07 January 2013

APPSC GOVT POLYTECHNIC LECTURERS QUESTION PAPER 1 GENERAL STUDIES AND MENTAL ABILITY

1. Temple of ' Govind Deva' at Vrindavan was built by
a) aurangzeb
b) akbar
c) jahangir
d) shahjahan

2. Gopal krishna gokhale started
a) Theosophical Society
b) Indian Social Conference
c) Seva Samithi
d) Servants of India Society

3. Universities of Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras were established during the period of
a) lord Lytton
b) lord Mayo
c) lord canning
d) lord lawrence

4. The only viceroy to be mudered in office
a) lord mayo
b) lory lytton
c) lord elgin
d) lord northbrook

5. Archeological survey of India was established during the period
a) lord Irwin
b) lord reading
c) lord curzon
d) lord dufferin

6. Wall street is in
a) paris
b) new york
c) chicago
d) moscow

7. largest museum in the world
a) british museum
b) new york museum
c) tokyo museum
d) moscow museum

8. Brightest planet
a) neptune
b) mars
c) jupiter
d) venus

9. longest river in the world
a) nile
b) ganges
c) amazon
d) bramhaputra

10. longest wall in the world
a) germany
b) china
c) russia
d) japan

11. Sugar bowl of the world
a) belguim
b) australia
c) cuba
d) china

12. playground of europe
a) switzerland
b) italy
c) belguim
d) germany

13. land of rising sun
a) cuba
b) germany
c) japan
d) thailand

14. 'Holy Land' is
a) rome
b) vatican city
c) jerusalem
d) stockholm

15. Effil tower is in
a) paris
b) new york
c) chicago
d) moscow

16. The princess Tower at 413.4 metres, has declared the world's tallest residential building . In which asian city is it located?
a) Dubai
b) Teheran
c) Riyadh
d) Tokyo

17. In which Asian capital is Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport ?
a) Beijing
b) Sri Lanka
c) Tokyo
d) Dhaka

18. Which is Australia's longest river?
a) Rhine
b) murray
c) danube
d) darling

19. Dr. manmohan singh recently became the first PM in 25 years to visit one of India's neighbors. Name the country
a) Bhutan
b) Nepal
c) Sri Lanka
d) Myanmar

20. Railway Staff College is situated at
a) Bangalore
b) Secunderabad
c) Vadodara
d) Nagpur

21. How many railway training institutes are there in India?
a) 3
b) 4
c) 5
d) 6

22. The only Indian Governer General was
a) C. Rajagopalachari
b) Pattabhi Sitaramaiah
c) Rajendra prasad
d) Patel

23. Which plan became the basis for Indian Independence?
a) Cripps Plan
b) Wavell plan
c) Mountbatten plan
d) none of the above

24. Rabindranath Tagore relinquished his knighthood as a protest against
a) Partition of Bengal
b) Press Act of 1910
c) Salt laws
d) jallianwala bagh massacre

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