General Awareness for Railways ALP & Group-D
- Joule is an SI unit used to measure
(A) Work
(B) Energy
(C) Quantity of heat
(D) All the above
- The theory of ionisation was given by
(A) Henry Becquerel
(B) L Pauling
(C) GN Lewis
(D) S Arrhenius
- The Booker-winning novel The God of Small Things has been written by who among the following?
(A) Salman Rushdie
(B) Kiran Desai
(C) Arundhati Roy
(D) Anita Desai
- The two nations which are connected by an underwater tunnel are
(A) Indian and Sri Lanka
(B) North Korea and South Korea
(C) France and England
(D) Malaysia and Singapore
- The silver coins were called rupyaka during the period of
(A) Guptas
(B) Rashtrakutas
(C) Mauryas
(D) Palas
- Which of the following is NOT correct?
(A) First woman governor of a state – Sarojini Naidu
(B) First woman chief minister of a state – Sucheta Kriplani
(C) First woman Union Cabinet minister – Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
(D) First woman Speaker of the Lok Sabha – Najma Heptulla
- The Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC), the apex body of the financial sector regulators in India, is led by
(A) the governor of RBI
(B) the Finance Minister
(C) the Prime Minister
(D) the Law Minister
- The temporary loans from the RBI to the govt given time-to-time to bridge the interval between expenditure and receipts, are called
(A) Dated Securities
(B) Gilt-edged securities
(C) Ways and means advances
(D) Treasury bills
- Which of the following countries has become the first country in the world to allow euthanasia for terminally ill children recently?
(A) Norway
(B) Sweden
(C) Belgium
(D) Brazil
- The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the continuation of Urea Subsidy Scheme upto
(A) 2019
(B) 2020
(C) 2021
(C) 2022
Answers:
- D
- D
- C
- C
- A
- D; Meira Kumar
- B
- C
- C
- B
