Monday, 18 March 2013

General Knowledge Practice Test 1

1. Sundaresh Memon, an Indian-origin judge has been named as the new Chief Justice of which country recently?
(1) Singapore
(2) Indonesia
(3) Pakistan
(4) Nepal
(5) Maldives
Answer:  2
2. Who among the following is providing financial assistance to India under a project entitled “Strengthening Regional Co-operation for wildlife Protection in Asia”?
(1) RBI
(2) Asian Development Bank
(3) World Bank
(4) World Wildlife Fund
(5) None of these
Answer: 3
3. Who among the following is the first woman wrestler to qualify for the Olympics and recently conferred with Arjuna Award?
(1) Deepika Kumari
(2) Geeta Phogat
(3) Balachanu
(4) Krishna Poonia
(5) Saina Nehwal
Answer: 2
4. Lakshmi Sehgal, who passed away recently was a well- known?
(1) Scientist
(2) Sports woman
(3) Classical dancer
(4) Freedom Fighter
(5) None of these
Answer: 4
5. Which of the following country is a member of Non- Aligned Movement?
(1) China
(2) Brazil
(3) Chile
(4) Mexico
 (5) None of these
Answer: 3
6. Which of the following is an Indian Rating agency?
(1) Moody’s
(2) Fitch
(3) Standard and Poor’s
(4) ICRA
(5) None of these
Answer: 4
7. Recently some norms has been issued by RBI for NBFC’s to set-up WLA. What is the full-form of WLA?
(1) White Level ATM’s
(2) White Label ATM’s
(3) Working Level ATM’s
(4) Wide Level ATM’s
(5) None of these
Answer: 2
8. By whom ‘Foreign Trade Policy 2009-2014” is unveiled?
(1) Commerce Minister
(2) Finance Minister
(3) Finance Secretary
 (4) Home Minister
(5) None of these
Answer: 1
9. Who has taken over as the 21st chief of Naval Staff?
(1) Nirmal Verma
(2) Devendra Kumar Joshi
(3) Dalbeer Kumar Joshi
(4) Vikram Singh
(5) Bishan Kumar Tyagi
Answer: 2
10. Who among the following has undertaken space walk along with Sunita William’s recently?
(1) Yuri Malenchenko
(2) Gennady Padalka
(3) Anton Shkaplerov
(4) Akihiko Hoshide
(5) None of these
Answer: 4
11. What is the present annual ceiling on investment under Public Provident Fund (PPF) scheme?
(1) ` 50,000
(2) ` 60,000
(3) ` 70,000
(4) ` 80,000
(5) ` 1,00,000
Answer: 5
12. India’s market regulator SEBI recently allowed partial flexibility in conversion of which of the following into equity shares?
(1) Government bonds
(2) Debentures
 (3) Indian Depository Receipts
(4) T-bills
(5) None of these
Answer: 3
13. Who is the first Chinese female astronaut who has been sent for space mission?
(1) Liu Yang
(2) Xin Wang
(3) Wang Yihan
(4) Liu Xerui
(5) Shenzhou
Answer: 1
14. Over which river the highest railway bridge is being constructed in Jammu and Kashmir?
(1) Indus
(2) Jhelum
(3) Chenab
(4) Saryu
(5) None of these
Answer: 3
15. Capital Market deals in
(1) Short-term credit
(2) Medium-term credit
(3) Long-term credit
(4) Both 2 and 3
(5) None of these
Answer: 4
16. What was the Motto of Summer Olympics 2012?
(1) Come out and play
(2) Citius, Altuis, Fortuis
(3) Transform the world
(4) One world one dream
(5) Inspire a Generation
Answer: 5
17. Recently India won Nehru Cup 2012 by defeating which country?
(1) Japan
(2) Cameroon
(3) Malaysia
(4) Nepal
(5) Mexico
Answer: 2
18. Who is the author of the book “Timeless Steel”?
(1) Steve Waugh
(2) Yuvraj Singh
(3) Mathew Hayden
(4) Rahul Dravid
(5) V.V.S. Laxman
Answer: 1
19. Who has been awarded Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana award 2012 recently?
(1) D.R. Mehta
(2) Aditya Mehta
(3) Ashok Chawla
(4) Surya Prakash singh
(5) Utsa Patnaik
Answer: 4
20. Which day is observed as World Tourism day?
(1) 25th September
(2) 26th September
(3) 27th September
(4) 28th September
(5) 29th September
Answer: 3

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