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GENERAL AWARENESS - 2012 & 2013
1. Who was sworn in as Hong Kong's new chief executive on July 1, 2012? (Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China) 1) Leung Chun-Ying 2) Donald Tsang 3) Ronald Arculli 4) Chung Sze-Yuen 5) None of these 2. The Templeton Prize honors a living person who has made an exceptional contribution to affir-ming life's spiritual dimension. Who won the 2012 Templeton Prize, the largest annual moneta-ry award given to an individual? 1) Martin Rees 2) Michael Heller 3) The Dalai Lama 4) Charles Taylor 5) Francisco Jose Ayala 3. Gulab Kothari has won which of the following awards for the year 2011? 1) Saraswati Samman 2) Moorti Devi Award 3) Jnanpith Award 4) Vyas Samman 5) None of these 4. Ramadevarabetta in Ramana-garam district has been declared as a vulture sanctuary. In which state is this sanctuary located? 1) Kerala 2) Tamil Nadu 3) Karnataka 4) Maharashtra 5) None of these 5. "No Apology: The Case for American Greatness" is a book written by? 1) Barack Obama 2) Joe Biden 3) George Bush 4) Mitt Romney 5) Bobby Jindal 6. Who received the 2011 Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the highest honour in Indian cinema given annually by the Govern-ment of India for lifetime contribution? 1) Tapan Sinha 2)Shyam Benegal 3) D.Ramanaidu 4) Mrinal Sen 5) Soumitra Chatterjee 7. Which of the following films was declared the Best Children Film at the 59th National Film Awards for the year 2011? 1) Stanley Ka Dabba 2) The Blue Umbrella 3) Keshu 4) Chillar Party 5) None of these 8. As per a report released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in March 2012, which country is the world's largest importer of arms? 1) India 2) South Korea 3) Pakistan 4) China 5) Singapore 9. Who was crowned as the Pantaloons Femina Miss India World 2012 on March 30, 2012 in Mumbai?

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1) Prachi Mishra 2) Ankita Shorey 4) Rochelle Maria Rao 5) Hasleen Kaur 3) Vanya Mishra

10. Which Indian has been chosen for the Ramon Magsaysay Award for the year 2012, for economic empowerment of thousands of women and their families in Krishnagiri and Dharmapuri districts in Tamil Nadu? 1) Dr.Shanta Sinha 2) Kulandei Francis 3) Sandeep Pandey 4) Arvind Kejriwal 5) Neelima Misra 11. The third edition of the premier international exhibition and conference on civil aviation India- Aviation 2012 was held in March 2012 in which of the following cities? 1) Hyderabad 2) Mumbai 3) New Delhi 4) Kolkata 5) Bangalore 12. Which of the following agencies/ organizations collaborated to launch 'Aahar', a hygienic, nutrit-ious and convenient meal that tastes fresh with longer shelf life? 1) DRDO & Planning Commission 2) CII, FICCI & ASSOCHAM 3) FICCI & Planning Commission 4) DRDO, BASIX & FICCI 5) DRDO, CII & ASSOCHAM 13. As per the data released by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in March 2012, what is India's rank in the world for women's representation in politics? 1) 60 2) 105 3) 65 4) 120 5) 134 14. The 'Open Government Platform' (OGPL) is a portal for public access to government data that was launched by Telecom and IT Minister Kapil Sibal on March 30, 2012. It was jointly developed by India and which of the following countries? 1) UK 2) Canada 3) USA 4) France 5) Russia 15. In which of the following countries 56 per cent of the members of the parliament are women, the highest in the world? 1) Cuba 2) Senegal 3) Andorra 4) Rwanda 5) South Africa 16. Which African nation witnessed a military coup overthrowing the government on March 22, 2012? 1) Algeria 2) Mali 3) Niger 4) Mauritania 5) Burkina Faso 17. Which of the following cricket teams won the Asia Cup on March 22, 2012? 1) India 2) Sri Lanka 3) Pakistan 4) Bangladesh 5) None of these

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18. Saina Nehwal retained the Swiss Open Grand Prix badminton title at Basel, Switzerland in March 2012. She defeated which of the following Chinese players in the final? 1) Li Xuerui 2) Yihan Wang 3) Yang Yu 4) Xiaoli Wang 5) Shixian Wang 19. India won the first women's Kabaddi World Cup Champio-nship in Patna in 2012. Which team did India defeat in the final? 1) Japan 2) Iran 3) Thailand 4) Pakistan 5) Philippines 20. Alana Seebaran has been crowned the Miss India World-wide 2012. She belongs to which of the following countries? 1) Suriname 2) Kuwait 3) Guyana 4) Australia 5) Mauritius 21. Ahmed Hassan is the most capped male footballer in history with 184 appearances for which of the following countries? 1) Iran 2) Egypt 3) Kuwait 4) Saudi Arabia 5) Iraq 22. "A Grain of Sand in the Hourglass of Time" is the autobiography of? 1) Rajiv Gandhi 2) V.P.Singh 3) Natwar Singh 4) Arjun Singh 5) P.V.Narasimha Rao 23. Which of the following books is not written by A.P.J.Abdul Kalam? 1) Wings of Fire 2) Ignited Minds 3) My Country, My Life 4) Turning Points: A Journey through Challenges 5) India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium 24. M.G.Sanghvi became the Chairman and Managing Director of which of the following public sector banks in March 2012? 1) Syndicate Bank 2) Canara Bank 3) Bank of Maharashtra 4) Bank of India 5) IDBI Bank 25. The Reserve Bank of India has appointed a committee on priority sector lending. Who is its Chairman? 1) Subir Gokarn 2) M.V.Nair 3) Anand Sinha 4) Alok Misra 5) Basant Seth 26. Rajkumar Dhoot, the Managing Director of Videocon Industries, is the President of which of the following apex trade associations of India? 1) CII 2) FICCI 3) NASSCOM 4) ASSOCHAM 5) None

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27. According to which of the following institutions/organiza-tions the number of poor in the developing world declined to 1.29 billion during 2005-08 from 1.94 billion in 1981? 1) UNO 2) FAO 3) World Bank 4) IMF 5) UNESCO 28. Who has bagged ESPN cricinfo best batting performance award in Tests? 1) Michael Clarke 2) Rahul Dravid 3) Virender Sehwag 4) Sachin Tendulkar 5) Kumar Sangakkara 29. Nine Indians figure among "50 Dynamic Women" in Forbes Magazine's inaugural list of "Asia's Most Powerful Businesswomen to Watch". Five are listed below. Who among them is a banker? 1) Vinita Bali 2) Shobhana Bhartia 3) Ekta Kapoor 4) Shikha Sharma 5) Mallika Srinivasan 30. Which of the following is responsible for procurement, allocation and transportation of food grains to be given under Public Distribution System (PDS)? 1) RBI 2) NABARD 3) FCI 4) State Government 5) FICCI 31. With which of the following products is 'De Beers' company associated? 1) Tea 2) Electronics 3) Cosmetics 4) Diamonds 5) Textiles 32. Expand CDR as used in banking sector? 1) Credit Debt Repayment 2) Credit Debt Review 4) Corporate Debt Restructuring 5) None of these 3) Corporate Debt Review

33. The security paper is used for printing currency notes. Where is the Security Paper Mill located? 1) Hyderabad 2) Mumbai 3) Noida 4) Kolkata 5) Hoshangabad 34. Abdel Rahim AlKeeb is the Prime Minister of which of the following countries? 1) Kuwait 2) Libya 3) Iraq 4) Qatar 5) Syria 35. Expand the term IPR as used in the field of world trade? 1) Industrial Property Rights 2) International Property Rights 3) Individual Property Rights 4) Intellectual Property Rights

5) None of these

36. India recently used Chabahar port in which of the following countries for the first time ever to transport 1,00,000 metric tons of wheat to Afghanistan as part of its humanitarian aid? 1) Iran 2) Iraq 3) Myanmar 4) Pakistan 5) Afghanistan 37. The Central Government has launched the National Saffron Mission (NSM) in which of the following states to boost saffron production in the state? 1) Arunachal Pradesh 2) Himachal Pradesh 3) Jammu & Kashmir

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4) Madhya Pradesh 5) None of these

KEY 1) 1 2) 3 3) 2 4) 3 5) 4 6) 5 7) 4 8) 1 9) 3 10) 2 11) 1 12) 4 13) 2 14) 3 15) 4 16) 2 17) 3 18) 5 19) 2 20) 3 21) 2 22) 4 23) 3 24) 1 25) 2 26) 4 27) 3 28) 4 29) 4 30) 3 31) 4 32) 4 33) 5 34) 2 35) 4 36) 1 37) 3 GENERAL AWARENESS 1. Gagan Narang became the first Indian to win a medal at the London Olympic Games on July 30, 2012 when he won a bronze medal in 10 metre air rifle shooting. Who won gold medal in this event? 1) Alin George Moldoveanu (Romania) 2) Niccolo Campriani (Italy) 3) Wang Tao (China) 4) Zhu Qinan (China) 5) None 2. Joyce Banda became the Presi-dent of which of the following African countries on April 7, 2012? (She is this country's first female president) 1) Zambia 2) Tanzania 3) Malawi 4) Mozambique 5) Liberia 3. Debabrata Sarkar assumed charge as the Chairman and Managing Director of which of the following public sector banks on April 4, 2012? 1) UCO Bank 2) Andhra Bank 3) United Bank of India 4) Union Bank of India 5) None 4. Macky Sall assumed office as the President of which of the following African countries on April 2, 2012? 1) Senegal 2) Mali 3) Mauritania 4) Guinea 5) Guinea-Bissau 5. Prodemocracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party won 43 seats in the by-elections for Myanmar parliament in April 2012. What is the name of her party? 1) National Unity Party (NUP) 2) Democracy and Peace Party (DPP) 3) Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) 4) National League for Democracy (NLD) 5) None 6. RBI signed a pact with which one of the following countries' central banks in April 2012 that will establish an arrangement for sharing of supervisory inform-ation and enhancing cooperation in the area of banking super-vision? 1) Pakistan 2) Qatar 3) UAE 4) Saudi Arabia 5) None of these 7. Which one of the following stat-ements about BRICS is not true? 1) The fourth BRICS Summit was organized in New Delhi on March 29, 2012. 2) The theme is "BRICS Partner-ship for Global Stability, Security and Prosperity".

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3) The five countries considered the possibility of setting up a new development bank. 4) The leaders have advocated for reforms in World Bank, IMF and UN Security Council by increasing representation from developing countries. 5) The next BRICS summit will be held in China in 2013. 8. Gunter Grass, the German Nobel literature laureate, has accused which of the following countries as a threat to world peace in his poem 'What Must Be Said'? 1) Iran 2) Israel 3) Myanmar 4) North Korea 5) Syria 9. In April 2012, the United States announced a reward of $ 10 million on Hafeez Saeed, for his alleged role in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. He is the founder of which of the following terrorist organizations? 1) Al Qaeda 2) Harkat-ul-Mujahideen 3) Lashkar-e-Taiba 4) Jaish-e-Mohammed 5) None 10. "My Unforgettable Memories" is a book written by which of the following political leaders? 1) Sharad Pawar 2) Mamata Banerjee 3) J.Jayalalitha 4)Naveen Patnaik 5) Narendra Modi 11. Fortune magazine has released the list of "12 Greatest Entrepre-neurs of our Time". Who is the only Indian in this list? 1) Ratan Tata 2) Dhirubhai Ambani 3) Mukesh Ambani 4) N.R.Narayana Murthy 5) Azim Premji 12. Identify the mismatched pair with regard to the 59th National Film Awards for 2011? 1) Best Film-Deool (Marathi) and Byari (Byari) 2) Best Actor-Girish Kulkarni (Deool) 3) Best Actress-Vidya Balan (The Dirty Picture) 4) Best Director-Gurvinder Sin-gh (Anhe Ghorey Da Daan) 5) Best Special Effects- Rockstar 13. Gopichand Narang was given the Moorti Devi award for 2010 for his book in which of the follo-wing languages? 1) Hindi 2) Urdu 3) Kannada 4) Marathi 5) Bengali 14. Who became the first overseas player to get the honorary Life Membership of the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) in 2012? 1) Jonathan Trot 2) Brian Lara 3) Rahul Dravid

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4) Sachin Tendulkar 5) V.V.S.Laxman

15. Which country has been ranked as the world's richest country per capita in a list compiled by the US magazine Forbes? 1) Qatar 2) Luxembourg 3) Singapore 4) Norway 5) Brunei 16. Who topped the list of "12 Greatest Entrepreneurs of our Time", released by Fortune magazine in March 2012? 1) Steve Jobs (Apple) 2) Bill Gates (Microsoft) 3) Fred Smith (FedEx) 4) Jeff Bezos (Amazon) 5) Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)

17. Bharti Airtel became the first telecom player to launch the 4G service in India on April 11, 2012. In which city was this service launched? 1) New Delhi 2) Mumbai 3) Bangalore 4) Kolkata 5) Chennai 18. The Indian School of Business (ISB) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Institute of Business Adminis-tration (IBA) to provide execu-tive education in which of the following countries? 1) Maldives 2) Pakistan 3) Bangladesh 4) Sri Lanka 5) Afghanistan 19. Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa is a leading player in which of the following sports? 1) Rugby 2) Billiards 3) Squash 4) Golf 5) Motor Racing 20. India successfully test-fired its first Inter Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Agni-V on which of the following dates? 1) April 4, 2012 2) April 12, 2012 3) April 19, 2012 4) April 24, 2012 5) None 21. Which of the following countries is not a member of OPEC? 1) Angola 2) Ecuador 3) Libya 4) China 5) Venezuela 22. Who is the author of the book 'A Brush with Life'? 1) V.S.Naipaul 2) Vikram Seth 3) Satish Gujral 4) Vikram Chandra 5) M.F.Hussain 23. Expand the term FATF? 1) Fiscal Accountability Task Force 3) Fiscal Accountability Trade Force

2) Financial Action Task Force 4) Funds, Accounts and Trade Finance

5) None

24. The rate at which banks lend their surplus funds to RBI is called?

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1) Bank Rate these 25. Which of the following is not a Banking or Finance company? 1) RBS 2) Barclays 3) Lufthansa 4) HSBC 2) Repo Rate 3) CRR 4) Reverse Repo Rate 5) None of

5) BNP Paribas

26. In which of the following cities is the head office of the Bank of Maharashtra located? 1) Mumbai 2) Pune 3) Nasik 4) New Delhi 5) None 27. Which of the following is the unit of electric current? 1) Kelvin 2) Bar 3) Calorie 4) Decibel 5) Ampere 28. Which of the following companies manufactures 'Ace', a mini truck? 1) Bajaj Auto 2) Piaggio 3) Mahindra 4) Ashok Leyland 5) Tata Motors 29. 'Carbon Credit' is concerned with which of the following issues? 1) Contract farming 2) Rural infrastructure 3) Environment protection 4) Urban infrastructure 5) Diamond trading 30. With which game is the term 'Half Nelson' associated? 1) Polo 2) Golf 3) Tennis 4) Wrestling 31. Which of the following days is observed as 'UNO Day'? 1) October 8 2) October 25 3) October 16 4) October 22

5) Swimming

5) October 24

32. 'Deficit Financing' means the Government borrows money from the? 1) Local bodies 2) IMF 3) RBI 4) Large corporate 5) Neighboring countries 33. Golden Revolution refers to the development of? 1) Pulses 2) Fishes 3) Oil seeds 4) Horticulture 5) Cereals

34. Which country has recently overtaken UK to become the world's sixth largest economy? 1) USA 2) China 3) Japan 4) India 5) Brazil 35. Christine Lagarde is holding which of the following posts at present? 1) President of ADB 2) Managing Director of IMF 3) Minister of Finance, France 4) Chancellor of Germany 5) Director General of WHO 36. What is the present name of the erstwhile UTI Bank?

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1) Yes Bank 2) IDBI Bank 3) RBS 4) Axis Bank 5) IndusInd Bank

37. Which state contributes nearly 70% of India's total mulberry silk production? 1) Tamil Nadu 2) West Bengal 3) Karnataka 4) Jammu & Kashmir 5) None 38. Which of the following terms is used in Banking? 1) Carbon Test 2) Liquidity 3) Latent Heat 4) Refractive Index 5) Kepler's Law 39. The Port of Antwerp is the second largest port in Europe. In which country is it situated? 1) Germany 2) Poland 3) Belgium 4) France 5) Netherlands 40. Runako Morton was killed in a road accident recently. He played 15 Tests for which of the following teams? 1) Australia 2) New Zealand 3) England 4) South Africa 5) West Indies 41. Which of the following is not a member of ASEAN? 1) Thailand 2) Laos 3) Vietnam 4) Myanmar 5) Japan 42. Which state contributed more than 50 per cent of India's total tea production in 2011? 1) Karnataka 2) Assam 3) Meghalaya 4) West Bengal 5) Tamil Nadu KEY 1) 1 2) 3 3) 4 4) 1 5) 4 6) 2 7) 5 8) 2 9) 3 10) 2 11) 4 12) 5 13) 2 14) 4 15) 1 16) 1 17) 4 18) 2 19) 4 20) 3 21) 4 22) 3 23) 2 24) 4 25) 3 26) 2 27) 5 28) 5 29) 3 30) 4 31) 5 32) 3 33) 4 34) 5 35) 2 36) 4 37) 3 38) 2 39) 3 40) 5 41) 5 42) 2

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1. Who was appointed as the Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) in the Finance Ministry in August 2012? (He was former chief economist at the IMF) 1) Kaushik Basu 2) C. Rangarajan 3) Y.V.Reddy 4) Raghuram Rajan 5) Ajay Chhibber 2. Which city hosted the 20th ASEAN Summit on April 3, 2012? 1) Jakarta (Indonesia) 2) Phnom Penh (Cambodia) 3) Manila (Philippines) 4) Bangkok (Thailand) 5) Hanoi (Vietnam) 3. India launched its third research station in Antarctica recently. What is its name? 1) Dakshin Gangotri 2) Maitri 3) Bharti 4) Bhuvan 5) Akash 4. Ahmed Ben Bella passed away on April 11, 2012. He was the first President of which of the following African countries from 1963 to 1965? 1) Morocco 2) Tunisia 3) Mauritania 4) Algeria 5) Egypt

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5. Which of the following statements about the Nuclear Security Summit is not true? 1) The second Nuclear Security Summit was held in Seoul, South Korea on March 26-27, 2012. 2) The leaders from 53 nations called for strong steps to combat nuclear terrorism. 3) The leaders also called for safeguarding world stockpiles of Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) and Plutonium. 4) The next Summit will be held in Washington in 2014. 5) The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh announced that India would contribute 1 million US dollars to the IAEA's Nuclear Security Fund for 2012-13. 6. Who became the President of Germany on March 18, 2012? 1) Angela Merkel 2) Joachim Gauck 3) Christian Wulff 4) Horst Kohler 5) Sigmar Gabriel 7. Who has been appointed as the Pakistan's High Commissioner to India? 1) Sherry Rehman 2) Hina Rabbani Khar 3) Salman Bashir 4) Riaz Mohammad Khan 5) None of these 8. N.K.P.Salve passed away recently. He was the former pres-ident of which of the following sports governing bodies? 1) AIFF 2) IOA 3) BCCI 4) ICC 5) IPL 9. Who was re-elected the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in April 2012? 1) V.S.Achuthanandan 2) Prakash Karat 3) A.K.Padmanabhan 4) Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee 5) Sitaram Yechury 10. The Swavalamban pension scheme is targeted to benefit which of the following workers? 1) Anganwadi workers 2) Construction workers 3) Fishermen 4) Dairy workers 5) All the above 11. The Union Cabinet has approved introduction of the Anand Marriage Act, 1909 to provide for registration of marriages of which of the following communities? 1) Sikhs 2) Hindus 3) Buddhists 4) Jains 5) Parsis 12. Which state has launched 'Udaan', a website to provide skills and enhance employability for the youth? 1) Haryana 2) Punjab 3) Uttarakhand

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4) Himachal Pradesh 5) Jammu and Kashmir

13. A consortium led by Japanese firm Hitachi has signed an agreement with which of the following states to set up Asia's biggest desalination plant in Dahej Special Economic Zone (DSEZ)? 1) Maharashtra 2) Gujarat 3) Odisha 4) Karnataka 5) West Bengal 14. With effect from which of the following dates the validity of cheques and drafts has been reduced to three months? 1) March 1, 2012 2) January 1, 2012 3) August 1, 2012 4) April 1, 2012 5) June 1, 2012 15. To boost credit flows to the farm sector, the government has proposed to provide how many crores of rupees to NABARD during 2012-13? 1) 500 2) 750 3) 1000 4) 2000 5) None of these 16. Which of the following programmes aims at developing the rural electricity infrastructure and household electrification? 1) RAY 2) RGGVY 3) IAY 4) RGSEAG 5) MGNREGS 17. Which of the following days is observed as the World House Sparrow Day? (The theme for this year is 'Chirp for the Sparrow; Tweet for the Sparrow) 1) March 20 2) March 21 3) March 22 4) March 23 5) March 24 18. 'Malabar' naval exercise was organized in the Bay of Bengal from April 7 to 16, 2012 by India and which of the following countries? 1) Russia 2) USA 3) China 4) Indonesia 5) Malaysia 19. The Supreme Court has upheld the constitutional validity of the Right to Education (RTE) Act that mandates unaided private schools to keep what percent of seats for students from economically and socially weaker sections of society? 1) 20 2) 15 3) 25 4) 50 5) 33 20. Which country has recently said that it is threatened by the Kudankulam nuclear plant, in case of a nuclear accident? 1) Pakistan 2) Myanmar 3) China 4) Sri Lanka 5) Russia 21. The trilateral meeting of the foreign ministers of Russia, India and China (RIC) was held on April 13, 2012 in which of the following cities? 1) Moscow 2) Sanya 3) Beijing 4) Shanghai 5) New Delhi

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22. Which state won the best state award for strengthening the Panchayat Raj Institutions on April 24, 2012? 1) Haryana 2) Sikkim 3) Gujarat 4) Rajasthan 5) Andhra Pradesh 23. Who replaced Robert Zoellick as the President of World Bank on July 1, 2012? 1) Yukiya Amano 2) Yoshihiko Noda 3) Jim Yong Kim 4) Irina Bokova 5) Haruhiko Kuroda 24. Who is the United States Ambassador to India? 1) Michele Sison 2) Nancy Powell 3) Hillary Clinton 4) Robert Gates 5) Timothy Geithner 25. Who was named 'Wisden's Leading Cricketer in the World' for the year 2011? 1) Virender Sehwag 2) Hashim Amla 3) Jacques Kallis 4) Kumar Sangakkara 5) Sachin Tendulkar 26. Who has been chosen for the first International Bhagwan Mahavir World Peace Award? 1) Dalai Lama 2) Nelson Mandela 3) Aung San Suu Kyi 4) Ela Bhatt 5) Julian Assange 27. Which of the following terms is used in Badminton? 1) Tee 2) Trump 3) Hoops 4) Grand slam

5) Drop Shot

28. Which of the following is not a famous brand of cement sold in India? 1) ACC 2) Ambuja 3) Ultra Tech 4) Religare 5) J.K.Lakshmi 29. Ranthambore National Park is situated in which of the following states? 1) Gujarat 2) Uttarakhand 3) Rajasthan 4) Uttar Pradesh 5) Madhya Pradesh 30. In which year was the Planning Commission established? 1) 1951 2) 1950 3) 1952 4) 1956 5) 1947 31. What is money laundering? 1) Conversion of cash into gold 2) Conversion of gold into cash 3) Conversion of assets into cash 4) Conversion of illegally obtained money into accou-ntable money 5) None 32. Which of the following terms is not used in the field of Economics? 1) Balance of Trade 2) Debt Instrument 3) Surface Tension

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4) Fiscal Deficit 5) Capital Account Convertibility

33. What is the full form of ASBA? 1) Application Supported by Bank Amount 2) Application Supported by Blocked Amount 3) Allotment Supported by Blocked Amount 4) Allotment Supported by Bank Account 5) None of these 34. Speed of a ship is measured in? 1) Ohm 2) Horse power 3) Kilometer 35. Who is the author of the book 'Dr.Zhivago'? 1) H.G.Wells 2) Pearl S. Buck 3) Emile Zola 4) Boris Pasternak 5) Charles Dickens 36. Whose autobiography is titled 'Nirbasan'? 1) Taslima Nasrin 2) Salman Rushdie 3) Shobha De 4) Arundhati Roy 5) None 37. Who among the following has been named by TIME magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the world? 1) J.Jayalalitha 2) Mayawati 3) Sheila Dixit 4) Mamata Banerjee 5) Sushma Swaraj 38. Who was adjudged the Women's Professional Golf Player of the Year for 2011-12 season? 1) Smriti Mehra 2) Pallavi Jain 3) Aditi Ashok 4) Vani Kapoor 5) Ankita Tiwana 39. Pankaj Advani clinched the 11th ONGC Asian Billiards Championship in April 2012. Where was this tournament held? 1) Chennai 2) Panaji 3) Mohali ) Hyderabad 5) Lucknow 40. Non Resident Indian Day (NRI Day) is celebrated on? 1) January 15 2) January 9 3) January 24 4) January 12 5) January 8 4) Knot 5) Candela

KEY
1) 4 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 4 6) 2 7) 3 8) 3 9) 2 10) 5 11) 1 12) 5 13) 2 14) 4 15) 1 16) 2 17) 1 18) 2 19) 3 20) 4 21) 1 22) 2 23) 3 24) 2 25) 4 26) 3 27) 5 28) 4 29) 3 30) 2 31) 4 32) 3 33) 2 34) 4 35) 4 36) 1 37) 4 38) 1 39) 2 40) 2 1. Who was the flag bearer for India during the closing ceremony of the London Olympics on August 12, 2012? 1) MC Mary Kom 2) Saina Nehwal 3) Sushil Kumar

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4) Gagan Narang 5) Vijay Kumar

2. Which of the following countries granted asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on August 16, 2012? 1) Sweden 2) Australia 3) Cuba 4) Venezuela 5) Ecuador 3. The 25th North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit was held on May 20-21, 2012 in which of the following cities? 1) Camp David 2) Brussels 3) London 4) Chicago 5) Washington D.C. 4. Anshu Jain took over as co-CEO of which of the following banking giants on June 1, 2012? 1) HSBC 2) Deutsche Bank 3) Citibank 4) BNP Paribas 5) Royal Bank of Scotland 5. Which of the following statements about ASEAN is not true? 1) The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a geo-political and economic organization of ten countries. 2) It was formed in 1967 with the secretariat in Singapore. 3) The 20th ASEAN Summit was held in April 2012 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 4) The theme for this summit is "ASEAN: One Community, One Destiny". 5) This year's Summit chair is Hun Sen, the Prime Minister of Cambodia. 6. Who has been elected as the President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for the year 2012-13? 1) B.Muthuraman 2) Ajay Shriram 3) Adi Godrej 4) Swati Piramal 5) Ratan Tata 7. Who among the following is not a Supreme Court Judge at present? 1) Justice Jasti Chalameswar 2) Justice Fakir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla 3) Justice Ranjan Gogoi 4) Justice Madan Bhimrao Lokur 5) Justice K.G. Balakrishnan 8. After Pratibha Patil and Prabha Rau, Margaret Alva is the third woman Governor of which of the following states? 1) Maharashtra 2) Rajasthan 3) Karnataka 4) Uttarakhand 5) Punjab 9. Murray Rose of Australia passed away on April 15, 2012. He was a six- time Olympic medalist in which of the following sports? 1) Swimming 2) Shooting 3) Gymnastics 4) Athletics 5) Weightlifting 10. Who has been appointed as Chairperson of the Advisory Board on Bank, Commercial and Financial Frauds? 1) Usha Thorat 2) Shikha Sharma 3) Nainalal Kidwai 4) Shyamala Gopinath 5) None of these

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11. Who took over as the Chairman of the National Association of Software and Services Compa-nies (NASSCOM) for 2012-13? 1) Avinash Vashistha 2) N.Chandrasekaran 3) T.K.Kurien 4) B.V.R.Mohan Reddy 5) C.P.Gurnani 12. Senior IPS officer Subhash Joshi has been appointed as the Director General of which of the following forces? 1) NSG 2) CRPF 3) BSF 4) CISF 5) ITBP 13. Who among the following Indian Cardiologists was elected as President of the World Heart Federation (WHF), a global NGO dedicated to prevention of heart diseases in low and middle income countries in April 2012? 1) Dr.S.Padmavati 2) Dr.Naresh Trehan 3) Dr.Devi Shetty 4) Dr.Srinath Reddy 5) None of these 14. Oscar winning actor Sean Penn received the 2012 Peace Summit Award in April 2012 for his humanitarian work in which of the following earthquake ravag-ed countries? 1) Japan 2) Haiti 3) Indonesia 4) Philippines 5) None of these 15. S.R. Nathan was conferred with the prestigious Pravasi Bhara-tiya Samman, the highest honor accorded to people of Indian-origin overseas. He was the President of which of the following countries from 1999 to 2011? 1) Singapore 2) Mauritius 3) Guyana 4) Nepal 5) Trinidad &Tobago 16. The Defense Ministry cleared a Rs.3,000 crore deal to buy 145 M777 ultra light howitzer (ULH) artillery guns from which of the following countries on May11, 2012? 1) France 2) USA 3) Russia 4) Sweden 5) None of these 17. The Pranahita-Chevella irrigat-ion project will serve Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra states. Pranahita is a major tributary of which of the following rivers? 1) Krishna 2) Narmada 3) Godavari 4) Tapati 5) Mahanadi 18. Who won the Asian continental chess championship in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam on May13, 2012? 1) Parimarjan Negi 2) M.R.Venkatesh 3) P.Harikrishna 4) Vishwanathan Anand 5) Suryashekar Ganguly 19. Who won the World Snooker Championship for the fourth time in Sheffield, UK on May 7, 2012? 1) John Higgins 2) Stephen Hendry 3) Steve Davis 4) Ali Carter 5) Ronnie O' Sullivan Key 1) 1 2) 5 3) 4 4) 2 5) 2 6) 3 7) 5 14) 2 15) 1 16) 2 17) 3 18) 1 19) 5 8) 2 9) 1 10) 4 11) 2 12) 1 13) 4

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GENERAL AWARENESS
1. The restructured version of the Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas (PURA) was launched by the Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh recently in which of the following states? 1) Tamil Nadu 2) Kerala 3) Goa 4) Orissa 5) Andhra Pradesh 2. Who was elected as a judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), based in The Hague, Netherlands in April 2012? 1) Justice Altamas Kabir 2) Justice D.K.Jain 3) Justice P. Sathasivam 4) Justice G.S.Singhvi 5) Justice Dalveer Bhandari 3. Achala Sachdev passed away on April 30, 2012. She was a famous? 1) Author 2) Sportsperson 3) Film actress 4) Journalist 5) Politician 4. Who is the author of 'Lava', a book of poems? 1) Javed Akhtar 2) Kunwar Narayan 3) Uday Prakash 4) Mohan Rana 5) None of these 5. Rustom is a/an? 1) Surface to surface missile 3) Surface to air missile 5) Nuclear powered submarine

2) Unmanned aerial vehicle 4) Air to air missile

6. Which of the following warships was decommissioned on June 11, 2012? (It served for 31 years in the Indian navy) 1) INS Vindhyagiri 2) INS Taragiri 3) INS Himgiri 4) INS Nilgiri 5) INS Udaygiri 7. Enrica Lexie is an oil tanker involved in the shooting of two fishermen at Indian coast in February 2012. It belongs to which of the following countries? 1) France 2) Germany 3) Italy 4) Spain 5) Russia 8. Karen rebels have been fighting for self-rule for more than 60 years in which of the following countries? 1) Nepal 2) Vietnam 3) Cambodia 4) Myanmar 5) China 9. The Coast Guards of India and which of the following countries conducted a joint exercise named "Sahyog Kajin-XI" recently? 1) China 2) Japan 3) Sri Lanka 4) Myanmar 5) South Korea 10. What is the full form of 'CEPA'? 1) Complete Economic Preference Agreement 2) Cultural and Economic Partnership Accord 3) Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement

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4) Complete Economic Partnership Accord 5) None of these 11. Which of the following books is written by Steve Waugh, former Australia cricket captain? 1) Cricket My Style 2) True Colors 3) Out of My Comfort Zone 4) Controversially Yours 5) One Day Wonders 12. Mario Monti is the present Prime Minister of which of the following European countries? 1) Spain 2) Italy 3) Greece 4) Poland 5) Portugal 13. The Dhamra Port is a major newly developed port in which of the following states? 1) Orissa 2) Tamil Nadu 3) Gujarat 4) Goa 5) Karnataka 14. Which of the following terms is associated with Lawn Tennis? 1) Spiker 2) Hoops 3) Pitch 4) Volley 5) Forward 15. When is the National Energy Conservation Day celebrated? 1) August 9 2) December 14 3) November 11 4) November 10 5) November 26 16. Which of the following Cups/Trophies is associated with the game of soccer? 1) Deodhar Trophy 2) Duleep Trophy 3) SAFF Cup 4) Aga Khan Cup 5) Thomas Cup 17. Irom Sharmila Chanu is a civil rights activist from which of the following states? 1) Manipur 2) Sikkim 3) Meghalaya 4) Assam 5) Tripura 18. In which year was the Dada Saheb Phalke Award instituted? 1) 1965 2) 1969 3) 1973 4) 1974

5) 1968

19. The Dir ective Principles of State Policy, contained in Part IV of the constitution of India, have been inspired by the constitution of? 1) USA 2) Germany 3) Ireland 4) UK 5) Switzerland 20. Which of the following states is the largest producer of coffee in India? 1) Assam 2) Kerala 3) Tamil Nadu 4) Karnataka 5) Orissa 21. The Headquarters of the World Trade Organization (WTO) are located in which of the following cities? 1) Paris 2) Rome 3) Geneva 4) New York 5) Washington D.C. 22. Which one of the following rivers does not flow into the Bay of Bengal?

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1) Godavari 2) Krishna 3) Mahanadi 4) Narmada 5) Ganga

23. A High-Level Safety Review Committee was set up to check the growing number of rail accidents. Who headed this committee? 1) Anil Kakodkar 2) N.Vedachalam 3) E.Sridharan 4) Sanjay Dhanda 5) G.P.Srivastava

Key 1) 2 2) 5 3) 3 4) 1 5) 2 6) 1 7) 3 8) 4 9) 2 10) 3 11) 3 12) 2 13) 1 14) 4 15) 2 16) 3 17) 1 18) 2 19) 3 20) 4 21) 3 22) 4 23) 1 GENERAL AWARENESS 1. Meles Zenawi passed away on August 20, 2012. He was the Prime Minister of which of the following African countries from 1995 until his death in 2012? 1) Somalia 2) Ethiopia 3) Eritrea 4) Djibouti 5) Sudan 2. Which Chinese woman shooter won the first gold medal of the London Olympics on July 28, 2012? 1) Yi Siling 2) Yu Dan 3) Ye Shiwen 4) Wang Mingjuan 5) Li Xuerui 3. What is the full form of BIFR? 1) Board for Investigation and Formal Reconstruction 2) Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction 3) Bureau for Industrial and Financial Rehabilitation 4) Board for Institutional Finance and Rehabilitation 5) None of these 4. The National Security Guard (NSG) is primarily utilized for counter-terrorism activities. It operates under the Ministry of? 1) Defense 2) Home Affairs 3) External Affairs 4) Parliamentary Affairs 5) None of these 5. Who was ranked the most powerful woman in the world for the second year in a row by Forbes magazine on August 23, 2012? 1) Angela Merkel (Germany) 2) Hillary Clinton (USA) 3) Dilma Rousseff (Brazil) 4) Melinda Gates (USA) 5) Jill Abramson (USA) 6. Who among the following never functioned as a judge of the Inte-rnational Court of Justice (ICJ)?

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1) Sir Benegal Rau R.S.Pathak 4) Justice Dalveer Bhandari 2) Dr. Nagendra Singh 5) Justice Y.V.Chandrachud 3) Justice

7. Joe Dawes has been appointed as the bowling coach of the Indian cricket team. To which country does he belong? 1) England 2) Australia 3) West Indies 4) South Africa 5) New Zealand 8. Who became the new President of the European Bank for Recon-struction and Development (EBR D) on July3, 2012? 1) Suma Chakrabarti 2) Thomas Mirow 3) Anshu Jain 4) Meera Sanyal 5) Horst Kohler 9. 'Target 3 Billion' is a book that highlights the issues prevailing in rural India and suggests measures to improve standards of living. It is co-authored by Srijan Pal Singh and? 1) Jairam Ramesh 2) Aruna Roy 3) Abdul Kalam 4) P.Sainath 5) Pranab Mukherjee 10. Which country won the 2012 Thomas Cup badminton championship in May 2012? 1) China 2) South Korea 3) Indonesia 4) Malaysia 5) Japan 11. Which of the following state assemblies celebrated platinum jubilee on April 7, 2012? 1) Orissa 2) Assam 3) Bihar 4) Maharashtra 5) Andhra Pradesh 12. India launched which of the following satellites that will boost its remote sensing capabilities and facilitate agriculture and disaster management on April 26, 2012? 1) Jugnu 2) RISAT-1 3) GSAT-12 4) GSAT-8 5) YOUTHSAT 13. India's first and only defense university Indian National Defense University (INDU) will come up in which of the following states? 1) Maharashtra 2) Uttarakhand 3) Haryana 4) Rajasthan 5) Kerala 14. Who among the following Bollywood actors was appointed brand ambassador to spread awareness about sanitation and cleanliness in India? 1) Priyanka Chopra 2) Aamir Khan 3) Shah Rukh Khan 4) Vidya Balan 5) Amitabh Bachchan 15. The National Film Awards ceremony is held on May 3 every year to commemorate the release date of which of the following movies? 1) Alam Ara 2) Kisan Kanya 3) Raja Harishchandra

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4) Kalidas 5) Bhakta Prahlada

16. Which of the following days is celebrated as the International Nurses Day? (It is the birth anni-versary of Florence Nightingale) 1) May 12 2) May 11 3) May 13 4) May 21 5) May 17 17. A 500 MW solar power park, Asia's largest, was launched in April 2012 in Patan district of which of the following states? 1) Rajasthan 2) Gujarat 3) Karnataka 4) Maharashtra 5) Madhya Pradesh 18. What does the term 'Depreciati-on' mean? 1) Loss incurred during a year due to plant breakdown 2) Closure of an industry due to lock out 3) Reduction in the value of an asset as a result of wear and tear 4) High repair expenses incurred by the manufacturing unit 5) None of these 19. What is the present band approv-ed by the Reserve Bank of India between Repo and Reverse Repo rates? 1) 0.25% 2) 0.5% 3) 0.75% 4) 1% 5) 1.5% 20. Which of the following is the regulator of the credit rating agencies in India? 1) RBI 2) IBA 3) IRDA 4) SBI 5) None of these 21. What is the full form of IRAC as used in financial sector? 1) Investment Rating and Asset Classification 2) Income Recognition Asset Classification 3) Industrial Restructuring and Accounting Codes 4) India Revenue and Accounti-ng Codes 5) None of these 22. CRR is maintained in the form of? 1) Cash balances with RBI 2) Cash balances with banks

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3) Cash balances with both RBI and banks 4) Cash balances with IMF 5) Cash balances with World Bank 23. What is the minimum capital required for opening new banks in the private sector according to the new guidelines issued by the Reserve Bank of India? 1) Rs.200 crore 2) Rs.250 crore 3) Rs.300 crore 4) Rs.500 crore 5) Rs.1000 crore 24. Insurance that is purchased by an insurance company from another insurance company as a means of risk management is called? 1) Reassurance 2) Reinsurance 3) Bancassurance 4) Solvency 5) Insolvency 25. What is the full form of BPLR? 1) Below Poverty Line Rate 2) Benchmark Prime Lending Rate 3) Below Poverty Line Register 4) Basic Priority Lending Rate 5) None of these 26. USA has asked India to reduce its dependence on crude oil supply from which of the following OPEC countries? 1) Nigeria 2) Iraq 3) Iran 4) Kuwait 5) Saudi Arabia 27. Who among the following is the President of a country at present? 1) Julia Gillard 2) Stephen Harper 3) David Cameron 4) Francois Hollande 5) Yoshihiko Noda 28. Which country will host the Commonwealth Games in 2018? 1) Canada 2) Scotland 3) Australia 4) Sri Lanka 5) South Africa

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29. France has agreed to supply 'Rafale' to India, which are? 1) Nuclear submarines 2) Fighter aircraft 3) Advanced helicopters 4) Warships 5) Nuclear reactors 30. China is going to set up a military base in Seychelles, which is located in the? 1) Indian Ocean 2) Atlantic Ocean 3) South China Sea 4) Pacific Ocean 5) Red Sea 31. Which of the following is the unit of heat? 1) Ampere 2) Joule 3) Volt 4) Ohm 5) Newton 32. Which of the following cards works on the principle of 'Buy Now Pay Later'? 1) Debit card 2) ATM card 3) Credit card 4) Member card 5) None of these 33. Which Indian state was conferred upon the prestigious United Nations Public Service Award on June 26, 2012? 1) Orissa 2) Tamil Nadu 3) Gujarat 4) Madhya Pradesh 5) Sikkim 34. Which of the following countries became the 188th member of International Monetary Fund on April 18, 2012? 1) Palau 2) Tuvalu 3) Montenegro 4) Vatican City 5) South Sudan 35. James Michel is the President of which of the following countries? 1) Slovenia 2) Seychelles 3) Malta 4) Mexico 5) Panama 36. Which state has become the first state in India to prepare its greenhouse gas emission inventory where it has calculated its total carbon emissions from various sectors like energy, industry, transport and tourism?

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1) Haryana 2) Kerala 3) Karnataka 4) Himachal Pradesh 5) None of these 37. Which state is mulling enactment of right to play to identify sports talent at the school level? 1) Haryana 2) Sikkim 3) Meghalaya 4) Assam 5) Manipur 38. The Government of India has signed a peace agreement with United People's Democratic Solidarity (UPDS), a Karbi tribe insurgent group based in which of the following states? 1) Manipur 2) Assam 3) Nagaland 4) Tripura 5) Arunachal Pradesh 39. Exxon Mobil is the biggest American corporation in the Fortune magazine's list of top 500 US companies. It is a giant in which of the following sectors? 1) Retail 2) Banking 3) Oil 4) Software 5) Telecom 40. The European Bank for Reconst-ruction and Development (EBR D) is an international financial institution that supports projects in 29 countries from central Europe to central Asia. Where is its headquarters located? 1) Frankfurt 2) London 3) Berlin 4) Moscow 5) Rome 41. Who was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of Yahoo!, an American internet corporation, in July 2012? 1) Jerry Yang 2) Carol Bartz 3) Marissa Mayer 4) Scott Thompson 5) Terry Semel 42. The Uber Cup is a badminton co-mpetition contested by women's national badminton teams. Whi-ch team won this in May 2012? 1) USA 2) Indonesia 3) Japan 4) China 5) South Korea

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

GENERAL AWARENESS
1. Neil Armstrong, the first human to set foot on the moon, died on August 25, 2012. He landed on the moon on which of the following dates? 1) August 5, 1969 2) August 9, 1969 3) July 26, 1969 4) July 20, 1969 5) July 22, 1969 2. The 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) was held in August 2012 in which of the following countries? 1) Egypt 2) Iran 3) India 4) Turkey 5) Senegal 3. British Prime Minister David Cameron has donated a cricket bat signed by Sachin Tendulkar to raise funds to build an international standard cricket stadium in which of the following countries? 1) Kenya 2) Rwanda 3) Zimbabwe 4) Zambia 5) South Africa 4. Indian child artist Taru ni Sachdev was killed in a plane crash in Nepal in May 2012. She acted in which of the following Hindi films? 1) Cheeni Kum 2) Paa 3) Tare Zameen Par 4) Chillar Party 5) Bhoothnath 5. Which of the following statements is not true about the Under-19 cricket world cup? 1) The 2012 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup was a one day cricket competition for 16 international U-19 cricket teams which was held in August 2012. 2) In the finals, India beat Australia by six wickets to win the tournament. 3) Indian captain Unmukt Chand scored 111 not out and was awarded the Man of the Match.

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4) This is India's third U-19 world cup title following victories in 2000 and 2008. 5) South Africa captain William Bosisto was named Man of the Series. 6. India celebrated the 60th anniversary of the first sitting of Parliament on which of the following dates? 1) May 11, 2012 2) May 13, 2012 3) May 3, 2012 4) May 1, 2012 5) May 21, 2012 7. Nine Indian Americans feature in this year's Forbes Midas List of technology's best investors for fuelling a bull market for hot young companies. Who among the following is not one of them? 1) Aneel Bhusri 2) Rob Chandra 3) Sameer Gandhi 4) Vinod Khosla 5) Vikram Pandit 8. India would write off $ 200 million of the $ 1 billion loan given to which of the following countries for various projects? 1) Bangladesh 2) Pakistan 3) Sri Lanka 4) Singapore 5) Maldives 9. Which country closed its last operating nuclear reactor in May 2012? 1) France 2) Russia 3) Japan 4) USA 5) India 10. The United States has appointed an ambassador to which of the following south east Asian countries for the first time in 22 years? 1) Thailand 2) Burma 3) Philippines 4) Vietnam 5) Malaysia 11. Angelique Kerber is a tennis player who is currently ranked world number six. She belongs to which of the following countries? 1) Denmark 2) Poland 3) Germany 4) Estonia 5) Czech Republic 12. Who won the Asian Snooker Championships on April 29, 2012 in Doha, Qatar? 1) Aditya Mehta 2) Pankaj Advani 3) Hossein Vafaei 4) Ahmed Saif 5) Lim Chun Kiat 13. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been named by TIME magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the world. Who is the only other Indian in that list? 1) Shanta Sinha 2) Sonia Gandh 3) Ela Bhatt 4) Anjali Gopalan

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5) Vandana Shiva 14. Which country hosted the 38th G8 Summit on May 18-19, 2012? 1) France 2) Germany 3) Russia 4) Canada 5) USA 15. Who has been named Number One in the World's 20 Most Powerful Moms list released by Forbes magazine? 1) Hillary Clinton 2) Dilma Rousseff 3) Indra Nooyi 4) Melinda Gates 5) Sheryl Sandberg 16. Akash missile was test fired recently. It is a/an? 1) Surface to surface missile 2) Surface to air misile 3) Air to air missile 4) Super sonic missile 5) None 17. INS Dweeprakshak is a naval base of the Indian Navy commissioned on April 30, 2012. It is established at? 1) Kochi 2) Port Blair 3) Kavaratti 4) Mangalore 5) Vishakapatnam 18. Indian Air Force (IAF) will acquire 75 Pilatus PC-7 basic trainer aircraft at a cost of over Rs.2900 crore. These aircraft are manufactured by Pilatus Aircraft of which of the following countries? 1) Russia 2) France 3) Israel 4) Switzerland 5) None of these 19. Who became the first Indian writer to win the prestigious Ondaatje Prize for his bookThe Sly Company of People Who Care- on May 29, 2012? 1) Amitav Ghosh 2) Aravind Adiga 3) Chetan Bhagat 4) Rohinton Mistry 5) Rahul Bhattacharya 20. The National Telecom Policy (NTP)-2012 was cleared by the Government on May 31, 2012. Which of the following is/are the aim/aims of this new policy? 1) To abolish roaming charges on mobile phones 2) To provide countrywide mob-ile number portability (MNP) 3) To provide on demand broadband for all citizens. 4) To increase rural teledensity to 100% by 2020

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5) All the above 21. The United Nations Organization (UNO) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon received the honorary Doctor of Letters from which of the following universities in April 2012? 1) Tripura University 2) Magadh University 3) Jamia Millia Islamia 4) Osmania University 5) Indira Gandhi National Open University 22. Which country is planning to introduce a new visa regime titled "talent introduction" in an effort to attract more skilled professionals from abroad? 1) India 2) China 3) USA 4) France 5) Germany 23. The Right to Hearing provides citizens the right of hearing within a stipulated time on any grievance or complaint related to governance. Which is the first state to enact this legislation in April 2012? 1) Haryana 2) Punjab 3) Kerala 4) Rajasthan 5) Andhra Pradesh 24. Which bank has launched a 'Jewel Loan Maha Mela' to extend loans on the pledge of gold ornaments? 1) Bank of Baroda 2) Syndicate Bank 3) Vijaya Bank 4) Punjab National Bank 5) State Bank of India 25. Which will be the world's first air carrier to produce its own jet fuel? 1) Delta Air Lines 2) United Airlines 3) American Airlines 4) FedEx Express 5) Flight Alaska 26. Who won the NTR National Literary Award in May 2012? 1) S.L.Bhyrappa 2) Ashokamitran 3) A.Somasundaram 4) Mahasweta Devi 5) C.Narayana Reddy 27. Which bank decided to waive the requirement of maintenance of minimum balance for all types of savings bank accounts in April 2012? 1) ICICI Bank 2) Axis Bank 3) Union Bank of India

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4) United Bank of India 5) State Bank of India 28. The Reserve Bank of India has asked which of the following to issue smart cards/debit cards to farmers under the revised Kisan Credit Card (KCC) scheme so that they can access credit with ease? 1) Commercial Banks 2) Regional Rural Banks 3) Cooperative Banks 4) Both 1 and 2 5) All 1, 2 and 3 29. Which of the following awards is given in the field of literature? 1) Jamnalal Bajaj Award 2) Phalke Ratna Award 3) Kalinga Prize 4) Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 5) Saraswati Samman 30. Which of the following books is written by Vikram Seth? 1) Between the Lines 2) City of Joy 3) Revolution 2020 4) The Golden Gate 5) A Peep into the Past 31. The Indian Navy has inducted the Akula-II class K-152 Nerpa, which is a/an? 1) Aircraft 2) Radar system 3) Anti tank missile 4) Warship 5) Nuclear powered submarine 32. Which of the following cities hosted the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the Afro-Asian Rural Development Organization (AARDO) in March 2012? 1) Cairo 2) Nairobi 3) New Delhi 4) Dhaka 5) Addis Ababa 33. Enrica Lexie, an Italian ship, was detained by the port authorities in Kerala for which of the following reasons? 1) It was involved in piracy 2) The crew killed two Indian fishermen 3) It dumped nuclear waste in the sea 4) It was carrying objectionable material 5) None of these 34. Who topped the Civil Service Examination for 2011? 1) Shena Aggarwal 2) Rukmani Riar

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3) Prince Dhawan 4) Sweta Mohanty 5) None 35. As per the Planning Commission data 16 central Government schemes are named after which of the following eminent personalities? 1) Indira Gandhi 2) Rajiv Gandhi 3) Jawaharlal Nehru 4) Mahatma Gandhi 5) Kasturba Gandhi 36. Nay Pyi Taw is the capital city of which of the following countries? 1) Vietnam 2) Cambodia 3) Myanmar 4) Thailand 5) Laos 37. Which Australian city hosted the final of the ICC Under-19 cricket world cup on August 26, 2012? 1) Brisbane 2) Perth 3) Adelaide 4) Townsville 5) Sunshine Coast 38. Shivnarine Chanderpaul became the 10th batsman to score 10,000 Test runs on April 27, 2012. He plays for which of the following countries? 1) Australia 2) New Zealand 3) England 4) South Africa 5) None of these 39. "The Google Story" is a book by? 1) Sergey Brin 2) Larry Page 3) Sergey Brin and Larry Page 4) David A. Vise and Mark Malseed 5) David A. Vise and Gary Williams 40. Which of the following awards was conferred upon Mario Miranda posthumously? 1) Padma Sri 2) Padma Bhushan 3) Padma Vibhushan 4) Kalidas Samman 5) Ashok Chakra 41. Who among the following Indian tennis players won a doubles title at the 2012 Australian Open Championship? 1) Sania Mirza 2) Mahesh Bhupathi 3) Rohan Bopanna 4) Leander Paes

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5) None of these

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

GENERAL AWARENESS
1. What is the first quarter (April-June) gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the year 2012-13? 1) 6.3% 2) 7.5% 3) 6.5% 4) 5.5% 5) 8.5% 2. Who, among the following Nobel laureates in Literature, has written a novel 'The Dream of the Celt'? 1) V.S.Naipaul 2) J.M.Coetzee 3) Orhan Pamuk 4) Tomas Transtromer 5) Mario Vargas Llosa 3. Which state imposed a ban on manufacture, storage and sale of gutka, pan masala and their variants containing tobacco and nicotine recently? (It has become the second state after Madhya Pradesh to ban gutka products) 1) Punjab 2) Haryana 3) Kerala 4) Gujarat 5) Andhra Pradesh 4. A 12-year-old boy from Bihar cracked the highly competitive Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) in May 2012. Name this child prodigy? 1) Anand Kumar 2) Satyam Kumar 3) Sushil Kumar 4) Uday Kumar 5) Tathagat Avtar Tulsi 5. Which of the following statements is not true with regard to the G8 summit? 1) The 38th G8 Summit was held in Camp David, Maryland, USA in May 2012. 2) This was the first Summit since Russia joined the group in 1997 that was not attended by the President of Russia. 3) The main topic of the G8 Summit was the European sovereign debt crisis. 4) The leaders also discussed the nuclear program of Iran, North Korea's nuclear ambitions and the violent internal conflict in Syria.

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5) The 39th G8 Summit will be held in France in 2013. 6. "Shoor Veer", the war games and military training exercise, was concluded in Hanumangarh district of which of the following states in May 2012? 1) Gujarat 2) Rajasthan 3) Maharashtra 4) Punjab 5) Uttarakhand 7. Which state has decided to start "Rani Laxmibai Pension Scheme" under which beneficiaries will get Rs.400 per month? 1) Bihar 2) Himachal Pradesh 3) Uttar Pradesh 4) Madhya Pradesh 5) Andhra Pradesh 8. Maurice Sendak, a popular children's book author died in May 2012 in USA. He is the author of which of the following famous books? 1) Kim 2) The Jungle Book 3) Animal Farm 4) Where the Wild Things Are 5) Nineteen Eighty Four 9. Kalpana Chawla Excellence Awards are given every year in the memory of Kalpana, who died in Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003. Who among the following 2012 winners is a veteran actress? 1) Vanya Mishra 2) Swapnasundari 3) Shalini Singh 4) Puneeta Trikha 5) Sushma Seth 10. Who was honored with the South Asian Cinema Foundation's (SACF) Excellence in Cinema Award in June 2012? 1) Gulzar 2) Girish Kasaravalli 3) M.S.Sathyu 4) Shyam Benegal 5) Adoor Gopalakrishnan 11. 73-year-old Tamae Watanbe became the oldest woman to climb Mount Everest in May 2012. She belongs to which of the following countries? 1) Vietnam 2) Japan 3) China 4) Laos 5) South Korea 12. The Cannes International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Cannes. In which country is this city located?

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1) Italy 2) Germany 3) France 4) Poland 5) Luxemburg 13. Eynulla Fatullayev has been named the winner of the 2012 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize by UNESCO's Director-General, Irina Bokova. He is a journalist and human rights activist from which of the following countries? 1) Armenia 2) Azerbaijan 3) Georgia 4) Albania 5) Uzbekistan 14. Which district recorded the highest decadal increase in population at 111%, according to the Census 2011? 1) Yanam (Puducherry) 2) Gurgaon (Haryana) 3) Daman (Daman and Diu) 4) Kurung Kumey (Arunachal Pradesh) 5) Lawngtlai (Mizoram) 15. Who was declared Man of the Match in the 2012 Indian Premier League (IPL) final? 1) Jacques Kallis 2) Sunil Narine 3) Manvinder Bisla 4) Manoj Tiwary 5) Gautam Gambhir 16. I-League is India's top football competition. Which club won this title in May 2012? 1) Dempo 2) East Bengal 3) Churchill Brothers 4) Mohun Bagan 5) Salgaocar 17. Which of the following is a German football club? 1) Chelsea 2) Bayern Munich 3) Manchester City 4) Real Madrid 5) Barcelona 18. Which country will host the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit in 2015? 1) Cuba 2) Indonesia 3) Venezuela 4) Malaysia 5) Ghana 19. India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and which of the following countries inked the historic gas sale purchase agreement (GSPA) for the $7.6 billion TAPI gas pipeline in May 2012?

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1) Tanzania 2) Thailand 3) Tajikistan 4) Turkmenistan 5) Turkey 20. A notifiable disease is any disease that is required by law to be reported to government authorities. The Union Health Ministry has made which of the following a mandatory notifiable disease in May 2012? 1) Hypertension 2) Diabetes 3) Diphtheria 4) Tuberculosis 5) None of these 21. Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) or Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA) is a community-led total sanitation program initiated by the Government of India in 1999. The main goal of TSC is to eradicate the practice of open defecation by which of the following years? 1) 2014 2) 2015 3) 2016 4) 2017 5) 2020 22. The Reserve Bank of India will set up a $2 billion swap facility for which of the following groups member countries? 1) BRICS 2) IBSA 3) SAARC 4) BASIC 5) None of these 23. The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government completed three years in office in its second term on which of the following dates? 1) May 13, 2012 2) May 15, 2012 3) May 18, 2012 4) May 20, 2012 5) None 24. Tomislav Nikolic became the President of which of the following countries on May 31, 2012? 1) Romania 2) Serbia 3) Bulgaria 4) Croatia 5) Montenegro 25. "Dil Pe Lagi Aur Baat Bani" is an All India Radio program that is anchored by? 1) Akshay Kumar 2) Aamir Khan 3) Ajay Devgan 4) Anupam Kher 5) Amitabh Bachchan 26. Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi visited which of the following countries on May 30, 2012 her first foreign tour in 24 years?

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1) India 2) Norway 3) Thailand 4) China 5) USA 27. Anup Jalota, a Padma Sri Award winner in 2012, is a famous? 1) Sportsperson 2) Cricket commentator 3) Singer 4) Industrialist 5) Social worker 28. Which country has decided to allow Indians living in border areas to travel up to 16 km inside its territory without a passport or visa? 1) Nepal 2) Bhutan 3) China 4) Pakistan 5) Myanmar 29. Which of the following days is observed as 'World Population Day'? 1) July 18 2) July 10 3) July 11 4) July 26 5) July 8 30. What is the present Bank rate? 1) 4.75% 2) 5.75% 3) 6.5% 4) 9.5% 5) 9% 31. Which of the following programs was launched in December 2005 to develop rural infrastructure including water supply, power, housing and roads? 1) PURA 2) Bharat Nirman 3) MGNREGP 4) RGSEAG 5) None of these 32. Which of the following is a function of the Reserve Bank of India? 1) Issuing Kisan Credit Cards 2) Issuing National Savings Certificates 3) Issuing Banknotes 4) Issuing Aadhar cards 5) None of these 33. Which of the following cups/trophies is associated with the game of Lawn Tennis? 1) DCM Trophy 2) Duleep Trophy 3) Merdeka Cup 4) Ryder Cup 5) None of these

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34. Stephen Hendry, who retired recently, has won the world championship a record seven times in which of the following sports? 1) Squash 2) Golf 3) Snooker 4) Badminton 5) Table Tennis 35. Which country will host the 2014 Twenty20 cricket world cup? 1) Bangladesh 2) Sri Lanka 3) India 4) England 5) Australia 36. An excess of expenditures over revenues is called? 1) Depreciation 2) Budget deficit 3) Deflation 4) Devaluation 5) Balance of Payment 37. Which Australian city hosted the final of the ICC Under-19 cricket world cup on August 26, 2012? 1) Brisbane 2) Perth 3) Adelaide 4) Townsville 5) Sunshine Coast 38. Shivnarine Chanderpaul became the 10th batsman to score 10,000 Test runs on April 27, 2012. He plays for which of the following countries? 1) Australia 2) New Zealand 3) England 4) South Africa 5) None of these 39. What does the letter 'C' denote in the term 'ECB' as used in the banking and financial operations? 1) Credit 2) Control 3) Cartel 4) Commercial 5) None of these 40. Which of the following awards was conferred upon Mario Miranda posthumously? 1) Padma Sri 2) Padma Bhushan 3) Padma Vibhushan 4) Kalidas Samman 5) Ashok Chakra Key 1) 4 2) 5 3) 3 4) 2 5) 5 6) 2 7) 3 8) 4 9) 5 10) 4 11) 2 12) 3 13) 2 14) 4 15) 3 16) 1 17) 2 18) 3 19) 4 20) 4 21) 4 22) 3 23) 4 24) 2 25) 2 26) 3 27) 3 28) 5 29) 3 30) 5 31) 2 32) 3 33) 5 34) 3 35) 1 36) 2 37) 4 38) 5 39) 4 40) 3

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1. Who has been appointed as new Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank? (His term begins on October 1, 2012) 1) Raghuram Rajan 2) Partha Dasgupta 3) Kaushik Basu 4) Jagdish Bhagwati 5) Amartya Sen 2. Dr. Verghese Kurien passe d away on September 9, 2012. He is the father of India's? 1) Green Revolution 2) Blue Revolution 3) Yellow Revolution 4) White Revolution 5) Golden Revolution 3. Alan Isaac succeeded India's Sharad Pawar for the post of International Cricket Council (ICC) President on June 28, 2012. He belongs to which of the following countries? 1) West Indies 2) South Africa 3) England 4) Australia 5) New Zealand 4. Who was sworn in as the 17th Prime Minister of Pakistan on June 22, 2012? 1) Rehman Malik 2) Makhdoom Shahabuddin 3) Yousuf Raza Gilani 4) Raja Pervaiz Ashraf 5) Asif Ali Zardari 5. Which of the following state-ments about the DLF Indian Premier League (IPL)- 2012 is not true? 1) The Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) beat the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in the IPL -5 final at the Chidambaram stadium in Chennai on May 27, 2012 to win its first IPL title. 2) Gautam Gambhir is the captain of KKR and Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the captain of CSK. 3) Sunil Narine of KKR was declared the Golden Player of the Tournament. 4) Orange Cap Award was given to Chris Gayle of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) for scoring 733 runs. 5) Purple Cap Award was given to Ravichandran Ashwin of CSK for taking 25 wickets. 6. Guy Ryder was elected as the tenth Director-General of which of the following organizations? (He will begin his five-year term in October 2012) 1) WHO 2) ILO 3) WTO 4) UNICEF 5) UNESCO 7. International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOS-CO) is an international

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policy forum for securities market regulators. Who has been re-elected Chairman of the Asia Pacific Regional Committee of the IOSCO? 1) D.Subba Rao 2) J.Harinarayan 3) Rahul Khullar 4) U.K.Sinha 5) None of these 8. Who assumed charge as the 18th Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) on June 11, 2012? 1) H.S.Brahma 2) S.Y.Quraishi 3) V.S.Sampath 4) N.Gopalaswami 5) None of these 9. The Vice President Hamid Ansari presented "International Gandhi Award-2011" to whom among the following at a function organized by Gandhi Memorial Leprosy Foundation, Wardha, Maharashtra on May 28, 2012? 1) Dr. Caire Velut 2) Dr. J.D.Samant 3) Dr. Prakash Amte 4) Both 1 and 2 5) All 1, 2 and 3 10. Who was awarded the Common-Wealth Book Prize for 2012 for his debut novel 'Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew'? 1) Emma Martin (New Zealand) 2) Rana Dasgupta (UK-India) 3) Alecia Mckenzie (Jamaica) 4) Shehan Karunatilaka (Sri Lanka) 5) None of these 11. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) released the Red List of threatened species on June 20, 2012. According to this list how many species of plants and animals from India are Critically Endangered? 1) 310 2) 132 3) 282 4) 252 5) 270 12. According to a survey conducted by the National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) recently, what percent of India's rural population live on less than Rs.35 a day? 1) 33 2) 60 3) 35 4) 50 5) 48 13. Santosh Trophy is an annual football tournament which is contested by states and government institutions. Which team won the 66th Santosh Trophy in Cuttack, Odisha on May 28, 2012? 1) Services 2) Tamil Nadu 3) West Bengal 4) Punjab 5) Kerala 14. Which country became the 209th member of FIFA, the international governing body of

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football, on May 25, 2012? 1) Palau 2) Tuvalu 3) Uganda 4) South Sudan 5) Swaziland 15. As per a report published recently by Save the Children, a global non-governmental organi-zation, which country has the highest number of deaths due to premature births? 1) Niger 2) Bangladesh 3) Somalia 4) India 5) Nigeria 16. Which country has test fired a new inter-continental ballistic missile named Avangard that is capable of piercing defense systems being developed by the United States? 1) China 2) Russia 3) Israel 4) Iran 5) North Korea 17. Anders Fogh Rasmussen is the Secretary-General of which of the following organizations? 1) ASEAN 2) APEC 3) NATO 4) OPEC 5) Commonwealth 18. Mohamed Morsy was sworn in as the new President of which of the following countries on June 30, 2012? 1) Syria 2) Yemen 3) Libya 4) Iraq 5) Egypt 19. Antonis Samaras has been the Prime Minister of which of the following European countries since June 20, 2012? 1) Austria 2) Belgium 3) Cyprus 4) Greece 5) Portugal 20. The seventh G-20 summit was held on June18-19, 2012 in which of the following cities? 1) Chicago (USA) 2) Camp David (USA) 3) Seoul (South Korea) 4) Los Cabos (Mexico) 5) Cannes (France) 21. Bujar Nishani assumed office as the 6th President of which of the following countries on July 24, 2012? 1) Montenegro 2) Kosovo 3) Albania 4) Macedonia 5) Turkey 22. India's Gayatri Spivak, a literary critic and Professor at Columbia University, won

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which of the following prizes in June 2012? 1) Templeton Prize 2) Abel Prize 3) Pritzker Prize 4) Kyoto Prize 5) Ondaatje Prize 23. A plane carrying 153 people on board crashed in Lagos killing everyone on board on June 3, 2012. Lagos is the most populous city in which of the following African countries? 1) Benin 2) Nigeria 3) Chad 4) Niger 5) Cameroon 24. Which of the following teams won the Junior Hockey World Cup in May 2012 in Kuala Lumpur? 1) Malaysia 2) Pakistan 3) Iran 4) Japan 5) India 25. Who became the first non-head of State and only the second woman after Queen Elizabeth to address both houses of Britain's parliament on June 21, 2012? 1) Hillary Clinton 2) Michele Obama 3) Sonia Gandhi 4) Aung San Suu Kyi 5) Melinda Gates 26. Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls or 'SABLA' includes a complete nutrition program for girls in the age group of? 1) 13 to 19 years 2) 11 to 18 years 3) 11 to 15 years 4) 12 to 19 years 5) 12 to 18 years 27. Who is the author of the book 'Jinnah and Tilak: Comrades in the Freedom Struggle'? 1) Jaswant Singh 2) M.J.Akbar 3) A.G.Noorani 4) L.K.Advani 5) Ram Jethmalani 28. The United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP) was established in 1972 with its headquarters in? 1) Berne 2) Geneva 3) Vienna 4) Nairobi 5) The Hague 29. Which of the following represents the ratio of equity of the Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) held by the Central Government, the sponsor bank and the concerned State Government respectively?

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1) 50:20:30 2) 50:35:15 3) 40:35:25 4) 40:40:20 5) 50:30:20 30. Who is the only person to be elected as the President of India unopposed? 1) V.V.Giri 2) Zakir Hussain 3) R.Venkatraman 4) Pranab Mukherjee 5) N.Sanjiva Reddy 31. The Constitution of India provides for nomination of two members of Lok Sabha by the President to represent? 1) Persons of Eminence 2) The Parsis 3) The business community 4) The Anglo-Indian community 5) None of these 32. Which of the following is the name of the norms by which a bank satisfies itself about the customers' identity and activities? 1) Lending norms 2) Service norms 3) Basal norms 4) KYC norms 5) None of these 33. TRAI regulates the functioning of which of the following services? 1) Trade 2) Transport 3) Telecom 4) Insurance 5) None of these 34. Dr. Muhammad Yunus belongs to which of the following countries? 1) Iran 2) Pakistan 3) India 4) Bangladesh 5) Indonesia 35. Ten Rupee notes contain the signature of? 1) Finance Secretary 2) SBI Chairman 3) Finance Minister 4) Chief Economic Advisor 5) None of these 36. Government shareholding in Public Sector Banks cannot be below? 1) 33% 2) 74% 3) 51% 4) 100% 5) 67% 37. Effective August 11, 2012 what is the Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR)?

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1) 24% 2) 25% 3) 23% 4) 22% 5) 26% 38. Which of the following schemes has been started to provide health services in the rural areas? 1) Bharat Nirman 2) Operation Flood 3) SGSY 4) ASHA 5) JNNURM 39. Which of the following is the capital and largest city in Libya? 1) Juba 2) Niamey 3) Abuja 4) Tripoli 5) Maputo 40. Which of the following ports is called the "Offspring of Partition" as it was developed after the partition as a substitute for Karachi port? 1) Paradip 2) Ennore 3) Tuticorin 4) New Mangalore 5) Kandla

Key 1) 3 2) 4 3) 5 4) 4 5) 5 6) 2 7) 4 8) 3 9) 4 10) 4 11) 2 12) 2 13) 1 14) 4 15) 4 16) 2 17) 3 18) 5 19) 4 20) 4 21) 3 22) 4 23) 2 24) 1 25) 4 26) 2 27) 3 28) 4 29) 2 30) 5 31) 4 32) 4 33) 3 34) 4 35) 5 36) 3 37) 3 38) 4 39) 4 40) 5 GENERAL AWARENESS 1. What is the revised growth rate target for the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-2017)? 1) 9% 2) 8% 3) 8.2% 4) 8.5% 5) 9.5% 2. Which Indian author has been short listed for this year's Man Booker Prize for his novel 'Narcopolis', a dark tale about the opium and heroin dens of Mumbai? 1) Aravind Adiga 2) Jeet Thayil 3) Amitav Ghosh 4) Chetan Bhagat 5) Rahul Bhattacharya 3. John Baird visited India and held talks with S.M.Krishna in September 2012. Baird is the Foreign Minister of which of the following countries? 1) France 2) Argentina 3) Canada 4) U.K. 5) Australia 4. Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz was named the crown prince of which of the following countries on June 18, 2012? 1) Kuwait 2) Bahrain 3) Yemen 4) Oman 5) Saudi Arabia 5. Which of the following state-ments about G-20 is not true? 1) The G-20 includes 19 country members and the European Union. 2) G-20 was started in 2008 and accounts for 2/3rd of world's population and 80% of

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the world's GDP. 3) The seventh G-20 Summit was held at Los Cabos, Mexico on June 18-19, 2012. 4) The next G-20 Summit will be held in September 2013 in Saint Petersburg, South Africa. 5) At the Los Cabos Summit BRICS countries have pledged $75 billion to IMF's $430 billion bailout package for the debt ridden 17 nation Euro zone. India alone contributed $10 billion. 6. Who took over as Director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Trombay from Ratan Kumar Sinha on June 19, 2012? 1) S.K.Jain 2) V.K.Saraswat 3) Srikumar Banerjee 4) Sekhar Basu 5) None of these 7. What is the new name of the former Soviet aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov, which has been procured by India? 1) INS Vikrant 2) INS Viraat 3) INS Vikramaditya 4) INS Chakra 5) INS Arihant 8. Which of the following Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will start Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy Institute of Medical Science and Research? 1) IIT, Bombay 2) IIT, Madras 3) IIT, Hyderabad 4) IIT, Kanpur 5) IIT, Kharagpur 9. American President Barack Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Shimon Peres on June 13, 2012. Peres is the President of which of the following countries? 1) Poland 2) Belaru 3) Israel 4) Germany 5) Slovakia 10. The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) will launch how many reactors during the 12th Plan period (2012-2017)? 1) 12 2) 16 3) 10 4) 11 5) 13 11. Who won the 2012 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel 'Even the Dogs'? 1) Orhan Pamuk 2) V.S. Naipaul 3) Philip Roth 4) Jon McGregor 5) Julian Barnes 12. The 200-year-old historical shrine of Dastgeer Sahib was gutted in a fire on June 25, 2012. It is located in? 1) Anantnag 2) Baramula 3) Srinagar 4) Doda 5) Kupwara 13. Which of the following sites were accorded World Heritage status by the UNESCO on July1, 2012? 1) KhajurahoMonuments 2) Ajanta caves 3) Ellora caves 4) Elephanta caves 5) Western Ghats 14. The Antoinette Perry Award, more commonly known as the Tony Award is given for excellence in? 1) Films 2) Theatre3) Poetry 4) Journalism5) Literature

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15. American author Philip Roth won the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature on June 7, 2012. This is awarded by which of the following countries? 1) Norway 2) UK 3) Spain 4) Denmark 5) Sweden 16. Who has overtaken Tiger Woods at the top of Forbes magazine's list of the 100 highest paid sports personalities that was released on June 19, 2012? 1) Roger Federer 2) Kobe Bryant 3) David Beckham 4) Cristiano Ronaldo 5) Floyd Mayweather 17. Which country won the 21st Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament in Ipoh, Malaysia on June 3, 2012? 1) New Zealand 2) Argentina 3) India 4) Great Britain 5) South Korea 18. Rafael Nadal of Spain won his 7th French Open tennis singles title on June 11, 2012. Whom did he beat in the final? 1) Roger Federer 2) Andy Murray 3) Novak Djokovic 4) Andy Roddick 5) Tommy Haas 19. Tino Best hit the highest ever Test score by a No. 11 batsman when he made 95 on June 10, 2012. He plays cricket for which of the following countries? 1) England 2) Australia 3) South Africa 4) West Indies 5) New Zealand 20. Who became the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the International Cricket Council (ICC) on June 28, 2012? 1) Malcolm Speed (Australia) 2) Haroon Lorgat (South Africa) 3) David Richardson (South Africa) 4) David Morgan (England) 5) None of these 21. Zalmai Rassoul visited India in June 2012. He is the Foreign Minister of? 1) Pakistan 2) Afghanistan 3) Iran 4) Syria 5) Turkey 22. The labeling of Genetically Modified (GM) foods has been made mandatory. The amend-ment will come into effect from? 1) October 2, 2012 2) January 1, 2013 3) January 26, 2013 4) April 1, 2013 5) December 1, 2012 23. Which state has launched India's first river-lake linking project? 1) Tamil Nadu 2) Gujarat 3) Maharashtra 4) Madhya Pradesh 5) Uttar Pradesh 24. Who has/have been honored with the International Peace Award given by the Gandhi Foundation in London, UK? 1) Binayak Sen 2) Bulu Imam 3) Ela Bhatt 4) Both 1 and 2 5) All 1, 2 and 3 25. Who was presented with the WisdenIndia's Outstanding Achievement Award on

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June 11, 2012? 1) Mahendra Singh Dhoni 2) Rahul Dravid 3) Virat Kohli 4) Sachin Tendulkar 5) Yuvraj Singh 26. Which of the following badminton titles was not won by Saina Nehwal in 2012? 1) Indonesian Open 2) Thailand Open 3) Swiss Open 4) Olympics Bronze medal 5) Singapore Open 27. Rolf Heuer of Germany is the Director General of which of the following organizations since 2009? 1) WHO 2) WTO 3) CERN 4) FAO 5) IAEA 28. Who is the author of the book 'The Audacity of Hope'? 1) George Bush 2) Bill Clinton 3) Hillary Clinton 4) Barack Obama 5) Mitt Romney 29. What is Bancassurance? 1) An insurance scheme for all bank employees 2) Sale of insurance products through a bank 3) An insurance scheme to insure bank deposits 4) A bank deposit scheme for employees of insurance companies 5) None of these 30. Russia's Maria Sharapova won the French Open women's singles title on June 9, 2012. She defeated which of the following tennis players in the final? 1) Serena Williams 2) Sara Errani 3) Venus Williams 4) Kim Clijsters 5) Victoria Azarenka 31. What is the full form of PIN in ATM card? 1) Personal Index Number 2) Permanent Information Number 3) Personal Identification Number 4) Permanent Identification Number 5) None of these 32. Which Act was framed to deal more effectively with the problem of Non Performing Assets (NPAs) in banking system? 1) Banking Regulation Act 2) RBI Act 3) FEMA 4) SARFAESI Act 5) None of these 33. Who was crowned Miss Asia Pacific 2012 on June 16, 2012 in South Korea? 1) Vanya Misra 2) Ankita Shorey 3) Himangini Singh Yadu 4) Rochelle Maria Rao 5) Prachi Mishra 34. Elinor Ostrom of USA passed away on June 12, 2012. She is the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in? 1) Physics 2) Chemistry 3) Medicine 4) Economics 5) Literature 35. Money deposited at a bank that cannot be withdrawn for a preset fixed period of time is known as?

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1) Current Deposit 2) Savings Bank Deposit 3) Term Deposit 4) No Frills Account 5) None of these 36. Which of the following provides a network that enables financial institutions worldwide to exchange messages about financial transactions in a secure and reliable environment? 1) NEFT 2) RTGS 3) CHAPS 4) SWIFT 5) None of these 37. Who headed the committee to review the structure of the National Small Savings Fund (NSSF)? 1) Y.V. Reddy 2) C. Rangarajan 3) U.K. Sinha 4) Shyamala Gopinath 5) Subir Gokarn 38. Which of the following is not required to open a bank account? 1) Identity Proof 2) Address Proof 3) Domicile Certificate 4) Latest Photographs 5) None of these 39. Which banks are insured by the Deposit Insurance and Credit G-uarantee Corporation (DICGC)? 1) Public Sector Banks 2) Private Banks 3) RRBs 4) Foreign Banks functioning in India 5) All the above 40. Which of the following ports is called the "Offspring of Partition" as it was developed after the partition as a substitute for Karachi port? 1) Paradip 2) Ennore 3) Tuticorin 4) New Mangalore 5) Kandla 41. Who among the following Indian tennis players won a doubles title at the 2012 Australian Open Championship? 1) Sania Mirza 2) Mahesh Bhupathi 3) Rohan Bopanna 4) Leander Paes 5) None of these 42. Axis Bank is a? 1) Gramin Bank 2) Foreign Bank 3) Public Sector Bank 4) Cooperative Bank 5) None of these KEY 1) 3 2) 2 3) 3 4) 5 5) 4 6) 4 7) 3 8) 5 9) 3 10) 2 11) 4 12) 3 13) 5 14) 2 15) 3 16) 5 17) 1 18) 3 19) 4 20) 3 21) 2 22) 2 23) 4 24) 4 25) 4 26) 5 27) 3 28) 4 29) 2 30) 2 31) 3 32) 4 33) 3 34) 4 35) 3 36) 4 37) 4 38) 3 39) 5 40) 5 41) 4 42) 5 1. Effective from September 22, 2012 what is the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR)? 1) 4% 2) 4.75% 3) 4.5% 4) 4.25% 5) 5% 2. Which Russian city hosted the 24th Summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation

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(APEC) in September 2012? 1) Yekaterinburg 2) Vladivostok 3) Moscow 4) Novosibirsk 5) Saint Petersburg 3. Who was named One Day International Cricketer of the Year at the ICC awards in September 2012? 1) Hashim Amla 2) Michael Clarke 3) Virat Kohli 4) Sunil Narine 5) Kumar Sangakkara 4. Christopher Stevens was killed during an armed mob attack in Benghazi in September 2012. He was the ambassador of the United States to which of the following countries? 1) Iran 2) Iraq 3) Egypt 4) Libya 5) Afghanistan 5. Which of the following state-ments about the IIFA Awards is not correct? 1) The 13th International Indian Film Academy(IIFA) Awards ceremony was held on June 9, 2012 in Singapore. 2) Ranbir Kapoor bagged the Best Actor award for his role in Rockstar. 3) Vidya Balan was named the Best Actress for her role in 'Kahaani'. 4) 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara' (ZNMD) won the Best Picture award. 5) Zoya Akhtar won the Best Director award for ZNMD. 6. Pakistan's Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and which of the following Indians have been awarded the prestigious Intern-ational Jurists Award 2012? 1) Salman Khurshid 2) Sonia Gandhi 3) Mulayam Singh Yadav 4) Justice S.H. Kapadia 5) None of these 7. Charles Taylor received a 50-year-jail term recently for aiding and abetting crimes against humanity by a UN-backed war crimes court. He is the former President of which of the following African countries? 1) Rwanda 2) Liberia 3) Uganda 4) Sierra Leone 5) Gambia

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8. Which Indian American was found guilty in June 2012 on insider trading charges in Manhattan, USA? 1) Raj Rajaratnam 2) Rajat Gupta 3) Vikaram Pandit 4) Sanjay Jha 5) None of these 9. Teofilo Stevenson passed away on June 11, 2012. He won three Olympic gold medals in boxing for which of the following countries? 1) USA 2) USSR 3) Poland 4) Cuba 5) Germany 10. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has been sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia for inciting violence and murder. He was the President of which of the following countries from 1987 to 2011? 1) Libya 2) Yemen 3) Egypt 4) Tunisia 5) Syria 11. Mehdi Hassan passed away on June 13, 2012 in Karachi, Pakistan. He was a famous? 1) Painter 2) Politician 3) Ghazal singer 4) Science fiction author 5) Economist 12. The 12th annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organiz-ation (SCO) was held in June 2012 in which of the following cities? 1) Moscow (Russia) 2) Dushanbe (Tajikistan) 3) Beijing (China) 4) Astana (Kazakhstan) 5) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) 13. The Port of Hambantota (also known as the Magampura Port) in Sri Lanka began commercial operations on June 6, 2012. Which country has funded construction of this port? 1) India 2) USA 3) UK 4) China 5) Pakistan 14. Which country has surpassed Saudi Arabia to become the world's largest holder of proven oil reserves? (This is according to the June 2012 BP's annual Statistical Review of World Energy)

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1) Canada 2) Russia 3) Iran 4) Venezuela 5) Kuwait 15. Iceland topped the Global Peace Index (GPI) for 158 countries that was released on June 12, 2012. What is India's rank? 1) 142 2) 137 3) 149 4) 134 5) 135 16. India's first Food Bank was inaugurated as part of war against hunger in June 2012 in which of the following cities? 1) Chennai 2) New Delhi 3) Hyderabad 4) Chandigarh 5) Jaipur 17. Navanethem Pillay of South Africa was given a two-year second term in 2012 as the? 1) Director General of ILO 2) Managing Director of IMF 3) Director General of UNESCO 4) UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 5) Director General of IAEA 18. The Seoul Peace Prize was established in 1990 to commemorate the success of the 24th Olympic Games held in Seoul, South Korea. Who is the 2012 winner? 1) Kofi Annan 2) Vaclav Havel 3) Muhammad Yunus 4) Ban Ki-moon 5) Juan Antonio Samaranch 19. Which company has acquired Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion? 1) Nokia 2) Samsung 3) Microsoft 4) Apple 5) Google 20. Who among the following cricketers is not a member in the Indian Parliament? 1) Navojot Singh Sidhu 2) Kirti Azad 3) Sachin Tendulkar 4) Mohammed Azharuddin 5) Manoj Prabhakar

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21. Simon Katich retired from first class cricket in June 2012. He played 56 Tests for which of the following countries? 1) England 2) Australia 3) West Indies 4) South Africa 5) New Zealand 22. Who was chosen as the official Event Ambassador for the ICC World Twenty20 Championships that is held in Sri Lanka in 2012? 1) Ajanta Mendis 2) D.Chandimal 3) Lasith Malinga 4) Mahela Jayawardene 5) Kumar Sangakkara 23. Which of the following programs has been rechristened as Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan? 1) JNNURM 2) PURA 3) Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan 4) Total Sanitation Campaign 5) National Rural Livelihood Mission 24. The Union Cabinet on June7, 2012 allowed capital infusion of Rs.632 crore in which of the following banks? 1) SBI 2) SBI Associate Banks 3) All Public Sector Banks 4) Private Banks 5) Regional Rural Banks 25. The Planning Commission constituted an expert group headed by which of the following economists to review the Tendul-kar committee methodology for estimating poverty? 1) Y.V.Reddy 2) Kaushik Basu 3) C.Rangarajan 4) Mahendra Dev 5) K.L.Datta 26. Woori Bank has set up its first Indian branch in Chennai. It is based in which of the following Asian countries? 1) China 2) Sri Lanka 3) Singapore 4) South Korea 5) Japan 27. FirstRand Bank started the retail and commercial banking opera-tions in India with the

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opening of a branch in Mumbai on April 18, 2012. It belongs to? 1) USA 2) Brazil 3) France 4) Germany 5) South Africa 28. Which of the following banks launched a dedicated 'Ajeevika' cell to help alleviating poverty in rural hinterlands on April 15, 2012? 1) RBI 2) SBI 3) OBC 4) IDBI Bank 5) NABARD 29. RBI has made it mandatory for all banks to print which of the following on the Passbook and Statement of Account of the customers? 1) MICR code 2) IFSC code 3) PAN 4) Both 1 and 2 5) None of these 30. What is the interest rate on employees' provident fund for the year 2012-13? 1) 8.25% 2) 8.6% 3) 9% 4) 9.5% 5) None of these 31. The Central Government has approved how many crores of rupees for purchase of hightech equipment for the National Intelligence Grid or NATGRID? 1) 1500 2) 2500 3) 1100 4) 2300 5) 1600 32. The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development was held in June 2012 in which of the following countries? 1) Germany 2) Denmark 3) India 4) Brazil 5) Kenya 33. Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) is an organization that has compiled first ever index of security materials globally. It is based in? 1) UK 2) Japan 3) Israel 4) India 5) USA 34. Which of the following books is written by Kiran Desai?

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1) Fasting, Feasting 2) Catch-22 3) A Brush with Life 4) Inheritance of Loss 5) None of these 35. Which of the following pairs won the Mixed Doubles title at the 2012 French Open tennis championships? 1) Klaudia Jans-Ignacik (Pol-and) & Santiago Gonzalez (Mexico) 2) Sania Mirza & Mahesh Bhupathi (India) 3) Max Mirnyi & Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) 4) Andy Murray & Laura Robson (Great Britain) 5) None of these 36. Who is the richest sportsperson in India, according to the Forbes magazine? 1) Mahendra Singh Dhoni 2) Sachin Tendulkar 3) Saina Nehwal 4) Vijender Singh 5) Baichung Bhutia 37. Which of the following cities is the capital of Canada? 1) Edmonton 2) Toronto 3) Calgary 4) Vancouver 5) Ottawa 38. Which of the following teams won the Fair Play Trophy in the 2012 Indian Premier League (IPL 5)? 1) Kolkata Knight Riders 2) Delhi Daredevils 3) Mumbai Indians 4) Chennai Super Kings 5) Rajasthan Royals 39. Which instrument is used to measure the intensity of earthquakes? 1) Periscope 2) Barometer 3) Fathometer 4) Seismograph 5) Manometer 40. Which of the following terms is used in the game of football? 1) Cox 2) Half Nelson 3) Bull's eye 4) Deuce

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5) Penalty KEY 1) 3 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 3 6) 3 7) 2 8) 2 9) 4 10) 4 11) 3 12) 3 13) 4 14) 4 15) 1 16) 2 17) 4 18) 4 19) 5 20) 5 21) 2 22) 3 23) 4 24) 5 25) 3 26) 4 27) 5 28) 5 29) 4 30) 2 31) 3 32) 4 33) 5 34) 4 35) 2 36) 1 37) 5 38) 5 39) 4 40) 5 1.Pauline Marois became the first female Premier of which of the following provinces of Canada in September 2012? 1) Alberta 2) Nova Scotia 3) Quebec 4) British Columbia 5) Ontario 2.The Central Government appoin-ted Y.C. Deveshwar as a director on the central board of directors of the Reserve Bank of India in September 2012. He is the chairman of which of the following companies? 1) Bombay Dyeing 2) ITC 3) Murugappa Group 4) Future Group 5) Essar Group 3.Girisha Hosanagara Nagarajego-wda of Karnataka won a silver medal in which of the following sports at the London Paralympic Games in September 2012? 1) Javelin 2) Shot Put 3) Shooting 4) High Jump 5) Long Jump 4.Syed Mustafa Siraj passed away on September 4, 2012. He won Sahitya Akademi Award in 1994 in which of the following languages? 1) Hindi 2) Urdu 3) Marathi 4) Bengali 5) Rajasthani

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5.Which of the following statements about the London Olympics is not true? 1)The 30th Summer Olympic Games were organized in London, UK, from July 27 to August 12, 2012. 2)London became the first city to host the Olympics three times. It previously hosted in 1908 and 1948. 3)More than 10,500 athletes from 204 nations took part in 26 sports and 302 events. 4)The top three spots in the medals tally were taken by USA (46 Gold Medals), China (38) and Great Britain (29). 5)With 2 silver and 4 bronze medals India finished 45th in the medal standing. 6.Pranab Mukherjee was sworn in as India's 13th President on July 25, 2012. In the presidential polls he defeated P.A.Sangma, the former Chief Minister of? 1) Tripura 2) Nagaland 3) Meghalaya 4) Manipur 5) Arunachal Pradesh 7.John Dramani Mahama took office as President of which of the following African countries on July 24, 2012 following the death of his predecessor, John Atta Mills? 1) Togo 2) Ghana 3) Uganda 4) Sierra Leone 5)Burkina Faso 8.As per data released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on July 8, 2012, India accounts for what per cent of global drug trials carried out on humans? 1) 4.5 2) 1.5 3) 3.5 4) 5.5 5)10.5 9.Which city hosted the ASEAN Foreign Ministers Summit in July 2012? 1) Hanoi (Vietnam) 2) Jakarta (Indonesia) 3) Phnom Penh (Cambodia) 4) Vientiane (Laos) 5) Manila (Philippines)

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10.Which of the following countries completed its first year of independence on July 9, 2012? 1) Vanuatu 2) Montenegro 3) Tuvalu 4) Bosnia Herzegovina 5) South Sudan 11.Who has been appointed the first chancellor of the proposed Nala-nda University (NU) in Nalanda, Bihar? (He is also the Chairman of the NU governing board) 1) Sugata Bose 2) George Yeo 3) N.K. Singh 4) Amartya Sen 5) Meghnad Desai 12.Jagdish Shettar was sworn in as the Chief Minister of which of the following states on July 12, 2012? 1) Maharashtra 2) Odisha 3) Kerala 4) Karnataka 5) Chhattisgarh 13.Gordon Brown was appointed the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education in July 2012. He is the former Prime Minister of? 1) Canada 2) Australia 3) UK 4) France 5) New Zealand 14.Rajkeshwur Purryag became the fifth President of which of the following countries on July 21, 2012? 1) Guyana 2) Singapore 3) Madagascar 4) Mauritius 5) Maldives

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15.On August 2, 2012, who became the youngest Prime Minister in Egypt's history? 1) Mohamed Morsy 2) Hesham Kandil 3) Kamal Ganzouri 4) Essam Sharaf 5)None of these 16.Who has been chosen for this year's Fukuoka Prize, a prestigio-us award being bestowed by Fuk-uoka city government in Japan on people who contribute to academia, arts and culture in Asia? 1) Romila Thapar 2) Ashis Nandy 3) Vandana Shiva 4) Pandit Ravi Shankar 5) Padma Subrahmanyam 17.Singapore Prime Minister visited India during July10-12, 2012. Name him? 1) Thein Sein 2) Hun Sen 3) Nguyen Tan Dung 4) Lee Hsien Loong 5) S.R. Nathan 18.Scarborough Shoal is located in the South China Sea. It is a disputed territory claimed by China, Taiwan and which of the following ASEAN countries? 1) Cambodia 2) Brunei 3) Malaysia 4) Vietnam 5) Philippines 19.Which state created a new Limca record by holding the largest guitar ensemble of the country in which 5,406 guitarists paid tribute to legendary singer Bhupen Hazarika in June 2012? 1) Meghalaya 2) Assam 3) Odisha 4) Manipur

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5) Tripura

20.Which state has emerged as the fastest growing state clocking 13.1% growth in 201112? 1) Gujarat 2) Punjab 3) Bihar 4) Delhi 5) Chhattisgarh 21.Twelve-year-old Kevin John sang in the choir at the thanksgiving service to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee at St. Paul's Cathedral, London in June 2012. This boy is from? 1) Goa 2) Karnataka 3) Tamil Nadu 4) Kerala 5) Andhra Pradesh 22.Pakistan Supreme Court suspended Rehman Malik's membership of Senate on grounds of dual nationality in June 2012. Rehman Malik is Pakistan's? 1) Foreign Minister 2) Interior Minister 3) Defense Minister 4) Law Minister 5) Communication Minister 23.Wim Koevermans was appointed as Indian football coach for a two-year term in June 2012. He belongs to? 1) Germany 2) Spain 3) Netherlands 4) Portugal 5) Sweden 24.Who has been awarded a Lifeti-me Achievement Award by the prestigious Rockfeller Foundati-on, USA, for innovation in philanthropy? 1) Mukesh Ambani 2) Sunil Mittal 3) Ratan Tata

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4) Kumar Mangalam Birla 5) None of these 25.How many branches does State Bank of India have? 1) 14,000 2) 19,000 3) 10,000 4) 25,000 5) 20,000 26.Which of the following awards/ prizes is given only to Asians? 1) Man Booker Prize 2) Ondaatje Prize 3) Right Livelihood Award 4) Templeton Prize 5) Ramon Magsaysay Award 27.Which city will host the 11th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) from 7 to 9 January, 2013? 1) Jaipur 2) Cochin 3) Hyderabad 4) Bangalore 5) Kolkata 28.Who won the Wimbledon wome-n's singles tennis title on July 7, 2012? 1) Venus Williams 2) Serena Williams 3) Maria Sharapova 4) Samanta Stosur 5) Agnieszka Radwanska 29.Radha Vinod Raju passed away recently. He was the founder Director General of? 1) RAW 2) NSG 3) NIA 4) CRPF 5) CISF 30.Kokrajhar was in the news recently because of violence. It is a district in? 1) Assam

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2) Tripura 3) Manipur 4) Sikkim 5) West Bengal 31.An Expert Committee on Gener-al Anti Avoidance Rules (GAAR) was constituted in July 2012. Who is its Chairman? 1) Parthasarathi Shome 2) N. Rangachary 3) Ajay Shah 4) Sunil Gupta 5) None of these 32.Who were given Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in August 2012? 1)Vijay Kumar & Susheel Kumar 2)Vijay Kumar & Vijender Singh 3)Vikas Krishnan & Yuvraj Singh 4) Rahul Dravid & Saina Nehwal 5) Yogeshwar Dutt & Vijay Kumar 33.International Literacy Day is observed on which of the following days? 1) September 16 2) September 8 3) September 18 4) March 18 5) March 8 34.Which of the following organizations/agencies has launched an online complaint redressal system known as "SCORES"? 1) RBI 2) SEBI 3) SBI 4) IBA 5) NABARD 35.An economic system combining private sector and public sector is called? 1) Open economy 2) Closed economy 3) Mixed economy 4) Free trade economy

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5) None of these 36.Which of the following is not decided by the Reserve Bank of India? 1) Repo rate 2) Reverse repo rate 3) Bank rate 4) Rate of Dearness Allowance to Government employees 5) Statutory Liquidity Ratio 37.Robert Rock of England is associated with which of the following sports? 1) Chess 2) Badminton 3) Golf 4) Table Tennis 5) Lawn Tennis 38.Which of the following currencies is used in Brazil? 1) Dollar 2) Real 3) Peso 4) Rand 5) Kuna 39.Which of the following awards is given for contribution in the area of science & technology? 1) Kalidas Samman 2) Arjuna Award 3) Phalke Ratna Award 4)Vyas Samman 5) Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 40.Which of the following terms is not used in banking/finance? 1) Public Debt 2) Joint Venture 3) Treasury Bill 4) Recession 5) Plasma 41.Which of the following terms is used in the field of Economics? 1) Ampere

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2) Joule 3) Relative Density 4) Newton 5) None of these 42.Billy Doctrove, who served as an international cricket umpire for 14 years, retired in June 2012. He is from? 1) Australia 2) England 3) South Africa 4) New Zealand 5) West Indies KEY 1) 3 2) 2 3) 4 4) 4 5) 5 6) 3 7) 2 8) 2 9) 3 10) 5 11) 4 12) 4 13) 3 14) 4 15) 2 16) 3 17) 4 18) 5 19) 2 20) 3 21) 4 22) 2 23) 3 24) 3 25) 1 26) 5 27) 2 28) 2 29) 3 30) 1 31) 1 32) 5 33) 2 34) 2 35) 3 36) 4 37) 3 38) 2 39) 5 40) 5 41) 5 42) 5 GENERAL AWARENESS 1. Who was sworn in as the 39th Chief Justice of India on September 29, 2012? 1) Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan 2) Justice J.S. Khehar 3) Justice Altamas Kabir 4) Justice D. Murugesan 5) Justice M.Y. Eqbal 2. The Supreme Court directed which of the following companies/groups to refund over Rs. 24,400 crore collected from 2.21 crore depositors through the optimally fully convertible debentures (OFCDs) by way of bonds? 1) Reliance 2) Murugappa 3) Sahar 4) Kingfisher 5) Essar 3. K.R. Kamath took charge on October 1, 2012 as the Chairman of Indian Banks' Association (IBA). He is the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of which of the following public sector banks? 1) Bank of India 2) Indian Bank

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3) Corporation Bank 4) Punjab National Bank 5) United Bank of India 4. At the 2012 US Open tennis championships Andy Murray became the first British man since Fred Perry in 1936 to win a Grand Slam singles tournament when he defeated which of the following players in the final? 1) Marin Cilic (Croatia) 2) David Ferrer (Spain) 3) Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic) 4) Novak Djokovic (Serbia) 5) Roger Federer (Switzerland) 5. Which of the following statements about the ICC Awards is not true? 1) The 2012 ICC Awards function was held on September 15, 2012 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. 2) Kumar Sangakkara of Sri Lanka has won three awards- Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for Cricketer of the Year, Test Cricketer of the Year and LG People's Choice Award. 3) ICC Emerging Cricketer of the Year is Sunil Narine of West Indies. 4) ICC Twenty20 International Performance of the Year award was won by Richard Levi of South Africa. 5) Jacques Kallis of South Africa received the Spirit of Cricket Award. 6. Who won the US Open women's singles title in September 2012? 1) Sara Errani (Italy) 2) Marion Bartoli (France) 3) Serena Williams (USA) 4) Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) 5) Maria Sharapova (Russia) 7. The 62nd meeting of Nobel Laureates was held in Lindau from July 1 to 6, 2012 that was dedicated to Physics. Lindau is located in which of the following European countries? 1) Italy 2) Portugal 3) Spain 4) Germany 5) France 8. Eight Indian companies are in the list of world's 500 largest companies compiled by Fortune magazine in July 2012. Which is the only bank in that list? 1) PNB 2) HDFC Bank 3) ICICI Bank 4) IOB 5) SBI 9. Which company topped the Fortune magazine's list of top 500 companies globally for the year 2012?

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1) Royal Dutch Shell 2) Exxon Mobil 3) Wal-Mart 4) BP 5) Sinopec 10. Who was appointed the new Chairman of the High Level Committee on Financing Infras-tructure in July 2012? 1) R. Gopalan 2) Deepak Parekh 3) Yogesh Agarwal 4) J. Harinarayan 5) G.V. Sanjay Reddy 11. The Government has set up a co-mmittee to recommend the fram-ework for cloud computing services under the Chairmanship of? 1) Kapil Sibal 2) Gulshan Rai 3) S. Gopalakrishnan 4) Shiv Nadar 5) None of these 12. Who was crowned the winner of the Asia Youth Under-19 Badminton Championship in South Korea in July 2012? 1) Saina Nehwal 2) P.V.Sindhu 3) Jwala Gutta 4) Ashwini Ponappa 5) None of these 13. Identify the mismatched pair of the Ministers and their portfolios? 1) P.Chidambaram- Finance 2) Sushil Kumar Shinde- Home 3) M.Veerappa Moily- Corporate Affairs & Power 4) Subodh Kant Sahai- Tourism 5) Jairam Ramesh- Parliament-ary Affairs 14. According to the latest Education Development Index (EDI) released by the Human Resource Development Ministry on July 24, 2012 which of the following States/ Union Territories retained the first position? 1) Puducherry 2) Lakshadweep 3) Punjab 4) Mizoram 5) Sikkim 15. Agni I missile was test-launched from the Wheeler Island, off the Odisha coast on July 13, 2012. Its range is?

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1) 500 km 2) 400 km 3) 700 km 4) 1000 km 5) 1500 km 16. Which country has announced on July 19, 2012 that it would provide $20 billion in credit to African countries over the next three years, doubling its earlier loan commitment? 1) India 2) China 3) UK 4) USA 5) Russia 17. Democratic Republic of Congo signed a pact aimed at eliminating the threat of armed rebels in eastern Congo with which of the following countries on July 16, 2012 in Addis Ababa? 1) Uganda 2) Burundi 3) Zambia 4) Rwanda 5) Ethiopia 18. Identify the mismatched pair? 1) Army Chief- Bikram Singh 2) Navy Chief- D.K.Joshi 3) Air Force Chief-N.A.K. Browne 4) CEC- Syed Naseem Ahmed Zaidi 5) Competition Commission of India Chairman- Ashok Chawla 19. Jan Eliasson became the Deputy Secretary- General of the United Nations on July 1, 2012. He is from? 1) Germany 2) Sweden 3) Norway 4) Denmark 5) Poland 20. Abid Hussain passed away recently. He was the former? 1) National Security Advisor 2) Director General of NIA 3) Ambassador to the USA 4) CBI Director 5) None of these 21. Who became the first Britishman ever to win the Tour de France cycling competition that concluded in Paris, France on July 22, 2012? 1) Bradley Wiggins

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2) Chris Froome 3) Vincenzo Nibali 4) Cadel Evans 5) Alberto Contador 22. Who among the following is not associated with the Formula One Championship? 1) Lewis Hamilton 2) Kimi Raikkonen 3) Fernando Alonso 4) Mark Webber 5) Ernie Els 23. The Asian Cricket Council Under-19 Asia Cup was jointly won by India and Pakistan. Where was the final played on July 1, 2012? 1) Karachi 2) Dhaka 3) Kuala Lumpur 4) Colombo 5) Singapore 24. P.M.Rungta passed away on July 12, 2012. He was a former? 1) Cricket Captain 2) BCCI President 3) ICC President 4) IPL Chairman 5) None of these 25. Agriculture and Food Processing Industries Minister Sharad Pawar inaugurated the first Mega Food Park in the country in which of the following states on July 11, 2012? 1) Haryana 2) Punjab 3) Kerala 4) Andhra Pradesh 5) Uttar Pradesh 26. India signed an agreement to establish Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development with which of the following organizations in July 2012? 1) FAO 2) WHO 3) UNESCO 4) UNICEF 5) UNDP 27. Which country recently test fired Shahab-3, a medium range ballistic missile? 1) Syria 2) Pakistan 3) Iran 4) Afghanistan 5) Israel 28. Which of the following has launched 'Bank Branch Locator', a dynamic database that

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gives information on location of branches of a bank? 1) SBI 2) PNB 3) HDFC Bank 4) RBI 5) ICICI Bank 29. Mark Boucher has retired from international cricket after suffering a severe eye injury. He play-ed 147 Tests with a world record of 555 dismissals for which of the following countries? 1) England 2) Australia 3) South Africa 4) Wet Indies 5) New Zealand 30. Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh was criticized by which of the following US magazines as "The Underachiever" in July 2012? 1) Newsweek 2) World 3) TIME 4) The National Journal 5) U.S. News & World Report 31. Enrique Pena Nieto is the Pres-ident elect of which of the following countries? (He will take charge on December 1, 2012) 1) Mexico 2) Spain 3) Italy 4) Portugal 5) Brazil 32. Olafur Ragnar Grimsson has been re-elected for a fifth term as the President of? 1) Ireland 2) Poland 3) Norway 4) Sweden 5) Iceland 33. Union Minister Virbhadra Singh resigned recently on corruption charges. He was the Cabinet Minister for? 1) Health and Family Welfare 2) Labour and Employment 3) Commerce and Industry 4) Chemicals and Fertilizers 5) Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises 34. Yitzhak Shamir passed away on June 30, 2012. He was the former Prime Minister of? 1) Belarus 2) Israel 3) Poland 4) Germany 5) None of these 35. Rajesh Khanna, a Bollywood actor, passed away on July 18, 2012. He did not act in which of the following Hindi hits?

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1) Aradhana 2) Safar 3) Kati Patang 4) Anand 5) Zanjeer 36. Identify the mismatched pair? 1) Bank Rate-9% 2) Repo Rate-8% 3) Reverse Repo Rate-7% 4) Cash Reserve Ratio-4% 5) Statutory Liquidity Ratio-23% 37. Freedom fighter and a close aide of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Captain Lakshmi Sahgal passed away on July 23, 2012. She was defeated by which of the following leaders in the 2002 Presidential elections? 1) R. Venkatraman 2) K.R. Narayanan 3) Giani Zail Singh 4) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam 5) Shankar Dayal Sharma 38. Brett Lee announced his retirement from all forms of international cricket on July 12, 2012. He played 76 Tests, 221 ODIs and 25 T20s for which of the following countries? 1) South Africa 2) West Indies 3) England 4) New Zealand 5) None of these 39. India shares longest border with which of the following countries? 1) Nepal 2) China 3) Bhutan 4) Pakistan 5) Bangladesh 40. 'World Day for Water' is observed on which of the following dates? 1) March 20 2) March 21 3) April 22 4) April 21 5) March 22 41. Who is the author of the book 'A Tale of Two Gardens'? 1) V.S. Naipaul 2) E.M. Forster 3) Mulk Raj Anand 4) Charles Dickens 5) Octavio Paz

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KEY 1) 3 2) 3 3) 4 4) 4 5) 5 6) 3 7) 4 8) 5 9) 1 10) 2 11) 3 12) 2 13) 5 14) 1 15) 3 16) 2 17) 4 18) 4 19) 2 20) 3 21) 1 22) 5 23) 3 24) 2 25) 4 26) 3 27) 3 28) 4 29) 3 30) 3 31) 1 32) 5 33) 5 34) 2 35) 5 36) 4 37) 4 38) 5 39) 5 40) 5 41) 5 GENERAL AWARENESS 1. Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 2012 for their work with light and matter at the most fundamental level? 1) Adam Reiss and Brian Schmidt 2) Adam Reiss and Saul Perlmutter 3) Serge Haroche and David J.Wineland 4) Charles K. Kao and Willard S. Boyle 5) Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov 2. Who was conferred with the prestigious Lata Mangeshkar Award by the Maharashtra government in September 2012? 1) Khayyam 2) Udit Narayan 3) Anandji Shah 4) Suman Kalyanpur 5) None 3. Vanuatu joined as the 157th me-mber of which of the following organizations on August 24, 2012? 1) IMF 2) World Bank 3) WTO 4) ILO 5) UNESCO 4. World Bank has appointed Onno Ruhl as the Country Director for India. He belongs to? 1) Moldova 2) Armenia 3) Nigeria 4) Netherlands 5) Germany 5. Which of the following statements about the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 is not true? 1) The fourth ICC World Twen-ty20 competition was held in Sri Lanka, first time in an Asian country, from Septemb-er 18 to October 7, 2012. 2) West Indies won the trophy for the first time defeating Sri Lanka in the final by 36 runs that was played in R.Prema-dasa Stadium in Colombo. 3) Sri Lanka have now lost four World Cup finals (two 50 overs and two T20s) 4) Marlon Samuels of the West Indies was declared the Man of the Match in the final.

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5) Player of the Tournament is Chris Gayle of the West Indies. 6. The Mercosur trade bloc has suspended which of the following countries over the impeachment of President Fernando Lugo? 1) Argentina 2) Brazil 3) Uruguay 4) Paraguay 5) None of these 7. Which country has inaugurated a "mini capital" Sejong City designed to act as a new government hub? 1) North Korea 2) South Korea 3) China 4) Vietnam 5) Malaysia 8. The Supreme Court has banned all commercial and tourism activities within a five km radius of the Jarawa Tribal Reserve in? 1) Daman & Diu 2) Lakshadweep 3) Puducherry 4) Andaman and Nicobar 5) Jharkhand 9. The 11th Shangri-La Dialogue was held in Singapore in June 2012. This annual meeting is also known as? 1) Asia Security Summit 2) Shanghai Cooperation Organisation 3) APEC 4) ASEAN 5) NSS 10. Which of the following organizations has decided to open its full-fledged office in India, only the fourth outside Geneva? (At present it has offices in New York, Beijing and Tokyo) 1) WHO 2) WEF 3) WTO 4) ILO 5) None of these 11. Who was conferred the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle in June 2012? 1) R.K. Pachauri 2) Satish Gujral 3) Sam Pitroda 4) M.S. Swaminathan 5) None of these 12. US President Barack Obama declared which of the following countries as "major nonNATO ally" of the USA on July 6, 2012? 1) Iran 2) Iraq 3) Cuba

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4) Afghanistan 5) North Korea 13. Which city will host the ninth G20 Summit in November 2014? 1) Brisbane 2) Washington 3) London 4) Toronto 5) Seoul 14. The area surrounding the 11th century Preah Vihear Temple is a dispute between Cambodia and? 1) Laos 2) Thailand 3) Vietnam 4) Myanmar 5) Indonesia 15. Which state has launched the Samajik Mukti Card for people in the unorganized sector that provides social security? 1) Punjab 2) Haryana 3) Odisha 4) West Bengal 5) Himachal Pradesh 16. Union Human Resource Develo-pment Minister Kapil Sibal announced the setting up of two Central Universities in Motihari and Gaya in which of the following states? 1) Jharkhand 2) Bihar 3) Odisha 4) West Bengal 5) Uttar Pradesh 17. As per the 4th advance estimates, India has produced how many million tons of food grains during 2011-12? 1) 244.78 MTs 2) 252.55 MTs 3) 257.44 MTs 4) 251.78 MTs 5) None of these 18. The three-day World Economic Forum on India Summit will be held in which of the following cities in November 2012? 1) Panaji 2) Gurgaon 3) Mumbai 4) Kolkata 5) Hyderabad 19. The World Health Organization (WHO) has conferred WHO-South East Asia Regional Office (SEARO) Award-2012 to which of the following states for its outstanding achievements in Anti Tobacco Campaign? 1) Haryana 2) Punjab

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3) Rajasthan 4) Andhra Pradesh 5) Himachal Pradesh 20. Which state government has changed the names of eight districts which had been renamed by the previous regime? 1) Maharashtra 2) Goa 3) Gujarat 4) Uttarakhand 5) Uttar Pradesh 21. The objective of which of the following programs is to provide gainful employment to the urban unemployed and underemployed by encouraging them to set up self-employment ventures? 1) MGNREGP 2) PURA 3) IAY 4) SJSRY 5) RAY 22. The first American woman to go to space died on July 23, 2012. Name her? 1) Judith Resnik 2) Mary L. Cleave 3) Sally Ride 4) Ellen S. Baker 5) Wendy Lawrence 23. P.N. Dhar died recently. He was an eminent? 1) Singer 2) Painter 3) Scientist 4) Economist 5) Politician 24. Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) of same sponsor banks within a state were amalgamated between 2005 and 2007 and the number of RRBs has been reduced from 196 to? 1) 106 2)82 3) 142 4) 96 5) 100 25. India Mortgage Guarantee Corp-oration (IMGC) is India's first mortgage guarantee company. It is a joint venture between Inter-national Finance Corporation (IFC), Asian Development Bank (ADB), US based financial security firm Genworth and? 1) SBI 2) RBI 3) SIDBI 4) NHB 5) NABARD 26. Which of the following has launched 'Maa Thota' scheme in Andhra Pradesh to improve the lot of tribal families? 1) SBI 2) SBH 3) Andhra Bank 4) NABARD 5) None of these

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27. Which of the following banks has launched 'Yuva' branch in Hyderabad targeted at young professionals? 1) SBI 2) SBH 3) Andhra Bank 4) Bank of India 5) ICICI Bank 28. As per the Coinage Act, 1906 Coins can be issued up to the denomination of? 1) Rs.10 2) Rs.100 3) Rs.50 4) Rs.500 5) Rs.1000 29. Who was given the David Sheph-erd Trophy for ICC Umpire of the Year Award in September 2012? 1) Billy Bowden 2) Aleem Dar 3) Simon Taufel 4) Rod Tucker 5) Kumar Dharmasena 30. Fred Spofforth, the first bowler to take a Test match hat trick in 1879, was inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame in June 2012. He played 18 Tests for which of the following countries? 1) England 2) Australia 3) South Africa 4) New Zealand 5) West Indies 31. Who became the third cricketer from India, after Mohammed Azharuddin and Ajay Sharma in 2000, to suffer a life ban for bringing the game into disrepute recently? 1) Mohnish Mishra 2) Amit Yadav 3) T.Sudhindra 4) Abhinav Bali 5) Shalabh Srivastava 32. Mark Ramprakash retired from cricket recently. He played for? 1) West Indies 2) Sri Lanka 3) Australia 4) England 5) New Zealand 33. Who was crowned the Miss World 2012 on August 18, 2012 in Ordos, China? 1) Ivian Sarcos (Venezuela) 2) Sophie Moulds (Wales) 3) Vanya Mishra (India) 4) Wen Xia Yu (China) 5) Jessica Kahawaty (Australia)

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34. 'Lucknow Boy' is the autobiography of which of the following eminent journalists? 1) Vinod Mehta 2) N.Ram 3) Vir Sanghavi 4) Pritish Nandi 5) M.J.Akbar 35. Which of the following is not a Kharif crop? 1) Cotton 2) Maize 3) Jowar 4) Mustard 5) Bajra 36. What is the correct sequence of the following countries in terms of area in descending order? 1) Brazil, Argentina, India, Australia 2) India, Brazil, Argentina, Australia 3) Argentina, India, Australia, Brazil 4) Brazil, Australia, India, Argentina 5) None of these 37. Who elects the Vice President of India? 1) Members of Lok Sabha 2) Members of Rajya Sabha 3) Members of Legislative Assemblies 4) Both 1 and 2 5) All 1, 2 and 3 38. Who appoints the Governors of States? 1) Prime Minister 2) Lok Sabha Speaker 3) Vice President 4) Chief Justice of Supreme Court 5) President 39. The Panchayat Raj system was first introduced in which of the following states on October 2, 1959? 1) Bihar 2) Gujarat 3) Punjab 4) Andhra Pradesh 5) Rajasthan 40. Which of the following is not a Green House Gas (GHG)? 1) Carbon dioxide 2) Methane 3) Nitrous Oxide 4) Water vapor 5) Nitrogen 41. Where is the National Environm-ental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) located?

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1) Lucknow 2) Hyderabad 3) Chennai 4) Coimbatore 5) Nagpur 42. The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Curiosity rover landed on which of the following planets on August 6, 2012? 1) Venus 2) Mercury 3) Uranus 4) Neptune 5) Mars

KEY 1) 3 2) 3 3) 3 4) 4 5) 5 6) 4 7) 2 8) 4 9) 1 10) 2 11) 1 12) 4 13) 1 14) 2 15) 4 16) 2 17) 3 18) 2 19) 5 20) 5 21) 4 22) 3 23) 4 24) 2 25) 4 26) 4 27) 1 28) 5 29) 5 30) 2 31) 3 32) 4 33) 4 34) 1 35) 4 36) 4 37) 4 38) 5 39) 5 40) 5 41) 5 42) 5 GENERAL AWARENESS 1. An expert panel set up by the Prime Minister recommended complete decontrol of the sugar industry. Who headed this committee? (The panel submitted its report in October 2012) 1) Kaushik Basu 2) Bimal Jalan 3) C.Rangarajan 4) R.S.Gujral 5) Y.V.Reddy 2. Who are awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies of G-protein coupled receptors? 1) Thomas Steitz (USA) & Ada Yonath (Israel) 2) Barry Sharpless & William Knowles (USA) 3) Robert Lefkowitz & Brian Kobilka (USA) 4) Peter Agre & Roderick Mackinnon (USA) 5) None of these 3. Australia defended their ICC Women's World Twenty20 title with a four-run win over which of the following countries in the final in Colombo, Sri Lanka on October 7, 2012? 1) India 2) Sri Lanka 3) England 4) West Indies 5) New Zealand 4. The Reserve Bank of India constituted a Financial Inclusion Ad-visory Committee (FIAC) to spe-arhead the efforts towards greater financial inclusion in the country in October 2012. Who is the Cha-irman of this high-level committee?

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1) Y.H.Malegam 2) Dipankar Gupta 3) K.R.Kamath 4)K.C.Chakrabarty 5)D.K.Mittal 5. Which of the following statements about the European Union (EU) is not true? 1) The European Union(EU) is an economic and political union of 27 member states with headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. 2) The EU won the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize for fostering pea-ce on a continent ravaged by war. 3) Croatia is set to become the 28th member state of the EU on July1, 2013. 4) Euro is the official currency of all the 27 member states of the EU. 5) Herman Van Rompuy (Belgi-um) is the President of the Eu-ropean Council and Jose Manuel Barroso (Portugal) is the President of the European Commission. 6. Which of the following books is/ are written by Jhumpa Lahiri, an Indian American author? 1) The Namesake 2) Unaccustomed Earth 3) Interpreter of Maladies 4) Both 1 and 2 5) All 1, 2 and 3 7. Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) gave permission to which of the following to start operations in equity and equity derivatives in July 2012? (It will become the third national level stock exchange) 1) USE 2) BSE 3) DSE 4) MCX-SX 5) OTCEI 8. The twenty second Plenary Meeting of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) took place in which of the following American cities in June 2012? 1) Chicago 2) Seattle 3) Camp David 4) New York 5) Los Angeles 9. The Cabinet Committee on Eco-nomic Affairs (CCEA) headed by the Prime Minister approved the sale of 10.82 percent of its stake in which of the following public sector giants in July 2012? (It will fetch over Rs.4,000 crore to the exchequer) 1) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited 2) Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited 3) Steel Authority of India Limited

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4) Oil India Limited 5) Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited 10. Mangala, Bhagyam and Aishwa-riya oilfields are located in Barmer in? 1) Assam 2) Gujarat 3) Maharashtra 4) Rajasthan 5) Karnataka 11. IKEA, the world's largest furniture retailer, recently announced a Rs.10,500 crore investment plan for India. It belongs to? 1) Sweden 2) USA 3) France 4) South Korea 5) Canada 12. Electronic filing (E-filing) has been made compulsory for the assessment year 2012-13 onwa-rds for an individual or a Hindu Undivided Family (HUF), if the total income exceeds? 1) Rs.5 lakh 2) Rs.10 lakh 3) Rs.15 lakh 4) Rs.20 lakh 5) Rs.25 lakh 13. Who replaced Sharad Pawar as the Chairman of the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on the allocation of telecom spectrum in July 2012? 1) A.K.Antony 2) Kapil Sibal 3) P.Chidambaram 4) Salman Khurshid 5) V.Narayanasamy 14. Who has taken over as the new Controller General of Accounts (CGA)? 1) Vinod Rai 2) Surendra Mohan 3) Sekhar Basu 4) Jawahar Thakur 5) None 15. A popular cricket commentator on All India Radio for four decades passed away in July 2012. Name him? 1)Abid Hussain 2)Suresh Saraiya 3) Dara Singh 4) P.K.Rungta 5) N.K.P.Salve 16. Marcus Agius resigned in July 2012 as the Chairman of which of the following banks? 1) Barclays 2) HSBC 3) Deutsche Bank 4)BNP Paribas 5) Royal Bank of Scotland

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17. Arvin Boolell visited India recently. He is the Foreign Minister of? 1) Singapore 2) Guyana 3) Indonesia 4) Mauritius 5) Trinidad & Tobago 18. Which state hosted the 39th Junior National Aquatic Championships in July 2012? 1) Karnataka 2) Tamil Nadu 3) Punjab 4) Maharashtra 5) Andhra Pradesh 19. Which of the following has been declared as the Airline of the Year for the second consecutive year at the Skytrax World Airline Awards? 1) Qatar Airways 2) Cathay Pacific 3) British Airways 4) Qantas 5) Singapore Airlines 20. Tatenda Taibu quit cricket to devote his life to the church in July 2012. He played 28 Tests and 150 ODIs for which of the following countries? 1) England 2) West Indies 3) Zimbabwe 4) South Africa 5) None of these 21. Oracle Chief Executive Officer (CEO) has bought 98 percent of the Hawaiian Island of Lanai. Name him? 1) Steve Ballmer 2) Bill Gates 3) Larry Page 4) Larry Ellison 5) Warren Buffet 22. William Jones Cup is an international tournament held annually since 1977 in Taipei, Taiwan. It is associated with which of the following sports? 1) Badminton 2) Lawn Tennis 3) Basketball 4) Table Tennis 5) Football 23. Who is the author of the book 'Stay Hungry Stay Foolish'? 1) Arundhati Roy 2) Rashmi Bansal 3) Kiran Desai 4) Anita Desai

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5) Shobha De 24. When did India first participate in the Olympics? 1) 1896 Athens 2) 1900 Paris 3) 1904 St.Louis 4) 1908 London 5) 1912 Stockholm 25. Hindalco Industries, one of the world's largest aluminium manufacturing companies, belongs to? 1) Aditya Birla Group 2) Vedanta Resources 3) Tata Group 4) Reliance 5) Jindal Steel and Power 26. North and South Agalega islands located in the Indian Ocean are part of? 1) France 2) Japan 3) Maldives 4) Mauritius 5) Japan 27. 'Sea of Poppies' was short listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2008. Who is the author? 1) Aravind Adiga 2) Amitav Ghosh 3) Chetan Bhagat 4) Salman Rushdie 5) None of these 28. The customers of banks can make a complaint to which of the following offices on the issues related to deficiency in services, if the problems are not resolved at banks' level? 1) Reserve Bank of India 2) Indian Banks' Association 3) Attorney General 4) Ombudsman 5) Comptroller and Auditor General 29. Which of the following awards is given by the Madhya Pradesh government in the field of classical music? 1) Arjuna Award 2) Chameli Devi Jain Award 3) Vyas Samman 4) Tansen Award 5) Saraswati Samman 30. The index of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) is known as?

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1) Sensex 2) SCORES 3) MCX 4) CRIS 5) Nifty 31. Which of the following is the currency of Bahrain? 1) Baht 2) Taka 3) Dinar 4) Riyal 5) Peso 32. Who is the present Foreign Secretary of India? 1) Nirupama Rao 2) Ajit Kumar Seth 3) Ranjan Mathai 4) Shiv Shankar Menon 5) Shashikant Sharma 33. Who among the following is associated with archery? 1) Mithali Raj 2) Sudha Singh 3) Jhulan Goswamy 4) Deepika Kumari 5) Kavita Raut 34. Which of the following places does not have a nuclear power plant? 1) Tarapur 2) Narora 3) Kalpakkam 4) Rawatbhatta 5) Asansol 35. Which of the following terms is not associated with banking? 1) NEFT 2) RTGS 3) SLR 4) CRR 5) IRDP 36. World Blood Donor Day is observed on? 1) June 26 2) June 10 3) July 11 4) June 14 5) July 18 37. Which of the following organizations deals with regulation of trade between the countries? 1) WEF 2) IMF 3) ADB 4) ITU 5) WTO 38. Kane Williamson is a Test cricketer from which of the following countries? 1) Australia 2) West Indies

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3) England 4) South Africa 5) New Zealand 39. Gangnam style dance is in the news recently. It originated in? 1) Jamaica 2) Brazil 3) Barbados 4) South Korea 5) Trinidad &Tobago 40. Which of the following is the capital city of Australia? 1) Sydney 2) Melbourne 3) Adelaide 4) Brisbane 5) Canberra 41. Which of the following committees dealt with reforms in Banking sector? 1) Sachar Committee 2) Yashpal Committee 3) Ranganath Misra Committee 4) Malegam Committee 5) Narasimham Committee 42. Which of the following terms is used in the game of Football? 1) Grand Slam 2) Deuce 3) Ace 4) Drop Shot 5) Back Pass

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

GENERAL AWARENESS 1. Saina Nehwal won the Denmark Open Super Series Premier badminton title by defeating which of the following players in the final in Odense, Denmark on October 21, 2012? 1) Wang Yihan (China)

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2) Jiang Yanjao (China) 3) Juliane Schenk (Germany) 4) Li Xuerui (China) 5) Tine Baun (Denmark) 2. Indian-American Vikram Pandit resigned as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Citigroup in October 2012. Who replaced him? 1) John Havens 2) Steve Ballmer 3) Michael Corbat 4) Michael O'Neill 5) Jim O'Neill 3. Sachin Tendulkar will become the first Indian sportsperson to be conferred with the Membership of the Order of Australia. He will become only the second Indian after which of the following persons to get the honor? 1) Raj Kapoor 2) S.H.Kapadia 3) Satyajit Ray 4) Soli Sorabjee 5) Amitabh Bachchan 4. Who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine? 1) Bruce Beutler & Ralph Steinmann (USA) 2) Elizabeth Blackburn &Carol Greider (USA) 3) Barry Marshall &Robin Warren (Australia) 4) John Gurdon (UK) &Shinya Yamanaka (Japan) 5) None of these 5. Which of the following statements about the 2012 Man Booker literary prize is not true? 1) British writer Hilary Mantel won this prestigious prize for a second time for her novel 'Bring up the Bodies' on October 16, 2012. 2) She won in 2009 also for 'Wolf Hall'. 3) She is the first British author and the first woman to achieve a Booker double. 4) Hilary Mantel joins Peter Carey of Australia and J.M.Coetzee of South Africa as a two-time winner of the prize. 5) Salman Rushdie's 'Joseph Anton' was one of the six short listed books for this year's Booker prize. 6. Mohamed Magarief was elected as the President of the national assembly of which of the following countries on August 9, 2012? (In this role, he is de facto head of state) 1) Iraq 2) Iran 3) Libya 4) Syria 5) Jordan 7. Who was named the new Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of

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the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group in August 2012? 1) Jin-Yong Cai 2) Jim Yong Kim 3) Kaushik Basu 4) Justin Lin 5) Martin Ravallion 8. Who was appointed as the new United Nations-Arab League peace envoy to Syria on August 17, 2012? 1) Bill Clinton (USA) 2) Lakhdar Brahimi (Algeria) 3) Gordon Brown (UK) 4) Kofi Annan (Ghana) 5) Vitaly Churkin (Russia) 9. Hamid Ansari has become the second Vice-President to get a second consecutive term after Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. In the Vice-Presidential elections he defeated which of the following National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidates in August 2012? 1) P.A.Sangma 2) Ram Jethmalani 3) Jaswant Singh 4) Yashwant Sinha 5) Sharad Yadav 10. Who was appointed as an Election Commissioner by the President Pranab Mukherjee on August 7, 2012? 1) S.Y.Quraishi 2) R.Gopalan 3) Srikumar Banerjee 4) Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi 5) None of these 11. The Clearing Corporation of India Limited (CCIL) has been set up for providing exclusive clearing and settlement for transactions in the Money, Government Securities and Foreign Exchange markets. Who was appointed as the Chairperson of CCIL on August 1, 2012? 1) Shilpa Kumar 2) Usha Thorat 3) Shikha Sharma 4) Nainalal Kidwai 5) Shyamala Gopinath 12. Vilasrao Deshmukh passed away in Chennai on August 14, 2012. At the time of

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his death he was the Union Minister of? 1) Power 2) Coal 3) Science and Technology 4) Health and Family Welfare 5) Urban Development 13. 26 people have been named by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as members of a high-level panel to advise the world body on the global development agenda beyond 2015, the target date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Which Indian economist is in this panel? 1) Abhijit Banerjee 2) Y.V.Reddy 3) D.Subbarao 4) C.Rangarajan 5) Raghuram Rajan 14. Ashok Mehta passed away on August 15, 2012. He was a famous? 1) Lyricist 2) Music director 3) Film director 4) Cinematographer 5) Hindi film actor 15. Vempati Chinna Satyam passed away on July 29, 2012.He was a renowned exponent of which of the following dance forms? 1) Kathak 2) Odissi 3) Kuchipudi 4) Bharata Natyam 5) Mohiniyattam 16. B.I. Fernandez of Cuba became the first foreign coach to win the Dronacharya Award in August 2012. He is a coach in which of the following sports? 1) Athletics 2) Wrestling 3) Hockey 4) Boxing 5) Table Tennis 17. Identify the mismatched pair with regard to Arjuna Award winners for the year 2012? 1) Sudha Singh-Athletics 2) Ashwini Ponnappa-Badminton 3) Deepika Kumari-Archery 4) Deepika Pallikal-Squash 5) Geeta Phogat-Weightlifting 18. Who has launched "Oceans Compact", an initiative to protect oceans from pollution, excessive fishing and global warming? 1) Irina Bokova 2) Ban Ki-moon

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3) Barack Obama 4) Manmohan Singh 5) Vladimir Putin 19. The ownership of Dokdo/ Takeshima islands has been disputed for decades. Which two countries claim the islands? 1) Japan& South Korea 2) Japan& Philippines 3) Philippines& China 4) China& Japan 5) None 20. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) suspended which of the following countries at a summit in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on August 15, 2012 citing violent suppression of the revolt? 1) Iran 2) Syria 3) Jordan 4) Libya 5) Algeria 21. Who received the first Fundamental Physics Prize for his contribution to the "String Theory" on August 3, 2012? (This award was started by Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner) 1) Anil Kakodkar 2) S.Chandrasekhar 3) Ashoke Sen 4) Harish Chandra 5) Sam Pitroda 22. D.R. Mehta is the founder of Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS), a charitable organization based in Jaipur that provides artificial legs to the poor (Jaipur Foot). He was given which of the following awards on August 20, 2012? 1) Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 2) Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award 3) Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration 4) Mahatma Gandhi International Peace Award 5) None of these 23. Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was appointed as brand ambassador of which of the following cricket associations to promote and develop cricket in that country? 1) Bhutan 2) Burma 3) Nepal 4) Singapore 5) Malaysia 24. The Reserve Bank of India has constituted a committee to review the existing short term cooperative credit structure (STCCS). The committee is headed by?

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1) Prakash Bakshi 2) Umesh Kumar 3) Mona Sharma 4) V.Ramakrishna Rao 5) Y.H.Malegam 25. Who is the author of the book "Many Lives, Many Masters"? 1) V.S. Naipaul 2) Mark Tully 3) Brian Weiss 4) Robin Cook 5) Robin Sharma 26. Which of the following terms is not used in the game of Football? 1) Back Heel 2) Toe Poke 3) Offside 4) Far Post 5) Spike 27. Generating power by the energy of the heat of the earth is known as? 1) Solar energy 2) Wind energy 3) Hydro thermal energy 4) Geothermal energy 5) Tidal energy 28. Which of the following is not the name of a chemical fertilizer? 1) Urea 2) Muriate of Potash 3) Ammonium Sulphate 4) Diammonium Phosphate 5) Sodium Sulphate 29. Which of the following countries recently launched Kobalt-M, a spy satellite? 1) China 2) USA 3) Russia 4) Japan 5) North Korea 30. Who is the author of the book "Where Shall We Go This Summer"? 1) Kamala Das 2) Shobha De 3) Jhumpa Lahiri 4) Anita Desai 5) None of these 31. Which of the following statements is not correct? 1) Members of the Lok Sabha are elected for a period of 5 years. 2) Two members are nominated by the President of India from the Anglo-Indian community to the Lok Sabha. 3) Members of the Rajya Sabha are elected for a period of 6 years. 4) 12 members are nominated by the President to the Rajya Sabha. 5) The President is the ex-officio chairman of the Rajya Sabha. 32. IAEA stands for? 1) Indian Atomic Energy Agency

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2) Indian Atomic Energy Association 3) International Atomic Energy Association 4) International Atomic Energy Agency 5) None 33. Which of the following is a correct statement? 1) RBI decides inflation rate. 2) Axis Bank is a public sector undertaking. 3) France is a member of OPEC. 4) Mustard is one of the major food grain crops grown in India. 5) RTE Act ensures that every child gets school education. 34. Identify the mismatched pair? GAMES - VENUE 1) Commonwealth Games -2014 Glasgow 2) Commonwealth Games -2018 Gold Coast 3) Olympics-2016 Rio de Janeiro 4) World Cup Football - 2014 Russia 5) Euro Football -2016 France KEY 1) 3 2) 3 3) 4 4) 4 5) 5 6) 3 7) 1 8) 2 9) 3 10) 4 11) 5 12) 3 13) 1 14) 4 15) 3 16) 4 17) 5 18) 2 19) 1 20) 2 21) 3 22) 2 23) 3 24) 1 25) 3 26) 5 27) 4 28) 5 29) 3 30) 4 31) 5 32) 4 33) 5 34) 4

1. Juan Carlos I visited India in the last week of October 2012. He is the king of which of the following European countries? 1) Norway 2) Sweden 3) Spain 4) Greece 5) Denmark 2. Which of the following companies has launched Surface, a tablet computer? 1) Apple 2) Google 3) Microsoft 4) Nokia 5) Samsung 3. Mo Yan of China was awarded which of the following Nobel Prizes for the year 2012? 1) Peace 2) Physics 3) Literature 4) Physiology 5) Chemistry 4. In October 2012, who was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life by the International Cycling Union (UCI), the governing body of cycling, following a report from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that has accused him of leading

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a massive doping program on his teams? 1) Floyd Landis 2) Greg Lemond 3) Cadel Evans 4) Lance Armstrong 5) None of these 5. Which of the following state-ments about the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is not true? 1) The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) was founded in Belgrade in 1961 which now has 120 members. 2) It is the brainchild of Josip Tito (Yugoslavia), Sukarno (Indonesia), Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt), Kwama Nkrumah (Ghana) and Jawaharlal Nehru (India). 3) The 16th NAM summit was held from August 26 to 31, 2012 in Tehran, Iran. 4) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the Chairman. 5) Pranab Mukherjee, the President, represented India. 6. "The Garden of Evening Mists" was short listed for the 2012 Man Booker Prize. Who is its author? 1) Will Self (UK) 2) Tan Twan Eng (Malaysia) 3) Deborah Levy (UK) 4) Alison Moore (UK) 5) Hilary Mantel (UK) 7. Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley have been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics. They belong to? 1) UK 2) France 3) USA 4) Sweden 5) Australia 8. Virender Poonia is one of the eight winners of the Dronacharya awards for 2012. He is associated with which of the following sports? 1) Kabaddi 2) Boxing 3) Hockey 4) Athletics 5) Wrestling 9. This year 25 sportspersons were given Arjuna awards. Who is the only cricketer among these winners? 1) Virat Kohli 2) Gautam Gambhir 3) Rohit Sharma 4) Yuvraj Singh 5) Suresh Raina 10. New York state has accused which of the following banking giants of hiding about 60,000 secret transactions with the Iranian government, involving $250 billion, and exposing the US financial system to terrorists, weapon dealers and drug kingpins? 1) Barclays 2) HSBC 3) Citibank 4) BNP Paribas

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5) Standard Chartered 11. The Union Government has approved creation of five new tiger reserves in the country. Which of the following is in Uttar Pradesh? 1) Pilibhit 2) Ratapani 3) Sunabeda 4) Mukundara Hills 5) Satyamangalam 12. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture tabled its report titled "Cultivation of Genetically Modified Food Crops-Prospects and Effects" on August 9, 2012. Who is the Chairman of this committee that criticized the government's GM crop policy? 1) Satyavrat Chaturvedi 2) Dipender Singh Hooda 3) Basudeb Acharia 4) Hukumdeo Narayan Yadav 5) S.Jaipal Reddy 13. The 36th International Geolog-ical Congress (IGC) will be held in which of the following Asian cities in 2020? 1) Katmandu 2) Islamabad 3) Dhaka 4) New Delhi 5) Colombo 14. "Nomadic Elephant" is a joint military exercise between India and which of the following countries? (It was held in Belg-aum, Karnataka in August 2012) 1) Sri Lanka 2) Mongolia 3) China 4) Singapore 5) South Korea 15. The Union Cabinet approved the extension of tenure of Justice M.B. Shah Commission of Inquiry till July 16, 2013. This Commission is related to? 1) Microfinance 2) 2G spectrum 3) Illegal mining 4) Gujarat riots 5) Commonwealth Games scam 16. Who launched an anti-ragging website to help students to lodge online complaints against ragging or harassment and seek faster response on July 27, 2012? (This portal is managed by the University Grants Commission) 1) P.Chidambaram 2) Kapil Sibal 3) Anand Sharma 4) A.K.Antony 5) Sushil Kumar Shinde 17. The Union Government has announced a relief package of how many crore rupees

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to states facing drought-like situation? 1) 1500 2) 1600 3) 1900 4) 2500 5) 3000 18. India signed revised Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) with Indonesia which provides for exchange of tax and banking information in New Delhi on July 27, 2012. The revised DTAA was signed by the then External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and his Indonesian counterpart? 1) Hina Rabbani Khar 2) Marty Natalegawa 3) Zalmai Rassoul 4) Anifah Aman 5) Dipu Moni 19. Which country testfired Fateh-110, a 300 kilometer range missile on August 4, 2012? 1) Bahrain 2) Israel 3) Iran 4) Pakistan 5) Saudi Arabia 20. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is planning to set up a Rs.5000 crore Urea fertilizer plant in which of the following states? 1) Tripura 2) Manipur 3) Assam 4) Arunachal Pradesh 5) West Bengal 21. Who was conferred with the 'Himachal Gaurav Samman' by the Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal at a state-level Independence Day function? 1) Gagan Narang 2) Saina Nehwal 3) Vijay Kumar 4) Yogeshwar Dutt 5) Sushil Kumar 22. Gazprom topped the list of the world's most profitable compa-nies in 2011, according to the Forbes magazine. This gas giant belongs to? 1) China 2) USA 3) Saudi Arabia 4) Russia 5) Venezuela 23. 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is a novel written by? 1) Paul Bentley 2) Julie Bosman 3) E.L. James 4) Orhan Pamuk 5) William Golding 24. Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has constituted a committee that is empowered to look after the complaints against the officials pertaining to violation of proto-col norms and misbehaving with Members of Parliament (MPs). This committee is headed by? 1) Girija Vyas 2) Sharad Yadav 3) Yashwant Sinha

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4) Ananth Kumar 5) A. Sai Prathap 25. The first meeting of the India-CELAC (The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) Troika foreign ministers was held in which of the following cities on August 7, 2012? 1) Santiago 2) New Delhi 3) Caracas 4) Havana 5) None of these 26. India took delivery of the first Embraer 145 Airborne Early Warning and Control Aircraft (AEW&C), built with Indian technology on August 17, 2012. Embraer's headquarters is in? 1) UK 2) USA 3) France 4) Canada 5) Brazil 27. Five Indian women have been named in the World's 100 Most Powerful Women list released by the Forbes magazine on August 22, 2012. UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi is ranked number six. Who, among the following, does not figure in the list? 1) Indra Nooyi (PepsiCo) 2) Padmasree Warrior (Cisco) 3) Chanda Kochhar (ICICI Bank) 4) Kiran Mazumdar Shaw (Biocon) 5) Nainalal Kidwai (HSBC) 28. Which of the following metros has launched an online 'Lost and Found' service across its network? (The commuters can now claim their missing baggage and other items) 1) Bangalore 2) Delhi 3) Kolkata 4) Mumbai 5) None of these 29. Who was elected the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha on August 21, 2012? 1) Karan Singh 2) Motilal Vora 3) P.J.Kurien 4) Arun Jaitley 5) Naresh Agarwal 30. "Indra" is a joint military exercise between India and which of the following countries? (It was held in Ulan Ude region from August 7 to17, 2012) 1) China 2) Mongolia 3) USA 4) Russia 5) Kazakhstan 31. Who was appointed the first Chancellor of the Central University of Kashmir (CUK) in August 2012?

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1) Sekhar Basu 2) Amartya Sen 3) Anil Kakodkar 4) Srikumar Banerjee 5) N.R. Narayana Murty 32. Which of the following state-ments is not correct with regard to the basic savings accounts? 1) RBI introduced 'no-frills' accounts in 2005. 2) These accounts will provide basic banking facilities to the poor and promote financial inclusion. 3) RBI has asked banks to convert the existing 'no-frills' accounts into 'Basic savings bank deposit accounts'. 4) There is no limit on the number of deposits that can be made in a month but the basic savings bank deposit account holders will be allowed a maximum of four withdrawals in a month, including through ATMs. 5) A minimum balance should be maintained in these accounts. 33. Andrew Strauss retired from international cricket in August 2012. He skippered which of the following countries in 50 of his 100 Tests? 1) Australia 2) West Indies 3) South Africa 4) New Zealand 5) England 34. Which Indian author was conferred Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence), the third highest civilian honor bestowed by Pakistan, in August 2012? 1) Gulab Kothari 2) Javed Akhtar 3) Kaifi Azmi 4) Gopichand Narang 5) None of these 35. Identify the mismatched pair? SPORT CUP/TROPHY 1) Cricket Ranji Trophy 2) Lawn Tennis Davis Cup 3) Badminton Thomas Cup 4) Table Tennis Aga Khan Cup 5) Football Nehru Cup 36. Which of the following is not a Banking/Finance company? 1) HSBC 2) Barclays 3) Lufthansa 4) BNP Paribas 5) American Express 37. Who has written the book "Dr Zhivago"? 1) H.G. Wells

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2) Charles Dickens 3) Pearl S Buck 4) Boris Pasternak 5) Oliver Goldsmith KEY 1) 3 2) 3 3) 3 4) 4 5) 5 6) 2 7) 3 8) 4 9) 4 10) 5 11) 1 12) 3 13) 4 14) 2 15) 3 16) 2 17) 3 18) 2 19) 3 20) 1 21) 3 22) 4 23) 3 24) 1 25) 2 26) 5 27) 5 28) 2 29) 3 30) 4 31) 4 32) 5 33) 5 34) 4 35) 4 36) 3 37) 4

GENERAL AWARENESS 1. The Reserve Bank of India in its quarterly monetary policy review on October 30, 2012 cut the cash reserve ratio (CRR) for banks. What is the CRR with effect from November 3, 2012? (CRR is the portion of deposits banks have to park with RBI) 1) 4.75% 2) 5% 3) 4.25% 4) 4% 5) 5.25% 2. Hugo Chavez defeated Henrique Capriles to win a third consec-utive six-year term on October 7, 2012 as the President of which of the following countries? 1) Bolivia 2) Venezuela 3) Cuba 4) Ecuador 5) Mexico 3. Who replaced S.M. Krishna as the new External Affairs Minister on October 28, 2012? 1) Anand Sharma 2) Ashwani Kumar 3) Salman Khurshid 4) Kamal Nath 5) Kapil Sibal 4. Who defeated Saina Nehwal in the women's singles final of the French Open Super Series badminton tournament in Paris on October 28, 2012? 1) Juliane Schenk (Germany) 2) Ratchanok Inthanon (Thailand) 3) Eriko Hirose (Japan) 4) Minatsu Mitani (Japan) 5) Sapsiree Taerattanachai (Thailand) 5. Which of the following statements is not correct with regard to the missiles testfired by India recently? 1) Agni II, a surface to surface missile, has a range of 2,000 km. 2) The range of Agni III is 3,000 km.

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3) India flight-tested Agni IV missile for its full range of 4,000 km. 4) The surface to surface nuclear capable Prithvi II is capable of attacking targets at ranges up to 350 km. 5) BrahMos is a supersonic cruise missile with a range of 2000 km. 6. Who retained the Formula One Indian Grand Prix at the Buddh International Circuit in Greater Noida on October 28, 2012? 1) Fernando Alonso (Spain) 2) Mark Webber (Australia) 3) Lewis Hamilton (Great Britain) 4) Sebastian Vettel (Germany) 5) Jenson Button (Great Britain) 7. Padma Bhushan winner A.K. Hangal passed away on August 25, 2012. He was a famous? 1) Lyricist 2) Singer 3) Film actor 4) Cinematographer 5) Film Director 8. Who became the 29th Chess Grand Master of India in August 2012? 1) N.Srinath 2) Sahaj Grover 3) Aditya Udeshi 4) Debashish Das 5) Vidit Gujarathi 9. In which of the following cities over 3.5 lakh poor families will get free LPG cylinders and gas stoves to end the use of kerosene? (This city will soon become the first kerosene-free city in India) 1) Kolkata 2) Mumbai 3) Delhi 4) Chennai 5) Hyderabad 10. Which of the following states aims to go fully organic by 2015? 1) Punjab 2) Haryana 3) Assam 4) Sikkim 5) Himachal Pradesh 11. Keshubhai Patel, the former Chief Minister of Gujarat, resigned from the Bharatiya Janata Party in August 2012 and launched a new political party named? 1) Gujarat Janata Party 2) Mahagujarat Janata Party 3) Gujarat Parivartan Party 4) Gujarat Congress Party 5) None of these 12. In which of the following states a new Greenfield airport will be constructed at

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Holongi at a cost of Rs.650 crore? 1) Karnataka 2) Assam 3) Arunachal Pradesh 4) Himachal Pradesh 5) West Bengal 13. Gujarat Governor has given sanction for the prosecution of Purshottam Solanki, the Minister of State for Fisheries, for his alleged involvement in a scam. Name the Governor? 1) Urmila Singh 2) Kamla Beniwal 3) Margaret Alva 4) Aziz Qureshi 5) M.K. Narayanan 14. Which state government has cancelled four major Special Economic Zones (SEZs) propo-sed by large business houses-Mahindra, Videocon and India Bulls- after having failed to acquire land for the multi-purpose projects? 1) Gujarat 2) Rajasthan 3) Maharashtra 4) Karnataka 5) Andhra Pradesh 15. A group of researchers in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh has claimed to have found traces of an extinct 'paleo-river', nearly 65 million years old. Paleo-river is an inactive river buried under sediment. This ancient river flowed parallel to which of the following rivers? 1) Godavari 2) Narmada 3) Tapti 4) Luni 5) Chambal 16. Which state has recently launched a scheme aimed at making the young NonResident Indians (NRIs) familiar with the culture and traditions of the state? 1) Rajasthan 2) Gujarat 3) Bihar 4) Punjab 5) Odisha 17. The Rajya Sabha has accepted a notice from veteran journalist and nominated member H.K. Dua for introduction of a Constitution Amendment Bill for making changes in Articles 124 and 217, which deal with the removal of the? 1) UPSC Chairman 2) Chief Election Commissioner 3) Comptroller and Auditor General 4) Supreme Court and High Court judges 5) None of these 18. John Keegan, a British military historian, passed away on August 2, 2012. He is the author of which of the following books?

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1) The Lost Battles 2) My Early Life 3) The Face of Battle 4) A Rumor of War 5) The Forgotten Soldier 19. Didier Reynders visited India in August 2012. He is the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of which of the following European countries? 1) Denmark 2) France 3) Belgium 4) Sweden 5) Croatia 20. Laisenia Qarase has been sentenced to 12 months in jail after being found guilty of corruption. He was a former Prime Minister of? 1) Jamaica 2) Philippines 3) Cuba 4) Fiji 5) Papua New Guinea 21. Katchatheevu Island is in the news recently. The island was gifted to Sri Lanka by the Indian Government in which of the following years? 1) 1991 2) 1984 3) 1974 4) 1979 5) None of these 22. Azad Maidan was in the news recently because of riots. It is in? 1) Kolkata 2) Mumbai 3) Lucknow 4) New Delhi 5) Ahmedabad 23. The 13-year-old swimmer Adzo Kpossi was the youngest competitor at the London 2012 Olympics. She belongs to which of the following African countries? 1) Lesotho 2) Niger 3) Nigeria 4) Togo 5) Benin 24. Who among the following coaches won the 2012 Dronac-harya Award for Wrestling? 1) Yashvir Singh 2) Harendra Singh 3) Satyapal Singh 4) Bhawani Mukherjee 5) Sunil Debas 25. Identify the mismatched pair with regard to Arjuna Award winners for 2012? 1) Bombayla Devi -Archery 2) Kavita Raut -Athletics 3) Parupalli Kashyap -Badminton

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4) Aditya Mehta -Billiards 5) Vikas Krishnan -Shooting 26. Which city hosted the 34th Inter-national Geological Congress (IGC) in August 2012? (IGC is held once every four years) 1) Brisbane (Australia) 2) Cape Town (South Africa) 3) Vancouver (Canada) 4) Wellington (New Zealand) 5) Johannesburg (South Africa) 27. International Jazz Day is organized by UNESCO every year on? (Jazz is a unique musical style) 1) May 13 2) November 11 3) May 31 4) October 20 5) April 30 28. Which of the following is not a nationalized bank? 1) Indian Bank 2) Syndicate Bank 3) Yes Bank 4) Dena Bank 5) Union Bank of India 29. Shubhalaxmi Panse took charge as the Chairperson and Managing Director (CMD) of which of the following banks on October 1, 2012? 1) Vijaya Bank 2) Allahabad Bank 3) Canara Bank 4) UCO Bank 5) United Bank of India 30. Which of the following is not a scheduled commercial bank? 1) IDBI Bank 2) Axis Bank 3) HDFC Bank 4) NABARD 5) Kotak Mahindra Bank 31. Which of the following is an effort in the direction of Financial Inclusion? 1) Anywhere Banking 2) Internet Banking 3) Foreign Currency Accounts 4) No-Frills Accounts 5) None of these 32. How many banks were nationalized on July 19, 1969? 1) 19 2) 20 3) 6 4) 16 5) 14

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33. Which of the following is called as the Bankers' Bank in India? 1) State Bank of India 2) Federal Reserve 3) Reserve Bank of India 4) Central Bank of India 5) NABARD 34. Where is the Head Office of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) located? 1) Mumbai 2) Bangalore 3) New Delhi 4) Chennai 5) Kolkata 35. RBI stopped circulation of the coin of which of the following denominations from June 2011? 1) 50 Paise 2) Rs.1 3) Rs.2 4) Rs.5 5) None of these 36. ANZ is a foreign bank based in? 1) Argentina 2) Austria 3) Australia 4) Angola 5) Andorra 37. Julia Gillard visited India in October 2012. She is the first woman Prime Minister of which of the following countries? 1) Canada 2) Denmark 3) Ireland 4) Iceland 5) Australia 38. Which of the following stock exchanges has become the world's largest bourse in terms of the number of trades in equity segment for the first six months of 2012? 1) NSE 2) NYSE Euronext 3) NASDAQ OMX 4) BSE 5) Hong Kong 39. Which of the following banks' head office is located in Pune? 1) Union Bank of India 2) Oriental Bank of Commerce 3) Bank of Baroda 4) State Bank of India 5) None of these KEY 1) 3 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 5 6) 4 7) 3 8) 2 9) 3 10) 4 11) 3 12) 3 13) 2 14) 3 15) 2 16) 1 17) 4

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18) 3 19) 3 20) 4 21) 3 22) 2 23) 4 24) 1 25) 5 26) 1 27) 5 28) 3 29) 2 30) 4 31) 4 32) 5 33) 3 34) 3 35) 5 36) 3 37) 5 38) 1 39) 5 GENERAL AWARENESS 1. The former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Begum Khaleda Zia visited India in November 2012. She is currently Leader of the Opposition and Chairperson of which of the following political parties? 1) Awami League 2) Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami 3) Bangladesh Nationalist Party 4) Bangladesh Jatiya Party 5) Communist Party of Bangladesh 2. Fed Cup is the premier team competition in women's tennis. Which country won the 2012 Fed Cup on November 4, 2012? 1) Czech Republic 2) Serbia 3) Germany 4) Russia 5) Spain 3. 'Playing to Win' is written by which of the following sportspersons? 1) Sania Mirza 2) Sachin Tendulkar 3) Saina Nehwal 4) Anil Kumble 5) Vishwanathan Anand 4. Who was conferred the 27th Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration on October 31, 2012, the death anniversary of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi? 1) A.R.Rahman 2) Shyam Benegal 3) Javed Akhtar 4) Gulzar 5) Lata Mangeshkar 5. Which of the following statements about Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is not correct? 1) APEC is a forum for 21 Pacific Rim countries that seeks to promote free trade and economic cooperation throughout the Asia-Pacific region. 2) Its headquarters is in Jakarta. 3) The 24th APEC summit was held in Vladivostok, Russia in September 2012.

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4) The 25th APEC summit will be held in Bali, Indonesia in October 2013. 5) India is not a member of APEC. 6. Venu Srinivasan received the Ishikawa-Kano Award in Hong Kong in August 2012. He is the Chairman of which of the following companies? 1) Videocon 2) TVS Motors 3) Future Group 4) Ashok Leyland 5) Kinetic Group 7. The Tagore University for Liberal Arts is the first of the proposed 'innovation universities'. It will come up in which of the following cities? 1) Pune 2) Kolkata 3) Nalanda 4) Hyderabad 5) Kharagpur 8. Nadzeya Ostapchuk was stripped of her gold medal that she won in the women's shot put in the London Olympics for testing positive for an anabolic steroid. She belongs to? 1) Poland 2) Belarus 3) Czech Republic 4) Slovakia 5) Slovenia 9. On August 1, 2012, the Indian government allowed Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from which of the following countries? (It is the only country from which India did not permit any FDI inflows) 1) Bangladesh 2) Sri Lanka 3) Pakistan 4) Afghanistan 5) Myanmar 10. Which of the following organiz-ations releases World Investment Report? 1) UNO 2) IMF 3) WTO 4) UNCTAD 5) World Bank 11. UNESCO has put Timbuktu on its list of endangered world heritage sites. Timbuktu is a town in which of the following African countries? 1) Niger 2) Mali 3) Morocco 4) Somalia 5) Ghana 12. Who is the first recipient of the new Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application?

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1) Daniel Hillel 2) Aditi Mukherji 3) M.S.Swaminathan 4) Tapas Kumar Kundu 5) None of these 13. Former Union Minister Kashir-am Rana passed away recently. He was Textiles Minister in which of the following govern-ments? 1) Rajiv Gandhi 2) Deve Gowda 3) Chandrasekhar 4) A.B.Vajpayee 5) P.V.Narasimha Rao 14. Badminton legend Punch Gunalan passed away in August 2012. He belonged to? 1) Indonesia 2) Singapore 3) Malaysia 4) Thailand 5) Philippines 15. Who received the 2012 Gruber Cosmology Prize at the 28th conference of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Beijing in August 2012? 1) Charles L. Bennett 2) Simon White 3) Carlos Frenk 4) Marc Davis 5) Wendy Freedman 16. Bill Moggridge of UK died in September 2012. He created the world's first? 1) Personal computer 2) Laptop computer 3) Calculator 4) Super computer 5) None of these 17. Andy Roddick retired from Lawn Tennis in September 2012. He belongs to? 1) Great Britain 2) USA 3) Canada 4) Argentina 5) Australia 18. Which Commission/Committee recommended 15 per cent seats for minorities in

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educational institutions and government services? 1) Sachar Committee 2) Sri Krishna Committee 3) Kelkar Committee 4) Shah Commission 5) Ranganath Misra Commission 19. Maria van der Hoeven of Netherlands visited India in September 2012. She is the Executive Director of? 1) UNICEF 2) WHO 3) IEA 4) IAEA 5) UNESCO 20. Who was elected President of the Indian Newspaper Society for 2012-13 in September 2012? 1) K.N.Tilak Kumar (Deccan Herald) 2) Ravindra Kumar (The Statesman) 3) Ashish Bagga (India Today) 4) Sanjay Gupta (Dainik Jagran) 5) None of these 21. Who has been appointed India's governor on the board of governors of the African Development Bank? 1) Arvind Mayaram 2) R.Gopalan 3) P.Chidambaram 4) R.S.Gujral 5) Kaushik Basu 22. Who has/have been given the Ra-jiv Gandhi Excellence Awards? 1) Priya Dutt 2) Sanjana Jon 3) Daler Mehandi 4) Both 1 and 2 5) All 1, 2 and 3 23. Which of the following banks opened India's first ever financial supermarket, aimed at cross-selling non-traditional banking products like insurance, credit cards and mutual funds, in Jaipur on August 8, 2012? 1) State Bank of India 2) Punjab National Bank 3) Punjab and Sind Bank

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4) State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur 5) None of these 24. United Bank Limited (UBL) is awaiting approval from the Reserve Bank of India to start banking operations in India. It belongs to? 1) Pakistan 2) China 3) Indonesia 4) Iran 5) South Korea 25. Maoists are against the proposed Rowghat iron ore mine which is located in Kanker district of? 1) Jharkhand 2) Bihar 3) Odisha 4) Chhattisgarh 5) Madhya Pradesh 26. Which of the following is the central bank of Pakistan with its headquarters in Karachi? 1) National Bank of Pakistan 2) State Bank of Pakistan 3) Bank of Khyber 4) Bank of Punjab 5) Habib Bank Limited 27. The battle for Aleppo is an ongoing military confrontation in Aleppo between the rebels and government forces. Aleppo is the largest city in which of the following countries? 1) Lebanon 2) Jordan 3) Syria 4) Yemen 5) Egypt 28. Maya Kodnani has been convicted and sentenced to 28 years in prison in the Naroda Patia massacre case. She is a former Minister of which of the following states? 1) Maharashtra 2) Bihar 3) Karnataka 4) Gujarat 5) Uttar Pradesh 29. Department of Economic Affairs is part of which of the following Ministries? 1) Home Affairs 2) Rural Development 3) Planning 4) Heavy Industries& Public Enterprises 5) Finance 30. Union Budget which is presented by the Finance Minister every year is also known as?

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1) Common Budget 2) Annual Budget 3) General Budget 4) Finance Report 5) Statement of Allocation of Funds 31. Which of the following terms is not used in Banking/Finance? 1) Letter of Credit 2) Discount Rate 3) General Ledger 4) Law of Motion 5) Cheque Clearing 32. Banks recover term loans from the parties in EMIs. The letter 'E' represents? 1) Easy 2) Essential 3) Equated 4) Effective 5) Economical 33. Which of the following organizations/agencies is not associated with Banking/ Finance? 1) SEBI 2) AMFI 3) ECGC 4) IBRD 5) SPCA 34. What does the letter 'P' denote in the term 'PAN' issued by the Income Tax Department? 1) Provisional 2) Public 3) Private 4) Permanent 5) Personal 35. 'India Grows at Night' is the latest book of? 1) Jeffrey Archer 2) Gurcharan Das 3) C.P. Thakur 4) William Dalrymple 5) V.S. Naipaul 36. India defeated which of the following countries in the final to defend the Nehru Cup football title at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in New Delhi on September 2, 2012? 1) Cameroon 2) Syria 3) Maldives 4) Nepal 5) Pakistan 37. Who among the following Bolly-wood actors featured on the cover of TIME magazine

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recently? 1) Ajay Devgan 2) Salman Khan 3) Aamir Khan 4) Shah Rukh Khan 5) Akshay Kumar 38. Which of the following states was previously known as the North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA)? 1) Assam 2) Manipur 3) Mizoram 4) Nagaland 5) Arunachal Pradesh 39. The impact of Green Revolution in India was felt most in case of? 1) Oilseeds 2) Pulses 3) Jute 4) Maize 5) Wheat 40. What is Google+? 1) A search engine 2) A social networking site 3) An online encyclopedia 4) A whistleblower website 5) None of these 41. Renault is a car manufacturer based in? 1) Italy 2) Germany 3) USA 4) UK 5) France 42. Which country became a full member of Mercosur, a South American trade bloc, on July 31, 2012? 1) Paraguay 2) Argentina 3) Brazil 4) Uruguay 5) Venezuela

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

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GENERAL AWARENESS 1. Barack Obama was re-elected as US President defeating Republican Party candidate Mitt Romney on November 6, 2012. From 2003 to 2007, Romney served as the Governor of which of the following states? 1) Ohio 2) Virginia 3) Nevada 4) Colorado 5) Massachusetts 2. Stephen Harper visited India in November 2012. He is the Prime Minister of? 1) Australia 2) Canada 3) Ireland 4) France 5) New Zealand 3. Who has taken over as Chairperson and Managing Director (CMD) of Bank of India (BoI) with effect from November 5, 2012? 1) Archana Bhargava 2) Shubhalaxmi Panse 3) Vijayalakshmi Iyer 4) Nupur Mitra 5) Shikha Sharma 4. The meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors of G20 countries was held in November 2012 in which of the following cities? (Finance Minister P.Chidambaram and RBI Governor D.Subba Rao attended this meeting) 1) Moscow 2) Toronto 3) Brisbane 4) Mexico City 5) Buenos Aires 5. Which of the following statements about Justice Ranganath Misra is not correct? 1) Ranganath Misra passed away on September 13, 2012 in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. 2) He was the 21st Chief Justice of India. 3) He was the first Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). 4) Ranganath Misra Commi-ssion dealt with the issues related to Linguistic and Religious minorities in India. 5) The Commission recommen-ded 20 percent seats for mino-rities in educational instituti-ons and government services. 6. Sundaresh Menon, an Indian-origin judge was sworn in as the Chief Justice of which of the following countries on November 7, 2012? 1) Singapore 2) Mauritius 3) Maldives 4) Suriname 5) Fiji 7. Which city will host the 18th Asian Games in 2019? 1) Surabaya (Indonesia)

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2) Hanoi (Vietnam) 3) Dubai (UAE) 4) Incheon (South Korea) 5) Nanjing (China) 8. The 9th World Hindi Conference was held in which of the following cities in September 2012? 1) Port Louis (Mauritius) 2) Port of Spain (Trinidad &Tobago) 3) Paramaribo (Suriname) 4) Johannesburg (South Africa) 5) New York (USA) 9. Brajesh Mishra passed away on September 28, 2012. He was India's first? 1) Foreign Secretary 2) National Security Adviser 3) Director of IB 4) Director General of NIA 5) Director of RAW 10. The President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) visited India in September 2012.Name him? 1) Mahmoud Abbas 2) Rauhi Fattouh 3) Yitzhak Shamir 4) Shimon Peres 5) None of these 11. Jose Pacheco visited India in September 2012 and sought India's help to develop tea industry in his country. He is the Agriculture Minister of which of the following African countries? 1) Eritrea 2) Namibia 3) Morocco 4) Mozambique 5) Ghana 12. General Li ang Guanglie visited India in September 2012. He is the Defense Minister of? 1) Singapore 2) North Korea 3) China 4) South Korea 5) Vietnam 13. What is the name of the official match ball of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Football which will be held in Brazil? 1) Bossa Nova 2) Tango 3) Brazuca 4) Carnavalesca 5) Azteca

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14. Which two Spanish footballers received the Prince of Asturias Award for Sport on October 26, 2012? 1) David Villa &Xabi Alonso 2) Iker Casillas &Xavi Hernandez 3) Andres Iniesta &Javi Martinez 4) Fernando Torres &David Silva 5) Cesc Fabregas &Carles Puyol 15. Indian-American woman Nikki Haley has been named among the12 'Power Women' to watch out for in 2013 by Forbes magazine. Nikki Haley is the current Governor of which of the following states in USA? 1) North Dakota 2) North Carolina 3) South Carolina 4) South Dakota 5) New Mexico 16. "Lasting Peace through Joint Global Governance" is the motto of which of the following Summits held in 2012? 1) BRICS 2) G8 3) G20 4) NAM 5) APEC 17. George Dockrell has been named the ICC Associate and Affiliate Player of the Year. He plays international cricket for? 1) Canada 2) Ireland 3) Scotland 4) Netherlands 5) Kenya 18. Who was appointed as the Chairperson of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on August 21, 2012? 1) Shanti Sundaram 2) Poonam Saxena 3) Praveen Mahajan 4) Shiela Sangwan 5) Sreela Ghosh 19. The Castrol awards for cricketing excellence for 2011 were given in Bangalore on August 29, 2012. Identify the mismatched pair? 1) Cricketer of the Year - M.S.Dhoni 2) Batsman of the Year - Sachin Tendulkar 3) Bowler of the Year - Ravichandran Ashwin 4) Junior Cricketer of the Year - Unmukt Chand 5) Lifetime Achievement - Sunil Gavaskar

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20. Nicol David of Malaysia is currently ranked world number 1 in women's? 1) Squash 2) Badminton 3) Tennis 4) Table Tennis 5) Golf 21. Which country has test fired Dongfeng-41, a new generation inter continental ballistic missile (ICBM) with a range of 14,000km? 1) North Korea 2) Vietnam 3) China 4) Iran 5) Russia 22. The Union Cabinet has cleared a proposal to completely ban employment of children below the age of 14 years in all occupations& processes. Any violation of this will attract a maximum jail term of? 1) 1 year 2) 2 years 3) 3 years 4) 4 years 5) None of these 23. Which of the following countries abolished direct censorship of the media in August 2012? (The censorship laws had been in place for the last 50 years) 1) China 2) Iran 3) Fiji 4) Myanmar 5) North Korea 24. Which of the following statements about Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) is not correct? 1) RRBs are sponsored by commercial banks. 2) They were set up to develop rural economy. 3) The area of RRBs is limited to a specific region comprising one or more districts. 4) The first RRB was established in 1982. 5) NABARD regulates all RRBs. 25. Who among the following Indian Americans is a famous author? 1) Bobby Jindal 2) Vikram Pandit 3) Indra Nooyi 4) Manoj Night Shyamalan 5) Siddhartha Mukherjee 26. Which of the following full forms is not correct? 1) ECB - External Commercial Borrowings 2) PPP - Purchasing Power Parity 3) ASBA - Application Supp-orted by Blocked Amount 4) FDI - Foreign Diverse Investment 5) CBS - Core Banking Solution 27. The name of the particle 'Boson' is associated with the name of? 1) Isaac Newton

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2) Jagadish Chandra Bose 3) Satyendra Nath Bose 4) Albert Einstein 5) C.R.Hagen 28. Which one of the following groups of countries is part of ASEAN bloc? 1) China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines 2) Brunei, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam 3) India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh 4) China, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives 5) Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Vietnam 29. Which of the following is not a plantation crop? 1) Tea 2) Coffee 3) Rubber 4) Oil Palm 5) Wheat 30. Which of the following books is not written by Gurcharan Das? 1) India Unbound 2) The Difficulty of Being Good 3) India Grows at Night 4) The Elephant Paradigm 5) Unleashing India 31. The International Energy Agency (IEA) is based in? 1) Paris 2) London 3) Berlin 4) Vienna 5) Geneva 32. "Saina Nehwal-An Inspirational Biography" was written by? 1) Harsha Bhogle 2) T.S.Sudhir 3) Harvir Singh 4) P.Gopichand 5) Nirmal Shekhar 33. Identify the mismatched pair? 1) World Bank President - Jim Yong Kim 2) IMF Managing Director - Christine Lagarde 3) US Secretary of State - Hillary Clinton 4) Japan Prime Minister - Yoshihiko Noda 5) IAEA Director General - Haruhiko Kuroda 34. Which of the following terms is used in the game of Cricket? 1) Penalty Stroke 2) Love 3) Half Nelson 4) Back Hand Drive

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5) None of these 35. Who is the author of the book 'Beyond Survival: Emerging Dimensions of Indian Economy'? 1) P.Chidambaram 2) D.Subba Rao 3) Pranab Mukherjee 4) Y.V.Reddy 5) Manmohan Singh 36. Who among the following was never Finance Minister of India? 1) Manmohan Singh 2) Yashwant Sinha 3) Kamal Nath 4) Morarji Desai 5) C.D.Deshmukh 37. Yuan is the currency of which of the following countries? 1) Japan 2) Myanmar 3) Malaysia 4) Indonesia 5) China 38. Which of the following is not a public sector unit? 1) HAL 2) SAIL 3) HPCL 4) Yes Bank 5) IDBI Bank 39. Which of the following is not a foreign bank working in India? 1) HSBC 2) Barclays 3) Citibank 4) Standard Chartered Bank 5) Federal Bank 40. Which of the following is considered an informal method of getting credit/finance? 1) Branch visits 2) Tele Banking 3) Internet Banking 4) Going to money lenders 5) None of these 41. Which of the following is not a component of Bharat Nirman? 1) Rural Roads 2) Irrigation 3) Rural Housing 4) Rural Water supply 5) Rural Employment 42. Which of the following does not represent the name of a bank working in

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India? 1) HDFC 2) Axis 3) IndusInd 4) Kotak Mahindra 5) Tata KEY 1) 5 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 5 6) 1 7) 2 8) 4 9) 2 10) 1 11) 4 12) 3 13) 3 14) 2 15) 3 16) 4 17) 2 18) 2 19) 5 20) 1 21) 3 22) 3 23) 4 24) 4 25) 5 26) 4 27) 3 28) 2 29) 5 30) 5 31) 1 32) 2 33) 5 34) 5 35) 3 36) 3 37) 5 38) 4 39) 5 40) 4 41) 5 42) 5 GENERAL AWARENESS 1. Who was named the most powerful business woman in India for the second consecutive year by Fortune magazine in November 2012? 1) Chanda Kochhar (ICICI Bank) 2) Mallika Srinivasan (TAFE) 3) Aruna Jayanthi (Capgemini) 4) Shikha Sharma (Axis Bank) 5) Preetha Reddy (Apollo Hospitals) 2. According to National Associa-tion of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), the IT industry would grow by what percent in 2012-13? 1) 9 2) 11 3) 10 4) 8 5) 7 3. Who, among the following women Presidents, was chosen for 2012 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Develo-pment for being an inspiration to women and ensuring return of peace and democracy in her country? (The announcement was made on November 19, the birth anniversary of the late Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi) 1) Joyce Banda (Malawi) 2) Dilma Rousseff (Brazil) 3) Laura Chinchilla (Costa Rica) 4) Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (Argentina) 5) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Liberia) 4. Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. Which country won the 2012 Davis Cup in Prague on November 18, 2012? 1) Czech Republic 2) Spain 3) Argentina 4) Serbia 5) Croatia 5. Which of the following statements about the Kelkar Committee is not correct? 1) A Committee, headed by for-mer Finance Secretary Vijay Kelkar, recommended

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phased elimination of subsidies. 2) It suggested phased elimina-tion of subsidy on diesel and LPG in the next four years. 3) The Committee recommen-ded hike in urea prices. 4) It suggested reviewing Direct Taxes Code Bill and bringing more services in the tax net. 5) The government accepted all the suggestions of the panel. 6. Which country's President will be the Chief Guest of the 11th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) convention that will be held from 7 to 9 January, 2013 in Kochi? 1) Mauritius 2) Singapore 3) Sri Lanka 4) Panama 5) Trinidad & Tobago 7. The 58th Commonwealth Parlia-mentary Association (CPA) Annual Conference was held in which of the following cities in September 2012? 1) Perth 2) Colombo 3) London 4) New Delhi 5) Canberra 8. Large Uranium deposits were discovered recently at Rohil in Sikar district of? 1) Haryana 2) Gujarat 3) Rajasthan 4) Jharkhand 5) Bihar 9. Who became the first Union Minister to be commissioned as a regular officer in the Territo-rial Army on September 6, 2012? 1) Jitin Prasada 2) Milind Deora 3) Jitendra Singh 4) Sachin Pilot 5) Jyotiraditya Scindia 10. Hailemariam Desalegn became the Prime Minister of which of the following African countries in September 2012? 1) Swaziland 2) Tanzania 3) Cape Verde 4) Ethiopia 5) Sierra Leone 11. Who received the 2012 US Liberty Medal on September 13, 2012? (This honor is bestowed on those who fight for humanitarian causes, civil rights and religious freedom) 1) Muhammad Ali 2) Tony Blair 3) Robert Gates 4) Steven Spielberg 5) None of these 12. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the founder of the humanitarian organization The Art of

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Living, has been honored with National Order of Merito de Comuneros, the highest civilian award of? 1) Brazil 2) Paraguay 3) Chile 4) Argentina 5) Venezuela 13. Pierre Nkurunziza visited India in September 2012 and received an award by MAMTA, an NGO, for his commitment to the cause of child welfare. He is the President of which of the following African countries? 1) Burundi 2) Rwanda 3) Gabon 4) Lesotho 5) Botswana 14. Grammy Award winning global pop phenomenon Enrique Iglesias performed in Pune, New Delhi and Bangalore in October 2012. He belongs to? 1) USA 2) Portugal 3) France 4) Colombia 5) Spain 15. Which Olympic champion was the event ambassador of the fifth Airtel Delhi halfmarathon that was held on September 30, 2012? 1) Usain Bolt 2) Noah Ngeny 3) David Rudisha 4) Yohan Blake 5) Tyson Gay 16. What is the minimum population of cities stipulated by the government for foreign direct investment (FDI) in retail sector? 1) 2 lakhs 2) 5 lakhs 3) 7 lakhs 4) 10 lakhs 5) 15 lakhs KEY 1) 1 2) 2 3) 5 4) 1 5) 5 6) 1 7) 2 8) 3 9) 4 10) 4 11) 1 12) 2 13) 1 14) 5 15) 3 16) 4 GENERAL AWARENESS 1. 'Mujhe Dena Aur Prem' is a Hindi book written by? 1) Salman Rushdie 2) Taslima Nasreen 3) Gulzar 4) Gulab Kothari 5) None of these 2. Which of the following islands announced the creation of the world's largest marine park, covering about 1.1 million square kilometers of the South Pacific Ocean in August 2012? 1) Baker Island 2) Bouvet Island

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3) Cook Islands 4) Solomon Islands 5) American Samoa 3. Which two countries released a joint stamp depicting the highest and the lowest places on earth-Mount Everest and the Dead Sea-in September 2012? 1) India and Jordan 2) Nepal and Jordan 3) China and Israel 4) Nepal and Israel 5) Nepal and Syria 4. Which of the following towers was renamed the Elizabeth Tower in recognition of the Queen's 60 year reign in September 2012? 1) Eiffel Tower 2)Canton Tower 3) Big Ben Clock Tower 4) CN Tower 5) KL Tower 5. The Hindu Marriage Registrat-ion Bill 2012 aims to provide le-gal and social protection to me-mbers of the Hindu community. Which country's parliament pas-sed this bill in September 2012? 1) UK 2) Pakistan 3) Maldives 4) Bangladesh 5) Afghanistan 6. Which country has decided to shut down the Manas Air Base used by the USA? (The base was opened in December 2001 to support US military operations in the ongoing war in Afghanistan) 1) Ukraine 2) Kyrgyzstan 3) Kazakhstan 4) Azerbaijan 5) Uzbekistan 7. Who was appointed as Chairm-an of the Forward Markets Co-mmission (FMC) on September 24, 2012? (FMC is the commodity markets regulator) 1) M.Mathisekaran 2) Ramesh Abhishek 3) R.Dharmarajan 4) Rahul Khullar 5) None of these 8. Antony Jenkins was appointed Chief Executive of which of the following banking giants on August 30, 2012? 1) Barclays 2) BNP Paribas 3) Citi bank 4) Royal Bank of Scotland 5) None of these

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9. Who has signed up a Rs 40 crore deal with Rhiti Sports Manage-ment Company, making her India's highest paid sportsperson outside Cricket? 1) Sania Mirza 2) Mary Kom 3) Deepika Pallikal 4) Saina Nehwal 5) Deepika Kumari 10. Karnataka won the Buchi Babu Trophy after beating Kerala in September 2012. Buchi Babu Trophy is related to? 1) Hockey 2) Tennis 3) Cricket 4) Badminton 5) Archery 11. India is ranked 169 in the FIFA football rankings. Which country is ranked world number one? 1) Spain 2) Germany 3) England 4) Brazil 5) Uruguay 12. Which of the following teams won the Coromandel King All India Moin-ud-Dowla Gold Cup invitation cricket tournament at Rajiv Gandhi stadium in Hyderabad in September 2012? 1) Tamil Nadu 2) Delhi 3) Goa 4) Kerala 5) Hyderabad 13. Who among the following Indian golfers clinched his third Asian Tour title at the Yeangder Tournament Players Champion-ship in Taipei, Taiwan on September 17, 2012? 1) Himmat Rai 2) Anirban Lahiri 3) Gaganjeet Bhullar 4) Chiragh Kumar 5) Jyothi Randhawa 14. The Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) in its 'Economic Outlook for 2012-13' report released in August 2012 had projected the Indian economy to grow at? 1) 5.5% 2) 8.2% 3) 6.7% 4) 8.5% 5) 7.5% 15. Hadia Tajik was appointed Minister of Culture of which of the following countries in September 2012? (She is the first Muslim and youngest Minister ever in that country's political history) 1) Norway 2) Denmark 3) Sweden 4) Indonesia 5) UK

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16. K.S.Sudarshan passed away on September 15, 2012. He was former? 1) Union Cabinet Minister 2) Supreme Court Judge 3) Civil Servant 4) Chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh 5) Chief Minister of Karnataka 17. Emomali Rahmon visited India in September 2012. He is the President of? 1) Kazakhstan 2) Tajikistan 3) Kyrgyzstan 4) Uzbekistan 5) Azerbaijan 18. Daniel Vasella will be gifting his entire personal collection of Indian sculptures and other art work to Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sanghral-aya. He is the Chairman of which of the following pharmaceutical groups? 1) Pfizer 2) Merck& Co. 3) Novartis 4) Sanofi-Aventis 5) GlaxoSmithKline KEY 1) 2 2) 3 3) 4 4) 3 5) 4 6) 2 7) 2 8) 1 9) 4 10) 3 11) 1 12) 1 13) 3 14) 3 15) 1 16) 4 17) 2 18) 3 GENERAL AWARENESS 1. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved disinvestment of what per cent government equity in the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), out of its holding of 84.50 per cent on November 22, 2012? (It will fetch about Rs.13, 000 crore) 1) 8% 2) 8.5% 3) 9% 4) 9.5% 5) 10% 2. Who became the first batsman in the history of Test Cricket to make four 200-plus scores in a calendar year in November 2012? 1) Jacques Kallis (South Africa) 2) Graeme Smith (South Africa) 3) Alastair Cook (England) 4) Ricky Ponting (Australia) 5) Michael Clarke (Australia) 3. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was honored with the 2010 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development in New Delhi on November 22, 2012. He is former President of which of the following countries? (The prize carries Rupees 25 lakhs and a citation) 1) Mexico 2) Portugal

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3) Brazil 4) Argentina 5) Peru 4. Who among the following Ramon Magsaysay awardees is the founder of an NGO Integrated Village Development Project (IVDP)? 1) Neelima Mishra 2) Harish Hande 3) Arvind Kejriwal 4) Kulandei Francis 5) Sandeep Pandey 5. RBI Governor D.Subbarao declared which of the following as the first district in the country to achieve total and meaningful financial inclusion on Nove-mber 22, 2012? (This district with a population of 32 lakh, has 37 lakh savings bank accounts) 1) Anand (Gujarat) 2) Nalgonda (Andhra Pradesh) 3) Krishnagiri (Tamil Nadu) 4) Viluppuram (Tamil Nadu) 5) Ernakulam (Kerala) 6. The Government of India exten-ded the term of Subir Gokarn till December 31, 2012. He is? 1) SBI Chairman 2) Finance Secretary 3) Deputy Governor of RBI 4) Chief Economic Advisor 5) None of these 7. Who won the third straight Formula One World Champio-nship title on November 25, 2012? (He is F1's youngest three-time champion at age 25) 1) Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull) 2) Fernando Alonso (Ferrari) 3) Jenson Button (McLaren) 4) Felipe Massa (Ferrari) 5) Mark Webber (Red Bull) 8. Which city hosted the 7th East Asia Summit (EAS) on November 20, 2012? 1) Bangkok (Thailand) 2) Hanoi (Vietnam) 3) Jakarta (Indonesia) 4) Phnom Penh (Cambodia) 5) Yangon (Myanmar) 9. The Centre will set up an Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotec-hnology at a cost of Rs.287.50 crore at which of the following places? 1) New Delhi 2) Ranchi 3) Hassan 4) Mysore

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5) Hyderabad 10. The Government has notified what per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail? 1) 49 2) 74 3) 51 4) 100 5) 26 11. The 12th annual Miss Earth 2012 pageant was held in Muntinlupa city, Philippines on November 24, 2012. Who won the title? 1) Tereza Fajksova (Czech Republic) 2) Stephany Stefanowitz (Philippines) 3) Osmariel Villalobos (Venezuela) 4) Camila Brant (Brazil) 5) Prachi Mishra (India) 12. Who is the author of the book 'Patriots and Partisans'? 1) Pankaj Mishra 2) Mihir Bose 3) Ramachandra Guha 4) Ram Sharan Sharma 5) Romila Thapar 13. Which of the following full forms is not correct? 1) KYC-Know Your Customer 2) SEBI-Securities and Exchange Board of India 3) RTGS-Real Time Gross Settlement 4) SEZ-Special Economic Zone 5) ILO-International Legal Organization 14. Which of the following statements is not correct? 1) India is the largest producer of milk in the world. 2) Karnataka is the major producer of mulberry silk in India. 3) Golden Revolution refers to the development of horticu-ltural products. 4) M.S.Swaminathan is known as the 'Father of Green Revolution in India'. 5) Wheat is the most important Kharif crop in India. 15. The terms Bulls and Bears are used in? 1) Commodity Market 2) Stock Market 3) Bullion Market 4) Banking Sector 5) Insurance Sector 16. Which of the following is a cash crop? 1) Paddy 2) Jowar 3) Bajra 4) Sugarcane

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5) Finger millet 17. What is the currency of Iran? 1) Dinar 2) Krona 3) Rial 4) Pound 5) Somoni KEY 1) 4 2) 5 3) 3 4) 4 5) 5 6) 3 7) 1 8) 4 9) 2 10) 3 11) 1 12) 3 13) 5 14) 5 15) 2 16) 4 17) 3

GENERAL AWARENESS 1. 'UDAAN' is a special industry initiative of the Centre aimed at imparting skills to youth from Jammu and Kashmir to help them with their careers. Which is the first public sector undert-aking to implement UDAAN? 1) NTPC 2) BHEL 3) NMDC 4) ONGC 5) SAIL 2. Who replaced Amar Pratap Singh as the CBI Director on November 30, 2012? 1) S.C.Sinha 2) Ranjit Sinha 3) Sanjeev Tripathi 4) Syed Asif Ibrahim 5) Nehchal Sandhu 3. Francois du Plessis scored a century on his Test debut in November 2012. He plays for? 1) Australia 2) England 3) South Africa 4) New Zealand 5) West Indies 4. Miss Universe 2012 pageant will be held on December 19, 2012 in which of the following cities? 1) Manila (Philippines) 2) Las Vegas (USA) 3) Beijing (China) 4) London (UK) 5) Nicosia (Cyprus) 5. Le Luong Minh has been appointed ASEAN Secretary General for the next 5-year term. He is the Deputy Foreign Minister of? (He will take office on January 1, 2013) 1) Vietnam 2) Cambodia

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3) Thailand 4) Laos 5) Philippines 6. The Government of India will implement the direct cash transfer scheme in how many districts from January 1, 2013? 1) 200 2) 66 3) 51 4) 74 5) 100 7. Which country has terminated a contract given by the previous government to GMR Group for developing Ibrahim Nasir International Airport (INIA) at its capital city? 1) Indonesia 2) Pakistan 3) Afghanistan 4) Maldives 5) Iran 8. Joseph Murray of USA died on November 26, 2012. In 1954 he performed the first successful human? (He was awarded the 1990 Nobel Prize in Medicine) 1) Liver transplant 2) Heart transplant 3) Kidney transplant 4) Bone-marrow transplant 5) Pancreas transplant 9. Stockholm Water Prize re cognizes outstanding achieve-ments in water related activities. The 2012 prize was awarded to the International Water Manage-ment Institute (IWMI), a non- profit research organization with headquarters in? 1) Colombo (Sri Lanka) 2) Tehran (Iran) 3) Jakarta (Indonesia) 4) Jerusalem (Israel) 5) Cairo (Egypt) 10. Which of the following banks acquired Centurion Bank of Punjab in 2008? 1) ICICI Bank 2) HDFC Bank 3) Axis Bank 4) OBC 5) IDBI Bank 11. Which of the following is not the name of a foreign bank? 1) HSBC 2) BNP Paribas 3) Barclays 4) JP Morgan Chase 5) Cathay Pacific 12. Which of the following terms is not related to banking?

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1) Overdraft 2) SME Finance 3) Drawing power 4) Equinox 5) Sanctioning authority 13. Which country will maintain a military base in Kant in Kyrgyzstan for 15 years starting 2017? 1) Russia 2) USA 3) China 4) UK 5) France 14. Kelkar Committee cautioned that in absence of corrective measures, the fiscal deficit of the government could shoot up to what per cent of the GDP in the current financial year?(The budget estimate of fiscal deficit is 5.1 per cent) 1) 6.1 2) 5.5 3) 6.5 4)7.5 5) 6.7 15. RBI carries out open market operations (OMO), which means? 1) Issuance of different types of bonds 2) Sale or purchase of government securities 3) Auction of gold 4) Issue of currency notes 5) None of these 16. Which of the following statements is not correct? 1) The objective of Financial Inclusion is connecting every Indian to the country's banking system. 2) RRBs have limited area of operation and have access to refinance from NABARD. 3) Money laundering refers to conversion of illegally obtained money into accountable money. 4) SARFAESI Act was launched to facilitate banks in recovery of bad loans. 5) One who is not earning regularly cannot open an account in any bank in India.

17. "Sub-prime" refers to? 1) Lending done by banks at rates below PLR 2) Lending to the people who are high value customers 3) Lending to those who are not regular customers of a bank 4) Lending done by banks to customers not meeting with normally required credit appraisal standards 5) None of these 18. Inflation in India is measured on which of the following indexes/ indicators? 1) Consumer Price Index 2) Gross Domestic Product

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3) Gross National Product 4) Cost of Living Index 5) Wholesale Price Index KEY 1) 1 2) 2 3) 3 4) 2 5) 1 6) 3 7) 4 8) 3 9) 1 10) 2 11) 5 12) 4 13) 1 14) 1 15) 2 16) 5 17) 4 18) 5 1. What is the gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the second quarter (JulySeptember) of 2012-13? 1) 5.5 % 2) 6.7 % 3) 5.3% 4) 7.5% 5) 6.5% 2. The General Assembly granted which of the following states non-member observer State status in the United Nations on November 29, 2012? 1) Tuvalu 2) Palestine 3) Israel 4) Switzerland 5) Montenegro 3. Who was sworn in as President of Mexico for a six-year term on December 1, 2012? 1) Felipe Calderon 2) Josefina Vazquez Mota 3) Enrique Pena-Nieto 4) Santiago Creel 5) None of these 4. Who became the eighth batsman and first Indian to score three triple centuries in first class cricket in December 2012? 1) Wasim Jaffer 2) VVS Laxman 3) Virender Sehwag 4) Ravindra Jadeja 5)Virat Kohli 5. Identify the incorrect statement? 1) Indian Space Research Organization's (ISRO) PSLV-C21 rocket blasted off into space on its 100th mission on September 9, 2012. 2) It was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. 3) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C21 (PSLV-C21) carried two foreign satellites-the French SPOT-6 remote sensing satellite and the Japanese PROITERES microsatellites. 4) Aryabhatta, India's first satellite, was launched by the Soviet Union on April 19,

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1975. 5) The PSLV-C21 launch was witnessed by the President Pranab Mukherjee. 6. Who became the fastest player to score 3000 runs in one day internationals on August 29, 2012? (He reached the landmark in 57 innings compared to Vivian Richards' 69) 1) Virat Kohli (India) 2) Hashim Amla (South Africa) 3) Kevin Pietersen (England) 4) David Warner (Australia) 5) None of these 7. Which of the following statements about FDI is not true? 1) The government has allowed 100% FDI in single brand retail and 51% in multibrand retail. 2) In civil aviation it is 49%. 3) In broadcasting sector the limit increased from 49% to 74%. 4) FDI in insurance sector will be hiked to 49% from the existing 26%. 5) The FDI cap on pension would be 74%. 8. BHEL has signed an agreement with which of the following countries for setting up a 100 MW hydro-electric power project on the Zeravshan river? 1) Tajikistan 2) Russia 3) Kazakhstan 4) Ukraine 5) Kyrgyzstan 9. The government has proposed to set up a National Investment Board(NIB) to monitor and advise ministries on expediting projects entailing investments in excess of Rs. 1000 crore. It will be chaired by the? 1) Finance Minister 2) Agriculture Minister 3) Prime Minister 4) UPA Chairperson 5) Commerce Minister 10. The Justice Shah Commission has indicted Digambar Kamat for allowing illegal mining. He was the Chief Minister of which of the following states between 2007 and 2012? 1) Karnataka 2) Goa 3) Maharashtra 4) Jharkhand 5) Chhattisgarh

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11. The ability of an asset to be converted into cash quickly is called? 1) Credit 2) Cash crunch 3) Liquidity 4) Marketability 5) None of these 12. Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are established to? 1) Promote exports of goods and services 2) Promote investment from domestic and foreign sources 3) Create employment opportunities 4) Develop infrastructure facilities 5) All the above 13. Which of the following terms is not used in Banking/Finance? 1) Call Option 2) Blue Chip 3) Dividend 4) Jacksonian Seizure 5) Bid Price 14. Who represented India in Miss Earth 2012 beauty pageant that was held in Philippines on November 24, 2012? 1) Vanya Mishra 2) Nikita Dutta 3) Prachi Mishra 4) Priyanka Verma 5) Rochelle Maria Rao 15. The Agricultural Census is conducted? 1) Every year 2) Once in ten years 3) Once in five years 4) Once in two years 5) No fixed term 16. Vyas Samman is given for excellence in which of the following fields? 1) Music 2) Films 3) Literature 4) Sports 5) Journalism 17. Which one of the following pairs of books and authors is not matched correctly? 1) The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga 2) Imagining India - Nandan Nilekani 3) Half a Life - V.S.Naipaul 4) The Inheritance of Loss - Arundhati Roy 5) Development as Freedom - Amartya Sen

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KEY 1) 3 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 5 6) 2 7) 5 8) 1 9) 3 10) 211) 3 12) 5 13) 4 14) 3 15) 3 16) 3 17) 4 GENERAL AWARENESS 1. Who retained the top spot on Forbes' fourth annual ranking of "The World's Most Powerful People", which was released in December 2012? 1) Barack Obama 2) Angela Merkel 3) Vladimir Putin 4) Bill Gates 5) David Cameron 2. Who will be honored with a lifetime achievement Grammy award in Los Angeles on February 10, 2013? 1) A.R.Rehman 2) Pandit Ravi Shankar 3) Norah Jones 4) Pandit Vishwamohan Bhatt 5) Ustad Zakir Hussain 3. Rakesh Mohan, former Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India, has taken charge as Executive Director on the board of? 1) World Bank 2) ADB 3) IMF 4) OECD 5) WTO 4. Which of the following full forms is not correct? 1) ECS - Electronic Clearing Service 2) TPF - Trade Policy Forum 3) CCEA-Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs 4) LAF - Liquidity Adjustment Facility 5) FTA - Full Trade Agreement 5. Which one of the following statements is not true with regard to Malala Yousafzai? 1) Malala Yousafzai is a teenage education activist in the Swat district of Pakistan. 2) She won Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize in 2011. It was subsequently renamed the National Malala Peace Prize in her honor. 3) On October 9, 2012 she was shot by Taliban gunmen and is being treated in hospital in Birmingham, UK. 4) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon declared November 10 as Malala Day. 5) She won the 2012 Right Livelihood Award. 6. Ahmed Nazif was sentenced to three years in prison for corruption in September 2012. He was the Prime Minister of which of the following countries from 2004 to

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2011? 1) Syria 2) Yemen 3) Egypt 4) Libya 5) Lebanon 7. Who received the US Congressi-onal Gold Medal on September 19, 2012? 1) Dalai Lama 2) Angela Merkel 3) Gordon Brown 4) Aung San Suu Kyi 5) Dilma Rousseff 8. Which film was given the prestigious Golden Lion Award for the best film at the 69th Venice Film Festival on September 8, 2012? 1) Pieta 2) The Master 3) Fill the Void 4) The Artist 5) None of these 9. The United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has appo-inted who among the following as its International Goodwill Ambassador? 1) Aamir Khan 2) Aishwarya Rai 3) Priyanka Chopra 4) Shah Rukh Khan 5) Vidya Balan 10. Who has become the first woman to command the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner which landed in New Delhi in September 2012? 1) Alka Shukla 2) M.P. Shumathi 3) Nivedita Bhasin 4) Saudamini Deshmukh 5) None of these 11. Forbes released the list of 400 richest Americans recently. Bill Gates remained at the top position for the 19th consecutive year. Who is at second position? 1) Steve Ballmer 2) Warren Buffet 3) Paul Allen 4) Jeff Bezos 5) Larry Ellison 12. Paul McCartney has been awarded France's highest public award, the French Legion of Honor, for his services to music. He belongs to? 1) USA 2) Canada 3) Australia 4) England 5) Argentina 13. Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Prize is named after the founder Direc-tor General of?

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1) IISC 2) BARC 3) CSIR 4) ISI 5) IARI 14. Which of the following topped the QS World University Ranki-ngs released in September 2012? 1) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA 2) University of Cambridge, UK 3) Harvard University, USA 4) University of Oxford, UK 5) Yale University, USA 15. Which team won the Irani Cup Cricket in Bangalore in September 2012? 1) Rest of India 2) Rajasthan 3) Karnataka 4) Hyderabad 5) Mumbai 16. The Super Fight League (SFL) is promoted by IPL team Rajasthan Royals' coowner Raj Kundra and Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt. Who is the brand ambassador of SFL? 1) Devendro Singh 2) Vijender Singh 3) MC Mary Kom 4) Vikas Krishnan 5) None of these 17. The Ig Nobel Prizes are a parody of the Nobel Prizes and given each year for ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. They are given in? 1) Sweden 2) Norway 3) Philippines 4) USA 5) UK 18. Which of the following countries is not a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)? 1) China 2) Russia 3) India 4) Kyrgyzstan 5) Uzbekistan 19. Which of the following is a private bank in India? 1) UCO Bank 2) IDBI Bank 3) United Bank of India 4) HDFC Bank 5) Syndicate Bank 20. 'Touch Down' is a term used in the game of?

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1) Hockey 2) Cricket 3) American Football 4) Golf 5) Ice Hockey KEY 1) 1 2) 2 3) 3 4) 5 5) 5 6) 3 7) 4 8) 1 9) 2 10) 3 11) 2 12) 4 13) 3 14) 1 15) 1 16) 3 17) 4 18) 3 19) 4 20) 3 GENERAL AWARENESS 1. According to the mid-year econ-omic analysis, the Government lowered the growth projection for 2012-13 to what per cent from its earlier estimated projection of 7.6 per cent? (The mid-year review was tabled in Parliament on December 17, 2012) 1) 5.3 to 5.5 per cent 2) 5.1 to 5.3 per cent 3) 5.4 to 5.6 per cent 4) 5.7 to 5.9 per cent 5) None of these 2. On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza fatally shot twenty children and six adult staff members at Sandy Hook Elem-entary School in Newtown. It is located in which of the following states of the USA? 1) Colorado 2) Connecticut 3) California 4) Utah 5) Wisconsin 3. Savita Halappanavar, an Indian-origin dentist, died after being denied abortion by doctors at a Government hospital in which of the following countries? 1) Norway 2) Denmark 3) Ireland 4) USA 5) Finland 4. Who is set to be Japan's next Prime Minister after his Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) landslide election win on December 16, 2012? (He will replace Yoshihiko Noda) 1) Naoto Kan 2) Yukio Hatoyama 3) Yukiko Kada 4) Shinzo Abe 5) Kazuo Shii 5. Sima Samar was given the 2012 Right Livelihood Award which is often referred to as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize'. She is a human rights activist from?

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1) Iran 2) Afghanistan 3) Pakistan 4) Yemen 5) Syria 6. Which of the following pairs of Cabinet Ministers and their portfolios is not matched correctly? 1) Sharad Pawar - Agriculture 2) Kapil Sibal -Communication&IT 3) Pallam Raju - Human Resources Development 4) Ashwani Kumar -Water Resources 5) Pawan Kumar Bansal - Railways 7. Index of Industrial Production (IIP) details out the growth of various sectors in the economy. It is compiled and published by the? 1) Reserve Bank of India 2) Registrar of Companies 3) Central Statistics Office 4) Confederation of Indian Industries 5) None of these 8. Which of the following Acts was enacted by the Parliament of India to institutionalize financial discipline and reduce fiscal deficit? 1) The Banking Regulation Act 2) The Negotiable Instruments Act 3) The Foreign Exchange Management Act 4) The Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act 5) None of these 9. Which of the following will improve the performance of the agriculture sector in India? 1) Sanitation & health services 2) Rural electricity 3) Rural employment 4) Irrigation facilities 5) Communication facilities 10. Which of the following teams retained the Women's South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Football Championship in Colombo in September 2012? 1) India 2) Nepal 3) Bhutan 4) Sri Lanka 5) Afghanistan

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11. Kim Clijsters retired f rom international Tennis recently. She belongs to? 1) Poland 2) Ukraine 3) Belgium 4) Belarus 5) Czech Republic 12. Chandrika Tarafdar became the first Indian to win a medal in which of the following Youth World Championships in Slovakia in September 2012? 1) Boxing 2) Weightlifting 3) Chess 4) Archery 5) Shooting 13. The 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup was played in Japan from August 19 to September 8. Which country won this title for the third time? 1) USA 2) Germany 3) Japan 4) Nigeria 5) South Korea 14. Which of the fol lowing pairs of Books and Authors is not matched correctly? 1) Maximum City - Suketu Mehta 2) A Good Woman - Danielle Steel 3) Between the Lines - Kuldip Nayar 4) A Himalayan Love Story - Namita Gokhale 5) Such a Long Journey - Amitav Ghosh 15. The International Day for Biolo-gical Diversity or World Biodi-versity Day is celebrated on? 1) April 22 2) May 22 3) March 21 4) March 22 5) June 5 16. Which of the following awards is not given by the Government of India? 1) Padma Vibhushan 2) Bharat Ratna

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3) Ashok Chakra 4) Param Vir Chakra 5) Kalinga Prize 17. Who has taken over as the new Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee (CoSC)? 1) DK Joshi 2) Bikram Singh 3) NAK Browne 4) PV Naik 5) None of these 18. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NATGRID is the highest paid bureaucrat in India who draws a salary of Rs 10 lakh per month. Name him? 1) Manbir Singh 2) Raghu Raman 3) Ajit Seth 4) Pulok Chatterji 5) RK Singh 19. Which of the following is not a banking term? 1) Credit 2) Time deposit 3) Discount 4) Post Dated Cheque 5) Reynolds number KEY 1) 4 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 2 6) 4 7) 3 8) 4 9) 4 10) 1 11) 3 12) 2 13) 1 14) 5 15) 2 16) 5 17) 3 18) 2 19) 5 GENERAL AWARENESS 1. Who took over as the first woman President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) on December 15, 2012? 1) Jyotsna Suri (Bharat Hotels) 2) Chanda Kochhar (ICICI) 3) Shikha Sharma (Axis Bank) 4) Naina Lal Kidwai (HSBC) 5) Swati Piramal (Piramal Healthcare) 2. South Korea elected its first woman President on December 19, 2012. She will succeed Lee Myung-bak on February 25, 2013. Name her? 1) Chang Sang 2) Park Geun-hye 3) Jeon Yeo-ok 4) Kang Kum-Sil 5) Lim Su-Kyung

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3. The 61st Miss Universe pageant was held on December 19, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Who was crowned Miss Universe 2012? 1) Leila Lopes (Angola) 2) Janine Tugonon (Philippines) 3) Irene Esser (Venezuela) 4) Olivia Culpo (USA) 5) Laura Godoy (Guatemala) 4. Who won the African Footballer of the Year award for a second successive time on December 20, 2012? 1) Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast) 2) Alexandre Song (Cameroon) 3) Samuel Eto'o (Cameroon) 4) Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast) 5) Michael Essien (Ghana) 5. Which of the following statements is not true? 1) Nobel Prize is not awarded in the category of music. 2) Census is conducted every ten years. 3) Rajiv Awas Yojana was started to make cities free from slums. 4) Norman Borlaug contributed to the Green Revolution. 5) Providing banking services to rural poor is known as SME Finance. 6. Which state government launched the Samajwadi Swasthya Seva, an ambulance service to provide emergency medical relief, in September 2012? 1) Bihar 2) Uttarakhand 3) Uttar Pradesh 4) Rajasthan 5) Haryana 7. The Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) has commended the Jyotigram Yojana, which provides 24 hour power supply to villages in the state. Which state has launched this program? 1) Goa 2) Gujarat 3) Chhattisgarh 4) Karnataka 5) Madhya Pradesh 8. Who was appointed the Chairman of the ICC's Technical Committee on October 11, 2012? 1) Sunil Gavaskar 2) Andrew Strauss 3) Anil Kumble 4) Mark Taylor 5) Allan Isaac 9. Which of the following pairs of Ministers of State (Independent Charge) and their portfolios is not matched correctly?

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1) Manish Tewari - Drinking water & Sanitation 2) Jyotiraditya Scindia - Power 3) Sachin Pilot - Corporate Affairs 4) Jitendra Singh - Youth Affairs & Sports 5) Jayanthi Natrajan - Environment & Forests 10. Home Loans can be best canvassed among? 1) Flat owners 2) Agriculturists 3) Land developers 4) Individuals wanting to buy a house 5) None of these 11. Bancassurance can be sold to? 1) All Insurance companies 2) Insurance agents 3) All banks 4) All existing and prospective bank customers 5) None of these 12. Bank of Rajasthan has been merged with which of the following banks? 1) IDBI Bank 2) Axis Bank 3) ICICI Bank 4) HDFC Bank 5) Oriental Bank of Commerce 13. Which one of the following crops needs plenty of water to grow? 1) Jowar 2) Bajra 3) Paddy 4) Finger millet 5) Cotton 14. Which of the following crops is used to make bio-fuels? 1) Potato 2) Coconut 3) Wheat 4) Sugarcane 5) Onion 15. Who is the author of the book 'Solo'? 1) Chetan Bhagat 2) Rana Dasgupta 3) Rahul Bhattacharya 4) Shobha De 5) Kiran Desai 16. Who was appointed the Chairman of the national cricket selection committee in September 2012? 1) Roger Binny 2) Vikram Rathore 3) Saba Karim

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4) Mohinder Amarnath 5) Sandeep Patil 17. Abbreviations and their full forms are given below. Which one of them is not correct? 1) SME - Small and Medium Enterprises 2) QIB - Qualified Institutional Buyer 3) NBFC - Non Banking Financial Company 4) LDC - Large Developed Countries 5) IFRS-International Financial Reporting Standards KEY: 1) 4 2) 2 3) 4 4) 4 5) 5 6) 3 7) 2 8) 3 9) 1 10) 4 11) 4 12) 3 13) 3 14) 4 15) 2 16) 5 17) 4 GENERAL AWARENESS 1. The National Development Council (NDC) approved the 12th Plan document on December 27, 2012 after scaling down the average annual growth target to? 1) 7.5 per cent 2) 7.6 per cent 3) 8 per cent 4) 8.1 per cent 5) 7.9 per cent 2. Ratan Tata retired as the Chairman of the Tata Group on December 28, 2012. Who is the new Chairman of this $100 billion business conglomerate? 1) Noel Tata 2)B.Muthuraman 3) N.Chandrasekaran 4) Cyrus Mistry 5) None of these 3. Who was selected for India's most coveted literary honor, the Jnanpith Award, for the year 2011 on December 27, 2012? 1) Amar Kant (Hindi) 2) Mahasweta Devi (Bengali) 3) Pratibha Ray (Odia) 4) Chandrasekhar Kambar (Kannada) 5) Sitakant Mahapatra (Odia) 4. Joaquim Barbosa took the oath of office as the first black President of the Supreme Court of which of the following countries in November 2012? 1) Nigeria 2) Argentina 3) USA 4) Brazil 5) South Africa 5. The Hoover Medal was established by the USA in 1930 to recognize great,

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unselfish, non-technical services by engineers to humanity. Who received this honor in October 2012? 1) James Carter 2) Richard Stanley 3) Kris Gopalakrishnan 4) APJ Abdul Kalam 5) N.R.Narayana Murthy 6. India finished runners-up in Sultan of Johor Cup hockey tournament that was held in Johor Baru, Malaysia in November 2012. Which country defeated India 3-2 in the final? 1) Germany 2) Malaysia 3) Australia 4) Pakistan 5) New Zealand 7. Which of the following norms/ practices is launched to prevent banks from being used by criminal elements for money laundering activities? 1) Financial Inclusion 2) Core Banking Solution 3) Know Your Customer 4) Branchless Banking 5) None of these 8. If the RBI increases CRR, what immediate impact will it have on the functioning of banks? 1) Banks will have to give more funds to priority sector. 2) Banks will have to give less funds to corporate sector. 3) Banks will have to raise their capital base by taking money from the government. 4) Banks will have to lock some additional funds with the RBI. 5) None of these 9. Which of the following is not a food grain crop? 1) Bajra 2) Jowar 3) Paddy 4) Jatropha 5) Wheat 10. Which of the following is the abbreviated name of a company that produces fertilizers in India? 1) BHEL 2) FICCI 3) IFFCO 4) FERA 5) ICAR 11. What is the full form of NAV? 1) New Asset Venture 2) Net Asset Value 3) Net Accounting Venture 4) Nil Accounting Variation 5) None of these

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12. Which of the following is not a missile? 1) Nag 2) Agni 3) Shaurya 4) Pinaka 5) BrahMos 13. Moortidevi Award is given for excellence in? 1) Social Service 2) Literature 3) Films 4) Classical dance 5) Classical music 14. The artificial application of water to the land to assist in the growing of agricultural crops is known as? 1) Irrigation 2) Percolation 3) Water harvesting 4) Crop harvesting 5) Weeding 15. Which of the following terms is not associated with Hockey? 1) Bully 2) Goal 3) Short corner 4) Bouncer 5) Penalty corner 16. Amnesty International is a non-governmental organization associated with which of the following? 1) To protect the world from nuclear war 2) To promote inclusive growth 3) To protect human rights 4) To promote free trade 5) To protect human life and health 17. Which of the following factors is/are taken into consideration while appraising the credit worthiness of a loan applicant? 1) Age 2) Income 3) Nature of employment 4) Repayment capacity 5) All the above 18. Polymer notes were first introduced in which of the following countries to safeguard against counterfeiting of currency? 1) Romania 2) Australia 3) Brunei 4) Vietnam 5) New Zealand 19. 'Anti Tobacco Day' is observed on which of the following days? 1) November 14 2) May 13 3) March 17 4) May 31 5) May 17

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20. Which of the following cups/trophies is not related to Cricket? 1) Deodhar Trophy 2) Duleep Trophy 3) Irani Trophy 4) Bombay Gold Cup 5) Vizzy Trophy KEY 1) 3 2) 4 3) 3 4) 4 5) 5 6) 1 7) 3 8) 4 9) 4 10) 3 11) 2 12) 4 13) 2 14) 1 15) 4 16) 3 17) 5 18) 2 19) 4 20) 4 GENERAL AWARENESS

1. Who has been appointed a deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India succeeding Subir Gokarn? 1) Kalpana Kochhar 2) Urjit Patel 3) D.K.Mittal 4) Rakesh Mohan 5) Chanda Kochhar 2. Ashwani Kumar has taken over as Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of which of the following public sector banks from January 1, 2013 for a period of five years? 1) Bank of India 2) Dena Bank 3) Allahabad Bank 4) Corporation Bank 5) Oriental Bank of Commerce 3. Who is the Chairman of the 14th Finance Commission? 1) Vijay Kelkar 2) C.Rangarajan 3) Y.V.Reddy 4) M.Govinda Rao 5) Sudipto Mundle 4. Who won the 'CEAT International Cricketer of the Year 2011-12'Award in January 2013? 1) Hashim Amla 2) Michael Clarke 3) Kumar Sangakkara 4) Virat Kohli 5) Saeed Ajmal 5. AC Nielsen, ORG and MARG are related to? 1) Hydraulics 2) Food products

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3) Power transmission 4) Consumer non durables 5) Market research 6. Ali Zeidan assumed office as the Prime Minister of which of the following countries on November 14, 2012? 1) Egypt 2) Tunisia 3) Libya 4) Yemen 5) Syria 7. The 4th OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy under the theme "Measuring Well-Being for Development and Policy Making" was organized in which of the following cities from October 16 to 19, 2012? 1) Paris 2) London 3) Madrid 4) New Delhi 5) Berne 8. Aman Sethi, a journalist, was declared the winner of 'The Economist Crossword Book Award 2011' in the Indian non-fiction category for his book? 1) A Free Man 2) The Folded Earth 3) Narcopolis 4) River of Smoke 5) The Incredible Banker 9. Who among the following Union Ministers was conferred with Great Cross of Civil Merit, the highest honor accorded by the Spanish government to honor individuals who have served their communities and contributed to a better understanding between countries? 1) P.Chidambaram 2) S.Jaipal Reddy 3) A.K. Antony 4) Farooq Abdullah 5) Kamal Nath 10. Which of the following terms is not used in Economics? 1) Call money 2) Balance of payment 3) National debt 4) Elasticity of demand 5) Boyle's law 11. Basel II norms are associated with which of the following aspects of the banking industry? 1) Microfinancing 2) Manpower planning

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3) Corporate governance 4) Risk management 5) Priority sector lending 12. Which of the following terms is used in the field of Economics? 1) Oscillation 2) Barter system 3) Bohr Theory 4) Plasma 5) Viscosity 13. Who among the following is a famous Economist? 1) Alan Greenspan 2) Stephen Hawking 3) Richard Dawkins 4) Olivar Sachs 5) Vernon Heywood 14. Expand the term FLCC? 1) Financial Literacy and Credit Counseling 2) Fiscal Literary and Credit Counseling 3) Financial Literacy Communication Centre 4) Financial Literacy Call Centre 5) None of these 15. Which of the following books is written by V.S. Naipaul? 1) My India 2) My God Died Young 3) The Village by the Sea 4) Magic Seeds 5) None of these 16. Hiroshima Day is observed on which of the following dates? 1) August 6 2) September 6 3) September 16 4) August 9 5) August 16 17. Which of the following industries is considered as a core industry? 1) Leather 2) Garments 3) Oil and Petroleum 4) IT 5) Handicrafts 18. PIIGS is an acronym used for the group of nations falling under?

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1) SAARC 2) ASEAN 3) APEC 4) Euro zone 5) Commonwealth 19. Who among the following is not a recipient of Nobel Prize in Economics? 1) Amartya Sen 2) Paul Krugman 3) Alvin Roth 4) John Gordon 5) Lloyd Shapley 20. Loans given to farmers are treated as? 1) Personal loans 2) Corporate loans 3) Business loans 4) Priority sector loans 5) None of these KEY 1) 2; 2) 2; 3) 3; 4) 4; 5) 5 6) 3; 7) 4; 8) 1; 9) 4; 10) 5; 11) 4; 12) 2; 13)1; 14) 1; 15) 4 16) 1; 17) 3; 18) 4; 19) 4; 20) 4 GENERAL AWARENESS

1. The Union Cabinet approved infusion of how many crores of rupees in public sector banks during the current fiscal to enhance their lending capabilities and also help them in meeting the stricter capital adequacy norms under Basel III on January 10, 2013? 1) 22,322 2) 10,325 3) 15,800 4) 12,517 5) 15,676 2. The FIFA Ballon d'Or award is given annually to the best footballer in the world. Who became the first player to win four successive Ballon d'Or awards on January 7, 2013? 1) Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) 2) Lionel Messi (Argentina) 3) Andres Iniesta (Spain) 4) Iker Casillas (Spain) 5) Kaka (Brazil) 3. Eric Schmidt urged North Korea to end its self imposed isolation and allow its citizens to use the internet during his visit to that country in January 2013. He is the

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Executive Chairman of? 1) Yahoo! 2) Microsoft 3) Google 4) Facebook 5) Oracle 4. Who was appointed as the Chair-man of the 20th Law Commiss-ion in January 2013? (The term ends on August 31, 2015) 1) Justice PV Reddy 2) Justice V Gopala Gowda 3) Justice Vikramajit Sen 4) Justice D K Jain 5) None of these 5. Which of the following statements about the Finance Commission is not true? 1) Finance Commission, a constitutional body, is set up every five years. It reviews the distribution of taxes among the centre, states and local bodies. 2) Former RBI Governor YV Reddy is the Chairman of the 14th Finance Commission. Sushma Nath, M.Govinda Rao and Sudipto Mundle are the three full time members. 3) The 14th Finance Commission will give its report by October 2014 and the recommendations will come into effect from April 2015 for a five year period. 4) The Commission will also look into issues like disinvestment, sale of non-priority PSUs and subsidies. 5) The 13th Finance Commission was headed by C.Rangarajan. 6. Who became the Senior national champion at the age of 16 by wi-nning the 50th National Premier Chess Championship in Kolkata on October 14, 2012? (Viswanathan Anand had also won the national title at the age of 16) 1) G.Akash 2) Deep Sengupta 3) M.R.Venkatesh 4) Arun Prasad 5) Vidit Santhosh Gujrathi 7. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is a global body that cha-lks out policies to counter financial frauds. Its headquarters is in? 1) London 2) Paris 3) New York 4) Washington 5) Frankfurt 8. What does the first letter 'S' denote in the term STRIPS? 1) Small 2) Separate 3) Savings 4) Special 5) Standards 9. What is the amount of compensation to be paid per day by the banks to the

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customers in case of failed ATM transactions for delays beyond 7 working days? 1) Rs.50 2) Rs.100 3) Rs.500 4) Rs.200 5) Rs.1000 10. In which state are Khajuraho temples, one of the most popular tourist destinations, located? 1) Maharashtra 2) Bihar 3) Rajasthan 4) Uttar Pradesh 5) Madhya Pradesh 11. The SARFAESI Act is related to? 1) Sanction of loans 2) Recovery of loans 3) Enhancement of loan limits 4) All the above 5) None of these 12. The MSMED Act is applicable to? 1) Small enterprises 2) Micro enterprises 3) Medium enterprises 4) Micro, Small and Medium enterprises 5) Any enterprise 13. What is the currency of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)? 1) Taka 2) Baht 3) Dirham 4) Dollar 5) Rial 14. Which of the following is the chemical name of the common salt or table salt? 1) Calcium Carbonate 2) Sodium Chloride 3) Sodium Carbonate 4) Calcium Chloride 5) None of these 15. Which of the following is not a name of cyclone? 1) Typhoon 2) Hurricane 3) Tornado 4) Willy-Willy 5) Lagoon 16. Which of the following terms is not used in banking/finance? 1) EMI 2) Credit wrap 3) IPO 4) Held to maturity

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5) Diffusion 17. Who is the author of the book 'Long Walk to Freedom'? 1) Dalai Lama 2) L K Advani 3) Benazir Bhutto 4) Nelson Mandela 5) Aung Saan Suu Kyi 18. Which of the following organizations provides a range of credit risk insurance covers to exporters? 1) RBI 2) NABARD 3) ECGC 4) SIDBI 5) Indian Overseas Bank 19. Which of the following statements is not correct? 1) CARE & CRISIL are credit rating agencies in India. 2) Moneylender is the informal route of credit in the financial sector. 3) By excessive use of pesticid-es/herbicides the productivity of the land can be increased. 4) In banking, underwriting is the detailed credit analysis pr-eceding the granting of a loan. 5) The exchange of one currency for another or the conversion of one currency into another currency is called Forex (FX) 20. Which of the following is the abbreviated name associated with food security? 1) UIDAI 2) ASHA 3) NRHM 4) PDS 5) NPA KEY 1) 4; 2) 2; 3) 3; 4) 4; 5) 5 6) 1; 7) 2; 8) 2; 9) 2; 10) 5; 11) 2; 12) 4; 13)3; 14) 2; 15) 5; 16) 5; 17) 4; 18) 3; 19) 3; 20) 4; 1. R.K. Dubey was appointed the Chairman and Managing Director of which of the following public sector banks in January 2013? 1) Canara Bank 2) Andhra Bank 3) Bank of Baroda 4) Punjab National Bank 5) Central Bank of India 2. Mohan Peiris was appointed as the new Chief Justice of which of the following

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countries in January 2013? 1) Singapore 2) Sri Lanka 3) Mauritius 4) Nepal 5) None of these 3. Which team retained the men's title in the 61st National Volleyball Championship in Jaipur in January 2013? 1) Kerala 2) Tamil Nadu 3) Uttarakhand 4) Haryana 5) Andhra Pradesh 4. Who took over as the Director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) on January 1, 2013? 1) Nehchal Sandhu 2) Ajit Doval 3) A.K.Dulat 4) Syed Asif Ibrahim 5) Yashovardhan Azad 5. Which of the following statements is not correct? 1) Corporate hedging is a mechanism to protect a firm's exposure to foreign exchange risk. 2) Fiat money is any money declared by a government to be legal tender. 3) Gold Standard is a system of backing a country's currency with its gold reserves and allo ws currency holders to convert their currency into gold. 4) A lease is a legal contract between the owner of an asset and its user, containing many conditions including payment of a specified amount by the user to the owner for use of the asset. 5) Medical tourism is related to a holiday package for patients. 6. Which team won the 125th Durand Cup football tournament at the Ambedkar Stadium, New Delhi in September 2012? 1) Air India 2) Dodsal 3) Mohun Bagan 4) East Bengal 5) Churchill Brothers 7. Kenneth Kaunda received the 2012 Mahatma Gandhi Inter-national Award for Peace and Reconciliation from the Gandhi Development Trust (GDT) in South Africa in September 2012. Kenneth Kaunda is the former President of? 1) Kenya 2) Zambia 3) Uganda 4) Rwanda 5) Burundi 8. A commemorative coin and stamp were released in September 2012 to celebrate the

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150th birth anniversary of? 1) Gopalakrishna Gokhale 2) Motilal Nehru 3) Subhash Chandra Bose 4) Lala Lajpat Rai 5) Surendranath Banerjee 9. India signed an MoU for building a state of the art police institute for security and law enforcement studies in which of the following countries on September 26, 2012? 1) Bangladesh 2) Nepal 3) Maldives 4) Bhutan 5) Sri Lanka 10. Who was conferred the prestigious Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration, Academics and Management on October 1, 2012? 1) R.A. Mashelkar 2) Sam Pitroda 3) M.S.Swaminathan 4) Tessy Thomas 5) Aruna Roy 11. Isabel Allende received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Prize given by Denmark, on October1, 2012.She is a renowned author from? 1) Chile 2) Sweden 3) Argentina 4) Mexico 5) Suriname 12. Freedom fighter B.Satyanarayana Reddy passed away on October 6, 2012. He was former Governor of? 1) Rajasthan & Odisha 2) Tamil Nadu & Rajasthan 3) Tripura & Odisha 4) Uttar Pradesh & Odisha 5) Bihar & Punjab 13. India's first child witness court room (CWCR), designed to present a friendly image of courts for child witnesses was inaugurated in which of the following cities in September 2012? 1) Mumbai 2) New Delhi 3) Allahabad 4) Kolkata 5) Hyderabad 14. Who has topped Forbes magazine's list of Hollywood's highest paid women? 1) Oprah Winfrey 2) Britney Spears

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3) Taylor Swift 4) Rihanna 5) Jennifer Lopez 15. Which of the following states launched the Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana that provides poor patients with health protection cover up to Rs. 2 lakhs in September 2012? 1) Bihar 2) Gujarat 3) Odisha 4) Madhya Pradesh 5) Andhra Pradesh KEY 1) 1 2) 2 3) 1 4) 4 5) 5 6) 1 7) 2 8) 2 9) 3 10) 4 11) 1 12) 4 13) 2 14) 1 15) 2 1. Om Prakash Chautala was sentenced to 10 years in prison for corruption in January 2013. He served five terms as the Chief Minister of? 1) Bihar 2) Odisha 3) Punjab 4) Haryana 5) Himachal Pradesh 2. Who among the following Union Ministers was re elected as the President of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) on December 20, 2012? 1) Sharad Pawar 2) Praful Patel 3) C.P.Joshi 4) Farooq Abdullah 5) Harish Rawat 3. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid had talks with Bob Carr in January 2013. Bob Carr is the Minister of Foreign Affairs of? 1) UK 2) Canada 3) Australia 4) Denmark 5) Norway 4. Who was appointed chief mentor of the Mumbai Indians IPL team in January 2013? 1) Rahul Dravid 2) Shane Warne 3) J.Srinath 4) Anil Kumble 5) Saurav Ganguly 5. Food and Agriculture Organizat-ion (FAO) Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva presented the organization's highest award, the Agricola Medal, to whom among the following Prime Ministers on October 2, 2012? 1) Sheikh Hasina (Bangladesh) 2) Wen Jiabao (China)

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3) Manmohan Singh (India) 4) Stephen Harper (Canada) 5) D.M.Jayaratne(Sri Lanka) 6. Who was presented with the 'Pride of India' award for his/her outstanding services to India and Britain in October 2012? 1) Kiran Bedi 2) Lord Swraj Paul 3) Sir Mota Singh 4) Trilochan Singh Sahni 5) None of these 7. A commemorative postage stamp to mark the 50th year of raising of which of the following Central Armed Police Forces was released in October 2012? 1) Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) 2) Border Security Force (BSF) 3) Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) 4) Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) 5) Railway Protection Force (RPF) 8. The Vayosrestha Samman is given by which of the following ministries each year to recognize the exemplary contribution of senior citizens in various fields? 1) Finance 2) Home 3) Communications & IT 4) Social Justice & Empower-ment 5) Labour &Employment 9. Who topped the executive pay charts for listed companies in India with a package of Rs.73.42 crore for the last financial year? 1) Naveen Jindal 2) Kalanithi Maran 3) Pawan Munjal 4) Sunil Mittal 5) Jayadev Galla 10. In the 2012 Global Food Security Index released by the American chemical company Du Pont, India was ranked? 1) 39 2) 62 3) 75 4) 81 5) 66 11. Norodom Sihanouk passed away on October 15, 2012. He was the former king of? 1) Thailand 2) Vietnam 3) Cambodia 4) Malaysia 5) Brunei 12. Veteran Congress leader Naval Kishore Sharma passed away recently. He served as

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Governor of which of the following states from 2004 to 2009? 1) Rajasthan 2) Gujarat 3) Karnataka 4) Haryana 5) Himachal Pradesh 13. The 11th Conference of Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity was held in which of the following cities in October 2012? 1) Bangalore 2) Nagpur 3) Chennai 4) Kochi 5) Hyderabad 14. Which of the following banking majors appointed former SBI Chairman O.P.Bhatt as an independent non-executive director recently? 1) Barclays 2) BNP Paribas 3) Citibank 4) Standard Chartered 5) JP Morgan Chase 15. Which of the following books is not written by Dan Brown? 1) Angels and Demons 2) The Da Vinci Code 3) The Rozabel Line 4) The Lost Symbol 5) Deception Point 16. The Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayee Arogya Yojana (RGJAY) is a cashless health insurance scheme launched by which of the following states in 2012? 1) Rajasthan 2) Delhi 3) Maharashtra 4) Haryana 5) Andhra Pradesh 17. Wing Commander is a rank related to? 1) Army 2) Navy 3) Air Force 4) Police 5) None of these KEY 1) 4 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 2 6) 4 7) 3 8) 4 9) 1 10) 5 11) 3 12) 2 13) 5 14) 4 15) 3 16) 3 17) 3

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1. The Reserve Bank of India reduced the repo rate by 25 basis points on January 29, 2013. What is the present repo rate? 1) 8.25% 2) 8.5% 3) 8.75% 4) 7.75% 5) 7.25% 2. Who among the following was given Padma Vibhushan this year? 1) V.K.Saraswat 2) Yashpal 3) Ashok Sen 4) N.Suresh 5) Jogesh Chandra Pati 3. Who won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature-2013 for his debut novel Narcopolis in January 2013? 1) Amitav Ghosh 2) Jamil Ahmad 3) Jeet Thayil 4) Uday Prakash 5) Tahmima Anam 4. Who defended the Australian Open women's singles tennis title in Melbourne on January 26, 2013? 1) Li Na (China) 2) Sloane Stephens (USA) 3) Serena Williams (USA) 4) Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) 5) Maria Sharapova (Russia) 5. Who among the following was the Chief Guest for the 64th Republic Day parade on January 26, 2013? 1) Spain King 2) Norway King 3) Thailand King 4) Cambodia King 5) Bhutan King 6. Mumbai won the Ranji Trophy cricket for the 40th time in January 2013. It defeated which of the following teams in the final in Mumbai? 1) Karnataka 2) Rajasthan 3) Saurashtra 4) Delhi 5) Uttar Pradesh 7. Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) is the portion of deposits banks must keep with the RBI. What is the present CRR? 1) 3.5% 2) 4.5% 3) 4.75% 4) 4% 5) 3.75% 8. The Indian Air Force (IAF) celebrated its 80th anniversary on which of the following days in 2012? 1) September 16 2) October 8 3) December 7 4) November 11

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5) October 7 9. The world's highest polling booth is located at the height of 15,000 feet above the mean sea level at Hikkam in Lahaul and Spiti assembly constituency in which of the following states? 1) Assam 2) Uttarakhand 3) Arunachal Pradesh 4) Jammu& Kashmir 5) Himachal Pradesh 10. The Election Commission has set up a polling booth solely for Bharat Das in which of the following assembly constituencies of Gujarat? (The booth was created inside the Gir National Park) 1) Una 2) Valsad 3) Mehsana 4) Mandvi 5) Lathi 11. The Law Commission of India is a non-statutory body constituted by the Government of India every? 1) Two years 2) Three years 3) Four years 4) Six years 5) Five years 12. Who among the following Indian golfers won the Venetian Macau Open Golf title in October 2012? 1) Gaganjeet Bhullar 2) Shiv Kapur 3) Himmat Rai 4) Ajeetesh Sandhu 5) None of these 13. Mount Lokon erupted recently. It is one of the most active volcanoes in? 1) Italy 2) Japan 3) Indonesia 4) Ireland 5) Philippines 14. UN Women's Executive Director Michelle Bachelet launched the first ever knowledge hub for elected women representatives living in rural areas of South Asia in which of the following cities on October 4, 2012? 1) Jaipur 2) Hyderabad 3) Cuttack 4) Mysore 5) Bhopal 15. Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a Muslim insurgency outfit, signed a pact with which of the following governments to end the conflict in October 2012? 1) Laos 2) Indonesia

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3) Philippines 4) Sri Lanka 5) Myanmar 16. The Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) is a body created in 2002 to promote cooperation among Asian countries. Which city hosted the first ACD Summit in October 2012? 1) Jakarta 2) Bangkok 3) New Delhi 4) Kuwait City 5) Dhaka 17. Dima Halam Daogah (DHD), a militant group, signed a peace accord with the union government and which of the following state governments in October 2012? 1) Bihar 2) Jharkhand 3) Manipur 4) West Bengal 5) Assam KEY 1) 4 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 5 6) 3 7) 4 8) 2 9) 5 10) 1 11) 2 12) 1 13) 3 14) 1 15) 3 16) 4 17) 5. GENERAL AWARENESS 1. The Rs.1000 coin has been issued in commemoration of 1,000 years of the Brihadeeswara temple in? 1) Madurai 2) Kanchi 3) Kumbakonam 4) Tanjavur 5) Tiruchirapalli 2. "Dare to Do! For the New Generation" is a book written by? 1) Anna Hazare 2) Kiran Bedi 3) Prashant Bhushan 4) Arvind Kejriwal 5) None of these 3. Who won his fourth Allan Border Medal as Australia's Cricketer of the Year on February 4, 2013? 1) Ricky Ponting 2) Mike Hussey 3) Michael Clarke 4) Shane Watson 5) Phil Hughes 4. Rohinton Nariman resigned from which of the following posts in February 2013? 1) Supreme Court Judge 2) Election Commissioner 3) Attorney General

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4) Solicitor General 5) None of these 5. The 8th Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) Divas was celebrated on which of the following days in 2013? 1) February 1 2) February 2 3) February 3 4) February 4 5) February 5 6. Who assumed office as the United States Secretary of State on February 1, 2013? (He succeeded Hillary Clinton) 1) Kit Bond 2) Joe Biden 3) Bob Menendez 4) John Kerry 5) William Joseph Burns 7. The Ministry of Rural Development started a campaign named Nirmal Bharat Yatra which focuses on making the country free from open defecation on October 3, 2012. The yatra was started from Wardha district, Maharashtra and ended in Bettiah in? 1) Odisha 2) Bihar 3) Assam 4) West Bengal 5) Haryana 8. UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi handed over the 21st crore (210 million) Aadhar card to Bali Devi, a resident of which of the following states? 1) Haryana 2) Punjab 3) Rajasthan 4) Maharashtra 5) Himachal Pradesh 9. Which of the following private s ector banks has tied-up with state-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) to provide banking services in rural areas? (IOC's rural petrol pump outlets-Kisan Seva Kendras-will act as the bank's Business Correspondents) 1) Yes Bank 2) ICICI Bank 3) KVB 4) Axis Bank 5) HDFC Bank 10. Brooks Brothers has unveiled a luxury boutique in New Delhi. It is the oldest men's clothier chain in which of the following countries? 1) Spain 2) UK 3) USA 4) France 5) Australia

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11. The 2012 Ryder Cup was won by Europe. The Ryder Cup is a biennial men's golf competition between teams from Europe and? 1) Brazil 2) Canada 3) Argentina 4) Australia 5) USA 12. India's heaviest satellite, the 3400 kg GSAT-10, was successfully launched on September 29, 2012 from the Kourou launch pad in French Guiana in? 1) Asia 2) Africa 3) North America 4) South America 5) Europe 13. Pranay Sahay was appointed as the new Director General of which of the following armed forces in October 2012? 1) CRPF 2) CISF 3) NSG 4) ITBP 5) Sashastra Seema Bal 14. Dmitry Rogozin visited India recently. He is the Deputy Prime Minister of which of the following countries? 1) Ukraine 2) Georgia 3) Russia 4) Belarus 5) Kazakhstan 15. Mossad is the national intelligence agency of? 1) Iran 2) Iraq 3) Spain 4) Egypt 5) Israel 16. Who is the inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW)? 1) Steve Ballmer 2) Larry Page 3) Jimmy Wales 4) Tim Berners Lee 5) Steve Jobs 17. Who is the author of "What Young India Wants: Selected Essays and Columns"? 1) Gurcharan Das 2) Chetan Bhagat 3) Robin Sharma 4) Abdul Kalam 5) Jeet Thayil 18. G.K.Vasan, Minister of Shipping, and Doris Bures signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for technology cooperation in the shipping and ports infrastructure in October 2012. Doris Bures is the Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology of

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which of the following countries? 1) Austria 2) Canada 3) Australia 4) Czech Republic 5) New Zealands 19. Which of the following is not a financial term? 1) Acid Test Ratio 2) Gross profit 3) Cash flow 4) Depreciation 5) Double fault KEY 1) 4 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 2 6) 4 7) 2 8) 3 9) 5 10) 3 11) 5 12) 4 13) 1 14) 3 15) 5 16) 4 17) 2 18) 1 19) 5 GENERAL AWARENESS 1. The Central Statistics Office (CSO) drastically lowered the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth estimate to what per cent for 2012-13? 1) 5.5% 2) 5.7% 3) 5.9% 4) 5% 5) 5.3% 2. The Union Cabinet approved the raising of the authorized capital of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) to how many crores of rupees from Rs. 5,000 crore and expanding its scope of operations on February 7, 2013? 1) Rs. 10,000crore 2) Rs. 20,000crore 3) Rs.15, 000crore 4) Rs.25, 000crore 5) None of these 3. Glenn Maxwell was bought by Mumbai Indians for $1 million, the biggest buy in the Pepsi-Indian Premier League (IPL) player auction on February 3, 2013. He is an all-rounder from? 1) England 2) South Africa 3) Australia 4) West Indies 5) New Zealand 4. Milos Zeman is the first directly elected President of which of the following countries? 1) Serbia 2) Slovenia

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3) Hungary 4) Czech Republic 5) Slovakia 5. Which of the following statements about polymer notes is not correct? 1) The Reserve Bank of India has proposed to conduct field trials of Rs 10 polymer banknotes in five cities-Jaipur, Shimla, Mysore, Kochi and Bhubaneswar. 2) Polymer notes will help in checking counterfeiting. 3) Printing cost is low. 4) They have relatively longer life compared to the prevailing paper notes. 5) The average lifespan of polymer currency notes is one year. 6. Who among the following New Zealand cricketers won the Sir Richard Hadlee Medal for 2011-12? 1) Martin Guptill 2) Ross Taylor 3) Brendon McCullum 4) Tim Southee 5) Doug Bracewell 7. Pakistan government has renamed Shadman Chowk as Bhagat Singh Chowk in which of the following cities? 1) Karachi 2) Lahore 3) Peshawar 4) Islamabad 5) Hyderabad 8. Which city hosted the annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) in October 2012? 1) Manila 2) New Delhi 3) Tokyo 4) London 5) Washington 9. Which team won the Champions League Twenty20 Championship in Johannesburg, South Africa on October 28, 2012? 1) Sydney Sixers 2) Highveld Lions 3) Delhi Daredevils 4) Kolkata Knight Riders 5) Mumbai Indians 10. Sayali Gokhale is the women's national champion in? 1) Chess 2) Tennis 3) Squash 4) Badminton 5) Billiards 11. The scheme which gives tax exemptions to first time equity market investors is?

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1) Indira Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme 2) Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme 3) Prime Minister's Equity Savings Scheme 4) National Equity Savings Scheme 5) None of these 12. James Bond 007 celebrated 50th anniversary in October 2012. Which is the first Bond movie? (James Bond is a character created by Ian Fleming ) 1) Dr. No 2) Goldfinger 3) From Russia with Love 4) You Only Live Twice 5) Skyfall 13. The National Museum of Indian Cinema, that will showcase the evolution of Indian cinema, is being built in? 1) Kolkata 2) Jaipur 3) New Delhi 4) Mumbai 5) Hyderabad 14. Aadhaar Enabled Service Delivery was launched on October 20, 2012 in Dudu in? 1) Bihar 2) Haryana 3) Punjab 4) Rajasthan 5) Maharashtra 15. Which of the following books was written by Salman Rushdie? 1) Wolf Hall 2) The Lighthouse 3) Joseph Anton 4) River of Smoke 5) Bring up the Bodies 16. Sunil Gangopadhyay passed away recently. He was a renowned? 1) Film actor 2) Sculptor 3) Painter 4) Author 5) Theatre artist KEY 1) 4 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 5 6) 1 7) 2 8) 3 9) 1 10) 4 11) 2 12) 1 13) 4 14) 4 15) 3 16) 4 GENERAL AWARENESS

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1. The Rs.1000 coin has been issued in commemoration of 1,000 years of the Brihadeeswara temple in? 1) Madurai 2) Kanchi 3) Kumbakonam 4) Tanjavur 5) Tiruchirapalli 2. "Dare to Do! For the New Generation" is a book written by? 1) Anna Hazare 2) Kiran Bedi 3) Prashant Bhushan 4) Arvind Kejriwal 5) None of these 3. Who won his fourth Allan Border Medal as Australia's Cricketer of the Year on February 4, 2013? 1) Ricky Ponting 2) Mike Hussey 3) Michael Clarke 4) Shane Watson 5) Phil Hughes 4. Rohinton Nariman resigned from which of the following posts in February 2013? 1) Supreme Court Judge 2) Election Commissioner 3) Attorney General 4) Solicitor General 5) None of these 5. The 8th Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) Divas was celebrated on which of the following days in 2013? 1) February 1 2) February 2 3) February 3 4) February 4 5) February 5 6. Who assumed office as the United States Secretary of State on February 1, 2013? (He succeeded Hillary Clinton) 1) Kit Bond 2) Joe Biden 3) Bob Menendez 4) John Kerry 5) William Joseph Burns 7. The Ministry of Rural Development started a campaign named Nirmal Bharat Yatra which focuses on making the country free from open defecation on October 3, 2012. The yatra was started from Wardha district, Maharashtra and ended in Bettiah in? 1) Odisha 2) Bihar

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3) Assam 4) West Bengal 5) Haryana 8. UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi handed over the 21st crore (210 million) Aadhar card to Bali Devi, a resident of which of the following states? 1) Haryana 2) Punjab 3) Rajasthan 4) Maharashtra 5) Himachal Pradesh 9. Which of the following private s ector banks has tied-up with state-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) to provide banking services in rural areas? (IOC's rural petrol pump outlets-Kisan Seva Kendras-will act as the bank's Business Correspondents) 1) Yes Bank 2) ICICI Bank 3) KVB 4) Axis Bank 5) HDFC Bank 10. Brooks Brothers has unveiled a luxury boutique in New Delhi. It is the oldest men's clothier chain in which of the following countries? 1) Spain 2) UK 3) USA 4) France 5) Australia 11. The 2012 Ryder Cup was won by Europe. The Ryder Cup is a biennial men's golf competition between teams from Europe and? 1) Brazil 2) Canada 3) Argentina 4) Australia 5) USA 12. India's heaviest satellite, the 3400 kg GSAT-10, was successfully launched on September 29, 2012 from the Kourou launch pad in French Guiana in? 1) Asia 2) Africa 3) North America 4) South America 5) Europe 13. Pranay Sahay was appointed as the new Director General of which of the following armed forces in October 2012? 1) CRPF 2) CISF 3) NSG 4) ITBP 5) Sashastra Seema Bal 14. Dmitry Rogozin visited India recently. He is the Deputy Prime Minister of which of the

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following countries? 1) Ukraine 2) Georgia 3) Russia 4) Belarus 5) Kazakhstan 15. Mossad is the national intelligence agency of? 1) Iran 2) Iraq 3) Spain 4) Egypt 5) Israel 16. Who is the inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW)? 1) Steve Ballmer 2) Larry Page 3) Jimmy Wales 4) Tim Berners Lee 5) Steve Jobs 17. Who is the author of "What Young India Wants: Selected Essays and Columns"? 1) Gurcharan Das 2) Chetan Bhagat 3) Robin Sharma 4) Abdul Kalam 5) Jeet Thayil 18. G.K.Vasan, Minister of Shipping, and Doris Bures signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for technology cooperation in the shipping and ports infrastructure in October 2012. Doris Bures is the Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology of which of the following countries? 1) Austria 2) Canada 3) Australia 4) Czech Republic 5) New Zealands 19. Which of the following is not a financial term? 1) Acid Test Ratio 2) Gross profit 3) Cash flow 4) Depreciation 5) Double fault KEY 1) 4 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 2 6) 4 7) 2 8) 3 9) 5 10) 3 11) 5 12) 4 13) 1 14) 3 15) 5 16) 4 17) 2 18) 1 19) 5

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GENERAL AWARENESS 1. Who was appointed as the Solicitor General of India on February 13, 2013? (His tenure will be for three years) 1) Mohan Jain 2) P.P.Malhotra 3) G.E.Vahanavati 4) Mohan Parasaran 5) Gopal Subramaniam 2. Who was given The Hindu Literary Prize 2013 for his novel "Em and the Big Hoom"? 1) Jeet Thayil 2) Jerry Pinto 3) Kiran Nagarkar 4) Shashi Tharoor 5) None of these 3. Rafael Correa was re-elected for third term as the President of which of the following South American countries in February 2013? 1) Peru 2) Chile 3) Ecuador 4) Venezuela 5) Uruguay 4. Who was conferred the 2011 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development on February 18, 2013? 1) Sheikh Hasina 2) Sonia Gandhi 3) Medha Patkar 4) Ela Bhatt 5) Shanta Sinha 5. Ratu Epeli Nailatikau was sworn in for a second three-year term in November 2012 as the President of? 1) Cyprus 2) Fiji 3) Latvia 4) Burkina Faso 5) Malta 6. E. Donnall Thomas of USA died recently. He won the 1990 Nobel Prize in which of the following fields? 1) Physics 2) Chemistry 3) Medicine 4) Literature 5) Economics 7. Which of the following is a voluntary force that serves as auxiliary to the police and helps in maintaining internal security? 1) Home Guards 2) CISF 3) CRPF 4) RAF

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5) National Security Guard 8. Which of the following is a statutory, quasi-judicial body set up in 1966 by the Parliament with the object of preserving the freedom of the press and of maintaining and improving the standards of press in India? 1) United News of India 2) Press Trust of India 3) Press Information Bureau 4) Press Council of India 5) None of these 9. State Bank of India opened its second Kohinoor premium banking centre for very high net worth individuals on November 7, 2012 in which of the following cities?(The first such branch was opened in Hyderabad in 2011) 1) Mumbai 2) Chennai 3) Pune 4) Vijayawada 5) Visakhapatnam 10. Stock Holding Corporation of India (SHCIL), one of the largest security custodians to financial institutions, will be merged with? 1) IFCI 2) GIC 3) IDBI Bank 4) LIC 5) SBI 11. An indirect tax levied on those goods which are manufactured in India is called? 1) Sales Tax 2) Income Tax 3) Excise Duty 4) VAT 5) None of these 12. Outlook.com is a web mail service launched by? 1) Google 2) Rediff 3) Apple 4) Microsoft 5) None of these 13. Naresh Chandra Task Force is related to? 1) Black Money 2) Corruption 3) National Security 4) Income Tax 5) None of these 14. India won the inaugural Asian Cricket Council's Women T-20 Asia Cup by defeating which of the following teams in the final in Guangzhou, China? 1) China 2) Thailand 3) Sri Lanka 4) Bangladesh 5) Pakistan

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15. The Art of Living Foundation is one of the world's largest volunteer-based, humanitarian and educational non-govern men tal organizations (NGO). It was founded in 1981 by? 1) Baba Ram Dev 2) Acharya Rajneesh 3) Sri Narayan Guru 4) Sri Sri Ravi Shankar 5) None of these 16. Kanha National Park is a Tiger Reserve in? 1) Odisha 2) Rajasthan 3) Bihar 4) Uttar Pradesh 5) Madhya Pradesh 17. Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) is Asia's first stock exchange. It was established in? 1) 1882 2) 1887 3) 1875 4)1897 5) 1895 18. World Consumer Rights Day is observed on? 1) May 25 2) March 15 3) June 25 4) May 15 5)January 15 19. Which of the follow ing scientific research institutions is located in Bangalore? 1) National Institute of Nutrition 2) Indian Institute of Geomagne tism 3) Agarkar Research Institute 4) Indian Institute of Astro physics 5) None of these 20. 'Associated Press' is the main news agency of? 1) UK 2) France 3) Russia 4) Australia 5) USA KEY 1) 4 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 2 6) 3 7) 1 8) 4 9) 5 10) 3 11) 3 12) 4 13) 3 14) 5 15) 4 16) 5 17) 3 18) 2 19) 4 20) 5

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GENERAL AWARENESS 1. Which film won the Best Picture Award at the 85th Academy Awards on February 24, 2013? 1) Life of Pi 2) Lincoln 3) Django Unchained 4) Argo 5) Silver Linings Playbook 2. Nicos Anastasiades won the Presidential elections of which of the following countries on February 24, 2013? 1) Greece 2) Cyprus 3) Turkey 4) Syria 5) Lebanon 3. Who took over as the Chairman of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) on February 21, 2013? (He succeeded J.Hari Narayan) 1) U.K. Sinha 2) D.K. Mehrotra 3) T.S.Vijayan 4) Rahul Khullar 5) N.Chandrasekaran 4. Who is the only actor to have won the Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Actor three times? 1) Spencer Tracy 2) Tom Hanks 3) Marlon Brando 4) Daniel Day-Lewis 5) Dustin Hoffman 5. Which of the following statements is not true? 1) Plastic money refers to ATM/Credit cards. 2) Carbon tax is a tax on the emissions from burning fossil fuels. 3) PAN should be quoted on all large value financial transactions. 4) FTZ stands for Financial Trade Zone. 5) Warren Buffet of USA is the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. 6. Anuradha Roy is the author of which of the following books? 1) The Folded Earth 2) A Free Man 3) The Incredible Banker 4) Umbrella 5) The Lighthouse

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7. Kevin Curran died recently at the age of 53. He played internati onal cricket for which of the following countries? 1) England 2) Australia 3) South Africa 4) Zimbabwe 5) West Indies 8. The Indian Ocean Rim-Asso ciation for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC) is an international organization with 20 member states. Which of the following countries was inducted into this group as its 20th member recently? 1) India 2) Malaysia 3) Comoros 4) Mauritius 5) Seychelles 9. President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the integrated termi nal building at Swami Viveka nanda Airport in which of the following cities in November 2012? 1) Ranchi 2) Raipur 3) Dehradun 4) Kolkata 5) Patna 10. The Centre for DNA Finger prin ting and Diagnostics (CDFD) is located in? 1) Mumbai 2) New Delhi 3) Bangalore 4) Pune 5) Hyderabad 11. A referendum will be held in 2014 on the independence of which of the following in the United Kingdom? 1) Scotland 2) Wales 3) Northern Ireland 4) Both 1 and 2 5) All 12. Babu Jagjivan Ram was posthu mously awarded with the Friends of Liberation War Honor by the Government of Bangladesh for his contribution in the 1971 war. He was the then Indian Minister for? 1) Defense 2) External Affairs 3) Home 4) Finance 5) None of these 13. Who was named South Africa's Sportsman of the Year in November 2012? 1) Hashim Amla 2) Dale Steyn 3) Graeme Smith 4) Vernon Philander 5) Oscar Pistorius

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14. EKUVERIN 2012 was held in Belgaum, India in November 2012. It is the fourth joint military training exercise between India and? 1) Japan 2) China 3) UK 4) Maldives 5) Sri Lanka 15. Who won the International Asso ciation of Athletics Federation (IAAF) World Athlete of the Year award for the fourth time in November 2012? 1) David Rudisha 2) Keshorn Walcott 3) Usain Bolt 4) Aries Merritt 5) None of these 16. Who bagged the world youth chess championship at Maribor, Slovenia on November 18, 2012? 1) Sahajasree 2) Nuthaki Priyanka 3) Dronavalli Harika 4) Arushi Kotwal 5) None of these 17. Tarapore Committee is associated with? 1) SEZs 2) Foreign exchange reserves 3) Full capital account convertibility 4) Infrastructure 5) None of these 18. What is the capital city of South Sudan? 1) Khartoum 2) Juba 3) Moroni 4) Malabo 5) Conakry 19. Which of the following nuclear power stations is located in Karnataka? 1) Kaiga 2) Kalpakkam 3) Rawatbhata 4) Narora 5) Tarapur 20. On the coast of which of the following states is Wheeler Is land situated? 1) Gujarat 2) Goa 3) Karnataka 4) Tamil Nadu 5) Odisha

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KEY 1) 4 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 4 6) 1 7) 4 8) 3 9) 2 10) 5 11) 1 12) 1 13) 4 14) 4 15) 3 16) 2 17) 3 18) 2 19) 1 20) 5 1. Economic Survey 2012-13 proje cted a growth rate of what percent for 2013-14? 1) 5.5-5.7 2) 6.3-6.5 3) 6.1-6.7 4) 8.1-8.5 5) 5.5-6.1 2. Who received the Ernst &Young Lifetime Achievement Award in February 2013? 1) T.T.Jagannathan 2) Ratan Tata 3) Rahul Bajaj 4) Francisco D' Souza 5) None of these 3. Which team won the 67th Santosh Trophy Football tourna ment in Kochi on March 3, 2013? 1) Services 2) Kerala 3) Goa 4) Tamil Nadu 5) Bengal 4. Chuck Hagel has been appointed as the US? 1) Secretary of State 2) Treasury Secretary 3) Vice President 4) Defense Secretary 5) Ambassador to India 5. Who won the Best Actress Award at the 85th Academy Awards in February 2013? 1) Jessica Chastain 2) Quvenzhane Wallis 3) Naomi Watts 4) Jennifer Lawrence 5) None of these 6. Which of the following films won the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the 85th Oscar awa rds?

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1) Kon-Tiki (Norway) 2) No (Chile) 3) Amour (Austria) 4) A Royal Affair (Denmark) 5) War Witch (Canada) 7. India's GDP growth in the third quarter of 2012-13 slipped to what per cent? (It is the decade's lowest quarterly growth) 1) 5.5% 2) 5.3% 3) 4.5% 4) 4.9% 5) 5.2% 8. Manik Sarkar has been the Chief Minister of which of the follow ing states since March 1998? 1) Mizoram 2) Assam 3) Nagaland 4) Tripura 5) Manipur 9. India's first all-women bank will start operations from November this year. The government annou nced an initial capital of how many crores of rupees for this purpose? 1) 2,000crore 2) 2,500crore 3) 1,000crore 4) 1,500crore 5) None of these 10. How many crores will be made available to NABARD to finance construction of godowns and warehouses, as per the 2013-14 Union Budget? 1) Rs 5,000cr 2) Rs 10,000cr 3) Rs 1,000cr 4) Rs 2,000cr 5) Rs 20,000cr 11. Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization) elected Mir eille Ballestrazzi as its first fe male President. She belongs to? 1) France 2) Italy 3) UK 4) Germany 5) Poland 12. The 10th ASEAN-India Summit was held on November 19, 2012 at? 1) Singapore 2) Bangkok 3) Phnom Penh 4) Bali 5) Jakarta 13. ASEAN-India trade reached how many billion dollars in 2011-12?

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1) 75.5 2) 79.3 3) 82.5 4) 81.3 5) None of these

Key 1) 3 2) 2 3) 1 4) 4 5) 4 6) 3 7) 3 8) 4 9) 3 10) 1 11) 1 12) 3 13) 2

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