University Assistant Expected GK Questions

1. The award given to universities in India for best all round performance in sports is named after:

(a) Sardar Patel       
         (b) Netaji Subhas Bose

(c) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad        
         (d) Jawaharlal Nehru

Ans: c 

2. Charles I of England was executed in:

(a) 1649     (b) 1663     (c) 1673     (d) 1683

Ans: a

3. Ivan the Terrible was the first Tsar of:

(a) Germany        (b) Austria                    (c) Russia            (d) Spain

Ans: c

4. Who was married by Adolf Hitler the day before he committed suicide?

(a) Claretta          (b) Eva Braun      (c) Ann Frank    (d) Emile Shenkel

Ans: b

5. The trade name 'hp' is related to:

(a) Tyres    (b) Bicycles                   (c) Computer     (d) Cement

Ans: c

6. What is the background of War and Peace' by Napoleon?

(a) Russian invasion of Napoleon   (b) First World War

(a) Second World War                    (d) Waterloo

Ans: a

7. The character Gora was created by:

(a) Tagore           (b) R.K. Narayan                   

(c) Raja Rao         (d) N.C. Chaudhary

Ans: a

8. Who is regarded as the father of Indian Nuclear Science?

(a) Vikram Sarabhai     (b) Raja Ramanna

(c) H.J Bhabha             (d) MN Saha

Ans: c

9. Sound does not pass through:

(a) Solid               (b) Liquid            (c) Vacuum

Ans: c

10. 'Google' is a:

(a) Word processor                (b) Search engine

(c) Operating system             (d) Presentation Software

Ans: b

11. Alnico is an alloy of Aluminum, Nickel and ______.  

(a) Iron      (b) Copper                    (c) Tin        (d) Cobalt

Ans: d

12. Which among the following is a metalloid?

(a) Carbon           (b) Silicon          (c) Germanium

Ans: d

13. Colour of lodoform:

(a) Red       (b) Blue      (c) Green   (d) Yellow

Ans: d

14. The botanical name of Pepper:

(a) Piper nigrum          (b) Solanum officinarum

(c) Adathoda vasica      (d) Cocos nucifera

Ans: a

15. The first to use the word 'Green Revolution'?

(a) William Gaud                    (b) Norman E Borlaug

(c) MS Swaminathan             (d) C Subramanyam

Ans: a

16. The snake that builds nest:

(a) Viper    (b) Rat Snake      (c) Anaconda      (d) King Cobra

Ans: d

17 The double walled covering of heart:

(a) Peritoneum   (b) Pericardium                    (c) Meninjus

Ans: b

18. Hardest part of the human body:

(a) Enamel of tooth       (b) Nail    (c) Hair      (d) Femur

Ans: a

19. Which disease is known as Break bone fever?

(a) Rickets (b) Marasmus    (c) Dengue fever (d) Scurvy

Ans: c

20. Which comes in the middle during solar eclipse?

(a) Sun       (b) Moon   (c) Earth

Ans: b

21. Summer Solstice in northern hemisphere:

(a) June 21          (b) December 22                  

(c) March 21       (d) September 23

Ans: a

22. Ringit is the currency of:

(a) Malaysia         (b) Thailand        (c) Brunei            (d) Laos

Ans: a

23. The correct order of mountain ranges in Himalayas from north to south:

(a) Himachal, Himadri, Shiwalik    (b) Himachal, Shiwalik ,Himadri

(c) Himadri, Himachal, Shiwalik    (d) Shiwalik, Himachal, Himadri

Ans: c

24. Oldest Dravidian language:

(a) Telugu            (b) Kannada       (c) Malayalam     (d) Tamil

Ans: d

25. The second metro railway in India:

(a) Goa       (b) Kolkata          (c) New Delhi      (d) Mumbai

Ans: c

26. In which year 14 banks were nationalised during the prime minister ship of Indira Gandhi?

(a) 1959      (b) 1949     (c) 1969     (d) 1979

Ans: c

27. Yakshagana is a folk dance drama of:

(a) Kerala                      (b) Tamil Nadu

(c) Andhra Pradesh      (d) Karnataka

Ans: d

28. Where is Chennakesava temple?

(a) Belur     (b) Halebid                   (c) Madurai        (d) Hampi

Ans: a

29. Tiger state of India:

(a) Gujarat                    (b) Rajasthan      (c) Madhya Pradesh     (d) Assam

Ans: c

30. Who repaired Sudarshan lake?

(a) Rudradaman           (b) Kanishka       

(c) Pushyamitra            (d) Devabhuti

Ans: a

31. Satavahanas were also known as:

(a) Memaluks                (b) Ikshakus       

(c) Andhra Bhrityas      (d) Rajputs

Ans: c

32. Who revived Nalanda University?

(a) Harsha           (b) Sasanka         (c) Pulikesin I   (d) Baktiyar Khalji

Ans: a

33. Muhammad bin Tughlaq shifted the capital of the Sultanate from Delhi to:

(a) Agra      (b) Tughlaqabad          (c) Daulatabad    (d) Siri

Ans: c

34. Tomb of Aurangazeb's wife Rabia Durrani is known as ‘Poor man's Taj Mahal’, It is situated in:

(a) Agra      (b) Sikandra       (c) Aurangabad   (d) Delhi

Ans: c

35. Vasco da Gama reached India for the second time in:

(a) 1502     (b)1503      (c) 1504     (d) 1505

Ans: a

36. Who organised a raid on Chittagong government armoury in 1930 April?

(a) Bhagat Singh                   (b) Uddham Singh

(c) Chandrasekhar Azad        (d) Surya Sen

Ans: d

37. Who was the Viceroy when the first Census was held in 1872?

(a) Mayo    (b) Curzon (c) Hardinge II   (d) Minto I

Ans: a

38.  Who wrote India Wins Freedom'?

(a) C Rajagopalachari             (b) Maulana Azad

(c) Dr Rajendraprasad           (d) Jawaharlal Nehru

Ans: b

39. The first Muslim to become the President of Indian National Congress:

(a) Dadabhai Navroji    (b) Pheroz Shah Mehta

(c) Maulana Azad         (d) Badruddin Thyabji

Ans: d

40. During which agitation Gandhiji gave the slogan' Do or die'?

(a) Salt satyagraha                 (b) Champaran Satyagraha

(c) Quit India movement       (d) Kheda satyagraha

Ans: c

41. The famous speech delivered by Jawaharlal Nehru during the moments of transfer of power in 1947, is known as:

(a) I have a dream   (b) Tryst with destiny   (c) History will absolve me

Ans: b

42. Project Arrow is related to:

(a) Postal system          (b) Telecommunication        

(c) Railway                    (d) Newspaper

Ans: a

43. The four languages added to the Eighth Schedule recently:

(a) Manipuri, Konkani, Nepali, Santhali

(b) Dogri, Mathili, Konkani, Bodo

(c) Dogri, Maithili, Sindhi, Bodo    

(d) Dogri, Maithili, Sindhi, Nepali

Ans: c

44. The total number of nominated members in Parliament:

(a) 14          (b) 24         (c) 12          (d) 17

Ans: a

45. The Twelfth Schedule was added to the Constitution was added by ______ Amendment

(a) 74th      (b) 75th      (c) 73rd     (d) 62nd

Ans: a

46. The most powerful upper house of the Legislature in the world:

(a) American Senate              (b) House of Lords in Britain

(c) Rajya Sabha in India         (c) Duma in Russia

Ans: a

47. The birth day of Rajiv Gandhi is observed at:

(a) National youth day   (b) Anti terrorism day  (c) Sadbhavana divas

Ans: c

48: The idea of the formation of SAARC was first mooted by:

(a) HM Ershad    (b) Yahya Khan  (c) Indira Gandhi    (d) Premadasa

Ans: a

49. "Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains' this statement is related to:

(a) Rousseau       (b) Plato    (c) Dr. Johnson   (d) Karl Marx

Ans:  a

50. Who among the following got Nobel Prize and Oscar?

(a), Walt Disney                    (b) Winston Churchill

(c) George Bernard Shaw      (d)Bertrand Russel

Ans: c

51. The smallest river in Kerala:

(a) Mancheswaram      (b) Chithari        (c) Kavvayi           (d) Neyyar

Ans: a

52. The largest hydro-electric project in Kerala:

(a) Peppara         (b) Idukky           (c) Kuttyadi         (d) Pallivasal

Ans: b

53. The Zamorin king who was the exponent of Krishanattom?

(a) Manavikraman        (b) Manavedan    (c) Sakthan

Ans: b

54. In which district the famous Malayalam poet Ulloor S.Parameswarayyar was born:

(a) Thiruvananthapuram       (b) Kottayam     

(c) Thrissur                            (d) Kollam

Ans: b

55. The first computerised Taluk office in India:

(a) Thiruvananthapuram       (b) Ottappalam

(c) Palakkad                            (d) Nedumangad

Ans: b

56. In which subject Malala got Nobel Prize in 2014?

(a) Peace    (b) Literature      (c) Economics     (d) Chemistry

Ans: a

57. Before becoming the Prime Minster of India Narendra Mod was the Chief Minister of:

(a) Delhi     (b) Gujarat          (c) U.P       (d) Rajasthan

Ans: b

58. The Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha :

(a) Sumitra Mahajan    (b) Meirakumar

(c) Nitin Gadkari          (d) Thempi Dural

Ans: d

59. The president of was the chief guest of the Republic Day celebrations of 2016?

(a) Kazakhstan    (b) Thailand        (c) France                    (d) Vietnam

Ans: c

60. Which company launched the vehicle 'Duster'?

(a) Nissan            (b) Ford     (c) Suzuki           (d) Renault

Ans: d