Monday, April 8, 2013

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE MCQs

1. Who has been chosen for the 2013 Abel Prize in Mathem-atics? (It is given by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters)
1) Pierre Deligne (Belgium)
2) Jean-Pierre Serre (France) 
3) Lennart Carleson (Sweden) 
4) John Milnor (USA) 
5) None of these

 
2. Who has been elected as the President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 2013-14? (He succeeds Adi Godrej)
1) Cyrus Mistry
2) S.Gopalakrishnan 
3) Ratan Tata
4) Sumit Mazumdar
5) N.Chandrasekaran

 
3. With effect from April 1, 2013 Chitra Ramakrishna took over as the Managing Director and CEO of?
1) SEBI

 2) BSE
3) NSE
4) Axis Bank
5) Yes Bank
 
4. The Government appointed S.C.Sinha as National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) member in April 2013. He is the Chief of?
1) CBI

2) IB
3) RAW
4) NIA

5) None of these

5. Who won the 2013 Pritzker Prize for Architecture?
1) Wang Shu (China)
2) Tadao Ando (Japan)
3) Fumihiko Maki (Japan)
4) Toyo Ito (Japan)
5) Jean Nouvel (France)


6. India and which of the following countries signed a Memorandum of Unders-tanding (MoU) on bilateral air services arrangement on April 2, 2013?
1) Singapore 

2) China 
3) Japan 
4) USA 

5) Philippines

7. Raymond Lane resigned as the Chairman of which of the follo-wing companies in April 2013?
1) Dell 

2) Microsoft 
3) Oracle 

4) Hewlett-Packard 
5) Google

 
8. Rory McIlroy won the DP World Tour Golf Champi-onship in Dubai in November 2012. He belongs to?
1) Scotland

2) Denmark 
3) Northern Ireland 

4) Norway 
5) Sweden

 
9. Who was named WTA Tour Pl-ayer of the Year for the fourth time on November 29, 2012?
1) Victoria Azarenka
2) Maria Sharapova 
3) Serena Williams 
4) Caroline Wozniacki

5) None

10. Who has been appointed as the Director General of the Natio-nal Security Guard (NSG)?
1) Arun Chaudhary
2) Ashutosh Shukla 
3) Arvind Ranjan 

4) A.T.Parnaik
5) None of these

 
11. Subhash Joshi has been appo-inted as Director General of?
1) BSF

2) ITBP
3) CISF
4) CRPF

5) None of these

12. Django Sissoko has been the Prime Minister of which of the following countries since December 2012?
1) Namibia 

2) Mali 
3) Algeria 

4) Mauritania 
5) Uganda

 
13. Borut Pahor assumed office as the President of which of the following countries on December 22, 2012? 
1) Slovakia 

2) Romania 
3) Slovenia 

4) Czech Republic 
5) Macedonia

 
14. Who was/were appointed as the new national icons of Elec-tion Commission of India to enhance voters' participation in elections?
1) Saina Nehwal 

2) Mary Kom 
3) Deepika Kumari 
4) Both 1 and 2
5) All 1, 2 and 3

 
15. 'Anhe Ghorhey Da Daan' bagged the Golden Peacock for best film at the 43rd Inter-national Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Panaji, Goa in Dece-mber 2012. It is made in which of the following languages?
1) Marathi 

2) Punjabi 
3) Bengali 

4) Hindi 
5) None of these


16. Who was bestowed with the Medal of Honor by the Prince of Morocco at the 12th Marrakech International Film Festival in December 2012?
1) Shah Rukh Khan 
2) Sri Devi

3) Madhuri Dixit 
4) Hrithik Roshan
5) Amitabh Bachchan


17. Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar passed away on Dece-mber 11, 2012 in San Diego, USA at the age of 92. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna in?
1) 2001

2) 1999
3) 2008
4) 1987

5) 1990

18. Who was ranked 12th on the Forbes list of 'The World's Most Powerful People' released on December 6, 2012?
1) Manmohan Singh 
2) Mukesh Ambani
3) Sonia Gandhi 
4) Lakshmi Nivas Mittal 
5) None of these


19. Which of the following is the name of the legislation that provides employment to the poor in villages?
1) POTA 

2) FEMA 
3) MGNREGA 

4) COFEPOSA 
5) None of these

 
20. Which of the following organ-izations/banks has done an excellent work in the field of micro finance and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006?
1) NABARD 

2) CRY
3) CARE
4) Prathama Grameen Bank 
5) Grameen Bank of Bangladesh

 
21. Which of the following is not a member of Asian Clearing Union (ACU)?
1) India 

2) Bangladesh 
3) Nepal 

4) Pakistan 
5) Indonesia 


22. 'Areva' in France is associated with which of the following fields/areas?
1) Airbus industries 
2) Pharmaceuticals 

3) Textiles
4) Nuclear power 

5) Petroleum
 
23. The objective of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) is to provide basic health cover to?
1) Rural poor 

2) Urban poor 
3) Senior citizens 
4) People living below poverty line 

5) None of these
 
24. Which of the following terms is used in the field of finance and banking? 
1) Refraction 

2)Gauge pressure
3) Adjustment credit
4) Absolute zero
5) Quantum number


25. Investor Protection Fund was established by?
1) RBI

2) SBI
3) SIDBI 

4) BSE
5) Ministry of Finance


26. Which of the following schemes is related exclusively to Financial Inclusion?
1) SGSY

2) Swavalamban
3) Swabhiman 
4) Bharat Nirman

5) Aajeevika

27. On which of the following issues can SEBI penalize any company in India?
1) Violation of Banking Regulation Act
2) Violation of foreign portfolio investment guidelines
3) Violation of Negotiable Instruments Act
4) Both 1 and 2
5) All 1, 2 and 3


28. What is a teaser loan rate?
1) Fixed rate of interest charged by banks
2) Floating rate of interest charged by banks 
3) Rate of interest in the initial period is less and goes up subsequently
4) Rate of interest in the initial period is more and it goes down subse-quently
5) None of these


29. Pranab Sen Com-mittee is related to?
1) Inflation 

2) Slums
3) Food security
4) MGNREGA
5) None of these


30. Which of the follo-wing cups is asso-ciated with the game of badmin-ton?
1) Aga Khan Cup
2) Davis Cup
3) Fed Cup 
4) Uber Cup 
5) Merdeka Cup


31. Which of the follo-wing terms is used in the banking field?
1) Convolution
2) De phasing 
3) Rotation matrix 
4) Atomic number 
5) None of these 


32. Millennium Development Goals are issued by?
1) Planning Commission
2) World Bank
3) UNO 

4) IMF
5) Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council

33. "Economic Nightmare of India: Its Cause and Cure" was written by? 
1) Charan Singh 

2) Morarji Desai
3) Indira Gandhi 

4) I.K.Gujral
5) Jawaharlal Nehru 


34. Which of the following is an economic term?
1) Lampoon 

2) Zero Hour
3) Plaintiff

4) Deflation 
5) Bunker Blaster 


35. What is the full form of the term LIBOR?
1) Local Indian Bank Offered Rate
2) London Inter Bank Offered Rate
3) Liberal International Bank Official Ratio
4) London-India Bureau of Regulations

 5)None of these

36. Patratu Thermal Power Plant is in?
1) Bihar 

2) Jharkhand
3) West Bengal 

4)Madhya Pradesh
5) Chhattisgarh


37. Which of the following expan-ded terms is not correct?
1) ALM:Asset Liability Management
2) CCEA:Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs 
3) FSDC:Financial Stability and Development Council
4) GSLV:Geo synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle
5) GNP: Gross Net Product 


38. 'Goodbye Shahzadi' is written by Shyam Bhatia. It is the biography of?
1) Sheikh Hasina 
2) Benazir Bhutto
3) Khaleda Zia
4) Heena Rabbani Khar
5) None of these


ANSWERS:
1) 1; 2) 2; 3) 3; 4) 4; 5) 4; 6) 1; 7) 4; 8) 3; 9) 3; 10) 3; 11) 1; 12) 2; 13) 3; 14) 4; 15) 2; 16) 1; 17) 2; 18) 3; 19) 3; 20) 5; 21) 5; 22) 4; 23) 4; 24) 3; 25) 4; 26) 3; 27) 2; 28) 3; 29) 2; 30) 4; 31) 5; 32) 3; 33) 1; 34) 4; 35) 2; 36) 2; 37) 5; 38) 2.

Monday, April 1, 2013

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE MCQs

1. The Reserve Bank of India in its mid-quarter monetary policy review on March 19, 2013 cut the repo rate by 25 basis points. What is the present repo rate?
1) 8% 

2) 8.25%
3) 7.25% 

4) 7.5% 
5) 7%

2. Who was crowned Femina Miss India 2013?
1) Navneet Kaur Dhillon
2) Sobhita Dhulipala 
3) Zoya Afroz
4) Srishti Rana
5) Anushka Shah 

3. According to the Human Development Report 2013 released by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), what is India's rank on its human development index (HDI)?
1) 126 

2) 124
3) 136 

4) 139 
5) 144

4. The International Day of Happiness is celebrated on? 
1) May 13 

2) August 11
3) August 9 

4) March 20
5) May 25 

5. What is the present reverse repo rate?
1) 6% 

2) 6.25%
3) 6.75% 

4) 7% 
5) 6.5%

6. Chinua Achebe, the father of African literature, passed away on March 21, 2013. He belonged to?
1) Sudan 

2) Zambia 
3) Zimbabwe 

4) South Africa 
5) Nigeria 

7. INS Tarkash, a new warship, joined the Indian Navy in December 2012. It is built by?
1) Israel 

2) China 
3) Russia 

4) France 
5) USA

8. Who was given the Polly Umrigar Award for Cricketer of the Year for 2011-12?
1) Ravindra Jadeja
2) Gautam Gambhir
3) Yuvraj Singh 
4) Virat Kohli
5) Rahul Dravid

9. Who was elected President of the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) in November 2012?
1) K.P.S.Gill
2) V.Dinesh Reddy
3) R.K.Shetty 
4) Ranjit Sinha
5) None of these

10. Viktor Yanukovych visited India in December 2012. He is the President of?
1) Georgia 

2) Ukraine 
3) Belarus 

4) Kazakhstan 
5) Kyrgyzstan 

11. South African President Jacob Zuma was re-elected leader of which of the following parties on December 18, 2012?
1) Democratic Alliance 
2) Congress of the People
3) African National Congress
4) African Peoples' Convention
5) Pan Africanist Congress

12. John Dramani Mahama won a new term as President of which of the following African countries in December 2012?
1) Nigeria 

2) Algeria 
3) Kenya 

4) Ghana 
5) Uganda 

13. Congress leader Virbhadra Singh took oath as the Chief Minister of which of the following states for a record sixth time on December 25, 2012? 
1) Haryana 

2) Punjab 
3) Rajasthan 
4) Madhya Pradesh 
5) Himachal Pradesh 

14. Who has taken over as Chairperson of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to decide on cases relating to environmental protection and conservation of forests and natural resources?
1) Justice Swatanter Kumar
2) Justice P. Jyothimani
3) Justice L.S.Panta 
4) Justice R.V.Raveendran
5) None of these

15. Who was re-elected Chairman of the panel of external auditors of the United Nations in December 2012?
1) V.K.Shunglu 

2) Vinod Rai
3) H.S.Brahma 

4) V.S.Sampath
5) None of these

16. Who was awarded the Brand Laureate Legendary Award in Malaysia in December 2012?
1) Aamir Khan 
2) Salman Khan
3) Shah Rukh Khan
4) Hrithik Roshan
5) Amitabh Bachchan

17. Leslie Claudius passed away on December 20, 2012. He was one of the legends of the game of?
1) Hockey 

2) Cricket
3) Lawn Tennis

 4) Chess
5) Table Tennis

18. Who was presented with the K.Karunakaran Foundation award, instituted in memory of late congress leader, in December 2012?
1) A.K.Antony
2) P.Chidambaram
3) Vayalar Ravi
4) K.V.Thomas
5) S.Jaipal Reddy

19. Who won the inaugural T20 World Cup for the Blind in Bangalore on December 13, 2012?
1) India 

2) Pakistan 
3) Sri Lanka 

4) England 
5) South Africa 

20. Who was named the All India Football Federation (AIFF) Player of the Year on December 20, 2012?
1) Sunil Chhetri
2) Syed Rahim Nabi
3) Nirmal Chhetri
4) Robin Singh 
5) Manandeep Singh 

 
21. "My Decade in the Premier League" is written by which of the following soccer players?
1) David Beckham 
2) Wayne Rooney
3) Lionel Messi
4) Criastino Ronaldo
5) Iker Casillas

22. The aim of Janani Suraksha Yojana Program is to?
1) Promote institutional deliveries 
2) Provide monetary assistance to the mother to meet the cost of delivery 
3) Provide for wage loss due to pregnancy and confinement
4) Both 1 and 2
5) All 1, 2 and 3

23. 'Opening Up: My Autobiogra-phy' is written by?
1) Nasser Hussain 
2) Mike Atherton 
3) Andrew Strauss 
4) Alastair Cook 
5) Alec Stewart 

24. World Post Day is celebrated on?
1) January 30 

2) August 6 
3) September 9 
4) October 9 
5) November 26

25. Dudhwa National Park is located in?
1) Gujarat 

2) Maharashtra 
3)Uttar Pradesh 
4) Madhya Pradesh 
5) Uttarakhand 

26. Monisha Kaltenborn is associ-ated with?
1) Golf 

2) Cycling 
3) Formula One 

4) Tennis 
5) Athletics 

27. Which Indian IT company has acquired Lodestone Manage-ment Consultants, a Swiss company? 
1) TCS 

2) Infosys 
3) Wipro 

4) HCL
5) Mahindra Satyam

28. Steve Ballmer is the CEO of?
1) Google 

2) Vodafone 
3) Microsoft 

4) Oracle 
5) Apple 

29. Which is the only public sector company in the field of life insurance?
1) GIC
2) Sahara Life Insurance
3) New India Assurance
4) LIC 

5) Oriental Insurance

30. Which of the following is an example of micro finance?
1) Letter of credit
2) Insurance for life
3) Self Help Groups 
4) Investment in Mutual Funds 
5) None of these

31. Which of the following terms is not used in the world of ban-king/finance?
1) Devaluation 
2) Hard currency 
3) Sinking fund 
4) Amnesty 

5) Preference share 

32. ULIP is a product offered by?
1) Banks 

2) RBI
3) NABARD 

4) TRAI 
5) Insurance companies

33. Which of the following corporates is the India partner of American coffee company Starbucks?
1) Godrej 

2) Tata 
3) RIL 
4) ADAG 
5) Aditya Birla 

34. CBDT stands for?
1) Central Board of Direct Tariffs 
2) Central Board of Direct Taxes
3) Central Board of Daily Taxes
4) Central Board of Direct Taxation 
5) None of these 

35. Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research is located in?
1) Lucknow 

2) Pune 
3) Nasik 

4) Kasargod 
5) Kochi 

36. Which of the following is not a part of infrastructure?
1) Ports 

2) Railways 
3) Power 

4) Food processing
5) Roads 

37. Which of the following is the oldest development financial institution in India?
1) NABARD 

2) UTI
3) IDBI 

4) IFCI
5) ICICI 

38. Tata Prima is a?
1) Car 

2) Tractor 
3) Truck 

4) Motorcycle
5) SUV

39. Which of the following is an Indian origin banking firm?
1) HSBC 

2) Citibank
3) Barclays 

4) RBS 
5) None of these 

40. Sandy is a?
1) Missile 

2) Tank 
3) Hurricane 
4) Ship 
5) Planet

41. What is the percent of FDI allowed in insurance and pension sector?
1) 20% 

2) 49% 
3) 51% 
4) 100% 
5) 74%

42. Which of the following is a direct tax?
1) VAT 

2) Road tax
3) Infrastructure tax
4) Income tax 
5) None of these

43. Which of the following is a common man's account?
1) Current account
2) Savings account
3) Demat account
4) Temporary account
5) None of these

 
44. Money earned from stocks is called?
1) Monetary gain 
2) Stocks gain 

3) Capital gain 
4) Fringe benefit
5) None of these

45. Who is the Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports?
1) Manish Tiwari
2) Sachin Pilot
3) Jayanthi Natarajan 
4) Ajay Maken
5) Jitendra Singh

46. Malathion is?
1) An Instrument
2) An Explosive
3) An Insecticide
4) A Vitamin
5) A Protein

47. What does the letter 'S' denote in 'AFSPA'?
1) State 

2) Security 
3) Sovereign 
4) Special 
5) None of these

48. 'Free throw' is a term associated with?
1) Volleyball 

2) Football 
3) Basketball 
4) Baseball 
5) Table Tennis

49. The social infrastructure of an economy consists of?
1) Transport, Banking
2) Education, Health
3) Industry, Trade
4) Industry, Agriculture
5) None of these

50. Sathyamangalam Wildlife Sanctuary is a Tiger Reserve in the state of?
1) Kerala 

2) Karnataka 
3) Tamil Nadu
4) Odisha
5) Andhra Pradesh

 

ANSWERS:


1) 4 11) 3 21) 2 31) 4 41) 2
2) 1 12) 4 22) 5 32) 5 42) 4
3) 3 13) 5 23) 2 33) 2 43) 2
4) 4 14) 1 24) 4 34) 2 44) 3
5) 5 15) 2 25) 3 35) 1 45) 5
6) 5 16) 3 26) 3 36) 4 46) 3
7) 3 17) 1 27) 2 37) 4 47) 4
8) 4 18) 2 28) 3 38) 3 48) 3
9) 2 19) 1 29) 4 39) 5 49) 2
10) 2 20) 2 30) 3 40) 3 50) 3