1.

      Omar al-Bashir, the only world leader facing an international arrest warrant, was sworn in as _______________?

a)President of Egypt      b)Prime Minister of Sudan      c)Prime Minister of Egypt    d)President of Sudan    e)none

2.      From which country India is buying C-17 Globemaster III strategic-lift aircraft to the Indian Air Force (IAF) in a deal

worth $5.8 billion?

a)US      b)Israel     c)Russia     d)France     e)none

3.      Which of the following country has played the most number of One-day International (ODI) matches?

a)Australia      b)India     c)England     d)West Indies     e)none

4.      Which of the following ministry has announced a financial assistance of Rs 95 lakh for about 19,000 rubber growers in

the country during the current financial year?

a)Ministry of Commerce and Industry

b)Ministry of Agriculture

c)Ministry of Finance

d)Ministry of External Affairs

e)none

5.      Who won the 2010 Abel Prize(often been described as the "mathematician's Nobel" prize) presented annually by the

King of Norway for his vast and lasting impact on the theory of numbers?

a)Mikhail Gromov     b)Jacques Tits     c)John Tate     d)Jean-Pierre Serre     e)none

6.      Which Country is planning to work with Rajasthan in cooperation with the local authorities on issues like water quality

and agriculture?

a)Israel      b)UK     c)Russia     d)US    e)none

7.      Who has been appointed as the next head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)?

a)Yvo de boer     b)R K Pachauri       c)Christiana Figueres     d)Kofi Annan    e)none

8.      Fiscal deficit pegged at ____ percent of GDP during 2009-10?

a)6.0%      b)6.6%      c)6.9%      d)6.3%     e)none

9.      According to the Worldwide Quality of Living survey 2010, which of the following city placed best among Indian cities in

the global list at 140th rank?

a)Delhi      b)Mysore      c)Bangalore      d)Mumbai    e)none

10. Who has been sworn in as President of Germany?

a)Angela Merkel     b)Horst Kohler     c)Johannes Rau    d)Christian Wulff    e)none

11. Which of the following state has come under President’s rule recently?

a)Uttarakhand     b)Chhattisgarh     c)Meghalaya    d)Jharkhand     e)none

12. Who is the Chairman of the committee formed by RBI to review the services rendered to retail and small customers by

banks and their Ombudsman scheme for addressing grievances?

a)M Damodaran        )M V Nair      c)M S Sundar Rajan     d)O P Bhatt    e)none

13. Which state will host the International Literature festival?

a)Kerala      b)Gujarat     c)Rajasthan     d)Andhra Pradesh     e)none

14. Which Country is the World’s largest consumer of oil?

a)China      b)India     c)Russia     d)Japan    e)US

15. Who is the new chairman of the Indian Banks Association (IBA)?

a)M V Nair     b)C S Reddy      c)O P Bhatt     d)Y V Reddy     e)none

16. Mahinda Rajapaksa visited India and signed seven pacts to boost bilateral cooperation across a range of areas, including

security, power, railways and cultural exchange. He was the _________?

a)Prime Minister of Srilanka

b)President of Maldives

c)Prime Minister of Malyasia

d)President of Srilanka

e)none

17. Who is the author of the book ‘Grandmother’s Tale’?

a)R K Laxman     b)Salman Rushdie      c)Arundhati Roy     d)Shashi Tharoor     e)R K Narayan

18. Which state will provide free Education and books to students of classes I-VII in government schools?

a)Tamilnadu     b)Rajasthan     c)Andhra Pradesh    d)Gujarat    e)none

19. Which of the following is the World’s biggest bank in terms of market capital and brand value, compiled by brand

directory?

a)Bank of America      b)Citi Bank     c)HSBC     d)J P Morgan    e)SBI

20. Which of the following term is not related to banking and finance?

a)Private Equity    b)broker     c)mortgage     d)Annuity     e)All are related 

21      The Index of Industrial Production(IIP) registered a ______ growth during 2009-10?

a)13.5%      b)15%     c)7.7%    d)10.4%    e)none

22.      Who became the first player to score 1000 T20 international runs?

a)Virender Sehwag     b)Chris Gayle    c)Yuvraj Singh     d)Suresh Raina

e)Brendon McCullum
23.      The Environment Ministry has set up a 19-member committee to study in detail the implementation of the Forest Rights

Act, 2006. Who is the chairman of the committee?

a)M. Shankar      )S Goplakrishnan     c)Devendra Pandey     d)N C Saxena    e)none

24.      Mohan Makhijani popularly known as Mac Mohan recently passed away. He was well known person in which of

the following?

a)Politics      b)Sports      c)Movies    d)Painting    e)none

25..With which country India decided to double their trade from $16 billion to $32 billion in next five years?

a)Malaysia     b)Singapore     c)Switzerland    d)Nepal    e)none

26.      Which of the following ministry has bought cotton and cotton waste under the restricted list for exports?

a)Ministry of Agriculture    

 b)Ministry of Finance

 c)Ministry of Commerce and Industry

d)Ministry of Consumer Affairs

e)none

27.      Who won the Khar Gymkhana All-India Men's Open Tennis Tournament?

a)Aditya Madkekar      b)Saurav Sukul     c)Ronak Manuja    d)Yannick Nedlord   e)none

28.      Which city hosted the 15th Asian Squash Championship 2010?

a)Delhi     b)Chennai     c)Hyderabad     d)Chandigarh    e)none

29.      Which Country won the 2010 Uber Cup(World Team Badminton Championships for Women)?

a)China     b)Indonesia     c)India    d)South Korea    e)none

30. Who is the author of the book ‘Courts and their Judgements’?

a)Vikas Swarup     b)Pratap Sharma    c)Arun Shourie     d)Mrinal Pande    e)none

31. Which of the following organization has won the sponsorship rights of Indian cricket team?

a)Bharti Airtel       b)Reliance     c)Yahoo     d)Sahara     e)none

32. Who has been honoured with “Goodwill Ambassador” title for the promotion of handloom-Khadi industry in Kerala?

a)Amitabh Bachchan       b)Mammootty     c)Mohanlal    d)Amir Khan    e)none

33. Which country has taken over 400,000 hectares of Russian land on lease for agricultural purpose?

a)Japan      b)India     c)Kazakhstan     d)Ukraine    e)China

34. What is the maximum amount that the customers can draw through ATM in a day at present?

a)Rs 25,000       b)Rs 50,000     c)Rs 1,25,000     d)Rs 30,000    e)none

35. In which of the following city Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee unveiled the centralised processing centre (CPC) of the

income tax department to enable faster refunds to tax payers?

a)Bangalore       b)Chennai     c)Hyderabad      d)Ahmedabad       e)none

36. Who is the Chairman of the committee to build India’s first indigenous civilian transport?

a)K. Kasturirangan      )V.K Saraswat      c)K Radhakrishnan      d)Madhavan Nair    e)none

37. What is the full form of NFS in banking?

a)Network Financial System

b)National Financial Service

c)National Financial Switch

d)Network Financial Service

e)none

38. Which country has decided to set up a nuclear city that would use atomic energy for peaceful purposes, especially in

industry, agriculture, mining, desalination and medical field?

a)Saudi Arabia       b)Iran     c)India     d)Japan    e)none

39. Which of the following does not come under BASIC countries?

a)Brazil       b)South Africa      c)Russia    d)China    e)India

40. In India, National Doctors Day is annually celebrated on _______?

a)June 30th      b)July 2nd      c)June 1st     d)July 1st     e)none

41.      The 12th Global Businesswomen & Leaders Summit held at ______?

a)Israel     b)India      c)Kuwait     d)UAE    e)none

42.      Which of the following team has won the 2010 UEFA Champions League?

a)A.C. Milan     b)Manchester United     c)Bayern Munich     d)Inter Milan    e)none

43.      In which state UNICEF launched the project ‘Youth unity for village advancement' to create awareness on woman and

child health in rural areas?

a)Rajasthan       b)Andhra Pradesh      c)Orissa      d)Madhya Pradesh     e)none

44.      Abdullah Gul visited India in February 2010. He is the President of _______?

a)Nigeria    b)Turkey     c)Kuwait     d)Palestine    e)none

45.      Which Country won the ICC Women World T20 Cup by defeating New Zealand?

a)India     b)England     c)West Indies    d)South Africa      e)Australia 

46.      Which country will host the 16th Asian Games which will be held from November 2010?

a)China    b)Srilanka    c)South Korea    d)Malaysia   e)none

47.      Who is the new Prime Minister of Japan after Yukio Hatoyama has resigned the post amid a row over an unpopular US

army base on the southern island of Okinawa?

a)Taro Aso     b)Naoto Kan    c)Yoshihiko Noda    d)Akihito     e)none

48.      The G-20 Summit in June 2010 held at __________?

a)Canada     b)US    c)South Korea    d)UK      e)none

49.      According to Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research arm of the Economist magazine, India is expected to be

the world's fastest growing economy by ______?

a)2014      b)2016     c)2018     d)2020    e)none

50. The economy of India is the ________ largest economy in the world by nominal GDP and the _______ largest by

purchasing power parity (PPP)?

a)twelfth, fourth     b)fourth, twelfth     c)fourth, eleventh    d)eleventh, fourth    e)none

1. In India, the rural economy contributes about _____ percent to GDP?

a)20%     b)30%    c)40%      d)45%    e)none

2. Which of the following is not a member of BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for MultiSectoral Technical and Economic

Cooperation)?

a)Nepal      b)Srilanka      c)Pakistan    d)Bhutan    e)All are members

3. Indian-origin Kamla Prasad Bissessar elected the first woman Prime Minister of _______?

a)Australia      b)Trinidad and Tobago       c)Costa Rica     d)Portugal     e)none

4. Which of the following is the most eco-friendly nation with the best pollution control measures and natural resource

management?

a)Sweden       b)Switzerland      c)Norway     d)Iceland    e)none

5. Which is the first state in country to launch an online National Permit system for trucks and heavy vehicles?

a)Haryana      b)Maharashtra      c)Punjab     d)Gujarat     e)none

6. Which country has cancelled the Machine Readable Passport(MRP) printing deal with India?

a)Bangladesh      b)Nepal     c)Srilanka     d)Bhutan     e)none

7. The Reserve Bank of India is considering a proposal put forward by profit-oriented (MFIs) ________________ to allow

them to be business correspondents of banks for financial inclusion?

a)Mutual Fund Institutions

b)Mutual Finance Institutions

c)Micro Finance Institutions

d)Mutual Facility Institutions

 e)none

8. What is the present Reverse repo rate?

a)3.25%      b)5.25%     c)3.75%     d)6%    e)none

9. Who is the author of the book 'The Red Saree' that has been in news recently?

a)Gregory Rabassa     b)Javier Moro     c)Julio Cortazar    d)Peter Hulme

10. Who is the man behind with the Bhopal Gas Tragedy in 1984?

a)Patrick E. Gottschalk      b)Arjun Singh    c)Andrew N. Liveris    d)Warren Anderson    e)none

11.      Which is the first country in Europe to ban full-face veils worn by Muslim women?

a)France     b)Belgium    c)Denmark      d)Italy    e)none

12.      Which Organization has asked mutual fund houses to disclose the details of investor complaints, annual reports on

websites, to enable clients to make more informed decisions?

a)RBI      b)IRDA      c)SEBI     d)NABARD    e)none

13.      Which is the first country in the world to mandate plain packaging of cigarettes?

a)Australia      b)Canada    c)India     d)US     e)Japan

14.      Which is the first country to broadcast 3DTV on terrestrial channels?

a)Japan     b)China      c)South Korea     d)India     e)none

15.      The Country's first privately-funded metro project will be started in which of the following cities?

a)Pune     b)Chennai     c)Hyderabad     d)Chandigarh    e)Gurgaon

16.      Who is the author of the book “Troubles”?

a)J G Farell     b)Nina Bawden    c)Patrick White     d)Mary Renault    e)none

17.     Recently which state affected by the Cyclonic Storm ‘Laila’?

a)Maharashtra     b)Andhra Pradesh      c)Tamilnadu     d)Gujarat    e)none

18. Who is the first Indian to qualify for the men's singles main draw at the French Open in 13 years?

a)Sashi Menon     b)Syed Asif  Quadri   c)Somdev Dewarmen   d)Leander Paes     e)none

19. Jordan Romero has became the youngest ever climber to conquer Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain. He

belongs to which country?

a)US     b)Canada      c)UK    d)Germany    e)none

20.. Recently which country has rejected visa applications to the retired employees of Border Security Force?

a)US     b)China     c)Pakistan    d)Canada     e)none

21. The worlds' first women’s' magic festival Maya 2010 held at ___________?

a)Chennai     b)Uttar Pradesh      c)Pune    d)Jaipur    e)Thiruvananthapuram
22. Who has been named as ‘England cricketer of the year’?

a)Paul Collingwood    b)Graeme Swann     c)Kevin Petersen    d)Andrew Strauss    e)none

23..To which country President Prathiba Patil recently visited and signed three bilateral pacts?

a)China    b)Japan     c)Russia   d)Spain    e)none

24. John Shepherd-Barron recently passed away. He invented the world’s first _____ in London?

a)Bank     b)Credit Card       c)Debit Card    d)ATM    e)none

25. Which country topped the list of people who acquired British citizenship in 2009?

a)China      b)US    c)India   d)France    e)none

26. Jeev Milkha Singh, Gaganjeet Bhullar are associated to which sport?

a)Foot ball     b)Tennis     c)Chess    d)Golf   e)none

27. Who has been ranked as the best CEO in the country, a/c to FinanceAsia magazine?

a)Gopalakrishnan     b)Natarajan Chandrasekaran    c)Sunil Mittal    d)Ratan Tata    e)none

28. Which of the following is not a sport playing in the Commonwealth Games 2010?

a)Kabaddi    b)Hockey    c)Tennis    d)Cricket    e)All of these

29.      The Union ministry of information & broadcasting has constituted a committee to review existing television rating point

system (TRP) in India. Who is the head of the committee?

a)Rajiv Mehrotra    b)Neeraja Choudhary    c)D S Mathur    d)Amit Mitra    e)none

30.      With which country India has signed an agreement for Rs 10,500 crore official development assistance (ODA)?

a)US     b)France      c)Japan    d)UK     e)Germany

31.      According to the Environmental Performance Index (EPI), India is the ____ most eco-friendly nation with the best

pollution control measures and natural resource management?

a)88th     b)123rd      c)134th     d)143rd     e)none

32.      Who won the Saraswati Samman 2009 award?

a)Naiyer Masud     b)Lakshmi Nandan Bora     c)Jagannath Prasad Das    d)Surjit Paatar    e)none

33.      Girija Prasad Koirala has passed away. He was the former ______________?

a)President of Nepal

b)President of Bangladesh

c)Prime Minister of England

d)Prime Minister of Bangladesh

e)none(Prime Minister of Nepal)

34.      Which state in India is the largest producer of cotton?

 a)Maharashtra     b)Haryana      c)Gujarat     d)Andhra Pradesh    e)none

35.      What is the slogan of Census 2011?

a)Our Country, Our Future

b)Our Census, Our Future

c)Our Country, Our Census

d)Our Country, Our Population

e)none

36.      Bhairon Singh Shekhawat has recently passed away. Who is he?

a)Former President of India

b)Former Vice President of India

c)Former Prime Minister of India

d)Both a & b

e)none

37.      The Fourteenth G-15 summit was held in _________?

a)Cuba     b)Indonesia     c)Egypt     d)Iran    e)Srilanka

38. In which party, popular South Indian actress Khushboo joined politics in may 2010?

a)Congress     b)DMK     c)MDMK    d)AIADMK     e)none

39. Government is planning to provide education loans at _____ percent interest rate to help students from weaker sections of

society to pursue higher studies?

a)1%     b)2%     c)3%      d)4%    e)none

40. Deandra Dottin scored the first century in a 2010 women's Twenty20 World Cup held in West Indies. He plays for which

country?

a)West Indies    b)England     c)South Africa    d)New Zealand    e)none

41. World Press Freedom day is observed on?

a)April 3rd    b)May 3rd     c)June 3rd     d)July 3rd     e)none

42. Which state in India to launch country’s first mobile lok adalat to reach specifically rural poor to settle litigations at their

doorstep without any cost to them?

a)Kerala    b)Gujarat     c)Tamilnadu     d)Maharashtra    e)Andhra Pradesh

43. Which Indian state had become the first state in the entire Asian sub-continent to pay for the procurement of plastic

waste?

a)Andhra Pradesh     b)Uttar Pradesh     c)Himachal Pradesh    d)Arunachal Pradesh    e)none

44. According to a list compiled by the Forbes magazine, which Indian city has been named among the world's top ten

billionaire cities?

a)Delhi     b)Bangalore      c)Pune     d)Mumbai    e)none

45. Which of the following has become India's First state to be declared as "Smoke Free State" on World No Tobacco day?

a)Uttaranchal      b)Kerala     c)Gujarat     d)Assam    e)Sikkim

46. Who among the following is India’s highest individual taxpayer?

a)Asim Ghosh    b)Mukhesh Ambani     c)Analjit Singh     d)Indrani Patnaik    e)none

47. How many teams are participated in the 2010 FIFA World Cup?

a)8     b)12     c)16     d)24    e)32

48. India announced a target of constructing _____km of road per day in the country in order to fill in the road infrastructure

deficit.

a)20km     b)30km     c)15km     d)10km    e)none

49.      Which of the following is the World’s fastest Supercomputer?

a)Jaguar     b)Roadrunner     c)Nebulae    d)Kraken XT5   e)none

50.      A/c to the latest notifications of Reserve Bank of India, how much amount of cash can Indians carry while travelling

abroad?

a)$2000      b)$3000     c)$4000     d)$5000     e)none

1.     Who is the head of the 18 member high-level expert committee to suggest measures for efficient management of public

expenditure?

a)C Rangarajan       b)Manmohan Singh     c)Deepak Parekh     d)Sam Pitroda    e)none

2.      Sunil Chhetri is associated to which of the following sport?

a)Cricket    b)Chess     c)Football    d)Badminton    e)none

3.      With which country India signed an agreement to establish a hotline between prime ministers of the two countries?

a)Pakistan    b)UK    c)Russia    d)Nepal    e)China

4.      Which country is the largest exporter of Cotton in 2009?

a)US    b)India     c)China    d)Brazil    e)none

5.      CryoSat 2, a satellite that will monitor variations in the extent and thickness of polar ice, launched by which country?

a)US     b)Japan    c)Europe    d)India    e)none

6.      With which country India has signed an agreement to boost cooperation in the education sector?

a)Maldives    b)Malaysia     c)Japan    d)Australia    e)none

7.      Which Srilankan cricketer has won a seat in parliament general elections?

 a)Dharmasena      b)Sanath Jayasurya     c)Chaminda Vaas     d)M Jayawardene   e)none

8. Which of the following MP resigned in the wake of IPL controversy?

a)Sharad Pawar     b)Supriya Sule     c)Shashi Tharoor     d)M S Gill    e)none

9. The first of the new class of offshore patrol vessel indigenously designed and commissioned into Indian Coast Guard?

a)ICGS Vikram    b)ICGS Vishwast     c)ICGS Samar   d)ICGS Sankalp   e)none

10. After United States and Republic of Korea decided to eliminate travel restrictions based on HIV status, recently which of

the following country done the same?

a)India      b)Australia      c)Malaysia     d)China    e)none

11. Reliance Industries has found a fourth oil discovery in the Cambay basin. Cambay basin is in which state?

a)Andhra Pradesh     b)Gujarat      c)Rajasthan     d)Maharashtra    e)none

12. With which Indian company Renault and Nissan are developing an ultra low cost car to take on Tata Nano?

a)Mahindra & Mahindra     b)TVS      c)Bajaj      d)Maruti Suzuki    e)none

13. New Moore or Purbasha island near the Bay of Bengal has been completely submerged into the sea. This island was

claimed by both India and ___________?

a)Bhutan   b)Srilanka     c)Myanmar     d)Bangladesh   e)Maldives

14. The Tsunami Early Warning System (TEWS) has won the Platinum Icon award for innovative use of technology in Web

Ratna Awards, 2009. It is developed by ___________?

a)Infosys     b)HP     c)Wipro     d)TCS    e)none

15. The first Non-Latin web address launched in which of the following language?

a)Tamil    b)Thai    c)Mandarin     d)Urdu    e)Arab

16. What is the maximum limit that foreign investors can hold in state-run banks?

a)10%    b)15%     c)20%    d)30%    e)49%

17. What is the full form of ECB in banking?

a)External Commercial Borrowings

b)Electronic Commercial Borrowings

c)Export Commercial Borrowings

d)Enterprise Commercial Borrowings

e)none

18. Veselin Topalov, a famous player associated with which of the following sport?

a)Badminton    b)Chess     c)Tennis     d)Football    e)none

19.      The basis of determining dearness allowance to employees in India is ____?

(A) National Income

(B) Consumer Price Index(Ans)

(C) Standard of Living

(D) Per Capita Income

(E) None

20.      NABARD is _____?

(A) A bank

(B) A board

(C) A block

(D) A department

(E) None

21.      Out of one Rupee expenditure, how much paise have been allotted for subsidy in 2010-11 Union budget proposals?

(A) 12 paise

(B) 10 paise

(C) 9 paise

(D) 7 paise

(E) None

22.      The most densely populated country in South Asia is ___?

(A) Bangladesh

(B) India

(C) Maldives

(D) Sri Lanka

(E) None

23.      Interest Rate Policy is a part of ____?

(A) Fiscal Policy

(B) Industrial Policy

(C) Monetary Policy

(D) Credit Policy

(E) None of these

24.      Indian Green Revolution is the most successful in ____?

(A) Wheat and Potato

(B) Jowar and Oil Seeds

(C) Wheat and Rice

(D) Tea and Coffee

(E) All of these

25.       ‘Public Sector’ means ____?

(A) Government ownership on commerce and trade

(B) Capitalist ownership on commerce and trade

(C) Private ownership on trade

(D) Government ownership on banks

(E) None of these

26.      The largest source of National Income in India is _____?

(A) Service Sector

(B) Agriculture

(C) Industrial Sector

(D) Trade Sector

(E) None

27.      Inside Trading is related to _____?

(A) Share Market

(B) Horse racing

(C) Taxation

(D) Public Expenditure

(E) None

28. The main objective of TRYSEM was ______?

(A) To train rural youth for self employment

(B) To train urban youth for self employment

(C) Both of the above

(D) To Provide subsidy to Rural People on purchasing goods

 (E) None
29. Which bank in India performs duties of Central Bank?

(A) Central Bank of India

(B) State Bank of India

(C) Reserve Bank of India

(D) Above (A) and (B)

(E) None of these

30. . Which of the following is a better measure of economic development?

(A) Employment

(B) Size of exports

(C) Rural consumption

(D) National Income

(E) None

31. The cause of deflation is ____?

(A) Lack of goods and services as compared to money supply

(B) Lack of imports as compared to exports

(C) Lack of money supply as compared to supply of goods and services

(D) All the above

(E) None of these

32. The Present Service Tax rate is ___?

(A) 8%

(B) 15%

(C) 10%

(D) 12%

(E) None

33. The working of SEBI includes ___?

(A) To regulate the dealings of share market

(B) To check the foul dealings in share market

(C) To control the inside trading of shares

(D) All of these

(E) None of these

 34. CAPART is related with ___?

(A) Assisting and evaluating rural welfare programmes

(B) Computer hardware

(C) Consultant service of export promotion

(D) Controlling pollution in big industries

(E) None of these

35. Kutir Jyoti scheme is associated with ___?

(A) Promoting cottage industry in villages

(B) Promoting employment among rural unemployed youth

(C) Providing electricity to rural families living below the poverty line

(D) All of these

(E) None of these

36. VAT is imposed ____?

(A) Directly on consumer

(B) On final stage of production

(C) On first stage of production

(D) On all stages between production and final sale

(E) All the above

37. What is ‘NIKKEI’?

(A) Share Price Index of Tokyo Share Market

(B) Name of Japanese Central Bank

(C) Japanese name of Country’s Planning Commission

(D) Foreign Exchange Market of Japan

(E) Both A & D

38. Minimum Support Price is decided by _______?

(A) ICAR

(B) Finance Minister

(C) Ministry of Agriculture

(D) CACP

(E) None of these

39.      Which among the following committee was appointed by the Supreme court of India to study PDS reforms?
 a)E.N Rammohan Committee    b)R N Malhohtra Committee   c)C Rangarajan Committee    d)Wadhwa Committee   

e)none

40.      What is the name of India’s third indigenous destroyer which was launched on April 2010?

a)INS Shivalik     b)INS Chennai     c)INS Kochi     d)INS Vikramaditya   e)none

41.      What is the India’s rank in the Global Hunger Index with a hunger rate of 23.9 out of 88 countries?

a)38th     b)44th    c)56th    d)65th    e)none

42.      The government has started implementing liberal FDI rules under which proposals up to Rs 1,200 crore foreign equity

would be cleared by the Finance Minister without seeking approval of the ________________?

a)Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs(CCEA)

b)Department of Industry Policy and Promotion (DIPP)

c)Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB)

d)Prime Minister

e)none

43.      Which country tested the13.8-tonne AC313 heavy lift helicopter that can carry 27 passengers?

a)US    b)France     c)Italy    d)China   e)none

44.      Recently which of the following countries unveiled New Economic Model (NEM) that will transform the nation into a

high-income economy?

a)Malaysia    b)India     c)China    d)Brazil    e)none

45.      India has signed a $59.1-million agreement with ___________ for the second tranche of the Himachal Pradesh Clean

Energy Development Investment Programme?

a)IMF     b)World Bank    c)ADB   d)NABARD    e)none

46.      Census of India is administered under __________?

a)Ministry of health and family welfare

b)Ministry of social justice and empowerment

c)Ministry of Finance

d)Ministry of Home Affairs

e)none

47.      Who is the head of a high-level committee set up by the Planning Commission to suggest measures for effective

management of public expenditure?

a)Nitin Desai    b)M G Rao   c)C Rangarajan     d)R Malhotra   e)none

48. Recently Central Government said that two Indian private sector banks are treated as foreign banks because of the foreign

equity of both the banks are around 74 per cent. What are the two banks we are discussing?

a)ICICI, HDFC    b)HDFC, Axis Bank     c)ICICI, Federal Bank   d)Yes Bank, ICICI   e)none

49. Which of the following state celebrated the Golden Jubilee celebrations recently?

a)Kerala     b)Uttar Pradesh    c)Gujarat    d)Rajasthan   e)none

50. Which of the following is India’s first indigenously-built stealth warship?

a)INS Sahyadri    b)INS Shivalik    c)INS Satpura   d)INS Vikramaditya   e)none

1. Who has been declared as the World Statesman Award for the year 2010?

a)Manmohan Singh    b)Angela Merkel    c)Mohamed Nasheed     d)Gordon Brown   e)Barack Obama

2. The Nuclear Security Summit 2010 held at ____________?

a)Paris    b)New York     c)Moscow   d)Brasilia    e)Washington

3. As per the Economist Intelligence Unit's e-readiness ranking for the year 2009, India ranked ______ among the countries of

the world?

a)3rd      b)22nd     c)36th    d)58th   e)none

4. For which of the following schemes in India has got an appraisal from Labour and Employment ministers of G-20

countries?

a)Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), Aam Admi Bima Yojna (AABY)

b)Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY), Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee

Act(MGNREGA)

c) Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY), Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission(JNNUM)

d)Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act(MGNREGA), Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana

(RSBY)

e)none

5. India is planning to invest $1 trillion in ____________ sector during the 12th Five-Year Plan?

a)Infrastructure      b)Education    c)Science & Technology    d)Defense    e)none

6. Which of the following city has bagged the 'Best Metro in Asia Pacific' award, instituted by London-based event

management firm Terrapinn?

a)Tokyo     b)Delhi    c)Singapore    d)Beijing    e)none

7. A/c to the experts, after financial crisis, a __________ crisis is likely to affect the world?

a)Liquidity crisis     b)Technological crisis     c)Energy Crisis   d)Currency Crisis   e)none

8. In which of the following countries India has opened its 23rd cultural relations centre named “Indira Gandhi Cultural

Centre”?

a)Nepal     b)Bangladesh     c)Srilanka    d)Afghanistan   e)none

9.      Who is the new Prime Minister of United Kingdom?

a)Gordon Brown     b)Harriet Harman    c)Nick Clegg    d)David Cameroon   e)none

10.      Which Country topped the Global Information Technology Report 2010 released by WEF?

a)Denmark    b)Sweden     c)Singapore    d)Switzerland    e)none

11.      According to the recent data released by Coffee Board of India, India majorly exports coffee to which of the following

countries?

a)Italy     b)Russia    c)Germany     d)US    e)UK

12.      Recently which country announced that it has 5,113 nuclear warheads?

a)Russia    b)North Korea    c)US    d)Iran   e)China

13.      In which state, IT major Infosys will open Rural BPO centers in 22 districts of the state?

a)Kerala    b)Karnataka     c)Tamilnadu    d)Andhra Pradesh    e)none

14.      Which country will start the Worlds Largest Carbon Credit Project?

a)China    b)India    c)Japan    d)Germany   e)none

15.      Which is the first state in India where video phone services have been launched on a commercial basis?

a)Andhra Pradesh    b)Haryana    c)Tamilnadu   d)Delhi   e)Gujarat

16.      Who is the new Governor of Rajasthan?

a)S K Singh    b)Prabha Rau    c)Shivraj Patel     d)K. Shankarnarayan   e)none

17.      World Press Freedom Day is celebrated on ________?

a)April 3rd    b)May 3rd    c)April 23rd     d)May 23rd    e)none

18. India is the ___ largest shareholder in the World Bank?

a)first     b)second     c)third    d)fifth    e)seventh

19. India won the Kabaddi World Cup 2010 by defeating _____________?

a)Canada    b)Malaysia    c)Italy    d)Pakistan   e)none

20. What is the mascot for 2011 Cricket World Cup?

a)Fuwa     b)Zakumi   c)Jumbo    d)Shera    e)none

21. The 2010 Youth Olympics Games to be held in which of the following country?

a)Singapore    b)China    c)India    d)France    e)none

22. Who is the author of the book ‘Decision Points’?

 a)Barack Obama     b)Bill Clinton    c)Hillary Clinton    d)George W. Bush  e)none

23. Lech Kaczynski has recently passed away in a plane crash, he was the president of which of the following country?

a)Poland    b)Slovakia    c)Czech Republic    d)Belarus    e)none

24. Recently 17,000 flights cancelled across Europe due to volcanic ash. In which country volcanic eruption has taken place?

a)Greenland    b)Denmark    c)Iceland    d)Greece   e)none

25. Who won the Rome Masters Title for the fifth time in six years?

a)Andy Murray    b)Rafael Nadal     c)David Ferrer    d)Roger federer    e)none

26. Recently which country tested the Shaheen-1 missile?

a)UAE    b)Iran    c)Pakistan    d)India   e)none

27. Which of the following is renamed as ‘Aadhaar’ recently?

a)Aam Aadmi Bima Yojana    b)Unique Identification Authority of India     c)NREGA   d)Saakshar Bharat    e)none

28. Recently which country eliminated two time zones of its eleven time zones?

a)Russia    b)Canada     c)US    d)UK    e)China  

29.      Who has been appointed as the new Chief Justice of India?

a)Vahanvati    b)S H Kapadia    c)K G Balakrishnan    d)Y. K. Sabharwal   e)none

30.      Who is the new Prime minister of Srilanka?

a)Mahinda Rajapakse     b)M Jayaratne     c)R Wickremanayake   d)R Wickremesinghe  e)none

31.      Who has taken over as the new Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)?

a)S Rajendra Babu    b)K G Balakrishnan     c)G P Mathur    d)Satyapal Batra   e)none

32.      Which of the following is the second most visited site in India after Taj mahal in 2009?

a)Qutub Minar    b)Ajanta Caves    c)Red Fort    d)Golden Temple   e)none

33.      A/c to FICCI survey, Indian Economy will grow by ____ in 2010-11?

a)8%     b)8.6%    c)7.8%    d)8.4%    e)none

34.      Who won the Asian badminton men's singles title?

a)Wang Zhengming    b)Chetan Anand     c)Lin Dan    d)Pullela Gopichand   e)none

35.      In order to provide quality healthcare to all citizens, which state government has decided to set up one primary urban

health centre for every 50,000 people in the city?

a)Orissa     b)Kerala     c)Delhi     d)J & K    e)none

36.      Which country President signed a landmark constitutional amendment bill that will strip his powers?

a)Iran    b)North Korea     c)Srilanka     d)Pakistan    e)Ukraine

37.      Which of the following telecom operator has got the permission from central government to lay a 12,091 km long

undersea optical fibre cable via eight countries from Marseilles in France to Juhu Beach in Mumbai?

a)Reliance     b)Vodafone     c)Bharthi Airtel     d)Tata    e)none

38. Who has been appointed as the Chairman of NASSCOM?

      a)R S Pawar      b)Pramod Bhasin     c)Harsh Manglik     d)Som Mittal    e)none

39. Juan Antonio Samaranch recently passed away, he is the former president of which of the following organisations?

a)World Bank     b)IMF    c)International Olympic Committee    d)NASA  e)none

40. Who won the Pantaloons Femina Miss India 2010?

a)Manasvi Mamgai    b)Neha Hinge   c)Nicole Faria   d)Pooja Chopra   e)none

41. Which is the first financial service entity in India to set up wind mills for captive use?

a)LIC     b)ICICI Bank     c)NABARD    d)SBI    e)none

42. Who has won the prestigious Dan David Prize for his remarkable reworking of the great tradition of the Western novel in

transnational terms?

a)Jhumpa Lahiri     b)Arvind Adiga     c)Amitav Ghosh    d)Arundathi Roy  e)none

43. Who has been appointed as the Interim Chairman of IPL?

a)Shashank Manohar     b)N Srinivasan    c)Ravi Shastri    d)Sharad Pawar   e)Chirayu Aman

44. Which is the first country to ban Vulture funds?

a)India     b)UK     c)France    d)Denmark    e)none

45. A/c to Forbes, who has been named as India’s Bill Gates?

a)Azim Premji    b)Mukhesh Ambhani    c)K P Singh    d)Ratan Tata    e)none

46. Who has been appointed as the brand ambassador of the school sanitation programme in the country?

a)Sachin Tendulkar     b)Deepika Padukone    c)Amir Khan    d)Sania Mirza   e)none

47. Who is the winner of IPL 3?

a)Mumbai Indians    b)Royal Challengers Bangalore    c)Chennai Super Kings    d)Deccan Chargers   e)Delhi Daredevils

48. Which country announced that it will build more than 14 atomic power plants by 2030 as part of its effort to fight global

warming?

a)Japan     b)US    c)Iran    d)India    e)none

49.      Who is the new Chief Minister of Meghalaya?

a)D D Lapang   b)Khanduri     c)Mukul Sangma    d)Donkupar Roy   e)none

50.      Who has been voted as India Inc’s Most Powerful CEO for 2009 by Economic Times Corporate Dossier magazine?

a)Sunil Mittal     b)Anand Mahindra     c)Aditya Puri    d)Mukhesh Ambhani    e)Ratan Tata
1.      To which of the following neighbouring country India has decided to supply 50,000 tonnes of wheat, 25,000 tonnes of rice

and 10,000 tonnes of yellow peas dal?

a)Pakistan    b)Afghanistan     c)Bangladesh     d)Nepal    e)none

2.      India's 18th Nuclear Power Plant Begins Commercial Operations in which of the following states?

a)Andhra Pradesh      b)Karnataka     c)Rajasthan    d)Gujarat    e)Tamilnadu

3.      Which Country hosted the 16th SAARC summit?

a)Nepal    b)Srilanka     c)Pakistan    d)Bhutan     e)none

4.      India's first International Tourism police station has been opened in which state?

a)Kerala     b)Delhi     c)Maharashtra    d)Jammu and Kashmir   e)none

5.      Which Company has topped the list of Fortune’s most admired company in the world?

a)Google     b)Microsoft     c)Yahoo    d)P & G    e)Apple

6.      What is the full form of FCNR, term used in banking?

a)Foreign Capital for Nations and Region

b)Finance Capital Non Resident

c)Foreign Currency Non Resident

d)Finance Currency Non Resident

e)none

7.      Recently Rbi increased Policy rates and Reserve ratios. Why did Rbi increased these measures?

a)To Improve the Indian Economy

b)To control the Inflation

c)To control the deflation

d)Rbi wants more money to give to government 

e)because banks are gaining huge profits

8. Who has been named ‘Wisden Cricketer of the Year’ for the second time in a row?

a)Ricky Pointing   b)T Dilshan     c)Andrew Strauss    d)Sachin Tendulkar   e)V Sehwag

9. Which of the following received the ‘Boeing's Supplier of the Year Award for the year 2009’?

a)HAL    b)DRDO     c)ISRO     d)BEL    e)none

10. Chandrashekhar Rele has recently passed away. He was famous _____?

a)Carnatic Musician    b)Dancer      c)Vocalist     d)Hindustan Classical Musician   e)none

11. Who has been awarded the Tejaswini award for young women achievers?

a)Vidya balan    b)Priya Dutt    c)Mary Kom   d)All the bove    e)none
12. Bahraich district has become the first tribal village in the state to be converted into a revenue village under the Forest

Rights Act. Bahraich is in which state?

a)Sikkim    b)Rajasthan   c)Maharashtra    d)Chhattisgarh    e)Uttar Pradesh

13. Who is the author of the book ‘Wide Angle’?

a)Tiger Woods     b)Anil Kumble     c)Adam Gilchrist    d)Rahul Dravid    e)none

14. Which is the first bank in India to get the Chinese approval to carry out business in the local currency – yuan?

a)ICICI     b)SBI     c)Punjab National Bank    d)Axis Bank   e)none

15. Which Organization has sanctioned USD 4.9-billion (over Rs 22,000 crore) loans to India in 2009-10 for 14 schemes and

projects undertaken by the government?

a)ADB     b)UN     c)World Bank    d)IMF    e)none

16. Which State has decided to pioneer an e-waste policy to encourage green information technologies?

a)Tamilnadu    b)Karnataka    c)Kerala     d)Gujarat   e)none

17. Which Country will host the 11th International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA)?

a)India      b)Srilanka      c)UK    d)Maldives   e)none

18. Recently SEBI banned the 14 life insurance companies in India from circulating ULIP’s. what is the full form of ULIP?

a) Unit Linked Investment Plan

b) Unit Linked Insurance Policy

c) Unit Linked Insurance Plan

d)Unit Linked Investment Policy

e)none

19.      A/c to the new report of ‘Global Economic Prospects 2010’, World Bank pegged India’s GDP growth at _____ in 2010-

11?

a)7.2%     b)7.5%    c)7.75%    d)8%    e)none

20.      Who has been elected as the President of Chile?

a)Michelle Bachelet    b)Eduardo Frei Ruiz    c)Ricardo Lagos   d)Sebastián Piñera  e)none

1.      With which country India signed an agreement for exploring oil and gas, as also decided to strengthen co-operation in

the information technology sector. Besides, they decided to work for enhancing the trade volume to $1 billion by 2012?

a)Nigeria     b)Finland      c)Saudi Arabia    d)Hungary    e)none

2.      Sujit Kumar had recently passed away, he was a famous __________?

a)Actor     b)Politician     c)Painter     d)Economist    e)none

3.      The 2009 AIMA-JRD Tata Corporate Leadership Award was presented to _______?
 a)Sunil Mittal     b)Rahul Bajaj     c)Venu Srinivasan    d)OP Bhatt   e)K M Birla

4.      Who has been selected for the prestigious 17th Ekalabya Award for the year 2009?

a)K Ravi Kumar     b)Monisha Mohanty    c)Amiya Kumar    d)Baijayant Panda    e)none

5.      Expand WANO?

a)Wide Area Network Operator

b)World Authority Nuclear Operators

c)World Association of Nuclear Organization

d)World Association of Nuclear Operators

e)none

6.      To which state World Bank has agreed to give a $450 million loan to supplement the state government efforts for

sustainable environment growth?

a)Delhi     b)Andhra Pradesh    c)Himachal Pradesh    d)Jammu and Kashmir    e)none

7.      According to U.S. Treasury data released on February 2010, which country has reduced its holdings of U.S. debt by $45

billion in the past five months?

a)Japan    b)Germany   c)UK   d) India     e)China

8. Which of the following states is called the ‘Tiger State’ of India?

a)Uttar Pradesh     b)Madhya Pradesh    c)Gujarat    d)Rajasthan    e)Maharashtra

9. Indian Economy can be described as ___________?

a)Capitalist Economy     b)Socialist Economy     c)Traditional Economy    d)Mixed Economy   e)All of these

10. Brett Lee, one of the fastest bowlers in the cricket, announced his retirement from Test Cricket. He belongs to which

nationality?

a)England    b)New Zealand     c)Australia    d)South Africa    e)none

11. Which state has becomes first state in India to introduce a bill guaranteeing the right to health for all citizens?

a)Assam    b)Gujarat     c)Uttarakhand     d)Tamilnadu    e)none

12. Who among the following has been selected as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme

(UNEP)?

a)Amitabh Bachhan     b)Katrina Kaif    c)M S Dhoni    d)Akshay Kumar    e)Sachin Tendulkar

13. The second meeting of Ministers of the four BASIC Group countries took place in ____?

a)Brasilia     b)Beijing     c)Mumbai     d)Cape Town   e)Delhi

14. With which country India has decided to jointly develop Solar city?

a)China    b)Bangladesh    c)US    d)Nepal   e)Japan

15. Which of the following is the first country in the world to build a nuclear-powered spacecraft for interplanetary flights?

a)India     b)US     c)China    d)Russia     e)Iran

16. Which of the following has become the third country in the world after US and Russia to possess missile interceptor

technology designed to shoot down enemy missile in mid-air?

a)India    b)China     c)Japan     d)Iran      e)UK

17. What is the present Cash Reserve Ratio(CRR)?

a)5.0%     b)5.25%     c)5.75%     d)3.5%    e)none

18. Which of the following pairs in not correct?

a)Deodhar Trophy - Cricket

b)Subroto Cup - Football

c)Agha Khan Trophy – Hockey

d)Irani Cup – Football

e)All are correct

19.   Who has been nominated as the India Abroad Person of the Year 2009?

a)Indra Nooyi     b)V Ramakrishnan     c)Fareed Zakaria    d)Bobby Jindal    e)none

20.   Recently to which gulf country Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited and signed bilateral agreement in February

2010?

a)Kuwait    b)Saudi Arabia   c)Iran   d)Dubai    e)none

21   What is India’s position in Global Innovation Index, report launched by INSEAD in partnership with Confederation of

Indian Industry (CII)?

a)36th     b)44th     c)56th     d)88th    e)none

22.   Laura Chinchilla has been elected as the first woman President of __________?

a)Libya     b)Ukraine    c)Spain    d)Costa Rica   e)none

23.  A/c to the ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan, ISRO’s budget is ____ percent of that of its US counterpart NASA?

a)21%     b)16%    c)12%    d)6%    e)3%

24.   Recently which country dropped a proposal to change the country's national anthem by making it more gender-

inclusive?

a)Germany     b)UK     c)France    d)Canada   e)none

25.   A/c to the Livability Index 2010 prepared jointly by CII and Institute for Competitiveness, which is the best Indian city to

live?

a)Delhi     b)Mumbai     c)Bangalore    d)Jamshedpur     e)Pune

26.   The 108th Constitutional Amendment Bill deals with which of the following?

a)Right to Education     b)Right to Vote    c)SC/ST reservation    d)Women Reservation   e)none

27.   India offered a $250 million line of credit to which of the following country?

a)Nepal    b)Srilanka     c)Bangladesh    d)Haiti    e)none

28. Abdullah Gul recently visited India and signed a joint declaration on Terrorism with India. He was the President of

____________?

a)Saudi Arabia     b)Dubai    c)Turkey    d)Kuwait    e)Palestine

29. Mahmoud Abbas has visited India in February 2010. He was the president of ________?

a)Yugoslavia    b)Israel     c)Palestine    d)Libya    e)none

30. Who won the Dubai Open title 2010 by defeating Mikhail Youzhny?

a)Novak Djokovic     b)Rafael Nadal    c)Andy Roddick    d)Andy Murray   e)none

31. Who has been nominated as the ‘Best Actor in a leading role’ in the Filmfare Awards 2010?

a)Amir Khan    b)Sharukh Khan     c)Hrithik Roshan    d)Amitabh Bachchan   e)Ranbir Kapoor

32. Which state government has given Lifetime Achievement for Habib Tanvir and Pandit Bhimsen Joshi?

a)Maharashtra    b)West Bengal     c)New Delhi    d)Rajasthan    e)none

33. The 15th Conference of India and US Air Forces meeting was held in __________?

a)Delhi     b)Bangalore     c)Goa     d)Mumbai    e)Thiruvananthapuram

34. Which of the following countries is the largest producer of jute in the World?

a)Bangladesh     b)India     c)Malaysia    d)China   e)none

35. Which European Country has introduced a new package of tax increases and spending cuts to save 4.8bn euro’s and ease

its budget crisis?

a)Sweden    b)Greece    c)Spain    d)Portugal    e)none

36. India is the _______ most affected country in the world for spam mail attacks, in the annual security report by Cisco?

a)first     b)second     c)third    d)fourth   e)fifth

37. Which Country has launched the poppy eradication programme to wipe out opium poppies across the country?

a)Srilanka     b)India    c)Pakistan    d)Afghanistan    e)China

38. Syed Mushtaque Ali has recently passed away. He belongs to which filed?

a)Painting     b)Sports    c)Politics     d)Social Service    e)none

39.      Who has been named as the Chairperson of the National Advisory Council(NAC)?

a)Manmohan Singh     b)C Rangarajan     c)Sushma Swaraj    d)Sonia Gandhi   e)none

40.      Recently GOI launched ‘Sakshara Bharat’ Mission 2012, aimed at educating illiterate girls and women aged above ____

years?

a)8yrs     b)10yrs    c)12yrs    d)15yrs   e)18yrs

41.      Recently India successfully test-fired the BrahMos supersonic anti-ship cruise missile from a warship in the Bay of

Bengal off coast of Orissa and became the ______ country in the world to have a ‘maneuverable’ missile for cruise.

a)first    b)second    c)third    d)sixth    e)none

42.      A/c to UNIDO, India stood at which place in Industrial Production?

a)third     b)fifth    c)eight    d)ninth    e)none

43.      Who is the new Chairman of BSE?

a)Jagdish Capoor    b)S. Ramadorai    c)Madhu Kannan   d)Mahesh L. Soneji   e)none

44.      In which country World Social Forum (WSF) meeting held?

a)Brazil    b)Switzerland     c)US    c)Russia    e)none

45.      Who has been voted the most popular youth leader in the country, a/c to the Centre for Media and Cultural Research?

a)Sachin Pilot    b)Rahul Gandhi    c)Varun Gandhi   d)Supriya Sule   e)none

46.      Which Country has the largest number of illiterate adults in the world?

a)China    b)South Africa    c)UAE    d)Iraq   e)India

47.      Which Indian city has been ranked fourth in the New York Times' '31 Places to Go in 2010' list?

a)Tirupathi    b)Mumbai     c)Mysore    d)Agra     e)none

48. Who won the O.B.Agarwal Memorial 6 red Snooker National Championship?

a)Brijesh Damani    b)Kamal Chawla    c)Manan Chandra    d)Pankaj Advani   e)none

49. Who wrote the book ‘Becoming Indian’?

a)Vaidyanathan     b)Rajan Gurukkal     c)Shamira Sheikh    d)Arvind Virmani    e)Pavan Varma

50. The SAARC Lifetime Achievement Award 2010, was given to __________?

a)Abhi Subedi   b)Mark Tully      c)Hamid Mir     d)Sarmad Sehbai    e)none

1. Which state high court quashed the legislation for four percent reservation to Muslims in education and jobs?

a)Delhi     b)Andhra Pradesh      c)Chennai    d)Bihar    e)Kerala

2. The 2010 Abel Prize has been awarded to ___________ for his vast      and lasting impact on the theory of numbers?

a)John G. Thompson     b)Jacques Tits     c)John Tate    d)Mikhail Gromov   e)Both a & b.

3. Recently in which of the following countries India has decided to set up Consulate General Office?

a)Bangladesh     b)Nepal   c)Srilanka    d)Afghanistan   e)none

4. Which of the following country receiving the largest number of foreign tourists, at 80 million per year?
 a)US     b)India     c)China    d)Spain   e)France

5. Which of the following country has become the first country in South Asia to join the International Criminal Court based in

The Hague?

a)India    b)Bangladesh      c)Nepal    d)Srilanka    e)China

6. Which city will host the International Kabaddi Tournament?

a)Delhi    b)Chennai    c)Chandigarh    d)Jaipur    e)Hyderabad

7. The 19th Saraswati Samman, country's highest literary honour, for 2009 has been given to ___________?

a)Surjit Patar     b)Naiyer Masud    c)Lakshmi Nandan Bora    d)Jagannath Prasad Das    e)none

8. Which country will host the 2014 FIFA world cup?

a)South Africa     b)Canada    c)Spain    d)Brazil    e)none

9.      What is the full form ‘Core’ in Core banking solutions?

a)Central Organization for Rural Employees

b)Centralized Online Realtime Electronic

c)Centralized Online Realtime Exchange

d)Connected Organizations for a Responsible Economy

e)none

10.      Which is the first State in the country to announce a ban on Bt brinjal even before the Central government takes a final

decision?

a)Gujarat    b)Uttarakhand    c)Madhya Pradesh     d)Karnataka   e)none

11.      Who has been named the 2009 WTA (Women Tennis Association) player of the year?

a)Serena Williams    b)Kim Clijsters    c)Elena Dementieva    d)Venus Williams   e)none

12.      Which country has agreed to pay the United Nations around $10m in compensation for damage caused to UN buildings

in Gaza during last year's war?

a)US     b)Israel    c)Iran    d)North Korea   e)none

13.      Which North Eastern state has four Chief Ministers?

a)Sikkim     b)Arunachal Pradesh     c)Manipur    d)Meghalaya   e)Assam

14.      Who wrote the book ‘No Country for Women’?

a)Aung San Suu Kyi    b)Sonia Gandhi    c)Taslima Nasrin    d)Sushma Swaraj   e)none

15.      Recently which country became second in Latin America to have a cabinet with gender parity(equal number of women

and men)?

a)Chile    b)Argentina    c)Brazil     d)Peru   e)Bolivia

16.      Who has been appointed as the new chief of National Investigation Agency(NIA)?

a)Radha Vinod Raju     b)V S Tiwari    c)Ashwin Kumar   d)Sharad Chandra Sinha   e)none

17.      Expand CASA, term used in banking?

a)Capital Account Savings Account

b)Current Analysis Savings Account

c)Cost Analysis Strategy Assessment

d)Current Account Savings Account

e)none

18. Which of the following has became the first Indian automobile company to produce one million cars in a year?

a)Tata Motors    b)Mahindra & Mahindra    c)Hyundai    d)Maruthi Suzuki    e)none

19. Which country has launched its domestically designed and developed guided missile destroyer “Jamaran”?

a)Iran    b)North Korea    c)India   d)China   e)Turkey

20. Reena Kaushal has created history by becoming the first Indian women to ski _________?

a)North Pole     b)South Pole    c)both a & b    d)Mount Everest    e)none

21. According to a report by global consultancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), India could become the world’s third

largest economy by purchasing power parity (PPP), overtaking Japan in _____?

a)2012   b)2015    c)2020   d)2025   e)none

22. ‘The Road Ahead’ is a book written by _________?

a)Bill Gates     b)Warren Buffet     c)Carlos Slim    d)Bill Clinton   e)none

23. Vikram Srivastava ia appointed as the new Director General of ______________?

a)Border security Force    b)Assam Rifles     c)Central Industrial Security Force   d)Indo-Tibetan Border Police   

e) Central Reserve Police Force

24. Which Country has banned the 2D version of the movie ‘Avatar’?

a)Iran     b)India     c)North Korea    d)Srilanka    e)China

25. Which state having the largest number of people below the poverty line (BPL), a/c to the latest figures?

a)Bihar    b)Uttar Pradesh    c)Orissa   d)Jharkhand    e)none

26. Which state is the second largest state-economy in India after Maharashtra?

a)Tamilnadu    b)Gujarat    c)Uttar Pradesh    d)Karnataka    e)Andhra Pradesh

27. Which of the following Country has the largest oil Reserves and largest exporter of Petroleum in the World?

a)Canada      b)Venezuela    c)Russia    d)Saudi Arabia    e)Iran

28. Presently Kaushik Basu holds which of the following position?

 a)Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council

b)Finance Secretary

c)Chief Economic Advisor

d)Revenue Secretary

e)none of these

29.      As per the 13th Finance commission report, the share of states in net proceeds of sharable central taxes has been

increased to ______ from the level of 30.5%?

a)34%     b)31.5%    c)32%    d)35%   e)none

30.      Who among the following is the India’s most trusted person, published by Reader’s Digest?

a)Ratan Tata    b)Narayana Murthy    c)Abdul Kalam   d)Rahul Gandhi   e)none

31.      Which of the following state is the most polluted state in India, a/c to the latest report by Central Pollution Control

Board(CPCB)?

a)Maharashtra     b)Tamilnadu     c)Andhra Pradesh    d)Gujarat   e)Karnataka

32.      Who has been honored as the Lifetime Achievement Award for her outstanding contribution to Indian cinema, at the

London Film Festival?

a)Amitabh Bachchan     b)Monika Mohta    c)Kishwar Desai    d)Jaya Bachchan   e)none

33.      Who has been awarded the Rani Lakshmi Bai Award for the year 2009?

a)Sunita Devi    b)Maha Jabeen    c)sugatha Kumari    d)Ved Kumari Ghai   e)M Vijaya

34.      Recently G P Birla has passed away he was a famous __________?

a)Economist     b)Actor    c)Politician   d)Industrialist    e)none

35.      SEBI has directed stock exchanges to provide details related to shares allotted to institutional investors through QIP.

what is the full form of QIP?

a)Quality Investment Partner

b)Qualified Institutional Placements

c)Quality Improvement Programme

d) Quality Intellectual Property

e)none of these

36.      What is the current Repo rate?

a)4.75%    b)3.5%    c)5.0%    d)6%   e)none

37.      Recently RBI has inaugurated its sub-office in which of the following states?

a)Sikkim    b)Meghalaya    c)Assam   d)Maharashtra    e)Andhra Pradesh

38. A/c to a report released by WTO, the World Trade fell by ____ percent in 2009 due to Global Economic crisis?

a)8%     b)10%     c)12%    d)15%    e)none of these

39. India’s biggest commodity exchange MCX emerged as the ____ largest commodity exchange in the world in terms of

contracts in 2009?

a)fourth     b)second     c)third    d)sixth    e)none

40. To which of the following centre has approved the proposal for release of equity infusion of Rs. 800 crore, which is facing

severe financial losses?

a)Bsnl     b)Air India    c)SAIL     d)HAL   e)none of these

41. Recently Google has shut down its operations in which of the following country due to set of cyber attacks?

a)Iran     b)North Korea     c)Turkey    c)Indonesia    e)China

42. Which state bagged the National award for the best tourism infrastructure for the year 2008-09?

a)Andhra Pradesh    b)Goa    c)Kerala   d)Sikkim   e)Rajasthan

43. On which day World Water day is observed?

a)April 22nd    b)Sep 23rd    c)May 22nd    d)March 22nd    e)none

44. Which is the First State in India to Release Action Plan to Combat Climate Change?

a)Gujarat    b)Delhi   c)Karnataka     d)Meghalaya    e)none

45. Which state introduced the project ‘e-Shishu’, which maintain database of all children between newborn and 14 years of

age?

a)Orissa     b)Madhya Pradesh   c)Assam     d)Jammu & Kashmir   e)none

46. According to the Corporate Gender Gap report brought out by the World Economic Forum, India has the lowest

percentage of women employees of ___ percent?

a)33%     b)39%    c)26%   d)23%   e)none

47. Mukhesh Ambani has placed at ____ place in the richest person in the world, a/c to the latest report released by Forbes?

a)second     b)third    c)fourth     d)fifth    e)none

48. Which is the first country in the world to have specialized Environment Courts?

a)China    b)UK     c)US   d)Japan    e)India

49      Which country won the maximum number of Gold medals in 2010 Winter Olympics?

a)US     b)Germany    c)Canada    d)China    e)Russia

50.      Which of the following states is the largest producer of Coffee in India?

a)Andhra Pradesh    b)Karnataka    c)Kerala    d)Tamilnadu   e)none
 1 ….Which Country won the Hockey world cup 2010 by defeating Germany?

a)Spain     b)Netherlands    c)England     d)Australia    e)none

2.Who is the head of the committee appointed by Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation to discuss the draft

guidelines of government's ambitious Rajiv Awas Yojana?

a)Rakesh Mohan    b)Rangarajan    c)O P Mathur   d)Sheela Patel   e)Deepakh Parekh

3.      The European Investment Bank agreed to give a £340-million loan to Jaguar and Land Rover. These are the brands of

which Auto Major Company?

a)Maruthi Suzuki    b)Hyundai   c)Mahindra & Mahindra   d)Tata Motors   e)none

4.      Recently which Indian Cricketer has been inducted into ICC Hall of Fame?

a)Sunil Gavaskar    b)Kapil  Dev    c)Mohinder Amarnath    d)Ravi Shastri   e)Bishen Singh Bedi

5.      What is the trade between India and EU at present ______?

a)$20 billion    b)$50 billion    c)$69 billion    d)$106 billion   e)$125 billion

6.      Which state launched the schemes ‘Indira Bal Swasthya Yojana’(IBSY) and ‘Nehru Drishti Yojana’ to improve the

health of all school going children in the State?

a)Haryana    b)Madhya Pradesh    c)Gujarat    d)Himachal Pradesh   e)none

7.      Which Indian Company has named among the world's 20 best companies for leadership, a/c to Human resources

consultancy Hay Group?

a)Infosys     b)SBI     c)Reliance    d)ONGC   e)TCS

8. Which Company introduced the Worlds Cheapest mobile at $15(Rs. 690)?

a)Nokia    b)Vodafone   c)LG   d)Videocon    e)Reliance

9. Bharti Airtel had acquired 70 per cent stake in Warid Telecom of ______ for $300 mn (about Rs 1,363 crore) in January

2010?

a) UAE    b)Srilanka    c)Myanmar   d)Bangladesh   e)none

10. Which among the following is nominated for 2010 Nobel Peace Prize?

a)CRY foundation     b)Bill & Melinda gates foundation    c)Internet    d)UN   e)none of these

11. Which country has announced that its National currency(bolivar) will be devalued by at least 17%?

a)Bolivia    b)Ecuador     c)Venezuela    d)Cuba    e)none

12. Amitabh Bachchan has accepted as a brand ambassador for _________ state?

a)Kerala     b)Maharashtra    c)Delhi     d)Tamilnadu   e)Gujarat

13. Who has been appointed as the brand ambassador for Kerala Tourism?
 a)Mohan Lal      b)Amir Khan    c)Sharukh Khan    d)Rasool Pookutty    e)Amitabh Bachchan

14. Which of the following is India’s second highest civilian honour?

a)Padma Bhusan     b)Bharat Ratna    c)Padma Sri   d)Padma Vibhusan    e)none

15. Which European Country is facing severe debt crisis?

a)Spain    b)Portugal    c)Greece    d)UK    e)none of these

16. Recently which state has purchased a 1,300 megawatt of power from Gujarat, West Bengal and Maharashtra?

a)Andhra Pradesh     b)Tamilnadu     c)Uttar Pradesh    d)Rajasthan   e)Karnataka

17. At present in India, 105 Operational Special Economic Zones are there. In which state the maximum SEZ are there?

a)Maharashtra    b)Uttar Pradesh    c)Andhra Pradesh    d)Karnataka    e)Tamilnadu

18. Expand the suitable PTA from the following?

a)Partial Trade Agreement

b)Preferential Trade Agreement

c)Primary Trade Agreement

d)Paid Trade Agreement

e)Public Trade Agreement

19.      Recently which country offered their nationality to the India’s most celebrated artist M.F. Hussain?

a)Saudi Arabia    b)Kuwait     c)South Africa    d)Qatar    e)UK

20.      To which Country India has given a $1 billion line of credit, the biggest it has given to any country?

a)Nepal     b)Srilanka     c)Bangladesh    d)Haiti    e)none of these

21.      Viktor Yanukovych is newly elected President of _____________?

a)Libya   b)Uruguay   c)Bulgaria    d)Ukraine    e)none of these

22.      The index of six core industries registered a growth of ____ percent in January 2010?

a)4.2%    b)5.5%     c)6.9%   d)8.0%    e)9.4%

23.      Which country honored the Niwano Peace Prize 2010 to social worker Ela Bhatt for her contribution to uplift of poor

women in India?

a)China    b)Japan    c)Singapore    d)Sweden   e)Maldives

24.      Recently Sachin Tendulkar created world record by scoring 200 runs in ODI’s. He scored against ______?

a)Srilanka    b)New Zealand    c) Bangladesh    d)South Africa   e)Australia

25.      The Indus Waters Treaty is a water-sharing treaty between the India and _______?

a)China    b)Bangladesh    c)Pakistan    d)Nepal    e)Bhutan

26.      Which State Government has decided to give up to Rs.1 crore to SC/ST Entrepreneurs without collateral security to

encourage them as Industrialist?

a)Andhra Pradesh    b)Gujarat     c)Kerala    d)Uttar Pradesh   e)Tamilnadu

27.      Recently which country approved the genetically modified Potatoes?

a)Europe    b)Srilanka    c)South Africa    d)US  e)Brazil

28. Which state launched the scheme ‘Kalaignar Housing Scheme’ aimed at providing concrete houses to poor?

a)Kerala    b)Karnataka     c)Chhattisgarh  d)Uttarakhand     e)Tamilnadu

29. Which team lifted the 2010 Vijay Hazare Trophy?

a)Bengal    b)Karnataka    c)Tamilnadu   d)Maharashtra    e)none

30. Which of the following is the largest selling car in India in 2009?

a)Maruti Alto     b)Hyundai i10    c)Tata Indica    d)Maruti Swift   e)Hyundai Santro

31. Recently which State Government has declared Sanskrit as the second official language of the State?

a)Kerala     b)Tamilnadu     c)Uttarakhand    d)Andhra Pradesh    e)Karnataka

32. In which country Ministry of Tourism held an Incredible India Road show to promote Commonwealth Games 2010 in

January 2010?

a)US    b)UK    c)Trinidad    d)South Africa   e)France

33. According to the 2010 Quality of Life Index, published by travel magazine International Living, India is ____ best country

to live?

a)34th    b)49th    c)54th    d)73rd   e)88th

34. Who is the Chairman of the Committee on Comprehensive Regulation for Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs), set up by the

Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance?

a)Kaushik Basu    b)K.P Krishnan    c)A. Vasudevan    d)Rakesh Mohan  e)None

35. The world's first On-Line Electric Vehicle (OLEV) was introduced in ________?

a)Japan    b)China    c)South Korea    d)Singapore   e)Malaysia

36. A high-level committee headed by Sam Pitroda has submitted its report on state-run telecom operator BSNL to the

Department of Telecom (DoT). Which of the following is true regarding the report?

a)Disinvestment of 30% government equity

b)Recommended that four independent business units for fixedline, mobility, enterprise and new business should be

created.

c)To reduce the Staff by one-third from the present 3 lakhs employees.

d)Both A & B
 e)All the above

37. Nisar Ahmed Kukru is appointed as the Chief Justice of ______________?

a)Andhra Pradesh    b)Rajasthan     c)Jammu and Kashmir    d)Delhi   e)None

38. Which Country has agreed to sell four Mishral warships to Russia?

a)Israel    b)France    c)US    d)UK   e)China

39.      In which state the first ever Railway Line (Rangpo-Sivok) has started?

a)Meghalaya    b)Arunachal Pradesh    c)Tripura   d)Manipur   e)Sikkim

40.      The second International Exhibition and Conference on Civil Aviation, India Aviation 2010 is held at _________?

a)Bangalore     b)Hyderabad     c)Chennai    d)Delhi    e)Mumbai

41.      Who has been named for India’s top science award in recognition of his distinguished services to the country?

a)S.N Bose    b)S Ramunujan    c)G.N Ramachandran    d)C R Rao    e)None

42.      Government has approved for setting up of Indian Community welfare fund(ICWF) in 18 Indian Missions. Which of

the following is true regarding ICWF?

a)The fund is aimed for helping only Overseas Indians

b)The fund will have budgetary support of 480 lakhs for three years

c)It provide emergency medical care, air passage to stranded workers

d)Both b & c.

e)All of the above

43.      The Panchayati Raj System was first started in which state?

a)Kerala    b)Rajasthan   c)Uttar Pradesh    d)Tamilnadu    e)Gujarat

44.      Raman Magsaysay Award is given in the field __________?

a)Community Leadership   b)Government service     c)Public service    d)Journalism    e)All of these

45.      The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) Inflation for all commodities soared to ____percent in December 2009?

a)1.25    b)5.52    c)7.31   d)8.56    e)none of these

46.      Currently, India's trade with the ASEAN economies stands at _____ billions?

a)$10    b)$20    c)$30   d)$44  e)$50

47.      Which of the following has received the Prime Minister's Trophy for emerging as the best performing steel plant in the

country for the years 2006-07 and 2007-08?

a)Bhilai Steel Plant     b)Tata Steel    c)Arcelor mittal    d)Vizag Steel   e)Essar Steel

48. Which Chief Minister conferred the Polio Champion award for his support and encouragement in endorsing polio

immunization programme?
 a)K Rosiah    b)M Karunanidhi    c)Nitish Kumar   d)Narendra Modi   e)Sheila Dikshit

49. Recently Bharti Airtel has acquired the ________ based Zain telecom for $10.7 billions?

a)UAE     b)South Africa      c)Kuwait    d)Dubai     e)none of these

50. Former National Security Adviser(NSA) MK Narayanan has become the new governor of _______________?

a)Jharkhand    b)West Bengal    c)Chhattisgarh   d)Bihar    e)Andhra Pradesh

1.  Who won the 2010 Australian Open Men’s Title?

a)Del Potro     b)Rafael Nadal     c)Roger Federer   d)Novak Djokovic  e)none of these

2. Which Indian State became the first in the country to issue solar tariff order in January 2010?

a)Gujarat   b)Maharashtra    c)Punjab    d)Rajasthan   e)Andhra Pradesh

3. Which film has adjudged the best film in the 56th National film awards?

a)Fashion     b)Jodha Akbar      c)Rock On    d)Antaheen   e)Kanchivaram

4. Recently India successfully test fired Astra Missile. Astra is a _________?

a)Surface-to-Surface    b)Surface-to-Air    c)Air-to Air   d)Air-to-Surface    e)None

5. Who is the new Disinvestment Secretary?

a)Sunil Mitra    b)P V Bhide    c)R S Pandey   d)Sunderasan    e)Sumit Bose

6. Who among the following is not a winner of 2009 Padma Vibhusan awards?

a)Ebrahim Alkazi     b)Y V Reddy    c)V Ramakrishnan    d)Prathap Chandra Reddy    e)B K Chaturvedhi

7. A/c to a UN report, _____ percent of world’s oral language will disappear within the next 100 years?

a)40     b)55     c)75      d)90    e)95

8. Which country recorded the highest number of polio cases in 2009?

a)India    b)China     c)Sudan    d)Kenya    e)South Africa

9.      Recently Central Government has approved the ____ percent of Reservation in Panchayats and _____percent of

reservation in Parliament and State legislatures for women?

a)33%, 50%    b)50%, 50%     c)33%, 33%    d)50%, 33%    e)none of these

10.      A High level Meeting of Trade Ministers of World Trade Organization(WTO) in September 2009 held in ________?

a)Doha    b)Geneva     c)Delhi    d)Davos    e)Brussels

11.      RBI has decided to introduce polymer notes on trial basis of 1 billion pieces of RS. _____ denomination notes?

a)10    b)20     c)50     d)100   e)5

12.      The Union Cabinet approved for setting up of ________ new IIMs in different states in India, so that the total number

of prestigious B-schools to 13?

 a)3    b)5    c)7   d)9    e)none of these

13.      A/c to a report released by government committee in August 2009, _____ percent of India’s total population are poor?

a)41%     b)29%     c)51%    d)55%    e)38%

14.      A/c to a repot released by National Climate Data Centre in 2009, which of the following month is the hottest month for

the world’s oceans in almost 130 years of record keeping?

a)April    b)May    c)June    d)July    e)August

16.      Which of the following organizations released the report “Towards Universal Access 2009”?

a) WHO   b)UNESCO    c)UN    d)UNICEF   e)ILO

17.      What is the target for the India & Russia bilateral trade by 2010?

a)$7 billion     b)$10 billion    c)$15 billion   d)$20 billion   e)none of these

18.      The Trilateral Russia India China (RIC) summit held in _________?

a)Delhi    b)Bangalore   c)Chennai    d)Mumbai   e)Hyderabad

19. A/c to survey, which has been topped the list with 54.4% of rural households belonging to backward category?

a)Uttar Pradesh    b)Bihar    c)Tamilnadu   d)Chhattisgarh   e)none of these

20. Which State contributes maximum foodgrains productions in India?

a)Maharashtra     b)Punjab    c)Haryana    d)Gujarat    e)Uttar Pradesh

21. Jens Stoltenberg re-elected the prime minister of _____________?

a)Norway    b)Sweden    c)Hungary   d)Finland   e)None of these

22. As per the World Investment Report released by UNCTAD, India has crossed the __________ milestone in FDI through

equity since 2000 upto 2009(july)?

a)$50 billion     b)$100 billion    c)$150 billion    d)$200 billion   e)none

23. The 2006 Jnanpith Award was conferred to ___________?

a)Kunwar Narayan    b)Ravindra Kelkar    c)Satya Vrat Shastri   d)both b & c e)none

24. The 2009 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in October 2009 held in _________?

a)Russia    b)Egypt    c)Tajikistan    d)Kazakhstan   e)China

25. The 8th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas was celebrated in _______?

a)Chennai    b)Mumbai    c)Bangalore    d)Delhi   e)none of these

26. Who won the 76th National Billiards Championship?

a)Pankaj Advani    b)Geeth Sethi    c)Devendra Joshi    d)Dhruv Sitwala   e)None of these

27. India’s first Unmanned Air Vehicle(UAV) is __________?

a)Tejas     b)Rustom     b)Lakshya     d)Gagan    e)Nishant

28. CAPART is an autonomous organization under ministry of _____________?

a)Agriculture   b)Rural Development    c)Urban Development    d)Finance    e)Trade and Industry

29. Who received the Golden Pen of Freedom Award 2009?

a)Prannoy Roy    b)Barkha dutt    c)John Berger   d)Nijam Sethi   e)Karan Thapar

30. Palakkad is the country’s first fully electrified district in India. Palakkad is in which state?

a)Uttar Pradesh    b)Delhi    c)Tamilnadu    d)Kerala   e)Gujarat

31. Recently RBI approved the currency futures in ___________?

a)Euro    b)Pound    c)Yen    d)All the above    e)none

32. Which country unveiled the $81 billion stimulus package to prevent the country’s economy slipping back into

recession?

a)UK    b)France    c)US    d)Germany    e)Japan

33.  Matti Vanhanen recently visited India. He was the Prime minister of _________?

a)Netherlands   b)Sweden   c)Hungary   d)Finland   e)Spain

34. Which Country has agreed to supply coal to Worlds largest consumer of Coal(China), of a record $60 billion deal for

the next 20 years?

a)India   b)US   c)Australia   d)South Africa   e)Mongolia

35. Recently which domestic cricket team created a world record chase of 541runs in First class cricket?

a)South Zone   b)Rest of India  c)Central zone   d)North zone   e)West Zone

36. Which Year has been declared as the Warmest Year since 1901, by Indian Meteorological Department(IMD)?

a)2009   b)2008   c)2002   d)2000  e)none of these

37. Which Indian has been appointed as the member of U.S President Barack Obama’s committee on Arts and

Humanities?

a)Jhumpa Lahiri    b)Arvind Adiga    c)Arundathi Roy   d)Kiran Desai   e)none of these

38.  J.D Salinger has recently passed away. He was a famous ________?

a)Journalist    b)Economist    c)Writer   d)Painter    e)none of these

39. Which Country has offered to help the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) to strengthen its quality

control system?

a)US    b)European Union    c)Japan   d)Maldives   e)none

40. Paramananda Jha is the first vice president of which country?

a)India    b)Pakistan   c)Bhutan   d)Srilanka   e)Nepal

41. In which Country the first state funded Hindu school started its operations in Jan 2010?
 a)US    b)UK    c)Bangladesh     d)South Africa    e)Pakistan

42. Who among the following visited the three nation tour of Zambia, Malawai and Botswana in January 2010?

a)Prathibha Patel    b)Manmohan Singh    c)S M Krishna    d)Hamid Ansari   e)P Chidambaram

43. Letika Saran has become the second woman to head a state police force in the country after Kanchan Chaudry

Bhattacharya in Uttarakhand. She was the DGP of ___________?

a)Andhra Pradesh    b)Tamilnadu    c)Delhi    d)Madhya Pradesh    e)none of these

44. Who won the Ranji Trophy?

a)Karnataka    b)Tamilnadu    c)Mumbai    d)Hyderabad   e)Uttar Pradesh

45. Who won the Chennai Open Tennis Tournament?

a)Maric Cilic     b)Stansila Wawrinka   c)Marcel Granollers   d)Santigao Ventura  e)none

46. India’s first Aero Sports Centre was inaugurated in which state?

a)Karnataka    b)Bihar    c)Chattisgarh    d)delhi   e)Haryana

47. Which Organization decided to ban the sale of Enrichment and Reprocessing Technology(ENR) to countries that had

not signed Non-proliferation Treaty(NPT)?

a)G-5    b)G-8    c)G-77    d)G-20   e)none of these

48. Who is the author of the book ‘A Passage to India’?

a)Bankin Chandra    b)Sarojini Naidu     c)E.M Foster    d)Abdul Fazal   e)Louis Fischer

49. Vineet Nayyar is associated with ______________?

a)Mahindra Satyam     b)RBI    c)RCom     d)TRAI   e)Infosys

.  50 .  The 2009 World Food Summit held in __________?

a)Jakarta    b)Moscow   c)Istanbul   d)Rome   e)India

1.      The Central Government has decided to spend 15,000 crores to make the river Ganga pollution free in the next

________ years?

a)5    b)8   c)10   d)12   e)15

2.      Recently government approved to give ‘Maharatna’ status to the CPSE’s. Which among the following does not come

under this status?

a)ONGC   b)SAIL   c)NTPC   d)Indian Oil   e)All of these come under this status

3.      Where is the headquarters of Insurance Regulatory Development  Authority(IRDA)?

a)Hyderabad    b)Mumbai   c)Delhi    d)Kolkata   e)Chennai

4.      Global Zero is an international initiative launched in 2008 to promote the elimination of ______________?
 a)Heart Diseases     b)Nuclear Weapons    c)Terrorism    d)Greenhouse gases   e)none

5.      A/c to the new Investment Index released by World Bank, India is among the _____ best nation to invest in among 21

developing nations?

a)1st   b)2nd   c)3rd   d)4th   e)5th

6.      Which among the following cities is the largest e-commerce hub in India?

a)Mumbai    b)Ahmedabad   c)Hyderabad   d)Delhi   e)Pune

7.      India has overtaken ________ as the fastest growing telecom market in the World?

a)US    b)Germany    c)China   d)Canada   e)Japan

8.      A/c to a report released on Dec 18, 2009, India’s mergers and acquisition (M & As) crossed over _________ with a total of

267 deals for the period of Jan-Dec(13th Dec) 2009?

a)$8 billion    b)$15 billion    c)$10 billion   d)$15 billion   e)$ 20 billion

9. With which country NTPC has signed an agreement for setting up the Amochhu Reservoir?

a)Bhutan    b)Nepal   c)Bangladesh    d)Myanmar   e)Srilanka

10. Which bank has first introduced ATM’s in India?

a)SBI   b)ICICI Bank   c)Canara Bank   d)HSBC   e)HDFC

11. How many Stock Exchanges are there in India?

a)2   b)3   c)21    d)23   e)none of these

12. Who is head for the Committee formed by Central Government on Telangana issue?

a)R K Tyagi    b)Sri Krishna    c)V.K Duggal   d)Ravinder Kaur   e)none of these

13. The 7th edition of ‘BioAsia-2010’ held in __________?

a)New Delhi    b)Chennai    c)Hyderabad   d)Mumbai   e)Bangalore

14. Which country hosted the World’s leaders Conference held in January 2010?

a)UK   b)India    c)US   d)France   e)Afghanistan

15. Which Committee recommended a hike of Rs.6 a litre for Kerosene and Rs.100 for LPG cylinder?

a)Sunderashan committee   b)Parekh committee  c)Sunderdevan committee  d)R K Tyagi Committee   e)Kirit Parikh

committee

16. Recently which country launched a satellite ‘Kavoshgar 3’ into space?

a)Russia   b)China   c)Iran   d)India   e)none of these

17. Who is the President of NASSCOM?

a)Pramod Bhasin    b)Som Mittal    c)Narayana Murthy   d)Ramadorai   e)none]

18. Where is the headquarters of IAEA(International Atomic Energy Agency)?

 a)Belgium   b)Switzerland    c)US   d)Austria   e)France

19. Which country is the largest producer of sugar in the world?

a)India   b)China    c)Thailand   d)Mexico   e)Brazil

20.  Horst Koehler is on a week-long visit to India, he was the president of _______?

a)Canada     b)Russia    c)Italy    d)Argentina   e)Germany

2.  A/c to the Latest State of Forest Report (SFR), India’s forest cover rises to over ____?

a)19%    b)21%    c)24%    d)26%   e)28%

21.  A/c to the data published by the WAN-IFRA, which among the following Country is the Biggest Newspaper Market in e

World?

a)China    b)US    c)India   d)Russia    e)UAE

22.  With which country India has signed an agreement for oil and gas exploration and decided to strengthen cooperation in

Information Technology in February 2010?

a)Hungary    b)Norway    c)Algeria   d)South Africa   e)UAE

23.  Which Life Insurance Company has launched the Child Plan ‘I-Genius’?

a)SBI Life Insurance   b)Max New York Life Insurance    c)LIC   d)Tata AIG Life Insurance   e)ICICI Prudential Life

Insurance

24.  Which City hosted the 11th International Communists and Workers meet?

a)Kolkata    b) Thiruvananthapuram    c)Chennai   d)Delhi   e)Shimla

25.  India stands at which place in the Latest Corruption Index, released by Transparency International?

a)34th    b)123rd    c)134th    d)49th   e)84th

26.  Which of the following is a Light Combat Aircraft(LCA)?

a)Astra    b)Akash    c)Tejas   d)Pruthvi   e)Brahmos

27. Which Country had announced that it had decided to construct 10 more Uranium enrichment plants in the country?

a)North Korea    b)India    c)Iran    d)South Korea   e)China

28. Which country tested the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile(Dongfeng 31-A)?

a)China   b)North Korea    c)Taiwan    d)Sweden   e)Australia

29. The European Commission granted a $1 billion loan to which trouble-torn African nation?

a)Lebanon   b)Nigeria    c)Sudan    d)Botswana   e)Zimbabwe

30. Recently Union government has banned the prepaid mobile phones in which of the following state?

a)Arunachal Pradesh    b)Sikkim   c)Jammu & Kashmir   d)Assam   e)Meghalaya

31. What is the amount fixed by the TRAI for availing Mobile Number Portability(MNP) facility?
 a)Rs. 11   b)Rs. 19   c)Rs. 21   d)Rs. 25   e)none of these.

32. The Total number(approximately) of mobile subscribes in India at end of the December 2009 is ________?

a)49 crores    b)52 crores    c)56 crores    d)61 crores   e)none

33. India has signed an Extradition Treaty in January 2010 with _________?

a)Nepal    b)Malaysia    c)Bangladesh    d)Singapore   e)none of these

34. Which state government adopted the Public Property Bill in November 2009?

a)Gujarat    b)Rajasthan  c)Tamilnadu   d)Andhra Pradesh   e)none of these

35. Lafarge is the World’s largest cement manufacturer. It belongs to which country?

a)France   b)Switzerland   c)Germany    d)Mexico   e)Italy

36. Who is the author of the book ‘The Grasshopper’s Run’?

a)Sujan Kaur    b)Nitasha Kaul    c)Sarah Palin    d)Vinita Kamte   e)Siddhartha Sarma

37. Recently which cricketer completed 11,000 runs in Test cricket?

a)Jacques Kallis    b)Rahul Dravid    c)Ricky Pointing   d)M Jayawardene   e)none of these.