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October 5, 2013

Quiz-17 - Current Affairs & General Awareness Questions for UPSC IAS APPSC, Bank Po & IBPS Exams

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Q) " A co mme mor ative postage stamp on late Sahir Ludhianvi was released recently. He was a? 1) Musician 2) Poet 3) Painter 4) Scientist 5) Sculptor "

Q) " What is the present reverse repo rate? 1) 6 per cent 2) 7.5 per cent 3) 6.5 per cent 4) 7.25 per cent 5) None of these "

Q) "’The Test of My Life1 is written by? 1) Steve Waugh 2) Adam Gilchrist 3) Yuvraj Singh 4) Lance Armstrong 5) Oscar Pistorius "

Q) "’You Can Win’ is written by? 1) Deepak Chopra 2) Arindum Chaudhury 3) Robin Sharma 4) Shiv Khera 5) Barack Obama "


Q) "11. Nirbhaya, Delhi gang rape victim has been posthumously presented with the International W omen of Courage Award by? 1) UK 2) France 3) USA 4) Australia 5) Germany "

Q) "India handed over a Dornier- 22 S maritime r econnaissance aircraft to which of the following countries r ecently to help the country keep its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) under better surveillance? 1) Maldives 2) Seychelles 3) Mauritius 4) New Zealand 5) Sri Lanka "

Q) "India’s first Government to Business (G2B) portaL, eBiz> was launched by the Ministry of? 1) Finance 2) Commerce and Industry 3) Textiles 4) Urban Development 5) None of these "

Q) "Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Communications and Information T echnology, launched the portal of NIR recently. In NIR T denotes? 1) Internet 2) Indian 3) Information 4) Index 5) Innovation "

Q) "Lilian Davies died recently. She was the Princess of? 1) Denmark 2) Norway 3) Sweden 4) Netherlands 5) None of these "

Q) "Olympics gold medalist Rebecca Adlington of England retired recently from? 1) Shooting 2) Athletics 3) Swimming 4) Tennis 5) Boxing "

Q) "Professor Nibir Man dal of Jadavpur University has been selected for the? 1) G.D. Birla Award 2) Saraswati Samman 3) Kalinga Prize 4) Tagore Award 5) None of these "

Q) "Rare migratory bird Whooper Swan was spotted in Pong Dam Lake of Himachal Pradesh after 113 years. It is the national bird of? 1) Finland 2) Ireland 3) USA 4) New Zealand 5) Australia "

Q) "Raul Castr o has been r e- elected for a second five-year term as the President of? 1) Chile 2) Cuba 3) Venezuela 4) Paraguay 5) Uruguay "

Q) "The currency of Australia is? 1) Peso 2) Pound 3) Litas 4) Dollar 5) Lira "

Q) "The first wildlife skywalk of India will come up in Maenam W ildlife sanctuary in? 1) Sikkim 2) Assam 3) Meghalaya 4)West Bengal 5) Arunachal Pradesh "

Q) "The Income Tax Department gives a multi digit alpha code to all income tax assesses. It is called? 1) VAT 2) ATM 3) SAT 4) PIN 5) PAN "

Q) "The Ministry o f Health an d Family W elfare announced which former Indian cricket team captain as brand ambassador for its National Tobacco Control Campaign? 1) AnilKumble 2) Rahul Dravid 3) Saurav Ganguly 4) Sachin Tendulkar 5) Sunil Gavaskar "

Q) "The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) will set up the countryTs first geothermal p ower plant in Balrampur district of? 1) Manipur 2) Chhattisgarh 3) Meghalaya 4) Tripura 5) Madhya Pradesh "

Q) "The Parliamentary S tanding Committee on Finance opposed giving new bank licenses to corporate houses. This panel is headed by? 1) S. laipal Reddy 2) ArunJaitley 3) Yashwant Sinlia 4) Jaswant Singh 5) Sushma Swaraj"

Q) "Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan (105) has become the oldest person to be conferred? 1) Kalidas Samman 2) Padma Shri 3) Tansen Samman 4) Inanpith Award 5) Saraswati Samman "

Q) "Which country will fund Bangladesh’s first-ever metro rail system? 1) India 2) lap an 3) Pakistan 4) China 5) USA "

Q) "Which country won the 3rd Under-21 Sultan of Johor cup hockey tournament in Johor Bahru, Malaysia on September 29,2013? 1) India 2) Malaysia 3) England 4) Argentina 5) Pakistan"

Q) "W'hich of the following institutions/organizations will provide $3-5 billion annual assistance to India over the next four years to help eradicate poverty? 1) World Bank 2) IMF 3) WEF 4) OECD 5) ADB "

Q) "Which of the following is India’s indigenously developed medium range sub-sonic cruise missile? 1) Dhanush 2) Brahmos 3) Nirbhay 4)AgniI 5) None of these "

Q) "Which of the following is not decided by the Finance Minister while pr esenting Union Budget every year? 1) Rate of Income Tax 2) Expenditure on Defense services 3) Revenue expected from various sources 4) Reverse repo rate 5) Relief packages to various sections of the society "

Q) "Which of the following is the capital city of Argentina? 1) Prague 2) Santo Domingo 3) Montevideo 4) Bratislava 5) Buenos Aires "

Q) "Which of the following letters of English alphabet represents one of the Blood Gr oups and also one of the Vitamins? 1) K 2) C 3) A 4) I 5) L "

Q) "Which of the following statements is not correct? 1) Punjab is a major Wheat producing state in India 2) Gold is also called Yellow metal 3) Nagpur is called the City of Oranges' 4) 'Rock Garden' is located in Chandigarh 5) Lactometer is used for measuring the intensity of electric current "

Q) "Which of the following terms is not used in Economics/ Banking? 1) Barter System 2) Inflation 3) Monetary Policy 4) Resistance 5) Investment "

Q) "Who among the following is a famous author? 1) Kavita Chahal 2) Kalpana Chawla 3) Rashmi Bansal 4) Anjali Bhagwat 5) Rajkumari Rathore "

Q) "Who among the following is a Prime Minister of a country? 1) Francois Hollande 2) Ram Baran Yadav 3) Helle Thoming Schmidt 4) Cristina Fernandez 5) Mamnoon Hussain "

Q) "Who can issue orders to fr eeze bank accounts? 1) RBI 2) SEBI 3) Income tax authorities 4) Courts 5) All the above "

Q) "Who r epresented India in the Miss World 2013 pageant in Bali in September 2013? 1) Sobhita Dhulipala 2) Zoya Afroz 3) Swati Kain 4) Navneet Kaur Dhillon 5) None of these "

Q) "Who was appointed as Chairman of the Indian Premier League (IPL) on September 29,2013? 1) M.V.Sridhar 2) Sanjay Patel 3) S.P. Bansal 4) Ranjib Biswal 5) None of these"

Q) "Who was awarded with the Fifth Deutsche Bank Prize for Financial Economics 2013 in Germany on September 27, 2013? 1) RaghuramRajan 2) D, SubbaRao 3) YV Reddy 4) C. Rangarajan 5) KaushikBasu"

Q) "Who was cr owned the Miss Wrorld 2013 in Bali, Indonesia on September 2S, 2013? 1) Megan Young (Philippines) 2) Marine Lorphelin (France) 3) Carranzar Naa Okailey Shooter (Ghana) 4) Sancler Frantz (Brazil) 5) Elena Ibarbia (Spain)"

Q) "Who was elected as Pr esident of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) for the year2013- 14 on September 27,2013? 1) Kiran Vadodaria 2) F.V. Chandran 3) Ravindra Kumar 4) Sanjay Gupta 5) None of these "

Q) "Who was/were selected for the ’Outstanding Parliamentarian Award’ recently? 1) Arun Jaitley 2) Karan Singh 3) Sharad Yadav 4) Both 1 and 2 5) All 1,2 and 3 "

Q) "Wrho is the interim Prime Minister of Nepal? 1) Ram Baran Yadav 2) Ram Prasad Shrestha 3) Prachanda 4) Khil Raj Regmi 5) None of these "

Q) "Yukia Amano of Japan was reapp ointed as the Dir ecto r General of? 1) WHO 2) WTO 3) IAEA 4) UNESCO 5) UNICEF "

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