1. The Day against Child Labour is observed on
a) Jun 1 b) Jun 5 c) Jun 9 d) Jun 12 e) None of these
2. Name the anti-Taliban cleric who has issued a fatwa against killings and suicide bombings by the Talibans and who was killed recently in suicide attack in Lahore.
a) Sarfraz Naeemi b) Hafiz Saeed c) Maulana Masood Azhar
d) Mulla Omar e) None of these
3. Which of the following statements are true about the Benchmark Prime Lending Rate (BPLR)?
A) The Reserve Bank of India has set up a working group to review the current system of loan pricing – popularly known as benchmark prime lending rate (BPLR) by banks to improve transmission of monetary signals onto interest rates in the economy.
B) The RBI introduced the system of BPLR in Nov 2003 for pricing of loans by commercial banks with the objective of enhancing transparency in the pricing of their loan products. However, the BPLR-supposed to be the best rate for prime borrowers – remained only on paper, as in the last few years they have begun lending to customers at way below the premise rates.
C) The central bank’s working group, headed by its executive director Deepak Mohanty, will review issues like the concept of BPLR, the extent of lending below banks’ prime rates and appropriate loan pricing system based on global best practices. It will also examine the wide divergence in prime rates across banks and suggest a suitable benchmark for floating rates for retail lending.
D) The RBI panel will also review the administered lending rates for small loans up to Rs. 2 lakh and for exporters. The working group would consult all the stakeholders and submit its report by end-August 2009.
a) Only A&B b) Only A&C c) Only A,B&C d) Only A,C&D
e) All the above
4. Kaguya, _______ first lunar satellite, was manoeuvred to crash on to the moon. It was launched in Sep 2007 to study the moon’s origin an evolution.
a) Korea’s b) China’s c) Thailand’s d) Japan’s
e) None of these
5. The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to slap tougher sanction on _____ in response to its recent nuclear test in violation of UN resolutions. All 15 members endorsed a draft resolution sponsored by Britain, France, Japan, South Korea and the US.
a) Iran b) Cuba c) North Korea d) Venezuela
e) None of these
6. In a bid to provide insurance cover to landless families living in rural areas of the State, the ________ government has launched “Aam Aadmi Insurance Scheme” in collaboration with the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC).
a) UP b) MP c) AP d) Bihar e) None of these
7. Which committee has been appointed by the Supreme Court to monitor the measures to prevent ragging in higher educational institutions?
a) Raghavan Committee b) Lyngdoh Committee
c) Srikrishna Committee d) Yash Pal Committee e) None of these
8. Activist and Ramon Magsaysay award winner Arvind Kejriwal is associated with
a) Women’s Reservation b) Water Conservation c) Environment
d) RTI e) None of these
9. The killing of LTTE Velupillai Prabhakaran and his intelligence chief Pottu Amman is set to bring the curtains down on the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case since these two were the only absconding accused awaiting in Chennai. India has been seeking their extradition since
a) 1984 b) 1990 c) 1995 d) 2000 e) None of these
10. According to the RBI deputy governor Usha Thorat, which state has 100 per cent financial inclusion?
a) Pondicherry b) Tamil Nadu c) Kerala d) Karnataka
e) None of these
11. Name the chief of the Assam United Democratic Front (AUDF) who has said that though his party had pledged support to the UPA at the Centre, it would continue its stand against Congress in Assam.
a) Hafiz Rashid b) Badruddin Ajmal c) Pradeep Kalita
d) Santosh Mohan Deb e) None of these
12. Name the state govt which claims it has become the first to finalize the purchase of buses for the basic transport service in seven cities under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) after it struck a deal for 1,310 buses.
a) MP b) AP c) UP d) Punjab e) None of these
13. Name the country which has passed the Pakistan Enduring Assistance and Cooperation Enhancement (PEACE) Act 2009 and which imposes stiff conditions on non-military aid to Islamabad to flush out terrorism.
a) Britain b) France c) Germany d) US e) None of these
14. Who became the first Pakistani woman to present a national budget?
a) Shaukat Train b) Fahmida Mirza c) Hina Rabbani Khan
d) Maliha Lodhi e) None of these
15. Name the cyclone which hit West Bengal, left 23 people dead and affected 1.1 lakh people.
a) Katrina b) Aila c) Bill d) Ana e) None of these
16. Name the person who passed away at the ripe age of 102 years in the UK and who was the last surviving member of the Ghadar Movement.
a) Bhagat Singh Bilga b) Sardar Mohan Singh
c) Paunak Singh Behta d) Sardar Bhikna Singh e) None of these
17. Name the Ranbaxy Laboratories chairman who resigned recently
a) Malvinder Mohan Singh b) Raunaq Singh c) IPS Oberoi
d) Sardar Mohan Singh e) None of these
18. Name the Bollywood director on whom the Supreme Court has come heavily for distortion of the National Anthem in his film, Rann, saying it gave a “totally negative sense”.
a) Ashutosh Gowarikar b) Ram Gopal Varma c) David Dhawan
d) Karan Johar e) None of these
19. Name the sect whose followers took to the streets in Amritsar as a reaction to the attack on the sect head Niranjan Das and killing of his follower Sant Rama Nand in the Austrian capital of Vienna.
a) Dera Sacha Sauda b) Dera Sach Khand Balan
c) Dera Radha Soami Vyas d) Dera Divya Joyti e) None of these
20. The Supreme Court granted bail to Binayak Sen, vice president of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties, who has been in detention since May 2007 under the Unlawful (Prevention) Activities Act for his alleged association with the naxalite movement in.
a) Jharkhand b) Andhra Pradesh c) Orissa d) MP
e) None of these
21. The first of the tree Indian Air Force AWACS platform aircraft touched down at the Jamnagar air base in Gujarat, flying in from.
a) US b) Israel c) Britain d) France e) None of these
22. Unmindful of the global recession and economic slowdown the world over and providing a number of international agencies wrong, the Indian economy managed to grow in 2008-09 at.
a) 6.7 per cent b) 6.9 per cent c) 7.1 per cent
d) 7.5 per cent e) None of these
23. Name the feminist whose debut novel The Women’s Room (1977) was praised for its passionate honesty but also derided as rabidly anti-male by critics and who died recently.
a) Marlyn French b) Kate Millet c) Simon de Beauvoir
d) Kamala Das e) None of these
24. Name the Australian Prime minister to whom Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on May 29 conveyed the government’s concern over the attacks on Indian students.
a) Kevin Rudd b) Stephen Harper c) John Key
d) Gordon Brown e) None of these
25. Name the steel tycoon who is the richest Indian billionaire despite his wealth tumbling from £ 27.7 billion to £ 10.8 billion.
a) Ratan Tata b) LN Mittal c) Swraj Paul
d) Shiv Nadar e) None of these
26. The Democratic Congressman Timothy R Roemer has been nominated by the US President Barack Obama as his envoy in.
a) Britain b) Pakistan c) India d) Myanmar
e) None of these
27. Match the following correctly.
List – I List – I
A) Apart from raising the cap on foreign (i) Insurance Laws
investment to 49% from 26%, this bill (Amendment)
seeks to allow nationalized general Bill, 2008
insurance companies to raise funds from
capital markets and change norms governing
the rights of policyholders and insures-
respect to insurance policies. (ii) Companies
B) This bill seeks a comprehensive overhaul Bill, 2008
of the company law, which has been amended
24 times since its inception in 1956. The bill
shifts the onus of regulation and oversight
over management away from the government
towards the share holders and provides for stricter
standards of approval by share holders. It also
seeks to strengthen corporate governance.
C) The Bill, introduced in 2005, sets a framework to (iii) Pension Fund
regulate and develop pension funds, and thus Regulatory
enhance old-age income security, by allowing private and Develop-
sector to participate in the business. Many of the ment Authority
provisions of the bill have already been without Bill, 2005
statutory powers) has been established. The UPA
Government did not take it up because of opposition
from the Left parties. (iv) Banking
D) Aims to align the voting right for foreign shareholders Regulation
in Indian private banks with their stakes. At present, (Amendment)
voting right is capped at 10 per cent. The move will Bill
encourage foreign banks to raise capital either through
preference shares and some other routes that are currently
not permitted.
A B C D
a) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
b) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
c) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
d) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
e) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
28. Match the following correctly.
List – I List – II
A) Pranab Mukherjee (i) Defence
B) Sharad Pawar (ii) External Affairs
C) AK Antony (iii) Home
D) P Chidambaram (iv) Finance
E) SM Krishna (v) Agriculture
A B C D E
a) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v)
b) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (i)
c) (iii) (iv) (v) (i) (ii)
d) (iv) (v) (i) (ii) (iii)
e) (iv) (v) (i) (iii) (ii)
29. Who has been appointed as the new Railway minister?
a) Lalu Prasad Yadav b) Ram Vilas Paswan c) Mamta Banerjee
d) TR Baalu e) None of these
30. Which of the following teams has won the second DLF IPL Cup?
a) Royal Challengers Bangalore b) Chennai Super Kings
c) Delhi Daredevil d) Deccan Charges Hyderabad
e) None of these
31. Name the former South Korean President who was at the centre of a multi-million dollar corruption probe and who committed suicide recently.
a) Roh Moo-hyun b) Goh Chok-tong c) Lee Myung-bok
d) Kim Young-sam e) None of these
32. Madhav Kumar Nepal has been elected Premier unopposed. At present, Nepal heads the constitutional committee, which has the task of drafting the Constitution, by
a) 2010 b) 2012 c) 2014 d) 2016 e) None of these
33. Santosh Trophy is associated with
a) Cricket b) Football c) Hockey d) Golf e) None of these
34. Davis Cup is associated with
a) Hockey b) Badminton c) Tennis d) Cricket e) None of these
35. Who was been named as the best under-23 player of the second IPL?
a) Rohit Sharma b) Suresh Raina c) Manish Pandey
d) Kamran Khan e) None of these
36. Who has won the Asian chess championship held in the Philippines recently?
a) Zhou Jianchao b) Zhou Weigi c) Sandipan Chanda
d) Surya Shekhar Ganguly e) None of these
37. AWACS stands for
a) Air-borne Warning and Control System
b) Airforce Warning and Control System
c) Advance warning and Control System d) Air Warning and Control System
e) None of these
38. A six-day international childern’s film festival was held in
a) Chennai b) Delhi c) Mumbai d) Kolkata e) None of these
39. Name the first African-American to lead NASA.
a) Charles Boldin b) Mark Dean c) Patricia Bath
d) David Crosthwait, Junior
40. Name the Stanford University professor from India who mentored Silicon Valley companies like Google and Paypal and who died in a drowning accident at his Bay area home.
a) Rajeev Motwani b) Sabeer Bhatia c) Larry Page
d) Sergey Brin e) None of these
41. Which of the following statements is/are true about the French Open 2009?
A) Roger Federer equaled Pete Sampras’s record of 14 Grand Slam singles titles, beating Robin Sodeling 6-1, 7-6(1), 6-4.
B) Federer Finally won his first French Open. He had lost the three finals to Rafael Nadal.
C) Federer is the 6th player in history and the 3rd in the Open era to win all 4 Grand Slam titles. The other are: Fred Perry, Donald Budge, Rod Laver, Roy Emerson and Andre Agassi.
a) Only A b) Only B c) Only A&C d) Only A&C
e) All the above.
42. Japan, the Netherlands, Australia and South Korea became the first nations to qualify for next year’s FIFA World Cup to be held in
a) Brazil b) Argetina c) South Africa d) US
e) None of these
43. Who has been appointed as the new Attorney-general?
a) Milon K Banerjee b) Gopal Subramaniam
c) Goolam E Vahanvati d) Fali Nariman e) None of these
44. Who has been appointed as the new Solicitor-General?
a) Gopal Subramaniam b) Fali Nariman c) GE Vahanvati
d) Santosh Kumar e) None of these
45. Australia’s intelligence chief _______, born in Kenya in 1956 to ethnic Indian parents who later emigrated Down Under, has been named as the country’s next High Commissioner in New Delhi. His appointment comes at a time when attacks on Indians in Australia have taken centrestage in ties between the two countries.
a) Dr Sabi Lal b) Jagdish Saraf c) Madhur Saraf
d) Peter Varghese e) None of these
46. Kamal Nath has proposed the setting up of a ____ to the PM and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. The corporation will manage funds above Rs. 1 lakh crore for the development of the roads sector.
a) Road Development Authority b) Road Corporation of India
c) Road Development Fund d) Road Finance Corporation
e) None of these
47. Name the eminent playwright, actor and director who died in Bhopal, leaving a colossal void in the world of Indian theatre.
a) Girish Karnad b) Habib Tanvir c) Safdar Hashmi
d) Nasiruddin Shah e) None of these
48. Omar Bango Ondimba, Africa’s longest serving leader has died at aged of 73. He was President of
a) Nigeria b) Gabon c) South Africa d) Uganda
e) None of these
49. Real Madrid has signed Kaka for Rs 432 cr. Kaka is associated with
a) Basketball b) Rugby c) Football d) Boxing
e) None of these
50. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will attend both the Shanghai Cooperation Oraganisation (SCO) and Brazil Russia-India-China (BRIC) summits during his maiden visit abroad after taking over as the head of government for the second time. The summits are being held at
a) Yekaterinburg b) Saint Petersburg c) Kiev d) Moscow
e) None of these
ANSWERS
1.d 2.a 3.e 4.d 5.c 6.a 7.a 8.d 9.c 10.a 11.b 12.c 13.d 14.c 15.b 16.a 17.a 18.b 19.b 20.e 21.c 22.a 23.a 24.a 25.b 26.c 27.a 28.e 29.c 30.d 31.a 32.a 33.b 34.c 35.a 36.d 37.a 38.d 39.a 40.a 41.e 42.c 43.c 44.a 45.d 46.d 47.b 48.b 49.c 50.a
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