1.    Who has been authorized to act as the Central Vigilance Commissioner until a regular appointment is made?
    1) Rajiv    2) JM Garg
    3) Arvind Ranjan
    4) Dilip Trivedi
    5) None of these
2.    The Reserve Bank of India in its fourth bi-monthly monetary policy on September 30, 2014 kept the repo rate unchanged at?  
    1) 9%    2) 8%
    3) 9.5%    4) 8.5%
    5) 7%
3.    Martin Perl of USA died on September 30, 2014. He won the Nobel Prize in which of the following subjects in 1995?
    1) Physics    2) Chemistry       
    3) Medicine    4) Literature
    5) Economics
4.    Mary Kom became the first Indian woman boxer to clinch Asian Games Gold on October 1, 2014. Whom did she defeat in the final of the flyweight section?
    1) Le Thi Bang
    2) Jang Un-Hui      3) Yin Junhua
    4) Zhaina Shekerbekova
    5) None of these
5.    The government has decided to observe which of the following days as "Antyodaya Diwas" every year to mark the birth anniversary of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya?  
    1) September 30   2) September 27
    3) September 28      4) September 29
    5) September 25
6.    Jens Stoltenberg became the 13th Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on October 1, 2014. He is the former Prime Minister of which of the following European countries?
    1) Finland       2) Denmark          
    3) Norway    4) Austria       
    5) Bulgaria    
7.    India defeated which of the following teams in the final to clinch the men's hockey gold at the Asian Games in Incheon on October 2, 2014?
    1) South Korea       2) Malaysia
    3) Japan   4) Pakistan   5) Iran
8.    Five authors of Indian origin bagged the Pulitzer Prize so far. Who among the following is not one of them?  
    1) Gobind Behari Lal
    2) Jhumpa Lahiri
    3) Geeta Anand   
    4) Siddartha Mukherjee
    5) Arundhati Roy
9.    Taavi Roivas succeeded Andrus Ansip as the Prime Minister of which of the following countries on March 26, 2014?   
    1) Slovenia    2) Slovakia
    3) Estonia    4) Latvia
    5) Norway
10.    Sunil Sabharwal, an Indian- American, has been appointed as the US Alternate Executive Director at the?
    1) World Bank      2) WTO
    3) NATO      4) IMF
    5) None of these
11.    Karim Massimov assumed office as the Prime Minister of which of the following countries on April 2, 2014?
    1) Kazakhstan    2) Kyrgyzstan       
    3) Tajikistan    4) Uzbekistan            
    5) None of these
12.    Ramesh Agarwal won which of the following Prizes/ Awards in 2014?
    1) Alex Lee Award
    2) Abel Prize   
    3) Goldman Environmental Prize
    4) Pritzker Prize
    5) None of these
13.    61st National Film Awards winners are given below. Identify the mismatched pair?
    1) Best Feature Film - Ship of Theseus
    2) Best Actress - Geetanjali Thapa
    3) Best Actor - Raj Kumar & Suraj Venjaramoodu                        
    4) Best Director - Hansal Mehta               
    5) Best Children's Film - Chillar Party
14.    The National Film Awards are presented usually on?   
    1) May 3    2) April 16
    3) May 13    4) April 30
    5) May 30
15.    Which of the following is the capital of Brazil?
    1) Sao Paulo    2) Rio de Janeiro
    3) Belo Horizonte
    4) Brasilia    5) Recife
16.    Which of the following cities is not a capital of a country?
    1) Quito     2) Santiago        
    3) Bogotá    4) Buenos Aires        
    5) Salvador
17.    What is the full form of FCCB?
    1) Foreign Convertible Credit Bond    
    2) Future Credit and Currency Bureau
    3) Foreign Currency Convertible Bond
    4) Financial Credit and Currency Bureau
    5) None of these                           
18.    Who is the first winner of the prestigious Jnanpith Award?
    1) K.V. Puttappa        
    2) Tarasankar Bandhopadhyaya                
    3) G. Shankara Kurup             
    4) Mahadevi Verma
    5) Viswanatha Satyanarayana
19.    What is the highest peacetime gallantry award in India?  
    1) Param Vir Chakra       
    2) Maha Vir Chakra       
    3) Kirti Chakra
    4) Ashok Chakra
    5) Shourya Chakra
20.    General elections were held from April 7 to May 12, 2014 to constitute?
    1) 14th Lok Sabha
    2) 15th Lok Sabha
    3) 16th Lok Sabha
    4) 17th Lok Sabha
    5) 18th Lok Sabha
21.    Which of the following statements is correct?
    1) RM Lodha is the current Chief Justice of India
    2) Law Day is observed on May 26
    3) RBI was established in 1934
    4) Malala Yousafzai belongs to Afghanistan
    5) Arundhati Bhattacharya is the first woman chief of India's largest bank
22.    The Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) was formed in?
    1) 1955     2) 1960     3) 1956
    4) 1958     5) 1964
23.    Who was the first Attorney Gen-eral of India from 1950 to 1963?
    1) M.C. Setalvad  
    2) C.K. Daphtary 3) Niren De
    4) L.N. Sinha      5) K. Parasaran
24.    The interest rate on savings accounts in all the nationalized banks is fixed by?
    1) Ministry of Finance
    2) Finance Commission
    3) Indian Banks' Association         
    4) Reserve Bank of India   
    5) None of these          
25.    Till date how many people have been awarded the Bharat Ratna?
    1) 41    2) 42    3) 43    4) 44    5) 45
26.    Which of the following is not matched correctly?
         Agency      Headquarters
    1) International Civil Aviation Organization - Montreal    
    2) World Meteorological Organization - Geneva
    3) United Nations Industrial Development Organization - Vienna
    4) International Fund for Agricultural Development - Rome        
    5) International Telecommunication Union - Berne
27.    The First Five Year Plan of India was based on?
    1) PC Mahalanobis Model
    2) Harrod-Domar Model     
    3) Nehru Model        
    4) Gadgil Model   
    5) John Miller Model            
28.    Identify the mismatched pair.
    1) Chief Election Commissioner - V.S. Sampath  
    2) 14th Finance Commission Chairman - Y.V. Reddy
    3) Seventh Pay Commission Chairman - A.K. Mathur              
    4) 20th Law Commission Chairman - Ajit Prakash Shah      
    5) National Security Advisor - Shiv Shankar Menon
29.    Which of the following was the first newspaper in India, started in 1780?
    1) Bombay Herald
    2) Bombay Courier
    3) Bengal Gazette  
    4) Samachar Darpan
    5) Bombay Samachar
30.    Prime Lending Rate (PLR) is now replaced by?
    1) Repo rate
    2) Reverse repo rate
    3) Bank rate
    4) Base rate     5) Exchange rate    
31.    Bandhavgarh National Park is located in which of the following States?   
    1) Madhya Pradesh
    2) Uttar Pradesh     3) Odisha
    4) Karnataka           5) Goa
32.    Who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for his collection of poems "3 Sections"?
    1) Pankaj Mishra
    2) Vijay Seshadri
    3) Subodh Sarkar  
    4) C.N. Ramachandran
    5) None of these  
33.    Who is the author of the book "Crusader or Conspirator? Coalgate and Other Stories"?
    1) Daman Singh
    2) Gurusharan Singh   
    3) P.C. Parakh
    4) Sanjay Baru
    5) Shashi Tharoor
34.    Who is known as the Father of Modern Genetics?
    1) Charles Darwin
    2) Hugo de Vries
    3) Carl Correns
    4) Gregor Mendel
    5) Jean Baptiste Lamarck
35.    The United Nations Organization designated which of the following years as the International Women's Year (IWY)?
    1) 1974      2) 1976     3) 1977     4) 1980      5) 1975
36.    Which of the following satellites was launched by the ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV C-24, on April 4, 2014?
    1) GSAT-14     2) GSAT-12
    3) RISAT-I     4) IRNSS-IB
    5) INSAT-3D
37.    The Reserve Bank of India recently issued guidelines allowing minors over 10 years of age to operate bank accounts independently with a view to?
    1) Promoting financial inclusion  
    2) Increasing low-cost deposits of banks
    3) Improving CASA percentage of banks
    4) Mobilizing Savings Bank Deposits of banks
    5) Putting ATMs and other infra-structure to optimum use     
38.    Kepler-78b is the name of?
    1) An American nuclear missile
    2) A Russian armored vehicle
    3) A precision measuring instrument
    4) A Spanish sea vessel  
    5) An earth sized planet far beyond our solar system
39.    The third Summit of BIMSTEC was held in March 2014 in?
    1) Bangkok     2) New Delhi
    3) Thimphu      4) Nay Pyi Taw
    5) Colombo
40.    The Brahmaputra River in Arunachal Pradesh is known as?
    1) Tons     2) Sindh  
    3) Tamsa     4) Hindon  
    5) Siang

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