Quiz 53
1. on the recommendation of which committee was NABARD established?
(a) Shivraman
(b) Rangarajan
(c) Malegam
(d) Vijay Kelkar
2. ‘Swabhiman’, the financial inclusion scheme, comes under the purview of which ministry?
(a) Ministry of Commerce
(b) Ministry of Home Affairs
(c) Ministry of Finance
(d) Ministry of External Affairs
3. RBI was established on ___________.
(a) 1st of April 1925
(b) 1st of April 1935
(c) 1st of April 1945
(d) 1st of April 1955
4. One Rupee note bears the signature of____________.
(a) RBI Governor
(b) Deputy Governor
(c) Finance Secretary
(d) Finance Minister
5. Which among the following does RBI not decide?
(a) CAR
(b) CRR
(c) Base Rate
(d) Bank Rate
6. What does ‘T’ in RTGS stand for?
(a) Transaction
(b) Transfer
(c) Tax
(d) Time
7. In Banking, IFSC code stands for_________________.
(a) International Format System Code
(b) Indian Function System Code
(c) International Forex System Code
(d) Indian Financial System Code
8. If a customer does not get a satisfactory response to his grievance from the bank within _____
days, then he can approach the Banking Ombudsman.
(a) 60
(b) 90
(c) 30
(d) 15
9. Which of the following organizations is the Mutual Fund Market regulator?
(a) AMFI
(b) SEBI
(c) CIBIL
(d) CRISIL
10. Which of the following statements is incorrect regarding RTGS system?
(a) The transactions take place in real time.
(b) The system operates on DNS (Deferred Net Settlement) basis.
(c) The minimum amount that can be remitted is Rs. 2 lakhs.
(d) Service Charges for RTGS transactions vary from one bank to another.
11. Banks have recently launched a service through which money can be
transferred using mobile phones, this service is known as
(a) MMTF (Mobile Money Transfer Facility)
(b) MTMT (Mobile To Mobile Transfer)
(c) IMPS (Inter Bank Mobile Payment Service)
(d) IBMPS (Internet Banking Mobile Payment Service)
12. Which among the following is at times mentioned as a kind of Direct Debit Facility?
(a) ECS
(b) RTGS
(c) IMPS
(d) UTR
13. The discounting rate at which RBI borrows government securities from commercial banks is
known as
(a) Repo Rate
(b) Reverse Repo
(c) Deposit Rate
(d) Base Rate
14. Which among the following is an instrument of monetary policy used by the RBI?
(a) Base Rate
(b) PLR
(c) CRR
(d) BPLR
15. Which among the following statements is incorrect in the context of IMPS?
(a) It’s a mobile to mobile fund transfer facility.
(b) For this facility we need a GPS enabled mobile phone.
(c) Both the sender and receiver must have an account in the same bank.
(d) Both the customers must have an MMID (Mobile Money Identifier Number) number.
16) The Key F12 opens a
(a) Save as dialog box
(b) Open dialog box
(c) Close dialog box
(d) Close dialog box
17) Where can you find the horizontal split bar on MS word screen?
(a) On the left of horizontal scroll bar
(b) On the right of horizontal scroll bar
(c) On the top of vertical scroll bar
(d) On the bottom of vertical scroll bar
18) How many ways you can save a document?
(a) 3
(b) 4
(c) 5
(d) 6
19) Which of the following is not available on the ruler of MS word screen?
(a) Tab stop box
(b) Left indent
(c) Right Indent
(d) Center Indent
20) Which of the following is not valid version of MS office?
(a) Office XP
(b) Office 2007
(c) Office vista
(d) Office 2010
21) Meaning of MELEE
(a) Disorder
(b) Mixture
(c) Meeting
(d) Gallery
22) Nearest meaning of CAVALIER
(a) Uneasy
(b) Unfortunate
(c) Untimely
(d) Unconcerned
23) Nearest meaning of CULL
(a) Reject
(b) Rejoice
(c) Argue
(d) Select
24) Nearest meaning of DISINGENUOUS
(a) Insincere
(b) Genuine
(c) Costly
(d) Risky
25) Nearest meaning of CAJOLE
(a) Flatter
(b) Waste
(c) Verify
(d) Report
Answers:
1. (a) NABARD (National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development) was
established in 1982 on the recommendation of Shivraman Committee.
2. (c) Ministry of Finance.
3. (b) RBI was established on 1st of April 1935.
4. (c) Finance Secretary.
5. (c) Base Rate is decided by Commercial Banks not RBI.
6. (d) RTGS-Real Time Gross Settlement system is a funds transfer systems
where transfer of money or securities takes place from one bank to another on a “real time”.
(Real time means within fraction of seconds.)
7. (d) Indian Financial System Code.
8. (c) 30 days.
9. (b) SEBI is also known as Capital regulator or Mutual funds regulator or Market regulator. SEBI is
also created investors protection fund and SEBI is the only organization which regulate the
credit rating agencies in India such as CRISIL and CIBIL.
10. (b) NEFT-National Electronic Fund Transfer. This is a method used for transferring funds across
banks in a secure manner. It usually takes 1-2 working days for the transfer to happen. NEFT
is an electronic fund transfer system that operates on a Deferred Net Settlement (DNS) basis
which settles transactions in batches. RTGS does not works on DNS.
11. (c) IMPS-Interbank Mobile Payment Service is an instant interbank electronic fund transfer service
through mobile phones. Both the customers must have MMID (Mobile Money Identifier
Number) number.
12. (a) ECS: Electronic Clearing Service.
13. (a) Also called Repurchase Rate, the rate at which the RBI lends money to the banks or in other
words we can say that Repo rate is the discounting rate at which central bank borrows
government securities from commercial bank. Repo means repurchase agreement between
RBI & commercial bank.
14. (c) CRR (Cash Reserve Ratio)
15. (b) We don’t need any GPS enabled cell phone for IMPS.
1) A 2) C 3) B 4) C 5) C 6) D 7) D 8) C 9) B 10) B
11) C 12) A 13) A 14) C 15) B 16) A 17) C 18) A 19) D 20) C
21) A 22) D 23) B 24) A 25) A
Q1 Market segmentation is useful for
1) Preferential Marketing
2) Target existing markets.
3) Identifying prospects
4) Knowing customers taste
Q2 How will words appear on a word doc page? We call it as?
1)
2)
3)
4)
Text formatting
Character formatting
Point size
Type face
Q3) As per the annual report of “State of World’s mothers 2013” India’s ranking in Mother safety is
1)
2)
3)
4)
140
176
150
142
Q4) Recently hill forts of which state were added to UNESCO world heritage list?
1)
2)
3)
4)
Gujarat
Rajasthan
Karnataka
Tamilnadu
Q5) According to a recent study, an increase in mercury level is leading to decline of which species?
1)
2)
3)
4)
Polar Bear
Wild Goats
Penguins
Artic Fox
Q6) Approximately what fraction of India’s total export is contributed by the MSME sector?
1)
2)
3)
4)
20%
30%
40%
45%
Q7 Once an budget has been presented in the parliament, the government has to get all the money
bills related to the budget passed within?
1)
2)
3)
4)
30 days
60days
45 days
90 days
Q8) Recently RBI has simplified KYC norms for which of the following?
1)
2)
3)
4)
Self help groups
Joint liability Companies
Primary agricultural societies
All of them
Q9) The flags of which of the following entities also have their map on them?
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
Kosovo
Cyprus
Vatican City
1&2
All of them
Q10) Narcopolis is a book written by?
1)
2)
3)
4)
JeetThayil
Anita Desai
ArvindAdiga
ChetanBhagat
Q11) BANCON 2013 was hosted by?
1)
2)
3)
4)
Bank of Maharashtra
Bank of Baroda
SBI
PNB
Q12) In this year’s union budget ministry of agriculture was allocated?
1)
2)
3)
4)
Rs 27049 Crore
Rs 25000 Crore
Rs 14000 Crore
Rs 83000 Crore
Q13) In MS Access, a table can have how many primary keys?
1)
2)
3)
4)
One
Two
Three
Four
Q14) Which of the following is applicable in case of books?
1)
2)
3)
4)
Copyright
Patent
Legal Right
Trademark
Q15) SPV in financial sector means?
1) Special purpose vehicle
2) Special Project vehicle
3) Special Project Venture
Quiz 52
1) Which of the following services is provided only by the Reserve Bank of India?
A) Compilation of economic data
B) Issue of currency notes
C) Purchase and sale of gold/gold coins
D) Sale of Demand drafts
2) Which of the following committee/task force was set up to suggest reforms in banking sector?
A) Task force on infrastructure
B) Narsimhan Committee
C) Rajinder Sachar Committee
D) Swaminathan Committee
3) Pranab Mukherjee won the presidential election against
A) P A Sangma
B) Pratibha Patil
C) A P J Abdul Kalam
D) Hamid Ansari
4) Which of the following is a public sector undertaking?
A) AXIS bank
B) Reliance Power
C) Hindustan Motors
D) Indian Oil corporation Ltd.
5) Which of the following is decided by the RBI?
A) Interest rate on time deposits
B) Rent of safe deposit vaults
C) Inflation Rate
D) Cash reserve ration
6) Which of the following acts ensures that every child gets school education?
A) RTI act
B) RTE act
C) Apprentice act
D) Government grants act
7) What does the letter C denote in the term 'CBS' as used in banking operations?
A) Central
B) Critical
C) Commercial
D) Core
8) Which country is fasted in internet for Average peak speed as per June 30, 2013?
A) South Korea
B) Hongkong
C) Japan
D) India
9) China will spend _____billion $ on air pollution control as per July 2013.
A) 234 bn
B) 275 bn
C) 280 bn
D) 300 bn
10) Which Indian city will host the 29th annual meeting of the world economic forum in November
2013?
A) Kochi
B) Mumbai
C) New Delhi
D) Chennai
11) UN Public service day is observed on??
A) 26th june
B) 22nd June
C) 23rd June
D) 27th June
12) Which entity has proposed a separate wealth management unit for banks involved in wealth and
portfolio management services in June 2013?
A) RBI
B) IBA
C) SEBI
D) FICCI
13) In which Indian city, the first ever Chinese film festival inaugurated in June 2013?
A) Hyderabad
B) Mumbai
C) New delhi
D) Chennai
14) Which Indian ad agency won two gold lions at cannes advertising festival held in June 2013?
A) Taproot India
B) Grey Worldwide India
C) O&M India
D) None of these
15) Programming language built into user programs such as Word and Excel are known as ......
A) 4GLs
B) Macro languages
C) object-oriented languages
D) Visual programming languages
16) Firewalls are used to protect against.......
A. unauthorized Attacks
B. virus Attacks
C. Data Driven Attacks
D. Fire Attacks
17) The software tools that enable a user to interact with a computer
for specific purposes are known as .......
A. Hardware
B. Networked Software
C. Shareware
D. Applications
18) When a file contains instructions that can be carried out by the computer, it is often called a(n)
...... File
A. data
B. information
C. executable
D. application
19) A complier translates a program written in a high - level language into........
A. Machine language
B. An algorithm
C. A debugged program
D. Java
20) A set of step - by - step procedures for accomplishing a task is known as a(n) .....
A. algorithm
B. hardware program
C. software bug
D. firmware program
21) Choose nearest meaning of Smarmy
A) Become rich by unfair means
B) Become successful by hard work
C) Become popular by flattery
D) Become smart by dieting
22) Meaning of Insidious
A) Perfidious
B) Insolvent
C) Soothe
D) Instinct
23) Nearest meaning of MINCE
A) Speak Slowly
B) Shout Angrily
C) Shake Mildly
D) Walk affectedly
24) Meaning of Entail
A) Resolve
B) Repeat
C) Involve
D) Invite
25) Meaning of dragoon
A) Agree
B) Convince
C) Convert
D) Compel
Answers: 1) B 2) B 3) A 4) D 5) D 6) B 7) D 8) B 9) B 10) A
11) C 12) A 13) C 14) A 15) D 16) A 17) D 18) C 19) A 20) A
21) C 22) A 23) C 24) C 25) D
Quiz 51
1) Collateralized Borrowing and Lending Obligation (CBLO) is a/an ________
(a) Money Market Instrument
(b) Instrument of Monetary Policy
(c) Type of Risk Cover
(d) Stock Market Instrument
2) Quite often we come across in newspapers that RBI has changed the Repo rate and the Reverse
Repo rate by a few basis points. What is a basis point?
(a) Ten % of one hundredth point
(b) One hundredth of 1%
(c) One tenth of 1%
(d) Ten % of 100
3) Banks generally don’t pay interest on money deposited in which of the following accounts?
(a) Saving Account
(b) Current Account
(c) Fixed Deposit Account
(d) None of these
4) ‘Fiat Money’ is defined as the money which is
(a) Accepted internationally
(b) Accepted temporarily in lieu of gold
(c) Issued by keeping gold or silver as deposit
(d) Decreed as money by the Government
5) Demand pull inflation can be caused by which among the following?
(a) A decline in consumption expenditure
(b) A sharp increase in lending rates
(c) A steep decline in Income tax
(d) An increase in Direct taxation
6) For obtaining which among the following does a customer not require a
bank account?
(a) A Loan
(b) A Cheque
(c) A Banker’s Draft
(d) A Credit Card
7) RBI isn’t expected to perform the role of
(a) Acting as a clearing house
(b) Working as a banker to the government
(c) Managing the forex
(d) Accepting deposits from general public
8) For paying which among the following will a bank standing order be
suitable?
(a) Telephone bills
(b) Electricity bills
(c) Grocery bills
(d) Mortgage repayments
9) A Bank draft can be defined as a/an
(a) Letter from commercial bank
(b) Cheque drawn on the bank itself
(c) Direction to a banker to collect a customer’s debt
(d) Instruction to dishonour a stop payment
10) When RBI sells Government securities, its result is that
(a) The liquidity in the banking system increases
(b) The liquidity in the banking system remains unchanged
(c) The liquidity in the banking system gets diminished
(d) None of the above
11) It has been made mandatory for NBFCs to get themselves registered with
…… before July 8, 1997.
(a) RBI
(b) SEBI
(c) Ministry of Finance
(d) CBDT
12) Which of the following is not an instrument in the hands of RBI to check
the inflation in our country?
(a) Open Market Operations (OMO)
(b) Special Drawing Rights (SDR)
(c) Bank Rate (BR)
(d) Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR)
13) Who among the following was the author of the book ‘The Indian War of Independence’?
(a) Krishna Verma
(b) Madame Carna
(c) B.G. Tilak
(d) V.D. Savarkar
14) What is the full form of NOFN?
(a) National Optical Fibre Network
(b) National Overall Fund Network
(c) Nation over Flood Network
(d) National Optimum Free Network
15) To move to the beginning of a line of text, press the _____ key.
A. Home
B. A
C. Page-up
D. Enter
16) A _____ contains specific rules and words that express the
A. Syntax
B. Programming structure
C. Programming language
D. Logic chart
17) The _____ tells the computer how to use its components
A. Utility
B. Network
C. Operating system
D. Application program
18) Network components are connected to the same cable in the_____ topology.
A. Star
B. Ring
C. Bus
D. Mesh
19) Small application programs that run on a web page and may ensure a form is completed properly
or provide animation are known as _____
A. Flash
B. Spiders
C. Cookies
D. Applets
20) URL stands for?
A. Universal Research List
B. Universal Resource List
C. Uniform Resource Locator
D. Uniform Research Locator
21) Choose the word nearest to meaning of ONUS
A) Slavery
B) Duty
C) Expression
D) Impression
22) Meaning of Compunction
A) Feeling of guilt
B) Feeling of revenge
C) Feeling of compassion
D) Rational Mind
23) Meaning of Riposte
A) Dull response
B) Clever reply
C) Slow movement
D) Dirty trick
24) Meaning of Junket
A) Selection
B) Dispute
C) Distribute
D) Picnic
25) Meaning of INANITY
A) Lacking resources
B) Lacking connectivity
C) Lacking sense
D) Lacking Interest
Answers:
1) (a) CBLO is an RBI approved money market instrument which can be issued for a maximum tenure
of one year. CBLO as a product has been conceived and developed by Clearing Corporation of
India, CCIL, for the facilitating deployment in a collateralized environment.
2) (b) One hundredth of 1%
3) (b) Current account
4) (d) ‘Fiat Money’ is the currency that a government has declared to be legal tender, despite the
fact
that it has no intrinsic value and is not backed by reserves. Historically, most currencies were
based on physical commodities such as gold or silver, but fiat money is based solely on faith.
5) (c) A steep decline in Income tax
6) (c) A Banker’s Draft
7) (d) Accepting deposits from general public
8) (d) Mortgage repayments
9) (b) A bank draft is a bill of exchange drawn by a bank on itself, or on a correspondent bank in
another city or country.
10) (c) The liquidity in the banking system gets diminished
11) (a) RBI
12) (b) Special Drawing Rights
13) (d)
14) (a) National Optical Fibre Network. The scheme recently approved by the Union Government will
connect 2,50,000 Gram Panchayats in the country through Optical Fibre Cable.
1) A 2) B 3) B 4) D 5) C 6) C 7) D 8) D 9) B 10) C 11) A 12) B 13) D 14) A 15) A 16) C 17) C 18) B 19) D
20) C 21) B 22) A 23) B 24) D 25) C
Quiz 49
1) The purpose of which is to make credit of available to essential sectors of the economy according
to national priorities?
A) Selective Credit Control (SCC)
B) Maintenance of cash reserve
C) Reserve Fund
D) Comprehensive credit control
2) Credit rating helps in measuring the credit risk and facilitates....?
A) Considering higher credit limits
B) Making loan provisioning at an early stage
C) Accurately calculate the probable loan losses
D) Pricing of a loan
3) The rate at which the RBI lends to the commercial banks in very short term against the backing of
the government securities is known as?
A) Bank rate
B) Repo rate
C) Reverse repo rate
D) Discount rate
4) Regional rural banks are?
A) Private sector scheduled commercial banks
B) Cooperative banks
C) Foreign Banks
D) Public sector scheduled commercial banks
5) The banker-customer relationship in credit card payment is?
A) Creditor-debtor
B) Debtor-creditor
C) Agent-principal
D) Principal-agent
6) A letter of credit where in the credit available to the customer gets reinstated after the bill is paid
is known as?
A) Back to back LC
B) Red clause LC
C) Back to front LC
D) Revolving LC
7) Which of the following is the principal liability of the banks?
A) Deposits
B) Non deposit borrowings
C) Equity capital
D) Loans
8) Short fall in fulfilling the targets of priority sector and agricultural finance by domestic commercial
banks shall be deposited with which of the below entity?
A) RIDF
B) SIDBI
C) RBI
D) IDBI
9) The principal source of banks’ revenue is dependent on which of the following?
A) Income from cash assets
B) Miscellaneous Income
C) Loans and Securities
D) Deposited costs
10) As per demand-supply concept, higher supply compared to same demand leads to
A) Higher price
B) Lower price
C) No impact on price
D) None of these
11) Difference between export and import when export is greater than import; known as?
A) Current account surplus
B) Current account deficit
C) Trade surplus
D) Trade deficit
12) Which one in the list is not an approach to calculated GDP?
A) Production approach
B) Spending approach
C) Expenditure approach
D) Income approach
13) Invisible export means export of
A) Perishable goods
B) Prohibited goods
C) Services
D) Goods through smuggling
14) What does balance of trade mean?
A) Total trade
B) Difference between imports and exports
C) The profit earned by a trader
D) Cost price plus profit
15) Which among the following duties is applied by a government to control the exports of a
commodity?
A) Custom duty
B) Excise duty
C) Ant dumping duty
D) Dumping duty
16) If income rises by 5% and demand for a product rise by 25%, then the product is termed as
A) Luxury goods
B) Inferior goods
C) Necessity
D) None of these
17) _____ is the smallest block that can be read or written on a disk.
A) Sector
B) Track
C) Disk
D) None of these
18) ____ is the default slide layout.
A) Blank
B) Title slide
C) Title only
D) Title and contents
19) _____ is the key we use to blank the screen in the presentation (MS power point)
A) A key
B) B key
C) C key
D) D key
20) _____ is the strip of button across the top of the main window (MS office)
A) Ribbon
B) Menu
C) Window
D) All of the above
21) ____ allows more data to be stored on a disk.
A) Data compression
B) Disk defragmentation
C) Both a and b
D) None of the above
22) Opposite of Retrograde
A) Stubborn
B) Progressive
C) Punitive
D) Aggressive
23) Meaning of COMPUNCTION
A) Feeling of guilt
B) Feeling of Compassion
C) Feeling of revenge
D) Rational Mind
24) Meaning of Prescient
A) Prediction
B) Restriction
C) Hindsight
D) Reversal
25) Meaning of QUAIL
A) Show fear
B) Show interest
C) Weep bitterly
D) Sweep
Answers: 1) A 2) D 3) B 4) D 5) B 6) D 7) A 8) A 9) C 10) B
11) B 12) B 13) C 14) B 15) A 16) A 17) A 18) B 19) B 20) A
21) A 22) B 23) A 24) A 25) A
Quiz 50
1) At which among the following places, Ministry of Micro, small and medium enterprises has
proposed to set up the first MSME technology centre?
A) Bhopal
B) Pune
C) Bengaluru
D) Mumbai
2) India's Deepika Kumari who is news recently, is associated with which events?
A) Archery
B) Boxing
C) Cycling
D) High Jump
3) Power producing major NTPC has decided to set up technology institute in which of the following
states?
A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Maharashtra
C) Gujarat
D) Rajasthan
4) Which one of the following state has occupied first rank in terms of foreign tourist visitors in
2012?
A) Andhra Pradesh
B) Maharashtra
C) Rajasthan
D) Kerala
5) Government has approved the proposal to amend securities and exchange board of India (SEBI)
act for providing more power to the market regulator to control ____ ?
A) Insider trading
B) Ponzi schemes
C) Bear Cartels in share market
D) Commodity exchanges
6) Recently which one of the following country has decided to impose high risk indians with bond of
rupee 2.7 lakh while applying for visa?
A) Britain
B) France
C) Chine
D) Russia
7) Which one of the following is the west flowing river?
A) Narmada
B) Krishna
C) Godavari
D) Cauvery
8) Who among the following has been elected as the new chairman of the empowered committee of
state finance ministered on GST?
A) Sushil kumar modi
B) Asim Dasgupta
C) Abdul Rahim Rather
D) Abbas Hussain
9) Which one of the following cities is hosting G-20 finance ministerial meeting 2013?
A) New York
B) London
C) Moscow
D) Beijing
10) Union government has launched weekly iron folic acid supplementation programme to
check___?
A) Jaundice
B) Anaemia
C) Diarrhoea
D) Goitre
11) The objective of test marketing is toA) Test the market with consumers
B) Introduce product in open market
C) Predict product's performance and its future
D) Test consumers with the product
12) Minimum Wages act is an example forA) Monetary policy
B) Economic policy
C) Legislation
D) Consumer protection
13) When each party has something that could be value to other party, it results intoA) Exchange process
B) Marketing activity
C) Market place
D) Money exchange
14) All activities involved in selling goods or services for the purpose of resale or business use is
termed asA) Wholesaling
B) Retailing
C) Direct marketing
D) Direct sale
15) Product convenience becomes the_____ product buying motiveA) Patronage
B) Emotional
C) Rational
D) Habitual
16) The accurate meaning of “international Marketing" is A) Marketing goods to developed countries
B) Marketing products worldwide
C) Selling global products in domestic market
D) Marketing using World Wide Web
17) The marketing technique that uses social networking sites on the internet for promotion or
advertising is called as _____.
A) Networking
B) Viral Marketing
C) Online marketing
D) Internet advertising
18) A physical connection between the microprocessor memory and other parts of the
microcomputer is known as
A) Path
B) Address bus
C) Router
D) All of the above
19) A group of magnetic tapes, videos, or terminals usually under the control of one master is
A) Cylinder
B) Surface
C) Track
D) Cluster
20) An integrated circuit is
A) A complicated circuit
B) An integrating device
C) Much costlier than a single transistor
D) Fabricated on a tiny silicon chip
21) Meaning of Tantalize
A) Cooperate
B) Capitalize
C) Tease
D) Travel
22) Opposite of HIRSUTE
A) Scaly
B) Bald
C) Erudite
D) Quite
23) Meaning of UNSAVOURY
A) Defensive
B) Abusive
C) Offensive
D) Affectionate
24) Meaning of SERENDIPITOUS
A) Funny fellow
B) Chance Discovery
C) Pleasant Surprise
D) Nervous fellow
25) Meaning of PIQUE
A) Resentment
B) Enjoyment
C) Forgiveness
D) Conquest
Answers: 1) C 2) A 3) A 4) B 5) B 6) A 7) A 8) C 9) C 10) B
11) C 12) C 13) A 14) A 15) C 16) B 17) B 18) B 19) D 20) D
21) C 22) B 23) C 24) B 25) A
Quiz 48
1) Which of this unemployment is caused due to changes in general level of economic output?
A) Frictional Unemployment
B) Structural Unemployment
C) Cyclical Unemployment
D) None of these
2) Which method calculates inflation based on purchase price of normal urban and rural
households?
A) Consumer price index
B) Whole sale price index
C) Both of them
D) None of these
3) Which in the list is not a main policy tool used by central banks?
A) Money market operations
B) Reserve requirements for banks
C) Interest rate cut
D) Maintaining Forex reserves
4) Which of the following relationship is most likely true?
A) Money demand rises with nominal interest rate
B) Money demand rises with nominal income
C) Money supply rises with nominal interest rate
D) Money supply rises with bank reserve requirements
5) Most likely effect of selling securities by central bank
A) Increase money supply
B) Decrease money supply
C) Increase interest rate
D) Decrease interest rate
6) Jim yong kim has recently visited India in March 2013 and had discussions with prime minister
Manmohan Singh, finance Minister P.chidambaram.He is president of which international
Organization?
A) United nations
B) IMF
C) World Bank
D) SAARC
7) The government has constituted a four member committee headed by whom today to remove
ambiguity in the definitions of FDI and FII in march 2013?
A) N.K.Sodhi
B) Arvind Mayaram
C) S.verma
D) None of these
8) Recently three Indian private sector banks faced money laundering allegations in March
2013.which in the list is not among those 3 banks?
A) HDFC bank
B) ICICI Bank
C) Axis bank
D) Yes Bank
9) Which Indian financial entity has signed a tripartite memorandum of understandings (MOU) with
social fund for development (SFD) with Egypt and World bank in March 2013?
A) NABARD
B) IFCI
C) RBI
D) SIDBI
10) Which Indian private bank has signed up as the official partner of IPL (Indian premier league) in
the financial services category in March 2013?
A) HDFC bank
B) Axis Bank
C) Yes Bank
D) ICICI bank
11) Which global Investment bank has announced acquisition of US bank Morgan Stanley’s wealth
Management businesses in Europe, the middle east and Africa, excluding Switzerland in March
2013?
A) UBS
B) Credit Suisse
C) Barclays' Bank
D) RBS
12) Axis Bank has appointed whom as its new president-retail banking in April 2013 with effect from
1st may?
A) Rajendra D Adsul
B) Ajay Bagga
C) Rajiv Anand
D) V R Kaundinya
13) Which Indian bank won the prestigious FE India’s best banks award-2012-13 for its strong
fundamentals and dynamic growth model announced in April 2013?
A) IDBI Bank
B) Karnataka Bank
C) J&K Bank
D) Yes Bank
14) FATF stands for?
A) Fiscal Action Target Force
B) Financial Accountability Task Force
C) Financial Action Task Force
D) Financial Action Task Factor
15) Who has been appointed as the New Chairman and Managing Director of Bank of Baroda in Jan
2013?
A) S S Mundra
B) Shubhalakshmi Panse
C) Nupur Mitra
D) Ashwini Kumar
16) Who has recently taken charge as executive director of central Bank of India with effective from
11th jan 2013?
A) Raj Kumar Goyal
B) R K Dubey
C) S S mundra
D) Ashwini kumar
17) Who has been appointed as the new deputy governor of the reserve bank of india ( RBI) in jan
2013?
A) Urjit Patel
B) Subit Gokarn
C) K C Chakrabarty
D) Anand sinha
18) Who has been promoted as the executive director of the RBI in Jan 2013?
A) Urjit Patel
B) V K Sharma
C) Deepali Pant Joshi
D) Anand sinha
19) Expansion Cards are inserted into
A) Slots
B) Peripheral Devices
C) The CPU
D) The back of the computer
20) A device that connects to a network without the use of cable is said to be
A) Distributed
B) Wireless
C) Centralized
D) Open source
21) A program designed to destroy data on your computer which can travel to infect other
computers is called a
A) Disease
B) Torpedo
C) Hurricane
D) Virus
22) The ______ manual tells you how to use a software program
A) Documentation
B) Programming
C) User
D) Technical
23) A collection of interrelated records is called a
A) Utility file
B) Management information system
C) Database
D) Spreadsheet
24) Which of the following is not a function of the control unit?
A) Read instructions
B) Execute Instructions
C) Interpret Instructions
D) Direct operations
ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION Questions:
25) A written message from far off place
A) Pathology
B) Telegraph
C) Telegram
D) Messenger
26) An expert in writing by hand
A) Chirographer
B) Cacology
C) Calligraphy
D) Lithography
27) Study of election trends
A) Anthropology
B) Hydraulics
C) Ornithology
D) Psephology
28) Study of Religion
A) Philology
B) Theology
C) Biology
D) Religionology
29) Study of sound and sound waves
A) Acoustics
B) Philology
C) Wavestics
D) Axiology
30) Study of various aspects of aging
A) Entomology
B) Hydraulics
C) Ecology
D) Gerontology
Answers: 1) C 2) A 3) D 4) B 5) B 6) C, 7) B 8) D 9) D 10) C
11) B 12) C 13) C 14) C, 15) A 16) A 17) A 18) C 19) A 20) B
21) D 22) C 23) C 24) D 25) B 26) A 27) D 28) B 29) A 30) D
Quiz 46
1) The portfolio Management Services offered by banks can be classified into?
A) Comprehensive and limited
B) Advisory and non-discretionary
C) Advisory and non-advisory
D) Discriminatory and non-discriminatory
2) Debt Recovery Tribunals accept petitions from banks and financial institutions, only when the
amount of suit is for Rs?
A) 100000 and above
B) 500000 and above
C) 750000 and above
D) 1000000 and above
3) Which of the following is not true about "Branch Banking”?
A) This system has a head office which control and directs the branches in multiple
locations
B) Diversification of risks is spread over an entire range of commercial assets
C) This system involves provision of banking services by a bank in the limited local area
D) Leads to uniform structure of interest rates
4) Which of the following is not shown as an asset in the balance sheet of a bank?
A) Investments
B) Advances
C) Cash Balances with other banks
D) Borrowings
5) The rate at which RBI rediscounts the bills of commercial banks is called as?
A) Bank rate
B) Prime lending rate
C) Repo rate
D) BPLR
6) In which of the following situations "Float" occurs?
A) Depositing local cheque in the bank
B) Depositing local DD in the bank
C) Depositing outstation cheque in the bank
D) None
7) The credit scoring model will have the following factors?
A) Age
B) Marital status
C) Status of housing
D) All of the above
8) Which of the following does not comes under depository institutions?
A) Commercial banks
B) Savings and Loan Associations
C) Credit Unions
D) Mutual Funds
9) Which of the following is not part of collection services/receivables management?
A) Check collection services
B) Overdraft
C) Electronic bill payment and presentation
D) Lock-box service
10) Which of the following is not true about wealth management?
A) Wealth management process is founded on the values of the client first
B) This is an ongoing process
C) This is the science of choosing investments such as stocks, bonds, and derivatives
D) Wealth manager examines the client's financial situation then suggests a combination of banking
and investment services that best address that best addresses their unique management issues
11) The division of an existing market into different sub markets with different attributes is termed
as?
A) Segmentation
B) Targeting
C) Positioning
D) None of these
12) Which is the most important factor while deciding the cost of a product?
A) Market Size
B) Market segments
C) Costing
D) Geography
13) Which of the following is a wrong attribute for a market segment?
A) Should be reachable by the marketers
B) Should be stable and consistent
C) May not be measurable
D) Should have enough opportunity to drive growth
14) Who is the author of the books "Immortals of Meluha" and "The Secret of Nagas"?
A) Amish Tripathi
B) Rahul pandita
C) Jhumpa Lahiri
D) Ravinder Singh
15) Who is the author of the book titled: Economic Policies and India's Reform Agenda:New
Thinking”?
A) Duvvuri Subbarao
B) C rangarajan
C) YV reddy
D) Bimal jalan
16) A Taiwanese Billionaire, Samuel Yin has announced to establish a new prize with an initial
endowment of USD 103 million which is also considered as Asia's Nobel Prize. What is the name
of the prize??
A) Ron brown award
B) Tang prize
C) Ted prize
D) None of these
17) The ministry of information and broadcasting has constituted a panel headed by ______ to
examine issues of certification under the cinematograph act 1952.
A) Javed Akhtar
B) Mukul Mudgal
C) Gulzar
D) Sam pitroda
18) SAMBA is a popular form of dance famous as the dance of celebrations. It is originated from
which country?
A) Argentina
B) Brazil
C) Columbia
D) Mexico
19) The first woman PM of the world?
A) Sucheta Kriplani
B) Srimavo Bhandarnaike
C) Sonia Gandhi
D) Indira gandhi
20) Proclaim (find the closest meaning)
A) To strive or reach for, to argue
B) To recognize (diseases) by symptoms
C) To throw away, to cast off
D) To declare loudly
21) Misconstrue (Find the closest meaning)
A) To kill off, to get rid of
B) To interpret, analyse, or understand something incorrectly; misunderstood
C) To stick
D) To go back, to return (to an original State)
22) Phonetic (find the closest meaning)
A) Involving Movement, moving about
B) Relating to speech sounds
C) Enduring, persisting for several years
D) Capable of changing or adapting, useful
24) Ply (Find the closest meaning)
A) A historical account arranged in order of time
B) A messenger
C) Something produced from imagination, an invented story
D) A layer
25) Opus (Find the closest meaning)
A) A piece broken off, a part of something
B) A musical Composition
C) A person who has previously occupied a position that another has taken over
D) Television or recorded movies
Answers: 1) D 2) D 3) C 4) D 5) A 6) C 7) D 8) D 9) B 10) C
11) A 12) C 13) C 14) A 15) C 16) B 17) B 18) B 19) B 20) D
21) B 22) B 24) D 25) B
Quiz 47
1) Where is Fort William Located?
A) Chennai
B) Goa
C) Kolkata
D) Mysore
2) Name the Indian tennis player who has turned Hollywood filmmaker?
A) Leander Paes
B) Mahesh Bhupathi
C) Vijay Amritraj
D) Ashok Amritraj
3) Sishu is the literary work of which Indian author?
A) Vikram Seth
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Rabindranath Tagore
D) Arundhati Roy
4) Which of these cities located in the state of Gujarat is famous for ZARI production?
A) Surat
B) Rajkot
C) Surendranagar
D) Ahmedabad
5) Which state in India is the largest producer of soyabean?
A) Rajasthan
B) Gujarat
C) Uttar Pradesh
D) Madhya Pradesh
6) On which riverbank is GOA located?
A) Ganga
B) Mandovi
C) Gomati
D) Sabarmati
7) Which state is known as India’s spice garden?
A) Kerala
B) Karnataka
C) Gujarat
D) Uttaranchal
8) Which landmark was ranked first in list of Trip Advisor's 2013 Travellers Choice Attractions
Awards?
A) Bayon Temple in Cambodia
B) Machu Picchu in peru
C) Angkor Wat in cambodia
D) Petra World Heritage Site in jordan
9) Who became 1st Indian woman to receive prestigious emirates woman award for business
excellence in 2013?
A) Indu Gandhi
B) Seema Gandhi
C) Vandana Gandhi
D) Anisha Gandhi
10) Which recently released Indian film's screening was banned in Pakistan?
A) Yeh Jawani Hain Deewani
B) Ranjhanaa
C) Furkey
D) Lootera
11) Which Mexican volcano erupted recently halting dozens of flights in Mexico?
A) Mount Unzen
B) Mount Rainier
C) Mount Popocatepetl
D) Mount Etna
12) What is the name of the world’s largest offshore wind farm, which is inaugurated on 4th july
2013?
A) Indian Array
B) Japan Array
C) Norway Array
D) London Array
13) Who was given the 2013 "Indian Business Leader of the year" award at Belfast UK?
A) Anil Ambani
B) Mukesh Ambani
C) Sanjiv Goenka
D) Satish Goenka
14) Who was recently conferred the prestigious Indian healthcare visionary of the decade award in
mumbai?
A) Dr. Viswanath Satyanarayana
B) Dr. K. Anji Reddy
C) Dr. Mukesh Hariawala
D) Dr. P M Nair
15) C K Nayudu Trophy is related to the sport of
A) Cricket
B) Hockey
C) Foot ball
D) Volley Ball
16) In which Indian state did the game of polo originate?
A) Meghalaya
B) Gujarat
C) Manipur
D) Bihar
17) Who was granted the Associate membership of International Cricket Council, making it 8th Asian
nation?
A) Afghanistan
B) Bahrain
C) Japan
D) Maldives
18) Which country will host the first Edition of ICC World Test Championship during June-July 2017?
A) Australia
B) England
C) India
D) Srilanka
19) Feign (Find the Closest Meaning)
A) To provide with light, to make lighter, to make clear
B) To unite into one being
C) To pretend
D) To originate, to produce through imagination
20) Espionage (Closest Meaning)
A) One that Originates or creates, a writer
B) Using spies or observers
C) A device for measuring heat
D) A continuous series
21) Be conducive to (Close meaning)
A) Constrain
B) Contribute
C) Compensate
D) Construe
22) Provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest
A) Fund
B) Compensate
C) Contribute
D) Collection
23) An elaborate and systematic plan of action
A) Technical
B) Scheme
C) Technology
D) Scenario
24) The set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event (Close meaning)
A) Document
B) Circumstance
C) Layer
D) Result
25) Be careful or certain to do something, make certain of something (Close meaning)
A) Fund
B) Ensure
C) Convene
D) Conviction
Answers: 1) C 2) D 3) C 4) A 5) D 6) B 7) A 8) B 9) C 10) B
11) C 12) D 13) C 14) C 15) A 16) C 17) A 18) B 19) C 20) B
21) B 22) A 23) B 24) B 25) B
Quiz 45
1) Which international Newspaper which had won four Pulitzer prizes in April 2013,
including the award for investigative reporting for stories?
A) Time
B) Wall Street Journal
C) New York times
D) None of these
2) Who in the list has been honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Awards 2013
announced in April 2013?
A) Pran
B) Amitabh bachchan
C) Yash Chopra
D) Dilip kumar
3) As per the 16th Annual Global CEO survey, which Indian was figured among the top three
most admired leaders of the world?
A) Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
B) Jamsedji Tata
C) Mahatma Gandhi
D) N R Narayana Murthy
4) Which Hospitality group was conferred with National Award for Excellence in
Hospitality Education 2011-12 in April 2013?
A) Staywell Hospitality Group
B) Kamat Hotels India
C) Lalit Suri Hospitality Group
D) India Hospitality Group
5) Who has been appointed chief justice for high court of himachal Pradesh in April
2013?
A) Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar
B) Sharad Arvind Bobde
C) Arjan Kumar Sikri
D) None of these
6) Who has been re elected as the president of Italy in April 2013?
A) Mario Monti
B) Giorgio Napolitano
C) Enrico letta
D) Giuliano Amato
7) Which Indian-origin economist won john bates clark medal for 2013 announced
in April 2013?
A) Jonathan levin
B) Amy finkelstein
C) Raj chetty
D) Esther Duflo
8) International Advertising Association (IAA-IC) Olive Crown Awards 2013 was
held in which Indian city in April 2013?
A) Chennai
B) Hyderabad
C) New delhi
D) Mumbai
9) India and which other country have decided to set up a joint working group to address nitaqat law
in April 2013?
A) Saudi Arabia
B) Iran
C) Afghanistan
D) UAE
10) World Amateur Radio day is observed on?
A) 18 april
B) 12 April
C) 21 april
D) 17 april
11) Cross selling means?
A) Selling other products to existing customers
B) Selling to friends
C) Selling to employees
D) None of the above
12) Market information means
A) Knowledge of geographies
B) Knowledge of customer profile and product mix
C) Knowledge of shopping malls
D) None of these
13) Marketing in banks is required for ____?
A) Retailing existing customers
B) Getting New cutomers
C) Accepting of deposits
D) All of these
14) Bancassurance means?
A) Selling insurance products through banks
B) Assurance to repay loans
C) Assurance to borrowers on loans
D) None of these
15) Sales forecasting involves study of?
A) Proper selling price
B) Customer needs and demands
C) Distribution and sales planning
D) All of these
16) Where are the data and programmes stores when the processor uses them?
A) Secondary Memory
B) Main memory
C) ROM
D) None of these
17) A/An______ Allows users to access email from anywhere using internet.
A) Forum
B) Webmail interface
C) Webblog
D) None of these
18) _____software creates a mirror image of the entire hard disk including operating
system, system files, other files and data.
A) Backup software
B) Utility Software
C) Imaging Software
D) None of these
19) The amount of vertical space between lines of text in a document is called as?
A) Horizontal Spacing
B) Vertical Spacing
C) Line spacing
D) Line gap
20) Which in the list can be found on LinkedIn?
A) Connections
B) Chats
C) Games
D) Apps
Answers: 1) C 2) C 3) C 4) C 5) A 6) B 7) C 8) D 9) A 10) A
11) A 12) B 13) D 14) A 15) D 16) B 17) B 18) A 19) C 20) A
Quiz 44
1) Who tops the list for the third consecutive year in the global list of most powerful women
complied by Forbes magazine for 2013(Published in May 2013) ?
A) Angela Merkel
B) Dilma Rousseff
C) Melinda Gates
D) Hilary clinton
2) National Technology Day is observed on _______.
A) 8 May
B) 3 May
C) 11 May
D) 9 May
3) Cricket world cup 2019(12th edition) will be held in which country?
A) Australia and New Zealand
B) South Africa and Zimbabwe
C) England and Wales
D) India and Pakistan
4) Sonia Gandhi and Indra Nooyi were placed among the top 10 in the global list of most powerful
women compiled by Forbes magazine for 2013.what was Sonia Gandhi's rank in the list?
A) 6th
B) 8th
C) 9th
D) 10th
5) Who won National Geographic Bee contest for 2013, final held in May 2013?
A) Sathwik Karnik
B) Rahul nagvekar
C) Aadith Moorthy
D) Sanjeev "Ricky" Uppaluri
6) Contract that enables the lessee to secure the use of a tangible asset over a
specified periods of time by making payment to the lessor, is termed as?
A) Leasing
B) Pooling
C) Securitization
D) None of these
7) Participatory notes (PNs) are associated with which in the list?
A) Consolidated funds of India
B) Reserve bank of India
C) Public Accounts Committee
D) Foreign Institutional Investors
8) Which of the following is not an asset of a bank?
A) Notes and small coins
B) Overdue recurring deposits
C) Short term loans
D) Staff advances
9) In USA, The FRS is
A) An independent central bank
B) Composed of board of governors and 12 regional Federal Reserve banks
C) Major component FOMC consists of members of board of governors, president of
Federal Reserve Bank of New York and president of 4 other Federal Reserve banks.
D) All of the above
10) When the interest rates tend to move upward, which is the most common scenario?
A) Lenders prefer to offer fixed rate mortgage
B) Borrowers prefer fixed rate mortgage
C) Borrowers prefer ARMs
D) None of these
11) Monthly repayments of mortgages depend on the
A) Size of loan
B) Interest rate
C) Maturity
D) All of the above
12) A device that connects to a network without the use of cable is said to be_____
A) Free
B) Distributed
C) Centralized
D) Open source
13) You can keep your files/folders in?
A) My folders
B) My documents
C) My files
D) My favourites
14) _____ is “attempts by individuals to obtain confidential information from you
by falsifying their identity.
A) Spyware
B) Virus
C) Spamware
D) Phishing
15) What is the short cut key to open dialog box?
A) F12
B) Ctrl+ F12
C) Alt+F12
D) Shift+F12
16) To access properties of an object, the mouse technique to use is____.
A) Left clicking
B) Right clicking
C) Dragging
D) Scrolling
17) Relationship marketing mainly refers to?
A) Selling by relatives
B) After sales service
C) Selling through agents
D) None of these
18) In marketing, "Conversation" in terms of sales is known as?
A) Converting perspective customers into purchasers
B) Converting sellers into purchasers
C) Converting Purchasers into sellers
D) None of these
19) Which in the list is not an example of direct marketing?
A) Email marketing
B) Retail stores
C) Tele marketing
D) None of these
20) When the marketer uses high price and high promotion policy, the strategy is known as?
A) Penetrative skimming
B) Slow skimming
C) Rapid skimming
D) High skimming
Answers: 1) A 2) C 3) C 4) C 5) C 6) A 7) D 8) B 9) D 10) B
11) D 12) A 13) B 14) D 15) B 16) B 17) B 18) A 19) B 20) C
Quiz 41
1) India's first female IPS officer Kiran Bedi was conferred with Ramon Magsaysay award for her
contribution in the field of?
A) Literature
B) Social Work
C) Government Service
D) Journalism
2) Who in the list won the AICF-AAI chess cup
A) Viswanathan Anand
B) Anton Korobov
C) Vladimir Kramnik
D) Levon Aronian
3) The tax levied on manufacture or production of goods is called
A) Value Added Tax
B) Customs Duty
C) Sales Tax
D) Excise Duty
4) The sourced of revenue of the state governments are
A) Entertainment Tax
B) Land Revenue
C) Excise duty on intoxicants
D) All A,B,C
5) FIDE is an international organization which acts as the governing body of international
competition of which sport/game?
A) Formula One
B) Foot Ball
C) Base Ball
D) Chess
6) Book " India and global economic crises" is written byA) Ruskin Bond
B) Salman Rusdie
C) Y.V.Reddy
D) Amartya Sen
7) Rest of india team defeated which team to win 2012 Irani Cup?
A) West bengal
B) Mumbai
C) Rajasthan
D) Sautashtra
8) Q.I.P. stands forA) Qualified Investment Placement
B) Qualifiy investment Program
C) Qualified Institutional Placement
D) Qualified Instituon Placement
9) Who was the author of book “Boys will be Boys"
A) Mohammad Hanif
B) Ruskin bond
C) Richard wolfee
D) Amartya sen
10) Fiat money is known asA) Legally declared money
B) Advance money
C) Soft money
D) Hot money
11) The per capita income in india is calculated by?
A) Planning commission
B) Central Statistical Organization
C) RBI
D) Central Financial Organization
12) Finance commission is included under _____ of indian constitution.
A) Article 180
B) Article 220
C) Article 280
D) Article 260
13) Which one is not included in the indian economy?
A) M1
B) M2
C) M3
D) Both A and C
14) The book "wings of fire" is a auto biography of?
A) Homi jahangir bhaba
B) Abdul Kalam
C) jawaharlal Nehru
D) Ramanujan
15) In marketing, a cold call is used?
A) As a best way to sell products
B) As a best way for advertisement
C) As a last option for marketers
D) None of these
16) Consumer Day is obseved on?
A) 12th march
B) 16th march
C) 15th march
D) 21st march
17) Which in the list is not a indirect marketing?
A) Face to Face meeting
B) Newspaper Advertisement
C) TV advertisement
D) Advertisement on blogs
18) Software for organizing storage and retrieval of information is a(n)
A) Data warehouse
B) Database program
C) Operating System
D) None of these
19) The most common input devices include?
A) Monitor and keyboard
B) Monitor and mouse
C) Mouse and keyboard
D) Printer and mouse
20) A____shares hardware, software, and data among authorized users.
A) Protocol
B) Hyperlink
C) Transmitter
D) Network
Answers: 1) C 2) B 3) D 4) D 5) D 6) C 7) C 8) C 9) B 10) A
11) B 12) C 13) B 14) B 15) C 16) C 17) A 18) B, 19) C 20) D
Quiz 42
1) India's IIP index was revised with 2004-05 as the new base, also the total number of items covered
has increased to ______ from earlier 538.
A) 652
B) 695
C) 682
D) 648
2) Which of the below institutions was not set up by the constitution of india?
A) Election Commission
B) UPSC
C) Planning commission
D) Union Judiciary
3) In which city the first EMU train is launched?
A) Delhi
B) Bangalore
C) Kolkata
D) Gujarat
4) Which of the following company is the subsidiary of indian oil cooperation?
A) Manali petroleum corporation
B) Chennai petroleum corporation
C) Madras petroleum corporation
D) Bengal Petrolem Corporation
5) Which indian state was the first to establish the Lokayukta Institution, in 1972?
A) Bihar
B) Maharashtra
C) Orissa
D) Uttar pradesh
6) Under article 92, the governor has the power to impose governor's rule in which indian state?
A) Jharkhand
B) Jammu & Kashmir
C) Mizoram
D) Nagaland
7) Where is the head quarter of international atomic energy agency?
A) Tokyo
B) New york
C) Viena
D) London
8) Which of the following tax is imposed by central governement?
A) Service tax
B) Entertainment tax
C) Sales tax
D) Land tax
9) 2015 cricket world cup will be held in which country?
A) South africa
B) Australia and new zealand
C) England
D) West indies
10) Which of the following state is the largest producer of Tobacco in india?
A) Punjab
B) Himachal Pradesh
C) Andhra Pradesh
D) Kerala
11) The Maitree Express, an international passenger train connects india with which country?
A) Nepal
B) Pakistan
C) Bangladesh
D) Bhutan
12) The reverse mortgage scheme is launched to give benefit to?
A) Poor citizens
B) Womens
C) Senior citizens
D) Unemployed individuals
13) Who is the author of the book “The making of Barack obama"?
A) Imaran Sheikh
B) R.S.Sharma
C) Amartya Sen
D) Richard Wilffe
14) Central Statistical Organization is set up during_____.
A) 1950-57
B) 1951-52
C) 1952-53
D) 1942-43
15) Which in the below list is the cheapest option for printing?
A) Dot-matrix
B) Laser
C) Ink jet
D) Line matrix
16) Which application is not typically included in an MS office suite?
A) Word processor
B) Spread sheet
C) Antivirus
D) Database
17) Eight bits of data is termed as?
A) Kilobyte
B) Byte
C) Megabyte
D) None of these
18) Online marketing can be mostly useful for marketing of which product in the list ?
A) Car loans
B) Home loans
C) NRI deposits
D) Current Accounts for SMEs
19) Which is the process of evaluating attractiveness of each market segment and select the most
suitable ones for marketing ?
A) Market positioning
B) Market Segmentation
C) Market Targeting
D) None of these
20) Buying and selling using electronic means is termed as?
A) Web commerce
B) Mail commerce
C) E-commerce
D) Internet commerce
Answers: 1) C 2) C 3) C 4) B 5) B 6) B 7) C 8) A 9) B 10) C
11) C 12) C 13) D 14) B 15) B 16) C 17) B 18) C 19) C 20) C
Quiz 43
Quiz 43
1) "The amount on a life insurance policy that is payable to the beneficiary when the policy holder
passes away" is technically known as
A) Additional Benefit
B) Death Benefit
C) Endorsement
D) Flat Benefit
2) Police of which state has decided to prepare a database of google involved in land grabbing,
habitual exploitation of women and communal elements etc??
A) Delhi
B) Bihar
C) Uttar pradesh
D) Madhya pradesh
3) Name the archer who won seven medals in the women's recurve section at the 33rd senior
national archery championships that included in chennai in 2013?
A) Jhano Hansda
B) Deepika Kumari
C) Vrushali Gorle
D) Ritul chatterjee
4) What is india's current ranking in the world intelluctual property indicators 2012 released by
world intellectual property organization in 2013?
A) Ninth
B) Third
C) Sixth
D) Seventh
5) India's eight core sector industries have a combined weight of ____ in the overall index of
industrial production (IIP).
A) 31.5 %
B) 37.9 %
C) 56.6 %
D) 61.2 %
6) The amount of money to be paid by a policy owner to the insurance company for the benefits
provided under an insurance policy is termed as??
A) Collateral
B) Premium
C) Broker
D) Benefit
7) Capital Account Defecit(CAD) will increase with the increase in which of the following?
A) Import of gold
B) Import of crude oil
C) Inflow of foreign money
D) Both 1 and 2
8) Which country gifted the statue of liberty to the USA?
A) Germany
B) England
C) France
D) Spain
9) Regional Rual Banks are the Brain child of ________.
A) C.rangrajan
B) M.swaminathan
C) K.C.Niyogi
D) R.gadgil
10) Who is popularly known as the bronze woman of india?
A) Saina Nehwal
B) Jasu shilpi
C) Mary kom
D) None of these
11) The ____ enables you to simultaneously keep multiple web pages open in one browser window.
A) Tab box
B) Tab row
C) Address bar
D) Pop-up helper
12) What the name of exe file of MS word which starts the application?
A) Word.exe
B) Winword.exe
C) Msword.exe
D) word2003/2010.exe
13) A person who used his or her expertise to gain access to other people's computers to get
information illegally or do damage is a _____.
A) Programmer
B) Spammer
C) Hacker
D) Analyst
14) Which of the following is not the major function of a computer?
A) Processing data into information
B) Analysing data\ information
C) Gathering data
D) Storing data or information
15) An assembler is used to translate a program written in a
A) Object oriented language
B) Machine language
C) Procedural language
D) Assembly language
16) Which of the following is the principal liablity of the banks?
A) Deposits
B) Non deposit borrowings
C) Equity capital
D) Loans
17) While quoting exchange rate, if the unit of foreign currency is kept constant and value expressed
in terms of variable units foreign currency
A) Direct Quotation
B) indirect quotation
C) Variable quotation
D) None of these
18) The principal source of bank's revenue is dependant on which of the following?
A) Income from cash assets
B) Miscellaneous income
C) Loans and securities
D) Deposit Costs
19) Sometimes companies make frequent changes in their product profile including introduction of
new products etc. this is termed as?
A) Product selling
B) Product marketing
C) Product enhancement
D) None of these
20) Using a successful brand name to introduce additional items in the same product category and
under same brand is termed as?
A) Brand Extension
B) Line extension
C) Product extension
D) Business extension
Answers: 1) B 2) C 3) B 4) D 5) B 6) B 7) D 8) C 9) B 10) B
11) B 12) B 13) C 14) B 15) D 16) A17) A 18) C 19) C 20) B
1) Who has been given additional charge of Law Ministry following resignation of Ashwini Kumar in
May 2013?
A) Kapil Sibal
B) C P Joshi
C) P Chidambaram
D) Sharad Pawar
2) British Liquor giant Diageo has appointed whom as its next chief executive officer in May 2013?
A) Sunil Lalvani
B) Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan
C) Ivan Menezes
D) Mittu Chandilya
3) The eurozone’s economy was contracted by ____ during the first quarter of 2013 which is the
sixth consecutive contraction in quarterly GDP.
A) 0.1 %
B) 0.2 %
C) 0.5 %
D) 0.8 %
4) Which England cricketed has been named the England Cricketer of the year for 2012-13,
announced in May 2013?
A) Alastair Cook
B) Ian Bell
C) Eoin Morgan
D) Matt Prior
5) Which Indian Union Minister is heading the group of ministers (GOM) formed in May 2013
To find out ways to make the central bureau of investigation (CBI) as an autonomous body?
A) Kapil Sibal
B) C P Joshi
C) P Chidambaram
D) Sharad pawar
6) Professional networking site LinkedIn now has more than 20 million users in India as published in
May 2013.India is the _____ largest country now in terms of LinkedIn members.
A) Third
B) Second
C) First
D) Fourth
7) Who has been appointed as the new CEO of Indian Operation of Air Asia in May 2013?
A) Mittu Chandilya
B) Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan
C) Ivan Menzes
D) Yohesh Malik
8) Which famous social activist has decided not to continue in National Advisory Council (NAC) after
his/her terms ends in May 2013?
A) Kudmul Ranga Rao
B) Renuka Ray
C) Aruna Roy
D) Vijaya Iawate
9) Which global credit rating major has upgraded Greece’s credit rating by one notch to “B” with
stable outlook from earlier rating of “CCC” in May 2013?
A) S&P
B) Moody’s
C) Fitch
D) None of these
10) Which former Indian athlete has created history by becoming the first Indian amputee to
conquer Mount Everest in May 2013?
A) Paul Martin
B) Devender Pal singh
C) Arunima Sinha
D) None of these
11) Who was elevated as the chief justice of the Andhra Pradesh High court in May 2013?
A) Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre
B) Justice T Meena Kumari
C) Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta
D) None of these
12) “Commonwealth Day” is observed on___.
A) 31st May
B) 17th May
C) 24th May
D) 15th May
13) Unemployment rate in the euro zone stood at ____ in April 2013.
A) 12.6 %
B) 12.1 %
C) 12.5 %
D) 12.2 %
14) Market Research is used to?
A) Identify the target market
B) Identify the right product
C) Take proper marketing decision
D) All of these
15) In marketing, Market expansion means?
A) Creating more products
B) Introducing more sales persons
C) Growth in sales using existing and new products
D) None of these
16) If marketing is done effectively, which in the below list is not required?
A) Marketing Strategy
B) Publicity
C) Market Research
D) Market Segmentation
17) Which in the list is a method of market monitoring?
A) Read newspaper advertisement
B) Watch TV advertisement
C) Monitor media outlets
D) None of these
18) Data becomes______ when it is presented in a format that people can understand and use
A) Graphs
B) Information
C) Processed
D) None of these
19) In a client/server model, a client program ______
A) Asks for information
B) Provides information and files
C) Serves software files to other computers
D) Distributes data files to other computers
20) Which of the following is a disadvantage of machine language?
A) Machine dependent
B) Slower execution
C) Machine independent
D) It requires translation
Answers: 1) A, 2) C, 3) B, 4) D, 5) C, 6) B, 7) A, 8) C, 9) C, 10) C
11) C, 12) C, 13) D, 14) D, 15) C 16) B, 17) C, 18) B, 19) A, 20) A
1) For paying which among the following will a bank standing order be
suitable?
(a) Telephone bills
(b) Electricity bills
(c) Grocery bills
(d) Mortgage repayments
2) A Bank draft can be defined as a/an
(a) Letter from commercial bank
(b) Cheque drawn on the bank itself
(c) Direction to a banker to collect a customer’s debt
(d) Instruction to dishonour a stop payment
3) When RBI sells Government securities, its result is that
(a) The liquidity in the banking system increases
(b) The liquidity in the banking system remains unchanged
(c) The liquidity in the banking system gets diminished
(d) None of the above
4) It has been made mandatory for NBFCs to get themselves registered with
…… before July 8, 1997.
(a) RBI
(b) SEBI
(c) Ministry of Finance
(d) CBDT
5) Which of the following is not an instrument in the hands of RBI to check
the inflation in our country?
(a) Open Market Operations (OMO)
(b) Special Drawing Rights (SDR)
(c) Bank Rate (BR)
(d) Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR)
6) In India which among the following is/are a part of Legal Tender Money?
(a) Both coins and currency notes
(b) Both coins and bank drafts
(c) Both currency notes and SDRs
(d) Only currency notes issued by RBI
7) __________has become the 1st state in India to launch RBI's e- payment
system for commercial tax payers.
(a) Goa
(b) Kerala
(c) Karnataka
(d) Maharashtra
8) In which among the following types comes the Interest Rate Risk?
(a) Credit risk
(b) Market risk
(c) Operational risk
(d) All the above
9) Which among the following is true regarding Forex (Foreign Exchange)
Markets?
(a) Foreign Exchange markets are a type of localized markets
(b) Foreign exchange markets operate within the time zone of region
(c) Foreign exchange markets are dynamic and round the clock markets
(d) Foreign exchange markets are used only for business transactions
10) Securities Trading Corporation of India Limited (STCI) has been promoted
jointly by __________and Public sector Banks.
(a) SEBI
(b) RBI
(c) SIDBI
(d) ICICI Ltd
11) ____________is an agreement under which an issuing Bank at the
request of the Importer undertakes to make payment to the exporter against
certain specified documents.
(a) Bill of exchange
(b) Letter of Exchange
(c) Letter of Credit
(d) Bill of entry
12) Which in the list is not a valid attribute or criteria for selecting a market segment?
(a) Measurability
(b) Accessibility
(c) Stable and consistent
(d) None of these
13) In Marketing, _____ describes the values of having a well known brand name.
(a) Brand Loyalty
(b) Brand equity
(c) Brand value
(d) None of these
14) In product life cycle, Break even happens normally in which phase?
(a) Introduction
(b) Growth
(c) Maturity
(d) Decline
15) Services offered by the banks fall under which category of goods?
(a) Tangible
(b) Capital goods
(c) Intangible
(d) Decline
16) A characteristic of the ASCII code is
(a) Its limitation to a maximum of 96 character configuration
(b) Its use of the zone codes 1010, 1011, and 1100
(c) Its independence from Hollerith code
(d) All of these
17) The computer code for interchange of information between terminals is?
(a) ASCII
(b) BCDIC
(c) BCDIC
(d) Hollerith
18) The daily processing of corrections to customer accounts best exemplifies the processing mode of
(a) Batch processing
(b) Real time processing
(c) Time sharing
(d) Offline processing
19) A temporary storage area, attached to the CPU, for I/O operations, is a
(a) Channel
(b) Buffer
(c) Register
(d) Core
20) Which of the following is true?
(a) Plotter are not available for microcomputer systems
(b) Micro computer are not programmed like conventional computers
(c) Mini computers are task oriented
(d) The contents of ROM are easily changed
Answers: 1) (d) Mortgage repayments
2) (b) A bank draft is a bill of exchange drawn by a bank on itself, or on a
correspondent bank in another city or country.
3) (c) The liquidity in the banking system gets diminished
4) (a) RBI
5) (b) Special Drawing Rights
6) (a) Both coins and currency notes
7) (c) Karnataka
8) (b) Market risk is the risk that the value of a portfolio, either an investment
portfolio or a trading portfolio, will decrease due to the change in value of the
market risk factors. Interest rate risk, which is a type of market risk, is the risk
that interest rates (e.g. Libor Euribor, inflation, etc.) and/or their implied
volatility will change.
9) (c) Foreign exchange markets are dynamic and round the clock markets
10) (b) RBI
11) (c) Letter of Credit
12) (d)
13) (b)
14) (b)
15) (c)
16) (c)
17) (a)
18) (a)
19) (b)
20) (c)
1) Which among the following is not included in the Fundamental Rights embodied in the
Constitution of india.?
A) Right to Equality
B) Right to Freedom
C) Right to exploitation
D) Right to Information
2) The term “16 yards hit” is associated with which game?
A) Hockey
B) Cricket
C) POLO
D) Base Ball
3) The vital Constituent of blood that helps in clotting is
A) Platelets
B) Haemoglobins
C) Plasma
D) Serum
4) Which of the following animal can hear ultrasonic sound?
A) Cat
B) Rat
C) Bat
D) Squirrel
5) Man Booker Prize winner Ms.kiran desai’s Novel, “The Inheritance of Loss” deals with
A) Telangana movement
B) Santhal movement
C) Gorkhaland movement
D) Bodoland movement
6) In which state of India, is the largest river island Majuli located?
A) Assam
B) Maharashtra
C) Odisha
D) Madhyapradesh
7) Who is the author of the book “ Speaking for Myself”?
A) Salman Rusdie
B) Cherie Blair
C) Mohammad Hanif
D) Hilary Clinton
8) Human Development Index compiled by UN Development Programme annually does not measure
A) Longevity of life
B) Levels of living
C) Level of knowledge
D) Level of cultural growth
9) Which of the following is India’s second biggest import item after petroleaum?
A) Gold
B) Wheat
C) Fertilizers
D) Pharma goods
10) Which among the following states is the biggest contributor to small savings collection through
post office deposits?
A) West Bengal
B) Odisha
C) Kerala
D) Assam
11) Who is appointed as Governor of Arunachal Pradesh on May 16, 2013?
A) Mr.Nirbhay Sharma
B) Shashikant Sharma
C) Anand Sharma
D) Vinay joshi
12) New CAG of India on May 23, 2013( Comptroller and Auditor General)
A) Shashikant Sharma
B) Nirbhay Sharma
C) C.Siddarmaiah
D) None of these
13) Who is the first Indian Woman to scale the top peaks of seven continents on May 23, 2013?
A) Bachendri pal
B) Premlata Agrawal
C) kamaljeet sindhu
D) Punita Arora
14) _____ contains specific rules and words that express the logical steps of the algorithms
A) Programming Language
B) Syntax
C) Logic chart
D) None of these
15) The simultaneous processing of two or more programs by multiple processors is______
A) Multiprogramming
B) Multitasking
C) Multiprocessing
D) Multisharing
16) When you turn on computer, Boot Routine will perform this test _______
A) RAM test
B) Disc Drive test
C) Memory Test
D) Power on self test
17) ____ is the process of carrying out commands.
A) Fetching
B) Storing
C) Executing
D) Decoding
18) Who invented the term Management by objectives (MBO)?
A) Philip kotler
B) Rosser Reeves
C) Peter Drucker
D) Michael E.porter
19) Which comes at the end of Marketing Plan?
A) Objectives
B) SWOT Analysis
C) Controls
D) Executive Summary
20) Market Segmentation is important as it is required for?
A) Improve Advertisement
B) Increasing Profit of Margin
C) Focused Marketing
D) None of these
Answers: 1) D, 2) A, 3) A, 4) C, 5) C, 6) A, 7) B, 8) D, 9) A, 10) A
11) A, 12) A, 13) B, 14) A, 15) C, 16) B, 17) C, 18) C, 19) C, 20) C
1) “World Asthma Day” is observed on _______.
A) First Tuesday of May
B) First Monday of May
C) First Sunday of May
D) First Friday of May
2) Which Indian Football club won the I-league, most important Indian football league for year 2013?
A) Churchill brothers
B) Pune FC
C) East Bengal
D) Dempo FC
3) Who has been appointed as new chief executive officer of south Africa’s Anglogold Ashanti, the
third biggest gold producer in the world in May 2013?
A) Yogesh Malik
B) Sunil Lalvani
C) Mittu Chnadilya
D) Srinivasan venkatakrishnan
4) Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar has passed away in May 2013.He was famous for which genre?
A) Sitar
B) Khyal
C) Dhrupad
D) Thumri
5) Security printing press was established in 1982 at?
A) Kolkata
B) New Delhi
C) Bombay
D) Hyderabad
6) Indirect Tax does not include?
A) Customs duty
B) Central Excise
C) Sales Tax
D) Service Tax
7) Name the public sector lender that selected Metlife as its partner for a proposed foray into the
life insurance segment?
A) Punjab National Bank
B) State Bank of India
C) Central Bank of India
D) Bank of Baroda
8) CMD of an Indian Public sector bank is appointed by?
A) Indian bank association
B) Central Government
C) RBI
D) Bank’s board Of Directors
9) Which panel was appointed to provide more recommendation on GAAR?
A) Basu Panel
B) Narsimha Panel
C) Rangarajan Panel
D) Shome Panel
10) Which in the list is not considered as money market instrument?
A) Commercial Papers
B) Treasury bills
C) Equity shares
D) Repurchase agreements
11) In Marketing, Double win strategy ensures?
A) Customer gets additional benefits
B) Sense of satisfaction for both sales person and customer
C) Customer gets discount
D) None of these
12) In declining stage of a PLC, Advertising should be _____.
A) Aggressive
B) Defensive
C) Persuasive
D) Informative
13) In India, Advertisement of which products is not allowed on TV?
A) Cigarettes
B) Liquor
C) Both of these
D) None of these
14) The goods purchased by consumer on a regular basis are known as?
A) Emergency goods
B) Staple goods
C) Necessary goods
D) None of these
15) Which advertisement media has the highest Frequency?
A) News paper
B) TV
C) E-mail
D) Magazines
16) © symbol normally refers to?
A) Copy paste
B) Copy protected
C) Copy right
D) None of these
17) Which Programming language is associated with artificial Intelligence?
A) C
B) PROLOG
C) C++
D) JAVA
18) Errors in computer results could be due to....
A) Encoding of data
B) Transmission of data
C) Manipulation of data
D) All of these
19) What is the name of the bar which appears at the bottom of the screen when a computer is
started?
A) Address Bar
B) Tool bar
C) Task bar
D) None of these
20) Which of these key on key board cannot work independently?
A) Function
B) Control
C) Arrow
D) None of these
Answers: 1) A, 2) A, 3) D, 4) C, 5) D, 6) C, 7) A, 8) B, 9) D, 10) C,
11) B, 12) B, 13) C, 14) B, 15) B, 16) C, 17) B, 18) D, 19) C, 20) B
1) Since April 1, 2012__________has become the validity of the cheques
and bank drafts.
(a) 2 Months
(b) 3 Months
(c) 4 Months
(d) 6 Months
2) On what basis is Ad Valorem Tax levied?
(a) Volume
(b) Value
(c) Imports
(d) Exports
3) RBI is coming up with the concept of____________to protect banks
against possible harmful effects arising from the operations of their nonbanking
financial subsidiaries?
(a) Financial Holding Company
(b) Bank Holding Company
(c) Bureau of Credit Union
(d) Financial Institutions Audit Cell
4) RBI has introduced “Marginal Standing Facility” with the objective of
(a) Controlling Inflation
(b) Containing instability in long term inter-bank rates
(c) Containing instability in the overnight inter-bank rates
(d) All of above
5) _____________are the beneficiaries of the “Reverse Mortgage Scheme”.
(a) Government Employees
(b) Senior Citizens
(c) Unemployed Persons
(d) Persons of BPL category
6) RBI was nationalized in the year
(a) 1949
(b) 1952
(c) 1955
(d) 1964
7) Which of the following is/are associated with the Fiscal policy?
1. Marginal Standing Facility
2. Devaluation of Currency
3. Market Stabilization Scheme
(a) 1 & 2
(b) Only 3
(c) 2 & 3
(d) Only 2
8) When was Liberalized Exchange Rate Management System (LERMS)
started in India?
(a)1990
(b)1996
(c)1992
(d)1998
9) National income of India is estimated by
(a) NCAER
(b) Ministry of Statistics
(c) Central Statistical Office
(d) Ministry of Finance
10) What is understood by Fiduciary Issue of currency?
(a) The issue of currency notes without keeping gold or silver as deposit.
(b) The issue of currency notes keeping gold or silver as deposit.
(c) The issue of currency notes with partial gold or silver deposits.
(d) The issue of currency notes with comparative gold or silver deposits.
11) Which in the list is required to develop and maintain a range of products in order to?
Achieve customer satisfaction?
(a) Product marketing
(b) Product Planning
(c) Product distribution
(d) Product manufacturing
12) Which of the below attributes consumers check before buying a product?
(a) Guarantee and post sales support
(b) Quality
(c) Cost
(d) All of these
13) For Indian banks, who decides the price of the banking products?
(a) Indian government
(b) Reserve bank of India
(c) Banks’ Board or Senior Management
(d) None of these
14) During growth stage of PLC, the key marketing strategy is?
(a) Identify and develop market
(b) Protect Market share from competitors
(c) Increase the market share by penetration
(d) None of these
15) Rapid Skimming Strategy is associated with?
(a) Very high price with low promotion level
(b) Very high price with high promotion level
(c) Low price with high promotion level
(d) Low price with low promotion level
16) In Networking, Decryption and Encryption of data are the responsibility of which layer?
(a) Presentation
(b) Network
(c) Transition
(d) Physical
17) MS-DOS is the name of a/an
(a) Application software
(b) Hard ware
(c) Soft ware
(d) None of these
18) ________ can be used to read bar codes printed on any type of plastic ID card?
(a) Laser reader
(b) Magnetic reader
(c) Badge reader
(d) Optical Card reader
19) Which in the list is ODD?
(a) Scanner
(b) Mouse
(c) Key board
(d) Printer
20) Which team won the 3rd Hockey India Sub Junior Women National Championship
Held in May 2013?
(a) Haryana
(b) Madhya pradesh
(c) Jharkhand
(d) Chandigarh
Answers: 1) B, 2) B, 3) A, 4) C, 5) B, 6) A, 7) D, 8) C, 9) C, 10) A,
11) B, 12) D, 13) C, 14) C, 15) B, 16) A, 17) A, 18) C, 19) D, 20) A
1) What does Liquidity mean?
(a) It means how cash is converted into gold.
(b) It means how cheaply and quickly an asset converted into cash.
(c) It means how cash is converted into a SDR (Special Drawing Rights)
(d) It means how uncertain the money market conditions are.
2) SWIFT is a commonly used acronym in banking industry. The ‘I’ in SWIFT
Stands for_____________.
(a) Interbank
(b) International
(c) Intercom
(d) Indian
3) What does the term Open Market Operations refer to?
(a) Selling of equities in the open market.
(b) Selling of commodities in the open market.
(c) Buying and selling of government securities in the open market.
(d) Buying and selling of products in the whole sale market.
4) Under which act does RBI issue directives to banks?
(a) PMLA Act, 2002
(b) RBI Act, 1934
(c) DICGC Act, 1961
(d) Banking Regulation Act, 1949
5) Which committee recommended the change in the base year of the
Wholesale Price Index?
(a) Narsimhan committee
(b) Vijay Kelkar committee
(c) Srikrishna committee
(d) Abhijit Sen committee
6) ____________is the base year of the New Consumer Price Index Series.
(a) 2009
(b) 2008
(c) 2006
(d) 2010
7) __________________isn’t a method of measurement of National Income.
(a) Value added method
(b) Income method
(c) Investment method
(d) Expenditure method
8) With which among the following countries has India signed a
Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA)?
(a) Japan
(b) Singapore
(c) Malaysia
(d) France
9) In India, the commercial banks are required to provide_______% of their
ANBC (Adjusted Net Bank Credit) to priority sector.
(a) 15
(b) 25
(c) 35
(d) 40
10) What does, FSDC stand for?
(a) Financial Security and Development Council
(b) Financial Stability and Development Council
(c) Fiscal Security and Development Council
(d) Fiscal Stability and Development Council
11) ___________________has been declared the first ‘total banking state’ in
India, successfully implementing the total financial inclusion thereby ensuring
Banking facility to all households.
(a) Maharashtra
(b) Kerala
(c) Himachal Pradesh
(d) Uttarakhand
12) “World Kidney Day” observed on??
(a) 18 march
(b) 14 march
(c) 12 march
(d) 17 march
13) Marketing is influenced by which in the below list?
(a) Consumer behaviour
(b) Brand Image
(c) Product demand
(d) All of these
14) Reaching of a product to all the potential buyers is taken care by?
(a) Marketing
(b) Advertising
(c) Selling
(d) Distribution
15) Selling is considered as?
(a) Same as marketing
(b) Different from marketing
(c) A sub function of marketing
(d) Not associated with marketing at all
16) Effective Tele marketing requires?
(a) Door to door campaigns
(b) Good writing skills
(c) Good communication skills
(d) None of these
17) Storing same data in many places is called_______.
(a) Iteration
(b) Concurrency
(c) Redundancy
(d) Enumeration
18) Where are you likely to find as embedded operating system?
(a) On a desktop operating system
(b) On a network Server
(c) On a networked PC
(d) On a PDA
19) An online discussion group that allows direct “Live” communication is known as?
(a) Web crawler
(b) Chat group
(c) Regional service provider
(d) Hyperlink
20) Which of the following is a programming language for creating special programs like applets?
(a) Java
(b) Cable
(c) Domain Name
(d) Net
Answers: 1) B, 2) A, 3) C ,4) D, 5) D, 6) D, 7) C, 8) A, 9) D, 10) B,
11) B, 12) B, 13) C, 14) D, 15) C, 16) C, 17) C, 18) D, 19) B, 20) A
Quiz-33
1) The person who become the first Indian Circumnavigate Globe Solo and non-stop on a sail boat A) Hari Ram Kumar
B) Lt. Cdr. Abhilash Tomy
C) Lt. Ramadose
D) None of them
2) Which day has been declared by United Nation General Assembly as the World Autism Awareness
Day?
A) April 2
B) May 5
C) March 3
D) June 15
3) The Fifth Summit of BRICS was held on March 26-27, 2013 in A) New Delhi (India)
B) Moscow (Russia)
C) Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
D) Durban (South Africa)
4) In which of the following city, the first women Post Office in the country have been established in
March 2013?
A) Mumbai
B) Kolkata
C) New Delhi
D) Chennai
5) The International Newspaper which had won four Pulitzer Prize on April 15, 2013 including the
award for investigative reporting for stories A) The Washington Post
B) The Telegraph
C) New Work Times
D) The Sun
6) Kovvada Nuclear Power Plant which was recently in news is being set up in A) Karnataka
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Chhattisgarh
D) Odisa
7) Google is A) Virus Programme
B) Search Engine
C) Website
D) Hardware
8) Which country reached an agreement with Kosovo on overcoming ethnic enmities?
A) Macedoonia
B) Serbia
C) France
D) Albania
9) The International Day for Biological Diversity was observed on A) 25th May
B) 24th May
C) 23rd May
D) 22nd May
10) The largest biogas plant of the world was inaugurated in March 2013 in A) USA
B) Ireland
C) Finland
D) Germany
11) Where are programs and data to be used by the computer available?
A) Output
B) Processing unit
C) Input
D) Storage
12) A parallel port is most often used by a A) Mouse
B) Monitor
C) Printer
D) External storage device
13) Computer follows a simple principle called GIGO which means:
A) Garbage in garbage out
B) Garbage input good output
C) Good input good output
D) Greater instructions greater output
14) Arrange the following devices in ascending order of the speed:
A. RAM B. Hard disk C. Cache D. Floppy
A) ABDC
B) BDAC
C) DBAC
D) BADC
15) What is the commonly used unit for measuring the sped of data transmission?
A) Bits per second
B) Nano seconds
C) Characters per second
D) Mega Hertz
16) ‘Definitely Male’ this advertisement line is for which Motor Cycle?
A) Hero Honda
B) TVS
C) Bajaj
D) LML
17) Delivery channels other than Bank counters are.......
A) ATM's
B) Internet Banking
C) Tele Banking
D) All of these
18) Marketing is best suited in.....
A) Buyers' market
B) Sellers' market
C) Internal marketing
D) Direct marketing
19) Customer's Relationship with the Bank is influenced by.....
A) Customers' attitudes
B) Attitudes of Bank staff
C) Interest rates of the Bank
D) Attitudes of salespersons
20) Marketing is Find the wrong option.....
A) An ancient concept
B) A modern need
C) A continuous affair
D) A term effort
Answers: 1) B, 2) A, 3) D, 4) C, 5) C, 6) B, 7) B, 8) B, 9) D, 10) C
11) D, 12) C, 13) A, 14) C, 15) A, 16) C, 17) D, 18) A, 19) B, 20) A
Quiz 32
1) FMCG major nestle India has appointed whom as its new chairman and managing director in May
2013?
A) Etienne Benet
B) Srinivasan venkatakrishnan
C) Ivan menezes
D) Yogesh malik
2) Who conferred with the US based national space society's (NSS) wernher von barun memorial
award in San Diego
In may 2013?
A) U.R.RAO
B) P.S.Veeraraghvan
C) S.ramakrishnan
D) APJ abdul kalam
3) Anti terrorism day observed in India on ______.
A) 21st may
B) 23rd may
C) 25th may
D) 30th may
4) Who has been appointed as the chairperson of national commission for child rights by ministry of
women and child Development in May 2013?
A) Krishna tirath
B) Shantha sinha
C) Kushal singh
D) None of these
5) India’s GDP growth in the fourth quarter of previous financial year 2012-13 stood at_____.
A) 4.7 %
B) 5 %
C) 4.8 %
D) 5.2 %
6) RBI announced to launch inflation indexed bonds to wean away investors from gold to paper
based savings instruments to curb CAD. What will be the maturity period of these bonds now?
A) 15 years
B) 5 years
C) 10 years
D) 20 years
7) The international day for biological diversity is observed on _________.
A) 21 may
B) 23 may
C) 22 may
D) 28 may
8) World hunger day is observed on________.
A) 28may
B) 18 may
C) 24 may
D) 22 may
9) Which Indian athlete won 3 gold medals on second day of 15th Asian youth weightlifting
championships in Doha In may 2013?
A) Ragala venkat rahul
B) Jamjang deru
C) Akshay B.gaikwad
D) None of these
10) Which Indian biologist was honoured with the whitely award, also known as green Oscar, in
London in May 2013?
A) Ramana athreya
B) Ka hsaw WA
C) Aparajita datta
D) Claudio sillero zubiri
11) Which European football club won the champions league for 2013?
A) Chelsea
B) Manchester united
C) Bayern Munich
D) Barcelona
12) Who has been appointed as new defence secretary in May 2013?
A) Shashikant Sharma
B) Radha Krishna mathur
C) M F farooqui
D) Syamal kumar sarkar
13) The main circuit board of system unit is the
A) Computer program
B) Control unit
C) Motherboard
D) RAM
14) System software
A) Allows the user to diagnose and troubleshoot the device
B) Is a programming language
C) Is a part of a productivity suite?
D) Helps the computer manage internal resources
15) Which in the list is not a promotional activity?
A) Advertisement
B) Sales promotion
C) Public relations
D) Pricing
16) Which type of media scheduling is suitable for a coolers?
A) Normal pulse
B) Seasonal pulse
C) Erratic pulse
D) None of these
17) Early adopters' are the consumers who are?
A) Initial buyers
B) Ready to try new ideas
C) Willing to do experiment with new products
D) all of these
18) In marketing, ______describes the value of having a well known brand name.
A) Brand loyalty
B) Brand value
C) Brand equity
D) None of these
19) Which of the following does not comes under non depository institutions??
A) Finance Companies
B) Mutual funds
C) Pension funds
D) Credit funds
20) Who is the following is not a party to the IPO?
A) registrar of issue
B) Investment banker
C) Advertisement agency
D) Registrar of companies
Answers: 1) A, 2) D, 3) A, 4) C, 5) C, 6) C, 7) C, 8) A, 9) C, 10) C, 11) C, 12) B, 13) C, 14) D
15) D, 16) B, 17) D, 18) C, 19) D, 20) D
Quiz-31
1) Name the port whose operational controlled were transferred in the hands of Chinese Overseas
Port Holdings Ltd. by Pakistan in the last week of January 2013.
a) Keti Bandar Port
b) Gwadar port
c) Karachi Port
d) Bin Qasim Port
2) Name the person who was nominated as the U.S. interior secretary for looking after the huge
energy reserves as well as the national parks by the US President Barack Obama in February 2013.
a) Sally Jewell
b) Anne Marbury Hutchinson
c) Phillis Wheatley
d) Sarah Josepha Hale
3) What amount of loan is supposed to be provided by Asian Development Bank to India over next 3
years?
A) 6 Billion Dollars
B) 4.5 Billion Dollars
c) 4 Billion Dollars
D) 4.8 billion dollars
4) Name the International tennis Player who had won Men’s Singles Trophy in the Madrid Open
2013.
a) Stanislas Wawrinka
b) Rafael Nadal
c) Andy Murray
d) Novak Djokovic
5) The Boxers from which Country won the 2013 Invitational FXTM International Limassol Boxing Cup
held in Limassol, Cyprus on 19 May 2013.
a) Belgium
b) Germany
c) Pakistan
d) India
6) What is the name of six huge wildfires that broke out in California on 2 May 2013 near Camarillo?
a) McNally Fire
b) Camarillo Springs Wildfire
c) Esperanza Fire
d) Cedar Fire
7) Who bought Online mapping service WAZE for a deal of 1.03 billion dollars recently?
A) Samsung
B) Apple
C) Google
D) Nokia
8) Which African country passed a bill, in which gay marriages were declared as criminal offence?
A) Nigeria
B) Libya
C) Mauritius
D) Namibia
9) Name of Afghanistan parliament
A) Shora
B) Majlis
C) parliament
D) Majesty
10) In which state of India, gold coins dating back to gupta period were unearthed on 1st June 2013?
A) west Bengal
B) Punjab
C) Maharashtra
D) Gujarat
11) What is the name of India’s first SEBI registered venture capital fund which was launched on 6th
June??
A) Dalit Indian chamber of commerce and industry
B) Dalit Indian chamber of culture and industry
C) Dalit Indian chamber of commodity and industry
D) Dalit Indian chamber of corporation and industry
12) What is the name of book authored by rukhsar amrohvi which was released by Mr. amid ansari
on 6th June?
A) Hum kaise rakhwale hain
B) Dard e dil likhun kab tak
C) Dil tu Dena hu tha
D) Roshan andhere
13) In Ecommerce and marketing, B2C stands for??
A) Business to customer
B) Consumer to business
C) Business to consumer
D) None of these
14) Why does company establish sales territories?
A) To reduce selling expenses
B) To improve sales force efficiency
C) To secure optimum market coverage
D) None of these
15) Which in the list is not a part of 4 C's of marketing?
A) Creativity
B) Consumer
C) Cost
D) Convenience
16) Who is a first person to suggest an idea to buy/use a product/service?
A) Initiator
B) Influencer
C) Decider
D) None of these
17) An email address contains?
A) Username followed by password
B) Username followed by domain name
C) Domain name followed by user name
D) None of these
18) In networking, VPN stands for?
A) Virtual private network
B) Virtual personal network
C) Virtual public network
D) None of these
19) Keyboard shortcuts are used to view the properties of selected object?
A) shift+ enter
B) shift+ space
C) alt+enter
D) ctrl+enter
20) Which in the list stores the intermediate date when computer processes the data??
A) Hard disk
B) ROM
C) RAM
D) None of these
Answers: 1) B, 2) A, 3) A, 4) B, 5) D, 6) B, 7) C, 8) A, 9) A, 10) A, 11) A, 12) B, 13) A, 14) C, 15) A, 16) A,
17) B, 18) A, 19) C, 20) C
Quiz 30
1) Which of the following is the principal liability of the banks?
A) Deposits
B) Non deposit Borrowings
C) Equity Capital
D) Loans
2) Short fall in fulfilling the targets of priority sector and agricultural finance by domestic commercial
banks shall be deposited with which of the below entity?
A) RIDF
B) SIDBI
C) RBI
D) IDBI
3) The principal source of bank's revenue is dependent on which of the following?
A) Income from cash assets
B) Miscellaneous income
C) Loans and securities
D) Deposit costs
4) LIBOR stands for?
A) London interbank offered rate
B) London intra bank offer rate
C) Lower interbank offer rate
D) None of these
5) Banks can increase the net income by the following options?
A) Improving tax management to reduce tax liabilities
B) Shifting their preferences towards less costly deposits and other borrowings
C) Increasing the average yield on each asset
D) all of the above
6) Which of the following is part of the financial outflows of banks?
A) Deposit costs
B) Non deposit borrowing costs
C) Salaries and wages expenses
D) all of these
7) Which of the following is not an imperfect note?
A) Washed note
B) Bleached note
C) Mutilated note
D) Oiled note
8) Which of the following committee is related to Micro financing?
A) Nayak committee
B) tandon committee
C) vyas committee
D) narasimham committee
9) Funded services under corporate banking do not include?
A) Working capital finance
B) Bill discounting
C) Export credit
D) Letters of credit
10) What is the short cut key to display saving as dialog box in Microsoft word?
A) F5
B) F1
C) F12
D) F11
11) Cache memory is an example of which of the following?
A) Virtual memory
B) Non volatile memory
C) Static random access memory
D) Secondary memory
12) A system software includes which of them in the list?
A) Linkers
B) Debuggers
C) Compilers
D) all of these
13) The keys ctrl, shift, alt are also known as??
A) Function keys
B) Modifier keys
C) Supporting keys
D) None of these
14) Which of these settings are automatic and standardized??
A) peripheral
B) Default
C) User friendly
D) None of these
15) Data redundancy can be eliminated by using proper?
A) Operating system
B) Database management system
C) Network system
D) ERP
16) Which Indian movie has won the P a Backer Foundation award for best movie in the year 2012 in
April 2013?
A) Indian rupee
B) Spirit
C) jaw and of vellimala
D) Leela the never ending play
17) Which internet company has acquired mobile app Builder Company named as Parse in April
2013?
A) face book
B) Yahoo
C) Microsoft
D) Google
18) Which state has announced to set up first public health university in India recently in April 2013?
A) west Bengal
B) Odisha
C) Assam
D) Bihar
19) In marketing, zero level channels stands for??
A) Retailers directly selling to the consumer
B) Sales persons directly selling to the consumer
C) Manufacturer directly selling to the consumer
D) None of these
20) In BCG matrix, business divisions with low growth rate and high market share are termed as?
A) Question mark
B) Star performers
C) Dogs
D) Cash cows
Answers : 1) A, 2) A, 3) C, 4) A, 5) D, 6) D, 7) C, 8) C, 9) D, 10) C, 11) C, 12) D, 13) B, 14) B, 15) B, 16) B,
17) A, 18) B, 19) C, 20) D
1) The international Monetary fund has recognized which country after
22 years of probelms in april 2013 ?
A) ghana
B) libya
C) somalia
D) Sudan
2) National Association of software and services companies (Nasscom)
has appointed whom as the vice chairman of Nasscom for year
2013-14 in april 2013 ?
A) R.chandrasekaran
B) N.chandrasekaran
C) krishnakumar natarajan
D) vineet nayyar
3) India's Index of Industrial production (IIP) stood at _____
in february 2013 (Announced in april 2013).
A) 1.2%
B) 2.4%
C) 0.6%
D) 1.9%
4) which Indian PSU company was conferred with the Miniratna-category-1
status by tha president of india in april 2013??
A) national seeds corporation limited
B) HMT(international) limited
C) North eastern electric power corporation
D) Bharat pumps and compressors limited
5) which film won the best film award in "60th national film awards"
announced in march 2013?
A) chittagong
B) kahaani
C) paan singh tomar
D) Oh my god
6) who has been appointed as the 20th director general of indian coast guard
in march 2013?
A) MP murlidharan
B) anurag g thapliyal
C) devendra kumar joshi
D) nirmal verma
7) india's eight core sector industries growth stood at ____
in january 2012 (published in march 2013)
A) 3.2%
B) 2.2%
C) 3.9%
D) None of these
8) International women's day is obseved on ??
A) 19th march
B) 18th march
C) 8th march
D) 22nd march
9) finance minister P.chidambaram has announced during the budget in on
28th feb 2013 that the government would infuse _____ in public sector
banks next fiscal year to meet global capital adequacy norms.
A) 10000 crore
B) 12000 crore
C) 14000 crore
D) none of these
10) which rates are quoted as one unit of base currency against a number
of units of a variable currency ?
A) Spot rate
B) tom rate
C) cash rate
D) none of these
11) the rate at which bank quoting the price or the market maker will buy the base currency from its
customer.
A) bid price
B) offer price
C) both a and b
D) non of these
12) which of the following are part of liability side in balance sheet ?
A) Deposits made by various customers
B) equity capital representing long term funds that the oweners
have contributed to the bank
C) borrowings of funds by the bank-non deposit borrowings from money and
capital markets
D) all of these
13) the relationship between RBI and the bank maintaining the currency
chest is that of ?
A) debtor and creditor
B) principal and agent
C) bailor and bailee
D) creditor and debtor
14) in which marketing plan, the seller targets the entire consumer base?
A) Mass marketing
B) niche marketing
C) local marketing
D) segment marketing
15) in product life cycle, lower market size is characteristics of which phase ?
A) introduction
B) growth
C) maturity
D) decline
16) in marketing,_____ describes the value of having a well known brand name.
A) brand loyalty
B) brand value
C) brand equity
D) none of these
17) which of the attributes are added with 4 p's marketing to arrive
7 P's of services marketing???
A) process
B) physical environment
C) people
D) all of these
18) word processing softwares are used to create ??
A) spread sheets
B) databases
C) documents
D) slides
19) which is/are the advantages of assembly language over machine language ?
A) easy to use
B) easy to understand
C) easy to modify
D) all of these
20) An advantage of a distributed word processing network is ..
A) increased number of reports handled
B) less delay in inter office communications
C) greated corporate control over outputs
D) all of these
1) Axis bank has appointed whom as its new president - retail banking
in april 2013 with effect from 1st May ?
A) Rajendra D. Adsul
B) Ajay Bagga
C) Rajiv Anand
D) V.R.Kaundinya
2) Margaret Thatcher, known as "IRON LADY" passed away in April 2013.
she was first female PM of which country ?
A) germany
B) USA
C) France
D) UK
3) Who has been elected as the president designate of CII for the year
2013-14 in april 2013?
A) Ajay S sriram
B) Adi godrej
C) Sumit Mazumder
D) Anand Mahindra
4) International day for Mine Awareness is observed on ?
A) 5th April
B) 21st April
C) 15th April
D) 4th April
5) Who has been appointed as the president of International Chamber
of Commerce (ICC) india, indian affiliate of the paris based ICC in
april 2013?
A) Azim premji
B) Sunil bharti Mittal
C) Rajan bharti mittal
D) Adi godrej
6) India's overall inflation, measured by the wholesale price index(WPI),
stood at ______In march 2013
A) 5.96 %
B) 6.84 %
C) 6.26 %
D) 5.45 %
7) which eurozone country has the lowest unemployment rate of
4.8% for the month of february 2013 ?
A) france
B) Luxemberg
C) Austria
D) Germany
8) which bollywood actor was awarded with asian award in london for
his performances in movies held in april 2013?
A) Amir khan
B) Shahrukh khan
C) Amitabh bachchan
D) Anupam Kher
9) which british club won the English Premier League title 2013 ?
A) Arsenal
B) Manchester City
C) Manchester United
D) Aston villa
10) world bank has projected india's GDP growth forecast at ___for the
current financial year 2013-14 in april 2013
A) 6.5 %
B) 5.8 %
C) 6.1 %
D) 5.3 %
11) who has been re-appointed as Jammu and kashmire Governor
for the second term in april2013?
A) DY patil
B) S C jamir
C) Devanand Konwar
D) N.N.vohra
12) who has been appointed as india's next home secretary in april 2013 ?
A) Syamal kumar sarkar
B) Anil goswami
C) M F Farooqui
D) R.chandrashekhar
13) the key use of marketing Information system (MIS) is??
A) enable selling of products
B) support marketing decision making
C) enable advertising of products
D) none of the above
14) marketing myopia refers to ?
A) Focusing on both products and customers
B) Focusing on customers rather than products
C) focusing on products rather than customers
D) focusing of price rather than customers
15) for indian banks who decides the price of the banking products ?
A) indian government
B) reserve bank of india
C) bank's board or senior management
D) IBA
16) which in the list is required to develop and maintain a range of products in order to achieve customer satisfaction ?
A) product marketing
B) product planning
C) product distribution
D) product manufacturing
17) _____processing is used when large mail order company accumulates orders and processes them together in one
large set.
A) batch
B) online
C) real time
D) group
18) _____helps to capture the raw data and enter into the computer system.
A) CPU
B) integrated circuit
C) input device
D) motherboard
19) ATM network used by banks is an example of ?
A) HUB topology
B) ring topology
C) route topology
D) star topology
20) As you create documents, graphs, pictures, your computer holds the data in... ??
A) Restore file
B) backup drive
C) Clip board
D) memory
1) from which country india received highest inflow of foreign direct
investments (FDI) during 2012-13 ?
A) Singapore
B) Mauritius
C) Japan
D) UK
2) which sector attractd highest inflow of FDI during 2012-13?
A) metallurgy
B) Hotel and tourism
C) automobiles
D) service sector
3) which day was observed in india on 21st may 2013?
A) anti terrorism day
B) martyr's day
C) woman day
D) soldiers' day
4) who became the first indian amputee to scaled mount everest on
21st may 2013?
A) anandi sinha
B) arunima sinha
C) sonam sinha
D) sheila sinha
5) who was conferred with the 47th jnanpuith award for year 2011 on
22nd may 2013 ?
A) sachidananda rout roy
B) sitakant mahapatra
C) pratibha ray
D) gopinath mohanty
6) wo won UN's public service award for his mass contact programme on
22nd may 2013 ?
A) E.K.nayanar
B) V.S.achithananda
C) A.K.antony
D) Oommen chandy
7) Which city ranked 1st place in the list of top 10 favourite indian
destinations for foreigners according to HPI ?
A) jaipur
B) Mumbai
C) new delhi
D) bengaluru
8) who was appointed as the new defence secretary of india on
25th may 2013?
A) A.K.antony
B) Shashikant sharma
C) george fernandes
D) radha krishna mathur
9) who was named as india's 'most beautiful woman' for the year
2013 by people magazine(india) ??
A) sonam kapoor
B) deepika padukone
C) aishwarya rai bachchan
D) priyanka chopra
10) what number prisoner's badge has been alloted to sanjay dutt at yerwada jail ?? ---- not important Q
A) 16656
B) 16786
C) 16420
D) 00786
11) which of the following is the lowest level of computer language?
A) assembler
B) fortran
C) pascal
D) machine language
12) in what year was the '@' chosen for its use in email address ?? ---- not important
A) 1972
B) 1976
C) 1980
D) 1984
13) who is credited with idea of using punch cards to control patterns
in a waving machine??
A) pascal
B) hollerith
C) babbage
D) jacquard
14) as per latest guidelines of RBI, the bank calculate the interest of
savings account deposits on ?
A) daily basis
B) weekly basis
C) monthly basis
D) yearly basis
15) OCC stands for (banking term) ??
A) office of the controller of currency
B) organization of cash and credit
C) office of comptroller of currency
D) organized cash currency
16) when was indian banking act come into force?
A) 1951
B) 1950
C) 1949
D) 1948
17) which is the first indian bank to have been awarded ISO certification ?
A) State bank of india
B) punjab national bank
C) canara bank
D) corporation bank
18) khayal aapka- is the tagline of which bank??
A) Punjab National Bank
B) State bank of india
C) HDFC
D) ICICI bank
19) A tradition of trust - is the tagline of which bank?
A) bank of baroda
B) allahabad bank
C) bank of maharashtra
D) j&k; bank
20) the name you can BANK upon - is the tagline of which bank??
A) indian bank
B) bank of india
C) state bank of india
D) PNB
Quiz-24
1) how much percent, the union government of india increased import duty
on gold and platinum on 21th january ??
A) 2%
B) 4%
C) 6%
D) 8%
2) _______have a single communication channel that is shared by all the
users on the network ?
A) point to point
B) broadcast network
C) protocol
D) PAN
3) who is elected as the leader of indian delegation for world economic
forum 2013?
A) kamal nath
B) rahul gandhi
C) anand sharma
D) A.K.antony
4) with which country india signed MoU to strengthen Micro, Small and
Medium Enterprises on 15th jan 2013?
A) qatar
B) iraq
C) vietnam
D) indonesia
5) which stock exchange launched country's first dedicated debt trading
platform on 13th may 2013?
A) Multi commodity exchange
B) national stock exchange
C) bombay stock exchange
D) bangalore stock exchange
6) small magnetic disk enclosed in a plastic cover used to store data for
micro computer.what it is ??
A) floppy disk
B) compact disc
C) optical disc
D) zip disc
7) who was appointed as the new director general of defence research
and development organization ?
A) avinash chander
B) V.K.saraswat
C) amardeep ranaut
D) shashi kant sharma
8) union health minister ghulam nabi azad cleared a proposal to ban
which commonly used pain killer?
A) vanquish
B) analgin
C) motrin 800
D) advil motrin nuprin
9) what is the name of Mr.narayan murthy's son who was included
in the reconstituted board of infosys ??
A) Rohan murthy
B) ajay murthy
C) shankar murthy
D) krishna murthy
10) what was the original name of jiah khan, the film actress who committed
suicide on 3rd june 2013 ?
A) nafisa khan
B) sana khan
C) nilofar khan
D) farah khan
11) in which state highest krishi vigyan kendra (kvk) of india will be set up??
A) jammu and kashmir
B) punjab
C) west bengal
D) assam
12) who is the new secretary of BCCI as announced on 6th june 2013 ?
A) sanjay jagdale
B) sanjay patel
C) sanjay dutt
D) sanjay dhawan
13) who was reelected as chairman of indian banks' association on 6th
june 2013 for 2013-14 tenure ?
A) sanjay jagdale
B) pratip chaudhuri
C) aditya puri
D) K.R.kamath
14) which pune politician wears a rs.1.25 crore shirt made of gold to
get a ticket for lok sabha election ?
A) datta phuge
B) ramesh wanjale
C) navnirman sena
D) samrat moze
15) which underwater ballistic missile was successfully test fired by india
on 26th jan 2013?
A) k-14
B) k-15
C) k-16
D) k-17
Quiz 21
1) Swabhiman', the financial inclusion scheme, comes under the purview of which ministry?
(a) Ministry of Commerce
(b) Ministry of Home Affairs
(c) Ministry of Finance
(d) Ministry of External Affairs
2) Which among the following isn't incorrect?
(a) Money market provides long term source of finance.
(b) Recession in industrial sector in India is normally due to fall in exports.
(c) Ways and means advances is given by RBI are nowhere related to state's revenue.
(d) Exchange rate is fixed by RBI
3) For obtaining which among the following does a customer not require a
bank account?
(a) A Loan
(b) A Cheque
(c) A Banker's Draft
(d) A Credit Card
4) Life insurance and General insurance companies like LIC, ICICI Prudential,
ICICI Lombard, National Insurance etc. are regulated by which organization?
(a) RBI
(b) PFRDA
(c) IRDA
(d) IBA
5) Which of the following acts is useful in controlling HAWALA transactions?
(a) FEMA Act
(b) RBI Act
(c) DICGC Act
(d) Banking Regulation Act
6) ____________is the duty applied by a government to control the exports
of an article of trade, so that the article of trade can be used by the local
markets than in foreign countries.
(a) Customs duty
(b) Excise Duty
(c) Anti dumping duty
(d) Dumping Duty
7) Name the renowned soccer player who on 9 December, 2012 set the record
for most goals in a calendar year by scoring his 86th goal of 2012 ?
(a) David Beckham
(b) Lionel Messi
(c) Cristiano Ronaldo
(d) Roberto Carlos
8) 'Fianchetto' is a strategy in the game of -
(a) Car racing
(b) Chess
(c) Billiards
(d) Bull fight
9) A parallel port is most often used by a -
(a) Mouse
(b) Monitor
(c) Printer
(d) External storage device
10) Computer follows a simple principle called GIGO which means:
(a) Garbage in garbage out
(b) Garbage input good output
(c) Good input good output
(d) Greater instructions greater output
1) The Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) is a comprehensive
and in-depth analysis of a country's financial sector. Which among the
following bodies conducts this program?
(a) International Monetary Fund
(b) G-20
(c) World Economic Forum
(d) World Bank
2) Which among the below mentioned is/are dealt by the Indian Capital Market?
1. Short Term Funds
2. Medium Term Funds
3. Long Term Funds
(a) 1 & 2
(b) 2 & 3
(c) 1 & 3
(d) 1, 2 & 3
3) Net Interest Income is defined as the
(a) Interest earned on advances
(b) Interest earned on investments
(c) Total interest earned on advances on advances and investment
(d) Difference between interest earned and interest paid
4) Recently the Ministry of commerce has introduced a new "Niryat Bandhu"
scheme for the guidance and mentoring of first generation Entrepreneurs?
Who are the "Niryat Bandhus”?
(a) Entrepreneurs
(b) Officers
(c) Agents
(d) Export Assistants
5) MAT' is an acronym which stands for
(a) Maximum Alternate Tax
(b) Minimum Alternate Tax
(c) Minimum Affordable Tax
(d) Maximum Affordable Tax
6) Collateralized Borrowing and Lending Obligation (CBLO) is a/an ________
(a) Money Market Instrument
(b) Instrument of Monetary Policy
(c) Type of Risk Cover
(d) Stock Market Instrument
7) The term 'treble team' is associated with which sport????
(a) Table tennis
(b) badminton
(c) basket ball
(d) foot ball
8) Who is appointed as the chairperson of National Commission for
Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR).??
(a) kushal singh
(b) harmanpreet kaur
(c) khuswant rathore
(d) arjun singh
9) who won templeton prize for 2013 ??
(a) desmond tutu
(b) thabo makgoba
(c) steven gish
(d) chris hani
10) which country banned air conditioners use in government offices
(a) russia
(b) japan
(c) china
(d) pakistan
Current Affairs
Quiz 19
1.The Union Cabinet on 6 May 2013 had cleared important changes to
the National Rural Livelihoods Mission _________ in a major boost
to the roll out of the women's self help group model across the country?
a) Khadyaan
b) Sukhoslam
c) Jeevan Suraksha
d) Aajeevika
2.The Union Cabinet of India on 1May 2013 approved major changes
to the National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) with the objective
of removing poverty in rural areas by empowering women.
Approximately, 25 lakh Women Self Help Groups (SHGs) will be given
bank loans at an interest rate of _______ percent?
a) 7 percent
b) 6 percent
c) 7.2 percent
d) 6.8 percent
3.The Union Government of India on 8 May 2013 approved _____________
policy with an aim to create a secured Computing environment across
the country?
a) Computing Policy of India
b) National Security Policy for Computing
c) National Policy of Computing
d) National Cyber Security Policy
4.What is the name of the scheme which provides training and skills to
women in traditional and non-traditional trades?
a) Kishori Shakti Yojna
b) Janani Suraksha Yojna
c) Rashtriya Mahila Kosh
d) Swayamsiddha
e) Swawlamban
5.Author of the book Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and The year of
his pilgrimage is ?
a)Mo Yan
b)Haruki Murakami
c)Yukio Mishima
d)Kobo Abe
6.Which Indian player won the Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold Title?
a)Juan Gu
b)P V Sindhu
c)Saina Nehwal
d)Jawala Gutta
7. The new Drug Prices Control and Regulation act How many essential
drugs will be controlled?
a)312
b)324
c)336
d)348
8.The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) under the Prime Minister of
India, Manmohan Singh approved 11000 crore Rupees project this May
2013 for modernisation of _____________?
a) Delhi police
b) Central paramilitary forces.
c) Black Commando Force
d) Indian Army
9._________________ was granted an Observer Status by Arctic
Council recently
a)China
b)Italy
c)Singapore
d)India
e)S.Korea
10.Babasaheb Neelkanth Kalyani nominated as the Chairman of India
Japan Business Leaders Forum
a)Mukesh Ambani
b)Sunil Bharti
c)Deepak Parekh
d)S. Gopalkrishnan
e)Babasaheb Neelkanth kalyan
1) Under which section of the Constitution of India, does the President gets the
Right to appoint Judges to the High Court's and Supreme Court of India.
a) Clause 2 of Article 123
b) Clause 1 of Article 125
c) Clause 2 of Article 124
d) Clause 1 of Article 63
2) The Supreme Court of India on 12 April 2013 dismissed the plea of _________
the terrorist of Khalistan Liberation Force to dismiss the death penalty and shift
it to life imprisonment. He faced the sentence of Death from the Supreme Court
for triggering a bomb blast in Delhi in 1993, in which 9 people were killed leaving
behind 17 injured.
a) Raghvendra Pal Singh Bhullar
b) Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar
c) Dharmendra Pal Singh Bhullar
d) Kulvendra Pal Singh Bhullar
3) Name the two states from where the Election Commission of India has planned
to launch its driving license like-hard plastic voter ID cards and replace the long
existing laminated voter identity cards.
a) Assam and Meghalaya
b) Assam and Nagaland
c) Himachal Pradesh and Delhi
d) Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand
4) Who was the one and only women, to serve as the Chief Election Commissioner
of India?
a) Mahasweta Devi
b) Pratibha Ray
c) Qurratulain Hyder
d) V.S. Ramadevi
5) The 20th meeting of Eastern Zonal Council, comprising of the States of
West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar and Jharkhand, was held on 17 April 2013
at ____________________?
a) Ranchi
b) Bhubaneshwar
c) Patna
d) Kolkata
6) In the 27th edition of North-East Games played at Imphal, which Indian
state claimed the title of overall team champion?
a) Arunachal Pradesh
b) Meghalaya
c) Manipur
d) Sikkim
7) Name the Indian shooting champion who clinched the first gold for India
in International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup in Korea on
5 April 2013.
a) Rahi Sarnobat
b) S.K Uthappa
c) Manoj Kumar
d) Jai Bhagwan
8) Tech Mahindra on 6 May 2013 signed agreement with which South African
company to float a new company?
a) Falcorp
b) Anglo Platinum
c) Tongaat Hulett
d) Sanlam
9) Which San Francisco-based company was bought by Facebook that will help
it in specialising powering of the mobile applications?
a) WatsApp
b) Twitter
c) Parse
d) Google Plus
10) By what percent the production of eight core sector industries decreased
in the month of February 2013, for the first time in 2012-13 financial year?
a) 3.5 Percent
b) 2 Percent
c) 2.5 Percent
d) 4 Percent
1) The Union Government on January 10, 2013 approved 10 percent stake sale in
A) NTPC
B) BHEL
C) GAIL
D) Engineers India Ltd( EIL)
2) Which of the following companies on Jauary 17, 2013 launched its video telephony service in
Delhi
and Mumbai?
A) MTNL
B) Vodafone
C) Idea
D) Aircel
3) Which country will launch a robotic lunar station in 2015?
A) USA
B) France
C) Russia
D) Japan
4) The Union Government on January 1, 2013 launched cash transfer scheme in
A) 5 district
B) 10 District
C) 15 District
D) 20 District
5) Who on January 4, 2013 launched Pilot project of crime and criminal Tacking systems?
A) Dr. Manmohan SIngh
B) Sushil Kumar Shinde
C) P. Chidambaram
D) A.K Antony
6) Cochin shipyard Ltd. on January 8, 2013 launched the first patrol vessel (FPV) named ---------- build
for the Indian coast guards?
A) Aadesh
B) Rakshak
C) Akula
D) Jawan
7) Indian on January 27, 2013 successfully test fired the underwater ballistic missile from ----- coast?
A) Visakhapatnam
B) Sri Harikota
C) Chandipore
D) None of these
8) DMK party withdrew support from the ruling coalition of UPA. What is DMK's full form?
A) Dravida Makkal Kazhagam
B) Dravida Munnetra Katchi
C) Dravida Makkal Katchi
D) Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
9) “Bring up the Bodies” is the Booker prize winner for fiction in 2012. Who wrote it?
A) Tan Twang Eng
B) Alison Moore
C) Hilary Mantal
D) Deborah Levy
10) What is the capital of Kyrgyzstan?
A) Nuuk
B) Bishkek
C) Kabul
D) Taipei
11) Who has won the “Entrepreneur of the Decade” award conferred by All India Management
Association in New Delhi?
A) Mr. Ratan Tata
B) Mr. Narayan Murty
C) Mr. Mukesh Ambani
D) Mr. Sunil Mittal
12) The proposed allocation for the newly launched “National Livestock Mission” in the Union Budget
2013-14 is
A) Rs. 304 Cr.
B) Rs. 300 Cr.
C) Rs. 310 Cr.
D) Rs. 307 Cr.
1) The Medini Puraskar is given to a author who writes a book in Hindi on subject related to ???
A) Science
B) Environment
C) Medicine
D) Grammar
2)Interest Subsidy scheme for housing the urban poor(ISHUP) scheme which was under pilot
phase
during Eleventh five year plan period is being revised for launch with enhanced credit limits and
targets as :
A) Rajiv Rinn Yojana(RRY)
B) Indira Gandhi Awas Vikas Yojana(IGAVY)
C) Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for housing the Urban Poor(RGSHUP)
D) Nehru Awas Vikas Yojana(IGAVY)
3) A commercial bank will launch a medium term note(MTN) programme to :
A) provide loans
B) Raise funds
C) Sell equity
D) Purchase Shares
4) US Scientists at the Harvard University created a robot of the size of fly. What is the name of
this
robot?
a) Robo-Fly
b) Robotic Fly
c) Fly-Robot
d) Fly Me
5) What is the name of six huge wildfires that broke out in California on 2 May 2013 near
Camarillo?
a) McNally Fire
b) Camarillo Springs Wildfire
c) Esperanza Fire
d) Cedar Fire
6) Which company on 15 May 2013 achieved 50 billion apps download milestone?
a) Apple
b) Google
c) Yahoo!
d) Samsung
7) Indian Farmers Fertiliser Co-operative (IFFCO), on 11 May 2013 signed a long-term
agreement with
which Brazilian mining company for supply of rock phosphate?
a) Vale SA
b) Ferrous Resources
c) Votorantim Metais
d) Caemi
8) Name the International Cricket Team with which India Lost the Series by 2-1 after it won the
last
match by 10 runs on 6th January 2013.
(a) England
(b) Australia
(c) Pakistan
(d) South Africa
9) Name the Indian Women Weightlifter who on 10 January 2013 Won Maiden National Title in
National
Weightlifting Championship 2013.
(a) Binitha Devi
(b) Amanpreet Kaur
(c) Manpreet Kaur
(d) Karnam Malleswar
10) Rajasthan Royals was penalized with a fine amount of around 100 crore Rupees for violating
the
Forex laws in February 2013. Name the body that slapped the fine on the IPL team?
a) BCCI
b) Competition Commission of India
c) Enforcement Directorate
d) None of these
1) Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar awards are given for
a) Excellence in scientific studies and research
b) Outstanding contribution to science
c) Exploring new dimensions in creative writing in Indian languages
d) Creating mass awareness on environmental issues
2) The Roaring Forties is
a) the biggest waterfalls in the world
b) one of the major water currents of the Atlantic Ocean
c) the most dangerous river of China
d) the westerly winds in the Southern hemisphere
3) Dr. Amiya Chakrovarty is known for
a) His work in the Chipko movement
b) Composing musical score in Satyajit Ray's films
c) Being literary secretary to R. N. Tagore
d) Patenting a living organism
4) For which of the following purposes has the RBI constituted a Working Group with Deepak
Mohanty as Chairman ?
a) Deregulation of primary markets
b) Deregulation of secondary markets
c) Deregulation of savings bank rates
d) Introduction of base rate
6) Which of the following groups are adversely affected by inflation?
1. Wage earners in the informal sector.
2. Profit earners.
3. Salary earners with salaries indexed to inflation
4. Pensioners with fixed pensions.
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
a) 1 and 2
b) 3 and 4
c) 1 and 4
d) 2 and 3
7) Which of the following account(s) is / are not maintained by the Comptroller and Auditor General of
India?
1. The accounts of a state
2. The railway accounts
3. The Union Government accounts
4. Defence accounts
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
a) 2 only
b) 2 and 4
c) 1 and 3
d) 1 and 2
8) An over-valued currency in the foreign exchange market will have which one of the following
impacts in India?
a) Make imports costlier and exports cheaper
b) Make imports cheaper and exports costlier
c) Will have no effect on cost of imports
d) Give protection to domestic industry against foreign competition
9) who will host famous Badminton championships- Thomas Cup and Uber Cup finals for the first time
in May 2014.
A) new delhi
B) chennai
C) Hyderabad
D) Tamil nadu
10) Who joined as the fourth Vice-President of the freshly formed Tennis body in India : ITPA (Indian
Tennis Players Association).
A) Sania mirza
B) vijay amrutraj
C) rohan bopanna
D) roger federer
1)________is the organization that maintains the borrower's history in India.
(a) CRISIL
(b) CIBIL
(c) CARE
(d) RBI
2) In India, the commercial banks are required to provide_______% of their ANBC (Adjusted Net Bank
Credit) to priority sector.
(a) 15
(b) 25
(c) 35
(d) 40
3) What does FSDC stand for?
(a) Financial Security and Development Council
(b) Financial Stability and Development Council
(c) Fiscal Security and Development Council
(d) Fiscal Stability and Development Council
4) RBI is coming up with the concept of___??___to protect banks against possible harmful effects
arising from the operations of their non-banking financial subsidiaries.
(a) Financial Holding Company
(b) Bank Holding Company
(c) Bureau of Credit Union
(d) Financial Institutions Audit Cell
5) What is understood by Fiduciary Issue of currency?
(a) The issue of currency notes without keeping gold or silver as deposit
(b) The issue of currency notes keeping gold or silver as deposit
(c) The issue of currency notes with partial gold or silver deposits
(d) The issue of currency notes with comparative gold or silver deposits
6) Which of the following acts is useful in controlling HAWALA transactions?
(a) FEMA Act
(b) RBI Act
(c) DICGC Act
(d) Banking Regulation Act
7) _____ has got RBI's nod to issue prepaid card to its clients.
(a) LIC
(b) SIDBI
(c) NABARD
(d) GIC
8) Who became the youngest athlete of Jammu and Kashmir to be conferred with the Sher-i-Kashmir
Sports Award.
(A) Aasif nawab
(B) Navjot singh
(C) parwez rasool
(D) harbhajan singh
9) Who won the madrid open 2013??(Lawn Tennis)
(A) Roger Federer,
(B) Novac Djokovic,
(C) rafa nadal,
(D) Juan Martin Del Potro
10) Just Dial will adopt a scheme _???_ for retail investors investing in its Rs 900-crore IPO (Initial
Public Offering).
(A) Safety Net
(B) Safety dial
(C) just for people
(D) dial to offer
1-India and France hold talks on major deals involving sales of Fighter jets and
nuclear reactors on the opening day of President Francois hollande's visit to the
South Asian nation .Which statement is not true regarding it ?
a- Hollande's agenda is the sale of 126 Rafale jets to the IAF manufactured by
Raymond Martin
b- Hollande is greeted my MoS for external affairs praneet kaur on his arrival
c- Discussed on a pact for supplying 6 nuclear reactors for jaitpura nuclear plant ,
maharashtra
d- All
2-In the Railway budget 2013-14 , the launch of new special luxury LHB coaches
whch will progressively be introduced on the shatabdi and rajdhani trains .
Which one of following is not true abt LHB coaches ?
a- Coaches have seating capacity of 50
b- Ergonomically designed cushioned seats
c - LCD video screens in coach
d- Nominal fee of Rs 10 for internet charges
3-Which state has –ve growth rate of population during 2001-2011 as per Census
2011?
a- Meghalaya
b- Manipur
c- Tripura
d -Nagaland
4- Which one of following is wrong amount as per the fund allocated in budget 201314 a- PMGSY = 21700 crore
b- IAY = 15184 crore
c- SSA = 27258 crore
d- MNREGA = 30000 crore
5-Which one of following country is called as “ Garden of lakes ” ?
a- Poland b- Finland c- Netherland d- Switzerland
6-Which of the following has been designated by UNO as decade for 2011-2020 ?
a- Natural disaster decade
b- Bio-diversity decade
c- Climate change decade
d- Environmental decade
7-The contribution of agriculture at present National GDP is ~
a- 18% b- 26% c- 30% d- 15%
8-HANDBook of agriculture is published by a- IARI b- ICAR c- UPCAR d- ICSIR
9-VAT is imposed a- on 1st stage of production
b- directly on consumer
c- on all stages of production
d- on final stage of production
10- Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan started recently by GOI which relates to a- Making the Ganga & Yamuna Pollution free
b- Making the Environment pollution free
c- Making the urban areas of the country pollution free
d- Ending the Open Latrine system in rural areas
11- SBI , is set to open its 2nd branch in china with a capital of 50 M$ (Million $ ) at a- Beijing b- Shanghai c- Guangzhou d- Tianjin
1) In how many languages, RBI prints currency ???
A) 12,
B) 14,
C) 15,
D) 20.
2) who won nobel literature prize for 2012 ?
A) Mo yan,
B) LI na,
C) Shan guy,
D) Jeet thayil
3) Justice Dharmadhikari Committee Report is associated with ?
A) Thermal power plant,
B) Aviation industry,
C) telangana Issue,
D) Indian Economy.
4) Which bird has been declared as state bird by the delhi government ?
A) Parrot,
B) Peacock,
C) Humming bird,
D) House sparrow.
5) Name the first bank which work as registrar for Unique Identification Authority of India.
A) Bank of Baroda,
B) State Bank of India,
C) Punjab National Bank,
D) Bank of India.
6) which of the following institutions of excellence is not granted Rs.100 crore in union budget 2013-14. ??
A) Aligarh Muslim University,
B) Banaras Hindu University,
C) Indian national trust for Art and cultural Heritage,
D) Indira Gandhi open university,
7) which of the following currency's symbol is the oldest ?
A) Pound Sterling,
B) Rupee,
C)Dinar,
D) Yen.
8) Which company began sales of world's first curved OLED TV at Rs.7.33 lakh?
A) LG,
B) Sony,
C) Samsung,
D) Onida
9) In which language was Raja Harishchandra, a silent film produced?
A) HIndi,
B) Marathi,
C) English,
D) none of the above.
10) which indian state is set to open women only cooperative banks ?
A) Gujarat,
B) Delhi,
C) UP,
D) Bihar.
1) Which of the following country won women basketball gold in inaugural FIBA Asia 3x3 basketball
tournament 2013 in Doha on 17 May 2013.
Answers : A) Czech republic, B) USA, C), Britain, D) India
2) World Telecommunication and Information Society Day is observed on which of the following day
???
Answers : A) May 1, B) May 17, C) May 14, D) May 21.
3) What is the number of Fuel Supply Pact signed by Coal India Limited with different Power Plants in
Year 2013?
Answers : A) 39, B) 47, C) 56, D) 62
4) Union Government on 12 March 2013 decided to provide a financial assistance of 41.21 crore
rupees to protect which special breed of goat that produces world-famous fine luxury fibre?
Answers : A) Barbari B) Pashmina, C) Malbari, D) Mehsani
5) What percent of inflation rate was pegged by India's Economic Survey for 2012-13 for the fiscal
year 2013-14?
Answers : A) 6.2-6.6 %, B) 3.5-3.9 %, C) 4.8-5.4 %, D) 6.3-6.5 %
6) Which mobile company won patent infringement suit against HTC in German Court on 19 March
2013 in the case involving infringement of power-saving patent?
Answers : A) Samsung, B) Apple, C) Blackberry, D) Nokia
7) Name the person, who was appointed as the secretary of the Department of Telecommunications
(DoT) in India.
Answers: A) M F Farooqui, B) R Chandrashekhar, C) Kartikeya Sarabhai, D) Sonal Dabra
8) India Post in the last week of March 2013 decided to establish third Automated Mail Processing
Centre in which city by April 2013.
Answers : A) Delhi, B) Mumbai, C) Ahmedabad, D) Hyderabad
9) Ireland's government on 1 May 2013 unveiled the Protection of Life during____________. It explains
when life-saving abortions can be performed. Moreover, it's a clarification of rights within the ambit
of Current law.
Answers : A) Pregnancy Bill, B) Abortion Law, C) Protection of Life Bill, D) Right to live Bill
10) New novel about Hitler, called Er Ist Wieder Da (He's Back) authored by whom, which became the
Germany's best seller, replacing Winter Of The World.
Answers : A) heinrich Mann, B) Walter Benjamin, C) Timur Vermes, D) Erich Kastner.
RRB Exam 21 & 22 Sep. 2013
1.
Treasury bills, Certificate of deposits, commercial papers traded in which market - Money
market
2. About CSR corporate social responsibility
3. GAAR is applicable from - 1st April 2016
4. INDIA is going to trade in South east Asian countries it is called – ASEAN
5. PAKISTAN PM - NAWAZ SHARIEF
6. Sarajevo is the capital of BOSNIA7. HDI Index of Rank of India – 136
8. Nishi Vasudeva is the chairman of – HPCL
9. Who purchased the business of Royal bank of Scotland – Ratnakar Bank
10. Some thing about Insurance Broking permission as per the notification given by IRDA11. PPF Max amount in a financial Year – 100000
12. E-Choupal is from Which Organization – ITC
13. Foreign trade policy annoued by - Ministry of commerce, Industry
14. UNCTAD HQ- Geneva (The United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development (UNCTAD) was established in 1964)
15. Swadhaar scheme for - A Scheme for Women in Difficult Circumstances
16. Highest award in Sport (India) - Rajiv Khel Ratna
17. FCNR Account - Opend by NRI and IPO's
18. About Asset Reconstruction Companies
19. Present Reverse Repo Rate - 6.5%
20. Father of Nuclear Programme - Homi J BABA
21. ESCAP(Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific) HQ – Bangkok
22. Best Feature film in 60th IIFA Awards _ Pan singh Thomar
23. Committee on Below Poverty line – Tendulkar Committee
24. Anoop Sridhar is a Famous for- BADMINTON
25. Sea of Pappies is Written by- AMITAV GHOSH
26. Question on KYC Norms
27. NPA’s limited to by the end of 2013-14 fiscal Year is – DoNT KNOW
28. FEMA enacted in the year – 2000
29. ED is levied on – I Think MANUFACTURING GOODS
30. EFT means Electronic Funds Transfer
31. Banks didn’t allow loans Beyond – BASE RATE
32. Baht is the currency of THAILAND
33. Question on WPI
34. For participating in president election minimum age is 35 Years
35. Not a retail Banking Product –
36. Lender of last resort – RBI
37. Fiscal Deficit in 2012-13 is 4.89%
38. SEBI Chairman – U K SINHA
39. (Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) Chairman C
Rangarajan
40. Telecom regulator - TRAI
1. New Member of European Union – Croatia
2. New Governor of Sikkim – Sriniwas Patil
3. PV sindhu related to – Badminton
4. Who won the Champions Trophy 2013 – India
5. Committee for NABARD – Shivaraman
6. Which company installed white label ATm first in country? – Tata
7. RTGS limit – no limit
8. Kathakali is folk dance of —? Kerala
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P Sathasivam is in news? he is – CJI of India
Largest producer of Rice in world? – China
Commercial paper is issued by – Corporate
What do u mean by CRR
Attorney general of india appointed by
28th member of EU
Who is raghuram rajan
Financial task action force HQ
saarc head office- nepal
Who won global peace award – Nelson mandela
What does a banking ombudsman do
Nirbhaya allocation in budget (Nirbhaya Fund is Rs.1000 Cr announced
by Government of India in its 2013 Union Budget. According to Finance Minister P.
Chidambaram this fund are expected support initiatives by the government and NGOs
working towards protecting the dignity and ensuring safety of women in India. Nirbhaya
(fearless) was the pseudonym given to the 2012 Delhi gang rape case victim to hide her
actual identity.)
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CEO of World economic forum… Klaus Schwab
Turning point authour – Kalam
Blue revolution – fish
India helps which country in its Elections? Nepal
Audi's parent group : Volkswagen group
Least populated state in India : Sikkim (not sure)
Many questions on schemes and committees.
Antyodana Anna yojana for food security for -> SC/OBC/poorest of poor. Antyodaya
Anna Yojana (AAY) is an Indian government sponsored scheme for ten millions of the
poorest families. It was launched by NDA government in December 2000. It is on the
lookout for the 'poorest of the poor’ by providing those 35 kilos of rice and wheat at Rs.3
& Rs.2 per kg respectively.
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Current Repo Rate : 7.25%
G8 countries (which is not part of G8) : China, italy, canada etc were options
Asset management company: ARCIL
12th plan period: 2012-2017
kimberleg process certificate scheme-diamond
imagining india-idea of a renewed nation-author name nandan nilekani
chhatrapati sivaji aiport-mumbai
bundetag parliament-germany
pencil is made of graphite
jawahar gram samridhi yojana
largest producer of rice-WEST BANGAL
WTO HQ- GENEVA
ONE IS FROM HEDGING FOR RISK COVER
ATM FULL FORM
AGRICULTHURE MINISTER-SHARAD PAWAR
BANK SELL INSURANCE IN BANKESURENCE
WHEN CENSUS START FIRST PERSON IS PRECIDENT
UBER CUP IS FROM BADMINTON
Women Precedent of which country--- South Korea(Perk juan hye)
Ghummer is a dance belongs from which state—Rajasthan
FORIGN BANK INVEST IN PRIORITY SECTOR VIA NABARD
WHEN RBI SELL HIS SHERE THIS IS KNOWN AS –DISINVESTMENT
shakel is currency of which country—— Israel
chatteri is related to which sports—– football
turning point author—– kalam
sponsers for RRB —-central govt, sponserbank , state govt
budget question on —-defecit financing
mathir award —- nelson Mandela
2011 census which is most populous state— uttarpradesh
SOILED NOTES question
Regulator for exchange of markets—- forward market commission
Human rights day 10 Dec
61. Riga is capital of- Latvia
62. The SGSY is being implemented by the District Rural Development Agencies (DRDAs),
with the active involvement of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs), the Banks, the Line
Departments and the Non- Government Organisations (NGOs) Swarnajayanti Gram
Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY) is an initiative launched by the Government of India to
provide sustainable income to poor people living in rural areas of the country. The
scheme was launched on April 1, 1999.The SGSY aims at providing self-employment to
villagers through the establishment of Self-help groups. Activity clusters are
established based on the aptitude and skill of the people which are nurtured to their
maximum potential. Funds are provided by NGOs, banks and financial institutions
63. Bancassurance meaning- Bancassurance, i.e., banc + assurance, refers to banks
selling the insurance products. Official definition of Bancassurance: According to IRDA,
‘Bancassurance’ refers to banks acting as corporate agents for insurers to
distribute insurance products.
64. damiel day lewis(85 academy awards)
65. PMI (purchasing managers index) in service sector Services Purchasing Managers' Index
fell to 47.9 in July from 51.7 in the previous month.
66. Highest rice producing state? WESTBENGAL
67. Sardar Sarvor on which river? GODAVARI
68. Bundestag parliament is- Germany’s Parliament
69. Is a form of Gilt edge securities?
Provident funds, by their very nature, need to invest in
risk free securities that also provide them a reasonable return. Government securities,
also called the gilt edged securities or G-secs, are not only free from default risk but also
provide reasonable returns and, therefore, offer the most suitable investment
opportunity to provident funds. The Government securities comprise dated securities
issued by the Government of India and state governments as also, treasury bills issued
by the Government of India. Reserve Bank of India manages and services these securities
through its public debt offices located in various places as an agent of the Government.
70. WHEN RBI SELL HIS SHARE THIS IS KNOWN AS –DISINVESTMENT
71. Imagining India -idea of a renewed nation - author name Nandan nilekani
72. tax paid on imports- Custom Import Duty
73. FORIGN BANK INVEST IN PRIORITY SECTOR VIA NABARD