General Awareness (Model Set 1)

Model Set No. 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10

1. The T.V. serial ‘Tamas’ was directed by—
(A) Satyajit Roy
(B) Deepti Saha
(C) Shyam Benegal
(D) Govinda Nihalni

2. Lala Lajpat Roy is the author of the book—
(A) India divided
(B) Hind swaraj
(C) Unhappy India
(D) Mother India

3. Who is the director of the film ‘The last emperor’?
(A) Kennet Griffith
(B) Bernardo Bertolucci
(C) James Selleck
(D) Jack Fish

4. What is unique of the film ‘Adi Shankaracharya’ ?
(A) It is the first Sanskrit film
(B) It has no female actress
(C) It is the first film of the director G.V.Iyer.
(D) It has own the national award.

5. In India the first television programme was broadcasted in—
(A) 1959
(B) 1965
(C) 1976
(D) 1957

6. In which of the following film Shabana Azmi did not act ?
(A) Arth
(B) Masoom
(C) Ardh Satya
(D) Mandi

7. Who among the following writers was born in 1891?
(A) Charles Dickens
(B) William Shakespeare
(C) Agatha Christie
(D) Thomas Hardy

8. The first history book was written by—
(A) Euclid
(B) Julius Ceasar
(C) Aristotle
(D) Herodotus

9. Who is the author of ‘Tom Sawyer’?
(A) John Ruskin
(B) William Shakespeare
(C) Leo Tolstoy
(D) Mark Twain

10. The film ‘Salaam Bombay’ was directed by—
(A) Aparna Sen
(B) Mira Nair
(C) Shyam Benegal
(D) Mrinal Sen

11. Which of the following is a novel written by Premchand ?
(A) Maila Aanchal
(B) Kamayani
(C) Rangbhoomi
(D) Tyagpatra

12. Who said, ‘Man is a political animal’?
(A) Dante
(B) Plato
(C) Aristotle
(D) Socrates

13. Telecasted serial ‘India’s Rajiv’ was produced and directed by—
(A) Shyam Benegal
(B) Satyajit Ray
(C) Simmi Garewal
(D) Mira Nair

14. Which of the following satellites help telecast TV network programmes all over the country ?
(A) Aryabhatta
(B) Apple
(C) INSAT-1B
(D) Rohini

15. ‘Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha’ a very popular book was written by—
(A) Norman Angell
(B) Roddy Doyle
(C) Arnold Toynbee
(D) Juan Benet

16. Gunnar Myrdal has dealt with the problem of Asian Countries in ‘Asian Drama’ regarding—
(A) Modern Countries
(B) Poverty
(C) Military dictatorship
(D) Neo-colonialism

17. The T.V. serial ‘the sword of Tipu Sultan’ was based on the novel written by—
(A) Sanjay Khan
(B) Rahi Masoom Raja
(C) Ishwari Prasad
(D) Bhagwan S. Gidwani

18. Who wrote the book ‘Gandhi and Stalin’ ?
(A) Rajmohan Gandhi
(B) Nelson Mandela
(C) Louis Fisher
(D) Martin Luther

19. Who produced the first film ‘Raja Harishchandra’ in 1913?
(A) Sohrab Modi
(B) Dada Saheb Phalke
(C) V. Shanta Ram
(D) K.L.Saigal

20. Who is the author of the best seller ‘No full stops in India’ ?
(A) Shyam Lal
(B) E.M. Forster
(C) Mark Tully
(D) Raj Mohan Gandhi

21. George Bernard Shaw, the great dramatist, was—
(A) A Welsh
(B) A Scottish
(C) An Irish
(D) An Englishman

22. Who among the following was commissioned to make a film on the biography of Jawaharlal Nehru?
(A) Satyajit Ray
(B) Kenneth Griffith
(C) Tom Selleck
(D) Sir Richard Attenborough

23. Who among the following has directed the film ‘Sarda’ ?
(A) Tapan Sinha
(B) Shyam Benegal
(C) Ketan Mehta
(D) Buddhadeb Dasgupta

24. Who is the author of the book ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ ?
(A) Richard Nixon
(B) Keats
(C) T.S. Elliot
(D) Shakespeare

25. The film ‘The Last Emperor’ is based on—
(A) Ethnic ruler
(B) Don of smuggling world
(C) Regime of China’s ruler
(D) Hitler and his regime

Answer :
1. (D) 2. (C) 3. (B) 4. (A) 5. (A) 6. (C) 7. (C) 8. (D) 9. (D) 10. (B)
11. (C) 12. (C) 13. (C) 14. (C) 15. (B) 16. (B) 17. (D) 18. (C) 19. (D) 20. (C)
21. (C) 22. (A) 23. (C) 24.(C) 25.(C)