GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CULTURE MCQS SET 12

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CULTURE MCQS SET 12

1) 'Indian cotton merchant; banker; Congressman and a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi'. This description fits:
A) Jamnalal Bajaj
B) G.D. Birla
C) V.S. Srinivasa Shastri
D) M.R. Jayakar
Answer:  G.D. Birla

2) Who is known as the “saint of the gutters'?
A) Mother Teresa
B) B.R. Ambedkar
C) Mahatma Gandhi
D) Baba Amte
Answer:  Mother Teresa

3) Who among the following is popularly known as “Nightingale of India'?
A) Sarojini Naidu
B) Lata Mangeshkar
C) Asha Bhonsle
D) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Answer:  Sarojini Naidu

4) Dr. M.S. Swaminathan distinguished himself in which of the following fields?
A) Nuclear Physics
B) Agriculture
C) Astrophysics
D) Medicine
Answer:  Agriculture

5) Who among the following is the first person to set foot on Moon?
A) Glen
B) Neil Armstrong
C) Rakesh Sharma
D) Yuri Gagarin
Answer:  Neil Armstrong

6) Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
British Prime Minister : Political Party
A) John Major : Conservative Party
B) James Callaghan : Labour Party
C) Harold Wilson : Conservative Party
D) Margaret Thatcher : Conservative Party
Answer:  Harold Wilson : Conservative Party

7) Ustad Vilayat Khan is associated with:
A) painting
B) classical music
C) light music
D) instrumental music
Answer:  instrumental music

8) Who said, 'Child is the father of Man'?
A) William Wordsworth
B) John Keats
C) Shakespeare
D) Lord Byron
Answer:  William Wordsworth

9) In which of the following festivals are boat races a special feature?
A) Pongal
B) Ranali Bihu
C) Onam
D) Navratri
Answer:  Onam

10) What is the common first digit of the number of the Superfast and Shatabdi trains regardless of zones presently running in India?
A) 0
B) 1
C) 2
D) 3
Answer:  2