GENERAL KNOWLEDGE – 2003 SECTION III

SECTION III

8.       Mention the place where the following are located:

(a)    Central Drug Research Institute

(b)   National Archives

(c)    Satish Dhawan space centre

(d)   Central building Research institute

(e)   Victoria memorial Hall

(f)     Kovalam Beach

(g)    Central Arid Zone Research institute

(h)   Salar Jung Museum

(i)      Tata institute of Fundamental Research

(j)     Eden gardens

9.       What do the following abbreviations stand for?

(a)    IAEA                   

(b)   IBRD

(c)    GATT

(d)   ICBM

(e)   CAZRI

(f)     UNEP

(g)    ATM

(h)   PIL

(i)      OECD

(j)     TERI

10.   What are the following? (Answer in one word or one sentences each :)

(a)    Gunboat Diplomacy

(b)   Quarantine

(c)    Cosmology

(d)   G-8

(e)   World Trade Organization

(f)     Antarctic Treaty

(g)    Bt cotton

(h)   Tejas

(i)      Population Pyramid

(j)     Open Economy

11.   What are the following famous for? (Answer in one word or one sentence each):

(a)    Stephen Hawking

(b)   Rakesh Sharma

(c)    Jamini Roy

(d)   Nazir aminuddin dagar

(e)   Van Rijn Rembrandt

(f)     Whitney Houston

(g)    Mrinalni Sarabhai

(h)   Ahmad Thirakwa

(i)      Vijay tendulkar

(j)     Mark Tully

12.   Why have the following been in the news recently?

(a)    Aishwarya Rai

(b)   Rahul Dravid

(c)    Sachin Tendulkar

(d)   Shamit Mukherjee

(e)   Stanley D’ Silva

(f)     Winnie Mandela

(g)    Lleyton Hewitt

(h)   E. Sreedharan

(i)      Ramachandra Guha

(j)     Pravin Togadia

13.   With which game/sport are the following terms assoclated?

(a)    Ashes.

(b)   Yorker

(c)    Free Throw

(d)   Home

(e)   Knock out

(f)     Stalemate

(g)    Red card

(h)   Bogey

(i)      Punter

(j)     Breast stoke