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business, corporate, economy, sports,etc. Fromlast45years exactly
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generalknowledgewith varyingdifficultylevels.

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1.

AlltestsintheGKCABuilderinsidethePTSRC

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Previous12issues ofPrepTalk

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DIRECTIONS:Forthefollowingquestions,fouroptionsaregiven.
Choosethecorrectoption.
1 .

2 .

3 .

4 .

IREDA (Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency

Ltd.),anindependentPublicSectorUndertaking(PSU),was
establishedin
(1)

1988

(2)

1985

(3)

1987

(4)

1986

S SS NIRE (S ardar S waran S ingh National Institute of

Renewable Energy), working in bioenergy, biofuel,
syntheticfueletc.,islocatedat
(1)

Mumbai

(2)

WadalaKalan,Kapurthala(Punjab)

(3)

Bangalore

(4)

Dehradun

The Solar EvapoCooking System (SECS) for controlling

excretionofCO2inatmosphereandtosaveLPGamount
duringfoodcookingfor20000peopledailyinShriSaiBaba
InstituteNyas,Shirdi(Maharashtra)wasestablishedin
(1)

June2012

(2)

June2009

(3)

June2011

(4)

June2010

Who markets Nutralite, a tablespread, as a healthier

alternativetobutter?
(1)
(3)

5 .

GSK
Cipla

(2)
(4)

RuchiSoya
ZydusCadila

FilmmakerMrinalSenisawinnerofwhichofthefollowing
honours?
I .
II.

LifetimeAchievementAwardatOsian'sCinefest
PadmaBhushan

9 .

TataMotorshassignedalongtermpartnershipagreement
withwhichofthefollowingautocompanies?
(1)

FordMotorCompany

(2)

MarutiSuzuki

(3)

ToyotaMotorCorporation

(4)

MercedesBenz

10. When did the formal ceremony "Casing of Colours" take

place,markingthewithdrawaloftheUSforcesfromIraq?
(1)

December2011

(2)

October2011

(3)

November2011

(4)

January2012

11. Whichstategovernmenthaspromulgatedanordinanceunder
which any uncalled for attack on a doctor or a medical
institutioninthestatewillhenceforthattractimprisonment
ofthreeto10years?
(1)

Haryana

(2)

Kerala

(3)

TamilNadu

(4)

MadhyaPradesh

12. ThereclusiveNorthKoreanleaderKimJongil,whodiedin
2011,ruledhiscountryfor
(1)

17years

(2)

10years

(3)

12years

(4)

15years

13. TheMhosscaleisusedtodetermine.....ofsubstances.
(1)

Ductility

(2)

Electricalconductivity

(3)

Density

(4)

Hardness

14. Whichcompany'slogocarriesthebaseline"BetterSound
throughResearch"?
(1)

Onkyo

(2)

Sony

(3)

Bose

(4)

Bang&Olufsen

III. DadasahebPhalkeAward

6 .

7.

8 .

(1)

IandIIonly

(2)

IandIIIonly

(3)

IIandIIIonly

(4)

I,IIandIII

Whichofthefollowingfilmswasgiventheawardof"the
BestMotionPictureoftheYear"byOscarFoundation?

15. WhoinventedtheWorldWideWebin1989?
(1)

TimBernersLee

(2)

KenThompson

(3)

BillGates

(4)

DougEnglebart

16. 'Your Vision,Our Future' is thebaselineof which of the

followingbrands?

(1)

TherewillbeBlood

(2)

NocountryforOldMen

(1)

Olympus

(2)

Zeiss

(3)

Peter&theWolf

(3)

Bausch&Lomb

(4)

Luxotica

(4)

Noneofthese

Whichofthefollowingcompanies/commissionsofIndian
OriginsignedapactforobtainingoilblocksinLibya?
(1)

ReliancePetroleum

(2)

OilIndiaLtd.

(3)

Oil&NaturalGasCorporation

(4)

HindustanPetroleumCorporationLimited

WhichofthefollowingcompaniesofIndianOriginhasbecome
thefirstIndianCompanytolaunchfinancialservicestoretail
investorsinChina?
(1)

BajajFinance

(2)

SBICapitalMarkets

(3)

RelianceAnilDhirubhaiAmbaniGroup

(4)

TataFinance

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17. FootandMouthdiseaseincattle,anepidemicinsomeparts
oftheworld,iscausedby
(1)

Bacteria

(2)

Fungus

(3)

Protozoan

(4)

Virus

18. OctaneNumberisusedtodeterminethe
(1)

Qualityofdrinkingwater

(2)

Purityofgold

(3)

Qualityofgasoline

(4)

Purityofmilk

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19. WhatwasnamedastheSilverGhost?
(1)

The Ford c ar tha t was l aunche d just after the

legendaryModelT.

(2)

ThefirstprototypeoftheMercedes.

(3)

ThefirstmodeloftheHarleyDavidsonbike.

(4)

ThefirstRollsRoycecar.

(1)

Stuttgart

(2)

Bochum

(3)

Herzogenaurach

(4)

Bayreuth

21. WhichofthefollowingownedParamountPictureswhenit
producedthemultipleOscarwinningfilmGandhi,in1982?
(1)

Bertelsmann

(2)

Sony

(3)

GE

(4)

TimeWarner

22. Whichofthefollowingcarswasoriginallyadaptedfromthe
MorrisOxford,a1950Britishmodel?
(1)

TheAmbassador

(2)

ThePremierPadmini

(3)

TheStandardGazelle

(4)

TheContessa

23. WhatistheonlyitemofIndianoriginthatcanbeseenat
theMetropolitanMuseumofModernArt?
(1)

TheAjantaMillenniumClock

(2)

Bajaj'sChetakScooter

(3)

TheHawkinsFuturaPressureCooker

(4)

TheCharaghDinShirt

(3)

Sodiumhydrochloride

(2)
(4)

Sodiumhypochlorite
Sodiumhydroxide

25. IgorSikorskyisfamousforinventingthe
(1)

Helicopter

(2)

Handglider

(3)

Hovercraft

(4)

Rocketlauncher

26. WhoisthenewnonUSowneroftheiconicChryslerBuilding
inNewYork?
(1)

KuwaitInvestmentAuthority

(2)

ChinaInvestmentCorporation

(3)

AbuDhabiInvestmentCompany

(4)

DubaiInternationalFinancialCentre

27. Totalfattymatter(TFM)isaparameterusedtojudgethe
qualityofwhichproduct?
(1)

Hairdye

(2)

Skincream

(3)

Soap

(4)

Shampoo

28. Stardust,SocietyandHealtharepopularmagazinesinIndia
publishedbywhichmediagroup?
(1)

MagnaGroup

(2)

MediaTransAsiaGroup

(3)

CondeNastGroup

(4)

Bennett&Coleman

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Puma

(2)

Nike

(3)

Asics

(4)

Reebok

(1)

WilliamHarvey

(2)

LouisPasteur

(3)

HargobindKhorana

(4)

EdwardJenner

31. ItwasfirstlaunchedintheUSastheSoundabout.Bywhat
namedoweknowthisproduct?
(1)

PhilipsCompactDisc

(2)

BoseSpeakers

(3)

SonyWalkman

(4)

MarconiRadio

32. TheAmericancounterpartofSEBIis
(1)

SecuritiesandExchangeBoardofUSA

(2)

AmericanSecuritiesandExchangeCouncil

(3)

SecuritiesandExchangeCouncil(SEC)

(4)

NASDAQ

33. WhichBritishinstitutionbeganatacoffeehouseknownas
Jonathan's?
(1)

PrudentialInsuranceCompany

(2)

Lloyd'sofLondon

(3)

TheLondonStockExchange

(4)

TheLondonMetalExchange

34. Whatis the Native Stock and Brokers Association better

knownastoday?

24. Bleachisausefulhouseholdchemicaloftenreferredtoas
"chlorinebleach".Whatisthemaincomponentofhousehold
bleach?
Sodiumchloride

(1)

30. Whodiscoveredthecirculationofblood?

20. WhichGermantownservedasthebirthplaceoftwosports
giantsPumaandAdidas?

(1)

29. Whatwaspreviouslyashoedistributioncompanythatwent
bythenameBlueRibbonSportsCompany?

(1)

TheBombayStockExchange

(2)

TheCalcuttaStockExchange

(3)

TheNewYorkStockExchange

(4)

TheNationalStockExchange

35. Whichwasthefirstpublicsectorundertakingtogetlisted
ontheBSE?
(1)

MarutiUdyogLtd

(2)

SteelAuthorityofIndiaLtd.

(3)

NationalAluminiumCo.

(4)

HindustanPetroleum

36. WhichindustrialistalongwithformerPresidentA.P.J.Abdul
KalamwasconferredwithanhonorarydegreeofDoctorof
Science(HonorisCausa)bytheAligarhMuslimUniversity?
(1)

AzimPremji

(2)

ShivNadar

(3)

BRamalingaRaju

(4)

SwrajPaul

37. WhowaspresentedthegovernmentofIndia's"OneTime
AwardforLifeTimeAchievement"incommemorationofthe
60thanniversaryofIndia'sIndependence?
(1)

ShyamBenegal

(2)

MrinalSen

(3)

GirishKarnad

(4)

TapanSinha

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38. India is coproducing the surfacetoair missiles (SAM)

termedMaitri(Friendship)withwhichcountry?

49. 'Lifeisoneincrediblejourney'isthebaselineoF
(1)

Travel&Livingchannel

(1)

France

(2)

UK

(2)

OutlookTravellermagazine

(3)

Russia

(4)

Israel

(3)

DiscoveryChannel

(4)

NationalGeographicMagazine

39. UKbasedfirmMillwardBrownOptimorisfamousforitsannual
rankingofwhichofthefollowing?

50. Which country testfired the Shahab3 missile that has

sufficientrangetohitIsraelicities?

(1)

World'stopbrands

(2)

World'stopattorneysinlegalservices

(1)

Iran

(2)

Pakistan

(3)

World'stopManagementcolleges

(3)

UAE

(4)

Kuwait

(4)

World'shighestearningsportspersons

40. For which IPL team has Aditya Birla Nuvo created an
exclusiveformalwearlinePeterEnglandElite?

51. Hiscox Group of London controls over 60percent of the

world'sbusinessinwhichtypeofinsurance?
(1)

Sportsinjuries

(1)

KolkataKnightRaiders

(2)

Divorcesettlements

(2)

ChennaiSuperKings

(3)

Kidnapandransominsurancepolicy

(3)

MumbaiIndians

(4)

Insuranceofsatellites

(4)

RoyalBangaloreChallengers

41. Amongst the following countries, which is the first to

withdrawfromKyotoProtocol?
(1)

Canada

(2)

Cuba

(3)

Mexico

(4)

Australia

52. Mark out the correct statement/statements from the

following?
I .

AmericasignedanagreementwiththeCzechRepublic
thatwillbaseatrackingradarsystemintheEuropean
country.

II.

The 'International Criminal Court' indicted Libyan

President Gaddafi accusing him of war crimes and
genocide.

42. WhichofthefollowingisnotaGreenhousegas?
(1)

Carbondioxide

(2)

Methane

(3)

Nitrousoxide

(4)

Ozone

43. Which US company ownsthe artificial sweetener brands

EqualandCanderel?
(1)

AlbertoCulver

(2)

Merisant

(3)

McNeil

(4)

MidasInternational

44. Wherewastheoilindustrynationalisedin1971?
(1)

Russia

(2)

Iraq

(3)

Venezuela

(4)

UAE

III. RussiaandChinavetoedaproposalbyAmericaand
Britain in the UN Security Councilthat would have
imposedanarmsembargoonZimbabweandputtravel
andfinancialcurbsonPresidentRobertMugabe.
(1)

IandIIonly

(2)

IandIIIonly

(3)

IIandIIIonly

(4)

IIonly

53. Mark out the correct combinations of places that were

included in the UNESCO's World Heritage List and their
locations?
I .

PreahViheartempleCambodia

II.

MelakaandGeorgeTownMalaysia

III. KukEarlyAgriculturalSitePapuaNewGuinea

45. 'Sal'isatypeof
(1)

Evergreentree

(2)

Mangrove

(3)

Deciduoustree

(4)

Coniferoustree

46. Thewifeofwhichindustrialististheeditorofthemagazine
Verve?
(1)

NandanNilekani

(2)

AnandMahindra

(3)

NusliWadia

(4)

MukeshAmbani

47. KitplyIndustriesLtd(KIL)belongstowhichcorporategroup?

(1)

IandIIonly

(2)

IandIIIonly

(3)

IIandIIIonly

(4)

I,IIandIII

54. WherewasawaxstatueofAdolfHitlerintroducedinMadame
Tussauds'waxmuseum?
(1)

Munich

(2)

Berlin

(3)

Hamburg

(4)

Bonn

55. MarkoutthecorrectstatementaboutOrangeBroadband
PrizeforFiction?

(1)

B.K.BirlaGroup

(2)

R.P.GoenkaGroup

I .

RoseTremainhaswonthe30,000prize

(3)

A.V.BirlaGroup

(4)

S.P.GoenkaGroup

II.

Theawardisgivenonlytowomenwriters

III. Thewinnerwonforthenovel'Amsterdam'
48. "HumanEnergy"isthepunchlineofwhichenergygiant?
(1)

ChevronTexaco

(2)

ExxonMobil

(3)

B.P.Amoco

(4)

RoyalDutchShell

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(1)

IandIIonly

(2)

IandIIIonly

(3)

IIandIIIonly

(4)

I,IIandIII

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56. "It'sthe.....way"istheservicemarkofwhichhospitality
company?
(1)

Marriott

(2)

Hilton

(3)

Ramada

(4)

Hyatt

66.Whatisdryice?
(1)

Liquidnitrogen

(2)

Waterice

(3)

Solidcarbondioxide

(4)

Frozenethanol

67. Whichofthefollowingdiscoveriesinelectronicscamefirst?
57. BiologicalOxygenDemand(BOD)isastandardcriterionfor
(1)

Measuringoxygenlevelsinanimals

(2)

Computingoxygenlevelsinforestecosystems

(3)

Estimatingpollutionlevelsinaquaticsystems

(4)

Measuringoxygenlevelsinblood

58. WhichwatchcompanyhastiedupwiththeWorldWildlife
Fund(WWFIndia)tospreadawarenessaboutsomeofthe
mostendangeredspeciesinIndiathroughacollectionof
uniquelydesignedwatches?
(1)

Omega

(2)

Swatch

(3)

Timex

(4)

Titan

59. Whichmovieproducerwashonouredwiththeprestigious
Officier dela Legion d'Honneur(Officer of theLegion of
Honour) bythe French government inrecognition of his
contributiontoIndiancinemain2008?

(1)

Vacuumtubes

(2)

Transistor

(3)

Microprocessor

(4)

Nanotechnology

68. Which brand has launched the Bounce range of shoes in

India?
(1)

Nike

(2)

Bata

(3)

Adidas

(4)

Puma

69.IanWilmutisascientistfamousfor
(1)

Creatingthefirsttesttubebaby

(2)

FindingacureforParkinsondisease

(3)

Creatingthefirstclonedsheep

(4)

Inventingthebirthcontrolpill

70.'GlobalDevelopmentFinance'isanannualreportpublished
by the .....

(1)

YashChopra

(2)

Priyadarshan

(1)

AsianDevelopmentBank

(3)

GovindNihlani

(4)

AdoorGopalakrishnan

(2)

InternationalMonetaryFund

(3)

WTO

(4)

WorldBank

60. Thesmallestsizeofacellwhichcanbeseenwithunaided
eyeis
(1)

100microns

(2)

1000microns

(3)

1micron

(4)

10microns

61. PearsonPlcofUKownsallofthefollowingpublications/
publishingcompanies,except.....
(1)
(3)

FinancialTimes
TheTimes

(2)
(4)

TheEconomist
Penguin

71.WhichcementcompanywontheGoldenPeacockawardset
upbytheUKbasedWorldEnvironmentFoundationforeco
innovation?Thecompanyusedwasteasasubstitutefor
hydrocarbon fuels at five of its 11 cement plants in the
country.
(1)

ACC

(2)

GujaratAmbuja

(3)

UltraTech

(4)

IndiaCements

72."OurEarth,OurTomorrow"isabaselineofwhichofthese?

62. Whatistheword'pixel'shortfor?
(1)

Pictureexcel

(2)

EdwardPixelli

(3)

Pictureelement

(4)

Pixelisedpoint

63. Which actress was Lux soap's first brand ambassador in

India?
(1)

Madhubala

(2)

DevikaRani

(3)

LeelaChitnis

(4)

Rekha

(1)

Thermax

(2)

Greenpeace

(3)

Discovery

(4)

Ricoh

73. Which corporate group is foraying into the fastmoving

consumergoods(FMCG)segmentwithitsskincarebrand
'Kara'(meaningpure),homecarebrand'Prim'andbabycare
brand'Puretta'?
(1)

SKumars'Group

(2)

VideoconGroup

(3)

AdityaBirlaGroup

(4)

RelianceIndustries

64. TheBeigeBookSurveyisperiodicallypublishedbythe.....
(1)

TheReserveBankofIndia

(2)

TheBankofEngland

(3)

TheEuropeanCentralBank

(4)

TheFederalReserve

74.WhowaspresentedwiththeprestigiousUnitedNationsPublic
S e rvic e A ward in Ne w Yo rk for con cept ual isi ng a nd
implementingauniqueprogrammeofcommunitisationof
publicinstitutionsandservicesinNagalandduring200204?

65. WhichPCcomponentwasinventedbyDouglasEnglebart?
(1)

Harddisc

(2)

Processor

(3)

Monitor

(4)

Mouse

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(1)

ArvindKejriwal

(2)

NarendarNathVohra

(3)

S.K.Sinha

(4)

R.S.Pandey

75.'LaalJuto'(RedShoes),ashortfilmbytheSatyajitRayFilm
andTelevisionInstitute, receivedtheawardfor thebest
creativeideaatthe11th.....InternationalFilmFestival.
(1)

Berlin

(2)

Seoul

(3)

London

(4)

Shanghai
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76. WhichIronandSteelPlantiscalled'RuhrofIndia?
(1)

Rourkela

(2)

Durgapur

(3)

Bhilai

(4)

Jamshedpur

86. InIndia,postharvestlossesoffruitandvegetableis...per
centofthetotalproduction.
(1)

1520

(2)

5050

(3)

4045

(4)

2530

77. DuncanPassageliesbetween
(1)

SouthAndamanandLittleAndaman

(2)

AndamanandNicobarIslands

(3)

LittleAndamanandNicobar

(4)

AmindiviandLakshadweepIslands

78. JesseOwensworethisbrandofshoestothe1936Olympics
andwonfourgoldmedals.Namethebrand.
(1)

Adidas

(2)

Nike

(3)

Reebok

(4)

Puma

79. WhichboardgamewascreatedbyAlfredButtsin1930's?
(1)

Scrabble

(2)

Lotto

(3)

Lego

(4)

Monopoly

80. ChittaranjaninWestBengaliswellknownforits
(1)

IronandSteelIndustries

(2)

LocomotiveWorks

(3)

CementFactory

(4)

FertilizerPlant

87. WhichautomobilecompanywasfoundedbyMauriceWilks
andhisbrotherSpencerWilksin1947?
(1)

AstonMartin

(2)

Jaguar

(3)

LandRover

(4)

RollsRoyce

88. For providing inputs like quality seeds, fertilizers and

pesticides, the agency present at the Village Panchayat
SamitiLevelis
(1)

NationalisedBanks

(2)

CooperativeSociety

(3)

InsuranceCompanies

(4)

NABARD

89. Wheredothefemalemangoleafhopperslaytheireggs?
(1)

Insidethetissueofleafmargin

(2)

Onthedorsalsurfaceofleaves

(3)

Ontheventralsurfaceofleaves

(4)

Insidethemidribofleaves

90. Pinkbollwormisapestof
(1)

Gram

(2)

Okra

(3)

Mustard

(4)

Cotton

(5)

Fenugreek

81. Atmosphereisessentialfor
(1)

Winds

(2)

Cloudformation

(3)

Weatherphenomena

(4)

Allofthese

82. Vinegarcontains,....percentaceticacid.
(1)

10

(2)

20

(3)

15

(4)

83. KetanParekhandHitenDalalweresentencedtooneyear
ofrigorousimprisonmentin2008bytheBombayHighCourt
fortheircomplicityin.....of1992.
(1)

Foodsupply

(2)

Stockmarketscam

(3)

Exportimportscam

(4)

Weaponspurchasescam

CeatTyres

(2)

Ranbaxy

(3)

RelianceIndustriesLtd

(4)

RPGGroup

Braun

(2)

Magnavoc

(3)

Veltron

(4)

Excel

92. Oneoftheleadingwatchmakersintheworld,itisthecompany
thatcreatedtheoriginalMickeyMousewatchforDisneyin
1914.Namethisbrand.
(1)

Seiko

(2)

Swatch

(3)

Casio

(4)

Timex

(1)

RollsRoyce

(2)

Boeing

(3)

Microsoft

(4)

IBM

94. ThiscompanynamedsomeofitsbrandsPhoenixandChicago,
afterthecitiesonthehighwayroute66intheUS,which
connectstheEastCoasttoLosAngeles.Namethecompany.

85. Which one of the following plants belongs to family

Anacardiaceae?
(1)

Papaya

(2)

Orange

(3)

Cashewnut

(4)

Walnut

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(1)

93. InAugust1995,TheTimesofLondonprinteditsfirstfully
sponsorededitioninits307yearhistory.Thesponsorbought
allthe1.5millioncopiesofthenewspaperanddistributedit
freealongwithanadvertisingsupplement.Whowasthe
sponsor?

84. Promotersofwhichcompanyaretheownersofthefinancial
servicesfirmReligareEnterprises?
(1)

91. Theworld'sfirstelectricshaverbrand,itwasacquiredby
Gillettein1967.Nameit.

(1)

LeeJeans

(2)

Levi'sJeans

(3)

Wrangler

(4)

Reebok

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95. Whichwasthefirstcommercialsymboltobedisplayedat
thefamousMadameTussaudsmuseum?

104. Whichofthefollowinghasa50:50jointventurewithworld's
largestliquorcompanyDiageofortheIndianmadeforeign
liquorsegment?

(1)

AirIndiaMaharaja

(2)

TheCokeBottle

(1)

UnitedSpirits

(2)

JagatjitIndustries

(3)

ThePlayboyBunny

(3)

RadicoKhaitan

(4)

MohanMeakins

(4)

TheSingaporeAirlinesGirl

96. Thetrendofsponsoredprogrammesstartedinthe1960s
withaprogrammeonAllIndiaRadio.Whatwasit?

105. Wheredoyoufindtheterms,"Thinker","Feeler","Doer",
and"Reactor"?
(1)

IntheBCGMatrix

(1)

BinacaGeetMala

(2)

InFCBGrid

(2)

SaridonKeSaathi

(3)

IntheGENineCellMatrix

(3)

LifebuoyFilmiJharokha

(4)

IntheBlakeandMoutonManagerialGrid

(4)

LuxSangeetSargam
106. WhichofthefollowingmakesGulfstreambusinessjets?

97. Kit Kat and Polo are two world famous chocolate and
confectionery brands, now with Nestle. Which company
originallyownedthesetwobrands?

(1)

Bombardier

(2)

GeneralDynamics

(3)

Boeing

(4)

AirbusIndustrie

(1)

Cadbury

(2)

RowntreeMackintoshoftheUK

(3)

HersheyoftheUSA

(1)

Nokia

(2)

Motorola

(4)

CampcoofIndia

(3)

LG

(4)

Samsung

98. ThomasAlva Edisonnamed hisfirst lightbulbs afterthe

Zoroastriandeityassociatedwithlight.Whatwashisbrand
name?
(1)

Persiuslamps

(2)

Mazdalamps

(3)

Ahuralamps

(4)

Dariuslamps

99. Which of the following offers services such as Flickr, a

popularphotosharingwebsite?

107.Withthecontextbeingarecentmarketinginitiativeofmobile
phones,whatconnects"NextisWhat?"andAamirKhan?

108. ItisheadquarteredintheUSbutownedby21,000financial
institutionsin187countriesandterritories.Itsgoverning
board and regional board are set up to prevent any one
nationfromhaving51percentofthevotes.Whatisit?
(1)

VisaInternational

(2)

MasterCard

(3)

AmericanExpress

(4)

Iridium

109. Khairadiseaseofricecanbecontrolledbyspraying

(1)

Yahoo

(2)

Google

(1)

Coppersulphate

(2)

Calciumsulphate

(3)

Microsoft

(4)

AOL

(3)

Zincsulphate

(4)

Borax

100. Whichistheoldest domesticpharmaceuticalcompanyin

India?
(1)

Alembic

(2)

Ranbaxy

(3)

Cipla

(4)

Wockhardt

101. Which British automobile company was bought by Ford

Motorsfor$2.5billionin1989?
(1)

Jaguar

(2)

LandRover

(3)

AstonMartin

(4)

RollsRoyce

102. OneofthetwochambersoftheNepalparliamentiscalled
PratinidhiSabha.Whatistheothercalled?
(1)

RajyaParishad

(2)

PanchayatSabha

(3)

RajyaSansad

(4)

RashtriyaSabha

110. NametheJapanesecompanysetupbyanAmericaninthe
1950sostensiblytoprovidephotoboothsandamusement
facilities for theservicemen ofthe USarmy stationed in
JapanafterWWII?
(1)

Casio

(2)

Sega

(3)

Nintendo

(4)

Nissan

111. WhatdidBerkshireHathaway,thecompanybehindBuffett's
billions,dobeforehetookcontrolofit?
(1)

Itpublishedbooks

(2)

Itwasasmalltowninvestmentfund

(3)

Itmadetextiles

(4)

ItmadeTVserials

112. InIndia,mutualfundsareestablishedunder
103. Whichinternationalbeerbrandhasbeenusingtheslogan
"Thechampagneofbeers"?

(1)

CompaniesAct,1956

(2)

IndiaTrustAct

(1)

Fosters

(2)

MillerHighlife

(3)

SecuritiesContracts(Regulation)Act,1956

(3)

Kingfisher

(4)

Budweiser

(4)

UnitTrustofIndiaAct,1963

IC : PTpnrgk01

(9)of(95)

113. WhichgroupbrokeintotheForbesbillionaire'slistforthe
firsttimein2008?

123. Whichofthesehasforayedintononfuelretailingthrough
itsConvenioStoreslocatedatitsfillingstations?

(1)

Women

(2)

Teenagers

(1)

HindustanPetroleum

(3)

BlackAfricans

(4)

Fashiondesigners

(2)

IndianOil

(3)

BharatPetroleum

(4)

RelianceIndustries

114. Scionsofwhichbusinessfamilyarefightingfortheassets
ofJagatjitIndustriesthatmakesAristocratbrandofspirits,
afterthedemiseofthefounder?
(1)

Chhabria

(2)

Singhania

(3)

Burman

(4)

Jaiswal

115. Which Japanese company is engaged in a tussle for

managementcontroloftractormakerSwarajMazdawithits
IndianpartnerPunjabTractors?
(1)

Mitsui

(2)

Sumitomo

(3)

Mitsubishi

(4)

Mazda

116. WhichofthesehasacquiredthebrandsStrepsils,Clearasil
and Sweetex that were being marketed in the country
t hr ou g h a j oi n t ve n tu r e be t we e n Bo o ts H e al t hc ar e
InternationalandNicholasPiramal?
(1)
(3)

Proctor&Gamble
ReckittBenckiser

(2)
(4)

GlaxoSmithKline
WarnerLambert

117. Which is one of the world's leading companies in which

business have joined hands for developing the Symbian
operatingsystem?

124. InwhichcountrydotheWhiteNileandBlueNileconvergeto
formthesingleNileRiver?
(1)

Egypt

(2)

Libya

(3)

Sudan

(4)

Chad

125. WhichfoodscompanyintroducedtheWhoppersandwichin
1957?
(1)

BurgerKing

(2)

McDonalds

(3)

PizzaHut

(4)

PapaJohn

126. P a k i s t a n ' s f o r m e r P r e s i d e n t P e r v e z M u s h a r r a f ' s

autobiographyistitled"lntheLineofFire".WhichPakistani
dictator'sautobiographyistitled"FriendsNotMasters"?
(1)

ZiaulHaq

(2)

AyubKhan

(3)

YahyaKhan

(4)

AbdullahKhanNiazi

127. WhereinAsiacanonevisitDisneythemeparks?
(1)

ChinaandJapan

(2)

JapanandHongKong

(1)

Mobilephones

(2)

Banking

(3)

SingaporeandJapan

(3)

Medicalequipment

(4)

Automobiles

(4)

MalaysiaandHongKong

118. LuxurycarsunderthebrandBentleyareproducedby.....

128. ITwizardRayNoordawashailedas"TheFatherof.....

(1)

BMW

(2)

Volkswagen

(1)

ecommerce

(2)

Databasemanagement

(3)

Jaguar

(4)

RollsRoyce

(3)

Networkcomputing

(4)

Artificialintelligence

119. Which pharmaceutical company runs a chain of super

specialtyhospitalsinIndia,inanexclusiveassociationwith
Harvard Medical International, the international arm of
HarvardMedicalSchool,US?
(1)

Ranbaxy

(2)

DrReddy's

(3)

Cipla

(4)

Wockhardt

120. ThecablemakerFinolexgetsitsnamefromtwowords.One
isFine.Whatistheother?
(1)

Flexible

(2)

Flex

(3)

Lexicon

(4)

Lexis

121. InwhichcountrywouldyoufindthetownofTequila,also
thenameofafamousliquor?
(1)

Brazil

(2)

Mexico

(3)

Portugal

(4)

Argentina

122. Themainstakeholder,aswellthecompany'sCEOandMD,is
RajuVegesna.IdentifythecompanyintheITsector?
(1)

Sify

(2)

Polaris

(3)

Impetus

(4)

Iflex

(10)of(95)

129. JimHensoniscreditedwithcreatingwhichfamouscartoon
characters?
(1)

TheMuppets

(2)

NinjaTurtles

(3)

TheSimpsons

(4)

TheMonsters

130. Whichbillionaireofanearlieragedevotedhisfortuneto
buildingpubliclibraries,amongotherphilanthropicacts?
(1)

CorneliusVanderbilt

(2)

HenryFord

(3)

JohnD.Rockefeller

(4)

AndrewCarnegie

131. Which corporate group operates Infiniti Retail to sell

consumergoodsandelectronicsproducts?
(1)

Tata

(2)

JKSinghania

(3)

AVBirla

(4)

LMThapar

132. Itwasestablishedin1907asHatsudokiSeizoCotomake
andsellinternalcombustionengines.In1951,thecompany's
namewaschangedtowhichofthefollowing?
(1)

Daihatsu

(2)

Isuzu

(3)

Subaru

(4)

Mazda

IC : PTpnrgk01

133. Which authorhas becomefamous for a sixvolume book

retellingtheRamayanainEnglish?
(1)

AshokBanker

(2)

AmitavGhosh

(3)

KiranDesai

(4)

GitaMehta

134. WhatistheRelianceAnilDhirubhaiAmbaniGroup's(ADAG)
directtohome(DTH)venturecalled?
(1)

BlueMagic

(2)

DishTV

(3)

Pictureperfect

(4)

Screenscore

135. WhichIndiancompanyownstheEgyptianhaircarebrand
Fiancee?
(1)

Marico

(2)

HLL

(3)

Godrej

(4)

Dabur

136. Which apparel companysells branded garments from its

Megamartstores?
(1)

ArvindMills

(2)

MaduraGarments

(3)

SKumars

(4)

Raymond

137.JournalistandhistorianJoachimFestwhopassedawayin
2008,isfamousforhisbiographyofwhichdictator?
(1)

Mao

(2)

Stalin

(3)

Hitler

(4)

SaddamHussein

138. T h e f o u n d e r o f w h i c h f o o d r e t a i l c h a i n w r o t e t h e
autobiography"Dave'sWay"asalsobookssuchas"Well
Done!"and"FranchisingForDummies"?
(1)

BurgerKing

(2)

McDonalds

(3)

PizzaHut

(4)

Wendy's

139. Whichtoyscompany'smascotis"GeoffreytheGiraffe"?
(1)

Toys'R'Us

(2)

Lego

(3)

FischerPrice

(4)

MattelInc

140. UnderwhichbrandhasApple,famousforitsMacintoshPCs
andiPodmusicplayers,introducedlaptops?
(1)

MacNote

(2)

MacPage

(3)

MacBook

(4)

MacStar

141. InwhichyeardidNorthandSouthKoreabecomeseparate
countries?
(1)

1944

(2)

1948

(3)

1953

(4)

1957

142. RichardJoshuaReynoldsfoundedoneoftheworld'slargest
companies (famousfor its controversial brandCamel) in
whichbusinessin1874?
(1)
(3)

Chocolates
Cosmetics

(2)
(4)

Soapsanddetergents
Cigarettes

143. ThisnewspaperwaslaunchedbythenameTheBombayTimes
and Journal of Commerce in November 3, 1838 as a bi
weeklyedition.TodayitisoneofIndia'sleadingnewspapers.
Whatisitcallednow?
(1)

TheTimesofIndia

(2)

TheAsianAge

(3)

HindustanTimes

(4)

TheIndianExpress

IC : PTpnrgk01

144. WhichistheonlyIndianairlinetohavea5starratingfrom
Skytrax, a UKbased consultancy world famous for its
researchesoncommercialairlines?
(1)

KingfisherAirlines

(2)

JetAirways

(3)

AirIndia

(4)

SpiceJet

145. Which groupowns Audi,the famousGerman automobile

manufacturer?
(1)

BMW

(2)

VW

(3)

Ferrari

(4)

Porsche

146. Whatis theterm givento"advertising atype ofproduct

ratherthantheconcernedbrand"?
(1)

Umbrellaadvertising

(2)

Genericadvertising

(3)

Surrogateadvertising

(4)

Abovethelineadvertising

147.Thispersonwassidelinedbytheboardofdirectorsofthe
verycompanyhefounded.Sohewentonandfoundanother
softwarecompanybythenameofNeXT.Butasubsequent
buyoutofNeXTbroughtthismanbacktothecompanyhe
founded and he has served as the CEO ever since he
returned.Whoishe?
(1)

LarryEllison

(2)

BillGates

(3)

PaulAllen

(4)

SteveJobs

148. Hotmail,oneofthefirstwebmailservices,wasfoundedby
twomen.OnewasSabeerBhatia.Who'stheotherone?
(1)

DouglasEnglebart

(2)

JackSmith

(3)

KanwalRekhi

(4)

RamShriram

149. Whichcountrynowhasthesecondmostbillionaires,after
theUSaccordingtoForbesbillionaire'slist?
(1)

Russia

(2)

China

(3)

India

(4)

Japan

150. MahashianDiHattiLimitedisawellknownhouseholdbrand
inIndia.Whatdoesthecompanymake?
(1)

Butter

(2)

Spices

(3)

Steelutensils

(4)

Plasticjars

151. WhichJapaneseconsumerelectronicsgiantisknownforits
VieraplasmaTVsandLumixdigitalcameras?
(1)

Matsushita

(2)

Toshiba

(3)

Sony

(4)

Hitachi

152. Findtheoddoneoutamongthefollowingfourteabrands.
(1)

3Roses

(2)

RedLabel

(3)

Shakti

(4)

Taaza

153. Which of these owns topend textile brands like Cotton

County,MonteCarloandCanterbury?
(1)

Oswal

(2)

Siyaram

(3)

Ashima

(4)

ArvindMills

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154. AbkhaziaandSouthOssetiaareseparatistregionsin

165.Whichofthesebrands'secondlineiscalledMiuMiu?

(1)

Belarus

(2)

Georgia

(1)

TommyHilfiger

(2)

KarlLagerfeld

(3)

Armenia

(4)

Ukraine

(3)

Gucci

(4)

Prada

155. Which of these is known for its Latitude, Inspiron and

Precisionbrandsoflaptops?

166.WhatisthenameofJackWelch'sbookwrittenalongwith
hiswifeSuzyWelch?

(1)

Toshiba

(2)

Dell

(1)

Winning

(2)

Success

(3)

Acer

(4)

Lenovo

(3)

Victory

(4)

StraightfromtheGut

156. During whose tenure as the Prime Minister were the

recommendationsoftheFifthPayCommissionimplemented?
(1)

VPSingh

(2)

IKGujral

(3)

DeveGowda

(4)

ABVajpayee

157. Which American technology company was founded by

legendaryinventorThomasAlvaEdison?
(1)

GeneralElectric

(2)

3M

(3)

Boeing

(4)

LockheedMartin

158. India'soldestmutualfundschemeis
(1)

UnitScheme64

(2)

Mastershare

(3)

Mastergain

(4)

SBIMagnum

159.SincethebeginningofthemodernOlympicsin1896,only
two countries have participated in every meet. One is
Greece.Whichistheothercountry?
(1)

Australia

(2)

TheUnitedStates

(3)

Sweden

(4)

Russia

160.WhohasbeenappointedRoyalChallengers'CEOafterthe
sackingofCharuSharma?
(1)

GRViswanath

(2)

SyedKirmani

(3)

SabaKarim

(4)

BrijeshPatel

161.'19EntertainmentLtd.'isthecompanybehindwhichofthese
popularshows?
(1)

AmericanIdol

(2)

WhoWantstobeaMillionaire

(3)

DoubleJeopardy

(4)

Mastermind

167. Which statement regarding the famous Farnborough

InternationalAirshowisnottrue?
(1)

It i s a bie nnial i nternat ional trade f air for the

aerospacebusiness

(2)

ItsvenueisNantesinFrance

(3)

It isorganised bya subsidiaryof Societyof British

AerospaceCompanies(SBAC)

(4)

Itdemonstratescivilianaswellasmilitaryaircraftsto
potentialcustomers

168. Which terrorist organisation is behind the separatist

insurgencyaffectingTurkey?
(1)

Hizbullah

(2)

KurdistanWorkers'Party

(3)

HizbulMujaheeden

(4)

Alltheabove

169.IdentifytheLiberianPresidentwhoiswantedbytheICJfor
supportingwarcrimesinneighbouringcountry?
(1)

RobertMugabe

(2)

CharlesTaylor

(3)

MuammarGaddafi

(4)

HosniMubarak

170.USbrewerAnheuserBusch,whichwasinnewsrecentlyfor
beingtakenoverbyarival,ownsallofthefollowingfamous
beerbrandsexcept
(1)

Budweiser

(2)

BudLight

(3)

Michelob

(4)

Bass

171.WhichEuropeancountryhasfacedpoliticalstalemateover
differences between its French and Flemish speaking
peoples?

162.WhichaviationcompanyisownedbyEuropeanAeronautics
DefenceandSpace,orEADS?
(1)

Boeing

(2)

Airbus

(3)

Dassault

(4)

Embraer

(1)

Netherlands

(2)

Belgium

(3)

Denmark

(4)

Sweden

172.Whichofthefollowingbecameindependentin1999and
fromwhichcountry?
(1)

TimorLeste,Indonesia (2)

Kosovo,Serbia

(3)

Darfur,Sudan

Cyprus,Turkey

(4)

163.WhichinternationalorganisationisheadedbyPascalLamy?
(1)

WTO

(2)

ILO

(3)

UNESCO

(4)

WorldBank

164.CodeJamisorganisedbywhichofthesecompanies?Itisa
coding competition in which professional and student
programmers are asked to solve complex algorithmic
challengesinalimitedamountoftime.
(1)

Google

(2)

Yahoo

(3)

Microsoft

(4)

ComputerAssociates

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173.Kuomintangpartyisthepartyinpowerin
(1)

Macau

(2)

HongKong

(3)

Taiwan

(4)

Laos

174.WhichIndiancompanyreceivedanaidofe180million(around
Rs1,150crore)forsettingupa$1.5billionsemiconductor
facilityinCampaniaregionofItaly?
(1)

BharatElectronicsLtd

(2)

Videocon

(3)

BPL

(4)

SamtelIndia
IC : PTpnrgk01

175.WhathasledtostrainedrelationsbetweenRussiaandCzech
Republic?
(1)

Refuge granted to Russian fugitives by the Czech

Republic

(2)

DenialoftravelvisastoRussiansaccusedofillegal
immigrationbyCzechRepublic

(3)

Czech Republic's willingness to host an American

missiledefenceradar

(4)

CzechRepublic'sdecisiontoenditsmilitarypactwith
Russia

176.WhichcompanywasfoundedbyHasmukhbhaiParekhin
1977?
(1)

ArvindMills

(2)

HDFC

(3)

RasnaIndustries

(4)

TorrentPharma

177.PravasiBharatiya,theHinditermforNRIs,isbeingpopularly
usedforthelastcoupleofyears.Whooriginallycoinedthe
termNRI(NonResidentIndian)?
(1)

CentralStatisticalOrganisation

(2)

PranabMukherjee,whenhewasFinanceMinisterin
1980s

(3)

TheIncomeTaxDepartment

(4)

CensusBureau

178.WhoamongthefollowingwasthefirstwomanPrimeMinister
intheworld?
(1)

GoldaMeir

(2)

IndiraGandhi

(3)

MaryEugeniaCharles

(4)

ShirimavoBhandaranaike

184.Thepriceofcrudeoilisusuallyquotedintheformof"price
perbarrel".Onebarrelisequaltoapproximately.....litres.
(1)

42

(2)

142

(3)

59

(4)

160

185.Thefirstcarbontradingagreementvaluedatover$10million
wassignedbetweenInternationalFinanceCorporation(IFC)
andwhichIndiancompany?
(1)

ITCBhadrachalam

(2)

BallarpurIndustries

(3)

SatlujJalVidyutNigamLtd.

(4)

BalrampurChiniMills

186. Which law states that "the usefulness of a network is

proportional to the square of the number of nodes on a
network"?
(1)

Engelbart'sLaw

(2)

Metcalfe'sLaw

(3)

Jacobs'Law

(4)

Moore'sthirdLaw

187.Whichcompanyownedtheoncepopularsoftdrinkbrands
Sprint,ThrillandRushinIndia?
(1)

PureDrinks

(2)

McDowell's

(3)

ParleExports

(4)

Duke's

188.WhichcompanyownstheBorolinebrand?
(1)

Dey'sMedical

(2)

BengalChemicals

(3)

A.Sarkar&Sons

(4)

G.D.Pharmaceuticals

189.Whichstatehasthesecondlargestnumberofseatsinits
LegislativeAssemblythehighestbeingUPwith403seats?

179.Theoptimumcardinaltemperaturepointforgerminationof
riceseedsis
(1)

20C25C

(2)

18C22C

(3)

30C32C

(4)

37C39C

180."TheWorld'sNetworkingCompany"istheservicemarkof
whichofthese?
(1)

AT&T

(2)

Nortel

(3)

Ericsson

(4)

CiscoSystems

(1)

MadhyaPradesh

(2)

AndhraPradesh

(3)

Maharashtra

(4)

Karnataka

190.BobbyJindalisthefirstpersonofIndianorigintobecome
GovernorofaUSstate.Whichstate?
(1)

Wyoming

(2)

Texas

(3)

Louisiana

(4)

Arkansas

191.WhereisIndianInstituteofPetroleumlocated?
(1)

Vishakhapatnam

(2)

Delhi

(3)

Dehradun

(4)

Chennai

181. WhichoftheseisthebestknownbrandofDevanlaySA?
(1)

Evian

(2)

Lacoste

(3)

Garnier

(4)

Hershey

18 2. .. ... wa s t he fi rst In dia n c om pan y t o r ais e mon ey

internationally,byissuingbondswithamaturityof100years
in1997.
(1)

TISCO

(2)

Grasim

(3)

RelianceIndustries

(4)

InfosysTechnologies

183.WhichwellknownbrandwasonceownedbytheCalcutta
ChemicalCo.?
(1)
(3)

Duckback
Tortoise

IC : PTpnrgk01

(2)
(4)

GoodKnight
Margo

192. India'sfirstinsurancecompanywassetupinCalcuttain
1818 mainly by Europeans to help the widows of their
community.Canyounameit?
(1)

EastIndiaInsuranceCompany

(2)

OrientalLifeInsuranceCompany

(3)

LifeInsuranceCompanyofIndia

(4)

ImperialInsuranceCompany

193. NametheinsurancepolicylaunchedbytheGeneralInsurance
CorporationofIndiathatfundsthelegalexpensesofwomen
fightingadivorcecase.
(1)

Rajeshwaree

(2)

Grihalaxmi

(3)

JivanMitra

(4)

Bidhinibesh

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194. Theabbreviationofwhichcountry'scurrencyiscalledCHF,
where CH stands for Confederation of Helvetia (as the
countryiscalledbyitspeople)andFforFrance?
(1)

Belgium

(2)

Sweden

(3)

Germany

(4)

Switzerland

195. PonyExpressCourierServiceofUSA,whichhadestablished
itselfinthebusinessoftransportingmaterials,decidedto
ventureintotransportingmoney.Itsnewventuregavebirth
toarevolutionaryconcept.Whatisit?
(1)

Creditcards

(2)

ATM

(3)

Visa

(4)

Travellers'cheques

196. SwallowSidecarCompany,whichwasfoundedbyWilliam
yonsin1930s,isknownas.....today.
(1)

Jaguar

(2)

LandRover

(3)

AstonMartin

(4)

RollsRoyce

197. Which Union Finance Minister broke the tradition of

presentingtheUnionBudgetat5:30p.m.?
(1)

RVenkataraman

(2)

ManmohanSingh

(3)

PChidambaram

(4)

YashwantSinha

198. WhowasAmerica'ssecondrichesttechbillionaire,behind
GatesaccordingtoForbesbillionaire'slist?
(1)

TimeWarner'sTedTurner

(2)

Google'sSergeyBrin

(3)

Microsoft'sSteveBallmer

(4)

Oracle'sLarryEllison

(1)

BMW

(2)

Honda

(3)

Ford

(4)

PeugeotCitroen

200. Inthemid1950s,astockmarketscandalinvolvingoperator
HaridasMundhracostthethenUnionFinanceMinisterhis
job.Nametheminister.
ChintamanraoDeshmukh

(2)

T.T.Krishnamachari

(3)

R.K.ShanmukhamChetty

(4)

JohnMathai

201. BombayStockExchangeisonDalalStreetinMumbai.Which
institutionisfoundonMintStreetinthesamecity?
(1)

NationalStockExchange

(2)

OvertheCounterExchangeofIndia

(3)

UnitTrustofIndia

(4)

ReserveBankofIndia

202. Whichofthefollowingisworld'snuclearwatchdog?
(1)

AtomicEnergyRegulationBoard

(2)

NuclearSupplier'sGroup

(3)

InternationalAtomicEnergyAgency

(4)

NuclearNonproliferationTreaty

(14)of(95)

(1)

Volkswagen

(2)

BMW

(3)

Renault

(4)

Fiat

204. Which corporate group is setting up UltraTech Building

Solutionsretailstoresthatwillprovideallrequirementslike
cement,aggregates,bricks,tiles,etc.underoneroofacross
thecountry?
(1)

AVBirlaGroup

(2)

RIL

(3)

FutureGroup

(4)

ACC

205. WhichcompanywasdisallowedbytheGujaratHighCourt
from airing advertisements, which allegedly disparaged
"M oov" , t he p ain rel iev er b ran d be lon ging to Par as
Pharmaceuticals?
(1)

DrReddy's

(2)

Ranbaxy

(3)

Alembic

(4)

Torrent

206. TheDutchbuiltthecityofNewAmsterdamintheUS.To
protectit,theybuiltastructurearoundit,whichgaveits
nametoafamousstreetinthatcountry.Namethestreet.
(1)

WallStreet

(2)

MintStreet

(3)

FleetStreet

(4)

MadisonAvenue

207. Markoutthewrongcombinationofbrandambassadorsand
theirbrands?

199. Whichcompanyhasformedateamcalled"ProjectI"tocreate
anewcarformegacities?

(1)

203. Ratan Tata ison the corporateboardofwhich European

automobilecompany?

(1)

HrithikRoshanCinthol

(2)

RoohafzaPriyankaChopra

(3)

SerenaWilliamsHPlaptops

(4)

AamirKhanSamsungmobilephones

208. When was the Bharat Ratna Award (former President

SarvepalliRadhakrishnanwasthefirstrecipient)givenfor
thefirsttime?
(1)

1949

(2)

1951

(3)

1954

(4)

1959

209. RulingfamilyinwhichMiddleEasterncountrycomesfrom
theAlawitereligiousminority?
(1)

Yemen

(2)

Sudan

(3)

Syria

(4)

Jordan

210. TataGrandeisanimprovedversionofwhichbrand?
(1)

Sumo

(2)

Safari

(3)

Sierra

(4)

Indica

211. WhereinspaceistheShackletoncrater,namedafterErnest
Shackleton,anotedexplorer?
(1)

Mars

(2)

Moon

(3)

Venus

(4)

Mars

212. Whichcountrywasinthenewsin2008forannouncinga
10,000competitionforitsnationalanthem?
(1)

Kosovo

(2)

Macedonia

(3)

Slovenia

(4)

EastTimor

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213. Which journalist is among the 17 Indians in the World

EconomicForum'sannuallistofYoungGlobalLeadersfor
2008?
(1)

ArnabGoswami

(2)

RajdeepSardesai

(3)

VirSanghvi

(4)

BarkhaDutt

214. Whichauthorwasinthenewsin2008forhis14thnovel,
PrisonerofBirth,whichisaboutamanwronglyimprisoned
forthemurderofhisbestfriend?
(1)

Jeffrey Archer

(2)

JohnGrisham

(3)

TomClancy

(4)

PhilipRoth

215. C K Birla Group's Hindustan Motors (HM) manufactures

Ambassador,Trekker,Porterand.....rangeofmultiutility
vehicles.
(1)

Udaan

(2)

Roadster

(3)

Voyager

(4)

Pushpak

216. CassiniHuygensroboticspacecraftisonamissiontowhich
planetanditsmoons?
(1)

Uranus

(2)

Saturn

(3)

Jupiter

(4)

Mars

217.RayOzzieistheChiefTechnologyOfficeratwhichlargeIT
company?
(1)

Oracle

(2)

Microsoft

(3)

CiscoSystems

(4)

Google

223. WhatisMicrosoft'sanswertoAdobe'sFlashfordisplayof
mediacontentforwebsites?
(1)

Arcadia

(2)

Silverlight

(3)

Leopard

(4)

Flame

224. Stunninghighdefinitionpicturesandmoviesofwhichofthe
following was sent by Jap anese space probe S elene
(Kaguya)in2008?
(1)

Moon

(2)

Mars

(3)

Venus

(4)

Saturn

225. Whichofthefollowingcombinationsofcompaniesandtheir
webbrowsersisnotcorrectlymatched?
(1)

AppleLeopard

(2)

MozillaFirefox

(3)

MicrosoftInternetExplorer

(4)

AOLNetscape

226. TataAutoCompGYBatteries(TGY)isa50:50JVbetween
Tata AutoC omp S ys tems (Taco) a nd whic h Japa nese
company?
(1)

Furukawa

(2)

Yuasa

(3)

Matsushita

(4)

DenkiKogyo

227.Which Caribbean island nation founded by Christopher

Columbusin1498hasStGeorgeasitscapital?
(1)

Surinam

(2)

Trinidad

(3)

Haiti

(4)

Grenada

218. NewYorkCityisnicknamedtheBigApple.WhatisBigBoard?
(1)

WallStreet

(2)

LondonStockExchange

(3)

AmericanStockExchange

(4)

NewYorkStockExchange

228. Whichcountryhadselectedwomanengineer,YiSoyeon,
29, as its first astronaut on a Russian flight to the
InternationalSpaceStationinApril2008?

219. Whichfamousmagazine,stillinprinttodaywasfoundedby
SirRichardSteeleandJosephAddisonin1711?
1)

Punch

(2)

Life

(3)

TheSpectator

(4)

TheAtlanticMonthly

(1)

Singapore

(2)

Taiwan

(3)

China

(4)

SouthKorea

229. WhichofthefollowinglauncheditsOutlanderSUVinIndiain
2008?
(1)

Hyundai

(2)

Mitsubishi

(3)

Honda

(4)

Volvo

220. Whichofthefollowingisapublicsectoraluminumcompany?
(1)

NationalAluminiumCompany

(2)

HindustanAluminiumCompany

(3)

BharatAluminiumCompany

(4)

MadrasAluminiumCompany

221. Mix08wastheannualconferenceofwhichITcompanyin
LasVegas?
(1)

Oracle

(2)

Microsoft

(3)

CiscoSystems

(4)

Google

230. UnderwhichbranddoestheLucknowbasedpublicsector
automakerScootersIndiaLtd(SIL)sellitsthreewheelers?
(1)

Vikram

(2)

Tusker

(3)

Mayur

(4)

Arjun

231. WhoisthecreatorofWikipedia?
(1)

GeraldineFerraro

(2)

JimmyWales

(3)

Jeffrey Merkey

(4)

JayWalsh

232. Niftyisthe50shareindexofwhichstockexchange?
(1)

NationalStockExchange,India

M&M

(2)

NewYorkStockExchange

EicherMotors

(3)

OvertheCounterExchangeofIndia

(4)

TokyoStockExchange

222. ApeTruk:PiaggioAce:TataM4:..?...
(1)
(3)

AshokLeyland
ForceMotors

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(2)
(4)

(15)of(95)

233. Whichstategovernment'sofficialvehicles,includingthechief
minister'sTataSafarijeep,arerunonoilfromthewrinkled
blacknutofashrubliketreecalledjatropha?
(1)

Chhattisgarh

(2)

Jharkhand

(3)

Orissa

(4)

AndhraPradesh

234. The stateshall endeavor to provideearlychildhood care

andeducationforallchildrenuntiltheycompletetheageof
sixyearsunderwhichArticledidthe86thAmendmentto
theConstitutionintroducethisprovision?
(1)

Article45

(2)

Article245

(3)

Article345

(4)

Article145

235. SouthOssetia:Georgia::Transdniestria:.....

243. WhichIndianindustrialistisamemberoftheInternational
InvestmentCouncilsetupbythePresidentofSouthAfrica?
(1)

KeshubMahindra

(2)

RatanTata

(3)

AnilAgrawal

(4)

MukeshAmbani

244. WhichwellknownindustrialistholdsaBachelorofChemical
EngineeringfromtheUniversityofMumbaiandanMBAfrom
StanfordBusinessSchool?
(1)

KMBirla

(2)

MukeshAmbani

(3)

ArvindLalbhai

(4)

HarshGoenka

245. Thisgrand nieceof Nobellaureate, RabindranathTagore

wasthefirstrecipientoftheDadasahebPhalkeaward.Who
arewetalkingabout?

(1)

Belarus

(2)

Chechnya

(1)

SumitraChaudhuri

(2)

SuchitraSen

(3)

Ingushetia

(4)

Moldova

(3)

DevikaRani

(4)

Madhubala

236. Whichofthefollowingwordprocessorscamefirst?
(1)

LotusNotes

(2)

WordPerfect

(3)

WordStar

(4)

MSWord

237. Whatis theequivalentofSensexon theNew YorkStock

Exchange?

246. Joseph Barbara and William Hanna produced all of the

followingpopularcharactersexcept
(1)

Tom&Jerry

(2)

TheFlintstones

(3)

TheSimpsons

(4)

ScoobyDoo

247. WhichprivatesectorbankwasheadedbyPJNayak?

(1)

FOOTSIE

(1)

IDBIBank

(2)

AxisBank

(2)

WallStreetIndex

(3)

HDFCBank

(4)

ICICIBank

(3)

NASDAQ

(4)

DowJonesIndustrialAverage

238. Whichofthefollowinghasproducedananimatedmovietitled
"EternalLove"inEnglishabouttheTajMahal?
(1)

ToonzAnimation

(2)

PerceptPictures

(3)

CompactDiscIndia

(4)

DisneyIndia

239. Instockmarketlexicon,whatisagreymarket?
(1)

Marketforunofficialtradinginsharesaftertheofficial
tradinghourofthestockexchanges

(2)

Unofficialmarketrunbydealers,wherenewissuesof
shares are bought and sold before they become
officiallyavailablefortradingonthestockexchange

(3)

Marketforunlistedshares

(4)

Marketforlowgradeshares

240. WhichstockexchangeintheUSAwasknownastheCurb
(KerbinBritishEnglish)Exchangetill1921?

248. Whichcompany'sproductsinNorthAmericaaremarketed
underarangeofnames,includingNorelcorazors,Sonicare
toothbrushes,andMagnavoxaudioandvideosystems?
(1)

Sony

(2)

Philips

(3)

Siemens

(4)

Samsung

249. WhichistheonlyproductforwhichsingerKishoreKumar
modelled?
(1)

Brylcreem

(2)

HMTWatches

(3)

BajajChetak

(4)

CampaCola

250. ThisbusinessmanwasoneofthecloseassociatesofMahatma
Gandhi and Kesoram Cotton Mills was one of his first
ventures.Whoishe?
(1)

GDBirla

(2)

KasturbhaiLalbhai

(3)

JamnalalBajaj

(4)

JRDTata

251. InwhichindustryaretheFiFiAwardsveryimportant?

(1)

NewYorkStockExchange

(1)

Fragranceindustry

(2)

Filmindustry

(2)

NASDAQ

(3)

Fitnessindustry

(4)

Apparelindustry

(3)

ChicagoStockExchange

(4)

AmericanStockExchangeorAMEX

241. MuslimshrineHaramalSharifisalsoknownas.....inIsrael.
(1)

TheWailingWall

(2)

MountSinai

(3)

DomeoftheRock

(4)

SermonontheMount

242. WhoisthescientistotherthanAPJAbdulKalamtohave
wontheBharatRatnaAward?
(1)

HomiSethna

(2)

SirCVRaman

(3)

VikramSarabhai

(4)

RajaRamanna

(16)of(95)

252. RajatGupta,founderoftheHyderabadbasedIndianSchool
ofBusiness,wasthefirstnonAmericanandthefirstIndian
toheadwhichMNCconsultingfirm?
(1)

PriceWaterhouseCoopers

(2)

McKinsey&Company

(3)

BostonConsultingGroup

(4)

AndersenConsulting

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253. Whichworldwiderestaurantchaingetsitsnamefromthe
songrecordedbytheRollingStonesin1966andwrittenby
KeithRichards?
(1)

RedLobster

(2)

TacoBell

(3)

RubyTuesday

(4)

DardenRestaurants

254. WhichIndiancompanyhasaconsultancyteamcomprising
childrennotolderthan16yearsforproductdevelopment
andmarketfeedbackanalysis?
(1)

CartoonNetwork

(2)

Funskool

(3)

Gini&Jony

(4)

Candico

255. ThisRawalpindibornbusinessmanstartedhiscareerasa
moneylenderandwentontobuyRanbaxy,apharmaceutical
companystartedbyhiscousins.Whowashe?

263. In a stock market, what does the Alpha Factor seek to

measure?
(1)

Theinherentvolatilityofashare,regardlessofthe
behaviourofthemarket

(2)

The performance of a particular share or class of

shares in relation to the general movement of the
market

(3)

Thepopularityofashare

(4)

Priceappreciationofastock

264. One of the popular golf events in the world, it saw

participationfromstalwartslikeVijaySingh,AdamScottand
JeevMilkhaSingh.WhatisthiseventheldinDLFGolfand
CountryClub,Gurgaonnamed?
(1)

TheIsleofJuraCupClassic
DalmoreClassic

(1)

BhaiRaunaqSingh

(2)

BhaiGurbaxSingh

(2)

(3)

BhaiRanjitSingh

(4)

BhaiMohanSingh

(3)

JohnnyWalkerClassic

(4)

CastleLagerClassic

256. Instockmarketjargon,whatisthetermgiventotradingin
sharesoninformationbeforeitismadepublic?
(1)

Kerbtrading

(2)

Outsidertrading

(3)

Insidertrading

(4)

Onlinetrading

257.WhomadehisDavisCupdebutagainstSriLankain1968at
the age of 16, thus becoming the youngest Indian to
representhiscountry?
(1)

AnandAmritraj

(2)

VijayAmritraj

(3)

RamanathanKrishnan

(4)

RameshKrishnan

258. WhichofthefollowingwillpublishanIndiaspecificeditionin
a l l i a n c e w i t h t h e A n a n d a B a z a a r P a t r i k a g r o u p o f
publications?
(1)

Forbes

(2)

Fortune

(3)

TheEconomist

(4)

HarvardBusinessReview

(1)

Blackgram

(2)

Redgram

(3)

Greengram

(4)

Yellowgram

260. RedDeliciousisavarietyof
(1)

Mango

(2)

Papaya

(3)

Apple

(4)

Guava

261. WhichofthefollowingassociatebanksoftheStateBankof
India(SBI)becamethefirsttomergewithitsparentSBIin
2008?
StateBankofSaurashtra

(2)

StateBankofTravancore

(3)

StateBankofIndore

(4)

StateBankofPatiala

(1)

IPO

(2)

Harbinger

(3)

Pioneer

(4)

Redherring

266. Whichnationalpark,knownastheKrishnagiriNationalPark
in thepreindependence era,houses theKanheri Caves,
datingbackto2,400years,besidesarichvarietyofflora
andfauna?
(1)

JimCorbettNationalPark

(2)

LalBahadurShastriNationalPark

(3)

SilentValleyNationalPark

(4)

SanjayGandhiNationalPark

267.ProctorandGamblehaspartneredwithwhichofthefollowing
forprojectPoshantocombatmalnutritioninIndia?

259. Prabhatisanearlyshortdurationvarietyof

(1)

265. Totestthewatersintheprimarymarket,acompanymay
comeoutwithanexplanatoryprospectusbeforepublishing
a statutory prospectus. The purpose of this type of
prospectusistofindoutthemarketresponsetoissueof
shares.Whatisthisprospectuscalled?

(1)

ADB

(2)

WHO

(3)

HDFC

(4)

UNICEF

268. ThisfirstplanofMountbattenproposedthepartitionofIndia.
TheplanwasrejectedbytheCongress.Whatwastheplan
called?
(1)

PlanReconciliation

(2)

PlanBalkan

(3)

PlanSwaraj

(4)

PlanPakistan

269. Whichcompany'sAnnualGeneralMeetingheldin1986in
CrossMaidan,Mumbaiissupposedtohavebeenthelargest
corporateAGMofanycompanyinthewholeworldatthat
time?
(1)

TataSteel

(2)

BombayDyeing

(3)

RelianceIndustries

(4)

Godrej

262. DirectedbyDavisGuggenheim,thiseyeopenerhasclimatic
changes,itseffectsandmeasurestostopthecatastrophe
atthecentreofitsstory.Whichmovie?
(1)

ATruthSimplified

(2)

AnInconvenientTruth

(3)

AnUnheardVoice

(4)

AnUnsaidTruth

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(17)of(95)

270. S achin Tendulkar won this trophy in 199697 against

Australia,whenhecaptainedthenationaltestside,forthe
firsttime.Whatwasthenameofthistrophy?
(1)

BorderGavaskarTrophy

(2)

BradmanHazareTrophy

(3)

HughesVengsarkarTrophy

(4)

ChappellManjrekarTrophy

(1)

VikrantTyres

(2)

ApolloTyres

(3)

JKTyres

(4)

CeatTyres

281. InwhichIndianlanguageisthehighestnumberofarticles
availableonWikipedia?

271. Thelastofhismajornovels,thisliterarymasterpiecewas
written by Nobel LaureateRabindranath Tagore in1934.
Identifythisromanticstorysetagainstthebackgroundof
Indiannationalmovement?
(1)

ChokherBali

(2)

ShesherKobita

(3)

GhareBaire

(4)

CharAdhyay

272. Whichindustrialistiscurrentlybuildinga$1billionresidence
namedAntiliainMumbai?
(1)

VijayMallya

(2)

LakshmiMittal

(3)

MukeshAmbani

(4)

NusliWadia

273. The5Csofconvergencemarketing,propoundedbyYoram
(Jerry)Wind,VijayMahajanandRobertEGuntherintheir
book"ConvergenceMarketing:StrategiesforReachingthe
New Hybrid" are customerisation, community, channels,
competitivevalueand.....
(1)

Choice

(2)

Customer

(3)

Career

(4)

Custom

274. ThemobilephoneMotorolaROKRwastheproductofajoint
venturebetweenMotorolaand.....
(1)

AppleComputers

(2)

Philips

(3)

Sony

(4)

Microsoft

275. BesidesJawaharlalNehru,whowastheonlypersononwhom
ShyamBenegalmadeafeaturefilmlengthdocumentary?
(1)

Satyajit Ray

(2)

MrinalSen

(3)

RitwikGhatak

(4)

RituparnoGhosh

276. Naypyidawisthenewcapitalofwhichcountry?
(1)

Myanmar

(2)

Laos

(3)

Kosovo

(4)

Cyprus

277. Name the Indian tea brand that symbolises peace and
harmonyandthecomingtogetherofarchenemies.Itwas
trademarkedin1934byNarayandasDesaiwhoreturnedto
IndiafromSouthAfricawith aletterofrecommendation
fromMahatmaGandhi.
(1)

WaghBakri

(2)

Gemini

(3)

TwoLeaves

(4)

Parivaar

278. Majha,DoabaandMalwaareregionsofwhichstate?
(1)

HimachalPradesh

(2)

MadhyaPradesh

(3)

Rajasthan

(4)

Punjab

279. Which of the following is setting up a joint venture bus

assembly plant with Brazilian bus maker Marcopolo at
DharwadinKarnataka?
(1)

Mahindra&Mahindra

(2)

AshokLeyland

(3)

ForceMotors

(4)

TataMotors

(18)of(95)

280. WhichofthefollowingisthetyrecompanyownedbyRP
GoenkaGroup?

(1)

Hindi

(2)

Tamil

(3)

Telugu

(4)

Bangla

282. WhichfamousactoralongwithSMukherji,GyanMukherjee
andRaiBahadurChunilalsetupFilmistanstudioin1943?
(1)

AshokKumar

(2)

RajKapoor

(3)

HimanshuRai

(4)

KishoreKumar

283. Graniteisa....rock.
(1)

Metamorphic

(2)

Igneous

(3)

Sedimentary

(4)

Volcanic

284. WhoistheonlyindustrialisttohaveeverwontheBharat
RatnaAward?
(1)

DhirubhaiAmbani

(2)

JRDTata

(3)

GDBirla

(4)

JamnalalBajaj

285. Whichmarketingguruisfamousforbookslike"PurpleCow"
and"PermissionMarketing"?
(1)

MalcolmGladwell

(2)

SethGodin

(3)

RosserReeves

(4)

HarryBeckwith

286. Which former Chief Election Commissioner of India has

foundedanNGOknownasDeshbhaktTrust?
(1)

DrNagendraSingh

(2)

TNSeshan

(3)

SLShakdhar

(4)

JMLyngdoh

287.WhowasthefirstrecipientoftheRajivGandhiKhelRatna
AwardinstitutedbytheGovernmentofIndiain199293?
1)

VishwanathanAnand

(2)

GeetSethi

(3)

JyotirmoyeeSikdar

(4)

KarnamMalleshwari

288. WhichMNCrunsitsfamousLeadershipandLearningcentre
atCrotonvilleintheUS?
(1)

IBM

(2)

Philips

(3)

GeneralElectric

(4)

Microsoft

289. WhichPCmakerhasdeveloped"ExpressRepair"abutton
thatrecoversacomputer systemwithin 60seconds ofa
crash,essentialincountrieswithanunreliablepowersupply?
(1)

HewlettPackard

(2)

Lenovo

(3)

Acer

(4)

BenQ

290. Soilfertilityisreduceddueto
(1)

Overirrigation

(2)

Poordrainage

(3)

Imbalanceduseoffertilizers

(4)

Continuouscropping

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291.'Globality'isanewbookfromwhichconsultingfirm?

296. BritonAlanRoslingworksasChiefStrategistforwhichIndian
conglomerate?

(1)

BostonConsultingGroup

(2)

Accenture

(1)

Tata

(2)

RelianceIndustries

(3)

McKinsey

(3)

AVBirla

(4)

Essar

(4)

Ernst&Young

292. Match the following combination of Nobel Laureate in

Literature&Nationality
(i)

DorisLessing

(a)

Hungary

(ii)

ElfreideJelenik

(b)

UnitedKingdom

(iii)

ImreKertesz

(c)

Ireland

(d)

Austria

(iv) SeamusHeaney
(1)

(i)(a),(ii)(c),(iii)(b),(iv)d

(2)

(i)(b),(ii)(d),(iii)(a),(iv)c

(3)

(i)(c),(ii)(b),(iii)(d),(iv)a

(4)

(i)(d),(ii)(a),(iii)(c),(iv)b

293. Anemometermeasures
(1)

Winddirection

(2)

Relativehumidity

(3)

Netradiation

(4)

Windvelocity

294.BrewinggiantInBevisaBelgian.....conglomerate.
(1)

Austrian

(2)

Brazilian

(3)

Mexican

(4)

Chilean

(3)

Carotene
Anthocyanin

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(2)
(4)

(1)

Belgium

(2)

UK

(3)

Luxembourg

(4)

India

298.WithwhichofthefollowingdidRussiasignfriendshiptreaties
thatincludeapromiseofmilitaryassistanceaswell?
(1)

SouthOssetiaandAbkhazia

(2)

Georgia

(3)

Ukraine

(4)

Both(1)and(3)

299. Which Chinese companyhad therights to use a famous

Americanbrandforfiveyearsfollowinganacquisitionbut
decidedtodiscontinueasitwasconfidentofthestrength
ofitsownbrand?
(1)

Haier

(2)

Lenovo

(3)

ChinaMobile

(4)

Huawei

300."Frugalengineering"isatermcoinedby
(1)

NissanRenault'sCarlosGhosn

(2)

Toyota'sKatsuakiWatanabe

Lycopin

(3)

GM'sRichardWagoner

Xanthomonas

(4)

Ford'sAlanMulally

295. Thecolouroftomatoisduetothepresenceof
(1)

297.The ArcelorMittal Universitywhich trainsthe company's

managersisbasedin

(19)of(95)

ObjectivekeyGKQuestionsforManagementAdmissionTest
1.( 3)

2.( 2)

3.( 4)

4.( 4)

5.( 4)

6.( 2)

7.(2)

8.( 3)

9.( 1) 10.(1)

11.(3) 12.(1) 13.(4) 14.(3) 15.(1) 16.(1) 17.( 4) 18.(3) 19.(4) 20.(3)
21.(4) 22.(1) 23.(3) 24.(2) 25.(1) 26.(3) 27.( 3) 28.(1) 29.(2) 30.(1)
31.(3) 32.(3) 33.(3) 34.(1) 35.(4) 36.(1) 37.( 4) 38.(1) 39.(1) 40.(2)
41.(1) 42.(4) 43.(2) 44.(2) 45.(3) 46.(2) 47.( 4) 48.(1) 49.(2) 50.(1)
51.(3) 52.(2) 53.(4) 54.(2) 55.(1) 56.(1) 57.( 3) 58.(4) 59.(1) 60.(1)
61.(3) 62.(3) 63.(3) 64.(4) 65.(4) 66.(3) 67.( 1) 68.(3) 69.(3) 70.(4)
71.(1) 72.(4) 73.(3) 74.(4) 75.(4) 76.(2) 77.( 1) 78.(1) 79.(1) 80.(2)
81.(3) 82.(3) 83.(2) 84.(2) 85.(3) 86.(4) 87.( 3) 88.(4) 89.(3) 90.(4)
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DIRECTIONS:Forthefollowingquestions,fouroptionsaregiven.
Choosethecorrectoption.
1 .

2 .

3 .

4 .

Which Zone of Indian railways has celebrated its 155th

anniversaryonAugust16,2009?
(1)

NorthernRailway

(2)

EasternRailway

(3)

WesternRailway

(4)

SouthernRailway

6 .

7.

8 .

9 .

(1)

USA

(2)

Poland

(3)

Russia

(4)

Kyrgyzstan

12. Whichoneofthefollowingcommittees/commissionwas
formed to study and suggest pricing pattern for oil and
naturalgassectorsinIndia?

Whichofthefollowingallowsfreemovementoflabourand
capitalamongmembernations?

(1)

B.K.ChaturvediCommittee

(2)

SacharCommittee

(1)

Customsunion

(3)

B.N.SrikrishnaCommission

(2)

Economicunion

(4)

M.VeerapaMoilyCommission

(3)

Commonmarket

(4)

Preferentialtradearrangement

Thestatisticaltechniqueusedtodeterminethedegreeof
relationshipbetweentwovariablesiscalled
(1)

Association

(2)

IndexNumbers

(3)

Correlation

(4)

Dispersion

The first Chairman of newly constituted AERA (Airport

EconomicRegulatoryAuthority)is
(1)
(3)

5 .

11. Whichoneofthefollowingcountrieshasrecentlycarried
outmilitaryoperationsinGeorgia?

YashwantS.Bhave
SubhashPani

(2)
(4)

AlokMishra
C.Rangrajan

Thedifferencebetweentheexportandimportofservicesis
called
(1)

BalanceofTrade

(2)

BalanceofCapitalaccount

(3)

BalanceofCurrentaccount

(4)

BalanceofInvisible

(1)

TataGroup

(2)

Reliance(Anil)Group

(3)

Wipro

(4)

Infosys

ThefirstIslamicBankisbeingestablishedin
(1)

UttarPradesh

(2)

Kerala

(3)

Maharashtra

(4)

MadhyaPradesh

Whoamongthefollowinghadissuedthecoinrupeeforthe
firsttime?
(1)

MuhammadbinTughluq (2)

AlauddinKhilji

(3)

SherShah

Akbar

TheDeficitBudgetinwhichthedeficitsarecoveredthrough
taxesiscalled
(1)

UnbalancedBudget

(2)

BalancedBudget

(3)

SurplusBudget

(4)

ZerobaseBudget

10. Whichoneofthefollowingbookswasnamedaswinnerof
theBestoftheBookerAwardin2008?
(1)

TheEnchantressofFlorence

(2)

Disgrace

(3)

Midnight'sChildren

(4)

TheSiegeofKrishnapur

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(1)

Israel

(2)

Iran

(3)

Pakistan

(4)

Turkey

14. WhichoneofthefollowingwastheoriginalnameofTansen,
thefamousmusicianinthecourtofAkbar?
(1)

MahanandaPande

(2)

LalKalwant

(3)

BazBahadur

(4)

RamtanuPande

15. InwhichofthefollowingyearswasthefirstRailwayline
betweenBombayandThanelaid?
(1)

1853

(2)

1854

(3)

1856

(4)

1858

16. Whichoneofthefollowingisusedasamordantindyeing
andtanningindustry?

PassportServiceProjecthasbeengivento

(4)

13. Whichoneofthefollowingcountrieshasrecentlytesteda
twostagesatellitelaunchrocketnamedtheSafireOmidor
theAmbassadorofPeace?

(1)

Magnesiumoxide

(2)

Magnesiumcarbonate

(3)

Magnesiumchloride

(4)

Magnesiumsulphate

17. Bywhichoneofthefollowing,anoldwrittenmaterialwhich
cannotbereadeasily,canberead?
(1)

gra ys

(2)

Xrays

(3)

IRrays

(4)

Radiofrequencywaves

18. Whichoneofthefollowingcharacteristicsiscommonamong
parrot,platypusandkangaroo?
(1)

Oviparity

(2)

Toothlessjaws

(3)

Homothermy

(4)

FunctionalPostanaltail

19. FundsnotbelongingtotheGovernmentarecalled
(1)

ConsolidatedFund

(2)

ContingencyFund

(3)

PrivateAccounts

(4)

PublicAccounts

20. Whichoneofthefollowingisanexampleofvestigialorgan
inman?
(1)

Jawapparatus

(2)

Earmuscles

(3)

Canineteeth

(4)

Humerus

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21. ConsiderthefollowingregionsofIndia
I .

WesternGhats

II.

AravaliHills

Reason(R):Calciumandmagnesiumsaltsoflongchainfatty
acidsareinsolubleinwater.

III. EasternHimalayas
Whichoftheaboveis/arebiodiversityhotspot/hotspots?
(1)

Ionly

(2)

IandIIIonly

(3)

IIandIIIonly

(4)

I,IIandIII

22. A Forgotten Empire, written by the renowned historian

RobertSewellisaboutwhichoneofthefollowingEmpires?
(1)

KushanEmpire

(2)

MauryanEmpire

(3)

VijaynagarEmpire

(4)

MughalEmpire

23. Whichoneofthefollowingisconsideredasthedrugoflast
resortforhumanbeing?
(1)

Penicillin

(2)

Tetracycline

(3)

Chloramphenicol

(4)

Streptomycin

DIRECTIONS:Thefollowingfiveitemsconsistoftwostatements,
onelabeledasAssertion(1)andtheotherasReason(R).You
aretoexaminethesetwostatementscarefullyandselectthe
correctanswerstotheseitemsusingthecodegivenbelow
I
BothAandRareindividuallytrueandRisthecorrect
explanationofA.
II
BothAand R areindividually truebut R isnot the
correctexplanationofA.
III AistruebutRisfalse.
IV AisfalsebutRistrue.
24. Assertion(A):Venusisthebrightestobjectintheskyafter
thesun.
Reason(R):Venusisthesecondplanetfromthesuninour
solarsystem.
(1)

(2)

II

(3)

III

(4)

IV

25. A s s er t i o n (A ) : D e sp i t e lo w e v a po r a t i o n a n d s ta b l e
stratificationofatmosphere,salinityishighinpolarregions.
Reason(R):Seawaterfreezesleavingtheremainingwater
salinethanbefore.
(1)

(2)

II

(3)

III

(4)

IV

26. Ass ertio n (A ): Ph ysiol ogica l de nsity is p refe rable to

arithmeticdensityasanindexofpopulationdensity.
Reason(R):Physiologicaldensityisbasedonarableland
whilearithmeticdensityisbasedontotalarea.
(1)

(2)

II

(3)

III

(4)

IV

27. Assertion(A):Waterisanopenpondremainscoolevenon
ahotsummerday.
Reason(R):Wateronheatingevaporatesandheatenergy
getsconvertedintolatentheat.
(1)

(2)

II

(3)

III

(4)

IV

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28. Assertion(A):Soapsdonotformlatherwithwatercontaining
saltsofcalciumandmagnesium.

(1)

(2)

II

(3)

III

(4)

IV

DIRECTIONS:Forthefollowingquestions,fouroptionsaregiven.
Choosethecorrectoption.
29. Whichofthefollowingdiseasesisnotcausedbyviruses?
(1)

Cholera

(2)

Chickenpox

(3)

Hepatitis

(4)

Measles

30. Whichoneofthefollowingisthecorrectchronologicalorder
ofthetenuresofthefollowingPresidentsofIndianNational
Congress?
I .

JagivanRam

III. P.D.Tandon

II.

K.Kamraj

IV.

U.N.Dhebar

Selectthecorrectanswerusingthecodegivenbelow
(1)

IIIIVIII

(2)

IIIIIIVI

(3)

IIIIVIII

(4)

IIIIVIII

31. TheBuddhadeliveredhisfirstsermon,knownas'Turningof
thewheeloflaw'at
(1)

Sanchi

(2)

Sarnath

(3)

Sravaasti

(4)

BodhGaya

32. WhichoneofthefollowingisthelongestNationalHighway
inIndia?
(1)

NH2

(2)

NH7

(3)

NH8

(4)

NH31

33. Inhumanbeings,theopeningofthestomachintothesmall
intestineiscalled
(1)

Caecum

(2)

Ileum

(3)

Oesophagus

(4)

Pylorus

34. Whoamongthefollowinghascreatedworldrecordinthe
men's100meterssprinteventat2008OlympicGames?
(1)

UsainBolt

(2)

ChurandyMartina

(3)

AsafaPowell

(4)

WalterDix

35. ConsiderthefollowingaboutIAEA
I .

It was set up as the world's 'Atoms for Peace'

organizationin1957.

II.

TheIAEA,SecretariatisheadquarteredattheVienna
InternationalCentreinVienna,Austria.

III. IntermsofitsStatue,theIAEAreportsannuallyto
theUNGeneralAssembly.
Whichofthestatementsgivenaboveis/arecorrect?
(1)

I,IIandIII

(2)

Ionly

(3)

IIandIIIonly

(4)

IIIonly

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36. WhoamongthefollowinghasbeenawardedtheOfficerof
theLegionofHonour,thehighestciviliandistinctionofthe
GovernmentofFrance?
(1)

N.R.NarayanaMurthy

(2)

RatanTata

(3)

K.M.Birla

(4)

MukeshAmbani

37. Nailpolishremovercontains
(1)

Acetone

(2)

Benzene

(3)

Petroleumether

(4)

Aceticacid

38. Who among the following had moved the objectives

resolutionwhichformedthebasisofthePreambleofthe
ConstitutionofIndiaintheConstituentAssemblyonDec.
13,1946?
(1)

Dr.B.R.Ambedkar

(2)

Dr.RajendraPrasad

(3)

SardarVallabhbhaiPatel

(4)

Pt.JawaharlalNehru

43. Ifasmallraindropfallsthroughair
(1)

Itsvelocitygoesonincreasing

(2)

Itsvelocitygoesondecreasing

(3)

Itsvelocitygoesonincreasingforsometimeandthis
becomesconstant.

(4)

Itfallswithconstantspeedforsometimeandthenits
velocityincreases.

44. Television signal cannot be received generally beyond a

particulardistancedueto
(1)

Curvatureoftheearth

(2)

Weaknessofantenna

(3)

Weaknessofsignal

(4)

Absorptionofsignalinair

45. Whichoneofthefollowingisanobjectwithsuchastrong
gravitational field that even light cannot escape from it
surface?

39. ConsiderthefollowingstatementswithrespecttoAttorney
GeneralofIndia.
I .

HeisappointedbythePresident.

II.

Hemusthavethesamequalificationasarerequired
bytheJudgeofHighCourt.

III. In the performance of his duties he shall have the

rightofaudienceinallcourtsofIndia
Whichofthestatementsgivenaboveis/arecorrect?
(1)

Ionly

(2)

IandIIIonly

(3)

IIandIIIonly

(4)

I,IIandIII

40. InwhichofthefollowingyearswastheAllIndiaTradeUnion
CongressformedinBombay?
(1)

1918

(2)

1919

(3)

1920

(4)

1921

41. WhoamongthefollowingwasthefirstspeakeroftheLok
Sabha?
(1)

M.A. Ayyangar

(2)

G.V.Mavalankar

(3)

SardarHukamSingh

(4)

N.SanjivaReddy

(1)

Neutronstart

(2)

Whitedwarf

(3)

Blackhole

(4)

Supernovastar

46. Which one of the following is the tide produced as a

consequenceofmoonandsunpullingtheearthinthesame
direction?
(1)

Springtide

(2)

Neaptide

(3)

Hightide

(4)

Lowtide

47. Aquaregiausedbyalchemiststoseparatesilverandgoldis
amixtureof
(1)

Hydrochloric acid (concentrated) and Nitric acid

(concentrated)

(2)

Hydrochloricacid(concentrated)andSulphuricacid
(concentrated).

(3)

N i t r i c ac i d ( c o n c e n t r at e d ) a n d S u l p h ur i c a c i d
(concentrated).

(4)

Hydrochloricacid(dilute)andSulphateacid(dilute).

48. Commercialvulcanisationofrubberinvolves
(1)

Sulphur

(2)

Carbon

(3)

Phosphorus

(4)

Selenium

49. Inwhichoneofthefollowingishigherpercentageofcarbon
found?

42. Considerthefollowingstatements
Xray

(1)

Lignite

(2)

Peatcoal

I .

Canpassthoroughaluminium

(3)

Bituminouscoal

(4)

Anthracitecoal

II.

Canbedeflectedbymagneticfield

III. Movewithavelocitylessthanthevelocityofultraviolet
raysinvacuum

50. Which one of the following when dissolvedin H2O gives

hissingsound?

Whichofthestatementgivenaboveis/arecorrect?

(1)

Limestone

(2)

Slakedlime

(1)

I,IIandIII

(2)

Ionly

(3)

Sodalime

(4)

Quicklme

(3)

IIandIIIonly

(4)

IandIIonly
51. Therustingofironnail

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(1)

Decreasesitsweight

(2)

Increasesitsweight

(3)

Doesnotaffectweightbutironisoxidize

(4)

Doesnotaffectweightbutironisreduced

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52. Whichoneofthefollowingisheavywaterusedinnuclear
reactor?

62.Whichmanagementconsultingfirmsplitintotwoseparate
companies,onefocusingondefence&govt.consultingand
theotheroncorporateconsulting?

(1)

Waterhavingmolecularweight18amu

(2)

Waterhavingmolecularweight20amu

(1)

McKinsey

Waterat40Cbuthavingmolecularweight19amu

(2)

KPMG

Waterbelowtheiceinafrozensea

(3)

BostonConsultingGroup

(4)

Booz,Allen&Hamilton

(3)
(4)

53. AntonievanAgtamaelisfamousforcoiningwhichtermin
1981?

63.World'slargestprivateequityfirmBlackstoneispromotedby

(1)

EmergingMarkets

(1)

ChristopherFlowers

(2)

SanfordBernstein

(2)

ThirdWorld

(3)

StephenSchwarzman

(4)

KravisRoberts

(3)

BusinessProcessOutsourcing

(4)

Globalisation

64.WhohascalledthefinancialcrisisintheUS"aneconomic
PearlHarbour"?

54.WhichUSbasedIndianacademicianwasinnewsin2008for
hisbook"BillionsofEntrepreneurs:HowIndiaandChina
areReshapingTheirFutureandYours"?
(1)

PankajGhemawat

(2)

VijayGovindarajan

(3)

TarunKhanna

(4)

CKPrahalad

55."GloballyIntegratedEnterprise"isatermcoinedby
(1)

CraigBarrett

(2)

JackWelch

(3)

SamPalmisano

(4)

JeffreyImmelt

56.Ecomaginationisatermtrademarkedby
(1)

LG

(2)

Philips

(3)

GeneralElectric

(4)

Samsung

57. German state of Lower S axony is the second largest

shareholderinwhichautomobilecompany?
(1)

Porsche

(2)

Volkswagen

(3)

DaimlerBenz

(4)

Peugeot

58.Whatwasthe$700billionrescuepackageforailingfinancial
firmsintheUScalled?
(1)

FinancialRecapitalizationProgramme

(2)

SpecialAssistancePackageforDistressedFirms

(3)

FinancialRescueProgramme

(4)

TroubledAssetReliefProgramme

59.KoreangiantSamsungistheofficialsponsorofOlympicsand
the.....footballteam.
(1)

Chelsea

(2)

RealMadrid

(3)

BayernMunich

(4)

Alltheabove

60.NancyPelosiisthe

(1)

GeorgeSoros

(2)

WarrenBuffett

(3)

AlanGreenspan

(4)

MiltonFriedman

65.Whichisworld'smostpopularprofessionalnetworkingsite
foundedbyReidHoffman?
(1)

LinkedIn

(2)

Facebook

(3)

Xing

(4)

Orkut

66. Richard Branson has dabbled into all of the following

businessesexcept
(1)

Runningtrains

(2)

Mobileservices

(3)

Airlines

(4)

Shipping

67. Whichofthefollowingis/arecorrectcombinationsofleading
USfiguresandtheirdesignations,innewsforthefinancial
turmoilthere?
(1)

Christopher CoxChairman of the S ecurities and

ExchangeCommission

(2)

HankPaulsonChairmanofFederalReserve

(3)

BenBernankeTreasurySecretary

(4)

Alltheabove

68. Which of the following became the first mobile services

companytoofferservicesbasedonGoogle'sphonein2008?
OnwhichsystemistheGooglephonebased?
(1)

TMobile,Symbian

(2)

AT&T,Android

(3)

TMobile,Android

(4)

AT&T,Symbian

69. WhichofthefollowingbecamethefirstWesternoilfirmto
strikeajointventuredealwiththegovernmentofIraqafter
1972,in2008?
(1)

ExxonMobil

(2)

RoyalDutchShell

(3)

Total

(4)

BritishPetroleum

(1)

FirstwomanSupremeCourtChiefJusticeintheUS

(2)

F i r s t w o m a n S p e a k e r o f t h e U S H o u s e o f
Representatives

(1)

Nonbankingfinancecompanies

(3)

FirstwomanChairpersonofNAFTA

(2)

Investmentbankingfirms

(4)

FirstwomanChairpersonofCIA

(3)

Bankholdingcompanies

(4)

Stockbrokingfirms

70. GoldmanSachsandMorganStanleyhavenowbecome

61. Japan'sMitsubishiUFJFinancialGrouphadagreedtobuya
20%stakein
(1)

GoldmanSachs

(2)

MerrillLynch

(3)

LehmanBrothers

(4)

AIG

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71. Which country is home to the three biggest shipping

companiesintheworld?

80. Which of the following combinations of Indian Railways

divisionsandtheirheadquartersisincorrect?

(1)

Japan

(2)

China

(1)

NorthernRailway:Delhi

(3)

Korea

(4)

India

(2)

EasternRailway:Howrah

(3)

NorthEasternRailway:Gorakhpur

(4)

NortheastFrontierRailway:Guwahati

72. Whichofthefollowinghascompleteditsintegrationwith
ElectronicDataSystems,boughtinthefirsthalfof2008?
(1)

IBM

(2)

HewlettPackard

(3)

Intel

(4)

Google

73. WhichairportinLondonhasbeenofferedforsale?

81.WhichofthefollowingisnotcorrectaboutArvindKejriwal?
(1)

He is associated with India's Right to Information

movement

(2)

HestartedhiscareerintheIndianRevenueService
Heisacharteredaccountantbyprofession
ParivartanistheNGOfoundedbyhim

(1)

Gatwick

(2)

Heathrow

(3)

(3)

Stansted

(4)

Alltheabove

(4)

74. Whocoinedtheterm'dominotheory'aforeignpolicytheory
whichspeculatedthatifonelandinaregioncameunderthe
influence ofcommunism then the surrounding countries
wouldfollowinadominoeffect?

82.Whichofthefollowingcombinationsoffictionaldetectives
andtheircreatorsisnotcorrect?
(1)

SherlockHolmesSirArthurConanDoyle

(2)

PhilipMarloweG.K.Chesterton

(1)

LyndonBJohnson

(2)

WinstonChurchill

(3)

MissMarpleAgathaChristie

(3)

DwightD.Eisenhower

(4)

HenryKissinger

(4)

PerryMasonErleStanleyGardner

75. Markoutthewrongcombinationofauthors,theirbooksand
theawardswonbythem.

83. Which group represents the interests of the developing

countries?

(1)

2005,JohnBanville,'TheSea',ManBookerPrize

(1)

G77

(2)

G7

(2)

2002,YannMartel,'LifeofPi',ManBookerPrize

(3)

G10

(4)

G80

(3)

2008, Rose Trema in, 'The Ro ad Home', Orange

BroadbandPrize

(4)

2007,A.L.Kennedy,'Day',PulitzerPrizeinFiction

76. Whichfilmfestivalawardsthe'VolpiCups'forbestactorand
bestactress?
(1)

CannesFilmFestival

(2)

VeniceFilmFestival

(3)

BerlinFilmFestival

(4)

ParisFilmFestival

77. Mark out the wrong combination among the following

MagsaysayawardwinnersfromIndia?

84. Recentlywhichislandcountrydecidedtoforgoadayand
shifttothetimezoneonitswest?
(1)

Samoa

(2)

NewZealand

(3)

TrinidadandTobago

(4)

FijiIslands

85.Matchthefollowing
Mineralwaterbrand

Company

(i)

PolandSpring

(a)

Danone

(ii)

Evian

(b)

Starbucks

(iii)

Dasani

(c)

CocaCola

(d)

Nestle

(1)

2007,PalagummiSainath,CommunityLeadership

(iv) Ethos

(2)

2006,ArvindKejriwal,EmergentLeadership

(1)

(i)(a),(ii)(b),(iii)(c),(iv)d

(3)

2000, Jockin Arputham, Peace and International

Understanding

(2)

(i)(d),(ii)(b),(iii)(c),(iv)a

(4)

1959,ChintamanDeshmukh,GovernmentService

(3)

(i)(c),(ii)(b),(iii)(d),(iv)a

(4)

(i)(d),(ii)(a),(iii)(c),(iv)b

78. WhobecamethesecondIndiantowintheWorldBilliards
Championshipin1981?

86. I n d i a h a s a C o m p r e h e n s i v e E c o n o m i c C o o p e r a t i o n
Agreement(CECA)withwhichcountry/entity?

(1)

WilsonJones

(2)

GeetSethi

(1)

EuropeanUnion

(2)

ASEAN

(3)

PankajAdvani

(4)

MichaelFerreira

(3)

Mauritius

(4)

Singapore

79. ThenumberofgoldmedalsinIndia'smedalstallywasthe
lowestinwhichAsianGames?
(1)

1954,Manila

(2)

1978,Bangkok

(3)

1990,Beijing

(4)

2002,Busan

87.Matchthefollowing.
State

FirstChiefMinister

(i)

Bihar

(a)

BhagwatDayalSharma

(ii)

Haryana

(b)

SriKrishnaSinha

(iii)

HimachalPradesh

(c)

PtRavishankarShukla

(d)

YashwantSinghParmar

(iv) MadhyaPradesh

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(1)

(i)b,(ii)c,(iii)d,(iv)a

(2)

(i)b,(ii)a,(iii)d,(iv)c

(3)

(i)b,(ii)a,(iii)c,(iv)d

(4)

(i)a,(ii)b,(iii)c,(iv)d
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88. MatchthecorrectcombinationofWesternArtMovements&
theirleadingpainters
(i) Baroque
(ii) Impressionism
(iii) Cubism
(iv) Symbolism
(a) PabloPicasso,GeorgesBraque
(b)

ClaudeMonet,PierreAugusteRenoir

(c)

PeterPaulRubens,Caravaggio

(d)

GustavKlimt,EdvardMunch

(1)

(i)b,(ii)c,(iii)d,(iv)a

(2)

(i)b,(ii)a,(iii)d,(iv)c

(3)

(i)c,(ii)a,(iii)b,(iv)d

(4)

(i)a,(ii)b,(iii)c,(iv)d

91. MatchthecorrectcombinationoftheBestPictureAward
winningOscarmoviesandtheirdirectors?
Movie
(i)

NoCountryforOldMen(2007)

(ii)

Crash(2004)

(iii)

TheLordoftheRingsTheReturnoftheKing(2003)

(iv) Chicago(2002)
Directors

89. MatchthefollowingBrands&Companies
Companies
(a)

Unilever

(b)

SaraLee

(c)

ReckittBenckiser

(d)

KimberleyClark

Brands

(a)

RobMarshall

(b)

Joel&EthanCoen

(c)

PaulHaggis

(d)

PeterJackson

(1)

(i)b,(ii)c,(iii)d,(iv)a

(2)

(i)b,(ii)a,(iii)d,(iv)c

(3)

(i)c,(ii)a,(iii)b,(iv)d

(4)

(i)a,(ii)b,(iii)c,(iv)d

92. WhichofthefollowingcoinedthetermBRIC(Brazil,Russia,
India,China)?

(i)

Brasso,Mortein,Clearasil

(ii)

AmbiPur,Kiwi,Sanex

(1)

MerrillLynch

(2)

MorganStanley

(iii)

Kleenex,Kotex,Huggies

(3)

LehmanBrothers

(4)

GoldmanSachs

(iv) Ben&Jerry's,Hellmann'smayonnaise,SlimFast
(v)

BeetleBailey

(1)

(i)(a),(ii)(b),(iii)(c),(iv)d

A1896AlfredNobel'swillestablishestheNobelPrizes

(2)

(i)(d),(ii)(b),(iii)(c),(iv)a

B1880BeginningoftheconstructionofPanamaCanal

(3)

(i)(c),(ii)(b),(iii)(d),(iv)a

(4)

(i)(d),(ii)(a),(iii)(c),(iv)b

C1893NewsZealandbecomesthefirstcountryintheworld
tograntwomentherighttovote

93. Whichofthefollowingisthecorrectchronologicalorder,in
ascendingorder,ofhistoricalhappenings?

D1900:SigmundFreudwrites'TheInterpretationofDreams'
90. Matchthecorrectcombinationinthefollowing.

E1911ErnestRutherforddiscoversthestructureofatom

Cartoon characters

(1)

A,B,C,D,E

(2)

B,C,A,D,E

(i)

WizardofId

(3)

B,A,C,E,D

(4)

A,C,B,E,D

(ii)

BeauPeep

(iii)

ArchieComics

(iv) Tintin
Creators
(a)

BrantParker,JohnnyHart

(b)

RogerKettle,AndrewChristine

(c)

MortWalker

(d)

GeorgesRemi

(e)

JohnL.Goldwater,VicBloom,BobMontana.

(1)

(i)(a),(ii)(b),(iii)c,(iv)d,(v)(e)

(2)

(i)(a),(ii)(b),(iii)e,(iv)d,(v)(c)

(3)

(i)(e),(ii)(d),(iii)c,(iv)b,(v)(a)

(4)

(i)(e),(ii)(a),(iii)c,(iv)b,(v)(d)

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94. WhowasnamedAsianBusinessLeaderoftheYearatthe
sixthannualCNBCAsiabusinessleaders'awardsceremony
atSeoulinFebruary2008?
(1)

VikramPandit

(2)

HarishManwani

(3)

RatanTata

(4)

PawanMunjal

95. Who is the Chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic

AdvisoryCouncil(EAC)?
(1)

YezdiMalegam

(2)

RakeshMohan

(3)

CRangarajan

(4)

SureshTendulkar

96. Whichconsultingfirmhasbeenappointedbythegovernment
tosuggestrevampmeasuresforIndiaPostinaninitiative
termedProjectArrow?
(1)

PwC

(2)

McKinsey

(3)

KPMG

(4)

BCG

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97. The Maastricht Treaty led to the formation which of the

following?

104. Matchthefollowing.
CountryOverseasTerritory/Territories

(1)

WorldBank

(i)

Australia

(a)

Ascension

(2)

EuropeanUnion

(ii)

Denmark

(b)

FaeroeIslands

(3)

NorthAtlanticTreatyorganisation(NATO)

(iii)

France

(c)

NewCaledonia

(4)

InternationalLabourOrganisation(ILO)

(iv) UK

(d)

ChristmasIsland

98. PulitzerprizesinJournalismareawardedby

(1)

(i)(a),(ii)(b),(iii)(c),(iv)d

(2)

(i)(d),(ii)(b),(iii)(c),(iv)a

(1)

PrincetonUniversity

(3)

(i)(c),(ii)(b),(iii)(d),(iv)a

(2)

WashingtonUniversity

(4)

(i)(d),(ii)(a),(iii)(c),(iv)b

(3)

UniversityofMissouri

(4)

ColumbiaUniversity

105. WhichofthefollowingMicrosoftproductshadthecodename
Longhorn?

99. WhichmusicdirectorwasbornA.S.DileepKumar?
(1)

Khayyam

(2)

Naushad

(3)

ARRahman

(4)

IsmailDarbar

(1)

Windows95

(2)

Windows98

(3)

WindowsXP

(4)

WindowsXP

106.Matchthefollowing
100. WhichofthefollowingisbasedinDehradun?

Person

Achievement/Discovery

(1)

BotanicalResearchInstituteofIndia

(i)

RobertKoch

(a)

Calculus

(2)

IndianMilitaryAcademy

(ii)

TheodorHerzl

(b)

Zionistmovement

(3)

SurveyofIndia

(iii)

JosephLister

(c)

Tuberculosisgerm

(4)

IndianStatisticalInstitute

(iv) GotfriedLeibniz

(d)

Antisepticsurgery

101. Matchthefollowingaboutworld'sbusiestairportsandtheir
locations.
Airport

Place

(i)

Hartsfield

(a)

Amsterdam

(ii)

SkyHarbor

(b)

Atlanta

(iii)

Schiphol

(c)

Phoenix

(iv) Gatwick

(d)

Chicago

(v)

O'Hare

(e)

London

(1)

(1)

(i)(a),(ii)(b),(iii)(c),(iv)d

(2)

(i)(d),(ii)(b),(iii)(c),(iv)a

(3)

(i)(c),(ii)(b),(iii)(d),(iv)a

(4)

(i)(d),(ii)(a),(iii)(c),(iv)b

107.Matchthecorrectcombinationinthefollowing.
State

Largestdistrict
(intermsofarea)

(i)

ArunachalPradesh

(a)

Lohit

(i)(a),(ii)(b),(iii)c,(iv)d,(v)(e)

(ii)

Assam

(b)

Kamrup

(2)

(i)(a),(ii)(b),(iii)e,(iv)d,(v)(c)

(iii)

Manipur

(c)

Mayurbhanj

(3)

(i)(b),(ii)(c),(iii)a,(iv)e,(v)(d)

(iv) Nagaland

(d)

Tuensang

(4)

(i)(c),(ii)(b),(iii)e,(iv)a,(v)(d)

(v)

Orissa

(e)

Churachandpur

(1)

(i)(a),(ii)(b),(iii)c,(iv)d,(v)(e)

(2)

(i)(a),(ii)(b),(iii)e,(iv)d,(v)(c)

(3)

(i)(a),(ii)(b),(iii)d,(iv)e,(v)(c)

(4)

(i)(e),(ii)(a),(iii)c,(iv)b,(v)(d)

102. Whichofthefollowingcombinationsofworld'slargestlakes
andtheirlocationiscorrect?
(1)

LakeVictoriaCanada,USA

(2)

LakeSuperiorKenya,Tanzania,Uganda

(3)

MichiganCanada,USA

(4)

GreatBearLakeAustralia

108. Which of the following is the right combination of hotel

brandsandtheircompanies?
HotelCompany

103.BywhichdamisthereservoirGobindSagarformed?

Brand

(i)

IndianHotelsCompany (a)

Courtyard

(1)

Bhakra

(2)

Hirakud

(ii)

Marriott

(b)

Novotel

(3)

Mettur

(4)

Paithan

(iii)

AccorGroup

(c)

Gateway

(d)

Aloft

(iv) Sheraton

(1). (i)b,(ii)c,(iii)d,(iv)a
(2). (i)b,(ii)a,(iii)d,(iv)c
(3). (i)c,(ii)a,(iii)b,(iv)d
(4). (i)c,(ii)b,(iii)a,(iv)d

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109.WhichofthefollowingistherightcombinationofHollywood
actorsandtheirmovieproductioncompanies?

115. Theconsumer'ssurpluscanbedefinedas
(1)

extraunitsofacommoditybought

Actor

Movieproductioncompany

(2)

surpluscommodityleftafterconsumption

(i)

NicolasCage

(a)

PlaytoneProductions

(3)

differencebetweenactualpriceandpotentialprice

(ii)

GeorgeClooney

(b)

Smokehouse
Productions

(4)

totalconsumersatisfaction

(iii)

TomHanks'

(c)

SaturnProductions

(iv) JayRoach

(d)

EverymanPictures

(1). (i)b,(ii)c,(iii)d,(iv)a
(2). (i)b,(ii)a,(iii)d,(iv)c
(3). (i)c,(ii)a,(iii)b,(iv)d

116. Thedemandforagoodiselasticif
(1)

thedemandforthatgoodincreaseswhenpricefalls

(2)

a decrease in price results in a decrease in total

expenditure

(3)

t h e q u a n t i t y d e m a n d e d i n c r e a s e s l e s s t h a n
proportionatelywiththedecreaseinpricelevel

(4)

increaseinpublicexpenditure

(4). (i)c,(ii)b,(iii)a,(iv)d
110. Matchthefollowing.
Year
(i)

Event
1972

(a)

(1)

greaterthanthefallininvestment

(2)

equaltothefallininvestmentitself

(3)

lessthanthefallininvestment

(4)

equaltothefallininvestmentunlesssavingsincrease
atthesametime

(ii)

1979

(b)

NobelPeacePrizefor
MotherTeresa

(iii)

1982

(c)

IntroductionofPIN
Code

(iv) 1975

(d)

Formationofthe
TeluguDesamParty

(1)

(i)(a),(ii)(b),(iii)(c),(iv)d

(2)

(i)(c),(ii)(b),(iii)(d),(iv)a

(3)

(i)(c),(ii)(b),(iii)(a),(iv)d

(4)

(i)(d),(ii)(a),(iii)(c),(iv)b

117.Theeffectofafallininvestmentonincomeisnormally

LaunchofIndia'sfirst
satelliteAryabhatta

111. Realismintheeconomyimpliescoexistenceofthe

118. UnderwhichFiveYearPlandidindustrialgrowthrecordthe
highestgrowth?
(1)

First

(2)

Second

(3)

Fifth

(4)

Third

119. Which FiveYear Plan accorded highest priority to the

developmentoftransportandcommunicationintermsof
percentageallocationofplanoutlay?

(1)

Oldandthenew

(1)

Fifth

(2)

Fourth

(2)

backwardandadvanced

(3)

Third

(4)

Second

(3)

highlyeducatedfewandtheliteratemasses

(4)

alloftheabove

112. Aconsumerissaidtobeinequilibrium,if
(1)

heisabletofulfilhisneedwithagivenlevelofincome

(2)

heisabletoliveinfullcomfortwithagivenlevelof
income

(3)

hecanfulfilhisneedswithoutconsumptionofcertain
items

(4)

heisabletolocatenewsourcesofincome

113. Aconsumerwithagivenincomewillobtainmaximumutility
when

120. NationalAgriculturalPolicy2000wasannouncedduringwhich
FiveYearPlan?
(1)

7th

(2)

8th

(3)

9th

(4)

10th

121. Rustom1UAVisIndia's
(1)

Fleettanker

(2)

UnmannedAerialVehicle

(3)

Surfacetoairmissile

(4)

Airtoseamissile

122. AFTstandsfor

(1)

themarginalutilityofeachcommodityisequal

(2)

themarginalutilityofeachcommodityisinthesame
ratiotoitsprice

(1)

AirFitnessTrainingCentre

(2)

ArmedForcesTribunal

(3)

theutilityderivedfromthefirstunitofeachcommodity
isequal

(3)

Army'sFinancialTeam

(4)

Noneoftheabove

(4)

theutilityderivedfromeachcommodityisunequal
123. IndianChinaheldonborderdispute

114. Aproducerundermonopolisticcompetitionadvertiseshis
productsothatitcan
(1)

reducethemarginalcostoftheproduct

(2)

increasethedemandforhisproduct

(3)

reducetheproductioncostoftheproduct

(4)

meetthedemandinthemarket

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(1)

14throundofrepresentativetalks

(2)

13throundofrepresentativetalks

(3)

12throundofrepresentativetalks

(4)

11throundofrepresentativetalks

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124. InChiefMinister'sConferenceonInternalSecurityheldHome
Ministeridentifiedthreemajorchallengestointernalsecurity
ofIndia.Whichoneamongthefollowingisnotachallenge
accordingtohim?

132. PrimeMinister'sCouncilonClimateChangehasapprovedin
principletheNationalMissiononEnhancedEnergyEfficiency
whichtargets
(1)

10percentenergysavingby2012

(1)

ChinesethreattoArunanchalPradesh

(2)

5percentenergysavingby2015

(2)

Terrorism

(3)

9percentenergysavingby2012

(3)

InsurgencyintheNortheast

(4)

Noneofthese

(4)

Naxalism

125. ASEANa regional blocwith which India has signed Free

TradeAgreementisnowIndia's
(1)

Thirdlargesttradingpartner

(2)

Secondlargesttradingpartner

(3)

Fourthlargesttradingpartner

(4)

Fifthlargesttradingpartner

126. UnderthetradepactwithASEANthenumberofitemsIndia
has included from agriculture, textiles and chemicals in
negativelist(whichwillbekeptoutofthedutyreduction)is
(1)

450

(2)

489

(3)

525

(4)

333

127. TheCentralGovernmenthasdecidedtogrant landpatta

andoccupancyrightsofdwellingmemberofthebeneficiary
householdunder

133. UnionCabinethasrecentlyapprovedquotaforwomenin
Panchayatupto
(1)

45percent

(2)

33percent

(3)

50percent

(4)

75percent

134. WhohastoppedtheForbe'smagazinemostpowerfulwomen
listintheworld?
(1)

IndiraNooyi

(2)

MichellBachelet

(3)

AngelaMerkel

(4)

KiranMazumdarShaw

135. WhichofthefollowingstatesrecentlysetupEveningCourts?
(1)

Gujarat

(2)

Maharashtra

(3)

TamilNadu

(4)

Kerala

136. NATMstandsfor
(1)

NationalAustralianTunnelingMethod

(1)

TheIndiraAwasYojana

(2)

NationalAutomaticTellerMachine

(2)

TheRajivAwasYojana

(3)

NewAustralianTunnelingMethod

(3)

BharatNirmanProject

(4)

Noneoftheabove

(4)

JNURM
137. ThenewheadofDRDO(DefenceResearchandDevelopment
Organisation)is

128. ICWFisafundfor
(1)

SeniorCitizenanddisabledperson

(2)

TohelpthewomenfromOBC'sandMinoritiestorun
theiremployment

(3)

TohelpOverseasIndiansintimesofdistress

(4)

Noneoftheabove

129. ISROandNASA'sjointendeavour'BiState'experimentto
locatewatericeontheMooninvolved
(1)

MiniatureSyntheticApertureRadar

(2)

MiniatureRadioFrequency

(3)

Both(1)and(2)

(4)

Noneoftheabove

130. Indiahassignedapactwithwhichofthefollowingcountries
tohelpherindevelopingaNationalPoliceAcademyatRs.
320crore?
(1)

Bhutan

(2)

Maldives

(3)

Afghanistan

(4)

Nepal

131. MaryKom,whotookpartinLondon2012,representingIndia,
hailsfrom
(1)

WestBengal

(2)

Manipur

(3)

Goa

(4)

Kerala

(30)of(95)

(1)

V.K.Chopra

(2)

V.K.Saraswat

(3)

S.L.Raina

(4)

M.P.Muralidharan

138. The Government of India has decided to institute an

internationalawardinthenameof
(1)

RabindranathTagore

(2)

SubhashChandraBose

(3)

AnnieBesant

(4)

RajivGandhi

139. Thewinnerof17thRajivGandhiNationalSadbhavanaAward
was
(1)

GulamAhmadBhat

(2)

GautamBhaiofPawanar

(3)

Dr.DominicEmmanuel

(4)

Noneofthese

140. Whichofthefollowinghasbeenconferredontheprestigious
UNESCO'sKingSejongLiteracyPrize2009?
(1)

RajasthanPatrika

(2)

TheHindu

(3)

KhabarLahariya

(4)

Noneoftheabove

141. According to Global Status Report on Road Safety the

countrywhichleadsinroaddeathsis
(1)

China

(2)

Bangladesh

(3)

U.S.A.

(4)

India

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142. InternationalDayforEradicationofPovertyisobservedon

153. Indiarecentlysignedsixnuclearpactswith

(1)

October16

(2)

October17

(1)

Vietnam

(2)

Japan

(3)

October18

(4)

October20

(3)

Mongolia

(4)

N.Korea

143. 'India:FromMidnighttotheMillenniumandBeyond'isthe
bookby
(1)

AtalBihariVajpayee

(2)

PrakashKarat

(3)

ShashiTharoor

(4)

MonikaChousoria

144. EnglandclinchedtheAshesSeriesafterdefeating

154. BharatNirmanProjectcoversandfocuseson
(1)

FiveAreas

(2)

SixAreas

(3)

SevenAreas

(4)

TenAreas

155. Ne xtz one a n in for mat ion te chn olo gy S EZ has be en

establishedat

(1)

Kenya

(2)

Pakistan

(1)

PankiinUttarPradesh

(3)

Australia

(4)

Noneoftheabove

(2)

PanvelinMaharashtra

(3)

BangaloreinKarnataka

(4)

SecunderabadinAndhraPradesh

145. IndiabaggedONGCNehruCuptitle(Football)afterbeating
(1)

SaudiArabia

(2)

Syria

(3)

Argentina

(4)

Uganda

146. Whichofthefollowingisnotcorrectlymatched?

156. Tohiscredit,LeanderPaesofIndiapresentlyhas
(1)

TwelveGrandSlamTitles

(2)

TenGrandSlamTitles

Winner

Competition

(3)

SixGrandSlamTitles

(1)

Ruben'sBarrichello

EuropeanGrandPrix

(4)

FiveGrandSlamTitles

(2)

ValentinoRossi

HungarianGrandPrix

(3)

KimiRaikkonen

BelgianGrandPrix

(4)

MarkWebber

GermanGrandPrix

147.The Foreign Trade Policy for the period 200914 aims at

achievinganannualgrowthof
(1)

10percent

(2)

15percent

(3)

20percent

(4)

8percent

148. C.RangarajanhasbeenmadeChairmanof

157.Thewinnerin5000and10,000metreracein12thWorld
ChampionshipinAthleticsis
(1)

UsainBolt

(2)

AbelKirni

(3)

KenenisaBekele

(4)

Noneoftheabove

158. TheCommandoBattallionforResolutionAction(COBRA)is
thecounterinsurgencyunitof
(1)

CRPF

(2)

BSF

(3)

IndianArmy

(4)

IndianAirForce

(1)

NationalAdvisoryCouncil

(2)

PrimeMinister'sEconomic

(3)

AsianSocietyofAgriculturalEconomics

(1)

40percentruralpopulace

Noneoftheabove

(2)

45percentruralpopulace

(3)

60percentruralpopulace

(4)

39percentruralpopulace

(4)

159. CurrentlyinIndiaOBCsaccountfor

149. WhichmoviewontheprestigiousPalmed'Orawardin64th
CannesFilmFestival?
(1)

Malancholia

(2)

TheKidwithaBike

(3)

MidnightinParis

(4)

TheTreeofLife

160. World'sHighestRailBridgeisbeingbuiltover
(1)

BrahmaputraRiver

(2)

BeasRiver

(3)

ChenabRiver

(4)

YamunaRiver

150. TheoldestIndianwomantoscaleMt.Everestis
(1)

TinaMena

(2)

PrabhaKumari

(3)

PremlataAgarwal

(4)

BechendriPal

151. Theagriculturalcensusisdoneatwhichofthefollowing
intervals?
(1)

Every year

(2)

Onceinthefiveyear

(3)

Onceinthethreeyear (4)

Onceinthetenyear

161. Whoamongthefollowingwroteatreatiseonmedicinein
ancientIndia?
(1)

Aryabhatta

(2)

Charaka

(3)

Nagarjuna

(4)

Varahamihira

162. Theauthorof'HindSwaraj'was
(1)

V.D.Savarkar

(2)

MahatmaGandhi

(3)

B.G.Tilak

(4)

Noneofthese

152. The11thFiveYearPlanistermedasaplanfor
(1)

India'shealth

(2)

India'sEducation

(1)

DiscoveryofIndia

(3)

DevelopmentofruralIndia

(2)

MyExperimentswithTruth

(4)

EradicationofpovertyfromIndia

(3)

IndiaWinsFreedom

(4)

FreedomatMidnight

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163. WhichofthefollowingbookswaswrittenbyGandhiji?

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164. Which of the following books was banned by all Muslim

countries,includingIndia?
(1)

Shame

(2)

FreedomatMidnight

(3)

SatanicVerses

(4)

Noneofthese

165. DauniHumayunwaswrittenby
(1)

Babur

(2)

Humayun

(3)

GulbadanBegum

(4)

KhanzadaBegum

166. TheoldestHinduepicis
(1)

Mahabhashya

(2)

Ramayana

(3)

Mahabharata

(4)

Ashtadhyayi

173.Apolishastronomer,NicolausCopernicusisknownfor
(1)

hisdiscoveryofheavenlybodies

(2)

his discovery that the sun is the centre of the

universe.

(3)

Both(1)and(2)arecorrect

(4)

Noneofthese

174. Pythagoras was first to ..... the universal validity of

geometricaltheorem.
(1)

Give

(2)

Prove

(3)

Both

(4)

Noneofthese

175. RajaRammohanRoy
167. Matchthefollowing
ColumnI(Author)
A .

MahatmaGandhi

B.

RamManoharLohia

C .

DrRajendraPrasad

D.

MaulanaAbulKalamAzad
IndiaDivided

2 .

IndiaWinsFreedom

3 .

HindSwaraj

4 .

TheWheelofHistory
A

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Was asocialreformerwho triedto eradicate 'sati',

'purdah'andchildmarriage.

(2)

Advocatedwidowremarriageandwoman'seducation

(3)

WasthefounderoftheBrahmoSamaj

(4)

Allarecorrect

176.Whoinventedmagnifyingglassandgunpowder?

ColumnII(Book)
1 .

(1)

(1)

RogerBacon

(2)

RudolfDiesel

(3)

SigmundFreud

(4)

RobertBoyle

177.Whoisknownas'India'sNapolean'?
(1)

Samudragupta

(2)

ChandraguptaI

(3)

ChandraguptaII

(4)

Noneofthese

178. Shankracharyawasthefounderof

168. Whichofthefollowingpairsiscorrectlymatched?
(1)

AbulFazalAiniAkbari

(2)

BadauniAkbarNama

(3)

AbdulHamidLahoriTabkatiAkbari

(4)

NizamuddinAhmedBadshahNama

(1)

Buddhism

(2)

Jainism

(3)

AryaSamaj

(4)

Advaiticphilosophy

179. India'sfirsttechnicolourfilm.....intheearly1950swas
producedby
(1)

JhansiKiRani.SohrabModi

(2)

JhansiKiRani,SirSyedAhmed

(3)

MirzaGhalib,SohrabModi

(4)

MirzaGhalib,MunshiPremchand

169. CharakaSamhitaisaworkon
(1)

Politics

(2)

Mathematics

(3)

Economics

(4)

Medicine

170. Whowastheauthorofthebookwhichhadbeenbannedby
allMuslimcountries,includingIndia?
(1)

SalmanRushdie

(2)

GeorgeOrwell

(3)

K.AsafAli

(4)

Noneofthese

180. An Indian scientist remembered for creating a chain of

nationallaboratoriesis
(1)

SohrabModi

(2)

ShantiSwarupBhatnagar

(3)

M.S.Golwalkar

(4)

Noneofthese

181. Thelargestproducerofcottonintheworldis
171.WhoisthefounderoftheseparateMuslimstateofPakistan?
(1)

MohammadbinTughlaq (2)

MohammadAHJinnah

(3)

KublaiKhan

Noneofthese

(4)

172. The first Indian actress to have been nominated to the

RajyaSabhawas

(1)

China

(2)

India

(3)

Sudan

(4)

U.S.A.

182. ArrangethefollowingStatesofIndiainthedescendingorder
of their production ofrice. Usethe code given below to
selectthecorrectanswer

(1)NargisDutt

(2)

HemaMalini

(1)

AndhraPradesh

(2)

Punjab

(3)JayaPrada

(4)

Noneofthese

(3)

UttarPradesh

(4)

WestBengal

(1)

3,4,2,1

(2)

4,1,3,2

(3)

4,2,1,3

(4)

2,4,1,3

(32)of(95)

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183. InIndiatwolargestproducersofmaizeare
(1)

AndhraPradeshandMaharashtra

(2)

KarnatakaandUttarPradesh

(3)

AndhraPradeshandBihar

(4)

KarnatakaandAndhraPradesh

184. InIndiathelargestnetirrigatedareaisfoundin
(1)

Haryana

(2)

MadhyaPradesh

(3)

UttarPradesh

(4)

Punjab

193. Whichofthefollowingriversareexamplesofsuperimposed
drainagesystem?Selectthecorrectanswerfromthecodes
givenbelow
(1)

Banas

(2)

Chambal

(3)

Gomti

(4)

Narmada

(1)

1and2

(2)

2and3

(3)

1and3

(4)

3and4

194. MatchListIandListIIandselectthecorrectanswerfrom
thecodegivenbelow
ListI

185. ArrangethefollowingStatesofIndiaindescendingorderof
theirproductionofmilk.Usethecodegivenbelowtoselect
thecorrectanswer
(1)
(3)
(1)
(3)

AndhraPradesh
Rajasthan
4,2,3,1
1,2,3,4

(2)
(4)
(2)
(4)

State

(1)

Kanha

(1)

Assam

Punjab

(2)

Rohala

(2)

HimachalPradesh

UttarPradesh

(c)

Bandipur

(3)

MadhyaPradesh

4,3,2,1

(d)

Kaziranga

(4)

Karnataka

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(1)

(2)

JammuandKashmir

(3)

Rajasthan

(4)

1,4,2,3

186. ThelargestproducerofrawwoolinIndiais
(1)
(3)

AndhraPradesh
Karnataka

(2)
(4)

187.Whichoneofthefollowingpairsisnotcorrectlymatched?
(1)

EriSilk

195. Theworld'slargestproducerofcerealsis

Assam

(1)

Brazil

(2)

China

(3)

India

(4)

U.S.A.

(2)

MugaSilk

ArunachalPradesh

(3)

Mulberrysilk

Karnataka

(4)

Tasarsilk

Jharkhand

188. InIndiathelargestnumberofminesofmetallicmineralsare
foundin
(1)

Gujarat

(2)

Jharkhand

(3)

Karnataka

(4)

Orissa

189. TwolargestproducersofironoreinIndiaare
(1)

JharkhandandOrissa

(2)

GoaandChhattisgarh

(3)

OrissaandKarnataka

(4)

AndhraPradeshandOrissa

196. Twolargestproducersofwheatintheworldare
(1)

AustraliaandU.S.A.

(2)

CanadaandRussia

(3)

ChinaandRussia

(4)

FranceandArgentina

197.Thelargestproducerofpaperandpaperboardintheworld
is
(1)

Canada

(2)

China

(3)

Japan

(4)

U.S.A

198. Nameoftheyoungestwomenmountaineer,whoreached
theMt.Everest

190. MajorsupplyofnaturalgasinIndiaisderivedfrom
(1)

AndhraPradesh

(2)

Assam

(3)

Gujarat

(4)

BombayHigh

191. InIndiacentpercentvillagesareelectrifiedin
(1)

Chattisgarh

(2)

Maharashtra

(3)

Punjab

(4)

TamilNadu

192. InIndiathelargestscheduledtribepopulationisfoundin
(1)

Jharkhand

(2)

MadhyaPradesh

(3)

Orissa

(4)

Chattisgarh

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ListII

NationalPark

(1)

DickyDolma

(2)

BachedriPal

(3)

JhunkoTabei

(4)

Noneofthese

199. Whichisthelargestglandinthehumanbody?
(1)

Thyroid

(2)

Liver

(3)

Pancreas

(4)

Noneofthese

200. TheTamilversionofRamayanawaswrittenby
(1)

Valmiki

(2)

VedVyas

(3)

Kamban

(4)

Indumati

201. WhoisthepresentHurriyatchairman?
(1)

MohammedAfzal

(3)

MohammedAbdulAnsari(4)

(2)

MoulviAbbasAnsari
SyedGeelani

(33)of(95)

202. India'sMoonImpactProbe(MIP)landedonMoon'sSurface
on
(1)

November10,2008

(2)

November11,2008

(3)

November14,2008

(4)

November15,200

203. StoltValorwhichwasrecentlyhijackedbyseapiratesbelongs
to
(1)

Germany

(2)

Japan

(3)

U.S.A.

(4)

SaudiArabia

204. Asalesclerkatacheckoutcounterscanningatagonan
itemratherthankeyingitintothesystem,isusing
(1)

Inputautomation

(2)

Itemdataautomation

(3)

Scanningautomation

(4)

Sourcedataautomation

205. Whataretwoexamplesoffreeware?
(1)

WinZipandLinux

(2)

InstantmessagingandtheGoogletoolbar

(3)

MicrosoftPowerPointandMicrosoftExcel

(4)

Sharewareandfilesharing

206. OnNovember12,2008IndiatestifiedsuccessfullyShourya
missile.Itisa
(1)

Airtoairmissile

(2)

Airtosurfacemissile

(3)

Surfacetosurfacemissile

(4)

Surfacetoseamissile

InternationalTariffRate

(2)

IntegratedTrialRate

(3)

IntegratedTrialRange

(4)

IntegratedTestRange

213. Whichofthefollowingnationsisconsideredtheoriginator
oftheconceptofMicrofinance?
(1) Brazil
(2) Bangladesh
(3) India
(4) SouthAfrica
214. TheauthorofwhichofthefollowingisnotBarackObama?
(1) DreamfromMyFather
(2) ThoughtsonReclaimingDream
(3) ItTakesaNation:HowStrangersBecameFamily
(4) MyGreatAmerica
215. EuropeanUnionRussiasummitwasheldrecentlyat
(1) Nice
(2) Bonn
(3) St.Petersburgh
(4) London
216. AbuDhabiwasrecentlyinnewsforhosting
(1)

ArabWomen'sConference

(2)

OPECSummit

(3)

APECSummit

(4)

ArabLeagueSummit

217. Many a times we read a term 'PPP' in financial dailies/

magazines.Whatisthefullformofthesame,asusedin
financialworld?

207. ITRstandsfor
(1)

212. ThehighestnumberofelectoralcollegevotesduringU.S.A.
PresidentialElectionbelongsto
(1) California
(2) Florida
(3) Connecticut
(4) Virginia

(1)

PopularPublicPreferences

(2)

PurchasingPowerParity

(3)

PercapitaPotentialPurchases

(4)

PresentPurchasingPower

218. BIMSTECis

208. RecentlyNationalRiverStatushasbeengrantedto
(1)

Mahanadi

(2)

Ganga

(3)

Sindhu

(4)

Brahmaputra

209. Pt. BhimsenJoshi who has beendeclared'Bharat Ratna'

winnerwasbornin
(1) Gadag
(2) Palakkad
(3) Pune
(4) Mysore

(1)

Sevenmembernationorganisation

(2)

Eightmembernationalorganisation

(3)

Ninememberorganisation

(4)

Sixmembernationorganisation

219. ThefamousnameVikramPanditisassociatedwithwhichof
thefollowingorganisations/banks?
(1)

ICICIBank

(2)

Citigroup

(3)

Vodafone

(4)

PepsiCo.

220. Whichofthefollowingcountriesleadsspacelaunchtally?
210. Theenzymethatconvertsglucosetoethylalcoholis
(1) Diastase
(2) Zymase
(3) Maltase
(4) Invertase
211. The Security forces of India launched ..... to flush out
terroristswhichwreakedhavocinMumbaiinthelastweek
ofNovember2008.
(1) OperationLiberateMumbai
(2) OperationSeaStorm
(3) OperationBlackTornadoes
(4) OperationThunderStorm
(34)of(95)

(1)

U.S.A.

(2)

Russia

(3)

Japan

(4)

E.U.

221. T h e h e a d q u a r t e r s o f A P E C ( A s i a P a c i f i c E c o n o m i c
Cooperation)issituatedat
(1)

KualaLumpur

(2)

Singapore

(3)

Lima

(4)

Santiago

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222. Whohasrecentlybeenmadethefirstambassadortothe
GenevabasedGlobalfundtoflightAids,tuberculosisand
malaria?
(1)

AmitabhBachchan

(2)

BritneySpears

(3)

CarlaBruni

(4)

ZinedineZidane

223. FiveyearPlansinIndiaarefinallyapprovedbywhichofthe
followingbodies?

231. Whichofthefollowingisthepublisherof'Employmentnews'?
(1)

MinistryofInformationandBroadcasting

(2)

IndianExpressgroup

(3)

TimesofIndiaGroup

(4)

MinistryofHumanResourceDevelopment

232. 'TheUnitedKingdom'consistsofEnglandand

PlanningCommission

(1)

NorthernIreland,PalmaandIceland

(2)

FinanceMinister

(2)

Scotland,WalesandFaeroeIsland

(3)

UnionCabinet

(3)

Scotland,SardiniaandWales

(4)

NationalDevelopmentCouncil

(4)

NorthernIreland,ScotlandandWales

(1)

224. The most appropriate measure of a country's economic

growthis
(1)

Grossdomesticproduct

(2)

Percapitarealincome

(3)

Netnationalproduct

(4)

Netdomesticproduct

233. Whichofthefollowingdealswitheconomicoffences?
(1)

COFEPOSA

(2)

TADA

(3)

MISA

(4)

NSA

234. Indiaranks..onGlobalGenderGapIndex.
(1)

115th

(2)

113th

(3)

110th

(4)

111th

225. "TheBikiniMurders'isabookby
(1)

ErezMandela

(2)

J.V.Braun

(3)

FarukhDhondy

(4)

MartinDupuls

226. LTTE'sadministrativeheadquartersissituatedat
(1)

Batticaola

(2)

Kilinochchi

(3)

PuthumuRippu

(4)

AriviyalNakar

235. IBExis
(1)

NASA'sProbe

(2)

EU'sProbe

(3)

EUNASAjointProbe

(4)

Noneoftheabove

236. Percentageofleadinpencilsis
227.UNOrecentlybannedPakistanbasedterroristorganisation
(1)

JKLF

(2)

UnitedTalibanFront

(3)

AlHumijat

(4)

JamatudDawa

(1)

3166

(2)

(3)

40

(4)

80

237.Whichmetalisextractedfromseawater?

228. Thesiximportantinscriptionswhichhaverecentlycometo
lightinTamilNadu's1200yearoldShivaTemplereveal

(1)

Magnesium

(2)

Potassium

(3)

Beryllium

(4)

Aluminium

238. Themostabundantinertgasintheatmosphereis

(1)

EarlyCholahistory

(1)

Argon

(2)

Helium

(2)

EarlyKushanshistory

(3)

Neon

(4)

Krypton

(3)

EarlyMauryanhistory

(4)

EarlySangamhistory

239. Themetal,whichisaconstituentofVitaminB12,is

229. LITEistheproposedMaidenMoonMissionof
(1)

Germany

(2)

France

(3)

Britain

(4)

Japan

230. WhichofthefollowingstatesarejoinedbyPalghat?
(1)

KeralaandTamilNadu

(2)

MaharashtraandGujarat

(3)

SikkimandWestBengal

(4)

ArunachalPradeshandSikkim

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(1)

Cobalt

(2)

Iron

(3)

Zinc

(4)

Magnesium

240. India'sfirst3GTechnologybasedmobilephoneserviceof
MTNLwaslaunchedon
(1)

December15,2008

(2)

December11,2008

(3)

December10,2008

(4)

December8,2008

241. Denaturedspiritisethanolmixedwith
(1)

Pyridine

(2)

Kerosene

(3)

Petrol

(4)

Water

(35)of(95)

242. WithreferencetoanewsitemrelatedtoISROsettingup
severalnewcriticalfacilitieswhichofthefollowingisnot
correctlymatched?FacilityCentre/Location
(A)

HypersonicWindTunnelTrivandrum

(B)

TestingFacilityforHighThrustCryogenicsEngines
Mahendragiri

(C)

NewMissionControlNewDelhi

(D)

A d v a n c e R e s e a r c h a n d D e v e l o p m e n t C e n t r e
Chitradurga

(1)

(A)

(2)

(B)

(3)

(C)

(4)

(D)

243. By which ofthe following was 'The Decadeof Action for

RoadSafety'launched?
(1)

UnitedNationsOrganisation

(2)

IndianGovernment

(3)

SAARCNations

(4)

G20

(1)

M.K.Prasad

(2)

R.C.Bhargava

(3)

RaviKumar

(4)

C.Rangrajan

252. IndialauncheditsfirstMoonMissionChandrayanIon
(1)

October10,2008

(2)

October15,2008

(3)

October20,2008

(4)

October22,2008

253. ThePolarSatelliteLaunchVehiclewhichputChandrayanI
intoitsorbitis
(1)

PSLVC9

(2)

PSLVC8

(3)

PSLVC11

(4)

PSLVC7

254. Indiaisthe..countrytosendMoonMission.
(1) Fifth
(2) Fourth
(3) Sixth
(4) Seventh

244. ThescientistassociatedwiththesuccessofGreenRevolution
is
(1)

NormanBorlaug

(2)

V.R.Rao

(3)

J.C.Bose

(4)

S.S.Bhatnagar

245. Inwhichofthefollowingstates'KoyanaHydroElectricPower
Project'islocated?
(1)

Maharashtra

(2)

MadhyaPradesh

(3)

Kerala

(4)

Orissa

246. ThestatesofIndiahavingcommonborderwithMyanmar
are
(1)

Mizoram,Manipur,Tripura,Meghalaya

(2)

Mizoram,Tripura,Meghalaya,Assam

(3)

Assam,Manipur,Tripura,ArunachalPradesh

(4)

Mizoram,Manipur,Nagaland,ArunachalPradesh

247. 'A Half Nelson' is theterm associated with which of the

followingsports?
(1)

Bridge

(2)

Wrestling

(3)

Golf

(4)

Polo

248. TheDronacharyaAwardforSportscoacheswasinstituted
intheyear
(1)

1984

(2)

1985

(3)

1987

(4)

1988

249. WhichisIndia'slargestStadium?
(1)

NationalStadium,Delhi

(2)

YubaBharatiStadium,Kolkata

(3)

YadvindraStadium,Patiala

(4)

VallabhbhaiPatelStadium,Mumbai

250. IndiaUScivilnuclearcooperationagreementwassignedon
(1)

October11,2008

(2)

October20,2008

(3)

October15,2008

(4)

October5,2008

(36)of(95)

251. The IIM review committee which recommended higher

governmentcontrolonIIMswasheadedby

255. TheCentralGovernmentinJune2011declaredtheKawal
WildlifeSanctuaryinAndhraPradeshasatigerreserve.It
is
(1) 42ndtigerreserve
(2) 32ndtigerreserve
(3) 34thtigerreserve
(4) 40thtigerreserve
256. UnionCabinethasclearedRighttoEducationBillwhichis
theenablinglegislationtonotify
(1) The91thconstitutionalamendment
(2) The86thconstitutionalamendment
(3) The95thconstitutionalamendment
(4) The93rdconstitutionalamendment
257. ACDstandsfor
(1) AsianCooperativeDialogue
(2) AsiaCooperationDialogue
(3) AsiaChinaDialogueForum
(4) AsianChineseDialogue
258. Thechemicalnameof'commonsalt'is
(1) Sodiumchloride
(2) Sodiumnitrate
(3) Ammoniumchloride
(4) Calciumchloride
259. EDIstandsfor
(1) EnforcementDirectorateIndex
(2) EducationDevelopmentInfrastructure
(3) EducationandDevelopmentIdentity
(4) EducationDevelopmentIndex
260. Traditionally,thefirstofNobelPrizesawardedeachyearin
thecategoryof
(1) Physics
(2) Chemistry
(3) Medicine
(4) Literature
261. ThealternativeNobelprizesare
(1) MagsaysayAwards
(2) RighttoLivelihoodAwards
(3) GlobalEnergyAwards
(4) GrammyAwards
262. NationalConsumerRightsDayisobservedon
(1)

December4

(2)

December7

(3)

December24

(4)

December10
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263. Wherewasa4000yearoldPyramidfoundrecently?

273. NIAstandsfor

(1)

Turkey

(2)

Egypt

(1)

NationalAeronauticsAgency

(3)

Iran

(4)

Syria

(2)

NationalInvestigationAgency

(3)

NationalArmamentAgency

(4)

Noneofthese

264. Whichofthefollowingcountrieshasbeenrankedonthetop
ingenderequality
(1)

Japan

(2)

Australia

(3)

Canada

(4)

Norway

265. Thefreezerinarefrigeratorisfittednearthetop
(1) becauseitfacilitiesconvectioncurrents
(2)

inordertokeepitawayfromhotcompressorwhichis
nearertothebottom

(3)
(4)

becauseofconvenience
inordertominimizepowerconsumption

266. Thebasicthemeofthe28thInternationalTradeFairwas
(1)
(2)

WomenEmpowerment
ITGrowth

(3)
(4)

EnvironmentProtection
Handicrafts

274. W2Mis
(1)

IndiasproposedmissiontoJupiter

(2)

ThefirstSatellitebyISROforaforeigncustomer

(3)

EuropeanUnionsmissiontoMars

(4)

IndiaJapanjointmissiontoSpace

275. WhoamongthefollowinghasbeenaccusedbyaUNbacked
tribunalofmastermindingRwandas1994genocide?
(1)

TheonesteBagosora

(3)

JuvenalHabayorimana (4)

q.Watson2.penicillin
r.Landsteiner3.vaccination
s.Flemming4.doublehelix
(1)

p3,q1,r2,s4
p3,q4,r2,s1

(2)
(3)

suddenchangesinwinddirection.
buoyancyofair.

(3)

p3,q4,r1,s2

(4)

Bernoulli'stheorem.

(4)

p3,q2,r4,s1

268. Whenapersonwalkinginbrightsunlightentersadarkroom,
heisnotabletoseeclearlyforalittlewhilebecause
theretinaretainsthebrightimagesforsometimeand
becomesmomentarilyinsensitive.

(2)

theeyemusclescannotimmediatelyadjustthefocal
lengthoftheeyelens.

(3)
(4)

theirisisunabletodilatethepupilimmediately
theirisisunabletocontractthepupilimmediately

269. Cometsrevolvearoundthe
Earth
Venus

Noneofabove

p.Jenner1.bloodgrouping

(2)

(1)
(3)

MarkFelt

276. MatchListIwithListIIandgivethecorrectanswerfromthe
codegivenbelow:ListIListII(Discoverer)(Discoveries)

267.Theswingofaspinningcricketballinaircanbeexplained
onthebasisof
(1) turbulencecausedbywind

(1)

(2)

(2)
(4)

Sun
Jupiter

270. Amanwithcolourblindnesswillseeredas
(1) Green
(2) Yellow
(3) Blue
(4) Violet
271. ThefirsteverrobotspacecrafttoprobeplanetVenuswas
named
(1) Magellan
(2) Galileo
(3) Challenger
(4) Newton
272. Whichofthefollowingismostelastic?
(1) Wetclay
(2) Steel
(3) Plastic
(4) Rubber

277.ThegirlofAssameseoriginafterwhomanAsteroidhasbeen
namedis
(1)

VeenaDas

(2)

PritikaKalraGandhi

(3)

NandiniSarma

(4)

InderjitKaur

278. Pasteurisationistheprocessinwhichmilkisheatedto
(1)

60Cfor10minutes

(2)

63Cfor20minutes

(3)

72Cfor10minutes

(4)

63Cfor30minutes

279. Theoverallshareofminoritiesincentralsectorroseto
(1)

8.7%

(2)

6.9%

(3)

9.9%

(4)

5.5%

280. TheRightofChildrentoFreeandCompulsoryEducationbill
introducedinRajyaSabhaonDecember15,2008aimsat
operationalizationof
(1)

87thAmendmentAct

(2)

86thAmendmentAct

(3)

90thAmendmentAct

(4)

91stAmendmentAct

281. Which of the followingIndian states recently decided to

celebrateForestEnvironmentDayeverymonth?
(1)

UttarPradesh

(2)

MadhyaPradesh

(3)

Uttarakhand

(4)

Kerala

282. How far does the Exclusive Economic Zone of a country

extendfromhercoast?

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(1)

420km

(2)

120km

(3)

220km

(4)

320km
(37)of(95)

283. Aryabhattawaslaunchedfrom

292. ArmyDayisobservedon

(1)

Sriharikota

(2)

Mahe

(1)

16thJanuary

(2)

15thJanuary

(3)

Chandipur

(4)

KapustinYar

(3)

17thJanuary

(4)

20thJanuary

284. SuryaShekharGangulyisaplayerof

293. ThefootballplayerwhohasbeenconferredtheFIFAWorld
Footballeroftheyear2008awardis

(1)

Chess

(2)

Cricket

(1)

ZinedineZidane

(3)

Golf

(2)

BhaichungBhutia

(4)

Noneoftheabove

(3)

ChristinaoRonaldo

(4)

Noneoftheabove

285. Whichofthefollowingcountrieshashighestpercentageof
landundercultivation?
(1)

India

(2)

China

(3)

USA

(4)

Canada

286. AccordingtorecentNASArevelationthequantityoficewhich
hasmeltedinGreenlandAntarcticaandAlaskasince2003
is
(1)

Twotrillion

(2)

Threetrillion

(3)

Fourtrillion

(4)

Fivetrillion

294. TheIndianMusicmaestrowhowontheprestigiousGolden
Globeforbestoriginalmusicis
(1)

PanditBhimsenJoshi

(2)

A.R.Rehman

(3)

ZakirHussain

(4)

Noneoftheabove

295. Theworld'slargestproducerofmicais
(1)

UK

(2)

Canada

(3)

USA

(4)

India

287. TheInternationalDateLineisthe
(1)

88.5degreeEastLongitude

(2)

180degreeLongitude

(1)

Alps

(2)

Shivalik

(3)

Equator

(3)

Pamirplateau

(4)

Karakoramranges

(4)

0degreeLongitude

296. Baltoraglacierislocatedin

288. ThefirstcountrytosignConventiononClusterMunitions
is
(1)

Denmark

(2)

Finland

(3)

Norway

(4)

Iceland

289. WhichofthefollowingIndianCompaniesisnotincludedin
thegrantofloanof3billiondollarsprovidedbytheWorld
Banktothem?
(1)

OilandNaturalGasCorporationofIndia

(2)

IndiaInfrastructureFinanceCompany

(3)

SmallIndustriesDevelopmentBankofIndia

(4)

PowerGridCorporation

290. Whichofthefollowingisnotcorrectlymatched?
(1)

RobertZoellickWorldBank

(2)

DominiqueStraussKahnInternationalMonetaryFund

(3)

PascalLamyWorldHealthOrganization

(4)

Koiczhiro Matsurra United Nations Educational,

ScientificandCulturalOrganization

297. WhichofthefollowingU.S.statessgovernorwasrecently
impeached?
(1)

California

(2)

Texas

(3)

Illinois

(4)

Washington

298. WhichofthefollowingbecamethefirstHindimovietoearn
Rs.200crore?
(1)

Ghajini

(2)

RabNeBanadiJodi

(3)

ChandniChowktoChina(4)

Noneoftheabove

299. BMDwhichcameintonewsstandsfor
(1)

BusinessManagementDevelopment

(2)

BallisticMissileDevelopment

(3)

BallisticManagementDefence

(4)

BallisticMissileDefence

300. TheLawReformsPanelofwhichofthefollowingstateshas
recommendedthemercykilling?
(1)

Punjab

(2)

Kerala

(3)

Karnataka

(4)

TamilNadu

291. Whichofthefollowingisincorrectlymatched?
(1)

WTOGeneva

(2)

IAEAVienna

(3)

WHOParis

(4)

IMFWashington

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ObjectivekeyGKQuestionsforSNAPTest
1.( 2)

2.( 3)

3.( 3)

4.( 1)

5.( 4)

6.( 1)

7.(2)

8.( 3)

9.( 1) 10.(3)

11.(3) 12.(1) 13.(2) 14.(4) 15.(1) 16.(4) 17.( 3) 18.(2) 19.(3) 20.(2)
21.(4) 22.(3) 23.(3) 24.(4) 25.(4) 26.(1) 27.( 1) 28.(1) 29.(1) 30.(2)
31.(2) 32.(2) 33.(3) 34.(1) 35.(1) 36.(1) 37.( 1) 38.(4) 39.(4) 40.(3)
41.(2) 42.(3) 43.(3) 44.(1) 45.(3) 46.(1) 47.( 1) 48.(1) 49.(4) 50.(3)
51.(3) 52.(2) 53.(1) 54.(3) 55.(3) 56.(3) 57.( 2) 58.(4) 59.(1) 60.(2)
61.(1) 62.(1) 63.(3) 64.(2) 65.(1) 66.(4) 67.( 1) 68.(3) 69.(2) 70.(3)
71.(3) 72.(2) 73.(1) 74.(3) 75.(4) 76.(2) 77.( 1) 78.(4) 79.(3) 80.(2)
81.(3) 82.(2) 83.(2) 84.(1) 85.(4) 86.(4) 87.( 2) 88.(3) 89.(3) 90.(2)
91.(1) 92.(4) 93.(2) 94.(2) 95.(4) 96.(2) 97.( 2) 98.(4) 99.(3) 100.( 3)
101.( 3) 102.( 3) 103.( 1) 104.( 2) 105.( 4) 106.( 3) 107.(2) 108.( 3) 109.( 4) 110.( 2)
111.( 2) 112.( 1) 113.( 2) 114.( 2) 115.( 3) 116.( 1) 117.(1) 118.( 3) 119.( 4) 120.( 3)
121.( 2) 122.( 2) 123.( 2) 124.( 1) 125.( 3) 126.( 2) 127.(2) 128.( 3) 129.( 3) 130.( 4)
131.( 2) 132.( 2) 133.( 3) 134.( 3) 135.( 2) 136.( 3) 137.(2) 138.( 1) 139.( 2) 140.( 3)
141.( 4) 142.( 2) 143.( 3) 144.( 3) 145.( 2) 146.( 2) 147.(2) 148.( 2) 149.( 4) 150.( 3)
151.( 2) 152.( 2) 153.( 3) 154.( 2) 155.( 2) 156.( 2) 157.(3) 158.( 1) 159.( 4) 160.( 3)
161.( 2) 162.( 2) 163.( 2) 164.(3) 165.( 3) 166.(2) 167.(4) 168.( 1) 169.(4) 170.( 1)
171.( 2) 172.( 1) 173.( 3) 174.( 2) 175.( 4) 176.( 1) 177.(1) 178.( 4) 179.( 1) 180.( 2)
181.( 1) 182.( 2) 183.( 4) 184.( 3) 185.( 1) 186.( 2) 187.(1) 188.( 2) 189.( 1) 190.( 3)
191.( 3) 192.( 2) 193.( 4) 194.( 2) 195.( 2) 196.( 3) 197.(1) 198.( 1) 199.( 2) 200.( 3)
201.( 2) 202.( 3) 203.( 2) 204.( 3) 205.( 2) 206.( 3) 207.(4) 208.( 2) 209.( 1) 210.( 4)
211.( 3) 212.( 1) 213.( 2) 214.( 4) 215.( 1) 216.( 1) 217.(2) 218.( 1) 219.( 2) 220.( 2)
221.( 2) 222.( 3) 223.( 4) 224.( 1) 225.( 3) 226.( 2) 227.(4) 228.( 1) 229.( 3) 230.( 1)
231.( 1) 232.( 4) 233.( 1) 234.( 2) 235.( 1) 236.( 2) 237.(1) 238.( 1) 239.( 1) 240.( 2)
241. (1) 242. (3) 243.( 1) 244.( 1) 245.( 1) 246.( 4) 247.(2) 248.( 2) 249.( 2) 250.( 1)
251.( 2) 252.( 4) 253.( 3) 254.( 2) 255.( 1) 256.( 2) 257.(2) 258.( 1) 259.( 4) 260.( 3)
261.( 2) 262.( 3) 263.( 2) 264.( 4) 265.( 1) 266.( 1) 267.(1) 268.( 1) 269.( 2) 270.( 1)
271.( 1) 272.( 4) 273.( 2) 274.( 2) 275.( 1) 276.( 3) 277.(3) 278.( 4) 279.( 1) 280.( 2)
281.( 3) 282.( 1) 283.( 4) 284.( 1) 285.( 1) 286.( 2) 287.(1) 288.( 3) 289.( 1) 290.( 3)
291.( 3) 292.( 2) 293.( 3) 294.( 2) 295.( 3) 296.( 4) 297.(3) 298.( 1) 299.( 4) 300.( 2)

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Dear Students,
The section of General Awareness in IRMA and MANAGE primarily focuses on
socialsector.Pastyearstrendhighlightssomespecificareassuchas
n

Data/PatternofAgriculturesector
(The Hindu Survey on Indian Agriculture 2011 and 2012 should prove very useful)

ThevariousNGOsandSocial movements:theirleaders,areaof activityetc.

SocialproblemsofIndia

Humandevelopmentindicators, dataetc.

WTO,itsimplicationforruralsectors

Mishapslikeaccidentduetofire,contaminatedwater,liquoretc.

Th e G ovt . s ch eme s f or soc ial se cto r viz po ver ty all evi ati on , l ite rac y,
employment, healthcare etc.
(Read through the social sector section in Economic Survey and Budget 201112)

To cover these topics browse through the Govt. of India Websites/Publications.

The PublicInformation Bureau ofGovt. publishes India2011, which willprove a
helpful reading. Website of the Planning Commissions and documents too have
comprehensiveanalysisofsocialsectors.Magazine'YOJNA'toowouldhaveuseful
andrelevantmaterialforthisexam.
We provide in the coming pages a lot of the questions that have been asked in
IRMAoverthepastfewyears.Thesequestionshavebeenbasedonthestudents'
memory.Alsotohelpyoujudge yourcompetencyinGeneralKnowledge,asetof
practicequestionswithanswershasbeenprovidedtowardstheend.
It is strongly advised that you solve all the tests given in the GKCA Builder

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DIRECTIONS:Forthefollowingquestions,fouroptionsaregiven.
Choosethecorrectoption.
1 .

8 .

(1)
TheagreementreachedbyallnationsattheG8summitheld
inJuly09wastoreducegreenhousegasemissionsby.....
percentbytheyear2020

The periodicity and intensity of rainfall during the

period.

(2)

Thewaterlevelsinreservoirs

(3)

Theearlymajorrainfall

(1)

40percent

(2)

30percent

(4)

Therainspells

(3)

50percent

(4)

20percent.

(5)

Noneofthese

(5)

35percent
9 .

2 .

3 .

4 .

5 .

6 .

7.

Thecriticalaspectofcropsisnotthetotalrainfallduring
themonsoonbut

MostoftherainfallduringtheSouthWestMonsoonperiod
occurswithin.....hours
(1)

100

(2)

120

(3)

80

(4)

90

(5)

140

ThecryingneedoftheIndianagriculturesectortodayisto
(1)

Promote policy and approaches to help farmers to

adapttoclimatechangeanduncertaintiesandproduce
morewithless.

(2)

Makecontingencyplansandapproachestodealwith
changeinrainfallpattern

(3)

Allocatemorefundstodealwithdroughtlikesituations

(4)

Takemeasurestotreatwateronanannualcyclebasis
andstoreanddistributethewaterresourcesonan
annualcycle.

(5)

Focusondrylandagriculture

Intheunionbudgetfor200910,anadditionalRs.1000crore
hasbeenprovidedfor
(1)

AcceleratedIrrigationBenefitProgramme

(2)

Riceintensificationsystem

(3)

Promotionofhighvaluecrops

(4)

PromotionofSHGs

(5)

Grainstorage

10. TheICRISATholdstheglobalresponsibilityforimproving
livelihoodsofthepoorinthesemiaridtropics.Thefullform
ofICRISATis
(1)

InternationalCropsResearchInstitutefortheSemi
AridTropics

Theadverseimpactofclimatechangeonsmallandmarginal
farmerscanbereducedconsiderablyby

(2)

IntergovernmentalCropsResearchInstituteforthe
semiaridtropics

(1)

Promotingasmallfarmers'SHGmovementtosupport
c en t r al i ze d s e r vi c es fo r en h an c i ng sm a ll f ar m
productivityandprofitability.

(3)

InternationalClimateResearchInstituteforthesemi
aridtropics

(4)

(2)

Teachingthemmanagementtechniquestomarkettheir
productsefficiently

Intergovernmentalclimateresearchinstituteforthe
semiaridtropics

(5)

(3)

TeachingthemWaterandclimatemanagement

Instituteofcropsresearchandirrigationforthesemi
aridtropics

(4)

Makingavailablegroupinsuranceandgroupcredit.

(5)

Improvingpostharvesttechnology.

Every year wehave to export rice and wheat in spite of

millionsgoinghungrybecauseof
(1)

Absenceofproperstoragesystem

(2)

Exportsofriceandwheatgivinghugeprofits

(3)

Absenceofeffectivedistributionchannels

(4)

Inefficientmarketingtechniques

(5)

Poortransportationfacilities.

SRI (system of rice intensification) evaluation in India

startedin2000at
(1)

TamilNaduAgriculturalUniversity

(2)

N a t i o n a l I n s t i t u t e o f A g r i c u l t u r e E x t e n s i o n
Management

(3)

InstituteofRuralManagement,Anand

(4)

InstituteofRuralManagement,Jaipur

(5)

TataInstituteofSocialSciences,Mumbai

11. According to the IPCC, satellite data shows that the dry
tropics,whererainfedagricultureprovides60percentof
theworld'sfoodandsomeoftheworld'spoorestlive,will
bethemostvulnerabletoclimatechange.Thefullformof
IPCCis
(1)

IntergovernmentalPanelonClimateChange

(2)

InternationalpanelonClimateChange

(3)

IntergovernmentalPlanforclimatechange

(4)

InternationalPlanforclimatechange

(5)

InternationalProgramforclimatechange

12. Whichoneofthefollowingiscorrectstatementformarket?
(1)

Potentialbuyersandsellersoftheproduct.

(2)

Anorganizationwhichprovidesfacilitiesforexchange
ofcommodities

(3)

Aplacewherecommoditiesareboughtandsold.

(4)

Allofthese

TheSRIsystemisbeingreplicatedbyWWFandICRISATfor
thethirsty.....
(1)

Sugarcanecrop

(2)

Sorghumcrop

(3)

Groundnutcrop

(4)

Millets

(5)

Pulses

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13. Adetrimentaleffectofthegreenrevolutionis...
(1)

Neglectoflowinputagriculturalpractices.

(2)

Moreemphasisonhybridvarietiesandthusdestroying
thelocalseedvarieties

(3)

Indiscriminateuseofpesticidesandfertilizersthus
pushingupthecostoffarming.

(4)

Destroyingthelocalseedvarieties

(5)

Eliminatingthenativeanimalbreeds

14. Unlikeorganicinputs,syntheticfertilizersaremadefrom
(1)

Petroleumbasedderivatives

(2)

Organicresidues

(3)

Composedharvestresidues

(4)

Animalmanure

(5)

Naturalgas

15. OrganicfarmingreducesCO2emissionsby.....
(1)

Storingatmosphericconcentrationsofthisgasinthe
soil

21. Globalwarmingisthephenomenonwhereinthegreenhouse
gases like CO2, CH4 and N20 ..... thereby increasing the
earth'smeansurfacetemperature.
(1)

Actasashieldandtrapthesolarheatfromescaping
intoouterspace

(2)

Act as a protective cover and do not let the solar

energyentertheatmosphere

(3)

Act as a shield and prevent the UV rays enter the

atmosphere

(4)

ActasacoveranddonotlettheUVraysescapeinto
theouterspace

(5)

Increasetheozonelayerthuscreatingaozoneholein
theatmosphere.

22. .....forcopingwiththeadverseeffectsofclimatechange
can be designed, taking advantage of natural variation
availableinthegermplasmandaliengenesaccessiblefrom
differentbiologicalsources.
(1)

Geneticstrategies

(2)

Mitigationstrategies
Adaptationstrategies

(2)

Usinglessfossilfuelbasedinputs

(3)

(3)

Eliminatinguseofsyntheticfertilizers

(4)

Molecularbreedingstrategies

(4)

Boostingsoilfertilityandhumuscontentofthesoil

(5)

Culturalstrategies

(5)

Noneofthese
23. Marginalcostisequalto

16. AccordingtotheIPCC,waterflowintheGangescoulddrop
by.....affectingmorethan400millionpeoplewhodepend
onitfordrinkingwater.

(1)

thedifferencebetweenaveragecostandthecostof
thelastunitproduced

(2)

theextracostofanadditionalunitproduced

(1)

Twothird

(2)

Onefourth

(3)

theaveragecostofthetotaloutputproduced.

(3)

Onethird

(4)

Half

(4)

thecostofthelastbutoneunitproduced.

(5)

Twofifth

17. AgriculturesectorinIndiacontributes.....percentofthe
totalgreenhousegases.
(1)

28

(2)

30

(3)

32

(4)

25

(5)

26

18. The WHO has built a ..... in Norway to tide over atotal
meltdown of Antarctica and Arctic, in the event of the
bleakestglobalwarmingscenario.
(1)

Seedvault

(2)

Fertilizervault

(3)

Knowledgevault

(4)

Cropsvault

(5)

GrainVault

19. The study conducted by the IARI (Indian Agricultural

ResearchInstitute)hasindicatedalossof45milliontons
in wheat production with every rise of ..... temperature
throughoutthegrowingperiod.
(1)

1C

(2)

2C

(3)

1.5C

(4)

2.1LC

(5)

3C

20. As to rice, the overall temperature increase of ..... are

predictedtoreduceyields.
(1)

240C

(2)

120C

(3)

230C

(4)

340C

(5)

350C

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24.Thewheatvarietiesgrowninthe.....and.....partsofthe
countrycarrygeneticpotentialfortoleratingusuallyhigher
temperaturesprevalentintheseareasduringwheatgrowing
season.
(1)

centralandsouthern

(2)

centralandnorthern

(3)

centralandeastern

(4)

centralandwestern

(5)

northernandeastern

25. Based on the present rate of population growth of 1.5

percentandpercapitaconsumptionof180gofwheatper
dayinthecountry,thedemandforwheatisexpectedtobe
around.....tonsby2020
(1)

109million

(2)

90million

(3)

115million

(4)

120million

(5)

118million

26. Theoverallproductionofwheatwhichisthemajorcontributor
to the food security system and provides more than 50
percent calories to the people mostly dependent on this
staplefoodhasgoneuptoarecordheightof.....metric
tonsin2009.
(1)

80.6million

(2)

75million

(3)

89million

(4)

78million

(5)

85million

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27. Ithasnowbeenestablishedthatmanyphysiologicaltraits
likegrainfillingduration(GFD),canopytemperature(CT)
havestrong correlationwith..... for wheat breeding for
heatstress.
(1)

Terminalheattolerance(THT)

(2)

Terminalheattransmission(THT)

(3)

Transferofheatterminal(THT)

(4)

Toleranceofheattransmutation(THT)

(5)

Triggeringofheattolerance(THT)

28. .....isthelargestproducerofpulsesintheworldwith25
percentshareintheglobalproduction.
(1)
(3)
(5)

China
Malaysia

(2)
(4)

(1)

Insects

(2)

Smallanimals

(3)

Crop

(4)

Pulses

(5)

Cereals

35. Theimpactofclimatechangeonpulsesproductivitymaybe
less severe than that of cereals. This is because pulses
havewideadaptivemechanismtocopewithadverseabiotic
factors.Givenbelowaretheadaptivemechanismsofpulses
ofwhichoneofthemiswrong.Selectthewrongone.
(1)

Deeprootingsystem

Russia

(2)

Highdegreeofdehydrationtolerance

India

(3)

Phenotypicplasticity

(4)

Lowermoistureretentioncapacity

(5)

Widerangingsensitivitytowardsphotothermoperiods

Bangladesh

29. Usingvalidated.....model,theimpactofclimatechange
scenariosonyieldofchickpeaweresimulated.
(1)

CHICKPGRO

(2)

CHICKGRO

(3)

CHICPGRO

(4)

CHICKPROG

(5)

CHICPGR

30. Rainfedpulsesinnorthernplains arenowbecoming.....

mainlyduetowidefluctuationsintemperatureandrainfall
characteristics.
(1)

Highriskcrops

(2)

Lowriskcrops

(3)

Highyieldcrops

(4)

Lowyieldcrops

(4)

Lesspreferredcrops

31. Theareaunderpulsesis progressivelyshiftingfrom.....

towards ..... where temperature fluctuation is not so
pronounced and rainfall notso unpredictable along with
rechargeableblacksoil.
(1)

NorthernpartscentralandSouthIndia

(2)

NorthernpartscentralandEasternparts

(3)

Northernpartscentralandwesternparts

(4)

Northernpartseasternandsouthernparts

(5)

Northernpartswesternandsouthernparts

32. Amongpulses,.....isverysensitivetoabruptfluctuations
oftemperatureseitherlowerorhigherextremesleadingto
massiveflowerdrop.
(1)

Pigeonpea

(2)

Fieldpea

(3)

Chickpea

(4)

Mungbean

(5)

Urdbean

33. IncreaseinatmosphericCO2 concentrationhasa.....impact

on yield of pulses falling in the category of C3 crops by
stimulatingplantphotosynthesis,enhancingfertilizationand
reducingthewaterlossviaplantrespiration,butthehigher
atmosph eric tempera ture due to green house effect
adverselyaffectstheproductivity.
(1)

Positive

(2)

Negative

(3)

Neutral

(4)

Constructive

(5)

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34. Anyshiftinenvironmentaltemperatureislikelytoinfluence
the.....behaviourmorethanplantsandlargeranimals.

36. Theimpactofclimatechangeonpulsesproductivitymaybe
lesssevere than that of cereals. One of the reasons for
thisisthatthewaterrequirementofpulsesisabout.....of
therequirementofcereals.
(1)

Onefifth

(2)

Onethird

(3)

Onefourth

(4)

Half

(5)

Twothird

37. Theabilityof.....togrowindryconditionstolerateheat,
saltandwaterlogging,makeitanidealcropforsemiarid
areaswheremanyoftheworld'spoorlive.
(1)

Sorghum

(2)

Pulses

(3)

Rice

(4)

Cereal

(5)

Wheat

38. Apublicdistributionsystemfavoringriceandwheatalong
withintensiveproductionofthesetwocropshaveresulted
indeclineintheshareofdrylandcerealslikemilletstothe
nationalfoodbasket.Thischangeinthetrendhasresulted
inthefollowingeffects.Outoftheseoneiswrong.Choose
thewrongone.
(1)

Nutritionaldisorders

(2)

Diseasessuchasdiabetesandobesity

(3)

Morefodderforanimals

(4)

Rapidenvironmentaldegradation

(5)

Increased vulnerability of rural people to climate

change

39. Evena.....canbringinenoughprofittothefarmerifthe
cropresidueorstoverisputtocommercialuse,beyonduse
asfodder,likeinmakingpaper,andasgreenbuildingmaterial
industry.
(1)

Cropfailure

(2)

Lowyield

(3)

Lowrains

(4)

Highyield

(5)

Drought

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40. Sorghumcanbeprofitablyusedtocontrolemissionofharmful
g r e e nh o u s e g a se s i n t w o w a y s b y i n c r e a s i ng t h e
digestibilityoffodderandthuslessentheemittingofgases
byourlargecattlepopulationandsecondlybyregulating
nitrificationas
(1)

Ithasbeenconfirmedthatsorghumfacilitatesnitrogen
useefficiency

(2)

S orgh um releas es a lot o f fertili zer N t o the

environment

(3)

Sorghumdoesnotrequirenitrogenfertilizers

(4)

Sorghumisadrylandcrop

(5)

Sorghumenhancesnitrificationassociatedprocesses.

41. Withthegrowingcitiesandtheindustriescompetingwith
agriculture for ..... , the prospects of agriculture in dry
landcoveringtwothirdofarablelandisthreatened
(1)

Water

(2)

Land

(3)

Finance

(4)

Governmentsupport

(4)

Noneofthese

42. Growthrateinvegetableandfruitsproductionroseform.6
percent(195059)to2.5percentduring20002006making
Indiathesecondlargestproducerofvegetablesintheworld
after ......
(1)

PeoplesrepublicofChina

(2)

Russia

(3)

Japan

(4)

Malaysia

(5)

Pakistan

46. Overtwobillionpeople,mostlywomenandchildrensuffer
from micro nutrients and ..... deficiencies in developing
countries
(1)

VitaminA

(2)

VitaminB

(3)

VitaminC

(4)

VitaminD

(5)

VitaminK

47. .....isacommercialventureinIndiatoproduceseedlingsof
tomato,capsicum,cauliflower,cabbage,chilliandbrinjal
hybrids.
(1)

Containerizedseedlingproduction

(2)

UseofF1hybrids

(3)

Applicationofhighproductiontechnologies

(4)

Protectedcultivation

(5)

Graftingofvegetablecrops

48. Micronutrientdeficienciesareobservedinvegetablecrops
inrecentyearsduetointensivecropping,lossoftopsoilby
erosionandmicronutrientsbyleaching,limingofsoiland
(1)

reduceduseoffarmyardmanure

(2)

increaseduseofchemicals

(3)

soilbornediseases

(4)

lowvirusresistance

(5)

nonavailabilityofhybridseeds

49. Use of PGPR ..... such as Azospir illum, Azotoba cter

Pseudomonas fluorescence, PSB (Phosphate Solubilizing
Bacteria)andBacillussubtilishelpsinincreasingyieldsin
additiontoconventionalplantprotection.

43. InIndia,therequiredgrowthrateofvegetablestoachieve
the domestic demand in 2020 is ..... percent over the
productionof111.8milliontonesin200607

(1)

PlantGrowthPromotingRhizobacteria

(2)

ProtectingandgrowthpromotingRhizobacteria

(3)

PromotionofgrowthinplantsbyRhizobacteria
PropagatinggrowthinplantsbyRhizobacteria
ProtectionofgreenplantsbyRhizobacteria.

(1)

0.9

(2)

(4)

(3)

1.1

(4)

1.5

(5)

(5)

2.1

44. Technologicaladvancementswithimprovedgenepooland
management practices havehelped to achieve vegetable
productivityof.....inthecountry.

50. UseofF1hybrids,applicationofHPT.....andminimizedpre
and postharvest losses will enhancetotal production of
vegetables.
(1)

Highproductiontechnologies

(1)

15tonnes/ha

(2)

18tonnes/ha

(2)

Highpromotiontechnologies

(3)

20tonnes/ha

(4)

10tonnes/ha

(3)

Highprojectiontechnologies

(4)

Harvestproductiontechnologies

(5)

Harvestpromotiontechnologies

(5)

12tonnes/ha

45. By conventional breeding methods, many high yielding

varieties,hybridsandvegetablevarietiesresistanttobiotic
and abiotic stresses have been developed in almost all
vegetable crops. The major bottleneck in enhancing
productivityis
(1)

Nonavailabilityofqualityseeds

(2)

Nonavailabilityofpestanddiseaseresistantvarieties

(3)

Innovativenessonpartoffarmers

(4)

Lackofrisktakinginitiativebyfarmers

(5)

Outdatedmanagementpracticesbyprivateandpublic
agencies.

(44)of(95)

51. .....tomatoeshavinghigheranthocyanin,biofortifiedlettuce
having2532percentmorecalciumandGMtomatoesagainst
Alzheimersdiseaseareafewexamplesofbiotechnological
applications.
(1)

Purple

(2)

Deepredcolored

(3)

Green

(4)

Yellow

(5)

Blue

52. Spicesshare.....percentoftheareaand.....percentof
productionofthetotalhorticulturalcropofIndia.
(1)

13,2

(2)

10,3

(3)

14,4

(4)

11,1

(5)

12,5
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53. Indianspicesholdaprominentpositioninworldspicetrade
withashareof.....percentinvolume.
(1)

48

(2)

50

(3)

45

(4)

38

(5)

35

54. With.....ofthegeographicalareathecountrypresentsa
largenumberofcomplexagroclimaticsituationsfavorable
forspiceproduction.
(1)

329millionhectares

(2)

330millionhectares

(3)

326millionhectares

(4)

335millionhectares

(5)

337millionhectares

55. Thespiceslikeblackpepperandcardamomarepredominantly
grownin.....andadjacentregions.
(1)
(3)
(5)

WesternGhats
Easternghats

(2)
(4)

(2)

MadhyaPradeshandGujarat

(3)

ChhattisgarhandBihar

(4)

JharkhandandRajasthan

(5)

RajasthanandBihar

61. AssertionA:InAustralia,cattlerearingisdonemorefor
meatthanformilk.
ReasonR:Australiansaretraditionallynonvegetarians.

DIRECTIONS:Forthefollowingquestions,four/fiveoptionsare
given.Choosethecorrectoption.
62. Matchthefollowingpairsandchooseyouranswerfromthe
codesgivenbelow
Laws

Year

1.WaterPollutionControlAct

A.1980

NorthIndia

2.Forest(conservation)Act

B.1974

3.AirPollutionControlAct

C.1986

4.EnvironmentalProtectionAct

D.1981

56. Theseedspiceslikecumin,fennel,andfenugreekaremainly
confinedtowesternpartofthecountryin.....and.....
RajasthanandGujarat

ReasonR:Moreandmorepeopleinruralareasarebecoming
literate.

SouthIndia

Deccanplateau

(1)

60. AssertionA:Disguisedunemploymentisgenerallyobserved
inIndianagriculturalsector.

12341234
(1)

ABCD

(2)

BADC

(3)

DCBA

(4)

BCAD

63. MatchListIwithListII.Choosetheanswerfromthecodes
below
ListI

57. Saffron is from ..... and ..... is the largest producer of

largecardamom.

ListII

1.CART

A.Smallindustries

2.ICICI

B.AgriculturalMarketing

3.NAFED

C.Ruraltechnology

4.NSIC

D.Financialinstitution

(1)

JammuandKashmir,Sikkim

(2)

JammuandKashmir,Meghalaya

(3)

JammuandKashmir,Punjab

(1)

CDBA

(2)

ABCD

(4)

JammuandKashmir,ArunachalPradesh

(3)

BCDA

(4)

DABC

(5)

JammuandKashmir,Assam

58. ErodedistrictinTamilNaduisanimportant.....producer,
contributingmorethan7percentfornationalpool.

1234

1234

64. MatchListIwithListIIandselectthecorrectanswerusing
thecodesgivenbelow.
ListI

(1)

Turmeric

(2)

Blackpepper

A.DevelopmentProgramme

(3)

Cardamom

(4)

Cumin

B.NationalCouncilofAppliedEconomicResearch

(5)

Fenugreek

C.IndiraGandhiInstituteofDevelopmentResearch
D.WorldBank

DIRECTIONS: Givenbelowaretwostatements,oneofthem
labeled as Assertion A and the other labeled as Reason R.
Chooseyouranswerasfollows
(1) if both A and R are true and R is the cor rect
explanationofA.
(2) if both A and R ar e tru e but R i s not corr ect
explanationofA.
(3) ifAistruebutRisfalse.
(4) ifAisfalsebutRistrue.
(5) ifbothAandRarefalse

ListII
1.UNIndiaHumanDevelopmentReport
2.IndiaDevelopmentReport
3.WorldDevelopmentReport
4.HumanDevelopmentReport
ABCD

ABCD

(1)

4123

(2)

4213

(3)

2341

(4)

2143

65. Whichofthefollowinginwronglymatched?
59. AssertionA:Disguisedunemploymentisacommonfeature
ofIndianagriculture.

(1)

NationalInstituteofAnimalGeneticsKarnal

(2)

IndianInstituteofsugarcaneResearchLucknow

ReasonR:Indiahasbeenrelativelyslowinadoptingfarm
mechanization.

(3)

CentralInstituteofCoastalEngineeringforFisheries
Bangalore

(4)

CentralDuckBreedingFarmChikmagalur

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(45)of(95)

66. Which scheduled bank sponsored the setting up of first

regionalruralbank(PrathamaGraminBank)inIndia
(1)

StateBankofIndia

(2)

PunjabNationalBank

(3)

StateBankofPatiala

(4)

SyndicateBank

67. TheNationalBankforAgricultureandRuralDevelopment
(NABARD)wassetupin
(1)

1979

(2)

1980

(3)

1981

(4)

1982

68. Disguisedunemploymentistheprominentfeatureof
(1)

tertiarysector

(2)

secondarysector

(3)

primarysector

(4)

alloftheabove

69. 'Selfsufficiency'infood,inthetruesenseoffreedomfrom
hunger,hasnotbeenachievedinIndiainspiteofamore
thanthreefoldrise in foodgrains productionover1950
1990.Whichofthefollowingisthereasonforit?
(I)

The green revolution has been restricted to small

pocketsofthecountry

(II) Thecostoffoodistoohighcomparedtotheearnings'
ofthepoor
(III) Too much emphasis is laid on wheat and paddy
comparedtothecoarsegrains
(IV) Theofthegreenrevolutionhavelargelyaccruedto
thecashcropratherthanfoodcrops
(1)

I,II,III

(2)

I,II,IV

(3)

I,III,IV

(4)

II,III,IV

70. TheaveragetotalexpenditureoftheCentralGovernment
envisagedintheTenthPlanas
(1)

15.6percent

(2)

24.2percent

(3)

36percent

(4)

44.8percent

71. WhichisthelargestbankofIndiaandisalsoamongthe100
topmostbanksoftheworld?
(1)

ReserveBankofIndia (2)

StateBankofIndia

(3)

PunjabNationalBank

CentralBankofIndia

(4)

72. ThebasicobjectiveofplanninginIndiais
(1)

increasingemploymentopportunities

(2)

expansionofkeyindustries

(3)

increaseinagriculturaloutput

(4)

alloftheabove

73. Thebestsolutionforovercomingtheevileffectsofsmall
anduneconomicholdingsis
(1)

cooperativefarming

(2)

usingcapitalintensivetechnology

(3)

rapidindustrialisation

(4)

urbanisationofruralpopulation

74. WhowasthefirstChairmanofthePlanningCommissioner?
(1)

Dr.S.Radhakrishnan

(2)

Dr.RajendraPrasad

(3)

Pt.JawaharlalNehru

(4)

Noneofthese

(46)of(95)

75. Who is normally the exofficio Chairman of the Planning

CommissionofIndia?
(1) MinisterofFinance
(2) MinisterofStateforPlanning
(3) PrimeMinister
(4) Dy.PrimeMinister
76. WhoistheChairmanofthePlanningCommission?
(1) MinisterofPlanning
(2) MinisterofStateforPlanning
(3) PrimeMinister
(4) Dy.PrimeMinister
77. TheFirstFiveYearPlancoveredtheperiod
(1) 194752
(2) 195055
(3) 195156
(4) 195257
78. Whichofthefollowingpairsisincorrect?
Plan Laidemphasison
(1) I
(i)Agri.&ruraldevelopment
(2) II
(ii)Expansionofbasicandheavyind.
(3) III
(iii)Selfsufficiencyinfoodandexpansionof
basicindustrieslikesteel
(4) IV
(iv)Politicalgrowthofthecountry
79. WhoamongthefollowingisnotamemberoftheNational
DevelopmentCouncil?
(1) PrimeMinister
(2) MembersofPlanningCommission
(3) ChiefMinisterofStates
(4) ThePresidentofIndia
80. Matchthefollowing
(A)FirstFiveYearPlan
(B)RollingPlan
(C)AnnualPlans
(D)FourthFiveYearPlan
A B C D
(1) 2
3 4
1
(2) 3
1 2
4
(3) 3
4 1
2
(4) 1
3 4
2

(1)196669
(2)196974
(3)195156
(4)197879

81. ThehighestbodywhichapprovestheFiveYearPlanisthe
(1)

FinanceMinistry

(2)

LokSabha

(3)

RajyaSabha

(4)

NationalDevelopmentCouncil

82. UnderwhichFiveYearPlandidagricultureregisteranegative
growth?
(1)

Fifth

(2)

Fourth

(3)

Third

(4)

Second

83. ThecommodityforwhichIndiaspendsthelargestamount
toimportis
(1)

ironandsteel

(2)

foodgrains

(3)

crudepetroleum

(4)

fertilizers
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84. Inworld,pulsecropsaregrowninlargestareain

94. Riceisa

(1)

India

(2)

IndiaandUSA

(1)

summerandkharifcrop (2)

monsooncrop

(3)

IndiaandChina

(4)

USA,IndiaandChina

(3)

rabicrop

(4)

Noneoftheabove

85. Maintraditionalcropsare

95. Wheatisa

(1)

moong,soybean,summergroundnut,sunflower

(1)

rabicrop

(2)

summercrop

(2)

soybean,groundnut,sugarcane

(3)

kharifcrop

(4)

wintercrop

(3)

sugarcane,cotton

(4)

(1)and(3)

96. Sugarcaneisa

86. Croppingpatternischangingdueto
(1)

domesticdemands

(2)

exportrequirement

(3)

(1)and(2)

(4)

Noneoftheabove

87. Residual moistureafter postkharif andpostrabi season

canbeutilizedby
(1)

growingshortdurationvarieties

(2)

intercropping

(3)

(1)and(2)

(4)

Noneoftheabove

(1)

kharifcrop

(2)

summercrop

(3)

jayadcrop

(4)

rabicrop

97. MaizeZeais
(1)

Kharifandsummercrop

(2)

Rabicrop

(3)

Wintercrop

(4)

Monsooncrop

98. Groundnutisa

88. WhichorganizationwastheforerunnertotheWorldTrade
Organisation?

(1)

Kharifcrop

(2)

Summercrop

(3)

Rabicrop

(4)

Kharifandsummercrop

99. Indianseedprogrammeincludes

(1)

TheWorldBank

(1)

centralandstategovernment

(2)

GeneralAgreementonTariffandTrade

(2)

ICAR,SAU's

(3)

TheUnitedNationsDevelopmentFund

(3)

Public,Privateandcooperativesectors

(4)

TheLeagueofNations

(4)

Alloftheabove

89. Foodgrain production was quite low after independence

becauseofafterpartition
(1)

lawandorderproblems

(2)

drought

(3)

highyieldingareasandPunjabgoingtoPakistan

(4)

(1)and(3)

90. Themaincropseasonsare
(1)

three

(2)

four

(3)

two

(4)

five

100. IndianSeedSectorconsistsof
(1)

NSC,SFCI,SSCs

(2)

Privateseedcompanies

(3)

Noneof(1)and(2)

(4)

Both(1)and(2)

101. Seedisanessentialcommodity.
(1)

Yes

(2)

No

(3)

Insomestates

(4)

Duringdroughttimesonly

102. Theseedwasdeclaredessentialunder
91. Themaincropseasonsare

(1)

EssentialCommodityAct,1955

(1)

Kharif,rabi,jayad

(2)

Kharif

(2)

SeedAct,1971

(3)

Kharifandrabi

(4)

Rabi

(3)

EssentialCommodityAct,1971

(4)

Noneofthese

92. ThemaincropsofKharifare
(1)

rice,jowar,bajra

(2)

maize,cotton,sugarcane

(1)

TheSeed(Control)Order,1983

(3)

(1)and(2)

(2)

TheEssentialCommodityAct,1995

(4)

Noneoftheabove

(3)

Bothoftheabove

(4)

Noneoftheabove

103. Seedproductionanddistributioniscontrolledunder

93. Themaincropsofrabiare
(1)

wheat,jowar,barley

(2)

gram,linseed,rapeseed,mustard

(3)

(1)and(2)

(4)

Noneoftheabove

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(47)of(95)

104. MainaimofNewSeedPolicyistomakeavailabletoIndian
farmers

113. Thelawofdiminishingretimeappliesmoregenerallytowhich
ofthefollowingindustry

(1)

Bestqualityseedmaterialavailableanywhereinworld

(1)

Chemical

(2)

Film

(2)

Bestqualityplantmaterialavailableanywhereinworld

(3)

Agriculture

(4)

Cloths

(3)

Bothoftheabove

(4)

Noneoftheabove

114. Afarmerhavinglessthanonehectareirrigatedlandisknown
a s

105. Theplantquarantineclearanceisrequestedunder
(1)

Plant,FruitandSeed(RegulationofimportinIndia)
Order,1989

(2)

Plant(RegulationofimportinIndia)Order,1989

(3)

SeedAct,1989

(4)

Noneoftheabove

106. Exportofseedisallowed
(1)

liberallyexceptafewwhichneedslicence

(2)

liberallyallowed

(3)

licencesisrequired

(4)

notallowed

Bigfarmers

(2)

Smallfarmers

(3)

Marginalfarmers

(4)

Noneofthese

115. In which of the following farming land is owned by

Governmentandworkersworkasemployersgettingtheir
wagesregularly.
(1)

Peasantfarming

(2)

Collectivefanning

(3)

Cooperativefarming

(4)

Statefanning

116. Which of the following is a major objective of planning

commission?

107. Overallimprovementinseedqualitywastheaimof
(1)

NationalSeedProjectIII(SNPIII)

(2)

NationalAgricultureControlBoard

(3)

NationalSeedBoard

(4)

Noneoftheabove

(1)

Increaseagriculturalproduction

(2)

Increaseemploymentopportunities

(3)

Reducethepressureofpopulationonland

(4)

Alloftheabove

117. TheFoodCorporationofIndiawasestablishedinJanuary
.....tosupplygrainsatreasonablepricestotheconsumers.

108. NSPIIIstandsfor
(1)

NationalSeedProjectIII

(2)

NationalSecurityProgrammeIII

(3)

NationalSeedProgrammeIII

(4)

NationalSafetyPlanIII

(1)

1945

(2)

1955

(3)

1965

(4)

1975

118. Whichofthefollowingprincipleisveryusefulindetermining
thebestuseoflimitedresources?

109. ThePlantquarantineactivitiesaimsat
(1)

(1)

preventingintroductionofexoticpestsanddiseases
intothecountry

(2)

preventingexportofinfectiousmaterial

(3)

Both(1)and(2)

(4)

Noneoftheabove

(1)

Lawofdiminishingregime

(2)

Lawsubstitution

(3)

Lawofequimarginalreturns

(4)

Lawofopportunitycost

119. Inwhichofthefollowingfarmingtheowneroflandisfarmer
(1)

Pleasant

(2)

Mixed

(3)

Diversified

(4)

Specialized

110. Plantactivitiesareimplementedthrough
(1)

DestructiveInsectsandPestsAct

(2)

Plants,FruitsandSeedsOrder1989

(3)

InsecticideandBiogasAct,1989

(1)

Statefarming

(2)

Cooperativefarming

(4)

Both(1)and(2)

(3)

Collectivefarming

(4)

Noneoftheabove

111. The loan given for purchasing of seeds and fertilizers is

calledas
(1)

Longterm

(2)

Shortterm

(3)

Medium

(4)

Allofthese

120. Inwhichofthefollowingfarming,largenumberoffarmers
ownandtheymanagethefarmiscalledas

121. Mediumtermloanarerepayableupto.....years.
(1)

Three

(2)

Five

(3)

Two

(4)

None

122. Shorttermlaonisgivenforaperiodof.....year.
112. Which of the followingholding is smaller than economic
holdingandmaybeabletoprovideareasonablestandard
ofleavingtothecultivator,butnotsufficientforthepurpose
ofagriculturaloperationisknownas?
(1)

Economicholding

(2)

Operationalholding

(3)

Basicholding

(4)

Optimumholding

(48)of(95)

(1)

One

(2)

Two

(3)

Three

(4)

Four

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123. Longtermloanisgivenfortheperiodof.....year.

135. Thericegrainisa

(1)

5to15

(2)

25to35

(1)

Caryopsis

(2)

Psoropsis

(3)

45to55

(4)

65to75

(3)

Bothoftheabove

(4)

Noneofthese

124. A farming system in which more than 50% receipts are

derivedfromonesources
(1)

Collectivefarming

(2)

Cooperativefarming

(3)

Specializedfarming

(4)

Irrigationfarming

136. Howmanyaminoacidsarenormallypresentinrice?
(1)

15

(2)

17

(3)

19

(4)

21

137.Theredorpurplecolourofriceisowingto
125. Whichofthefollowingisbroadleavedspecies?
(1)

Teak

(2)

Sal

(3)

Sterculea

(4)

Alloftheabove

126. Whichofthefollowingisshadebearertree?

(1)

anthocyanin

(2)

nonanthocyanin

(3)

plastids

(4)

Noneofthese

138. Consider the following statements: In paddy, fertilizer

applicationshouldbedirectedtothe

(1)

Magniferaindica

I .

oxidisedzone

(2)

Mimosopaelengi

II.

reducedzone

(3)

Delineaindica

III. surfaceofthesestatements

(4)

Alloftheabove

Choosethecorrectcombination

127.Whichofthefollowingtreeissuitableforsportindustry?

(1)

Iiscorrect

(2)

IIandIIIarecorrect

(1)

MorusAlba

(2)

Silverfir

(3)

IIiscorrect

(3)

Spruce

(4)

Ailanthus

(4)

IandIIarecorrect

128. Whichofthefollowingisbestgrazingseasoninforest?

139. Thericecroptoleratessubmergencebecause

(1)

Premonsoon

(2)

Duringmonsoon

(1)

theplantdoesnotneedoxygen

(3)

Postmonsoon

(4)

Aroundtheyear

(2)

theplanthasmechanismtotransportoxygenthrough
leaves

(3)

bacteriakeeptherhizosphereoxidized

(4)

o xy ge n pe ne tr at i ng t he r oo t z on e th ro ug h ai r
movementissufficient

129. Rangerstrainingfirststartedduringtheyearof
(1)

1971

(2)

1978

(3)

1988

(4)

1989

130. FirstVanMahotsavawasorganizedinIndiaon
(1)

1July,1946

(2)

1July,1947

(3)

1Aug.1948

(4)

1July,1950

131. Indianforestsareasourceof
(1)

Pulpwood

(2)

Gums

(3)

Lac

(4)

Alloftheabove

140. Totalnumberofcroppingpatternsinvolvingpaddyandjowar
is
(1)

10

(2)

29

(3)

30

(4)

60

141. Whichtypeofdaysarerequiredfortuberizationinsweet
potato
(1)

Shortdays

(2)

Longdays

(3)

Dayneutral

(4)

Alltypes

132. CentralRiceResearchInstituteislocatedat
(1)

PortBlair

(2)

Cuttack

(3)

Manila

(4)

Bangalore

133. Whichvarietyofriceissuitableforbothrabiandkharifin
AndhraPradeshandeasternstates?
(1)

VLDhan81

(2)

Neerja

(3)

CR629256

(4)

ProAgro103

134. Whichvarietyofriceisgrowninshallowlowlandareasof
easternIndia?
(1)

VLDhan

(2)

Neerja

(3)

CR629256

(4)

ProAgro103

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142. Sugarbeetisa
(1)

Tetraplarid

(2)

Hexaploid

(3)

Octaploid

(4)

Alloftheabove

143. Toxicgasesfrombrickkilnsarethemaincauseof
(1)

Dieback

(2)

Blacktop

(3)

Twigdieback

(4)

Stemcanker

144. Whichareselfpollinatedvegetablecrops?
(1)

Carrot,Garlic,Okra,Tomato

(2)

Onion,DatePalm,SweetPotato

(3)

Pea,Okra,Potato,Chilli

(4)

Brinjal,Lettuce,Garlic

(49)of(95)

145. Carrotisarichsourceof

154. Theratiooforganiccarbontoorganicmatterinsoilsis

(1)

Carotene

(1)

1.0:1.7

(2)

1.0:2.0

(2)

Cynacobalamine

(3)

1.7:1.0

(4)

2.0:1.0

(3)

Pyridnme

(4)

Alloftheabove

155. Aunitofilliteconsistsof

146. PusaYamdagniisvarietyof
(1)

Radish

(2)

Potato

(3)

Carrot

(4)

Spinach

147. Blackrotofcarrotiscausedby
(1)

Botrytiscinaria

(2)

Alternariaradicina

(3)

Erwiniacarotovaro

(4)

Noneofthese

(1)

silica

(2)

alumina

(3)

potassium

(4)

Alloftheabove

156. TheCECvalueofmontmorillonite.....isme/100g.
(1)

80140

(2)

80150

(3)

80160

(4)

80170

157. If a soil has more than 15% exchangeable sodium it is

consideredtobe
(1)

acidic

(2)

alkali

(3)

neutral

(4)

Noneoftheabove

148. Blackheartofpotatoisowingto
158. SoilswithhighpHaregenerallydeficientin

(1)

EfficiencyofCO2

(2)

LackofO2

(1)

ZnandMn

(2)

BandFe

(3)

Efficiencyofmicronutrient

(3)

CuandMo

(4)

CaandMg

(4)

Alloftheabove

149. Temperatureandrelativehumidityforstorageofpotatois
(1)

3.1Cand6070%RH

(2)

3.3Cand8085%RH

(3)

3.5Cand7580%RH

(4)

3.7Cand9095%RH

159. Pistonspeedofthehighspeedtractorenginerangebetween
.....m/min.
(1)

100to500

(2)

200to500

(3)

300to500

(4)

400to500

160. TotalbreedsofCattleinIndiaare

150. Theprincipleofcroprotationis
(1)

Thecropswithtaprootsshouldbefollowedbythose
whichhaveafibrousrootsystem

(2)

The leguminous crops should be grown after non

leguminouscrops

(3)

More exhaustive crops should be following by less

exhaustivecrops

(4)

Selectionofthecropsshouldbedemandbased

(5)

Alloftheabove

(1)

28

(2)

27

(3)

10

(4)

30

161. FemaleTharparkerisa
(1)

gooddraughtanimal

(2)

excellentmilkbreed

(3)

poordraughtanimal

(4)

Noneoftheabove

162. Mostpopular dualpurposecattlebreed ofIndogangetic

plainsis
(1)

Hariana

(2)

Surti

(3)

Meharana

(4)

Noneoftheabove

151. Whichofthefollowingisnotasystemoffarming?
(1)

Statefarming

(2)

Collectivefarming

(3)

Cooperativefarming

(4)

Dryfarming

(3)

A.B.Vajpayee
MamataBannerjee

(2)
(4)

Karnataka

(3)

TamilNadu

SunderLalBahuguna

(4)

Gujarat

absorption of P2O5 by the plant and synthesis of

biologicalcompounds

(2)

leachingoffromsoilbypercolatingwaters

(3)

conversionofsolublephosphorusintoplantunavailable
forms

(4)

anionexchangewithcolloidalconstituentsofsoil

(50)of(95)

areasalongtheriverKr'shnaandadjoiningareasof
Karnataka

(2)

153. Phosphorusfixationreferstothephenomenonof
(1)

(1)

MedhaPatkar

152. WhoisassociatedwithNarmadaBachaoAndolan?
(1)

163. Krishnavalleycattlebreedisnativeof

164. BestbreedofAsiancontinentis
(1)

Sahiwal

(2)

Hariana

(3)

Rathi

(4)

Noneoftheabove

165. InWestIndiesnewbreedwasdevelopedbycrossingJersey
M/Fwith
(1)

Sahiwal

(2)

Rathi

(3)

Gir

(4)

Noneoftheabove

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166. WestBengalUniversityofAgricultureandFisheriesScience
islocatedat
(1)

Kolkata

(2)

Barrackpore

(3)

Kalyani

(4)

Noneoftheabove

167.During20002001subsidiestofishfarmersincreasedfor
(1)

Constructionofpondsandtanks

(2)

Inputforfishcultures

(3)

Buildingofhouses

(4)

Alloftheabove

Greenmussel

(2)

Pearloysters

(3)

Clamsandseaweed

(4)

Alloftheabove

(1)

Agronomy,PlantProtection,Extension

(2)

Botany,Horticulture,Agronomy

(3)

AgriculturalExtension,Economics,Agronomy

(4)

Noneoftheabove

176. Whichofthefollowingauthoriesisresponsibleforthesmooth
operation of all extension activities in the districts that
comprisethezone?

168. Mariculturetechnologiesaredevelopedfor
(1)

175. Subdivisionalextensionofficershasateamofsubjectmatter
specialists,eachteamhasthreespecialistfromwhichof
thefollowingdiscipline?

(1)

PAO

(2)

SDEO

(3)

JDA

(4)

AEO

177.In India Panchayati Raj system was introduced by the

recommendationofwhichcommittee?
(1)

BasantRaoPatil

(2)

IndiraGandhi

(3)

AshokaMehata

(4)

BalawantraiMehta

169. PUFAstandsfor
(1)

PolyunsaturatedFattyAcid

(2)

Polyurinaryfollicleagency

(3)

Polymeraseunsaturatedfattyacid

(4)

Noneoftheabove

170. WhatisthepositionofIndia ininlandfishproductionin

world?
(1)

First

(2)

Second

(3)

Third

(4)

Fourth

178. I n a p pr e c ia t i on o f h i s e n vi r o nm e n ta l re s e ar c h a n d
campaigns,spaceagencyNASAhasrecentlynamedaminor
planetafterwhomamongthefollowing?
(1)

SainudeenPattazhy

(2)

AnilAgarwal

(3)

SunitaNarayan

(4)

R.K.Pachauri

179. Who among the following was not a member of Cabinet

Mission?
(1)

SirStaffordCripps

(2)

A.V. Alexander

(3)

Radcliffe

(4)

PethwickLawrence

171. WSSVstandsfor
180. Underwhichoneofthefollowingsystemsofassessment,
theBritishGovernmentcollectedrevenuedirectlyfromthe
farmers?

(1)

WasteSoilSalinityVirus

(2)

WhiteSpotSyndromeVirus

(3)

WhiteSpotSyndromeVessel

(1)

Zamindari

(2)

Ryotwari

(4)

Noneoftheabove

(3)

Annawari

(4)

Desaiwari

172. The National Scheme of Trainingof Rural Youth for Self

EmploymentwasinitiatedfromAugust1979withtheprinciple
objectivesof
(1)

Provideemploymentofthepoorest

(2)

Removalofunemploymentamongyouth

(3)

Studyoftribalareas

(4)

Systematictrainingofbackwardyouth

173. Which of the followingprojects was originally started to

rehabilitatethedisplacedpersonsfromPakistan?
(1)

Etawah

(2)

Nilokheri

(3)

IVS

(4)

Sevagram

174. Intrainingandvisitsystemeachsubdivisionsextension
officer supervises and provides technical support to the
eight.....underhisjurisdiction.
(1)

PAU

(2)

TNAU

(3)

AEO

(4)

KAU

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181. Who among the following has started the Public Works
DepartmentinIndiainAD1848?
(1)

LordWilliamBentinck

(2)

LordDalhousie

(3)

LordWellesley

(4)

LordCornwalls

182. WhoamongthefollowingwasthriceelectedPresidentof
theIndianNationalCongress?
(1)

DadabhaiNaroji

(2)

SurendranathBanjerjee

(3)

GopalKrishnaGokhale

(4)

ShankaranNair

183. Whoamongthefollowingwasnotapartytotheleaguethat
wasdefeatedbytheBritishintheBattleofBuxar?
(1)

Shujauddaulah

(2)

ShahAlam

(3)

MirJafar

(4)

MirKasim

(51)of(95)

184. InBuddhism,whatdoesPatimokkhastandfor?
(1)

AdescriptionofMahayanaBuddhism

(2)

AdescriptionofHinayanaBuddhism

Subject

List

(3)

TherulesoftheSangha

(1)

(4)

ThequestionofKingMenader

(2)

Forest

TheConcurrentList

(3)

Insurance

TheUnionList

(4)

MarriageandDivorce

TheConcurrentList

185. WhoamongthefollowingwasthefounderoftheMuslim
League?
(1)

MuhammadAliJinnah

(2)

ShaukatAli

(3)

NawabSalimullah

(4)

AgaKhan

186. WhosephilosophyiscalledtheAdvaita?
(1)

Ramanujacharya

(2)

Shankaracharya

(3)

Nagarjuna

(4)

Vasumitra

187. ConsiderthefollowingVicePresidentsofIndia
I .

V.V.Giri

III. B.D.Jatti

II.

M.Hidayatullah

IV.

G.S.Pathak

Whichoneofthefollowingisthecorrectchronologyoftheir
tenures?
(1)

IIVIIIII

(2)

IIIIIIIV

(3)

IIIIIIIV

(4)

IVIIIIII

188. MatchListAwithListIIandselectthecorrectanswerusing
thecodegivenbelowtheLists

I .

191. WithreferencetotheConstitutionofIndia,whichoneof
thefollowingpairsisnotcorrectlymatched?

ListI

ListII

(Person)

(Associatedinformationof )

G.K.Gokhale

(A)ServantsofIndianSociety

II. M.M.Malaviya

(B)BenarasHinduUniversity

III. C.Rajagopalachari

(C)FreeIndiaSociety

IV. V.V.Savarkar

(D)SwatantraParty

(1)

IA,IIB,IIID,IVC

(2)

IC,IID,IIIB,IVA

(3)

IA,IID,IIIB,IVC

(4)

IC,IIB,IIID,IVA

189. In which one of the following Ministries has the census

organizationbeenfunctioningonapermanentfootingsince
1961?
(1)

HealthandFamilyWelfare

(2)

HomeAffairs

(3)

SocialJusticeandEmpowerment

(4)

HumanResourceDevelopment

190. Whichofthefollowingisnotarecommendationofthe'Ashok
MehtaCommitteeonPanchayatiRaj?
(1)

OpenparticipationofpoliticalpartiesinPanchayati
Raj affairs.

(2)

Creationofathreetiersystem.

(3)

Reser vation of seats fo r S chedu led Caste s and

ScheduledTribes.

(4)

Compulsory powers of taxation to Panchayati Raj

institution.

StockExchange

TheStateList

192. Whichofthefollowingpetroleumrefineryproductshasthe
lowestboilingpoint?
(1)

Kerosene

(2)

Diesel

(3)

Gasoline

(4)

Lubricatingoil

193. InwhichoneofthefollowingplaceswasAsia'sfirstExport
ProcessingZone(EPZ)setup?
(1)

SantaCruz

(2)

Kandla

(3)

Cochin

(4)

Surat

194. Whichoneofthefollowingzonesoftheatmosphereisrich
inozonegas?
(1)

Mesosphere

(2)

Troposphere

(3)

Stratosphere

(4)

Ionosphere

195. Whichoneofthefollowingisafreelivingbacteriumthat
helpsinnitrogenfixationinsoil?
(1)

Azotobacter

(2)

Anabaena

(3)

Azolla

(4)

Nostoc

196. Whichoneofthefollowingisthepermissiblelevelofnoisein
asilentzoneatdaytime?
(1)

50db

(2)

60db

(3)

65db

(4)

75db

197. Which one of the following is the first National Park

establishedinIndia?
(1)

Bandipur

(2)

Corbett

(3)

Velavadar

(4)

Periyar

198. Brophytes are photosynthetic but do not have vascular

tissueandtrueroots.Thisfeatureenablesthemtoresemble
withwhichofthefollowing?
(1)

Fungi

(2)

Alage

(3)

Pteridophytes

(4)

Angiosperms

199. Thegeneticallyengineered'GoldenRice'isrichinwhichof
thefollowing?
(1)

VitaminAandnicotinicacid

(2)

Caroteneandfolicacid

(3)

Caroteneandiron

(4)

VitaminAandniacin

200. Whichoneofthefollowingiscategorizedasmillet?

(52)of(95)

(1)

Wheat

(2)

Rice

(3)

Sorghum

(4)

Maize

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201. TheplantdyeHennaimpartsorangeredcolourtoskinand
hairsduetoitsreactionwithwhichofthefollowing?

210. Whichoneofthefollowingistheoldestmountainrangein
India?

(1)

Proteinsandaminoacids

(1)

Himalayas

(2)

Aravali

(2)

Lipids

(3)

Satpura

(4)

Nilgiri

(3)

Carbohydrates

(4)

Nucleicacids

211. MatchListIwithListIIandselectthecorrectanswerusing
thecodegivenbelowtheList
ListI

ListII

RowlattAct

(River)

(Tributary)

GandhiIrwinPact

I.Brahmaptura

(A)Musi

III. MorleyMintoReforms

II.Krishna

(B)Tawa

IV.

IlbertBill

III.Narmade

(C)Bhavani

IIIIVIII

IVIIIIII

IV. Cauvery

(D)Dikhow.

IIIIVIII

(1)

ID,IIB,IIIA,IVC

(2)

ID,IIA,IIIB,IVC

(3)

IC,IIB,IIIA,IVD

(4)

IC,IIA,IIIB,IVD

202. Whatisthecorrectsequenceoffollowingevent?
I .
II.

(1)
(3)

IVIIIIII

(2)
(4)

203. Which one ofthe following plants ispreferred formixed

croppinginordertoenhancethebioavailabilityofnitrogen?
(1)

Wheat

(2)

Gram

(3)

Maize

(4)

Barley

204. The'RedDataBook'containinginformationonallwildplants
andanimalsindangerofextinctionhasbeenpublishedby
whichoneofthefollowing.
a .

InternationalUnion forconservationof Natureand

NaturalResources(IUCN)

b .

WorldWildlifeFund(WWF)

C .

WorldConservationUnion(WCU)

d .

UnitedNationsEnvironmentProgramme(UNEP)

205. Wavelengthsofwhichofthefollowingcoloursofthevisible
spectrumoflightaremaximallyabsorbedbygreenplants?
(1)

GreenandYellow

(2)

RedandBlue

(3)

GreenandRed

(4)

BlueandYellow

206. Theheadofadistrict(Ahara),theprincipalcoordinatorof
therevenueandtheofficerinchargeofgeneralandmilitary
functions in his jurisdiction during Mauryan Empire was
knownas

212. WhichoneofthefollowinglakesinIndiahasthehighest
watersalinity?
(1)

Dal

(2)

Chilika

(3)

Wular

(4)

Sambhar

213. Whichoneofthefollowingpairsisnotcorrectlymatched?
River

City

(1)

Gomti

Lucknow

(2)

Saryu

Ayodhya

(3)

Alaknanda

Badrinath

(4)

Narmada

Satna

214. Whichoneofthefollowingcitieswillnevergetthevertical
raysofthesun?
(1)

Srinagar

(2)

Mumbai

(3)

Kolkata

(4)

Thiruananthapuram

215. Whichoneofthefollowingsequenceoftheoilrefineriesof
Indiaastheyoccurfromsouthtonorthiscorrect?

(1)

Krori

(2)

Rajuka

(1)

KochiMangloreMumbaiKoyali

(3)

Foujdar

(4)

Chirastadar

(2)

KoyaliMumbaiMangaloreKochi

(3)

KochiMumbaiMangaloreKoyali

(4)

MangaloreKochiMumbaiKoyali

207.InwhichoneofthefollowingislandsofIndiaisanactive
volcanofound?
(1)

CarNicobarIsland

(2)

NancowryIslnad

(3)

BarrenIsland

(4)

MayaBunderIsland

208. WhichoneofthefollowinglongitudesdeterminestheIndian
StandardTime?
(1)

85.50E

(2)

86.50E

(3)

84.50E

(4)

82.50E

209. AccordingtoArticle164(1)oftheConstitutionofIndia,in
three states there shall be a Minister in charge of tribal
welfarewhomayinadditionbeinchargeofthewelfareof
theScheduledCastesandBackwardClasses.Whichoneof
thefollowingStatesisnotcoveredbytheArticle?
(1)

Jharkhand

(2)

Punjab

(3)

MadhyaPradesh

(4)

Orrisa

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216. Which one ofthe following states of Indiais the largest

produceroflignitecoal?
(1)

Maharashtra

(2)

Gujarat

(3)

MadhyaPradesh

(4)

TamilNadu

217.WhichoneofthefollowingoilfieldsofIndiaistheoldest
andstillproducingoil?
(1)

BombayHigh

(2)

Digboi

(3)

Ankleshwar

(4)

Naharkatiya

(53)of(95)

218. InwhichoneofthefollowingplacesistheForestSurveyof
India(FSI),anationalorganizationengagedinforestcover
mapping,forestinventoryandtraininginthefieldofremote
sensingandGIS,located?
(1)

Dehradun

(2)

Itanagar

(3)

Ahmedabad

(4)

Aizawl

219. Whichoneofthefollowingpairsisnotcorrectlymatched?

227. Firstquarterof200910(i.e.AprilJune2009)clocksGDP
growthrateat
(1)

5.7%

(2) 5.9%

(3)

6.1%

(4) 6.4%

228. Whichamongthefollowinghasbeenrestructuredundera
newnomenclature'NationalLivelihoodMission'
(1)

SwarnjayantiGramSwarojgarYojna

Person

Bank

(2)

NAREGA

(1)

O.P.Bhatt

SBI

(3)

AnnapoornaYojna

(2)

K.V.Kamath

ICICI

(4)

SwarnjayantiShahriRojgarYojana

(3)

AdityaPuri

HDFC

(4)

VikramPandit

IDBI

229. Proposed'LiterateIndia'missionputsfocuson

220. MadhyaPradeshsharesitsborderwithhowmanyStates?
(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

221. Which one among the following States has the highest
genderdisparity?

(1)

AdultEducation

(2)

WomenEducation

(3)

MaleEducation

(4)

ChildEducation

230. Which of the followingsector registered highest growth

duringAprilJune2009?
(1)

Agriculture

(2)

Industry

(1)

Orissa

(2)

UttarPradesh

(3)

Service

(3)

Haryana

(4)

Maharastra

(4)

Allaboveregisteralmostequalgrowthrate

222. Whoamongthefollowingrecommendstotheparliamentfor
theabolitionoftheLegislativeCouncilinaState?

231. Govt.hascutdowntheinterestratesubsidyonfarmloan
for200910from3percentleveloflastyearto

(1)

ThePresidentofIndia

(1)

2.75percent

(2)

2.5percent

(2)

TheGovernoroftheconcernedState

(3)

2.25percent

(4)

2percent

(3)

TheLegislativeCounciloftheconcernedState

(4)

TheLegislativeAssemblyoftheconcernedState

223. WhichoneofthefollowingisthelargestCommitteeofthe
Parliament?
(1)

ThePublicAccountsCommittee

(2)

TheEstimatesCommittee

(3)

TheCommitteeonPublicUndertakings

(4)

TheCommitteeonPetitions

224. Who among the following was not a member of the

ConstituentAssembly?

232. DuringAprilJune2008,agriculture,shareinIndia'sfirst
quarterGDPwas16.8percentwhich,fortheperiodApril
June2009,hasbecome
(1)

17.3percent

(2)

16.3percent

(3)

16percent

(4)

15.2percent

DIRECTIONS:Thefollowingitemsconsistoftwostatements:
onelabeledasthe'Assertion(A)'andtheotheras'Reason(R)'.
Youaretoexaminethesetwostatementscarefullyandselect
theanswerstotheseitemsusingthecodegivenbelow
(1)

BothAandRareindividuallytrueandRisthecorrect
explanationofA

(2)

BothAand R areindividually truebut R isnot the

correctexplanationofA

(1)

SardarVallabhbhaiPatel

(2)

AcharyaJ.B.Kriplani

(3)

LokNayakJayprakashNarayan

(3)

AistruebutRisfalse

(4)

K.M.Munshi

(4)

AisfalsebutRistrue

225. WhoamongthefollowingwaselectedasthePresidentof
AllIndiaKhilafatConferencethatmetinDelhiin1919?
(1)

MotilalNehru

(2)

MahatmaGandhi

(3)

M.A.Jinnah

(4)

ShaukatAli

Reason (R): During the same period, there had been a

concurrentdreaseintheareaunderforest.
234. Assertion (A): The Himalayan rivers are older than the
mountainrangestheycross.

226. Becauseofwhichoneofthefollowingfactors,cloudsdonot
precipitateindeserts?
(1)

Lowpressure

(2)

Lowhumidity

(3)

Highwindvelocity

(4)

Hightemperature

(54)of(95)

233. Assertion (A): In India, the net sown area increased by

about19percentfromtheyear195051to19992000.

Reason (R): The Himalayan river cut their channels the

mountainrangestheycross.

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235. Assertion (A): A rapid growth in population has been

recordedincensussince1921.
Reason(R):India'sdecadaldeathratesdeclinedgradually
since1921.

244. MatchListIandListIIandselectthecorrectanswerusing
thecodesgivenbelowthelists
ListI
A.cloudiness
B.westerlies

236. Assertion(A):Argentinaisamajorwheatgrowingcountry
oftheworld.
Reason (R): Vast flat areas of the pampas help to use
agriculturalmachineryandrailwaytransportusefacilities,
alsosuitableclimateandsoilsprevailinArgentina.
237.Assertion(A):Coniferousforestsarefoundinthehigher
altitudesofmountainsandinthesubArcticregions.
Reason(R):Coniferoustreesgrowwellinhowtemperature
regions.
238. Assertion(A):Indiaisoneoftheleadingproducersofmarine
fisheriesintheworld.
Reason(R):PeninsularIndiahasalongcoastline.

C.famousfor
D.drysummers,wet
ListII
1.Equatorialandheavyregionprecipitationunfavourable
2. Mediterranean throughout region the year and mild
winters
3.Savannaregiongameparklandtypeofvegetation
4.WestEuropeanwintersregionandorchardfarming
ABCD

ABCD

(1)

1432

(2)

4132

(3)

1423

(4)

4123

245. MatchListIwithListIIandselectthecorrectanswer,using
thecodesgivenbelowthelists

239. Assertion(A):India'sclimatemainlycomprisesthetropic
zoneinthesouthernhalfandthewarmtemperatezonein
thenorthernhalf.

A .

RiverGodavari

1 .

Buriedchannels

Reason(R):TheTropicofCancerpassesthroughthecentral
partofIndia.

B.

riverNarmada

2 .

Estuary

C .

RiverYamuna

3 .

Delta

D.

RiverGhaggar

4 .

Tributary

240. Assertion(A):MajorriversofpeninsularIndiaflowintothe
BayofBengalthroughgapsintheEasternGhats.
Reason(R):ThegeneralgentleslopeoftheDeccanplateau
isfromWesttoEast:these riversriseneartheWestern
GhatsandflowtowardstheBayofBengal.
241. Assertion(A):PerennialriversarefoundintheHimalayan
region.
Reason (R): In spring and summer, snow melt in Upper
Himalayasandmonsoonrainsintheotherseasonsgiven
enoughwatertotheseriverstomakethemperennial.

ListI

ListII

ABCD

ABCD

(1)

4312

(2)

4213

(3)

3241

(4)

3421

246. MatchListIwithListIIandselectthecorrectanswerby
usingthecodesgivenbelowthelists
ListI

ListII

(Placeofmanufacturing)

(Industry)

A .

Haridwar

1 .

pharmaceuticals

B.

Rishikesh

2 .

fertilizer

C .

Korba

3 .

heavyelectricals

242. Assertion(A):TheNorthAtlanticrouteisthebusiestofthe
oceantraderoutesoftheworld.

D.

Bhatinda

4 .

aluminium

Reason(R):ThisrouteconnectsWesternEuropeandeastern
N o r t h A m e r i c a , t w o d e n s e l y p o p u l a t e d a n d h i g h l y
commercialized/industrializedregionsoftheworld.

(1)

3124

(2)

4312

(3)

3142

(4)

1324

243. MatchListIandListIIandselectthecorrectanswerusing
thecodesgivenbelowthelists
ListI

ListII

(Nameofcropsgrown)

(States)

A .

rice

1 .

Maharashtra

B.

jowar

2 .

Orissa

C .

jute

3 .

Karnataka

D.

coffee

4 .

WestBengal

ABCD

ABCD

(1)

1234

(2)

2341

(3)

3412

(4)

2143

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ABCD

ABCD

247.Which of the following regions does not fall into scanty

rainfallzone(below50cm)
(1)

SouthEastPunjab

(2)

Ladakh

(3)

SouthernHaryana

(4)

HimalayanSlopes

248. Whichamongthefollowingisthebiggestport?
(1)

Visakhapatnam

(2)

Mumbai

(3)

Tuticorin

(4)

Kandla

249. WhicharethemaincropsofArunachalPradesh?
(1)

Rice,Maize,Millet,Wheat,Mustard

(2)

Rice,Tobacco,Oilseeds,Jute,Cotton

(3)

Tea,Jute,Rice,Cotton,Silk

(4)

Noneofthese

(55)of(95)

250. TheimportantmineralsofAssamare

260. ThemaincropsofSikkimare

(1)

Coalandlimestone

(1)

Rice,maize,bajra,wheat,barley,cardamom

(2)

Petroleum

(2)

Sugarcanetobacco,wheat,rice

(3)

Copperandmica

(3)

Chillies,oilseeds,groundnut,pepper

(4)

Manganese,goldandquartzite

(4)

Noneofthese

251. TheimportantindustriesofAssamare

261. ThemajormineralsfoundinUttarPradeshare

(1)

Teaprocessing,oilrefineriesandcoal

(1)

LimestoneandDolomite

(2)

Silkandplywood

(2)

Rockphosphateanddolomite

(3)

Botharecorrect

(3)

Copperandgraphite

(4)

noneofthese

(4)

Noneofthese

252. WhichmineralsarefoundinChattisgarh?

262. TheliteracyrateofAndaman&NicobarIslandsis

(1)

Ironore,limestone,dolomite

(1)

81.18%

(2)

80.76%

(2)

Coal,bauxite,corundum

(3)

79.23%

(4)

78.11%

(3)

Gaunet,Guartz,marble,diamond

(4)

All

263. Relatethefollowing

253. WhichriversflowinthesateofGujarat?

A .

Maize

i.

Autumnrice

B.

UttarPradesh

ii.

Rabijowar

(1)

NarmadaandTapti

C .

Jowar

iii.

Rabicrops

(2)

SabarmatiandMahanadi

D.

AndhraPradesh

iv.

Kharifcrops

(3)

Banas,SaraswatiandDamanganga

(1)

aiv,bi,ciii,dii

(2)

ai,bii,ciii,div

(4)

All

(3)

aiv,bi,ciidiii

(4)

ai,biiciiidiv

254. WhichriverflowsinthestateofHaryana?

264. Matchthefollowing

(1)

Ghaggar

(2)

RaviandChenab

Rivers

Origin

(3)

Ganges

(4)

Saraswati&Mahanadi

A .

Indus

1 .

U.P.

B.

Ganges

2 .

Tibet

255. WhatistheliteracyrateofHimachalPradesh?

C .

Godavari

3 .

MadhyaPradesh

(1)

68.59%

(2)

77.13%

D.

Narmada

4 .

Maharashtra

(3)

22.63%

(4)

54.40%

(1)

A2,B1,C4,D3

(2)

A4,B3,C2,D1

(3)

A1,B2,C3,D4

(3)

A3,B4,C1,D2

256. WhatistheliteracyrateofMaharashtra?
(1)

77.27%

(2)

66.26%

(3)

55.25%

(4)

44.24%

257. WhatarethemaincropsofMaharashtra?
(1)

Jowar,millet,cotton

(2)

Wheat,rice,sugarcane,tobacco

(3)

Groundnut,coffee,oilseeds,chillies

(4)

All

265. Whichofthefollowingisthemajorcharacteristicofgood
extensionprogramme?
(1)

Awarenso

(2)

Adoption

(3)

Flexible

(4)

Noneoftheabove

266. Thedegreetowhichanindividualisrelativelyfastinadopting
newideasthanothermemberofhissocialsystemisknown
a s
(1)

Communication

(2)

Adoption

(3)

Innovativeness

(4)

Laggards

258. WhicharetheimportantmineralsfoundinManipur?
(1)

Sillimanite,nickel,petroleum

(2)

Oil,coal,manganese

(3)

Iron,lime,bauxite

(1)

Awareners

(2)

Innovators

(4)

Noneofthese

(3)

Evaluation

(4)

Alloftheabove

267. The first among farmers who adopt a new idea before
anyoneelseintheircommunityarecalledas

259. WhichisthemajormineralsfoundinPunjab?
(1)

Coal

(2)

Gold

(3)

Saltpetre

(4)

Iron

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268. Whencomparedwiththeaveragefarmerwhichofthefarmers
haveslightlyhighereducation,arelittleyoungerinageand
participatemoreinformalorganization?
(1)

Awareners

(2)

Adoption

(3)

Earlyadopters

(4)

Alloftheabove

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269. Whichofthefollowingfarmersarelasttoadoptnewideas,
have the least education, few social contact and low
participationinformalorganization?

279. Theguidance,leadershipandconcentrationoftheefforts
ofagroupofindividualstowardsomecommongoalisknown
a s

(1)

Laggards

(2)

Earlymajority

(1)

Administration

(2)

Extensioneducation

(3)

Adopterid

(4)

Alloftheabove

(3)

Bothoftheabove

(4)

Noneoftheabove

270. A continuous series of activities or Cooperation leader

leadingtothedevelopmentofadefiniteplanofactionto
accomplishparticularobjectiveisknownas
(1)

TrainingandVisit

(2)

ProgrammePlanning

(3)

Bothoftheabove

(4)

Noneoftheabove

271. Evaluationisanessentialstepintheextensionofeducational
processandisanintegralpartof
(1)

ProgrammePlanning

(2)

Adoption

(3)

Bothoftheabove

(4)

Noneoftheabove

272. In extension programmeplanningplan ofwork refers to

descriptionof
(1)

Awareness

(2)

Innovators

(3)

RuralSociology

(4)

Situationandproblems

280. Theassemblingoftwoormoreintegratinghumanbeings
collectivelyseekingtoattainsomecommongoalisknownas
(1)

NDP

(2)

KVK

(3)

ORP

(4)

Extensionorganization

281. Asanextensionteachingmethodtelevisioncanbegrouped
under
(1)

Groupcontact

(2)

Visual

(3)

Individualcontact

(4)

Audiovisual

282. Which of the following is the major principle of method

demonstration?
(1)

Seeingisbelieving

(2)

Learningbydoing

(3)

Todevelopleadership

(4)

Noneoftheabove

283. ReserveBankofIndiawasestablishedinyear
273. The impact of Green Revolution in India has been more
spectacularontheproductionof
(1)

Cereals

(2)

Vegetables

(3)

Bothoftheabove

(4)

Noneoftheabove

274. Whichofthefollowingisopulentfortheextensionworkers
andthepeopletofollowinmovingforward?
(1)

Innovators

(2)

Adoption

(3)

Developplanofwork

(4)

Noneoftheabove

275. Inextensionprogrammeplanningtheprocessofdetermining
theextenttowhichobjectivehavebeenattainedisknown
a s
(1)

Evaluation

(2)

Laggards

(3)

EarlyMajority

(4)

Noneoftheabove

276. InProgrammeplanningassemblingoffactspertainto
(1)

Awareness

(2)

Innovations

(3)

Keepingtherecorduptodate

(4)

Noneoftheabove

277.InExtensionprogrammeplanninganalysisorinterpretation
ofsituationmeans
(1)

NDP

(2)

Translationoffactsintofamiliarlanguage

(3)

KVK

(4)

Noneoftheabove

278. Inextensionprogrammeplanningthevaluationofallstages
shouldbedoneat
(1)

Thebeginningofprogrammeyear

(2)

Theendofprogrammeyear

(3)

Beforeimplementationofprogramme

(4)

Noneoftheabove

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(1)

1910

(2)

1923

(3)

1946

(4)

1929

284. TheunitofcommunityDevelopmentprogrammeis
(1)

Tehsil

(2)

State

(3)

Village

(4)

District

285. IndianCouncilofAgriculturalResearch(ICAR)was
establishedin
(1)

1909

(2)

1923

(3)

1946

(4)

1929

286. Whichofthefollowingistheprincipleobjectiveofextension
education?
(1)

TeachingofRuralPeople

(2)

DevelopmentofLeadership

(3)

DevelopmentofRuralpeople

(4)

Noneoftheabove

287.Whichofthefollowingis theextensionteachingmethod
which includes posters, photographs, film strips, black
boards, etc.
(1)

Audiovisual

(2)

Visual

(3)

Written

(4)

Spoken

288. IndianAgriculturalResearchInstitutewasestablishedat
PusainBiharin
(1)

1901

(2)

1910

(3)

1905

(4)

1925

289. ThebasicideaofCommunityDevelopmentProgrammewas
(1)

BuildingofSchool

(3)

BuildingofHumanbeing (4)

(2)

BuildingofRoads
Noneoftheabove

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290. Theprocessofteachingruralpeople,howtolivebetterby
learningwaysthatimprovetheirform,homeandcommunity
institutionisknownas

296. Whichofthefollowingisfundamentalobjectiveofmethod
demonstrationconductedbytheextensionworker?
(1)

Showworthofapracticetothefarmer

(1)

ExtensionWork

(2)

ExtensionProgramme

(2)

Teachaskilltothefarmer

(3)

ExtensionEducation

(4)

Noneoftheabove

(3)

Influencethefarmer

(4)

Influencetheauthority

291. WhichofthefollowingstepsofExtensioneducationprocess
consists of review of previous efforts and results which
revealsanewsituation?
(1)

Reconsideration

(2)

Evaluation

(3)

Analysisofsituation

(4)

Decidinguponobjectives

292. Abodyofgeneralprinciplesorlawsofafieldofknowledge
activityisknownas
(1)

Education

(2)

Extension

(3)

Amplification

(4)

Noneoftheabove

293. A process by which a person becomes changed in his

behaviourthroughselfactivityisknownas
(1)

Teaching

(2)

Learning

(3)

Amplification

(4)

Education

294. WhichofthefollowingExtensionteachingmethodsisface
tofacetypeofindividualcontactbytheextensionworker
withthefarmerathishome?
(1)
(3)

FarmandHomevisit
Resultdemonstration

(2)
(4)

Officecall
Noneoftheabove

295. FarmandHomevisitmethodismoreadvantageoustoward
(1)

Quickcommunication

(2)

Gainingconfidenceoffarmers

(3)

Creditinggeneralawarenessamongfarmers

(4)

Noneoftheabove

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297. Whatistheimportantadvantageofissuingfarmpublications?
(1)

Usefulfordevelopingnewtechniques

(2)

Can reach a large number of people quickly and

simultaneously

(3)

Reachpeopledirectly

(4)

Arouseandsustaininterest

298. Whichofthefollowingisamediumformasscommunication
andtoolforgivinginformationandentertainment?
(1)

Circularletter

(2)

Officecall

(3)

Telephonecall

(4)

Noneoftheabove

299. Whichofthefollowingisaninstructionalcommunicating
deviceinwhichthemessagecanbeheardaswellasseen?
(1)

Visual

(2)

Audio

(3)

Audiovisual

(4)

Masscontact

300. Whichofthefollowinginstructionalorcommunicatingdevices
canbeusedasaudiovisualaids?
(1)

Television

(2)

DramasandPuppetshows

(3)

Soundfilms

(4)

Alloftheabove

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Objective keyGKQuestionsforIRMAand MANAGE

1.( 1)

2.( 1)

3.( 1)

4.( 1)

5.( 1)

6.( 1)

7.(1)

8.( 1)

9.( 1) 10.(1)

11.(1) 12.(4) 13.(3) 14.(1) 15.(1) 16.(1) 17.( 1) 18.(1) 19.(1) 20.(1)
21.(1) 22.(1) 23.(2) 24.(1) 25.(1) 26.(1) 27.( 1) 28.(4) 29.(1) 30.(1)
31.(1) 32.(1) 33.(1) 34.(1) 35.(4) 36.(1) 37.( 1) 38.(3) 39.(1) 40.(1)
41.(1) 42.(1) 43.(1) 44.(1) 45.(1) 46.(1) 47.( 1) 48.(1) 49.(1) 50.(1)
51.(1) 52.(1) 53.(1) 54.(1) 55.(1) 56.(1) 57.( 1) 58.(1) 59.(4) 60. (2)
61. (2) 62. (2) 63. (2) 64. (1) 65. (1) 66. (3) 67. (4) 68. (4) 69.(1) 70.(2)
71.(2) 72.(1) 73.(3) 74.(3) 75.(3) 76.(3) 77.( 3) 78.(4) 79.(3) 80.(4)
81.(3) 82.(3) 83.(3) 84.(1) 85.(1) 86.(3) 87.( 1) 88.(2) 89.(3) 90.(1)
91.(1) 92.(3) 93.(3) 94.(1) 95.(1) 96.(1) 97.( 1) 98.(4) 99.(4) 100.( 4)
101.( 1) 102.( 1) 103.( 1) 104.( 3) 105.( 1) 106.( 1) 107.(1) 108.( 1) 109.( 1) 110.( 4)
111.( 2) 112.( 3) 113.( 3) 114.( 3) 115.( 4) 116.( 4) 117.(3) 118.( 4) 119.( 1) 120.( 3)
121.( 3) 122.( 1) 123.( 1) 124.( 2) 125.( 3) 126.( 2) 127.(2) 128.( 2) 129.( 1) 130.( 2)
131.( 4) 132.( 2) 133.( 4) 134.( 3) 135.( 1) 136.( 2) 137.(1) 138.( 2) 139.( 2) 140.( 4)
141.( 1) 142.( 3) 143.( 3) 144.( 1) 145.( 2) 146.( 2) 147.(1) 148.( 3) 149.( 1) 150.( 5)
151.( 4) 152.( 2) 153.( 3) 154.( 1) 155.( 4) 156.( 2) 157.(2) 158.( 4) 159.( 3) 160.( 1)
161.( 2) 162.( 1) 163.( 1) 164.( 1) 165.( 1) 166.( 1) 167.(4) 168.( 4) 169.( 1) 170.( 2)
171.( 2) 172.( 2) 173.( 2) 174.( 3) 175.( 1) 176.( 3) 177.(4) 178.( 1) 179.( 3) 180.( 2)
181.( 2) 182.( 1) 183.( 3) 184.( 4) 185.( 4) 186.( 2) 187.(1) 188.( 1) 189.( 2) 190.( 1)
191.( 1) 192.( 1) 193.( 2) 194.( 3) 195.( 2) 196.( 3) 197.(2) 198.( 2) 199.( 4) 200.( 3)
201.( 1) 202.( 3) 203.( 2) 204.( 1) 205.( 2) 206.( 2) 207.(3) 208.( 4) 209.( 1) 210.( 2)
211.( 2) 212.( 2) 213.( 3) 214.( 1) 215.( 1) 216.( 4) 217.(2) 218.( 1) 219.( 4) 220.( 4)
221.( 3) 222.( 3) 223.( 3) 224.( 3) 225.( 2) 226.( 2) 227.(3) 228.( 1) 229.( 2) 230.( 3)
231.( 4) 232.(2) 233.(3) 234.( 1) 235.( 2) 236.( 1) 237.(2) 238.( 4) 239.( 1) 240.( 1)
241.( 1) 242.( 1) 243.( 4) 244.( 1) 245.( 3) 246.( 3) 247.(4) 248.( 2) 249.( 1) 250.( 2)
251.( 3) 252.( 4) 253.( 4) 254.( 1) 255.( 2) 256.( 1) 257.(4) 258.( 1) 259.( 3) 260.( 1)
261.( 1) 262.( 1) 263.( 1) 264.( 1) 265.( 3) 266.( 3) 267.(2) 268.( 3) 269.( 1) 270.( 2)
271.( 1) 272.( 4) 273.( 3) 274.( 3) 275.( 1) 276.( 3) 277.(4) 278.( 4) 279.( 1) 280.( 4)
281.( 4) 282.( 2) 283.( 4) 284.( 3) 285.( 4) 286.( 3) 287.(1) 288.( 3) 289.( 3) 290.( 3)
291.( 1) 292.( 3) 293.( 4) 294.( 3) 295.( 2) 296.( 2) 297.(4) 298.( 3) 299.( 4) 300.( 3)

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SPECIAL GK INPUTS
Dear Students,
Dear Students,
We have done an indepth analysis of GK asked in past 5 years IIFT (written test)
paperstohelpyougetafeelofwhatitactuallyislike.Further,sincethetypicalarea
being emphasized is the WTO, export Import data and International Business
Environment, a few new questions from the same area have been provided in the
end,forthisyear.
The other topics on which questionshave consistently appeared and the suggested
readingstocoverthesamearegivenbelow:
1 . CurrentAffairs
(A)Business headlines Browse through the business newspapers, magazines,
businessTVchannelsand takenoteof
heads ofbusinessgoverning bodies like TRAI,IRAI,Assocham, FICCI etc
Majormergersandacquisitions
Punchlines,newadvertisingcampaigns,etc
(B)Politicalheadlines
Keypersons,awardsandhonours,placesinnews,keylegislations.
(C)InternationalaffairsNewheadsofstates,awardsandhonours,eventsthat
haveimplicationsforIndia,Majordisputesetc.
2 . IndianPolity23QuestionsfromIndianconstitutionhaveconsistentlyappeared.
Just browse through class X NCERT textbook of civics or Subhash Kashyap's
(NationalBookTrust)bookforbasicreadingofhowourpolityworks.

Ifyouhaveanyqueries,pleasewritetousat pthq@PTeducation.com

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DIRECTIONS:Forthefollowingquestions,fouroptionsaregiven.
Choosethecorrectoption.
1 .

2 .

Whichoneof thefollowingcountrieshas adoptedanew

ConstitutionintheYear2008aimingtopursueamodern,
multiparty,democraticsystemandgivingmorepowerto
thejudiciaryandlegislature?
(1)

Japan

(2)

Bhutan

(3)

Maldives

(4)

Singapore

ForeignTradePolicy200914targetstoincreaseIndia's
exportsby2014tomakethem
(1)
(3)

3 .

5 .

6 .

7.

(2)
(4)

2times
3times

AsperForeignTradePolicy200914document,Indiahasto
doubleitsshareinglobaltradeby
(1)
(3)

4 .

1.5times
2.5times

2014
2018

(2)
(4)

2016
2020

WhichofthefollowingwillhelpyoutoimproveyourLAN
security?
(1)

Changeyourpasswordsfrequently

(2)

Installafirewallprogram

(3)

Useaproxy

(4)

Alloftheabove

8 .

9 .

Whoamongthefollowingisthefirstman(afterBjornBorg
in1980)towintheFrenchOpenandWimbledonSingles
Titlebacktoback?
(1)

RafaelNadal

(2)

RogerFederer

(3)

JohnMcEnroe

(4)

DanielNestor

Whichofthefollowingpublicsectorbankhasbecomethe
first bank to provide facility of filing income tax return
throughATMs?
(1)
(3)

PunjabNationalBank
CorporationBank

(2)
(4)

BankofBaroda
AllahabadBank

10. InForeignTradePolicy200914underFocusProductScheme
(FPS),incentivetotheexportershasbeenraisedfrom1.25
percentto
(1)

1.5percent

(2)

1.75percent

(3)

2percent

(4)

2.25percent

11. Whichofthefollowinghasbecomethesecondnation(after
Singapore) with which India has signed comprehensive
EconomicPartnershipAgreementinAugust2009?
(1)

SouthKorea

(2)

SouthAfrica

(3)

Japan

(4)

China

12. New Chairman taken charge of India Trade Promotion

Organization(ITPO)is

Whichofthefollowingistrueaboutfirewalls?
(1)

Filtersnetworktraffic

(2)

Canbeeitherahardwareorsoftwaredevice

(3)

Followsasetofrules

(4)

Alloftheabove

Whichoneofthefollowingpairsisnotcorrectlymatched?
Country

Currency

(1)

Brazil

Reais

(2)

China

Yuan

(3)

Mexico

Pesos

(4)

Thailand

Ringgit

MatchListIwithListIIandselectthecorrectanswerusing
thecodegivenbelowthelists
ListI

ListII

(City)

(Stadium)

I .

Bengaluru

(A) SawaiMansingh

II.

Chennai

(B)

SardarPatel

(1)

KamleshSharma

(2)

SubhashPant

(3)

G.S.Bedi

(4)

T.Y.Prabhu

13. ConsiderthefollowingstatementsaboutComprehensiveTest
BanTreaty(CTBT)
I .

Thetreatycomesintoforceonlyifandwhenallnuclear
capablecountriessignit.

II.

IraqandIndiahavenotsignedthetreaty.

Whichofthestatementsgivenaboveis/arecorrect?
(1)

IOnly

(2)

IIOnly

(3)

BothIandII

(4)

NeitherInorII

14. Whichelectroniccomponentwasuseinfirstgeneration?
(1)

Vacuumtubes

(2)

transistors

(3)

ICchips

(4)

Alloftheabove

15. AssemblyLanguage
(1)

usesalphabeticcodesinplaceofbinarynumbersused
inmachinelanguage

(2)

istheeasiestlanguagetowriteprograms

(3)

neednotbetranslatedintomachinelanguage

(4)

canbeusedinrestrictedways

III. Motera

(C) Chinnaswami

IV.

Jaipur

(D) Chidambaram

(1)

I(A),II(B),III(C),IV(D)

(1)

isthelanguageinwhichprogramswerefirstwritten

(2)

I(C),II(D),III(B),IV(A)

(2)

istheonlylanguageunderstoodbythecomputer

(3)

I(A),II(C),III(B),IV(D)

(3)

differsfromonetypeofcomputertoanother

I(C),II(B),III(D),IV(A)

(4)

Allofthese

(4)

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16. MachineLanguage

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17. Whatisthecorrectsequenceofthefollowingevents?
I .

BardoliSatyagrah

II.

22. Whichofthefollowingpairsisnotcorrectlymatched?

RajkotSatyagrah

NationalPark

State

NagpurSatyagrah

(1)

KanhaNationalpark

MadhyaPradesh

Selectthecorrectanswerusingthecodegivenbelow

(2)

SultanpurNationalPark

Haryana

(1)

IIIIVIII

(2)

IVIIIIII

(3)

RanthamboreNationalPark

Gujarat

(3)

IIIIIVII

(4)

IIIIVIII

(4)

BandipurNationalPark

Karnataka

III. ChamparanSatyagrah IV.

18. WhatisthecorrectchronologicalorderofconferringBharat
Ratnatothefollowing?
I .

M.S.Subbalakshmi

II.

ProfessorAmartyaSen

23. TheVeerapaMoilyCommissioninitsreportonAdministration
Reformsamongotheraspectshassuggesteddoingaway
with which one of the following pairs of Articles of the
ConstitutionofIndia?

III. Dr.A.P.J.AbdulKalam

(1)

Articles305and306

(2)

Articles307and308

IV.

(3)

Articles308and309

(4)

Articles310and311

SushriLataDinanathMangeshkar

Selectthecorrectanswerusingthecodegivenbelow
(1)

IIIIIIIV

(2)

IIIIIIIV

(3)

IIIIVIII

(4)

IVIIIIII

19. Considerthefollowingstatements
I .

II.

National Parks are a special category of protected

areas of land and sea coasts where people are an
integralpartofthesystem.
S anctuaries are concerned with conservation of
particularspeceis.

III. BiosphereReservesareconnectedwiththehabitatof
aparticularwildanimal.
Whichofthestatementsgivenaboveis/arecorrect?
(1)

I,IIandIII

(2)

IIonly

(3)

IandIIonly

(4)

IandIIIonly

20. MatchListIwithListIIandselectthecorrectanswerusing
thecodegivenbelowtheLists
ListI

ListII

(MedicinalProduct)

(Source)

I .

Quinine

(A) Poppyplant

II.

Morphine

(B)

Bacterium

III. Penicillin

(C) Cinchonabark

IV.

Tetracycline

(D) Fungus

(1)

I(C),II(D),III(A),IV(B)

(2)

I(B),II(C),III(A),IV(D)

(3)

I(C),II(A),III(D),IV(B)

(4)

I(B),II(A),III(C),IV(D)

(1)

FourpopularanimalsofChinaandtheOlympicFlame

(2)

FivepopularanimalsofChinaandthemapofChina

(3)

FivepopularanimalsofChina

(4)

FourpopularanimalsofChinaandtheworldmap.

25. MatchListIwithListIIandselectthecorrectanswerusing
thecodegivenbelowtheLists
ListI(Year)

ListII
(UN'sInternationalYear)

I .

2002

(A) InternationalYearof
Ecotourism

II.

2004

(B)

InternationalYearof
Microcredit

III. 2005

(C) InternationalYearof
PlanetEarth

IV.

(D) InternationalYearof
Struggleagainst

2008

Slaveryand its
abolition.
(1)

IC,IID,IIIB,IVA

(2)

IA,IID,IIIB,IVC

(3)

IC,IIB,IIID,IVA

(4)

IA,IIB,IIID,IVC

26. Whichoneofthefollowingpairsisnotcorrectlymatched?

21. MatchListIwithListIIandselectthecorrectanswerusing
thecodegivenbelowtheLists.
ListI

ListII

(Pass)

(State)

I .

ZojiLaPass

(A) Sikkim

II.

BaraLachaPass

(B)

Uttarakhand

III. JelepLaPass

(C) HimachalPradesh

IV.

NitiPass

(D) JammuandKashmir

(1)

ID,IIA,IIIC,IVB

(2)

IB,IIC,IIIA,IVD

(3)

ID,IIC,IIIA,IVB

(4)

IB,IIA,IIIC,IVD

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24. WhatdoesFuwa,theOfficialMascotofthe2008Olympic
Games,contain?

NobelLaureateof2008

Discipline

(1)

MarttiAhtisaari

Peace

(2)

YoichiroNambu

Physics

(3)

JeanMarieGustaveLeClezio

Literature

(4)

OsamuShimomura

Physiology

27. MatchListIwithListIIandselectthecorrectanswerusing
codegivenbelowtheLists
ListI

ListII

(Player)

(Sport)

I .

GaganNarang

(A) Archery

II.

AkhilKumar

(B)

Swimming

III. MangalSinghChampia (C) Boxing

IV.

VirdhawalKhade

(1)

ID,IIA,IIIC,IVB

(2)

IB,IIC,IIIA,IVD

(3)

ID,IIC,IIIA,IVB

(4)

IB,IIA,IIIC,IVD

(D) RifileShooting

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28. InwhichofthefollowingyearstheFundamentalDutieshave
been added to the existent Fundamental Rights in the
ConstitutionofIndia?
(1)

1965

(2)

1976

(3)

1979

(4)

1982

29. MatchListIwithListIIandselectthecorrectanswerusing
thecodegivenbelowtheLists
ListI

ListII

(Provisionofthe
ConstitutionofIndia)

(Source)

I .

Amendmentofthe
Constitution

(A) Constitutionof
Germany

II.

DirectivePrinciples

(B)

ConstitutionofCanada

III. EmergencyPowerof
thePresident

(C) ConstitutionofSouth
Africa

IV.

(D) IrishConstitution

TheUnionState
Relations

(1)

IA,IIB,IIID,IVC

(2)

IC,IID,IIIA,IVB

(3)

IA,IID,IIIB,IVC

(4)

IC,IIA,IIID,IVB

30. InwhichofthefollowingyearswasGeneralAgreementon
Tariffs and Trade (GATT) absorbed into the World Trade
Organisation(WTO).
(1)

1991

(2)

1995

(3)

2000

(4)

2005

31. MatchListIwithListIIandselectthecorrectanswerusing
thecodegivenbelowtheLists
ListI

ListII

(MultipurposeRiverProject) (HydelPowerStation)
I .

Rihand

(A) Hirakud

II.

Gandak

(B)

(1)

NewYork

(2)

Paris

(3)

WashingtonDC

(4)

Geneva

36. WhichofthefollowingisnotaprincipalorganoftheUN?
(1) GeneralAssembly
(2) TrusteeshipCouncil
(3) SecurityCouncil
(4) WorldHealthOrganization
37. Which ofthe followingcountries is nota memberof the
UNO?
(1) Switzerland
(2) Bahamas
(3) Mauritius
(4) DominicanRepublic
38. ThepermanentseatoftheInternationalCourtofJusticeis
locatedin
(1) Paris
(2) Geneva
(3) Rome
(4) TheHague
39. Whichofthefollowingcountriesdoesnothavethepowerof
VetointheSecurityCouncil?
(1) UK
(2) Canada
(3) USA
(4) France
40. Howmanyofficialworkinglanguagesarerecognizedbythe
UN?
(1) 8
(2) 7
(3) 6
(4) 5
41. TheH.Q.ofILOislocatedat
(1) Geneva
(2)
(3) NewYork
(4)

TheHague
Rome

42. TheH.Q.ofFAOislocatedin
(1) NewYork
(2)
(3) Rome
(4)

Washington
France

Balmikinagar

III. Chambal

(C) Pipri

IV.

Mahanadi

(D) Kota

(1)

IC,IID,IIIB,IVA

(2)

IA,IIB,IIID,IVC

(3)

IC,IIB,IIID,IVA

(4)

IA,IID,IIIB,IVC

32. Whichoneofthefollowingisamediumrangesurfacetoair
missile?
(1)

Trishul

(2)

Nag

(3)

Prithvi

(4)

Akash

33. MatchListIwithListIIandselectthecorrectanswerusing
thecodegivenbelowtheLists
ListI(Vitamin)

ListII(ChemicalCompound)

I .

VitaminA

(A) Thaimin

II.

VitaminB

(B)

Retinol

III. VitaminC

(C) Ascorbicacid

IV.

VitaminE

(D) Tocopherol

(1)

ID,IIA,IIIC,IVB

(2)

IB,IIC,IIIA,IVD

(3)

ID,IIC,IIIA,IVB

(4)

IB,IIA,IIIC,IVD

34. TheUNcameintoexistencein
(1)

1946

(2)

1945

(3)

3947

(4)

1950

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35. TheH.Q.oftheUNarelocatedat

43. Matchthefollowing
ColumnI
A . ILO
B. WHO
C . OPEC
D. UNDP
(1) A4,B3,C1,D2
(3) A3,B4,C1,D2

ColumnII
1 . Oil
2 . Development
3 . Health
4 . Labour
(2) A4,B2,C1,D3
(4) A2,B1,C3,D4

44. Whichofthefollowingisnotan.officiallanguageoftheUN?
(1)

English

(2)

French

(3)

Chinese

(4)

Japanese

45. WhereistheH.Q.oftheEuropeanEconomicCommunity?
(1)

Bonn

(2)

Rome

(3)

Brussels

(4)

Hague

46. Indiaisamemberof
(1)

SEATO

(2)

EEC

(3)

OPEC

(4)

Noneofthese
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47. The Economic and Social Council of UN has how many

RegionalEconomicCommissions?

55. T he h ea dq ua rt er s of a ll t h e fo ll ow in g in te rn at io na l
organizationsarebasedatVienna,except

(1)

Ten

(2)

Seven

(1)

UnitedNationsIndustrialDevelopmentOrganization

(3)

Five

(4)

Three

(2)

OrganizationofPetroleumExportingCountries

(3)

UnitedNationsDevelopmentProgramme

(4)

InternationalAtomicEnergyAgency

48. WhichofthefollowingnationsisnotamemberofEEC?
(1)

Austria

(2)

Italy

(3)

France

(4)

Germany

49. The international agency which provides soft loans to

developingcountriesofAsiais
(1)

InternationalMonetaryFund

(2)

AsianDevelopmentBank

(3)

InternationalDevelopmentAssociation

(4)

WorldBank

56. TheheadquartersofAsianDevelopmentBankislocatedin
whichofthefollowingcities?
(1)

Jakarta

(2)

Singapore

(3)

Bangkok

(4)

Manila

57. Th e h ead qua rte rs of the Or gan iza tio n o f P etr ole um
ExportingCountriesareat
(1)

Agliers

(2)

Lagos

(3)

Kuwait

(4)

Vienna

50. WhichcountryinSoutheastAsiaisnotamemberofASEAN?
(1)

Singapore

(2)

Philippines

(3)

Indonesia

(4)

Cambodia

51. Allofthefollowingcountriesaremembersofthe.North
AtlanticTreatyOrganization,except
(1)

Greece

(2)

Pakistan

(3)

Turkey

(4)

Germany

52. Allofthefollowingorganizationshavetheirheadquarters
atWashington,DC,except
(1)

I n t e r n a t i o n a l B a n k f o r R e c o n s t r u c t i o n a n d
Development

(2)

InternationalMonetaryFund

(3)

UnitedNationsChildren'sFund

(4)

InternationalFinanceCorporation

53. From the following, choose the set in which names of

SecretaryGenerals of the UN are arranged in correct
chronologicalorder?
(1)

UThant,KurtWaldheim,DagHammarskjoeld,Trygve
Lie

(2)

Trygve Lie, Dag Hammarskjoeld, U. Thant, Kurt

Waldheim

(3)

Trygve Lie, U. Thant, Dag Hammarskjoeld, Kurt

Waldheim

(4)

U Than t, Dag Hamm arskjoeld, Trygve Lie , Kurt

Waldheim

54. OftheUNAgencies,whichonespecificallyaimsatfurther
economicdevelopmentbyencouragingproductiveprivate
enterprise?
(1)

UnitedNationsIndustrialDevelopmentOrganization

(2)

InternationalFinanceCorporation

(3)

InternationalMonetaryFund

(4)

WorldBank

58. TheInternationalCriminalPoliceOrganization(knownas
Interpol)hasitsheadquartersat
(1)

Bonn

(2)

London

(3)

Lyon

(4)

Montreal

59. ThemainobjectofwhichofthefollowingUNagenciesisto
helptheunderdeveloped countriesin the taskof raising
theirlivingstandards?
(1)

IMF

(2)

UNICEF

(3)

UNDP

(4)

IDAI

DIRECTIONS: Givenbelowaretwostatements,oneofthem
labeled as Assertion A and the other labeled as Reason R.
Chooseyouranswerasfollows
(1) if both A and R are true and R is the cor rect
explanationofA.
(2) if both A and R ar e tru e but R i s not corr ect
explanationofA.
(3) ifAistruebutRisfalse.
(4) ifAisfalsebutRistrue.
(5) ifbothAandRarefalse
60. AssertionA:Animportantpolicyinstrumentofeconomic
liberalizationisreductioninimportdutiesoncapitalgoods.
ReasonR:Reductioninimportdutieswouldhelpthelocal
entrepreneurs to improve technology to face the global
markets.
61. AssertionA:Ceilingonforeignexchangeforahostofcurrent
accounttransactionheadswasloweredintheyear2000.
ReasonR:Therewasafallinforeigncurrencyassetsalso.
62. AssertionA:Deathratewasquitehighpriorto1921.
ReasonR:Therewerefrequentfaminesandequidemicsprior
to1921.Theavailablemedicalfacilitiesandhealthservices
wereverypoor.
63. AssertionA:Devaluationofacurrencymaypromoteexport.
ReasonR:Priceofthecountry'sproductsintheinternational
marketmayfallduetodevaluation.

(64)of(95)

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64. AssertionA:Duringtheyear200102,thevalueofIndia's
totalexportsdeclined,registeringanegativegrowthof2.17
percent.
Reason R: During the year 200102, negative growth in
exports was witnessed in respect of ironand steel, and
textilesandmarineproducts.
65. AssertionA:Forthefirsttime,Indiahadnotradedeficitin
theyear20022003.
ReasonR:Forthefirsttime,India'sexportscrossedworth
$50billionintheyear20022003.
66. AssertionA:Indiadoesnotexportnaturalrubber.

72. MatchListI(Typeofinflation)withListII(characteristic)
andselectthecorrectanswerusingthecodesgivenbelow
thelists
ListI(TypeofInflation)
A .

Demandpullinflation

B.

Costpushinflation

C .

Suppressedinflation

D.

Creepinginflation

ListII(Characteristic)
1 .

Initiallypricerises

2 .

Pricerisecontrolledbyrationingandothermeans

3 .

Inflation in which prices increase as a result of

increasedproductioncosts(labourandrawmaterials)
evenwhendemandremainsthesame

4 .

Inflationinwhichrisingdemandresultsinarisein
prices

5 .

Fallinpriceofrawmaterials.

ReasonR:About97percentofIndia'sdemandfornatural
rubberismetfromdomesticproduction.
67. AssertionA:India'spercapitaincomedoesnotgiveatrue
pictureofitseconomicgrowth.
ReasonR:Percapitaincomeofanationcangrowifthereis
afallinpopulationofthenation.
68. AssertionA:India'sshareinworldtradehasdeclinedover
theperiod195051to199091.
ReasonR:CompositionofIndia'sexports/importshasnot
changedovertheperiod195051to199091.
69. Assertion A: India's software exports increased at an
averagegrowthrateof50percentsince199596.

73. Match the ListI (Committee/Commission) with ListII

(Chairperson)andselectthecorrectanswerusingthecode
givenbelowthelists
ListI(Committee/Commission) ListII(Chairperson)
A .

FDI

1 .

N.K.Singh

B.

VentureCapital

2 .

Chandrashekhar

C .

Disinvestment

3 .

Tarapore

D.

CapitalAccount

4 .

G.V.Ramakrishna

5 .

RajaChellaiah

Convertibility

ReasonR:Indiansoftwarecompanieswerecosteffective
andmaintainedinternationalquality.
70. AssertionA:TheEXIMpolicyisliberal,marketorientedand
favoursglobaltrade.
Reason R: GATT has played a significant role in the
liberalizationoftheeconomy.

DIRECTIONS:Forthefollowingquestions,fouroptionsaregiven.
Choosethecorrectoption.
71. Matchthefollowingpairsandchoseyouranswerfromthe
codesbelow
Trade

Year

1 .

AITUC

A.1920

2 .

INTUC

B.1947

3 .

HMS

C.1948

4 .

UTUC

D.1949

1234

1234

(1)

ABCD

(2)

ACBD

(3)

BDAC`

(4)

DCBA

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ABCD

ABCD

(1)

4213

(2)

1345

(3)

4315

(4)

1243

74. MatchListI(Committee)withListII(Subject)andselect
thecorrectanswerusingthecodegivenbelowthelists
ListI(Committee)

ListII(Subject)

A .

TandonCommittee

1 .

CapitalFinancing

B.

RakeshMohan

2 .

Infrastructure
Development

C .

NarasimhanCommittee 3 .

FinancialSector
Reforms

D.

OmkarGoswami

IndustrialSickness

4 .

Committee
ABCD

ABCD

(1)

1324

(2)

4231

(3)

1234

(4)

4321

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75. MatchListIwithListIIandselectthecorrectanswerusing
thecodesgivenbelow.

80. India'smaximumforeignexchangeisspenton
(1)

importoffoodgrains

ListI

(2)

importofironandsteel

A .

Fiscaldeficit

(3)

importofpetroleumproducts

B.

Budget

(4)

importoftechnicalknowhow

C .

Revenue

D.

Primarydeficit

81. Indiaearnsmaximumforexthroughexportof

ListII

(1)

leathergoods

(2)

handicrafts

1 .

ExcessoftotalExpenditureoverTotalReceipts

(3)

electronicgoods

(4)

engineeringgoods

2 .

E xc e s s o f R e v en u e E x pe n d it u re o ve r Re v e nu e
Receipts

3 .

ExcessofTotalExpenditureoverTotalReceiptsless
borrowings

4 .

Excess of Total Expenditure less borrowings and

InterestPayments
ABCD

82. HowmanytimeshastheIndiancurrencybeendemonetized
sofar?
(1)

Once

(2)

Twice

(3)

Thrice

(4)

Never

ABCD

(1)

3124

(2)

4321

(3)

1324

(4)

3142

76. MatchListIwithListIIandselectthecorrectanswerusing
thecodesgivenbelow.

83. FirstdemonetizationofIndiancurrencytookplacein
(1)

1946

(2)

1947

(3)

1948

(4)

1949

84. Indiancurrencywaslastdemonetizedin

ListI

(1)

1951

(2)

1955

A .

WTO

(3)

1960

(4)

1978

B.

IDA

C .

IMF

D.

IBRD

85. WhendidIndiabecomeamemberofInternationalMonetary
Fund(IMF)?

ListII
1 .

provides loans to address shortterm balance of

paymentproblems

2 .

multilateraltradenegotiationbody

3 .

sanctionofsoftloans

4 .

facilitatinglendingandborrowingforreconstruction
anddevelopment
ABCD

(1)

1947

(2)

1950

(3)

1951

(4)

1955

86. InstitutionofregionalruralbanksinIndiawereestablished
in
(1)

1951

(2)

1970

(3)

1975

(4)

1978

ABCD

(1)

2341

(2)

2314

(3)

3241

(4)

3214

87. TheExportImport(EXIM)Bankwassetupin
(1)

1980

(2)

1982

(3)

1981

(4)

1989

77. Whichofthefollowingpairsarecorrectlymatched?
(A)

DowJones:NewYork

(B)

HangSeng:Seoul

(C)

FTSE100:London

88. Theopenmarketoperationsrefertothesaleandpurchase
bytheRBIof

(1)

A,BandC

(2)

BandC

(3)

AandB

(4)

AandC

(1)

foreignexchange

(3)

governmentsecurities (4)

(2)

gold
allofthese

89. VATschemeisexpectedto
78. ThecommodityforwhichIndiaspendsthelargestamount
toimportis

(1)

raisepricesofforeigngoods

(2)

raisepricesofgoodsofeverydayuse
lowerpricesofgoodsofeverydayuse
avoidrepeatedpaymentofdutyfromtherawmaterials
stagetothefinalproductandthusreducetheburden
ofdutyonthefinalproduct

(1)

Ironandsteel

(2)

foodgrains

(3)

(3)

crudepetroleum

(4)

fertilizers

(4)

79. Whichofthefollowingcommoditiesearnsmaximumforeign
exchangeforIndia?
(1)

Jute

(2)

Ironandsteel

(3)

Tea

(4)

Sugar

(66)of(95)

90. NametheCEOandChairmanoftheBoardofGeneralElectric.
(1)

Jeffrey Mel

(2)

Jeff Mety

(3)

MichaelJeff

(4)

JeffreyImmelt

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91. WhoamongthefollowingistheCEOofPfizer?
(1)

LindsayOwenJones

(2)

HankMcKinnell

(3)

WindeyJones

(4)

Noneofthose

92. LeeRaymondwastheChairmanoftheBoardandCEOof
(1)

ExxonMobil

(2)

CadburySchweppes

(3)

SaraLee

(4)

Alcatel

93. WhoistheCEOofNestl?
(1)

RainerGut

(2)

MichaelWhite

(3)

PeterBrabeck

(4)

Peter Ray

94. NameoftheCEOofAllianzAG.
(1)

LawrenceEllison

(2)

JormaOllila

(3)

MichaelDiekmann

(4)

JackGreenberg

95. NametheChairmanandCEOofAmericanExpressCompany.
(1)

JosefAckermann

(2)

NeilTroy

(3)

MaryRay

(3)

KennethChenault

96. HeistheCEOofGlaxoSmithKline.Heassumedthisrolein
December2000withthemergerofSmithKlineBeechamand
GlaxoWellcome.Namethisperson.
(1)

HassanFred

(2)

MichaelGary

(3)

GaryDiCamillo

(4)

JeanPierreGarnier

103. HeistheChairmanofWockhardtLimited,andalsohasbeen
conferredtheprestigiousAwardfor'ExcellenceasTopCEO'
for the year 2002 from the Institute of Marketing &
Management(IMM),NewDelhi.Whoishe?
(1)

HabilKhorakiwala

(2)

RamSavoor

(3)

D.M.Satwalekar

(4)

SureshMohandas

104. NametheChairmanandChiefExecutiveOfficerofHewlett
PackardwhoalsotopsFortunemagazine'slistoftheworld's
MostPowerfulWomeninBusiness.
(1)

BetsyHolden

(2)

CarletonS.Fiorina

(3)

MegWhitman

(4)

AndreaJung

105. HLLhaslaunchedanewchocolatevariantofitslifestyleice
creambrandinanattempttoinstillintotheconsumermindset
thaticecreameatingisnotjustasummeractivity.Name
thebrand.
(1)

VanillaGold

(2)

Blackcurrentsundae

(3)

Cornetto

(4)

Viennetta

106. FloppyDiskDriveswereoriginallydesignedby
(1)

IBM

(2)

Sony

(3)

Panasonic

(4)

Samsung

107.Namethecompanythathaslaunchedasportsutilityvehicle
(SUV),theChevroletForesterinIndia.
(1)

MarutiUdyog

(3)

MahindraandMahindra (4)

(2)

Toyota
GeneralMotors

97. WhichofthefollowingisRijkmanGroeninktheCEOof ?
(1)

HSBCBank

(2)

ABNAmroBank

(3)

OCBCBank

(4)

BankofNewYork

98. NameoftheformerCEOofNike.
(1)

CraigConway

(2)

RichardLenny

(3)

RogerHolmes

(4)

MarkParker

99. DavidWhitwamistheCEOofwhichofthefollowinghome
appliancemarker?
(1)

Samsung

(2)

Toshiba

(3)

Whirlpool

(4)

Noneofthese

108. Nameofthebankthathaslaunchedacobrandedcredit
cardwithAmwayIndia.
(1)

ICICI

(2)

HDFCBank

(3)

HSBCBank

(4)

CitiBank

109. NametheIndianPresidentwhoheadedISRO.
(1)

S.D.Sharma

(2)

KRNarayanan

(3)

R.Venkatraman

(4)

A.P.J.AbdulKalam

110. A.K.PurwarhasservedastheChairmanof
(1)

ReserveBankofIndia (2)

StateBankofIndia

(3)

BankofPunjab

BankofIndia

(4)

100. NametheCEOofAlcoa.
(1)

AlainBelda

(2)

(3)

ZygmuntE.Switkowski (4)

MathewMehan
Noneofthese

101. StevenSReinemund,ChairmanandChiefExecutiveOfficer
ofPepsiCo,waselectedtotheBoardofDirectorsof
(1)

Unilever

(2)

Nestle

(3)

JohnsonandJohnson

(4)

ProcterandGamble

111. HindustanMotorsmanufacturestheLancerinassociation
with
(1)

Mitsubishi

(2)

Toyota

(3)

GeneralMotors

(4)

Honda

112. Floppy DiskDrives werefirst introducedby whichof the

followingcomputermanufacturers?
(1)

IBM

(2)

Sony

(3)

Panasonic

(4)

Compaq

102. NametheChairmanofTelstraCorporation.
(1)

HeinerGuertler

(2)

DavidWhitwam

(3)

ZygmuntSwitkowski

(4)

BobMansfield

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113. Nameofthecompanywhichisasubsidiaryofthemultinational
company Aventis, which sought to introduce genetically
modifiedmustardinIndia.
(1)

Avergo

(2)

Mustis

(3)

Proagro

(4)

Noneofthese

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114. NameoftheMDofComputerAssociateIndia.
(1)

RakeshMittal

(2)

NinadKarpe

(3)

GovindMirchandani

(4)

PawanMunjal

115. IfGSMstandfor"GlobalSystemforMobileCommunication",
thenCDMAstandsfor
(1)

CodeDivisionalMultipleAccess

(2)

CodeDataManifoldAccess

(3)

CodeDepartmentalManifoldAdmission

(4)

CodeDivisionMultipleAccess

116. NamethesecondbiggestIndiandrugfirm.

123. Namethelaboratoriesthatlaunchedthenextgeneration
antiretroviral(ARV)productAbacavirforthefirsttimein
India.Theproductwouldbemarketedunderthebrandname
VIROLasa30mgformulationinIndia.
(1)

Wockhardt

(2)

Dr.Reddy's

(3)

Ranbaxy

(4)

Pfizer

124. BPLMobile,amobilephoneserviceprovider,hasannounced
astrategictieupwithwhichofthefastestgrowingservice
providers,tolaunchMotsWorldPhoneCard?
(1)

DataAccess

(2)

DigitalGlobalSoft

(3)

TataInfoTech

(4)

TransworldInfoTech

(1)

Ranbaxy

(2)

Pfizer

(3)

Cipla

(1)

PradipMadhavji

(2)

AlanStewart

(4)

Dr.Reddy'sLaboratories

(3)

StefanPichler

(4)

AnnaKori

125. NametheChairmanandCEOofThomasCookAG.

117. UnderwhichbrandnamedidGrasimrecentlylaunchanew
rangeoffabrics?
(1)

AllenSolly

(2)

Comfort

(3)

Unity

(4)

Freedom

118. Computersbuiltbeforethefirstgenerationofcomputers
were
(1)

Mechanical

(2)

Electromechanical

(3)

Electrical

(4)

Magnetic

119. NameoftheAmericancompanythatdevelopedCDMA,one
ofthetwotechnologiesusedbymobiletelephony.

126. WhoheadedthepanelthatrecommendedPhaseItrialof
newdrugsofforeignorigininIndia,whichwouldgiveIndia
fasteraccesstothenewdrugs?
(1)

Mashelkar

(2)

I.G.Patel

(3)

PawanVerma

(4)

Noneofthose

127. MrPiruzKhambattaistheChairmanandManagingDirector
of
(1)

Mafco

(2)

Kissan

(3)

Noga

(4)

Rasna

128. Punchedcardswerefirstintroducedby

(1)

Commtel

(2)

Qualcomm

(1)

Powers

(2)

Pascal

(3)

Qualcomnu

(4)

Noneofthese

(3)

Jacquard

(4)

HermanHollerith

120. Name the laboratory that has announced its entry into
advancedpharmaceuticalresearchbysigninganagreement
of collaborative research programme with the National
InstituteofPharmaceuticalEducationandResearch(NIPER).
(1)

Wockhardt

(2)

(3)

Dr.Reddy'sLaboratries (4)

Piramal
Dr.Morepen

121. HewastillrecentlyCOCEOofPlanetasiaandaMicroland
group veteran. He has joined the Bangalorebased IT
solutionsandserviceproviderNetkraftPvt.LtdasCEOand
isamemberoftheboardofdirectors.Whomarewetalking
about?

129. Multiprogrammingsystems
(1)

areeasiertodevelopthansingleprogrammingsystems

(2)

executeeachjobfaster

(3)

executemorejobsinthesametimeperiod

(4)

areusedonlyonelargemainframecomputers

130. NameoftheCEOofIflex(India).
(1)

K.Mahesh

(2)

DeepakGhaisas

(3)

C.S.Patel

(4)

SanjuBansal

131. SergeTchurukistheChairmanof

(1)

AnandMittal

(2)

SenthilKumar

(1)

Britannia

(2)

Alcatel

(3)

AnandSudharshan

(4)

AshishKumar

(3)

Nokia

(4)

Toshiba

122. ToyotaMotorCorporation,thethirdlargestautomakerin
theworld,hadannouncedtheavailabilityofitsmodel.....
inMumbai.
(1)

LandCruzier

(2)

Prado

(3)

Corolla

(4)

Qualis

132. ScottBaymanisthePresidentandCEOof
(1)

ShawWallace&Co.

(2)

GucciGroup

(3)

GEIndia

(4)

Philips

133. NametheChiefExecutiveandPresidentofSybase.

(68)of(95)

(1)

LimKokWing

(2)

JohanChen

(3)

MechaiViravaidya

(4)

TonyBuss

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134. HereclaimedthereinsatAppleandrestoredthecompany
toglorybytakingtheleadershipinsellingonlinemusicwith
its99centsasong.
(1)

JohnJacobs

(2)

SteveJackson

(3)

JohnSculley

(4)

SteveJobs

135. Nokialaunchedacellphonethatallowsuserstoplaycard
basedgameslikeNintando'sGameboy.Namethecellphone.
(1)

NNoke

(2)

NGage

(3)

NCage

(4)

NFun

136. The Star Group promoted a senior executive to Chief

Executive of Star Asia replacing Rupert Murdoch's son
James.Nametheperson.
(1)

LauraAndreaTyson

(2)

Jeffery Garten

(3)

MichelleGuthrie

(4)

Noneofthese

137.WhoisthenewlyappointedPrimeMinisterofAustralia?
(1)

AngelaMerkel

(2)

JuliaGillard

(3)

YuliaTymoshenko

(4)

ChristinaColombo

138. .....isSouthKorea'slargestcarmaker

145. WhohasauthoredthebookAjourney:Mypoliticallife?
(1)

GeorgeBush

(2)

TonyBlair

(3)

BillClinton

(4)

BarackObama

146. WhoistheauthorofthebookTheBlackSwan?
(1)

NaseemNicholasTaleb (2)

SalmanRushdie

(3)

TaslimaNasreen

AbdulRazzaq

(4)

147.Theprimarypurposeofanoperatingsystemis....
(1)

tomakethemostefficientuseofthecomputer
hardware

(2)

toallowpeopletousethecomputer

(3)

tokeepsystemsprogrammersemployed

(4)

tomakecomputerseasiertouse

148. ............runsoncomputerhardwareandserveasplatform
forothersoftware'storunon
(1)

OperatingSystem

(2)

ApplicationSoftware

(3)

SystemSoftware

(4)

Allofthese

149. WhichIndianfinancialinstitutionisbeingconvertedintoa
globalinstitutionalinvestor?

(1)

Proton

(2)

Daewoo

(1)

LIC

(2)

UTI

(3)

Hyundai

(4)

Noneofthese

(3)

ICICI

(4)

IDBI

139. CurrencyofMongoliais
(1)

Peso

(2)

Tugrik

(3)

Dollar

(4)

Schekels

140. WhatistheamountofmoneyReliancehadbeenaskedto
paytomigratetoaunifiedlicense?
(1)

Rs.1,500crore

(2)

Rs.1,508crore

(3)

Rs.1,578crore

(4)

Rs.1,590crore

141. Whichofthefollowingisbeingsetupasventurefundfor
powerprojectsinIndia?
(1)

IndiaPowerFund

(2)

IPowerFund

(3)

PowerFundforIndia

(4)

PowerIndiaFund

142. TheCabinethasdecidedtosetupanombudsmanforwhich
department?
(1)

Directtaxdepartment

(2)

Incometaxdepartment

(3)

Indirecttaxdepartment

(4)

Civilaviationdepartment

(1)

Astana

(2)

AddisAbaba

(3)

Beirut

(4)

Tripoli

144. WhoistheownerofMumbaiIndians?
MukeshandNeetaAmbani

(2)

PrityZintaandNessVadia

(3)

VijayMallaya

(4)

ShahrukhKhan

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(1)

BoB

(2)

HSBC

(3)

IDBI

(4)

BoA

151. Howmanyvacuumtubeswereusedinfirstanalyticalengine?
(1)

10000

(2)

12000

(3)

90000

(4)

14000

152. IndiahassignedaFTAwith
(1)

Singapore

(2)

Thailand

(3)

SouthKorea

(4)

Indonesia

153. Theclausewhichrequiresforeigncompaniestogetano
objectioncertificate(NOC)fromtheIndianpartnersiscalled
(1)

pressnote15

(2)

pressnote16

(3)

pressnote17

(4)

pressnote18

154. Twointernationalcompanies,CapitalInternationalandthe
Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, have
pickedup4.5percentequityeachinwhichIndiancompany?

143. CapitalofKazakhstanis

(1)

150. Which lender to the Dabhol Power Project was paid $30
millionbytheOpic?

(1)

REL

(2)

TataPower

(3)

Dabhol

(4)

EssarPower

155. ICchipswasusedin
(1)

Firstgeneration

(2)

Secondgeneration

(3)

ThirdGeneration

(4)

Fourthgeneration

156. Vedanta,whichisplanningtoenlistintheLSE,iscontrolled
b y
(1)

RuiaGroup

(2)

AnilAgarwalgroup

(3)

HindujaGroup

(4)

AVBirlaGroup
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157. TheShradulShroffCommitteewasconstitutedtolookinto
(1)

corporatefrauds

(2)

corporatemanagement

(3)

corporatetaxation

(4)

corporategovernance

158. Yourcompanyreceivesinternetaccessthroughanetwork
oragatewayserver.Whichofthefollowingdevicesisbest
suitedtoprotectresourcesandsubnetyourLANdirectlyon
thenetworkserver?
(1)

DSLmodem

(2)

Amultihomedfirewall

(3)

VLAN

(4)

Arouterthatactsbothasabridgeandarouter

159. ThelimitsetbytheRBIforbankstogiveeducationloans
withoutinsistingoncollateralis
(1)

Rs.2.4lakh

(2)

Rs.3.4lakh

(3)

Rs.4lakh

(4)

Rs.4.5lakh

(3)

config.sys
autoexec.bat

(2)
(4)

Realtimesystem

(2)

Timesharingsystem

(3)

Resourceaccesssystem

(4)

Allofthese

interactingcomputer

(2)

conversationcomputing

(3)

modifyingcomputer

(4)

Allofthese

(2)

1969

1972

(4)

1923

168. Wh ich org anis ati on work s t o en cou rage su sta inab le
developmentthroughsoundenvironmentalpractices?
(1)

USEP

(2)

UNEP

(3)

SEP

(4)

Noneofthese

169. Which organisation is the world's largest agency for

multilateral,technicalandpreinvestmentcooperation?
(1)

UNFPA

(2)

UNDP

(3)

NFP

(4)

NPA

170. Nameorganisationthatwasformallyestablishedin1946to
promote collaboration among European states in space
researchandtechnologyexclusivelyforpeacefulpurpose.

command.com

(2)

EuropeanSpaceResearchTechnology

io.sys

(3)

SpaceandResearchTechnologyofEurope

(4)

Noneofthese

162. Intimesharingsystem,theusercarriesaconversationwith
thecentralsystemcalled
(1)

1946

(3)

EuropeanSpaceResearchOrganisation

161. Asysteminwhichatransactionaccessesandupdatesafile
quicklyenoughtoaffecttheoriginaldecisionmakingiscalled
(1)

(1)

(1)

160. Afterbootingprocesswhichfileexecutesautomatically?
(1)

167. WhenwastheUNFundforPopulationActivities(UNFPA)
established?

163. Allocation of resources in a timedependent fashion to

severalprogramsimultaneouslyiscalled
(1)

multitasking

(2)

multiuser

(3)

timesharing

(4)

resourcesharing

164. OperatingSystemforMicrocomputersystemis
(1)

Unix

(2)

Linux

(3)

Windows

(4)

Allofthese

165. Whichistheworld'slargestPublicPensionFund?

171. ItisaspecializedagencyoftheUNthatisresponsiblefor
intellectualpropertyandcameintoforceinApril1970.Name
theOrganisation.
(1)

WMO

(2)

WIPO

(3)

IMF

(4)

IFAD

172. Itisapermanentinternationaltradebody,whichreplaced
GeneralAgreementonTariffsandTradeinJanuary,1995.
NametheOrganisation.
(1)

IMO

(2)

WTO

(3)

ILO

(4)

GAP

173. Itisaworldwidehumanrightsorganisationestablishedon
May28,1961withanewspaperappealbytheBritishlawyer
PeterBerenson.
(1)

AmnestyInternational (2)

AsiaWatch

(3)

HumanRightsWatch

UNHCR

(4)

174. HefoundedMerchantBankinSouthAfricain1979,setup
SwissbasedRichemontin1987andbegandiversification
intoluxurygoodswithatakeoverofCartier.Whomarewe
referringto?
(1)

JohannPeterRupert

(2)

MorganStanley

(3)

ArmandoBranchini

(4)

Dunhill

(1)

CaliforniaPublicEmployeesRetirementSystem.

(2)

UTI

(3)

UKPensionFund.

(1)

AmrMoussa

(2)

AmarEssy

LIC

(3)

CesarGaviriaTrujillo

(4)

JakobKellenberg

(4)

175. NamethePresidentofRedCross.

166. WorldBankconsistsofhowmanymembercountries?
(1)

(2)

100

(3)

104

(4)

184

(70)of(95)

176. Itisagroupof114countriesmostlydevelopingwithThabo
MbekiasitsChairman.Whatisthegroup?
(1)

SouthAfricanAssociation

(2)

NonAlignedMovement

(3)

OrganisationofAfricanUnity

(4)

Noneofthese
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177.NametheSecretaryGeneraloftheInterpol
(1)

RonaldNoble

(2)

DonaldJohnston

(3)

Pat Cox

(4)

PierreJeanniot

178. ThisOrganisationisalsoknownasBrettonWoodsInstitution.
Whatistheorganisation?
(1)
(3)

IMF
WWF

(2)
(4)

WorldBank
WTO

179. Which organisation promotes international cooperation

amongits190MemberStateandSixAssociateMembersin
thefieldsofeducation,science,cultureandcommunication?
(1)

UFRC

(2)

IOPI

(3)

UNESCO

(4)

UNEP

187.Itisanorganisationwhichcameintoexistenceon29July
1957.ItsDirectorGeneralisMohammedEIBaradei.Name
theOrganisation.
(1)

UNDRO

(2)

IAEA

(3)

UNRWA

(4)

UNIDO

188. ThefunctionoftheWorldBankisto
(1)

easetradebarriersandestablishrulesoffairtrade.

(2)

promotegrowthofinternationaltradeandequilibrium
inbalanceofpayment.

(3)

helpinthereconstructionanddevelopmentofworld
economy.

(4)

facilitatepoorcountriestotradeonconcessionalrates.

189. WhoappointstheUNSecretaryGeneral?
180. ASIAWatchis

(1)

TheInternationalCourtofJustice.

(1)

aCISsponsoredthinktank

(2)

TheGeneralAssembly.

(2)

anInternationalhumanrightsorganisation

(3)

TheSecurityCouncil

(3)

anassociationofpoliticalanalystsonAsia

(4)

(4)

areligiousbodyofradicalMuslimsintheMiddleeast

TheGeneralAssemblyontherecommendationsofthe
SecurityCouncil.

181. Whichorganisationprohibitstheoverthrowoflegitimate
governmentthoughmilitarymeans?

190.What was the earlier name ofONGC (Oil & Natural Gas)
VideshLimitedwhenitwasincorporatedin1965?

OrganisationofAfricanUnity

(1)

HIPL(HydrocarbonsIndiaPvt.Ltd.)

(2)

OrganisationofAmericanUnity

(2)

IPCL(IndianPetrochemicalsPvt.Ltd.)

(3)

OrganisedAfricanUnion

(3)

HPCL(HindustanPetrochemicalPvt.Ltd.)

Noneofthese

(4)

BPCL(BharatPetroleumCorporationLimited)

(1)

(4)

182. SAARC'ssecretariathasbeenestablishedat
(1)
(3)

Kathmandu
Colombo

(2)
(4)

191. WhodesignedtheMascotofRollsRoyce?

Thimpu

(1)

CharlesSykes

(2)

FredericAuguste

NewDelhi

(3)

AugusteRodin

(4)

BenNicholson

192. McDonald'shasatieupinIndiawithCadbury'sforwhich
productrange?

183. CRYisanorganisationdealingwith
(1)

communitydevelopment.

(2)

welfareofdestitutewomen.

(3)

welfareofneglectedchildren.

(3)

environment

(1)

McSwizz

(2)

McPizza

(3)

McBurger

(4)

McSwirl

193. WhatdidApplecofounderSteveJobsestablishintheyear
1986?

184. Whichoneofthefollowingorganizationsdealswithrefuges?
(1)

WHCR

(2)

ECOSEC

(3)

UNCHR

(4)

UNHCR

185. WorldBankisassistingintheimplementationofIntegrated
Watershed DevelopmentProject forplains. InIndia, the
projectisbeingexecutedinthestatesof
(1)

Rajasthan,GujaratandOrissa

(2)

Rajasthan,PunjabandHaryana

(3)

UP,RajasthanandGujarat

(4)

WestBengal,OrissaandBihar

186. OrganisationofAmericanStates(OAS)isanorganisationof
thecountriesin

(1)

Pixar

(2)

DreamWorksSKG

(3)

Datamatrix

(4)

Cartoonix

194. Mr. Michael Mascrenhas was discredited on corruption

charges,andwassuspendedfromhispostintheyear2001
asManagingDirectorofwhichairlines?
(1)

AirIndia

(2)

IndianAirlines

(3)

JetAirways

(4)

Sahara

195. Maggi quick to preparefood is a famousbrand ofwhich

company?
(1)

Heinz

(2)

Knorr

(3)

Nestle

(4)

HLL

(1)

CentralandSouthAmerica

(2)

NorthandSouthAmerica

(3)

North,CentralSouthAmericaandtheCaribbean

(1)

Carbon

(2)

Sulphur

(4)

NorthandCentralAmerica

(3)

Hydrogen

(4)

Methane

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196. Sweetcrudeoilisthetermusedforcrudeoilwithlowlevel
of

(71)of(95)

197. TheoriginofthewordXeroxisfrom.....language
(1)

Chinese

(2)

Roman

(3)

Phoenician

(4)

Greek

198. WhichIndianairlineswasrecognisedbytheGuinnessBook
ofRecordsforthelargestevacuationofciviliansintheyear
1993?

208. WhatistheEmblenofAudiafteritmergedwithDKW,Horch
&Wanderer?
(1)

1Ring4lineinside

(2)

4leaves

(3)

1Ring

(4)

4Rings

209. Whichcountryhasbannedthename'email'andreplacedit
withCourrierElectronique?

(1)

JetAirways

(2)

IndianAirlines

(1)

Italy

(2)

Germany

(3)

AirIndia

(4)

AllianceAir

(3)

France

(4)

Spain

199. WhichwasthefirstairrouteofAirIndia,thenknownas
TataAirlines,in1932?

210. Procter & Gamble, founded in 1837, discontinued the

manufacture of its staple product after 1920. Name the
product.

(1)

LondonBombay

(2)

KarachiAhmedabadBombay

(1)

ElectricBlub

(2)

Candles

(3)

LondonParis

(3)

Lanterns

(4)

Torch

(4)

BombayParis
211. NameIndia'sfirstelectriccarmanufacturedbyMainiGroup?

200. WhohelpedJRDTatatoestablishTataAirlines?
(1)

Mr.NevillVincent

(2)

SirDorabTata

(3)

Mr.HenryNestle

(4)

Mr.JawaharlalNehru

201. NamethepopularsingerwhomadetheVoltasfreshetarian
tune.
(1)

LeslieLewis

(2)

A.R.Rehman

(3)

EhsanandLoy

(4)

Noneofthese

202. He designed the Vokswagen Beetle and the 'K' model of

MercedesBenz.LateronheformedhisownCompany.Who
ishe?
(1)

DaimlerBenz

(2)

Dr.FerdinandPorsche

(3)

Prof.Mercedes

(4)

Mr.Ferrari

203. WhodesignedtheGattumascotforAsianPaints?
(1)

TyebMehta

(2)

ShekharGurera

(3)

R.K.Laxman

(4)

M.F.Hussain

(1)

Reva

(2)

S eve

(3)

Indira

(4)

Noneofthese

212. Abank tradercreated abogus erroraccount tohide the

losseshemadewhiletradingfromSingapore,andnamedit
withafivedigitnumber88888.Whomarewereferringto?
(1)

KennethLay

(2)

NickLeeson

(3)

MarylinSlate

(4)

ChrisLay

213. WhatwasIdeaCellularearlierknownas?
(1)

Batata

(2)

BTata

(3)

ChitChat

(4)

Noneofthese

214. ZeeNetworkhastiedupwithFranceTVandSilhouetteFilms
tocoproduceafilm.Namethefilm.
(1)

TheSoup

(2)

OneDollarCurry

(3)

TheCup

(4)

TheGanges

215. WhatisthecapitalofBarbados?
204. Intheyear1906,oneofthewellknownpractitionersofhis
timeformedacompanynamedHamdard.Hewas
(1)

JameHamdard

(2)

HakimAjmalKhan

(3)

HakimBaba

(4)

H.H.AbdulMajeed

205. ThesymbolofPunjabNationalBankisinwhichscript?
(1)

Devanagri

(2)

Aramic

(3)

Urdu

(4)

Pushtu

206. NamethisRugbyplayerforWales,whoisalsothemanaging
directorofBataIndia.
(1)

StephenDavies

(2)

TomFord

(3)

GeorgeSaitori

(4)

EdwinLim

207. Which two companies have entered into a pact for the
copyright and trademark of S nuggy Disposable Baby
Diapers?

(1)

Manama

(2)

Minsk

(3)

Bridgetown

(4)

Sarajevo

216. CapitalofCameroonis
(1)

N'Djamena

(2)

Copenhagen

(3)

Havana

(4)

Yaounde

217. CapitalofGhanais
(1)

Conakry

(2)

Budapest

(3)

Accra

(4)

Georgetown

218. CapitalofNamibiais
(1)

Windhoek

(2)

Rabat

(3)

Podgorica

(4)

PortLouis

219. ThecapitalofParaguayis

(1)

Johnson&JohnsonandWipro

(1)

Mbabane

(2)

Asuncion

(2)

WiproandHuggies

(3)

Pretoria

(4)

Dushanbe

(3)

GodrejConsumerProductsLtd.AndShogunDiapers

(4)

HuggiesandSnuggy

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220. Matchthefollowing

229. WhichamongthefollowingbookswaswrittenbyJawaharlal
Nehru?

A .

Rigveda

1 .

Musicalhymns

B.

YajurVeda

2 .

Sacrificesandrituals

(a)

APassagetoIndia
MyExperimentswithTruth

C .

SamaVeda

3 .

Medicine

(b)

D.

Atharvaveda

4 .

Hymnsandprayers

(c)

IndiaWinsFreedom

(d)

TheDiscoveryofIndia

(1)

(2)

(3)

(a)

UmaShankar

(b)

Vatsyayan

(c)

SafdarHashmi

(d)

KhushwantSingh

(4)

230. WhoistheauthorofthefamousplayHallaBol?

221. WhowrotethebooktitledRunsandRuins?

231. WhowrotetheNakedTriangle?

(1)

KapilDev

(2)

ImranKhan

(a)

BalwantGargi

(b)

KhushwantSingh

(3)

SunilGavaskar

(4)

Noneofthese

(c)

AmritaPritam

(d)

Noneofthese.

232. Kautilya'sArthashastraisa

222. WhowroteAsYouLikeIt?
(1)

BernardShaw

(2)

WilliamShakespeare

(a)

LawBook

(b)

Treatise

(3)

LeoTolstoy

(4)

MulkRajAnand

(c)

Hymns

(d)

Gazetteer

223. DasKapitaliswrittenby

233. WhoistheauthorofSwamiandFriends?

(1)

Lenin

(2)

MaoTsetung

(a)

R.K.Laxman

(b)

R.K.Narayan

(3)

KarlMarx

(4)

Noneofthese

(c)

MulkRajAnand

(d)

None

224. Selectthecorrectpair

234. PostOfficeiswrittenby

(1)

PatanjaliMahabhashya

(2)

KaildasaSetubandha

(3)

AshvaghosaMatavikagnimitra

(4)

PravarasenaBuddhaCharita

(a)

R.K.Narayan

(b)

MulkRajAnand

(c)

R.K.Laxman

(d)

RabindranathTagore

235. WhoistheauthorofAnandMath?

225. WhoistheauthorofTheGreatDepressionof1990?

(a)

Iqbal

(b)

BankimchandraChatterjee

(1)

RaviBatra

(2)

R.K.Narayan

(c)

TaraShankarBandyopadhyay

(3)

M.V.Kamath

(4)

KhushwantSingh

(d)

Noneofthese

226. AiniAkbariiswrittenby

236. Panchatantrawaswrittenby

(1)

Firdausi

(2)

Ghalib

(a)

Bhasa

(b)

Jaya Deva

(3)

AbulFazal

(4)

Noneofthese

(c)

VishnuSharma

(d)

Banabhatta

227.Matchthefollowing

237.WhoistheauthorofNineteenEightyFour?

Author

Work

(a)

J.M.Barrie

(b)

WalterScott

A.Kautilya

1.BrokenWing

(c)

GeorgeOrwell

(d)

ThomasHardy

B.Panini

2.Arthashastra

C.MaharishiVedVyas

3.Ashtadhyayi

D.SarojiniNaidu

4.BhagawadGita

238. Theoldestbookcomposedwas
(a)

Mahabharata

(b)

RigVeda

(c)

Atharvaveda

(d)

Upanishads

(1)

(2)

(3)

(a)

FirdausiandAbulFazal

(4)

(b)

AbulFazalandFirdausi

(c)

AbulFazalandSheikhSaved

(d)

Noneofthese

239. TheauthorsofShahnamaandAkbarnamaarerespectively

228. WhowroteAPassagetoIndia?
(1)

E.M.Forster

(2)

JawaharlalNehru

(3)

MinooMasani

(4)

Noneofthem

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240. ThecapitalofSerbiais
(1)

Belgrade

(2)

Riyadh

(3)

Pretoria

(4)

Stockholm
(73)of(95)

241. ThecapitalofSingaporeis
(1)

Damascus

(2)

Bern

(3)

Dushanbe

(4)

Noneofthese

249. MatchListIwithListIIandselectthecorrectanswerusing
thecodesgivenbelowthelists
ListI
A.Explanationofthephotoelectriceffect

242. ThecapitalcityofSpainis

B.Discoveryofacomet

(1)

Vienna

(2)

Perth

C.Measurementoftheelectroniccharge

(3)

Madrid

(4)

Noneofthese

D.Thermoelectricity
ListII

243. ThecapitalofSenegalis

1 .

J.J.Thomson

2 .

RobertMillikan

(1)

Riyadh

(2)

Mogadishu

3 .

Einstein

4 .

EdmundHalley

(3)

Dakar

(4)

Khartoum

5 .

Seebeck

(1)

A3B2C4D5

(2)

A5B1C4D3

(3)

A5B4C1D3

(4)

A3B4C2D5

244. ThecapitalofTajikistanis
(1)

Daressalaam

(2)

Riyadh

(3)

Dakar

(4)

Noneofthese

245. ThecapitalofUgandais

250. Whichofthefollowingpairsis/arecorrectlymatched?
Theory/law

AssociatedScientist

1.ContinentalDrift

EdwinHubble

(1)

Tashkent

(2)

Kampala

2.ExpansionofUniverse

AlfredWegener

(2)

Caracus

(4)

Lusaka

3.PhotoelectricEffect

AlbertEinstein

(1)

2and3only

(2)

3only

(3)

2only

(4)

1only

246. Match ListI (City) with ListII (Industry) and select the
correctanswerusingthecodegivenbelowthelists
ListI

ListII

(City)

(Industry)

A.Bhopal

1.SportsGoods

ListI

ListII

B.Kapurthala

2.HeavyElectricals

A.Rihand

1.Orissa

C.Vadodara

3.PetroChemicals

B.Ukai

2.Maharashtra

D.Visakhapatnam

4.RailCoaches

C.Hirakud

3.UttarPradesh

5.Steel

D.Koyna

4.Gujarat

251. MatchListI(Damproject)withListII(State)onthebasis
ofcodes

(1)

A3B1C2D4

(2)

A2B4C3D5

(1)

A3B4C1D2

(2)

A3B1C2D4

(3)

A3B4C2D5

(4)

A2B1C3D4

(3)

A3B4C2D1

(4)

A3B2C4D1

247. MatchListI(TouristPlace) withListII(State)andselect

thecorrectanswerusingthecodesgivenbelowthelists

252. MatchListI(Rivervalleyproject)withListII(Rivers)on
thebasisofcodes

ListII

ListI

ListII

(State)

A.Shivsamudram

1.Bhagirathi

A.AmberFort

1.UttarPradesh

B.Nagarjunsagar

2.Kaveri

B.Auroville

2.Pondicherry

C. Jayakwadi

3.Godavari

C.BulandDarwaza

3.Karnataka

D.Theri

4.Krishna

4.Rajasthan

(1)

A2B4C3D1

(2)

A2B4C1D3

5.MadhyaPradesh

(3)

A2B3C4D1

(4)

A2B1C4D3

ListI
(TouristPlace)

D.GolGumbaz

6.TamilNadu
(1)

A4B6C1D2

(2)

A1B2C5D3

(3)

A4B2C1D3

(4)

A1B6C5D2

248. InwhichoneofthefollowingperiodsdidIndiaexperiencea
negativepopulationgrowth?

253. MatchListIwithListIIandselectthecorrectanswerusing
thecodesgivenbelowtheLists
ListI(SpecializedAgencyofUN)

ListII
(Headquarters)

A.InternationalBankfor

(1)

19011911

(2)

19111921

ReconstructionandDevelopment

(3)

19211931

(4)

19311941

B.InternationalCivilAviation
Organisation

1.Montreal
2.London

C.InternationalMaritime
Organisation

3.Rome

D.InternationalLabour
Organisation

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4.Washington

(1)

A3B1C2D4

(2)

A3B2C1D4

(3)

A4B2C1D3

(4)

A4B1C2D3
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254. MatchListIwithListIIandselectthecorrectanswerusing
thecodesgivenbelowtheLists

260. Considerthefollowingpairs
Organisation

LocationofHeadquarters

ListI

ListII

1.AsianDevelopmentBank

Tokyo

(UNBodies)

(Headquarters)

2.AsiaPacificEconomic

A.InternationalCourtofJustice

1. Geneva

Cooperation

B.FoodandAgricultureOrg.

2.Rome

3.AssociationofSouthEast

C.UNESCO

3.Washington

AsianNations

D.WHO

4.TheHague

Whichoftheabovepairsis/arecorrectlymatched?

Singapore
Bangkok

5.Paris

(1)

1and2only

(2)

2only

(1)

A2B3C5D4

(2)

A1B2C3D5

(3)

2and3only

(4)

3only

(3)

A3B4C1D5

(4)

A4B2C5D1
261. Matchthelistgivenbelow

255. TheconceptofMicrofinancewaslaunchedinwhichofthe
followingcountriesinitially?
(1)

Bangladesh

(2)

India

(3)

Egypt

(4)

Israel

256. Considerthefollowingpairs
AutomobileManufacturer

Headquarters

1.BMWAG

USA

2.DaimlerAG

Sweden

3.RenaultS.A.

France

4.VolkswagenAG

Germany

Whichofthepairsgivenaboveis/arecorrectlymatched?
(1)

1,2and3

(2)

3and4

(3)

4only

(4)

1,2and4

257.MatchListIwithListIIandselectthecorrectanswerusing
thecodesgivenbelowthelists
ListI

ListII

(AsianGames)

(HeldIn)

A.AsianGames,1990

1.Thailand

B.AsianGames,1994

2.SouthKorea

C.AsianGames,1998

3.China

D.AsianGames,2002

4.Japan

(1)

A2B4C1D3

(2)

A3B1C4D2

(3)

A2B1C4D3

(4)

A3B4C1D2

258. MatchListI(FamousIndianPlayer)withListII(Game/Sport)
andselectthecorrectanswerusingthecodesgivenbelow
thelists

Country

Parliament

A.Netherlands

1.Diet

B.Ukraine

2.StatesGeneral

C.Poland

3.SupremeCouncil

D.Japan

4.Sejm

(1)

A4B1C2D3

(2)

A2B3C4D1

(3)

A4B3C2D1

(4)

A2B1C4D3

262. Matchthelists
ListI

ListII

(A)Bangkok

1.Irrawaddy

(B)PhnomPenh

2.Mekong

(C)Hanoi

3.Menam

(D)Yangon

4.RedRiver

(1)

A3B2C4D1

(2)

A4B1C3D2

(3)

A3B1C4D2

(4)

A4B2C3D1

263. Dataareaccumulatedandprocessedingroupcalled
(1)

BatchProcessing

(2)

Groupprocessing

(3)

Timesharing

(4)

Resourceassimilation

264. BharatRatanaisthehighestcivilianawardofIndia,which
wasthefirstgivenintheyearandtotheperson
(1)

Year1948C.V.Raman

(2)

Year1952LataMangeshkar

(3)

Year1953V.Krishnmurty

(4)

Year1954Dr.RadhaKrishnan

265. Matchoffollowing

ListI

ListII

(FamousIndiaPlayer)

(Game/Sport)

Organisation

Headquarters

A.ArjunAtwal

1.Football

A.Commonwealth

1.Vienna

B.TombaSingh

2.Kabaddi

B.INTERPOL

2.Paris

C.SanjivKumar

3.Golf

C.InternationalOlympic

D.RaviKantReddy

4.Volleyball

Committee

3.Switzerland

(1)

A3B2C1D4

(2)

A4B1C2D3

D.OPEC

4.London

(3)

A3B1C2D4

(4)

A4B2C1D3

(1)

A4B2C3D1

(2)

A4B2C1D3

(3)

A2B4C3D1

(4)

A2B4C1D3

259. Whichoneoftheseisnotcorrectlymatched?
(1)

RomancingwithLifeDevAnand

(2)

BlossomfromtheDustR.K.Pachauri

(3)

AsianDramaVikramSeth

(4)

LajjaTaslimaNasreen

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266. WhichofthefollowingcountriesaremembersofSAARC?

274. MatchListIwithListIIandselectthecorrectanswerusing
thecodegiventheLists

(1)

India,Bangladesh,Bhutan,Burma,SriLanka,Nepal

(2)

India,Pakistan,Bhutan,Mauritius,Burma,SriLanka,
Nepal

ListI

ListII

(NationalHighwayNo.)

(Citiesconnected)

India,SriLanka,Bangladesh,Bhutan,Pakistan,Nepal,
Mauritius

A.NH5

1.BhopalJaipur

B.NH7

2.BhubaneswarChennai

India, Pakistan, S ri Lanka, Bhutan, Bangladesh,

Maldives,Nepal

C.NH9

3.NagpurVaranasi

D.NH12

4.PuneHyderabad

(1)

A2B1C4D3

(2)

A4,B3C2D1

(3)

A2B3C4D1

(4)

A4B1C2D3

(3)
(4)

267. Considerthefollowingpairs
Persons

Sports

1.AnandPawer

Chess

2.AkhilKumar

Boxing

3.ShivShankarPrasad

275. Match ListI (Place ofEconomic Importance) with ListII

(State)andselectthecorrectanswerusingthecodegiven
belowtheLists
ListI

ListII

Whichofthepairsgivenaboveis/arecorrectlymatched?

(PlaceofEconomicImportance)

(State)

(1)

2and3only

A. Alwaye

1.Gujarat

1,2and3

B.Kaiga

2.Jharkhand

C.Giridih

3.Karnataka

Chowrasia

(3)

1and2only
3only

Golf
(2)
(4)

268. WhichofthefollowingawardsisgivenbyUNESCOtothose
whopopularizeuseofscienceinlife?
(1)

BookerPrize

(2)

MagsaysayAward

(3)

KalingaAward

(4)

KalidasSamman

269. WhoamongthefollowinghasservedasthePresidentof
WorldBank?
(1)
(3)

RobertZoellick
RaulCastro

(2)
(4)

D.Kakrapar

4.Kerala

(1)

A1B2C3D4

(2)

A1B3C2D4

(3)

A4B2C3D1

(4)

A4B3C2D1

276.Whichoneofthefollowingisnotcorrectlymatched?
(1)

PanditKrishnaMaharaj

Tabla

PascalLamy

(2)

PanditBirjuMaharaj

Sarod

Noneofthese

(3)

UstadBismillahKhan

Shehnai

(4)

UstadVilayatKhan

Sitar

270. Aftertheinclusionof3morecompanies(PGCIL,RECand
NALCO) in 'Nav Ratna', the total number of 'Nav Ratna'
companiesis
(1)

16

(2)

14

(3)

12

(4)

20

271. Nobel Prize forPeace 2008 was givento Martti Ahtissari

whobelongsto
(1)

Germany

(2)

Sweden

(3)

Finland

(4)

Iceland

272. MatchListI(Volcanoesoftheworld)withListII(Countries)
andselectthecorrectanswerusingthecodesgivenbelow
thelists

277. Whichoneofthefollowingisnotcorrectlymatched?
NationalHighway

PlacesConnected

(1)

NH1

DelhiPakistanBorder(NearAmritsar)

(2)

NH2

DelhiKolkata

(3)

NH8

DelhiChennai

(4)

NH10

DelhiFazilka(NearPakistanBorder)

278. Considerthefollowingstatements
1 .

Halfthewatervapourintheair inatmospherelies
belowanaltitudeof1000m.

2 .

Theamountofprecipitablewaterintheatmosphere
increasesfromtheequatortothepoles.

ListI

ListII

(Volcanoesoftheworld)

(Countries)

Whichofthestatementsgivenaboveis/arecorrect?

A. Catapoxi

1.Indonesia

(1)

Only1

(2)

Only2

B.Kilimanjaro

2.Kenya

(3)

Both1and2

(4)

Neither1nor2

C.Visuvius

3.Japan

D.Krakatau

4.Italy
5. Canada

279. MatchListI(Nameofitems)withListII(NameofScientists
relatedtoitem)andselecttheanswerusingthecodesgiven
belowtheLists

(1)

A3B1C4D2

(2)

A5B2C3D1

ListI

ListII

(3)

A3B2C4D1

(4)

A5B1C3D2

(Nameofitems)

(Nameofscientists

273. Whenfinesandiscarriedbywindanddepositedaswind
bornesedimentaryrock,whatisitcalled?
(1)

Loess

(2)

Dyke

(3)

Shale

(4)

Sill

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relatedtoitem)
A.Blackbodyradiations

1.Lawrence

B.Xrays

2.MadameCurie

C.Radium

3.Rontgen

D.Cyclotron

4.Planck

(1)

A1B3C2D4

(2)

A4B2C3D1

(3)

A1B2C3D4

(4)

A4B3C2D1
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280. MatchListIwithListIIandselectthecorrectanswerfrom
thecodesgivenbelowthelists

286. Whichoneofthefollowingpairs(industryandindustrialist)
isnotproperlymatched?

ListI

ListII

(1)

RelianceMukeshAmbani

(Place)

(Industry)

(2)

WiproR.Krishnamurthy

A.Vishakhapatnam

1.Automobile

(3)

AirtelBharatiMittal

B.Muri

2.Shipbuilding

(4)

NanoCarRatanTata

C.Gurgaon

3.Fertiliser

D.Panki

4.Aluminium

(1)

A2B3C4D1

(2)

A2B4C1D3

(3)

A1B2C3D4

(4)

A2B4C3D1

287.MatchListI(LawnTennisPlayer)withListII(Country)and
selectthecorrectanswerusingthecodesgivenbelowthe
lists
ListI

ListII

(LawnTennisPlayer)

(Country)

A.LindsayDavenport

1.Brazil

ListII

B.AnastasiaMyskina

2.America

(AtomicPowerPlant)

(State)

C.CarlosMoya

3.Russia

A.Kaiga

1.Maharashtra

D.GustavoKuerten

4.Spain

2.Karnataka

(1)

A4B3C2D1

(2)

A2B1C4D3

C.Kundankulam

3.UttarPradesh

(3)

A4B1C2D3

(4)

A2B3C4D1

D.Narora

4.TamilNadu

(1)

A2B1C3D4

(2)

A1B3C4D2

(3)

A2B1C4D3

(4)

A1B4C2D3

281. MatchListIandListIIandselectthecorrectanswerfrom
thecodesgivenbelow
ListI

B.Tarapur

282. MatchListIandListIIandselectthecorrectanswerfrom
thecodegivenbelow
ListI

ListII

(NationalPark)

(State)

A.Kaziranga

1.Orissa

B.Sundarban

2.Gujarat

C.NandanKanan

3.WestBengal

D.Gir

4.Assam

(1)

A4B3C2D1

(2)

A4B3C1D2

(3)

A2B4C1D3

(4)

A1B4C3D2

283. In the United Nations, who decides the quantum of

contributionofeachmembertotheincomeresourcesofthe
UN?
(1)

TrusteeshipCouncil

(2)Economic&SocialCouncil

(3)

SecurityCouncil

(4)GeneralAssembly

284. Whichamongthefollowingaretheofficiallanguagesofthe
UnitedNationsOrganisation?
1 .

Arabic

2 .

Chinese

3 .

German

4 .

Spanish

288. MatchListI(LawnTennisPlayer)withListII(Country)and
selectthecorrectanswerusingthecodegivenbelowthelists
ListI

ListII

(LawnTennisPlayer)

(Country)

A.RafelNadal

1.Belgium

B.MaryPierce

2.Argentina

C.JustineHeninHardenne

3.Spain

D.MarianoPuerta

4.France
5. U.S.A.

(1)

A1B2C3D4

(2)

A3B4C1D2

(3)

A1B4C3D2

(4)

A3B2C1D4

289. MatchListIwithListIIandselectthecorrectanswerusing
thecodegivenbelowthelists
ListI

ListII

(Book)

(Author)

A.InCustody

1.AmartyaSen

B.SeaofPoppies

2.AmitavGhosh

C.TheArgumentativeIndian

3.AnitaDesai

D.UnaccustomedEarth

4.JhumpaLahiri

(1)

A4B1C2D3

(2)

A4B2C1D3

(3)

A3B2C1D4

(4)

A3B1C2D4

290. Considerthefollowingcountries

Selectthecorrectanswerusingthecodegivenbelow

1 .

Switzerland

(1)

1,2and3

(2)

1,2and4

3 .

Bulgaria

(3)

2,3and4

(4)

3and4

WhichoftheabovearemembersofEuropeanUnion?

285. MatchListIwithListIIandselectthecorrectanswerusing
thecodegivenbelowthelists
ListI

ListII

(Person)

(Organisation)

A.AnilAgarwal

1.GujaratHeavyChemicalLtd.

B.GautamH.Singhania

2.RaymondLtd.

C.SanjayDalmia

3.VedantaResources

D.VenugopalDhoot

4.VideoconGroup

(1)

A3B1C2D4

(2)

A4B1C2D3

(3)

A3B2C1D4

(4)

A4B2C1D3

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2 .

Malta

(1)

1and2only

(2)

2and3only

(3)

1and3only

(4)

1,2and3

291. Whichoneofthefollowingpairsisnotcorrectlymatched?
City

River

(1)

Berlin

Rhine

(2)

London

Thames

(3)

NewYork

Hudson

(4)

Vienna

Danube

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292. MatchListI(Country)withListII(Currency)onthebasis
ofcodes

296. MatchListI(Cup)withListII(Games)onthebasisofcode
ListI

ListII

ListI

ListII

(Cup)

(Games)

(Country)

(Currency)

A.AghaKhanCup

1.Golf

(A)Mexico

1.Yen

B.UberCup

2.Football

(B)Austria

2.Peso

C.DurandCup

3.Hockey

(C)Japan

3.Riyal

D.RyderCup

4.Badminton

(D)SaudiArab

4.Euro

(1)

A1B2C4D3

(2)

(1)

A2B3C4D1

(2)

A1B4C3D2

(3)

A3B4C2D1

(4)A4B1C3D2

(3)

A2B4C1D3

(4)

A3B2C4D1

2 93. The government has decided to celebrate the Pravasi

BhartiyaDivaseveryyearonadayonwhichMahatmaGandhi
returnedfromSouthAfrica.WhenisPravasiBhartiyaDivas
celebrated?
(1)

October30

(2)

June17

(3)

January9

(4)

April27

294. Indiaisamemberofwhichofthefollowing?
1 .

AsianDevelopmentBank

2 .

AsiaPacificEconomicCooperation

3 .

ColomboPlan

4 .

O r g a n i s a t i o n f o r E c o n o m i c C o o p e r a t i o n a n d
Development(OECD)

Selectthecorrectanswerusingthecodegivenbelow
(1)

1and3only

(2)

2and4only

(3)

1,2and3only

(4)

1,2,3and4

295. MatchListIwithListIIandselectthecorrectanswerusing
thecodesgivenbelowthelists
ListI

ListII

(Service/Agency)

(Country)

A.ForeignIntelligenceService

1.Israel

B.MinistryofStateSecurity

2.Britain

C.SecretIntelligenceService

3.China

D.TheMossad

4.Russia

(1)

A4B1C2D3

(2)

A2B3C4D1

(3)

A4B3C2D1

(4)

A2B1C4D3

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A2B3C1D4

297. ThegovernmenthasdecidedtoincreasethedigitsofPostal
IndexNumber(PIN)fromthepresentsixdigitstoacode
having
(1)

7digits

(2)

9digits

(3)

8digits

(4)

10digits

298. WhoamongthefollowinghasservedasthechairmanofCII?
(1)

K.V.Kamath

(2)

JavedAlam

(3)

SunilBhartiMittal

(4)

Noneofthese

299. Wh o amo ng t he fo llo wi ng ha s ser ve d a s th e B ra nd

AmbassadorforBSNL?
(1)

SachinTendulkar

(2)

DeepikaPadukone

(3)

PreetiZinta

(4)

MahendraSinghDhoni

300. ThefifteenthSAARCSummitwasheldin
(1)

Islamabad

(2)

Dhaka

(3)

Kathmandu

(4)

Kandy

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1.( 2)

2.( 2)

3.( 4)

4.( 3)

5.( 4)

6.( 4)

7.(2)

8.( 1)

9.( 3) 10.(3)

11.(1) 12.(2) 13.(4) 14.(1) 15.(1) 16.(4) 17.( 3) 18.(2) 19.(3) 20.(3)
21.(3) 22.(3) 23.(4) 24.(1) 25.(2) 26.(4) 27.( 3) 28.(2) 29.(2) 30.(2)
31.(3) 32.(3) 33.(4) 34.(2) 35.(1) 36.(4) 37.( 1) 38.(4) 39.(2) 40.(3)
41.(1) 42.(3) 43.(1) 44.(4) 45.(3) 46.(4) 47.( 3) 48.(1) 49.(2) 50.(4)
51.(2) 52.(3) 53.(2) 54.(2) 55.(3) 56.(4) 57.( 4) 58. (3) 59.(3)

60.(1)

61.(2) 62.(1) 63.(1) 64.(4) 65.(4) 66.(2) 67.( 1) 68.(3) 69.(1) 70.(2)
71.(1) 72.(3) 73.(4) 74.(3) 75.(1) 76.(2) 77.( 4) 78.(3) 79.(3) 80.(3)
81.(2) 82.(2) 83.(1) 84.(4) 85.(1) 86.(3) 87.( 2) 88.(4) 89.(4) 90.(4)
91.(4) 92.(1) 93.(3) 94.(3) 95.(4) 96.(4) 97.( 2) 98.(4) 99.(3) 100.( 1)
101.( 3) 102.( 3) 103.( 1) 104.( 2) 105.( 4) 106.( 2) 107.(4) 108.( 1) 109.( 4) 110.( 2)
111.( 1) 112.( 1) 113.( 3) 114.( 2) 115.( 4) 116.( 4) 117.(4) 118.( 2) 119.( 2) 120.( 4)
121.( 3) 122.( 3) 123.( 3) 124.( 1) 125.( 3) 126.( 1) 127.(4) 128.( 4) 129.( 3) 130.( 2)
131.( 2) 132.( 3) 133.( 2) 134.( 4) 135.( 2) 136.( 3) 137.(2) 138.( 3) 139.( 2) 140.( 3)
141.( 1) 142.( 2) 143.( 1) 144.( 1) 145.( 2) 146.( 1) 147.(1) 148.( 1) 149.( 1) 150.( 4)
151.( 1) 152.( 2) 153.( 4) 154.( 1) 155.( 3) 156.( 2) 157.(1) 158.( 2) 159.( 3) 160.( 3)
161.( 1) 162.( 3) 163.( 3) 164.( 1) 165.( 1) 166.( 4) 167.(2) 168.( 2) 169.( 2) 170.( 1)
171.( 2) 172.( 2) 173.( 1) 174.( 1) 175.( 4) 176.( 2) 177.(1) 178.( 1) 179.( 3) 180.( 2)
181.( 1) 182.( 1) 183.( 3) 184.( 3) 185.( 1) 186.( 3) 187.(2) 188.( 3) 189.( 4) 190.( 1)
191.( 1) 192.( 4) 193.( 1) 194.( 1) 195.( 3) 196.( 2) 197.(4) 198.( 3) 199.( 2) 200.( 1)
201.( 1) 202.( 2) 203.( 3) 204.( 4) 205.( 1) 206.( 1) 207.(3) 208.( 4) 209.( 3) 210.( 2)
211.( 1) 212.( 2) 213.( 1) 214.( 2) 215.( 3) 216.( 4) 217.(3) 218.( 1) 219.( 2) 220.( 4)
221.( 3) 222.( 2) 223.( 3) 224. (1) 225.( 1) 226.( 3) 227.(4) 228.( 1) 229.( 4) 230.( 3)
231.( 1) 232.( 2) 233.( 2) 234.( 4) 235.( 2) 236.( 3) 237.(3) 238.( 2) 239.( 1) 240.( 1)
241.( 4) 242.( 3) 243.( 3) 244.( 4) 245.( 2) 246.( 2) 247.(3) 248.( 2) 249.( 4) 250.( 1)
251.( 1) 252.( 1) 253.( 4) 254.( 4) 255.( 1) 256.( 2) 257.(4) 258.( 3) 259.( 3) 260.( 2)
261.( 2) 262.( 2) 263.( 1) 264.( 4) 265.( 1) 266.( 4) 267.(2) 268.( 3) 269.( 1) 270.( 2)
271.( 3) 272.( 3) 273.( 1) 274.( 3) 275.( 4) 276.( 2) 277.(3) 278.( 4) 279.( 4) 280.( 2)
281.( 3) 282.( 2) 283.( 4) 284.( 2) 285.( 3) 286.( 2) 287.(4) 288.( 2) 289.( 3) 290.( 2)
291.( 1) 292.( 3) 293.( 3) 294.( 1) 295.( 3) 296.( 3) 297.(3) 298.( 4) 299.( 2) 300.( 4)

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~ TISS ~
SPECIAL GK INPUTS
DIRECTIONS:Forthefollowingquestions,fouroptionsaregiven.
Choosethecorrectoption.
1 .

2 .

3 .

4 .

WhichofthefollowingOperatingSystemsdoyouchooseto
implementaclientServerNetwork?
(1)

MSDOS

(2)

Windows7

(3)

WindowsXP

(4)

Windows2003

Whichcompanylauncheditsbabycarebrand'BabyDreams'?
(1)

WiproConsumerCare

(2)

J.L.Morison

(3)

HindustanUnilever

(4)

Johnson&Johnson

WhichfamouscosmeticscompanylauncheditsVisagerange
ofproductsinIndia?
(1)

L'Oreal

(2)

Oriflame

(3)

Maybelline

(4)

Nivea

9 .

WhichbeergiantoperatesinIndiathroughits100%owned
subsidiarySouthAsiaBreweries?
(1)

Carlsberg

(2)

AnheuserBusch

(3)

Heineken

(4)

Scottish&Newcastle

10. CocaCola India's marketing communication campaign

'ghoonthbharsharartkarley'isfor
(1)

Fanta

(2)

MinuteMaid

(3)

DietCoke

(4)

Thumbsup

11. WhichcookingoilbrandisownedbyUSbased$26billion
BungeLtdinIndia?
(1)

Dalda

(2)

Dhara

(3)

Saffola

(4)

Postman

12. TataGroup'sIndianHotelsacquiredRitzCarltonHotelin
.....andCamptonPalacein.....2007.
(1)

Boston,SanFrancisco

Which cosmetics company was founded by Dame Anita

Roddick?

(2)

NewYork,Seattle

(3)

LasVegas,WashingtonDC

(1)

Avon

(2)

BodyShop

(4)

Atlanta,Honolulu

(3)

ChristianDior

(4)

ElizabethArden
13. TheTridentHotelbrandinIndiaisownedby......

5 .

6 .

7.

8 .

WhichofthefollowingisnotabrandownedbyShahnaz
Hussain?

(1)

EasternIndiaHotels

(2)

TataGroup'sIndianHotels

(1)

VedaDynamics

(2)

KayaSkinclinics

(3)

ITCHotels

(3)

ShahnazHerbal

(4)

ForeverBeautiful

(4)

ParkHotels

Whichofthefollowingexportsmarineproductsunderthe
Shogun,Hima,GoldSealandTarabrands?
(1)

GodrejAgro

(2)

NestleIndia

(3)

TemptationFoods

(4)

HindustanUnilever

ELRothschildLtd.andDelMontePacificLtdareJVpartners
of.....initsfarmproductsforay.
(1)

RelianceIndustriesLtd (2)

Bharti

(3)

Godrej

A.V.Birla

(4)

WhichofthefollowingisnotasnackbrandownedbyPepsiCo
CompanyFritoLay?
(1)

Lays

(2)

Bingo

(3)

Kurkure

(4)

UncleChipps

(80)of(95)

14. WhichofthefollowinglaunchedPenrynchips?
(1)

AmericanMicrodevices(AMD)

(2)

Intel

(3)

TexasInstruments

(4)

Samsung

15. WhichofthefollowinglaunchedofitsBarcelonaprocessor?
(1)

AmericanMicrodevices(AMD)

(2)

Intel

(3)

TexasInstruments

(4)

Samsung

16. WhichoftheseacquiredAmericanPCmakerGateway?
(1)

HewlettPackard

(2)

Acer

(3)

IBM

(4)

BenQ

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17. WhichITcompanyintroduceditssocialnetworkingsitecalled
MashinIndia?
(1)

Microsoft

(2)

Yahoo

(3)

Google

(4)

AmericaOnline

18. WhichJapanesecompanyintroducedRobinaits1.2metre
tall humanoid robot that can communicate with visitors
verballyandalsowithgestures?
(1)

Toshiba

(2)

Toyota

(3)

Hitachi

(4)

Honda

19. WhichTVchannelispromotedbyformerTamilNaduChief
MinisterMKarunanidhi?
(1)

VijayTV

(2)

SunTV

(3)

KTV

(4)

KalaignarTV

20. TV18Groupwasrechristenedas.....
(1)

Newsline18

(2)

Network18

(3)

Media18

(4)

News18

21. Theturmericsoapbrand'Wave'wasrecentlyintroducedby
.. .. .
(1)

WiproConsumerCare

(2)

KarnatakaSoaps

(3)

GodrejSoaps

(4)

NirmaSoaps

22. Whatisthetradenameofpolytetrafluoroethylene?

27. Whicheconomistwasawardedthe'CommanderoftheOrder
oftheSouthernCross'forhispioneeringworkinintroducing
VATinBrazil?
(1)

ParthasarathiShome

(2)

CRangarajan

(3)

VijayKelkar

(4)

AshokLahiri

28. ZahiHawassisafamous.....
(1)

Novelist

(2)

Zoologist

(3)

Archaeologist

(4)

Journalist

29. Ofwhichcashcropis"Chandragiri",anewvarietythatwas
introducedinBangalore?
(1)

Silk

(2)

Coffee

(3)

Pepper

(4)

Rubber

30. WhatisthetrainplyingbetweenMunabaoinRajasthanand
KokhraparinSindh,Pakistancalled?
(1)

FriendshipExpress

(2)

TharExpress

(3)

SamjhautaExpress

(4)

KutchExpress

31. WhichofthefollowingfactsabouttheYangtzeRiverinChina
is/aretrue?
I .

ItisthelongestriverinAsia

II.

Itisthesecondlongestintheworld,aftertheNilein
Africa

III. ItflowsfromitssourceinQinghaiProvinceanddrains
intoEastChinaSea

(1)

Nylon

(2)

Teflon

(1)

I,II&III

(2)

I&IIonly

(3)

Rayon

(4)

Rexene

(3)

IIandIIIonly

(4)

IIIandIonly

23. WhichofthefollowingwasanattemptinlateMarchof1942
bytheBritishgovernmenttosecureIndiancooperationand
supportfortheireffortsinWorldWarII?Themissionwas
headed by a senior leftwing politician and government
minister in the War Cabinet of Prime Minister Winston
Churchill.
(1)

RowlettAct

(2)

Crippsmission

(3)

WavellPlan

(4)

CabinetMissionPlan

24. BraviabrandofLCDTVswasintroducedby.....
(1)
(3)

Sony
Samsung

(2)
(4)

32. TheLumirebrotherswerethepioneersinwhichindustry?
(1)

Automobile

(2)

Motionpictures

(3)

Printing&publishing

(4)

Aviation

33. IndianPetrochemicalsLtdisasubsidiaryof.....
(1)

RelianceIndustriesLtd (2)

IndianOilCompany

(3)

EssarOil

BharatPetroleum

(4)

34. WhichfamousUKbasedfootballclubisownedbytheGlazier
family?

LG

(1)

ManchesterUnited

(2)

Liverpool

Philips

(3)

Chelsea

(4)

Arsenal

25. Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu is a masterpiece of which

dynasty'sarchitecture?
(1)

Pallava

(2)

Chola

(3)

Chalukya

(4)

Rashtrakuta

35. WhichpopularbrandofvegetableoilismarketedbyAmrit
Corp.Ltd.?
(1)

Gagan

(2)

Postman

(3)

Dalda

(4)

Dhara

36. RigVedachieflycontains
26. WhichinstitutionpublishestheWorldInvestmentReport
every year?

(1)

earlyAryanculture

(2)

methodsofVedicyagnas

(1)

WorldTradeOrganisation(WTO)

(3)

collectionofhymnstoGod

(2)

InternationalMonetaryFund(IMF)

(4)

originofHindugods

(3)

UnitedNationsConferenceonTradeandDevelopment
(UNCTAD)

(4)

WorldBank

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(81)of(95)

37. Matchthefollowingcolumns

47. Whichofthefollowingisworld'snuclearwatchdog?

ColumnI

ColumnII

(1)

AtomicEnergyRegulationBoard

A.SeymourHersh

1.RunsandRuins

(2)

NuclearSupplier'sGroup

B.SalmanRushdie

2.Shame

(3)

InternationalAtomicEnergyAgency

C.SunilGavaskar

3.PriceofPower

(4)

NuclearNonproliferationTreaty

(1)

(2)

(1)

CharlesKingsley

(2)

IanSmith

(3)

(3)

WilfredRhodes

(4)

FWdeClerk

(4)

48. WhoruledZimbabwewhenitwasunderwhiteracistrule?

49. WintelreferstoWindowsand
38. AuthorofArthashastrawas
(1)

Kalidasa

(2)

Kautilya

(3)

Bhavabhuti

(4)

Noneofthese

39. TheauthorofMalavikagnimitrawas
(1)

Harishena

(2)

Kalidasa

(3)

Vatsabhatti

(4)

Bhavabhuti

40. OneofthegreatepicsofAryans,theMahabharataconsists
of

(1)

Telecom

(2)

Intel

(3)

Intelligent

(4)

International

50. BankMelliisthebiggestbankin
(1)

Iraq

(2)

Iran

(3)

Pakistan

(4)

Egypt

51. United Nations S ecurity Council comprises how many

members?
(1)

(2)

10

(3)

15

(4)

20

(1)

18booksand10,000couplets

(2)

18booksand5,000couplets

(3)

15booksand10,000couplets

(1)

Exchange

(2)

Postbag

(4)

13booksand10,000couplets

(3)

MailIt

(4)

Letterman

52. WhatisMicrosoft'smailserversoftwareknownas?

41. WheredidtheSteveBallmerworkbeforeBillGatespersuaded
himtojoinMicrosoft?
(1)

Unilever

(2)

Procter&Gamble

(3)

GeneralElectric

(4)

3M

53. StrifetornDarfurisaprovinceof
(1)

Ethiopia

(2)

Sudan

(3)

Somalia

(4)

Egypt

54. Whichcompanyisinnewsthesedaysforofferingfreebasic
wordprocessorsandspreadsheetsonline?

42. USwantsIrantostopenriching
(1)

Plutonium

(2)

Uranium

(1)

Microsoft

(2)

Adobe

(3)

Thorium

(4)

Heavy Water

(3)

Google

(4)

Apple

43. WhichisthecapitalofIsrael?

55. BillGateshelpedtofoundMicrosofthowmanyyearsago?

(1)

Jerusalem

(2)

TelAviv

(1)

25

(2)

27

(3)

Gaza

(4)

Haifa

(3)

29

(4)

33

44. WhoisthePresidentofSouthAfrica?
(1)

ThaboMbeki

(2)

JacobZuma

(3)

NelsonMandela

(4)

WalterSisulu

56. Whose objective was to put a PC "on every desk and in

everyhome"?
(1)

BillGates

(2)

PaulAllen

(3)

SteveJobs

(4)

SteveBallmer

45. InwhichstateisMicrosoftheadquartered?
(1)

Washington

(2)

California

(3)

Utah

(4)

Texas

46. Whichretailingcompanyhasintroducedthesnacksbrand
'TastyTreat'?
(1)

Pantaloon

(2)

RelianceRetail

(3)

Subhiksha

(4)

Shopper'sStop

(82)of(95)

57. Symbianisamobilephoneoperatingsysteminventedby
(1)

Nokia

(2)

Microsoft

(4)

Google

(4)

Sony

58. BillGateshasdecidedtodevotehistimetowhichofthe
followingtasks?
(1)

ToacquireYahoo

(2)

Toworkforhischaritablefoundation

(3)

TodesignanewversionofWindowsoperatingsystem

(4)

TosupervisespaceresearchatNASA
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59. BorisTadicisthePresidentofwhichBalkancountry?
(1)

Slovenia

(2)

Serbia

(3)

Croatia

(4)

Bosnia

60. WhichofthefollowingistheSwedenbaseddirectselling
cosmeticscompanythatintroduceditsproductintheIndian
marketrecently?

69. 'BlueTool','Don'tLeaveHomeWithoutIt'and'Optima'are
trademarksof
(1)

Nokia

(3)

AmericanExpressBank (4)

(2)

VisaCards
Ericsson

70. AnilMoolchandaniisthecreatorofwhichlegendaryIndian
brand?

(1)

Oriflame

(2)

Amway

(1)

Fevicol

(2)

RupaPublishing

(3)

Avon

(4)

MaryKay

(3)

Baron

(4)

Archie'sCards

61. WhichofthesewaslauncheditsSuperiarangeofnatural
soapsandshampoos?
(1)

ITC

(2)

GodrejSoaps

(3)

WiproConsumerCare

(4)

Marico

62. Which serving Head of S tate has authored the book

"CourageEightPortraits"?
(1)

GordonBrown,PMofUK

(2)

NicholasSarkozy,PMofFrance

(3)

JohnHoward,PMofAustralia

(4)

AngelaMerkel,ChancellorofGermany

71. WhichflowerservedasAdidas'slogotill1991?
(1)

Chrysanthemum

(2)

Edelweiss

(3)

Trefoil

(4)

Lotus

72. ThestoreFoodWorldisajointventurebetweenDairyFarm
InternationalandwhichIndiangroup?
(1)

RPGgroup

(2)

NEPCKhemka

(3)

Essel

(4)

Amalgamations

73. ArtTVandPetTVareTVbrandsofwhichTVmaker?

63. Oxyrichisthemineralwaterbrandfrom.....

(1)

TCL

(2)

Thomson

(3)

Akai

(4)

Konka

(1)

Manikchand

(2)

MountEverestMineralWater

(3)

TSeries

(1)

Colgate

(2)

Pepsodent

(4)

Bisleri

(3)

Forhans

(4)

Tide

74. Withwhichproductwouldyouassociatethead"You'llwonder
wheretheyellowwent"?

64. Which South India based business family set up FACT

(Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Ltd) in 1943? The
companywaslaternationalizedbythegovtofIndiaandis
oneofthelargestfertilizercompaniesinthecountry.
(1)

Murugappas

(2)

Seshasayees

(3)

Chettiars

(4)

Iyengars

75. WithwhichoilmajorwouldyouassociatetheGliderangeof
engineoils?
(1)

IOC

(2)

IBP

(3)

BPCL

(4)

HPCL

76. Whoamongthefollowingisknownas'Kipper'?
65. WhereinTamilNaduwasLordSwrajPaul's125acreCaparo
industrialcomplexlocated?
(1)

Sriperumbudur

(2)

Kanchipuram

(3)

Chidambaram

(4)

Pudukkottai

66. Markoutthewrongcombinationoffamousbrandnames
andtherangeofapparellaunchedforwomen.

(1)

NapoleanBonaparte

(2)

FieldMarshalK.M.Cariappa

(3)

GenErwinRommel

(4)

YoungerPitt

77. JohnMaynardKeyneswasa/an

AllenSollyAllenSollyWomen'sWear

(1)

Poet

(2)

Scientist

(2)

ColorPlusColorPlusWoman

(3)

Mathematician

(4)

Economist

(3)

JohnPlayersJohnPlayersWomen'sWear

(4)

ParkAvenueParkAvenueWoman

(1)

67. WhichMNCcementcompanyholdscontrollingstakesinACC
&AmbujaCementtwoofthethreelargestcementcompanies
inIndia?
(1)

Holcim

(2)

Lafarge

(3)

Holdersbank

(4)

Cemex

78. Whoamongthefollowingwasassociatedwiththefreedom
struggleofTanzania?
(1)

PatriceLumumba

(2)

KennethKaunda

(3)

KemalAtaturk

(4)

DrJuliusNyere

68. WhichofthefollowingOperatingSystemsdoesnotimplement
multitasking?
(1)

Windows98

(2)

WindowsNT

(3)

WindowsXP

(4)

MSDOS

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(83)of(95)

79. Matchthefollowing

89. ShridathRampal'snameisassociatedwith

ColumnI

ColumnII

(1)

UNO

(2)

Commonwealth

A.CharlesdeGaulle

1.Cuba

(3)

NAM

(4)

SAARC

B.FidelCastro

2.Russia

C.VladimirLenin

3.France

D.DemalAtaturk

4.Turkey

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

90. MotherTeresawasbornin
(1)

Switzerland

(2)

India

(3)

Germany

(4)

Albania

91. ThefirstwomanfilmstarnominatedorelectedtotheRajya
Sabhawas

80. VascodeGamawasa
(1)

Australiannavigator

(2)

Portugueseexplorer

(3)

Britishexplorer

(4)

Frenchnavigator

(1)

Vyjayantimala

(2)

NargisDutt

(3)

Jayalalitha

(4)

Noneofthese

92. MrsVijayalakshmiPanditwasthefirstwomentobecome
(1)

ChiefMinisterofastate

(2)

Ministerofastate

MrsFranPhipps

(3)

MemberoftheLokSabha

(2)

MsValentinaTereshkova

(4)

MemberoftheRajyaSabha

(3)

MrsKarolineMikkelsen

(4)

Noneofthese

81. WhowasthefirstwomantoreachtheNorthPole?
(1)

93. J.B.Priestlywasawellknown

82. Fahienwasa
(1)

Chinesetraveller

(2)

Portuguesesailor

(3)

Norwegiantraveller

(4)

Japanesenavigator

83. Whoisknownas'LittleCorporal'?

(1)

Frenchscientist

(2)

Germanscientist

(3)

Britishauthor

(4)

Italianauthor

94. SunYatsenwasthe
(1)

firstPresidentoftheChineserepublic

(2)

firstChairmanofCommunistPartyofChina
fristPremierofChina
Noneofthese

(1)

AdolfHitler

(2)

NapoleanBonaparte

(3)

(3)

WilliamE.Gladstone

(4)

Noneofthese

(4)

84. ValentinaTereshkovawasthefirstwomanto
(1)

crosstheEnglishchannel

(2)

reachNorthPole

(3)

reachtheSouthPole

(4)

Noneofthese

95. Who among the following is theinventorof a system of

writingandprintingfortheblind?
(1)

RobertWilhelmBunsen (2)

LouisBraille

(3)

SirHumphreyDavy

ChristianHuygens

(4)

96. WhichadvertisingagencywasoriginallysetupbyMahindra
&Mahindrain1939?

85. WhowasthefirstIndianwomantoscaleMtEverest?
(1)

PhuDorjee

(2)

AngDorjee

(3)

BachendriPal

(4)

Noneofthese

(1)

Pratibha

(2)

PressSyndicate

(3)

MarketingAdvertisingAssociates

(4)

Ulka

86. Dhanvantari'snameisassociatedwith
(1)

Indianmedicine

(2)

Sanskritpoetry

(3)

Sanskritgrammar

(4)

Classicalmusic

87. Whichofthefollowingpairsisincorrect?

97. JWalterThompsonopenedhisshopinIndiain1926tohandle
theadvertisementsforwhichcompany?
(1)

LeverBrothers(India)Ltd

(2)

GeneralMotors

(1)

Alberuni:Arabhistorian

(3)

CocaColaIndia

(2)

Aesop:Italianauthor

(4)

ImperialTobaccoCompany

(3)

DhyanChand:Hockey

(4)

Epicurus:Greekphilosopher

88. LeonardodaVinci,whoisfamousforhismasterpiecepainting
MonaLisawasa/an
(1)
(3)

(84)of(95)

Frenchartist
Germanpainter

(2)
(4)

98. Namethefamousauthorandjournalistwhowasinnewsfor
hisbook"ThePostAmericanWorld"inwhichhetalksabout
theimminentdeclineofUSinfluenceintheworld?Alsoname
thepublicationheworksfor.

Italianartist

(1)

SamuelHuntington,ChristianScienceMonitor

Noneofthese

(2)

FareedZakaria,Newsweek

(3)

PicoIyer,Time

(4)

PaulKrugman,WashingtonPost
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99. WhatformoftransportistheAmerican'Amtrak'?
(1)

Cableways

(2)

Waterways

(3)

Trams

(4)

Railways

100......solditsBertolli.....businesstoSpain'sGrupoSOSfor
630m($1billion).
(1)

PernodRicard,rum

109. Stardust,SocietyandHealtharepopularmagazinesinIndia
publishedbywhichmediagroup?
(1)

MagnaGroup

(2)

MediaTransAsiaGroup

(3)

CondeNastGroup

(4)

Bennett&Coleman

110. BoissetFamilyEstatesisthefirstcompanytooffer
(1)

Winesintetrapacksinsteadofglassbottles
Realestatemortgageswithoutbankguarantees

(2)

KraftFoods,confectionary

(2)

(3)

Nestle,Parmesanchees

(3)

Lifetimeinsuranceonpaymentofonetimepremium

(4)

Brandedorganicfoodinpackagedform

(4)

Unilever,oliveoil

101. Whichadagencywasthefirsttocreatethepostof"account
executive"tosupervisecampaignspecificcustomers?
(1)

Saatchi&Saatchi

(2)

JWalterThompson

(3)

OgilvyandMather

(4)

Young&Rubicam

102. American Toni Morrison is the first black woman to be

awardedwhichliteraryprizein1993?
(1)

NobelPrizeforLiterature

(2)

PulitzerPrize

(3)

BookerPrize

(4)

NationalBookAward

111. WhichAmericannovelistwrotethe'Rabbit'seriesofnovels
publishedbetween1960and1990?
(1)

ErnestHemingway

(2)

BarbaraStreisand

(3)

JohnUpdike

(4)

PhilipRoth

112. Which is the only country in South East Asia which has
Christianityasthemainreligion?
(1)

Brunei

(2)

Philippines

(3)

Laos

(4)

Vietnam

113. Whichautomakerintroducedthefirstcommerciallyavailable
powersteeringsystemin1951underthenameHydraguide?

103. Introducedin1900,thismodelofcamerabyEastmanKodak
costjustonedollarmadephotographyaffordableforthe
masses.Whichbrand?
(1)

Billy

(2)

Brownie

(3)

Brash

(4)

Blowup

104. InwhichwardidGeneralMacArthurcommandtheUnited
Nationstroops?
(1)

Crimean

(2)

GulfWar

(3)

VietnamWar

(4)

KoreanWar

105. ThefirstUSSpaceShuttlewasnamedafterwhichfictional
starshipfromtheTVseries'StarTrek'?
(1)

Discovery

(2)

Challenger

(3)

Atlantis

(4)

Enterprise

106. Sandoz,istheinhousegenericsarm,of.....
(1)

SanofiAventis

(2)

Novartis

(3)

Mecrk

(4)

Pfizer

(1)

Chrysler

(2)

Ford

(3)

Honda

(4)

Toyota

114. In which British university is the Cavendish Laboratory,

worldfamousforitsphysicsresearch?
(1)

Cambridge

(2)

Oxford

(3)

Northampton

(4)

Westminster

115. Whichbusinessmanmadethefirsttransatlantichotairballoon
flightwithPerLindstrandin1987?
(1)

JohnGlenn

(2)

PaulAllen

(3)

LarryEllison

(4)

RichardBranson

116. Which of the following is UK's counterpart of America's

SecuritiesandExchangeCommission(SEC)?
(1)

BankofEngland

(2)

FinancialServicesAuthority

(3)

LondonStockExchange

(4)

ChancelloroftheExchequer

117.WhatisRadovanKaradzicaccusedof ?
107.Without the Saatchi brothers, their old agency Satchi &
S aatchi floundered, as its clients switched loyalty. It
changeditsnameto
(1)

TheNewSaatchi&Saatchi

(2)

Cordiant

(3)

M&CSaatchi

(4)

AgainSaatchi

GenocideofBosnianMuslims

(2)

Embezzlementofgovtfunds

(3)

MilitarycoupinSerbia

(4)

Alltheabove

118. Whichrocketwasthefirstmanmadeobjecttoflybeyond
oursolarsystemin1982?

108. WhoistheonlyUSPresidenttobeawardedaPulitzerPrize?
(1)

RichardNixon

(2)

JohnKennedy

(3)

LyndonJohnson

(4)

JimmyCarter

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(1)

(1)

Challenger

(2)

Odyssey

(3)

Adventure

(4)

Pioneer

119. WhichUSPresidentrespondedtocosmonautYuriGagarin's
flightbysayingthatanAmericanshouldgotothemoonby
theendofthedecade?
(1)

RichardNixon

(2)

JohnKennedy

(3)

LyndonJohnson

(4)

JimmyCarter
(85)of(95)

120. MexicoderivesitsnamefromthatofthewargodMextili.In
whichcivilisationwasthisGodworshipped?

131. Whichcompanycoinedtheterm,Imagineers,foritscreative
people?

(1)

Maya

(2)

Inca

(1)

AppleComputer

(2)

GeneralElectric

(3)

Aztec

(4)

Ithaca

(3)

DisneyCorporation

(4)

DreamworkFilms

121. ... .. A rmy exit ed L eban on a fter tha t co untr y's ... ..
revolution"in2005.
(1)
(3)

Israeli,olive
Jordanian,olive

(2)
(4)

Syrian,cedar

(1)

PhilipsCompactDisc

(2)

BoseSpeakers

Iranian,cedar

(3)

SonyWalkman

(4)

MarconiRadio

122. WhichfamousscientistwasthewardenofBritain'sRoyal
Mint?Hisphotousedtoappearonthereverseoftheold
onepoundnote.
(1)
(3)

MichaelFaraday
HenryCavendish

(2)
(4)

132. ItwasfirstlaunchedintheUSastheSoundabout.Bywhat
namedoweknowthisproduct?

133. WhichcompanyistestmarketingIndia'sfirstclovecigarette,
CluvSpice,acrossgeographies?
(1)

GodfreyPhillipsIndia

HumphreyDavy

(2)

VazirSultanTobacco

IsaacNewton

(3)

IndianTobaccoCompany

(4)

GoldenTobaccoCompany

123. Who was granted immunity from prosecution after his

country'sParliamentpassedalawtothiseffect?
(1)

VladimirPutin

(2)

GordonBrown

(3)

NicholasSarkozy

(4)

SilvioBerlusconi

124. WhatmusicalstylewaspopularisedintheUSAinthe1950s
byHarryBelafonte?
(1)

Calypso

(2)

Blues

(3)

Jazz

(4)

Rock

125. WhatwasthenationalityofthepoliticalrevolutionaryChe
Guevara?
(1)

Cuban

(2)

Portuguese

(3)

Argentine

(4)

Brazilian

126. Thetheoryofpurchasingpowerparity(PPP)saysthat......
should moveto makethe priceof abasket ofgoods the
sameineachcountry.
(1)

Inflationrates

(2)

Tariff rates

(3)

Exchangerates

(4)

Alltheabove

134. ITC'sheadquartersisnamedVirginiaHouseUB's,UBHouse.
Butwhichcompany'sheadquartersislocatedinDareHouse?
(1)

EIDParry

(2)

EicherGroup

(3)

HindustanLever

(4)

ShawWallace

135. CreatedbyDuPontchemistJosephShiversin1959,which
brand name has entered the dictionary, and is essential
sportandleisureweartoday?
(1)

Lycra

(2)

Spandex

(3)

Teflon

(4)

Nylon

136. 'BeyondBoundaries'istheauthorisedbiographyofwhich
Indianbusinessmagnate?
(1)

SwrajPaul

(2)

LaxmiN.Mittal

(3)

M.S.Oberoi

(4)

AdityaV.Birla

137. WifeofwhichindustrialististheeditorofthemagazineVerve?
(1)

NandanNilekani

(2)

AnandMahindra

(3)

NusliWadia

(4)

MukeshAmbani

138. KitplyIndustriesLtd(KIL)belongstowhichcorporategroup?
127. TheCampDavidTalksaboutresolutionofArabIsraeliconflict
betweenEgyptandIsraeltookplaceunderthechairmanship
ofwhichAmericanPresident?
(1)

RonaldReagan

(2)

JohnKennedy

(3)

LyndonJohnson

(4)

JimmyCarter

128. WhichofthefollowingisnotaBalkancountry?
(1)

Malta

(2)

Bosnia

(3)

Croatia

(4)

Serbia

129. WhatwaspreviouslyknownbythenameBlueRibbonSports
Company?
(1)

Puma

(2)

Nike

(3)

Asics

(4)

Reebok

130. OfwhatdoSterling,Vamoose,Blaze,LevitateandRapture
formarange?
(1)

BSASLRBicycles

(2)

KillerJeans

(3)

ReebokSneakers

(4)

PacoRabanneParfums

(86)of(95)

(1)

BKBirlaGroup

(2)

RPGoenkaGroup

(3)

AVBirlaGroup

(4)

SPGoenkaGroup

139. "HumanEnergy"isthepunchlineofwhichoilgiant?
(1)

ChevronTexaco

(2)

ExxonMobil

(3)

BPAmoco

(4)

RoyalDutchShell

140. 'Lifeisoneincrediblejourney'isthebaselineof
(1)

Travel&Livingchannel

(2)

OutlookTravellermagazine

(3)

DiscoveryChannel

(4)

Voguemagazine

141. "It'sthe......way"istheservicemarkofwhichhospitality
company?
(1)

Marriott

(2)

Hilton

(3)

Ramada

(4)

Hyatt

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142. Accordingtoanewreportrecently,InfosysTechnologies
mightbeforcedtochangeitsnameinwhichcountryasit
constitutescertaininfringementonatrademarknamein
thatcountry?
(1)

France

(2)

Spai

(3)

Greece

(4)

Germany

143. PearsonPlcofUKownsallofthefollowingpublications/
publishingcompanies,except...
(1)

FinancialTimes

(2)

TheEconomist

(3)

TheTimes

(4)

Penguin

144. Which actress was Lux soap's first brand ambassador in

India?

153. Which media giant owned Paramount Pictures when it

producedthemultipleOscarwinningfilmGandhiin1982?
(1)

CocaCola

(2)

Sony

(3)

GE

(4)

TimeWarner

154. Duringhisdaysasanactor,formerUSPresidentlateRonald
Reaganusedtoendorseabrandofcigarettes.Whichbrand
wasit?
(1)

Peter Stuyvesant

(2)

Dunhill

(3)

Chesterfield

(4)

Rothmans

155. ThenewlogoofVideoconassertsthecompany'spassionfor
globalimpact.Whatdothetwo'Es'oneithersideofthe'V'
represent?

(1)

Madhubala

(2)

DevikaRan

(1)

ElectronicsforEveryone

(3)

LeelaChitnis

(4)

Rekha

(2)

ElectronicstoEnergy

(3)

ExcellenceforEver

(4)

ExcitementthroughElectronics

145. _________isthe firstprogramrunon acomputerwhen

computerbootsup
(1)

SystemSoftware

(2)

OperatingSoftware

(3)

SystemsOperations

(4)

ProcessingSoftware

146. TheBeigeBookSurveyisperiodicallypublishedbythe.....

156. WhatistheonlyitemofIndianoriginthatcanbeseenat
theMetropolitanMuseumofModernArt?
(1)

TheAjantaMillenniumClock

(2)

Bajaj'sChetakScooter

(1)

TheReserveBankofIndia

(3)

TheHawkinsFuturaPressureCooker

(2)

TheBankofEngland

(4)

TheCharaghDinShirt

(3)

TheEuropeanCentralBank

(4)

TheFederalReserve

147.Whichsportsgoodsmakerisintroducingdesignerproducts
suchasacollectionnamedonHollywoodactressScarlett
Johansson,jeansstyledbycricketerMSDhoni,BipashaBasu
collection, Manish Arora collection and several others
inspiredbyglobalsportslikeskatinginitseffortstoevolve
assportslifestylebrand?
(1)

Reebok

(2)

Puma

(3)

Nike

(4)

Adidas

148. WhatisthebrandnamegivenbyInteltoitsnewchipfor
smallscreendevices?

157.Inline withthe rebrandingof RelianceEntertainment to

RelianceBigEntertainment,theAnilDhirubhaiAmbaniGroup
(ADAG) is now in the process of rebranding its Adlabs
multiplex business. Which brand will replace the Adlabs
brand?
(1)

Filmistan

(2)

BigCinema

(3)

BoxOffice

(4)

MovieMagic

158. Markoutthewrongcombinationofadvertisingagenciesand
themediagroupstowhichtheybelong?
(1)

BBDOOmnicom

(2)

McCannEricksonInterpublic

(1)

Cell

(2)

Atom

(3)

JWTOmnicom

(3)

Nano

(4)

Molecule

(4)

Ogilvy&MatherWPP

149. WhichBank'sheadquartersiscalledthe"StarHouse"and
hasabaseline"TheGuidingStar"?
(1)

BankofBaroda

(2)

Citibank

(3)

CentralBankofIndia

(4)

BankofIndia

159. 'A World of Difference' is the punchline of which Indian

airline?
(1)

GoAir

(2)

SpiceJet

(3)

ParamountAirways

(4)

JetAirways

150. WhoislaunchinganewcarPetrainIndia?
(1)

Chevrolet

(2)

Fiat

(3)

Hyundai

(4)

Ford

151. "YourVision,OurFuture"isthebaselineof
(1)

Olympus

(2)

Zeiss

(3)

Bausch&Lomb

(4)

Luxotica

152. WhichGermantownisthebirthplaceoftwosportsgiants
PumaandAdidas?
(1)

Stuttgart.

(2)

Bochum.

(3)

Herzogenaurach

(4)

Bayreuth.

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160. WhichofthefollowingisthemostpopularbrandoftheUS
garmentcompanyCluett&Peabody,bothinIndiaandthe
worldover?
(1)

PeterEngland

(2)

Arrow

(3)

VanHeusen

(4)

LouisPhilippe

161. UKbasedfirmMillwardBrownOptimorisfamousforitsannual
rankingofwhichofthefollowing?
(1)

World'stopbrands

(2)

World'stopattorneysinlegalservices

(3)

World'stopManagementcolleges

(4)

World'shighestearningsportspersons
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162. InthemovieET,thealienconsumesatrailofproductwhich
takeshimtothelittleboy'shome.Whowasthemakerof
theproduct?
(1)

Hershey's

(2)

Mars

(3)

Wrigley's

(4)

Cadbury's

163. India'smosttrustedbrandaccordingtoasurveyconducted
bytheEconomicTimesnewspapersis
(1)

Colgate

(2)

Nokia

(3)

Lux

(4)

Tatasalt

164. For which IPL team has Aditya Birla Nuvo created an
exclusiveformalwearlinePeterEnglandElite?
(1)

KolkataKnightRiders

(2)

ChennaiSuperKings

(3)

MumbaiIndians

(4)

RoyalBangaloreChallengers

(1)

Horlicks

(2)

Cadbury

(3)

Ovaltine

(4)

Bournvita

166. TheCommonwealthGamesnormallytakeplaceataninterval
of ..... years.
(3)

three
five

(1)

Afghanistan

(2)

Pakistan

(3)

Iran

(4)

Japan

175. The2002AsianGameswereheldat
(1)

Busan,SouthKorea

(2)

Bangkok,Thailand

(3)

Hiroshima,Japan

(4)

Beijing,China

176. Whichcountryholdstherecordofbeingatthetopofthe
medalstallyinsixeditionsinarowinAsianGames?
(1)

Japan

(2)

SouthKorea

(3)

China

(4)

Noneofthese

177. WhichofthefollowinggamesisDavisCupassociatedwith?

165. Thisbrandhitbigtimeasaresultofa1930sadcampaign
titled"NightStarvationStory"whichdramatisedthebenefits
ofsoundrefreshingsleepresultingfromtheregularbedtime
consumptionofthisproduct.Namethebrand.

(1)

174. WhichofthefollowingdidnotparticipateinthefirstAsian
Games(1951)organisedatNewDelhi,India?

(2)
(4)

four
Notdefined

(1)

Volleyball

(2)

Badminton

(3)

Tennis

(4)

Handball

178. RanjiTrophyandAgaKhanCupareassociatedwith
(1)

CricketandFootball

(2)

CricketandVolleyball

(3)

CricketandHockey

(4)

BadmintonandHockey

179. Whichofthetrophiesbelowisnotassociatedwithcricket?
(1)

DuleepTrophy

(2)

CharminarChallengeCup

(3)

ChampionsTrophy

(4)

RohingtonTrophy

180. WhichofthefollowingisassociatedwithBadminton?
167. TheCommonwealthGameshadtobecancelledduring
(1)
(3)

1942
1942and1946

(2)
(4)

1946
1948

(1)

WilliamToddMemorialTrophy

(2)

UberCup

(3)

HolkarTrophy

(4)

Noneofthese

168. InwhichyearwerethefirstAsianGamesheld?
(1)

1947

(2)

1951

(3)

1995

(4)

1958

169. WhichamongthefollowingcountrieshostedtheFirstAsian
Games?
(1)
(3)

Indonesia
India

(2)
(4)

(3)

FormerW.Germany
China

(2)
(4)

(3)

Once
fivetimes

(2)
(4)

Hockey

(2)

Football

(3)

Badminton

(4)

Golf

182. Matchthefollowingcolumns
Game

Trophy/Cup

China

A.Hockey

1.DavisCup

B.Football

2.JulesRimetTrophy

C.Badminton

3.BeightonCup

SouthKorea

D.Tennis

USSR

4.ThomasCup

(1)

thrice

(2)

twice

(3)

(4)

171. AsianGameshavebeenorganisedinIndia
(1)

(1)

FormerUSSR

170. WhichcountryhostedtheXIAsiad?
(1)

181. WhichgameisassociatedwiththeDurandCup?

172. HowmanymedalsdidP.T.UshawinattheXthAsiad?
(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

183. Brooklyn(USA)isassociatedwith
(1)

Golf

(2)

Snooker

(3)

Baseball

(4)

Tennis

173. HowmanymedalsdidP.T.UshawinindividuallyattheXth
Asiad?
(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(88)of(95)

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184. WithwhichgameisBrookland(England)associated?

196. Theterm"Butterfly"insportsisassociatedwith

(1)

Hockey

(2)

Golf

(1)

Basketball

(2)

Swimming

(3)

Football

(4)

Tennis

(3)

Rowing

(4)

Golf

185. TheDronacharyaAwardisassociatedwith

197.Theterm'Dribbling'isnotassociatedwith

(1)

HockeycaptainsfortheWorldCup

(1)

Hockey

(2)

Football

(2)

Sportscoaches

(3)

Basketball

(4)

Baseball

(3)

BoxingChampionship

(4)

Noneofthese

198. Theterm'smash'insportsisassociatedwith

186. TheDronacharyaAwardforSportscoacheswasinstituted
intheyear
(1)

1984

(2)

1985

(3)

1987

(4)

1988

(1)

LawnTennis

(2)

Badminton

(3)

Volleyball

(4)

Hockey

199. Theterm'bogey'isassociatedwith
(1)

Tennis

(2)

Golf

(3)

Baseball

(4)

Chess

187.MerdekaCupisassociatedwith
(1)

Badminton

(2)

Volleyball

(3)

Hockey

(4)

Football

188. RelianceCupisassociatedwithwhichofthefollowinggames?
(1)

Hockey

(2)

Cricket

(3)

Football

(4)

Tennis

189. WhatwastheformernameofRelianceCup?
(1)

UberCup

(2)

ThomasCup

(3)

RothmanCup

(4)

PrudentialCup

190. WhichofthefollowingCupsisnotassociatedwithBadminton?
(1)

UberCup

(2)

ThomasCup

(3)

YonexCup

(4)

BeightonCup

191. Theterm'KnockOut'isassociatedwithwhichofthefollowing
games?
(1)

Football

(2)

Basketball

(3)

Cricket

(4)

Boxing

200. 'Epsom'isassociatedwith
(1)

Polo

(2)

WaterPolo

(3)

TableTennis

(4)

Horseriding

201. Pivotisassociatedwithwhichofthefollowinggames?
(1)

Hockey

(2)

Basketball

(3)

Golf

(4)

Tennis

202. Theterm'deuce'iscommoninwhichofthefollowingtwo
games?
(1)

BasketballandBadminton

(2)

BadmintonandTennis

(3)

VolleyballandTennis

(4)

Noneofthese

203. ThetermBishopisassociatedwithwhichgame?
(1)

Golf

(2)

Chess

(3)

Bridge

(4)

Billiards

204. ThetermLBWisassociatedwith
(1)

Tennis

(2)

Badminton

(3)

Hockey

(4)

Cricket

192. IncricketLongTopis
205. Whichofthefollowingpairsisnotcorrect?

(1)

thepositionbeforethebowler

(2)

thepositionbehindthebatsman

(1)

DeodharTrophy:Hockey

(3)

thepositionontheleftsideofthebatsman

(2)

JulesRimetCup:Football

(4)

Noneofthese

(3)

CorbillonCup:TableTennis

(4)

IraniCup:Cricket

193. Which of the following allows two or more users to run

programsatthesametime?
(1)

Multiuser

(2)

Multitasking

(3)

Multiprocessing

(4)

Multiservice

194. Whichofthefollowingisareadonlymemorystoragedevice?.
(1)

FloppyDisk

(2)

HardDisk

(3)

CDROM

(4)

Pendrive

195. Wimbledonisassociatedwithwhichofthefollowinggames?
(1)

Golf

(2)

LawnTennis

(3)

Hockey

(4)

Badminton

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206. Howmanyplayerstakepartineachteaminacricketmatch
playedunderinternationalrules?
(1)

(2)

11

(3)

(4)

207.HowmanyplayersarethereoneachsideinaBasketball
match?
(1)

11

(2)

(3)

(4)

208. ThedurationofanormalonehalfofaHockeymatchis
(1)

45min

(2)

40min

(3)

35min

(4)

30min
(89)of(95)

209. Whatisthedurationofeachperiodbeforeandafterthe
tenminutebreakinabasketballgame?

221. Who among the following players was the first to win
WimbledonSinglestitlefivetimesinarow?

(1)

30min

(2)

20min

(1)

RameshKrishnan

(2)

JohnMcEnroe

(3)

35min

(4)

45min

(3)

IrvinMathews

(4)

MartinaNavratilova

210. WhenandwherewasthegameofVolleyballinvented?

222. Football(soccer)issaidtohaveoriginatedin

(1)

England,1904

(2)

USA,1894

(1)

FormerUSSR

(2)

England

(3)

Canada,1894

(4)

Australia,1890

(3)

China

(4)

Australia

211. ThenormallengthofaFootballgroundmustbe

223. Lawntennisissaidtohaveoriginatedin

(1)

110120m

(2)

100110m

(1)

England

(2)

France

(3)

90100m

(4)

120130m

(3)

Australia

(4)

USA

212. HowmanyplayersarethereinaFootballteam?
(1)

10

(2)

11

(3)

12

(4)

213. How many players are there on each side in a women's

Basketballgame?
(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

10

214. SwaythlingCupisassociatedwith
(1)

LawnTennis

(2)

TableTennis

(3)

Hockey

(4)

Golf

224. TheOlympicmottowasfirstdisplayedontheOlympicsFlag
intheGamesheldin
(1)

1894

(2)

1920

(3)

1972

(4)

2000

225. WithwhichsportisthetermChinamanassociated?
(1)

Boxing

(2)

Yachting

(3)

Judo

(4)

Cricket

226. Which of the following are the best units of data on an

externalstoragedevice?
(1)

Bits

(2)

Bytes

(3)

Hertz

(4)

Clockcycles

215. WhoamongthefollowingwasassociatedwithBadminton?
(1)

DhyanChand

(2)

SyedModi

(3)

BishanSinghBedi

(4)

Noneofthese

(1)

AustraliaandWestIndies

(2)

AustraliaandEngland

Hockey

(3)

EnglandandWestIndies

Tennis

(4)

NewZealandandWestIndies

216.DhyanChand'snameisassociatedwithwhichgame?
(1)
(3)

Football
Badminton

(2)
(4)

227. 'The Ashes' is associated with cricket matches played

between

217. 'Playthegameinthespiritofgame'wassaidby

228. 'Bully'isthetermassociatedwithwhichoneofthefollowing
sports?

(1)

G.S.Sondhi

(2)

Coubertin

(1)

Hockey

(2)

Football

(3)

PtNehru

(4)

Noneofthese

(3)

Boxing

(4)

Golf

218. Who among the following has been named as 'Wisden's

Cricketer'?
(1)
(3)

Vishwanath
KapilDev

(2)
(4)

Gavaskar
VijayManjrekar

219. Sportsgoodsaremainlymanufacturedin

229. 'A Half Nelson' is theterm associated with which of the

followingsports?
(1)

Bridge

(2)

Wrestling

(3)

Golf

(4)

Polo

230. 'AgaKhan Cup'is associatedwith whichof thefollowing

sports?

(1)

Mumbai

(2)

Lucknow

(1)

Basketball

(2)

Hockey

(3)

Jalandhar

(4)

Moradabad

(3)

TableTennis

(4)

Football

220. WhichcricketerwasfinedRs.20,000bytheBoardofControl
forCricketinIndiaforcallingnationalselectorsa'bunchof
jokers'?
(1)

B.S.Bedi

(2)

KapilDev

(3)

MohinderAmamath

(4)

SunilGavaskar

(90)of(95)

231. EZARCupisassociatedwithwhichofthefollowingsports?
(1)

Hockey

(2)

Football

(3)

Polo

(4)

Tennis

232. 'Beighton Cup' is associated with which of the following

sports?
(1)

Football

(2)

Hockey

(3)

Boxing

(4)

Badminton

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233. 'SantoshTrophy'isassociatedwithwhichofthefollowing
sports?

244. WhoinIndiawasconferredthehighestBritishAwardthe
'OrderofMerit'?

(1)

Cricket

(2)

Hockey

(1)

IndiraGandhi

(2)

RajivGandhi

(3)

Football

(4)

TableTennis

(3)

MotherTeresa

(4)

JawaharialNehru

234. WhichisIndia'slargestStadium?

245. ThefirstwinnersoftheUNPopulationAwardwere

(1)

NationalStadium,Delhi

(1)

RonaldReaganandIndiraGandhi

(2)

YubaBharatiStadium,Kolkata

(2)

IndiraGandhiandQianXangzhong

(3)

YadvmdraStadium,Patiala

(3)

QianXangzhongandRonaldReagan

(4)

VallabhbhaiPatelStadium,Mumbai

(4)

YuriAndroopvandQianXangzhong

235. WhichisIndia'slargestIndoorStadium'?

246. TheNobelPrizewasgivenforthefirsttimeintheyear

(1)

NetajiStadium,Kolkata

(1)

1901

(2)

1910

(2)

IndiraGandhiIndoorStadium,NewDelhi

(3)

1911

(4)

1912

(3)

BharatiStadium,Cuttack

(4)

Noneofthese

247.S.ChandrashekhargottheNobelPrizefor

236. Thestadium'EdenGardens'issituatedat
(1)

Kolkata

(2)

Mumbai

(3)

Chennai

(4)

Bangalore

237.Inacomputer,_________iscapabletostoresinglebinary
bit..
(1)

Capacitor

(2)

FlipFlop

(3)

Register

(4)

Inductor

238. Theonlycricketteamlohaveplayedinthefinalsofthelast
threeWorldCupsis
(1)

Pakistan

(2)

Australia

(3)

India

(4)

Noneofthese

(1)

Chemistry

(2)

Thermodynamics

(3)

Electronics

(4)

Physics

248. ThefirstIndiantosharetheOscarAwardwas
(1)

HargobindKhorana

(2)

RabindranathTagore

(3)

BhanuAthaiya

(4)

Noneofthese

249. Whichpairisnotcorrectlymatched?
(1)

MahadeviVermaMagsaysayAward

(2)

IndiraGandhi:UNPopulationAward

(3)

MotherTeresa:MagsaysayAward

(4)

SChandrashekhar:NobelPrize

250. BorlaugAwardisgiveninthefieldof
239. WhichteamhaswontheFootballWorldCupmostofthe
times?
(1)

Spain,4times

(2)

Brazil,5times

(3)

GermanyandBrazil,4timeseach

(4)

BrazilandGermany,3timeseach

240. WhoamongthefollowingsharedthefirstUNPopulation
AwardwithaChinese?
(1)

RonaldReagan

(2)

IndiraGandhi

(3)

YuriAndropov

(4)

YehudiMenuhin

241. The first recipient of the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for

InternationalUnderstandingwas
(1) KhanAbdulGaffarKhan (2) YehudiMenuhin
(3) MartinLutherKing

(4) U.Thant

242. RamonMagsaysayawardisnamedaftertheformerPresident
of
(1)

Philippines

(2)

Thailand

(3)

Indonesia

(4)

Noneofthese

243. WhoamongthefollowingwasthefirsttoreceivetheNobel
Prize?
(1)

C.V.Raman

(2)

HargobindKhorana

(3)

RabindranathTagore

(4)

Noneofthese

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(1)

Literature

(2)

Agriculture

(3)

Education

(4)

Medicine

251. ProfessorAbdusSalamofPakistanwastheNobelPrizewinner
in
(1)

Physics

(2)

Medicine

(3)

Chemistry

(4)

Zoology

252. NametheIndianbornscientistwhowontheNobelPrizein
thefieldofMedicine
(1)

HargobindKhorana

(2)

J.V.Narlikar

(3)

C.V.Raman

(4)

J.C.Bose

253. DrHargobindKhoranareceivedtheNobelPrizefor
(1) IsolationofGenes
(2) Groupingofblood
(3) DiscoveryofDNA
(4) Artificialgenes
254. TheonlyMuslimprofessortogettheNobelPrizeis
(1) AbdusSalam
(2) NurulHassan
(3) IqbalAhmed
(4) AbdulMajid
255. ThefirstIndiantoreceivetheUThantawardforcultural
understandingwas
(1) JawaharialNehru
(2) IndiraGandhi
(3) AcharyaVinobaBhave (4) JayprakashNarayan
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256. India'sfirstNobelPrizewasfor
(1) Physics
(2)
(3) Medicine
(4)

267. WhowasthefirstIndiantoreceivetheWorldFoodPrize?
Literature
Chemistry

257. Dr Rabindranath Tagore received the Nobel Prize for his

work
(1) EveningSongs
(2) MorningSongs
(3) Gitanjali
(4) Gora
258. ThevalueoftheNobelPrizewasenhancedintheyear
(1) 1988
(2) 1989
(3) 1990
(4) 1987
259. TheNobelPrizeforEconomicswasintroducedin
(1) 1969
(2) 1986
(3) 1976
(4) 1956
260. Matchthefollowingcolumns
ColumnI
A.Oscarawards
B.Templetonawards
C.PulitzerPrize
D.BookerPrize
A
B C
D
(1) 2
3
1
4
(2) 1
3
2
4
(3) 3
1
2
4
(4) 3
1
4
2

ColumnII
1.ProgressinReligion
2.Literature
3.Films
4.Journalism

(1)

DrVergheseKurien

(2)

DrM.S.Swaminathan

(3)

DrAmitaPatel

(4)

Noneofthese

268. WhoisfirstIndianwomantoreceiveinBorlaugawardandin
whichyear?
(1)

DrMaduriV.Patel,1991

(2)

DrMaduriV.Patel,1992

(3)

DrAmitaPatel,1991

(4)

DrAmitaPatel,1992

269. DavidCohenprizeisgiveninthefieldof
(1)

Journalism

(2)

Literature

(3)

Sports

(4)

Religion

270. WhowasthefirstIndiantobeawardedtheOscar?
(1)

Satyajit Ray

(2)

MehboobKhan

(3)

BhanuAthaiya

(4)

RajKapoor

271. ForwhichfieldisthePulitzerprizenotawarded?
(1)

Films

(2)

Journalism

(3)

Music

(4)

Literature

272. Arrangethefollowingdescendingchronologicalorderbased
ontheyeartheyreceivedtheNobelPrize.
A.MotherTeresa

B.RabindraNathTagore

C.Dr.C.V.Raman

D.S.Chandrasekhar

E.HorgobindKhorana
261. Whichofthefollowingcommandsdisplaysnamesoffilesin
sortedorder?
(1)

DIR/N

(2)

DIR/SO

(3)

DIR/AN

(4)

DIR/AH

262. WhoamongthefollowingNobelPrizepeacelaureateshad
mostofhereducationinNewDelhi?
(1)

MrsAungSanSuuKyi

(2)

MsRigobertaMenchu

(3)

MotherTeresa

(4)

Noneofthese

263. WhoamongthefollowingreceivedtheNobelPrizetwicein
thesamesubject?
(1)

JohnBardeen

(2)

MadamCurie

(3)

LinusPauiing

(4)

PierreCurie

264. WhoamongthefollowingreceivedtheNobelPrizetwicein
differentsubjects?
(1)

MadamCurie

(2)

FredericSanger

(3)

PierreCurie

(4)

JohnBardeen

(1)

B,A,D,C,E

(2)

B,C,E,UA

(3)

B,C,E,A,D

(4)

B,A,C,E,D

273. WhoamongthefollowingwasthefirstIndiantoreceivethe
TempletonAward?
(1)

BabaAmte

(2)

MotherTeresa

(3)

DrS.Radhakrishnan

(4)

VinobaBhave

274. InwhichofthefollowingfieldshaveIndiansbeenhonoured
twicewiththeNobelPrize?
(1)

Chemistry

(2)

Literature

(3)

Peace

(4)

Physics

275. Whichpairisnotcorrectlymatched?
(1)

KalingaAward:Popularizationofscience

(2)

DavidCohenAward:Literature

(3)

BorlaugAward:Agriculture''

(4)

PulitzerPrize:Progressinreligion

276. VIRUSstandsfor
265. WhichofthefollowingawardswasconferredontheTrinidad
bomIndiannovelistV.S.Naipaulin1993?
(1)

DavidCohenAward

(2)

PulitzerPrize

(3)

BookerPrize

(4)

MagsaysayAward

266. JesseOwensGlobalawardisgiveninthefieldof
(1)

Literature

(2)

Journalism

(3)

Science

(4)

Sports

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(1)

VeryImportantResourceUnderSearch

(2)

VirtualInformationResourceUnderResize

(3)

VerifyInterchangeResultUntilSource

(4)

VeryImportantRecordUserSearch

277. WhichcountryawardstheNobalPrize?
(1)

America

(2)

England

(3)

Sweden

(4)

Ireland
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278. Whatwasthefullnameofthepersonwhoisassociatedwith
thisinternationalaward?
(1)

AlfredNobel

(3)

AlfredEernhardNobel (4)

(2)

287.SincewhichyearEconomicshasbeenincludedforawardof
NobelPrize?

BemhardNobel

(1)

1970

(2)

1968

BemhardAlfredNobel

(3)

1967

(4)

1969

279. Onwhichdatethisprize(NobelPrize)isawarded?

288. Citizensofwhichcountryhavewonoutrightorsharedin
greatestnumberofNobelPrizeawardssofar?

(1)

Thereisnofixeddate

(2)

December31,everyyear

(1)

Sweden

(2)

USSR

(3)

December10,everyyear

(3)

Asia

(4)

UnitedStates

(4)

January1, everyyear

280. WhatisthecorrelationofthedateofawardofNobelPrize
withthepersonwhoinstitutedthisaward?
(1)

DeathanniversaryofAlfredNobel

(2)

BirthanniversaryofAlfredNobel

(3)

Withthediscoveryofdynamite

(4)

Noneoftheabove

281. InwhichyeartheNobelFoundationwassetupunderthe
WillofAlfredBemhardNobel?
(1)

1900

(2)

1901

(3)

1866

(4)

1899

282. WithwhatamountwastheNobelFoundationsetup?
(1)

2,000,000

(2)

3,200,000

(3)

3,000,000

(4)

3,100,000

283. WhichofthefollowingstatementsinrespectofNobelPrize
anditsfounderiswrong?
(1)

Alfred Bemliard Nobel was a Swedish Chemist and

ChemicalEngineer

(2)

NobelPrizeisoneoftheworld'shighestvaluedawards

(3)

In1867alongwithhisfatherAlliedNoheldiscovered
dynamitewhichgrantedhimalotoffortune

(4)

ItisawardedonDecember10,everyyear

284. Whichofthefollowingdisciplineswereincludedforthisgreat
internationalawardinthebeginning?
(1)

Physics/Chemistry/Biology/Medicine/Peace

(2)

Physics/Chemistry/Medicine/Peace/Economics

(3)

Physics/Chemistry/Medicine/Literature/Peace

(4)

Physics/Chemistry/MedicineandPhysiologyLiterature/
Peace

285. Atpresenthowmanydisciplinesareincludedforawardof
NobelPrize?
(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

286. Since foundation of Nobel Prize awards, recently which

disciplinehasbeenaddedtotheoriginalfivedisciplineswhich
wereconsideredforawardofNobelPrize?
(1)

Medicine

(2)

Peace

(3)

Literature

(4)

Economics

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289. InwhichdisciplineUnitedStatesholdsrecordformaximum
numberofNobelPrizeawards?
(1)

Science

(2)

Physics

(3)

Chemistry

(4)

MedicinePhysology

290. IndividuallytheonlypersontohaveoutrightlywontheNobel
Prizetwiceis
(1)

WilliamLawrence

(2)

DrLinusCarlPauling

(3)

MadamCurie

(4)

AntoniHenriBecquerel

291. Individuallywhoshared/outrightlywontwoNobelPrizesso
far?
(1)

MadamCurie

(2)

ProfFrancisPeyton

(3)

WilliamLawrence

(4)

Noneofthese

292. WhoamongthefollowingwasnotawardedtheNobelPeace
Prize?
(1)

BerthavonSuttner

(2)

ClaudiaEmerson

(3)

EmilyG.Balch

(4)

WangariMaathai

293. NobelPrizeinwhichdisciplinehasbeenawardedthreetimes
tothesameperson/organization?
(1)

Medicine

(2)

Chemistry

(3)

Physics

(4)

Peace

294. WhichofthefollowingstatementsinrespectofNobelPrize
isincorrect?
(1)

ThePeacePrizehasbeenawardedthreetimestothe
InternationalCommitteeofRedCrossofGeneva

(2)

MadameMarieCuriefirstsharedNobelPrizeinPhysics
withherhusbandandthenwoninChemistryoutrightly

(3)

TheNobelPrizeforEconomicscienceswasestablished
in1967byRiksbank(SwedishBank)

(4)

TheNobelPrizeforEconomicswasawardedin1967

295. InwhichyearsNobelPrizeforPencewasawardedtothe
InternationalCommitteeoftheRedCrossofGeneva?
(1)

1917

(2)

1944

(3)

1963

(4)

Inallthesethreeyears

296. Whowastheoldestpersonsofartohavebeenawarded
NobelPrizeandwhatwashisageatthattime?
(1)

Prof.WilliamLawrenceBragg,88years

(2)

Prof.FrancisPeytonRous,87years

(3)

Prof.FredericSanger,90years

(4)

SirJohnBardeen,89years

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297. NobelPrizewasmainlyfor.....butlateronothercategories
wereaddedandthelastoneofthemisEconomics

300. Whichcommandcanbeusedtorecreatethedisk'stracks
andsectors?

(1)

Chemistry

(2)

Peace

(1)

FDISK

(2)

FORMAT

(3)

Medicine

(4)

Physics

(3)

CHKDSK

(4)

ATTRIB

298. FATstandsfor
(1)

FileAccommodationTable

(2) FileAccessTape

(3)

FileAllocationTable

(4) FileActivityTable

299. WhichofthefollowingstatementsistrueinrespectofNobel
PrizeforEconomicsciences?
(1)

Itwasestablishedincelebrationoftheanniversaryof
theNobelPrize

(2)

It wasestablished inthe year1967 byRiksbank of

Sweden

(3)

Itwasawardedforthefirsttimeintheyear1969

(4)

Alltheabovestatementsaretrue

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