General Knowledge Quiz 354

General Knowledge

India is not a member of—
(A) Commonwealth of Nations
(B) SAARC
(C) NAM Organisation
(D) Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Organization

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The Press Council of India is a—
(A) Statutory Body
(B) Statutory Quasi judicial Body
(C) Judicial Body
(D) Advisory Body

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The Indian Economy is characterized by—
1. Predominance
of Agriculture
2. Predominance of Industry
3. Low Per Capita Income
4. Massive Unemployment
Select your answer from the code given below—
Codes :
(A) 1 and 2 only
(B) 1, 2 and 3 only
(C) 2, 3 and 4 only
(D) 1, 3 and 4 only

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ELISA Test is carried out for detection of—
(A) Aids
(B) Typhoid
(C) Cancer
(D) Pregnancy

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The view that ‘Planning in India should, in future, pay more attention to the people than to commodities’ was given by—
(A) Amartya Sen
(B) Yashwant Sinha
(C) Atal Behari Vajpayee
(D) Manmohan Singh

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The ‘Contingency Fund’ of the State is operated by—
(A) The Governor of the State
(B) The Chief Minister of the State
(C) The State Finance Minister
(D) None of the above

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The first Speaker against whom a motion of non-confidence was moved in the Lok Sabha was—
(A) B. R. Jhaked
(B) G. V. Mavlankar
(C) Hukum Singh
(D) K. S. Hegde

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The largest item of expenditure in the current account of the Central Government budget is—
(A) Defence Expenditure
(B) Subsidies
(C) Interest payments
(D) Expenditure on Social Services

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Which one of the following is not an element of Human Development Index ?
(A) Life expectancy at birth
(B) Infant Mortality Rate
(C) Adult Literacy Rate
(D) Number of people below poverty line

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‘Hydrocarbon Vision 2025’is associated with—
(A) Storage of petroleum products
(B) EuroI & Euro II vehicles
(C) Green house effect
(D) None of the above

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