Practise Bits

1. Which country has test-fired the Abdali, short range surface to surface ballistic missile?
    1) Pakistan     2) Afghanistan     3) Iran
    4) Syria     5) Iraq
2. How many people in India are killed by indoor pollution every year as per the study of the World Health Organization (WHO)?
    1) 1.3 million     2) 1.7 million     3) 2 million
    4) 6.20 lakh     5) 7.20 lakh
3. Which of the following teams won the Irani Cup Cricket for the eighth time in a row in 2013?
    1) Rest of India     2) Mumbai     3) Delhi
    4) Tamil Nadu     5) Karnataka
4. Nabil Elaraby is the Secretary General of?
    1) Commonwealth       2) OPEC         3) SAARC        4) Arab League
    5) None of these
5. Which of the following is/are the specific goal (s) of Bharat Nirman?
    1. To provide more employment opportunities
          to rural youth
    2. To provide best technical education to rural youth
    3. To provide more employment opportunities
          to urban youth
    4. Both 1 and 2         5. None of these
6. Which of the following is not a civilian award?
    1) Sahitya Academy
    2) Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
    3) Padma Shri        4) Bharat Ratna  
    5) Kirti Chakra
7. Rolex is a brand of?
    1) Luxury cars         2) Luxury pens
    3) Luxury watches    4) Home accessories 5) Confectionary
8. Which of the following terms is not used in Cricket?
    1) Maiden over     2) Stumped     3) Hat trick
    4) Gulley     5) Hoops
9. The agricultural productivity in India is low in comparison to other countries. What is/are the main reason(s)?
    1. Lack of credit and marketing facilities
    2. Uneconomic holdings
    3. Outdated agricultural techniques
    4. Both 1 and 2      
    5. All 1, 2 and 3
10. Which of the following conditions indicate the impact of global warming?
    1) Melting of glaciers 2) Rise in sea level
    3) Changes in weather conditions
    4) Rise in global temperature
    5) All the above
11. Who is the author of book 'What I Require from Life'?
    1) Salim Ali         2) S.Radhakrishnan
    3) J.B.S.Haldane        4) J.C.Bose      
    5) None of these
12. Which of the following Ministries lays down the policies and programs for the development and regulation of the country's water resources?
    1) Ministry of Rural Development
    2) Ministry of Agriculture
    3) Ministry of Environment and Forests
    4) Ministry of Tribal Affairs
    5) None of these
13. Which of the following statements is not correct?
    1) World Meteorological Organization is in Geneva
    2) The area of Coffee is maximum in Karnataka
    3) The Headquarters of FAO is in Rome
    4) Banana has the largest area in India among all fruit crops
    5) India is the world's largest tea-drinking nation
14. David Cohen prize is given for?
    1) Agriculture           2) Literature
    3) Progress in religion
    4) Popularization of science 5) None of these
15. The Reserve Bank of India increased the repo rate or the short term lending rate by 25 basis points on September 20, 2013. What is the present repo rate?
    1) 7.5%     2) 7.25%         3) 7.75%
    4) 6.25%     5) 6.5%
16. Which country's Parliament approved a new five year term for long serving Prime Minister Hun Sen on September 24, 2013?
    1) Vietnam     2) Cambodia     3) Malaysia
    4) South Korea     5) North Korea
17. Who was appointed as the Chairperson of the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) on September 23, 2013?
    1) Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre
    2) Justice Deepak Gupta
    3) Justice Vangala Eswaraiah
    4) Justice S.R. Sen
    5) None of these
18. The 16th National Integration Council (NIC) meeting was held in New Delhi on September 23, 2013. It was chaired by?
    1) Sonia Gandhi        
    2) P. Chidambaram
    3) Sushil Kumar Shinde
    4) Dr. Manmohan Singh     5) None of these
19. Who was appointed as the brand ambassador of the Border Security Force (BSF) on September 22, 2013?
    1) Leander Paes 2) Sushil Kumar 3) Vijay Kumar
    4) Ronjan Sodhi 5) Virat Kohli
20. Who was appointed as the non- playing captain of the Indian Davis Cup tennis team in September 2013?
    1) Vijay Amritraj         2) Anand Amritraj
    3) Ramesh Krishnan
    4) Ramnath Krishnan     5) None of these
21. Which of the following movies was nominated as India's official entry to 2014 Oscars in the Best Foreign Film category on September 21, 2013?
    1) The Lunch Box    2) Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
    3) English Vinglish   4) The Good Road
    5) Celluloid
22. On September 20, 2013 the marginal standing facility (MSF) rate was brought down by 0.75 per cent to?
    1) 10.25%     2) 9.5%         3) 8.5%
    4) 9.25%     5) 10.5%
23. Which of the following High Courts was/were established in 2013?
    1) Manipur High Court
    2) Meghalaya High Court
    3) Tripura High Court
    4) Both 1 and 2     5) All 1, 2 and 3
24. East Garo Hills district was awarded for achieving 90.39 average person-days in implementation of MGNREGS. This district is in?
    1) Tripura     2) Manipur    3) Meghalaya
    4) Assam     5) Sikkim
25. Which state has been conferred the National e-Governance Gold Award for 2012-13 for its 'Sparsh Abhiyan' program aimed towards the disabled and the aged?
    1) Rajasthan        2) Haryana     3) Punjab
    4) Madhya Pradesh 5) Uttar Pradesh
26. What is the number of High Courts in India at present?
    1) 21       2) 22         3) 23     4) 24      5) 25
27. Japan won the right to host Olympic Games for the second time. It had previously hosted Olympics in?
    1) 1956     2) 1960     3) 1964
    4) 1968     5) 1972
28. Deutsche Bundes bank is the central bank of?
    1) Sweden     2) Germany     3) Spain
    4) Greece     5) Italy
29. SAPPHIRE and NEOSSAT are satellites from?
    1) Canada     2) Austria                  3) Denmark
    4) UK         5) India
30. Which country is setting up the Mangdechhu and the Punatsangchhu-I and II hydroelectric projects with the support of India?
    1) Nepal     2) China                  3) Sri Lanka
    4) Bhutan     5) Bangladesh
31. Mohammed Afzal Guru, the December 13, 2001 Parliament attack case convict, was hanged and buried inside the Tihar jail complex in New Delhi on?
    1) February 3, 2013     2) February 6, 2013
    3) February 9, 2013    4) February 12, 2013
    5) February 13, 2013
32. Fordow is the site of an underground Uranium enrichment facility in?
1) North Korea 2) Germany 3) Iran 4) Iraq 5) Pakistan
33. Arrow 3 is an anti ballistic missile jointly funded and developed by?
    1) Israel and USA     2) China and Pakistan
    3) Iran and Pakista    4) USA and Russia
    5) India and Russia
34. Which of the following does not come under the services sector?
    1) Insurance         2) Banking    
    3) Finance        4) Real Estate      
    5) Petroleum refinery products
35. Thirty Indian software companies have formed a new association called the Indian Software Product Industry Round Table (iSpirt). It is a break away group of?
    1) CII                    2) ASSOCHAM     3) FICCI
    4) NASSCOM     5) None of these

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