1. Yogesh Agarwal resigned as the Chairman of which of the following regulators on November 13, 2013?
1) Pension Fund Regulatory Development Authority
2) Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
3) Airport Economic Regulatory Authority
4) Insurance Regulatory Development Authority
5) Securities and Exchange Board of India
2. Who was appointed as the Chairperson and Managing Director (CMD) of Bharatiya Mahila Bank (BMB), the first women's bank, in November 2013?
1) Shubhalaxmi Panse 2) Vijayalaxmi Iyer
3) Arundhathi Bhattacharya 4) Usha Ananthasubramanian
5) Archana Bhargava
3. The nineteenth session of the Conference of Parties (COP-19) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was held in which of the following cities in Nov. 2013?
1) Copenhagen (Denmark) 2) Moscow (Russia)
3) Warsaw (Poland) 4) Stockholm (Sweden)
5) Oslo (Norway)
4. Miss Universe beauty pageant was held in Moscow, Russia on November 9, 2013. Who was crowned Miss Universe 2013?
1) Maria Gabriela Isler (Venezuela) 2) Patricia Rodriguez (Spain)
3) Constanza Baez (Ecuador) 4) Ariella Arida (Philippines)
5) Megan Young (Philippines)
5. Who represented India at Miss Universe 2013 in Moscow, Russia on November 9, 2013? (She was placed 10th)
1) Gurleen Grewal 2) Sristi Rana 3) Preeti Chauhan
4) Manasi Moghe 5) Navneet Kaur Dhillon
6. Which country will host the women's World Cup Hockey in 2018?
1) India 2) Netherlands 3) England 4) Malaysia 5) South Korea
7. Whose 125th birth anniversary was celebrated on November 11, 2013?
1) C. Rajagopalachary 2) Dr. Babu Rajendra Prasad
3) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 4) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
5) Bhagat Singh
8. Who won the ATP World Tour Finals Tennis tournament for the second year in a row in November 2013?
1) Novak Djokovic 2) Rafael Nadal 3) Roger Federer
4) Richard Gasquet 5) Andy Murray
9. Who was honored with the first CII President's award for his contributions to the industry and nation building on November 15, 2013?
1) Adi Godrej 2) Rahul Bajaj 3) S. Ramadorai
4) S. Gopalakrishnan 5) Ratan Tata
10. Which team won the Men's Asian Hockey Champions Trophy in Kakamighara city, Japan in November 2013?
1) Pakistan 2) Japan 3) Malaysia 4) China 5) India
11. Who was sworn-in as Malaysia's Prime Minister for the second time in May 2013?
1) Anwar Ibrahim 2) Tuanku Abdul Halim
3) Abdullah Ahmad Badawi 4) Najib Tun Razak
5) Muhyiddin Yassin
12. The Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) was signed recently by Preneet Kaur, Minister of State for External Affairs of India and George William Vella, the Foreign Minister of?
1) Malta 2) Hungary 3) Greece 4) Romania 5) Ireland
13. Indian biologist Dr. Aparajita Datta has been honored with which of the following awards for her work to save threatened hornbills in the forests of Arunachal Pradesh?
1) Asom Ratna Award 2) Whitley Award 3) Baby Nobel Award
4) Right Livelihood Award 5) Ramon Magsaysay Award
14. Narinder Nath Vohra was appointed as Governor of which of the following states for a second five-year term recently?
1) Madhya Pradesh 2) Uttar Pradesh 3) Jammu and Kashmir
4) West Bengal 5) Gujarat
15. Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury is the current and the first woman speaker of the Parliament of which of the following countries?
1) Pakistan 2) Singapore 3) Indonesia
4) Bangladesh 5) Iran
16. Aparna Bhattacharya and Pramila Jayapal were honored recently as 'champions of change' by?
1) UK 2) USA 3) Sri Lanka 4) Canada 5) Australia
17. Mike Denness died of cancer at the age of 72 on April 19, 2013. He was the former cricket captain of?
1) Australia 2) England 3) South Africa
4) New Zealand 5) West Indies
18. Elaine Lobl Konigsburg of USA passed away recently. She won John Newbery Medal which is given for?
1) Mathematics 2) Films 3) Music
4) Fashion Designing 5) Children's Literature
19. Which of the following paramilitary forces declared 2013 as the 'Year of the Jawan'?
1) Border Security Force 2) Central Industrial Security Force
3) Assam Rifles 4) Central Reserve Police Force
5) Indo Tibetan Border Police
20. Which of the following is a disaster response agency created by the Ministry of Home Affairs in 2009 for disaster management?
1) BSF 2) CRPF 3) CISF 4) NDRF 5) Sashastra Seema Bal
21. President Pranab Mukherjee recently released commemorative postage stamps depicting 50 personalities including Durga Khote, Suraiya, Geeta Dutt, Bhalji Pendharkar, Sohrab Modi who were associated with?
1) Sports 2) Literature 3) Films 4) Education 5) Governance
22. The Tribal Forest Dwellers Empowerment Scheme for the economic upliftment of Scheduled Tribe forest dwellers was launched recently by which of the following Union Ministers?
1) Kapil Sibal 2) Mallikarjun Kharge 3) Sharad Pawar
4) V.Kishore Chandra Deo 5) Chandresh Kumari Katoch
23. The final Census was released by the Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on April 30, 2013. Which of the following statements is not correct regarding the Census?
1) India's total population as on March 1, 2011 is 1,210,726,932 or 1.21 billion
2) 833.5 million persons live in rural areas while 377.1 million persons live in urban areas
3) Urban population has gone up from 17.3 per cent in 1951 to 31.2 per cent in 2011
4) Highest proportion of urban population is in National Capital Territory Delhi (97.5 per
cent)
5) Literacy rate in India in 2011 is 64.8 per cent
24. The Union Cabinet has approved the proposal of the Ministry of Railways for setting up of an Electric Locomotive Factory at Madhepura and Diesel Locomotive Factory at Marhowra. Both Madhepura and Marhowra are in?
1) Uttar Pradesh 2) West Bengal 3) Bihar
4) Chhattisgarh 5) Jharkhand
25. With effect from May 1, 2013 what is the Advance Reservation Period (ARP) for booking reserved train tickets?
1) 120 days 2) 90 days 3) 60 days 4) 150 days 5) 100 days
26. The Indira Gandhi Super Thermal Power Project (1500 MW) is located in Jhajjar in?
1) Haryana 2) Punjab 3) Rajasthan
4) Himachal Pradesh 5) Madhya Pradesh
27. According to the final Census India's total population as on March 1, 2011 is 1.21 billion. India's population grew by what per cent during 2001-11?
1) 21.5 % 2) 17.7 % 3) 25.4 % 4) 19.6 % 5) 20.6 %
28. Sabin Award is given for the conservation of?
1) Birds 2) Reptiles 3) Amphibians 4) Mammals 5) Corals
29. Which one of the following is a super computer built by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)?
1) Titan 2) SAGA-220 3) Jaguar 4) K-computer 5) Aakash
30. Lieutenant General (retired) Nirbhay Sharma was sworn in as the 15th Governor of which of the following states on May 29, 2013?
1) Assam 2) Jharkhand 3) Kerala
4) Nagaland 5) Arunachal Pradesh
31. The National Florence Nightingale Awards are presented to?
1) Doctors 2) Engineers 3) Journalists
4) Nurses 5) Social workers
32. In the ranking of 189 economies, which country topped the World Bank's 'Ease of Doing Business Report' for 2014?
1) Singapore 2) Hong Kong 3) New Zealand
4) USA 5) Denmark
33. 'Sethji' is a book written by?
1) Arundhati Roy 2) Shobhaa De 3) Anita Desai
4) Kiran Desai 5) Jhumpa Lahiri
34. The headquarters of the International Olympic Committee is located in?
1) France 2) Belgium 3) UK
4) Italy 5) Switzerland
35. The retail chain 'More' belongs to?
1) Reliance 2) Bharti Enterprises 3) Aditya Birla Group
4) Wal-Mart 5) None of these
36. The DAX is a blue chip stock market index of?
1) Germany 2) Singapore 3) China
4) USA 5) Hong Kong
37. Angry Birds is a video game franchise created by?
1) Amazon 2) Rovio 3) Nintendo
4) Zynga 5) Google
38. Which of the following African countries underwent political turmoil in the recent years?
1) Tunisia 2) Egypt 3) Libya
4) Both 1 and 2 5) All 1, 2 and 3
39. Which of the following combination of scholars have won the Nobel Prize in Economics?
1) Amartya Sen, Mohammad Yunus, Ronald Coase
2) Mohammad Yunus, Paul Krugman, Elinor Ostrom
3) Mehaboob Haque, Alvin Roth, Amartya Sen
4) Joseph Stiglitz, Oliver Williamson, Paul Krugman
5) Robert McNamara, Joseph Stiglitz, Jagdish Bhagwathi
40. In which of the following states the Chief Minister belongs to Congress party?
1) Bihar 2) Goa 3) Odisha 4) Tripura 5) Karnataka
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