Thursday, December 5, 2013
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
Answers
1) 1 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 5 6) 3 7) 4 8) 1 9) 4 10) 2
11) 2 12) 1 13) 4 14) 3 15) 4 16) 3 17) 2 18) 5 19) 5 20) 4
21) 2 22) 1 23) 3 24) 4 25) 5 26) 2 27) 3 28) 1 29) 4 30) 5
31) 4 32) 1 33) 4 34) 3 35) 1 36) 4 37) 1 38) 3 39) 1 40) 4
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
Answers
1) 1 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 5 6) 3 7) 4 8) 1 9) 4 10) 2
11) 2 12) 1 13) 4 14) 3 15) 4 16) 3 17) 2 18) 5 19) 5 20) 4
21) 2 22) 1 23) 3 24) 4 25) 5 26) 2 27) 3 28) 1 29) 4 30) 5
31) 4 32) 1 33) 4 34) 3 35) 1 36) 4 37) 1 38) 3 39) 1 40) 4
