1. Recently, Indian President Pratibha Patil has laid the foundation stone for the ‘Asian Textiles Museum‘ in which of the following Southeast Asian countries?
(a) Thailand (b) Indonesia (c) Vietnam (d) Cambodia
2. Which of the following Indian actors has been appointed as Brand Ambassador of Kansai Nerolac Paints Ltd, India’s leading paint manufacturer?
(a) Abhishek Bachchyan (b) Amir Khan (c) Shahrukh Khan (d) Akshay Kumar
3. Who among the following personalities has been appointed as the new chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes?
(a) Pratyush Sinha (b) C P Jain (c) K Vasudev (d) M C Joshi
4. Which of the following Indian cricket players won the Polly Umrigar Award 2011 for his performance during 2009-2010?
(a) Rahul Dravid (b) Sachin Tendulkar (c) Mahendra Singh Dhoni (d)Sehwag
5. For the first time, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has been appointed as external auditor of two major UN organisations. Identify the organizations.
(a) World Health Organisation (WHO) and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (b) UNESCO an d World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) (c) Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) (d) UNICEF and UNESCO
6. Name the richest country in the world with per capita income of U.S. $ 90,149 in 2010, according to Global Finance, a leading US business magazine, which has released the list recently.
(a) Qatar
(b) Luxembourg
(c) Norway
(d) Singapore
7. Name the virus which was responsible for attacking
Google’s social networking site, Orkut on September
25, 2010.
(a) FIRE Worm
(b) Bom Sabado Worm
(c) BOBBIT Virus
(d) GALLUP Virus
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8.Which software company has designed “worldwide
telescope” a computer programme, which enables you
to study even the universe and zoom the outer space?”
(a) IBM
(b) Oracle
(c) Google
(d) Microsoft9. “Your Place In The Sky” is the slogan of:
(a) Air India (b) atar Airways (c) Lufthansa Airlines (d) Air France
10. Which animal has been declared as national heritage
animal of India in order to set up measures for its
protection?
(a) Dolphin
(b) Rhinoceros
(c) Elephant
(d) Lion
11. Who among the following personalities is the DirectorGeneral of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)?
(a) Yukiya Amano
(b) Yui Kei
(c) Ali Asgar Soltaniyeh
(d) Anders Fogh Rasmussen
12. A New York judge slapped a record $92.8 million fine on
Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund manager convicted in
May, 2011 on 14 counts of insider trading charges. He
is from:
(a) India
(b) Pakistan
(c) Sri Lanka
(d) Singapore
13. The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority
(IRDA), relaxed its earlier decision asking insurance
companies to guarantee a minimum return of what
percent on unit-linked pension policies?
(a) 3 percent
(b) 4 percent
(c) 4.5 percent
(d) 5 percent
14. Which of the following Indian cricketers has recently
pledged to donate his organs?
(a) Virender Sehwag
(b) Sachin Tendulkar
(c) Gautam Gambhir
(d) Yuvraj Singh
15. An endeavour to ensure that no person in India dies for
want of an organ, supported by the Apollo Transplant
Institutes has been launched under the name of:
(a) ‘Hand in Hand’
(b) ‘Gift a Life’
(c) ‘Donate a life’
(d) ‘Gift to Nation’
16. National Human Right Commission has issued notice
for non-payment of adequate compensation in Kasaragod
district to the victims of which of the following chemical
poisoning?
(a) MIC
(b) Endosulfan
(c) BHC
(d) Malathion
17. Sree Padmanabhswami temple, a Hindu shrine situated
at Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala is dedicated to which
of the following Hindu deity?
(a) Lord Shiva
(b) Lord Vishnu
(c) Lord Brahma
(d) Lord Murugan Swamy
18. AH 4 Apache and CH-47 Chinook are combat and heavy
lift helicopters respectively which have been developed
by:
(a) Bell
(b) Lockeed Martin
(c) Avicopter
(d) Boeing19. Name the recently elected Prime Minister of Greece.
(a) Kostas Karamanlis (b) Andreas Papandreou (c) Konstantinos Mitsotakis (d) Lucas Papademos
20. Recently a former President was convicted to sevenyear jail term for rape and other sexual offences. Identify
the country to which he belonged?
(a) Italy
(b) Israel
(c) Spain
(d) Portugal 21. BICRA ‘Group 5’ includes:
(a) China (b) Portugal (c) Thailand and Turkey (d) All of the above
22. Which one of the following Indian cities would host the
World Economic Forum’s (WEF’s) India Economic
Summit for the first time in 26 years of the summit’s
history?
(a) New Delhi
(b) Chennai
(c) Mumbai
(d) Bengaluru23. Honda’s human-shaped robot (Humanoid robot) has been named as:
(a) Sapiens (b) I (c) Asimo (d) AI
24. Which of the following companies is a subsidiary of Tata
Consultancy Services (TCS) and a leading business
process outsourcing (BPO) provider in the U.K.?
(a) Genpact
(b) Diligenta
(c) Aegis
(d) Total SolutionsPage 8
25. Who among the following has been found guilty of
involuntary manslaughter of the ‘King of Pop’, Michael
Jackson?
(a) Johansson Murphy
(b) Conrad Murray
(c) John Pitt
(d) Dr. J Koetji
100. Mary Ann Gomes is related with which of the following
sports?
(a) Kabaddi
(b) Chess
(c) Swimming
(d) Athletics
ANSWERS:
1 d 2 c 3 d 4 b 5 c 6 a 7 b 8 d 9 a 10 c 11 a 12 c 13 c 14 c 15 b 16 b 17 b 18 d 19 d 20 b 21 d 22 c 23 c 24 b 25 b 26 b
