General knowledge Bits for competitive exams

Some Selected Important GK bits for all Competitive Exams 2013



1. Who is known as Modern Bhoja ?
Answer: Krishnadeva Raya


2. Who started Shudhi Movement ?
Answer: Dayananda Saraswathy


3. Which Pakistan President signed the Tashkent Agreement  ?
Answer: Ayub Khan


4. Which Substance is known as Philosopher's wool ?
Answer: Zinc Oxide


5. Which Vitamin helps in the absorption of Calcium ?
Answer: Vitamin D


6.Who discovered Rh Factor ?
Answer: Karl Landsteiner (the same person discovered Blood Group)



7. Who wrote the book Harmonies of World ?
Answer: Kepler


8. Where is the Headquarters of Amnesty International ?
Answer: London

9. Which is the shortest River in the world ?
Answer: Roe


10. The image formed on the Retina of the human eye is ________ ?
Answer: Real and inverted


11.Who discovered Microphone ?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell


12. Myopia (Short sightedness) can be corrected by using a  _______ lens ?
Answer: Concave


13. Hypermetropia (Long sightedness) can be corrected using a _________ ?
Answer: Convex lens


14. Erg is the unit of _____?
Answer: Work


15. Dyne is the unit of ______ ?
Answer: Force


16. Poise is the unit of _______ ?
Answer: Viscosity of fluid



Colour of different lamps


Sodium Vapour lamp  =>>  Yellow

Hydrogen Vapour lamp  =>>  Blue

Nitrogen Vapour lamp  =>>  Red

Mercury Vapour lamp  =>>  White

Neon Vapour Lamp  =>>  Orange

Chlorine Vapour Lamp  =>>  Green


* 17.Which cricketer has the nick name Haryana Hurricane ?
Answer: Kapil Dev


* 18. Who is the law Adviser of the central Government ?
Answer: Attorney General



* 19. Which is the acid present in tomato ?
Answer: Oxalic acid


* 20. Which disease is also known as Hansen's disease ?
Answer: Leprosy


* 21. Who gave the Pacific Ocean its name ?
Answer: Magellan


* 22.Which state has large number of cinema theater in India?
Answer: Andhara Pradesh


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