General Knowledge Question Answer: GK Questions and Answers

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

Q. Which of the following statements is/ are correct?
1. India is a signatory to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).
2. Ministry of Home Affairs is the nodal Ministry in the Government of India for the UNCCD.
Select the correct answer using the code given below :

1) 1 only
2) 2 only
3) Both 1 and 2
4) Neither 1 nor 2

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Q. Which one of the following departments is not under the Ministry of Home Affairs?
1) Department of Official Languages
2) Department of Border Management
3) Department of Jammu and Kashmir Affairs
4) Department of Legal Affairs

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Q. Which one of the following is the motto of NCC?
1) Unity and Discipline
2) Unity and Integrity
3) Unity and Command
4) Unity and service

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Q. Which of the following books has won 2020's Booker Prize?
1) Douglas Stuart's 'Shuggie Bain'
2) Avni Doshi's 'Burnt Sugar'
3) Tsitsi Dangarembga's 'This Mournable Body'
4) Diane Cook's 'The New Wilderness'

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Q. What is Param Siddhi?
1) India's AI supercomputer
2) An unique project of 'Siddha'-a part of Ayush system of medicine
3) A supersonic missile
4) An electric locomotive developed by RDSO

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Q. Statue of Peace has been installed in -
1) Lotus temple, New Delhi
2) Arvindo Ashram, Puducherry
3) Vijay Vallabh Sadhana Kendra, Jetpura, district Pali (Rajasthan)
4) Rajghat, Delhi

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Q. A Promised Land, is a book authored by -
1) Barack Obama, Former US President
2) Dr. Man Mohan Singh, Former Prime Minister
3) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, Former Prime Minister UK
4) Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General

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Q. As per Edel Give Hurun India Philanthropy List 2020 which of the following industrialists is the most generous philanthropist in India for 2020.
1) Azim Premji
2) Shiv Nadar
3) Mukesh Ambani
4) Kumar Mangalam Birla

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Q. Saffron farming is being developed in which state, other than Jammu & Kashmir?
1) Arunachal Pradesh
2) Sikkim
3) Nagaland
4) Tamil Nadu

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Q. Which country in the world has highest number of dams?
1) The United States
2) China
3) India
4) Russia

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