Dear PaGaLGuY readers, as we all know, General Knowledge is an important component of a number of competitive examinations such as the UPSC Civil Services Examination, Banking Entrance Examinations, SSC CGL/CHSL Examinations, MBA Entrance Examinations, Combined Defence Services Examination, etc. In order to help you practise and improve your General Knowledge, we hereby present this General Knowledge quiz.
Given below are a few General Studies questions from previous years’ actual exams. Leave your answers/ responses in the comments section below and soon we’ll let you know the correct answers!
1. Which of the following elements is not radioactive
(a) Zirconium (b) Uranium (c) Radium (d) Plutonium
2. Which of the following supports the particle nature of Photons?
(a) Photoelectric effect (b) Interference
(c) Diffraction (d) Polarisation
3. A closed economy means
(a) economic policy not well defined
(b) a country having no imports and exports
(c) no provision for public sector
(d) no provision for private sector
4. At ‘Break – even point’,
(a) the seller earns maximum profit
(b) the firm is at zero variable cost point
(c) the industry’s expenses and revenue are equal
(d) the producers suffer the minimum losses
5. Who said, ‘where is no law, there is no freedom’?
(a) Marx
(b) Locke
(c) Bentham
(d) Lenin
6. Match the following:
List I List II
A Chalukyas 1. Manyakheta
B. Hoysalas 2. Vatapi
C. Rashtrakutas 3. Warangal
D. Kakatiyas 4. Dwarasamundra
Codes: A B C D
(a) 1 2 3 4
(b) 3 2 4 1
(c) 2 4 1 3
(d) 4 3 1 2
7. Gandhi’s concept of trusteeship
(a) excludes legislative regulation of the ownership and use of wealth
(b) does not fix minimum and maximum income
(c) recognises right or private ownership of property
(d) transforms the capitalistic society into an egalitarian one
8. Which article of the Indian constitution provides for equal opportunities for all citizens in public employment?
(a) Article 20
(b) Article 25
(c) Article 22
(d) Article 16
9. Haptens are
(a) antibodies
(b) isoantigens
(c) pseudoantigens
(d) incomplete antigens
10. The rapidly growing mass of phytoplankton covering the surface water of a lake or pond is known as
(a) water pollution (b) water hyacinth
(c) eutrophication (d) water bloom
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