Goldman Prize is given in the field of?
GENERAL AWARENESS
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? (The Government oppo- sed this request)
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)? (This is an action plan to beat heat wave)
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
Key
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;
