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GENERAL AWARENESS
1. Economic Survey 2012-13 projected a growth rate of what percent for 2013-14?
1) 5.5-5.7

2) 6.3-6.5

3) 6.1-6.7

4) 8.1-8.5

5) 5.5-6.1

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2. Who received the Ernst &Young Lifetime Achievement Award in February 2013?
1) T.T.Jagannathan

2) Ratan Tata

4) Francisco D' Souza

5) None of these

3) Rahul Bajaj

3. Which team won the 67th Santosh Trophy Football tournament in Kochi on March 3, 2013?
1) Services

2) Kerala

3) Goa

4) Tamil Nadu

5) Bengal

4. Chuck Hagel has been appointed as the US?

2) Treasury Secretary

4) Defense Secretary

5) Ambassador to India

3) Vice President

5. Who won the Best Actress Award at the 85th Academy Awards in February 2013?
1) Jessica Chastain

2) Quvenzhane Wallis

4) Jennifer Lawrence

5) None of these

3) Naomi Watts

6. Which of the following films won the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the 85th Oscar
awards?

1) Kon-Tiki (Norway)

2) No (Chile)

3) Amour (Austria)

4) A Royal Affair (Denmark)

5) War Witch (Canada)

7. India's GDP growth in the third quarter of 2012-13 slipped to what percent? (It is the decade's
lowest quarterly growth)

1) 5.5%

2) 5.3%

3) 4.5%

4) 4.9%

5) 5.2%

8. Manik Sarkar has been the Chief Minister of which of the follow ing states since March 1998?
1) Mizoram

2) Assam

3) Nagaland

4) Tripura

5) Manipur

9. India's first all-women bank will start operations from November this year. The government
annou nced an initial capital of how many crores of rupees for this purpose?
1) 2,000crore

2) 2,500crore

3) 1,000crore

4) 1,500crore

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5) None of these

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10. How many crores will be made available to NABARD to finance construction of godowns
and warehouses, as per the 2013-14 Union Budget?
1) Rs 5,000cr

2) Rs 10,000cr

3) Rs 1,000cr

4) Rs 2,000cr

5) Rs 20,000cr

11. Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization) elected Mir eille Ballestrazzi as its first

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fe male President. She belongs to?

2) Italy

3) UK

4) Germany

5) Poland

12. The 10th ASEAN-India Summit was held on November 19, 2012 at?
1) Singapore

2) Bangkok

3) Phnom Penh

4) Bali

5) Jakarta

13. ASEAN-India trade reached how many billion dollars in 2011-12?

2) 79.3

3) 82.5

4) 81.3

5) None of these

14. India signed a social security agreement with which country on November 26, 2012?
(Overseas Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi and that country's Minister Ulf Kristersson signed the
pact)

1) Norway

2) Russia

3) Sweden

4) Denmark

5) Germany

15. Ajmal Kasab, the sole surviving perpetrator of the terrorist attack on Mumbai in November
2008, was hanged at Pune's Yerawada central prison on which of the following dates in 2012?
1) Nov 26

2) Nov 24

3) Nov 14

4) Nov 25

5) Nov 21

16. According to a UNICEF report released on November 16, 2012, which country topped the
global pneumonia mortality charts, with four lakh children dying each year from the disease?
1) Nigeria

2) India

3) Bangladesh

4) Tanzania

5) Pakistan

17. The 2G mobile telephony spectrum auction fetched the government how many crores of
rupees in November 2012?
1) 7,504.64

2) 8,504.64

3) 9,407.64

4) 7,407.64

5) 8,322.64

18. India and Canada held talks recently in New Delhi. The focus was on?
1) Defense

2) Counter-terrorism

4) Cooperation in coal

5) Supply of Uranium

3) Cooperation in cyber security

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19. The Foreign Ministers of the member countries of the Indian Ocean Rim-Association for
Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC) held a meeting in November 2012 in?
1) Mysore

2) Gurgaon

3) Dehradun

4) Chandigarh

5) New Delhi

20. William Hague visited India in November 2012. He is the Foreign Secretary of?
2) Australia

3) UK

4) USA

5) Netherlands

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1) Canada

21. "Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story" is the autobiography of?
1) Brad Pitt

2) Will Smith

3) Bruce Willis

4) Denzel Washington

5) Arnold Schwarzenegger

22. Ernest Bai Koroma was re-elected the President of which of the following African countries
in November 2012?
1) Angola

2) Lesotho

3) Cape Verde

4) Sierra Leone

5) Swaziland

23. Who was appointed the British Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC) Director- General
recently? (He will take charge on April 2, 2013)
1) Tony Hall

2)Graham Norton

4) Tim Davie

5) None of these

3) James Purnell

24. Alok Joshi has been appointed the new Chief of?
1) IB

2) CBI

3) RAW

4) CRPF

5) ITBP

25. The 21st Summit of the Association of South East Asian Nations(ASEAN) was held in which
of the following countries in November 2012?
1) Vietnam

2) Cambodia

3) Laos

4) Thailand

5) Malaysia

26. Jackie Janmohammed is the first female to head a national cricket board. She is the
Chairperson of which of the following cricket boards?
1) Kenya

2) Zimbabwe

3) South Africa

4) Bangladesh

5) West Indies

27. Which name has been chosen for the armadillo mascot for the 2014 FIFA world cup to be
held in Brazil?
1) Zuzeco

2) Fuleco

3) Amijubi

4) Armada

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5) None of these

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28. Which company has won the title sponsorship rights of the Indian Premier League (IPL)
cricket for the next five seasons?
1) Sahara

2) Idea 3) Pepsi

4) Bharti Airtel 5) Vodafone

29. BP Plc is a major international company in the field of?

3) Oil Exploration

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1) Atomic Energy

4) Information Technology 5) None of these

30. Shunglu Committee is related to?

2) Commonwealth Games Scam

4) Financial Inclusion

5) None of these

3) Telecom Scam

31. Farkhor Air Base is operated by the Indian Air Force. It is a military air base located in?
1) Kazakhstan 2) Uzbekistan

3) Kyrgyzstan

4) Tajikistan

5) Afghanistan

32. The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) is an organiza-tion
under?

1) IMF

2) ADB

3) World Bank

4) UNO 5) World Economic Forum

33. Who is the author of the biography "Sonia Gandhi: An Extraordinary Life, An Indian
Destiny"?

1) Rani Singh

2) Anita Desai

3) Anjali Joseph

4) Moni Mohsri

5) None of these

34. What is 'Jhum'?

2) A folk dance

4) A type of music

5) None of these

3) A type of cultivation

35. Japan has decided to shut down all 50 of its nuclear reactors by?
1) 2020

2) 2025

3) 2040

4) 2030

5) 2050

36. Former Navy Chief Nirmal Kumar Verma has been appointed India's High Commissioner to
which of the following countries?
1) UK

2) Canada

3) Australia

4) Pakistan

5) New Zealand

Key
1) 3

2) 2

3) 1

4) 4

5) 4

6) 3

7) 3

8) 4

9) 3

10) 1

11) 1

12) 3

13) 2

14) 3

15) 5

16) 2

17) 3

18) 5

19) 2

20) 3

21) 5

22) 4

23) 1

24) 3

25) 2

26) 1

27) 2

28) 3

29) 3

30) 2

31) 4

32) 4

33) 1

34) 3

35) 3

36) 2
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