General Knowledge Question Answer: GK Questions and Answers

General Knowledge Questions, Quiz for Competitive Exams, Important MCQs for GK

Q. What is 'Shadow Banking'?
1) Outsourcing of banking work by a bank
2) Financial transactions and other activities of non-banking financial intermediary
3) Domestic banks' foreign operations
4) Foreign bank operating in another country for banking and other activities

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Q. Which among the following are multinational corporations working in India?
1. Hindustan Lever Limited 2. Samsung Corporation
3. Guest Keen and Williams Pharma 4. LG
Codes :

1) 1, 2, 3 and 4
2) 2 and 4
3) 2, 3 and 4
4) 1 and 3

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Q. The density of population in India -
1) Has continuously increased
2) Is approximately constant
3) Has mildly declined
4) Has first increased and then declined since 1991

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Q. Which one of the following decades in Indian Planning deserves to be called 'the decade of jobless growth'?
1) 1971-1980
2) 1991-2000
3) 2001-2010
4) 2005-2015

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Q. The folk dance of Meghalaya is -
1) Nati
2) Loho
3) Bamboo dance
4) Khantum

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Q. Who was awarded Dada Saheb Phalke Award for the year 2014?
1) Gulzar
2) Shashi Kapoor
3) Pran
4) Lata Mangeshkar

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Q. UP Council of Agricultural Reserach is located at -
1) Meerut
2) Bulandshahar
3) Lucknow
4) Gorakhpur

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Q. Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants is located at -
1) Chitrakut
2) Saharanpur
3) Kanpur
4) Lucknow

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Q. Potato Research Institute in UP is located in the district -
1) Farrukhabad
2) Meerut
3) Kanpur
4) Allahbad

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Q. Which of the following diseases cannot be cured by antibiotics?
1) Tuberculosis
2) Tetanus
3) Measles
4) Cholera

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