Objective Questions Based on General Knowledge

1. The government personification of which country is 'Uncle Sam'?
Ans: USA

2. Which country's mascot and national personification is 'the Merlion'? - 
Ans: Singapore

3. Which canary's national flag has the nicknames of 'Stars & Stripes, Old Glory and the Star Spangled Banner?
Ans: USA

4. Which country's national personification is 'Jock Tamson'?
Ans:  Scotland

5. Which instrument is used to measure the wind speed?
Ans: Anemometer

6. Monsoon is an example of _____ type of winds?
Ans: Seasonal Wind

7. Which type of winds is found in the tropics towards the Earth's equator?
Ans: Trade winds

8. What are the prevailing winds in the middle latitudes between 35 & 65 degree latitudes?
Ans: Westerlies

9. What is the name given to strong westerly winds found in the Southern Hemisphere, generally between the latitudes of 40 & 50 degrees?
Ans: Roaring Forties

10. Which kind of winds are the Furious Fifties & Screaming Sixties?  
Ans: Westerlies

11. The subtropical latitudes between 30 & 35 degrees both north and south are known as?
Ans: Horse latitudes

12. The low pressure area around the equator where the prevailing winds are calm are known as: 
Ans: Doldrums

13. Which local wind has the nickname of 'the Snow eater'?
Ans: Chinook

14. Who was the first player to cross 10,000 runs mark in Test cricket?  
Ans: Sunil Gavaskar

15.  Who was the first player to score a double century in One-day cricket? 
Ans: Sachin Tendulkar

16. Which is the least electronegative & the most electropositive element? 
Ans: Caesium

17. Which metal is commercially produced through the FFC Cambridge Process?
Ans: Titanium

18. Which metal is stored in vacuum sealed borosilicate glass ampoules?
Ans: Caesium

19. Which international organizations motto is 'For a Living Planet'?  
Ans: World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)

20. Which international human rights organization was founded by Peter Benenson in 1961?
Ans: Amnesty International

21. Which organization has the motto of 'It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness'?
Ans: Amnesty International

22. Which international organization's former name was 'Don't make a Wave Committee'?
Ans: Greenpeace

23. What is the name of the amount of funds that the banks have to keep with the Reserve Bank of India?
Ans: Cash Reserve Ratio (CAR) Steel Matters

24. In which state is the Bhilai Steel Plant situated?
Ans: Chhattisgarh

25. Which is the largest steel plant in India?
Ans: Bhilai

26. Which country helped to set up the Bhilai Steel Plant?
Ans:  USSR

27. In which state is the Bokaro Steel Plant situated?
Ans: Jharkhand

28. Which country helped to build the Bokaro Steel Plant?
Ans: USSR

29. Which is hailed as India's first Swadeshi movement steel plant?  
Ans: Bokaro Steel Plant

30. In which state is the Rourkela Steel Plant situated?
Ans: Odisha

31. Which country associated in the construction of the Rourkela Steel Plant?
Ans: Germany

32. Which is the first integrated steel plant in the public sector in India? 
Ans: Rourkela Steel Plant

33. Durgapur Steel Plant is situated in?
Ans: West Bengal

34. Which country collaborated in the construction of the Durgapur Steel Plant?
Ans: Britain
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