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OES Previous Question 2012 – General Knowledge Paper
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
Time : 2 hours
Full Marks : 100
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Answer all questions
1. Critically examine the role of Indian National Congress in the Freedom Struggle. 10
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Critically examine the role of Mohd. Ali Zinnah in the Partition of India.
2. Why are the following persons/places are in news recently ? 5
- (a) Francois Hollande
- (b) Fukushima
- (c) Arvind Kejriwal
- (d) Asif Ali Zaradari
- (e) Rabindra Nath Tagore
3. Answer the following : 5
- (a) Who said, ” Be the change you want to see in the world” ?
- (b) Name of the political party founded by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
- (c) In which year Mahatma Gandhi was elected as the President of Indian National Congress ?
- (d) Who founded the famous social networking company “Facebook” ?
- (e) Where is the Central Drug Research Institute situated ?
4. What are the rivers on which the following towns are located ? 5
- (a) Nasik
- (b) London
- (c) Ahmedabad
- (d) Paris
- (e) Jamshedpur
5. Write the data on which following days are celebrated ? 5
- (a) National Science Day
- (b) National Youth Day
- (c) National Voters Day
- (d) World Earth Day
- (e) International Human Right Day
6. Why these places are famous for and where are they located ? 5
- (a) Auroville
- (b) Sriperumbudur
- (c) Tahreer Square
- (d) Abottabad
- (e) Puttupurthi
7. Match the following :
- (a) Midnight’s Children (i) Arundhati Roy
- (b) A Suitable Boy (ii) Rohinton Misty
- (c) Such A Long Journey (iii) Salman Rusdi
- (d) God of Small Things (iv) Arvind Adiga
- (e) The White Tiger (v) Vikram Seth
8. Match the following :
- (a) State with lowest literacy rate (i) Sikkim
- (b) State with lowest population (ii) Maharashtra
- (c) State with highest SC population (iii) Bihar
- (d) State with lowest female literacy (iv) Rajasthan
- (e) State with highest urban population (v) Uttar Pradesh
9. Match the following places that were important in the National Movement with respective State : 5
- (a) Bardoli (i) Bihar
- (b) Chauri-Chaura (ii) Karnataka
- (c) Satar (iii) Gujrat
- (d) Champaran (iv) Maharashtra
- (e) Belgaon (v) Uttar Pradesh
10. Match the following : 5
- (a) Recipient of last Bharat Ratna Award (i) Bhimsen Joshi
- (b) Recipient of Templeton Award (ii) A. A. Manevalan
- (c) Recipient of Dada Saheb Phalke Award (iii) Dalai Lama
- (d) Recipient of Saraswati Samman (iv) Endre Szemeredi
- (e) Recipient of Abel Prize (v) Soumitra Chatterjee
11. In which game the following terms are used ? 5
- (a) Back Hand
- (b) Gully
- (c) Check Mate
- (d) Knock Out
- (e) Cue
12. Match the following : 5
- (a) 2012 Olympic Game (i) Seoul
- (b) 2012 Nuclear Security Summit (ii) Jaipur
- (c) 2012 BRIGS Summit (iii) London
- (d) 2012 Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas Sammelan (iv) New Delhi
- (e) 20114BSA Summit (v) Pretoria
13. What is the meaning of the following ? 5
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- (a) Virology
- (b) Gerontology
- (c) Numismatics
- (d) Oncology
- (e) Meteorology
14. Explain the following : 10
- (a) Why a person is having black or white skin ?
- (b) Why carbon dioxide is an effective fire extinguisher ?
- (c) Friction is a necessary evil. Why ?
- (d) Why a stick immersed in water looks obliquelybent ?
- (e) Why we stumbled when our foot hits a stone ?
15. Write very short notes on the following : 10
- (a) Jasmine Revolution
- (b) Occupy Wall Street
- (c) Jan Lokpal
- (d) Dinesh Trivedi
- (e) WIGNREGA
16. Write very short notes on the following : 10
- (a) Operation Barga
- (b) Zero Hour
- (c) Deen-E-Elahi
- (d) NCTC
- (e) Aadhar
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