General Knowledge Questions with Answers

1. Mat expands to…

a: Medium Advisory Tax
b. Minimum Accounted Tax
c. Minimum Automated Tax
d. Minimum Alternate Tax

2. This company was i.n the news in march 2005 as ‘U’ was planned to be its new logo. Can you identify the name of the company from the given options?
a. P&G
b. HLL
c. Nestle
d. Dabur

3. What is the expected GDP growth rate in 2005-2006, according to the Union Budget 2005-2006?
a. 6 per cent
b. 6.1 per cent
c. 6.3 per cent
d. 6.9 per cent

4. Identify the Indirect Tax from the given options.
a. Wealth Tax
b. Gift Tax
c. Sales Tax
d. Corporation Tax

5. Which of the following represents the expansion of ‘R’ in RFID?
a. Regional
b. Radio
c. Recorded
d. Reliance

6. This bank, in collaboration with NGOs, launched the ’social card’ for those people who want to contribute to the welfare of the society but either do not have time to do so or do not know which cause they would like to support. Can you identify the name of the bank in question from the given options?
a. Canara Bank
b. SBI
c. Punjab National Bank
d. Bank of India

7. Kishore Biyani, who is considered India’s largest retailer owns….
a. Shoppers Stop
b. Pantaloon
c. West Side
d. RPG Enterprises

8. The year in which the World Bank was incorporated in the UN system was….
a. 1994
b. 1946
c. 1947
d. 1949

9. The United Nations named the year 2005 as…
a. Year of savings
b. Year of Investments
c. Year of micro finance
d. Year of macro finance

10. The name of the Air India’s budget airline, that was launched in April 2005, is …
a. Air lndia Aviator
b. Air India Express
c. Air India Smarty
d. Air India Genie

11. Which of the following represents the expansion of ‘T’ in ‘TIN’?
a. Trade
b. Tax
c. Transmission
d. Total

12. Which of the following personalities is the author of Jeh: A Life of JRD Tata?
a. RM Lala
b. BK Dadabhoy
c. Dwijendra Tripathi
d. BK Karanjia

13. Which of the following represents the worth of the deal in which Adhikari brothers sold the SAB TV brand to the Sony TV in March 2005?
a. $7 million
b. $10 million
c. $13 million
d. $15 million

14. Which city hosted the G-20 meet in the third week of March 2005?
a. Lahore
b. Sau Paulo
c. New Delhi
d. Phuket

15. Identify the incorrect match. Automobile company Car Model
a. Fiat Automobiles Panda
b. Skoda Automobiles Fabia
c. Honda Automobiles Civic
d. All of them are matched properly

16. This personality was the FORBES Asian Businessman of the year 2004. Can you identify him from the given options?
a. Ratan Tata
b. Anil Ambani
c. KV Kamath
d. Nusli Wadia

17. According to a survey conducted by Hewitt Associates, which of the following companies was adjudged as the best employer of 2004?
a. P & G India
b. NTPC
c. Bharti Televentures
d.TCS

18. Awaz is the Hindi business news channel that belongs to the stable of …
a. NDTV
b. CNBC TV 18
c. Zee News
d. Sony TV

19. ‘Make your own road’ is the catchphrase that you would associate with….
a. Chevrolet Tavera
b. Tata Safari
c. Tata Sumo
d. Ford Endeavor

20. The maximum revenue to the government comes from….
a. Service tax
b. Custom duty
c. Excise duty
d. Income tax

Answer key:

1. d. Minimum Alternate Tax
2.b.HLL
3. d. 6.9 per cent
4. c. Sales Tax
5. b. Radio (RFID: RadioFrequency. Identification)
6. b. SBI
7. b. Pantaloon
8. c.1947
9. c. Year of micro finance
10. b. Air India Express
11. b. Tax(TaxlnformationNetwork)
12. b. BK Dadabhoy
13. c. $13 million
14. c. New Delhi
15. d. All of them are matched properly
16. a. Ratan Tata
17. d. TCS
18. b. CNBC TV 18
19. b. Tata Safari
20. c.. Excise Duty

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1. Which of the following has been selected for best parliamentarian of the year award 2007 ?

a) Priya Ranjan Das Munshi

b) Mani Shankar Aiyyar

c) P.Chidambaram

d) Sushama Swaraj

ANS : a

2. Fernando Lugo’s name was in news recently as he has taken over as the president of

a) Paraguay

b) Sudan

c) Afghanistan

d) Pakistan

ANS : a

3.  ISRO has launched successfully ten satellites through PSLV-C9 on - 

A. 15th March,2008

B. 30th March,2008

C. 28th April,2008

D. 4th May,2008

ANS : c   

4. The newly constituted National Knowledge Commission is headed by

a) C. Rangarajan

b)Prof. R. S. Sharma

c) Sam Pitroda

d) Ms. Girija Vyas

ANS : c

5. India enacted an important event of Indian National Movement celebrating the seventy- fifth anniversary. Which was it?

a) Quit India Movement

b) Delhi Chalo Movement

c) Civil Disobedience Movement

d) Non – Cooperation Movement

ANS :c

6. Pope Benedict XVI belongs to which country?

a) Italy

b) Germany

c) France

d) Poland

ANS : b

7. The media campaign “ The World Is Waiting” is related to which of the following companies?

a) Lufthansa

b) Qatar Airways

c) Indian Airlines

d) British Airways

ANS : d

8. Who among the following has been elected as President of the International Council of Science Union?

a) E. Sreedharan

b) N. Ram

c) M. G. K. Menon

d) Goverdhan Mehta

ANS : d

9. Which of the following countries launched the smallest combat aircraft in the world?

a) Germany

b) India

c) Russia

d) USA

ANS : b

10. Who among the following British Governor- Generals shifted India’s capital from Calcutta to Delhi in 1911?

a) Lord Louis Mountbatten

b) Lord Canning

c) Lord Hardinge

d) Warren Hastings

ANS : c

11. “Golden Handshake” is the term associated with

a) Share market

b) Retirement benefits

c) Voluntary retirement benefits

d) Smuggling

ANS : c

12. Which of the following is the first surface- to- surface missile in India?

a) Prithvi

b) Trishul

c) Agni

d) Naag

ANS : a

13. Which country will be host 15th SAARC Summit in 2008 ? 

a) Maldives

b) Sri Lanka

c) India

d) Pakistan

ANS : b

14. Mist is caused by

a) Dry ice

b) Ice at low temperature

c) Water vapours at low temperature

d) Carbon- monoxide in solid form

ANS : c

15. Who among the following has been chosen the Miss India Universe for the year 2008 ? 

a) Parvathy Omanakuttan

b) Simaran Kaur Mundi

c) Amrita Thapar

d) Tanvi Vyas

ANS : b

16. Who among the following was the author of “Rajtarangini”, commonly regarded as the first genuine history of India written by an Indian?

a) Banbhatta

b) Ravikirti

c) Pushpadanta

d) Kalhana

ANS : d

17. Who among the following advocated Scientific Socialism?

a) Robert Owen

b) Proudhon Pierre Joseph

c) Karl Marx

d) Saint Simon Henri Claude

ANS : c

18. Which of the following Articles of the Indian Constitution deal with the Directive Principles of State Policy?

a) 26 to 41

b) 31 to 56

c) 36 to 51

d) 41 to 66

ANS: c

19) Which one of the following travelers is not associated with the description of the glories of Vijayanagar kingdom?

a) Abdur Razzaq

b) Paes

c) Ibn Batutah

d) Nuniz

ANS : c :
Abdur Razzaq- Deva Raya II

Paes- Krishna Deva Raya

Ibn Batutah- Harihara I

Nuziz- Achyut Deva Raya

20. The Chinese pilgrim Fa – Hien visited India during the reign of

a) Kanishka

b) Chandragupta I

c) Chandragupta II

d) Harshavardhana

ANS : c

21. Which of the following is the economic growth percentage projected in the 11th Five Year Plan draft that was approved by the Planning Commission in November 2007?

a) 8%

b) 9%

c) 9.5%

d) 10%

ANS : b

22. The Indian Navy’s only sailing ship, which returned to Kochi after a 10- month voyage around the globe is,

a) INS Vibhuti

b) INS Tarangini

c) INS Prabhat

d) INS Viraat

ANS : b

23) Who among the following is the Director General of International Monetary Fund (IMF) ?

a) Thaksin Shinawatra

b) Liang Guanglie

c) Dominique Strauss Kahn

d) Paul Wolfowitz

ANS : c

24) Who is the author of the book “Super Star India : From Incredible to Unstopable”?

a) Shobha De

b) Hillory Clinton

c) Dalai Lama

d) Imran Khan

ANS : a

25) What does CECA stand for?

a) Community Enabled Cooperative Arrangement

b) Comprehensive Ecological Cooperation Agreement

c) Comprehensive Ecological Cooperation Arrangement

d) Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement

ANS : d

26) John wheeler was associated with -

a) Physics

b) Chemistry

c) Botany

d) History

Ans : a