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1. Who among the following won the Indian GrandPrix formula one race, 2012 held in BuddhInternational Circuit, India?(a) Michael Schumacher(b) Sebastian Vettel(c) Alain Prost(d) Jim Clark

2. Recently which of the following states hasdecided to set up a gymnasium and a libraryin all its jails to promote physical and mentalhealth of prisoners?(a) Goa (b) Kerala(c) Uttar Pradesh (d) Bihar

3. Which of the following movies won the bestIndian Film Award at the Mumbai FilmFestival, 2012?(a) Valley of Saints (b) Aquí Y Alla(c) Miss Lovely (d) Ship of Theseus

4. Who among the following has received IndiraGandhi National Integration Award 2012?(a) Mohan Dharia (b) Gulzar(c) A. R. Rahman (d) Javed Akhtar

5. Who among the following football player won‘Golden Boot Award’ 2012 for most goals inEurope?(a) Cristiano Ronaldo(b) Andres Iniesta(c) Henrik Mkhitaryan(d) Lionel Messi

6. Recently the picture of a footballer John Terrywas in news to be used as pictorial warningon cigarette packets in India, which isreplaced now. John Terry is a player of:(a) France (b) Britain(c) Brazil (d) Argentina

7. “Conspiracy to kill Rajiv Gandhi - From CBIfiles” is the book written by:(a) M K Narayanan (b) K Ragothaman(c) R Karthikeyan (d) P. Dwarakanath

8. Who among the following won the 2012 AsiaSociety Bernard Schwartz Book Award for hisrecently published book” Water: Asia’s NewBattleground”?(a) Jairam Ramesh(b) V. Narayan Murthy(c) Brahma Chellaney(d) R.K. Pachauri

9. Sultan Qaboos Said bin Said will be the chiefguest at the Republic Day of India in 2013.He is ruler of:(a) Oman (b) Saudi Arabia(c) UAE (d) Qatar

10. A Tamil-Brahmi script inscribed on a potsherd,1900 years before, which reads “nantai kiran”,was recently found in which of the followingcountries?(a) Syria (b) Lebanon(c) Yemen (d) Oman

11. Which among the following countries is theworld’s largest rice exporter in 2012?(a) Thailand (b) India(c) Vietnam (d) USA

12. Recently, 664 Gram Panchayat members havebeen declared ineligible for failing to constructa toilet in their houses in which of the followingstates?(a) Maharashtra (b) Kerala(c) Haryana (d) Himachal Pradesh

13. 10th Dr. Durgabai Deshmukh Awards forWomen’s Development presented for the year2007 was awarded to:(a) Snehalaya of Ahmednagar(b) Govind Patnaik(c) Veronica Zatluangi(d) S.G. Susheelamma


14. Gadar movement’s year-long centenarycelebrations was launched, in 2012, in thepresence of Ambassadors to the US from fourcountries. Which of the following was notinvolved among four countries?(a) India (b) Guyana(c) Fiji (d) Suriname

15. Lance Armstrong was stripped of his sevenTour de France titles and banned for lifetimeafter being found guilty of drug use. He wasassociated with which of the following games?(a) Boxing (b) Cycling(c) Sprints (d) Football

16. Who among the following female actors washonoured with the life time achievement awardat the closing function of the 14th MumbaiFilm Festival?(a) Rekha(b) Rakhi(c) Waheeda Rehman(d) Zarina Wahab

17. Kuldeep Singh was recently in news becausehe:(a) is an athlete and he reserved a gold medal

in London Paralympics, 2012.(b) has polio and has taken up a tour of the

country by tricycle.(c) was a journalist, who was killed in a

terrorist attack in Afghanistan.(d) is a statesman of Punjab and has been

convicted by the Punjab and Haryana HighCourt for an economic offence.

18. Felix Baumgartner became the first personto reach supersonic speed without travelingin a jet or spacecraft during plunging from aballoon in the desert of:(a) New Mexico (b) Kalahari(c) Atacama (d) Gobi

19. Who one of the following Indian was notconferred the Knight of the Order of Arts andLetters (Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts etdes Lettres) by France?(a) Nandita Das (b) Aamir Khan(c) Shahrukh Khan (d) Aishwarya Rai

20. Indian-American writer/director PrashantBhargava and producer Jaideep Punjabi havewon the South Asian Rising Star Film Awardsfor Best Director and Best Picture for whichfeature film?(a) “Patang” (The Kite)(b) “Gangs of Wasseypur”(c) “Gandhi My Father”(d) “Taxi to the Dark Side”

21. Name the country, which recently has beenreadmitted into the African Union after beingsuspended in March 2012?(a) Mauritania (b) Liberia(c) Namibia (d) Mali

22. Which among the following Australian cricketplayers has launched the annual scholarshipscheme in honour of Sir Donald Bradman foran Indian student to study at the University ofWollongong (UOW)?(a) Adam Gilchrist (b) Shane Watson(c) Brett Lee (d) Ricky Ponting

23. Who among the following cricket players hasreceived the prestigious Col. C.K. NayuduLifetime Achievement Award 2012?(a) Sunil Gavaskar(b) G.R. Viswanath(c) Mohinder Amarnath(d) Ajit Wadekar

24. One of the top squash players of India hasclaimed the IJM Land Penang Open afterdefeating top most squash player Siti MunirahJusoh of Malaysia. Name the player is:


(a) Saurav Ghosal(b) Joshna Chinappa(c) Dipika Pallikal(d) Ritwik Bhattacharya

25. Who among the following won seventh WorldBilliards Championship title 2012?(a) Mike Russell (b) Daniel Sanchez(c) Pankaj Advani (d) Geet Sethi

26. Vijender Singh was recently in news to beinvolved in a drug case. He belongs to whichof the following States?(a) Haryana (b) Delhi(c) Rajasthan (d) Andhra Pradesh

27. Oceansat-2 is satellite, designed to provideservice continuity for operational users of theOcean Colour Monitor (OCM) instrument onOceansat-1, has been launched by:(a) Indian Space Research Organization

(ISRO)(b) National Aeronautics and Space

Administration (NASA)(c) UK Space Agency (UKSA)(d) Russian Federal Space Agency (RFSA)

28. Pope Benedict XVI recently has named sixnew cardinals, among whom BaseliosCleemis Thottunkal is an Indian and he wasthe Archbishop of:(a) Guwahati(b) Goa and Daman(c) Gandhinagar(d) Thiruvananthapuram

29. Recently the services of a World HeritageSite, Darjeeling Himalayan Railway wereadversely affected because a portion ofDarjeeling station was damaged by:(a) Flood (b) Fire(c) Earthquake (d) Landslide

30. Who among the following has been awardedrecently with an Honorary Doctorate of Artsfor his/her outstanding contribution to Indiancinema by the Edinburgh Napier University?(a) Amitabh Bachchan(b) Jaya Bachchan(c) Sharmila Tagore(d) Jeetendra

31. Who among the following cricket player hasannounced 25 scholarships for aspiring Indianstudents to live, learn, work in New Zealandand excel in a field of their choice?(a) Shane Warne (b) John Wright(c) Ricky Ponting (d) Brett Lee

32. The developers of Dubai are planning to builda replica of the Taj Mahal four times biggerthan the original monument in Dubai. Thereplica is:(a) Burj Arabia (b) Taj Khalifa(c) Taj Arabia (d) Taj- E- Sultan

33. The country, which recently decided itsambitious plan to develop deeper relationswith India and other booming economies ofthe region, including through teachinglanguages like Hindi and Mandarin in itsschools, is:(a) United States (b) Brazil(c) Australia (d) Japan

34. Mehr Din, known as Uncle Pakistan, recentlypassed away. He was known for his specificpresence at:(a) Ambassy of Pakistan in India(b) Venues of cricket matches participated

by Pakistan(c) Wagah border(d) Processions organized in Pakistan

against United States


35. Ramush Haradinaj has been acquitted of thecharge of murder and torture during the 1990swar of independence. He is ex-Prime Ministerof:(a) Kosovo (b) Hungary(c) Austria (d) Liberia

36. China is now capable of deploying fighter jetson its first aircraft carrier after successfullanding and take off the J-15 jet on it. Namethe aircraft carrier:(a) Stalin (b) Chiang Kai Shek(c) Mao Tse-tung (d) ‘The Liaoning’

37. Tagore’s bust unveiled recently at 9th centuryBuddhist ‘Borobudur Temple’ which is locatedin:(a) Cambodia (b) Indonesia(c) Thailand (d) Myanmar

38. Who among the following has been sworn inas the first black president of Brazil’s SupremeCourt?(a) Joaquim Barbosa(b) Ricardo Lewandowski(c) Carmen Lucia(d) Gilmar Mendes

39. Who among the following won Brazilian GrandPrix 2012?(a) Fernando Alonso(b) Jenson Button(c) Sebastian Vettel(d) Michael Schumacher

40. Who among the following won men’s IAAFWorld Athlete of the Year Award 2012?(a) Aries Merritt (b) Usain Bolt(c) David Rudisha (d) Yohan Blake

41. Ernest Bai Koroma, leader of the All People’sCongress, has been re-elected as thePresident of:(a) Sierra Leone (b) Mali(c) Gabon (d) Honduras

42. The Union Government has announced to setup a National Cancer Institute (NCI) and aNational Cardio Care Centre (NCCC) at thesecond campus of All-India Institute of MedicalSciences (AIIMS) in:(a) Delhi (b) Uttar Pradesh(c) Rajasthan (d) Haryana

43. Scientists from UK, have developed a newdrug for stopping the cancerous cells frommultiplying. The new drug is called:(a) Aflibercept (b) Atripla(c) Nivaquine (d) Maraviroc

44. Which among the following won the IndianPremier League (IPL) title sponsorship fornext five years?(a) Airtel (b) PepsiCo(c) Coca Cola (d) DLF

45. Who among the following is present directorgeneral of British Broadcasting Corporation(BBC)?(a) Tony Hall (b) George Entwistle(c) Tim Davie (d) Mark Thompson

46. Who among the following is the presentdirector of Central Bureau of Investigation?(a) A.P. Singh (b) W. Ashwini Kumar(c) V.S Tiwari (d) Ranjit Sinha

47. Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories (DRL) hasannounced the launch of its Sildenafil Tablets(20 mg), a bioequivalent generic version ofRevatio tablets in:(a) USA (b) UK(c) Singapore (d) Malaysia


48. Astrophysicists at the University of Torontohave discovered a new planet which is thirteentimes enormous than Jupiter, called:(a) Jupiter- 13 (b) Super-Jupiter(c) Androme-12 (c) Jupiter Kappa

49. Which among the following countries won the100th Davis Cup 2012 finals?(a) Spain (b) Argentina(c) Serbia (d) Czech Republic

50. Along with K.V. Prabhu, who among thefollowing scientists has been awarded Borlaugaward 2012?(a) Ashok Kumar Singh(b) Dr S Nagarajan(c) Dr Rattan Lal(d) Dr. Aditi Mukherji

51. 26 percent stake of Krishna Godavari basinof deep sea block of Oil and Natural GasCorporation (ONGC) has been acquired byJapan based oil firm:(a) Nippon Oil (b) JAPEX(c) Inpex Corp (d) Idemitsu Kosan

52. Which among the following countries hascancelled its biggest foreign investmentproject with Indian firm GMR Group to developits international airport?(a) Bolivia (b) Maldives(c) Mali (d) Myanmar

53. Which of the following movies was awardedwith the best Indian Film Award at the MumbaiFilm Festival, 2012?(a) Valley of Saints (b) Aquí Y Alla(c) Miss Lovely (d) Ship of Theseus

54. Which of the following historic monumentrecently has been decided to have a solarpower plant to get uninterrupted power supply?(a) Qutb Minar (b) Charminar(c) Gol Gumbaz (d) Taj Mahal

55. A five-member committee was set up tosuggest measures to lower the high costs ofAir India’s operations and improve utilisationof resources. Committee is headed by:(a) Prabhat Kumar(b) Ravindra H. Dholakia(c) Rajesh Agrawal(d) S. Mukherjee

56. Who has been announced the chairman of20th Law Commission of India?(a) Justice M. Jagannadha Rao(b) Justice D K Jain(c) Justice A. R. Lakshmanan(d) Justice P. V. Reddi

57. The Prime Minister of India recentlyconstituted a high-power National Committeeon Direct Cash Transfers in a bid to reducecorruption at the cutting edge, which will bechaired by:(a) Finance Minister(b) Prime Minister(c) Home Minister(d) Corporates Affairs Ministers

58. Which among the following countries hascreated the world’s largest network of marinereserves, protecting more than 2.3 millionsquare kilometres of ocean environment?(a) Australia (b) New Zealand(c) South Africa (d) Brazil

59. Ami Bera, California-based, Indian-Americanhas become the only 3rd of the communityto win Congressional Election. Ami Beradefeated Republican candidate:(a) Richard Nixon(b) Dan Lungren(c) Eric Cantor(d) Cathy McMorris Rodgers


60. Astronomers for the first time have discovereda young “homeless planet”, up to seven timesthe size of Jupiter and with no gravitationalties. The planet is:(a) Nutella-12 (b) Ju-7(c) CFBDSIR2149 (d) TRIX-47

61. Who among the following has been awardedby World Peace and Prosperity Foundationfor her bravery and commitment to educationfor girls in adverse conditions in Swat,Pakistan?(a) Hina Naseem (b) Malala Yousafzai(c) Somira soomro (d) Shahida Hassan

62. According to the ‘Transparency Report’published by Google, which among thefollowing countries government stands secondin demanding web user information?(a) USA (b) China(c) UK (d) India

63. Islamist group, Ansar Dine is active in whichamong the following countries?(a) Mali (b) Syria(c) Lebanon (d) Ghana

64. The Instruments Research and DevelopmentEstablishment (IRDE), a laboratory thatcomes under the Defence Research andDevelopment Organisation (DRDO) is locatedin:(a) Lucknow (b) Nagpur(c) Pune (d) Dehradun

65. The Ministry of Women and ChildDevelopment has notified rules under theProtection of Children from Sexual OffencesAct, 2012. The Act has classified any sexualact with a child as a punishable offence below:(a) 18 (b) 14(c) 21 (d) 16

66. According to Maplecroft’s fifth annual ‘ClimateChange and Environmental Risk Atlas 2013’,which of the following capitals has topped theglobal list of cities facing the highest climatechange risks in the coming decades?(a) Manila (b) Bangkok(c) Dhaka (d) Ho Chi Minh

67. A popular energy drink, produced by acompany founded by an Indian-Americanbillionaire, has come under the scanner inthe US after reports of 13 deaths. Name theproduct:(a) ‘5-Hour Energy’ (b) ‘All Time Energy’(c) ’24 Hour Energy’ (d) ‘Instant Energy’

68. By combining the power of NASA’s Hubbleand Spitzer space telescopes and one ofnature’s own natural “zoom lenses” in space,astronomers have discovered the farthestgalaxy. Name the galaxy:(a) TRIX-47 (b) MACS0647-JD(c) CFBDSIR2149 (d) DSIR2150

69. The Communist Party of China (CPC) hasselected whom as Hu Jintao’s successor?(a) Wen Jiabao (b) Li Keqiang(c) Xi Jinping (d) Yang Shangkun

70. Along with senior journalists T.N. Ninan, whoamong the following has been awarded theJawaharlal Nehru Fellowships on the occasionof 123rd birth anniversary of the country’s firstPrime Minister?(a) Harish Khare (b) Sidharth Mishra(c) S.S. Dubey (d) Vinit Wahi

71. Who among the following Indian scholars hasbeen awarded the USD 500,000 WISE prizefor his relentless work of providing low costeducation to children in Mumbai slums?(a) Anil Pandey (b) Madan Kumar(c) Harsh Goswami (d) Madhav Chavan


72. Which airline has signed a pact with theChennai-headquartered Apollo Hospitals togive discounts to each others’ clients?(a) Maldivian airlines(b) Indian airlines(c) American airlines(d) Sri Lankan airline

73. In which of the following countries Indian origindentist Savita Halappanavar has died after thedoctors refused her abortion despite her bodybeing sick and weak due to 17 weeks ofpregnancy?(a) Finland (b) Norway(c) Sweden (d) Ireland

74. In which among the following States, NTPCis going to start a skill developmentprogramme for 144 youngsters, under thecentral government’s ‘UDAAN’ initiative?(a) Jharkhand (b) Jammu & Kashmir(c) Chhattisgarh (d) Uttarakhand

75. Who has been selected for the 8th AkkineniNageswara Rao National Award 2012?(a) Shabana Azmi (b) Lata Mangeshkar(c) Shyam Benegal (d) Hema Malini

76. Who among the following eminent Urduscholars has been presented MoortideviAward 2010 for his outstanding work on UrduGhazal?(a) Gulab Kothari (b) Gopi Chand Narang(c) Dr. Israr Ahmed (d) Dr. Zakir Naik

77. India has signed the agreement on jointresearch project into pricing structures in LNGmarkets with which among the followingcountries?(a) Japan (b) Vietnam(c) Sweden (d) South Korea

78. In which of the following countries, Hyderabad-based GVK Power and Infrastructure Limited,has received the green nod for Alpha coal mineproject and rail line?(a) South Africa (b) Australia(c) Singapore (d) Japan

79. Which of the following National Parks will getremote controlled aircraft and a satellitebased electronic eye for round-the-clocksurveillance of the animals?(a) Bandipur National Park(b) Kanha National Park(c) Kaziranga National Park(d) Buxa Tiger Reserve

80. Which of the following services has been

launched by the Indian Railways to find outthe location of 6500 trains on real-time basison Google Map?(c) RailMap (b) RailLoc(c) RailSearch (d) RailRadar

81. Who of the following has been conferred theprestigious Lal Bahadur Shastri NationalAward 2012?(a) Yashpal(b) Smt. Tessy Thomas(c) Sunil Bharti Mittal(d) Aruna Roy

82. At present which among the followingcountries is the Russia’s second largestdefence customer after India?(a) Algeria (b) Syria(c) Iraq (d) Iran

83. China based Research firm, Hurun onOctober10, 2012 has released ‘INDIA RichList’ a list of India’s rich individuals. Whoamong the following has topped the list?(a) L.N. Mittal (b) Dilip Shanghvi(c) Azim Premji (d) Mukesh Ambani


84. Robert Lefkowitz, has won the Nobel Prize2012 in Chemistry for study and research onProtein Receptors along with-(a) David J. Wineland(b) Brian Kobilka(c) Saul Perlmutter(d) Richard F. Heck

85. Which among the following countries has wonwomen’s T-20 world cup 2012?(a) England (b) South Africa(c) Australia (d) New Zealand

86. A British biologist who was a key member ofthe Ian Wilmut team that created Dolly thesheep, has died recently. Name thepersonality.(a) Peter Englund (b) Keith Campbell(c) Victor Boshi (d) Hans Spemann

87. Along with Serge Haroche who among thefollowing American scientists won Nobel Prize2012 in physics?(a) David Wineland (b) Adam G. Riess(c) Saul Perlmutter (d) George E. Smith

88. The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)in collaboration with LEAD Pakistan andBuksh Foundation has launched which amongthe following campaigns in Pakistan?(a) ‘Lighting a Country’(b) ‘Lighting People’

(c) ‘Lighting a Million People’(d) ‘Lighting a Million Lives’

89. Which among the following pharmaceuticalcompanies has launched its first indigenouslymanufactured re-usable insulin pen ‘AllStar’?(a) Sanofi India (b) Novartis India Ltd.(c) Pfizer Ltd. (d) Merck Ltd.

90. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, winner of the NobelPeace Prize in 2011, is the current Presidentof:(a) Yemen (b) Liberia(c) Bulgaria (d) Argentina

91. Along with Shinya Yamanaka which one ofthe following won the Nobel Prize 2012 inphysiology or medicine?(a) Ralph M. Steinman(b) Jules A. Hoffmann(c) John B. Gurdon(d) Bruce A. Beutler

92. Antisa Khvichava, who claimed to be theworld’s oldest living person surviving throughtwo World Wars and the Russian Revolution,has died at the age of 132. She belongs to:(a) Georgia (b) Russia(c) Switzerland (d) Japan

93. In which of the following States, ISRO’s LiquidPropulsion Systems Centre is not located?(a) Tamil Nadu (b) Karnataka(c) Kerala (d) Andhra Pradesh

94. Who among the following personalities wonNobel Prize in Literature for year 2012?(a) Liu Xiaobo (b) Mo Yan(c) Gao Xingjian (c) Mario Vargas Llosa

95. Which among the following bollywood actoris brand ambassador of West Bengal?(a) Shah Rukh Khan(b) Sharmila Tagore(c) Aishwarya Rai(d) Mithun Chakraborty

96. Which among the following Indian bornwomen has become the First Woman TeamPrincipal in Formula one team ’Sauber’, aswiss Formula one team?(a) Lella Lombardi (b) Manisha Williams(c) Sunita Maria (d) Monisha Kalterborn


97. Which among the following States is the firstkerosene-free State?(a) Kerala (b) Delhi(c) Haryana (d) Goa

98. Which among the following is the first Indian-American elected to the U.S. Congress?(a) Dalip Singh Saund(b) Dr. Ami Bera(c) Bobby Jindal(d) Tulsi Gabbard

99. Along with Colorado, which of the followingStates has become the first U.S. state tolegalize the possession and sale of marijuanafor recreational use in defiance of federal law?(a) Wisconsin (b) Arizona(c) Florida (d) Washington

100. Who among the following is the presentpresident of the Indian Hockey Federation(IHF)?(a) R K Shetty(b) Ashok Mathur(c) V. Dinesh Reddy(d) R.K Singh

101. The Sultanate of which among the followingcountries has banned the import of eggs andchicken from India?(a) Oman (b) UAE(c) Saudi Arabia (d) Kuwait

102. The Himalaya Drug Company won the fifteenyears long battle in the Delhi High Courtagainst the homoeopathic firm SBL Limitedover infringement of its medicine Liv-52 withits own preparation that was named as:(a) Liv-B (b) Liv-T(c) Liv-L (d) Liv-V

103. Which State government has decided todedicate the year 2013 to daughters andobserve it as ‘Save the Girl Child Year’?(a) Madhya Pradesh(b) Rajasthan(c) Delhi(d) Jammu & Kashmir

104. Which among the following words has beenchosen as Oxford University’s Word of 2012?(a) ‘Squeezed middle’(b) ‘Omnishambles’(c) ‘Big society’(d) ‘Unfriend’

105. Which of the following pairs has won themen’s doubles title of the ATP World TourFinals 2012 in London?(a) M. Bhupathi and R. Bopanna(b) M. Granollers and M. Lopez(c) J. Marray and F. Nielsen(d) L. Paes and R. Stepanek

106. According to the International Energy Agency(IEA), which of the following countries wouldtakeover Saudi Arabia as world’s biggest oilproducing nation by 2017?(a) Russia (b) China(c) Nigeria (d) USA

107. Who won the prestigious Kyoto Prize 2012in the category of Arts and Philosophy?(a) Paul Thieme(b) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak(c) Charles Taylor(d) Karl Popper

108. Who among the following is the chiefinvestigating officer of the Rajiv Gandhiassassination case?(a) K Ragothaman(b) M. Narayanan(c) R Karthikeyan(d) P. Dwarakanath


109. Which of the following state governments hasdecided to introduce ‘single window system’in the agriculture sector for the benefit offarmers?(a) Bihar(b) West Bengal(c) Gujarat(d) Uttar Pradesh

110. Who among the following Pakistani Sufilegends has been honoured with a lifetimeachievement award by Kaladharmi BegumAkhtar Academy of Ghazal in New Delhi?(a) Abida Parveen(b) Hamid Ali Bela(c) Jameel Khan(d) Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

111. “SENAHIYA”, a National Defence Forcehospital, has been opened by Defence Ministerof India, A.K. Antony, in:(a) Colombo(b) Dhaka(c) Male(d) Kathmandu

112. Recently, which boxing Champion has beenhonoured with Liberty Medal in Philadelphia?(a) Muhammad Ali (b) Mice Tyson(c) Michael Moorer (d) Riddick Bowe

113. Which among the following countries has won2nd South Asian Football Federation (SAFF)women Championship 2012 in Colombo?(a) Pakistan (b) India(c) Sri Lanka (d) Nepal

114. Name the cricket player who has been namedas the Captain of ICC’s ODI team of the year2011-12.(a) Alastair Cook(b) Mahendra Singh Dhoni(c) Sangakkara(d) Hashim Amla

115. Tata AIA Life Insurance has launched acomprehensive life and health protectionoriented unit linked endowment insuranceplan. Name the plan.(a) ‘Sure Suraksha’ (b) ‘Suraksha Kosh’(c) ‘Jivan Anand’ (d) ‘Suraksha Kavach’

116. Under the brand name of ‘m-pesa’, VodafoneIndia has announced to offer mobile moneytransfer and payment service with which ofthe following banks?(a) ICICI bank(b) HDFC Bank(c) Kotak Mahindra Bank(d) Punjab National Bank

117. Which of the following State Governmentsrecently announced to launch the biggest everdoor-to-door campaign for early detection ofcancer?(a) Punjab (b) Delhi(c) Haryana (d) West Bengal

118. The tunnel that connects the two monumentsof historical importance- Amber Palace andJaigarh Fort, has been inaugurated in whichof the following cities of Rajasthan?(a) Udaipur (b) Jaipur(c) Jodhpur (d) Nagaur

119. The Shadman Chowk was declared to berenamed as Bhagat Singh Chowk on his105th birth anniversary. Shadman Chowk islocated in which among the following cities?(a) Amritsar (b) Peshawar(c) Lahore (d) Patiala

120. According to latest reports, the highestincidence of the juvenile rape cases ((23.6%)was reported from:(a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Maharashtra(c) Haryana (d) Madhya Pradesh


121. The tomb of a powerful seventh-century Mayaqueen ‘K’abel’, who carried the title ‘SupremeWarrior’, has been discovered recently byarchaeologists in which of the followingcountries?(a) Guatemala (b) Jamaica(c) Cuba (d) Honduras

122. Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has bought 30per cent stake in Houston-based Carrizo Oil& Gas’s Niobrara shale oil and gas assets inColorado for $82.5 million (about Rs.428 crore)jointly with which of the following oilcompanies?(a) Hindustan Petroleum(b) Oil India Ltd. (OIL)(c) Bharat Petroleum(d) Reliance Petroleum

123. MagicBoard, an integrated portable device,is a mobile office that can issue a policy onthe spot, has been launched by which amongthe following insurance companies?(a) IndiaFirst Life Insurance(b) National Insurance Co Ltd(c) Birla Sun Life Insurance Co. Ltd(d) ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Co. Ltd

124. ‘30-Plus’, popular energiser brand, relaunchedby Dabur, has been promoted by whichBollywood female actors?(a) Kareena Kapoor(b) Malaika Arora Khan(c) Priyanka Chopra(d) Katrina Kaif

125. Which among the following seven times worldChampion German Formula-one driver, hasrecently announced his retirement fromFormula one Race?(a) Sebastian Vettel(b) Nico Rosberg(c) Michael Schumacher(d) Niko Hülkenberg

126. Who among the following is the brandambassador of the ‘Nirmal Bharat Yatra’?(a) Priyanka Chopra(b) Vidya Balan(c) Rahul Dravid(d) Salman Khan

127. Endangered Gangetic dolphin (PlatanistaGangetica) is also known as:(a) ‘Tiger of the Ganges’(b) ‘Queen of the Ganges’(c) ‘Doughter of the Ganges’(d) ‘Elephant of the Ganges’

128. Which among the following banks has beenawarded recently gold trophy of Niryat BandhuAward?(a) Bank of Baroda(b) Punjab National Bank(c) Bank of India(d) Canara Bank

129. Which of the following countries has unveileda colossal radio telescope that will allowastronomers to detect distant galaxies andexplore the depths of the universe withunprecedented precision?(a) Germany (b) Australia(c) Switzerland (d) China

130. A Maldivian court has issued an arrest warrantagainst the country’s first democraticallyelected President. Name the personality:(a) Mohamed Nasheed(b) Md. Waheed Hassan Manik(c) Ibrahim Nasir(d) Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

131. Who among the following is the longest-servingchief minister of the Gujarat?(a) Hitendra K Desai(b) Madhav Singh Solanki(c) Chimanbhai Patel(d) Narendra Modi


132. Who among the following is the currentadministrator of National Aeronautics andSpace Administration (NASA)?(a) Christopher Scolese(b) Charles Bolden(c) Michael D. Griffin(d) Frederick D. Gregory

133. Who among the following won JapaneseGrand Prix 2012?(a) Felipe Massa(b) Sebastian Vettel(c) Kamui Kobayashi(d) Jenson Button

134. Who among the following is the currentchairperson of the Indian Central Board of FilmCertification?(a) Nandita Das (b) Anupam Kher(c) Sharmila Tagore (d) Leela Samson

135. According to the report of Deutsche Bank,along with India, which among the followingcountries has the highest Government debtratios (70%) of the gross domestic product(GDP) among top ten emerging marketeconomies?(a) China (b) Russia(c) Brazil (d) Indonesia

136. According to the fifth edition of the WorldEconomic Forum’s Financial DevelopmentReport 2012, out of 62 leading financialsystems and capital markets which of thefollowing countries has topped the list?(a) Singapore (b) Hong Kong(c) UK (d) USA

137 Which among the following State has toppedthe latest Environmental Performance Index(EPI) list of being best-performing States andUnion territories, released by PlanningCommission of India?

(a) Uttarakhand(b) Chandigarh(c) Himachal Pradesh(d) Sikkim

138. According to Mercer’s 2012 Quality of LivingIndex report, which among the following citieshas been emerged as the best city to live inIndia?(a) Bengalore (b) Hyderabad(c) Mumbai (d) Chennai

139. Who among the following won the Shakti BhattFirst Book Prize 2012 for Taj Mahal Foxtrot:The Story of Bombay’s Jazz Age?(a) David Godwin (b) Tishani Doshi(c) Basharat Peer (d) Naresh Fernandes

140. Who among the following has been recentlyhonoured Asian Business Leadership ForumStatesman Award in Abu Dhabi?(a) Kamal Nath (b) Mallika Srinivasan(c) Baba Kalyani (d) Anand Mahindra

141. In which of the following countries, Indian origindentist Savita Halappanavar has died after thedoctors refused her abortion despite her bodybeing sick and weak due to 17 weeks ofpregnancy?(a) Finland (b) Norway(c) Sweden (d) Ireland

142. Which among the following Chinese films wonthe Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema(NETPAC) Award at 18th Kolkata InternationalFilm Festival?(a) Apart Together(b) 14 Blades(c) Buddha Mountain(d) 11 Flowers


143. Central government has decided to transfer12.5 acres of Indu Mill land at Dadar for thememorial of which among the followingpersonalities?(a) BR Ambedkar(b) Balasaheb Thackeray(c) Shivaji Bhosale(d) Hemant Karkare

144. The Union government of India has announcedthe constitution of the 14th FinanceCommission under the chairmanship of:(a) Y. V. Reddy (b) M. Govinda Rao(c) Sudipto Mundle (d) Abhijit Sen

145. Recently, typhoon Bopha created a havoc in:(a) Philippines (b) Jamaica(c) Mexico (d) Haiti

146. Brazilian architect, who designed much of thecountry’s futuristic capital Brasilia, wonPritzker Prize 1988, has died recently. Namethe personality:(a) Oscar Niemeyer (b) Lucio Costa(c) Lina Bo Bardi(d) Paulo Mendes da Rocha

147. Along with five ex-Soviet States, which amongthe following countries has agreed to reducetheir dependence on the dollar, and promotepayments in national currencies?(a) China (b) Russia(c) Azerbaijan (d) Ukraine

148. Which among the following committee’sreport associated with non-banking financecompanies (NBFCs)?(a) Usha Thorat committee(b) B.D Shah committee(c) Bhootlingam committee(d) D.R Gadgil committee

149. Name the Kashmiri film-maker SureshGoswami’s film on the displacement ofKashmiri Pandit families from the Valley:(a) Minar e Dilli (b) Ziyarat(c) Lamha (d) 80 Million

150. Who among the following was the First ChiefMinister of Uttarakhand?(a) Bhagat Singh Koshiyari(b) Nityanand Swami(c) N.D. Tiwari(d) BC Khanduri

151. Who among the following has been electedchairman of the panel of external auditors ofthe United Nations?(a) Jagbans Singh (b) Vinod Rai(c) Norbert Hauser (d) Amyas Morse

152. Union Cabinet of India has decided to addAbuj Maria tribe to the list of Scheduled Tribes.Abuj Maria tribe is located in:(a) Kerala(b) Chhattisgarh(c) Arunachal Pradesh(d) Himachal Pradesh

153. Recently the residence of ex-President ofIndia Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, a heritagesight, was in news to restore its glory. It issituated at:(a) Bengaluru (b) Mysore(c) Chennai (d) Coimbatore

154. Who among the following topped Gallup’s‘most admired women’s list of 2012?(a) Malala Yousafzai(b) Aung San Suu Kyi(c) Hillary Clinton(d) Queen Elizabeth II


155. ‘Joseph Anton’ is a book written by:(a) Andre Dubus(b) Salman Rushdie(c) Cormac McCarthy(d) Denis Johnson

156. Who has been appointed as the Director ofthe Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre inTiruvananthapuram?(a) S Ramakrishnan(b) P S Veeraraghavan(c) K. Radhakrishnan(d) V.S. Hegde

157. Along with Vidya Balan who has been namedPETA’s hottest celebrity vegetarians of 2012?(a) Neha Dhupia(b) Amitabh Bachchan(c) Shahid Kapoor(d) Kareena Kapoor

158. ‘Genocide of Eelam Tamils - Heart Bleeds’ isa book written by:(a) M. Jagannadha Rao(b) Thol. Thirumavalavan(c) M Karunanidhi(d) Vai Gopalsamy

159. Name the French actor who has waged abattle against a proposed super-tax onmillionaires in his native country and has beengranted Russian citizenship?(a) Daniel Auteuil (b) Gerard Depardieu(c) Claudine Auger (d) Dany Boon

160. Which among the following countries is thefirst country in Asia to adopt chemicalcastration?(a) Jordan (b) Qatar(c) South Korea (d) Saudi Arabia

161. What is the name of the first space craftlaunched towards International Space by aprivate space transportation company?(a) SapceX Shuttle (b) SpaceX Rcoket(c) SpaceX Star (d) SpaceX Dragon

162. Who has won the 73rd PGA Tour Title 2012?(a) Pankaj Advani (b) Tiger Woods(c) Martin Laird (d) Rory McIlroy

163. Which Sports person was appointed as themember of Rajya Sabha recently?(a) Sunil Gavaskar(b) Anil Kumble(c) Sachin Tendulkar (d) Rahul Dravid

164. Who won the 21st Sultan Azlan Shah Cuphockey tournament of 2012?(a) Pakistan (b) India(c) New Zealand (d) Argentina

165. What is the name of the psychiatrist andballoonist who took off on the world’s firstintercontinental flight in solar-powered plane?(a) Bertrand Piccard (b) Charles Lindbergh(c) André Borschberg(d) None of the Above

166. Who of the following, the Governor, survived arecall in Wisconsin, USA?(a) Scott McCallum (b)Scott Walker(c) Tom Barrett (d) Jim Doyle

167. The first talking ATM of India was launched inAhmedabad by which of the folkowing bank?(a) State Bank of India(b) Bank of Baroda(c) Union Bank of India(d) Yes Bank


168. Who has been appointed as Chief ElectionCommissioner to take over S.Y.Quraishi fromJune 10th 2012?(a) V.S.Sampath(b) Harishankar Brahma(c) Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi(d) S. Y. Quraishi

169. Which country of the World in June 2012declared forced marriage as a criminaloffence?(a) Japan (b) Britain(c) Singapore (d) Germany

170. Which 2 disease has been identified as topkillers around the world by UNICEF?(a) Pneumonia and Diarrhea(b) Malaria(c) Dengue(d) Typhoid and Diarrhea

171. Who won the Canadian Grand Prix 2012?(a) Lewis Hamilton (b) Sebastian Vettel(c) Kimi Räikkönen (d) Mark Webber

172. Microsoft has signed a deal with whichcompany to bring richer content on its searchengine Bing?(a) Wikipedia(b) BloomBerg(c) Encyclopedia Britannica(d) Webster

173. What is the name of 16 year old Indian originboy from Germany who solved the 350 yearold Mathematical problem who’s solutions willhelp scientists to calculate the flight path ofa thrown ball and then predict how it will hitand bounce off a wall?(a) Ravi Fernando (b) Shouryya Ray(c) Birva Patel (d) Dhairya Dand

174. Who is the author of the book ‘The SlyCompany of People Who Care’?(a) Tan Twan Eng(b) Rahul Bhattacharya(c) Musharraf Ali Farooqi(d) Orhan Pamuk

175. According to which article of the constitutiondoes President brought in the regulation toprotect the interest of ‘Jarawa’ tribe ofAndaman and Nicobar Island?(a) Article 240 (b) Article 260(c) Article 270 (d) Article 280

176. Hosni Mubarak who was sent for lifeimprisonement was the former President ofwhich of the following country?(a) Iraq (b) Tunisia(c) Egypt (d) Syria

177. Which of the following state banned themanufacturing and sale of Tobacco productsin June 2012, making it the third state afterKerala and Madhya Pradesh to do so?(a) Bihar (b) Uttar Pradesh(c) Karnataka (d) Haryana

178. Rio+20 conference was held in which of thefollowing city?(a) Rio de Janeiro (b) Paris(c) New York (d) Mexico

179. In which city is India’s first food bank ininaugurated?(a) Lucknow (b) Bangalore(c) Delhi (d) Bombay

180. Who is the first person to walk across NiagaraFalls on a tightrope?(a) Nik Wallenda (b) Adolfo Calero(c) Pehr Kalm (d) Kirk Jones


181. Which of the following countries was given aobserver status in the Month of June 2012 inShnaghai Cooperation Oragnistaion?(a) India (b) Afghanistan(c) Iran (d) Mongolia

182. Who is the first Indian to win under-21 Men’sBrazil Open Table Tennis tournament?(a) Harmeet Desai (b) Pankja Advani(c) Yuki Bhambri (d) Chetan Baboor

183. Who has been elected as the Prime Ministerof Greece?(a) Panagiotis Pikrammenos(b) Antonis Samaras(c) Lucas Papademos(d) George A. Papandreou

184. Popular Pakistani personality ‘Mehdi Hassan’is related to which of the following?(a) Choreography (b) Dance(c) Ghazal (d) Drawing

185. Who has been elected as the 17th PrimeMinister of Pakistan?(a) Abid Hussain (b) Hesham Kandil(c) Hosni Mubarak (d) Raja Parvez Ashraf

186. Indian Prisoner Surjeet Singh who wasreleased and sent back to India was keptunder trial for Spying in which of the followingCountry?(a) China (b) Bangladesh(c) Sri Lanka (d) Pakistan

187. Who is the present President of Egypt?(a) Mohammed Mursi(b) Sheikh Rasel(c) Ahmed Shafik(d) Gamal Fahmi

188. Which Indian army officer is being conferredthe Friends of Bangladesh Award for hisoutstanding contribution in the 1971 war?(a) Ashok Tara (b) Ranjit Dayal(c) Gurvinder Singh (d) Virendra Swarup

189. Under which Article of the constitution did thePresident commuted the death sentence of4 prisoners to life imprisonment in 2012?(a) Article 72 (b) Article 116(c) Article 32 (d) Article 64

190. What is the name of the Space based X-raytelescope that will use a Walter telescope toconduct a deep survey for black holes a billiontimes more massive then sun?(a) TMT(b) James Webb Telescope(c) NuSTAR(d) Hubble Telescope

191. Who is the first Chinese Woman to travel intospace?(a) Liu Yang (b) Qiuyue(c) Yao Ming (d) Li BingBing

192. Who is the only woman Nobel laureate inEconomics who died in June 2012?(a) Elizabeth H. Blackburn(b) Elinor Ostrom(c) Herta Müller(d) Ada E. Yonath

193. Who won the 2012 French Open Women title?(a) Maria Sharapova(b) Saria Erani(c) Samantha Stosur(d) Petra Kavitova

194. Who won the mixed doubles title of Frenchopen 2012 ?(a)Santiago Gonzalez And Klaudia Ignacik(b) Elena Vesnina and Leander Paes(c) Galina Voskoboeva and Daniele Bracciali(d) Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi


195. Who won the Mens Single title of French Open2012?(a) Novak Djokovic (b) Rafael Nadal(c) Roger Federer (d) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

196. Which day is observed as the WorldEnvironment Day?(a) June 10th (b) June 7th

(c) June 5th (d) June 12th

197. What was the theme of the World EnvironmentDay of 2012?(a) Green Economy: Does it include you?(b) Green Economy: Does it Matter?(c) Green Environment: Are you a part of it?(d) Green Environment: Does it Matter?

198. Bangladesh has signed a pact with which ofthe following countries for assistance indeveloping its first nuclear power plant?(a) USA (b) China(c) India (d) Russia

199. ‘JIMEX 12’ is a Bilateral naval exercisebetween India and which other country?(a) Japan (b) Russia(c) Maldives (d) USA

200. What is MCA21?(a) A new Fighet Aircraft(b) A Surveillance Aircraft(c) An unmanned Arial Vehicle(d) e-governance plan of Govenrment

201. Who is the head of Metro Advisory Board setup by government to look into the establishingMetro Line in various cities?(a) S.M. Krishna (b) C. Rangarajan(c) Sudhir Krishna (d) Y.V.Reddy

202. Which state has agreed to be the Pilot statefor the eBiz mission of the centralGovernment?(a) Gujarat (b) Haryana(c) Uttar Pradesh (d) Bihar

203. Who won the Thailand Open Grand PrixBadminton Tournament 2012?(a) Saina Nehwal (b) Ratchanok Inthanon(c) LI Xuerui (d) WANG Yihan

204. India got exemption from US financialsanctions for which of the following Country?(a) Syria (b) Iran(c) Israel (d) Tunisia

205. Which day of the year is Observed as the‘World day against Child Labour’?(a) June 5th (b) June 10th

(c) June 12th (d) June 14th

206. What was the theme of the ‘World day Againstthe Child Labor’?(a) Justice for Children –end Child labor(b) Justice to Child Laborers(c) Come lets End Child Labor(d) World without Child Labor

207. Which act provides the Sikh Community theright to register their marriages under aseparate act?(a) Anand Marriage Act, 2012(b) Hindu Marriage Act, 2011(c) Hindu Marriage Act, 1955(d) Anand Marriage Act, 1909

208. With which country India has started an OpenGovernment Platform (OGPL)?(a) Canada(b) Russia(c) France(d) United States of America

209. What was the theme of the World Blood Donorday 2012?(a) Every blood donor is a hero(b) Donate Blood: save Life(c) Donate Blood: bring Smile(d) Donating Blood: For a Noble cause


210. What is the Rank of India in the Visa’s 2012Global Financial Literacy Barometer survey?(a) 24th (b) 26th

(c) 23rd (d) 20th

211. Which country has decided to make theWorld’s largest network of protecting marineareas?(a) Australia (b) Britain(c) Japan (d) Canada

212. Which of the following country hosted the 4th

edition of Champions League Twenty 20?(a) Australia (b) South Africa(c) India (d) Britain

213. Japan has offered Rs. 400 crore assistanceto which of the Indian state for thedevelopment of social forestry?(a) West Bengal (b) Karnataka(c) Bihar (d) Uttar Pradesh

214. Where the 12th SCO summit was held?(a) Beijing (b) Moscow(c) Tashkent (d) Dhaka

215. Where the 101st session of InternationalLabour Conference was organized byInternational Labour Organization (ILO)?(a) Paris (b) London(c) Geneva (d) New York

216. Which Indian state has claimed to havelaunched India’s First River-lake link project?(a) Madhya Pradesh(b) Uttar Pradesh(c) Punjab(d) Rajasthan

217. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was sent toimprisonment for life time was formerPresident of which of the following country?(a) Egypt (b) Tunisia(c) Saudi Arabia (d) Jordan

218. Which is the most peaceful country in theWorld according to the ‘Global Peace index2012’?(a) Norway (b) Sweden(c) Iceland (d) Denmark

219. Which is the least peaceful country in theWorld according to the ‘Global Peace index2012’?(a) Sri Lanka (b) Somalia(c) Syria (d) Iraq

220. What is the rank of India in the ‘Global Peaceindex 2012’?(a) 142 (b) 139(c) 137 (d) 145

221. Who releases the ‘Global Food SecurityReport’?(a) UNEP (b) IMF(c) World Bank (d) FAO

222. Which feature of Facebook will allowadvertisers to participate in real-time biddingto show ads on the website?(a) Facebook Advertise(b) Facebook Freedom(c) Facebook Exchange(d) Facebook Interact

223. The ‘Sidi Yahya Mosque’ of 15th centrury whichwas destroyed in a battle in July 2012 issituated in which country?(a) Mali (b) Somalia(c) Ethiopia (d) Tunisia

224. What is the name of the indigenously builtsecond pollution control vessel, speciallydesigned to mitigate marine oil spill?(a) Samudra Paheredar(b) Tat Rakshak(c) Rustom(d) Arihant


225. Who has been awarded with the 2012 RajivGandhi National Sadbhavana Puraskar?(a) D.R. Mehta (b) Wahiduddin Khan(c) SPIC MACAY (d) Hem Dutta

226. Which of the following Indian was short listedfor the 2012 Man Booker Prize?(a) Shashi Tharoor(b) Jeet Thayil(c) Siddharth Mukherjee(d) Rahul Bhattacharya

227. Who won the Khel Ratna Award for the year2012?(a) Yuvraj singh(b) Mahinder singh Dhoni(c) Vujay Kumar and Yogeshwar Dutt(d) Saina Nehwal

228. Who is the author of the book ‘Narcopolis’?(a) Jeet Thayil (b) Hilary mantle(c) Will Self (d) Alison Moore

229. Who is the author of the book ‘Escape toNowhere’?(a) Yossi Melman (b) Dan Raviv(c) Deborah Levy (d) Amar Bhushan

230. Who is heading the panel set up to look intothe pay related issues of defense personnel?(a) C Rangarajan (b) Chidambaram(c) Ajit Seth (d) Amarjeet Sinha

231. Who has been elected as the new ChiefExecutive of Hong Kong?(a) Leung Chun-ying (b) Donald Tsang(c) Tung Chee-hwa(d) None of the Above

232. Who is the newly elected President ofMexico?(a) Felipe Calderón(b) Andres Manual Lopez

(c) Enrique Pena Nieto(d) Vicente Fox

233. Thomas Lubanga who was convicted by theInternational Criminal Court for war crimes inwhich of the following country?(a) Congo (b) Somalia(c) Ethiopia (d) Ivory Coast

234. Which of the following country was admittedas the latest member of WTO?(a) Vanuatu (b) Russia(c) Montenegro (d) Samoa

235. Who was elected as the 5th President ofMauritius recently?(a) Navin Chandra Ramgoolam(b) Sir Anerood Jugnauth(c) Rajkeshwur Purryag(d) Dr. Rashid Beebeejaun

236. Who succeeded the presidential post ofGhana after the death of its President in July2012?(a) John Dramani Mahama(b) John Atta Mills(c) François Hollande(d) Juan Carlos

237. What is India’s rank as a destination to attractglobal companies for investment accordingto UN report?(a) 1st (b) 2nd

(c) 3rd (d) 4th

238. Lee Loong who visited India in the month ofJuly 2012, is the Prime Minister of which ofthe following country?(a) Thailand (b) Singapore(c) Malaysia (d) Myanmar


239. Which Indian city emerged as the mostcompetitive city in the India CityCompetitiveness Report-2012, compiled bythe Institute for Competitiveness (IFC)?(a) Mumbai (b) Kolkata(c) Chennai (d) Delhi

240. Which state has been ranked on the top withhigher rate of crime against women in thecountry?(a) West Bengal (b) Andhra Pradesh(c) Bihar (d) Uttar Pradesh

241. Where did the 7th ASEAN education Ministersmeeting was held?(a) Indonesia (b) South Korea(c) Japan (d) China

242. Which country hosted the 19th InternationalAIDS conference?(a) China (b) France(c) US (d) Norway

243. Who won the Gold medal in World SandSculpture Championship 2012?(a) Saundaram sham patnaik(b) John Gowdy(c) Frank Sinatra(d) Bob Marley

244. Who won the Women’s single title forWimbledon 2012?(a) Agnieszka Radwanka(b) Venus William(c) Lisa Raymond(d) Srena Williams

245. Who won the Men’s single title for Wimbledon2012?(a) Rafael Nadal (b) Andy Murray(c) Roger Federer (d) Novak Djokovic

246. Which satellite is being developed by ISROto observe earth from geo-stationery orbit,enabling continuous observation of Indian sub-continent, to facilitate quick monitoring ofnatural hazards and disaster?(a) RISAT 2 (b) GISAT(c) IRNSS – 1 (d) GSAT – 1

247. Who has been appointed as the new GoodwillAmbassador for UNAIDS?(a) Amitabh Bachhan(b) Aishwarya Rai Bachhan(c) Vidya Balan(d) Amir Khan

248. Where was 9th World Hindi Conference heldin September 2012?(a) India (b) Nepal(c) South Africa (d) Sri Lanka

249. Where was the INDEX-2012, the largestInternational Design Exhibition held?(a) Dubai (b) India(c) Britain (d) USA

250. Where was the 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement held from 26 to 31 August2012?(a) Saudi Arabia (b) Vietnam(c) Iran (d) Turkey

251. Who was known as the “Father of the WhiteRevolution”, for his ‘billion-litre idea’ (OperationFlood) who died in September 2012?(a) Tribhuvandas Patel(b) Verghese Kurien(c) M. Swaminathan(d) Shyam Benegal

252. What is the name of 100th Space Vehiclelaunched by ISRO on 9th Sep 2012?(a) GSAT 4 (b) PSLV – C 19(c) PSLV – C 21 (d) PSLV- XL 2


253. Who has received the Saraswati SammanAward for 2011 announced in Sep 2012?(a) A A Manavalan (b) Sunil Gangopadhay(c) Manoj Das (d) Vijay Tendulkar

254. The country’s first indigenously developed AirBorne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) wasfitted into plane of which country?(a) Bhutan (b) Maldives(c) Iran (d) Brazil

255. President of which foreign republic visited Indiain September 2012 and signed 3 majoragreements in the field of education, ruraldevelopment and health and medicine?(a) South Africa (b) Brazil(c) Russia (d) Burundi

256. Which Indian archer won a silver medal inrecurve event at World Archery?(a) Jayantha Talukdar(b) Tarundeep Rai(c) Deepika kumari(d) Bombayla Devi

257. “Youth Unite for Voter Awareness” (YUVA) isan initiative launched by which organization/authority?(a) Election Commission of India(b) Comptroller and Auditor General of India(c) Central Vigilance Commission(d) Supreme Court Of India

258. Which well known leader acceptedCongressional Gold Medal in September 2012by US Congress?(a) Nelson Mandela (b) Aung San Suu Kyi(c) Sonia Gandhi (d) Sheikh Hasina

259. Who is the first Indian-American to serve asDNC (Democratic National Convention)parliamentarian?(a) Smita Shah (b) Bobby Jindal(c) Nikki Haley (d) Sam Arora

260. Who was elected as the new President ofSomalia in September 2012?(a) Yuweri Museveni(b) Hassan Sheikh Mohamud(c) Abshir Bacadle(d) Ismail Omar Gelle

261. Japan and China have competing territorialclaims over an island. What is this islandknown as in Japan?(a) Senkaku (b) Spratly island(c) Pratas island (d) Scarborough Shoal

262. Who is the richest person in USA accordingto Forbes’ annual working?(a) Warren Buffet (b) Bill Clinton(c) Bill Gates (d) Larry Galson

263. Who has been appointed World Bank countrydirector for India?(a) Roberto Zagha (b) Onno Ruhl (c) Robert Zoellick (d) Inger Anderson

264. India pledged $ 10 million assistance to whichnation’s budget to help address its financialrequirements?(a) Bangladesh (b) Nepal(c) Kuwait (d) Palestine

265. With which nation India signed a pact onurban regeneration and development inSeptember 2012?(a) Georgia (b) Ukraine(c) Britain (d) China

266. Who has been appointed as the new ChiefJustice of India?(a) K. G. Balkrishnan(b) Altamas Kabir(c) Markandey Katju(d) S H Kapadia


267. Which country was placed at the top positionin the Child Mortality Estimates Report 2012published by United Nations Children’s Fund(UNICEF)?(a) India (b) Pakistan(c) Burundi (d) Ethiopia

268. Who is the second person to hold the officeof Vice President twice after Dr.Radhakrishnan?(a) Dr. Zakir Hussain(b) V. V. Giri(c) Bhairon Singh Shekhawat(d) Mohammed Hamid Ansari

269. Which indigenous pollution control vessel wasdeployed in coast guard in September 2012?(a) Vishwast (b) Samudra Pahredar(c) Rajshree (d) Samudra Prahari

270. Government of India increased the foreigninvestment cap for broadcasting serviceproviders to what extent?(a) 74% (b) 49%(c) 100% (d) 51%

271. According to a report released by Swiss BankUBS, which one is the most expensive cityin the world?(a) Delhi (b) Tokyo(c) New York (d) Shanghai

272. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation won work inMetro Rail Project of which nation?(a) South Korea (b) Indonesia(c) Maldives (d) Mauritius

273. Agni – IV was successfully test fired onSeptember 21st,2012 from the Wheeler’sisland in which state?(a) Kerala (b) Tamil Nadu(c) Odisha (d) Andhra Pradesh

274. What are the targets for National Policy onInformation Technology 2012?(a) Growth of IT market to USD 300 billion

and creation of additional 10 million jobsby 2020.

(b) Fiscal incentives to big IT companies(c) Make all the individuals e- literate(d) Increasing the contribution of IT sector to

GDP to more than 25%

275. In which city was Shadnam Chowk renamedas Bhagat Singh Chowk on the 105th birthanniversary of revolutionary freedom fighterBhagat Singh?(a) Chandigarh (b) Lahore(c) Islamabad (d) Patiala

276. Which scheme was launched by the Ministryof Women and Child Development to educateadolescent boys?(a) Sabla (b) Sakshar Bharat(c) Swabhiman (d) Saksham

277. Who was the first National Security Adviserof India?(a) Brajesh Mishra (b) J. N. Dixit(c) M. K. Narayan (d) Shivshankar Narayan

278. Who has been appointed as the Chief forBCCI Senior Selection Committee?(a) Kapil Dev (b) Ajeet Agarkar(c) Sandeep Patil (d) Maninder Singh

279. India signed a Memorandum of Understandingwith which country for cooperation in electionmanagement?(a) Bangladesh (b) Egypt(c) Libya (d) Nepal

280. Which nation joined WTO after 18 years oftalk?(a) China (b) Mauritius(c) Philippines (d) Russia


281. Where was the first India – US – Afghanistantrilateral held in September 2012?(a) New Delhi (b) Kabul(c) New York (d) Washington

282. To how many days was MGNREGA work daysraised in drought – affected areas?(a) 100 days (b) 150 days(c) 180 days (d) 360 days

283. Which of the following was banned by ElectionCommission to be used in election campaignby election parties and individuals?(a) Special Utility Vehicles(b) Arms and Ammunitions(c) Animals and Birds(d) All the above

284. When was World Peace Day celebrated?(a) 20 September (b) 25 August(c) 20 August (d) 21 September

285. Name the Boxing Champion who won theLiberty Medal administered by NationalConstitution Centre of US?(a) Vijender Singh (b) Joe Frazier(c) Rocky Marciano (d) Muhammad Ali

286. Which personality is placed at the top in theExecutive pay chart of the listed companies?(a) Naveen Jindal (b) Ratan Tata(c) Indra Nooyi (d) Cyris Mistry

287. What is the name of web initiative launchedby Ministry of Women and Child Developmentto address the problem of missing children?(a) Lost and Found Initiative(b) Track Child Initiative(c) Searching Smiles(d) Missing Chidren Initiative

288. Who has been chosen as the ICC ODICricketer of the year 2012?(a) Sachin Tendulkar(b) M. S. Dhoni(c) Virat Kohli(d) Suresh Raina

289. Who has been appointed as World Bank chiefEconomist?(a) Jim Yong Kim (b) Kaushik Basu(c) Robert Joellick (d) Vinod Rai

290. Which is the only Indian film which found itsplace in “The Top 50 Greatest Films of AllTime” poll by Sight and Sound Magazine?(a) Mother India (b) Sholay(c) Pather Panchali (d) Mughal-e-Azam

291. The Lok Sabha in September 2012 passed abill to expand the composition of whichauthority?(a) Life Insurance Company(b) National Highway Authority of India(c) Coal India Limited(d) ONGC

292. What is the aim of Rajiv Gandhi EquitySavings Scheme (RGESS)?(a) To develop the capital market(b) To encourage the companies to issue

equity shares(c) To encourage first time retail investors to

invest in stock markets(d) To enhance the savings of the individuals

293. Name the London Olympics bronze medalistwho has been named as the BrandAmbassador of Super Fights League?(a) Sushil Kumar (b) Mary Kom(c) Vijender Singh (d) Sania Nehwal


294. Name the second women astronaut who tookthe command of International Space Station.(a) Kalpana Chawla(b) Valentina Tereshkova(c) Patricia Robertson(d) Sunita Williams

295. The Union Cabinet on September 4 approvedan amendment to the Constitution to providespecial status to districts of which region?(a) Telangana(b) Hyderabad Karnataka(c) Gorkhaland(d) Vidharbha

296. Which movie won the Golden lion for Bestfilm award at the 69th Venice Film Festival?(a) The Master(b) The Iron Lady(c) There will be blood(d) Pieta

297. Which Indian movie was nominated as India’sentry to the Oscars this year in the foreignfilm category?(a) Barfi (b) Pan Singh Tomar(c) Dam 999 (d) Peepli Live

298. A Jal Satyagraha where agitators stood in theneck dip water of a dam demanding theirrehabilitation was held where?(a) Tehri Dam, Uttarakhand(b) Bhakra Dam, Punjab(c) Omkareshwar Dam, Madhya Pradesh(d) Hirakud Dam, Orissa

299. Kerala unveiled Emerging Kerala initiative toattract investments and tap businessopportunities from a particular region. Whichregion is that?(a) Latin America(b) South Asia(c) Caribbean Islands(d) The Gulf region

300. Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature for2012?(a) Mo Yan (b) Tomas Transtromer(c) Jeet Thayil (d) Kiran Desai

301. Who won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2012?(a) Barack Obama(b) European Union(c) Aung San Suu Kyi(d) Dalai Lama

302. Which nation boycotted 2013 Oscars in wakeof anti – Islam film?(a) Afghanistan (b) Saudi Arabia(c) Iraq (d) Iran

303. In September 2012, Supreme Court askedthe government to appoint people from judicialbackground also as the members of whichbody?(a) Central Vigilance Commission(b) Comptroller and Auditor General(c) Central and State Information

Commissions(d) National and State Human Rights

Commissions

304. Recently, World Autism Awareness Day wasobserved across the world. It was observedon:(a) 2nd April 2013 (b) 28th March 2013(c) 31st March 2013 (d) 1st April 2013

305. FE India’s Best Banks Award 2012-13 inrecognition of its strong fundamentals anddynamic growth model was given to which ofthe following banks?(a) Bank of India(b) J&K Bank(c) State Bank of India(d) Dena bank


306. Recently Odisha celebrated Utkal Divas tomark its ……….. foundation day.(a) 75th (b) 76th(c) 77th (d) 78th

307. The current president of Egypt is:(a) Mohamed Morsi(b) Muhammad Naguib(c) Hosni Mubarak(d) Sufi Abu Taleb

308. India Post is going to establish its thirdAutomated Mail Processing Centre in:(a) Hyderabad (b) Mumbai(c) Patna (d) Ahmedabad

309. Andy Murray won the ATP Miami Masters2013 by defeating:(a) Andre Agassi (b) David Ferrer(c) Nicolás Almagro (d) Mahesh Bhupathi

310. Recently Tagore Centre for Global Thought,with an aim at promoting the Tagore-relatedacademic, intellectual and philosophic workglobally was established in which of thefollowing cities?(a) London (b) Paris(c) Berlin (d) Moscow

311. In the ceremony of the Olive Crown Awards2013, which of the following companies wasawarded with ‘Agency of the Year’ title?(a) Grey Worldwide(b) Cheil Worldwide(c) Kewal Kiran Clothing(d) Padmashri Kartikeya Sarabhai

312. Recently Francesco D’Andria, an archeologistdiscovered the gate to hell (also called Pluto’sGate-Ploutonion in Greek) from ruins inTurkey. Francesco D’Andria belongs to-(a) Japan (b) Italy(c) Egypt (d) Turkey

313. Who was elected as the President of theindustry body Confederation of Indian Industry(CII) for the year 2013-14?(a) Adi Godrej (b) S. Gopalakrishnan(c) Sumit Mazumder (d) Ajay S Shriram

314. Who was awarded with ‘Best ProfessionalPhotographer of the Year 2011-12’ award inthe ceremony of the 2nd National PhotoAwards for the year 2011-2012?(a) Salil Bera (b) Pranlal Patel(c) T.S. Nagarajan (d) T.N.A. Perumal

315. Recently which of the following Maharatnacompanies was awarded with the mostEfficient Maharatna -in Manufacturing for theyear 2012 award by Stock Magazine?(a) GAIL (b) ONGC(c) BHEL (d) NTPC

316. The fifth BRICS Summit took place at:(a) New Delhi (b) Beijing(c) Durban (d) Brasilia

317. Who out of the following was not awarded byIndian High Commission at the India Housein London, on the occasion of World HindiDay 2013, for working towards promotion ofHindi language in UK?(a) Mahendra Kishore Verma(b) Kavita Vachaknavi(c) Krishna Kumar(d) Sumit Kumar

318. Indo-French oceanographic study satelliteSARAL was launched by which satellitelaunch vehicle?(a) PSLV-C18 (b) PSLV-C19(c) PSLV- C20 (d) PSLV- C 21

319. UniBRITE is a:(a) Computer virus (b) Super Computer(c) Aircraft (d) micro-satellite


320. Which of the following states has recorded agrowth rate of 11.95 per cent rate annually atconstant prices during 11th Five Year Plan,the highest among states in India?(a) Maharashtra (b) Gujarat(c) Bihar (d) Jharkhand

321. John Kerry is:(a) US secretary of States(b) Foreign Minister of Germany(c) Foreign Minister of Italy(d) Ambassador of Italy to India

322. Current chairman of Lalit Kala Academy is:(a) S. Jayaraman(b) K.K. Chakravarty(c) Mohan Parasaran(d) P. Sanmugham

323. A sixteen year old girl in the UK is believed tohave an IQ higher than Einstein. What is thename of that girl?(a) Charice (b) Lauren Marbe(c) Tyler Weaver (d) None of the above

324. Who among the following is the winner of theIndira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmamentand Development Award 2011?(a) Ella Bhat(b) Yukia Amano(c) Aung san Suu Kyi(d) Hillary Clinton

325. Which of the following films won the ‘BestPicture Award ‘ in Oscar Award 2013?(a) Life of Pi(b) Silver Linings Playbook(c) Argo(d) Skyfall

326. Who was given the Life Time AchievementAward 2012 award by Ernst and Young?(a) Ratan Tata(b) Adi Godrej(c) T.T. Jagannathan(d) Onkar S. Kanwar

327. Tawang hydroelectric project is proposed tobe built in:(a) Arunachal Pradesh(b) Meghalaya(c) Assam(d) Nagaland

328. The first wildlife skywalk of India is proposedto be set up in:(a) Madhya Pradesh(b) Himachal Pradesh(c) Sikkim(d) Kerala

329. Recently the Court of Arbitration at The Hagueallowed India to go ahead with theconstruction of Kishanganga Hydro-electricpower project. The construction of thishydroelectric project was objected by whichof the following countries?(a) China (b) Bangladesh(c) Myanmar (d) Pakistan

330. Australia won the ICC Women’s World CupTrophy 2013 after defeating:(a) West Indies (b) India(b) England (d) New Zealand

331. India won how many gold medals in 2013Pyeongchang Special Olympics World WinterGames?(a) 42 (b) 45(c) 46 (d) 51


332. According to Economic Survey 2012-13,Indian Economy is expected to grow between——————in 2013-14.(a) 6.1% to 6.7 % (b) 7% to 8 %(c) 7.5% to 8% (d) None of the above

333. Railway Budget 2013-14 was presented in theLok Sabha by -(a) Mukul Roy (b) Pawan Bansal(c) C. P. Joshi (d) Dinesh Trivedi

334. In March 2013 which of the following countrieshas/have blocked the adoption of a UN armstrade treaty (ATT) which is supposed toregulate the 70-billion dollars conventionalarms trade around the world?(a) Iran (b) North Korea(c) Syria (d) All of the above

335. Azadi Express is a:(a) newspaper related with freedom

movement.. (b) movie showing events of freedom

movement.(c) train to connect places associated with

freedom movement.(d) None of these

336. The first Asian Country to order the chemicalcastration of a person who rapes a child:(a) India (b) China(c) South Korea (d) Pakistan

337. Who among the following Indian WomenWeightlifter won Maiden National title inNational Weightlifting Championship 2013?(a) Manpreet Kaur (b) Geeta Phogat(c) Soniya Chanu (d) Binitha Devi

338. In January 2013, Lionel Messi was awardedFIFA Ballon d’Or award 2012, he belongs to:(a) Argentina (b) Brazil(c) France (d) Spain

339. Which of the following Indian cricket playershas been named as CEAT InternationalCricketer of the Year 2012?(a) Yuvraj Singh(b) Mahendra Singh Dhoni(c) Virendra Sehwag(d) Virat Kohli

340. The Chinese government has launched apostage stamp to mark the year 2013. Pictureof which of the following animal has beendepicted on the postage stamp?(a) Cow (b) Goat(c) Snake (d) Elephant

341. Recently India and Pakistan exchanged theirnuclear units list as a custom. It wasexchanged on:(a) 1st January 2013(b) 1st February 2013(c) 1st March 2013(d) 1st December 2012

342. The winner of Australian Open 2013 Women’sSingle was:(a) Li-Na(b) Victoria Azarenka(c) Serena Williams(d) Maria Sharapova

343. In January 2013, Glenn McGrath wasinducted into ICC Hall of Fame during the Testmatch between:(a) Australia and Sri Lanka(b) India and Australia(c) Australia and West Indies(d) Sri Lanka and West Indies

344. Which of the following team won the DurandCup 2012?(a) Air India (b) DODSAL Mumbai(c) Assam Rifles (d) Punjab Police


345. At which place, Pandit Ravi Shankar passedaway?(a) London (b) New York(c) San Diego (d) Hyderabad

346. Who is the Director of the film “Life of Pi”?(a) Daniel Day(b) Ang Lee(c) Jennifer Lawrence(d) Mychael Danna

347. Who among the following is not the NationalIcon of Election Commission of India toenhance the voter’s Participation in elections?(a) Saina Nehwal (b) MC Marycom(c) M.S. Dhoni (d) Aamir Khan

348. The T20 world Cup 2012 for the Blind washosted at:(a) New Delhi (b) Mumbai(c) Bengaluru (d) Chennai

349. Who is the current Director General of theBorder Security Force (BSF)?(a) Subhash Joshi (b) K F Rustomji(c) Himmat Singh (d) Ravi Kumar Ponoth

350. Who is the current chief Minister of HimachalPradesh?(a) Prem Kumar Dhumal(b) Vasuben Trivedi(c) Vijay Bahuguna(d) Virbhadra Singh

351. Narendra Modi was sworn as the ChiefMinister of Gujarat for the:(a) fourth time (b) third time(c) second time (d) fifth time

352. Current Director General of Sashastra SeemaBal(SSB) is:(a) Arun Chaudhary (b) Himanshu Kumar(c) Y.S. Dadwal (d) None of the above

353. The 14th Finance Commission has to submitits report by:(a) 31st September 2014(b) 31st October 2014(c) 31st October 2013(d) 31st January 2014

354. Bharat Muni Samman for 2012 was given to:(a) Pandit Jasraj (b) Thankamani Kutty(c) Hema Malini (d) Anita Ratnam

355. Who was awarded Tagore peace Prize 2012?(a) Shihab Ghanem(b) Anna Hazare(c) Irom Sharmila Chanu(d) None of the above

356. Pratibha Ray has been awarded JnanpithAward 2011. She is a/an:(a) Hindi novelist (b) Odia novelist(c) Marathi novelist (d) Telgu novelist

357. Recently India’s triple Olympic gold medalist,Leslie Claudius passed away. He wasassociated with:(a) Athletics (b) Shooting(c) Hockey (d) Wrestling

358. The Name of the political party recentlylaunched by P.A. Sangma is:(a) Aam Aadmi Party(b) Democratic People’s Party(c) National People’s Party(d) None of the above

359. Who is the first non-American Editor of TimeInternational?(a) Bobby Ghosh (b) Martha Nelson(c) Rick Stengel (d) None of the above

360. Who is TIME’s Person of the Year for 2012?(a) Rahul Gandhi (b) George W. Bush(c) Barak Obama (d) François Hollande


361. Which became the first state in India to haveits own food security bill?(a) Madhya Pradesh (b) Gujarat(c) Bihar (d) Chhattisgarh

362. According to the Index of Economic Freedom2013 published annually by The Wall StreetJournal and The Heritage Foundation whichof the following country got the top rank?(a) Canada (b) Hong Kong(c) Singapore (d) Australia

363. Recently, the Union Cabinet approved thereconstruction and completion of Salma DamProject by M/s WAPCOS Ltd. This Projectis situated in:(a) Bangladesh (b) Bhutan(c) Afghanistan (d) Nepal

364. India retained the men’s title in the 3rd WorldCup Kabaddi tournament by defeating:(a) Pakistan (b) Malaysia(c) Indonesia (d) Bangladesh

365. The Government of India has postponedimplementation of controversial GAARprovisions by two years. Now it will come intoeffect from:(a) April 1, 2015 (b) April 1, 2014(c) April 1, 2016 (d) April 1, 2018

366. Japan’s space agency is preparing to launchan ambitious asteroid sampling probe aimedat the asteroid 1999JU3. What is the nameof the probe?(a) Hayabusa2 (b) Falcon2(c) Hayabusa1 (d) Falcon1

367. According to the report ‘Economic Freedomof the states of India 2012’ released by RBI ,which of the following states has topped thelist in terms of economic freedom?(a) Gujarat (b) Rajasthan(c) Tamil Nadu (d) Bihar

368. 11th Pravasi Bhartiya Divas (PBD) was heldfrom7-9 January 2013 at –(a) Kochi (b) Mumbai(c) New Delhi (d) Chennai

369. Which state of India organized the 2ndInternational flower show from 23-27 February2013?(a) Assam (b) West Bengal(c) Meghalaya (d) Sikkim

370. Who is the winner of ATP Chennai Open 2013singles title?(a) Janko Tipsareviæ(b) Roberto Bautista-Agut(c) Rohan Boppana(d) Jamie Delgado

371. Current Chairman of Insurance Regulatory andDevelopment Authority (IRDA) is-(a) M. Ramaprasad(b) J. Hari Narayan(c) T.S. Vijayan(d) Sudhin Roy Chaudhary

372. Current Chief Minister of Nagaland is-(a) Neiphiu Rio (b) Noke Konyak(c) T. R. Zeliang (d) Mukul Sangma

373. Who is the current prime minister of Nepal?(a) Baburam Bhattarai(b) Jhala Nath Khanal(c) Khil Raj Regmi(d) Madhav Kumar Nepal

374. Who succeeded Hu Jintao as the Presidentof China?(a) Xi Jinping (b) Jiang Zemin(c) Yang Shangkun (d) Li Xiannian


375. The Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony-2012was conferred on:(a) Panabaaka Lakshmi(b) Pandit Ravi Shankar(c) Sukanya Shankar(d) Ela Ramesh Bhatt

376. Manik Sarkar was elected as the ChiefMinister of Tripura for the:(a) second time (b) third time(c) fourth time (d) fifth time

377. Eminent Hindi author Narendra Kohli has beenselected for the Vyas Samman 2012 for hisnovel:(a) Na Bhuto Na Bhavishyati(b) Phir Bhi Kuch Rah Jayega(c) Inhi Hathiron Se(d) Prithvi Ka Krishna Paksh

378. Brij Mohan Vyas, who passed recently away,was associated with:(a) Journalism (b) Acting(c) Cricket (d) Atheletics

379. Recently the Army signed a Rs 300 crorecontract with the Hindustan AeronauticsLimited (HAL) for procuring 20 helicopters.Name of the helicopter is:(a) Cheetal (b) Cheetah(c) Chetak (d) Dhruv

380. Who has been selected for the OutstandingParliamentarian Award 2012?(a) Karan Singh (b) Sharad Yadav(c) Arun Jaitley (d) Rahul Gandhi

381. The National Award for Women Developmentthrough Application of Science andTechnology for the year 2011 in institutionalcategory for 2011 was conferred on:(a) Dangoria Charitable Trust(b) M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation(c) All India Institute of Medical Sciences(d) Both (a) and (b)

382. Rights of Citizens for Time Bound Delivery ofGoods and Services and Redressal of theirGrievances Bill 2011 was recently approvedby the Union Cabinet. The Bill envisagespenalty upto __________against agovernment official failing to perform his/herduties.(a) Rs 50,000 (b) Rs 25000(c) Rs 10,000 (d) Rs 20,000

383. Which of the following films got the first prizeat the 11th Golden City Gate Tourism MediaAwards Ceremony held in Berlin?(a) Find What You Seek(b) Life of Pi(c) Go Beyond(d) None of these

384. Recently Pakistan has signed an agreementto hand over the Gwadar sea port to which ofthe following countries?(a) India (b) China(c) USA (d) Afghanistan

385. Raul Castro belongs to which of the followingcountries?(a) Cuba (b) Mali(c) Morocco (d) Ecuador

386. Who is the first female President of SouthKorea?(a) Tarja Halonen(b) Park Geun Hye(c) Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner(d) Atifete Jahjaga

387. Nirbhaya, Delhi gang rape victim has beenposthumously given which of the followingawards?(a) International Women of Courage Award(b) International Women Award(c) State Leadership Award(d) None of the above


388. According to recent statistics fromSophosLabs, the country that distributes thehighest number of the world’s spam is:(a) India (b) USA(c) Canada (d) China

389. Who is the current head of IMF?(a) Dominique Strauss Kahn(b) Robert Zoellick(c) Christine Lagarde(d) Ban Ki Moon

390. Recently UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moonpresented the Thomas Jefferson EternalVigilance award to former PermanentRepresentative of India to United Nations forhis exemplary service to humanity. What isthe name of the awardee?(a) Hardeep Singh Puri(b) Swashpawan Singh(c) Savitri Kunadi(d) Arundhati Ghose

391. Who among the following Indian students isnot winner of the 2013 Space FoundationInternational Student Art Contest?(a) Mankeert Narang(b) Jasmine Narang(c) Payel Saha(d) Sumit Chaurasia

392. In which country was the ALMA spaceobservatory, the world’s largest ground basedobservatory, inaugurated?(a) Egypt (b) Columbia(c) Chile (d) Canada

393. In March 2013, India and Bhutan signed acurrency swap agreement for up to ——— tofurther economic co-operation between thetwo countries.(a) $400 million (b) $200 million(c) $300 million (d) $100 million

394. According to findings of the FICCI-KPMGMedia and Entertainment 2013 report, theIndian Media and Entertainment (M&E)industry is estimated to touch —————, agrowth of 11.8 percent, in 2013.(a) Rs.1000 billion (b) Rs.917 billion(c) Rs.850 billion (d) Rs.1200 billion

395. Recently, Steel Authority of India Limited(SAIL) signed a Memorandum ofUnderstanding (MoU) with which of thefollowing state governments to set up aTitanium Project as a Joint Venture?(a) Kerala (b) Tamil Nadu(c) Andhra Pradesh (d) Bihar

396. A two -day International Workshop on GreenNational Accounting for India was concludedin:(a) Kolkata (b) Hyderabad(c) New Delhi (d) Chennai

397. World health day was celebrated on 7 April2013. The theme for 2013 was:(a) high blood pressure(b) diabetes(c) malaria(d) jaundice

398. Navi Pillay is associated with:(a) UNHRC (b) WHO(c) WTO (d) World Bank

399. Indian Women’s Cricket Team won theTwenty20 International Series on April 5, 2013against Bangladesh. It was played at:(a) Mumbai (b) Ahmedabad(c) Vadodra (d) Chandigarh

400. The third SAARC Ministerial Level Meet onPoverty was held in:(a) India (b) Nepal(c) Pakistan (d) Afghanistan


401. India’s biggest shopping mall ‘Lulu Mall’ hasbeen opened in:(a) New Delhi (b) Noida(c) Kochi (d) Hyderabad

402. Rahi Sarnobat clinched the first gold for Indiain International Shooting Sport Federation(ISSF) World Cup-2013. It was organized in:(a) Korea (b) China(c) Indonesia (d) India

403. Recently, the National Committee on DBTchaired by the Prime Minister of Indiaapproved expansion of the Direct BenefitsTransfers (DBT) to how many more districts?(a) 70 (b) 78(c) 85 (d) 100

404. Which of the following was conferred with theNational Award for Excellence in HospitalityEducation 2011-12 for the category Hotelundertaking skill development in thehospitality sector?(a) The Lalit Suri Hospitality Group(b) Hostmark Hospitality Group(c) Shanti Hospitality Group(d) Pacific Hospitality Group

405. Who won the 12th Asian Billiardschampionship 2013?(a) Alok Kumar (b) Rupesh Shah(c) Pankaj Advani (d) Devendra Joshi

406. Which of the following pair is not correctlymatched?

(State) (Governor)(a) Bihar : D. Y. Patil(b) Odisha : S.C. Jamir(c) Tripura : M.C. Bhandare(d) Nagaland : Ashwani Kumar

407. Which Indian State has recently launched ascheme of free distribution of goats/sheep tothe poorest of the poor?(a) Bihar(b) Chhattisgarh(c) Odisha(d) Tamil Nadu

408. Recently who has been elected as thePresident of the National Rifle Association ofIndia (NRAI)?(a) Avtar Singh (b) Baljit Singh Sethi(c) Raninder Singh (d) Mehtab Singh Gill

409. The ICSI (Institute of Company Secretariesof India) National Awards for Excellence inCorporate Governance -2012 was given towhich of the following?(a) Indian Oil Corporation Limited(b) HCL Technologies Limited.(c) Both (a) and (b)(d) None of the above

410. The ICSI Life Time Achievement Award for theyear 2012 was conferred upon:(a) Deepak S. Parekh(b) Raju Ranganathan(c) Manish Anand(d) Sudhir Vasudeva

411. Padma Shri Awardee Professor Bratindra NathMukherjee, recently passed away. He was a:(a) scientist (b) historian(c) poet (d) film actor

412. What was the name of contest created byGoogle in which it asked the Indian Citizensto map their neighbourhood and send thesame to Google for being uploaded on thesearch engines?(a) Mapathon 2013(b) Mapping Contest(c) Map your neighbours(d) None of the above


413. International Conference on Dedicated FreightCorridor Challenges and Opportunities, on 4April 2013, was organized at:(a) Gurgaon (b) Noida(c) New Delhi (d) Kochi

414. Who won the first direct Presidential electionsheld in Czech Republic on 25 January 2013?(a) Karel Schwarzenberg(b) Milos Zeman(c) Jan Fischer(d) Pøemysl Sobotka

415. The prominent journalist Ayesha Haroon dieddue to cancer in New York on 2 February 2013.She belonged to which of the followingcountries?(a) India (b) Pakistan(c) USA (d) Sri Lanka

416. World cancer day is observed on:(a) 4 February 2013(b) 13 March 2013(c) 3 February 2013(d) 27 January 2013

417. The person who recently resigned from theoffice of Solicitor-General of India is:(a) Rohinton F Nariman(b) Mohan Jain(c) Sidharth Luthra(d) Mohan Parasaran

418. The Australian cricket player who won AllanBorder Medal 2013 is:(a) Brett Lee (b) Michael Clarke(c) Ricky Ponting (d) Adam Gilchrist

419. Rajkeswur Purryag, who visited India from 3rdJanuary 2013 to 10th January 2013 and washonoured with Pravasi Bhartiya Samman, isthe President of:(a) Kazakhstan (b) Mauritius(c) Indonesia (d) New Zealand

420. Who was the Chief Guest of India on RepublicDay 2013?(a) Ram Baran Yadav(b) Khil Raj Regmi(c) Parmanand Jha(d) Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck

421. Which of the following banks was awardedthe Financial Institutions Syndicated Deal ofthe Year 2012 in its Asia Pacific Region?(a) Kotak Mahindra Bank(b) ICICI Bank(c) YES Bank(d) HDFC Bank

422. Afzal Guru, who was recently hanged in TiharJail, was a convict in which of the followingcases?(a) Parliament attack case(b) Mumbai bomb blast case(c) Taj Hotel attack case(d) None of these

423. US Marine General, who recently took overthe command of the NATO-led InternationalSecurity Assistance Force (ISAF) inAfghanistan, is:(a) Hilmi Akin Zorlu(b) Rick J. Hillier(c) Joseph Dunford(d) David J. Richards

424. What was the code name given to secret planfor the execution of Afzal Guru?(a) Operation Three Star(b) Laughing Budhdha(c) Operation Blue Star(d) Operation Green Hunt

425. Hatf IX (NASR), the short range surface-to-surface missile was launched by:(a) Vietnam (b) Iran(c) North Korea (d) Pakistan


426. Who among the following is the present PrimeMinister of Fiji?(a) Commodore Bainimarama(b) Jona Senilagakali(c) Mahendra Chaudhry(d) Laisenia Qarase

427. 2nd World Radio Day was observed on whichday to raise awareness about the importanceof radio?(a) 13 February, 2013(b) 15 February, 2013(c) 20 February, 2013(d) 28 February, 2013

428. 27th Surajkund International Crafts Mela-2013was themed on:(a) Nagaland (b) Karnataka(c) Assam (d) Manipur

429. Which of the following countries banned theJapanese cartoon Doraemon in the third weekof February 2013 because of the fears of Hindiinvasion?(a) India (b) Pakistan(c) Bangladesh (d) Sri Lanka

430. Rafael Correa has been re-elected for the thirdterm as the president of:(a) Ecuador (b) Brazil(c) Argentina (d) Tanzania

431. Recently Silk Route Car Rally was startedfrom West Bengal. The Rally did not passthrough which of the following countries?(a) China (b) Myanmar(c) Bangladesh (d) Cambodia

432. C-154, an interceptor boat (IB) with newgeneration Arneson Surface Drive (ASD), willserve the coast of:(a) Maharashtra (b) Odisha(c) Tamil Nadu (d) Andhra Pradesh

433. According to the UN Human DevelopmentReport 2013, India’s rank is:(a) 130 (b) 136(c) 142 (d) 128

434. Who is the author of “Walking with Lions:Tales from a Diplomatic Past”?(a) Chetan Bhagat (b) Amitav Ghosh(c) K. Natwar Singh (d) Vikram Seth

435. Where did the second meeting of India-Afghanistan-US trilateral dialogue take place?(a) Kabul (b) New Delhi(c) Washington (d) New York

436. Who is the current Indian High Commissionerto Maldives?(a) D M Mulay(b) Rajeev Shahare(c) Dinesh Kumar Jain(d) Debashish Chakravarti

437. According to Forbes Magazine India’s richestperson for the year 2013 is:(a) Mukesh Ambani (b) Anil Ambani(c) Lakshmi Mittal (d) Azim Premji

438. Hariram Meena was selected for the BihariPuraskar for 2012 for Hindi novel:(a) Ant Ke Sanshay(b) Ghar Ek Naam Hai Bharosai Rau(c) Dhooni Tape Teer(d) None of the above

439. Who among the following personalities wasconferred with the Liberation War HonourAward by Bangladesh?(a) Manmohan Singh(b) Sonia Gandhi(c) Pranab Mukherjee(d) Meira Kumar


440. IPSOS Best City Awards 2013 for publictransport was conferred on:(a) Nagpur (b) Mumbai(c) Madurai (d) Rajkot

441. Name the former director of CBI who hasrecently been appointed as the governor ofNagaland.(a) Ashwani Kumar(b) Alemtemshi Jamir(c) Gurbachan Jaga(d) Nikhil Kumar

442. Tan Twan Eng won the 2012 Man AsianLiterary Prize for his novel:(a) The Garden of Evening Mists(b) Between Clay and Dust(c) Silent House(d) Narcopolis

443. World Consumer Rights Day was observedfor creating awareness among consumers onwhich day?(a) 13th March 2013(b) 15th March 2013(c) 19th March 2013(d) 13th February 2013

444. Which country hosted the World FutureEnergy Summit 2013?(a) Israel (b) Yaman(c) Oman (d) UAE

445. Malala Yousafzai was conferred with BeauvoirPrize for Women’s Freedom 2013 by whichof the following countries?(a) France (b) England(c) USA (d) India

446. Recently former President of India A.P.J. AbulKalam inaugurated the Children ScienceCongress in:(a) Allahabad (b) New Delhi(c) Kolkata (d) Chennai

447. Current chairman of Law Commission of Indiais:(a) D.K. Jain(b) Swatantra Kumar(c) Markanday Katju(d) Subba Rao

448. Which of the following countries has startedthe construction of world’s fourth generationnuclear reactor?(a) China (b) India(c) USA (d) France

449. The winner of Tipperary International PeacePrize 2012 is:(a) Mary McAleese(b) Malala Yousafzai(c) Martin McAleese(d) (a) and (c)

450. Padam Bhushan awardee M.S. GopalKrishnan died recently. He was:(a) Classical dancer(b) Violin Maestro(c) Film actor(d) None of the above

451. Who is the current Director of VikramSarabhai Space Centre?(a) G. Mohan Gopal(b) P.S. Veeraraghavan(c) S. Ramakrishanan(d) K. Radhakrishnan

452. Who is Australia’s current High Commissionerto India?(a) Mark Sawers (b) Patrick Suckling(c) Peter Varghese (d) Justin Lee

453. The 2013 ABN AMRO World TennisTournament 2013 was held in:(a) Rotterdam (b) Tehran(c) Beijing (d) New Delhi


454. The 24th road safety week was observed from:(a) 1st January to 7th January 2013(b) 7th January to 13th January 2013(c) 1st February to 7th February 2013(d) 1st March to 7th March 2013

455. The 4th World Telugu Conference wasorganized in:(a) Chennai (b) Tirupati(c) Johannesburg (d) Washington

456. Who is current Deputy Chairman of theplanning commission of India?(a) B. K. Chaturvedi(b) Montek Singh Ahluwalia(c) Narendra Jadhav(d) Arun Maira

457. Current Chairman of Railway Board is:(a) Vinay Mittal (b) Kul Bhusan(c) A. K. Vohra (d) Keshav Chandra

458. Who is the current Prime Minister of Japan?(a) Yoshihiko Noda (b) Shinzo Abe(c) Naoto Kan (d) Yasuo Fukuda

459. Current Chairperson of National GreenTribunal is:(a) Lokeshwar Singh Panta(b) A. S. Naidu(c) Swatantar Kumar(d) R. V. Ravindran

460. Recently, world’s largest solar power plantnamed, Shams 1was set up in:(a) Russia (b) India(c) UAE (d) Australia

461. Which of the following states is going todeclare Malkhamb as state sport?(a) Bihar (b) Madhya Pradesh(c) Maharashtra (d) Tamil Nadu

462. Jamjang Deru won silver medal in the 50 kgboys’ category in the world youth weightliftingchampionships 2013. The world youthweightlifting championships 2013 was heldin:(a) Tashkent, Uzbekistan(b) Astana, Kazakhstan(c) Ankara, Turkey(d) Tehran, Iran

463. Which of the following High Courts has askedthe Government of India to ConstituteRegulatory Body to Control Electronic Media?(a) Allahabad High Court(b) Delhi High Court(c) Patna High Court(d) Madras High Court

464. Which of the following was conferred with theBusiness Leader in the Power Sector awardat the NDTV Business Leadership Awards inNew Delhi in 2013?(a) NTPC(b) NHPC(c) NPCIL(d) Damodar Valley Corporation

465. Yamaha Motor, Japanese two-wheelerManufacturer Company is going to set up itsfifth global research and development (R & D)headquarter in:(a) Surajpur, Uttar Pradesh(b) Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh(c) Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh(d) Manser Haryana

466. A mobile visual search platform called Ocutagwas recently launched by:(a) Ricoh Innovations Corporation(b) BlackBerry(c) TCL Corporation(d) Sony Mobile Communications


467. Saghand 1 and 2 uranium mines are locatedin:(a) Iraq (b) Iran(c) Russia (d) India

468. The world’s largest private yacht, constructedby German Shipyard company LurssenYachts is:(a) Al Saïd (b) Oligarch(c) Azzam (d) Eclipse

469. Which state is going to set up the first publichealth university in India?(a) Odisha(b) Bihar(c) Madhya Pradesh(d) Uttar Pradesh

470. In the 2013 Times of India Film Awards(TOIFA) ceremony in Vancouver, which of thefollowing films bagged the best film, bestdirector, best actor and best actress trophies?(a) Vicky Donor (b) Barfi(c) Agneepath (d) Jab Tak Hai Jaan

471. Recently Hockey India announced theconstitution of its High Performance andDevelopment Committee headed by DrNarinder Batra for:(a) 2013-14 (b) 2013-15(c) 2013-16 (d) 2013-17

472. Who has been appointed as the Chairman ofNasscom for the year 2013-14?(a) N Chandrasekaran(b) Krishnakumar Natarajan(c) Pramod Bhasin(d) Rajendra S Pawar

473. Houses are constructed under the ‘GrihaBhagya scheme’ for Scheduled Caste andScheduled Tribe families in which of thefollowing States?

(a) Karnataka (b) Andhra Pradesh(c) Chhattisgarh (d) Madhya Pradesh

474. In the Union Budget 2013-14,————hasbeen allocated for Nirbhaya fund.(a) 1000 crore (b) 2000 crore(c) 3000 crore (d) 3450 Crore

475. Serena Williams won the Family Circle Cup-2013 by defeating:(a) Maria Sharapova(b) Jelena Jankovic(c) Victoria Azarenka(d) Martina Navratilova

476. India’s largest bank SBI has decided todiscontinue a free accident insurance covergiven to its home and car loan customersfrom:(a) July 2013 (b) May 2013(c) November 2013 (d) October 2013

477. Which of the following countries has beenasked by the UN Human Right Council toclose Guantanamo prison camp?(a) USA (b) France(c) Russia (d) China

478. The Ministry of Information & Broadcastingrecently reconstituted the Central PressAccreditation Committee (CPAC). The termof the committee will be:(a) one year (b) three Years(c) four years (d) two years

479. Who is the current President of InternationalChamber of Commerce (ICC) India?(a) Ashok Sharma(b) Rajan Bharti Mittal(c) Harsh Pati Singhania(d) None of these


480. India signed a Treaty on Legal and JudicialCooperation on April 4, 2013 with:(a) Azerbaijan (b) Turkmenistan(c) Pakistan (d) Bangladesh

481. The 4th Meeting of the India-Mongolia JointCommittee on Cooperation was held in ——on 21 March 2013.(a) New Delhi (b) Ulaanbaatar(c) Darkhan (d) Erdnet

482. Best Amateur Photographer of the Year 2011-12-during the 2nd National Photo Awards forthe year 2011-2012 was conferred on:(a) Anand Patel(b) Subhash Jirange(c) Shib Narayan Acharya(d) Kailash Soni

483. Name the Italian Foreign Minister, whorecently resigned in the wake of a disputewith India over the 2012 killing of two Indianfishermen?(a) Giulio Terzi (b) Mario Monti(c) Vittorio Grilli (d) Silvio Berlusconi

484. Who was conferred with the Contribution toNews Television Award 2013 by theIndiantelevision.com?(a) Vineet Jain (b) Sonal Mehrotra(c) Alka Dhupkar (d) Krishna Mohan

485. During Bricks Summit 2013, China signedCurrency Swap Agreement with:(a) Russia (b) India(c) South Africa (d) Brazil

486. Who won the PGA Tour title Arnold PalmerInvitational-2013?(a) Tiger Woods (b) Justin Rose(c) Mark Wilson (d) Keegan Bradley

487. Two-time Pulitzer winner Anthony Lewis diedon 25 March 2013. He was associated with:(a) Reuter (b) New York Times(c) The Hindu (d) BBC

488. Recently the former President of Pakistan,Gen. Pervez Musharraf returned back toPakistan on 24 March 2013, ending four yearsself-imposed exile. What was the periodduring which he ruled Pakistan?(a) 2001-2008 (b) 2000-2010(c) 2003-2009 (d) 2001-2005

489. Who was crowned as Pond’s Femina MissIndia 2013?(a) Sobhita Dhulipala(b) Navneet Kaur Dhillon(c) Zoya Afroz(d) Vijaya Sharma

490. Healthcare Businessman of the Year Award2013 at the Asian Business Awards ceremonyin Central London on 23 March 2013 wasconferred on:(a) Sudhir Chaudhrie(b) Amit Bhatia,(c) Laxmi Mittal(d) Kartar Lalvani

491. ‘Bhavani Island’ is located in which of thefollowing States?(a) West Bengal (b) Andhra Pradesh(c) Kerala (d) Tamil Nadu

492. India won Alan Border Series against Australiaat:(a) Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium, Delhi.(b) Lal Bahadur Shashtri Stadium, Hyderabad(c) Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium

Hyderabad(d) Indira Gandhi Stadium, Vijaywada


493. Who among the following Hollywood directorsis the first person to make a solo dive to thePacific Ocean trench?(a) William Wyler(b) Robert Wise(c) Steven Soderbergh(d) James Cameron

494. The first state of India which introducedelectronic GPF (e-GPF) is:(a) Madhya Pradesh(b) Chhattisgarh(c) Arunachal Pradesh(d) Andhra Pradesh

495. 20 March, was established by the UnitedNations General Assembly on 28 June 2012as:(a) World Friendship Day(b) International Day of Happiness(c) World Poverty Eradication Day(d) None of the above

496. Who has been nominated by the Governmentof India for the post of Chairman of India-JapanBusiness Leader’s Forum (IJBLF)?(a) Mukesh Ambani(b) Ravi Parthasarthy(c) Sunil Bharati Mittal(d) Babasaheb Neelkanth Kalyani

497. Who was awarded the National BioscienceAward for 2012 for his contributions towardsdeveloping technologies for production of cleanbio-fuels from waste?(a) S. Venkata Mohan(b) Amit Prakash Sharma(c) Rajan Sankaranarayanan(d) Balasubramanian Sundaram

498. Tyo Ito, who won the Pritzker ArchitecturePrize 2013, belongs to:(a) South Korea (b) China(c) Japan (d) Philippines

499. Which country won Sultan Azlan ShahHockey Tournament 2013?(a) India (b) Pakistan(c) Australia (d) Malaysia

500. According to recent report of StockholmInternational Peace Research Institute largestArms exporter of the world is:(a) China (b) USA(c) France (d) Russia


Answers and Explanations

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10 d 60 c 110 a 160 c 210 c 260 b 310 a 360 c 410 a 460 c11 b 61 b 111 c 161 d 211 a 261 a 311 a 361 d 411 b 461 b12 a 62 d 112 a 162 b 212 b 262 c 312 b 362 b 412 a 462 a13 a 63 a 113 b 163 c 213 a 263 b 313 b 363 c 413 c 463 b14 c 64 d 114 b 164 c 214 a 264 d 314 a 364 a 414 b 464 a15 b 65 a 115 b 165 a 215 c 265 c 315 d 365 c 415 b 465 a16 c 66 c 116 a 166 b 216 a 266 b 316 c 366 b 416 a 466 a17 b 67 a 117 a 167 c 217 b 267 a 317 d 367 a 417 a 467 b18 a 68 b 118 b 168 a 218 c 268 d 318 c 368 a 418 b 468 c19 b 69 c 119 c 169 b 219 b 269 b 319 d 369 d 419 b 469 a20 a 70 a 120 d 170 a 220 a 270 a 320 c 370 a 420 d 470 b21 d 71 d 121 a 171 a 221 a 271 b 321 a 371 c 421 c 471 a22 a 72 a 122 b 172 c 222 c 272 b 322 b 372 a 422 a 472 b23 a 73 d 123 a 173 b 223 a 273 c 323 b 373 c 423 c 473 a24 b 74 b 124 b 174 b 224 a 274 a 324 a 374 a 424 a 474 a25 c 75 c 125 c 175 a 225 a 275 b 325 c 375 b 425 d 475 b26 a 76 b 126 b 176 c 226 b 276 d 326 a 376 c 426 a 476 a27 a 77 a 127 a 177 a 227 c 277 a 327 a 377 a 427 a 477 a28 d 78 b 128 d 178 a 228 a 278 c 328 c 378 b 428 b 478 d29 b 79 c 129 b 179 c 229 d 279 b 329 d 379 a 429 c 479 b30 c 80 d 130 a 180 a 230 c 280 d 330 a 380 b 430 a 480 a31 b 81 b 131 d 181 b 231 a 281 c 331 c 381 a 431 d 481 a32 c 82 c 132 b 182 a 232 c 282 b 332 a 382 a 432 a 482 b33 c 83 d 133 b 183 b 233 a 283 c 333 b 383 a 433 b 483 a34 c 84 b 134 d 184 c 234 a 284 d 334 d 384 b 434 c 484 a35 a 85 c 135 c 185 d 235 c 285 d 335 c 385 a 435 b 485 d36 d 86 b 136 b 186 d 236 a 286 a 336 c 386 b 436 b 486 a37 b 87 a 137 a 187 a 237 c 287 b 337 a 387 a 437 a 487 b38 a 88 d 138 a 188 a 238 b 288 c 338 a 388 b 438 c 488 a39 c 89 a 139 d 189 a 239 d 289 b 339 d 389 c 439 c 489 b40 b 90 b 140 a 190 c 240 a 290 c 340 c 390 a 440 a 490 d41 a 91 c 141 d 191 a 241 a 291 b 341 a 391 d 441 a 491 b42 d 92 a 142 d 192 b 242 c 292 c 342 b 392 c 442 a 492 a43 a 93 d 143 a 193 a 243 a 293 b 343 a 393 d 443 b 493 d44 b 94 b 144 a 194 d 244 d 294 d 344 a 394 b 444 d 494 c45 a 95 a 145 a 195 b 245 c 295 b 345 c 395 a 445 a 495 b46 d 96 d 146 a 196 c 246 b 296 d 346 b 396 c 446 c 496 d47 a 97 b 147 b 197 a 247 b 297 a 347 d 397 a 447 a 497 a48 b 98 a 148 a 198 d 248 c 298 c 348 c 398 a 448 a 498 c49 d 99 d 149 b 199 a 249 a 299 d 349 a 399 c 449 b 499 c50 a 100 c 150 b 200 d 250 c 300 a 350 d 400 b 450 b 500 b


1. b Sebastian Vettel is a German Formula One racingdriver, currently driving for the Austrian racing teamRed Bull Racing. He is the current World Champion,having won the championship in 2010, 2011, and 2012.

2. d The Bihar Government has decided to set up agymnasium and a library in all its jails to promotephysical and mental health of prisoners. The librarywould have books on religion, science andentertainment.

3. c The Mumbai Film Festival organised by Mumbai Academyfor Moving Image has moved in to the National Centrefor the Performing Arts (NCPA) in the southern mosttip of Mumbai in 2012. Indian cinema has completed its100 years in 2012.

4. b Sampooran Singh Kalra known popularly by his penname Gulzar, is an Academy Award winner Indianpoet, lyricist and director. The Award consists of acitation and cash of Rs. 5 lakh.

5. d Lionel Messi is an Argentine footballer who plays as aforward for La Liga club FC Barcelona and theArgentina national team. He serves as the captain ofhis country’s national football team.

6. b John Terry is an English professional footballer. Hewas also captain of the England national football team.

7. b

8. c Brahma Chellaney is India’s leading strategic thinkerand analyst. He was honoured and presented with a$20,000 prize at a special event at Asia Society’sheadquarters in New York City on January 23, 2013.

9. a Oman is an Arab state in southwest Asia on thesoutheast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It has astrategically important position at the mouth of thePersian Gulf.

10. d Brahmi is the modern name given to the oldest scriptused in Indian Subcontinent and Central Asia, duringthe final centuries BCE and the early centuries CE.

11. b India has emerged the world’s largest rice exporter,displacing Thailand from its leadership position, withrice exports in marketing year 2011/12 (October-September) placed at a record 10.4 million tonnes.This rise to the top follows the Indian government’sdecision in February 2011 to lift a four-year ban onexports of non-basmati varieties of rice paving theway for a rise in exports.

12. a Maharashtra is a state in the western region of India.It is the second most populous state after Uttar Pradeshand third largest state by area in India.

13. a Snehalaya of Ahmednagar is known for its distinctivework in the rehabilitation of women of red light areasand for other destitute women.

14. c Gadar movement was an early twentieth century Sikhanti-colonial revolutionary movement in the WesternU.S. and Canada.

15. b Lance Armstrong is an American former professionalroad racing cyclist. Armstrong had won the Tour deFrance a record seven consecutive times between1999 and 2005.

16. c Waheeda Rehman is an Indian film actress whoappears in Bollywood movies and is known for manysuccessful and critically acclaimed movies from the1950s, 60s and early 70s.

17. b Kuldeep Singh was recently in news because he haspolio and has taken up a tour of the country by tricycleto support the government aid for the disabled.

18. a Felix Baumgartner is an Austrian skydiver, daredeviland BASE jumper.

19. b Aamir Khan is an Indian film actor, director, andproducer who has established himself as one of theleading actors of Hindi cinema.

20. a Patang” (The Kite) movie is inspired by the Kite Festivalof Gujarat.

21. d Mali is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali isbordered by Algeria to the north, Niger to the east,Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire to the south, Guinea tothe south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania to thewest.

22. a Sir Donald Bradman was an Australian cricketer,widely acknowledged as the greatest Test batsmanof all time. Bradman’s career Test batting average of99.94 is often cited as statistically the greatestachievement by any sportsman in any major sport.

23. a Col. C.K. Nayudu, also known as ‘CK’, was the firstcaptain of the Indian cricket team in Test matches.

24. b Joshna Chinappa is the first Indian girl to win the BritishSquash Championship title in 2003 in the under 19category, at Sheffield, U.K and was also the youngestIndian women’s national champion.

25. c Pankaj Advani is India’s leading billiards and snookerplayer. A winner of 8 World Titles in billiards andsnooker, he is considered the best all-round billiardsand snooker player India has produced.

26. a Vijender Singh is an Indian Olympic boxer fromKaluwas, Bhiwani district in Haryana.


27. a Indian Space Research Organization is the primaryspace agency of the Indian government. ISRO isamongst the six largest government space agenciesin the world, along with America’s NASA, Russia’sRKA, Europe’s ESA, China’s CNSA and Japan’s JAXA.

28. d Thiruvananthapuram is the capital of the Indian stateof Kerala. It is located on the west coast of India nearthe extreme south of the mainland.

29. b Darjeeling Himalayan Railway also known as the “ToyTrain”, is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway thatruns between New Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling in WestBengal.

30. c Sharmila Tagore is an Indian film actress. She haswon National Film Awards and Filmfare Awards forher performances. She has led the Indian Film CensorBoard from October 2004 till March 2011. In December2005 she was chosen as an UNICEF GoodwillAmbassador.

31. b John Wright is a former international cricketer andcaptain of the cricket team of New Zealand. He wasalso coach of the Indian national cricket team from2000 to 2005.

32. c Dubai is a city in the United Arab Emirates, locatedwithin the emirate of the same name. The emirate ofDubai is located southeast of the Arabian Gulf on theArabian Peninsula and is one of the seven emiratesthat make up the country.

33. c Australia is a country comprising the mainland of theAustralian continent, the island of Tasmania andnumerous smaller islands. Mandarin is a group ofrelated varieties or dialects spoken across most ofnorthern and southwestern China.

34. c Wagah border is the only road border crossingbetween Pakistan and India and lies on the GrandTrunk Road between the cities of Amritsar, Punjab,India and Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

35. a Kosovo is a partially recognised state in South-easternEurope.

36. d The Liaoning aircraft career is the first aircraft carriercommissioned into the People’s Liberation Army Navy.It was originally laid down as the Admiral Kuznetsovclass multirole aircraft carrier Riga for the Soviet Navy.

37. b The Buddhist ‘Borobudur Temple, in Indonesia is aWorld Heritage site.

38. a Brazil is the largest country in both South America andthe Latin America region. It is the world’s fifth largestcountry, both by geographical area and by population,with over 193 million people.

39. c Brazilian Grand Prix 2012 took place at the AutodromoJose Carlos Pace in Sao Paulo, Brazil on 25 November2012.

40. b Usain Bolt is a Jamaican sprinter widely regarded asthe fastest person ever. He is the first man to holdboth the 100 metres and 200 metres world recordssince fully automatic time measurements becamemandatory in 1977.

41. a Sierra Leone is a country in West Africa that is borderedby Guinea to the northeast, Liberia to the southeast,and the Atlantic Ocean to the southwest.

42. d AIIMS are a group of autonomous public medicalcolleges of higher education.

43. a Aflibercept is a fusion protein approved in the UnitedStates for the treatment of wet macular degenerationand metastatic colorectal cancer.

44. b PepsiCo is an American multinational food and beveragecorporation headquartered in Purchase, New York,United States, with interests in the manufacturing,marketing and distribution of grain-based snack foods,beverages, and other products. It was formed in 1965with the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company and Frito-Lay, Inc.

45. a British Broadcasting Corporation is a British publicservice broadcasting corporation. Its main responsibilityis to provide impartial public service broadcasting inthe United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, and the Isleof Man. It is the largest broadcaster in the world bynumber of employees, with about 23,000 staff.

46. d Central Bureau of Investigation is a governmentalagency belonging to Government of India that jointlyserves as a criminal investigation body. The CBI is apremier investigating police agency in India. It is anelite force playing a major role in preservation of valuesin public life and in ensuring the health of the nationaleconomy.

47. a Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories is an integratedpharmaceutical company focused on providingmedicines through its three business segments: GlobalGenerics segment, Pharmaceutical Services and ActiveIngredients (PSAI) segment and Proprietary Productssegment.

48. b University of Toronto is a public research university inToronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds thatsurround Queen’s Park. It was founded by royalcharter in 1827 as King’s College, the first institution ofhigher learning in Upper Canada.


49. d Davis Cup is the premier international team event inmen’s tennis. It is run by the International TennisFederation (ITF) and is contested annually betweenteams from competing countries in a knock-out format.The competition began in 1900 as a challenge betweenGreat Britain and the United States.

50. a Coromandel International Ltd provided the ‘BorlaugAward’.

51. c Inpex Corp is a Japanese oil company established inFebruary 1966 as North Sumatra Offshore PetroleumExploration Co., Ltd

52. b The Maldives government terminated the agreementwith the GMR Group to develop its international airportby promising to pursue the issue with Male.

53. c Director Ashim Ahluwalia’s ‘Miss Lovely’ won best filmaward at the closing ceremony of the 14th MumbaiFilm Festival.

54. d A solar plant will be set up near the Taj Mahal to provideuninterrupted power supply to the heritage monumentand areas around it.

55. b Ravindra H. Dholakia is the faculty of Economics Areaat IIM Ahmedabad

56. b Law Commission of India is an executive bodyestablished by an order of the Government of India. Itsmajor function is to work for legal reform. It membershipprimarily comprises legal experts, who are entrusteda mandate by the Government.

57. b The Prime Minister will chair the National Committee ondirect cash transfers himself: its other members willbe 11 Cabinet Ministers, two MoSs with independentcharge, the Deputy Chairman of the PlanningCommission, the Chairman of the UIDAI and the CabinetSecretary.

58. a Australia officially declared the creation of the world’slargest network of marine reserves, protecting morethan 2.3 million square kilometres (0.89 million squaremiles) of ocean environment.

59. b Ami Bera, 47, California-based, Indian-American hasbecome the only 3rd of the community to winCongressional election, making it to US House ofRepresentatives on 6 November, 2012 by defeatingRepublican Dan Lungren.

60. c The lonely planet, called CFBDSIR2149 at the moment,is deemed “homeless” as it does not orbit a star.

61. b Pakistani girl Malala Yousufzai, who became the faceof her country’s struggle against the Taliban, has been

awarded for her bravery and advocation of educationfor girls in adverse conditions in Swat.

62. d The Indian government ranked second in demandingWeb user information — next only to the U.S.government — from Google in the six-month periodfrom January to June 2012, according to the‘Transparency Report’ published by the Web servicesmajor.

63. a Islamist group Ansar Dine, wants to see Shariah lawapplied in Mali.

64. d Instruments Research and Development Establishment(IRDE), Dehra Dun, under DRDO, is devoted to research,design, development and technology transfer in opticaland electro-optical instrumentation primarily for theDefence Service.

65. a The Ministry of Women and Child Development hasnotified rules under the Protection of Children fromSexual Offences Act, 2012. The Act has done awaywith the age of consent clause and classified anysexual act with a child below 18 as a punishableoffence.

66. c Dhaka has been ranked the top city in the world toface the highest climate change risks in the comingyears.The Bangladesh capital came top in the ranking of 50cities by Maplecroft, a British firm specialising in riskanalysis, as the changing temperatures and weathersystems are forecast to take hold in the country in thecoming decades.

67. a 5-Hour Energy has been a popular energy drink,produced by a company founded by an Indian-American billionaire, has come under the scanner inthe US after reports of 13 deaths possibly linked to theenergy shots.

68. b The newly discovered galaxy, named MACS0647-JD,is very young and only a tiny fraction of the size of ourMilky Way. The object is observed 420 million yearsafter the big bang.

69. c At the 18th National Congress of the Communist Partyof China, at the Great Hall of the People. Due to termand age limits restrictions Hu Jintao, was replaced byXi Jinping as Communist Party General Secretary(successor).

70. a Senior journalists T.N. Ninan and Harish Khare havebeen awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowships, theJawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund announced on theoccasion of 123rd birth anniversary of the country’sfirst Prime Minister.


71. d Madhav Chavan, a former Chemistry lecturer wasawarded at the fourth World Innovation Summit forEducation (WISE) in the Qatari capital Doha,forinnovation in the field of education, for his relentlesswork of providing low cost education to children inMumbai slums.

72. a Maldivian Airlines signed a pact with the Chennai-headquartered Apollo Hospitals to give discounts toeach others’ clients.

73. d Indian origin dentist Savita Halappanavar died in Irelandon 28 October 2012 at the University College HospitalGalway after the doctors refused her abortion despitehers body being sick and weak due to 17 weeks ofpregnancy. The doctors had refused her abortion onthe basis of catholic tenets. Eventually it led tosepticaemia or blood poisoning that led to her death.

74. b State-run power producer NTPC will start a skilldevelopment programme for 144 youngsters fromJammu & Kashmir, under the central government’sUDAAN initiative. Initiated by the central government,UDAAN is aimed at imparting skills to youth from Jammu& Kashmir to help them with their careers.

75. c Shyam Benegal is an Indian director and screenwriter.

76. b The Vice President of India M. Hamid Ansari presentedthe Moortidevi Award for 2010 to eminent Urdu scholarGopi Chand Narang for his outstanding work on gUrduGhazal aur Hindustani Zehan wa Tehzeeb•h at afunction organized by Bhartiya Jnanpith.

77. a India and Japan have jointly launched a researchproject for pricing structures in LNG markets,Theagreement on joint research was signed in Tokyobetween Deputy Chairman of India’s planningcommission Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Japan’sIndustry Minister Yukio Edano.

78. b GVK Power & Infrastructure Ltd has securedenvironmental clearance for the $10-billion Alpha coalmine project and rail line from the Australian FederalGovernment.

79. c The Kaziranga National Park in Assam will get a remote-controlled aircraft and a satellite-based electronic eyefor round-the-clock surveillance of rhinos, tigers andother animals in the park to protect them frompoachers.

80. d Indian Railways just made it a little easier for railtravellers with a new web application called RailRadar,which uses Google Maps to track trains on a real-timebasis.

81. b Smt. Tessy Thomas, Project Director and Key Scientistfor the Agni-IV Project, has been chosen for theprestigious •gLal Bahadur Shastri National Awardfor Excellence in Public Administration, Academics andManagement•h: 2012.

82. c The Russian government announced that it had recentlysigned arms deals with Iraq worth over $4.2 billiondollars, which makes Iraq Russia’s second largestdefence customer after India.

83. d According to China-based research firm Hurun’sinaugural India Rich List,Energy tycoon and RelianceIndustries Chairman Mukesh Ambani is the country’srichest man with a personal fortune of $19.3 billion.

84. b Dr. Robert Lefkowitz, of Duke University MedicalCenter. Lefkowitz along with American Brian Kobilkahave won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.AmericansRobert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka won the 2012Nobel Prize in chemistry for studies of protein receptorsthat let body cells sense and respond to outside signals.Such studies are key for developing better drugs.

85. c Australia became the ICC Women’s World Twenty20Champions of 2012 beating England by 4 runs.

86. b Keith H.S. Campbell, a noted biologist who was a keymember of the British team that cloned Dolly the sheep,has died recently.

87. a Serge Haroche and David Wineland have won theNobel prize in physics for their work on quantum opticsfor year 2012.

88. d The programme, ‘Lighting a Million Lives’, is launchedin Pakistan , under which TERI intends to facilitate theaccess and use of solar lighting devices amongPakistan’s rural communities.

89. a Sanofi India Limited (formerly Aventis Pharma Limited)announced the launch of AllStar, its first indigenouslymanufactured re-usable insulin pen.

90. b The Nobel Peace Prize for 2011 was awarded toPresident Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia — the firstwoman to be elected president in modern Africa.

91. c John B Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka have won the2012 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine.Gurdonworked out that cells could be reprogrammed into amore immature state in 1962.

92. a Antisa Khvichava, a Georgian woman claimed to be132-years-old - making her the world’s oldest humanbeing ever - has died belonging to Georgia.


93. d The Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC), locatedat three places, Valiyamala, near Nedumangad inThiruvananthapuram District, Kerala, Mahendragiri inKanyakumari District of Tamil Nadu and Bangaluru,Karnataka. It is a research centre under Indian SpaceResearch Organisation (ISRO).

94. b Chinese author Mo Yan, who left school for a lifeworking the fields at the age of 12, has become thefirst Chinese citizen ever to win the Nobel prize inliterature for year 2012.

95. a Bollywood actor and IPL cricket team Kolkata KnightRiders owner, Shah Rukh Khan is the brandambassador of West Bengal.

96. d Monisha Kaltenborn became Formula One’s first femaleteam principal after taking over from Peter Sauber athis eponymous team.

97. b Delhi became the first kerosene-free city in the countrywith the Delhi Government set to launch an ambitiousscheme under which 3.56 lakh households will get anLPG cylinder and a gas stove free of cost.

98. a Dalip Singh Saund was the first Indian American towin a Congressional election.

99. d Colorado and Washington became the first U.S. statesto legalize the possession and sale of marijuana forrecreational use in defiance of federal law.

100. c Andhra Pradesh top cop V Dinesh Reddy was electedpresident of the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF).

101. a Oman, the biggest egg-export market for India, passedan official decree banning import of eggs and chickenfrom India. The order was based on a recommendationfrom the World Organisation for Animal Health after abird-flu outbreak was confirmed in a government-runturkey farm at Hesaraghatta, Karnataka, in October,2012.

102. b Himalaya Drug Company is a company established byM. Manal in 1930 and based in Bangalore, India. Itproduces health care products under the nameHimalaya Herbal Healthcare, which include ayurvedicingredients.

103. d It is declared by the State Government of Jammu andKashmir.

104. b Oxford University located in Oxford, England, is theoldest university in the English-speaking world, andthe second-oldest surviving university in the world.

105. b M. Granollers and M. Lopez are tennis players fromSpain.

106. d Currently Russia is the biggest oil producer country,Saudi Arabia is the second whereas US is the third.

107. b Kyoto Prize is a Japanese award similar in intent to theNobel Prize. It recognizes outstanding works in thefields of philosophy, arts, science and technology. Ithas been awarded annually since 1985 by the InamoriFoundation, founded by Kazuo Inamori.

108. a Rajiv Gandhi, the ex-Prime Minister of India, wasassassinated by a suicide bombing in Sriperumbudur,near Chennai, in Tamil Nadu, India on 21 May 1991.

109. b West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of Indiaand is the nation’s fourth-most populous.

110. a Abida Parveen is a Pakistani singer of Sindhi descentand one of the foremost exponents of Sufi music. Shesings mainly ghazals and her forte, Kafis, a solo genreaccompanied by percussion and harmonium, using arepertoire of songs by Sufi poets.

111. c Male is the capital and most populous city in the Republicof Maldives. It is located at the southern edge of NorthMalé Atoll.

112. a Muhammad Ali is an American former professionalboxer, philanthropist and social activist. Considered acultural icon, Ali has both been idolized and vilified.

113. b South Asian Football Federation founded in 1997, isan association of the football playing nations in SouthAsia. Its founding members are Bangladesh, India,Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Bhutan joinedthe federation in 2000 and Afghanistan in 2005.

114. b Internal Cricket Council (ICC) is the internationalgoverning body of cricket. It was founded as theImperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representativesfrom England, Australia and South Africa, renamedthe International Cricket Conference in 1965, and tookup its current name in 1989.

115. b Tata AIA Life Insurance is a joint venture company,formed by Tata Sons and AIA Group Limited (AIA).

116. a ICICI bank is an Indian financial services companyheadquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is the secondlargest bank in India by assets and third largest bymarket capitalization.

117. a Punjab is a state in the northwest of the India, formingpart of the larger Punjab region. The state is borderedby the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the east,Haryana to the south and southeast and Rajasthan tothe southwest as well as the Pakistani province ofPunjab to the west.


118. b Jaipur is the capital and largest city of the Indian stateof Rajasthan. It was founded on 18 November 1727by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, the ruler of Amber,after whom the city has been named.

119. c Lahore is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjaband the second largest city in the country. It is thelargest native Punjabi-populated city in the world.

120. d The highest incidence of the juvenile rape cases wasreported from Madhya Pradesh (23.6%) followed byUP (12.7%) and Maharashtra (10.9%).

121. a Guatemala is a country in Central America borderedby Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean tothe southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbeanto the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to thesoutheast.

122. b Indian Oil Corporation is an Indian state-owned oil andgas corporation with its headquarters in New Delhi,India. The company is the world’s 83rd largest publiccorporation, according to the Fortune Global 500 list.

123. a IndiaFirst Life Insurance is a joint venture betweentwo of India’s public sector banks – Bank of Barodaand Andhra Bank and UK’s financial and investmentcompany Legal & General.

124. b Dabur is India’s largest Ayurvedic medicinemanufacturer.

125. c Michael Schumacher is a retired German racing driver.Schumacher is a seven-time Formula One WorldChampion and is widely regarded as one of thegreatest F1 drivers of all time.

126. b The ‘Nirmal Bharat Yatra’, to promote the message ofmaking the country open defecation-free and ensuringproper sanitation in rural areas began from October 3,2012.

127. a Endangered Gangetic dolphin ( Platanista Gangetica )is a freshwater or river dolphin found in India,Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan which is split intotwo subspecies, the Ganges river dolphin and Indusriver dolphin.

128. d Canara Bank is an Indian bank headquartered inBangalore, Karnataka. It was established in 1906,making it one of the oldest banks in the country.

129. b A radio telescope is a form of directional radio antennaused in radio astronomy. The same types of antennasare also used in tracking and collecting data fromsatellites and space probes. In their astronomical rolethey differ from optical telescopes in that they operatein the radio frequency portion of the electromagnetic

spectrum where they can detect and collect data onradio sources.

130. a Mohamed Nasheed is a Maldivian politician and one ofthe founders of the Maldivian Democratic Party, whoserved as the fourth President of the Maldives from2008 to 2012.

131. d Narendra Modi is a leader of the Bharatiya JanataParty (BJP).

132. b National Aeronautics and Space Administration is theagency of the United States of America that isresponsible for the nation’s civilian space programand for aeronautics and aerospace research.

133. b Japanese Grand Prix 2012 was a Formula One motorrace that took place at the Suzuka Circuit in MiePrefecture, Japan on 7 October 2012.

134. d Leela Samson is a Bharatanatyam dancer,choreographer, instructor and writer.

135. c The Deutsche Bank is a German global banking andfinancial services company with its headquarters inthe Deutsche Bank Twin Towers in Frankfurt,Germany.

136. b The World Economic Forum is a Swiss non-profitfoundation, based in Cologny, Geneva.

137. a The Environmental Performance Index is a method ofquantifying and numerically benchmarking theenvironmental performance of a country’s policies.

138. a Bengalore is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka.It is well known as a hub for India’s informationtechnology sector.

139. d Naresh Fernandes is also the co-author of BombayThen and Mumbai Now, a historical narrative, and co-editor of Bombay Meri Jaan.

140. a Kamal Nath is an Indian politician and the currentMinister of Urban Development. He represents theChhindwara constituency of Madhya Pradesh in theLok Sabha. He is a member of the Indian NationalCongress (INC).

141. d Ireland is an island to the north-west of continentalEurope. It is the third-largest island in Europe.

142. d It is the latest movie of the Chinese director WangXiaoshuai.

143. a BR Ambedkar popularly also known as Babasaheb,was an Indian jurist, political leader, philosopher,anthropologist, historian, orator, economist, teacher,editor, prolific writer, revolutionary and a revivalist forBuddhism in India.


144. a Y. V. Reddy is the former Governor of the ReserveBank of India.

145. a A typhoon is a mature tropical cyclone that developsin the north-western part of the Pacific Ocean.

146. a Oscar Niemeyer was a Brazilian architect who isconsidered to be one of the key figures in thedevelopment of modern architecture.

147. b Russia is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federalsemi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federalsubjects.

148. a The non-banking finance companies are financialinstitutions that provide banking services withoutmeeting the legal definition of a bank, i.e. one that doesnot hold a banking license. These institutions are notallowed to take deposits from the public. Nonetheless,all operations of these institutions are still exercisedunder bank regulation.

149. b Ziyarat is an Arabic term which literally means “visit”,and is used to refer to a form of pilgrimage to sitesassociated with Prophet Muhammad.

150. b Nityanand Swami was a member and Leader of theBhartiya Janata Party.

151. b Vinod Rai is the present Comptroller and AuditorGeneral of India. He assumed office on 7 January2008 and shall hold the office till May 2013.

152. b A Scheduled Tribe is a group of historically-disadvantaged people recognised in the Constitutionof India.

153. b Mysore is the second-largest city in the state ofKarnataka, India. It is located at the base of theChamundi Hills.

154. c Hillary Clinton is an American politician who was the67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to2013.

155. b Salman Rushdie is a British Indian novelist and essayist.His second novel, Midnight’s Children (1981), won theBooker Prize in 1981.

156. a Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre is a major spaceresearch centre of the Indian Space ResearchOrganisation (ISRO), focusing on rocket and spacevehicles for India’s satellite programme.

157. b PETA is an American animal rights organization basedin Norfolk, Virginia, and led by Ingrid Newkirk, itsinternational president.

158. d The Marathi translation of ‘Genocide of Eelam Tamils -Heart Bleeds’ was recently released.

159. b Gerard Depardieu is a French actor, film-maker,businessman and vineyard owner. He is one of themost prolific character actors in film history, havingcompleted approximately 170 movies since 1967.

160. c South Korea is a sovereign state located in thesouthern part of the Korean Peninsula. It is currently innews to have a tense relation with North Korea.

161. d SpaceX is the first commercial outfit to launch its ownaircraft towards the International Space Station. Therewas no human travelling aboard Dragon. It starts anew era for private spaceflights.

162. b Tiger Woods won the 73rd PGA Tour title by two shotsby defeating Spencer Levin and a charging RorySabbatini.

163. c Article 80 of the Constitution that allows the Presidentto nominate 12 members to the 250-member UpperHouse, according to which Actress Rekha, IndustrialistAnu Aga and Sportsperson Sachin Tendulaker wereappointed as member of Rajya Sabha.

164. c It was held from May 24 to June 3, 2012 in Ipoh, Perak,Malaysia. New Zealand won their first ever title bydefeating Argentina with 1-0 in the finals of SultanAzlan Shah Cup, 2012 while 5 time champions Indiatook the bronze medal by defeating Great Britain scoring3-1.

165. a A solar energy plane ‘Solar Impulsa’ was landed inMorocco completing the world’s first intercontinentalflight powered by the sun. The Solar Impulse took offfrom Madrid and landed at Rabat airport 19 hours later.The trip was staged to show the potential for pollution-free air travel. he project is led by Swiss psychiatristand aeronaut Bertrand Piccard, who co-piloted thefirst balloon to circle the world non-stop, and Swissbusinessman André Borschberg.

166. b The 2012 Wisconsin gubernatorial election was a recallelection to elect the governor and lieutenant governorof Wisconsin. It resulted in voters reelecting incumbentRepublican Governor Scott Walker. The recall electionwas a rematch of the 2010 gubernatorial electionbetween the incumbent Governor Scott Walker andTom Barrett, the mayor of Milwaukee.

167. c India’s first “talking” Automated Teller Machine (ATM)for visually impaired was inaugurated in Ahmedabad.The ATM by the Union Bank of India is first-of-its-kindfor the visually challenged and 4000th in thecountrywide network of the state-run bank.


168. a Veeravalli Sundaram Sampath is the current chiefelection commissioner (CEC) of India.He replaced S.Y. Quraishi as the Chief Election Commissioner on 11June, 2012. Sampath is a 1973-batch IndianAdministrative Service (IAS) officer from the AndhraPradesh cadre. He was an election commissioner from21 April 2009 to 10 June 2012, after serving for a yearas the Secretary for Energy and Power in theGovernment of India.

169. b Forcing someone to marry has become a criminaloffence in England and Wales, leaving parents whocoerce their children into a marriage facing the prospectof prison

170. a

171. a

172. c Microsoft has signed a deal with EncyclopediaBritannica to add entries from the reference work toBing. The tie-up means summaries of topics usingdata from the Encyclopedia will be added to somesearch results. The deal builds on Britannica’s decisionin March to stop producing a print edition.

173. b The schoolboy, from Dresden, Germany, solved twofundamental particle dynamics theories whichphysicists have previously been able to calculate onlyby using powerful computers.

174. b The Sly Company of People Who Care written by RahulBhattacharya is the winner of the 2012 Royal Societyof Literature Ondaatje Prize and the 2011 Hindu LiteraryPrize. It was short listed for 2011 The Man AsianLiterary Prize and the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize,and was selected as a Kansas City Star Best FictionBook of the Year and a Kirkus Best Fiction Book of theYear.

175. a The Article 240 of the constitution is about President’spower to make regulations for certain Union Territories:The President may make regulations for the peace,progress and good government of the Union territoryof

• The Andaman and Nicobar Islands

• Lakshadweep

• Dadra and Nagar Haveli

• Daman and Diu

• Puducherry

provided that when any body is created under article239A to function as a Legislature for the Union territoryof Puducherry, the President shall not make anyregulation for the peace, progress and good

government of that Union territory with effect from thedate appointed for the first meeting of the Legislature:

Provided further that whenever the body functioningas a Legislature for the Union territory of Puducherryis dissolved, or the functioning of that body as suchLegislature remains suspended on account of anyaction taken under any such law as is referred to inclause (1) of article 239A, the President may, duringthe period of such dissolution or suspension, makeregulations for the peace, progress and goodgovernment of that Union territory.

176. c Former President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt sentencedto life imprisonment for allegedly killing over 900protesters protesters during the revolt against hisregime in 2011.

177. a Bihar prohibited the Sale and Manufacturing of AllTobacco Products for next 1 year. The decision isbased on Food Safety and Standards Authority ofIndia, Regulation number 2.3.4 which seeks to bantobacco or nicotine products.

178. a Held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June 2012, Rio+20was a follow up after 20years to the 1992 EarthSummit/ UN conference on Environment andDevelopment (UNCED) held in the same city.

179. c Sam Pitroda along with Delhi chief minister Sheila dikshitannounced the launch of the first Food Bank as thepart of the India Food Banking Network ( IFBN) in June2012.

180. a Daredevil Nik Wallenda became the first person towalk on a tightrope across the Niagara Falls, takingsteady, measured steps Friday night for 1,800 feetacross the mist-fogged brink of the roaring fallsseparating the U.S. and Canada.

181. b 182. a 183. b

184. c 185. d 186. d

187. a 188. a 189. a

190. c 191. a 192. b

193. a 194. d 195. b

196. c 197. a 198. d

199. a 200. d


201. c Government establishes Metro Advisory Board toformulate and co-ordinate the development plans forseveral metro rail networks all over Indi and to aid andadvise the central government in matters relating toMetro Railways. The Board will be headed by theUrban Development Secretary Sudhir Krishna and willhave 5 members.

202. c The eBiz mission is part of the 27 Mission Mode Projectsunder the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) beingimplemented by the Department of Industrial Policy andPromotion (DIPP) of the Union Ministry of Commerceand Industry with the main objective to provideinvestors and entrepreneurs an online single-windowclearance.

203. a Saina Nehwal defeated defeated Ratchanok Inthanonof Thailand to win the Thailand Open Grand Prix Goldtitle held in Bangkok, Thailand.

204. b US exempted India, Malaysia, South Korea, SouthAfrica, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Taiwan from financialsanctions because they have significantly broughtdown the purchases of Iranian oil.

205. c

206. a June 12th observed as the day against child laboracross the world had the theme of ‘Justice for Children–end Child labor’. NCPCR is the nodal agency to workon the objective of eradication of child labor in Indiawith the help of ILO and UNICEF.

207. a Anand Marriage Act, 2012 passed by Indian Parliament, now gives the Sikh community to register theirmarriages under a separate act which till date wereregistered under the Hindu Marriage act , 1955.

208. d OGPL is a joint product from India and United States topromote transparency and greater citizen engagementby making more government data, documents, toolsand processes publicly available. OGPL will beavailable, as an open source platform.

209. a On 14 June, countries worldwide celebrate WorldBlood Donor Day with events to raise awareness ofthe need for safe blood and blood products and tothank voluntary unpaid blood donors for their life-savinggifts of blood. The theme of the 2012 World BloodDonor Day campaign, “Every blood donor is a hero”focuses on the idea that every one of us can becomea hero by giving blood. While recognizing the silentand unsung heroes who save lives every day throughtheir blood donations, the theme also stronglyencourages more people all over the world to donateblood voluntarily and regularly.

210. c A Visa 2012 study of Global Financial Literacy indicatesthat though India has the highest savings rate amongits global peers, the households may not be aware ofmany options to invest in. In the Visa 2012 GlobalFinancial Literacy Barometer, India ranked 23rd out of28 markets. The country is better off than Morocco,South Africa and Vietnam.

211. a Australia announced the creation of the world’s largestnetwork of protecting marine areas. It will cover the1.7 million sq km of Ocean around its coast.

212. b

213. a

214. a

215. c 101 st session of International Labour Conferenceorganized by International Labour Organization(ILO),concluded on June 14 ,2012 in Geneva. A NewInternational labour standard was adopted at theconference which requested countries to establishnational social protection floors. The Recommendationcalled for providing people with essential health carebenefits as well as basic income security.

216. a The Madhya Pradesh government claims to havelaunched the country’s first ever river-lake linkingproject in the water-scarce Bundelkhand region. TheHarpura irrigation and river-lake link project, launchedin the Tikamgarh district, will be implemented under theCentre’s Rs.7266 crore Bundelkhand package. It willlink the perennial Jamni River to the nearby lakes andwater bodies built during the Chandel era. Under theproject, an additional 1,980 hectares of land areexpected to come under irrigation.

217. b

218. c The world has become more peaceful for the first timesince 2009, according to the 2012 Global Peace Index.All regions excluding the Middle East and North Africasaw an improvement in levels of overall peacefulness.The 2012 GPI is the sixth edition of the world’s leadingmeasure of global peacefulness. Produced by theInstitute for Economics and Peace, the GPI ranks 158nations using 23 qualitative and quantitative indicatorswhich gauge ongoing domestic and internationalconflict, safety and security in society andmilitarization.

219. b

220. a


221. a The UN Environment Programme (UNEP), incollaboration with the International Fund for AgriculturalDevelopment (IFAD), the Food and AgriculturalOrganization of the UN (FAO), the World Bank, theWorld Food Programme (WFP) and the WorldResources Institute (WRI), released a synthesis reporttitled “Avoiding Future Famines: Strengthening theEcological Basis of Food Security through SustainableFood Systems,” on the sidelines of the UN Conferenceon Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20).

The report aims to ensure that the focus of the foodsecurity debate includes consideration of the resourcebase and ecosystem services, which it says are beingundermined by overfishing, unsustainable water useand other human activities. The report also frames thedebate in the context of the green economy, calling forfood production and consumption practices that ensureproductivity without undermining ecosystem services.

222. c Facebook Exchange (FBX) is a real-time bidded adserving protocol

223. a

224. a

225. a The founder of Bhagwan Mahaveer VIklang SahayataSamiti, known for providing artificial Jaipur foot ataffordable rates has been awrded with the award forhis outstanding contribution towards promotion ofnational harmony, national integration and peace.

226. b

227. c

228. a Narcopolis is a novel built around the opium and heroindens of Mumbi and was shortlisted for the 2012 ManBooker prize.

229. d The book was in news as it raised the issue ofreviewing the Official Secrets act after certain factswere revealed by the book about an attempt by RAWto net an alleged CIA mole in the organization.

230. c A 5 member committee is set up under the chairmanshipof Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth to look into the pay andpension related matters of the defence personnels.

231. a

232. c Enrique Pena Nieto was sworn in as Mexico’s newpresident , returning his party to power and promisingto change the country’s fight against organized crime.Pena Nieto belongs to the Institutional RevolutionaryParty (PRI), which ruled Mexico for more than 70 yearsbefore losing the presidency in 2000.

233. a Thomas Lubanga Dyilo is a convicted war criminalfrom the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) andthe first person ever convicted by the InternationalCriminal Court (ICC). He founded and led the Union ofCongolese Patriots (UPC) and was a key player in theIturi conflict (1999–2007). Rebels under his commandhave been accused of massive human rights violations,including ethnic massacres, murder, torture, rape,mutilation, and forcibly conscripting child soldiers.

234. a Vanuatu has been a member of WTO since 24 August2012.

235. c Rajkeswur Purryag GOSK is a Mauritian politician whohas been President of Mauritius since 2012.He waselected as the fifth President of Mauritius by the NationalAssembly and took office on 21 July 2012. Hesucceeded Sir Anerood Jugnauth, who spent nineyears as President from 2003 until resigning in March2012.

236. a John Dramani Mahama is a Ghanaian politician whohas been President of Ghana since July 2012. Hewas the Vice President of Ghana from 2009 to 2012,and he took office as President on 24 July 2012following the death of his predecessor, President JohnAtta Mills.He was elected to serve his first term aspresident in December 2012 following a peacefulelection.

237. c India emerged as the third most attractive investmentdestination after china & US for global companies , aUN report said on 5 July 2012 .

238. b

239. d

240. a

241. a

242. c The International AIDS Conference is the premiergathering for those working in the field of HIV, as wellas policy makers, persons living with HIV and otherindividuals committed to ending the pandemic. It is achance to assess where we are, evaluate recentscientific developments and lessons learnt, andcollectively chart a course forward. Its 19th editionwas held in Washington DC, between July 22-27, 2012.

243. a Indian Sand Artist Sudarshan Pattnaik won People’sChoice Gold Medal Award in Moscow on 18 July 2012.It was the Second World Sand Sculpture Championship.The theme of World Sand Sculpture Championship2012 was World Cinema. Artist from eleven countriestook part in this championship. It includes followingCountries: India, Spain, Ireland, Germany, the UnitedStates, Russia, United Kingdom, Italy, Poland, Hollandand Czech Republic.


244. d Serena Williams of US beat Agnieszka Radwanka ofpoland to claim ‘Ladies Singles Title’. It was her fifthWimbledon and 14th Grand Slam Single’s Title.

245. c

246. b Geo Imaging Satellite (GISAT) will observe earth fromgeo-stationery orbit, enabling continuous observationof Indian sub-continent, to facilitate quick monitoringof natural hazards and disaster. The project isprogressing well for a launch by GSLV in 2016-17.

247. b Aishwarya Rai Bachhan has been appointed as thenew Goodwill Ambassador for UNAIDS. She will assistthe agency to achieve its goal of eliminating new HIVinfections among children by 2015.

248. c The 9th World Hindi Conference concluded inJohannesburg, South Africa. During the function, abust of Pandit Nardev Vedalankar, known as father ofHindi in South Africa was also unveiled.

249. a INDEX-2012, the largest International Design Exhibitionin the Gulf region was held at World Trade Centre inDubai. The exhibition witnessed participation of over900 leading brands and companies from 45 countriesincluding India exhibiting their innovative products andcreative designs.

250. c The 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement washeld from 26 to 31 August 2012 in Tehran, Iran. Thesummit was attended by leaders of 120countries, including India

251. b Verghese Kurien (26 November 1921 – 9 September2012) was a renowned Indian social entrepreneurand is best known as the “Father of the WhiteRevolution”, for his ‘billion-litre idea’ (Operation Flood)— the world’s biggest agricultural developmentprogramme. The operation took India from being a milk-deficient nation, to the largest milk producer in theworld.

252. c Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C21) marked the100th space mission of the Indian Space ResearchOrganisation and put satellites SPOT-6 (France) andProiteres (Japan).

253. a The esteemed Saraswati Samman was conferred onA A Manavalan for his work, Irama KathaiyumIramayakalyum.

254. d An AEW&C system is an airborne radar system is anairborne radar system designed to detect aircrafts,ships and vehicles at long ranges and control andcommand the battle space in an air engagement bydirecting fighter and attack aircraft strikes.

255. d During the visit, President of Burundi Nkurunziza wason his first state visit to India on 18 Sep ’2012 andsigned the above 3 MoUs.

256. c Deepika Kumari clinched the silver medal in recurveevent at World Archery in Tokyo. The gold was wonby World No. 1 Ki Bo-Bae of Korea.

257. a The Election Commission has designed the strategy toencourage increased participation of young men andwomen in electoral process.

258. b Four years after being awarded the CongressionalGold Medal, Myanmar democracy leader Aung SanSuu Kyi was finally able to accept the honor in personon 19 September 2012.

259. a Smita Shah a close supporter of US President BarackObama, is vice-chair of the Chicago Plan Commission,become the first Indian-American to serve as aDemocratic National Convention parliamentarian on 5thSeptember 2012.

260. b Somalia’s parliament elected Hassan Sheikh Mohamudas the new leader for the African nation on 10thSeptember 20.

261. a The uninhabited islands, known as Senkaku in Japanand Diaoyu in China, have long been a source of friction.Japan and China have competing territorial claims tothe islets and surrounding fishing areas and potentiallyrich gas deposits.

262. c Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has retained hisposition as the richest person in America for the 19thyear in a row this year, according to Forbes’ annualranking of the nation’s 400 super rich people whohave a combined net worth of $1.7 trillion.

263. b The World Bank has appointed Onno Ruhl as thecountry director for India. He will replace RobertoZagha, who retires in October. Ruhl, a Dutch national,was previously the director for operation servicesand quality in the South Asia region of the World Bank,the multi-lateral funding agency.

264. d The Prime Minister Manmohan 11th September 2012announced to an assistance of $10 million to Palestine’sbudget for this year to help address its financialrequirements.

265. c An MoU was signed between India and Britainenvisaging promotion of cooperation in areas includingsustainable master planning, transport planning andland economics.

266. b Justice Altamas Kabir was appointed as new ChiefJustice of India on 29 September 2012.


267. a India was placed at the top position in the chart of 10countries that topped on the chart. The other countrieswith their names on the chart are Nigeria, theDemocratic Republic of Congo, China, Pakistan,Indonesia, Ethiopia, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.

268. d Mohammad Hamid Ansari is the 14th and current VicePresident of India, in office since 2007. He waselected as Vice President of India on 10 August 2007and took office on 11 August 2007. He was re-electedon 7 August 2012.

269. b The ship is fitted with a dynamic positioning systemfor fire fighting and pollution response operations andan infra-red surveillance system for night surveillance.

270. a Government of India increased the foreign investmentcap for broadcasting service providers to 74% fromthe earlier level of 49%.

271. b Tokyo is the most expensive city in the world calculatedon the basis of cost of living based on prices forproducts and services, including food, clothing, rent,and transportation.

272. b Delhi Metro bagged the work of Management ConsultingServices for building the Phase- I of Jakarta MassRapid System in Indonesia. This is the first time thatDelhi Metro has got a project outside the country sinceits inception in 1997.

273. c Agni – IV was successfully test fired from Wheeler’sisland in Odisha from the road mobile launcher. It is anuclear capable ballistic missile with the range of 4000kms.

274. a The policy endeavors to leverage ICT to address thenation’s economic and developmental challenges byenhancing the revenue from USD 100 million to USD300 million by 2020 and build a pool of additional 10million skilled man power in ICT.

275. b The Shadman Chowk in the eastern city of Lahore on29 September 2012 was renamed as Bhagat SinghChowk on the 105th birth anniversary of therevolutionary freedom fighter and martyr, BhagatSingh.

276. d The Saksham aims at empowerment of adolescentboys by imparting education on gender sensitivity andmoral behavior and is aimed at the young boys in agegroup 10-18 years.

277. a Brajesh Mishra was appointed the first NationalSecurity Advisor of India. The post was created on 19November 1998 by the Government of A B Vajpayee.

278. c Former Cricketer and all-rounder, Sandeep Patil wasappointed as the Chairman of the five member seniorselection committee of BCCI on 27 September 2012.

279. b India and Egypt signed an MoU in New Delhi to developan institutional framework for their ongoing cooperationin the domain of election management andadministration.

280. d

281. c India, Afghanistan and the US held their first trilateralmeeting in New York on 25th September 2012.Themajor point of discussion was on the situation inAfghanistan along with the issue of terrorism.

282. b Empowered Group of Ministers(EGoM) on droughtheaded by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar decidedto increase the number of guaranteed work days underMahatama Gandhi National Rural EmploymentGuarantee (MGNREGA) to 150 days and cut interestrates on crop loans to 7 percent for one year for thefarmers in drought-affected states.

283. c The Election commission of India on 27 September2012 directed the Political Parties and candidates notto use arms and birds in the election campaign as itwas violating Article 51 (g) of the constitution.

284. d International day of peace also called as World peaceday was celebrated worldwide on 21 September 2012.The day is dedicated to peace, providing opportunitiesto different organizations, individuals and nations tocreate a practical act of peace.

285. d Muhammad Ali was given this honour for hiscontribution to the humanitarian causes like religiousfreedom and civil rights.

286. a Naveen Jindal, the Chairman of Jindal Steel andPower Limited has been placed at the first position inthe list of Executive Pay Chart of the listed companies.

287. b A web portal named Track Child will serve as a centraldatabase of all those children who have gone missingin different parts of the country. The portal will act asa coordination mechanism between child homes, policedepartments and state governments.

288. c Virat Kohli was chosen for the title for smashing 1733runs in 31 matches at an average of 66.65, whichincluded 8 centuries and 6 half centuries.

289. b Kaushik Basu has been chosen as the World BankChief Economist who provides intellectual leadershipand direction to the Bank’s overalldevelopment strategy and economic research agenda,at global, regional and country levels.


290. c Satyajit Ray’s Pathar Panchali has secured the 42nd

place in the Sight and Sound decadal poll for thegreatest films of all times.

291. b The Lok Sabha passed the National Highway Authorityof India (Amendment) Bill, 2011 to increase the strengthto 6 full time members and 6 part time members, besidesthe Chairman.

292. c The RGESS is aimed at encouraging first time retailinvestors to invest in stock markets through taxconcessions. The RGESS will give tax benefits to newinvestors who invest up to Rs 50,000 and whoseannual income is below Rs 10 lakh.

293. b The Super Fight League has roped in London Olympicsbronze medalist M C Mary Kom as its brandambassador as the mentor for female fighters andinspiration for male fighters.

294. d Indian astronaut Sunita Williams served as commanderof the ISS during her stay onboard ISS Expedition 33,succeeding Gennady Padalka.

295. b The Union Labour Minister introduced a Bill to givespecial status to Bidar, Gulbarga, Yadgir, Koppal,Raichur and Bellary districts of Hyderabad – Karnatakaregions to enable reservations in education and jobs,besides development.

296. d South Korean director Kim Ki-duk’s drama Pieta, thebrutal story of a debt collector who cripples thosewho can’t pay until he meets a woman who claims tobe his mother, won the Golden Lion for best film at the69th Venice Film Festival.

297. a The Ranbir Kapoor starrer Barfi – a love story of adeaf and mute boy set in the world of 1970s Darjeelinghas been nominated as India’s entry to Oscars in theforeign film category.

298. c Jal Satyagraha was a unique demonstration in which51 farmers from Khandwa district of Madhya Pradeshstood in the neck dip water of Omkareshwar Damfor17 days continuously demanding their rehabilitation.

299. d Emerging Kerala initiative focuses Indian diaspora inMiddle – East as more than 90% of emigrant Keraliteslive in the Gulf region.

300. a Mo Yan, a novelist who brought to life the turbulenceof the 20th century China in Vivid and often graphicworks set against the tumult of the Japanese invasionand struggling countryside, became the first writer inChina to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

301. b The European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize forfostering peace on a continent ravaged by war. TheEU grew out of the tremendous devastation created

by World War II, fuelled by conviction that ever – closereconomic ties would make sure that century oldenemies never turned on each other again.

302. d The Iran government will boycott the 2013 Oscars inthe wake of the anti-Islam video made in the UnitedStates that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad.

303. c Supreme Court holding that Central and StateInformation Commissions perform quasi – judicialfunctions, asked the government to appoint peoplefrom judicial background also as its members.

304. a The sixth annual World Autism Awareness Day wasobserved on April 2, 2013.

305 b J&K Bank on 26 March 2013 won the prestigious FEIndia’s Best Banks Award-2012-13 in recognition ofits strong fundamentals and dynamic growth model.

306. c People across Odisha today celebrated the State’s77th Foundation Day -Utkal Divas on April 1,2013.

307. a Mohamed Morsi is the current president of Egypt.

308. a India Post is going to establish its third Automated MailProcessing Centre in Hyderabad. The Automated MailProcessing Centre is the 60 crore Rupees centre whichwill come up near international airport at Shamshabad.The centre will have the capability to sort 30000 mailsper hour. This will bring down the delivery time of themails.

309. b British second seed, Andy Murray won the ATP MiamiMasters 2013 by defeating David Ferrer in Miami,Florida. It was Andy Murray’s 26th career tour title,and second of the year after having wining theBrisbane International in a tough two hours and 45minutes.

310. a Chandresh Kumari Katoch, the Minister of Culture,recently inaugurated the Tagore Centre for GlobalThought at India Institute of King’s College, London.Tagore Centre was established as the part of TagoreCommemoration where 150th Birth Anniversary ofGurudev Rabindranath Tagore was celebrated. Thecentre will aim at enhancing the Tagore-related,academic intellectual and philosophic work globally.

311. a In the ceremony of the Olive Crown Awards 2013,Grey Worldwide was awarded with Agency of theYear title.

312. b A “gate to hell” has emerged from ruins in southwesternTurkey, Italian archaeologists have announced. Knownas Pluto’s Gate — Plutonian in Greek, Plutonium inLatin — the cave was celebrated as the portal to theunderworld in Greco-Roman mythology and tradition.Historic sources located the site in the ancient Phrygian


city of Hierapolis, now called Pamukkale, and describedthe opening as filled with lethal mephitic vapors.

313. b S. Gopalakrishnan has been elected as the presidentof CII for the year 2013-14.

314. a Salil Bera was awarded with ‘Best ProfessionalPhotographer of the Year 2011-12’ award in theceremony of the 2nd National Photo Awards for theyear 2011-2012.

315. d The National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd, thelargest power utility of India was awarded the mostEfficient Maharatna-in Manufacturing for the year 2012award by Stock Magazine at 4th DSIJ Award in NewDelhi.

316. c The 2013 BRICS summit was the fifth annual BRICSsummit, an international relations conference attendedby the head of states or heads of government of thefive member states Brazil, Russia, India, China andSouth Africa. The summit was held in Durban, SouthAfrica in 2013. This completed the first cycle of BRICSsummits.

317. d The awardees were- Mahendra Kishore Verma ofYork University, Kavita Vachaknavi who is aninternationally acclaimed blogger, Krishna Kumar whois the Chairman of Gitanjali Multilingual Literary Circlein Birmingham and the organisation called Kavya Rang,a Global Association of Poets, Writers, Nottingham,UK.

318. c In a multiple launch mission, a Polar Satellite LaunchVehicle (PSLV-C20) put India-French satellite SARALand six others into their precise orbits after itssuccessful launch from the Sriharikota spaceport.

319. d It is a micro- satellite launched by PSLV-C-20.

320. c In the face of sluggish domestic demand and globaleconomic slowdown, Bihar has recorded a staggeringgrowth rate of 11.95 per cent rate annually at constantprices during 11th Five Year Plan, the highest amongstates. Per capita income (NSDP at current price) ofBihar is Rs 25,653 as against Rs 60,972 for All India in2011-12

321. a John Kerry is the 68th and current United StatesSecretary of State. He served as a United StatesSenator from Massachusetts from 1985 to 2013, andwas chairman of the Senate Foreign RelationsCommittee. Kerry was the presidential nominee of theDemocratic Party in the 2004 Presidential Election butlost to incumbent George W. Bush.

322. b Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty is current chairman of LalitKala Academy.

323. b A 16-year-old British girl has left some of the bestminds in the world shocked after scoring 161 in an IQtest – earning her a place in Mensa. Lauren Marbe,from Loughton, Essex, has ranked in the top percentileof minds in the world

324. a Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, was announced as winner ofIndira Gandhi peace prize for 2012. (Nov 20, 2012)

325. c Argo is a 2012 historical drama thriller film directed byBen Affleck. This dramatization is adapted from thebook The Master of Disguise by CIA operative TonyMendez, and Joshuah Berman’s 2007 Wired article“The Great Escape” about the “Canadian Caper”, inwhich Mendez led the rescue of six U.S. diplomatsfrom Tehran, Iran, during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.

326. a Ratan Tata, the former head of Tata Group wasawarded the life time achievement award 2012 byErnst & Young. He was given away the award fordisplaying great role for the Indian businessmen onglobal business level

327. a Union government has set the ball rolling to build thestrategic Tawang hydroelectric project in ArunachalPradesh. The 800-MW power project proposed to bebuilt on the Tawang Chu River has got forest clearance,with the Environment Ministry waiving the cumulativeimpact assessment for stage-I clearance that it wasearlier insisting.

328. c The first wildlife skywalk of India is proposed to be setup in Maenam wildlife sanctuary, Sikkim.

329. d The Court of Arbitration at The Hague on 18 February2013 allowed India to go ahead with the Constructionof the Kishanganga hydro-electric project in Gurezvalley near Bandipura in North Kashmir, the courtrejected the plea of Pakistan that the construction wasa violation of 1960 Indus Water Treaty. The Court ofArbitration, chaired by Stephen M. Schwebel in itsorders stated that India can move ahead with thediversion of water plans of Kishanganga that is atributary of Jhelum, for generation of hydro-electricpower.

330. a Australia won the ICC Women’s World Cup Trophy2013 after defeating West Indies.

331. c India won total 46 medals with 13 Gold medals.

332. a 6.1-6.7 %

333. b Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal presented theRailway Budget 2013-14 in the Lok Sabha.

334. d Iran, North Korea and Syria in March 2013 have blockedthe adoption of a UN arms trade treaty, which issupposed to regulate the70-billion dollars conventional


arms trade around the world. The text of the firstinternational treaty on arms trade needs support fromall 193 UN member states for its approval.

335. c Azadi Express is a tourism train which will connectplaces associated with freedom movement in India.

336. c In a landmark ruling, a South Korean court in Jan 2013sentenced a 31-year-old paedophile to 15 years in jailand ordered the country’s first ever chemicalcastration. South Korea was the first country in Asiato adopt this type of treatment, although Germany,Denmark, Sweden, Poland and the US state ofCalifornia have used it for years.

337. a Manpreet Kaur of All India Police won the women’s+75kg gold medal on the concluding day of the Nationalweightlifting championship at the SRM Universitycampus in January 2013.

338. a Lionel Messi is an Argentine soccer player. He wasawarded FIFA Ballon d’Or award 2012.

339. d Virat Kohali was named as CEAT International Cricketerof the Year 2012.

340. c China in the first week of January 2013 launched aPostage Stamp for the upcoming Year of snake. Thesnake depicts a reptile that carries a bright pearl in itsmouth in form of a gratitude for the man, who was asavior of its life. This stamp carries a face-value of1.20 Yuan i.e. 19 cents.

341. a As a custom it was exchanged on 1 January 2013.

342. b Victoria Azarenka won Australian open 2013 women’ssingle title by defeating Li-Na.

343. a McGrath became the 68th male member of the Hall ofFame and joined fellow 2012-13 inductees West IndianBrian Lara and England’s Enid Bakewell in beingrecognized by the ICC and the living members of theHall of Fame.

344. a Air India won the 125th edition of the Durand Cupdefeating Dodsal Mumbai at the Ambedkar Stadium inSeptember 2012.

345. c Ravi Shankar was posthumously awarded twoGrammy awards in 2013, one for lifetime achievementand another for The Living Room Sessions Part 1 inthe world music category.

346. b Life of Pi is a 2012 American 3D live-action/computer-animated adventure drama film based on Yann Martel’s2001 novel of the same name. Directed by Ang Lee,the film is based on an adapted screenplay by DavidMagee, and stars Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, GérardDepardieu, Tabu, and Adil Hussain.

347. d Saina Nehwal, MC Mary Com, M.S. Dhoni and A. P. J.Abdul Kalam are the national Icon of electioncommission of India.

348. c T20 world cup 2012 for the blind was organized atBengaluru.

349. a The Border Security Force (BSF) is a border guardingforce of the Government of India. Established onDecember 1, 1965, it is one of the Central Armed PoliceForces. it is one of the world’s largest border patrolforces. K F Rustomji, the BSF’s first Director Generalis referred to as founding father of the BSF. Its currentDirector General is Subhash Joshi.

350. d Veteran Congress leader Virbhadra Singh, is the hillstate’s Chief Minister for the sixth time from December2012

351. a Narendra Modi, who posted a resounding victory inthe assembly elections, will be sworn in as GujaratChief Minister for the fourth time. Mr. Modi becameChief Minister for the first time on October 1, 2001and subsequently in 2002 and 2007.

352. a SSB is a Border Guarding Force (BGF) under theadministrative control of the Ministry of Home Affairs.SSB was set up in early 1963 in the wake of the Indo-China conflict

353. b The five-member panel headed by former RBI GovernorY. V. Reddy is to submit its report by October 31,2014.

354. c Renowned film actress and Bharatanatyam exponentHema Malini has been selected for the prestigiousBharat Muni Samman for 2012.

355. a Shihab Ganem, a leading poet of the UAE and foremosttranslator of Indian poetry in Arabic, was awardedTagore Peace prize. The honour is awarded to a singleperson every two years.

356. b Pratibha Ray is an Odia novelist.

357. c He was part of Olympic gold medal winning teams inLondon (1948), Helsinki (1952) and Melbourne (1956).

358. c P.A Sangma has launched National People’s Party.

359. a Aparisim “Bobby” Ghosh is a journalist and TIMEMagazine’s World Editor. An Indian national, he is thefirst non-American to be named World Editor in TIME’smore than 80 years. He has previously been TIME’sBaghdad bureau chief, and one of the longest-servingcorrespondents in Iraq.


360. c Barak Obama has been named as the Time’s Personof the Year after his re-election in US presidential poll2012.

361. d Chhattisgarh assembly enacted its food security billon 21 December 2012 ahead of passage of a similarbill at union level.

362. b According to the 2013 Index of Economic Freedom,Hong Kong got the top rank.

363. c Salma Dam Project is located on Hari River inAfghanistan.

364. a India defeated Pakistan in the 3rd World Cup Kabadditournament played at Ludhiana.

365. c It was to come in to effect from April 1, 2014. But nowit will come into effect from April 1, 2016.

366. b Japanese asteroid mission called Hayabusa2 will returnto Earth with samples of asteroid 1999 JU3 at the endof 2020. The probe’s name is Japanese for “Falcon2.”

367. a Narendra Modi-led Gujarat has topped the list of 20large states in terms of economic freedom, governanceand inclusive growth. It displaced Tamil Nadu whichhad been at the top in 2009. According to the reportprepared by noted economists Bibek Debroy, LaveeshBhandari, Ashok Gulati and Swaminathan Aiyar,Gujarat is followed by Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh.The economic freedom index, which is based on themethodology developed by Canada-based FraserInstitute, is an indicator of economic governance, statelevel reforms and inclusive economic growth.

368. a 11th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas was held in Kochi from7-9 January, 2013.

369. d Sikkim which is home to around 5,000 species offlowering plants, 515 rare orchids, 60 primula species,36 rhododendron species, 11 oak varieties, 23 bamboovarieties, 16 conifer species, 362 types of ferns andferns allies, 8 tree ferns, and over 424 medicinal plantshosted out the second international flower from 23-27February.

370. a Janko Tipsareviæ won ATP Chennai Open 2013defeating Roberto Bautista-Agut.

371. c T.S. Vijayan, former chairman of Life InsuranceCorporation, took over as the chairman of the InsuranceRegulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) inFebruary 2013.

372. a

373. c

374. a Xi Jinping is the General Secretary of the CommunistParty of China, the President of the People’s Republicof China, and the Chairman of the Central MilitaryCommission. As General Secretary, he is also an exofficio member of the CPC Politburo Standing Committee,China’s de facto top decision-making body.

375. b Classical sitar maestro Ravi Shankar has beenawarded the first Tagore Award for Cultural Harmonyby a jury chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tomark the 150th birth anniversary of Nobel laureateRabindranath Tagore. The National ImplementationCommittee for Tagore’s anniversary celebrations waschaired by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee.

376. c Manik Sarkar assumed office as Tripura chief ministerfor a record fourth successive term.

377. a Narendra Kohli has been selected for the VyasSamman 2012 for his novel Na Bhuto NaBhavishyati.

378. b The veteran actor worked in films like Do AankhenBarah Haath, Maa and Daulat KiJung andSarawastichandra.

379. a The Cheetal is the upgraded variant of earlier Cheetahhelicopter

380. b JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav selected for the ‘OutstandingParliamentarian Award’for year 2012.

381. a The award was jointly conferred to DangoriaCharitable Trust, Hyderabad and M S SwaminathanResearch Foundation, Chennai.

382. a The Union Cabinet in March 2013 gave in principleapproval to a bill providing for time-bound delivery ofservices like pensions, passports, caste certificates,death certificates, ration cards and tax refunds, amongothers, to the citizens. Defaults will attract a penaltyof Rs 250 a day subject to a maximum of Rs 50,000.

383. a Find What You Seek, a film made by the Indian TourismMinistry, received first prize at the 11th Golden CityGate Tourism Media Awards Ceremony held in Berlin.The Golden City Gate is an international film, print andmedia contest for the tourism industry.

384. b Pakistan formally awarded the contract for theoperation of Gawadar Deep Seaport to China .

385. a

386. b Park Geun Hye became the first female President ofSouth Korea. She was elected in February 2013.


387. a The International Women of Courage Award is anAmerican award presented annually by the UnitedStates Department of State to women around theworld who have shown leadership, courage,resourcefulness and willingness to sacrifice forothers, especially for better promotion of women’srights. This year it has been posthumously given toNirbhaya, Delhi Gang rape victim.

388. b India’s position is third.

389 c

390. a Recently UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moonpresented the Thomas Jefferson Eternal Vigilanceaward to Hardeep Singh Puri , former PermanentRepresentative of India to United Nations for hisexemplary service to humanity.

391. d Four Indians are among the 36 students from variouscountries who have been selected as winners ofan international arts contest. They are Bhavya Mithra,Mankeert Narang, Jasmine Naran and Payel Saha.

392. c The ALMA space observatory, the world’s largestground-based observatory, was recently opened innorthern Chile.

393. d India and Bhutan signed a currency swap agreementfor up to $ 100 million to further economic co-operationbetween the two countries. The currency swaparrangement was signed between the Reserve Bankof India (RBI) and the Royal Monetary Authority ofBhutan (RMAB). It enables RMAB to make withdrawalsof US dollar, Euro or Indian rupee in multiple tranchesup to a maximum of $ 100 million or its equivalent.

394. b The Indian Media and Entertainment (M&E) industry isestimated to touch Rs.917 billion ($17 billion) - a growthof 11.8 percent, according to findings of the FICCI-KPMG Media and Entertainment 2013 report.

395. a Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) signed aMemorandum of Understanding (MoU) withGovernment of Kerala PSEs, Kerala State IndustrialDevelopment Corporation (KSIDC) and Kerala Mineralsand Metals Ltd (KMML), for setting up a Titanium Projectin Joint Venture in Kerala. Through this MOU, SAIL andKSIDC& KMML will explore possibilities of setting up ofthe Titanium Project in Joint Venture in Kerala, in aphased manner.

396. c Two-day International Workshop on Green NationalAccounting for India was held in New Delhi on 6April 2013.

397. a In 2013, the theme for the day is high blood pressure.

398. a Navanethem “Navi” Pillay (born 23 September 1941)is the United Nations High Commissioner for HumanRights.

399. c The Indian women’s cricket team finished the Twenty20International series against Bangladesh Women with3-0 clean sweep in Vadodara in the final match on 5April 2013. India won the final match by 10 runs againstBangladesh.

400. b The third SAARC Ministerial Level Meet on Povertyconcluded in Nepal on 5 April 2013. Therepresentatives from all the eight members of SAARCattended the meet and pledged to reduce regionalpoverty through strategic cooperation with each other.

401. c India’s biggest shopping mall ‘Lulu Mall’ has been openedin Kochi, Kerala.

402. a India’s Rahi Sarnobat won 25m Pistol Women eventat the 2013 ISSF Rifle and PistolWorld Cup inChangwon, Korea.

403. b The Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT) scheme, or directcash transfer, is likely to be expanded in 78 moredistricts in the next phase beginning July 1. The DBTsystem was rolled out from January 1 in a phasedmanner. It began in 20 districts with seven schemes.By March 1, it was expanded to cover 43 districts in16 States and Union Territories for 26 Central schemessuch as scholarships. Now the plan is to expand DBTin more districts with three pension schemes managedby the Ministry of Rural Development for old agepersons, widows and the disabled. Post offices willalso be included from October 1.

404. a The Lalit Suri Hospitality Group was conferred withthe National Award for Excellence in HospitalityEducation 2011-12 for the category Hotel undertakingskill development in the hospitality sector.

405. b Rupesh Shah won 12th Asian Billiards championship2013 by deafting Alok Kumar.

406. c Governor of Tripura is Devanand Konwar.

407. d In Tamil Nadu, nearly 5,000 young ones have beenborn of goats/sheep given under the Stategovernment’s scheme of free distribution of goats/sheep to the poorest of the poor.

408. c Raninder Singh is a Punjab politician and son of formerchief minister Capt. Amrinder Singh.

409. c Both Indian Oil Corporation Limited and HCLTechnologies Limited.

410. a Deepak S. Parekh is Chairman of HDFC.


411. b Padma Shri Awardee Professor Bratindra NathMukherjee, the renowned historian and an epigraphyexpert died in Kolkata.

412. a The Indian security establishment is up in arms over‘Mapathon 2013’, a public competition organized byGoogle India to update its internet maps, holding thatsuch “unauthorized” endeavors could have seriousrepercussions for national security.

413. c The Minister of Railways Pawan Kumar Bansalinaugurated International Conference on DedicatedFreight Corridor Challenges and Opportunities on 4April 2013 at Hotel Le Meridien, New Delhi.

414. b Milos Zeman emerged as winner of the first directPresidential elections held in Czech Republic in January2013.

415. b Ayesha Haroon belonged to Pakistan.

416. a World Cancer Day (WCD) is observed every year onFebruary 4.

417. a Rohinton F. Nariman resigned from his office of Solicitor-General of India on 4th February 2013.

418. b Captain Michael Clarke won his fourth Allan BorderMedal and was named Australia’s Test Player of theYear.

419. b Rajkeswur Purryag is the President of Republic ofMauritius.

420. d Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, the King of Bhutanwas the Chief Guest for the Republic Day Celebration.

421. c Yes Bank, India’s fourth largest private sector Bank,was awarded the ‘Financial Institutions SyndicatedDeal of the Year 2012’ in the Asia Pacific Region for itsUSD 155mnSyndicated Loan.

422. a Afzal Guru (died 9 February 2013) was a convict inthe December 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament.

423. c U.S. Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford took command ofthe NATO-led International Security Assistance Forcein Afghanistan, where he will oversee the final twoyears of the war and the withdrawal of nearly alltroops.

424. a ‘Operation Three Star’ was the code name of the entiretop secret plan in which Jaish-e -Mohammad terroristAfzal Guru was hanged.

425. d The Hatf IX, named Nasr, is a solid fuelled battlefieldrange ballistic missile (BRBM) system developed byPakistan.

426. a Commodore Josaia Voreqe (Frank) Bainimarama is thepresent Prime Minister of Fiji.

427. a World Radio Day is 13th February.

428. b At 27th Surajkund International Crafts Mela the themestate was Karnataka,of this year’s Mela.

429. c Bangladesh has banned Hindi-dubbed version of thepopular Japanese cartoon Doraemon from its TVscreens over fears that youngsters hooked to it mightstruggle to learn their native tongue Bengali.

430. a Very popular Ecuador leader Rafael Correa has beenre-elected for the third term as the president. He isemerging as the new leader of South Americancontinent in wake of death of Hugo Chavez.

431. d Silk route car rally organised by Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar forum for regional cooperation is anattempt to retrace the ancient trade route.

432. a Keeping India’s maritime security needs, Indian CoastGuards commissioned a new interceptor boat,C-154. It can achieve a maximum speed of 35 knotsand it suitable for high-speed interception, patrol, low-intensity maritime operations, search-and-rescue andsurveillance. This ship will be based in Mumbai andwill serve the entire coast of Maharashtra. It will alsohelp in securing the western coast of the country.

433. b India has been ranked 136 out of 187 countriesevaluated for HDI (Human Developement Index)by UNDP. HDI provides a comparative measure forassessing progress in standard of living of citizens ofa country.

434. c Walking with Lions: Tales from a Diplomatic Past –was written by K Natwar Singh.

435. b India hosted the second meeting of India-Afghanistan-US trilateral dialogue in New Delhi.

436. b Rajeev Shahare is the current Indian HighCommissioner to Maldives.

437. a Mukesh Ambani is the richest man of India for the year2013 with net worth $US21.5 bn

438. c Rajasthani author Hariram Meena was selected forthe Bihari Puraskar for 2012 for Hindi novel DhooniTape Teer. The novel was published in 2008. DhooniTape Teer is a novel based on the deaths of tribalpeople in Banswara in Rajasthan on 17 November1913. The Bihari Puraskar is selected annually by apanel, which at present is headed by Nand KishoreAcharya.


439. c Indian President Pranab Mukherjee was conferred withthe Liberation War Honour Award for his “outstandingcontribution” to the 1971 war.

440. a IPSOS Best City Survey and Awards 2013 referredas Best City 2013 for Public Transport is Nagpur.

441. a Former CBI director and Himachal Pradesh DGPAshwani Kumar was sworn in as the 17th Governorof Nagaland at the Durbar Hall of Raj Bhavan in Kohima.Kumar succeeded Nikhil Kumar who has beenappointed as the governor of Kerala to completeremaining of his gubernatorial assignment.

442. a Tan Twan Eng scoops Asia’s top literary prize for TheGarden of Evening Mists.

443. b World Consumer Rights Day was observed on 15March 2013 for creating awareness in terms ofconsumer protection measures as well as consumerrights.

444. d The World Future Energy Summit (WFES) is the world’sforemost annual event, dedicated to advancing futureenergy, energy efficiency and clean technologies.

445. a Malala Yousafzai, 15, the schoolgirl from Pakistan shotby Taliban for campaigning girls’ education, on 9January 2013 received France’s Simone de BeauvoirPrize for Women’s Freedom in Paris. Malala’s fatherZiaudin Yousafzai received the honour on her behalf.The award is accompanied with 2.5 million Rupeeshonorarium.

446. c The Children Science Congress was inaugurated byformer President of India Dr. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam inKolkata at S.N.Bose National Center for Basic Sciences.On this occasion some young students viz, Tunir De,Kapil, Fayyam Sheikh, Reema Kumar, Babita, KusumitGhodekar, Anuradha Dasgupta, Angel Divyesh Mishra,B. Madhu and Pulkit Ghoderao, ll from different partsof country were also presented with the Infosys TravelAwards by Dr. Kalaam.

447. a D K Jain is the chairman of the 12th Law Commissionof India. Justice Jain, have a three-year tenure andhas been saddled with a wide terms of referenceincluding one to examine existing laws from the genderequality perspective and suggest necessaryamendments.

448. a China has launched construction of a new $476 millionnuclear power plant with a 200 MW fourth generationreactor, claimed to be the first in the world forcommercial usage. It marks China’s latest move tospeed up nuclear power development, which came toa halt after the Fukushima atomic crisis in Japan in2011.

449. b Ireland’s prestigious Tipperary International Peace Prizefor 2012 was awarded on 3 January 2013 to MalalaYousafzai the teenage schoolgirl from Pakistan, whowas shot by Taliban’s Gunman in October 2012. Malalawould be conferred with the award for her bravery,courage and determination to speak and support thecause of access to equal education for every child.With this award, Malala became the second PakistaniNational to win the award. Before this, Lt. BenazirBhutto was awarded with the same award in 2007.

450. b M.S. Gopalakrishnan, aka MSG, was a violinist in thefield of Carnatic music.

451. c The Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre is one of the mainResearch & Development establishments within ISRO.VSSC is an entirely indigenous facility working on thedevelopment of sounding rockets; Rohini and Menakalaunchers; ASLV, PSLV GSLV and the GSLV Mk III.VSSC’s current director is S. Ramakrishnan. He tookover from P.S. Veeraraghavan on December 31, 2012.

452. b Career diplomat Patrick Suckling was on 30 December2012 had been appointed as Australia’s next HighCommissioner to India.

453. a The 2013 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament (orRotterdam Open) was a men’s tennis tournamentplayed on indoor hard courts. It took place in the Dutchcity of Rotterdam, between 11–17 February 2013. Itwas the 41st edition of the Rotterdam Open, whoseofficial name is the ABN AMRO World TennisTournament. The competition was part of the ATP WorldTour 500 series of the 2013 ATP World Tour. JuanMartín del Potro won the singles title.

454. a The 24th road safety week was celebrated from 1stJanuary to 7th January 2013,and the theme was “StayAlive, don’t drink and drive”.

455. b The 4th World Telugu Conference was organized atTirupati in December 2012.

456. b Montek Singh Ahluwalia is currently the DeputyChairman of the Planning Commission for India. He hasbeen a key figure in India’s economic reforms from themid 1980s onwards. For his outstanding contributionto economic policy and public service, he wasconferred the prestigious ‘Padma Vibhushan’ byPresident of India in 2011.

457. a The Chairman of the Indian Railway Board is theadministrative head of the Indian Railways, whichfunctions under the overall control of the Parliament ofIndia through the Minister for railways.

458. b Shinzô Abe is the Prime Minister of Japan, in officesince 2012. President of the Liberal Democratic Party(LDP) and chairman of the Oyagaku propulsion


parliamentary group, Abe is the 90th Japanese PrimeMinister, elected by a special session of the NationalDiet on 26 September 2006. He was then Japan’syoungest post-World War II prime minister and the firstborn after the war.

459. c The National Green Tribunal has been established on18.10.2010 under the National Green Tribunal Act 2010for effective and expeditious disposal of cases relatingto environmental protection and conservation offorests and other natural resources includingenforcement of any legal right relating to environmentand giving relief and compensation for damages topersons and property and for matters connectedtherewith or incidental thereto. It is a specialized bodyequipped with the necessary expertise to handleenvironmental disputes involving multi-disciplinaryissues. The Tribunal shall not be bound by theprocedure laid down under the Code of CivilProcedure, 1908, but shall be guided by principles ofnatural justice.

460. c The oil-rich United Arab Emirates (UAE) on 17 March2013 officially opened the world’s largest concentratedsolar power plant. The solar power plant opened isthe 600-million dollar project which is aimed at providingelectricity to 20000 homes. The solar power stationwhich is named Shams 1 was inaugurated in MadinatZayed by the President of UAE and the Ruler of AbuDhabi, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

461. b Madhya Pradesh Government recently declared‘Malkhamb’ as the state sport and also launched‘Mission Olympics 2020’ for imparting coaching to thebudding talents. Malkhamb is an ancient sport and aplayer is required to have a unique technique andplayers mastering it can also excel in wrestling,gymnastics, pole vault and other sports, according toexperts.

462. a Jamjang Deru won silver in the 50 kg boys’ categoryat Tashkent, Uzbekistan in the world youth weightliftingchampionships 2013.

463. b The High Court of Delhi on 9 April 2013 recommendedthe Union Government of India to constitute a StatutoryRegulatory Body to control Electronic Media. The HighCourt Bench of Delhi led by Justice Pradeep Nandarajogrejected the idea of self-regulation of the broadcasters.The Court in its judgment ruled that state interventionis necessary to promote the media environment that ischaracterized by pluralism and diversity.

464. a The National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd wasconferred with the Business Leader in the PowerSector at the NDTV Business Leadership Awards inNew Delhi on 9 April 2013. The award was given byDeputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of India,Montek Singh Ahluwalia.

465. a Yamaha Motor Co., the renowned Japanese two-wheeler maker, has established a new Research andDevelopment (R&D) unit near its manufacturing plantbased in Surajpur, Uttar Pradesh.

466. a Ricoh Innovations Corporation, a subsidiary of RicohCompany Ltd, launched a mobile visual search platform,Ocutag, which connects users with a variety of digitalmedia by capturing an image.

467. b Recently Iran has started production from these mines.

468. c The luxury private vessel ‘Azzam’ - with a beam 68-feet high - overshadows previous longest super yacht,The Eclipse, by 57-feet,A German shipyard haslaunched the world’s largest private yacht at 590-feetlong, which also happens to be among the fastestvessels, costing a whopping USD 609 million.

469. a Odisha has decided to set up the first public healthuniversity in India under Public-Private Partnership modeat Gramadiha village in Jatni tehsil on the outskirts ofBhubaneswar.

470. b The story of a deaf and mute boy, Barfi! turned out tobe the top winner at the maiden edition of the Times ofIndia Film Awards (TOIFA 2013) cornering the BestFilm, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actresstrophies.

471. a Hockey India announced its High Performance andDevelopment Committee for 2013-14. The 15 membercommittee will be headed by Dr Narinder BatraSecretary General of Hockey India and HighPerformance Director; Hockey India Roelant Oltmanswill be the Vice-Chairman.

472. b National Association of Software and ServicesCompanies (NASSCOM) announced that the ExecutiveCouncil has appointed Mr. Krishnakumar Natarajan,MD & CEO of Mindtree Ltd, as the Chairman ofNASSCOM for the year 2013-14.

473. a Karnataka,has constructed houses for ScheduledCaste and Scheduled Tribe families under the ‘GrihaBhagya scheme’.

474. a Rs. 1,000 crore fund was made by finance minister PChidambaram while presenting the Union Budget for2013-14,for the setting up of Nirbhaya Fund forsecurity of women.

475. b Serena Williams Defeats Jelena Jankovic to Win 2013Family Circle Cup Title.

476. a Country’s largest bank SBI will discontinue a freeaccident insurance cover given to its home and carloan customers from July this year(2013).


477. a The UN human rights chief, Navi Pillay, has urged theUS to close Guantanamo Bay, saying the indefinitedetention of many inmates there without charge ortrial violates international law.

478. d The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting hasreconstituted the Central Press AccreditationCommittee(CPAC).The tenure of the committee shallbe two years from its first meeting.

479. b The Vice Chairman and Managing Director of BhartiEnterprises Rajan Bharti Mittal on 31 March 2013appointed as the President of International Chamberof Commerce (ICC) India.

480. a India and Azerbaijan have signed a treaty on legal andjudicial cooperation in civil and commercial matters.

481. a The 4th Meeting of the India-Mongolia Joint Committeeon Cooperation was held in New Delhi on 21 March2013. It was jointly chaired by Mr. E. Ahamed, Ministerof State for External Affairs of India, and Mr.Luvsannyam Gantumur, Minister for Education andScience of Mongolia.

482. b The 2nd National Photo Awards for the year 2011-2012 were given away on 28 March 2013 at VigyanBhavan, New Delhi.Best Amateur Photographer of theYear 2011-12 as Subhash Jirange.

483. a Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi resigned in the wakeof a dispute with India over the 2012 killing of twoIndian fishermen.

484. a Vineet Jain, the Managing Director of Times Groupwas conferred with the Contribution to NewsTelevision Award 2013 by the Indiantelevision.com atthe Sixth News Television Awards.

485. d Brazil and China Signed the Currency SwapAgreement at BRICS Summit 2013 in South Africa.

486. a Tiger Woods won the third PGA Tour title 2013.

487. b Two-time Pulitzer winner Anthony Lewis, whose NewYork Times column championed liberal causes for threedecades, died on 25 March 2013 in Boston.

488. a Gen. Pervez Musharraf served as the tenth Presidentof Pakistan from 2001 until 2008.

489. b Navneet Kaur Dhillon crowned Femina Miss India 2013in 50th edition of the beauty pageant.

490. d Kartar Lalvani, the NRI entrepreneur was conferredwith the Healthcare Businessman of the Year Award2013 at the Asian Business Awards ceremony.

491. b Commercial production of Aishwarya Oil Field at Barmerin Rajasthan has started in March 2013.

492. a India on 24 March 2013 won the fourth and the finaltest with 6 wickets remaining against Australia in theAlan Border Series – Australia Tour to India, at FerozShah Kotla Stadium, Delhi.

493. d Recently High Courts were established in Tripura,Manipur and Meghalaya.

494. c Arunachal Pradesh in the month of March 2013 becamethe first state to introduce e-GPF or electronic GPF.

495. b The International Day of Happiness is celebratedthroughout the world on 20 March. It was establishedby the United Nations General Assembly on 28 June2012.

496. d Babasaheb Neelkanth Kalyani, the Chairman andManaging Director of Bharat Forge Limited wasnominated by the Government of India for the post ofChairman of India-Japan Business Leader’s Forum(IJBLF).

497. a S. Venkata Mohan a scientist of the Indian Institute ofChemical Technology, on 19 March 2013 won theNational Bioscience Award for 2012 in Hyderabad,for his contributions towards developing technologiesfor production of clean bio-fuels from waste.

498. c Toyo Ito, is a Japanese architect. He was declared asthe winner of 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize on 18March 2013.

499. c Australia, the World Champions won the Sultan AzlanShah Hockey Tournament title for the seventh time on17 March 2013. Australia defeated Malaysia 3-2 in thefinal match in Malaysia.

500. b According to Stockholm International Peace ResearchInstitute (SIPRI),The five largest suppliers of majorconventional weapons during the five-year period2008–12 were the United States (30 per cent of globalarms exports), Russia (26 per cent), Germany (7 percent), France (6 per cent) and China (5 per cent).

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