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GENERAL AWARENESS
1. Which of the following public sector companies was conferred the coveted 'Navratna'
status on 2014 June 24? (Navratna status would give it more financial and
operational autonomy)

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1) Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Limited
2) National Hydropower Corporation Limited
3) Mazagaon Dock Limited

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4) Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited

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5) Engineers India Limited

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2. Which of the following organizations released World Investment Report 2014 recently?
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1) WTO 2) UNCTAD 3) WEF 4) World Bank 5) IMF
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3. According to the World Investment Report 2014, which country has retained its
top position as the world's most attractive investment destination?
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1) China 2) USA 3) Indonesia 4) India 5) Saudi Arabia

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4. Who has been confirmed as the first Chairman of the Intern-ational Cricket
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Council (ICC) on 2014 June 26?

1) Najam Sethi 2) Giles Clarke 3) Alan Isaac
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4) N. Srinivasan 5) David Morgan

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5. Which Bollywood actor will be honored with the 'Legion of France', one of the
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highest civilian awards of France?

1) Salman Khan 2) Hrithik Roshan 3) Aamir Khan
4) Akshay Kumar 5) Shah Rukh Khan

6. FIFA banned Luis Saurez for nine international matches after he was seen biting
Italy's Giorgio Chiellini in a World Cup match in June 2014. Luis Saurez is a
football player from?
1) Switzerland 2) Honduras 3) Uruguay 4) Mexico 5) Argentina
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7. Identify the mismatched pair?

1) Arvind Mayaram - Finance Secretary 2) Shaktikanta Das - Revenue Secretary
3) R.P. Wattal - Expenditure Secretary 4) Ravi Mathur - Disinvestment Secretary
5) G.S. Sandhu - Economic Affairs Secretary

8. Who was named as the winner of the 2014 PEN Pinter Prize on 2014 June 20?

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(This literary prize will be awarded on 2014 October 9)
1) Jhumpa Lahiri 2) Arundhati Roy 3) Jeet Thayil

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4) Salman Rushdie 5) Rahul Bhattacharya

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9. The Expert Committee to Revise and Strengthen the Monetary Policy Framework

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was headed by?

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1) Anand Sinha
4) H.R. Khan
2) Urjit Patel
5) Bimal Jalan
3) T.M. Bhasin
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10. Nachiket Mor committee suggested setting up of specialized banks to cater to low-
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income households to ensure that all citizens above the age of 18 years have bank
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accounts by?
1) 2015 January 1 2) 2016 January 1 3) 2015 April 1
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4) 2016 April 1 5) 2015 August 15

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11. Which of the following signed an agreement with the Export Import Bank of
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Korea for infrastructure finance in January 2014?

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1) IIFCL 2) IFCI 3) IDFC 4) NABARD 5) SIDBI

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12. The 800 MW Tawang hydroelectric project is coming up in?

1) Sikkim 2) Meghalaya 3) Assam
4) Tripura 5) Arunachal Pradesh

13. The Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram is a health program for?

1) Infants 2) Old people 3) Adolescents
4) Women 5) Children below 10 years

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14. Which of the following became the first insurer in India to launch an all women
branch in Pune in January 2014?
1) ICICI Lombard 2) Future Generali 3) Tata AIG General
4) Bajaj Allianz 5) Aegon Religare

15. Who won the Chennai Open tennis tournament in January 2014?

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1) Johan Brunstrom 2) Mate Pavic 3) Frederik Nielsen
4) Edouard Roger Vaselin 5) Stanislas Wawrinka

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16. Which country won their first Hopman Cup tennis title in Perth, Australia on
January 4, 2014?

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1) France 2) Poland 3) Australia 4) USA 5) Switzerland

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17. Which of the following is an annual world mixed team tennis championships?
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1) Davis cup 2) Fed cup 3) Hopman cup
4) Wimbledon 5) None of these
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18. Who won the women's singles title in the Syed Modi International India Grand
Prix Gold Badminton Championship in Lucknow on 2014 January 26?
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1) Saina Nehwal 2) P.V. Sindhu 3) Jia Yi Fan

4) Chen Qingchen 5) Juliane Schenk
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19. Which country won the Hockey World League final in New Delhi in January 2014?
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1) Netherlands 2) New Zealand 3) England

4) Australia 5) Belgium
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20. Nikhat Zareen of India won a gold medal in an international tournament in which
of the following sports in January 2014?
1) Chess 2) Table Tennis 3) Tennis 4) Boxing 5) Archery

21. India won the 2014 Under-19 Asia Cup Cricket in January 2014. Who is the
captain of the winning team?

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1) Ankush Bains 2) Akhil Herwadkar 3) Sanju Samson

4) Chama Milind 5) Vijay Zol

22. Sanil Shetty and Ankita Das are the national champions in?
1) Squash 2) Chess 3) Golf 4) Table Tennis 5) Archery

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23. Which of the following credit rating agencies has launched a financial inclusion
index?

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1) ICRA 2) CIBIL 3) CRISIL 4) CARE 5) Fitch

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24. As per the Reserve Bank of India new norms, now non-banking financial

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companies (NBFCs) can give a loan up to what per cent of the gold value against

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the previous limit of 60 per cent?
1) 65% 2) 70% 3) 80% 4) 75% 5) 100%
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25. Which of the following private banks became the first to open a branch in China
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in January 2014?
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1) ICICI Bank 2) HDFC Bank 3) Yes Bank

4) Federal Bank 5) Axis Bank
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26. Arun Tiwari is the Chairman and Managing Director of?

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1) Bank of Baroda 2) Andhra Bank 3) Allahabad Bank

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4) Union Bank of India 5) None of these

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27. The Lokmanya Tilak National Award for Excellence in Journalism was conferred
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on which of the following media persons on 2014 January 4?

1) Mammen Mathew 2) Shekar Gupta 3) Prabhu Chawla
4) Prannoy Roy 5) Siddartha Varadarajan

28. The BCIM corridor will run from Kunming in China to which of the following
Indian cities?
1) Agartala 2) Shillong 3) Kolkata 4) Itanagar 5) Dispur

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29. National Education Day is celebrated on?

1) November 9 2) November 11 3) November 17
4) November 19 5) November 13

30. Who took over as the Chief Executive Officer of the Central Board of Film
Certification (CBFC) in January 2014?

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1) Dilip Modi 2) Rajendra Pawar 3) Rakesh Kumar
4) C.N. Nataraj 5) None of these

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31. Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) has set up a committee to
look into having 100% foreign direct investment (FDI) in insurance intermediaries and

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Third Party Administrators (TPAs). The committee is headed by?

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1) Suresh Mathur
4) Mukesh Sharma
2) Rakesh Bajaj
5) T.S. Naik
3) Nimisha Srivastava
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32. Who won the 12th Parsvanath Grand Masters International Chess tournament in
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New Delhi on January 16, 2014?

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1) Abhijit Gupta 2) Deepan Chakravarthy 3) Surya Shekhar Ganguly

4) P. Harikrishna 5) Sahaj Grover
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33. Mehdi Jomaa assumed office as the Prime Minister of which of the following
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countries on January 29, 2014?

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1) South Africa 2) Libya 3) Tunisia 4) Ethiopia 5) Niger

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34. The World Health Organization has declared Peshawar as the world's largest
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reservoir of Polio. Peshawar is in?

1) Bangladesh 2) Afghanistan 3) Iran 4) Pakistan 5) Nigeria

35. The United Nations Organization and its partners have launched 'No Lost
Generation' initiative to save the children of?
1) Libya 2) Yemen 3) Jordan 4) Lebanon 5) Syria

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36. Park Geun-hye visited India in January 2014. She is the President of?
1) Vietnam 2) North Korea 3) South Korea
4) Philippines 5) Cambodia

37. The foundation stone of 2,800 MW nuclear power plant has been laid at
Gorakhpur village in Fatehabad district of?

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1) Uttar Pradesh 2) Haryana 3) Uttarakhand
4) Himachal Pradesh 5) Jharkhand

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Answers
1) 5 2) 2 3) 1 4) 4 5) 5 6) 3 7) 5 8) 4

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9) 2 10) 2 11) 1 12) 5 13) 3 14) 4 15) 5 16) 1
17) 3
25) 5
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18) 1
26) 4
19) 1
27) 1
20) 4
28) 3
21) 5
29) 2
22) 4
30) 3
23) 3
31) 1
24) 4
32) 1
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