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General Awareness

1. The P5+1 countries (USA, UK, France, Russia, China and Germany) signed a historic nuclear

deal with which of the following countries in Geneva on November 24, 2013?

1) Syria 2) North Korea 3) Libya 4) Iran 5) Lebanon

2. Magnus Carlsen became the new world chess champion beating five-time title-holder

Viswana-than Anand in Chennai in November 2013. Magnus Carlsen belongs to?

1) Russia 2) Norway 3) Israel 4) USA 5) Sweden

3. Virat Kohli is the joint-fastest to score 5000 one day international runs in 114 innings. He

equaled the world record of?

1) Brian Lara 2) Gordon Greenidge 3) Vivian Richards

4) AB de Villiers 5) Sourav Ganguly

4. Who was appointed as the new Chairman of the 20th Law Commission of India on

November 22, 2013? (He succeeded Justice D.K. Jain)

1) Justice A.K. Patnaik 2) Justice T.S. Thakur

3) Justice Surinder Singh Nijjar 4) Justice Ajit Prakash Shah

5) Justice Dipak Misra

5. Which of the following is not a hill station in South India?

1) Ooty 2) Kodaikanal 3) Munnar

4) Coimbatore 5) Wayanad

6. Which of the following words was named Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year in

November 2013?

1) Selfie 2) Twerk 3) Binge-watch

4) Schmeat 5) Bitcoin

7. Who has been elected honorary foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

(CAS), the first Indian to be so honored?

1) Yash Pal 2) Roddam Narsimha 3) CNR Rao

4) K. Radhakrishnan 5) V.K. Saraswat


8. The 3rd BRICS International Competition Conference was held in November 2013 in?

1) Durban 2) Brasilia 3) Sanya

4) Moscow 5) New Delhi

9. Who was named Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Player of the Year for the fifth time

in November 2013?

1) Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) 2) Sara Errani (Italy)

3) Maria Sharapova (Russia) 4) Serena Williams (USA)

5) Marion Bartoli (France)

10. Who is the youngest world chess champion?

1) Magnus Carlsen 2) Garry Kasparov 3) Veselin Topalov

4) Anatoly Karpov 5) Viswanathan Anand

11. How many crore jobs were created in India between 2001 and 2011?

1) 10 crore 2) 8 crore 3) 11crore 4) 12 crore 5) 5 crore

12. Which country won the Sudirman Cup badminton championship in Kuala Lumpur,

Malaysia in May 2013?

1) China 2) South Korea 3) Malaysia 4) India 5) Thailand

13. Ronnie O' Sulivan and Barry Hawkins are associated with?

1) Basketball 2) Badminton 3) Snooker 4) Boxing 5) Golf

14. Which team won the 64th Rangaswamy Cup Senior National Hockey Championship in May

2013?

1) Karnataka 2) Uttar Pradesh 3) Mumbai

4) Punjab 5) Andhra Pradesh

15. India signed Extradition Treaty with which of the following countries in May 2013 after

two decades of negotiations?

1) Japan 2) Germany 3) South Korea 4) Pakistan 5) Thailand

16. The Chennai-Bengaluru Industrial Corridor will be set up with the help of?

1) Japan 2) Russia 3) China 4) Bangladesh 5) Sri Lanka




17. Who among the following is not a Prime Minister of a country?

1) Shinzo Abe 2) Yingluck Shinawatra 3) Li Keqiang

4) Nawaz Sharif 5) Hassan Rouhani

18. Which country's Prime Minister was conferred Pakistan's highest civil award Nishan-e-

Pakistan in May 2013?

1) India 2) China 3) Bangladesh 4) UK 5) Australia

19. The President of India is elected by the members of an electoral college consisting of

elected members of?

1) Both Houses of Parliament 2) The Legislative Assemblies of the States

3) Union Council of Ministers 4) Both 1 and 2

5) Both 1 and 3

20. Identify the mismatched pair?

1) Baichung Bhutia - Football 2) Gagan Narang - Shooting

3) Vijay Kumar - Shooting 4) Yogeshwar Dutt - Boxing

5) Mary Kom - Boxing

21. SEBI introduced "Basic Services Demat Account" (BSDA) recently. What is the maximum

value of securities in a BSDA at any point of time?

1) Rs. 1 lakh 2) Rs. 2 lakh 3) Rs. 3 lakh 4) Rs. 4 lakh 5) Rs. 5 lakh

22. Ericsson, one of the world's largest telecom equipment manufacturers, is based in?

1) Spain 2) Iceland 3) Ireland 4) Switzerland 5) Sweden

23. Identify the mismatched pair?

1) Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology - Hyderabad

2) Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research - Kalpakkam

3) Vikram Sarabhai Space Research Centre - Thiruvananthapuram

4) Indian Space Research Organization - Sriharikota

5) Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited - Mumbai

24. What is Wakhan Corridor?

1) An area of far north-eastern Afghanistan that forms a corridor between Afghanistan and

China




2) Part of the border between India and China in Ladakh region

3) A passage between Iran and Afghanistan

4) A corridor between India and Pakistan

5) None of these

25. Who was the Chairman of the Committee on integration of thousands of employees after

the merger of Air India and Indian Airlines?

1) D.M. Dharmadhikari 2) Sam Pitroda 3) Anil Kakodkar

4) C. Rangarajan 5) None of these

26. Adi Godrej Committee is related to?

1) Telecom Sector Reforms

2) National Corporate Governance Policy

3) Indian Railways High Level Safety Review

4) Financial Sector Legislative Reforms

5) Banking Sector Reforms

27. Which of the following programs aims to help build or upgrade dwelling units of below

the poverty line rural families?

1) MGNREGP 2) Jawahar Rozgar Yojana

3) JNNURM 4) National Social Assistance Program

5) None of these

28. In Indian context NSAB stands for?

1) National Society for Animal Breeders

2) National Support Activity for Banks

3) National Security Advisory Board

4) National Spiritual Assembly of Buddhists

5) None of these

29. Adly Mansour, Francois Hollande and Bashar al-Assad are the current Presidents respec-

tively of?

1) Qatar, France, Lebanon 2) Jordan, Germany, Syria

3) Egypt, Canada , Iraq 4) Egypt , France, Syria

5) Iraq, France, Jordan




30. Essar group of companies is promoted by?

1) Ruias 2) Tatas 3) Goenkas 4) Kanorias 5) Ambanis

31. Hero group of companies is owned by?

1) Hindujas 2) Firodias 3) Munjals 4) Birlas 5) None of these

32. Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable lake in the world. It is located on the border of?

1) USA and Canada 2) USA and Mexico

3) Peru and Bolivia 4) Chile and Argentina

5) Namibia and South Africa

33. The Great Victoria is the largest desert in?

1) Australia 2) Mongolia 3) Namibia 4) Argentina 5) Algeria

34. Which of the following substances is most commonly used for cloud seeding (artificial

rains)?

1) Zinc Sulphate 2) Silver Iodide

3) Magnesium Hydroxide 4) Potassium Chloride

5) Potassium Nitrate

Answers

1) 4 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 4 6) 1 7) 3

8) 5 9) 4 10) 2 11) 2 12) 1 13) 3 14) 1

15) 5 16) 1 17) 5 18) 2 19) 4 20) 4 21) 2

22) 5 23) 4 24) 1 25) 1 26) 2 27) 5 28) 3

29) 4 30) 1 31) 3 32) 3 33) 1 34) 2



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