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Wednesday, August 07, 2013

PRACTISE BITS AUGAST 2013



1. By defeating which of the following team, India clinched the ICC Champions Trophy 2013?
1) England  2) Australia 3) Sri Lanka 4) West Indies

2. The Union Government has approved a proposal to declare 2013 as?
1) Education Year 2) Water Conservation Year 3) Tourism Year 4) Human Rights Year

3. Who among the following has been honoured with “2013 Indian Business Leader of the Year”?
1) Sanjiv Goenka 2) Anil Agarwal 3) Ajim Premji 4) Mukesh Ambani

4. As per the United Nations, World Population Prospects-2012, India will become most populous country in the world by?
1) 2030 2) 2028 3) 2045 4) 2050

5. According to Bureau of Immigration, which of the following country ranked top in the list of number of foreign tourist arrivals to India?
1) UK  2) USA 3) Japan 4) Russia

6. By which year, India surpass China to become most populous country in the world as per the estimates of United Nations report?
1) 2050 2) 2028 3) 2040 4) 2065

7. Which country has developed the World’s fastest computer “Tianhe-2”?
1) China 2) Japan 3) Russia 4) USA

8. Who is the new Chairman of Life Insurance Corporation of India?
1) S K Roy 2) Thomas Mathew 3) D K Mehrotra 4) Sushobhan Sarkar

9. The much debated “Bangaru Thalli” scheme is related to which state?
1) Karnataka 2) Andhra Pradesh 3) Tamil Nadu 4) Maharastra

10. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid became the first Indian Minister to visit which of the following countries in 23 years in June 2013?
1) Iran   2) Syria    3) Iraq    4) Yemen

11. Recently, which of the following bank has been licenced to opena representative office in Myanmar?
1) SBI  2) ICICI  3) EXIM Bank of India     4) Corporation Bank

12. Who among the following has been elected as President of 68th session of UN General Assembly?
1) John W. Ashe   2) Vuk Jeremic  3) Ban Ki Moon  4) Evan Schneider

13. The construction of dam on Blue Nile River triggered the tension between which two countries?
1) Egypt and Sudan 2) Sudan and Kenya 3) Ethiopia and Egypt 4) Ethiopia and Kenya

14. Who among the following has been appointed as Director General, National Disaster Response Force and Civil Defence?
1) P M Nair  2) Krishna Chaudhary  3) Ranaveer Sing   4) Shankar Bidari

15. Who among the following has been appointed as new Chairman of “Air Asia India”?
1) Ratan Tata  2) S Ramadorai  3) R Venkata Raman  4) Bharat Vasani

16. Which of the following airports was recently adjudged as “World’s second best International Airport?
1) Rajiv Gandhi International Airport     2) Bangalore International Airport
3) Indira Gandhi International Airport    4) Kochi International Airport

17. Which among the following is the only satellite of Ecuador that collided with the Russian rocket debris recently?
1) Biom-1   2) Pegasus    3) IRSS   4) Kryasor

18. What is India’s present rank in the Renewable Energy Index?
1) 5    2) 8    3) 13     4) 16

19. Which among the following states has recently become the first in India to provide tablet PC to ASHA worker?
1) Gujarat     2) Rajasthan     3) Karnataka     4) Haryana

20. On which among the following dates, the World Day to Combat Desertification is observed?
1) June 16     2) June 17      3) June 18       4) June 19

21. The Indian-born journalist, who has been appointed as editor of a British national newspaper “The Independent” is?
1) Amol Rajan   2) Joseph Harker  3) Dinesh Butto  4) Thomas Mathew

22. Which of the following team has won the European under 21 championship?
1) Italy       2) Spain    3) France         4) Japan

23. Which country will host the 40th G-8 Summit in June 2014?
1) Canada      2) UK     3) France     4) Russia

24. According to latest air traffic figures, which of the following company has maximum share in domestic aviation market?
1) Jet Airways    2) IndiGo   3) Spice Jet     4) GoAir

25. Who among the following is the recipient of India Abroad Publisher’s Special Award for Excellence 2012?
1) Sharmila Tagore   2) Amrit Singh   3) Ani Bera   4) Meera Jain

26. The first ever Chinese Film Festival has been inaugurated in India at?
1) Kolkata    2) Hyderabad   3) Mumbai     4) New Delhi

27. A team of Archaeologists have discovered 1,200 year old longlost city in which of the following country?
1) Sri Lanka     2) Cambodia    3) Indonesia     4) Malaysia

28. Who among the following is the recipient of M S Swaminathan award for Leadership in Agriculture
2013?
1) Ayyappan        2) William Dar      3) Chengappa    4) Vishwanathan

29. The Wildlife Institute of India(WII), has been granted permission for satellite tracking of which of
following bird  species?
1) The Great Indian Bustard   2) Peacock    3) Bengal Florican    4) Lesser Florican

30. As per the report of 68th round of National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) released on 20 June 2013, What is the average monthly per capita expenditure (MCPE) of the poorest of the poor in the country?
1) Rs.700.50 in urban areas and Rs. 521.44 in rural areas
2) Rs.600.50 in urban areas and Rs. 421.44 in rural areas
3) Rs.700.00 in urban areas and Rs.121.44 in rural areas
4) Rs.1000 in urban areas and Rs. 500 in rural areas

31. The Cabinet Committee on Investments has been set-up to address which of the following?
1) To submit a report on the hurdles creating bottle-necks on the economy
2) To boost big ticket investments and untangle redtapism
3) To fast track disinvestment in PSUs
4) To attract foreign investment into India to attract foreign investment into India

32. Scientists, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China discovered a mousesized fossil, which provided new insights into the origin of Primates. What is the name of this creature?
1) Archicebus   2) Tarsiers  3) Archiceape   4) Anthropoids

33. A new type of which device wasdesigned by three young techies from the North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology? This device contains a parabolic reflector that works in conjunction with the drum that contains water.
1) Sun Radiator   2) Solar Heater   3) Parabolic Reflector   4) Electric Oven

34. Which international monetary organization granted $110million to help Urban services in Jammu and Srinagar on 17 May 2013?
1) World bank    2) IMF   3) Asian Development Bank    4) International Development  Association

35. Who among the following has been appointed coach of “Australian Cricket Team”?
1) Bryan Lara    2) Shane Warne   3) Darren Lehmann   4) Adam Gilchrist

36. Scientists at the University of Texas in Dallas on 28 May 2013 designed a novel, small molecule that could help in the treatment of which disease? The molecule’s effectiveness lies in blocking the cancerpromoting function of proteins called androgen receptors.
1) Breast Cancer    2) Brain Cancer   3) Lung Cancer   4) Prostate Cancer

37. Scientists while analysing fossil records in the Month of May 2013 have discovered a new
_________, which is dated back 66 to 80 million years. Fill in the blank with an appropriate option.
1) Triceratops  2) Torosaurus  3) Three Horned Dinosaur  4) Chasmosaurines

38. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) on 29 May 2013 announced that astronomers in Chile
discovered 15 new dark galaxies. Near which constellation were these dark galaxies discovered?
1) Andromeda    2) Cetus   3) Delphinus    4) Lupus

39. “Nirmal Gram Puraskar” award is related to which one of the following ministry?
1) Ministry of Environment and Forest    2) Ministry of Rural Development
3) Ministry of Culture                            4) Ministry of Social Welfare

40. The 5th Summit of which of the following organizations took place in South Africa recently?
1) G-8     2) G20   3) SAARC     4) BRICS

41. Recently, in which one of the following places Early Tsunami Warning Systemhas been installed?
1) Vizhag    2) Mangalore   3) Andaman and Nicobar    4) Goa

42. Which among the following cities is the host of World Economic Forum (WEF) India 2013 meet in November?
1) Bangalore      2) Chennai    3) Kochi      4) Mumbai

43. Which state recently, passed a Panchayt raj amendment bill that provides for disqualification of grama panchayat members and presidents who fail to convene meetings of ward and grama sabha?
1) Andhra Pradesh     2) West Bengal    3) Karnataka    4) Goa

44. What is the code name of the rescue operation conducted by Indian Air Force (IAF) in badly affected area of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh by heavy rain?
1) Operation Sannad   2) Operation Rahat    3) Operation Ganges   4) Operation Relief

45. According to recent survey conducted by UNCTAD, India is_most attractive destination for
investment in the world. Fill the correct option in the blank.
1)Second    2) Third   3) Fourth  4) Fifth

46. Which operation launched byBCCI to restore the credibility of IPL?
1) Operation Ball  2) Operation Fixing   3) Operation Clean-up   4) Operation Umpire

47. Which one of the following film has won Golden Goblet award for best feature film at the 16th Shanghai International Film Festival?
1) The Major   2) Reliance   3) Fist of Legend   4) Amazing

48. Government of India has inked a loan agreement with which Institution for the National AIDS control Project (NACP-IV)?
1) World Bank  2) Asian Development Bank  3) RBI   4) SBI

49. Who among the following has been elected new President of  Iran?
1) Hassan Rouhani   2) Mohsen Rezai  3) Saeed Jalili   4) Mohammed Baquer qalibaf

50. In which of the following country, the 39th G-8 summit concluded recently?
1) UK    2) Russia   3) USA     4) France

51. Union government has set a target to achieve 80% literacy rate in the country by the year?
1) 2015    2) 2016   3) 2017    4) 2018

52. Which company recently unveiled the world’s largest container ship?
1) DSME   2) Maersk Line    3) STX group    4) Hyundai heavy

53. The Chief Minister of which of the following state has been selected for United Nation
Global award for Public Service?
1) Kerala  2) Karnataka   3) Madhya Pradesh   4) Maharastra

54. Who among the following had sworn in as Australia’s new Prime Minister?
1) Kevin Rudd  2) Chris Bowen  3) Anthony Albanese   4) Julian Gillard

55. The campaign named “Start Searching India” has been launched by?
1) Google    2) Yahoo    3) Rediff    4) MSN

56. Who among the following is the Chairman of the committee constituted to examine aspects related indecent portrayal of women in mass media?
1) Shanta Sinha      2) Aruna Roy     3) Kushal Singh     4) K Ratnaprabha

57. Norman E. Borlaug is the founder of the World Food Prize. Who won this prize in June 2013?
1)Marc Van Montague (Belgium)                      2) Mary-Dell Chilton (USA)
3) Robert Fraley (USA)                                    4) All 1, 2 and 3

58. In a recent survey released by NSSO, what is the status of India’s unemployment for the year 2011-12?
1) It rose by 2%     2) It declined by 2%    3) It rose by 2.7%       4) It declined by 2.7%

59. Which among the following are the three major medicines banned by Union government recently?
1) Pioglitazone, Deanxit, Brufen      2) Deanxit, Brufen, Analgin
3) Analgin, Pioglitazone, Brufen      4) Pioglitazone, Deanxit,Analgin

60. The Union Government has decided to reduce the number of centrally sponsored schemes (CSS) from over 140 during the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17). What is the proposed no of reduced CSS under this new strategy?
1) 38                2) 66         3) 85            4) 98

61. Who among the following is the head of the Committee set up by SEBI, to unify Foreign Investment Norms?
1) C B Dhave             2) U K Sinha    3) Sudhir Kulkarni   4) K M Chandrashekar

62. 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?
1) Khadyaan    2) Sukhoslam   3) Jeevan Suraksha    4) Aajeevika

63. The Union Cabinet of India on 1 May 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?
1) 7 %            2) 6 %         3) 7.2 %          4) 6.8 %

64. The Union Government of India on 8 May 2013 approved _____ policy with an aim to create a
secured Computing environment across the country?
1) Computing Policy of India                         2) National Cyber Policy
3) National Policy of Computing                   4) National Cyber Security Policy

65. Pakistan government decided to declare which of the following Sikh Shrine as holy city?
1) Pir Panjab         2) Panja Sahib         3) Patti Sahib      4) Guru Sahib

66. Which one of the following motor vehicle company recently unveiled world’s fastest electric racing car ZEOD RC?
1) Nissan      2) Ford      3) General Motors        4) Toyota

67. The monetary assistance under the Indira Awas Yojana (IAY), the housing scheme for the poor, giving priority to the scheduled castes, tribes and minorities has been raised by what amount?
1) Rs. 25000              2) Rs. 35000     3) Rs. 15000          4) Rs. 30000

68. Which among the following companies has recently unveiled the world’s largest container ship?
1) DSME            2) Maersk Line           3) STX group          4) Hyundai heavy

69. Name the first Indigenous developed Rotavirus Vaccine of India.
1) Rotavac           2) Rotacid          3) Rotovac            4) Rotomid

70. New chairman of LIC is?
1) U.K. Sinha     2) T.S. Vijayan       3) Kalyan Singh         4) S.K. Roy

71. The Union Government on 15May 2013 had set up an expert Committee under the supervision____to evolve a composite index to measure backwardness of states.
1) Bharat Ramaswami    2) Raghuram G Rajan    3) Najeeb Jung     4) Nirija G Jaya

72. Who among the following has been ranked top in the most powerful celebrity list of Forbes?
1) Lady Gaga   2) Steven Spielberg  3) Oprah Winfrey   4) Madonna

73. Which one of the following was the purpose of appointment of Rangachary committee?
1) Taxation of software Development Centres & IT Sector
2) Taxation of Biotechnology and Pharmacy sector
3) Taxation of MSME sector
4) None of the above

74. In which among the following states, the controversial Chutka Nuclear power plant is proposed to be located?
1) Karnataka                2) Tamilnadu           3) Madhya Pradesh       4) Gujarat

75. The European Union has imposed ban on the pesticide namely neonicotinoids to protect which species of Insect?
1) Dragon Fly       2) Honey Bees       3) Vasp         4) Beetle

76. India's first Yoga University was recently inaugurated at?
1) Ahmadabad            2) Bengaluru         3) Bhopal           4) Hyderabad

77. Union Cabinet granted classical language status to which of the following language?
1) Hindi       2) Gujarathi        3) Malayalam        4) Konkani

78. The Inga dam is the world's largest proposed hydropower project. In which country this dam is being constructed?
1) South Africa   2) Democratic Republic of the Congo  3) Nigeria    4) Kenya

79. Which of the following film has bagged the Best Feature Film award at the third SAARC Film Festival in Colombo?
1) Paan Singh Tomar    2) Burfi       3) Dabaang          4) Lunch Box

80. Which of the following country has become the 5th country to ratify Istanbul convention?
1) Albania             2) Montenegro          3) Italy             4) Portugal

81. Maturity of Inflation Indexed Bonds issued by RBI on 15th May 2013 is?
1) 5 years           2) 20 years             3) 10 Years        4) 14 years

82. The Kochhar Commission was constituted to probe which one of the following incident?
1) Pune Blast     2) Bhopal Gas Disaster      3) Godhra Train carnage  4) Mumbai Terror attack

83. which of the following states has made possession of Adhaar card is mandatory for teaching and Non teaching staff to draw salaries?
1) Madhya Pradesh    2) Maharastra        3) Gujarat        4) West Bengal

84. The Kachin Independence Army is a rebel group active in which of the following country?
1) Bangladesh  2) Sri Lanka    3) Myanmar   4) Afghanistan

85. The controversial Polavaram project is a being constructed on which one of the following River?
1) Godavari          2) Krishna      3) Manjira      4) Moosi

86. Which among the following Nations has became the first European nation to make military service compulsory for women’s?
1) Norway       2) France      3) Canada    4) Switzerland

87. The United Nations Food and Agriculture organization (FAO) recently conferred its “Jacques Diouf Award” to which of the following organization of India?
1) Uday foundation   2) Pratham      3) Give India     4) SEWA

88. According to a report by real estate consultants cushman & wakefield, for the first time in six years Mumbai's Nariman point has been dropped from the list of top 10 global commercial rentals. Which position has now Mumbai slipped?
1)11th               2)15th     3)16th       4)20th

89. Name the experimental drug, which is claimed to help paralysed people reclaim their movements:
1) LM11B-31     2) LM11A-31       3) LM11A-32            4) LM11B-32

90. Five New Non-Permanent Member elected in UN Security Council from 1st Jan 2013 are:
1)Srilanka, Luxembourg, Colombia, Australia and Turkey
2)Azerbaijan, Guatemala,Morocco, Argentina and Togo,
3)South Korea, Luxembourg, Argentina, Australia andRwanda
4)Colombia, Germany, India,Portugal and South Africa

91. Who among the following has written the book “The River of Smoke”?
1) Naomi Klein    2) Peter Forbes    3) Amitav Ghosh 4) Chetan Bhagath

92. Which of the following states rank first in terms of Wind energy production?
1) Gujarat     2) Tamil Nadu    3) Andhra Pradesh    4) Rajasthan

93. Which of the following state government recently, said that it will offer free pilgrimage to senior citizens?
1) Rajasthan        2) Gujarat    3) Punjab       4) Haryana

94. INDRA is a joint, bi-annual  military exercise conducted by  India and?
1) USA            2) Sri Lanka      3) Russia      4) China

95. As per the statement given on24 June 2013, Companies planning to apply for bank licenses will be allowed how much per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in their holding companies?
1) 100%       2) 49%    3) 51%        4) 24%

96. As of June 2013, which one of the following is the India’s super fast computer?
1) iDataPlex   2) PARAM Yuva-II    3) SAGA   4) EKA

97. The drug Bedaquiline, which isrecently in news is used to treat which one of the following disease?
1) Malaria   2) Tuberculosis   3) Dengue   4) HIV/AIDS

98. Who among the following has been awarded “Simon Bolivar National Award of Journalism 2013?
1) George Bush     2) Angle Markel    3) Hugo Chavez  4) Valdmir Putin

99. Which one of the following ancient Jain manuscript has been registered in the UNESCO Heritage documentary?
1) Shantinatha Purana   2) Jaina Purana   3) Mahavira Purana   4) Bahubali Purana

100. The Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting constituted a committee to review the rate revision of the newspaper advertisements. Who among the following is the head of this committee?
1) S K Sinha         2) Prakash Chandra    3) J S Mathur     4) Chandra Mouli

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