SPECIAL QUESTIONS||INTELLIGENCE AND GENERAL KNOWLEDGE||SET 01

Question 1
What is chlorination? Is it :

A) Sweetening of drinking water
B) To make water germ-free
C) To make liquid solids
D) To make solids liquids
E) To add smell?



Ans.(B)



Question 2
What is hydrogenation?
What is its best-known use?


Ans.
By this process substances are subjected to chemical action with Hydrogen; it is used in the making of vanaspati, soaps, etc.



Question 3
Which of the following is the 'odd man out'?

Animal, engine, identity, octagon, unicorn


Fill in the blank:
4, 6, 9, 14, ....



Ans.
Unicorn (The rest have the  same first and last vowels.)

23 ( the numbers are derived by doubling the preceding number and subtracting 2, 3, 4, and so on, respectively)



Question 4
Dhruva is the name of the high-power reactor. Where is it situated? Is it at:

A) Kota
B) Kalpakkam
C) Madurai
D) Kesargarh
E) Trombay


Ans.(E)



Question 5The 
River Jhelum originates at:

A) Gangotri
B) Upper Himalayas
C) Kedarnath
D) Ambernath
E) Verinag


Ans.(E)




Question 6
Which of the following sanctuaries are not in Assam?

A) Corbett
B) Kaziranga
C) Manas
D) Laokhowa
E) Keibul Lamjao


Ans.(E)(A)



Question 7
What do you know about:
(One fact will do)

Masefield
Milton
Omar Khayyam
Poe
Pope


Ans.
Masefield - British Poet and balladeer
Milton - British Poet, author of Paradise Lost.
Omar Khayyam - Persian poet, famous for his Rubaiyat
Poe - American Writer, famous for his stories of the macabre
Pope - British Poet, author of Essay on Man.



Question 8
Can you recognize:

Pushkin
Shelley
Tennyson
Whitman
Yeats


Ans.
Pushkin - Russian Writer, author of Ludmilla
Shelley - British Poet, author of Adonais
Tennyson - British Poet, author of Charge of the Light Brigade
Whitman - American Poet, author of Innisfree
Yeats - Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature



Question 9
Nakki Lake is situated at

A) Mansarovar
B) Simla
C) Kullu
D) Bhimtal
E) Mt. Abu


Ans.(E)



Question 10
A hundred years ago, what is now a South American Republic was an empire.
What republic is this?
When was this empire proclaimed?
When did it end?
Why?
What is its capital?
What is its official language?



Ans.
>Brazil
>In 1822
>In 1889
>The emperor was overthrown by a revolution.
>Brasilia
>Portuguese