General Awareness Quiz - Set 67

1. The Delhi Sultan who wrote his memoirs was

a) Iltutmis

b) Balban

c) Alauddin Khilji

d) Firoz Tuglaq

2. Optical fiber works on the Principle of

a) Total internal reflection

b) Refraction

c) Scattering

d) Interference 

3. National Development Council was constituted on

a) August 16, 1950

b) April 1, 1951

c) August 6, 1952

d) August 16, 1952 

4. Which of the following has merged at first with SBI?

a) State Bank of Saurashtra

b) State Bank of Indore

c) State Bank of Patiala

d) State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur 

5. After European Union, which another group of countries have come forward for adopting common currency?

a) OPEC

b) Gulf countries

c) SAARC

d) ASEAN 

6. The central office of the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is located at

a) Kolkata

b) New Delhi

c) Chennai

d) Pune

e) Mumbai

7. Who was given 18^th Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award?

a) Shabana Azmi

b) Maulana Wahid Uddin Khan

c) Javed Akhtar

d) Professor Radha Kumar

8. The book ‘The Masque of Africa’ is the book written by

a) V.S. Naipaul

b) Raghav Bahl

c) Tony Blair

d) M.S. Swaminathan

9. World Foods Day is observed on

a) October 16

b) October 5

c) October 10

d) October 20

10. Which is one of the most extreme volcanoes of the world?

a) Cotopaxi

b) Mount Etna

c) Popocatépetl

d) Krakatoa

e) None of these 

Answers: 

1. d) Firoz Tuglaq

2. a) Total internal reflection

3. c) August 6, 1952

4. a) State Bank of Saurashtra

5. b) Gulf countries

6. e) Mumbai

7. b) Maulana Wahid Uddin Khan

8. a) V.S. Naipaul

9. a) October 16

10. a) Cotopaxi 

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