1. Which Stock Exchange is considered the oldest in the world?
[A] Amsterdam Stock Exchange
[B] Paris Stock Exchange
[C] Brussels Stock Exchange
[D] Newyork Stock Exchange


2. Baiju Bawra(Baijnath Mishra) was an Indian dhrupad singer. He was the court musician of which king?
[A] Akbar
[B] Shahjahan
[C] Aurangzeb
[D] Raja Mansingh


3. Who was the first chief minister of Uttar Pradesh in Independent India?
[A] Sampurnanand
[B] Govind Ballabh Pant
[C] Chandra Bhanu Gupta
[D] Sucheta Kriplani


4. Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of Andhra Pradesh. It is situated on the banks of which river?
[A] Musi
[B] Kaveri
[C] Narmada
[D] Godavari


5. What was the old name of Kanpur?
[A] Prayag
[B] Kalighat
[C] Cawnpore
[D] Kanishkapur

1.In banking terminology, the opening of a savings bank account of a minor will be termed as which of the following?

a) Social Banking           b) Retail Baking             c) Corporate Banking

d) Institutional Banking   e) None of these

2. Which of the following is a term associated with banking / insurance sector?

a) Attorney General        b) Ombudsman              c) Vigilance Commissioner    

d) Auditor General          e) None of these

3.The Know Your Customer (KYC) norms are associated with which of the following?

a) Prevention of money laundering           b) Financial inclusion

c) Inclusive growth                                  d) Both a and b              e) None of these

4.The young woman scientist, Jenita Mary Nongkynrih, hails from which of the following states? She has been selected for this year’s ISRO Young Scientist Award for her urban information system project in the North - East.

a) Mizoram        b) Manipur         c) Meghalaya     d) Arunachal Pradesh

e) None of these

5. The 13th general elections in Malaysia were held recently and the ruling coalition, Barisan Nasional (National Front), retained its 56-year hold on power. Name the person who leads this coalition and has been sworn in as the next Prime Minister of the country.

 a) Anwar Ibrahim            b) Muhyiddin Yassin       c) Mohamed Azmin bin Ali

 d) Najib Razak               e) None of these

6. An individual from Bangladesh/Pakistan can open which of the following accounts in India?

a) Foreign Currency (Non-Resident) bank Account) Non-Resident (External) Rupee Account

c) Non-Resident Ordinary Rupees Account           d) All the above e) Only b and c

7. Companies in India raise domestic funds through which of the following sources?

a) Initial Public Offer (IPO)           b) Follow-on Public Officer (FPO)

c) Commercial Papers                d) All the above e) Only a and b

8. Consider the following statements with respect to Delhi - Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC), a mega infrastructure project between the political capital and the business capital of India:

A) The 1,483-km long corridor will have six-lane highways.

B) The corridor stretch includes nine industrial townships, three ports and six airports.

C) The project will cost $90 billion and is being developed with technical and financial assistance from South Korea.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

a) Only A          b) Only B          c) Only C          d) Only A and B             e) Only B and C

9.Who among the following has authored the recently published book titled The Sea of Innocence?

a) Kishwar Desai            b) Kalpana Swaminathan            c) Sindhu V Nair

d) Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay                                              e) None of these

10.The Presidential Board of FIDE, the world chess body, has approved the staging of the World Chess Championship match in Chennai in November this year. The championship will be played between Viswanathan Anand and

a) Boris Gelfand             b) Magnus Carlsen         c) Veselin Topalov          d) Vladimir Kramnik

e) None of these

1.Examine the following statements in the context of different approvals given by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs:

A) The CCEA has approved allocation of Rs.12,000 crore for Bihar as a special plan under the Backward Region Grant Fund for the 12th five year plan.

B) The CCEA has approved to continue the special plan for the KBK districts (Kalahandi-Bolangir-Koraput) of Odisha, allocating Rs.250 crore per annum.

C) The CCEA has approved to continue the special package for implementing drought mitigation strategies in Budelkhand (UP) and Madhya Pradesh.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

a) Only A          b) Only B          c) Only C          d) Only B and C             e) All a, b and c

2.Which of the following is correct in the context of an infrastructure Finance Company (IFC)?

a) IFCs provide loans and accept deosits.

b) A minimum of 75 per cent of the total assets of an IFC should be deployed in infrastructure loans.

c) The company should have minimum net worth of Rs.300 crore.

 d) All the above                          e) Only b and c

3.Gilt funds, as they are conveniently called, are mutual fund schemes floated by asset management companies with exclusive investments in which of the following?

a) Blue Chip Companies

b) Government Securities

c) Gold

d) Commodities

e) None of these

4.The Exchange Earners’ Foreign Currency Account (EFFC) is an account maintained in foreign currency with an authorized dealer, i.e. a bank dealing in foreign exchange. This facility is provided to which of the following categories?

a) Exporters

b) Individuals

c) Companies  

d) All categories of foreign earners who are resident in India

e) None of these

5.India is building the heaviest and largest parts of the Tokamak, the machine behind the biggest scientific collaboration on the planet till date. The project called ITER includes 34 nations and is aimed at producing cheap, clean and safe energy through.

a) nuclear fission

b) nuclear fusion

c) solar energy

d) wind Energy

e) None of these

6.Name the volcano which erupted in the Philippines recently killing at least five people. It is famous for its almost perfect cone shape and has erupted around 50 times since records began, with the most violent one being in 1814.

a) Mount Taal

b) Mount Ragang

c) Mount Pinatubo

d) Mount Mayon

e) Mount Cagua

7.Identify the correct statement(s) among the following:

a) Banking services in India come under the purview of the Essential Services Maintenance Act.

b) All the banks do not come under the regulation of Right to Information Act.

c) Not all banks come under the Second Schedule of the RBI.

d) All the above              e) Only a and c

8. Consider the following:

A) The Banking Department gets currency from the Issue Department.

B) The Government puts the currency in circulation.

C) The Central Government incurs a deficit in its Budget.

D) The Government sells Treasury Bill to Banking Department of the RBI.

What will be the correct order of the above steps?

a) CDAB           b) ABDC           c) DCBA           d) BACD           e) ABCD

9.Queen Beatrix signed the instrument of abdication after 33 years on the throne in favour of her eldest son Willem Alexander recently. The 46-year-old Willem Alexander has become Europe’s youngest king, beginning his reign in.

a) Finland

b) Sweden

c) Netherlands

d) Spain

e) None of these

10.  Which of the following countries has claimed both men’s and women’s titles of the 19th Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships held in New Delhi recently?

 a) India b) England         c) Singapore      d) Australia        e) None of these

1. What is the equity valuation measure defined as market price per share divided by annual earnings per share?
[A] P/E ratio
[B] ROE (Return on equity)
[C] RAROC (Risk adjusted return on capital)
[D] ROCE (Return on capital employed)


2. KYC refers to due diligence activities that financial institutions and other regulated companies must perform to ascertain relevant information from their clients for the purpose of doing business with them. What is full form of KYC?
[A] Know your company
[B] Know your clientele
[C] Know your customer
[D] Know your customs


3. Who has given the quote "Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!"?
[A] Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya
[B] Bal Gangadhar Tilak
[C] Shaheed Bhagat Singh
[D] V D Savarkar


4. Where is the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) located?
[A] Mumbai
[B] New Delhi
[C] Hyderabad
[D] Pune


5. Who was the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha in India?
[A] M. A. Ayyangar
[B] Sardar Hukam Singh
[C] Gurdial Singh Dhillon
[D] Ganesh Vasudev Mavlankar

1. Who is the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
[A]Rabindranath Tagore
[B]Sinclair Lewis
[C]Eugene O'Neill
[D]Pearl S. Buck


2. In finance what is total assets divided by the total assets minus total liabilities?
[A]Economic leverage
[B]Accounting leverage
[C]Notional leverage
[D]Degree of Operating Leverage


3. Hindi language belongs to which language family?
[A]Tibeto-Burman
[B]Austro-Asiatic
[C]Indo-Aryan
[D]Afroasiatic


4. What is the chemical formula of Common Salt?
[A]NaOH
[B]NaCl
[C]HCl
[D]H2O


5. What was the birth name of Rani Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi?
[A]Bhagirathi Bai
[B]Putli Bai
[C]Lavanya
[D]Manikarnika

1. Which stock exchange is the Asia’s first Stock Exchange?
[A]National Stock Exchange (NSE)
[B]Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)
[C]Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE)
[D]Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE)


2. What is Market capitalization (or market cap) of a company?
[A]Total value of the preferred shares of a publicly traded company
[B]Total value of the promoter's equity of a publicly traded company
[C]Total value of the issued shares of a publicly traded company
[D]Total value of the accounts receivables of a publicly traded company


3. Who was the first ever General to be decorated with Field Marshal rank in India?
[A]Sam Manekshaw
[B]K M Cariappa
[C]K S Thimayya
[D]J N Chaudhuri


4. Which is India's highest military decoration awarded for the highest degree of valour or self-sacrifice in the presence of the enemy?
[A]Vir Chakra
[B]Maha Vir Chakra
[C]Bharat Ratna
[D]Param Vir Chakra


5. Ujjayanta Palace, a former royal palace, served the meeting place of the state's Legislative Assembly until 2011. Where is it located?
[A]Kolkata, West Bengal
[B]Agartala, Tripura
[C]Shillong, Meghalaya
[D]Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh

1. Who has given the slogan of "Jai Jawan Jai Kisan" ("Hail the soldier, Hail the farmer")?
[A]Jawahar Lal Nehru
[B]Mahatma Gandhi
[C]Lal Bahadur Shastri
[D]Dr Rajendra Prasad

2. On 16 July 2012, the Delhi Government decided to increase the number of districts from nine. How many districts are there in Delhi now?
[A]9
[B]10
[C]11
[D]12

3. What is the demonym for a resident of Britain?
[A]Angrez
[B]Briton
[C]Firang
[D]British

4. What is Indian parliament's lower house called?
[A]Lok Sabha
[B]Rajya Sabha
[C]Vidhan Sabha
[D]None of these

5. GSM is a standard set developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe protocols for second generation (2G) digital cellular networks used by mobile phones. What is GSM?
[A]Global Specifications for Mobile Carriers
[B]Global Specifications for Mobile Communications
[C]Global Space for Mobile Communications
[D]Global System for Mobile Communications

1. NATO is an intergovernmental military alliance. What is the full form of NATO?

[A]North American Treaty Organization

[B]North Atlantic Treaty Organization

[C]North Atlantic Treason Office

[D]New Asiatic Treaty Organization

2. Which is the largest river in the world?

[A]Amazon

[B]Yangtze

[C]Nile

[D]Mississippi

3. Who has written the book "The Immortals of Meluah"?

[A]Amish Tripathi

[B]Chetan Bhagat

[C]Tasleema Nasreen

[D]V S Naipaul

4. Which of the following river is sometimes known as the Red River?

 [A]Ganga

[B]Yamuna

[C]Tapi

[D]Sutlej

5. The Vikrama Samvat was founded by the emperor Vikramaditya of Ujjain. It is a lunar calendar based on ancient Hindu tradition. For which country it is the official calendar?

[A]India

[B]Nepal

[C]Myanmar

[D]Bhutan