GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUIZ
GSM
CDMA
Bluetooth
Bluetooth
The US recently upgraded India to ............... countries on
its Human Trafficking List.
Tier I
Tier II
Tier III
Tier IV
Name the temple in Pakistan whose gates were recently
re-opened after 60 years following a High Court order.
Badami Cave Temple
Kailash Temple
Mukteshwara Temple
Goraknath Temple
Who is the Director of the 2011 Lollywood film ‘Bol’?
Shoiab Mansoor
Atif Aslam
Iman Ali
Sajjad Ali
The website launched by J.K. Rowling for legal access to
Harry Potter books is
Pottermore
Harrypottermore
Hogwartsinn
None of the above
Curiosity is on a _________ mission on Mars for finding out the chemical and geologic conditions on Mars which are required for supporting as well as preserving the microbial life. Fill in the blank with an appropriate option:
3-year
2-year
5-year
10-year
In the first bionic man of the world, Rex, where did the synthetic blood come from?
MIT
Swansea
University College London
Sheffield University
Which of the following statements is not true?
NASA on 9 February 2013 announced that its Mars rover Curiosity drilled into the surface of the planet for first time.
The drilling into Martian surface took place for the first time on 8 February 2013.
As an outcome of the drilling, the pictures were sent by Challenger which depicted a hole of around 0.63 inches wide and 2.5 inches deep in the fine-grained sedimentary bedrock.
The first drill target of Curiosity was a Martian rock which was laced with the veins which appeared like water-deposited minerals
Where was the first bionic man of the world called Rex unveiled on 7 February 2013?
Europe Science Museum
London's Science Museum
American Science Museum
Paris Science Museum
Name the Mars rover of NASA.
Challenger
Era
Curiosity
Discovery
The core of Milky Way is actually cloaked in dust which makes all stars unclear from telescopes of the astronomers, except the brightest stars. But these hypervelocity stars were useful in providing a peep into _________. Fill in the blank with an appropriate option
Formation of stars in Milky Way
Deaths of stars in Milky Way
Birth of the stars in the universe
Deaths of the stars around the Sun
NASA scientists discovered the youngest black hole in our galaxy, Milky Way in February 2013. How far is this black hole from Earth?
26000 light years away
12000 light years away
10000 light years away
25000 light years away
Astronomers in the third week of February 2013 discovered six speeding stars which were racing through the space at a speed of 3.2 million kilometres per hour. The mass of these stars is equivalent to what?
Milky Way
Moon
Earth
Sun
A new study using data from a pair of gravity-measuring NASA satellites found on 12 February 2013 that large parts of the arid __________ region lost freshwater reserves rapidly during the past decade. Fill in the blank with an appropriate option.
North Western
Middle East
South Eastern
Saudi Arabia
The Union Cabinet of India approved merger of Bharat Heavy Plate & Vessels Ltd. (BHPV) Vishakhapatnam with which company?
Bharat Electronics Ltd.
Akaltara Power Ltd.
BEML Ltd.
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL)
Telecom Regulator Authority of India (TRAI) started the pre-consultation process for the country-wide __________. Fill in the blank with appropriate option.
lower STD rates
mobile number portability
free roaming
free international SMS
Dabur India on 18 February 2013 launched Dabur Babool Salt Powder Toothpaste. Who was chosen for endorsing this brand?
Irrfan Khan
Bipasha Basu
Sonakshi Sinha
Salman Khan
Which company launched WiFi-only Galaxy Camera in February 2013? The new WiFi-only Galaxy Camera is powered by Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) operating system.
Cannon
Nikon
Sony
Samsung
A group of various banks agreed to loan 937 crore Rupees for 1000-MW NTPL power project. NTPL power project is the joint venture of Tamil Nadu Power Generation and Distribution Corporation as well as Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC). Where will the project come up?
Kalpakkam
Vishakhapatnam
Tuticorin
Tamil Nadu
Where will the first wildlife skywalk of India come up?
Sikkim
Shillong
Manali
Manipur
Scientists discovered in their study that Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) can detect the electric fields of _________. Fill in the blank with an appropriate option.
Plants
Vegetables
Flowers
Fruits
The astronomers in the second week of February 2013 discovered the proof that cosmic rays originate as the results of explosions of stars or supernova, these are termed as the most energetic event in the galaxy. Who discovered the cosmic rays first in 1912?
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi
Eratosthenes
Victor Hess
Claudius Ptolemy
Where did the researchers in the third week of February 2013 detected water traces inside the crystalline structure?
Moon
Mars
Sun
Earth
UK scientists in the third week of January 2013 discovered a set of hydrothermal vents, the deepest anywhere in the world while exploring the ocean floor in the __________. Fill in the blank with an appropriate opti
Atlantic
Caribbean Islands
Cayman Trough
None of these
A box of books said to be that of Sir Isaac Newton, in the school physics laboratory of UK was discovered in the first week of February 2013. The textbooks are over 300 years old and contain works of Sir Issac Newton who is credited with discovery of gravity. Name the institute where these books were discovered
Silsoe Research Institute
Newcastle-under-Lyme School, Staffordsh
The Royal Institution of Great Britain
Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research
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