Sunday, July 31, 2011

Quiz 49 | Current Affairs for All Exams

1.Who has been named as the honorary ambassador for the 2014 World Cup to be held in Brazil?

A. Pele
B. Jaime Nualart
C. Hermine Poppeller



2.As per this report , what fraction of the opinion says that Politicians are most corrupt in India?

A. 58%
B. 43%
C. 21%



3.President Pratibha patil recently said that Govt. would consolidate its flagship National Rural Health Mission programme and revive vaccine producing units in the public sector to support the immunization programme. In which year NRHM was launched?

A. 2002
B. 2005
C. 2007



4.The India-France deal for civil nuclear corporation, which came into force in January 2010, had been signed between the two countries in

A. September 2008
B. October 2008
C. November 2008



5.As of March 2008, how many state owned companies in India were Loss making enterprises?

A. 45
B. 54
C. 62



6.Name the social activist who was on 7 April 2011 announced the winner of the 2011 Rabindranath Tagore Peace Prize by the Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM).

A. Anna Hazare
B. Medha Patkar
C. Prakash Pohare
D. Mirai Chatterjee



7.S.C. Chetal took over as Director of which of the following bodies in India on 29 April 2011?

A. Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
B. Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR) Center
C. Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
D. BARC Training School



8.India successfully test fired indigenously developed air-to-air interceptor missile with an 80 km range from Chandipur in Orissa first on 20 May and then again on 21 May 2011. The missile is one of the smallest missiles developed by the DRDO in terms of s

A. Astra
B. Prithvi Air Defence (PAD)
C. Advanced Air Defense Missile
D. Dhanush



9.For the fiscal 2009-10, with Centres net tax revenue estimated at Rs 5,00,096 crore and Revenue expenditure at Rs 8,48,085 crore. What fraction of the GDP is revenue deficit & fiscal deficit respectively ?

A. 4% & 4.5%
B. 4% & 5.5 %
C. 5.5% & 4%



10.The percentage upto which FDI in defence sector is allowed is—

A. 27 per cent
B. 26 per cent
C. 30 per cent
D. 35 per cent



11.India's exports fell for the ninth month in a row in June 2009 , by what fraction?

A. 21.5 %
B. 27.7 %
C. 29.3 %



12.Five top United Nations officials have urged world leaders to 'seal the deal' at Copenhagen Convention in December 2009 . This convention will be around the issue of ________?

A. Nuclear non proliferation
B. Climate Change
C. Terrorism



13.Which of the following public sector banks will complete 100 years of its establishment on December 21, 2011?

A. Axis Bank
B. Central Bank of India
C. State bank
D. UCO Bank



14.What is the height of Burj Dubai which is officially opening on January 4?

A. 620.5 meters
B. 658 meters
C. 718 meters
D. 818 meters



15.Name the country that tops the Human Development Index (HDI) in the Human Development Report 2010.

A. Norway
B. United States
C. Australia
D. New Zealand



16.Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change has approved in principle the National Mission on Enhanced Energy Efficiency which targets—

A. 10 per cent energy saving by 2012
B. 5 per cent energy saving by 2015
C. 9 per cent energy saving by 2012
D. None of the above



17.The Parliament of Bangladesh passed the bill to scrap the system of caretaker government holding general elections. What is the name of the bill?

A. The Constitution (15th Amendment) Bill, 2011
B. The Constitution (14th Amendment) Bill, 2011
C. The Constitution (15th Amendment) Bill, 2010
D. The Constitution (13th Amendment) Bill, 2011



18.Based on the recommendations of the Board for Restructuring of Public Sector Enterprises, the government has approved revival or restructuring of how many PSUs recently ?

A. 10
B. 15
C. 20



19.Name the person who took over as the fourth deputy governor of Reserve Bank of India recently.

A. S. Venkitaramanan
B. Amitav Ghosh
C. Anand Sinha
D. Rakesh Malhotra



20.Delhi University has conferred an honorary doctorate degree for the first time on a film personality. Who is that film personality ?

A. Dileep Kumar
B. Amitabh Bachchan
C. Shabana Azmi
D. Dev Anand



21.‘BANCON’ is the Annual Summit of banking sector. Which company sponsored the December 2010 summit that was organised in Mumbai?

A. Axis Bank
B. ICICI Bank
C. Central Bank of India
D. State Bank Of India



22.According to data from an international organisation India’s growth in 2010 was 10.4% higher than that of China which recorded a growth of 10.3%. Name the organisation.

A. International Monetary Fund
B. World Bank
C. Asian Development Bank
D. World Trade organisation



23.Record food grain production helped to reduce to food inflation to a four month low for the week ending 26 March 2011. What was the inflation percentage for the week?

A. 9.18%
B. 9.25%
C. 9.21%
D. 9.36%



24.Commonwealth Games 2014 will be held at

A. London
B. Rio de Janerio
C. Melbourne
D. Glasgow



25.Who among the following will host 5th CISM World Military games 2011?

A. Russia
B. China
C. Italy
D. Brazil

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