General Knowledge Question Paper of OPSC Lecturer in OTET Cadre: 2017-18

Board Name: Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC)

Post Name: Lecture in OTET Cadre- 2017 - 18 
Time: 1 Hours

Total Questions: 50

Full Marks: 50

Each Question Carries: 1 Mark

Exam Year: 2018

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. The term TDSAT refers to :

a. A Satellite
b. A Tribunal
c. A Telecom Company
d. A Society

Ans: (b)

2. Who mooted the idea of ‘food Coupon’? 

a. C. Rangarajan
b. V. Subba Rao
c. Kaushik Basu
d. None of them

Ans: (c)

3. NABARD was established on the recommendation of : 

a. Yashpal Committee
b. L. K. Jha Committee
c. M. S. Swaminathan Committee
d. Shivraman Committee

Ans: (d)

4. National Mission of Financial Inclusion was recommended by: 

a. C. Rangarajan Committee
b. Kalekar Committee
c. Chakravarty Committee
d. Second Narsimaham Committee

Ans: (a)

5. Kalinga War was fought in the year: 

a. 231 BC
b. 261 BC
c. 268 BC
d. 332 BC

Ans: (b)

6. Cuttak city was founded in the year: 

a. 989 AD
b. 990 AD
c. 999 AD
d. 1025 AD

Ans: (a) by Maharaja Markata Keshari

7. Paik Rebellion was held in Odisha in: 

a. 1815
b. 1817
c. 1818
d. 1821

Ans: (b)

8. Identify the person not associated with Satyabadi Panchasakha: 

a. Nilakantha Das
b. Krupasindhu Mishra
c. Madhusudan Das
d. Harihar Das

Ans: (c) 

9. Which one is known as “Tulashi Kshetra” in Odisha? 

a. Puri
b. Kendrapara
c. Konark
d. Jajpur

Ans: (b)

10. Which one is considered as oldest civilisation? 

a. Mesopotamia
b. Harappan
c. Chinese
d. Egyptian

Ans: (a)

11. Who was the Master of Greek Comedy? 

a. Aeschylus
b. Sophocles
c. Aristophanes
d. Philip

Ans: (c)

12. Vasco da Gama arrived in India in the Year:

a. 1495
b. 1496
c. 1497
d. 1498

Ans: (d)

13. Who was the first to sail round the world? 

a. Magellan
b. Columbus
c. Francis Drake
d. Vasco da Gama

Ans: (a)

14. Who was known as Man of Blood and Iron? 

a. Napoleon
b. Sardar Patel
c. Mao Tse Tung
d. Bismark

Ans: (d)

15. Laterite soils are formed due to:

a. Erosion
b. Leaching
c. Deposit of riverine silt
d. Mechanical Weathering of igneous rocks

Ans: ( )

16. Which one among the list tops uranium production? 

a. Kazakhstan
b. India
c. China
d. Australia

Ans: (a)

17. Asthenosphere is located at: 

a. Above Stratosphere
b. Below Lithosphere
c. Above Lithosphere
d. Below Ionosphere

Ans: (b)

18. Which one is not an ore? 

a. Chalcopyrite
b. Sphalerite
c. Cinnabar
d. Anderite

Ans: (d)

19. Who is called “Father of Geometry”? 

a. Galileo
b. Copernicus
c. Euclid
d. Barahamihir

Ans: (c)

20. Albert Einstein was awarded Nobel Prize for: 

a. Theory of Relativity
b. Laws of Photoelectric Effects
c. Principles of Wave-particle Duality
d. Theory of Critical Opalescence

Ans: (b)

21. Which one is most common cause of “Sunburn”? 

a. Ultraviolet radiation
b. Infrared radiation
c. Microwave radiation
d. Visible radiation

Ans: (a)

22. A transition from solid to gas phase with no intermediate liquid stage is called: 

a. Evaporation
b. Absorption
c. Sublimation
d. Solid phase extraction

Ans: (c)

23. Which one was the First Indian Satellite? 

a. Rohini
b. Bhaskara
c. Apple
d. Aryabhatta

Ans: (d)

24. Which one was India’s first nuclear reactor? 

a. Apsara
b. Dhruba
c. Kudankulam
d. None of these

Ans: (a)

25. Who was venerated as “Second Buddha”? 

a. Maitreya
b. Padmasambhava
c. Avalokitesvara
d. None of them

Ans: (b)

26. Temple of Emerald Buddha  is in the country: 

a. Thailand
b. Laos
c. Cambodia
d. Tibet

Ans: (a)

27. Who was the First Education Minister of India? 

a. B.R. Ambedkar
b. K.M. Munshi
c. Maulana Azad
d. Rafi Ahmed Kidwai

Ans: (c)

28. Who said: “Swaraj is my birth right”? 

a. Gokhale
b. Tilak
c. Gandhi
d. Netaji Subhash

Ans: (b)

29. Which country is compiling world’s first traditional knowledge “Digital Library”? 

a. UK
b. China
c. France
d. India

Ans: (d)

30. Which one below is not a classical language in India? 

a. Malayalam
b. Bhojpuri
c. Odia
d. Tamil

Ans: (b) The classical languages are follows:
1. Tamil since 2004
2. Sanskrit since 2005
3. Telugu since 2008
4. Kannada since 2008
5. Malayalam since 2013
6. Odia since 2014

31. How many Fundamental Duties Indians are expected to perform? 

a. Six
b. Eight
c. Ten
d. Eleven

Ans: (d)

32. 101st Constitution Amendment Act refers to : 

a. Judicial Appointment Commission
b. GST
c. Amendment to enhance faith in cooperatives
d. None of these

Ans: (b)

33. Identify the odd one: 

a. Agartala
b. Ranchi
c. Allahabad
d. Chennai

Ans: (c)

34. Name the 12th President of India: 

a. K.R. Narayanan
b. APJ Abdul Kalam
c. Prativa Patil
d. Pranab Mukherjee

Ans: (c)

35. In which year Election Commission was established? 

a. 1947
b. 1949
c. 1950
d. 1951

Ans: (c)

36. The Headquarters of UNESCO is at: 

a. Paris
b. Geneva
c. London
d. Rome

Ans: (a)

37. CSIR was established in the year: 

a. 1940
b. 1942
c. 1947
d. 1950

Ans: (b) on 26 September 1942

38. World Yoga Day is celebrated on : 

a. 14th March
b. 1st May
c. 21st June
d. 2nd October

Ans: (c)

39. Which country below is not a member of BIMSTEC? 

a. Myanmar
b. Thailand
c. Pakisthan
d. Sri Lanka

Ans: (c)

40. Pokharan II Test was held in the year: 

a. 1974
b. 1997
c. 1998
d. 1999

Ans: (c) on May 11, 1998

41. Who is the Chief Commander of Armed Forces in India?

a. Defence Minister
b. Chief of the Army Staff
c. The President
d. Senior most officer of three cadres

Ans: (c)

42. Who presides over Joint Session of Indian Parliament? 

a. Speaker of Lok Sabha
b. Chairman of Rajya Sabha
c. Prime Minister
d. Parliamentary Affairs Minister

Ans: (a)

43. Identify the odd one: 

a. Cauvery
b. Tapti
c. Godavari
d. Krishna

Ans: ( )

44. Identify the wrong pair of capital currency: 

a. Rome- Lira
b. Budapest – Forint
c. Bangkok-Baht
d. Tokyo- Yen

Ans: (a) Rome's currency is Euro

45. The venue of next Olympic Games is at: 

a. Los Angeles
b. Sydney
c. Montreal
d. Tokyo

Ans: (d) Tokyo- 2020, Paris- 2024, Los Angeles- 2028

46. The First Asian Games was held at : 

a. Tokyo
b. New Delhi
c. Bangkok
d. Teheran

Ans: (b)

47. Name the Chairperson of 15th Finance Commission: 

a. N.K. Singh
b. K.S. Reddy
c. Kaushik Basu
d. N. Trehan

Ans: (2)

48. Human Resource Development Ministry has launched which holistic programme for the development of school education? 

a. Sampurna Shiksha
b. Moral Shiksha
c. Samagra Shiksha
d. Sarva Shiksha

Ans: (c)

49. Amrutdhara Waterfall is located at: 

a. Manipur
b. Kerala
c. Sikkim
d. Chhattisgarh

Ans: (d)

50. “Gandiv Vijay – 2018” is a/an: 

a. Athletic Meet
b. Bow and Arrow Competition
c. Military Exercise of Indian Army
d. Showcasing India’s Arms and Ammunition

Ans: (c)