General Knowledge Important Multiple Choice Questions for SSC CGL/UPSC PART 3

Here, we have compiled 100 GK Question and Answers on General Science for competitive exams like UPSC IAS, State PCS, SSC, CTET, other government recruitment exams.

General Science is extremely important for all the government recruitment exams & questions based on General Science or General Awareness are frequently asked in various exams like UPSC IAS (Civil Service Exam), SSC, CTET etc. Examination pattern of various Competitive Exams & Governments Recruitment exams have been evolved and we have major changes in the pattern and types of questions asked in the exams.

Q.45 Islam was founded in
(a) 7th century AD (b) 5th century AD
(c) 5th century BC (d) 3rd century BC


Q.46 Shintoism is present in
(a) China
(b) Japan
(c) Singapore
(d) Australia

Q.47 Who of the following is not associated with Carnatic music?

(a) Shyama Shastri
(b) Tyagaraja
(c) Bhatkhande
(d) Muthuswami Dikshitar

Q.48 Next to Hindi, the biggest linguistic unit in India is
(a) Bengali
(b) Urdu
(c) Telugu
(d) Marathi

Q.49 Who was the first Indian lady actress to receive the padam shri Award was

(a) Smita Patil
(b) Nargis Dut
(c) Meena Kumari (d) Madhubala


Q.50 Which of the following Indian States has the largest number of Scheduled Tribe population?
(a) Bihar
(b) Orissa (c) MP
(d) Assam


Q.51 The first Governor-General of Bengal was
(a) Cornwallis (b) Wellesley
(c) Warren Hastings (d) Sir John Shore


Q.52 Who of the following was not the acting President
(a) V. V. Giri (b) B. D. Jatti
(c) Hidayatullah (d) Zakir Hussain

Q.53 The first Chief Justice of India was (a) M. Patanjali Sastri (b) Mehar Chand Mahajan (c) Hiralal J. Kania (d) B. K Mukherjee

Q.54 The first Chief Election Commissioner of India (a) KV.K. Sundaram (b) S.P. Sen Verma (c) T. Swaminathan (d) Sukumar Sen

Q.55 The first speaker of Lok Sabha was
(a) M. Anathasayanam Ayyangar
(b) Sardar Hukam Singh
(c) G. V. Mavalankar
(d) Radhakrishnan


Q.56 The last Governor-General of free India was (a) C. Rajagopalachari
(b) Canning
(c) Dalhousie
(d) Lord Mountbatten


Q.57 The first woman Prime Minister in the word belonged to
(a) Pakistan b) Sri Lanka
(C) Nepal (d) India

Q.58 Rial is the currency of
(a) Sudan
(c) Jordan
(b) Yugoslavia
(d) Iran


Q.59 The first recipient of the Jnanpith Award was (a) T. S. Bandopadhyay
(b) Uma Shankar Joshi
(c) G. Shankar Kurup
(d) Sumitra Nandan Pant


Q.60 The first recipient of the Dada Saheb Phalke (a) B. N. Sarkar (b) Prithvi Raj Kapoor
(c) Devika Rani
(d) Kanan Devi

Q.61 The first recipient of Bharat Ratna was
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) Govind Vallabh Pant
(C) B. C. Roy
(d) C. V. Raman/C. Rajagopalachari/
S. Radhakrishnan


Q.62 in India, Book Royalty is given upto
(a) 50 years
(b) 60 years
(c) Life + 50 years
(d) Life + 60 years

Q.63 Spherical shape of rain droplet is due to
(a) cohesion (b) surface tension
(c) adhesion
(d) capillary action


Q.64 Which of the following is busiest airport of India
(a) Delhi (b) Mumbai
(c) Bengaluru (d) Chennai

Q.65 The name “Xerox’, was basically the named
(a) person
(b) company
(c) city (d) none of these


Q.66 Hoyasala monuments are found in
(a) Hampi and Hospet
(b) Halebid and Belur
(c) Mysore and Bengaluru
(d) Sringeri and Dharwar

45. (a) 46. (b) 47. (c) 48. (a) 49. (b) 50. (c) 51. (c) 52. (d) 53.(c) 54.(d) 55. (c) 56.(a) 57. (b) 58. (d) 59. (c) 60. (C) 61. (d) 62.(d) 63. (b) 64. (a) 65. (b) 66. (b)



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