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CBSE Questions for Class 8 General Knowledge Superlatives And First In India And World Quiz 4 - MCQExams.com
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Class 8 General Knowledge
Superlatives And First In India And World
Quiz 4
Who was the first miss universe in the world?
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Reita Faria
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Amri Kuusela
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Manushi Chhillar
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Sushmita Sen
Which among the following is the worlds largest e-commerce company?
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Amazon
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eBay
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Alibaba
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Flipkart
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The Alibaba Group is the world’s largest e-commerce company by gross merchandise value, the volume of goods and service being transacted followed by Amazon and eBay.
The highest position in the country an IAS officer can aspire for is
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Governor RBI
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Cabinet Secretary
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Home Secretary
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Foreign Secretary
The first Backward Classes Commission was headed by
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Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur
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Jogendra Nath Mandal
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Kakasaheb Kalelkar
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M H Beg
The first Chairman of the Planning Commission was
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TT Krishnamachari
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Jawaharlal Nehru
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Dr VKRV Rao
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Dr John Matthai
The late Mrs Vijayalakshami Pandit was the first
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Indian to become President of the UN General Assembly
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Woman Cabinet Minister of a State in free India
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Woman Ambassador of free India to a foreign country
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To adorn all the three above assignments
The first woman to become the Speaker of a State Assembly in India was
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Vijayalakshami Pandit
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Sucheta Kripalani
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Shanno Devi
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Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur
The first Chairman of the Rajya Sabha was
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Dr Zakir Husain
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Dr S Radhakrishnan
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VV Giri
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N Sanjeeva Reddy
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Dr. S. Radhakrishnan was the first Chairman of Rajya Sabha
Benazir Bhutto was the world's
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first woman Prime Minister
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first woman Prime Minister of a Muslim Nation
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only woman Prime Minister
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second woman Prime Minister
The State having the largest population of scheduled castes is?
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Rajasthan
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Tamil Nadu
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Bihar
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Uttar Pradesh
________ led the nation's first non-Congress Government.
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Chandrasekhar
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Morarji Desai
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Charan Singh
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VP Singh
In which state or union territory is the literacy rate highest in the country?
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Delhi
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Chandigarh
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Karnataka
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Kerala.
The fastest rate of growth in terms of income generated has been recorded in the past couple of decades, in the:
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Agricultural sector
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Industrial sector
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Services sector
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All of the above
Who among the following recently became the first woman pilot in Indian Navy?
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Astha Segal
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Roopa A
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Sakthi Maya S
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Shubhangi Swaroop
Explanation
Shubhangi Swaroop, a native of Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh, has become the first-ever female pilot to be
inducted into the Indian Navy and will soon be
fly
Maritime Reconnaissance aircraft. Besides Swaroop, Astha Segal
from New Delhi, Puducherry’s Roopa A and Sakthi Maya S from Kerala also created history by becoming the
country’s first women officers at the Naval Armament Inspection (NAI) branch of the Navy.
Which country has successfully launched the world's smallest rocket to carry tiny satellite into orbit?
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China
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Japan
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Australia
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South Africa
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has successfully launched the worlds smallest rocket with the ability to put a tiny satellite into orbit. The experimental SS-520 sounding rocket lifted off from the Uchinoura Space Center. It carried a microsatellite TRICOM-1R, a three-unit CubeSat weighing about 3 kilograms. The CubeSat will now be used to collect images of the Earths surface via multiple cameras. This satellite launch was a re-flight of the TRICOM-1 mission, which was lost in SS-520's failure in 2017.
This $$18^{th}$$ century Swedish scientist first developed a binominal nomenclature system of scientific classification and nomenclature based on common characteristic of living begins. Who was he?
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Carolus Linnaeus
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Charles Darwin
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Benjamin Franklin
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Jacques Cousteau
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Carolus Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist who created the binomial nomenclature.
In this system, every kind of animal and plant is given a name consisting of two Latin words, for its genus and species. This became used by biologists all over the world, and he is known as the "father of modern taxonomy".
This American television channel started by Ted Turner in 1980 was the first to provide 24-hour news coverage. Name the channel.
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The Cable News Network (CNN) is an American cable news television channel. It was founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. The Cable News Network first aired on television in 1980.
Which of these is the world's highest waterfalls?
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Niagara Falls
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Angel Falls
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Victoria Falls
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Jog Falls
Which of the following statements regarding construction of Rohtang tunnel is NOT correct?
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It is located at an altitude of 5,000 feet
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It will provide all-year connectivity to Lahaul and Spiti Valley
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The tunnel is being built by the Border Roads Organization
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It will reduce the length of the Leh-Manali highway by approximately 50 km
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Rohtang Pass (or Rohtam Pass) is a high mountain pass at an elevation of 3.979 m (13,054 ft) above the sea level, located on the eastern Pir Panjal Range of the Himalayas Advantage of the tunnel is:
Round the year connectivity to Lahul & Spiti Valley.
The distance between Manali and Lahaul
-Spiti Valley will be reduced by 46 Km.
Which Indian airport has become the world's busiest single-runway airport?
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Indira Gandhi International Airport
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Rajiv Gandhi International Airport
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Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharak International Airport
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Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport
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The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International airport has become the worlds busiest single-runway airport, after creating a new world record for single-runway operations by handling 980 arrivals and take-offs in 24 hours, or almost one flight every minute on January 20, 2018.
In April 2017, USA dropped MOAB (Massive Ordnance Air Blast popularly known as the Mother of All Bombs) in the suspected hideouts of militants in which one of the following countries?
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Iran
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Syria
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Afghanistan
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Somalia
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The USA dropped the ‘mother of all
bombs’ , the most powerful conventional
bomb in the American arsenal, on a
cave complex in Afghanistan. It was the first combat use of the GBU 43/B (official name of MOAB) Massive Ordinance Air Blast.
The highest per capita emitter of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil and cement manufacture, in the world is ______.
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China
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India
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Qatar
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None of these
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Qatar, with 55.4 tonnes of carbon dioxide per person, has the highest footprint globally, about 10 times the global average. This is due to large scale burning of fossil fuel which is available cheaply as compared to other nations.
Although George Washington was the first US president, he was not the first to live in the White House. Who was the first President to inhabit the White House in 1800?
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John Adams was the second President of the United States and also the first Vice President of the United States.
He was a statesman, diplomat, and a leading advocate of American independence from Great Britain.
He was the first U.S. president to reside in the executive mansion that eventually became known as the White House.
Who among the following was the first Chief Justice of Republic of India?
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Justice Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha
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Justice Harilal J. Kania
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Justice J.C. Shah
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Justice M. Hidayatullah
Explanation
Justice Harilal J. Kania was appointed the first Chief Justice of India on 26 January 1950 by President of India. He beared office until 6 november 1951. He died while serving in the office.
Tianyan is the world's largest filled aperture radio telescope. It consists of a fixed 500 m dish constructed in a natural depression in the landscape. Where is located?
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Zelenchukskaya, Russia
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Guizhou, China
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Arecibo, Puerto Rico
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Sriharikota, India
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China has built the world’s largest radio telescope nicknamed Tianyan or the five-hundred-metre aperture spherical radio telescope (FAST).
It is located in the Dawodang depression, a natural basin in Pingtang County in the Guizhou Province, Southwest China.
The International Badminton Federation was established inWho among the following was the first president of it?
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David Bloomer
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Stellan Mohlin
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George Alan Thomas
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Stuart Wyatt
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The Badminton World Federation is the international governing body for the sport of badminton recognized by the International Olympic Committee. It was founded in 1934 as the International Badminton Federation. It's first President was George Alan Thomas, who was a British badminton, tennis and chess player.
The first plastic made wholly of artificial materials was not patented till the $$20^{th}$$ century. It was named Bakelite after its inventor Leo Hendrik Baekeland. In which year was it patented?
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1909
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1911
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1935
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1954
She was one of the first female graduates from India during British Empire. She was also the first South Asian female physician to be trained in western medicine. She was the daughter of Brahmo reformer Braja Kishore Basu. Identify her.
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Kadambini Ganguly was the very first Indian female doctor who practised with a degree in western medicine.
She was born in a Brahmo family and had her school education in Dacca and Calcutta and graduated from the University of Calcutta.
Her lectures made Calcutta Medical College finally open its doors to women and was also the first female speaker at the Indian National Congress.
The proposed Shivaji memorial in the Arabian Sea in Mumbai, will be world's tallest statue at $$192$$ meters when built. However, currently which is the tallest statue in the world's with a height of $$153$$ meters and where is it located?
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Laykyun Setkyar (Buddha), Myanmar
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Spring Temple Buddha, China
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The Statue of liberty, USA
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The motherland Calls, Russia
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The Spring Temple Buddha is currently the world’s tallest statue. It stands in the Fodushan Scenic Area in the Zhaocun township of China.
The massive copper Buddha stands atop a 66 foot tall lotus-shaped pedestal which houses a monastery, giving it a total height of 502 feet.
Who has become the first ever female pilot to be inducted into Indian Navy?
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Anny Divya
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Durba Banerjee
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Shubhangi Swaroop
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Avani Chaturvedi
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Shubhangi Swaroop became the first-ever female pilot to be admitted to the Indian Navy. She hails from Uttar Pradesh, along with her three other women cadets namely, Astha Sehgal, Roopa A and Sakhti Maya S, were also inducted. Shubhangi is the daughter of a Naval commander.
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