General Awareness- Paper III

1) While ISRO had to call off the moon mission following

snapping of contact with Chandrayaan-I, ISRO chief G Madhavan
Nair has claimed that the mission had accomplished … per cent of
its objectives.
a. 98
b. 97
c. 96
d. 95

2) This particular object will be used throughout the

Commonwealth Games to promote the games as green event.
a. Bamboo
b. Terracotta
c. Handmade paper
d. Jute
3) This company won the ‘Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise
Asia award 2008’ by the World Knowledge Forum recently.
a. Infosys Technologies
b. Tata Steel
c. Suzlon Energy
d. Mahindra & Mahindra

4) As per the latest data which of the following Indian cities has
the maximum number of connections per 100 population (wired
and non wired both)?
a. Chennai
b. New Delhi
c. Mumbai
d. Kolkata
5) This university, keen to set up its fi rst campus in India, finds
itself in a land-grab scam in Maharashtra.
a. Cambridge University
b. Oxford University
c. Harvard University
d. Leeds University

6) The next four Indian Institutes of Management are slated to

open next year in Tiruchirapalli, Ranchi, Raipur and ….
a. Bhubaneswar
b. Vizag
c. Patna
d. Rohtak

7) Which country tops swine flu tolls, with 557 deaths?

a. Argentina
b. Brazil
c. Mexico
d. West Indies

8) As per the latest rankings of Corruption Perception Index by

German based Transparency International, which of the following
is the least corrupt nation of the world?
a. Australia
b. Hong Kong
c. Singapore
d. Denmark
9) As per the latest rankings of Corruption Perception Index by
German based Transparency International, which of the following
represents the rank of India?
a. 72
b. 75
c. 81
d. 85

10) Can you identify the name of the company that has recently
won the Golden Peacock Global Award for corporate governance
for 2008?
a. Tata Steel
b. Reliance Industries
c. Wipro Technologies
d. Bharti Enterprises

11) Who has described the BJP as Ku Klux Klan?

a. Arun Shourie
b. Jaswant Singh
c. Yashwant Sinha
d. Vasundhara Raje

12) Which state has announced that it will have equitable standard
school education from the next year?
a. Andhra Pradesh
b. Maharashtra
c. Tamil Nadu
d. Kerala
13)Edward Kennedy, senator of … and brother of slain President
John F Kennedy, died recently.
a. Massachusetts
b. California
c. Ohio
d. Texas

14) This bank is the winner of the coveted ‘Best Bank of 2008’
award by Business India magazine. Name the bank in question
from the given options.
a. ICICI Bank
b. HDFC Bank
c. SBI
d. Canara Bank

15)Can you identify the name of the airlines in question that has
offered to acquire Australian airlines Qantas in very recent
development and that would eventually make it the largest airline
of the world?
a. Air France
b. United Airlines
c. British Airways
d. Cathy Pacific

16) As per the latest report of the World Bank titled “2009 Global
Economic Prospects”, the global economic growth in the year 2009
is slated to be ….
a. 1.3 per cent
b. 2.5 per cent
c. 0.9 per cent
d. 1.7 per cent
17) Which actor has showed interest in taking up franchise of an
IPL team for 2011?
a. Hrithik Roshan
b. Saif Ali Khan
c. Akshay Kumar
d. Salman Khan

18)Stefania Fernandez, who has been crowned Miss Universe

2009, belongs to ….
a. Greece
b. Mexico
c. Venezuela
d. Australia

19) Which of these films has won the best feature film award at the
National Awards this year?
a. Chak De! India
b. Taare Zameen Par
c. Gandhi My Father
d. Kanchivaram

20) Indian Government issued a stimulus package worth ... to be

disbursed over this financial year.
a. Rs 20,000 cr
b. Rs 24,000 cr
c. Rs 28,000 cr
d. Rs 32,000 cr

21) As per the latest report of the World Economic Forum, which
of the following is the most competitive nation of the world?
a. Switzerland
b. United States of America
c. Denmark
d. Sweden
22) Can you identify the name of this former RBI Governor who
has been appointed on the high level panel appointed by UN
General Assembly to deal with the current crisis?
a. C Rangarajan
b. YV Reddy
c. Bimal Jalan
d. None of these

23) Name this agrarian festival which is celebrated by the farmers

in Orissa for ‘eating the new rice’.
a. Lakshmi Puja
b. Durga Puja
c. Devasnana Purnima
d. Nuakhai

24) Name the indigenously manufactured T-90 tanks which were

recently showcased in Chennai in a rolling out ceremony.
a. Bhishma
b. Arjun
c. Tank EX
d. Vijayanta

25) Can you identify the rank of India in terms of internet users
throughout the world as per a recent study?
a. 3rd
b. 4th
c. 5th
d. 6th
26) Recently BHP Billiton abandoned its $60 billion hostile bid to
acquire its competitor Rio Tanto because of turmoil in the financial
markets. These two giants hails from the ….
a. Chemicals industry
b. Mining industry
c. Food industry
d. FMCG industry

27) Who was the teenager who won the best golfer award at the
Inter-Club Invitational Caddie tournament?
a. Wasim Khan
b. Jeev Milkha Singh
c. Jyoti Randhawa
d. Shiv Kapur

28) ISRO will be launching its first … satellite that would help in
studying the upper atmosphere and test low-costing positioning
system.
a. Russian
b. Swiss
c. Italian
d. German

29) Who has been awarded the Nikkie Asia Prize 2009 for regional
growth and pioneering work in the field of biotechnology in India?
a. Dr KA Reddy
b. KM Shaw
c. Habil Khorakiwala
d. Malvinder Singh
30) Which is the commodity whose future trading resumed after a
gap of around two years in MCX and NCDEX?
a. Wheat
b. Rice
c. Sugar
d. Cotton

31) This person is the chief statistician of India.

a. SD Tendulkar
b. Pronab Sen
c. Rakesh Mohan
d. V Leeladhar

32) Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe, recently addressed the

US assistant secretary of state for African affairs as “an idiot”, with
a condescending attitude. Name the person.
a. Johnnie Carson
b. Hillary Clinton
c. Robert McNamara
d. None of the above

33) Name this region in China which faced ethnic clashes that
claimed more than 150 lives.
a. Xinjiang
b. Yunnan
c. Guizhou
d. Guangxi

34) Exiled Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama, scelebrated his …

birthday on July 6.
a. 71st
b. 73rd
c. 74th
d. 75th
35) Which of the following persons headed the committee that
gave the calorie intake-based methodology for assessing the
poverty line?
a. DT Lakdawala
b. CD Deshmukh
c. MC Setalvad
d. None of these

36) To change the existing methods for assessing the poverty line
based on calorie intake, a new committee was constituted that fi
nalised the new methodology. Who headed this committee?
a. Arvind Virmani
b. Prof Yashpal
c. SD Tendulkar
d. MS Ahluwalia

37)In which year did the Indian economy go into negative inflation
prior to 2009?
a. 1973
b. 1975
c. 1977
d. 1979

38) Robert McNamara, a top US official, who is known as the key

architect of the US-Vietnam war, died at his home in Washington,
US. Which post did he hold?
a. US secretary of state
b. US assistant secretary of state
c. US deputy secretary of state
d. US secretary of defence
39)This personality, coming out in support of Union health
minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, has asserted that good entertainment
is the best contraceptive. Name him/her.
a. Mahesh Bhatt
b. Pooja Bhatt
c. Aamir Khan
d. Shah Rukh Khan

40) US President Barack Obama visited Russia to reset ties with

the nation during which he met his Russian counterpart. Name the
Russian president.
a. William J Burns
b. Mark Medish
c. Vladmir Putin
d. Dmitri A Medvedev

41) Which is the fi rst life insurance company in India launched by

Europeans in Calcutta in 1818?
a. Bharat Insurance Company
b. Bombay Mutual Life Assurance Society
c. Oriental Life Insurance Company
d. Life Insurance Company of India
42) Who is the minister of state for commerce and industry?
a. Sachin Pilot
b. TR Balu
c. Anand Sharma
d. Jyotiraditya Scindia

43) Branding India: An Incredible Story is the name of the book

authored by....
a. Gurcharan Das
b. Santosh Desai
c. Amitabh Kant
d. Azim H Primji
44) Chinese President Hu Jintao had to cut short his G-8 summit
tour due to the ethnic clashes back home. Name the host nation for
G-8 summit.
a. Japan
b. Russia
c. Italy
d. India

45) Indonesia’s presidential elections were held recently. It was the

… direct presidential election since the fall of the dictatorship in
1998.
a. First
b. Second
c. Third
d. Fourth

46) This film personality has been accused of violating the

Copyright Act in his venture Shortkut. Name him.
a. Mukesh Bhatt
b. Mahesh Bhatt
c. Anil Kapoor
d. Ram Gopal Verma

47) Who won the Global Vision Award of the US India Business
Council recently?
a. Ratan Tata
b. Azim Premji
c. Sunil Bharti Mittal
d. Mukesh Ambani

48) Find the odd one out.

a. O&M
b. JWT
c. FCB Ulka
d. CRISIL
49)Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is the President of....
a. Indonesia
b. Malaysia
c. Philippines
d. Fiji

50) This cricket personality has penned the book The Rise of
Twenty20, in which he has slammed Sunil Gavaskar.
a. Ricky Ponting
b. Shoaib Akhtar
c. Andrew Flintoff
d. John Buchanan

Answers:
1.d 2.a 3.b 4.b 5.b 6.d 7.b 8.c 9.d 10.b 11.b 12.c 13.a 14.b 15.c 16.c
17.d 18.c 19.d 20.c 21.b 22.b 23.d 24.a 25.b 26.b 27.a 28.b 29.b
30.a 31.b 32.a 33.a 34.c 35.a 36.c 37.c 38.d 39.a 40.d 41.c 42.d
43.c 44.c 45.b 46.c 47.b 48.d 49.a 50.d.