Quiz on General Awareness 18

1.Who Crowned the Femina Miss India 2009 ?

a)Ekta Chowdary    b)Shriya Kishore    c)Pooja Chopra    d) Parvathy Omanakuttan   e)none.

2. Computerization of Banks was suggested by which of the following committee ?

a)Rangarajan Committee  

b)Tandaon Committee   

c)Janikiraman   Committee   

d)Manmohan Singh Committee   

e)Shetty Committee

3.India signed a civil nuclear agreements with seven countries, In which of the following countries did India has not signed a civil nuclear agreement ?

a)Kazakhstan    b)Mongolia    c)Namibia    d)UK   e)Argentina

4.Which of the following countries is the world’s biggest emitter of carbon dioxide(CO2) ?

a)US(2)   b)China(1)    c)India(3)    d)Russia(4)    e)Pakistan

5.Who has been elected as the president of the Indian Languages Newspapers Association (ILNA) ?

a)Uttam Chand Sharma   b)V K Chopra    c)Dinesh Shakti Trikha   d)VenkataRam Reddy  e)none

6.Expand NELP ?

a)Nominal Equal Liquidity policy

b)New Exploration Land Programme

c)New Education Lightning Programme

d)New Exploration Licensing policy

e)Newly Equated Lending Policy

7.The Fourth East Asian Summit is slated to be held in _____________ ?

a)Thailand    b)Malaysia    c)Singapore   d)Philippines     e)Vietnam

8.Which of the following cities in India will have a world class research institute on climate change ?

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

9.Yukhio Hatoyama, the new Prime Minister of Japan belongs to the which of the following  political parties ?

a)Liberal Democratic party    b)Japenese Communist Party    c)People’s new party  d)Democratic party of Japan   e)Social Democratic party

10.Latin American Countries decided to launch a new regional currency __________  in 2010 , replacing US Dollar ?

a)Boliviano    b)Sucre   c)Peso   d)Lempiras    e)cordoba

11.Which of the following has become the first African country to win the FIFA U-20 World Cup-2009 that was held in Egypt ?

a)South Africa   b)Egypt   c)Ghana    d)Botswana   e)Algeria

12.Rajiv Swagruha Scheme, a scheme for middle-class housing launched by ___________ government ?

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

13.’COPE India 2009’ is a joint Air Force exercise between India and _________ recently held in Agra ?

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

14.Which is the first country in the World to keep the Cabinet Meeting Under water ?

a)US    b)Srilanka     c)Australia    c)New Zealand    e)Maldives

15. P V Narasimha Rao Elevated Expressway, country's longest fly-over which covers 11.6 km, is located in which of the following states ?

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

16.Which of the following Company/Organisation is not a Public Sector Unit (PSU) ?

a)MTNL   b)CMC    c)VSNL    d)NALCO   e)none

17.Indirect Tax is a tax on ___________ ?

a)Income   b)Wealth   c)Labour    d)Commodities   e)Housing

18.Which of the following is the first state to implement VAT (Value Added Tax) in India ?

a)Kerala    b)Punjab    c)Haryana    d)Andhra Pradesh    e)Gujarat

19. Recently Indian government decided to give an extra amount of Rs.______  crore to the Sri Lankan government towards rehabilitating Tamils displaced by the civil war.

a)500   c)600   b)750   d)1000   e)1500

20.”Dreams from my Father” is book written by _________ ?

a)A P J Abdul Kalam   b)George W.Bush   c)Sachin Tendulkar    d)Barack Obama  e)none

Imp Points:

->3rd Q:India signed civil nuclear agreements with US,France,Russia,Kazakhstan,Mongolia,Namibia,Argentina.

->9th Q:First non-Liberal Democratic Party to win in Japan.

->10th Q:Single Regional Payment Compensation System(Sucre).

->19th Q:India had already given 500 crores for Rehabil........ !!!

->20th Q:"Audacity of Hope","Dreams from my Father" are the two books written by Barack Obama.