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JUNIOR INSTRUCTOR - TURNOR - INDUSTRIAL TRAINING DEPARTMENT DTAE OF TEST 05/10/2018

1.What is the name of the political party founded by former Pakistan Cricket team captain Imran Khan ?
(A) Pakistan Muslim League
(B) Tehrik-i-Insaf 
(C) Pakistan Awami League
(D) Pakistan People’s Party

2. The city which is known as the Cultural Capital of Kerala
 (A) Thiruvananthapuram
(B) Kannur
 (C) Thrissur 
(D) Kollam

3. Headquarters of Asian Development Bank is in
(A) Manila 
(B) Kuala Lumpur
(C) Jakarta
D) Hanoi

4. World Press Freedom Day is on
 (A) 14th April
(B) 3rd May 
 (C) 15th August
(D) 21st October

5. The newspaper “Dawn” is published in
 (A) China
(B) Sri Lanka
(C) Pakistan 
(D) Bangladesh

6. The national leader who described the Non-Co-operation Movement as a Himalayan Blunder
 (A) C.R. Das
(B) Jawaharlal Nehru
 (C) Dr. Ambedkar
(D) Mahatma Gandhi 

7.The police officer from Kerala, who served as the Director of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)
(A) Jacob Thomas
(B) Rishiraj Singh
 (C) Hormiz Tharakan 
(D) T.P. Senkumar

8. The Taluk in Kerala which has the longest coastline
 (A) Thalassery
(B) Ponnani
 (C) Ambalapuzha
(D) Cherthala 

9. Which is the smallest neighbouring country of India ?
(A) Burma
(B) Bhutan 
 (C) Nepal
(D) Sri Lanka

10. Gold coast is the old name of
 (A) Kenya
(B) Zambia
 (C) Ghana 
(D) Nauru

11. The first foreigner to become the President of Indian National Congress
 (A) William Wedderburn
(B) George Yule 
 (C) William Dighby
(D) C.F. Andrews

12. Who coined the slogan “India For Indians” ?
 (A) Raja Rammohan Roy
(B) Swami Vivekananda
 (C) Swami Dayananda Saraswathi
(D) Jyotiba Phule

13. “Tsunami” is a word in which language ?
 (A) Arabic
(B) Japanese 
 (C) Korean
(D) Chinese

14. The state which is known as the “Grannary of India”
 (A) Telangana
(B) Uttar Pradesh 
 (C) Punjab 
(D) Rajasthan

15. National Book Trust was founded in the year
 (A) 1952
(B) 1957 
 (C) 1961
(D) 1968

16. Who is known as the Father of Internet ?
 A) Glen Raikort
 (B) Charles Babbage
 (C) John Biard
(D) Remington

17. The planet which remains very close to the Earth
 (A) Mercury
(B) Mars
 (C) Venus 
(D) Neptune

18. The British Governor-General who prepared the first census of India
 (A) Lord Curzon
(B) Lord Mayo 
 (C) Lord Hardinge
(D) Lord Ripon

19. Panama Canal acts as a link between which of the following oceans ?
 (A) Atlantic and Pacific 
(B) Mediterranean and Pacific
 (C) Arctic and Pacific
(D) Red Sea and Pacific

20. The freedom fighter who was a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi during the Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928
 A) Lal Bahadur Shastri
(B) Rajendra Prasad
 (C) Vallabhbhai Patel 
(D) Jawaharlal Nehru