Quiz on General Awareness 26

1. How many Public Sector Banks are there in India excluding the associates of SBI?

a)18   b)19   c)20   d)21   e)27

2. Recently which bank has announced a special home loan scheme with interest rate of 8%?

a)ICICI Bank   b)Canara Bank   c)Yes Bank   d)Andhra Bank   e)Axis Bank

3. Mutual Funds are regulated by __________ in India?

a)RBI   b)SEBI   c)Mutual Funds Authority   d)AMFI   e)Finance Commission


4. Which of the following pairs is not true?

a)HDFC - Aditya puri

b)TVS - Venu Srinivasan

c)Bharti Airtel – Lakshmi Mittal

d)Apple – Steve Jobs

e)Microsoft – Steve Balmer

5. China has offered a ____ billion (100 Crores) of preferential loans to Africa?

a)$1   b)$5   c)$8   d)$10   e)$15

6. Recently which country decided to impose a 2% tax on all foreign exchange inflows?

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

7. Who penned the book ‘Straight from the Heart’ ?

a)Kapil  Dev   b)Ravi Shastri   c)Sunil Gavaskar   d)Sachin Tendulkar   e)Mohinder Amarnath

8.’ Double Fault’ is the term used in which of the following sport?

a)Football   b)Badminton   c)Golf   d)Hockey   e)Tennis

9. Ram Pradhan Committee is associated to which of the following?

a)Menace of Ragging   b)Mumbai Attacks   c)FDI   d)Women Reservation   e)School system in India

10. India has been ranked at what position in ‘Man-Women equality’ released by WEF?

a)2^nd   b)134^th    c)1^st    d)34^th   e)114^th

11. Who among the following received the Sahara Indian Sports Award 2008-09 ?

a)M S Dhoni   b)Gautam Gambhir   c)Abhinav Bhindra   d)Pankaj Advani   e)Saina Nehwal

12. C K Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award for the year 2008-09 has been awarded to________?

a)Mohinder Amarnath   b)Kapil Dev   c)Sunil Gavaskar   d)Gundappa Vishwanath   e)Ravi Shastri

13. India’s export for the year 2008-09 _________?

a)$115 billion   b)$120 billion   c)$185 billion   d)$200 billion   e)$225 billion

14. Sachin Tendulkar created history by making __________ runs in ODI cricket match?

a)15000   b)16000   c)17000   d)18000   e)12000

15. Which of the following rates are not fixed by RBI?

a)SLR   b)PLR   c)CRR   d)Repo rate   e)Bank rate

16. Which of the following pairing is not true?

a)Kapil Sibal – D Purandeshwari

b)S M Krishna – Shashi Tharoor

c)Chidambaram – Ajay Maken

d)Pranab Mukherjee – Pratik Patel

e)A K Antony – Pallam Raju

17. Who won the Asia Cup women’s Hockey Tournament held in Bangkok?

a)China   b)India   c)South Korea   d)Pakistan   e)Thailand

18. With which country India have decided to boost their cooperation in the energy sector as they agreed to complete a key cross-border transmission line by May 2012 ?

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

19. Who is Mr. India 2009?

a)Pravesh Rana   b)Malkaj Singh   c)Shankhar Rana   d)Sandeep Kumar  e)Nitin Kumar

20. Who is the author of the book ‘Universe in a Single Atom’?

a)Pervez Musharaff   b)Aung San Suu Kyi   c)Barack Obama  d)Mohamed ElBaradei  e)Dalai Lama

Note: 

1) With associates of SBI total no. of PSB's in India is 26(19+SBI+SBI associates(6)).
3)AMFI(Association of mutual funds in India)
4)Sunil Mittal CEO of Bharti Airtel.
11)Mary Kom & Abhinav Bhindra are the receipents of Sahara Indian Sports Award 2008-09.
16)Ministry of State for Finance : Namo Narain Meena.
17)China won by defeating India.