General Knowledge Questions and Answers for Competitive Exams – Set 1 | 2018

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These are very important and the latest General Knowledge Questions and answers for all competitive exams like IAS, Bank PO, SSC CGL, RAS, CDS, UPSC exams and all state-related exam. Practice with this huge collection of Basic General Knowledge Questions and Answers.

As you know that In competitive exams, GK questions, as well as reasoning related questions, are also asked. Let’s look at some of the Basic General Knowledge Questions and Answers.

 

1. Who has been appointed as the new chairman of the Central Board of Indirect taxes and Customs [CBIC]?

[A]Johnjoseph
[B]VanajaN.Sarna
[C]MahenderSingh
[D] S Ramesh

Answer: [D] S Ramesh

 

2. Who has been appointed as the acting Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission [UPSC]?

[A]ArvindSaxena
[B]SudhaJain
[C]KirtiKumar
[D] Omi Agrawal

Answer: [A]ArvindSaxena 

 

3. Pappu Karki, the popular Kumaoni folk singer has passed away. He was native of which state?

[A]Jammu&Kashmir
[B]HimachalPradesh
[C]Uttarakhand
[D] Assam

Answer: [C]Uttarakhand 

 

4. India’s first-ever national police museum will establish in which city?

[A]Chennai
[B]Delhi
[C]Nagpur
[D] Kolkata

Answer: [B]Delhi 

 

5. The Central Vigilance Commission [CVC] is in news for appointing Sharad Kumar as new Vigilance Commissioner. As per which committee’s recommendations, the CVC was set up?

[A]NittoorSrinivasaRaucommiittee
[B]TejendraMohanBhasincommiittee
[C]KVChowdarycommiittee
[D] K Santhanam committee

Answer: [D] K Santhanam committee

 

6. Which country will host the 45th G7 summit 2019?

[A]Italy
[B]Germany
[C]France
[D] Canada

Answer: [C]France 

 

7. Which country’s women cricket team has clinched the Asia Cup Twenty-20 tournament 2018?

[A]SouthKorea
[B]Bangladesh
[C]India
[D] Pakistan

Answer: [B]Bangladesh 

 

8. Who has won the men’s singles French Open tennis tournament 2018?

[A]NovakDjokovic
[B]DominicThiem
[C]RogerFederer
[D] Rafael Nadal

Answer: [D] Rafael Nadal

 

9. Which country’s football team has lifted the 2018 Intercontinental Cup football title?

[A]India
[B]SriLanka
[C]Kenya
[D] Argentina

Answer: [A]India 

 

10. Shantaram Laxman Naik, who passed away recently, was the former Congress chief of which state?

[A]Maharashtra
[B]Goa
[C]Bihar
[D] Karnataka

Answer: [B]Goa 

 

11. The Maratha and The Kesri were the two main newspapers started by….

[A] Lala Lajpat Rai
[B] Gopal Krishna Gokhale
[C] Bal Gangadhar Tilak
[D] Madan Mohan Malviya

Answer: [C] Bal Gangadhar Tilak

 

12. National emergency arising out of the war, armed rebellion or external aggression is dealt under….

[A] Article 280

[B] Article 352

[C] Article 356

[D] Article 370

Answer: [B] Article 352

 

13. Which of the following personalities is considered to be the originator of Sankhya philosophy?

[A] Bharat Muni

[B] Kapil Muni

[C] Adi Shankaracharya

[D] Agastya Rishi

Answer: [B] Kapil Muni

 

14. Which of the following personalities from India is the only winner of Special Oscar in the history of Indian Cinema so far?

[A] Mrinal Sen

[B] Shyam Bengal

[C] Satyajit Ray

[D] Mira Nair

Answer: [C] Satyajit Ray

 

15. Mahatma Gandhi founded the ______ newspaper in 1903 at South Africa.

[A] Indian Opinion

[B] Harijan

[C] Indian Speaker

[D] India News

Answer: [A] Indian Opinion

 

16. Who wrote Arthashastra?

[A] Kalhan

[B] Visakhadatta

[C] Bana Bhatta

[D] Chanakya

Answer: [D] Chanakya

 

17. Chauri Chaura incident, which took place in 1922, find prominence in India’s national movement. Can you identify the state in which Chauri Chaura is located?

[A] Maharashtra

[B] Uttar Pradesh

[C] Rajasthan

[D] Gujrat

Answer: [B] Uttar Pradesh

 

18 H.J. Kania was the first….

[A] Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India

[B] Attorney-General of India

[C] Solicitor-General of India

[D] None of them

 

21. Who among the following got the Bharat Ratna award before becoming the president of India?  

[A]  R Venkataraman
[B]  Dr. Rajendra Prasad
[C]  DR Zakir Hussian
[D]  V.V. Giri

Answer: [D]  V.V. Giri

 

22. Who is the first non-Indian to receive the Bharat Ratna?

[A]  Martin Luther King
[B]  Mother Teresa
[C]  Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
[D]  Aubin Mehta

Answer: [C]  Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan 

 

23. When did Mother Teresa win the Nobel Peace Prize?

[A]  1975
[B]  1979
[C]  1981
[D]  1982

Answer: [B]  1979 

 

24. Which one of the following glasses is used in bulletproof screens?  

[A]  Soda glass
[B]  Pyrex glass
[C]  Jena glass
[D]  Reinforced glass

Answer: [D]  Reinforced glass

 

25. Which substance is used to retard the setting action of cement?  

[A]  CaO
[B]  AlO
[C]  CaSO.2HO
[D]  NaO + KO

Answer: [C] CaSO.2HO 

 

26. The mineral in which India depends largely on imports is  

[A]  Iron Ore
[B]  Bauxite
[C]  Mica
[D]  Mercury

Answer: [D] Mercury

 

27. The last Mughal Emperor was  

[A]  Akbar
[B]  Bahadur Shah
[C]  Noor Jehan
[D]  Babur

Answer: [B]  Bahadur Shah 

 

28. The state which leads in agricultural production is  

[A]  Haryana
[B]  Punjab
[C]  Karnataka
[D]  Tamil Nadu

Answer: [B]  Punjab 

 

29. The longest mountain range in the world is  

[A]  The Alps
[B]  The Himalayas
[C]  The Andes
[D]  The Rockies

Answer: [C]  The Andes

 

30. The most populous city in the world is  

[A] Paris
[B] London
[C] Peking
[D] Tokyo

Answer: [D] Tokyo

 

31. Which one among the following radiations carries maximum energy?  

[A]  Ultraviolet rays
[B]  Gamma rays
[C]  X- rays
[D]  Infra-red rays

Answer: [B] Gamma rays 

 

32. The headquarters of the World Trade Organization[WTO] is in  

[A]  Montreal
[B]  Seattle
[C]  Geneva
[D]  the Hague

Answer: [C] Geneva 

 

33. The metal whose salts are sensitive to light is  

[A]  Silver
[B]  Zinc
[C]  Copper
[D]  Gold

Answer: [A] Silver 

 

34. The instrument useful for measuring the curvature of the surface is  

[A]  Odometer
[B]  Spherometer
[C]  Tachometer
[D]  Speedometer

Answer: [B] Spherometer 

 

35. Brain fever which affects young children is  

[A]  Malaria
[B]  Typhoid
[C]  Encephalitis
[D]  Pneumonia

Answer: [C] Encephalitis 

 

36. Which of the following cash crops is not grown in Kerala?  

[A]  Spices
[B]  Tobacco
[C]  Rubber
[D]  Coffee

Answer: [B] Tobacco 

 

37. The highest peak in South India is  

[A]  Dhottabetta
[B]  Nandadevi
[C]  Anaimudi
[D]  Mt. Abu

Answer: [C] Anaimudi 

 

38. The country without the income tax is  

[A] Nepal
[B] Kuwait
[C] Burma
[D] Singapore

Answer: [B] Kuwait 

 

39. The first and the last Indian Governor General of India was  

[A]  W.C. Banerjee
[B]  Lord Mountbatten
[C]  Dr. Rajendra Prasad
[D]  Rajagopalachari C.

Answer: [D] Rajagopalachari C.

 

40. Which one of the following is the softest?  

[A]  Sodium
[B]  Aluminum
[C]  Calcium
[D]  Lithium

Answer: [A] Sodium 

 

41. Which of the following was most probably the first metal to be used in India?