Multiple Choice Questions on Civil Engineering | Objective Questions | Civil Engineering Quiz | MCQ
1 >>For determination of average annual precipitation in a catchment basin, the best method is ?
- (A) Arithmetical method
- (B) Thiessen’s mean method
- (C) Isohyetal method
- (D) None of these
2 >>A hydraulic jump in a control meter will be formed above the control, if its original ?
- (A) depth is more than critical depth
- (B) depth is less than the critical depth
- (C) depth is equal to critical depth
- (D) none of these
3 >>Prof. Running suggested the method for extending the discharge curve. It is known as ?
- (A) Logarithmic method
- (B) y method
- (C) General method
- (D) None of these
4 >>If y is the depth of water at any section, then the mean velocity is ?
- (A) 0.1 y
- (B) 0.2 y
- (C) 0.3 y
- (D) 0.6 y
5 >>The run off is affected by ?
- (A) type of precipitation
- (B) rain intensity and duration of rainfall
- (C) direction of prevailing storm
- (D) all the above
6 >>The initial basin recharge is equal to ?
- (A) interception
- (B) depression storage
- (C) rain absorbed by the moisture deficiency
- (D) all the above
7 >>For computing the run off volumes of large areas, number of infiltrations used are ?
- (A) 2
- (B) 3
- (C) 4
- (D) 5
8 >>From the Survey of India map, the distance of the critical point is 20 km and difference in elevation is 193 m. The over land flow time, is ?
- (A) 2 hours
- (B) 3 hours
- (C) 2 hours and 30 minutes
- (D) 4 hours
9 >>If the area of storm hydrograph is equal to 102 cm, the ordinates of a unit hydrograph may be obtained by dividing the ordinates of the storm hydrograph by ?
- (A) 1
- (B) 2
- (C) 3
- (D) 4
10 >>If the potential infiltration of a water shed having a soil with fair pasture cover, is 10 cm and rainfall is 12 cm, the direct run off is : ?
- (A) 2 cm
- (B) 3 cm
- (C) 5 cm
- (D) 8 cm
11 >>The quantity of water retained by the subsoil against gravity, is known ?
- (A) yield
- (B) porosity
- (C) specific yield
- (D) specific retention
12 >>acquifer is 0.5 mm and hydraulic gradient is 1 in 80, the velocity of flow is ?
- (A) 0.25 m/day
- (B) 0.50 m/day
- (C) 0.75 m/day
- (D) 1.25 m/day
13 >>Pick up the correct statement from the following : ?
- (A) Perched aquifer is found in unconfined aquifer
- (B) The top surface of the water held in the perched aquifer, is known as perched water table
- (C) Perched aquifer is formed in unfined accquifer if an impervious layer exists
- (D) All the above
14 >>Shrouding is provided in ?
- (A) cavity type tube wells
- (B) slotted type tube wells
- (C) strainer type tube wells
- (D) perforated type tube wells
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15 >>The efficiency of a pump may be taken as ?
- (A) 0.55
- (B) 0.6
- (C) 0.65
- (D) 0.7
16 >>Consumptive use of a crop during growth, is the amount of ?
- (A) interception
- (B) transpiration
- (C) evaporation
- (D) all the above
17 >>For the estimate of high floods in fanshaped catchment, the formula used is ?
- (A) Dicken’s formula
- (B) Ryve’s formula
- (C) Inglis formula
- (D) none of these
18 >>Surge tanks are used ?
- (A) for storage water
- (B) to increase the velocity in a pipeline
- (C) as overflow valves
- (D) to guard against water hammer
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19 >>As per IS : 11721963,water required per head per day for average domestic purposes, is ?
- (A) 50 litres
- (B) 65 litres
- (C) 85 litres
- (D) 135 litres
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20 >>In slow sland filters, the turbidity of raw water can be removed only up to ?
- (A) 60 mg/litre
- (B) 75 mg/litre
- (C) 100 gm/litre
- (D) 150 mg/litre
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