Railway Recruitment Board NTPC Paper 2016
| No. | Questions |
| 1 | The process when the computer is switched on and the operating system gets loaded from hard disk to main memory is called
(a) Booting (b) Fetching (c) processing (d) Multi-processing |
| 2 | Which Indian won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Peace?
(a)Kailash Satyarthi (b) Malala Yosufzai (c) Sanjiv Chaturvedi (d) Anshu Gupta |
| 3 | Who was the first President of the Indian National Congress
(a) Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee (b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (c) Allan Octavian Hume (d) Dadabhai Jaoroji |
| 4 | In 2013, the first woman to be elected as the President of South Korea is
(a) Park Young-sun (b) Yuk Young-soo (c) Park Geun-hye (d) Sim Sang-jung |
| 5 | The Mughal empire was founded by
(a) Babar (b) Humayun (c) Akbar (d) Shah Jahan |
| 6 | The oldest oil field in Asia is located in
(a) Gujarat (b) Assam (c) Arunachal Pradesh (d) Nagaland |
| 7 | Which of the following is false?
Sound waves are ______ waves (a) Pressure (b) Longitudinal (c) electromagnetic (d) Mechanical |
| 8 | How many bones does a new born human baby have
(a) 350 (b) 206 (c) 211 (d) 411 |
| 9 | Which country built the Bird’s Nest Stadium for 2008 Summer Olympics?
(a) China (b) Brazil (c) Australia (d) Germany |
| 10 | Which of the following coloured light has the lowest frequency?
(a) Green (b) Blue (c) Red (d) Violet |
| 11 | In 2015, which auto manufacturer manipulated emissions testing data leading to the resignation of its CEO Martin Winterkorn?
(a) Volkswagen (b) Ford (c) Toyota (d) General Motors |
| 12 | Which only non-metal which is liquid at room temperature is
(a) Mercury (b) Bromine (c) Chlorine (d) Gallium |
| 13 | Maanch is a folk dance from
(a) Haryana (b) Kerala (c) Assam (d) Madhya Pradesh |
| 14 | In 1981, ISRO launched India’s first geostationary satellite called
(a) Aryabhata (b) APPLE (c) Bhaskara II (d) INSAT 1B |
| 15 | Which of the following was the first antibiotic discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928 ?
(a) Penicillin (b) Prontosil (c) Streptomycin (d) Tetracyline |
| 16 | Which of the following Acts under the Indian Constitution is described by Article 21A ?
(a) Right to Education (b) Right to Information (c) Representation of the People (d) Right to Freedom of Religion |
| 17 | Which of the following monuments built by Muhammand Quli Qutb Shah is said to be built to commemorate the eradication of plague ?
(a) Alai Minar (b) Charminar (c) Fateh Burj (d) Qutub Minar |
| 18 | Which of the following is not an example of a Word Processor?
(a) IBM Lotus Symphony (b) Microsoft Word (b) Google Docs (d) Microsoft Excel |
| 19 | How high is the badminton net at the center?
(a) 5 feet (b) 5.1 feet (c) 5.5 feet (d) 4.8 feet |
| 20 | The operating system UNIX is the trademark of –
(a) Microsoft (b) Bell Laboratories (c) Apple (d) Motorola |
Answers –
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| a | a | a | c | a | b | c | a | a | c |
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| a | b | d | b | a | a | b | d | a | b |