1. Which of the following has been replaced by NITI Aayog?
1) Finance Commission
2) National Innovation Council
3) Union Public Service Commission
4) Planning Commission
5) National Integration Council
2. Ahmet Davutoglu is the Prime Minister of which of the following countries?
1) Iran
2) Turkey
3) Syria
4) Lebanon
5) Yemen
3. What is the present repo rate?
1) 8 per cent
2) 7.5 per cent
3) 7.75 per cent
4) 8.5 per cent
5) None
4. Who holds the record for the fastest one day international cricket century?
1) Corey Anderson
2) Shahid Afridi
3) AB de Villiers
4) Brian Lara
5) Rohit Sharma
5. Which committee recommended the segregation of Chairman and Managing Director posts in public sector banks?
1) Parthasarathi Shome
2) Arvind Mayaram
3) Raghuram Rajan
4) C. Rangarajan
5) P.J. Nayak
6. Avinash Chander has been sacked as the Chief of?
1) CRPF
2) ISRO
3) DRDO
4) RAW
5) CISF
7. The 2014 Nobel Literature Prize winner is from?
1) Germany
2) France
3) USA
4) Japan
5) Norway
8. Ryder Cup is associated with?
1) Tennis
2) Squash
3) Motor Racing
4) Golf
5) Boxing
9. Space Application Centre is located in?
1) Ahmadabad
2) Bangalore
3) Chennai
4) Mumbai
5) Sriharikota
10. What is the present Cash Reserve Ratio?
1) 3.5%
2) 3%
3) 4%
4) 4.5%
5) None of these
11. Who has been appointed the Governor of Haryana recently?
1) K.N. Tripathi
2) Ch. Vidyasagar Rao
3) K. Rosaiah
4) Kaptan Singh Solanki
5) Aziz Qureshi
12. Who is the present Solicitor General of India?
1) Mukul Rohatgi
2) Ranjit Kumar
3) Rohinton Nariman
4) Ram Jethmalani
5) None of these
13. World Development Information Day is celebrated on?
1) October 24
2) October 16
3) October 14
4) October 8
5) October 15
14. Who was awarded the top Danish literary prize, the Hans Christian Anderson Award in August 2014?
1) V.S. Naipaul
2) Salman Rushdie
3) Jeet Thayil
4) Amitav Ghosh
5) Anita Desai
15. Who is the present Chief Executive Officer of Google?
1) Eric Schmidt
2) Sergey Brin
3) Larry Page
4) Marissa Mayer
5) Mark Zuckerberg
16. Which city will host the 2018 Commonwealth Games?
1) Melbourne
2) Hamilton
3) London
4) Glasgow
5) Gold Coast
17. In the 17th Asian Games who among the following won a gold medal in Discus Throw?
1) Mary Kom
2) Saketh Myneni
3) Seema Punia
4) Jitu Rai
5) None of these
18. Which of the following cities is known as 'White City'?
1) Damascus
2) Chicago
3) Bangalore
4) Belgrade
5) Washington D.C.
19. Who is the author of the book "The Chronicles of a Corpse Bearer"?
1) Cyrus Mistry
2) Kiran Desai
3) Arundhati Roy
4) Aravind Adiga
5) Jhumpa Lahiri
20. Who won the 2014 US Open tennis men's singles title?
1) Kei Nishikori
2) Novak Djokovic
3) Marin Cilic
4) Rafael Nadal
5) Roger Federer
21. Which of the following is not a public sector bank?
1) Bank of Baroda
2) Bank of Maharashtra
3) Bank of India
4) Dena Bank
5) Karur Vysya Bank
22. Who is the present Chairman of Forward Markets Commission?
1) UK Sinha
2) Rahul Khullar
3) Ranjit Sinha
4) Ramesh Abhishek
5) Yogesh Agarwal
23. Where is the headquarters of European Union?
1) London
2) Lyon
3) Brussels
4) Paris
5) Vienna
24. Who among the following functioned as RBI Governor?
1) Bimal Jalan
2) C. Rangarajan
3) Yashwant Sinha
4) Both 1 and 2
5) All 1, 2 and 3
25. Who was appointed by the International Cricket Council as Ambassador for the 2015 World
Cup?
1) Ricky Ponting
2) Shane Warne
3) Adam Gilchrist
4) Saurav Ganguly
5) Sachin Tendulkar
26. Joko Widodo is the current President of?
1) Malaysia
2) Cuba
3) Indonesia
4) Fiji
5) Thailand
27. Who is the author of the book "The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years"?
1) Pranab Mukherjee
2) Sonia Gandhi
3) Natwar Singh
4) Manmohan Singh
5) Pratibha Patil
28. Eduard Shevardnadze passed away recently. He was the President of?
1) Russia
2) Ukraine
3) Georgia
4) Kazakhstan
5) Tajikistan
29. Who is the Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog?
1) Narendra Modi
2) V.K. Saraswat
3) Arun Jaitley
4) Arvind Panagariya
5) Rajnath Singh
30. Payment banks can be set up with a minimum capital of?
1) Rs. 100 crore
2) Rs. 50 crore
3) Rs. 500 crore
4) Rs. 200 crore
5) Rs. 1000 crore
31. Which country will host the IBSA Summit in 2015?
1) Brazil
2) South Africa
3) India
4) Singapore
5) None of these
32. Nadine Gordimer passed away recently. She was a Nobel Prize winning author from?
1) Israel
2) South Africa
3) Germany
4) Poland
5) Portugal
33. Which is the first Indian company to cross the Rs. 5 lakh crore mark in market capitalization?
1) Infosys
2) Wipro
3) Tata Consultancy Services
4) Tech Mahindra
5) None of these
34. Who won the 2014 Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award?
1) Amjad Ali Khan
2) Gulzar
3) Salim Khan
4) Muzaffar Ali
5) Javed Akhtar
35. Which is the first country to legalize child labor, reducing the minimum age of employment
from 14 years to just 10?
1) Uzbekistan
2) Iraq
3) Belgium
4) Netherlands
5) Bolivia
36. The Human Development Index is calculated by?
1) UNDP
2) ILO
3) UNICEF
4) UNESCO
5) World Bank
37. Which is the best performing State in terms of gross state domestic product (GSDP) and per
capita income growth, as per the 2013-14 Economic Survey?
1) Bihar
2) Gujarat
3) Tamil Nadu
4) Uttar Pradesh
5) West Bengal
38. The first bullet train will be run between Mumbai and?
1) New Delhi
2) Bangalore
3) Jaipur
4) Ahmadabad
5) Chennai
39. Ebola virus affected which of the following countries severely?
1) Guinea
2) Liberia
3) Sierra Leone
4) Both 1 and 2
5) All 1, 2 and 3
40. India's GDP grew at what percent in the first quarter of 2014-15?
1) 4.6%
2) 5.4%
3) 5.3%
4) 5.7%
5) 5.9%
ANSWERS:
1) 4, 2) 2, 3) 3, 4) 3, 5) 5, 6) 3, 7) 2, 8) 4, 9) 1, 10) 3
11) 4 12) 2 13) 1 14) 2 15) 3 16) 5 17) 3 18) 4 19) 1 20) 3
21) 5 22) 4 23) 3 24) 4 25) 5 26) 3 27) 1 28) 3 29) 4 30) 1
31) 3 32) 2 33) 3 34) 4 35) 5 36) 1 37) 1 38) 4 39) 5 40) 4
1) Finance Commission
2) National Innovation Council
3) Union Public Service Commission
4) Planning Commission
5) National Integration Council
2. Ahmet Davutoglu is the Prime Minister of which of the following countries?
1) Iran
2) Turkey
3) Syria
4) Lebanon
5) Yemen
3. What is the present repo rate?
1) 8 per cent
2) 7.5 per cent
3) 7.75 per cent
4) 8.5 per cent
5) None
4. Who holds the record for the fastest one day international cricket century?
1) Corey Anderson
2) Shahid Afridi
3) AB de Villiers
4) Brian Lara
5) Rohit Sharma
5. Which committee recommended the segregation of Chairman and Managing Director posts in public sector banks?
1) Parthasarathi Shome
2) Arvind Mayaram
3) Raghuram Rajan
4) C. Rangarajan
5) P.J. Nayak
6. Avinash Chander has been sacked as the Chief of?
1) CRPF
2) ISRO
3) DRDO
4) RAW
5) CISF
7. The 2014 Nobel Literature Prize winner is from?
1) Germany
2) France
3) USA
4) Japan
5) Norway
8. Ryder Cup is associated with?
1) Tennis
2) Squash
3) Motor Racing
4) Golf
5) Boxing
9. Space Application Centre is located in?
1) Ahmadabad
2) Bangalore
3) Chennai
4) Mumbai
5) Sriharikota
10. What is the present Cash Reserve Ratio?
1) 3.5%
2) 3%
3) 4%
4) 4.5%
5) None of these
11. Who has been appointed the Governor of Haryana recently?
1) K.N. Tripathi
2) Ch. Vidyasagar Rao
3) K. Rosaiah
4) Kaptan Singh Solanki
5) Aziz Qureshi
12. Who is the present Solicitor General of India?
1) Mukul Rohatgi
2) Ranjit Kumar
3) Rohinton Nariman
4) Ram Jethmalani
5) None of these
13. World Development Information Day is celebrated on?
1) October 24
2) October 16
3) October 14
4) October 8
5) October 15
14. Who was awarded the top Danish literary prize, the Hans Christian Anderson Award in August 2014?
1) V.S. Naipaul
2) Salman Rushdie
3) Jeet Thayil
4) Amitav Ghosh
5) Anita Desai
15. Who is the present Chief Executive Officer of Google?
1) Eric Schmidt
2) Sergey Brin
3) Larry Page
4) Marissa Mayer
5) Mark Zuckerberg
16. Which city will host the 2018 Commonwealth Games?
1) Melbourne
2) Hamilton
3) London
4) Glasgow
5) Gold Coast
17. In the 17th Asian Games who among the following won a gold medal in Discus Throw?
1) Mary Kom
2) Saketh Myneni
3) Seema Punia
4) Jitu Rai
5) None of these
18. Which of the following cities is known as 'White City'?
1) Damascus
2) Chicago
3) Bangalore
4) Belgrade
5) Washington D.C.
19. Who is the author of the book "The Chronicles of a Corpse Bearer"?
1) Cyrus Mistry
2) Kiran Desai
3) Arundhati Roy
4) Aravind Adiga
5) Jhumpa Lahiri
20. Who won the 2014 US Open tennis men's singles title?
1) Kei Nishikori
2) Novak Djokovic
3) Marin Cilic
4) Rafael Nadal
5) Roger Federer
21. Which of the following is not a public sector bank?
1) Bank of Baroda
2) Bank of Maharashtra
3) Bank of India
4) Dena Bank
5) Karur Vysya Bank
22. Who is the present Chairman of Forward Markets Commission?
1) UK Sinha
2) Rahul Khullar
3) Ranjit Sinha
4) Ramesh Abhishek
5) Yogesh Agarwal
23. Where is the headquarters of European Union?
1) London
2) Lyon
3) Brussels
4) Paris
5) Vienna
24. Who among the following functioned as RBI Governor?
1) Bimal Jalan
2) C. Rangarajan
3) Yashwant Sinha
4) Both 1 and 2
5) All 1, 2 and 3
25. Who was appointed by the International Cricket Council as Ambassador for the 2015 World
Cup?
1) Ricky Ponting
2) Shane Warne
3) Adam Gilchrist
4) Saurav Ganguly
5) Sachin Tendulkar
26. Joko Widodo is the current President of?
1) Malaysia
2) Cuba
3) Indonesia
4) Fiji
5) Thailand
27. Who is the author of the book "The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years"?
1) Pranab Mukherjee
2) Sonia Gandhi
3) Natwar Singh
4) Manmohan Singh
5) Pratibha Patil
28. Eduard Shevardnadze passed away recently. He was the President of?
1) Russia
2) Ukraine
3) Georgia
4) Kazakhstan
5) Tajikistan
29. Who is the Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog?
1) Narendra Modi
2) V.K. Saraswat
3) Arun Jaitley
4) Arvind Panagariya
5) Rajnath Singh
30. Payment banks can be set up with a minimum capital of?
1) Rs. 100 crore
2) Rs. 50 crore
3) Rs. 500 crore
4) Rs. 200 crore
5) Rs. 1000 crore
31. Which country will host the IBSA Summit in 2015?
1) Brazil
2) South Africa
3) India
4) Singapore
5) None of these
32. Nadine Gordimer passed away recently. She was a Nobel Prize winning author from?
1) Israel
2) South Africa
3) Germany
4) Poland
5) Portugal
33. Which is the first Indian company to cross the Rs. 5 lakh crore mark in market capitalization?
1) Infosys
2) Wipro
3) Tata Consultancy Services
4) Tech Mahindra
5) None of these
34. Who won the 2014 Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award?
1) Amjad Ali Khan
2) Gulzar
3) Salim Khan
4) Muzaffar Ali
5) Javed Akhtar
35. Which is the first country to legalize child labor, reducing the minimum age of employment
from 14 years to just 10?
1) Uzbekistan
2) Iraq
3) Belgium
4) Netherlands
5) Bolivia
36. The Human Development Index is calculated by?
1) UNDP
2) ILO
3) UNICEF
4) UNESCO
5) World Bank
37. Which is the best performing State in terms of gross state domestic product (GSDP) and per
capita income growth, as per the 2013-14 Economic Survey?
1) Bihar
2) Gujarat
3) Tamil Nadu
4) Uttar Pradesh
5) West Bengal
38. The first bullet train will be run between Mumbai and?
1) New Delhi
2) Bangalore
3) Jaipur
4) Ahmadabad
5) Chennai
39. Ebola virus affected which of the following countries severely?
1) Guinea
2) Liberia
3) Sierra Leone
4) Both 1 and 2
5) All 1, 2 and 3
40. India's GDP grew at what percent in the first quarter of 2014-15?
1) 4.6%
2) 5.4%
3) 5.3%
4) 5.7%
5) 5.9%
ANSWERS:
1) 4, 2) 2, 3) 3, 4) 3, 5) 5, 6) 3, 7) 2, 8) 4, 9) 1, 10) 3
11) 4 12) 2 13) 1 14) 2 15) 3 16) 5 17) 3 18) 4 19) 1 20) 3
21) 5 22) 4 23) 3 24) 4 25) 5 26) 3 27) 1 28) 3 29) 4 30) 1
31) 3 32) 2 33) 3 34) 4 35) 5 36) 1 37) 1 38) 4 39) 5 40) 4
