Municipal Secretary, Block Panchayat Secretary, Assistant - BEVCO Expected Questions 2015 - 2

1. Which item of the Olympic Games was last held in the London Olympics of 1948, and abandoned in 1954?

2. Palynology is the study of ______?

3. Chintamoni Kar Bird Sanctuary is the only wild life sanctuary in India to be named after a sculptor. In which state, is this sanctuary situated?

4. Which precious stones standard for the pricing is the Rapaport Report?

5. With regard to measuring gemstones and pearls, the carat is a unit of mass equal to Mg?

6. Which is the meeting place of the General Conference on Weights & Measures in every four to six years?

7. Which Ministry conducts the decennial Census in India?

8. Which device is used to measure the rate of flow of a fluid through a pipe?

9. What is the important use of a pulverized coal-fired boiler?

10. Who organized the secret society of 'Lotus and Dagger for the liberation of India from the British?

11. Which cattle breed is known as 'golden milk cattle, because of the milk of this breed has a golden color?

12. The music associated with which Indian classic dance form is known as 'Borgeet'?

13. Which Act divided British India into two, namely India & Pakistan?

14. Which famous English writer's first novel was 'the Poor man and the Lady'?

15. Which capital city has the nickname of 'Bush Capital'?

16. The Betts electrolytic process is an industrial process for the purification of?

17. Which isotop of bismuth has a half life more than a billion times the estimated age of the Universe?

18. Which metal is industrially isolated through the Betterton-Kroll process?

19. Which major European city is situated on the banks of the river Limmat?

20. Who is the chancellor of the Nalanda University?

21. Who is the author of the famous article 'More than 100 Million Women are Missing'?

22. Which prestigious award is known as 'the Nobel Prize of Music' in Sweden?

23. The WISE Prize is a major international award that rewards individual or a team for an outstanding, world class contribution to?

24. In which year was the National Housing Bank founded?

25. Where is the Viakunth Mehta National Institute of Cooperative Management situated?

26. Which Arab leader put forward his political philosophy through the short book named The Green Boole?

27. Which city has the nicknames of 'the Cultural Capital of India and the City of Processions'?

28. Which Indian King was described by H G Wells as 'Amidst the tens of thousands of names of monarchs that crowd the columns of history, his name shines, and shines, almost alone, a star'?

29. Who wrote the fag ous book 'the Outline of History', subtitled as the ole Story of Man'?

30. Who made the famous statement of 'As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master'?

31. Which is the only continent to be devoid of any active volcanoes?

32. A street with only one inlet/outlet is known as ______?

33. The strategic rivalry and conflict between the British Empire & the Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia during the 19th century was known as ______?

34. Which country's northeastern tip is occupied by the Wakhan Corridor?

35. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of USA is colloquially known as _____?

36. Which chemical is also known in the name of 'Minium'?

37. Which chemical is industrially manufactured through the 'Acetylene Process'?

38. A person with sickle cell anaemia has advantage over the disease?

39. Name the renowned Indian sculptor who won the silver medal for his work entitled The Stag' at the 1948 London Olympics?

40. Name the organell where photosynthesis takes place?

41. What is the name of the study of seaweeds?

42. Which country is the largest seaweed producer in the world?

43. Which vegetable is used to make 'Crispy Seaweed'?

44. Laminaria, Porphyra & Gelidium are examples of ______?

45. In which plant the plant body consists of green roots only?