General Awareness
1. Who has the sole
right to mint coins in India?
1) RBI 2) MMTC
3) Government of India 4) SBI
5) Department of Post
2. Whose signature
appears on coins?
1) President of India 2) RBI governor
3) Finance Secretary
4) RBI deputy governor
5) Coins do not bear the signature
3. Government of
India withdrawn coins of denomination of 25 paise and below from circulation
with effect from.....?
1) 30 July 2011 2) 30 June 2011
3) 30 June 2012 4) 30 June 2010
5) 1 June 2013
4. Who was appointed
as the President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) by the Board of Governors
at New Delhi on 27 April 2013?
1) Jim Yong Kim 2) Christine Legarde
3) Takehiko Nakao 4) Mario Draghi
5) None
5. To whom the world
bank granted a concessional loan of $100 million for the implementation of
low-income housing scheme?
1) HDFC 2) ICICI
3) SBI 4) RBI
5) National Housing bank
6. On 4 April 2013,
K.H.Muniyappa, the Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of
Micro , Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) given the statement. His statement
does not include.....
1) MSME sector contribute 9% of GDP
2) It accounts for around 45% of the manufacturing output
3) It contributes 36% of total value of exports
4) The sector has been growing consistently above 10% for
the last five years
5) The sector will be removed from the Priority Sector
lending
7. Who was appointed
as the chairman to suggest the measures for enhancing MSME exports recently?
1) Ratan TATA
2) Abhijith Sen 3)
R.S.Gujral
4) Montek Singh Ahluwalia 5) Anand Sinha
8. The Indian Life
Assurance Companies Act was the first statutory measure to regulate life
business in India. It was passed in ......?
1) 1925 2) 1956
3) 1947 4) 1934 5) 1912
9. Union government
put the export target of ..... billion for the current financial year 2013-14?
1) $ 325 2) $ 360
3) $ 300.6 4) $ 450 5) $ 150
10. Under whose
chairmanship, the Group of Ministers (GoM)was set up to make a law to provide
for the independence of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and its
functional autonomy?
1) Chidambaram 2) Ranjith Sinha
3) Alok Joshi 4) Bikram singh
5) S.A.Ibrahim
11. Union government
on 17 April 2013 declared to enhance the installed capacity of renewable energy
of 25,0000 MW to 55,000 MW by .......?
1) 2017 2) 2018
3) 2019 4) 2025 5) 2017
12. Which Indian
origin writer received the inaugural Physics journalism Prize sponsored by the
Institute of Physics(IOP) and the science and Technology Facilities Council in
Washington?
1) Abdul kalam 2) Raja Ramanna
3) Anil Ananthaswamy 4) Kasturi Rangan
5) C.R.Rao
13. Which nation
joined as a dialogue partner in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on
26 April 2013?
1) India 2) USA
3) Turkey 4)
UK 5) Israel
14. 45th session of
the Indian Labour Conference concluded on 18 May 2013 at ..... ?
1) Mumbai 2) Kolkata
3) Pune 4) New
Delhi 5) None
15. Factoring
means......
1) business of buying trade debts at a discount and
making a profit when debt is realized
2) giving loans to factories by the commercial banks at
concessional rates
3) banning the banks not to give loans to factories at lower
rate of interest
4) buying of customers assets whenever he did default in the
payment of money
5) None
16. Track, Lane,
Hurdles, Shot-put,Discuss Throw, Hammer Throw, Triple Jump, High Jump are the
terms used in.......?
1) Chess 2) Volley Ball
3) Foot Ball 4) Cycling 5) Athletics
17. Youngest player
to play an English County match is .......?
1) Hanuma Vihari 2) TM Srivastava
3) Phiillips Rod 4) Tim Mody
5) Matthew Fisher
18. The Present
Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) is .......?
1. 24% 2. 27% 3. 20% 4.
28% 5. 23%
19. Stagflation means
.........?
1) Low inflation combined with high unemployment and slow
economic growth
2) Persistent high inflation combined with high employment
and fast economic growth
3) Low inflation combined with high employment rate and fast
paced economic growth
4) Persistent high inflation combined with high
unemployment and slow economic growth
5) None of above
20. Consider the
following statements?
i) Roshni is the skill development scheme launched on 7 June
2013 by the ministry of Rural Development
ii) It aims to provide training and employment to youth in
the 10-35 years age group
iii) It was launched in 24 Naxal-affected districts
iv) It is a 100-crore project and is funded by union and
state governments, with the union providing 75% of the funding Which of the
above statements is/are correct?
1) ii iii 2) ii iv
3) i ii iii iv 4) ii 5) None
21. India's sixth
commodity exchange which started its operations on 19 April 2013?
1) NSE 2) MCX 3) NMCE
4) UCX 5) ACE
22. Construction of
country's first fully private Greenfield airport commenced in......?
1) Gaya (Bihar)
2) Pune (Maharashtra)
3) Karaikal (Puducherry)
4) Sivaganga (Tamilnadu)
5) Somnath (Gujarat)
23. Where is the head
office of Insurance Regulatory Development Authority?
1) Kolkata 2) Mumba 3) Hyderabad 4) Chennai 5) Delhi
24. The correct
statement is ......?
1) During the visit of Man Mohan singh in Thailand, a
sapling of the sacred bodhi tree in Bodh Gaya given as a gift to Thailand king Bhumibol
Adulyadej
2) $ 5.2 billion humanitarian fund will be given by UNO to
Syria
3) World's largest concentrated
solar power plant launched by
UAE by name Shams I
4) From 1 April 2013, Myanmar allowed the circulation of
private newspapers after 50 years
5) All of above
25. Pick the wrong
combination?
1) Chief Election Commissioner- Satyendra Mishra
2) Chief of the Naval Staff-Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi
3) Minister of Commerce and Industry -Anand Sharma
4) Chief Minister of Karnataka - Siddaramaiah
5) UPSC Chairman - D.P.Agarwal
26. Who was
re-elected as the chairman of IBA(Indian Banks Association) for the 2013-14
tenure?
1) Chanda Kocchar
2) Urjith Patel 3)
K.R.Kamath
4) Aravind Mayaram 5)
None
27. On 13 June 2013,
RBI slapped fine on new generation private banks. The main reason is for
......?
1) not opening of No Frill accounts for BPL families
2) not opening of ATM in onsite premises as
promised by Finance minister in the budget
3) not issuing new currency notes to customers
4) giving of advertisements about personal loans in news
papers
5) violating rules of KYC (Know Your Customer)
28. Leaf turns
Yellow: the Sufis of Awadh released by Hamid Ansari. It was edited by.......?
1) Hashim Amir Ali 2) Muzaffar Ali
3) Gulam Nabi Azad 4) Taslima Nasreen
5) None
29.USSD stands for
.......?
1) Unstructured Supplementary Service Data
2) Universal Supplementary Service Data
3) Unstructured Standard Service Data
4) Unstructured Supplementary Service Dairy
5) Unstructured Supplementary Stolen Data
30. World Oceans day
celebrated on .....?
1) 8 April 2) 8 May
3) 8 June 4) 8
February 5) 8 January
31. Pages stained
with blood, Ramayan?a from Ganga to Brahmaputra, Melodies and Guns, The
Moth-Eaten Howdah of the Tusker, The shadow of Kamakhya, The Man from
Chinnamasta are the works of..?
1) Indira Goswami 2) Nehru 3) Gandhi
4) Sarojini Naidu 5) Chetan Bhagath
32. In which country
Bank of Baroda opened its 100th overseas branch on 28 March 2013?
1) USA 2) UK 3) South Africa
4) Dubai 5) Australia
33. Savings account
become inoperative, if.... ?
1) cash deposited in another branch not intimated to the
parent branch
2) amount withdrawn by ATM exceeds Rs.50,000
3) net banking done on 31st of the month
4) not operated at all during certain period as per the
bank rules
5) None
34. Lakulish Yoga University
is the first Yoga university in India, inaugurated on 23 May 2013 at .....?
1) Mumbai
2) Ahmadabad
3) New Delhi 4) Patna 5) Haridwar
35. Which global
rating agency revised India's sovereign credit outlook from negative to stable
on 12 June 2013?
1) S&P 2) CRISIL
3) Fitch 4) Moody 5) ICRA
36. 117th
Constitutional Amendment bill relates to .......?
1) SC, ST reservation in promotions
2) Lokpal and Lokayukta
3) Goods and services Tax
4) increase the retirement age of high court judges
5) change of the entry of Oriya Language to Odiya in the 8th
Schedule of Constitution of India
37.Assom Ratna Award
for the year 2012 conferred on.........?
1) Indira Goswami (known by her pen name Mamoni Raisom
Goswami)
2) Surendranath Medhi (known by his penname Saurav Kumar
Chaliha)
3) Tarun Gogoi (Chief minister of Assam)
4) Janaki Ballav Patnaik (Governor of Assam)
5) Prafulla Kumar Mahanta (President of the Asom Gana
Parishad)
38. The International
Workshop on Green National Accounting held on 5 April 2013 at ...... ?
1) Mumbai 2) Kolkata
3) Kochi 4) Pune 5) New Delhi
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