Q. 1 Name the Telugu writer who was
selected for the prestigious Jnanpith award for the year 2012.1) R
Ananthamurthy 2) Dr Ravuri Bharadwaja3) Jayakanthan 4) JM Sali5) None of these
Q. 2 The recent CAG reports point out
several performances and financial anomalies in Kol Dham Hydro Electric Power
Project. The project belongs to1) Jammu & Kashmir 2) Uttarakhand3) Himachal
Pradesh 4) Meghalaya5) None of these
Q. 3 As per the data released by the
Ministry of Rural Development recently, job generation under the MNREGA scheme
has _______ over the years.1) increased 2) declined3) remained constant 4)
mixed trend5) None of these
Q. 4 Which of the following statements
is/are not correct about National Population Register (NPR)?
1) It is a project of home ministry. 2)
It is a substitute for Aadhar (UID).3) It collects identity through three
biometrics photographs, fingerprints and iris impression.4) All the residents
above five years of age have to be enrolled mandatorily. 5) It will be used for
identification and providing target groups access to government schemes and
social sector benefits.
Q. 5 Name the player who became the first
bowler to take three hat-tricks in the Indian Premier League (IPL). 1) Yuvraj
Singh 2) Rohit Sharma 3) Amit Mishra 4) Praveen Kumar5) None of these
Q. 6 Indian cinema will complete its
journey of 100 years on May 3 this year. India's first silent feature film
"Raja Harishchandra" was screened on May 3, 1913 at 1) Coronation
Theatre 2) Majestic Cinema 3) Prabhat Studios 4) Bombay Talkies 5) Wadia
Movietone
Q. 7 Rohinton Nariman, who resigned from
his post recently, was the 1) Advocate General of Delhi 2) Solicitor General of
India 3) Attorney General of India 4) Assistant Solicitor General of India 5)
None of these
Q. 8 For the first time since 2006, Spain
crashed out of the first round of the Davis Cup recently. Which of the following
countries has defeated Spain in the world group tie? 1) Sweden 2) France 3)
Canada 4) Japan 5) None of these
Q. 9 Although the Union Cabinet approved a
proposal for FDI in insurance to 49 per cent. The current percentage of FDI in
India 1) 0 per cent 2) 26 per cent 3) 74 per cent 4) 49 per cent 5) None of
these
Q. 10 Name the only women chief election
commissioner of India, who died on April 17 1) Rama Devi 2) Leela Seth 3)
Fathima Beevi 4) Anna Chandy 5) None of these
Q. 11 Which of the following politicians
of India has been named by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people
in the world in its annual list of global achievers? 1) Pranab Mukherjee 2) P
Chidambaram 3) Jairam Ramesh 4) Sushma Swaraj 5) Manmohan Singh
Q. 12 Name the woman officer who was
appointed Special Director General of the country's largest paramilitary force
CRPF on April 18. This is the first time a woman officer is occupying the
second top post in the hierarchy of the force. 1) Kiran Bedi 2) Nisha Priya
Bhatia 3) Anjali Gupta 4) Aruna Bahuguna 5) None of these
Q. 13 Which of the following state’s Rural
Management and Development Department has bagged the prestigious Prime Minister's
Award for Excellence in Public Administration for 2011-12? 1) MP 2) Sikkim 3)
Bihar 4) Assam 5) Guajarat
Q. 14 The Olympic gold medalist, Britain's
Chris Hoy has announced his retirement from the sport on April 19. He was
associated with the- 1) Hockey 2) Swimming 3) Cycling 4) Shooting 5)
Weightlifting
Q. 15 Union Cabinet on April 18 approved
the proposal to increase dearness allowance (DA) to 80 per cent,
benefiting about 50 lakh employees and
30 lakh pensioners of the central government. Earlier, it was 1) 50 per cent 2)
68 per cent 3) 72 per cent 4) 78 per cent 5) None of these
Q. 16 According to United Nations report,
Indian economy is likely to grow in 2013 at 1) 5 per cent 2) 5.5 per cent 3)
6.2 per cent 4) 6.4 per cent 5) 8 per cent
Q. 17 The Cabinet Committee on Economic
Affairs approved allocation of enhanced funds to the tune of Rs 12,000 crore as
a special plan under the Backward Region Grant Fund for the 12th five year plan
(2012-13 to 2016-17) against Rs 5,600 crore in the previous plan for 1) UP 2)
Bihar 3) MP 4) Jharkhand 5) None of these
Q. 18 What is the limit of Foreign Direct
Investment (FDI) at present in private banks in India? 1) 26% 2) 49% 3) 100% 4)
74% 5) None of these
Q. 19 P V Sindhu is associated with which
of the following games? 1) Tennis 2) Badminton 3) Golf 4) Shooting 5) Wrestling
Q. 20 World Heritage day is observed on 1)
18 April 2) 19 April 3) 22 April 4) 27 April 5) None of these
Q. 21 The is a situation of a political
storm in India over the leakage of report that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
and Finance Minister P Chidambaram get a clean chit in the draft JPC report on
2G scam. The panel is chaired by who amongst the following? 1) Yashwant Sinha
2) PC Chacko 3) J P Agarwal 4) Murli Manohar Joshi 5) None of these
Q. 22 Who amongst the following has
written the book titled ‘Samudra Manthan: Sino-Indian Rivalry In The Indo-
Pacific’? 1) Ira Pande 2) C Raja Mohan 3) Sunil Janah 4) Amish Tripathy 5) None
of these
Q. 23 Which of the following Indian
cities, after a long gap of 25 years, will host the four-day 44th World Trade
Centre General Assembly? The event will
see over 300 global experts, policymakers, industrialists and marketing gurus.
1) Mumbai 2) New Delhi 3) Kolkata 4) Bangalore 5) None of these
Q. 24 The veteran cricketer Mike Denness
passed away recently. He belonged to which of the following countries? 1) South
Africa 2) New Zealand 3) Australia 4) England 5) None of these
Q. 25 Ahead of his 40th birthday, the wax
statue of Sachin Tendulkar has been unveiled at which of the following cricket
grounds recently? 1) Lords 2) Eden Gardens 3) Sydney 4) The Oval 5) Melbourne
Q. 26 A Sivathanu Pillai has been given
the Padma Bhushan award by President Pranab Mukherjee recently. The
distinguished scientist is the chief of which of the following programmes? 1)
Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme 2) BrahMos Aerospace 3) Agni-V
4) K-15 5) None of these
Q. 27 For the effective implementation of
policies and programmes chartered out in the 12th Five Year Plan, planning
commission has come with a new initiative, IBIN. What is the full form of the
same? 1) India Backbone Initiative Network 2) India Broader Implementation
Network 3) India Backbone Implementation Network 4) India Broad-based
Implementation Norms 5) None of these
Q. 28 Which of the following state
governments has decided to expand the network of web enabled Online Treasury
Information System in the State to seven more districts in addition to existing
two districts? 1) Haryana 2) Punjab 3) Andhra Pradesh 4) Madhya Pradesh 5) None
of these
Q. 29 Indian shuttler PV Sindhu defeated
who amongst the following to storm into the last-eight stage in the women’s
singles category in Badminton Asia Championships at Taipei recently? 1) Eriko
Hirose 2) Shixian Wang 3) Juliane SCHENK 4) LI Xuerui 5) None of these
Q. 30 Name the country which has launched
a bio-satellite packed with an array of mice and other small creatures aboard
its famed Soyuz rocket recently? This is an effort to study the effects of long
flights on living organisms. 1) China 2) US 3) France 4) Russia 5) None of
these
Q. 31 The International Mother Earth Day
is observed on which of the following dates? 1) April 20 2) April 21 3) April
22 4) April 23 5) None of these
Q. 32 Ms Shakuntala Devi passed away
recently at a Bangaluru hospital following respiratory problems. She was a
distinguished ______. 1) Mathematical genius 2) Sitar Maestro 3) Classical
Dancer 4) Social Activist 5) None of these
Q. 33 Name the Chinese province which was
hit by a powerful earthquake recently. The authorities are continuing a massive
rescue operation after the earthquake killed at least 188 people and left more
than 11,000 others injured. 1) Yunnan 2) Sichuan 3) Guangdong 4) Shandong 5)
Zhejiang
Q. 34 About 185 people were killed and
several others wounded during fierce clashes between the Boko Haram militants
and the state military. These militants are active in which of the following
countries? 1) Cameroon 2) Benin 3) Ghana 4) Nigeria 5) None of these
Q. 35 Which of the following statements
is/are correct with respect of European Union’s (EU) latest stand on Syria? 1)
The EU foreign ministers met in Luxembourg to discuss issues related to easing
the oil embargo against Syria to help the rebel opposition. 2) The 27-nation
bloc had slapped a ban on investments in Syrian oil in September 2011, followed
by a ban on imports of oil in December. 3) Exports of crude provided up to one
third of Syria’s revenues and EU used to buy nearly 95 percent of the Syrian
crude. 4) All the above 5) None of these
Q. 36 The five-day event, 8th World
Chambers of Congress, is being held in which of the following cities? This is
the year’s biggest international gathering of chamber and business leaders
being held for the first time in the West Asia. 1) Abu Dhabi 2) Qatar 3) Muscat
4) Manama 5) None of these
Q. 37 Who amongst the following has won
the Monte Carlo Masters men’s singles title recently? 1) Novak Djokovic 2)
Rafael Nadal 3) Andy Murray 4) Roger Federer 5) None of these
Q. 38 Who amongst the following has won
the women’s race of the London Marathon held recently amid tight security
arrangements? 1) Priscah Jeptoo 2) Atsede Baysa 3) Yukiko Akaba 4) Edna
Kiplagat 5) None of these
Q. 39 Cheteshwar Pujara is the only Indian
batsman to figure in the ICC’s latest Test rankings retaining number seven
position. Who amongst the following holds the top position amongst the batsmen?
1) AB de Villiers 2) Shivnarine Chanderpaul 3) Hashim Amla 4) KC Sangakkara 5)
None of these
Q. 40 Name the veteran politician and
parliamentarian who has been elected unopposed as the new President of
Bangladesh? 1) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad 2) Abdul Hamid 3) Fakhruddin Ahmed 4)
Muhammad Yunus 5) None of these
Q. 41 The Ministry of Home Affairs has
decided to provide Z-category security to which of the following Indian
industrialists recently? 1) Ratan Tata 2) Mukesh Ambani 3) Anil Ambani 4) Navin
Jindal 5) None of these
Q. 42 Name the Nigerian President who has
set up a committee to investigate the possibility of granting a general amnesty
to militants from the group known as Boko Haram. 1) Bola Ahmed Tinubu 2)
Goodluck Jonathan 3) Umaru Musa 4) Muhammadu Buhari 5) None of these
Q. 43 Who amongst the following has won
the men’s section of London Marathon held recently? 1) Feyisa Lilesa 2) Ayele
Abshero 3) Emmanuel Mutai 4) Tsegaye Kebede 5) None of these
Q. 44 Which of the following countries has
topped the list of countries receiving remittances according to the latest
edition of the World Bank’s Migration and Development Brief? 1) Nigeria 2)
Mexico 3) Philippines 4) China 5) India
Q. 45 Which of the following Indian
automakers has been conferred with the prestigious ‘Indian Multinational of the
Year’ award at the AIMA Managing India Awards 2013? 1) Tata Motors 2) Mahindra
and Mahindra Ltd 3) Hero Moto Corp 4) Bajaj Auto Ltd 5) None of these
Q. 46 Consider the following statements
with respect to Jagdish Saran Verma, who passed away recently, and choose the
correct sentence(s):1) He served as the 27th Chief Justice of India. 2) He
headed the three member committee to suggest improvement in criminal law to
tackle crime against women. 3) He was the first chairperson of the News
Broadcasting Standards Authority. 4) All the above 5) Only 1) and 2)
Q. 47 Lalgudi Jayaraman, who passed away recently, was a legendary 1)
violinist 2) guitarist 3) flute player 4) tabla palyer 5) None of these
Q. 48 Name the person who has been
appointed as the vice-chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce (CCI)
recently? 1) Ratan Tata 2) Anil Agrawal 3) Sunil Bharti Mittal 4) Ravi Ruia 5)
None of these
Q. 49 National Panchayati Raj Diwas is
observed on which of the following dates to mark the passing of the
Constitution (73rd Amendment) Act, 1992, which institutionalised Panchayati
Raj. 1) April 21 2) April 22 3) April 23 4) April 24 5) None of these
Q. 50 The name of PV Sandhu is associated
with which of the following games? 1) Cricket 2) Tennis 3) Badminton 4)
Billiards 5) None of these
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