and glucagon are affected badly.
S10. Ans.(d)
Sol. Prednisone drug is used as
an Anti-Inflammatory drug. It is used to treat a number of different conditions,
such as inflammation (swelling), severe allergies, adrenal problems, arthritis,
asthma, blood or bone marrow problems, endocrine problems, eye or vision
problems, stomach or bowel problems, lupus, skin conditions, kidney problems,
ulcerative colitis, and flare-ups of multiple sclerosis.

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