Previous Years General Awareness Question Bank Part 22
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- 501. Which strait separates India Srilanka?
- A) Magellan
B) Adam’s
C) Palk
D) Malca - Answer
- Correct Option : C
- Explanation
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- 502. In which constituency in Kerala, an electronic voting machine was first used?
- A) Palakkad
B) Nooranadu
C) Paravoor
D) Chamravattom - Answer
- Correct Option : C
- Explanation
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- 503. Firoz Gandhi Award was given to the field of ;
- A) Environment
B) Health
C) Politics
D) Journalism - Answer
- Correct Option : D
- Explanation
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- 504. The idea of ‘Ayalkootam Prastanam’ was introduced by:
- A) M.N.Govindan Nair
B) P.K. Kunju
C) P.T.Chacko
D) D. Pankajaksha Kurup - Answer
- Correct Option : D
- Explanation
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- 505. Who was the father of ‘Krishnanattom’
- A) Punam Namboodiri
B) Kottarkkara Thamburan
C) Manaveda Maharaja
D) Valluvakonathiri - Answer
- Correct Option : C
- Explanation
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- 506. Lexicography is the study of:
- A) Insects
B) Compiling of dictionary
C) Planet life
D) poetry - Answer
- Correct Option : B
- Explanation
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- 507. The word ‘Mohanjodaro’ means
- A) mount of dead
B) land between two rivers
C) low land
D) high land - Answer
- Correct Option : A
- Explanation
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- 508. The Delhi Sultanate ended due to the invasion of:
- A) Chengiz Khan
B) Babar
C) Nadir shah
D) Timur - Answer
- Correct Option : B
- Explanation
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- 509. In whose rule was Islam, as the state religion, abolished?
- A) Akbar
B) Balban
C) Ibrahim Lodi
D) Ghias-ud-din Tughlaq - Answer
- Correct Option : A
- Explanation
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- 510. ‘Asthra’ is the name given to:
- A) India’s surface to surface missile
B) India’s air to air missile
C) India’s ship to ship missile
D) India’s surface to air missile - Answer
- Correct Option : B
- Explanation
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- 511. India’s first newspaper ‘Bengal Gazette’ by James Agustus Hicky started in ......
- A) 1787
B) 1780
C) 1788
D) 1785 - Answer
- Correct Option : B
- Explanation
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- 512. The secular & socialist words were added to sovereign republic in the preamble of the constitution of India by which amendment
- A) 39th
B) 40th
C) 42nd
D) 44th - Answer
- Correct Option : C
- Explanation
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- 513. The administrative capital of South Africa?
- A) Cape Town
B) Bloemfontein
C) Pretoria
D) Durban - Answer
- Correct Option : C
- Explanation
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- 514. Most of the rivers flowing west from the western ghats don’t form deltas because of:
- A) Lack of vegetation free area
B) Low velocity
C) The high gradient
D) Lack of eroded materials - Answer
- Correct Option : C
- Explanation
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- 515. The largest country in Middle America:
- A) Canada
B) Mexico
C) Brazil
D) Cuba - Answer
- Correct Option : B
- Explanation
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- 516. Which one of the following American Presidents was not assassinated?
- A) James Garfield
B) William McKinley
C) F.D.Roosevelt
D) John F.Kennedy - Answer
- Correct Option : C
- Explanation
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- 517. The second woman Governor in India:
- A) Sarojini Naidu
B) Padmaja Naidu
C) Vijayalakshmi Pandit
D) Sharada Mukherji - Answer
- Correct Option : B
- Explanation
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- 518. Which among the following published first?
- A) Travancore Manual
B) Cochin State Manual
C) Malabar Manual
D) Malabar District Gazetteer - Answer
- Correct Option : C
- Explanation
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- 519. Arch bishop Marcarios led the freedom movement in:
- A) Ghana
B) Kenya
C) Cyprus
D) Tanzania - Answer
- Correct Option : C
- Explanation
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- 520. Krishna Hutheesingh, who took part in the freedom struggle of India, was the sister of:
- A) Mahatma Ganghi
B) Bhagath Singh
C) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Dr.Rajendra Prasad - Answer
- Correct Option : C
- Explanation
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- 521. The second Indian woman to win Miss Universe title:
- A) Diana Hayden
B) Aiswarya Rai
C) Yukta Mukhee
D) Lara Dutta - Answer
- Correct Option : D
- Explanation
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- 522. Liberhan Panel investigates about:
- A) Godgra accident
B) Parliament attack
C) Gujarat riots
D) Babri Masjid demolition - Answer
- Correct Option : D
- Explanation
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- 523. The first Indian woman to win a Pulitzer Prize:
- A) Arundhathi Roy
B) Kiran Desai
C) Jhumpa Lahiri
D) Manjula Padmanabhan - Answer
- Correct Option : C
- Explanation
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- 524. The first centre of Civilisation in China developed in the region of the river:
- A) Yangtze-Kiang
B) Tsangpo
C) Mekong
D) Hwang-Ho - Answer
- Correct Option : D
- Explanation
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- 525. Which of the following battles was fought in 1192 A.D?
- A) First battle of Tarain
B) Second battle of Tarain
C) Battle of Talikota
D) Battle of Kanwah - Answer
- Correct Option : B
- Explanation
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