List of top General Awareness Questions

Maitri and Bharati are the names of:

Match the following books with their authors.

Books		Authors
P	The Fractured Himalaya: India Tibet I. Dinayar Patel China 1949-1962	I	Dinayar Patel
Q	False Allies: India's Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma	II	Tamal Bandyopadhyay
R	VP Menon: The Unsung Architect of Modern India	III	Manu S Pillai
S	Pandemonium: The Great Indian Banking Tragedy	IV	Nirupama Menon Rao
T	Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism	V	Narayani Basu

Which of the following 2018 Commonwealth Games Gold medallists has successfully contested the 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly elections?

Which of the following footballing legends had never won the prestigious Ballon d'Or Award?

What is a grey market?

Which of the following companies has acquired 100% stake in Air India?

What is OSIRIS-REx?

Monosodium glutamate is:

Which of the following spacecrafts by the NASA entered the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the Corona?

What is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)?

Identify the XLRI alumnus, who has recently been appointed as the Deputy National Security Advisor?

From the following options, choose the one which arranges the given Queens’ ascension to the throne in a chronological order.

Which of the following Indian states does not have an “Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)”?

Match the following districts with the states to which they belong

Districts		States
P	Muktsar	I	Bihar
Q	Rohtas	II	Assam
R	Nanded	III	Tamil Nadu
S	Kamrup	IV	Punjab
T	Salem	V	Maharashtra

Match the following classic movies with their directors

Movies		Directors
P	Agantuk	I	Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Q	Thaneer Thaneer	II	Shyam Benegal
R	Drohkaal	III	Satyajit Ray
S	Elipatthayam	IV	K Balachander
T	Bhumika	V	Govind Nihalani

Match the animals listed below with the most common collective noun used to represent a group of them (e.g. wolves – Pack)

Animals		Collective Nouns
P	Eagles	I	Tower
Q	Apes	II	Quiver
R	Giraffes	III	Kaleidoscope
S	Butterflies	IV	Shrewdness
T	Cobras	V	Convocation

Which of the following is not a Satyajit Ray film ?

In 2018, Chintamani Shivdikar wrote “Papletwali” which became viral on YouTube. The song is adopted from a Koli folk tune. Who are the Koli people ?

After 396 years, Barbados replaced the Queen of England as head of State. Which of the following is true ?

What is the name of the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship ?

Dressed in red and blue, ‘Spidey’ (‘Spider-man’) is a fixture at protests against the military regime. In which country has ‘Spidey’ become a popular symbol of resistance ?

May \(10^{th}\) marks the anniversary of the 1857 revolt against the British. Who among the following did not play a role in the revolt ?

The ‘Buddha and His Dhamma’, originally titled ‘Buddha and his Gospel’ is a manuscript written by

Which of these river(s) flow(s) from east to west?

Which of this/these is/are stars?