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GENERAL AWARENESS
1. Donor nations offered $16 billion to Afghanistan in development aid through 2015 at
an international conference on Afghanistan that was held on July 8, 2012 in?
1) London

2) Tokyo

3) Kabul

4) New Delhi

5) Islamabad

title on July 8, 2012. Whom did he defeat in the final?

2. Roger Federer of Switzerland won his seventh Wimbledon and 17th Grand Slam tennis

2) David Ferrer (Spain)

3) Florian Mayer (Germany)

4) Andy Murray (Great Britain)

5) Marin Cilic (Croatia)

1) Novak Djokovic (Serbia)

1) Personal loans

2) Educational loans

3) Auto loans

5) All the above

4) Home loans

3. Which of the following is/are considered as retail loans?

4. Which Hollywood actor has been named Ambassador-at-large for Haiti in recognition

of his humanitarian work since the 2010 earthquake?

2) Sean Penn

4) Will Smith

5) Leonardo Dicaprio

3) Tom Cruise

5. Which of the following foreign banks has appointed Sunil Kaushal as its Chief
Executive for India and South Asia?
1) BNP Paribas

2) Deutsche Bank

4) ABN-AMRO Bank

5) Standard Chartered Bank

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3) Citi bank

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6. Akhlaq Mohammed Khan Shahr-yar passed away recently. He was a Jnanpith award
winner in wh-ich of the following languages?
1) Hindi

2) Oriya

3) Urdu

4) Punjabi

5) Marathi

7. Which of the following footballers won the Euro 2012 Golden Boot award after scoring
three goals in the Championship?
2) Mario Mandzukic(Croatia)

3) Mario Balotelli (Italy)

4) Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)

1) Mario Gomez (Germany)

5)Fernando Torres (Spain)

8. Oscar Pistorius, known as the 'Blade Runner' because he runs on carbon fiber blades,

has won the 2012 Laureus World Sports-person of the Year with a Disabi-lity Award.

1) Sweden

He belongs to which of the following countries?

3) Denmark

4) South Africa 5) Australia

9. Which state has become the first state in the country to issue e-stamp papers in all
denomi-nations?

2) Delhi

3) Karnataka

4) Maharashtra

5) West Bengal

1) Gujarat

10. Operation Atlanta is undertaken by which of the following organizations to prevent

2) UNO

3) EU

4) SAARC

5) FAO

11. Indian diplomat Vijay Nambiar has been appointed as United Nations SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon's Special Advisor on which of the following countries?
1) China

2) Pakistan

3) Afghanistan

4) Myanmar

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5) Sri Lanka

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12. Who is the author of the book 'Last Man in Tower'?

2) Kiran Desai

3) Aravind Adiga

4) Vikram Seth

5) Rahul Bhattacharya

13. Which of the following honorary ranks has been given to Mahendra Singh Dhoni,
Indian cricket team captain, in the Territorial Army?
1) Captain

2) Major

3) Colonel 4) Major General

5) Lieutenant Colonel

14. Who became the new Chief of Pakistan's spy agency Inter Services Intelligence (ISI)

on March 9, 2012?

2) Asad Durrani

3) Nadeem Taj

4) Zaheer-ul-Islam

5) Ashfaq Parvez Kayani

1) Hamid Gul

15. Sherwood Rowland of America passed away recently. He won the 1995 Nobel Prize
in which of the following disciplines?
2) Chemistry

3) Medicine

4) Economics

1) Physics

5) Literature

1) Pankaj Advani

2) Vijender Singh

16. Who among the following is a Golf player?

5) Rohan Bopanna

4) Susheel Kumar

3) Jeev Milkha Singh

17. Mukul Roy became the new Railways Minister on March 20, 2012. He belongs to
which of the following political parties?
1) Samajwadi Party

2) Bahujan Samaj Party

4) Rashtriya Lok Dal

5) Trinamool Congress

3) Rashtriya Janata Dal

18. Which of the following is an asset reconstruction company?

2) IRDA

3) ASCI

4) ARCIL

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5) DICGC

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19. Who is the present Cabinet Secretary of India?

2) Ajit Kumar Seth

4) Nirupama Rao

5) Pankaj Dwivedi

3) Ranjan Mathai

20. Bihari Puraskar is a literary award instituted by the K.K.Birla Foundation. It is given
only to writers from?
1) Rajasthan

2) Bihar

3) Orissa

4) Uttarakhand

5) Uttar Pradesh

21. Gopal Krishna Gandhi, former Governor of West Bengal, is the Chairman of the

governing body of Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS). Where is IIAS located?
1) Pune

2) Shimla 3) Nagpur 4) Deharadun

5) Kolkata

2) Poet

3) Actor

4) Musician

5) Chess player

1) Scientist

22. Joy Mukherjee passed away recently. He was an eminent?

23. Hindi film music composer Rajesh Roshan was conferred the Lata Mangeshkar award

recently. Which state gives this award?

4) Madhya Pradesh

5) Karnataka

3) Rajasthan

1) Maharashtra

24. According to the 2012 Environ-mental Performance Index (EPI) released in January
2012, what is India's rank? (The Index is produced by researchers at Yale and Columbia
Universities in collaboration with the World Economic Forum.Switzerland took the top)
1) 134

2) 125

3) 135

4) 143

5) 142

25. The residents of which of the following cities created a world record when over 15,000
people gathered to sing the national anthem on the eve of Republic day on January 26,
2012?
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1) Gandhinagar

2) Yamunanagar

4) Pushkar

5) Jaipur

3) Aurangabad

26. The National Security Guard (NSG) hub at which of the following cities is the
regional centre for eastern India?
1) Bhubaneshwar

2) Gangtok

3) Itanagar

4) Kolkata

5) Shillong

27. India is likely to produce how many million tones of food grains during 2011-12,

2) 244.78

3) 250.42

4) 245.54

5) 247.45

1) 249.78

according to the 2nd Advance estimates of crop production released in February 2012?

28. Which country has developed a rating index called ' Comparative Rating Index of

Sovereigns' (CRIS) on the basis of sovereign ratings of various countries compiled

1) Pakistan

through rating data of Moody's and GDP data of the International Monetary Fund?
2) USA

3) Indonesia

4) India

5) Ecuador

29. Which of the following private banks is/are eligible to handle central and state
government business as agents of the Reserve Bank of India, at par with public sector

banks?

1) ICICI Bank

2) HDFC Bank

3) Axis Bank

4) All 1, 2, 3

5) All private sector banks

30. A huge stock of gas was found recently in Rashidpur field which is in?
1) Bangladesh

2) Pakistan

3) India

4) Kazakhstan

5) Iran

31. IAEA is an organization working in the area of?

2) World trade

3) Defense

4) Nuclear Energy

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5) Social welfare

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32. Which of the following is a non institutional source of credit?

2) RRBs

3) Cooperative Banks

4) Moneylenders

5) None of these

33. Which of the following is/are renewable source of energy?

C) Nuclear Energy

1) Only (A)

2) Only (B)

3) Only (C)

4) Both (A) & (B)

5) All (A), (B) & (C)

A) Solar Energy

34. The Head of which of the following agencies/organizations is designated as

3) All public sector banks

1) SEBI

5) None of these

4) All private sector banks

35. Which of the following is the currency of Myanmar?

3) Dinar

4) Kyat

1) Taka

5) Baht

1) Pharma industry

2) Textile industry

36. Heavy water is used in?

5) None of these

4) Cement industry

3) Nuclear power

37. Which of the following terms is related to cricket?

2) Love

3) Trump

4) Ashes

38. Which of the following books is written by Chetan Bhagat?

2) Golden Gate

3) A Bend in the River

4) Revolution 2020

5) A House for Mr.Biswas

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5) Jockey

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39. Which of the following is not an oilseed crop?

2) Mustard

3) Garlic

4) Groundnut

5) Sunflower

40. Who headed a high level committee that was mandated to go into all aspects of black
money and suggest measures to stop its generation?
1) M.C.Joshi

2) Sam Pitroda

3) C.Rangarajan

4) Pranab Mukherjee

5) Pradeep Kumar

1) New Delhi

2) Durban

3) Brasilia

4) Beijing

1) 2

2) 4

3) 5

9) 2

10) 3

11) 4

Key

2012 in which of the following cities?

41. A meeting of the Environment Ministers of BASIC countries took place in February

17) 5

18) 4

25) 3

26) 4

33) 4

34) 5

5) 5

6) 3

7) 5

8) 4

12) 3

13) 5

14) 4

15) 2

16) 3

19) 2

20) 1

21) 2

22) 3

23) 4

24) 2

27) 3

28) 4

29) 5

30) 1

31) 4

32) 4

35) 4

36) 3

37) 4

38) 4

39) 3

40) 1

4) 2

41) 1

5) Sanya

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