1. Which of the following teams won this season’s Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket cup?
a) Royal Challengers Bengalore
b) Mumbai Indians
c) Kolkata Knight Riders
d) Deccan Chargers
e) Chennai Super Kings
2. In the run-up to the free trade agreement between India and the European Union (EU), which of the following subjects has the EU taken up with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) pressing for its inclusion much to India’s discomfort?
a) Farm goods
b) Defence articles
c) Intellectual Property Rights
d) Visa norms
e) Industrial goods
3. Which of the following cities has been declared as the costliest city in the world?
a) Kobe
b) Paris
c) Zurich
d) Oslo
e) Tokyo
4. What is the Minimum Support Price (MSP) per quintal fixed by the Centre for wheat for the season 2010-11?
a) Rs. 1,000
b) Rs.1,100
c) Rs.1,200
d) Rs.1,300
e) Rs.1,250
5.Who is to take over as non-executive chairman of India’s second larges IT company, Infosys, when the incumbent chairman NR Narayana Murthy retires in August this year?
a) KV Kamath
b) Amit Mitra
c) Renuka Ramnath
d) Samidha Sharma
e) Vinita Bali
6 In which of the following countries has Tata Motors launched its Nano cars, touted to be the cheapest car of the world, for the first time outside India?
A) Sri Lanka
B) Nepal
C) Malaysia
D) Indonesia
a) Only (B)
b) Only (A) Indonesia
c) Only (C)
d) Only (A), (B) and (D)
e) None of these
7. Which f the following business ownership structure companies has been given green signal by the stock market regulator, SEBI, to get membership of stock exchanges and make brokers?
a) Sole proprietorship companies
b) Limited liability companies
c) Non-profit organizations
d) Cooperative companies
e) None of these
8.Which of the following teams has won the Santosh Trophy football tournament?
a) Manipur
b) Delhi
c) Haryana
d) West Bengal
e) Madhya Pradesh
9.With which of the trading partners do Indian farm goods face market access problems on the grounds of arbitrary SPS (Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary) standards and CCC (chemical residues)?
a) US
b) ASEAN
c) SAARC
d) EU
e) Japan
10.Indian Railways is to construct the longest tunnel (11km long) on its network in the under-construction railway segments of
a) Indo-Burma rail project
b) West Coast Railways of India
c) Katra-Qazigund Pir Panjal Tunnel
d) Arunachal railway project
e) Gangtok - Siliguri railway project
11. There has been stalemate in the drafting committee of Lokpal Bill between the civil activists and political leader over the contents of he Bill. Which of the following are the major bones of contention between the two sides?
I. Inclusion of the office of the Prime Minister under anti-corruption watchdog
II. Bringing higher judiciary under the purview of Lokpal
III. Bringing the office of the Chief Ministers under Lokpal.
IV. In camera monitoring of the activities of MPs in Parliament.
a) Only I and II
b) Only IV
c) Only I, II and IV
d) All the above
e) None of these
12. Which of the following teams has recently won the Champions Leagues final at Wembley in London?
a) Manchester United
b) Barcelona
c) Real Madrid
d) AC Milan
e) Chelsea FC
13.Which of the following countries has recently decided to phase out all it nuclear power plants by 2022?
a) Japan
b) Italy
c) Ukraine
d) Germany
e) Spain
14.Who has been honoured with the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding for 2009?
a) Angela Merkel
b) Hillary Clinton
c) Aung San Suu Kyi
d) Lula da Silva
e) Sheikh Hasina
15.G-4 is an alliance of four countries for the purpose of supporting each other’s bid for permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council. Apart from India, which are the other three countries constitution G4?
a) Brazil, Germany and Japan
b) Brazil, South Africa and Japan
c) Mexico, Brazil and South Africa
d) Japan, Brazil and Mexico
e) None of these
16.In which of the following international universities has a chair been instituted in the memory of India’s pioneering development economist, Sanjay Lall?
a) Cambridge University
b) Stanford University
c) Oxford University
d) Moscow University
e) San Carlos University
17.Name the new non-linked health insurance plan of the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India which offers comprehensive hospitalization benefits for the whole family and parents-in-law of the principal insured?
a) Rishtey
b) Jeevan Sathi
c) Anmol Jeevan
d) Health Plus
e) Jeevan Arogya
18.Who has been nominated for the CK Naidu Lifetime Achievement award?
a) Lala Amarnath
b) Salim Durrani
c) Syed Mushtaq Ali
d) KN Prabhu
e) Syed Kirmani
19. British - born Sierra Leonean novelist Aminatta Forma won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for which of the following novels?
a) The Devil that Danced on the Water
b) Ancestor Stones
c) The Memory of Love
d) Ancestor Love
e) All for Love
20. Which of the following rules has/have not been scrapped by the insurance regulator IRDA?
a) Commission on the sale of ULIP
b) Profitability clause of three years for floating initial public offer (IPOs)
c) Traditional insurance plans have to make 50% investment in government bonds
d) Only a and b
e) Only a and c
21.Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) has been operating under SWS. What is the full form of SWS?
a) Small Welfare Scheme
b) Single Window Scheme
c) Small Window Service
d) Single Window Service
e) None of these
22. Which of the following is the target fixed by the 11th five-year plan pertaining to increase literacy, level by the 2012 The level should be increased to
a) 50%
b) 60%
c) 70%
d) 85%
e) 90%
23.‘Blue Revolution’ is related to
a) Space Research
b) Fisheries
c) Drinking Water
d) Poultry
e) Milk
24.Normally two types of factors are responsible for industrial sickness - external and internal. Which of the following is not an internal factor of industrial sickness?
a) Shortage of power
b) Mismanagement
c) Diversion of funds
d) Excessive overheads
e) Overestimation of demand
25.Which of the following is an employment - generating scheme?
a) Ganga Kalyan Yojana
b) IRDA
c) Swarnjayanti Shahri Rozgar Yojana
d) Mid-Day Meal Scheme
e) All of the above.
26.Ethanol - mixed petrol is being sold in various states wef January 1, 2003. The percentage of ethanol in petrol is
a) 10%
b) 7%
c) 6%
d) 5.5%
e) 5%
27. Which of the following is the correct sequence in the decreasing order of contribution of different sectors to the Gross Domestic Product of India?
a) Services - Industry - Agriculture
b) Services - Agriculture - Industry
c) Industry - Services - Agriculture
d) Industry - Agriculture - Services
e) None of these
28.Which of the following agencies recently laid down guidelines for foreign companies who wish to raise money from the Indian capital markets?
a) RBI
b) IRDA
c) Registrar of companies
d) SEBI
e) None of these
29. Consider the following statements:
A) The repo rate is the rate at which other banks borrow money from the Reserve Bank of India.
B) A value of one for Gini co-efficient in a country implies that there is perfectly equal income for everyone in its population.
C) Higher interest rates can make EMIs costly. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
a) Only A
b) Only A and C
c) Only B and C
d) All the above
e) None of these
30. These days, more and more banks in Indian are setting up their ATMs and discouraging people to visit their branches for transaction. Which of the following is/are the limitations of the ATMs which force people to go to branch for transactions?
A) Lack of human interface
B) Communication gap
C) Limited cash - dispensing ability
a) Only A
b) Only B
c) Only C
d) Both A and B
e) A, B, and C All
31.Which of the following countries has the largest stock of foreign exchange reserves in the world?
a) USA
b) China
c) Japan
d) India
e) None of these
32.Which of the following taxes is exclusively and totally assigned to the state government by the Constitutions?
a) Estate duty
b) Sales Tax
c) Taxes on Railway fares and freights
d) Corporation tax
e) Entertainment
33. The tax on import and export is known as
a) Income tax
b) Trade tax
c) Customs duty
d) Commercial tax
e) None of the above
34.Which of the following is not an objective of fiscal policy of Indian government?
a) Full employment
b) Price stability
c) Regulation of inter-state trade
d) Equitable distribution of wealth and income
e) None of these
35. In India, national income is estimated by
a) Planning Commission
b) Central Statistical Organisation
c) Indian Statistical Institute
d) National Sample Survey Organisation
e) None of these
36.Bharat Nirman Scheme of the UPA government does not include
a) Rural water supply project
b) Irrigation benefit programme
c) Rural electrification
d) Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
e) None of these
37. Invisible export means export of
a) Services
b) Prohibited goods
c) Unrecorded goods
d) Goods through smuggling
e) Illegal export through a third county
38.A labour-intensive industry is one that
a) requires hard manual labour
b) pays adequate wages to the labour
c) employs more hands
d) provides facilities to labour
e) None of these
39.In the law of demand, the statement ‘other things remain constant’ means.
a) income of consumer should not change
b) prices of other goods should not change
c) taste of consumer should not change
d) All the above
e) None of these
40.A firm is in equilibrium when its
a) Marginal cost equals the marginal revenue
b) Total cost is minimum
c) Total revenue is maximum
d) Average revenue and marginal revenue are equal
e) None of these
41.Bhagyam oil fields which are being explored by Carins India, is located in
a) Assam
b) Gujarat
c) Rajasthan
d) Karnataka
e) None of the above
42.In which of the following regions of India has the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) found evidences of hearths built by cutting natural mountains belonging to periods 3,000 to 4,000 years ago, for the first time?
a) Garo Hills, Meghalaya
b) Mishmi Hills, Arunachal Pradesh
c) Western Ghats
d) Ladakh Valley
e) Satpura Range, Madhya Pradesh
43.Which of the following famous tabloids of Britain recently ceased its operations after its 168year - long history of scoops and scandals?
a) The Sun
b) Daily Mirror
c) The Morning Star
d) News of the World
e) None of these
44.Which of the following mobile operators has launched its mobile newspaper, Newswrap, for its customers in Hyderabad?
a) Airtel
b) Reliance
c) Idea
d) Vodafone
e) Aircel
45.Which of the following countries has taken over the rotational presidency of the European Union (EU) on July 1, 2011?
a) Denmark
b) Britain
c) Germany
d) Poland
e) Netherlands
46.Which of the following is the youngest country of the world that has joined the community of nations on July 9, 2011?
a) South Sudan
b) Maldova
c) Estonia
d) East Timor
e) None of these
47. Name the Indian woman athlete who has clinched gold medal in high jump in the Asian Athletic Championship in Kobe, Japan.
a) Shiny Wilson
b) Mayookha Johny
c) Soma Biswas
d) Neelam Jaswant Singh
e) None of these
48.As on June 30, 2011, which of the following rates stipulated by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is the lowest?
a) Bank Rate
b) Repo Rate
c) Savings Bank Rate
d) Cash Reserve Ratio
e) Statutory Liquidity Ratio
49.Consider the following statements about the contentious issues in the upcoming India-EU free trade agreement.
A) Intellectual property should be included in the investment chapter
B) Government procurement policy in agriculture should be kept out of the purview of the agreement.
C) Greater mutual market access for products such as automobiles, liquor, textile and liquor.
Which of the above statements is/are true?
a) Only A
b) Only A and B
c) Only A and C
d) All the above
e) None of these
50.Which of the following states has unveiled “Vision 2025” containing clear-cut policies for promoting investments in infrastructure such as power, ports, and ship building?
a) Andhra Pradesh
b) Tamil Nadu
c) Gujarat
d) Karnataka
e) None of these
ANSWERS:
1.e 2.c 3.e 4.b 5.a 6.d 7.b 8.d 9.b 10.c
11.c 12.b 13.d 14.a 15.a 16.c 17.e 18.d 19.c 20.d
21.d 22.d 23.b 24.a 25.c 26.e 27.a 28.d 29.d 30.c
31.b 32.b 33.c 34.c 35.b 36.d 37.a 38.c 39.d 40.a
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