General Awareness for CUCET

Can you provide me some questions for preparation of General Awareness section of CUCET or the Central Universities Common Entrance Test as I will be giving the exam this year?

[sumit]

Some questions for preparation of General Awareness section of CUCET or the Central Universities Common Entrance Test are as follows:

1.Which of the following cities is known as Electronic City of India ?

Mumbai
Hyderabad
Bangalore
Gurgaon

2.Who was the ICC Cricket world Cup 2015 ambassador?

Ricky Ponting
Sachin Tendulkar
M. S. Dhoni
AB de Villiers

3.Where is the National Remote Sensing Agency situated ?

Bangalore
Dehradun
Shadnagar
Chennai

4.The first underground railway in India was opened in 1984 in

Mumbai
Chennai
Kolkata
Bangalore

5.Ashok Pandit is known for his outstanding performance in which of the following ?

Swimming
Wrestling
Shooting
Kabaddi

6.Who was the first Indian to go into space ?

Satish Dhawan
Ravi Malhotra
Rakesh Sharma
None of these

7.Who wrote Dragons Seed ?

Pearl S. Buck
Shakespeare
Shelley
Keats

8.Bismillah Khan is associated with

Tabla
Sarod
Flute
Shehnai

9.The Paratroopers Training School of the Indian Air Force, is located at

Nasik
Agra
Pune
Dehradun

10.The famous Meenakshi temple is in

Maharashtra
Gujarat
Orissa
Tamil Nadu

11.Which of the following personalities inspiredGreen Revolution in India ?

R.A. Kidwai
N.E. Borlaug
K.M. Panikkar
M.S. Ssaminathan

12.The headquarters of the National Power Training Institute is located in

Lucknow
Faridabad
Bhopal
Hyderabad

13.Which of the following is a violin player ?

V.C. Jog
Mallikarjun Mansur
Hariprasad Chaurasia
None of these

14.Which Iraqi scientist known as Dr. Germ for her role in Iraqs biological weapons programme recently surrendered to coalition forces ?

Maleeha Lodhi
Salma Pervez
Saleema Garib
Rihab Rashid Taha

15.Kishori Amonkar is famous in which of the following fields ?

Dance
Music
Social service
Film acting

16.Guru Gopinath was an exponent of

Kuchipudi
Bharatnatyam
Kathakali
Kathak

17.A. Nageshwara Rao is asociated which of the following fields ?

Sports
Social service
Literature
Motion Picture

18.The world famous ajanta caves are situated in the state of

Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Karnataka
Orissa

19.The Indial Institute of Science is located at

New Delhi
Madras
Kharagpur
Bangalore

20.Which among the following ranks in Indian Air Force is the highest ?

Flying Officer
Air Commodore
Wing Commander
Squadron Leader

21.Which music director had the distinction of being the first Asian to compose a symphony for Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London ?

Nadeem - Sharavan
Anand - Milind
Shiv Hari
None of these

22.National Science Centre is located at

Delhi
Bangalore
Bombay
Kolkata

23.Who is Mickey Kantor ?

U.S. trade representative
American Noble Prize winner for Economics
U.S. Film actress
Wife of a former Americal President

24.When was the first air-conditioned train introduced in India ?

1936
1946
1969
1975

25.Who among the following was the first woman Chief Justice of a High Court ?

Geeta Mukherjee
Leila Seth
Sujata Manohar
Rani Jethmalani

26.The first English newspaper in India was started by

Dadabhai Naoroji
J.A. Hickey
Lord William Bentinck
Rabindranath Tagore

27.The National Design Institute is located at

Hyderabad
Chandigarh
Ahmedabad
Dehradun

28.The Centre for Cellular amd Molecular Biology is situated at

New Delhi
Hyderabad
Patna
Jaipur

29.The Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development has been set up at which of the following places ?

Lucknow
Bombay
New Delhi
None of these

30.Ustad Vilayat Khan is associated with

painting
classical music
light music
instrumental music

31.Who among the following is the famous renowned astronomer (recipient of Padma Bhushan Award at the age of 27) ?

Prof. S.S. Joshi
Dr. Subramaniam Chandrashekhar
Prof. Satish Dhawan
Dr. Jayant Vishnu Narlikar

32.C.D.R.I. is located at

Lucknow
Mysore
Nagpur
Madras

33.The first nuclear reactor in India is

Dhruva
Harsha
Apsara
Vipula

34.Eight Lives is a book written by

Khushwant Singh
Mahesh Yogi
Raj Mohan Gandhi
Savita Ambedkar

35.First Governor General of India, after independence was

C. Rajagopalachari
Jawaharlal Nehru
Lord Mountbatten
Rajendra Prasad