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Q1. Which country is the latest to join the U.N. as a member? यूएन में एक सदस्य के रूप में शामिल होने वाला नवीनतम देश कौन सा है
Switzerland / स्विट्जरलैंड
Hong Kong/ हॉगकॉग
Taiwan/ ताइवान
South Sudan/ दक्षिण सूडान
Solution:
UN welcomes South Sudan as 193rd Member State. 14 July 2011 – The General Assembly admitted the Republic of South Sudan as the 193rd member of the United Nations, welcoming the newly independent country to the community of nations.
Q2. ‘World AIDS Day’ is observed on
'वर्ल्ड एड्स दिवस' कब मनाया जाता है
1st January/ 1 जनवरी
1st April /1 अप्रैल
1st September /1 सितंबर
1st December /1 दिसंबर
Solution:
World AIDS Day is held on the 1st December each year and is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV and to commemorate
Q3. Thumri Singer Girija Devi belongs to which among the following Gharanas? थुमरी गायक गिरिजा देवी निम्नलिखित में से किस घराने से हैं?
Banaras Gharana/ बनारस घराना
Agra Gharana/ आगरा घराना
Kirana Gharana/ किराना घराना
Lucknow Gharana/ लखनऊ घराना
Solution:
Girija Devi belongs to Banaras gharana. She performs classical and light classical music and has helped elevate the profile of thumri.
Q4. Who among the following is the recipient of the first Dayawati Modi Award for art, culture and education? निम्नलिखित में से कौन कला, संस्कृति और शिक्षा के लिए पहले दयावती मोदी पुरस्कार का प्राप्तकर्ता है
Dharmavir Bharti/ धर्मवीर भारती
Amitabh Bachchaan/ अमिताभ बच्चन
B. V. Karanth/ बी वी करंथ
Ashok Vajpeyi/ अशोक वाजपेयी
Solution:
Mrs. Dayawati Modi, wife of the founder, Mr. G.M. Modi, was a great philanthropist and an educationist. To commemorate her love for Art, Culture & Education, the Dayawati Modi Foundation instituted this award in her memory in 1994. The Dayawati Modi Award for Art, Culture and Education is presented annually on the 17th of November, her birth anniversary.Shri Amitabh Bachchan was first to get this award in 1994.
Q5. Who is known as ‘the Father of Geometry’? 'ज्यामिति के जनक' के रूप में किसे जाना जाता है?
Pythagoras/ पाइथागोरस
Hipparchus/हिप्पार्चुस
Aristotle / एरीस्टोटल
Euclid/ यूक्लिड
Solution:
Euclid of Alexandria is called the Father of Geometry. He received his education at Plato's Academy in Greece and moved to Egypt to teach. He taught during the reign of Ptolemy I Soter, the first Macedonian ruler.
Q6. Pulitzer prize is awarded for outstanding work in the field of किस क्षेत्र में उत्कृष्ट कार्य के पुलित्जर पुरस्कार से लिए सम्मानित किया जाता है
Science and Technology/ विज्ञान और तकनीक
Environmental Studies/ पर्यावरण अध्ययन
Literature and Journalism/ साहित्य और पत्रकारिता
International Understanding/ अंतर्राष्ट्रीय अबोध
Solution:
The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American Joseph Pulitzer who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher, and is administered by Columbia University in New York City.
Q7. Teachers Day is observed every year on शिक्षक दिवस प्रति वर्ष कब मनाया जाता है
5th September /5 सितंबर
15th September /15 सितंबर
20th September /20 सितंबर
25th September/ 25 सितंबर
Solution:
The birth date of the second President of India, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, 5 September 1888, is celebrated as Teacher's Day since 1962. On this day, teachers and students report to school as usual but the usual activities and classes are replaced by activities of celebration, thanks and remembrance.
Q8. Who is the father of cellular Phone? सेलुलर फोन के जनक कौन है
Linus Torvalds / लिनस टोरवाल्ड्स
Percy Lebaron Spencer / पर्सी लेबरन स्पेंसर
Fred Morrison/ फ्रेड मॉरिसन
Martin Cooper / मार्टिन कूपर
Solution:
While at Motorola in the 1970s, Cooper invented the first handheld cellular mobile phone in 1973 and led the team that developed it and brought it to market in 1983. He is considered the "father of the cell phone" and is also cited as the first person in history to make a handheld cellular phone call in public.
Q9. Special Drawing Rights (SDR) facility is available at विशेष ड्राइंग राइट्स (SDR) सुविधा उपलब्ध कहाँ है?
International Monetary Fund (IMF) / अंतरराष्ट्रीय मुद्रा कोष
World Bank (IBRD)/ विश्व बैंक
International Development Association (IDA) / अंतर्राष्ट्रीय विकास संघ
None of these/ इनमे से कोई नहीं
Solution:
The SDR is an international reserve asset, created by the IMF in 1969 to supplement its member countries’ official reserves.
Q10. Who is the Managing Director of the Delhi Metro Railway Corporation? दिल्ली मेट्रो रेलवे निगम के प्रबंध निदेशक कौन हैं
B. L. Joshi, Lt. Governor of Delhi / बी एल जोशी, दिल्ली के लेफ्टिनेंट गवर्नर
Sam Pitroda / सैम पित्रोदा
R. Sreedharan / आर श्रीधरन
Mangu Singh/ मंगू सिंह
Solution:
Mangu Singh is managing director of Delhi Metro. He took over as managing director after E. Sreedharan, the former managing director, retired from service on 31 December 2011. He is an Indian Railways Service of Engineers officer of the 1981 batch.
Q11. Which of the dance forms enlisted in UNESCO? यूनेस्को में कौन से नृत्य रूपों में शामिल किया गया था
Mudiyeltu /मुदियेलतू
Bidesia/बिदेसिया
Maach /माच
Yakshagan/यक्षगान
Solution:
Mudiyett or Mudiyettu is a traditional ritual theatre and folk dance drama from Kerala that enacts the mythological tale of a battle between the goddess Kali and the demon Darika. In 2010 Mudiyettu was inscribed in the UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, becoming the second art form from Kerala after Koodiyattam.
Q12. Who is the author of the book “War and Diplomacy in Kashmir”? पुस्तक "War and Diplomacy in Kashmir" के लेखक कौन हैं
G. Parthasarathy/ जी पार्थसारथी
Sir Owen Dixon/ सर ओवेन डिक्सन
C. Dasgupta/ सी दासगुप्त
Kuldeep Nayar/ कुलदीप नायर
Solution:
“War and Diplomacy in Kashmir”, 1947-48 is written by Chandrashekhar Dasgupta is an Indian civil servant, diplomat, writer and a former Indian ambassador to the European Union, Belgium, Luxemburg and China. Born on 2 May 1940, he entered Indian Foreign Service in 1962 and worked as a diplomat till his superannuation in 2000.
Q13. The first thermionic valve was invented by पहले थर्मोनिक वाल्व का आविष्कार किसके द्वारा किया गया था?
Thomas Edison / थॉमस एडिसन
Richardson / रिचर्डसन
J.A. Fleming / जे.ए. फ्लेमिंग
Lee De Forest / ली डी फारेस्ट
Solution:
The Fleming valve, also called the Fleming oscillation valve, was a vacuum tube (or "thermionic valve") invented in 1904 by John Ambrose Fleming as a detector for early radio receivers used in electromagnetic wireless telegraphy.
Q14. Which of the following passes lies in the Sutlej Valley? निम्नलिखित में से कौन सा पास सतलज घाटी में स्थित है?
Nathu La / नाथू ला
Jelep La / जेलेप ला
Sherabathanga /शेराबथंगा
Shipki La /शिपकी ला
Solution:
The source of the Sutlej is near Lake Rakshastal in Tibet. From there, under the Tibetan name Langqên Zangbo, it flows at first west-northwest for about 260 kilometres to the Shipki La pass, entering India in Himachal Pradesh state.
Q15. For which invention is Otto Hahn famous? ओटो हान किस आविष्कार के लिए प्रसिद्ध है
Atom bomb/ परमाणु बम
Television / टेलीविजन
X-rays / एक्स-रे
Miner’s safety lamp / खनिक की सुरक्षा लैंप
Solution:
Otto Hahn was a renowned German radiochemist who won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of nuclear fission after a lifetime of working with radioactive isotopes. Nuclear fission is widely regarded as the key invention that enabled the atomic bomb, although Hahn was not involved with its development directly.
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