1.Who would step down as a director on the board of Bank of America and instead join its Global Advisory Council in May 2013?
1) Ratan Tata
2) Lakshmi Nivas Mittal
3) Vikram Pandit
4) Mukesh Ambani
5) N.R.Narayana Murthy
2.Pope Francis was elected as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church on March 13, 2013. His birth name is Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He is a native of?
1) Italy
2) Argentina
3) Austria
4) Spain
5) Belgium
3.Who succeeded Wen Jiabao as the new Premier of the People's Republic of China on March 15, 2013?
1) Zhang Gaoli
2) Liu Yandong
3) Li Keqiang
4) Ma Kai
5) Wang Yang
4.The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, was the Chief Guest at the 45th Indepen-dence Day celebrations of which of the following coun-tries on March 12, 2013?
1) Bangladesh
2) Sri Lanka
3) Nepal
4) Mauritius
5) Maldives
5.Anand Kumar was named the 'People's Hero' by People magazine of the TIME maga-zine group. He is the founder of Super 30 coaching institute in?
1) Mumbai
2) Kolkata
3) Kota
4) Hyderabad
5) Patna
6.Who has been crowned the "King of Boxing" at the World Boxing Council's 50th annual convention in Mexico in December 2012?
1) Joe Louis
2) Rocky Marciano
3) George Foreman
4) Muhammad Ali
5) Sugar Ray Robinson
7.Who was honored with the National Book Award, a US literary award, in November 2012 for her work 'Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Under city'?
1) Shirley Hazzard
2) Tea Obreht
3) Katherine Boo
4) Dorothy Allison
5) None
8.Which of the following words was named Word of the Year by the Oxford English Dict-ionary in November 2012?
1) Eurogeddon
2)Green-on-Blue
3) Games Maker
4) Omnishambles
5) Second Screening
9. Travel guide book Lonely Planet has named which of the following Indian cities as the world's third best city to visit in 2013?
1) Bangalore
2) New Delhi
3) Hyderabad
4) Mumbai
5) Chennai
10. The World Bank has agreed to grant Rs 800 crore for the 2nd phase of the watershed develo-pment program, Gram-ya, in which of the following states?
1) Chhattisgarh
2) Uttarakhand
3) Odisha
4) West Bengal
5) Uttar Pradesh
11.Who retained the National women's chess championship title in Jalgaon, Maharashtra in November 2012?
1) Mary Ann Gomes
2) Nisha Mohta
3) Bhakti Kulkarni
4) Eesha Karavade
5) Soumya Swaminathan
12.Which team retained the title of the 117th all India Beighton Cup hockey tournament in Kolkata in November 2012?
1) Indian Oil
2) Punjab National Bank
3) Punjab Police
4) CRPF
5) Indian Airlines
13.Which of the following terms is used in more than one game/ sport?
1) Caddie
2) Silly Point
3) Googly
4) Love
5) Grand Master
14.Which of the following countr-ies unveiled its 2nd stealth figh-ter jet, named J-31, recently?
1) Vietnam
2) China
3) Japan
4) Philippines
5) North Korea
15.The World Bank has resumed its aid to which of the following countries after a gap of 25 years?
1) Cuba
2) Sudan
3) Myanmar
4) Nigeria
5) Ethiopia
16.Which of the following districts in Haryana is the first district in the country where all villa-ges have solar lights?
1) Sirsa
2) Ambala
3) Karnal
4) Rohtak
5) Yamunanagar
17.What is the full form of FINO?
1) Farmers Inclusion News and Operations
2) Financial Investment Network and Operations
3) Financial Inclusion Network and Operations
4) Farmers Investment in National Organization
5) None of these
18.Which of the following state-ments is not correct?
1) Subsidy is given to the poor/ farmers on fertilizer, kerosene and LPG.
2) Bhagyam oil fields are in Rajasthan.
3) Portugal is a member of the TAPI pipeline project.
4) START is between the USA and Russia.
5) Goodluck Jonathan is the President of Nigeria.
19.What does the letter 'L' denote in the term LAF?
1) Liability
2) Leveraged
3) Linear
4) Liquidity
5) None
20.Who among the following veteran journalists is the author of the book 'Durbar'?
1) Aaarti Dhar
2) Shalini Singh
3) Tavleen Singh
4) Smita Gupta
5) Swapan Dasgupta
21.Dr. Madhav Chavan has been awarded the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Prize at the WISE Summit in Doha, Qatar in November 2012. He is the co-founder and CEO of?
1) Pratham
2) Goonj
3) Deepalaya
4)HelpAge India
5) Smile Foundation
22.'11 Flowers' has won the prestigious NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) award at the 18th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF). It is a?
1) Bengali movie
2) Chinese movie
3) Thai movie
4)Malay movie
5) Hebrew movie
23.The Sonepur Cattle Fair, also known as Harihar Kshetra Mela, is Asia's biggest cattle fair. Sonepur is a town in?
1) Rajasthan
2) Haryana
3) Bihar
4) Gujarat
5) Madhya Pradesh
24.MESSENGER is a NASA spac-ecraft orbiting the planet?
1) Mars
2) Uranus
3) Neptune
4) Mercury
5) Jupiter
25.The Royal Indian Open is a tournament organized for female professional tennis players. Elina Svitolina won the title in Pune on November 11, 2012. She belongs to?
1) Russia
2) Belarus
3) Ukraine
4) Croatia
5) Czech Republic
26.Which of the following cities is the capital of Colombia?
1) Santiago
2) Lima
3) San Jose
4) Bogota
5) Podgorica
27. Dirham is the currency of?
1) Algeria
2) Jordan
3) Iraq
4) Kuwait
5) None of these
28.Who became the first player to hit a six off the first ball of a Test match in November 2012?
1) Virender Sehwag
2) David Warner
3) Chris Gayle
4) Alastair Cook
5) Nick Compton
29.Cris Valdez was awarded the 2012 International Children's Peace Prize in Hague, Nether-lands. He is from?
1) Argentina
2) Spain
3) Singapore
4) Philippines
5) Brazil
30.Who won the IAAF Women's World Athlete of the Year Award for 2012?
1) Allyson Felix
2) Valerie Adams
3)Jessica Ennis
4) Tianna Madison
5) None
31.Which of the following has presented its second annual 'Report to the People 2012'?
1) Planning Commission
2) UIDAI
3) National Integration Council
4) National Innovation Council
5) None of these
32.The Centre cleared road proje-cts worth Rs.3, 432 crore main-ly in the three Maoist affected districts of Purulia, Bankura and Paschim Medinipur in?
1) Odisha
2) Maharashtra
3) Chhattisgarh
4) Jharkhand
5) West Bengal
33.The allocation for the health sector during the 12th Plan is fixed at?
1) Rs.1 lakh crore
2) Rs.2 lakh crore
3) Rs.3 lakh crore
4) Rs.4 lakh crore
5) None
34.Naya Raipur is the new capital city of?
1) Uttarakhand
2) Tripura
3) Assam
4) Chhattisgarh
5) Madhya Pradesh
35.Col.C.K.Naidu Lifetime Achi-evement award was recently given by the BCCI to?
1) Ravi Shastri
2) Dilip Vengsarkar
3) Sunil Gavaskar
4) Mohinder Amarnath
5) Kapil Dev
36.Who became only the third Indian-American ever to be elected to the US House of Representatives on November 6, 2012?
1) Autar Kaw
2) Ami Bera
3) Nikki Haley
4) Indra Nooyi
5) None of these
37.'Awaz Do' is an initiative taken by which of the following orga-nizations to mobilize Indian society to speak up for more than eight million childr-en currently out of school in the country?
1) UNHCR
2) WHO
3) CRY
4) UNESCO
5) UNICEF
38.Which of the following is the currency of Israel?
1) Real
2) Rial
3) Dinar
4) New Shekel
5) Dirham
39.Who is the author of the book 'I Predict: A Century of Hope towards an Era of Harmony with Nature and Freedom from Hunger"?
1) P.Sainath
2) Amartya Sen
3) M.S.Swaminathan
4) Norman Borlaug
5) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
40.The rivers Doyang, Jhanji, Dhansiri and Dikhu flow through which of the following states?
1) Manipur
2) Nagaland
3) Sikkim
4) Tripura
5) Arunachal Pradesh
41.Which of the following is the capital city of Yemen?
1) Sanaa
2) Tripoli
3) Cairo
4) Manama
5) Ankara
42.The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) consists of a total of?
1) 5 members
2) 10 members
3) 15 members
4) 18 members
5) None of these
43.The holy city of Ujjain is situated on the banks of river?
1) Narmada
2) Shipra
3)Son
4) Tapti
5) Betwa
44.Which country is known as "Rainbow Nation"?
1) South Sudan
2) Sudan
3) Japan
4) South Africa
5) USA
45."India-Pakistan: Coming to Terms" is written by?
1) Khushwant Singh
2) L.K.Advani
3) Jaswant Singh
4) Ashutosh Misra
5) None
ANSWERS:
1) 4; 2) 2; 3) 3; 4) 4; 5) 5; 6) 4; 7) 3; 8) 4; 9) 3; 10) 2;
11) 1; 12) 1; 13) 4; 14) 2; 15) 3; 16) 1; 17) 3; 18) 3; 19) 4; 20) 3;
21) 1; 22) 2; 23) 3; 24) 4; 25) 3; 26) 4; 27) 5; 28) 3; 29) 4; 30) 1;
31) 4; 32) 5; 33) 3; 34) 4; 35) 3; 36) 2; 37) 5;
38) 4; 39) 3; 40) 2; 41) 1; 42) 3;
43) 2; 44) 4; 45) 4;
1) Ratan Tata
2) Lakshmi Nivas Mittal
3) Vikram Pandit
4) Mukesh Ambani
5) N.R.Narayana Murthy
2.Pope Francis was elected as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church on March 13, 2013. His birth name is Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He is a native of?
1) Italy
2) Argentina
3) Austria
4) Spain
5) Belgium
3.Who succeeded Wen Jiabao as the new Premier of the People's Republic of China on March 15, 2013?
1) Zhang Gaoli
2) Liu Yandong
3) Li Keqiang
4) Ma Kai
5) Wang Yang
4.The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, was the Chief Guest at the 45th Indepen-dence Day celebrations of which of the following coun-tries on March 12, 2013?
1) Bangladesh
2) Sri Lanka
3) Nepal
4) Mauritius
5) Maldives
5.Anand Kumar was named the 'People's Hero' by People magazine of the TIME maga-zine group. He is the founder of Super 30 coaching institute in?
1) Mumbai
2) Kolkata
3) Kota
4) Hyderabad
5) Patna
6.Who has been crowned the "King of Boxing" at the World Boxing Council's 50th annual convention in Mexico in December 2012?
1) Joe Louis
2) Rocky Marciano
3) George Foreman
4) Muhammad Ali
5) Sugar Ray Robinson
7.Who was honored with the National Book Award, a US literary award, in November 2012 for her work 'Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Under city'?
1) Shirley Hazzard
2) Tea Obreht
3) Katherine Boo
4) Dorothy Allison
5) None
8.Which of the following words was named Word of the Year by the Oxford English Dict-ionary in November 2012?
1) Eurogeddon
2)Green-on-Blue
3) Games Maker
4) Omnishambles
5) Second Screening
9. Travel guide book Lonely Planet has named which of the following Indian cities as the world's third best city to visit in 2013?
1) Bangalore
2) New Delhi
3) Hyderabad
4) Mumbai
5) Chennai
10. The World Bank has agreed to grant Rs 800 crore for the 2nd phase of the watershed develo-pment program, Gram-ya, in which of the following states?
1) Chhattisgarh
2) Uttarakhand
3) Odisha
4) West Bengal
5) Uttar Pradesh
11.Who retained the National women's chess championship title in Jalgaon, Maharashtra in November 2012?
1) Mary Ann Gomes
2) Nisha Mohta
3) Bhakti Kulkarni
4) Eesha Karavade
5) Soumya Swaminathan
12.Which team retained the title of the 117th all India Beighton Cup hockey tournament in Kolkata in November 2012?
1) Indian Oil
2) Punjab National Bank
3) Punjab Police
4) CRPF
5) Indian Airlines
13.Which of the following terms is used in more than one game/ sport?
1) Caddie
2) Silly Point
3) Googly
4) Love
5) Grand Master
14.Which of the following countr-ies unveiled its 2nd stealth figh-ter jet, named J-31, recently?
1) Vietnam
2) China
3) Japan
4) Philippines
5) North Korea
15.The World Bank has resumed its aid to which of the following countries after a gap of 25 years?
1) Cuba
2) Sudan
3) Myanmar
4) Nigeria
5) Ethiopia
16.Which of the following districts in Haryana is the first district in the country where all villa-ges have solar lights?
1) Sirsa
2) Ambala
3) Karnal
4) Rohtak
5) Yamunanagar
17.What is the full form of FINO?
1) Farmers Inclusion News and Operations
2) Financial Investment Network and Operations
3) Financial Inclusion Network and Operations
4) Farmers Investment in National Organization
5) None of these
18.Which of the following state-ments is not correct?
1) Subsidy is given to the poor/ farmers on fertilizer, kerosene and LPG.
2) Bhagyam oil fields are in Rajasthan.
3) Portugal is a member of the TAPI pipeline project.
4) START is between the USA and Russia.
5) Goodluck Jonathan is the President of Nigeria.
19.What does the letter 'L' denote in the term LAF?
1) Liability
2) Leveraged
3) Linear
4) Liquidity
5) None
20.Who among the following veteran journalists is the author of the book 'Durbar'?
1) Aaarti Dhar
2) Shalini Singh
3) Tavleen Singh
4) Smita Gupta
5) Swapan Dasgupta
21.Dr. Madhav Chavan has been awarded the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Prize at the WISE Summit in Doha, Qatar in November 2012. He is the co-founder and CEO of?
1) Pratham
2) Goonj
3) Deepalaya
4)HelpAge India
5) Smile Foundation
22.'11 Flowers' has won the prestigious NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) award at the 18th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF). It is a?
1) Bengali movie
2) Chinese movie
3) Thai movie
4)Malay movie
5) Hebrew movie
23.The Sonepur Cattle Fair, also known as Harihar Kshetra Mela, is Asia's biggest cattle fair. Sonepur is a town in?
1) Rajasthan
2) Haryana
3) Bihar
4) Gujarat
5) Madhya Pradesh
24.MESSENGER is a NASA spac-ecraft orbiting the planet?
1) Mars
2) Uranus
3) Neptune
4) Mercury
5) Jupiter
25.The Royal Indian Open is a tournament organized for female professional tennis players. Elina Svitolina won the title in Pune on November 11, 2012. She belongs to?
1) Russia
2) Belarus
3) Ukraine
4) Croatia
5) Czech Republic
26.Which of the following cities is the capital of Colombia?
1) Santiago
2) Lima
3) San Jose
4) Bogota
5) Podgorica
27. Dirham is the currency of?
1) Algeria
2) Jordan
3) Iraq
4) Kuwait
5) None of these
28.Who became the first player to hit a six off the first ball of a Test match in November 2012?
1) Virender Sehwag
2) David Warner
3) Chris Gayle
4) Alastair Cook
5) Nick Compton
29.Cris Valdez was awarded the 2012 International Children's Peace Prize in Hague, Nether-lands. He is from?
1) Argentina
2) Spain
3) Singapore
4) Philippines
5) Brazil
30.Who won the IAAF Women's World Athlete of the Year Award for 2012?
1) Allyson Felix
2) Valerie Adams
3)Jessica Ennis
4) Tianna Madison
5) None
31.Which of the following has presented its second annual 'Report to the People 2012'?
1) Planning Commission
2) UIDAI
3) National Integration Council
4) National Innovation Council
5) None of these
32.The Centre cleared road proje-cts worth Rs.3, 432 crore main-ly in the three Maoist affected districts of Purulia, Bankura and Paschim Medinipur in?
1) Odisha
2) Maharashtra
3) Chhattisgarh
4) Jharkhand
5) West Bengal
33.The allocation for the health sector during the 12th Plan is fixed at?
1) Rs.1 lakh crore
2) Rs.2 lakh crore
3) Rs.3 lakh crore
4) Rs.4 lakh crore
5) None
34.Naya Raipur is the new capital city of?
1) Uttarakhand
2) Tripura
3) Assam
4) Chhattisgarh
5) Madhya Pradesh
35.Col.C.K.Naidu Lifetime Achi-evement award was recently given by the BCCI to?
1) Ravi Shastri
2) Dilip Vengsarkar
3) Sunil Gavaskar
4) Mohinder Amarnath
5) Kapil Dev
36.Who became only the third Indian-American ever to be elected to the US House of Representatives on November 6, 2012?
1) Autar Kaw
2) Ami Bera
3) Nikki Haley
4) Indra Nooyi
5) None of these
37.'Awaz Do' is an initiative taken by which of the following orga-nizations to mobilize Indian society to speak up for more than eight million childr-en currently out of school in the country?
1) UNHCR
2) WHO
3) CRY
4) UNESCO
5) UNICEF
38.Which of the following is the currency of Israel?
1) Real
2) Rial
3) Dinar
4) New Shekel
5) Dirham
39.Who is the author of the book 'I Predict: A Century of Hope towards an Era of Harmony with Nature and Freedom from Hunger"?
1) P.Sainath
2) Amartya Sen
3) M.S.Swaminathan
4) Norman Borlaug
5) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
40.The rivers Doyang, Jhanji, Dhansiri and Dikhu flow through which of the following states?
1) Manipur
2) Nagaland
3) Sikkim
4) Tripura
5) Arunachal Pradesh
41.Which of the following is the capital city of Yemen?
1) Sanaa
2) Tripoli
3) Cairo
4) Manama
5) Ankara
42.The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) consists of a total of?
1) 5 members
2) 10 members
3) 15 members
4) 18 members
5) None of these
43.The holy city of Ujjain is situated on the banks of river?
1) Narmada
2) Shipra
3)Son
4) Tapti
5) Betwa
44.Which country is known as "Rainbow Nation"?
1) South Sudan
2) Sudan
3) Japan
4) South Africa
5) USA
45."India-Pakistan: Coming to Terms" is written by?
1) Khushwant Singh
2) L.K.Advani
3) Jaswant Singh
4) Ashutosh Misra
5) None
ANSWERS:
1) 4; 2) 2; 3) 3; 4) 4; 5) 5; 6) 4; 7) 3; 8) 4; 9) 3; 10) 2;
11) 1; 12) 1; 13) 4; 14) 2; 15) 3; 16) 1; 17) 3; 18) 3; 19) 4; 20) 3;
21) 1; 22) 2; 23) 3; 24) 4; 25) 3; 26) 4; 27) 5; 28) 3; 29) 4; 30) 1;
31) 4; 32) 5; 33) 3; 34) 4; 35) 3; 36) 2; 37) 5;
38) 4; 39) 3; 40) 2; 41) 1; 42) 3;
43) 2; 44) 4; 45) 4;
