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IDO – Prelim Question Paper – 2019
37. The first gasoline-run car engine was developed by
(A) Henry Ford
(B) Carl Benz
(C) Hugh Chalmers
(D) Horace Elgin Dodge
42. The full name for LAN associated with computer networking is
(A) Land Area Network
(B) Local Area Network
(C) Local and non-local
(D) Land and Network
55. A prescribed set of well-defined instructions for solving mathematical problems is called
(A) A compiler
(B) A code
(C) A description
(D) An algorithm
72. Which state launched 24 hours free power supply for farmers from 1st January 2018 and claimed to have become the first in India to launch such initiative in India?
(A) Arunachal Pradesh
(B) Telangana
(C) Uttarakhand
(D) Goa
77. Basic, Cobol, C++ are different types of
(A) computer languages
(B) machine languages
(C) sign languages
(D) assembly languages
IDO – Prelim Question Paper – 2007
- The first Software Technology Park (STP) in West Bengal was set up at
(A) Haldia
(B) Salt Lake
(C) Kalyani
(D) Jadavpur
- Who is the first individual Olympic medal winner for Independent India?
(A) Milkha Singh
(B) K. D. Jadhav
(C) Sriram Singh
(D) Karnam Malleswari
- World Environment Day falls on
(A) June 5th
(B) October 2nd
(C) November 10th
(D) November 19th
- The Indian author who wrote. The Continent of Circe —
(A) Mulk Raj Anand
(B) Raja Rao
(C) V. S. Naipaul
(D) Nirad C. Chowdhury
- Credit rating agency, Crisil has tied up with SIDBI to rate companies belonging to
(A) Public Sector
(B) SSI Sector
(C) Private Sector
(D) Multinationals
- Which country does Joe Saramago, the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize for literature belong to?
(A) Italy
(B) Nicaragua
(C) Portugal
(D) Spain
- The term CII stands for
(A) Centre of Indian Industry
(B) Confederation of Indian Industry
(C) Council of Indian Industry
(D) Chambers of Indian Industry
- Which is that first Indian State to have completely banned the use of plastic carry bags?
(A) Haryana
(B) Himachal Pradesh
(C) Sikkim
(D) Karnataka
- Who was the author of ‘Panchatantra’ the ancient book of Indian fables?
(A) Sivadasa
(B) Vishnu Sharma
(C) Kshemankara
(D) Betal Bhatta
- Which of the following dramas was not written by Sophocles?
(A) Antigone
(B) Trojan Women
(C) Electra
(D) Oedipus Tyrannus
- With which game the Uber Cup is associated?
(A) Men’s Table Tennis
(B) Women’s Table Tennis
(C) Men’s Badminton
(D) Women’ Badminton
- Of the following names, which one is not a drama?
(A) Death of a Salesman
(B) The Doll’s House
(C) Oliver Twist
(D) Waiting for Godot
- Which Indian footballer made a hattrick in Olympic football?
(A) P. K. Banerjee
(B) Neville D’ Souza
(C) S. Banerjee
(D) P. Mewalal
- The largest recipient of foreign direct investment (FDI) in South Asia during 2000 is
(A) China
(B) Bangladesh
(C) India
(D) Pakistan
- The maximum stake that a foreign investor can have in an Indian company is
(A) 100%
(B) 51%
(C) 49%
(D) 25%
- The number of Industrial Training Institute (ITIs) in West Bengal is
(As on Aug 2024 – 302)
(A) 25
(B) 30
(C) 22
(D) 28
- The SEBI is an agency that controls and regulates
(A) the stock markets of the country
(B) the commercial banks of the country
(C) the PSUs of the country
(D) the exports and imports of the country
- Which gas was leaked from Union Carbide Factory to create Bhopal tragedy?
(A) Ammonia
(B) Hydrocyanic acid
(C) Phosphine
(D) Methyl isocyanate
- The Indian Institute of Information Technology, Calcutta was set up during the year.
(A) 1999
(B) 2000
(C) 2000-01
(D) 1998
- India has recently gone into a bilateral agreement with China revamp its
(A) Steel sector
(B) Agricultural Sector
(C) Power Sector
(D) IT Sector
- Vallathol is regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets of which language?
(A) Kannad
(B) Tamil
(C) Malayalam
(D) Sindhi
- Karnam Malleswari got the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 1996 for which sport?
(A) Shot Put
(B) Weight Lifting
(C) Discuss Throwing
(D) High Jump
- Growth rate of population is highest in
(A) India
(B) Bangladesh
(C) Sri Lanka
(D) Malaysia
- During January 1991 to March 2004 the highest contribution in India’s Foreign Direct Investment inflow was made by
(A) USA
(B) UK
(C) Mauritius
(D) The Netherlands
- In which of the following State a world class Film city is being developed?
(A) Andhra Pradesh
(B) Goa
(C) Haryana
(D) Karnataka
- The number of registered factories in West Bengal is the highest in the district of
(A) Howrah
(B) 24 Parganas North and South combined
(C) Nadia
(D) Kolkata
- An animal that is most active during the day-time is called
(A) Circadian
(B) Diurnal
(C) Annual
(D) Nocturnal