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1. who has the prime minister of India when Atom bomb (test) was exploded first in India?

A) Jawaharlal Nehru   B) Lal Bahadur Sastri   C) Indira Gandhi   D) Chandrasekar

ANS: C

2. In which country industrial revolution occured first?

A) Turkey   B) Israel  C) Columbia  D) England

ANS: D

3. Prince of wales cup is associated with

A) Swimming  B) Hockey  C) Football  D) Golf

ANS: D

4. who is the leader of save Narmada compaign?

A) Sundarlal Bahuguna  B) Medha Patkar  C) Anne Hazare  D) M.S. Swaminathan

ANS: B

5. who is the Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya sabha?

A) Jayanthi Natarajan  B) Najma Heptullah  C) Jayapradha  D) Jayalalitha

ANS: B

6. which one of the following is correctly matched? (1999)

A) Governor of Tamil Nadu - Justice Fathima Beebi

B) Chief Minister of Karnataka - Deva Gowda

C) Chief Minister of  Andhrapradesh - Venkaiah Naidu 

D) Chief Minister of Pondhicherry  - D.Ramachandran

ANS: A

7. In which year the press commission was appointed under the chairmanship of justice G.S.Rajadhyaksha?

A) On 23rd September, 1952

B) On 23rd August, 1954

C) On 23rd September, 1956

D) On 23rd August, 1958

ANS: A

8. The Goverment of India appointed in 1948 a University Commission under the chairmanship of

A) John Sergeant

B) Dr. A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar

C) Kothari

D) Dr.S. Radhakrishnan

ANS: D

9. One of the following countries is not the member of SAARC

A) India  B) Pakistan  C) Bangladesh  D) Japan

ANS: D

10. National Library, the largest library in India is located at 

A) Chennai   B) Mumbai   C) Delhi   D) Kolkata

ANS: D

11. Wimbledon is related with the game of

A) Hockey   B) Football    C) Cricket  D) Lawn Tennis

ANS: D

12. The oldest university is

A) Nalanda   B) Madras  C) Venkateswara  D) Madurai

ANS: A

13. Which country has got fast growth in computer sector?

A) India   B) China   C) Japan    D) Australia

ANS: A

14. Environment is

A) private goods  B) toll goods   C) common pool  goods  D) none of these

ANS: C

15. The first World Tamil conference was held in

A) Malaysia    B) Chennai   C) Srilanka   D) London

ANS: A

16. When is world Environment Day celebrated?

A) March 8     B) June 5      C) October 30  D) None of these

ANS: B

17. Where is Nehru stadium situated?

A) Mumbai    B) Kolkata    C) Kanpur     D) Delhi

ANS:  D

18. Which year is reckoned as the warmest year in history?

A) 1991      B) 1993      C)1995    D) 1997

ANS: B

19. Pakistan's recent atomic explosion experiment was conducted at

A) Sindhu desert  B) Baluchistan desert  C) Sahal desert   D) Sahara desert

ANS: B

20. Cricket is the National game of which country?

A) Australia    B) Switzerland   C) Sweden    D) France

ANS: A

21. The eighth SAARC summit was held  lied at

A) Colombo   B) Dhaka  C) Delhi   D) Kathmandu

ANS: C

22. During 1995-96 Francis has carried out several nuclear tests in the

A) Antartica    B) Areas near the north pole  C) South Pacific  D) Sahara desert

ANS: C

23.  The man who gives equal competition to Boris Yeltsin in the Presidental election is

A) Mr. Zhirinovsky   B) Mr. Zyuganov   C) Kasblutov    D) Gorbachev

ANS: A

24. Mr. Deva Gowda is the

A) 11th Prime Minister of India

B) 12th Prime Minister of India

C) 10th Prime Minister of India 

D) 9th Prime Minister of India

ANS: B

25. Purulia is related with

A) dropping of arms and ammunitions from the plane

B) atomic explosion test

C) launching of new missles

D) none

ANS: A