Andhra Pradesh Panchayat Secretary 2014 Paper -General Studies
In Which two states of India, was Panchayat Raj system first introduced?
(a) Bihar and Mandhay Pradesh
(b) Andhra Pradesh and Kerala
(c) Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
(d) Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan
The present Secretary General of the U.N.O is
(a) Ban ki-Moon
(b) Guy Ryder
(c) Jim Yong Kim
(d) Yukiya Amano
Angela Merkel is the Chancellor of
(a) France
(b) Germany
(c) Greece
(d) Japan
The Planning Commission was set up in the year
(a) 1950
(b) 1951
(c) 1952
(d) 1953
The Dutch East India Company set up their first factory at
(a) Cochin
(b) Surat
(c) Nagapatnam
(d) Masulipatnam
The first Chief Election Commissioner of India was
(a) K.V.K. Sundaram
(b) T. Swaminathan
(c) Sukumar Sen
(d) R.K. Trivdedi
The plants that grow on the rocks are called
(a) Lithophytes
(b) Erempohytes
(c) Sclerophytes
(d) Halophytes
The scientific study of insects is called
(a) Ethology
(b) Morphology
(c) Hydropathy
(d) Entomology
The biggest planet in the Solar System is
(a) Jupiter
(b) Venus
(c) Mercury
(d) Neptune
Earth is called as the
(a) Red Planet
(b) Blue planet
(c) Yellow planet
(d) Green planet
Who was the first Indian to get the Nobel Prize?
(a) C.V. Raman
(b) Amartya Sen
(c) Hargobind Khorana
(d) Rabindranath Tagore
The astronaut who first landed on the Moon was
(a) Yuri Gagarin
(b) Daniel Pearl
(c) Peter Scot
(d) Nel Armstrong
Who was the Prime Minister of India Just before P.V. Narimha Rao ?
(a) Indira Gandhi
(b) Charan Singh
(c) V.P. Singh
(d) Chandra Shekhar
In India, the longest day occurs on
(a) April – 13
(b) October – 31
(c) June – 21
(d) March – 21
Nelson Mandela who was South Africa’s first Black President died on
(a) 6th March 2013
(b) 6th October 2013
(c) 6th Nov 2013
(d) 6th Dec 2013