RRB NTPC exam is scheduled to take place from June onward.We hope that you are well prepared for this RRB NTPC battle. As you all know that General awareness is an important and scoring section in RRB NTPC exam.
Mission NTPC: General Awareness Quiz : Day #1
So you should revise this section very well. Here we are also providing you some important questions of general awareness for RRB NTPC. So start practising these questions and take your preparation to the next level.
1) Who was the leader of the Russian provisional government after the fall of the Romanovs?
a) Vladimir Lenin
b) Stalin
c) Prince Lvov
d) Georgii Plekhanov
Ans. (c)
On Nov 7, 1917, Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky. The provisional government came to power after the February Revolution resulted in the Russian monarchy being overthrown in March 1917. Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov was a Russian statesman and the first post-imperial prime minister of Russia, from 15 March to 21 July 1917.
2) Which Hellenistic monarch was killed at the battle of Ipsus in 301 BC?
a) Seleucus I
b) Lysimachus I
c) Antigonus I
d) Ptolemy I
Ans. (c)
In the battle of Ipsus: Antigonus I Monophthalmus and his son Demetrius I of Macedon were pitted against the coalition of three other companions of Alexander: Cassander, ruler of Macedon; Lysimachus, ruler of Thrace; and Seleucus I Nicator, ruler of Babylonia and Persia. Antigonus died in the battle after being struck by a javelin, in the age of eighty.
3) The Indo-Laws Kingdom set up in north Afghanistan in the beginning of the second century B.C was?
a) Bactria
b) Scythia
c) Zedrasia
d) Aria
Ans. (a)
The kingdom was founded when the Graeco-Bactrian king Demetrius invaded the subcontinent early in the 2nd century BC. The Greeks in the Indian Subcontinent were eventually divided from the Graeco-Bactrians centered in Bactria (now the border between Afghanistan and Uzbekistan).
4) In which country was the use of the longbow first reported?
a) Wales
b) Hungary
c) Holland
d) Rumania
Ans. (a)
During the Anglo-Norman invasions of Wales, Welsh bowmen took a heavy toll of the invaders and Welsh archers would feature in English armies from this point on. This archery used a different kind of bow to the later English Longbow.
5) What is the name of grasslands of Southern Africa?
a) Savannah
b) Pampas
c) Velds
d) Prairies
Ans. (c)
Veld is a type of wide open rural landscape in Southern Africa. Particularly, it is a flat area covered in grass or low scrub, especially in the countries of South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Botswana.
6) Moraine is a kind of soil erosion that is caused by which of the following?
a) Glacier
b) Wind
c) River water
d) Underground water
Ans. (a)
A moraine is any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris (regolith and rock) that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions on Earth (i.e. a past glacial maximum), through geomorphological processes.
7) Moraine is a kind of soil erosion that is caused by which of the following?
a) Glacier
b) Wind
c) River water
d) Underground water
Ans. (a)
A moraine is any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris (regolith and rock) that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions on Earth (i.e. a past glacial maximum), through geomorphological processes.
8) The ____ passes through the middle of India.
a) Tropic of Capricon
b) Tropic of Cancer
c) Arctic Circle
d) Equator
Ans. (b)
Tropic of Cancer passes through 8 Indian states: Gujarat, Rajasthan, MP, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura and Mizoram.
9) Proclamation of emergency under article 352 is issued by ___________?
a) Home minister
b) Defence minister
c) President
d) Prime minister
Ans. (c)
Proclamation of emergency under article 352 of the Indian Constitution is issued by the President of India
10) Which Amendment’ of the Constitution of India, lowered the voting age of elections to the Lok Sabha and to the Legislative Assemblies of States from 21 years to 18 years?
a) 64th Amendment of the Constitution of India
b) 63rd Amendment of the Constitution of India
c) 62nd Amendment of the Constitution of India
d) 61st Amendment of the Constitution of India
Ans. (d)
The 61st Amendment’ of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (61st Amendment) Act, 1989, lowered the voting age of elections to the Lok Sabha and to the Legislative Assemblies of States from 21 years to 18 years.
This was done by amending Article 326 of the Constitution, which concerns to elections to the Lok Sabha and the Assemblies.
