General Science Questions (MCQs) for Competitive Examinations

General Science Multiple choice questions for GK paper in SSC, NDA, CDS, UPSC, UPPSC and State PSC Examinations. These questions are part of GKToday’s 35000+ MCQs Bank Course in GKToday Android App

1. The exceptionally low melting point of mercury can be explained on the basis of which of the following explanations?
1. Mercury has completely filled-up atomic orbitals
2. In mercury, the binding energy of outer electrons (towards nucleus) is highest and no electron is available to participate in metallic bond formation
Choose the correct option from the codes given below:
[A] Only 1 is correct
[B] Only 2 is correct
[C] Both 1 & 2 are correct
[D] Neither 1 nor 2 is correct

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2. What is the common name of ‘Ca(ClO)2’?
[A] Baking Soda
[B] Bleaching Powder
[C] Washing Soda
[D] Baking Powder

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3. Chicken Pox is caused by which micro-organism?

[A] Virus
[B] Bacteria
[C] Protozoa
[D] Fungus

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4. Sleeping sickness disease spreads due to which of the following insect?

[A] Bedbugs
[B] Tsetse fly
[C] Louse
[D] Sand fly

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5. Typhoid fever is caused by ____:
[A] Virus
[B] Bacteria
[C] Fungus
[D] Allergy

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6. The biological process in which both aerobes and anaerobes degrade organic matter is ____:
[A] Digesting
[B] Composting
[C] Manuring
[D] Nutrifying

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7. When we touch leaves of “Touch me not plant”, they close, these movements are called ____:
[A] Seismonastic movements
[B] Photonastic movements
[C] Nyctinastic movements
[D] Chemonastic movements

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8. The vitamin which is very labile and easily destroyed during cooking as well as storage is vitamin ____:
[A] Vitamin D
[B] Vitamin C
[C] Vitamin K
[D] Vitamin B6

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9. The edible part of an onion is ____:
[A] Fleshy leaves
[B] Aerial stem
[C] Modified root
[D] Aerial flower

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10. An Antigen is ____:
[A] The result of Antibody
[B] The stimulus for Antibody formation
[C] The opposite of Antibody
[D] The residue of an Antibody

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