General Awareness Quiz - Set 46

1. Which of the following is the India's first island district?

a) Diu island

c) Pamban island

d) Elephanta island

2. "When you pull out the plug connected to an electric appliance, you will often observe a spark. To which property of the appliance is this related?. "

a) Resistance

b) Inductance

c) Capacitance

d) Wattage 

3. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant has been closed permanently. It was located in:

a) Ukraine

b) Kazakhstan

c) Belarus

d) Latvia 

4. Maria Sharapova belongs to which country?
a) France
b) USA
c) Russia
d) Brazil 

5. UNIVAC is

a) Universal Automatic Computer

b) Universal Array Computer

c) Unique Automatic Computer

d) Unvalued Automatic Computer 

6. World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) was developed & launched on
a) June 15, 2001
b) June 15, 2003
c) June 15, 2006
d) June 15, 2010 

7. The Lai Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence is related to which of the following field?
a) Politics
b) Panchayati Raj
c) Public Adminstration
d) None of the above 

8. Larry Page and Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin are well-known as
a) creators of Bluetooth device
b) founders of Google
c) stem cell researchers
d) scientists of human genome 

9. Uma Sharma is an exponent of which one of the following forms of dance?
a) Bharatanatyam
b) Kathak
c) Kuchipudi
d) Manipuri 

10. Ms Reena Kaushal Dharmshaktu is the first Indian woman

a) to reach Antarctica

b) pilot inducted in Indian Air Force

c) to ski to the South Pole

d) to win the Gold Medal in Asian Boxing Championship 

Answers: 

1. b) Majuli

2. a) Resistance

3. a) Ukraine

4. c) Russia

5. a) Universal Automatic Computer

6. c) June 15, 2006

7. c) Public Adminstration

8. b) founders of Google

9. b) Kathak

10. c) to ski to the South Pole 

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