GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUESTIONS

1.    “The Taste of India” is the Slogan of which popular brand in India?
     a) Ashirvad    
     b) Amul
     c) Kohinoor Foods
     d) MTR Foods
     e) None of the above

 2.    NEFT(National Electronic Funds Transfer) is used for Electronic Transfer of Funds between Two Bank Accounts. Which of the following is NOT mandatory for a NEFT transaction?
     a)    IFSC Code    
     b) MICR Code
     c)    Funds Recipient’s Bank Account Number
     d)    Funds Recipient’s Bank Account Name
     e)    Funds Recipient’s Bank & Branch details

 3.    What is the Currency of Spain?
     a) Peso    
     b) Franc
     c) Kroner   
    d) Euro
     e) None of the above

 4.    Due to finding of shale gas, which of the following countries is likely to become the World’s biggest Oil Producer by 2014?
     a) Iraq    
 b) Saudi Arabia
     c) USA       
d) Iran    
e) China

 5.    Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamilnadu is built with the help of which Country?
     a) Russia    
b) USA
     c) France    
d) Japan
     e) None of the above

 6.    Where is India’s highest ATM located?
     a) Drass in J&K
     b) Kargil in J&K
     c) Thimpu in Bhutan
     d) Nathu La in Sikkim
     e) None of the above

 7.    What is meant by ‘Reverse Repo Rate’ in India?
     a)    Interest Rate Banks get when they keep their Surplus Money with RBI
     b)    Interest Rate Banks pay when they borrow Funds from RBI
     c)    Interest Rate Banks get when they keep their Surplus Money with other Banks
     d)    Interest Rate Banks get when they borrow Funds from Govt. of India
     e) None of the above

 8.    Who is the author of the book ‘The Monk who sold his Ferrari’?
     a) Raghu S Sharma
     b) Rahul S Sharma
     c) Raghuram Rajan
     d) Ram S Sharma
     e) Robin S Sharma

 9.    As per the latest RBI guidelines, at what intervals Banks can pay Interest on Savings Accounts?
     a)    Quarterly and above only
     b)    Half yearly and above only
     c)    Shorter or greater than Quarterly intervals
     d)    Annual only
     e)    None of the above

 10.    What is TRUE about ‘Inflation Indexed National Saving Securities (IINSSs)’ for retail investors?
     a)    Proposed to be launched in November/December 2013
     b)    Interest on these Securities will be based on a Fixed Rate plus Inflation Rate
     c)    Interest on these Securities will be compounded Half Yearly
     d)    These Securities will be issued through Banks
     e)    All the above

 11.    As per RBI guidelines, what is the maximum amount that can be transferred through RTGS?
     a) Rs. 10 Crores
     b) There is no upper limit
     c) Rs. 1 Crore    
d) Rs. 5 Crores
     e) None of the above

 12.    It is announced in the Union Budget that a LIC branch will be opened in every Town with a population of -
     a) 25 Thousand or more
     b) 5 Thousand or more
     c) 10 Thousand or more
     d) 15 Thousand or more
     e)    Every Town irrespective of the population

 13.    Additional Tax Surcharge of 10% on Income Tax is levied on income of persons whose Annual income is-
     a) Above Rs. 1 Crore
     b) Above Rs. 50 Lac
     c) Above Rs. 75 Lac
     d) Above Rs. 25 Lac
     e) None of the above

 14.    Which State of India is the largest producer of Tea?
     a) Tamilnadu    
b) Kerala
     c) Assam    
d) West Bengal
     e) None of the above

 15.    As per RBI Rules, a Non Performing Asset (NPA) of a Bank in Doubtful Status for more than 3 years attracts provisioning at the Rate of-
     a) 50%    
b) 100%
     c) 10%    
d) 25%
     e) None of the above

 16.    Education Loans of up to what amount are classified as Priority Sector Loans?
     a)    Rs. 10 Lacs for studies in India & Rs. 20 Lacs for studies abroad
     b)    Rs. 15 Lacs for studies in India & Rs. 25 Lacs for studies abroad
     c)    Rs. 20 Lacs for studies in India & Rs. 30 Lacs for studies abroad
     d)    Rs. 30 Lacs for studies in India & Rs. 50 Lacs for studies abroad
     e)    None of the above

 17.    Who is the Founder Chairman of Sahara India Pariwar Conglome-rate Company who is told by Supreme Court not to leave India without it’s permission?
     a) Sudhanshu Roy Sahara
     b) Sriram Roy Sahara
     c) Sunil Roy Sahara
     d) Subrata Roy Sahara
     e) None of the above

 18.    In order to introduce High Speed Passenger Train that can travel at speeds up to 200 Km/hr, Indian Railways has setup-
     a)    High Speed Rail Corporation
     b)    High Speed Trains Corporation
     c)    High Speed Transport Corporation
     d)    High Speed Transit Corporation
     e)    None of the above

 19.    ‘Finance Bill’ has to be passed by Parliament and President’s Assent given before expiry of how many days of introduction in the Parliament?
     a) 60 days    
b) 75 days
     c) 90 days    
d) 30 days
     e) None of the above

 20.    National Food Security Bill 2013 aims to provide Food Security to-
     a)    10% of Rural and 5% of Urban Population
     b)    50% of Rural and 75% of Urban Population
     c)    25% of Rural and 80% of Urban Population
     d)    75% of Rural and 50% of Urban Population
     e)    None of the above

 21.    What is ‘Arbitrage Trading’ with reference to Stock Markets?
     a)    Settling or Arbitrating a Trade Dispute between two Stock Brokers
     b)    Purchasing and selling the same Stock at the same time in different Markets
     c)    Selling Stocks at a lower price than the market price
     d)    Selling Stocks at a higher price than the market price
     e)    None of the above

 22.    ‘Negative List’ under FEMA (Foreign Exchange Management Act) prohibits investments in India from certain Countries. Which of the following is a Country in that list?
     a) USA    
b) Pakistan
     c) UK    
d) Canada
     e) None of the above

 23.    What is IndRa?
     a)    An Indian Credit Ratings Company
     b)    An Indian Mircofinance Company
     c)    An Indian Scientific Research Company
     d)    An Indian Housing Finance Company
     e)    None of the above

 24.    What is EPS (Earnings Per Share)?
     a)    Ratio of Capital to Number of Shares
     b)    Ratio of Net Profit to Number of Shares
     c)    Ratio of Reserves to Number of Shares
     d)    Ratio of Interest to Number of Shares
     e)    None of the above

 25.    Which Nationalised Bank has got the highest Government Sha-reholding as of 31st March 2013?
     a) Central Bank of India
     b) IDBI Bank    
c) Andhra Bank
     d) Vijaya Bank
     e) None of the above

 26.    Who is the ‘Secretary of Financial Services’ in Central Finance Ministry?
     a) Anil Goswami
     b) Akbaruddin    
c) Nirupama Rao
     d) Rajiv Takru
     e) None of the above

 27.    Which City in India is the best to start a Business as per a Study conducted by World Bank & International Finance Corporation (IFC)?
     a) Mumbai    
b) Hyderabad
     c) Delhi    
d) Bangalore
     e) None of the above

 28.    For which Banking product in India, Nomination facility is NOT available?
     a) Savings Deposits
     b) Fixed Deposits
     c) Recurring Deposits
     d) Current Accounts
     e) None of the above

 29.    Out of the total Priority Sector Loans, what percentage should be sanctioned to the Weaker Sections by Public Sector Banks as per RBI guidelines?
     a) 25%    
b) 50%
     c) 60%    
d) 15%
     e) None of the above

 30.    Who is the Managing Director & CEO of NSE (National Stock Exchange)?
     a) Bimal Jalan    
b) S Damodaran
     c) Chitra Ramakrishna
     d) Naina Lal Kidwai
     e) None of the above

 31.    Which of the following Banks does NOT have its Headquarters in Mumbai?
     a) State Bank of India
     b) ICICI Bank
     c) Bank of Maharashtra
     d) Union Bank of India
     e) HDFC Bank

 32.    Govt of India withdrew flying rights to Kingfisher Airlines in Feb 2013. Name the Chairman & Managing Director of the now defunct Kingfisher Airlines?
     a) G R Gopinath
     b) Vijay Mallya    
c) Naresh Goel
     d) Kalanithi Maran
     e) None of the above

 33.    A fall in Rupee value against Major Foreign Currencies is generally-
     a)    Detrimental to Importers
     b)    Beneficial to Importers
     c)    Detrimental to Indian Tourists going abroad
     d)    Beneficial to Exporters
     e)    ‘a’,’c’ & ‘d’ of the above

Answers:
     1.b;    2.b;    3.d;         4.c;    5.a;      6.d;    7.a;     8.e;     9.c;     10.e;     
   11.b;   12.c;     13.a;     14.c;     15.b;     16.a;     17.d;     18.a;     19.b;     20.d;     
   21.b;     22.e;     23.a;     24.b    25.a;     26.d;     27.c;     28.e;     29.a;     30.c;     
   31.c;     32.b;     33.e

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE MCQs FOR IBPS EXAMS

1.    Former Union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai was appointed as the Chairman of which of the following stock exchanges on November 1, 2013?
     1) MCX-SX   
2) NSE    
3) BSE      
     4) USE          
5) CSE            

 2.    Reshma died in Lahore on November 3, 2013. She was a legendary Pakistani?
     1) Politician      
 2) Author  
     3) Painter            
 4) Singer      
     5) Social worker                

 3.    Fed Cup is the team competition in women’s tennis. Which country won the 2013 Fed Cup in November 2013?
     1) Italy         
2) Russia   
     3) Australia      
4) Serbia
     5) Czech Republic     

 4.    Gujarat Chief Minister Naren- dra Modi laid the foundation for the world’s tallest memorial of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on October 31, 2013. It is called?
     1) Statue of Integrity
     2) Statue of Honesty
     3) Statue of Unity
     4) Statue of Equality 
     5) Statue of Prosperity 

 5.    Who became the first Indian to reach the quarter-finals of the world squash championships in Manchester on October 31, 2013?
     1) Harinder Pal Sandhu
     2) Saurav Ghosal   
     3)  Mahesh Mangaonkar
     4) Ravi Dixit     
5) Ramit Tandon 
             
 6.    Indian men’s team qualified for the 2014 Hockey World Cup. The 2014 Men’s Hockey World Cup will be held from May 31 to June 15 in?
     1) Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
     2) Sydney (Australia)        
     3) Buenos Aires (Argentina)
     4) The Hague (Netherlands)        
     5) Barcelona (Spain)

 7.    What is India’s rank in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Report for 2014?
     1) 134       
2) 189       
3) 147
     4) 139       
5) 145  

 8.    Identify the mismatched pair?
     1) Bank Rate – 8.75%
     2) Repo Rate – 7.75%          
 3) Reverse Repo Rate – 6.5% 
     4) CRR – 4% 
     5) SLR – 23%      

 9.    Which of the following agencies has requested for granting its Director ex-officio powers of Secretary, Government of India?
     1) RAW       
2) IB    
3) CBI
      4) CRPF      
5) BSF       

 10.    Who will take on the current world champion Viswanathan Anand in the world chess championship to be held from 9 to 28 November 2013 in Chennai?
     1) Boris Gelfand (Israel)
     2) Vladimir Kramnik (Russia)
     3) Garry Kasparov (Russia)
     4) Magnus Carlsen (Norway)
     5) None of these

 11.    Which is the first state to introduce e-GPF or electronic-GPF?
     1) Gujarat     
2) Rajasthan
     3) Punjab    
4) West Bengal
     5) Arunachal Pradesh         

 12.    Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission (FSL RC) headed by Justice B.N. Srikrishna recommended constitution of a unified financial sector regulator. The commission recommended the unification of which of the following under a single regulator?
     1) SEBI, FMC and NABARD   
     2) SEBI, FMC and PFRDA  
     3) SEBI, FMC and TRAI
     4) SEBI, PFRDA and TRAI 
     5) SEBI, PFRDA, IRDA &FMC

 13.    Videocon Industries and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) have reported a huge natural gas discovery in?
     1) Mongolia       
2) Mozambique   
     3) Kazakhstan      
4) Libya
     5) None of these

 14.    Which Indian businessman was regarded as takeover king as he acquired many firms?
     1) Nusli Wadia
     2) Dhirubhai Ambani
     3) JRD Tata    
4) R.P. Goenka
     5) None of these

 15.    Which state hosted the 27th North-East Games in April 2013?
     1) Manipur     
2) Assam
     3) Mizoram      
4) Nagaland
     5) Arunachal Pradesh

 16.    North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) was recently granted?
     1) Maharatna status
     2) Navaratna status
     3) Miniratna Category-1 status  
     4) Miniratna Category-2 status      
     5) None of these

 17.    ‘Not for Turning’ written by Robin Harris is the biography of?
     1) Winston Churchill   
     2) Tony Blair    
3) David Cameron   
     4) Margaret Thatcher
     5) Gordon Brown

 18.    Indian American economist Raj Chetty won the prestigious John Bates Clark medal 2013, often referred to as the ?
     1) Baby Nobel
     2) America’s Nobel
     3) Asia’s Nobel
     4) Alternative Nobel
     5) None of these

 19.    Industrialist Ram Prasad Goenka, founder of the RPG Group, passed away recently. Which of the following companies does not belong to RPG Group?
     1) CEAT Tyres
     2) KEC International    
     3) Zensar Technologies
     4) Harrisons Malayalam
     5) MRF Tyres

 20.    Who has been appointed as the Vice-Chairman of the Inter- national Chamber of Com- merce (ICC)?
     1) Mukesh Ambani
     2) S.Gopalakrishnan  
     3) Sunil Bharti Mittal
     4) Azim Premji
     5) Ratan Tata 

 21.    The Supreme Court has rejected the plea of which of the following pharmaceutical companies to patent the updated version of cancer drug called Glivec?
     1) Pfizer      
2) Roche  
3) Sanofi 
     4) Novartis  
5) Abbott

 22.    The 2014 Asia Cup cricket tournament will be hosted by which of the following countries between February 24 and March 7?
     1) India       
2) Pakistan
     3) Sri Lanka         
4) Bangladesh
     5) Malaysia    

 23.    Mukundara Hills is the third tiger reserve in?
     1) Rajasthan   
 2) Karnataka
     3) Uttar Pradesh   
 4) Jharkhand   
     5) Madhya Pradesh

 24.    Which country’s scientists created the world’s lightest substance-carbon aerogel?
     1) India       
2) USA     
3) China 
     4) France    
5) Belgium 

 25.    As per a report released by the World Bank, which country is the largest recipient of remittances in the world, receiving $69.35 billion in 2012?
     1) India            
2) China  
     3) Philippines    
 4) Mexico
     5) Nigeria

 26.    The customers by investing in the Tax Saver Deposit Account Scheme in a bank would get benefit under?
     1) Sales Tax    
2) Customs Duty  
      3) Income Tax  
4) Excise Duty  
     5) None of these  

 27.    Chinua Achebe, a Nigerian novelist, died in 2013. He won which of the following awards in 2007?
     1) Nobel Prize in Literature
     2) Man Booker
           International Prize
      3) Man Booker Prize
     4) Pulitzer Prize
      5) Ondaatje Prize

 28.    Which country will support building up of renewable energy in India by providing soft loans of up to $1.3 billion for a six-year period starting next year?
     1) Germany     
2) UK     
3) USA
     4) France        
5) Japan

 29.    Who is the author of the book ‘The First Woman President of India, Reinventing Leadership, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil’?
     1) Shobha De   
     2) Sunaina Singh
     3) Sudha Murty
     4) Rashmi Bansal   
            5) None

 30.    The Goldman Prize is given in the field of?
     1) Education       
2) Cinema
     3) Environment 
4) Literature 
     5) Journalism

 31.    Who has been appointed Chairman of the All India Football Federation’s technical committee?
     1) Praful Patel     
2) Subrata Dutta    
     3) Inder Singh
     4) Bhaichung Bhutia
     5) None of these

 32.    Who won the 2013 India Open Super series badminton championship men’s singles title in New Delhi?
     1) Lee ChongWei (Malaysia )
     2) Kenichi Tago (Japan)
     3) Liu Xiao long (China)
     4) Qui Zihan (China) 
     5) None of these 

 33.    Ratchanok Inthanon won the women’s singles title at the 2013 India Open Super series badminton championship in New Delhi. She belongs to?
     1) Vietnam      
2) Thailand
     3) Myanmar    
4) Malaysia 
     5) Singapore

 34.    Census 2011 data released in April 2013 revealed that the number of farmers in India had fallen by how many millions over the last one decade?
     1) 10 million      
2) 15 million
     3) 9 million       
4) 6 million  
     5) 11 million 

 35.    Which is the first city in South Asia to come up with a Heat Action Plan (HAP)?
     1) Hyderabad      
2) Chennai
     3) Bangalore     
4) Ahmedabad  
     5) Coimbatore

 36.    Which of the following is the capital of Cuba?
     1) San Jose     
2) Kingston
     3) Havana     
4) Vaduz
     5) Vienna 

 37.    April 5 is celebrated as the?
     1) National Girl Child Day 
     2) National Maritime Day
     3) National Science Day 
     4) National Voters Day
     5) None of these

 38.    Which film won the Golden Globe Award 2013 in the Best Motion Picture-Drama category?
     1) Argo      
 2) Django Unchained
     3) Life of Pi     
4) Lincoln    
     5) Zero Dark Thirty

 39.    Ward Cunningham is an American computer programmer who developed the?
     1) First Wiki   
            2) Java language
     3) C language  
     4) World Wide Web  
           5) None

 40.    ‘Catch me if you can’ is a Hollywood movie made on the life of Frank Abagnale, who was a famous/ an infamous?
     1) Sprinter     
 2) Lawyer  
     3) Swimmer     
4) Impostor      
     5) Boxer 

ANSWERS:

 1) 1;        2) 4;       3) 1;      4) 3;       5) 2;     6) 4;       7) 1;      8) 3;      9) 3;    10) 4;
 11) 5;    12) 5;    13) 2;    14) 4;    15) 1;    16) 3;    17) 4;    18) 1;    19) 5;    20) 3;
 21) 4;    22) 4;    23) 1;    24) 3;    25) 1;    26) 3;    27) 2;    28) 1;    29) 2;    30) 3;
 31) 4;    32) 1;    33) 2;    34) 3;    35) 4;    36) 3;    37) 2;    38) 1;    39) 1;    40) 4;

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE MCQs FOR ALL BANK EXAMS

1.    The Ministry of Petroleum and Gas constituted a panel to advice on Pricing Methodology for Diesel, Domestic LPG and PDS Kerosene which submitted its report on October 30, 2013. The panel was headed by?
     1) Kirit Parikh    
     2) P.K. Singh
     3) Deepak Parekh
     4) R.K. Singh     
    5) Vijay Kelkar
 2.    Mukesh Ambani topped the Forbes India rich list for the sixth consecutive year in October 2013. Who is the second richest Indian?
     1) Azim Premji
     2) Lakshmi Mittal
     3) Shiv Nadar     
     4) Adi Godrej
     5) Sunil Mittal
 3.    P.S. Raghavan, a secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, has been appointed as India's next ambassador to?
     1) USA     
      2) China
     3) Russia     
    4) France
     5) Germany
 4.    Who will be the next Indian Air Force Chief?
     1) P.V. Naik     
     2) S.P. Tyagi
     3) N.C. Suri    
     4) Arup Raha
     5) None of these
 5.    The Vice President Hamid Ansari launched INCHAM, the Indian Chamber of Commerce in which of the following countries in October 2013?
     1) Kazakhstan     
     2) China
     3) Russia     
     4) Peru
     5) Brazil
 6.    RBI in its second-quarter review of monetary policy on October 29, 2013 raised the repo rate by how many basis points?
     1) 25 basis points
     2) 50 basis points
     3) 75 basis points
     4) 100 basis points
     5) None of these
 7.    The President Pranab Mukherjee presented the Lal Bahadur Shas-tri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration, Academics and Management on October 1, 2013 to?
     1) Rajendra Achyut Badwe
     2) Tessy Thomas    
     3) Sunil Mittal
     4) M.S. Swaminathan
     5) D.R. Mehta
 8.    The Reserve Bank of India on October 29, 2013 reduced the marginal standing facility (MSF) rate. What is the present MSF rate?
     1) 10.25%    
    2) 8.75%
     3) 9.5%    
     4) 9%
     5) None of these
 9.    The Reserve Bank of India reduced the growth forecast for the current fiscal to what per cent from 5.5 per cent projected earlier?
     1) 5.25 per cent    
     2) 4.75 per cent
     3) 5 per cent     
     4) 4.5 per cent
     5) None of these
 10.    Dilip Shanghvi is the third richest person in India, according to the Forbes magazine. He is the founder of?
     1) Essar Group
     2) Vedanta Resources
     3) Sun Pharmaceutical Industries
     4) Shapoorji Pallonji Group
     5) Wipro
 11.    Olafur Ragnar Grimsson visited India recently. He is the President of?
     1) Ireland     
     2) Norway
     3) Iceland     
     4) Austria
     5) Finland
 12.    The Finance Minister P. Chidam-baram has inaugurated the 100th overseas office of which of the following public sector banks at Dubai International Finance Centre (DIFC)?
     1) State Bank of India
     2) State Bank of Hyderabad
     3) Indian Overseas Bank
     4) Bank of Baroda
     5) Bank of India
 13.    The United Nations General Assembly declared 2013 as the?
     1)    International Year of Biodiversity
     2)    International Year of Water Cooperation
     3)    International Year of Youth
     4)    International Year of Forests
     5)    International Year of Cooperatives
 14.    Indian Cinema completed 100 years on which of the following days in 2013?
     1) March 3    
     2) April 3
     3) May 3    
    4) June 3
     5) February 3
 15.    V.S. Rama Devi passed away in April 2013. She was the only woman to occupy the post of?
     1)    Attorney General
     2)    Comptroller and Auditor General
     3)    Chief Information Commissioner
     4)    Home Secretary
     5)    Chief Election Commissioner

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE MCQs FOR IBPS EXAMS

1.Who was appointed as the goodwill ambassador for South  Korea in October 2013?
     1) Shah Rukh Khan
     2) Aamir Khan            
     3) Amitabh Bachchan               
     4) Aishwarya Rai            
     5) None of these 
            
 2 .Rajiv Takru is?
     1) Finance Secretary   
     2) Financial Services Secretary   
     3) Revenue Secretary             
     4) Defense Secretary      
     5) Foreign Secretary
                
 3.  State Bank of India will get how many crores of rupees for capital infusion this financial year?
     1) Rs 1800cr     
2) Rs 1000cr                  
     3) Rs 2000cr     
4) Rs 700cr       
     5) Rs 500cr
             
 4.     Playback singer Manna Dey passed away on October 24, 2013. The Government of India honored him with the        Dada Saheb Phalke Award in?
     1) 2005    
2) 2011
     3) 2009    
4) 2007
     5) 2010  

 5.     India signed the Border Defen- se Co-operation Agreement (BDCA) with which of the following countries in October 2013?
     1) Bhutan     
2) Bangladesh   
     3)  Pakistan     
4) Myanmar             
     5) China
                  
 6.     Festival of India was inaugu- rated on October 26, 2013 in Lima, the capital of?
     1) Cuba     
2) Chile         
     3) Peru      
4) Bolivia         
     5) Ecuador 

 7. Who became Formula One’s youngest four-times world champion on October 27, 2013?
     1) Felipe Massa
     2) Lewis Hamilton
     3) Kimi Raikkonen  
     4) Sebastian Vettel          
     5) Fernando Alonso

 8.     Fortune magazine compiled a list for most powerful business women in the United States in October 2013.The list is topped by Ginni Rometty, the Chief Executive Officer of?
     1) IBM     
     2) PepsiCo
     3) DuPont   
     4) Lockheed Martin   
     5) Yahoo

 9.     The 23rd Commonwealth Hea- ds of Government Meeting (CHOGM) will be held in which of the following coun-tries from 15 to 17 November 2013?
     1) Australia    
2) England    
     3) India        
4) Sri Lanka    
     5) New Zealand

 10.    Who was crowned Miss America on September 15, 2013 in Atlantic City, New Jersey? 
     1) Indira Talwani  
     2) Nina Davuluri      
     3) Renu Khator     
     4) Anju Bhargava    
     5) None of these

 11.    Which businessman’s debut book is ‘How Not to Make Money’?
     1) Anil Ambani  
     2) Raj Kundra    
     3) Vijay Mallya   
     4)  R. Thyagarajan   
     5) G.Mallikarjun Rao 
         
 12.    Sachin Tendulkar is the 16th player to reach a grand total of 50,000 runs in all forms of senior cricket. With  67,057 runs who heads this list?
     1) Graham Gooch (England)   
     2) Graeme Hick (England)   
     3) Jack Hobbs (England)
     4)  Viv Richards (West Indies)
     5) Don Bradman (Australia)

 13.    Which of the following is a major indicator of the state of the economy of a country?
     1) Rate of inflation  
     2) Number of banks   
     3) Stock of food grains
     4) Rate of GDP growth  
     5) Literacy rate 
     
 14.    Demat Accounts are?
     1) Accounts which are zero balance accounts
     2) Accounts which are opened to facilitate repayment of a loan taken from the bank  
     3) Accounts in which shares of various companies are traded in electronic form
     4) Accounts which are operated through internet banking facility
     5) None of these 

 15.    Sakhalin oil fields are in?
     1) Myanmar          
2) China
     3)  South Korea  
4) Russia
     5) Vietnam
  
 16. The International Film Festival of India (IFFI) is held annually in?
     1) Macau     
2) Hyderabad
     3) Goa       
4) Mumbai      
     5) Kolkata    

 17.    ‘Business@ the Speed of Thought’ is written by?
     1) Steve Jobs   
     2) Bill Gates   
     3) Nandan Nilekani   
     4) N.R. Narayan Murty
     5) Mark Zuckerburg
    
 18. The government normally does not announce the minimum support price for?
     1) Wheat  
2) Paddy  
3) Pulses    
 4) Jowar             
5) Mango

 19.    Which of the following statements about Raghuram Rajan is not correct?
     1)    Raghuram Rajan is the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. He succeeded Duvvuri Subbarao on Septem ber 4, 2013.  
     2)    He worked as the Chief Economic Advisor.      
     3)    He was awarded the fifth Deutsche Bank Prize for Financial Economics 2013.
     4)    He authored “Saving Capita- lism from the Capitalists” and “Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still  Threaten the World Economy”.
     5)    He was the Chief Economist at the World Bank from Octo- ber 2003 to December 2006.  

 20.    ‘The Style Diary of A Bolly- wood Diva’ is written by?
     1) Sri Devi
     2) Madhuri Dixit  
     3) Katrina Kaif
     4) Kareena Kapoor  
     5) Deepika Padukone      

 21.   The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced in April 2013 that it has recog- nized which of the  following governments after a 22-year gap in relations with the coun- try?
     1) Myanmar      
2) Somalia
     3) North Korea  
4) Ethiopia   
     5) Vietnam

 22.    Which of the following territo- ries held a referendum in March 2013 in which 99.8 per- cent people voted in favor of remaining a British Over seas Territory?
     1) Falkland Islands
     2) Bermuda        
     3) Gibraltar     
     4) Cayman Islands  
     5) British Virgin Islands  

 23.    Margaret Thatcher passed away recently. She was the first woman to become the Prime Minister of?
     1) Argentina
     2) Canada    
     3) United Kingdom    
     4) Australia       
     5) None of these   

 24.    Who was re-elected as the President of Italy in April 2013?
     1) Romano Prodi
     2) Mario Monti
     3) Enrico Letta   
     4) Giorgio Napolitano    
     5) Silvio Berlusconi

 25.    Countries and their Presidents are given below. Identify the mismatched pair?
     1) Venezuela –– Nicolas Maduro
     2) Kenya –– Uhuru Kenyatta     
     3) Ecuador –– Rafael Correa
     4) Iran –– Hassan Rouhani  
     5) Israel –– Benjamin Netanyahu 
    
 26. Devanand Konwar was sworn in as the Governor of which of the following states in March 2013?
     1) West Bengal   
2) Tripura   
      3) Assam           
4) Meghalaya  
     5) Jharkhand

 27. Who has been appointed as the President of International Cha- mber of Commerce (ICC) India?
     1) Som Mittal             
2) R. Chandrasekhar
     3) Ranjan Bharti Mittal
     4) Naina Lal Kidwai               
5) None of these    

 28.    The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is the largest and the most representative business organization
        in the world. Its headquarters is in?
     1) Paris     
2) Geneva
     3) Berne      
4) Rome
     5) Dubai  

 29.    Satyagraha, a Hindi film is dir-ected by?
     1) Siddarth Roy Kapur
     2) Sujay Ghosh
     3) Farhan Akhtar
     4) Prakash Jha
     5) Karan Johar

 30.    Mukhyamantri Yuva Swaro zgar Yojana aims to provide loans through banks to youth to set up their    own industries or business. Which state government has launched this scheme?
     1) Gujarat     2) Chhattisgarh  
     3) Himachal Pradesh   
      4) Uttar Pradesh  
     5) Madhya Pradesh    

 31.    Rural Infrastructure Develop ment Fund (RIDF) was instituted by which of the following financial                institutions  with the sole objective of giving low-cost fund support to state governments?
     1) RBI     2) EXIM Bank     
     3) IDBI Bank     
     4) NABARD
     5) IFCI

 32.    The Weekly Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation (WIFS) for adolescents has been laun- ched to tackle?
     1) Anemia  
     2) Night Blindness
     3) Scurvy
     4) Rickets
     5) Osteoporosis   

 33.    The headquarters of which of the following nationalized banks is not in Kolkata?
     1) Allahabad Bank  
     2) UCO Bank    
     3) United Bank of India  
     4) Oriental Bank of Commerce
     5) All are in Kolkata

 34.    Which state government has demanded that the Gojjri language be included in the eighth                          schedule of the  Indian constitution, thereby giving it the status of an official language?
     1) Nagaland   
     2) Assam
     3) Jammu &Kashmir   
     4) Rajasthan   
     5) Andhra Pradesh

 35. ‘Sneha Sparsh’ (Caring Touch) is a special healthcare initiative to extend financial help for super specialty  treatment of complica ted diseases for children below 12 years. This scheme was launched by?
     1) Assam      
2) Punjab
     3) Haryana    
4) Gujarat  
     5) Uttar Pradesh

 36.    ‘Amma Hastam’, a scheme launched by the Andhra Pradesh government is related to?
     1) Employment    
     2) Literacy
     3) Healthcare  
     4) Food security    
     5) Women empowerment  

 37. SBI General Insurance is a joint venture between the State Bank of India and?
     1) Insurance Australia Group
     2) AMP Limited
     3) CGU Insurance
     4) American International Group  
     5) Zurich Insurance Services

 38. SEBI has ordered Saradha Realty India to close all its collective schemes and refund the money collected from  investors. Saradha Realty India is based in?
     1) Mumbai       
     2) New Delhi
     3) Kolkata     
     4) Hyderabad     
     5) Bangalore

 39.    Which is the first exchange to offer a separate trading plat  form for debts?
     1) NSE     
     2) BSE  
     3) MCX-SX     
      4) CSE
     5) None of these

 40. Sarajevo is the capital of?
     1) Croatia       
     2) Kosovo    
     3) Serbia   
     4) Bosnia Herzegovina       
     5) Montenegro  

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