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GENERAL AWARENESS
1. Which of the following organisations/institutions cut its forecast for global trade growth
in 2013 to 3.3 per cent from 4.5 per cent?
1) World Bank

2) IMF

3) WEF

4) WTO

5) OECD

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2. The Templeton Prize is award-ed for outstanding con-tributi-ons in affirming life's

spiritual dimension. Who has won the 2013 Templeton Prize worth $1.7 million in April
2013?

1) Dalai Lama (Tibet)

2) Desmond Tutu (South Africa)

3) Martin Rees (UK)

4) Charles Taylor (Canada) 5) Francisco Ayala (Spanish-American)

3. National Safe Motherhood Day was observed across India on which of the following
days in 2013 to create awareness on proper healthcare and mater-nity facilities to
pregnant and lactating women?
1) April 7

2) April 10

3) April 11

4) April 8

5) April 12

4. Pioneer of in Vitro Fertilization (test-tube baby) and the 2010 Nobel Medicine winner
passed away on April 10, 2013. Name him? (The world's first- test tube baby Louise
Brown was born in 1978)
1) John Gurdon

2) Richard Roberts

4) Robert Edwards

5) Edwin Krebes

3) Philip Sharp

5. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, a Ger-manborn British and Ameri-can novelist, passed away on
April 3, 2013. She is the only person to have won both a Booker Prize and an Oscar. She
won the Booker Prize in 1975 for?
1) A Passage to India

2) A House for Mr.Biswas

4) A Handful of Dust

5) Heat and Dust

3) A Passage to England

6. The 5th BRICS Summit was held in which of the following cities of South Africa on
March 26-27, 2013?
1) Pretoria

2) Cape Town

3) Durban

4) Bloemfontein

5) Johannesburg

7. Saurav Ghosal won the men's national championship title in which of the following
sports in December 2012?
1) Squash

2) Archery

3) Shooting

4) Golf

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5) Billiards

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8. Anna Ushenina won the wome-n's world chess cham-pionship in December 2012. She
belongs to?
1) Ukraine

2) Russia

3) Bulgaria

4) Serbia

5) Romania

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9. Who was appointed adviser to the Finance Minister P.Chida-mbaram with the rank of
Mini-ster of State in December 2012?
1) Raghuram Rajan

2) Parthasarathy Shome

4) C.Rangarajan

5) None of these

3) Kaushik Basu

10. The 18th session of the Confer-ence of the Parties to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was held in which of the following cities in
November-December 2012?
1) Kyoto

2) Tehran

3) Doha

4) Copen Hagen

5) Tokyo

11. The government policies about credit flow to the agriculture sector are implemented
throu-gh?
1) RBI

2) ECGC

3) SIDBI

4) NABARD

5) DCCB

12. Which of the following abbre-viations and their full forms is not matched correctly?
1) IPO- Initial Public Offer

2) NRHM- National Rural Health Mission

3) ASHA-Accredited Social Health Activist

4) SME-Small and Monopolistic Economy
5) VAT-Value Added Tax

13. Ashok Leyland is the flagship company of which of the follo-wing groups?
1) TVS

2) Shriram

3) Aditya Birla

4) K.K.Birla

5) Hinduja

14. Chameli Devi Jain award is given to?

1) Actresses

2) Poetesses

4) Women authors

5) None

3) Women media persons

15. Which of the following is not a search engine?

1) Baidu

2) Bing

3) Google

4) Yahoo!

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5) Orkut

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16. Which of the following is a target group for current accounts?

1) Common people

2) Farm laborers

4) Businessmen

5) Industries

3) Companies

17. Fixed deposits and recurring deposits are?

2) Repayable after an agreed period

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1) Repayable on demand
3) Not repayable

4) Repayable after the death of depositors

5) None of these

18. Accounts are allowed to be operated by cheques in respect of?

1) Savings bank accounts and fixed deposit accounts
2) Savings bank accounts and current accounts
3) Loans accounts and current accounts

4) Current accounts and fixed deposit accounts

5) None of these

19. Financial inclusion means provision of which of the following financial services at an
affordable cost to low income groups?
1) Payments

2) Savings

3) Loans

4) Insurance

5) All the above

20. When a bank returns a cheque unpaid, it is called?

1) Payment of the cheque

2) Drawing of the cheque

3) Dishonor of the cheque

4) Canceling of the cheque 5) None of these

21. Which of the following is the largest shareholder (in percentage shareholding) of a
nationalized bank?
1) RBI

2) NABARD

3) LIC

4) Govt of India

5) SEBI

22. What is the full form of 'ESOP'?

1) Executive Salary Options

2) Employee Stock Ownership Plan

3) Emergency Stock Operations

4) Early Sales Opportunities

5) None of these

23. Which of the following terms is used in the field of banking /finance?
1) Elasticity

2) Cathode

3) Hot waves

4) Plasma

5) Fiscal policy

24. The main feature of the National Agricultural Insur-ance Scheme is to insure?
1) Life of the farmer

2) Crop of the farmer

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3) Land of the farmer

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4) Family of the farmer

5) Animals that are used in agricultural activities

25. Which of the following places in India does not have a stock exchange?
1) Kolkata

2) Ahmedabad

3) Mumbai

4) Delhi

5) Udaipur

26. Which of the following is a private sector bank?

2) UCO Bank

4) Dena Bank

5) All are private banks

3) IndusInd Bank

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1) IDBI Bank

27. Which of the following is a food crop?

1) Castor

2) Palm

3) Jute

4) Jatropha

5) None

28. Vedanta Resources is headqua-rtered in London. It is a com-pany operating in the area

of ?

1) Cement

2) Mining

3) Shipping

4) Textiles

5) Banking

29. Which of the following rates/ ratios cannot be seen in finan-cial newspapers?
1) Bank rate

2) Repo rate

3) Reverse repo rate

4) Pulse rate

5) Cash reserve ratio

30. Who among the following is not a famous writer?

1) Mira Nair

2) V.S.Naipaul

4) Kiran Desai

5)Namita Gokhale

3) Chetan Bhagat

31. The judges of the Supreme Court of India retire at the age of?
1) 58 years

2) 60 years

3) 62 years

4) 65 years

5) None of these

4) Soccer

5) Formula one

4) SAIL

5) NABARD

32. Fernando Alonso is associated with?

1) Snooker

2) Tennis

3) Golf

33. Deepak Parekh is the chairman of?

1) CIL

2) HDFC

3) Infosys

34. Which of the following is not a member of SAARC?

1) Afghanistan 2) Nepal

3) Pakistan

4) Bangladesh

5) Japan

35. Kharif crops are?

1) Sown in June

2) Wheat and Barley

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3) Sown in winter

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4) Raised in summer

5) Both 1 and 2

KEY
2) 2

3) 3

4) 4

5) 5

6) 3

7) 1

8) 1

9) 2

10) 3

11) 4

12) 4

13) 5

14) 3

15) 5

16) 4

17) 2

18) 2

19) 5

20) 3

21) 4

22) 2

23) 5

24) 2

25) 5

26) 3

27) 5

28) 2

29) 4

30) 1

31) 4

32) 5

33) 2

34) 5

35) 1

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1) 4

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