MCQ QUIZ 67

                                                      MCQ QUIZ 67

Q1. Which gas, abundantly produced in swamps and marshes by the action of bacteria on dead vegetation, is commonly referred as 'Marsh Gas' ?
 
(A) Ethane
(B) Methane
(C) Butane
(D) Propane

Q2. In 1969, under whose Prime Ministership were 14 private banks nationalised ?
 
(A) Indira Gandhi
(B) Lal Bahadur Shastri
(C) Jawaharlal Nehru
(D) Morarji Desai

Q3. 'Gift of the Nile' is the nickname of which African country ?
 
(A) Sudan
(B) Egypt
(C) Uganda
(D) Tanzania

Q4. Who invented Hovercraft ?
 
(A) Karl Benz
(B) David Bushnell
(C) Christopher Cockerell
(D) Etienne Oehmichen

Q5. In which European city are the headquarters of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) located ?
 
(A) Brussels (Belgium)
(B) Vienna (Austria)
(C) Paris (France)
(D) Geneva (Switzerland)

Q6. On 8 January 2009, at which place in Kerala did Prime Minister Manmohan Singh commission the Asia's biggest Naval Academy ?
 
(A) Ezhimala (Kerala)
(B) Karwar (Karnataka)
(C) Visakhapatnam (A.P.)
(D) Okha (Gujarat)

Q7. By which process liquid Vegetable Oil is converted to solid Vanaspati Ghee ?
 
(A) Galvanisation
(B) Volcanisation
(C) Pasteurisation
(D) Hydrogenation

Q8. Due to which physical property does the water drop take round (spherical) shape ?
 
(A) Viscosity
(B) Surface Tension
(C) Polarization
(D) Buoyancy

Q9. Which mineral is mined at Golkonda in Andhra Pradesh ?
 
(A) Gold
(B) Silver
(C) Diamond
(D) Copper

Q10. Who was the first Indian cricketer to take Hat Trick in One Day International (ODI) cricket ?
 
(A) Chetan Sharma
(B) Irfan Pathan
(C) Harbhajan Singh
(D) Kapil Dev