Quiz 70 : GK for SSC Examinations March 12, 2009 1. What is the tenure of individual Rajya Sabha members?3 years4 years5 years6 years2. Who was the first President of All-India Muslim League? Nawab Salimullah KhanKhwaja Abdul GhaniM. Shamsher AliAga Khan III3. The spiritual guru Gadadhar Chattopadhyay is best known with which among the following names ?Upendranath BrahmachariRamakrishna ParamahamsaSri ArubindoSwami Prabhupad4. Stapes, the smallest and the lightest bone in human body, is the part of which organ ?EarNoseNeckhand5. Jayamkondam in Tamil Nadu is famous for which among the following minerals?BauxiteLigniteCalciteMagnesite6. Who among the following is the author of the book ‘A Brief History of Time’ ?Stephen HawkingHarry KrotoJohn GurdonBruno Rossi7. For the popularization of Science, which of the following agency of awards the Kalinga Prize ?World Economic ForumUNESCOInternational Science CongressMinistry of Science & Technology, Government of India8. Which ancient Indian physician is known as the ‘Father of Surgery’?CharakaSushrutaNagarjunaVagbhatta9. Who presided over the first session of the All India Trade Union Congress in 1920 ?Purshottam Das TandonLala Lajpat RaiKasturbhai LalbhaiGovind Vallabh Pant10. On which planet, due to its clockwise (east to west) rotation on the axis, the Sun rises in the west and sets in the east ?MercuryVenusEarthMarsSubmit Test « Previous Next »