GENERAL QUIZ FOUR

GENERAL AWARENESS: (5 tests)

TEST 1
1.Who among the following won the national championship in two different sports?
Shanta Rangaswami Varsha Majumdar
P.Gopichand P.Harikrishna

2. Who was selected as the best football player for the year 2001 by FIFA?
Diego Maradona Zinedine Zidane
Ronaldo Luis Figo

3. Which country will organize world cup Football 2002?

China S.Korea
Japan Japan & S.Korea

4. Who is the youngest cricket player who made the test century?
Sachin Tendulkar Mushtaque Mohammad
Mohammad Ashraful Imran Nazir

5. What is the "Mascot" of Soccer world Cup 2002?

Dazzler Ato
Nik Kaz

6. Who will host the 32nd National games?

Punjab Andhra Pradesh
Kerela Maharashtra

7. Who is the chairman of 'Match Referee Panel' declared by ICC?

Mike Proctor Wasim Raja
Ranjan Madugalle Clive Lloyd

8.Who is the world's number one Woman Tennis player as per the latest ranking?
Martina Hingis Venus Williams
Lindsay Davenport Jennifer Capriati

9. How many times has India won the world cup hockey tournament?
One Three
Two Four

10. Who is the 10th world cup hockey champion?

Australia Pakistan
Holland Germany

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Correct Answers for Test 1

1 Varsha Majumdar
2Luis Figo
3 Japan & S.Korea
4 Mohammad Asharaf Ul
5 Dazzler

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6 Andhra Pradesh
7 Ranjan Madugalle
8 Venus Williams
9 One
10 Germany

TEST 2
1.International Woman's Day is being celebrated on?
4th March 8th March
10th March 15th march

2. . Who is the director of the movie "A Beautiful Mind"?

Richard Attenborough Ron Howard
Steven Spielberg Danish Tanovich

3. Who among the following had been banned from flying in Air Canada?
Osama Bin Laden Salman Rushdie
Saddam Hussain Fidal Castro

4. Who is the newly appointed 'Comptroller and Auditor General' of India?

Vijay Sanglu T.N.Seshan
Vijayendra Kaul Bimal Jalan

5. Late American journalist Daniel Perl was associated with which news magazine?
Wall street Journal Times
NewYork Times Washington Post

6. Who among the following received the 'Grammy Award' for the album" Full Circle / Cornelly
hall"?
Micheal Jackson Britney Spears
Jennifer Lopez Pt.Ravishankar
7. Which telephone company has started basic telephone service in the name of 'Touch Tel' in
Delhi?
Bharti Telenet Ltd. Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd.
Reliance telephone Services Tata Communications Ltd.

8.Internet banking was first started by which commercial bank?

HDFC ICICI
HSBC Global Trust Bank

9. Which country is the manufacturer of spy plane "Falcon"?

USA France
Germany Israel

10. Government of India celebrated Year 2001 as-?

Year for the old people Year for women empowerment
Year for child education Year for the Water conservation

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Correct Answers for Test 2

1 8th March
2 Ron Howard

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3 Salman Rushdie
4 Vijyendra Kaul
5 Wall street Journal
6 Pt.Ravishankar
7 Bharti Telenet Ltd.
8 ICICI
9 Israel
10 Year for women empowerment

TEST 3
1.Who was the first cricket player to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award?
Sachin Tendulkar Sunil Gavaskar
Kapil Dev Harbhajan Singh

2. Who is the Architect of Chandigarh?

Adwin Lutiens Le Corbusier
Louis Seymour D C Kapoor

3. Who was the first Indian personality to win the Nobel Prize?
Amartya Sen Rabindranath Tagore
C V Raman Jawaharlal Nehru

4. What is the name of world's first nuclear reactor?

Chicago pile Apsara
Fermi fusion Blackhole

5. "Operation Gentlemen" was related with-

IT Raids on cricketers Search for the most honest politician in
India
Operation against Veerappan Movie directed by Santosh Sivan

6. The film which won the most number of Oscar awards till date is-
Titanic Ben-hur
The Last emperor Both (a) and (b)

7. Which of the following has not won the Miss World Title?
Diana Hayden Yukta Mookhey
Priyanka Chopra Lara Dutta

8.Who is the chief election commissioner of India?

T N Seshan M S Gill
J M Lyngdoh R K Trivedi

9. Who is the first Indian women grandmaster?

S Vijaylakshmi Koneru Humpi
Shashikiran Bhagyashri Thipsay

10. The total no of bones in a new born baby-

206 210
300 None of the above

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Correct Answers for Test 3
1 Sachin Tendulkar
2 Le Corbusier
3 Rabindranath Tagore
4 Chicago pile
5 IT Raids on cricketers
6 Both a & b
7 Lara Dutta
8 J M Lyngdoh
9 S Vijaylakshmi
10 300

TEST 4
1.Who was the first Englishman who received the Nobel Price in literature?
G.B.Shaw T.S.Eliot
Rudyard Kipling Virginia Woolfe

2.The post of Ombudsman was first introduced in which country?

USA UK
Sweden France

3. M-16 is the name of?

Fighter plan of USA British Intelligence Agency
Indian Battle tank Israeli Radar

4. Panchameshwar hydro power project is a joint project between -

India - Bhutan India - Nepal
India - Bangladesh India - Srilanka

5. Who is the author of the book "Interpreter of Maladies"?

Salman Rushdie Vikram Seth
Jhumpa Lahiri Rafique Jakariya

6.Who is the world's first space tourist?

Hans Lerch Lee Daley
Denis Tito Richard Rushton

7.Which state is the largest flower producer in India?

J&K Himachal Pradesh
Karnataka U.P.

8.The astronomer who argued first that the sun, and not the earth, is the center of the solar
system?
Galilio Copernicus
Aryabhatta Aristotle

9.The Ozone layer is situated in which region of atmosphere?

Troposphere Stratosphere
Mesosphere Ionosphere

10.Which of the following day is celebrated as 'Earth Day'?

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6th March 22nd April
13th May 10th December

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Correct Answers for Test 4

1 Rudyard Kipling
2 Sweden
3 British Intelligence Agency
4 India - Nepal
5 Jhumpa Lahiri
6 Denis Tito
7 Karnataka
8 Copernicus
9 Stratosphere
10 22nd April

TEST 5
1.Who is the writer of the book " The Blind Assassin "?
Salman Rushdie Margaret Atwood
Agatha Christie Danielle Steele

2.Who is the author of the book "The History of Kellygang"?

Peter Carey Margaret Atwood
V.S. Naipaul J.K.Rowling

3. 'Skoda Auto' is based in-

Germany France
USA Russia

4. Who proved first that the galaxies are flying away from each other and that the farther they are
faster they fly?
Copernicus William Herschel
Edwin P. Hubble Abbe Georges Lemaitre

5. Where was the first 'Earth Summit" held ?

Nairobi Rio Di Janeiro
Kyoto Beijing

6.ELISA test is conducted for -?

For the diagnosis of cancer For diagnosis of Diabetes
For the diagnosis of AIDS For the diagnosis of TB

7.In Fahrenheit temperature scale the freezing point and the boiling point of water is given by -?
0 degree F - 100 degree F 32 degree F - 212 degree F
40 degree F - 200 degree F 80 degree F- 180 degree F

8.1GB is equal to how many bytes?

106 109
1010 1012

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9.According to Transparency international's annual corruption Index rank which country has been
ranked as cleanest country?
Finland Denmark
Norway Sweden

10.In how many denominations is Euro available?

Six notes, Four coins Seven notes, Four coins
Seven notes ,Six coins Seven notes, Eight coins

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Correct Answers for Test 5

1 Margrett Atwood
2 Peter Carey
3 Germany
4 Edwin P. Hubble
5 Rio De Janeiro
6 For the diagnosis of AIDS
7 32 degree F - 212 degree F
8 109
9 Finland
10 Seven notes, Eight coins

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