DEB STUDY - The Competitive Exam Guide

GENERAL STUDIES 1. What is the most appropriate measure of a country’s economic growth?  Per capita real income 2. The famous player Pele is associated with which game?  Football 3. By which antibodies are produced in the plasma of blood?  Lymphocytes 4. Which forms of coal is the oldest?  Anthracite

GENERAL STUDIES 1. When sodium bicarbonate is heated, what is the product obtained?  Na2CO3 2. In which language did Dr. Masti Venkatesh Iyengar write?  Kannada 3. “The Vedas contain all the truth” was interpreted by which person?  Swami Dayanand 4. Through which strait does the International Date Line Pass?  Bering strait

GENERAL STUDIES 1. Funds belonging to the Government of India are kept in which fund?  Consolidated Fund of India 2. Why does Kerosene oil rise up in the wick of lantern?  Because of surface tension 3. Where is the headquarters of Food and Agriculture Organisation?  Rome 4. Xerophytes are plants which can grow in regions having how moisture?  Low moisture

GENERAL STUDIES 1. Which was the Russian scientist who proposed the theory of origin of life?  Oparin 2. A Money Bill passed by the Lok Sabha has to be passed/returned by Rajya Sabha within howmany days?  14 days 3. What is laughing gas?  Nitrous oxide 4. Under which climatic conditions do the laterite soils develop?  Wet tropical climate

GENERAL STUDIES 1. The Imperial Bank of India, after nationalisation was given the name of which bank?  State Bank of India 2. Who is responsible for the sex determination of a child?  Father 3. How many High Courts in India have jurisdiction over more than one State (Union Territories not included)?  3 4. Suez Canal joins which two Sea?  Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea 5. Who gave the motto ‘Go back to the Vedas’?  Swami Dayanand Saraswati 6. Which is technique used to transmit audio signal in television broadcasts?  Frequency modulation 7. Which date is known as ‘Diabetes Day’?  14th November 8. Who is the inventor and founder of www?  Timbernrus 9. Which type of soils have a marked capacity to retain water?  Regur soil 10. In which language was the ‘Shrimad Bhagavad Gita’ originally written?  Sanskrit ✸ ✸ ✸ ✸ ⚡ GENERAL STUDIES VSQ SET 448 [PREV] ⚡ GENERAL STUDIES VSQ SET 450 [NEXT] ✸ ✸ ✸ ✸

GENERAL STUDIES 1. What does M3 include?  M1 + T.D 2. Who was the first Indian to win an individual medal in Olympics?  K.D. Yadav 3. What is Funny Bone?  A nerve 4. Why does the International Dateline deflects to a side?  To avoid Aleutian Islands

GENERAL STUDIES 1. Uranium eventually decays into a stable isotope of element?  Lead 2. Who is the author of the classic book Life Divine?  Aurobindo Ghosh 3. Who is the author of the book ‘Preparing for the Twenty first Century’?  Paul Kennedy 4. Which type of volcanic eruptions is not usually exposive?  Hawaiian

GENERAL STUDIES 1. The Rajya Sabha can have a maximum strength of howmany members?  250 2. What is the function of heavy water in a nuclear reactor? S low down the speed of neutrons 3. Who had called Subhash Chandra Bose as ‘Desh Nayak’?  Rabindranath Tagore 4. The Tropic of Cancer passes through which state?  Gujarat

GENERAL STUDIES 1. What is potato an under ground modified stem?  Tubers 2. Howmany times has National Emergency been declared?  Three times 3. With which name of the particle ‘Boson’ is associated?  S. N. Bose 4. In which country is ‘Mocha’ coffee grown?  Yemen

GENERAL STUDIES 1. Regional Rural Banks are designed to work in which ideal?  Help the targetted groups 22. In which disease do the germs enter through open wounds?  Tetanus 23. Which State has the largest percentage of reserved parliamentary seats?  Uttar Pradesh 24. The distance between the earth and the sun is smallest in which month?  January