Dear Students, you know that GENERAL AWARENESS is a part of OPSC ASO 2018 SYLLABUS. There will be 100 questions with 100 marks every question carries 1 mark each. So we are providing Some Important Sets of General Awareness Questions with Answer in a simple way reading format. Read and prepare yourself better for OPSC ASO Exam 2018.
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Q1. The velocity of sound in air (under normal condition) is
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OPSC General Awareness Practice Sets
- 30 m/sec
- 320 m/sec
- 343 m/sec
- 3,320 m/sec
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Q2. The term of office of a Judge of the International Court of Justice is
- five years
- six years
- nine years
- ten years
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Q3. The trophy known by the name of Grand Prix is associated with
- table tennis
- lawn tennis
- table tennis and lawn tennis
- table tennis, lawn tennis and shooting
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Q4. Water is a good solvent of ionic salts because
- it has a high boiling point
- it has a high dipole moment
- it has a high specific heat
- it has no colour
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Q5. The type of root system of all of the following is tap root system, except that of
- mango tree
- kachnar tree
- sunflower tree
- maize tree
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Q6. Treaty of Versailles rearranged the boundaries of several countries in Europe and many countries were formed such as
- Poland and Yugoslavia
- Lithuania and Estonia
- both (A) and (B)
- None of these
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Q7. Todal Mal was
- Revenue Minister in the Court of Akbar
- one of the nine gems in the Court of Akbar
- known for his reforms in policies of land revenue Akbar's reign
- All of these
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Q8. When is the International Workers' Day?
- 15th April
- 12th December
- 1st May
- 1st August
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Q9. When did Afghanistan end monarchy and became a republic ?
- 1949
- 1973
- 1965
- 2000
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Q10. What is the function of a dynamo?
- To convert heat energy into light energy
- To convert light energy into heat energy
- To convert mechanical energy into electrical energy
- To convert electrical energy into mechanical energy
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Q11. When did first test tube baby - Louise Brown born ?
- 1939
- 1958
- 1981
- 1978
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Q12. When did US astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin land on the moon ?
- July, 1969
- July, 1970
- July, 1963
- July 1972
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Q13. When did Hitler become President of Germany?
- 1934
- 1935
- 1936
- 1937
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Q14. What is the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) ?
- Group of 53 former colonies of Britain
- Group of 12 former republics of dissolved USSR
- Group of 10 Latin America countries
- Group of Islamic countries in Saudi Arabia region
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Q15. The largest cell is ______
- Nerve Cell
- Ovum
- The egg of an Ostrich
- None of these
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Q16. Who coined the word Dinosaur for 'terrible lizard'?
- Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
- George Cuvier
- Gideon Mantell
- Richard Owen
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Q17. In which year was Nobel Prizes awarded first ?
- 1901
- 1912
- 1923
- 1924
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Q18. ICAO stands for
- International Civil Aviation Organisation
- Indian Corporation of Agriculture Organisation
- Institute of Company Accounts Organisation
- None of these
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Q19. India's first Technicolor film _____ in the early 1950s was produced by_____
- 'Jhansi Ki Rani', Sohrab Modi
- 'Jhansi Ki Rani', Sir Syed Ahmed
- 'Mirza Ghalib', Sohrab Modi
- 'Mirza Ghalib', Munshi Premchand
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Q20. India's tallest stone statue of the Jain sage Gomateswara is at
- Mysore, Karnataka
- New Delhi
- Sravanabelagola, Karnataka
- Mandu, Madhya Pradesh