Practice these General Studies Questions

1. Who became the first woman Prime Minister of Thailand ?

 (A) Gloria Macapagal

 (B) Angela Markel

 (C) Yingluck Shinawatra

 (D) None of these

Answer: Yingluck Shinawatra

  

 2. The Nobel Laureate who is fighting to liberate the people of Myanmar is—

 (A) Corazon Aquino

 (B) Benazir Bhutto

 (C) Aung San Suukyi

 (D) Winnie Mandela

Answer: Aung San Suukyi

 3. Which of the following is called the Mother of Parliaments ?

 (A) The German Parliament

 (B) The American Parliament

 (C) The French Parliament

 (D) The British Parliament

Answer: The British Parliament

 4. "India House" is located in—

 (A) New Delhi

 (B) Kolkata

 (C) London

 (D) New York

Answer: London

 5. Who was the Chief Guest at the Republic Day function on January 26, 2011 in New Delhi ?

 (A) Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, President of Nigeria

 (B) Surya Bahadur Thapa, Prime Minister of Nepal

 (C) Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil

 (D) Susilo Babang Yudhoyono, President of Indonesia

Answer: Susilo Babang Yudhoyono, President of Indonesia

 6. Who was the first Prime Minister of England ?

 (A) Oliver Cromwell

 (B) Benjamin Disraeli

 (C) Robert Walpole

 (D) Gladstone

Answer: Robert Walpole

 7. Name the inventor of ATM who died recently—

 (A) John Shepherd Barron

 (B) Leszek Miller

 (C) Ada E. Yonuth

 (D) Willard S. Boyal

Answer: John Shepherd Barron

 8. What is "NMD" ?

 (A) New Monetary Devices

 (B) National Meteorological Department

 (C) National Missile Defence Space based anti ballistic missile system being set up by the US

 (D) New Monroe Doctrine

Answer: (C)

 9. Who was the first Caliph ?

 (A) Sulaiman, the Great

 (B) Abu Bakr

 (C) Iman Hussain

 (D) Constantine

Answer: Abu Bakr

 10. ‘Ramadorai Sujatha’ who was recently in news is a—

 (A) Writer

 (B) Historian

 (C) Mathematician

 (D) Artist

Answer: Mathematician

 11. Whose teachings inspired the French Revolution ?

 (A) Locke

 (B) Rousseau

 (C) Hegel

 (D) Plato

Answer: Rousseau

 12. D-Day is the day when—

 (A) Germany declared war on Britain

 (B) US dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima

 (C) Allied troops landed in Normandy

 (D) Germany surrendered to the allies

Answer: Allied troops landed in Normandy

 13. The first airline to allow flyers to surf the net was—

 (A) United Airlines

 (B) Singapore Airlines

 (C) Emirates Airlines

 (D) Air Canada

Answer: Singapore Airlines

 14. World Computer Literacy Day is celebrated on—

 (A) 2nd December

 (B) 5th July

 (C) 14th November

 (D) 3rd November

Answer: 2nd December

 15. Fabianism is closely related to—

 (A) Fascism

 (B) Communism

 (C) Democratic Socialism

 (D) Liberalism

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 16. The Bandung Conference was a major milestone in the history of—

 (A) The Non-Aligned Movement

 (B) Indo-Chinese Relationship

 (C) U.S. Vietnam War

 (D) Creation of ASEAN

Answer: The Non-Aligned Movement

 17. Former Soviet President Mr. Mikhail Gorbachev had become popular for his policy of—

 (A) Market Economy

 (B) Perestroika

 (C) Socialist Economy

 (D) Dictatorship of Proletariat

Answer: Perestroika

 18. National Integration Day is observed on—

 (A) January 30

 (B) May 21

 (C) October 30

 (D) None of these

Answer: None of these

 19. Who is popularly known as 'Missile Man of India' ?

 (A) Dr. C.V. Raman

 (B) Dr. Hargobind Khurana

 (C) Dr. S. Chandra Sekhar

 (D) Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Answer: Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

 20. The abbreviation TRAI stands for—

 (A) Taxation Research and Analysis Institute

 (B) 'Tourist Resorts ' Agents of India

 (C) Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

 (D) Trade Related Accounts and Indices

Answer: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India