PCS (Judicial Branch) (Preliminary) Examination- 2010
Question Number: 51-60
51. What is 'Watergate'?
(a) A gate of dam across misissippi
(b) A dam across Hudson river
(c) Scandal in which President Nixon got entangled
(d) A five star hotel in Los Angeles
52. Shakuntala was written by
(a) Maithili Sharan Gupt
(b) Swami Dayanand
(c) Kalidas
(d) Tulsidas
53. The H.Q. of the International Court of Justice is at
(a) The Hague
(b) Geneva
(c) Rome
(d) Vienna
54. Which of the following countries does not have the power of Veto in Security Council?
(a) UK
(b) Canada
(c) USA
(d) France
55. Which athlete holding an Olympic record, belonging to a Commonwealth country, refused participation in CWG Games 2010 (Delhi) and apologised for same:-
(a) Sebastian Coe
(b) P.T. Usha
(c) Bolt
(d) Jeev Milkha Singh
56. Who has recently been re-elected as the new President of Germany?
(a) Angela Merkel
(b) Horst Koehler
(c) Helmut Kohi
(d) None of the above
57. Indira Gandhi Prize for peace, Disarmament and Development for 2007 has been conferred on July 25, 2009 to
(a) Bill Gates
(b) Jacob Zuma
(c) Asma Jahangir
(d) None of the above
58. What is the expanded form of AWACS?
(a) Airport Works and Customer Service
(b) Airbone Warning and Control Systems
(c) Agricultural Wealth and Consumer Statistics
(d) Ammunition Warehousing and Costing Symantics
59. Recently India's celebrated artist M.F. Hussain has got the nationality of
(a) Saudi Arabia
(b) Qatar
(c) Yemen
(d) Oman
60. Where in world was the world tallest skyscraper, towering 818 meters, opened in January,2010?
(a) Oman
(b) Bahrain
(c) Dubai
(d) Seoul