GENERAL AWARENESS QUESTIONS

1.Who among the following headed second Administrative Reforms Commission?
(A)Veerappa Moily
(B)V. Ramachandran
(C)Dr. A.P. Mukherjee
(D) Justice S. Ratnavel Pandian
(E)None of them

ANS:A


2.Who among the following famous authors from India / of India was
honored with Guggenheim Fellowship?
(A)Arvind Adiga
(B)Jhumpa Lahiri
(C)Anita Desai
(D)Salman Rushdie
(E)Arundhati Roy
ANS:B

3.Consider the following:
1. Private Consumption
2. Government Consumption
3. Fixed Investments
4. Net Exports
Arrange the above 4 items in decreasing order of their contribution to
the demand side of growth of Indian economy in 2009-10:
(A)1234
(B)1342
(C)1324
(D)1432
(E)1423
ANS:B

4.Which among the following statements holds true in context with
trends in WPI inflation in recent times in India (Food and non-food
items) ?
(A)The Inflation was initially driven by the nonfood items and later
became more generalized
(B)The Inflation was initially driven by the food items and later
became more generalized
(C)The contribution of nonfood items towards the inflationary
pressures has been negligible
(D)The WPI inflation has been driven by supply side factors alone
(E)None of the above statement is correct

ANS:B


5.Many a times we read in the financial newspapers about BPLR rates.
Which among the following is a correct expansion of BPLR?
(A)Base Prime Lending Rate
(B)Benchmark Prime Lending Rate
(C)Benchmark Premium Lending Rate
(D)Benchmark Primary Lending Rate
(E)None of the above
ANS:B

6.Recently we read in the financial newspapers that using the tool of
Liquidity Adjustment Facility, the Reserve Bank of India has been
continuously increasing the key policy rates to suck out the excess
liquidity from the market. Which among the following rates play most
important role in sucking
out the liquidity in the system?
(A)Repo Rate
(B)Cash Reserve Ratio
(C)Prime Lending Rate
(D)BPLR
(E)None of the above

ANS:B


7.Many a times we read in the newspapers about REER which is weighted
average of a India's currency relative to an index or basket of other
major currencies adjusted for the effects of inflation. What is the
correct expansion of REER?
(A)Real Effective Exchange Rate
(B)Rational Effective Exchange Rate
(C)Regional Elastic Exchange rate
(D)Real Elastic Exchange rate
(E)None of the above
ANS:A

8.The full members of which among the following organizations are
mostly described as high-income economies?
(A)APEC
(B)OECD
(C)CIS
(D)UNIDO
(E)None of them
ANS:B

9.In how many languages Reserve Bank of India's Financial Education
website is avaialble?
(A)3
(B)5
(C)7
(D)8
(E)13
ANS:E

10.Which of the following international organizations has established
International Network on Financial Education (INFE) in mid of 2008?
(A)Reserve Bank of India
(B)SAARC
(C)OECD
(D)World Bank
(E)World Trade Organization
ANS:C

11.Which among the following banks is providing web based wire
transfer facilities called Power Transfer to remit money to India in
as short a time as 48 hours?
(A)SBI
(B)ICICI Bank
(C)Bank of Baroda
(D)HDFC
(E)IDBI
ANS:B

12.Who among the following was the chairman of RBI Working Group on
Benchmark Prime lending Rate on the basis of which Base rate System is
slated to switch over by the banks?
(A)Subir Gokarn
(B)Ashok Chawla
(C)Deepak Mohanty
(D)Prof. U. R. Rao
(E)None of them
ANS:C

13.Which of the following represents largest fraction of forest cover in India?
(A)Tropical Dry deciduous
(B)Tropical moist Deciduous
(C)Tropical Evergreen
(D)Subtropical
(E)Tropical Thorny
ANS:B

14.In which of the following countries the largest fraction of total
electricity supply is atomic energy?
(A)South Korea
(B)France
(C)Hungary
(D)Germany
(E)Japan

ANS:B



15.Which among the following states in India leads in terms
ofinstalled wind Power capacity?
(A)Maharastra
(B)Tamil Nadu
(C)Gujarat
(D)Rajasthan
(E)West Bengal
ANS:B


16.Which of the following global pharma company announced the recall
of 43 over-the-counter medicines intended for infants and children,
affecting the United States and nine other markets world wide? (May 1,
2010)
(A)Parke-Davis
(B)Johnson & Johnson
(C)Pfizer
(D)Smith, Kline & French
(E)Wyeth


ANS:B
17.Where are the headquarters of Indian Patent Office?
(A)Hyderabad
(B)New Delhi
(C)Kolkata
(D)Chennai
(E)Mumbai
ANS:C


18.The Jansankhya Sthirta Kosh also known as National Population
Stabilization Fund has launched a responsible parenthood strategy
which is a monetary incentive scheme aimed to push up the age of
marriage of girls and delay the birth of first child. What name has
been given to this scheme?
(A)Shakti
(B)Prerna
(C)Adamya
(D)Arpita
(E)Chitra
ANS:B


19.as per the data released by Registrar general of India in October
2009, the Infant Mortality Rate in India is 53 per 1000 births.In
which of the following states infant mortality is highest in India?
(A)Rajasthan
(B)Bihar
(C)Uttar Pradesh
(D)Chhattisgarh
(E)Madhya Pradesh
ANS:E


20.With which of the following is most closely related
Rgyud-bzipracticed in many parts of North India?
(A)Medicine
(B)Custom
(C)Agriculture
(D)Business
(E)Sports
ANS:A