Sunday, October 28, 2012

GK Quiz

1. Which Indian female shuttler gave India its first-ever medal in Olympic Games badminton?
(1) Saina Nehwal           (2) Jwala Gutta (3) Parupalli Kashyap 

(4) Aditi Mutatkar
  (5) None of these 

2.
What is the current number of notified Eco-Sensitive Zones in India?
(1) 12 (2) 15 (3) 17 (4) 21 (5) 26

3.
Which of the following bank won the prestigious Asian Banker Achievement Award 2012 for being the strongest bank in Asia-Pacific region?
(1) ICICI Bank         (2) State Bank of India (3) HSBC Bank 

(4) HDFC Bank (5) None of these

4. From the given options, bring out the one which is not a function/power of Reserve Bank of India?
(1) To assume the responsibility of meeting directly or indirectly all reasonable demands for accommodation,

(2) To hold cash reserves of the commercial banks and make available financial accommodation to them

(3) To enjoy monopoly of the note issue 

(4) To assume responsibility of all banking operations of the government

(5) To assume the responsibility of statistical analysis of data related to macro economy of India

5
. Many a times we read in the newspapers that RBI takes certain steps to curb the menace of Inflation. In this context, which among the following will not help RBI in controlling the inflation in the country?
(1) An increase in the Bank Rate         (2) An increase in the Reserve Ratio Requirements

(3) A purchase of securities in the open market (4) Rationing of the credit

(5) Increasing the Repo Rate

6.
Which of the following states have the highest and lowest per capita consumption of electricity in the country?
(1) Goa & Bihar (2) Gujarat & Orissa    (3) Assam & Tamil Nadu

(4) Chhattisgarh & Karnataka (5) Jharkhand & Maharashtra

7.
Where is the headquarters of IRDA, which is the regulatory authority for all insurance companies in India, including the Life Insurance Corporation of India?
(1) Hyderabad (2) Bangalore          (3) Mumbai

(4) Delhi         (5) Chandigarh

8. In which of the following places the annual summit of G-8 was held on May 18-19 this year?

(1) St Petersburg (2) Camp David (3) Montreal

(4) Paris         (5) London

9.
Which state of India has launched ‘Anandadhara’ under the aegis of the National Rural Livelihood Mission to increase the subsidy from 20 per cent to 30 per cent to self-help groups (SHGs)?
(1) Andhra Pradesh (2) Maharashtra (3) Rajasthan

(4) Bihar         (5) West Bengal

10.
Which of the two actors are coming together to act as brand ambassadors to fight open defecation, propagate sanitation and appeal to the people across the country to get clean?
(1) Priyanka Chopra & Aamir Khan         (2) Kareena Kapoor & Saif Ali Khan

(3) Amitabh Bachan & Aishwarya Rai (4) Vidya Balan & Shah Rukh Khan

(5) Salman Khan & Katrina Kaif



ANSWERS
:  1. (1)    2. (4)     3. (2)    4. (5)     5. (3)     6. (1)    7. (1)     8.(2)      9. (5)     10. (4)

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