GENERAL AWARENESS BIT BANK FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMS 8

1. The 23rd ASEAN Summit was held in which of the following cities in October 2013 ?
1 ) Bali ( Indonesia ) 2 ) Phnom Penh ( Cambodia )
3 ) Jakarta ( Indonesia ) 4 ) Bandar Seri Begawan ( Brunei ) 5 ) Hanoi ( Vietnam )

2. The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought was founded in December 1988 by the European Parliament. Who is the winner of the Sakharov Prize 2013 ?
1 ) Nelson Mandela 2 ) Malala Yousafzai 3 ) Anatoly Marchenko
4 ) Aung San Suu Kyi 5 ) Taslima Nasrin

3. Which Bangladeshi cricketer became the first player to score a century and take a
hat-trick in the same Test match in October 2013 ?
1 ) Tamim Iqbal 2 ) Shakib Al Hasan 3 ) Sohag Gazi 4 ) Abdur Razzak 5 ) None of these

4. Which of the following statements is not true with respect to the OPCW ?
1 ) The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons ( OPCW ) was awarded the
2013 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to quit. Chemical warfare
2 ) It was founded in 1997 with headquarters in The Hague , Netherlands .
3 ) It has 189 Member States and currently involved destroying stocks in Syria chemical weapons .
4 ) Ahmet Üzümcü Turkey is the current Director - General of the OPCW .

5 ) OPCW is an agency of the United Nations.

5 . The 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to ?
1 ) Eugene Fama (USA ) 2 ) Lars Peter Hansen (USA ) 3 ) Robert Shiller (USA )
4) Both 1 and 2, 5 ) All 1, 2 and 3

6. Who is the winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize for literature?
1 ) Ruth Ozeki (A Tale being) 2 ) Jim Crace (Harvest )
3 ) Eleanor Catton ( lamp holders ) 4 ) Colm Toibin ( The Testament of Mary)
5 ) NoViolet Bulawayo ( We Need New Names )

7. The 2013 Global Hunger Index ( GHI ) was released on October 14, 2013 by
International Food Policy Research Institute ( IFPRI ) . What is India's rank?
1 ) 118 2 ) 56 3) 37 4 ) 63 5 ) 78

8. The Organization of the United Nations proclaimed that the next few days as the

International Day of the Girl Child ?
1 ) October 10 2) 11 3 October ) October 12
4) 14 October 5 ) October 15

9. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013 was awarded jointly ?
1 ) Martin Karplus , Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel
2 ) Michael Levitt and Robert Shiller
3 ) James Rothman , Randy Schekman and Thomas Sudhof
4 ) Peter Higgs and François Englert
5 ) None of these

10. On October 9, 2013 , U.S. President Barack Obama nominated which of the following
women to become chairman of the Federal Reserve , the central bank of the U.S. ?
1 ) Susan Rice 2 ) Sheryl Sandberg 3 ) Janet Yellen 4 ) Janet Napolitano 5 ) Melinda Gates

11. Laiki Bank was closed in 2013 . It was the second largest banking group in ?

1 ) Greece 2 ) Spain 3 ) Cyprus 4 ) Portugal 5 ) Italy

12. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ) , which is the largest exporter of major conventional weapons worldwide ?
1 ) USA 2 ) Russia 3 ) Germany 4 ) France 5 ) China

13. An elected government has its five-year term for the first time in which the following countries in 2013 ?

1 ) Bangladesh 2 ) Myanmar 3 ) Italy 4 ) Pakistan 5 ) Australia

14. Belgian mathematician Pierre Deligne was the 2013 Abel Prize given. This price is given by ?

1 ) Belgium 2 ) USA 3 ) UK 4 ) Sweden 5 ) Norway

15. Which of the following books is not written by RK Narayan ?
1 ) Swami and Friends 2 ) The Bachelor of Arts 3) Guide
4 ) The Sword and the Sickle 5 ) Waiting for the Mahatma

16. Rajiv Gandhi Thermal Power Station is located in the Hisar district ?

1 ) Rajasthan 2 ) Haryana 3 ) Punjab 4 ) Himachal Pradesh 5 ) Uttar Pradesh

17 . India has introduced a Tax Information Exchange Agreement ( TIEA ) Liechtenstein. This land is located in ?
1 ) East Asia 2 ) West Asia 3 ) Europe 4 ) Africa 5 ) South America

18 The issue of which of the following summits in 2013 was "Africa : A Partnership for Development, integration and Industrialization " ?
1 ) G20 2 ) ASEAN 3 ) African Union 4 ) BRICS 5 ) None of these

19. Akshay Urja shops have been set up by the Ministry of ?
1 ) Commerce and Industry 2 ) Power 3 ) Science and Technology 4 ) New and Renewable Energy 5 ) petroleum and natural gas extraction

20. Shanti Prayas - 2 is the name of a military exercise in ?
1 ) India 2 ) Sri Lanka 3 ) Nepal 4 ) Bhutan 5 ) Mauritius

21 . Which of the following schemes is not an employment generation scheme?
1 ) Food for Work scheme
2 ) Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana
3 ) Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Program
4 ) Mid Day Meal scheme
5 ) MGNREGS

22. Which of the following dams built on Narmada river ?
1 ) Tehri Dam 2 ) Bhakra Dam 3 ) Hirakud Dam 4 ) Mullaperiyar Dam 5 ) Sardar Sarovar Dam

23. Dr. M. S. Swaminathan is the author of ?
1 ) The End of Poverty 2 ) Small is Beautiful 3 ) Development as Freedom
4 ) Against Hunger Free India 5 ) Argumentative Indian

24. If all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe , nutritious food to have
to maintain a healthy and active life is called ?
1 ) preservation 2 ) Food Production 3 ) Food 4) Food Distribution System 5 ) None of these

25 . Which of the following is not included while calculating Human Development Index
( HDI ) ?
1 ) Life 2 ) per capita income 3 ) Literacy Rate 4) Rate of migration to urban areas 5) Both 1 and 2

26. The scheme was launched for the empowerment of adolescent girls in India ?
1 ) Prerna 2 ) Swabhiman 3 ) Sabla 4 ) SEWA 5 ) Kutir Jyothi

27. "Key Resolve " is an annual joint military exercise between the United States ?
1 ) India 2 ) China 3 ) France 4 ) Korea 5 ) Great Britain

28. Which bank has an ' Incredible India Travel Card ' in association with the start Ministry of Tourism ?
1 ) SBI 2 ) HDFC Bank 3 ) YES Bank 4 ) ICICI Bank 5 ) Bank of Baroda

29 . The Petroleum Ministry has appointed a committee to prepare a roadmap for improving the domestic production of oil and gas to reduce as imports of the country
dependence in 2030 . Who is the president ?
1 ) Y.V. Reddy 2 ) Vijay Kelkar 3 ) Bimal Jalan 4 ) D. Subba Rao 5 ) None of these

30. Who is the director of the award-winning Hindi film ' Paan Singh Tomar ' ?
1 ) Irfan Khan 2 ) Anurag Basu 3 ) Sujay Ghosh 4 ) Tigmanshu Dhulia 5 ) Prakash Jha

31. Who won the men's singles title at the 2013 All - England Badminton Championship ?
1 ) Chen Long 2 ) Lee Chong Wei 3 ) Zheng Ming Wang
4 ) Pengyu Du 5 ) None of these

32. Which of the following is the first state in India to ban manual scavenging ?
1 ) Haryana 2 ) Delhi 3 ) Gujarat 4 ) Punjab 5 ) Rajasthan

33. The government has established a committee of experts to prepare a blueprint for formed all - women bank. This panel was led by ?
1 ) M.D. Mallya 2 ) Jayshree Vyas 3 ) M.B.N. rao 4 ) Arundhati Bhattacharya 5 ) Usha Ananthasubramanian

34. Which of the following books is not written by Kalidasa ?
1 ) Raghuvamsa 2 ) Meghaduta 3 ) Kumarasambhava 4 ) Vikramorvasiyam 5 ) Ramcharitmanas

35. Which of the following schemes was launched with the aim of increasing self-reliance and autonomy of women by their independence ?
1 ) STEP 2 ) IFAD 3 ) Aadhar 4 ) Aastha 5 ) None of these

36. Ministry of Oil and Gas formed a panel for advice on pricing Methodology for Diesel , Domestic LPG and PDS kerosene submitted report on 30 October 2013. The panel was led by ?
1 ) Kirit Parikh 2 ) P. K. Singh 3 ) Deepak Parekh 4 ) RK Singh 5 ) Vijay Kelkar

37. Mukesh Ambani topped the Forbes India Rich List for the sixth consecutive year October 2013 . Who is the second richest Indian ?
1 ) Azim Premji 2 ) Lakshmi Mittal 3 ) Shiv Nadar 4 ) Adi Godrej 5 ) Sunil Mittal

38. PS Raghavan , a secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , has been appointed
as India's next ambassador ?
1 ) USA 2 ) China 3 ) Russia 4 ) France 5 ) Germany

39. Who will be the next Indian Air Force chief ? ( He succeeds Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne , who retires on December 31, 2013 )
1 ) P.V. Naik 2 ) mp Tyagi 3 ) N.C. Suri 4 ) Arup Raha 5 ) None of these

40 . The Vice President Hamid Ansari launched INCHAM , the Indian Chamber of Commerce in which of the following countries in October 2013 ?
1 ) Kazakhstan 2 ) China 3 ) Russia 4 ) Peru 5 ) Brazil

41. RBI raised in its second quarter review of monetary policy on 29 October 2013 repo rate by how many basis points ?
1 ) 25 2 bps ) 50 bps 3 ) by 75 basis points
4) 100 bp 5 ) None of these

42. The president Pranab Mukherjee presented the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration , Academics and Management on October 1, 2013 to ?
1 ) Rajendra Achyut Badwe 2 ) Tessy Thomas 3 ) Sunil Mittal 4 ) M. S. Swaminathan 5 ) D. R. Mehta

43. The Reserve Bank of India on October 29, 2013 reduced the marginal status Facility (MSF ) rate. What is the current MSF rate?
1 ) 10.25% 2 ) 8.75% 3 ) 9.5% 4 ) 9% 5 ) None of these

44. The Reserve Bank of India reduced the growth forecast for the current fiscal which
percent from 5.5 percent expected earlier?
1 ) 5.25 2 percent ) 4.75 percent 3 ) 5 percent
4 ) 4.5 percent 5 ) None of these

45. Dilip Shanghvi the third richest person in India , according to Forbes magazine . He is the founder of ?
1 ) Essar Group 2 ) Vedanta Resources 3 ) Sun Pharmaceutical Industries 4 ) Shapoorji Pallonji Group 5 ) Wipro

46. Olafur Ragnar Grimsson visited India recently . He is the president of ?
1 ) Ireland 2 ) Norway 3 ) Iceland 4 ) Austria 5 ) Finland

47. The Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has 100 foreign establishment inaugurated Which of the following public sector banks at the Dubai International Finance Centre ( DIFC ) ?
1 ) State Bank of India 2 ) State Bank of Hyderabad 3 ) Indian Overseas Bank
4 ) Bank of Baroda 5 ) Bank of India

48. The General Assembly of the United Nations in 2013 as the?
1 ) International Year of Biodiversity 2 ) International Year of Water Cooperation
3) International Year of Youth 4 ) International Year of Forests
5 ) International Year of Cooperatives

49 . Indian Cinema completed 100 years in any of the following days in 2013 ?
1 ) March 3 2) 3 April 3 ) 3 May 4) 3 June 5 ) February 3

50 . V.s. Rama Devi died in April 2013 . She was the only woman to occupy the post ?
1 ) Attorney General 2 ) Comptroller and Auditor General
3 ) Chief Information Commissioner 4 ) Minister of Interior Affairs
5 ) Election Commissioner

51. Which Indian journalist TIME magazine World Editor ?
1 ) Fareed Zakaria 2 ) Bobby Ghosh 3 ) Sanjay Gupta 4 ) Sanjay Baru 5 ) Arnab Goswami

52. " Kai Po Che " is a Hindi film based on the novel ?
1 ) Sea of ​​Poppies 2 ) The Loving Doll 3 ) The 3 Mistakes of My Life 4 ) 2 States : The Story of My Marriage
5 ) None of these

53. Which of the following is not a primary greenhouse gas in the atmosphere of the earth?
1 ) Water vapor 2 ) Carbon dioxide 3 ) Methane 4 ) Ozone 5 ) Ammonia

54. The disease is caused by a deficiency of protein in children?
1 ) Rickets 2 ) Scurvy 3 ) Marasmus 4 ) Osteomalacia 5 ) Beriberi

55. Which of the following functions is not performed by the commercial banks?
1 ) Giving loans and advances 2 ) Mobilization of savings
3 ) Funding priority sector 4 ) The provision of lockers 5 ) Issuing currency notes

56. Which country has the first position in the production of coffee ?
1 ) India 2 ) Vietnam 3 ) Indonesia 4 ) Brazil 5 ) Malaysia

57 Who is the author of the book " Sachin : Cricketer of the Century "?
1 ) Vimal Kumar 2 ) Vijay Lokapally 3 ) Ramachandra Guha 4 ) Boria Mazumdar 5 ) None of these

58. Francois Bozizé fled to Cameroon in March 2013 for rebellion . He was the President ?
1 ) Chad 2 ) Sudan 3 ) South Sudan
4 ) Democratic Republic of Congo 5 ) Central African Republic

59. Acid rain is caused by emissions ?
1 ) Sulfur Dioxide 2 ) Nitrogen Oxide 3 ) Methane 4) Both 1 and 2, 5 ) All 1, 2 and 3

60 . The Writers ' Building is the secretariat building of the state government ?
1 ) Assam 2 ) Maharashtra 3 ) Rajasthan 4 ) Orissa 5 ) West Bengal

61. ' Swadhar ' Is a scheme for?

1 ) Unique Identification 2 ) Seniors 3 ) Adolescent Girls
4 ) Women in difficult circumstances 5 ) Urban Employment

62. The National Institute for the mentally handicapped is located in ?
1 ) Mumbai 2 ) Jaipur 3 ) Nagpur 4 ) Hyderabad 5 ) Coimbatore

63. Psephology is the study of ?
1 ) Rainfall Pattern 2 ) Coins 3 ) Gene Disorders 4 ) human behavior 5 ) Elections

64. Hemis Gompa festival is celebrated ?
1 ) Tripura 2 ) Himachal Pradesh 3 ) Jammu and Kashmir 4 ) Nagaland 5 ) Meghalaya

65 . Keibul Lamjao National Park is the only floating park in the world . It is located in ?
1 ) Manipur 2 ) Mizoram 3 ) Meghalaya 4 ) Tripura 5 ) Andhra Pradesh

66. Navy Day is observed on ?
1 ) December 7 2) 4 December 3rd ) January 24 4) 25 January 5 ) January 1

67. Saxo Bank recently India . It is an investment bank based in ?
1 ) Denmark 2 ) Finland 3 ) UK 4 ) Norway 5 ) Australia

68. Who won the maximum number of gold medals in the Summer ? Olympics
1 ) Carl Lewis 2 ) Mark Spitz 3 ) Michael Phelps 4 ) Paavo Nurmi 5 ) Jesse Owens

69. Anthony De Mello Trophy is associated with Test cricket series played between ?
1 ) Australia and India 2 ) England and India 3 ) England and South Africa
4 ) India and South Africa 5 ) India and the West Indies

70. Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty ( CTBT ) is associated with the ban ?
1 ) Terrorism 2 ) Tobacco 3 ) Money laundering activities
4) Nuclear Tests for Developing Countries arsenals 5 ) None of these

71. The Reserve Bank of India is celebrating its platinum jubilee in the year?
1 ) 2009 2 ) 2010 3 ) 2011 4 ) 2012 5 ) 2013

72 . Who was recently appointed captain of the Indian cricket team of women?
1 ) Harmanpreet Kaur 2 ) Poonam Rout 3 ) Poonam Yadav
4 ) Archana Das 5 ) None of these

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