1. Indian Scientific institutions are all set to design the next generation of wireless systems across India with the scientists of
(a) United Kingdom (b) USA (c) Germany (d) France
2. The biometric phase of Census 2011 will cover photographing, finger-printing and iris mapping of all citizens over the age of?
(a) 10 years (b) 12 years (c) 13 years (d) 15 years
3. The footballer who was declared as ‘Best Player’ in FIFA World Cup 2010, is
(a) Chritiano Ronaldo (b) Diego Forlan (c) David Backham (d) Cheema Okery
4. The 2010 Academic Ranking of World Universities was released worldwide recently. In the annual ranking which university retained its crown?
(a) Harvard (b) Berkeley (c) Standford (d) Columbia
5. Direct Taxes code to be effective from April 1,
(a) 2011 (b) 2012 (c) 2013 (d) 2014
6. What per cent of its stake the Government plan to sell in Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and ONGC?
(a) 5 and 15 (b) 5 and 10 (c) 10 and 5 (d) 10 and 15
7. Expand the term NREGA ________
(a) National Rural Employment Guarantee Agency
(b) National Rural Electrification Governing Agency
(c) National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
(d) New Rural Employment Guarantee Agency
8. The 10th India – European Summit was held in New Delhi in November 2009. Who amongst the following represented India and also chaired the same?
(a) S.M. Krishna (b) Pratibha Patil (c) Pranab Mukherjee (d) Manmohan Singh
9. Irina Bokova has taken over as the Chief of the
(a) ILO (b) UNICEF (c) OPEC (d) UNESCO
10. Who amongst the following cricket players became the first to score 17000 runs in One Day Internationals?
(a) Rahul Dravid (b) Stephen Fleming (c) Ricky Ponting (d) Sachin Tendulkar
11. Which one of the following is the first National Park of India?
(a) Corbett National Park (b) Bandipur National Park (c) Kanha National Park (d) Sariska
12. Who is the author of the book “To A Hunger Free World”?
(a) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (b) Amartya Sen (c) M.S. Swaminathan (d) Montek Singh Ahluwalia
13. The largest freshwater lake in the world is
(a) Lake Victoria (b) Lake Michigan (c) Lake Balkash (d) Lake Superior
14. What is the approximate length of Konkan Railway?
(a) 580 km (b) 760 km (c) 940 km (d) 1050 km
15. The International Court of Justice sits in
(a) Geneva (b) The Hague (c) Vienna (d) Rome
16. Which of the following countries won the Hockey World Cup 2010?
(a) Spain (b) England (c) India (d) Australia
17. Commonwealth Games 2010 was organized in which to the following countries?
(a) Australia (b) South Africa (c) New Zealand (d) India
18. Which of the following days was observed as World Water Day 2010?
(a) 20th June (b) 22nd July (c) 22nd March (d) 20th May
19. Insurance service provided by various banks is commonly known as
(a) Investment Banking (b) Portfolio Management (c) Merchant Banking (d) Bancassurance
20. On July 15 the Cabinet approved acquisition of which bank by the SBI?
(a) Bank of India (b) State Bank of Saurashtra (c) State Bank of Indore (d) Bank of Patiala
21. Who has been recently chosen for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award?
(a) Gagan Narang (b) Tejaswani Samant (c) Saina Nehwal (d) Saina Mirza
22. Which company on July 26, 2010 announced the acquisition of Turkey based personal care products company Hobi Koimetic Group for $69 million?
(a) Wipro (b) Infosys (c) Dabur India (d) Reliance Petrochemicals
23. The only Indian to be appointed as member of UN advocacy group for Minimum Development Goal is
(a) Mukesh Ambani (b) Ratan Tata (c) Azim Premji (d) M.K. Birla
24. On July 20, 2010 the International Conference on Afghanistan was held in
(a) Kabul (b) Paris (c) Washington (d) Tokyo
25. Who is present Chairman of ISRO?
(a) G. Madhavan Nair (b) R. Swamy (c) K. Radhakrishnan (d) M.R. Naryanan
26. Which of the following terms is used in the game of cricket?
(a) Love (b) Tee (c) Penalty Stroke (d) No Ball
27. According to RBI analysis on domestic and foreign banks employee, productivity is lowest at
(a) Punjab National Bank (b) Bank of India (c) Bank of Maharashtra (d) State Bank of India
28. Who blamed capitalism for poverty recently?
(a) Mahood Ahmadinejad (b) Barack Obama (c) Dr. Manmohan Singh (d) David Cameron
29. Who is the new Chairman of National Cricket Academy?
(a) Anil Kumble (b) Ravi Shastri (c) Sunil Gavaskar (d) Dilip Vengsarkar
30. Yakshagan is the famous dance form of which state?
(a) Kerala (b) Tamil Nadu (c) Karnataka (d) Orissa
ANSWER:
1.(a) 2.(d) 3.(b) 4.(a) 5.(d) 6.(a) 7.(c) 8.(d) 9.(d) 10.(d) 11.(a) 12.(c) 13.(c) 14.(b) 15.(b) 16.(d)
17.(d) 18.(c) 19.(d) 20.(c) 21.(c) 22.(c) 23.(a) 24.(a) 25.(c) 26.(d) 27.(d) 28.(a) 29.(a) 30.(c)