Q. 1 Name the new 5500 horse power
state-of-the-art freight train engine, designed by Research Designs and
Standards Organisation (RDSO), Lucknow, and manufactured by Diesel Locomotive
Works, Varanasi, which is the most powerful engine till date and will be inducted
in Indian Rail soon. 1) Arjun 2) Bhim 3)
Angad 4) Virat 5) None of these
Q. 2 Which of the following films
won the best film award in recently concluded Mumbai Film Festival in newly
introduced ‘India Gold’ category for Indian feature films? 1) Shahid 2) Chariots of Fire’ 3) Aqui Y Alla 4) Miss Lowly 5) None of these
Q. 3 Name the leading gold
financing company of the country which has been given Golden Peacock Award for
‘Excellence in Corporate Governance’ for the year 2012 in London. 1) Muthoot
Fincorp 2) Muthoot Finance Ltd 3)
Manappuram Finance 4) HDFC Gold Loan 5)
None of these
Q. 4 Name the ace driver of Red
Bull team of Formula One race who recently won second edition of Indian Grand
Prix. 1) Sebastian Vettel 2) Michael
Schumacher 3) Mark Webber 4) Fernando
Alonso 5) None of these
Q. 5 Which of the following
Formula One team had decided to continue sporting the Italian navy’s flag on
their cars in support of their two marines charged with homicide in Kerala? 1)
Scuderia Ferrari 2) Red Bull Racing 3)
McLaren 4) Lotus 5) None of these
Q. 6 Name the Magsaysay Award
winner and member of National Advisory Council who has been appointed as the
chairman of Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA). 1) Deep Joshi 2) Dr Yogendra K Alagh 3) Prof. G S
Gupta 4) I C Srivastava 5) None of
these
Q. 7 India and Spain inked five
pacts during the visit of Spanish king who was on a four-day visit to India
accompanied by a business delegation. Name the king. 1) Jigme Khesar Namgyel
Wangchuck 2) Akihito
3) Juan
Carlos I 4) Lee Myung-bak 5) None of
these
Q. 8 Norway’s telecom company
Telenor which ended its partnership with Unitech, has now partnered with which
of the following companies to form a new joint venture? 1) Sun Pharma 2) Lakshdeep Investment and Finance 3) Sun TV
Network 4) Weizmann Forex 5) None of
these
Q. 9 Which of the following Indian
actresses launched her latest international single In My City? 1) Kareena
Kapoor 2) Priyanka Chopra 3) Ishita
Arun 4) Sridevi 5) None of these
Q. 10 Jaspal Bhatti passed
away recently in a road accident. He was a famous 1) singer 2) movie critic 3) composer 4) satirist 5) None of these
Q. 11 Name the person who is
all set to become party head of the Chinese Communist Party and will replace Hu
Jintao as the president next year. 1) Zhang Dejiang 2) Xi Jinping 3) Yu Zhengsheng 4) Li Keqiang 5) None of these
Q. 12 Name the late presenter
of BBC who has been alleged to sexually abuse several people during his career
which has shaken the broadcaster. 1) Jimmy Savile 2) George Entwistle 3) Peter Rippon 4) Mark Thompson 5) None of these
Q. 13 Who recently won the
French Open Super Series women’s singles in Paris defeating Saina Nehwal of
India? 1) Ratchanok Inthanon 2) Li Han
3) Sapsiree Taerattanachai 4) Minatsu
Mitani 5) None of these
Q. 14 Name the hurricane
which hit the US East Coast recently causing extensive destruction overnight in
which several people have been reported dead and millions left without
electricity. 1) Camille 2) Sandy 3)
Alma 4) Donna 5) None of these
Q. 15 Recently DMRC has been
awarded with which of the following awards? 1) Golden Peacock Award for
Corporate Governance 2) Golden Peacock
Award for Climate Security 3) Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
President Award 4) Golden Peacock Award
for Corporate Social Responsibility 5) Japanese award for Most Innovative
Development Project
Q. 16 The Union government
has asked all mobile operators offering smartphone services of which of the
following companies to implement the interception solution by December 31 to
enable security agencies to check misuse of the encrypted service? 1)
Apple 2) Google 3) Microsoft 4) BlackBerry 5) None of these
Q. 17 Reliance Industries
owned Infotel Broadband Services Ltd is all set to launch its fourth generation
technology based broadband services in which of the following cities? 1) Delhi,
Mumbai and Kolkata 2) Delhi, Mumbai and
Jamnagar 3) Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai 4)
Delhi, Mumbai and Ahmedabad 5) None of these
Q. 18 The line asserted by
the US as the international border between Pakistan and Afghanistan has
triggered a fresh war of words between the two neighbours. Which of the
following lines separates these two nations? 1) Redcliff Line 2) McMohan Line 3) Durand Line 4) Maginot Line 5) None of these
Q. 19 Name the former Premier
of Italy whom a court of the country has convicted of tax fraud and sentenced
him to four years in prison. 1) Lamberto Dini
2) Massimo D'Alema 3) Romano Prodi
4) Silvio Berlusconi 5) None of these
Q. 20 ICC recently gave its
seal of approval to which of the following new format of test matches
announcing new playing conditions for Tests, ODIs and T20 Internationals? 1)
Day-night Test matches 2) Three day Test
matches 3) Limited over Test matches 4)
Four day Test matches 5) None of these
Q. 21 Which of the following
world’s two leading English language publishing houses has announced to merge
recently? 1) Penguin-Ransom 2)
Penguin-HarperCollins 3) Ransom-HarperCollins
4) Penguin-Elsevier 5) None of these
Q. 22 Who is the writer of
the recently published book Return to India? 1) Javid Chaudhury 2) Arvind Verma 3) R Nagraj 4) Shoba Narayan 5) None of these
Q. 23 After the recent
cabinet reshuffle who has assumed the charge of the Railway Ministry which has
returned to Congress party after 17 years? 1) C P Joshi 2) Pawan Kumar Bansal 3) S Jaipal Reddy 4) Jitendra Singh 5) None of these
Q. 24 Union government has
recently approved Reliance Industries to further develop its which of the
following largest oil and gas producing block? 1) Panna-Mukta oilfield 2) Mangala Area 3) KG-D6 4) Tapti fields 5) None of these
Q. 25 Home Ministry has
recently cleared the India-Pakistan cricket series. This series will be played
between the two teams in December-January in 1) India 2) Pakistan 3) both the countries 4) a third country to be decided later 5)
None of these
Q. 26 In its second quarter
review of the monetary policy, RBI cut the cash reserve ratio (CRR) by 25 basis
points to fix it at 1) 4.25 per cent 2)
4.50 per cent 3) 4.75 per cent 4) 4.00
per cent 5) None of these
Q. 27 Haldia port has been in
news in recent days. Which of the following statements is/are correct regarding
its present crisis? 1) Cargo handling company at the port, HPT wrote KoPT
seeking more cargo allocation as it was suffering losses due to lack of
cargo. 2) After KoPT not committing more
cargo, HPT laid off 275 workers following which workers launched an agitation
against HPT. 3) TMC MP Suvendu Adhikari who is taking up cause of laid off
workers is said to own port’s only other cargo firm. 4) All the above are correct 5) None of the
above is correct
Q. 28 It has been decided to
invite Sultan of Oman as the chief guest for the Republic Day parade next year.
Name the Sultan of Oman. 1) Tunku Mahmud
2) Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem 3) Qaboos bin Said Al Said 4) Hassanal Bolkiah 5) None of these
Q. 29 Which of the following
cyclones hit Tamil Nadu coast recently bringing heavy rainfall and strong
winds? 1) Nilam 2) Onil 3) Laila 4) Agni 5) None of these
Q. 30 High court in Rwanda
sentenced the leading opposition leader Victoire Ingabire to eight years in prison
recently. She has been accused of 1) conspiring to harm the country through war
and terror. 2) minimising the 1994
genocide that tore the nation apart. 3) trying to mend the constitution of the
country in favour of Hutus. 4) Only 1)
and 2) 5) Only 1) and 3)
Q. 31 Which of the following
companies is all set to buy filmmaker George Lucas’s Lucasfilm Ltd and its
‘Star Wars’ franchise for $4.05 billion with a promise to release a new film of
the series in 2015? 1) Warner Brothers
2) 20th Century Fox 3) Walt Disney
4) Sony Motion Pictures 5) None of these
Q. 32 The board of directors
of IDBI Bank has approved the merger of which of the following corporations
with the bank which is subject to regulatory and shareholders’ approval? 1)
Stock Holding Corporation of India Limited
2) Unit Trust of India 3) Sharekhan Limited 4) India Infoline Limited 5) None of
these
Q. 33 What is India’s current
rank according to the fifth edition of the Financial Development Report of
World Economic Forum released recently? 1) 40th
2) 36th 3) 32nd 4) 30th 5) None
of these
Q. 34 Which of the following
Indian players will get Polly Umrigar Award at the BCCI Annual Award ceremony
in which Sachin Tendulkar will be awarded for his 100th international century?
1) R Ashwin 2) M S Dhoni 3) Gautam
Gambhir 4) Virat Kohli 5) None of
these
Q. 35 Which of the following
Japanese broking firm has been fined with record $2.5 million in the wake of an
insider trading scandal? 1) Daiwa 2)
Nomura 3) Yamaichi 4) Nikko 5) None of
these
Q. 36 Taking in account a
commercial bank, which of the following cannot be the source of its borrowing?
1)
Capital 2) Cash reserves with RBI 3)
Call Money 4) Fixed deposits by
customers 5) None of these
Q. 37 With which of the
following cards the risk is highest for the issuing banks? 1) Dabit Cards 2) Credit Cards 3) ATM Cards 4) Travel Cards 5) All the above
Q. 38 Name the noted poet and
filmmaker who received the 27th Indira Gandhi award for national integration
from Congress president Sonia Gandhi on the death anniversary of the late Prime
Minister. 1) Javed Akhtar 2) Gulzar 3)
Vikram Seth 4) Charanjeet Makar 5) None
of these
Q. 39 Which of the following
is a snooker player who represents/represented India in international events?
1) Geet Sethi 2) Pankaj Advani 3) Vikram
Seth 4) Subhash Agarwal 5) All the above
Q. 40 Who among the following
is Cabinet Secretary of Government of India at present? 1) Ajit Kumar Seth 2) Upendra Tripathi 3) L. C. Goyal 4) Alok Rawat 5) None of these
Q. 41 Which of the following
states started a week-long festival named ‘Rajyotsava’ recently to mark the
12th year of its formation? 1) Uttarakhand
2) Chhattisgarh 3) Jharkhand 4) Delhi
5) None of these
Q. 42 The Supreme Court of
India started hearing against the election of Pranab Mukherjee as President on
the petition of which of the following persons? 1) Ram Jethmalani 2) Rajnath Singh 3) P A Sangma 4) Agatha Sangma 5) None of these
Q. 43 Which of the following
terms is not used in the game of cricket? 1) Leg bye 2) Kidney Punch 3) Overthrow 4) Timed out 5) None of these
Q. 44 Under the Legal
Metrology Amendment Rules 2012 the Union Government has made it mandatory for a
manufacturer to pack items in 1) any size
2) in small sizes only 3) in big sizes only 4) prescribed standard sizes only 5) None of
these
Q. 45 The first ever ‘World
Economic Forum on India’ to be organized in Gurgaon will be participated by
1)
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and former British premier Gordon
Brown 2) Federal Minister of Pakistan
Farzana Raja and former cricketer Imran Khan 3) Only 1) 4) Only 2) 5) Both 1) and 2)
Q. 46 Which of the following
is a film directed by late Yash Chopra, the last film directed by him? 1) Ek
Tha Tiger 2) Dhoom 3 3) Jab Tak Hai Jaan 4) Veer-Zaara 5) None of these
Q. 47 Which of the following
is the rate at which the domestic currency can be converted into foreign
currency and also the vice-versa? 1) Base rate
2) Exchange rate 3) Repo rate 4)
Inter-bank call money 5) None of these
Q. 48 Travel solution
provider major Thomas Cook (India) has partnered with which of the following
companies to provide travel card? 1) Visa Card
2) National Payment Corporation of India (RuPay) 3) MasterCard Worldwide 4) OneDebit 5) None of these
Q. 49 Which of the following
companies has become the latest entrant in the Indian smartphone market which
is the world’s second largest personal computer manufacturer? 1) Acer 2) Lenovo 3) Hewlett-Packard 4) HTC 5) None of these
Q. 50 The 9th summit of
48-member Asia-Europe meeting will be held at which of the following places in
which External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid will participate? 1)
Berlin 2) Perth 3) Dhaka 4) Laos 5) None of these
Answers :- 1. 2 2.
4 3. 2 4. 1 5. 1 6. 1 7. 3 8. 2 9. 2 10. 4 11. 2 12. 1 13. 4 14. 2 15. 3 16. 4
17. 2 18. 3 19. 4 20. 1 21. 1 22. 4 23. 2 24. 3 25. 1 26. 1 27. 4 28. 3 29. 1
30.. 4 31. 3 32. 1 33. 1 34. 4 35. 2 36. 1 37. 2 38. 2 39. 5 40. 1 41. 2 42. 3
43. 2 44. 4 45. 5 46. 3 47. 2 48. 3 49. 2 50. 4
