GAUHATI HIGH COURT LIBRARY ASSISTANT, JUDICIAL ACADEMY ASSAM, 2025 MCQ

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Oka","Justice Sandeep Mehta","Justice Ajit Singh"], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "Who was the first woman Chief Minister of India?", "options": ["Sucheta Kripalini","Avni Roy","Jemimah Brook","Shakuntala Devi"], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "Which vitamin is essential for blood clotting?", "options": ["Vitamin D","Vitamin A","Vitamin K","Vitamin B"], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "Which of the following measures strength of earthquakes?", "options": ["Plank's Diagram","Odometer","Trigonometric Scale","Richter Scale"], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "World Environment Day is celebrated on:", "options": ["5 June","5 August","5 October","5 December"], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "Where is the Lord's Cricket Ground located?", "options": ["Birmingham","Adelaide","London","Auckland"], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "What does IBRD stand for?", "options": ["International Board for Reconstruction and Development","International Bank for Reconstruction and Development","Indian Bank for Reconstruction and Development","Indian Board for Reconstruction and Development"], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "Which Indian King was known as 'Napoleon of India'?", "options": ["Harshavardhana","Emperor Ashoka the Great","Maharana Pratap","Samudragupta"], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "Which country's flag is not rectangular?", "options": ["Morocco","Nepal","Egypt","France"], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "Which of the following is not located in the United States of America?", "options": ["Masai Mara National Reserve","Yellowstone National Park","Grand Canyon","Statue of Liberty"], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "Which is the longest dam in India?", "options": ["Tehri Dam","Bhakra Nangal","Sardar Sarovar","Hirakud dam"], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "Who was the first Indian woman to climb the Mount Everest?", "options": ["Sarita Chandra","Tenzin George","Bachendri Pal","Ruth Gomes"], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "In which year did the World War II end?", "options": ["1935","1940","1945","1950"], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "Entomology is the study of:", "options": ["Insects","Time","Bird","Planets"], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "Gauhati High Court exercises territorial jurisdiction over how many states?", "options": ["1","2","3","4"], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "Author of 'War and Peace' is:", "options": ["William Shakespeare","Oscar Wilde","Franz Kafka","Leo Tolstoy"], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "Which of the following years was not a leap year?", "options": ["2020","2018","2024","2016"], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "Which of the following is not an element in the periodic table?", "options": ["Osmium","Gallium","Nitrate","Radium"], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "Which country's National Anthem has only music and no words?", "options": ["Spain","Italy","England","Netherlands"], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "Fear of heights is known as?", "options": ["Aerophobia","Cynophobia","Terophobia","Acrophobia"], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "Which country is known as 'Land of the Rising Sun'?", "options": ["Thailand","Japan","Vietnam","Singapore"], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "Nobel Prize is awarded in memory of?", "options": ["Thomas Nobel","Will Nobel","Mark Nobel","Alfred Nobel"], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "Where is the National Judicial Academy, India located?", "options": ["Bhopal","New Delhi","Chennai","Pune"], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "Which country is not a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council?", "options": ["China","France","Russia","Japan"], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "Who was the first Indian to score a triple-century in test match cricket?", "options": ["M.S. Dhoni","Virat Kohli","Virender Sehwag","S.R. Tendulkar"], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "Jagannath Temple is located in which State?", "options": ["Bihar","Andhra Pradesh","Karnataka","Odisha"], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "The currency of Japan is known as Japanese", "options": ["Dollar","Yen","Sterling","Rubel"], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "The first men's football world cup was held in the year............ and was won by .................", "options": ["1930, France","1930, Uruguay","1934, Argentina","1938, England"], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "The Oscar winning 'Titanic' movie of the year 1997 was directed by?", "options": ["James Cameron","Steven Spielberg","Christopher Nolan","Joss Whedon"], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "Which was India's first newspaper?", "options": ["Deccan Herald","The Statesman","The Times of India","The Bengal Gazette"], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "What does 'explicit knowledge' refer to in Knowledge Management?", "options": ["Knowledge that is documented and codified","Tacit knowledge that is difficult to articulate","Practical skills possessed by employees","Informal knowledge shared among team members"], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "'Science Direct' is a database developed by:", "options": ["Elsevier","Mac Millan","Tarot","Jonathan"], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "Which one is a Reference Management Software?", "options": ["Quirky","EndNote","Liquid Text","Dragon"], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "Which of the following is not a search engine?", "options": ["Google","Yahoo","Microsoft","Bing"], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "'RDA' in library science stands for:", "options": ["Research Description and Access","Resource Description and Access","Research Description Agency","Resource Description Agency"], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "The national convention regularly organized by DELNET is known as:", "options": ["NACLIN","CALIBER","ICDL","DELNETCON"], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "Which technology allows users to participate in real-time online meetings or discussions, including audio and video interactions?", "options": ["Hypertext","Video-conferencing","Augmented Reality","All of the above"], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "The term 'Bespeaking' is used for which of the following:", "options": ["Returning of books","Issuing of books","Reservation of books","Inter library loan"], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "Father of scientific management is:", "options": ["Max Kilman","Pedro Neto","William Sangare","Frederick W. Taylor"], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "A set of terms that have been carefully selected in order to avoid having multiple terms for the same subject is called:", "options": ["Controlled Vocabulary","Bibliographic control","Citation index","Subjected headings"], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "In which city is Connemara Public Library located?", "options": ["Pune","Mumbai","Chennai","Guwahati"], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "The process of preservation of old documents is called:", "options": ["Collating","Weeding","Binding","Archiving"], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is first published in which edition?", "options": ["French","English","Russian","German"], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "Which philosopher was the exponent of scientific method?", "options": ["Aristotle","Francis Bacon","Heraclitus","Juninho"], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "Binary system of number uses how many digits:", "options": ["One","Two","Three","Four"], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "'Universal Bibliographic Control' is a program of:", "options": ["International Federation for Information and Documentation","United Nations International Scientific Information System","International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions","American Library Association"], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "In library science, 'MBO' is an acronym of:", "options": ["Management by Objectives","Most Basic Organism","Management of bilingual orders","Muster of books in order"], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "What is a fundamental canon of cataloguing that emphasizes describing the item as it is without modification or interpretation?", "options": ["Canon of Accuracy/Ascertainability","Canon of Uniformity","Canon of standardization","Canon of literary excellence"], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "Analytical entry is prepared for:", "options": ["Full Document","Alternative title","A part of a document","None of the above"], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "A device that converts digital signals to analog signals is:", "options": ["Analog computers","Fax","Teleprompter","Modem"], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "Who introduced the concept of scientometrics and is referred to as the 'Father of Scientometrics'?", "options": ["Aaron Green","Hugh Gilbert","Fernando Santos","Derek De Solla Price"], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "The Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux was established in:", "options": ["United States of America","Germany","Japan","United Kingdom"], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "Where is the headquarter of Patent Information System in India?", "options": ["Nagpur","Ahmedabad","Kolkata","Bangalore"], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "Processed data is known as:", "options": ["Information","Knowledge","Wisdom","Intelligence"], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "Books misplaced on the shelves by readers are restored. This work is referred to as:", "options": ["Shelving","Stock Verification","Shelf Rectification","Shifting"], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "The main use of a shelf list is:", "options": ["Cataloguing","Circulation","Stock Verification","Book Selection"], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "'Library Legislation' refers to the development of:", "options": ["Academic Libraries","Special Libraries","Public Libraries","School Libraries"], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "Which of the following is not an intellectual property law?", "options": ["The Patents Act, 1970","The Copyright Act, 1957","The Transfer of Property Act, 1954","The Trade Marks Act, 1999"], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "Who is considered the father of modern encyclopedia?", "options": ["Matheus Cunha","Robert Pratt","Herbert S. White","Denis Diderot"], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "In 1948, the Imperial Library of Calcutta was renamed as:", "options": ["Central Secretariat Library","Asiatic Library","National Library of India","Central Reference Library"], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "Who is the developer of 'OpenDOAR'?", "options": ["Joint Information Systems Committee","University of Nottingham","SHERPA and UNESCO","Open Society Institute"], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "What does RSS stand for in the context of Library 2.0?", "options": ["Really Simple Syndication","Randomly Selected Service","Rapid Systematic Search","Resourceful Server System"], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "Which University was the first in India to start a 5 year integrated course in library and information science?", "options": ["Gauhati University","Calcutta University","Bangalore University","Delhi University"], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "OAISTER is an example of digital libraries architecture based on:", "options": ["CORBA","Software Agents Architecture","Federated Database System","Metadata Harvesting"], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "Information in square brackets in a catalogue card denotes that:", "options": ["It is taken from outside sources","It is highly authentic","It is obsolete","None of the above"], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "The Berne Convention, adopted in 1886, deals with:", "options": ["Geographical indication","Copyright","Patents","All the options are correct"], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "The National Library for the Visually Handicapped (NIVH) is located at:", "options": ["Lucknow","Bhopal","Patna","Dehradun"], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "A chart in which some figures are broken down into its constituent parts is:", "options": ["Bar Chart","Column Chart","Pie Chart","Band Chart"], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "The concept of 'Technological Gatekeepers' was first proposed by:", "options": ["Thomas J. Allen","Aaron Taylor Johnson","Steven Fletcher","Michael Anderson"], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "What does the abbreviation 'FRBR' stand for?", "options": ["Functional Requirements for Better Records","Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records","Functional Records for Big Research Libraries","None of the above"], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "What is 40% of 640?", "options": ["256","260","132","140"], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "A shopkeeper sold an article for Rs. 11000. If the cost price of the article is Rs. 10000, what is the profit percent?", "options": ["7","10","12","15"], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "Virat Kohli scored 200 runs in an ODI match which included 15 boundaries and 10 sixes. What percentage of his total score did he make by running between the wickets?", "options": ["35%","40%","45%","50%"], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "Two students appeared for an examination. One of them secured 9 marks more than the other and his marks was 56% of the sum of their marks. The marks obtained by them are:", "options": ["39,30","41,32","42,33","43,34"], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "Look at this series: 2, 1, (1/2), (1/4), What number should come next?", "options": ["1/8","1/10","1/16","1/24"], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "Three candidates contested an election and received 2272, 15272 and 23256 votes respectively. What percentage of the total votes did the winning candidate get?", "options": ["50%","55%","57%","60%"], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "The speed of a boat in still water is 5km/hr. If the speed of the boat against the stream is 3 km/hr, what is the speed of the stream?", "options": ["1.5 km/hr","2 km/hr","2.5 km/hr","1 km/hr"], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "Jaya is in the East of Gogo and Gogo is in the North of Ravi. Ramesh is in the south of Ravi. Which direction of Jaya is Ramesh?", "options": ["South-East","South-West","South","North-East"], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "A two-digit number is such that the product of the digits is 6. When 9 is added to the number, the digits are reversed. The number is:", "options": ["16","23","24","81"], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "A father is thrice as old as his son. If 10 years ago, the age of the father was 5 times the age of the son, what is the present age of the father?", "options": ["45 years","50 years","55 years","60 years"], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "A train 240 metres long passes a pole in 24 seconds. How long will it take to pass a platform 650 metres long?", "options": ["75 seconds","89 seconds","90 seconds","120 seconds"], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "A bank offers 5% compound interest calculated on half-yearly basis. A customer deposits Rs. 1600 each on 1st January and 1st July of a year. At the end of the year, the amount he would have gained by way of interest is?", "options": ["Rs. 121","Rs. 123","Rs. 125","Rs. 130"], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "Which of the following months does not have 31 days?", "options": ["July","August","November","December"], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "Which of the following numbers is divisible by 24?", "options": ["92678","63810","537804","21288"], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "Odometer is to mileage as thermometer is to:", "options": ["Speed","Oxygen","Temperature","Direction"], "answer": 2 }, { "question": "Which one of the following is not a prime number?", "options": ["31","61","71","91"], "answer": 3 }, { "question": "Police Punishment Crime Judge Judgment", "options": ["1, 2, 3, 4, 5","3, 1, 4, 5, 2","3, 2, 4, 1, 5","4, 1, 5, 2, 3"], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "Birth Old Age Youth Middle Age Death", "options": ["1, 2, 3, 4, 5","1, 3, 4, 2, 5","3, 2, 4, 1, 5","4, 1, 5, 2, 3"], "answer": 1 }, { "question": "In a one day cricket match, the total runs made by a team were 200. Out of these 140 runs were made by spinners.", "options": ["Only conclusion 1 follows","Only conclusion 2 follows","Either conclusion 1 or 2 follow","Neither conclusion 1 or 2 follows"], "answer": 0 }, { "question": "Manchester United defeated Manchester City in the final of the Champions League. One of the goal scorers for Manchester United was Bruno Fernandes who scored a hat-trick and also won Player of the match award.", "options": ["Only conclusion 1 follows","Only conclusion 2 follows","Either conclusion 1 or 2 follows","Neither a nor b"], "answer": 1 } ] }