Important general knowledge questions answers
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1. Which of the following statements is incorrect?
(a) The Godavari is the largest river of South India. (b) The Kosi river is called the 'Sorrow of Bihar'.
(c) The Brahmaputra is an antecedental river. (d) The Ganges originates from Gangotri. (Ans :c)
2. Which of the following pairs. (State-Date of formation) is correctly matched?
(a) Haryana - November 1 , 1966 (b) Mizoram- June 25, 1986
(c) Telangana - August 15, 2014 (d) Chhattisgarh - November 20, 2000 (Ans : a)
3. Which of the following State is the largest producer of pulse in India?
(a) Madhya Pradesh (b) Uttar Pradesh (c) Maharashtra (d) Rajasthan (Ans : a)
4. Which of the following country has the largest reserve of Bauxite of the world?
(a) India (b) Russia (c) Surinam (d) Australia (Ans : d)
5. Which of the following State has the largest forest area in India ?
(a) Chhattisgarh (b) Maharashtra (c) Madhya Pradesh (d) Andhra Pradesh (Ans : b)
6. 'In which of the following year the 'National Population Policy (NPP)' was announced in India?
(a) 1999 (b) 2000 (c) 2001 (d) 2002 (Ans : b)
7. The 'World Population Day' is observed on–
(a) April 11 (b) May 11 (c) July 11 (d) August 12 (Ans : c)
8. Who propounded the 'Mobility Transition Model of Migration' ?
(a) Lee (b) Clarke (c) Ravenstein (d) Zelinsky (Ans : d)
9. 'Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
(a) Tharu - Uttar Pradesh (b) Gaddi - Himachal Pradesh (c) Konyak - Kerala (d) Toda - Tamil'Nadu (Ans : c)
10. As per 2011 census, which of the following states of India had the highest sex-ratio?
(a) Karanataka (b) Kerala (c) Uttar Pradesh (d) West Bengal (Ans : b)
11. Which of the following is called 'Heart of the City' ?
(a) Central Business District (b) Zone of Better Residence (c) Zone of Better Social Amenities (d) Commuters Zone (Ans : a)
12. Who made the Functional Classification of Indian Cities?
(a) RL Singh (b) GS Gosal (c) Ashok Mitra (d) AB Mukherji (Ans : c)
13. The National Award for Child Welfare was instituted in the year–
(a) 1996 (b) 1979 (c) 2008 (d) 2014 (Ans : b)
14. The term 'Ecosystem' was first used in 1935 by–
(a) Taylor (b) Clark (c) Tansley (d) Lindemann (Ans : c)
15. Which of the following States incorporated 'Envirorimental Education' as a subject school curriculum for the first time?
(a) Uttarakhand (b) Maharashtra (c) Kerala (d) Rajasthan (Ans : a)
16. The main cause of Ozone depletion is–
(a) carbon monoxide (b) carbon dioxide (c) hydrocarbon (d) Chloro-fluoro carbon (Ans : d)
17. Which of the following canal is responsible for land-degradation in Rajasthan?
(a) Ganga canal (b) Sirhind canal (c) Indira Gandhi canal (d) Agra canal (Ans : c)
18. 'Biodiversity' is–
(a) totality of all species, all genes and all ecosystems. (b) variety of plants
(c) variety of animals (d) totality of cultural environment (Ans : a)
19. Which of the following is responsible for acid rain?
(a) Nitrogen oxide and carbon dioxide (b) Nitrogen oxide and carbon monoxide
(c) Sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide (d) None of the above (Ans : c)
20. Match the following–
Plant
A. Megatherm B. Mesotherm C. Microtherm D. Hekistherm
Climatic Region
1. Tundra region 2. Equatorial region 3. Tropical region 4. Temperate region
Code
A B C D
(a) 1 2 3 4
(b) 1 3 2 4
(c) 3 4 2 1
(d) 2 3 4 1 (Ans : c)
