General Awareness Quiz 2010 - 67

1.      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

2.      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

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

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

4.      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

5.      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

6.      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

7.      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

8.      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

9.      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

10. 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

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

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

12. 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

13. 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

14. The Nuclear Security Summit 2010 held at ____________?

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

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

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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. In which of the following countries India has opened its 23^rd cultural relations centre named “Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre”?

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