1. Who replaced Arvind Mayaram as the Economic Affairs Secretary in October 2014?
1) Anil Swarup
2) S.K. Srivastava
3) Alok Rawat
4) Rajiv Mehrishi
5) Vinod Agrawal
2. The European Parliament has awarded its highest human rights accolade, the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to?
1) Edward Snowden
2) Denis Mukwege
3) Leyla Yunus
4) Muhammad Yunus
5) Alan Rusbridger
3. Which of the following teams defended the Sultan of Johor Cup under-21 hockey title on October 19, 2014?
1) India
2) Great Britain
3) Australia
4) New Zealand
5) South Korea
4. Who won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his book "The Narrow Road to the Deep North"?
1) Howard Jacobson
2) Joshua Ferris
3) Richard Powers
4) Richard Flanagan
5) David Mitchell
5. Who will head the National Committee to commemorate the 125th birth anniversary of India's
first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru?
1) Karan Singh
2) Sonia Gandhi
3) Sushma Swaraj
4) Arun Jaitley
5) Narendra Modi
6. Who won the Challenger tennis tournament at the Indore Club Courts on October 19, 2014?
1) Saketh Myneni
2) Somdev Devvarman
3) Yuki Bhambri
4) R. Ramkumar
5) None of these
7. Identify the mismatched pair regarding Author and Book.
1) Joshua Ferris: To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
2) Karen Joy Fowler: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
3) Joseph O'Neill: The Dog
4) Niall Williams: History of the Rain
5) Neel Mukherjee: How to be Both
8. Sultan of Johor Cup is an annual international under-21 field hockey tournament held in?
1) Pakistan
2) Bangladesh
3) Malaysia
4) Indonesia
5) Iran
9. Who among the following is not a Golf player?
1) Anirban Lahiri
2) Baek Seuk-Hyun
3) Bubba Watson
4) Louis Oosthuizen
5) Vladimir Klitschko
10. The Supreme Court lifted the 19-month ban on iron ore mining in which of the following states in April 2014?
1) Karnataka
2) Maharashtra
3) Goa
4) Odisha
5) Kerala
11. Who is the author of the book "Urban Villager -Life in an Indian Satellite Town"?
1) Mukul Kesavan
2) Vandana Vasudevan
3) Rashmi Bansal
4) Chetan Bhagat
5) None of these
12. DRT is associated with?
1) Deposit insurance
2) Recurring deposits
3) Loan recovery
4) Demand deposits
5) Fixed deposits
13. Dactylography is commonly known as?
1) Carbon dating
2) Water printing
3) Finger printing
4) Electro cardiogram
5) None of these
14. Curcumin is a derivative of which of the following?
1) Ginger
2) Turmeric
3) Garlic
4) Sunflower
5) Jasmine
15. Who is the first Indian woman winner of Miss Universe?
1) Aishwarya Rai
2) Rita Faria
3) Lara Dutta
4) Sushmita Sen
5) Diana Hayden
16. Which of the following books is not written by Salman Rushdie?
1) Shame
2) Midnight's Children
3) The Satanic Verses
4) The Moor's Last Sigh
5) The Shape of the Beast
17. MENA refers to the countries in?
1) Middle East and North African countries
2) Middle East and North American countries
3) Mediterranean Europe and North Atlantic countries
4) Mediterranean Europe and North American countries
5) None of these
18. Open market operations refer to the sale and purchase by the Reserve Bank of India of?
1) Foreign currency
2) Gold
3) Government bonds
4) All the above
5) None of these
19. The agency that estimates national income in India is?
1) RBI
2) Planning Commission
3) CSO
4) Finance Ministry
5) None of these
20. Who is the author of 'Panchatantra'?
1) Banabhatt
2) Vishnu Sharma
3) Jaya Deva
4) Hala
5) None of these
21. IRDA is the Indian regulator for the?
1) Banking sector
2) Mutual funds
3) Rural development
4) Insurance sector
5) None of these
22. The Speaker of the Lok Sabha is?
1) Elected by Members of the Lok Sabha
2) Appointed by the President
3) The leader of the majority party in the Lok Sabha
4) The Senior most member of the Lok Sabha
5) None of these
23. Which two institutions are popularly referred to as the Bretton Woods Twins?
1) IMF and World Bank
2) World Bank and ADB
3) ADB and IMF
4) UNO and WTO
5) UNESCO and UNICEF
24. Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is an inter-governmental body concerned with?
1) Money laundering
2) Stock markets
3) Foreign Direct Investment
4) Foreign Institutional Investors
5) None of these
25. The movie 'Life of Pi' is based on a novel written by?
1) Peter Carey
2) Alan Hollinghurst
3) Yann Martel
4) P.H. Newby
5) Eleanor Catton
26. LIDL, Walgreen, ASDA and Kroger are?
1) Automobile companies
2) Retailers
3) Electronic product manufacturers
4) Oil companies
5) None of these
27. Which bank was the first to introduce the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) in India?
1) HSBC
2) Citibank
3) Standard Chartered Bank
4) HDFC Bank
5) SBI
28. The Three Gorges Dam is located in?
1) China
2) Brazil
3) Russia
4) Japan
5) Vietnam
29. Who created the cartoon character Richie Rich?
1) Elzie Crisler Segar
2) Dan Yaccarino
3) William Hanna
4) Walt Disney
5) Alfred Harvey
30. Bombay House in Mumbai serves as the head office of the?
1) Tata Group
2) Reliance Industries limited
3) Aditya Birla Group
4) K.K. Birla Group
5) Yash Birla Group
31. Recommendations of which committee led to the reforms in the banking sector in India in the Nineties?
1) Malhotra committee
2) Narsimham committee
3) Mayaram committee
4) Damodaran committee
5) Tarapore committee
32. Which country is the largest producer of newsprint?
1) Indonesia
2) Finland
3) Canada
4) China
5) None of these
33. India's Direct Cash Transfer scheme draws similarities from models of?
1) Brazil
2) Germany
3) Australia
4) USA
5) UK
34. How many pairs of chromosomes exist in a human cell?
1) 12
2) 23
3) 34
4) 45
5) 46
35. 'Relationship beyond banking' is the tagline of?
1) State Bank of India
2) Central Bank of India
3) Bank of India
4) Bank of Baroda
5) Bank of Maharashtra
36. Which instrument measures blood pressure?
1) Sphygmomanometer
2) Hygrometer
3) Saccharimeter
4) Spherometer
5) Lactometer
37. Who among the following is not a banker?
1) Shikha Sharma
2) Chanda Kochhar
3) Nainalal Kidwai
4) Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
5) Arundhathi Bhattacharya
38. The currency of which of the following countries is Litas?
1) Lithuania
2) Liberia
3) Latvia
4) Laos
5) Lebanon
39. Manama is the capital city of which of the following countries?
1) Panama
2) Liberia
3) Bahrain
4) Peru
5) Uruguay
40. Bhaka Wata is a dance form of?
1) Assam
2) Tripura
3) Bihar
4) Odisha
5) Jharkhand
ANSWERS:
1) 4 2) 2 3) 1 4) 4 5) 5 6) 1 7) 5 8) 3 9) 5 10) 3
11) 2 12) 3 13) 3 14) 2 15) 4 16) 5 17) 1 18) 3 19) 3 20) 2
21) 4 22) 1 23) 1 24) 1 25) 3 26) 2 27) 1 28) 1 29) 5 30) 1
31) 2 32) 3 33) 1 34) 2 35) 3 36) 1 37) 4 38) 1 39) 3 40) 4
