General awareness 2012 & 2013

4) Total Sanitation Campaign
5) National Rural Livelihood Mission

24. The Union Cabinet on June7, 2012 allowed capital infusion of Rs.632 crore in which of the following banks?

1) SBI 2) SBI Associate Banks 3) All Public Sector Banks
4) Private Banks
5) Regional Rural Banks

25. The Planning Commission constituted an expert group headed by which of the following economists to review the Tendul-kar committee methodology for estimating poverty?

1) Y.V.Reddy 2) Kaushik Basu
3) C.Rangarajan
4) Mahendra Dev 5) K.L.Datta

26. Woori Bank has set up its first Indian branch in Chennai. It is based in which of the following Asian countries?

1) China 2) Sri Lanka
3) Singapore 4) South Korea
5) Japan

27. FirstRand Bank started the retail and commercial banking opera-tions in India with the opening of a branch in Mumbai on April 18, 2012. It belongs to?

1) USA 2) Brazil
3) France 4) Germany
5) South Africa

28. Which of the following banks launched a dedicated 'Ajeevika' cell to

help alleviating poverty in rural hinterlands on April 15, 2012?
1) RBI 2) SBI
3) OBC 4) IDBI Bank
5) NABARD

29. RBI has made it mandatory for all banks to print which of the following on the Passbook and Statement of Account of the customers?

1) MICR code 2) IFSC code
3) PAN 4) Both 1 and 2
5) None of these

30. What is the interest rate on employees' provident fund for the year 2012-13?

1) 8.25% 2) 8.6%
3) 9% 4) 9.5%
5) None of these

31. The Central Government has approved how many crores of rupees for purchase of high-tech equipment for the National Intelligence Grid or NATGRID?

1) 1500 2) 2500
3) 1100 4) 2300
5) 1600

32. The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development was held in June 2012 in which of the following countries?

1) Germany 2) Denmark
3) India 4) Brazil
5) Kenya

33. Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) is an organization that has compiled first ever index of security materials globally. It is based in?

1) UK 2) Japan
3) Israel 4) India 5) USA

34. Which of the following books is written by Kiran Desai?

1) Fasting, Feasting 2) Catch-22
3) A Brush with Life
4) Inheritance of Loss
5) None of these

35. Which of the following pairs won the Mixed Doubles title at the 2012 French Open tennis championships?

1) Klaudia Jans-Ignacik (Pol-and) & Santiago Gonzalez (Mexico)
2) Sania Mirza & Mahesh Bhupathi (India)
3) Max Mirnyi & Victoria Azarenka (Belarus)
4) Andy Murray & Laura Robson (Great Britain)
5) None of these

36. Who is the richest sportsperson in India, according to the Forbes magazine?

1) Mahendra Singh Dhoni
2) Sachin Tendulkar
3) Saina Nehwal
4) Vijender Singh
5) Baichung Bhutia

37. Which of the following cities is the capital of Canada?

1) Edmonton 2) Toronto
3) Calgary 4) Vancouver
5) Ottawa

38. Which of the following teams won the Fair Play Trophy in the 2012 Indian Premier League (IPL 5)?

1) Kolkata Knight Riders
2) Delhi Daredevils
3) Mumbai Indians
4) Chennai Super Kings
5) Rajasthan Royals

39. Which instrument is used to measure the intensity of earthquakes?

1) Periscope 2) Barometer
3) Fathometer 4) Seismograph
5) Manometer

40. Which of the following terms is used in the game of football?

1) Cox 2) Half Nelson 3) Bull's eye 4) Deuce
5) Penalty

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1.Pauline Marois became the first female Premier of which of the following provinces of Canada in September 2012?
1) Alberta
2) Nova Scotia
3) Quebec
4) British Columbia
5) Ontario

2.The Central Government appoin-ted Y.C. Deveshwar as a director on the central board of directors of the Reserve Bank of India in September 2012. He is the chairman of which of the following companies?

1) Bombay Dyeing
2) ITC
3) Murugappa Group
4) Future Group
5) Essar Group

3.Girisha Hosanagara Nagarajego-wda of Karnataka won a silver medal in which of the following sports at the London Paralympic Games in September 2012?

1) Javelin
2) Shot Put
3) Shooting
4) High Jump
5) Long Jump

4.Syed Mustafa Siraj passed away on September 4, 2012. He won Sahitya Akademi Award in 1994 in which of the following languages?

1) Hindi
2) Urdu
3) Marathi
4) Bengali
5) Rajasthani

5.Which of the following statements about the London Olympics is not true?

1)The 30th Summer Olympic Games were organized in London, UK, from July 27 to August 12, 2012.
2)London became the first city to host the Olympics three times. It previously hosted in 1908 and 1948.
3)More than 10,500 athletes from 204 nations took part in 26 sports and 302 events.
4)The top three spots in the medals tally were taken by USA (46 Gold Medals), China (38) and Great Britain (29).
5)With 2 silver and 4 bronze medals India finished 45th in the medal standing.

6.Pranab Mukherjee was sworn in as India's 13th President on July 25, 2012. In the presidential polls he defeated P.A.Sangma, the former Chief Minister of?

1) Tripura
2) Nagaland
3) Meghalaya
4) Manipur
5) Arunachal Pradesh

7.John Dramani Mahama took office as President of which of the following African countries on July 24, 2012 following the death of his predecessor, John Atta Mills?

1) Togo
2) Ghana
3) Uganda
4) Sierra Leone
5)Burkina Faso

8.As per data released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on July 8, 2012, India accounts for what per cent of global drug trials carried out on humans?

1) 4.5
2) 1.5
3) 3.5
4) 5.5
5)10.5

9.Which city hosted the ASEAN Foreign Ministers Summit in July 2012?

1) Hanoi (Vietnam)
2) Jakarta (Indonesia)
3) Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
4) Vientiane (Laos)
5) Manila (Philippines)

10.Which of the following countries completed its first year of independence on July 9, 2012?

1) Vanuatu
2) Montenegro
3) Tuvalu
4) Bosnia Herzegovina
5) South Sudan

11.Who has been appointed the first chancellor of the proposed Nala-nda University (NU) in Nalanda, Bihar? (He is also the Chairman of the NU governing board)

1) Sugata Bose
2) George Yeo
3) N.K. Singh
4) Amartya Sen
5) Meghnad Desai

12.Jagdish Shettar was sworn in as the Chief Minister of which of the following states on July 12, 2012?

1) Maharashtra
2) Odisha
3) Kerala
4) Karnataka
5) Chhattisgarh

13.Gordon Brown was appointed the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education in July 2012. He is the former Prime Minister of?

1) Canada
2) Australia
3) UK
4) France 5) New Zealand

14.Rajkeshwur Purryag became the fifth President of which of the following countries on July 21, 2012?

1) Guyana
2) Singapore
3) Madagascar
4) Mauritius
5) Maldives
15.On August 2, 2012, who became the youngest Prime Minister in Egypt's history?
1) Mohamed Morsy
2) Hesham Kandil
3) Kamal Ganzouri
4) Essam Sharaf
5)None of these

16.Who has been chosen for this year's Fukuoka Prize, a prestigio-us award being bestowed by Fuk-uoka city government in Japan on people who contribute to academia, arts and culture in Asia?

1) Romila Thapar
2) Ashis Nandy
3) Vandana Shiva
4) Pandit Ravi Shankar
5) Padma Subrahmanyam

17.Singapore Prime Minister visited India during July10-12, 2012. Name him?

1) Thein Sein
2) Hun Sen
3) Nguyen Tan Dung
4) Lee Hsien Loong
5) S.R. Nathan

18.Scarborough Shoal is located in the South China Sea. It is a disputed territory claimed by China, Taiwan and which of the following ASEAN countries?

1) Cambodia
2) Brunei
3) Malaysia
4) Vietnam
5) Philippines

19.Which state created a new Limca record by holding the largest guitar ensemble of the country in which 5,406 guitarists paid tribute to legendary singer Bhupen Hazarika in June 2012?

1) Meghalaya
2) Assam
3) Odisha
4) Manipur
5) Tripura
20.Which state has emerged as the fastest growing state clocking 13.1% growth in 2011-12?
1) Gujarat
2) Punjab
3) Bihar
4) Delhi
5) Chhattisgarh

21.Twelve-year-old Kevin John sang in the choir at the thanksgiving service to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee at St. Paul's Cathedral, London in June 2012. This boy is from?

1) Goa
2) Karnataka
3) Tamil Nadu
4) Kerala
5) Andhra Pradesh

22.Pakistan Supreme Court suspended Rehman Malik's membership of Senate on grounds of dual nationality in June 2012. Rehman Malik is Pakistan's?

1) Foreign Minister
2) Interior Minister
3) Defense Minister
4) Law Minister
5) Communication Minister

23.Wim Koevermans was appointed as Indian football coach for a two-year term in June 2012. He belongs to?

1) Germany
2) Spain
3) Netherlands
4) Portugal
5) Sweden

24.Who has been awarded a Lifeti-me Achievement Award by the prestigious Rockfeller Foundati-on, USA, for innovation in philanthropy?

1) Mukesh Ambani
2) Sunil Mittal
3) Ratan Tata
4) Kumar Mangalam Birla
5) None of these

25.How many branches does State Bank of India have?

1) 14,000
2) 19,000
3) 10,000
4) 25,000
5) 20,000

26.Which of the following awards/ prizes is given only to Asians?

1) Man Booker Prize
2) Ondaatje Prize
3) Right Livelihood Award
4) Templeton Prize
5) Ramon Magsaysay Award

27.Which city will host the 11th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) from 7 to 9 January, 2013?

1) Jaipur
2) Cochin
3) Hyderabad
4) Bangalore
5) Kolkata

28.Who won the Wimbledon wome-n's singles tennis title on July 7, 2012?

1) Venus Williams
2) Serena Williams
3) Maria Sharapova
4) Samanta Stosur
5) Agnieszka Radwanska

29.Radha Vinod Raju passed away recently. He was the founder Director General of?

1) RAW
2) NSG
3) NIA
4) CRPF
5) CISF

30.Kokrajhar was in the news recently because of violence. It is a district in?

1) Assam
2) Tripura
3) Manipur
4) Sikkim
5) West Bengal

31.An Expert Committee on Gener-al Anti Avoidance Rules (GAAR) was constituted in July 2012. Who is its Chairman?

1) Parthasarathi Shome
2) N. Rangachary
3) Ajay Shah
4) Sunil Gupta
5) None of these

32.Who were given Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in August 2012?

1)Vijay Kumar & Susheel Kumar
2)Vijay Kumar & Vijender Singh
3)Vikas Krishnan & Yuvraj Singh
4) Rahul Dravid & Saina Nehwal
5) Yogeshwar Dutt & Vijay Kumar

33.International Literacy Day is observed on which of the following days?

1) September 16
2) September 8
3) September 18
4) March 18
5) March 8

34.Which of the following organizations/agencies has launched an online complaint redressal system known as "SCORES"?

1) RBI
2) SEBI
3) SBI
4) IBA
5) NABARD

35.An economic system combining private sector and public sector is called?

1) Open economy
2) Closed economy
3) Mixed economy
4) Free trade economy
5) None of these

36.Which of the following is not decided by the Reserve Bank of India?

1) Repo rate
2) Reverse repo rate
3) Bank rate
4) Rate of Dearness Allowance to Government employees
5) Statutory Liquidity Ratio

37.Robert Rock of England is associated with which of the following sports?

1) Chess
2) Badminton
3) Golf
4) Table Tennis
5) Lawn Tennis

38.Which of the following currencies is used in Brazil?

1) Dollar
2) Real
3) Peso
4) Rand
5) Kuna

39.Which of the following awards is given for contribution in the area of science & technology?

1) Kalidas Samman
2) Arjuna Award
3) Phalke Ratna Award
4)Vyas Samman
5) Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award

40.Which of the following terms is not used in banking/finance?

1) Public Debt
2) Joint Venture
3) Treasury Bill
4) Recession
5) Plasma

41.Which of the following terms is used in the field of Economics?

1) Ampere
2) Joule
3) Relative Density
4) Newton
5) None of these

42.Billy Doctrove, who served as an international cricket umpire for 14 years, retired in June 2012. He is from?

1) Australia
2) England
3) South Africa
4) New Zealand
5) West Indies

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41) 5 42) 5
GENERAL AWARENESS

1. Who was sworn in as the 39th Chief Justice of India on September 29, 2012?

1) Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan
2) Justice J.S. Khehar
3) Justice Altamas Kabir
4) Justice D. Murugesan
5) Justice M.Y. Eqbal

2. The Supreme Court directed which of the following companies/groups to refund over Rs. 24,400 crore collected from 2.21 crore depositors through the optimally fully convertible debentures (OFCDs) by way of bonds?

1) Reliance 2) Murugappa
3) Sahar 4) Kingfisher
5) Essar

3. K.R. Kamath took charge on October 1, 2012 as the Chairman of Indian Banks' Association (IBA). He is the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of which of the following public sector banks?

1) Bank of India
2) Indian Bank
3) Corporation Bank
4) Punjab National Bank
5) United Bank of India

4. At the 2012 US Open tennis championships Andy Murray became the first British man since Fred Perry in 1936 to win a Grand Slam singles tournament when he defeated which of the following players in the final?

1) Marin Cilic (Croatia)
2) David Ferrer (Spain)
3) Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic)
4) Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
5) Roger Federer (Switzerland)

5. Which of the following statements about the ICC Awards is not true?

1) The 2012 ICC Awards function was held on September 15, 2012 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2) Kumar Sangakkara of Sri Lanka has won three awards- Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for Cricketer of the Year, Test Cricketer of the Year and LG People's Choice Award.
3) ICC Emerging Cricketer of the Year is Sunil Narine of West Indies.
4) ICC Twenty20 International Performance of the Year award was won by Richard Levi of South Africa.
5) Jacques Kallis of South Africa received the Spirit of Cricket Award.
6. Who won the US Open women's singles title in September 2012?
1) Sara Errani (Italy)
2) Marion Bartoli (France)
3) Serena Williams (USA)
4) Victoria Azarenka (Belarus)
5) Maria Sharapova (Russia)

7. The 62nd meeting of Nobel Laureates was held in Lindau from July 1 to 6, 2012 that was dedicated to Physics. Lindau is located in which of the following European countries?

1) Italy 2) Portugal
3) Spain 4) Germany 5) France

8. Eight Indian companies are in the list of world's 500 largest companies compiled by Fortune magazine in July 2012. Which is the only bank in that list?

1) PNB 2) HDFC Bank
3) ICICI Bank 4) IOB 5) SBI

9. Which company topped the Fortune magazine's list of top 500 companies globally for the year 2012?

1) Royal Dutch Shell
2) Exxon Mobil 3) Wal-Mart
4) BP 5) Sinopec

10. Who was appointed the new Chairman of the High Level Committee on Financing Infras-tructure in July 2012?

1) R. Gopalan
2) Deepak Parekh
3) Yogesh Agarwal
4) J. Harinarayan
5) G.V. Sanjay Reddy

11. The Government has set up a co-mmittee to recommend the fram-ework for cloud computing services under the Chairmanship of?

1) Kapil Sibal 2) Gulshan Rai
3) S. Gopalakrishnan
4) Shiv Nadar 5) None of these

12. Who was crowned the winner of the Asia Youth Under-19 Badminton Championship in South Korea in July 2012?

1) Saina Nehwal 2) P.V.Sindhu
3) Jwala Gutta
4) Ashwini Ponappa
5) None of these

13. Identify the mismatched pair of the Ministers and their portfolios?

1) P.Chidambaram- Finance
2) Sushil Kumar Shinde- Home
3) M.Veerappa Moily- Corporate Affairs & Power
4) Subodh Kant Sahai- Tourism
5) Jairam Ramesh- Parliament-ary Affairs

14. According to the latest Education Development Index (EDI) released by the Human Resource Development Ministry on July 24, 2012 which of the following States/ Union Territories retained the first position?

1) Puducherry 2) Lakshadweep
3) Punjab 4) Mizoram 5) Sikkim

15. Agni I missile was test-launched from the Wheeler Island, off the Odisha coast on July 13, 2012. Its range is?

1) 500 km 2) 400 km
3) 700 km 4) 1000 km
5) 1500 km

16. Which country has announced on July 19, 2012 that it would provide $20 billion in credit to African countries over the next three years, doubling its earlier loan commitment?

1) India 2) China
3) UK 4) USA
5) Russia

17. Democratic Republic of Congo signed a pact aimed at eliminating the threat of armed rebels in eastern Congo with which of the following countries on July 16, 2012 in Addis Ababa?

1) Uganda 2) Burundi
3) Zambia 4) Rwanda
5) Ethiopia

18. Identify the mismatched pair?

1) Army Chief- Bikram Singh
2) Navy Chief- D.K.Joshi
3) Air Force Chief-N.A.K. Browne
4) CEC- Syed Naseem Ahmed Zaidi

5) Competition Commission of India Chairman- Ashok Chawla

19. Jan Eliasson became the Deputy Secretary- General of the United Nations on July 1, 2012. He is from?
1) Germany 2) Sweden
3) Norway 4) Denmark
5) Poland

20. Abid Hussain passed away recently. He was the former?

1) National Security Advisor
2) Director General of NIA
3) Ambassador to the USA
4) CBI Director
5) None of these

21. Who became the first Britishman ever to win the Tour de France cycling competition that concluded in Paris, France on July 22, 2012?

1) Bradley Wiggins
2) Chris Froome
3) Vincenzo Nibali
4) Cadel Evans
5) Alberto Contador

22. Who among the following is not associated with the Formula One Championship?

1) Lewis Hamilton
2) Kimi Raikkonen
3) Fernando Alonso
4) Mark Webber 5) Ernie Els

23. The Asian Cricket Council Under-19 Asia Cup was jointly won by India and Pakistan. Where was the final played on July 1, 2012?

1) Karachi 2) Dhaka
3) Kuala Lumpur
4) Colombo 5) Singapore

24. P.M.Rungta passed away on July 12, 2012. He was a former?

1) Cricket Captain
2) BCCI President
3) ICC President
4) IPL Chairman
5) None of these

25. Agriculture and Food Processing Industries Minister Sharad Pawar inaugurated the first Mega Food Park in the country in which of the following states on July 11, 2012?

1) Haryana 2) Punjab
3) Kerala 4) Andhra Pradesh
5) Uttar Pradesh

26. India signed an agreement to establish Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development with which of the following organizations in July 2012?

1) FAO 2) WHO 3) UNESCO
4) UNICEF 5) UNDP

27. Which country recently test fired Shahab-3, a medium range ballistic missile?

1) Syria 2) Pakistan 3) Iran
4) Afghanistan 5) Israel

28. Which of the following has launched 'Bank Branch Locator', a dynamic database that gives information on location of branches of a bank?

1) SBI 2) PNB 3) HDFC Bank
4) RBI 5) ICICI Bank

29. Mark Boucher has retired from international cricket after suffering a severe eye injury. He play-ed 147 Tests with a world record of 555 dismissals for which of the following countries?

1) England 2) Australia
3) South Africa 4) Wet Indies
5) New Zealand

30. Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh was criticized by which of the following US magazines as "The Underachiever" in July 2012?

1) Newsweek 2) World 3) TIME
4) The National Journal
5) U.S. News & World Report

31. Enrique Pena Nieto is the Pres-ident elect of which of the following countries? (He will take charge on December 1, 2012)

1) Mexico 2) Spain 3) Italy
4) Portugal 5) Brazil

32. Olafur Ragnar Grimsson has been re-elected for a fifth term as the President of?

1) Ireland 2) Poland 3) Norway
4) Sweden 5) Iceland

33. Union Minister Virbhadra Singh resigned recently on corruption charges. He was the Cabinet Minister for?

1) Health and Family Welfare
2) Labour and Employment
3) Commerce and Industry
4) Chemicals and Fertilizers
5) Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

34. Yitzhak Shamir passed away on June 30, 2012. He was the former Prime Minister of?

1) Belarus 2) Israel 3) Poland
4) Germany 5) None of these

35. Rajesh Khanna, a Bollywood actor, passed away on July 18, 2012. He did not act in which of the following Hindi hits?

1) Aradhana 2) Safar
3) Kati Patang 4) Anand
5) Zanjeer

36. Identify the mismatched pair?

1) Bank Rate-9%
2) Repo Rate-8%
3) Reverse Repo Rate-7%
4) Cash Reserve Ratio-4%
5) Statutory Liquidity Ratio-23%

37. Freedom fighter and a close aide of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Captain Lakshmi Sahgal passed away on July 23, 2012. She was defeated by which of the following leaders in the 2002 Presidential elections?

1) R. Venkatraman
2) K.R. Narayanan
3) Giani Zail Singh
4) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
5) Shankar Dayal Sharma

38. Brett Lee announced his retirement from all forms of international cricket on July 12, 2012. He played 76 Tests, 221 ODIs and 25 T20s for which of the following countries?

1) South Africa 2) West Indies
3) England 4) New Zealand
5) None of these

39. India shares longest border with which of the following countries?

1) Nepal 2) China 3) Bhutan
4) Pakistan 5) Bangladesh
40. 'World Day for Water' is observed on which of the following dates?
1) March 20 2) March 21
3) April 22 4) April 21
5) March 22

41. Who is the author of the book 'A Tale of Two Gardens'?

1) V.S. Naipaul 2) E.M. Forster
3) Mulk Raj Anand
4) Charles Dickens
5) Octavio Paz

KEY
1) 3 2) 3 3) 4 4) 4 5) 5 6) 3 7) 4 8) 5 9) 1 10) 2 11) 3 12) 2 13) 5 14) 1 15) 3 16) 2 17) 4 18) 4 19) 2 20) 3 21) 1 22) 5 23) 3 24) 2 25) 4 26) 3 27) 3 28) 4 29) 3 30) 3 31) 1 32) 5 33) 5 34) 2 35) 5 36) 4 37) 4 38) 5 39) 5 40) 5

41) 5
GENERAL AWARENESS

1. Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 2012 for their work with light and matter at the most fundamental level?

1) Adam Reiss and Brian Schmidt
2) Adam Reiss and Saul Perlmutter
3) Serge Haroche and David J.Wineland
4) Charles K. Kao and Willard S. Boyle
5) Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov

2. Who was conferred with the prestigious Lata Mangeshkar Award by the Maharashtra government in September 2012?