General Awareness Quiz - Set 75

1. How many basic tastes can humans sense?

2. Who wrote The Divine Comedy?

b) William Shakespeare

c) Boccaccio

d) Aristotle 

3. The Chhandogya Upanishad is a Sanskrit text embedded in the

a) Atharva Veda

b) Sama Veda

c) Yajur Veda

d) Rig Veda 

4. The social system of the Indus civilization cities was

a) egalitarian

b) master-slave based

c) caste-based

d) skin-colour based 

5. Which of the following is not a part of the endocrine system of human body?

b) Thyroid gland

c) Pituitary gland

d) Pancreas 

6. What other sensory function do your ears provide other than hearing?

b) Temperature

c) Balance

d) Radiation 

7. If a person is witnessing lockjaw, what disease may he/she be suffering from?

a) Cholera

b) Smallpox

d) Tetanus 

8. In the International System of Units (SI), candela is the unit of

a) density of liquid

b) intensity of sound

c) radioactivity

d) luminous intensity 

9. Which among the following glands produces tears?

a) Longitudinal

b) Lacrimal

c) Latissimal

d) Laryngeal 

10. The Brahmaputra river is also known as which of the following?

a) Burlung-Buthur

b) Yarlung Tsangpo

d) All the above 

Answers: 

1. c) Five

2. a) Dante

3. b) Sama Veda

4. a) egalitarian

5. a) Lungs

6. c) Balance

7. d) Tetanus

8. d) luminous intensity

9. b) Lacrimal

10. d) All the above 

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