General Knowledge PYQ — Page 8

The part of the Constitution of India which deals with the 'Directive Principles of State Policy' is

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) 2005 now known as Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was launched on 2nd February 2006. It envisages securing the livelihood of people in rural areas. (A) Guarantees at least 100 days of wage employment per financial year to every rural household. (B) Employment to be given within 15 days of the application for work. (C) Employment within a 5 km radius, else extra wages to be paid. (D) At least 50% of beneficiaries have to be women. Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Who amongst the following is attributed with the design, fabric and exact color shades of Indian National Flag?

The time period of the satellites used in TV signal transmission from one part of the world to another is:

Match List-I with List-II | List-I | List-II | |---|---| | Newspaper/ Journal | Founder | | (A) The Bombay Chronicle | (I) Pherozshah Mehta | | (B) Tahzib-ul-Akhlaq | (II) Syed Ahmed Khan | | (C) Al-Hilal | (III) M. K. Gandhi | | (D) Young India | (IV) Abul Kalam Azad | Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

The 'Ring of Fire', in the context of the large number of volcanoes, relates to which of the following:

The Palk Strait connects which two of the water bodies enlisted below?

When was the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis first introduced in India?

The international treaty aimed at banning nuclear weapons, which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2017, is

Arrange the following Mountain peaks in increasing order of their heights from the sea level: (A) Kanchanjunga (B) K-2 (C) Nanda Devi (D) Nanga Parbat Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Arrange the following dynasties in order of their occurrence in India. (A) The Mughal Dynasty (B) The Tughlak Dynasty (C) The Khilji Dynasty (D) The Lodhi Dynasty Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Match the following for the disease and its cause: | List-I | List-II | |---|---| | Disease | Diet Deficiency | | (A) Scurvy | (I) Vitamin B2 | | (B) Cheilosis | (II) Vitamin B1 | | (C) Goitre | (III) Vitamin C | | (D) Beri-Beri | (IV) Iodine | Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Who authored the book 'War and Peace'?

Vedanta, also known as Upanishads, belongs to which of the following periods?

When, some drops of nail polish remover fall on your palm, the cooling sensation is a result of which of the following phenomenon:

Which of the following sites, one does not find in London?

The filament of an electric bulb is made of Tungsten. The bulbs are usually filled with which of the following chemically inactive gases to prolong the life of the filament?

Match List-I with List-II | List-I | List-II | |---|---| | Viceroys of India | Period | | (A) Lord Curzon | (I) 1869-1872 | | (B) Lord Irwin | (II) 1898-1904 | | (C) Lord Canning | (III) 1926-1931 | | (D) Lord Mayo | (IV) 1858-1862 | Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Whose experiments on the quasi-optical properties of very short radio waves led him to make improvements on the coherer, an early form of radio detector?

Which one of the following is a non-ferrous metallic mineral resource?

Which among the following are exogenic geomorphic processes? (A) Weathering (B) Diastrophism (C) Erosion and deposition (D) Mass movement Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Which one of the following books is wrongly matched with its author?

The number of neutrons in the most common isotope of hydrogen is:

Which one among the following is called the 'original jurisdiction' of the Supreme Court of India?