Punjab and Sind Bank GK Paper - 2010

1.      ASEAN Summit held at – Huan Hin. Thailand.

2.      M K Narayanan is governor of which state – West Bengal.

3.      2009 Nobel Peace Prize is given to – Barack Obama.

4.      Largest Producer of the milk in the World – India.

5.      Najib Tun Razak is the Prime minister of – Malaysia.

6.      16,500 crores are allocated for – Public sector Banks

7.      Central Bank of USA – Federal Reserve.

8.      Which organization celebrated Platinum Jubilee – RBI.

9.      NREGA renamed as – MGNREGA.

10. The Rate at which banks will borrow money from RBI – Repo Rate.

11. Best Film in 56^th National Award – Antaheen.

12. Which committee recommended the hike of petrol and diesel prices – Kirit Parekh Committee.

13. 97th Indian Science Congress held in – Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

14. New Chief on Indian Army – V K Singh.

15. India and Bangladesh discussed sharing of – Teesta River.

16. Winner of Australian Open 2010 mixed doubles – Leander Paes and Cara Black

17. Saina Nehwal is related to – Badminton.

18. Trophy related to cricket – Duleep Trophy.

19. Headquarters of WTO – Geneva.

20. Sports related award – Arjuna awards.

21. India provided $1 billion loan to which country – Bangladesh.

22. International Recognition given to – A R Rehman.

23. In what currency you can do Money Transactions in Bangladesh – Taka(Bangladesh Currency).

24. Who among the following is not a winner of Padma Vibhusan – Shreya Goshal.

25. Which among the following does not come under core industries – Paper.

26. Who received ‘Order of Merit of Italian Republic’ award – Ratan Tata.

27. Who among the following is not an English poet – Harivansh Rai Bachchan.

28. Person nominated for Rajya Sabha – Javed Akthar.

29. Term not associated with hockey – Bouncer.

30. India-ASEAN 2012 summit is going to be held in – Delhi.

31. Next SAARC summit(2011) will be held at – Maldives.

32. Crop that requires water – Paddy.

33. To which country India helped to build its first ever Medical College in the country – Bhutan.

34. Which of the following is used as a Bio-fuel – Sugarcane.

35. Organization deals with Fertilizer industry – IFFCO.

36. For preventing frauds and counterfeiting in a bank, RBI has proposed a scheme called – Know Your Customer (KYC).

37. Question on Look East Policy - ?

38. Which of the following is not a crop - ?

39. Question on Brahmaputra River - ?

40. Question on Indira Awas Yojana - ?

41. Question on Rajiv Gandhi LPG Vitrak scheme?

Note: 25 questions came directly from this blog mostly the first 20 questions mentioned above. If you have followed this blog then you could have easily cleared GK section. Some Question/Answers may not be accurate.

General Knowledge 2010 quiz - 47

1.      Which among the following constitutes maximum share in power generation in India?

a)Nuclear power   b)Solar power   c)Hydro Power    d)Wind Power   e)Thermal Power

2.      The 2009 APEC Summit held in ________?

a)Thailand   b)Hong Kong   c)Malaysia   d)Singapore   e)Vietnam

3.      Fiscal policy means ______________?

a)Credit policy   b)Planning policy    c)taxation policy   d)Subsidy Policy   e)Foreign Policy

4.      Which of the following is the largest exporter of Tea?

a)India   b)Brazil   c)China   d)Srilanka   e)none of these

5.      ‘Majlis’ is the parliament of which of the following countries?

a)Iran   b)Pakistan    c)Afghanistan    d)Turkey   e)Iraq

6.      Which of the following is India’s first indigenously built multi-barrel rocket launcher?

a)Akash   b)Pinaka   c)Trishul    d)Nishant    e)Arjun

7.      Who became the third batsmen to reach 12,000 ODI runs?

a)Sanath Jayasuriya    b)Sachin Tendulkar   c)Ricky Pointing   d)Rahul Dravid   e)none

8.      Who is the first Indian to win the World’s Billiards Championship?

a)Subhash Agarwal    b)Geeth Sethi   c)Pankaj Advani   d)Manan Chandra   e)Anuja Thakur

9.      Recently Barack Obama completed one year term as the President of US. He belongs to which party?

a)Republican Party   b)Labour Party    c)African American Party   d)Peoples Party   e)Democratic Party

10. Who is the newly elected President of Croatia?

a)Zlatko Tomcic   b)Ivo Josipovic    c)Stjepan Mesic    d)Vlatko Pavletic   e)none of these

11. A/c to UNESCO, which of the following is the Largest University in the World?

a)IGNOU    b)California State University    c)Islamic Azad University   d)B R Ambedkar Open University    e)Osmania University

12. Which of the following won the Gold in Men’s category in the World Team Chess Championship held in Turkey?

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

13. ‘Open’ is the Autobiography of __________?

a)Michael Jackson   b)Cristiano Ronaldo    c)Barack Obama   d)Andre Agassi   e)none of these

14. Who won the Doha WTA Championship?

a)Venus Williams   b)Kim Clijsters   c)Justin Henin   d)Ana Ivanovic   e)Serena Williams

15. Which of the following countries having World’s Largest Uranium Reserves?

a)Australia   b)Canada    c)Russia   d)Kazakhstan   e)France

16. The Union Government approved the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) that aims at adding 20,000MW of power in India by _______?

a)2012    b)2015   c)2020   d)2025   e)2022

17. Stephen Harper has visited India in November 2009. He was the Prime minister of _______?

a)Mongolia   b)Russia   c)New Zealand   d)Canada   e)Argentina

18. Global Fund has approved USD 2.4 billion Grant for India to fight ________?

a)Climate Change   b)AIDS   c)Malaria   d)Tuberculosis   e)b, c & d.

19. The government has reconstituted the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Prime Minister, who is the Chairman of the Committee?

a)Venu Srinivasan    b)C.N.R. Rao   c)A.K.Sood   d)R.A.Mashelkar   e)Madhavan

20. Ashok K.Kantha has been appointed India’s High Commissioner to _______?

a)Australia    b)Maldives   c)Srilanka   d)Thailand   e)Malaysia