GK Quiz

Ques. : 1   In which Satya Sorab Bhabha, son of noted Harvard scholar Homi K Bhbha has played the role of the character Saleem Sinai?
1) Maqbool 2) English August 3) Midnight’s Children 4) Satanic Verses 5) LSD
Ques. : 2   Name the chairman of the committee constituted to recommend measures for boosting entrepreneurship in India, the report of which has recently been submitted to the government?
1) Saurabh Srivastava 2) Sunil Mitra 3) Harsh Vardhan 4) Aditya Birla 5) Sunil Mittal

Ques. : 3   Which of the following foreign company has come under cloud for avoiding tax to India under the General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR) proposed by the Union government under the Direct Tax Code (DTC)?
1) Vodafone Essar 2) Pfizer 3) Pepsico 4) Microsoft 5) Wal-Mart

Ques. : 4   In which state a crackdown on female foeticide recently triggered a severe shortage of medicines used to terminate unwanted pregnancies?
1) Delhi 2) Maharashtra 3) Karnataka 4) Haryana 5) Punjab

Ques. : 5   Which herbicide and defoliant was sprayed by the American forces in the Vietnam War, which caused widespread cases of cancer, birth defects and other diseases?
1) Methyl Isocyanide 2) Athrax 3) Sarin 4) Agent Orange 5) Endosulfan

Ques. : 6   In order to protect which endangered bird, the Environment Ministry has recently refused to clear a critical Ministry of Defence (MoD) project to install a surveillance radar along the coastline in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands?
1) Black buck 2) Great Indian bustard 3) Cuckoo 4) Hornbill 5) Hill Myna

Ques. : 7   Government-owned natural gas major, GAIL (India) Ltd, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Uttar Pradesh State Industrial Development Corporation (UPSIDC) to help develop a ‘plastic park’ at which of the following places?
1) Eta 2) Mainpuri 3) Hapur 4) Banda 5) Auraiya

Ques. : 8   Which of the following telecom player of India has planned to improve revenues by tapping rent from spare real estate and by monetising its land bank and declared that it will not be participating in the 2G spectrum allocation?
1) Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd 2) Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd 3) Tata Telecom  
4) Bharti Airtel 5) IDEA Cellular

Ques. : 9   Which country has recently finally lifted the terrorist tag from the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists), six years after Maoists entered open politics and signed a peace treaty?
1) US 2) Britain 3) India 4) France 5) Germany

Ques. : 10   In which country a fire at the country’s biggest oil refinery killed at least 42 people, injured almost 100 and destroyed or severely damaged more than 200 houses?
1) South Africa 2) New Zealand 3) Venezuela 4) Peru 5) Madagascar

Answer

Q	A	Q	A
1	3	6	4
2	2	7	5
3	1	8	2
4	2	9	1
5	4	10	3