1. The Minimum Support Price (MSP) for wheat has been hiked by Rs. 50 a quintal in the 2013-14 rabi season. It will now be? (Per quintal)
1) Rs 1400 2) Rs 1450 3) Rs 1300 4) Rs 1350 5) Rs 1550
2. The US senate has confirmed which Indian-American woman as the Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia?
1) Kamla Harris 2) Nisha Desai Biswal 3) Nikki Haley4) Renu Khator 5) None of these
3. Ravuri Bharadwaja, the 2012 Jnanpith Award winner, passed away on October 18, 2013. Which of the following books is not written by him?
1) Pakudurallu 2) Kadambari 3) Jeevana Samaram 4) Ragini 5) Viswambhara
4. Which country hosted the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders Meeting on October 7-8, 2013?
1) Brunei 2) Malaysia 3) Singapore 4) Indonesia 5) Japan
5. Who was appointed as the Chairperson of the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) on October 17, 2013?
1) U.K. Sinha 2) Yogesh Agarwal 3) Gireesh Pradhan 4) Ramesh Abhishek 5) None of these
6. Which of the following statements about the Man Booker Prize is not correct?
1) Eleanor Catton of New Zeala-nd won the Man Booker Prize 2013 for her second novel 'The Luminaries'.
2) At the age of 28, she is the youngest ever winner.
3) The previous youngest winner was Ben Okri who was 32 when he won for 'The Famished Road' in 1991.
4) 'The Luminaries' is the longest ever Booker winner with 832 pages.
5) Indian author Jhumpa Lahiri's book 'Namesake' was also sho-rt listed for this year's prize.
7. The United Nations Organisation declared which of the following days as International Day for the Eradication of Poverty?
1) October 15 2) October 16 3) October 11 4) October 17 5) October 20
8. Which former Australian cricketer's forthcoming autobiography is titled "At The Close of Play"?
1) Mike Hussey 2) Andrew Symonds 3) Mathew Hayden 4) Adam Gilchrist 5) Ricky Ponting
9. "1283" is the title of a book that was launched in October 2013. This book is about which of the following football players?
1) Diego Maradona 2) Lionel Messi 3) Pele 4) David Beckham 5) Ronaldo
10. Which country will grant honorary citizenship to Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousafzai?
1) Myanmar 2) Canada 3) South Africa 4) Sweden 5) Norway
11. Which woman tennis player won the maximum number of Grand Slam singles titles in the history of tennis?
1) Steffi Graf 2) Serena Williams 3) Billi Jean King 4) Martina Navratilova 5) Margaret Court
12. Kisan Ghat is a memorial to?
1) Mahatma Gandhi 2) Jagjivan Ram 3) Charan Singh 4) Chandra Shekhar 5) Devi Lal
13. Who was the first Indian scientist to become the Member of Parliament?
1) C.V. Raman 2) S. Chandrasekhar 3) Meghnad Saha 4) Vikram Sarabhai 5) APJ Abdul Kalam
14. Which among the following is also known as Pacific Rim Trade Group?
1) ASEAN 2) APEC 3) OPEC 4) Mercosur 5) BRICS
15. Tranquility Base is situated on the surface of?
1) Mars 2) Jupiter 3) Saturn 4) Moon 5) Venus
16. Which of these political leaders won the Nobel Prize for Literature?
1) Woodrow Wilson 2) Franklin Roosevelt 3) Winston Churchill 4) Benito Mussolini 5) Nelson Mandela
17. "The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe" is written by?
1) Peter Higgs 2) Stephen Hawking 3) David Wineland 4) Serge Harosche 5) None of these
18. Cheraw dance is performed in?
1) Assam 2) Gujarat 3) Rajasthan 4) Mizoram 5) Andhra Pradesh
19. The Hornbill Festival is held every year in the first week of December in?
1) Nagaland 2) Mizoram 3) Tripura 4) Assam 5) Manipur
20. Which of the following rivers does not flow into the Bay of Bengal?
1) Krishna 2) Godavari 3) Mahanadi 4) Cauvery 5) Tapti
21. Renewable energy can be obtained from?
1) Fossils 2) Radioactive elements 3) Biomass 4) Natural gas 5) None of these
22. Which of the following committees is/are committee/s of Parliament?
1) Public Accounts Committee 2) Estimates Committee
3) Committee on Public Undertakings 4) Both 1 and 2 5) All 1, 2 and 3
23. Ekistics is the?
1) Science of Body Mass 2) Science of human settlements 3) Study of coins 4) Art of card tricks 5) Study of water sports
24. What is Red Herring in an IPO?
1) Submission of form 2) Prospectus 3) Funds generated 4) Minimum offer per share 5) None of these
25. Bio-diesel is extracted from?
1) Hibiscus 2) Aloe Vera 3) Castor 4) Jatropha 5) Sunflower
26. Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) is a premier association of?
1) Financial Professionals 2) World's Richest Industrialists
3) World's Richest Sportspersons 4) World's Richest Women
5) None of these
27. Which is the world's largest landlocked country?
1) Kazakhstan 2) Mongolia 3) Chad 4) Zambia 5) Afghanistan
28. Tine Baun is the 2013 All-England Badminton Championships women's singles title winner. She belongs to?
1) Belgium 2) Norway 3) Denmark 4) UK 5) Malaysia
29. Which of the following statements is not correct?
1) The main purpose of the Public Distribution System in India is to provide essential commodities such as rice, wheat, oil, etc to poor people at subsidized price.
2) The Millennium Developme-nt Goals of the UNO are to be achieved by the year 2015.
3) Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) was launched to provide health insurance coverage for Below Poverty Line (BPL) families.
4) Central Law Commission is set up to decide the share of states in revenue earned by the Union Government.
5) Human Development Report is published by UNDP.
30. The Attorney General of India is appointed by the?
1) Chief Justice of India 2) Prime Minister 3) Law Minister 4) President 5) Speaker of Lok Sabha
31. Which of the following pairs of States and their capital cities is mismatched?
1) Manipur - Imphal 2) Meghalaya - Shillong 3) Mizoram - Aizawl
4) Nagaland - Mokokchung 5) Sikkim - Gangtok
32. Which of the following organizations brokered a historic peace accord between Serbia and Kosovo in April 2013?
1) United Nations Organisation 2) European Union
3) Amnesty International 4) North Atlantic Treaty Organisation 5) The Commonwealth
33. Who won the Asian Billiards Championship in Indore, Madhya Pradesh in April 2013?
1) Rupesh Shah 2) Alok Kumar 3) Pankaj Advani 4) Devendra Joshi 5) Ashok Shandilya
34. Who became the first-ever Indian to win a World Cup Gold in pistol shooting at the ISSF World Cup in Changwon, South Korea in April 2013?
1) Anjali Bhagwat 2) Rahi Sarnobat 3) Sanjeev Rajput4) Ronjan Sodhi 5) None of these
35. MiG-21, the first supersonic fighter jet in the Indian Air Force fleet completed 50 years in 2013. It belongs to?
1) France 2) Germany 3) Russia 4) Czech Republic 5) Slovakia
36. Dendrochronology is?
1) The study of glaciers
2) The scientific method of dating based on the analysis of patterns of tree rings
3) The study of landforms
4) The study of fossil plants
5) The study of fossil animals
37. Which company launched the first cellular phone service in India in 1995?
1) Vodafone 2) Bharti Airtel 3) Essar 4) Reliance 5) Modi Telstra
38. What is the full form of BIFR?
1) Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction
2) Board for Investment and Financial Reconstruction
3) Bureau for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction
39. Which of the following countries is not included in Southern Cone?
1) Argentina 2) Chile 3) Paraguay 4) Uruguay 5) Venezuela
40. Who invented the integrated circuit or microchip?
1) Larry Page and Sergey Brin
2) Robert Noyce and Jack Kilby
3) Sabir Bhatia and Bill Gates
4) Bill Gates and Paul Allen
5) Larry Page and Eric Schmidt
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