Panchayat Secretary (APPSC) Upcoming General Studies Questions and Answers

1. The Disaster Management Act India was enacted in the year
(1) 2003
(2) 2004
(3) 2005
(4) 2006

2. Who is called the Father of E-Mail
(1) Ray Tomlinson
(2) Timothy Bill
(3) Linkan Golitsberg
(4) Bill Gates

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3. The full form of WWW is
(1) World Wide Web
(2) Window World Wide
(3) World Working Web
(4) World Working Window

4. Discovery of Radioactivity was made by
(1) Rutherford
(2) J J. Thompson
(3) John Dalton
(4) Henri Becquerel

5. Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development is at
(1) Delhi
(2) Dehradun
(3) Hyderabad
(4) Agra


6. Which of the following decades was declared as the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction ?
(1) 1900 – 2000
(2) 1980 -1990
(3) 1970- 1980
(4) 2000- 2010

7. The green colour of leaves is due to the presence of
(1) Proteins
(2) Lipids
(3) Carbohydrates
(4) Chlorophyll

8. Tsunami is a
(1) Japanese word
(2) French word
(3) Greek word
(4) Russian word

9. Which of the following is a natural disaster
(1) Drought
(2) War
(3) Civil War
(4) Terrorism

10. Who is called the Father of Computers?
(1) Herman Hollerith
(2) Von Neumann
(3) Blaise Pascal
(4) Charles Babbage

11. The first Chief Election Commissioner of India ?
(1) K.V.K Sundaram
(2) T. Swaminathan
(3) Sukumar Sen
(4) RK Trivedi

12. The planus that grow on the rocks are called
(1) Lithophytes
(2) Eremophytes
(3) Sclerophytes
(4) Halophytes

13. The scientific study of insects is called
(1) Ethology
(2) Morphology
(3) Hydropathy
(4) Entomology

14. The biggest planet in the Solar System is
(1) Jupiter
(2) Venus
(3) Mercury
(4) Neptune

15. Earth is called as the
(1) Red planet.
(2) Blue planet
(3) Yellow planet
(4) Green planet

16. In the Delhi Assembly Elections held in 2013 how many seats did Aam Aadmi Party win
(1) 28
(2) 32
(3) 8
(4) 16

17. Sriram Sagar Project is in the district of
(1) Nizamabad
(2) Adilabad
(3) Kurnool
(4) Warangal

18. Manjira is a tributary of
(1) Tungabhadra river
(2) Penna river
(3) Krishna river
(4) Godavari river


19. By which Amendment to the Indian Constitution, was the Eleventh Schedule added ?
(1) 71 Amendment
(2) 72nd Amendment
(3) 73rd Amendment
(4) 74th Amendment

20. The First Five Year Plan accorded the highest priority to
(1) Agriculture
(2) Electricity
(3) Rural Roads
(4) Heavy Industries

21. Who was the first Indian to get the Nobel Prize
(1) C. V. Raman
(2) Amartya Sen
(3) Peter Scot
(4) Rabindranath Tagore

22. The astronaut who first landed on the Moon ?
(1) Yuri Gagarin
(2) Daniel Pearl
(3) Peter Scot
(4) Neil Armstrong

23. Who was the Prime Minister of India just before P V. Narasimha Rao?
(1) Indira Gandhi
(2) Charan Singh
(3) V. P. Singh
(4) Chandra Shekhar

24. In India, the longest day occurs on
(1) April 13
(2) October 31
(3) June 21
(4) March 21

25. Nelson Mandela who was South Africa’s first Black President died on
(1) 6-9-2013
(2) 6-10-2013
(3) 6-11-2013
(4) 6.12.2013

26. In which two States of India, was Panchayat Raj system first introduced
(1) Bihar and Madhya Pradesh
(2) Andhra Pradesh and Kerala
(3) Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
(4) Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan

27. The present Secretary General of the UNO ?
(1) Ban Ki-Moon
(2) Guy Ryder
(3) Jim Yong Kim
(4) Yukiya Amano

28. Angela Merkel is the Chancellor of
(1) France
(2) Germany
(3) Greece
(4) Japan

29. The Planning Commission was set up in the year ?
(1) 1950
(2) 1951
(3) 1952
(4) 1953

30.  The Dutch East India Company set up their first factory at
(1) Cochin
(2) Surat
(3) Nagapatnam
(4) Masulipatnam

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