Sunday, August 26, 2012

General Knowledge ... a few questions....



1)      Who is the author of the book “River of Smoke”?

          a) Amitav Ghhosh                   b) Chetan Bhagat           c) Salman Rushdie
          d) Jahnavi Barua           e) None of these

2)      Which legendary versatile Bengali actor was on 21 March 2012 selected for
          India’s highest film honour – the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2012 ?

          a) Prasanjeet Chatterjee           b) Soumitra Chatterjee
          c) Ranjit Mallick                      d) Suvendu Chakroborty
          e) none of these

3)      Who became the first batsman in the history of cricket to score 100
          International centuries ?

          a) Michael Hussey                   b) Virender Sehwag       c) Shahid Afridi
          d) Sachin Tendulkar      e) Hashim Amla

4)      Where is country’s first hydro-engineering college located ?

          a) Bangalore (Karnataka)                  b) Bilaspur (HP)
          c) Agartala (Tripura)               d) Kolkata (WB)            e) None of these

5)      Which country is the world’s largest recipient of arms ?

          a) South Korea               b) Pakistan           c) China                d) India
          e) None of these.

6)      Who got the Panth Rattan award by Akal Takht on 20th March 2012 ?

          a) Gurbachan Singh       b) Baba Harbans Singh    c) Shoaib Malik
          d) Harbhajan Singh        e) None of these

7)      Who is the first head of state to officially declare his assets and liabilities
          (worth over Rs.4.83 crore) ?

          a) Jayalalitha        b) Mamata Banarjee      c) Sadananda Gowda
          d) Naveen Patnaik         e) Akhilesh Yadav

8)      Which state is going to getbthe Niraml Pradesh status tag on second number
          After Sikkim ?
          a) Kerala     b) Arunachal Pradesh    c) Himachal Pradesh
          d) Andhra Pradesh                                     e) Tamil Nadu

9)      Who has been appointed the new chairman of the governing body of the
          Indian Institue of Advanced Study (IIAS) ?

          a) Philippe Bouvier        b) Peter Ronald deSouza
          c) Dr.Meenu Agarwal    d) Gopalkrishna Gandhi
          e) Brham Chand Rana

10)    India with which other country did their two week long military exercise in
          Rajasthan  desert in March 2012 with troops engaged with each other in
          series of anti-terrorist and urban warfare drills ?

          a) US          b) Pakistan           c) Cambodia                  d) Philippines
          e) Indonesia

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