General Awareness Quiz - Set 12

1. Where is the headquarters of the Indian Petro-Chemicals Corporation located?
a) Visakhapatnam
b) Vadodara
c) Bangaluru
d) Pune

2. Where is the headquarters of the Research Designs and Standards Organisation of the Indian Railways located?
a) Chennai
b) Lucknow
c) Mumbai
d) Kolkata

3. The biggest sea port of India which also has a natural harbour is at
a) Tuticorin
b) Mumbai
c) Kochi
d) Visakhapatnam

4. Where is the renowned multi-arts centre Bharat Bhavan located?
a) Jaipur
b) Bhopal
c) Bangalore
d) New Delhi

5. Azad Hind Fauj was founded by
a) Subash Chandra Bose
b) Rash Behari Bose
c) Capt. Lakshmi
d) Madan Lal Dhingra

6. Feroze Gandhi Award is associated with
a) Parliamentary Debates
b) Performing Arts
c) Journalism
d) Cancer Research

7. Which among the following towns is situated closest to the Tropic of Cancer?
a) Vadodara
b) Gandhinagar
c) Indore
d) Jamshedpur

8. 'Ursa Major' is the scientific name for one of the constellations of stars. Its common English name is
a) The Northern Crown
b) The Chained Lady
c) The Milky Way
d) The Great Bear

9. Who invented 'one-upmanship'?
a) Nancy Spain
b) Paul Jennings
c) Stephen Potter
d) Damon Runyan

10. A physicist, the author of "The Atom" and, in 1937,a Nobel Prize winner. His name is...
a) Sir Thomas Doctorow
b) Sir George Thomson
c) Sir Raymond Smith
d) Sir Lawrence Drake

Answer:

1.b) Vadodara
2.b) Lucknow
3.b) Mumbai
4.b) Bhopal
5.a) Subash Chandra Bose
6.a) Parliamentary Debates
7.b) Gandhinagar
8.d) The Great Bear
9.c) Stephen Potter
10.b) Sir George Thomson

Thanks.