RRB General Knowledge Questions

        1. Which of the following countries is a land locked country in south
 America?
 a. Ecuador
 b. Peru
 c. Uruguay
 d. Bolivia
 Ans : d
 2. Canary Islands belongs to
 a. Norway
 b. Spain
 c. New Zealand
 d. Portugal
 Ans : b
 3. Titan is the largest natural satellite of planet
 a. Mercury
 b. Venus
 c. Saturn
 d. Neptune
 Ans : c
 4. Which of the following planets rotates clock wise?
 a. Pluto
 b. Jupiter
 c. Venus
 d. Mercury
 Ans : c
 5. A difference of 1 degree in longitude at the Equator is equivalent
 to nearly
 a. 101 km
 b. 111 km
 c. 121 km
 d. 125 km
 Ans : b
 6. The earliest known Indian script is
 a. Mori
 b. Devanagari
 c. Brahmi
 d. Kharosti
 Ans : c
 7. How many times the preamble was amended
 a. once
 b. twice
 c. thrice
 d. four times
 Ans : a
 8. The term socialist was added in the Preamble by the…amendment
 a. 40th
 b. 42nd
 c. 44th
 d. 49th
 Ans : b
 9. The state with the lowest population in India is
 a. Goa
 b. Tripura
 c. Mizoram
 d. Sikkim
 Ans : d
 10. Which person or organisation received the Nobel Prize three times
 so far?
 a. Medame Curie
 b. Linus Pauling
 c. Alexender Flemming
 d. International Committee of the Redcross
 Ans : d
 11. The Finance Commission is appointed for every… year
 a. 3
 b. 4
 c. 5
 d. 6
 Ans : c
 12. Under which five year plan did agriculture show a negative growth?
 a. 1st plan
 b. 2nd plan
 c. 3rd plan
 d. 4th plan
 Ans : c
 13. Who is the founder of the Capital city of Agra?
 a. Akbar
 b. Babar
 c. Sikinder Lodi
 d. Mubarak Shah Sayyad
 Ans: c
 14. The first tide generated electricity project was established at
 a. Vizhinjam, Kerala
 b. Mangalore, Karnataka
 c. Paradeep, Orissa
 d. Vishakapattanam
 Ans : a
 15. National Institute of Oceanography is located in :
 a. Calcutta
 b. Chennai
 c. Mangalore
 d. Panaji
 Ans : d
 16. The 2004 Olympics were held in :
 a. Bangkok
 b. Rome
 c. Athens
 d. Nagasaki
 Ans : c
 17. Who headed the committee appointed on Kargil War ?
 a. Gen. V. P. Malik
 b. Gen. S. K. Sinha
 c. K. Subramanyam
 d. K. C. Panth
 Ans : c
 18. The C. K. Nayudu Trophy is related to the sport of
 a. cricket
 b. Hockey
 c. Football
 d. Chess
 Ans : a
 19. New York is situated on the river
 a. Hudson
 b. Thames
 c. Danube
 d. Tigris
 Ans : a
 20. “The Woman of the Millennium” selected by the British Broadcasting
 Corporation (BBC) is
 a. Margaret Thacher
 b. Hillary Clinton
 c. Chandrika Kumaratunga
 d. Indira Gandhi
 Ans : d
 21. The General Assembly of United Nations meets
 a. Once a year
 b. twice a year
 c. thrice a year
 d. Once in five years
 Ans : a
 22. The “Common Wealth Games 2002″ will be held in
 a. Toranto
 b. Manchester
 c. Tokyo
 d. Canberra
 Ans : b
 23. All India Radio commenced operations in
 a. 1926
 b. 1936
 c. 1945
 d. 1947
 Ans : b
 24. The “Killer Instinct” is written by
 a. Sulakshan Mohan
 b. M.K.Santanam
 c. O.P.Sabharwal
 d. Subash Jain
 Ans : c
 25. The Secretary-General of UN is appointed by the
 a. Security Council
 b. Trusteeship Council
 c. General Assembly
 d. World Bank
 Ans : c
 26. Postal Voting is other wise called:
 a. external voting
 b. secret voting
 c. plural voting
 d. proxy voting
 Ans : d
 27. The Common Wealth of Independent states (CIS) consists of….republica?
 a. 10
 b. 11
 c. 12
 d. 13
 Ans : c
 28. Which of the following harbours is considered as the world’s
 finest natural harbour?
 a. Sydney harbour
 b. Toronto harbour
 c. New Jersy harbour
 d. Singapore harbour
 Ans : a
 29. Who invented Radar?
 a. Henrey Backquerel
 b. Max Planck
 c. Robert Watson Watt
 d. Humphrey Davy
 Ans : c
 30. Sandal Wood trees are mostly found in…
 a. Trophical Evergreen Forests
 b. Tropical most Decidous
 c. Alpine forests
 d. Trophical Thorn Forests
 Ans : d
 31. The first country to legalise medically assisted suicide is
 a. Switzerland
 b. New Zealand
 c. USA
 d. Netherlands
 Ans : d
 31. India’s newsprint industry is mainly located in
 a. Indore
 b. Dehradun
 c. Nepanagar
 d. Nagpur
 Ans : c
 32. The tomb of Babur is at
 a. Kabul
 b. Lahore
 c. Multan
 d. Larkhana
 Ans : a
 33. The joint session of the two houses is presided by
 a. the speaker
 b. the president
 c. chairman of Rajyasabha
 d. none of these
 Ans : a
 34. The Gandhara school of Art was influenced most by the
 a. Greeks
 b. Shakas
 c. persians
 d. Kushans
 Ans : a
 35. The Simon Commission was appointed in
 a. 1927
 b. 1928
 c. 1929
 d. 1930
 Ans : c
 36. Sikkim became a full fledged state of the Indian Union, in the
 year ?
 a. 1972
 b. 1973
 c. 1974
 d. 1975
 Ans : d
 37. Who is the founder of Mahabalipuram ?
 a. Rajaraja Chola
 b. Mahendra Varman
 c. Narsimha Varman
 d. Narsimha Chola
 Ans : c
 38. The 189th member of United Nations is
 a. Palau
 b. Tuvalu
 c. Soloman Islands
 d. Nauru
 Ans : b
 39. When was Burma separated from India
 a. 1947
 b. 1942
 c. 1937
 c. 1932
 Ans : c
 40. Which of the following country has more than 55,000 lakes?
 a. Poland
 b. Denmark
 c. Finland
 d. Norway
 Ans : c