MPSC/MSSSB Hnuaia Exam Hrang Hrang Inbuatsaihna

- Er. Kamliana

Page | 1
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
(Part -1 : 100 Questions)

1. The International Day of United Nations Keepers is observed every year on:
a) 28 May
b) 29 May
c) 30 May
d) 31 May

2. Sahiwal, Gir, Red Sindhi, Tharparkar and Rathi are:

a) Lamb Breeds
b) Pig breeds
c) Goat breeds
d) Cattle breeds

3. The country which emit the largest quantity of Ozone depleting CFC-11 ls:
a) USA
b) China
c) India
d) Russia

4. The species of Snake known as “rain loving snake” recently discovered in

Mizoram is:
a) Smithophis Atemporalis
b) Smithophis Bicelor
c) Smithophis Natricine
d) Smithophis Malabar

KL ACADEMY: Join Youtube Membership – Join Whatsapp & Telegram Membership Group
5. A submarine known as INS Vela belongs to:
a) Type 212 Submarine
b) Soryu Class Submarine
c) Agosta Class Submarine
d) Scorpene Class Submarine Page | 2

6. Which country in the world is the first to declare a climate emergency?

a) France
b) Britain
c) Ireland
d) Netherland

7. Strait of Hormuz is located between:

a) Morocco and Spain
b) Russia and Alaska
c) Malaysia and Indonesia
d) Iran and Oman

8. The first country in Asia to legalise same sex marriage is:

a) Japan
b) Taiwan
c) Hongkong
d) Macau

9. In which city is the cost of riding metro and bus free for women?
a) Kolkata
b) Delhi
c) Chennai
d) Mumbai

10. Which Asian nation has been suspended from participating in the Arab
League?
a) Palestine
b) Jordan
c) Irag
d) Syria

KL ACADEMY: Join Youtube Membership – Join Whatsapp & Telegram Membership Group
11. National Panchayati Raj Day is observed every year on:
a) 21st April
b) 22nd April
c) 23rd April Page | 3
d) 24th April

12. Vangchhia became Mizoram’s first archaelogical protected site in the year:
a) 2011
b) 2012
c) 2013
d) 2014

13. The longest south-ward flowing river in Mizoram is:

a) Khawthlangtuipui
b) Chhimtuipui
c) Tiau
d) Tuichang

14. How many cabinet ministers are there in the current Mizo National Front
government?
a) 4
b) 5
c) 6
d) 7

15. Who has written a book known as ‘The nine Dots Prize’?
a) Aravind Adiga
b) Annie Zaidi
c) Arundhati Roy
d) Anita Desai

KL ACADEMY: Join Youtube Membership – Join Whatsapp & Telegram Membership Group
16. Who has become the first Indian to become a member of FIFA Executive
Council?
a) Priya Ranjan Das Munshi
b) Praful Patel
c) Kushal Das Page | 4
d) Sunando Dhar

17. The full form of PUBG is:

a) Player Underground Battle Ground
b) Player Unknown Battle Ground
c) Player Ultimate Battle Ground
d) Player Uncharted Battle Ground

18. What is the full form of MUCO Bank?

a) Mizoram Urban Co-operative Bank
b) Mizoram Urban Co-operative Development Bank
c) Mizoram Urban Co-operative Development Bank Ltd.
d) Mizoram Urban Development and Cooperative Bank Ltd.

19. Which of the states is known as the Spice Garden of India?

a) West Bengal
b) Andhra Pradesh
c) Kerala
d) Maharashtra

20. Which place is known as Bengal’s Sorrow?

a) Damodar River
b) Kosi River
c) Hooghly River
d) Teesta River

21. Which city is known as ‘Venice of the east’?

a) Jakarta
b) Kuala Lumpur
c) Bangkok
d) Macau

KL ACADEMY: Join Youtube Membership – Join Whatsapp & Telegram Membership Group
22. Who invented DDT?
a) Robert Koch
b) Paul Hermann Muller
c) Samuel Hanemann
d) Watson & Arthur Page | 5

23. Who invented Printing Press?

a) Johannes Guttenberg
b) Karlheinz Brandedburg
c) Robert Boyle
d) Alexander Shulgin

24. Elevator was invented by:

a) Harold Brown
b) Chester Greenwood
c) Elisha Graves Otis
d) William Sturgeon

25. Antibiotics was discovered by:

a) Robert Hooke
b) Jean Baptiste-Denys
c) Alexander Fleming
d) Charles Richet

26. Human Immuno Deficiency Virus (HIV) was discovered by:

a) Edmond Halley
b) Robert Koch
c) Dimitri Ivanov
d) Luc Montagnier

27. Who founded the Serampore College?

a) William Carey
b) Joshua Marshman
c) William Ward
d) All three of them

KL ACADEMY: Join Youtube Membership – Join Whatsapp & Telegram Membership Group
28. In which year were the Universities in Culcutta, Bombay and Madras founded?
a) 1855
b) 1856
c) 1857 Page | 6
d) 1858

29. The Revolt of 1857 broke out in:

a) Southern and South-east India
b) Northearn and central India
c) Western and Central India
d) Eastern and Northeast India

30. When was the Indian National Congress founded?

a) 1883
b) 1884
c) 1885
d) 1886

31. Who was known as the ‘Grand Old Man of India’?

a) Dadabhai Naoroji
b) Justice Ranade
c) Sayyid Ahmed Khan
d) None of the above

32. On which date was the announcemence made that India and Pakistan would
be free?
a) 2nd March, 1947
b) 1st April, 1947
c) 14th May, 1947
d) 3rd June, 1947

KL ACADEMY: Join Youtube Membership – Join Whatsapp & Telegram Membership Group
33. The reason for insurgency in the Northwest region of India is:
a) Politico-ethnic
b) Politico-religious
c) Socio-economic
d) All of the above Page | 7

34. The speaker of the Lok sabha has to address his letter of resignation to:
a) Prime minister of India
b) President of India
c) Dy. Speaker of the Lok Sabha
d) Chairman of the Rajya Sabha

35. Which one of the following items comes under the concurrent list of the
Indian Constitution?
a) Inter-State rivers
b) Trade Unions
c) Citizenship
d) Local Government

36. Which of the following writs is issued by an appropriate judicial?

a) Habeas Corpus
b) Mandamus
c) Prohibition
d) Quo-Warranto

37. Which one of the following is an example of direct Democracy?

a) Gram Sabha
b) Village Panchayat
c) Nagar Panchayat
d) District Panchayat

38. National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP)was launched in:

a) 2005
b) 2004
c) 2006
d) 2010

KL ACADEMY: Join Youtube Membership – Join Whatsapp & Telegram Membership Group
39. The first India’s Industrial Policy Resolution was announced on:
a) 9 November, 1947
b) 8 April, 1948
c) 28 February, 1951
d) 15 August, 1956 Page | 8

40. Which of the following is a tertiary sector?

a) Commerce
b) Manufacturing
c) Forestry
d) Medium Scale Industry

41. The largest Public sector bank in the country is:

a) Cooperative bank
b) RRBs
c) SBI
d) Commercial Banks

42. In the foreign exchange market, when exchange rate of a domestic currency is
cut down by its government against any foreign currency, it is called
a) Devaluation
b) Depreciation
c) Revaluation
d) Appreciation

43. The most important food grain crop in India is:

a) Wheat
b) Rice
c) Cereals
d) Pulses

44. In India, the method followed for the estimation of national income is:
a) Income method
b) Expenditure method
c) Mixed and combined method
d) None of these

KL ACADEMY: Join Youtube Membership – Join Whatsapp & Telegram Membership Group
45. Which of the following industry is called basic industry?
a) Agro-Based Industry
b) Iron and Steel industry
c) Petroleum Industry
d) Cotton textile industry Page | 9

46. Shifting cultivation is fall under which category?

a) Intensive Farming
b) Subsistence farming
c) Commercial farming
d) Mixed farming

47. Viticulture is:

a) Rearing of silk worms
b) Cultivation of vegetables
c) Cultivation of Grapes
d) None of the above

48. Intensive Agriculture Development Programme (IADP) is also known as:

a) Integrated Agriculture Programme
b) Package programme
c) Agro-Climate Planning
d) New Agriculture Policy

49. According to Census of India 2011, which state has the highest percentage of
tribal population?
a) Nagaland
b) Meghalaya
c) Uttaranchal
d) Mizoram

50. Based on census 2011, which of the following district has the highest sex ratio
in Mizoram?
a) Serchhip
b) Champhai
c) Mamit
d) Aizawl

KL ACADEMY: Join Youtube Membership – Join Whatsapp & Telegram Membership Group
51. The lowest range of Himalayan Mountain is also called:
a) Himadri
b) Pir Panjal Range
c) Shiwalik Range
d) Zaskar Range Page | 10

52. Which of the following river is named ‘Sorrow of Bihar’?

a) Damodar
b) Tista
c) Kosi
d) Ganga

53. The minimum liquor drinking age is 23 in the state of:

a) Tamil Nadu
b) Pondicherry
c) Goa
d) Kerala

54. 7th December is observed as:

a) World Disabled day
b) Flag Day of India
c) National Energy Conservation Day
d) Human Rights Day

55. Who became the first Indian to win the 1st World Para Swimming
Championship Gold?
a) Bhakti Sharma
b) Kanchanmala Pande
c) Shikha Tandon
d) Anita Sood

56. Who is the chief Minister of Goa?

a) Pramod Sawant
b) Mannohar Parikkar
c) Laxmikanth Parsekar
d) Digambar Kamat

KL ACADEMY: Join Youtube Membership – Join Whatsapp & Telegram Membership Group
57. In the 91st Academy Award, which nominee won the maximum award?
a) Bohemian Rhapsody
b) Black Panther
c) The favourite and Roma
d) Mary Poppins Returns Page | 11

58. Emma Morano, the world’s oldest person who passed away in April 2017,
hailed from which country?
a) Norway
b) Jamaica
c) France
d) Italy

59. The value of Gold is determined in:

a) Rome
b) Washington
c) Teheran
d) London

60. Which is the land of the Rising Sun?

a) Japan
b) Australia
c) China
d) Taiwan

61. The most populous city in the world is:

a) Paris
b) London
c) Perking
d) Tokyo

62. The first satellite launched by India on 19th April 1975 was:
a) INSAT
b) Bhaskara
c) Aryabhatta
d) Rohini

KL ACADEMY: Join Youtube Membership – Join Whatsapp & Telegram Membership Group
63. Named after an Indian Nobel Prize winner, Chandrasekhar’s limit is related to:
a) Big bang theory
b) Speed of light
c) Size of a star
d) Rotation of the earth Page | 12

64. Ronald Ross won the 1902 Nobel Prize for his discoveries in India concerned
with:
a) Malaria
b) Dengue
c) DNA
d) Proteins

65. The title “birdman of India” is given to:

a) Srinivasa Ramanujan
b) D. Sivananda Pai
c) Salim Ali
d) Uma Chowdhry

66. The first robotic spacecraft (probe) sent by India to the Moon was:
a) Chandrayaan-1
b) Mangalyaan-1
c) Luna 1
d) Sputnik

67. The Silicon Valley of India is a nickname given to the Indian city of:
a) Mumbai
b) Chennai
c) Hyderabad
d) Bengaluru

68. The final phase of clearance of the weeds in the Mizo jhuming cultivation is
called:
a) Hnuhpui lak
b) Hnuhhram lak
c) Pawhchhiat
d) A thual

KL ACADEMY: Join Youtube Membership – Join Whatsapp & Telegram Membership Group
69. In Mizo society, men carry loads by using:
a) Hnam
b) Nghawngkawl
c) Darbak
d) Hruihnang Page | 13

70. Which is not a correct pair?

a) Zaudawh – a small house
b) Tlai sial – a young mithun
c) Sarthi - natural death
d) Fatlum – the youngest son

71. In Mizo mythology, a tall tree standing at the centre of the earth is called?
a) Thingvando
b) Thingvandawt
c) Thingvantawng
d) Thingvandek

72. ‘Thaichhawninu’ was associated in Mizo folktales with:

a) Kelchawngi
b) Mauruangi
c) Chawngtinleri
d) Thailungi

73. Who have levelled the surface of the earth in Mizo Mythology:
a) Chulteinu
b) Khuazingnu
c) Vanchung nula
d) Khuavang

74. Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore, was the son of:
a) Mir Kasim
b) Siraj-ud-Daulah
c) Hyder Ali
d) Shah Alam II

KL ACADEMY: Join Youtube Membership – Join Whatsapp & Telegram Membership Group
75. Abolition of Sati was passed in the year:
a) 1829
b) 1830
c) 1831
d) 1832 Page | 14

76. The first official census took place in:

a) 1871
b) 1881
c) 1891
d) 1892

77. World food day is observed on:

a) 15 October
b) 16 October
c) 17 October
d) 18 October

78. A humanoid robot known as Sophia was given a citizenship by:

a) Japan
b) USA
c) Taiwan
d) Saudi Arabia

79. The percentage of Hindus in India according to the 2011 census is:
a) 79.60%
b) 79.70%
c) 79.80%
d) 79.90%

80. Which country is called the ‘Hermit Kingdom’?

a) Brunei
b) Mongolia
c) Korea
d) Indonesia

KL ACADEMY: Join Youtube Membership – Join Whatsapp & Telegram Membership Group
81. Which city will host Summer Olympic 2024?
a) Los Angeles
b) Hongkong
c) Paris
d) Brussels Page | 15

82. Earth Day is observed on which date?

a) 21st April
b) 22nd April
c) 21st May
d) 22nd May

83. The cleanest Village in Asia is:

a) Mawlynnong
b) Biate
c) Gangtok
d) Kohima

84. India’s first underwater metro tunnel will come up in which city?
a) Chennai
b) Kolkatta
c) Lucknow
d) Amritsar

85. Home Rule Movement in India was started by:

a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
c) Dadabhai Nauroji
d) Mrs Anne Besant

86. Sakaria Commission was concerned with:

a) Judical Reforms
b) Centre-state relation
c) Electoral reform
d) Financial reforms

KL ACADEMY: Join Youtube Membership – Join Whatsapp & Telegram Membership Group
87. Maximum number of unstarred questions for a day in Lok Sabha has been
fixed at:
a) 200
b) 210
c) 220 Page | 16
d) 230

88. Which one of the following Article makes provision for the reservation of
SC/ST in Government services?
a) Article 322
b) Article 335
c) Article 337
d) Article 338

89. The Mizo National Front (MNF) were declared ‘Outlaw’ by Indian Government
in:
a) 1965
b) 1966
c) 1986
d) 1967

90. Quit India Movement was started in:

a) 1941
b) 1942
c) 1943
d) 1944

91. The contribution of agriculture to India’s economy is:

a) Increasing
b) Decreasing
c) Remains the same
d) Increasing at a decreasing rate

KL ACADEMY: Join Youtube Membership – Join Whatsapp & Telegram Membership Group
92. The rate of interest the RBI charges from commercial banks on their short
term borrowings is called:
a) Repo Rate
b) Reverse Repo rate
c) Bank Rate Page | 17
d) Base Rate

93. The main agency that provides foodgrains to the public distribution system
India is:
a) FCI
b) NABARD
c) NAFED
d) None of these

94. Among the following, which Indian state has the longest coastline?
a) Gujarat
b) Tamil Nadu
c) Karnataka
d) Andhra Pradesh

95. In which of the following places is the Shompen tribe found?

a) Nilgiri Hills
b) Nicobar Islands
c) Spiti Valley
d) Lakshaweep Islands

96. NREGS was started by UPA Government to uplift the rural poor in the year?
a) 2006
b) 2007
c) 2008
d) 2009

97. Which of the following are the most oldest rocks in the world?
a) Archaean Rocks
b) Dravidrian Rocks
c) Aryan Rocks
d) Purana Rocks

KL ACADEMY: Join Youtube Membership – Join Whatsapp & Telegram Membership Group
98. The Siachen glacier is located in between:
a) India and China
b) India and Pakistan
c) Both (a) & (b)
d) None of these Page | 18

99. An urban area should have:

a) At least 50% of male working population
b) A minimum of 5000 population
c) Population density at least 250 persons per sq. km.
d) None of these

100 The transition zone between rural and urban centres is known as:
a) Rural-Urban Fringe
b) Urban Sprawl
c) Urban Centre
d) Satellite town

---------------------------------------oooooooo------------------------------------------

KL ACADEMY: Join Youtube Membership – Join Whatsapp & Telegram Membership Group