This GK General Knowledge quiz covers SSC question answer like: India is located on north of equator between which of the following latitudes? The 2017 United Nations Peacekeeping Course for African Partners (UNPCAP-02) has started in which Indian city? Consider the following statements about Madam Bhikaji Cama:
1. Madam Cama unfurled the National Flag at the International Socialist Conference in Paris in the year of 1907
2. Madam cama served as private secretary to Dadabhai Naoroji.
3. Madam Cama was born to Parsi parents.
Which of the statement (s) given above is/are correct? Who among the following is associated with the discovery of rings of Saturn? Singhey Khababs Festival is celebrated in which among the following states of India? Total Cost is a total of _ _ _ ? Who has been named Person of the Year for 2017 by the Time magazine? The south-west monsoon contributes ____ of the total rain in India.Who was the author of Humayun-Nama? Who has been appointed as the new chairman of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)? GK quiz set 541 – general knowledge examples to improve your objective type question answer skills. Multiple choice questions general knowledge test with answers.
India is located on north of equator between which of the following latitudes?
  1. Between 8°4′ and 37°6′
  2. Between 7°4′ to 39°6′
  3. Between 8°7′ to 36°6′
  4. Between 7°4′ to 40°6′

Correct answer is option A i.e. Between 8°4′ and 37°6′
Explanation:
India is located entirely north of the equator between 8°4′ to 37°6′ north latitude and 68°7′ to 97°25′ east longitude.
The 2017 United Nations Peacekeeping Course for African Partners (UNPCAP-02) has started in which Indian city?
  1. New Delhi
  2. Kolkata
  3. Mumbai
  4. Chennai

Correct answer is option A i.e. New Delhi
Explanation:
The second edition of United Nations Peacekeeping Course for African Partners (UNPCAP-02) has started at Manekshaw Centre in New Delhi from July 17 and will continue till Aug 04, 2017. The purpose of the course is to build and enhance the capacity of the African Troop Contributing Countries to the UN and to further train the trainers from these countries. The course is one of the many steps that India has initiated towards active contribution to peace support activities. The course is being attended by officers from 19 countries including India. The students include officers who are currently employed in their respective peacekeeping training centres in African peacekeeping training institutions. The Centre for United Nations Peacekeeping (CUNPK) is conducting the UNPCAP-02 jointly with the United States.
Consider the following statements about Madam Bhikaji Cama:
1. Madam Cama unfurled the National Flag at the International Socialist Conference in Paris in the year of 1907
2. Madam cama served as private secretary to Dadabhai Naoroji.
3. Madam Cama was born to Parsi parents.
Which of the statement (s) given above is/are correct?
  1. 1, 2 and 3
  2. 2 and 3 only
  3. 1 and 2 only
  4. 3 only

Correct answer is option A

Who among the following is associated with the discovery of rings of Saturn?

  1. Galileo
  2. Newton
  3. Edmund Halley
  4. Einstein

Correct answer is option A i.e. Galileo

Singhey Khababs Festival is celebrated in which among the following states of India?

  1. Himachal Pradesh
  2. Jammu and Kashmir
  3. Uttarakhand
  4. Punjab

Correct answer is option B i.e. Jammu and Kashmir
Explanation:

Singhey Khababs Sindhu festival was started in 2001 by Union government to promote Lakakh as tourists’ destination in the country. Since then it is organised annually. It is celebrated to endorse the Indus River (Sindhu River) as a symbol of the communal harmony and unity of India. It also promotes cultural values and tourism in the region

Total Cost is a total of __________ ?

  1. Fixed Cost and Variable Cost
  2. Fixed Cost , Variable Cost and Marginal Cost
  3. Fixed Cost, Variable Cost , Marginal Cost and Real Cost
  4. Fixed Cost, Variable Cost and Real Cost

Correct answer is option A i.e. Fixed Cost and Variable Cost

Who has been named Person of the Year for 2017 by the Time magazine?

  1. The Whistleblowers
  2. The Protesters
  3. The Dreamers
  4. The Silence Breakers

Correct answer is option D i.e. The Silence Breakers
Explanation:

Time magazine has named ‘The silence breakers’ its Person of the Year for 2017 referring to those individuals, mostly women, who came forward this year to publicly expose patterns of sexual harassment and assault by powerful public figures in America. Those recognized by Time range from famous actresses who took on disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein to ordinary women who shared their stories of abuse using the hashtag #MeToo and its foreign language equivalents. One of the figures singled out by Time, Ashley Judd was the first actress to come forward on the record to make accusations against the 65-year-old Weinstein.

The south-west monsoon contributes ____ of the total rain in India.
  1. 86%
  2. 50%
  3. 22%
  4. 100%

Correct answer is option A
Who was the author of Humayun-Nama?
  1. Humayun
  2. Gulbadan Begam
  3. Badauni
  4. Ahmad Yadgar

Correct answer is option B

Who has been appointed as the new chairman of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)?

  1. Pankaj Patel
  2. S Ramadorai
  3. Sudhakar Rao
  4. Dhirendra Swarup

Correct answer is option D i.e.
Dhirendra Swarup
Explanation:

Dhirendra Swarup, who was a public interest director at the BSE, has been appointed as the new chairman of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). He succeeded Sudhakar Rao. Swarup is a former Chairman of Pension Funds Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) and has over four decades of experience across finance, budgeting, public debt management, public policy and pension reforms. He was also chairman of the Cash and Debt Management Committee of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) from 2000 to 2003.