General Knowledge Set – 22 RRB Exam, UPSC Exam, SSC Exam:

  1. The United Nations declared 2013 as the International Year of which cooperation?
    Answer: Water Cooperation
  2. What is an instrument for measuring the rate of transpiration?
    Answer: Potometer
  3. By whom was an inter-State Council set up in 1990 under Article 263 of the Constitution?
    Answer: President
  4. Which reflects back more sunlight as compared to the other three?
    Answer: Land covered with fresh snow
  5. Who started the newspaper, Shome Prakash?
    Answer: Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
  6. Which substance does not have a melting point?
    Answer: Glass
  7. How many votes are entitled to members of the UN Economic and Social Council?
    Answer: One vote
  8. In India, in which industry is the maximum number of workers employed?
    Answer: Textile industry
  9. Which is the soil formed by wind dust in and around hot deserts?
    Answer: Loess soil
  10. In whose court was a Chinese embassy sent by the Tang emperor?
    Answer: Harshavardhana
  11. For which snake is the diet mainly composed of their snakes?
    Answer: King cobra
  12. On which date India became a Sovereign, democratic republic?
    Answer: Jan 26, 1950
  13. What minimum number of non-zero non-collinear vectors is required to produce a zero vector?
    Answer: 3
  14. Where is Niagara Falls?
    Answer: U.S.A.
  15. Which inscription mentions Pulkesin II’s military success against Harshavardhana?
    Answer: Aihole Inscription
  16. What is the present strength of members in the Economic and Social Council of the UN body?
    Answer: 54
  17. Which book was written by Graham Greene?
    Answer: The Power and Glory
  18. What structure is common to both earthworms and cockroaches?
    Answer: Ventral nerve cord
  19. Which Strait connects the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal?
    Answer: Palk Strait
  20. Chandragupta Maurya figures prominently in whose book?
    Answer: Vishakhdatta

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