Q1. Pt. Ravi Shankar belongs to which musical instrument?
(a) Tabla
(b) Sitar
(c) Violin
(d) Guitar
(e) Bansuri
Q2. Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar is given by which ministry?
(a) Ministry of Culture
(b) Ministry of Labour
(c) Ministry of Minority
(d) Ministry of Rural Development
(e) Ministry of Defence
Q3. The author of the book ‘Cosmos’ is –
(a) Carl Sagan
(b) Issaq Asimov
(c) Arthur C. Clarke
(d) Michael Christian
(e) Robert Muchamore
Q4. Which state gives the Nandi Award?
(a) Kerala
(b) Tamilnadu
(c) Karnataka
(d) Andhra Pradesh
(e) Maharashtra
Q5. In which year Colombia hosted the NAM summit?
(a) 1994
(b) 1995
(c) 1996
(d) 1997
(e) 2003
Q6. The Sastra Ramanujan prize is related to
(a) Young Physicians
(b) Young Mathematician
(c) Poets
(d) Scientists
(e) None of the above
Q7. Which country successfully launched a satellite first?
(a) US
(b) UK
(c) USSR
(d) France
(e) China
Q8. What is Obra?
(a) A new refinery
(b) A new aluminium plant
(c) A bird sanctuary
(d) A thermal power station
(e) A Coal mine
Q9. Name the author of the book A Passage to England:
(a) E. M. Forster
(b) Khushwant Singh
(c) Vikram Seth
(d) Eric Segal
(e) Nirad C. Choudhary
Q10. Which company manufactures the A-380 aircraft?
(a) Air Bus Industries
(b) Lockheed Martin
(c) Raytheon
(d) Macdonald Douglas
(e) Irkutsk Aviation Factory
Q11. Who is the author of “The Company of Women”?
(a) John Gray
(b) David Baldacci
(c) Dick Francis
(d) Khushwant Singh
(e) Arundhati Roy
Q12. Where was India first submarine museum established, marine museum established, in 2002?
(a) Kochi
(b) Panjim
(c) Visakhapatnam
(d) Mumbai
(e) Puri
Q13. Who is the Chairman of SEBI?
(a) M. Damodaran
(b) D. R. Mehta
(c) G. N. Bajpai
(d) S. A. Dave
(e) Upendra Kumar Sinha
Q14. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade was replaced by:
(a) North American Free Trade Association
(b) South Asian Free Trade
(c) World Trade Organisation
(d) Free Trade Organisation
(e) None of these
Q15. ‘World Consumer Rights Day’ is celebrated every year on
(a) 1 April
(b) 23 October
(c) 15 March
(d) 5 December
(e) 10 November