Q1. Who wrote the best-selling book The Road Ahead?
(a) Bill Clinton
(b) I. K. Gujral
(c) Bill Gates
(d) T. N. Seshan
(e) Brack Obama
Q2. Who was the first Hindi writer to receive Jnanpith Award?
(a) Mahadevi Verma
(b) Sumitranandan Pant
(c) Dr. Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
(d) S.H. Vatsyayan
(e) Babudas Sharma
Q3. What is “Vishva Mohini”?
(a) Name of India’s Beauty Queen
(b) The tittle given to Lata Mangeshkar for her contribution to music
(c) An Indian ship
(d) A famous book on Indian dances
(e) Hindi name of "Miss World"
Q4. The pass located in Himachal Pradesh is
(a) Shipkila
(b) Zojila
(c) Nathula
(d) Jelepla
(e) None of these
Q5. The book titled ‘The Indian War of Independence’ was written by
(a) Krishna Verma
(b) Madame Cama
(c) B. G. Tilak
(d) V. D. Savarkar
(e) Jawaharlal Nehru
Q6. Sir C. V. Raman was awarded Nobel Prize for his work on:
(a) Light Scattering
(b) Radio activity
(c) Cryogenics
(d) Sonometer
(e) Nuclear Fission
Q7. Kanchenjunga is __________ highest mountain in the world.
(a) Second
(b) Third
(c) Fourth
(d) Fifth
(e) Seventh
Q8. Which of the following is an open market operation of the RBI?
(a) Buying and selling of shares
(b) Trading in securities
(c) Transaction in gold
(d) Lending to commercial banks
(e) None of these
Q9. The number of non-permanent members of the Security Council is
(a) 5
(b) 8
(c) 10
(d) 12
(e) 15
Q10. Who is considered the father of Sahatara (Sitar)?
(a) Mian Tansen
(b) Baiju Bawara
(c) Amir Khusro
(d) Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
(e) None of these
Q11. Which Bank was merged in the Punjab National Bank in February, 2003?
(a) Catholic Syrian Bank Ltd.
(b) Nainital Bank Ltd.
(c) Bharat Bank
(d) Madurai social justice
(e) Nedungadi Bank Ltd.
Q12. Which of the following is the headquarters of the World Bank?
(a) The Hague
(b) Washington
(c) Paris
(d) London
(e) Vienna
Q13. The type of note issue system followed in India is:
(a) Maximum fiduciary system
(b) Minimum reserve system
(c) Proportional fiduciary system
(d) Fixed fiduciary system
(e) None of these
Q14. Under which Act/Policy was the BIFR established?
(a) Industrial Policy of 1980
(b) Companies Act
(c) Sick Industrial Companies Act
(d) MRTP Act
(e) None of these
Q15.The Headquarters of the International Monetary Fund is located at
(a) Paris
(b) Vienna
(c) Washington D.C.
(d) Geneva
(e) Brussels
ANSWERS :
S1. Ans.(c)
Sol. The Road Ahead is a book written by Bill Gates, co-founder and then-CEO of the Microsoft software company, together with Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold and journalist Peter Rinearson. Published in November 1995, then substantially revised about a year later, The Road Ahead summarized the implications of the personal computing revolution and described a future profoundly changed by the arrival of a global information superhighway.
S2. Ans.(b)
Sol. Sumitranandan Pant was an Indian poet. He was one of the most celebrated "Progressive" left-wing 20th century poets of the Hindi language and was known for romanticism in his poems which were inspired by nature, people and beauty within.
S3. Ans.(c)
Sol. Vishva Mohini MV was a Indian cargo ship that sank in the Bay of Biscay off the northern coast of Spain with the loss of 31 of the 47 people on board.
S4. Ans.(a)
Sol. Shipki La is a mountain pass and border post on the India-China border. The river Sutlej, which is called Langqên Zangbo in Tibet, enters India (from Tibet) through this pass. It is an offshoot of the ancient Silk Road. It is located in Kinnaur district in the state of Himachal Pradesh, India, and Tibet, China.
S5. Ans.(d)
Sol. The Indian War of Independence is an Indian nationalist history of the 1857 revolt by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar that was first published in 1909.
S6. Ans.(a)
Sol. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930 was awarded to Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman "for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him".
S7. Ans.(b)
Sol. Kangchenjunga also spelled Kanchenjunga, is the third highest mountain in the world, and lies partly in Nepal and partly in Sikkim, India. It rises with an elevation of 8,586 m in a section of the Himalayas called Kangchenjunga Himal that is limited in the west by the Tamur River, in the north by the Lhonak Chu and Jongsang La, and in the east by the Teesta River.
S8. Ans.(b)
Sol. Open Market Operations refer to the purchase and sale of the Government securities (G-Secs) by RBI from / to market. The objective of Open Market Operations is to adjust the rupee liquidity conditions in the economy on a durable basis.
S9. Ans.(c)
Sol. The Council is composed of 15 Members: five permanent members: China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and ten non-permanent members elected for two-year terms by the General Assembly
S10. Ans.(c)
Sol. Ab'ul Hasan Yamin ud-Din Khusrau better known as Amir Khusrow, was a Sufi musician, poet and scholar. He was an iconic figure in the cultural history of the Indian subcontinent. He was a mystic and a spiritual disciple of Nizamuddin Auliya of Delhi. Amir Khusrau is reputed to have invented certain musical instruments like the sitar and tabla.
S11. Ans.(e)
Sol. In 2003 PNB took over Nedungadi Bank, the oldest private sector bank in Kerala. At the time of the merger with PNB, Nedungadi Bank's shares had zero value, with the result that its shareholders received no payment for their shares.
S12.Ans.(b)
Sol. The World Bank (WB) is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programs. It comprises two institutions: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), and the International Development Association (IDA). The World Bank is a component of the World Bank Group, which is part of the United Nations system.
S13. Ans.(b)
Sol. RBI is required to maintain a Gold and Foreign Exchange Reserves of Rs. 200 Crore of which at least Rs. 115 Crore should be in Gold. This is called Minimum Reserve System. This system continues till date.
S14. Ans.(c)
Sol. The Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR) was an agency of the government of India, part of the Department of Financial Services of the Ministry of Finance. Its objective is to determine sickness of industrial companies and to assist in reviving those that may be viable and shutting down the others. The BIFR was established under The Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act, 1985 (SICA).
S15. Ans.(c)
Sol. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., of "189 countries working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.
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