General Awareness QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

General Knowledge : General Awareness QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS :: part22 : 46 to 50

Following General Knowledge Multiple choice objective type questions and answers will help you in TRB, SSC and UPSC 2014 examinations :

46.Why was Cologne city recently in the news ?

G-8 Summit took place there in June 1999

It is the venue of the next Olympic Games

This was the venue of the 1999 World Cup Cricket finals

The World Science Congress 1999 was organised there.

47.Jeev Milkha Singh who was in the news recently, is associated with which of the following games/sports ?

Football

Basketball

Golf

Squash

48.Which of the following is true about the visit of Pope John Paul to India in November 1999 ?

He came to look into the matters regarding the murder of a Christian missionary

He was on a ten-day visit to India

He gave US$ 200,000 for the relief of Orissa cyclone hit region

He conducted a Holy Mass in the thickly crowded J.L. Nehru Stadium

49.According to the 1991 Census, the average annual growth rate of population during the dedcade 1981-91 was

2.5

2.8

2.11

3.0

50.Recently, West Bengal celebrated the 100th birth anniversary of the famous Bengali poet/author

Rabindranath Tagore

Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyaya

Kazi Nazrul Islam

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

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