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General Knowledge(GK) (or) General Awareness

Welcome to the General Knowledge Section of Free Time Learning. As we are aware General Knowledge (GK) is a very important area in all the competitive exams held in the country. Nowadays, a good knowledge of general awareness is very important in clearing any competitive and government recruitment examinations.

These General Knowledge Question are very important and usefull to UPSC, IAS/PCS, UPPSC, IBPS, SBI, RBI, SSC, CGL, Railway, APPSC, TSPSC, KPSC, TNPSC, TPSC, UPPSC, MPSC, RPSC, BPSC, MPPSC, UKPSC, MPSC, and other competitive exams.

1 .
India's first satellite Aryabhata was launched from
A)
Soviet Union
B)
America
C)
India
D)
Israel

Correct Answer :   Soviet Union

Assembled at Peenya, near Bangalore, Aryabhata was launched from Volgograd Launch Station (presently in Russia) from a Soviet-made rocket. The life of the satellite, weighing 360 kg, was about 17 years

Published On : June 7, 2021
2 .
First satellite to be placed in orbit by Indian made launch vehicle SLV-3
A)
Aryabhata
B)
Rohini
C)
Bhskara-1
D)
INSAT

Correct Answer :   Rohini

SLV-3 was successfully launched on July 18, 1980 from Sriharikota Range (SHAR), when Rohini satellite, RS-1, was placed in orbit, thereby making India the sixth member of an exclusive club of space-faring nations .

Published On : June 7, 2021
3 .
Total number of satellite launched by India till 28 February 2021
A)
520
B)
456
C)
407
D)
342

Correct Answer :   342

This is a list of all the foreign satellites launched by India. India has launched 342 satellites for 36 different countries as of 28 February 2021.

Published On : June 7, 2021
4 .
India's first Satellite Aryabhatta launched by India in the year
A)
1962
B)
1975
C)
1986
D)
1991

Correct Answer :   1975

Within six years of formation, ISRO launches Aryabhata, first Indian Satellite, on April 19, 1975.

Published On : June 7, 2021
5 .
Who is known as the Father of Indian Space Program
A)
Satish Dhawan
B)
CV Raman
C)
Vikrama Sarabhai
D)
APJ Kalam

Correct Answer :   Vikrama Sarabhai

Dr. Vikrama Sarabhai was considered as the Father of the Indian space program; He was a great institution builder and established or helped to establish a large number of institutions in diverse fields.

Published On : June 7, 2021
6 .
First mobile phone conversion take place in India between
A)
Jyoti Basu and Sukh Ram
B)
Ambika Soni and Narasimbha Rao
C)
Narasimbha Rao and Sukhram
D)
None of the above

Correct Answer :   Jyoti Basu and Sukh Ram

With Jyoti Basu as chief minister of West Bengal making India's first cell-phone call to Sukh Ram, the communications minister in the P.V. Narasimha Rao government. The call made in July 1995, between Writer's Building in Kolkata and Sanchar Bhavan in Delhi was carried on the network of Mobile Net.

Published On : June 7, 2021
7 .
Internet in India was started by VSNL in the year
A)
6th August,1990
B)
15th August,1992
C)
15th August,1995
D)
26th August,1997

Correct Answer :   15th August,1995

VSNL first launched the internet in India on August 15, 1995

Published On : June 7, 2021
8 .
Most recent Indian citizen scientist that won a Nobel prize in 2009
A)
Mother Teresa
B)
V Ramakrishnan
C)
Amartyan Sen
D)
VS Naipaul

Correct Answer :   V Ramakrishnan

Venki Ramakrishnan, byname of Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, (born 1952, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India), Indian-born physicist and molecular biologist who was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, along with American biophysicist and biochemist Thomas Steitz and Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath, for his research into the atomic structure and function of cellular particles called ribosomes.

Published On : June 7, 2021
9 .
First Nuclear Plants in India
A)
Rawatbhata, Rajasthan
B)
Kakrapar, Gujrat
C)
Narora, Uttar Pradesh
D)
Tarapur, Maharashtra

Correct Answer :   Tarapur, Maharashtra

The Tarapur Atomic Power Station (TAPS) is located near Boiser in the Thane District of Maharashtra. Begun as India's first atomic power project, the Indian Government decided to utilize boiling water reactors (BWRs) for the plant. On 8 May 1964.

Published On : June 7, 2021
10 .
First Nuclear Reactor made in India
A)
KAMINI
B)
Dhruva
C)
Apsara
D)
CIRUS

Correct Answer :   Apsara

Apsara is the oldest of India's research reactors. The reactor was designed by the Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) and built with assistance from the United Kingdom (which also provided the initial fuel supply consisting of 80 percent enriched uranium). Apsara first went critical on 4 August 1956.

Published On : June 7, 2021