Quiz no 12: Practice Paper for IFFCO on General Awareness -1

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUIZ For IFFCO

items consist of two statements: one labelled as the ‘Assertion (A)’ and the other as ‘Reason (R)’. You are to examine these two statements carefully and select the answers to these items using the codes given below.
Codes:
(A) Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A
(B) Both A and R are individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A
(C) A is true but R is false
(D) A is false but R is true
1. Assertion (A): The number of the Members of the Union Public Service Commission is prescrined in the Constitution of India.
Reason (R): The Union Public Service Commission was constituted under the provisions in the Constitution of India.
A
B
C
D
2. Assertion (A): Per capita income of India does not give a complete picture of the economic growth of the country.
Reason (R): Per capita income of a country i s not independent of the size of its population.
A
B
C
D
3. Assertion (A): An elevator is going up at constant velocity. If a person in the lift drops a coin in the elevator, then the coin will fall with uniform velocity.
Reason (R): The elevator is not moving with any acceleration or retardation.
A
B
C
D
4. Assertion (A): In winter, although many lakes and rivers are frozen, the marine fish still survives.
Reason (R): The density of water is maximum at 4°C. Hence, water below the frozen outer surface is maintained at 4°C.
A
B
C
D
5. Container Corporation ,of India Limited (CONCOR), a Public Sector Undertaking is under the administrative control of which of the following Ministries ?
(A) Heavy Industry
(B) Small Scale
(C) Railway
(D) Shipping, road transport and highways
6.Which one of the following is the deepest point in the ocean floor ?
(A) Challenger Deep
(B) Milwaukee Deep
(C) Java Trench
(D) Philippine Trench
7. The Asteroid Belt is found between which of the following?
(A) Mars and Jupiter
(B) Earth and Mars
(C) Jupiter and Saturn
(D) Saturn and Uranus
8.What is the convergence of north east and south east trade winds near equator known as ?
(A) Doldrums
(B) Jet stream
(C) Inter-tropical convergence zone
(D) Upper air monsoon
9. The Sarkaria Commission Report deal with which one of the following ?
(A) Corruption in India
(B) Centre-state relations
(C) Local governance
(D) Inter-river dispute
10. Consider the following :
1. Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana
2. Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana
3. Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana
4. Indira Awas Yojana
Which one of the following is the correct chronological order of the above Yojanas ?
(A) 2 - 3 - 4 - 1
(B) 4 - 1 - 2 - 3
(C) 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
(D) 4 - 3 - 1 - 2
11.Who was the President of India at the time of proclamation of emergency in the year 1976 ?
(A) VV Giri
(B) Giani Zail Singh
(C) Fakhruddin Ali Ahmad
(D) Shankar Dayal Sharma
12.Which one of the following statements in not correct ?
(A) The Vice President of India holds office for a period of five years 
(B) The Vice President of India can be removed by a simple majority of votes passed in the Rajya Sabha only
(C) The Vice President of India continues to be in office even after the expiry of his term till his successor takes over
(D) The Supreme Court of India has to look into al l disputes with regard to the election of the Vice-President of India
13. Consider the following statements:
1. A Money Bill cannot be introduced in the Council of States.
2. The Council of States cannot reject a Money Bill nor amend it.
Which of the statements given above is/ are correct ?
(A) 1 only
(B) 2 only
(C) Both 1 and 2
(D) Neither 1 nor 2
14.Whi ch of the fol low ing i s not a Parliamentary Committee?
(A) Demands for Grants Committee
(B) Committee on Public Accounts
(C) Committee on Public Undertakings
(D) Committee on Estimates
15.Who propounded the Saptanga Theory ?
(A) Manu
(B) Charaka
(C) Kautilya
(D) Tulsidas


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