Plans Mobile

  • Subscribe to our RSS feed.
  • Twitter
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Facebook
  • Digg

Friday, 15 November 2013

Practise Bits

Posted on 08:52 by Unknown
1.     To review tax laws and suggest ways for a stable and non-adversarial tax administration, the Government of India on August 26, 2013 set up a Tax Administration Reform Com mission (TARC) under the Chairmanship of?
    1) Parthasarathy Shome     2) Y.G.Parande
    3) S.S.N. Moorthy        4) M.R.Diwakar
    5) None of these
2.     National Media Center was inaugurated by the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on August 24, 2013 in which of the following cities?
    1) Hyderabad     2) New Delhi
    3) Mumbai    4) Chandigarh
    5) Bangalore
3.     Who has been chosen for 2012-13 Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India's highest honour for a sportsperson? (The award will be given on August 31, 2013)
    1) Krishna Poonia     2) Gagan Narang
    3) Ronjan Sodhi    4) P.V. Sindhu
    5) Vijay Kumar
4.     Who is the author of the book \"My Journey: Transforming Dreams into Actions\"? (It was launched in August 2013)
    1) Amartya Sen     2) Barack Obama
    3) Tony Blair    4) A P J Abdul Kalam
    5) Pranab Mukherjee
5.     As per a Global digital measurement and analytics ComScore report released in August 2013, what is India's rank in Internet usage?
    1) First  2) Second  3) Third  4) Fourth  5) Fifth
6.     Telugu novelist Malathi Chandur passed away in August 2013. She was a winner of ?
    1) Jnanpeet Award       2) Vyas Samman
    3) Saraswati Samman  4) Sahitya Akademi Award
    5) None of these
7.     Head Office of which of the following banks is in Delhi?
    1) UCO Bank     2) Bank of India
    3) Corporation Bank    4) United Bank of India
    5) Punjab National Bank
8.     Pakistan is a member of ?  
    1) ASEAN     2) APEC       3) NATO
    4) OPEC     5) SAARC
9.     Who is the author of the book 'Diamond Dust'?
    1) Salman Rushdie     2) Anita Desai
    3) Chetan Bhagat    4) Arundhati Roy
    5) Rashmi Bansal
10.     Which of the following is the name of a country?
    1) Afghani     2) Peso         3) Zagreb
    4) Botswana     5) Brasilia
11. Which of the following terms is not used in Banking/Finance?              
    1) Letter of Credit         2) LIBOR
    3) Back Up Guarantee    4) Factoring services
    5) Polymerization
12. Which Russian city will host the 2015 World Aquatic Championships?
    1) Kazan     2) Samara         3) Omsk
    4) Perm     5) Volgograd
13. 'Copa America', an international tournament involving 12 teams, is associated with?
    1) Basketball     2) Football        3) Tennis
    4) Golf     5) Snooker
14. Which of the following terms is used in the field of Banking /Finance?
    1) Amendment     2) Reflex Action  3) Dribble
    4) Active Asset     5) None of these
15. SAFTA is a trade agreement among the members of?
    1) G8     2) G20     3) BRICS
    4) SAARC     5) ASEAN
16. The Head of the Public Sector Bank in India is designated as?
    1) Governor     2) President
    3) Vice President    4) Chief Executive Officer
    5) Chairman and MD
17.     Who among the following is a famous economist?
    1) John Milton  2) John Keats 3) Thomas Malthus
    4) Robert Frost  5) O Henry
18. World Ozone Day is celebrated on?
    1) September 8     2) November 8
    3) November 16    4) September 16
    5) September 27
19. The capital of Vietnam is?
    1) Phnom Penh     2) Jakarta     3) Manila
    4) Hanoi     5) Yangon
20.     The term 'Insider Trading' is associated with?
    1) Insurance     2) Defense   3) Stock Market
    4) Parliament     5) Journalism
21. Which of the following is a major function of the Reserve Bank of India?  
    1) Regulating Stock Exchanges
    2) Deciding Foreign Trade Policy of India
    3) Preparing Union Budget
    4) Framing Fiscal Policy
    5) None of these
22. Which of the following countries is a member of OPEC?
    1) Jordan     2) Libya     3) Syria
    4) Bangladesh     5) Bahrain
23.     Cotton is normally grown in?
    1) Red soil 2     2) Yellow soil   3) Regur soil
    4) Laterite soil 5) Sand
24.     Buddh International Circuit is related to?
    1) Cricket     2) Hockey     3) Football
    4) Formula One     5) Tennis
25. Which of the following is an advance to priority sector by the banks?
    1) Loan to a sick industry
    2) Loan given to purchase a house
    3) Loan to farmers for agricultu ral purpose
    4) Loan to establish a hospital in a city
    5) None of these
26. Who is the author of the book 'Inside the Third World: The Anatomy of Poverty'?
    1) Paul Harrison     2) Paul Krugman
    3) Amartya Sen    4) William Golding
    5) Gunnar Myrdal
27. Which was the principal plant used in Green Revolution?
    1) Japonica Rice     2) Indian Rice
    3) Emmer Wheat    4) Mexican Wheat
    5) None of these
28. The rotation of crops is essential for?
    1) Increasing protein content in plants
    2) Getting different crops
    3) Increasing soil fertility
    4) Both 1 and 2    5) All 1, 2 and 3
29. The study of vegetables is called?
    1) Pomology     2) Floriculture   3) Sericulture
    4) Olericulture     5) None of these
30. A statement that depicts the financial position of a business organization at a given point of time is called?
    1) Reconciliation statement
    2) Statement of Product Details
    3) Balance Sheet    
    4) Trading Account
    5) None of these
31. The currency of Ethiopia is?
    1) Birr     2) Rial     3) Peso
    4) Manat     5) Dinar
32. By what name were the Common Wealth Games known when they were first held in 1930?
    1) British Empire Games
    2) British Empire and Common Wealth Games
    3) British Common Wealth Games
    4) Queen's Empire Games
    5) None of these
33. Sunita Narain is the editor of which science and environment focused magazine?
    1) Seminar     2) Sanctuary
    3) Down to Earth    4) National Geography
    5) None of these
34. Who propounded the theory of 'Hierarchy of Needs'?
    1) Peter Drucker     2) Gary Becker
    3) Amos Tversky    4) Abraham Maslow
    5) None of these
35. 'Kahani', a Bollywood film that won several awards, was directed by?
    1) Anurag Basu     2) Anurag Kashyap
    3) Sujoy Ghosh    4) Prakash Jha
    5) Rituparno Ghosh
36. What is India's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in the first quarter (April-June) of the fiscal year 2013-14?
    1) 5.4 per cent     2) 4.8 per cent
    3) 2.8 per cent    4) 4.4 per cent
    5) 5.5 per cent
37. Seamus Heaney of Ireland died on August 30, 2013. He had won the 1995 Nobel Prize in?
    1) Economics     2) Literature     3) Peace
    4) Physics     5) Medicine
38. Which country defeated India 4-3 in the final of the Asia Cup Hockey at Ipoh, Malaysia on September 1, 2013?
    1) Pakistan     2) Malaysia    3) South Korea
    4) Japan     5) Oman
39. Which Tennis player is the author of the book 'The Moon Baller'?
    1) Sania Mirza     2) Ramesh Krishnan
    3) Nirupama Vaidyanathan
    4) Leander Paes     5) Mahesh Bhupathi
40. Which company on August 23, 2013 announced that its CEO, Steve Ballmer, will retire from the company after a successor is chosen?
    1) Google      2) Oracle     3) Yahoo!
    4) Microsoft     5) Amazon.com
Answers
1. 1     2. 2      3. 3     4. 4     5. 3     6. 4
7. 5     8. 5    9. 2     10.4     11.5     12.1
13.2     14.4     15.4     16.5    17.3     18.4
19.4     20.3     21.5     22.2     23.3     24.4
25.3     26.1     27.4     28.3     29.4     30.3
31.1     32.1    33.3     34.4     35.3     36.4
37.2     38.3     39.3     40.4
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest
Posted in Practise Bits. | No comments
Newer Post Older Post Home

0 comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Popular Posts

  • James Blake wins Mercury Prize
    Electronic artist James Blake won this year's Barclaycard Mercury Prize. The twenty-five-year old is won the award for his second albu...
  • Renowned Musician Madhuri Chattopadhyay Died
    Renowned musician Madhuri Chattopadhyay died on 19 October 2013. She breathed her last at her Kolkata residence after suffering for a prol...
  • 1.3 Million People Died of TB Worldwide in 2012: WHO Report
    Global Tuberculosis Report 2013 released by World Health Organization reveled that, Tuberculosis ( TB ) disease killed 1.3 million people w...
  • Typhoon Nari created Havoc in Philippines
    Nari: The Typhoon which hit hard the northern part of Philippines Typhoon Nari hit hard the northern part of Philippines on 13 October 201...
  • Union Government Appointed G B Pradhan as the Chairperson of the CERC
    Union Government of India appointed on 17 October 2013 Gireesh B. Pradhan , former Secretary of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, as th...
  • Abdullah Yameen won Maldives Presidential Polls
    Abdulla Yameen, the candidate of Progressive Party of Maldives on 16 November 2013 defeated the former premier, Mohammed Nasheed to win ...
  • Gurgaon to have its ‘Rapid Metro’ from November 14, 2013
    Rapid Metro will connect Delhi Metro  travelers  to 6 key places within Gurgaon(Haryana), where more than a lakh people work or visit every ...
  • BSE to set up its back-up centre in Hyd soon
    In times of crisis, Asia’s oldest exchange BSE Ltd (formerly Bombay Stock Exchange) will soon be banking on Hyderabad , which will house ...
  • Cyclonic Storm Phailin hit the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
    Phailin : The cyclonic storm hit the Andaman and Nicobar islands The cyclonic storm Phailin in the second week of October 2013 hit the Andam...
  • Waheeda Rehman to receive first Centenary film award at IFFI
    Veteran Bollywood actress Waheeda Rehman will be conferred Centenary Award for the Indian Film Personality of the Year 2013 at the Interna...

Categories

  • Agreements
  • Amounts
  • AP State Affairs
  • Appointments
  • Awards
  • bills
  • Books and Authors
  • Cencus
  • Committees & Commissions.
  • Conferences.
  • Current Affairs MCQS
  • Daily Dose Practise Bits
  • Days
  • Deaths
  • Disaster Management
  • Economy
  • Expected Questions
  • External Visits
  • Figures
  • Guests Visits
  • INAGURATIONS
  • India's Ranks
  • Kids section
  • MAGAZINES
  • MATERIAL
  • National
  • Nobel Prizes
  • Percentages
  • Persons in News
  • Places in news
  • Polity
  • Practise Bits.
  • Resignations.
  • Schemes
  • Science and Technology
  • Sports
  • Summits
  • Surveys and Reports
  • World

Blog Archive

  • ▼  2013 (501)
    • ▼  November (216)
      • Developed countries could commit in the range of U...
      • BrahMos successfully penetrates hardened targets i...
      • India made an average 15 user data requests a day ...
      • Rapid Metro-India's First Private Metro service st...
      • Cencus 2011
      • Redek Stepanek clinched Davis Cup for Czech Republic
      • Pradiyogitha Darpan December 2013
      • Saudis world's biggest Tweeters, India at 21st pos...
      • Expected Questions
      • BSE to set up its back-up centre in Hyd soon
      • Practise Bits
      • Ratan corporates' Tendulkar'
      • Telugu woman bags leadership award in US
      • Dr Sidharth bags IFM award
      • Kannadiga set to bag top US medical post
      • Pak pitches for Most Favoured Nation status for India
      • Waheeda Rehman to receive first Centenary film awa...
      • First Integrated Checkpost along India-Bangladesh ...
      • Greenpeace to protest arrests of activists by Russia
      • Abdullah Yameen won Maldives Presidential Polls
      • Bolt, Fraser-Pryce are IAAF athletes of the year
      • India is world's coronary, diabetic capital,
      • 22nd Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting (CHO...
      • 33rd India International Trade Fair opened at New ...
      • International Day for Tolerance observed on 16 Nov...
      • Lord Swraj Paul presented with International India...
      • One in 10 people could suffer from diabetes by 2035
      • Prof. CNR Rao and Sachin Tendulkar Selected for Bh...
      • Indian biotech aiming to be $100 billion sector by...
      • ISRO marks 50 years of rocketry
      • Daley Thompson honoured with IAAF Hall of Fame award
      • Indian Navy receives second P8I maritime patrol ai...
      • Govt honours Sachin with Bharat Ratna
      • RRB Grade -D
      • IBPS General awareness
      • Practise Bits
      • Practise Bits
      • Practise Bits
      • Practise Bits
      • Practise Bits
      • Practise Bits
      • Punjab Governor flags off Chandigarh-Amritsar Supe...
      • British PM to Lanka govt: Show generosity & magnan...
      • India second on list of governments requesting Goo...
      • China to replace India as No.1 gold consumer
      • Krishna Tirath gave away National Child Award for ...
      • IAF C 130J sent to Philippines on a Humanitarian A...
      • Mushirul Hasan was conferred with Nehru Fellowship
      • China eases one child rule, ends re-education in r...
      • Andhra migrants in Saudi waiting to return
      • India lost $591m to disasters
      • 18th International Children's Film Festival of Ind...
      • Gurgaon to have its ‘Rapid Metro’ from November 14...
      • “404″ most popular word of 2013; “Toxic Politics” ...
      • Final India-Aus ODI highest watched TV event of 2013
      • Aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya set to join Indi...
      • PM to inaugurate Mahila Bank on Indira’s birthday
      • World Diabetes Day observed on 14 November
      • Book Entitled Indian Railway Track-Design, Constru...
      • Paras Ajmera resigned from MCX Board
      • NASA Cassini Spacecraft provided New View of Satur...
      • Haryana Launched its First Food Bank at Gurgaon wi...
      • Yogesh Agarwal, the Chairman of PFRDA Resigned; An...
      • Shiraz Naval Minwalla won New Horizons in Physics ...
      • Year 2013 record to be one of warmest
      • US lists Boko Haram as terror group
      • Origins of music traced to 30 Million Years back
      • Prince Charles celebrates 65th birthday in Kerala ...
      • With 243 million users by 2014, India to beat US i...
      • 3 of Indian-origin among Africa's 50 richest: Forbes
      • World’s largest ‘fire diamond’ sold for $35 mn
      • COP-19, UN Climate Change Conference Kicked off at...
      • Usha Ananthasubramanian appointed as CMD of Bharat...
      • Prasar Bharti signed MoU with Slovenia Radio & TV ...
      • Russia Successfully Launched Proton-M Rocket Carry...
      • R. Banumathi Appointed Chief Justice of the Jharkh...
      • India declared itself free from Bird Flu
      • MTNL signed MoU with US Firm to impart Security Tr...
      • Francis Bacon’s painting gains a record price
      • Oldest big cat fossil found in Tibet
      • UN launches appeal for $301 mn to help relief effo...
      • India to send 15 tonnes of relief material to Phil...
      • India’s economy likely to become 3rd largest by 20...
      • Supreme Court restores 9,000 trials in CBI courts
      • Use of licensed software can add $739 billion to I...
      • ISRO gears up for GSLV mission
      • Switzerland most secretive financial place; India ...
      • Ratan Watal appointed as the new Expenditure Secre...
      • Oscar Fernandes Inaugurated the Two Day Internatio...
      • India Signed Financing and Project Agreements with...
      • President of Philippines declared state of Nationa...
      • Finance Ministry Released Commemorative Coins on B...
      • The Vice President of India Released a Book Entitl...
      • The Commonwealth Business Forum Inaugurated by the...
      • UN Court ruled for Cambodia in Thailand border row
      • Mumbai Cricket Association Felicitated Sachin Tend...
      • Government pushes for video recording of court pro...
      • Indian Navy commissioned first Advanced Light Heli...
      • AP tops disparity list, Hyd among prosperous
      • Punjab govt to set up 7 international sports stadi...
    • ►  October (283)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2012 (3)
    • ►  June (2)
    • ►  May (1)
Powered by Blogger.

About Me

Unknown
View my complete profile