Saturday, March 9, 2013

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE MCQs

1. Economic Survey 2012-13 proje cted a growth rate of what percent for 2013-14?
1) 5.5-5.7
2) 6.3-6.5
3) 6.1-6.7
4) 8.1-8.5
5) 5.5-6.1

2. Who received the Ernst &Young Lifetime Achievement Award in February 2013?
1) T.T.Jagannathan
2) Ratan Tata
3) Rahul Bajaj
4) Francisco D' Souza
5) None of these

3. Which team won the 67th Santosh Trophy Football tourna ment in Kochi on March 3, 2013?
1) Services
2) Kerala
3) Goa
4) Tamil Nadu
5) Bengal

4. Chuck Hagel has been appointed as the US?
1) Secretary of State
2) Treasury Secretary
3) Vice President
4) Defense Secretary
5) Ambassador to India

5. Who won the Best Actress Award at the 85th Academy Awards in February 2013?
1) Jessica Chastain
2) Quvenzhane Wallis
3) Naomi Watts
4) Jennifer Lawrence
5) None of these

6. Which of the following films won the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the 85th Oscar awards?
1) Kon-Tiki (Norway)
2) No (Chile)
3) Amour (Austria)
4) A Royal Affair (Denmark)
5) War Witch (Canada)

7. India's GDP growth in the third quarter of 2012-13 slipped to what per cent?
1) 5.5%
2) 5.3%
3) 4.5%
4) 4.9%
5) 5.2%

8. Manik Sarkar has been the Chief Minister of which of the follow ing states since March 1998?
1) Mizoram
2) Assam
3) Nagaland
4) Tripura
5) Manipur

9. India's first all-women bank will start operations from November this year. The government announced an initial capital of how many crores of rupees for this purpose?
1) 2,000crore
2) 2,500crore
3) 1,000crore
4) 1,500crore
5) None of these

10. How many crores will be made available to NABARD to finance construction of godowns and warehouses, as per the 2013-14 Union Budget?
1) Rs 5,000cr
2) Rs 10,000cr
3) Rs 1,000cr
4) Rs 2,000cr
5) Rs 20,000cr

11. Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization) elected Mir eille Ballestrazzi as its first fe male President. She belongs to?
1) France
2) Italy
3) UK
4) Germany
5) Poland

12. The 10th ASEAN-India Summit was held on November 19, 2012 at?
1) Singapore
2) Bangkok
3) Phnom Penh
4) Bali
5) Jakarta

13. ASEAN-India trade reached how many billion dollars in 2011-12?
1) 75.5
2) 79.3
3) 82.5
4) 81.3
5) None of these


ANSWERS:

1) 3 2) 2 3) 1 4) 4 5) 4 6) 3 7) 3 8) 4 9) 3 10) 1 11) 1 12) 3 13) 2