WBCS GK PART-2 (50 GK )

WBCS GK PART-2

1. After a shower, it becomes difficult to drive a car at high speed on the wet road because

       (A) Friction decreases

        (B) Friction increases

       (C) Friction becomes zero 

        (D) More force cannot be applied on the car

2. What is the name of tropical cyclone Which passed into the Irrawaddy river delta of southern coast of Myanmar in the first week of May, 2008 ?

       (A) Fanoos (B) Nargis (C) Laila (D) Nilam

3. Largest delta in the world is

       (A) Ganga Delta (B) Mississipi Delta (C) Irrawaddy Delta (D) Godavari Delta

4. When and where was the Gadr Party founded ?

       (A) America. 1913 (B) England. 1917 (C) Denmark, 1921 (D) Scottland. 1925

5. The weight of an object is

        (A) Maximum at the centre of the earth

        (B) Maximum at infinity

        (C) Maximum at the surface of the earth

       (C) Name everywhere from the center of the earth to infinity

6. The UN has declared 2008 as the international year of

       (A) Sanitation (B) Social Justice (C) Aids prevention (D) Rural Health

7. Chotanagpur Plateau is made up of

       (A) Old igneous and metamorphic rocks (B) Sedimentary rocks (C) Aluminum (D) Lava flows

8. World Trade Organization was established in the year

       (A) 1986 (B) 1995 (C) 2000 (D) 2005

9. At constant temperature if the pressure decreases, then the volume of a given mass of gas will

       (A) Increase 

       (B) Decrease 

       (C) Remain constant

      (D) May increase or decrease depending on nature of the gas

10. Asif Ali Zardari belongs to

       (A) Pakistan Muslim League (B) Peoples National Party

       (C) National Forum of Pakistan (D) Pakistan People’s Party

11. Total number of districts in West Bengal at present is

       (A) 18 (B) 19 (C) 17 (D) 16

12. Who announced the Communal Award ?

       (A) Viceroy Lord Mountbatten (B) British Prime Minister Ramsay McDonald

       (C) Lord Lytton (D) A. B. Alexander

13. A small quantity of water is placed in a small cavity made in a block of ice at 0°C. What will happen to the water ?

       (A) The water will freeze to ice at 0°C

       (B) There will be no change in the temperature of water

       (C) The temperature of water will decrease to 0°C but it will not freeze

       (D) The water will freeze to ice if the block of ice is large compared to the mass of water

14. The Hezbollah militant group is mostly based in

       (A) Palestine (B) Syria (C) Jordan (D) Lebanon

15. Farakka Barrage has been constructed

       (A) To increase the flow of water in river Hooghly

       (B) To generate hydro-electric power

       (C) To irrigate agricultural lands

       (D) None of the above

16. The real introduction of Decentralized Planning in India was made for the first time during the

       (A) 7th Plan (B) 8th Plan (C) 9th Plan (D) 10th Plan

17. The walls of a music hall should

        (A) Transmit sound (B) Absorb sound (C) Reflect sound (D) Amplify sound

18. Who was called ‘Grand Old Man’ of India ?

      (A) Dadabhai Naoroji (B) Jamshedji Tata (C) Surendranath Banerjee (D) C. Rajagopalachair

19. The two famous brands of passenger car acquired by Tata Motors are

       (A) Ferari and Land Rover (B) Jaguar and Land Rover (C) Jaguar and Ferari (D) Ferari and Safari

20. The electromagnetic radiation that is emitted during the radio-active disintegration is

       (A) X-rays (B) y-rays (C) Ultraviolet rays (D) Infra-red rays

21. Highest density of population (2001 census) is found in

       (A) Kerala (B) West Bengal (C) Maharastra (D) Uttar Pradesh

22. Who called for “Do or Die” ?

      (A) Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose (B) Mahatma Gandhi

      (C) Surendranath Banerjee (D) Anandamohan Bose

23. When do the south-west monsoon winds blow in India ?

      (A) January-February (B) March to mid-June (C) Mid-June-September (D) October to December

24. Who was the first Deputy Prime Minister of India ?

      (A) L. K. Advani (B) Morarji Deshai (C) Charan Singh (D) Sardar Ballabhbhai Patel

25. Normal saline is an aquous solution of sodium chloride of strength

      (A) 0.84 % (B) 1.00 normal (C) 1.00 molar (D) 1 %

26. Force India is the name of

       (A) Formula one car racing team (B) A military exercise in the Himalayas

       (C) A missile-launch centre (D) A new naval base

27. The most ideal region for the cultivation of cotton in India is

       (A) The Brahmaputra Valley (B) Indo-Gangetic Plain (C) Deccan Trap Region (D) Rann of Kutch

28. What is the middle unit in the three-tier Panchayati Raj System ?

       (A) Gram Panchayat (B) Zilla Parishad (C) Panchayat Samiti (D) Union Board

29. How much per cent of human body is water by weight ?

       (A) 66 (B) 50 (C) 33 (D) 10

30. Who discovered the Indus Valley Civilization ?

       (A) Sir Leonard Wooley (B) V. S.Agarwal (C) Rakhaldas Banerjee (D) A. L. Basham

31. Who founded the ‘Forward Bloc’ ?

       (A) Rashbehari Bose (B) Mahatma Gandhi (C) Subhas Chandra Bose (D) Captain Mohan Singh

32. Which of the following pair is correct ?

       (A) Maharastra — Pradip (B) Tamil Nadu — Mangalore

       (C) Gujarat — Kandla (D) Karnataka—Tuticorin

33. Iodine is administered to patients suffering from

       (A) Goitre (B) Night blindness (C) Ricket (D) Rheumatism

34. Which metal was unknown to the Indus people ?

       (A) Copper (B) Iron (C) Bronze (D) Gold

35. Which one of the following offices has not been provided by the Indian Constitution ?

       (A) Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha (B) Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha

       (C) Deputy Speaker of State Legislative Assembly (D) Deputy Prime Minister

36. The first heavy electrical equipment manufacturing plant set up in the Public Sector in I960 is at

        (A) Bhopal (B) Durgapur (C) Hyderabad (D) Ranipur (near Hardwar)

37. Fullerene is

        (A) An allotrope of carbon (B) A synonym for carborundum

        (C) Artifical emery (D) A compound of carbon

38. Who was called the Iron Man of India ?

       (A) Sardar ballabhbhai Patel (B) Surendranath Banerjee

       (C) Bipin Chandra Pal (D) Lala Lajpat Rai

39. The reaction that occurs in nuclear reactors is

       (A) Nuclear fusion (B) Spallation (C) Nuclear fission (D) Nuclear isomerisation

40. During which period the Vedic Literature was composed ?

      (A) 1000 B.C. (B) 3000 B.C. - 2500 B.C. (C) 1500 B.C - 1000 B.C. (D) 1200 B.C. - 1000 B.C.

41. Which of the following raw materials for the manufacturing of paper is used in large quantity in India ?

       (A) Salai wood (B) Sabai grass (C) Cotton rags (D) Bamboo

42. Vitamin C is

       (A) Tocopherol (B) Cyanocobaltammine (C) Ascorbic acid (D) Thiamine

43. The largest expenditure head in the Revenue Account of the last Union Budget is

       (A) Defence (B) Interest Payment (C) Social Service (D) Subsidy

44. Name one revolutionary who attacked the ‘Writers’ Buildings’ ?

       (A) Anathbandhu Panja (B) Mrigen Datta (C) Binoy Basu (D) Prafulla Chaki

45. Green house effect is caused by addition of too much of this compound in atmosphere.

       (A) Carbon di-oxide (B) Ammonia (C) Water vapour (D) Dust particles

46. The word Aryan denotes

       (A) Cultivation (B) A race (C) Pastoral society (D) Brahmachari

47. “Which of the following parts of India produces nearly three-fourth of the total quantity of tea ?

 (A) Northern India (B) South India (C) North-East India (D) North-West India

48. The Opposition Party status is accorded to a political party in the Loksabha only if it captures at least

       (A) 5 per cent seats (B) 10 per cent seats (C) 15 per cent seats (D) 20 per cent seats

49. Edible portion of coconut is the

       (A) Fruit wall (B) Endosperm (C) Cotyledon (D) Embryo

50. The "Tripitaka” was written in

       (A) Brahmi (B) Kharosti (C) Pali (D) Sanskrit