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GENERAL AWARENESS
1. Who won the Scripps National Spelling Bee competition for 2013, becoming the sixth IndianAmerican to win the title in a row?
2) Pranav Shivshankar

4) Chetan Reddy

5) Vismaya Kharkar

3) Sriram Hathwar

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1) Arvind Mahankali

2. What is India's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate for the entire 2012-13? (It is the
lowest in the last decade)
1) 6 per cent

2) 5 per cent

3) 6.2 per cent

4) 5.5 per cent

5) 6.5 per cent

3. Salwa Judum is a civilian outfit aimed at countering Naxalite violence in Chhattisgarh. Its
founder was killed in a Maoist ambush on May 25, 2013. Name him?
1) Kawasi Lakhma

2) Nandkumar Patel

4) Uday Mudaliar

5) None of these

3) Mahendra Karma

4. The Vice President Hamid Ansari visited Uzbekistan in May 2013 and met its President in
Tashkent. Name him?
1) Iligzar Sobirov

2) E.Ganiev

4) Islam Karimov

5) None

3) D. Tashmukhamedova

5. Mumbai Indians won the Pepsi Indian Premier League-VI defeating Chennai Super Kings in
the final in Eden Gardens, Kolkata on May 26, 2013. Who is the captain of Mumbai Indians
cricket team?

1) Dinesh Karthik

2) Harbhajan Singh

3) Sachin Tendulkar

4) Kieron Pollard 5) Rohit Sharma

6. Who won the prestigious National Geographic Bee contest in Washington in May 2013?
1) Conrad Oberhaus

2) Sathwik Karnik

4) Akhil Rekulapelli

5) None

3) Ricky Uppaluri

7. What is the GDP growth for the fourth quarter (January-March) of the last financial year i.e.
2012-13?
1) 5.5 per cent

2) 5.3 per cent

4) 4.8 per cent

5) None of these
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3) 4.7 per cent

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8. The Champions League is an annual continental club football competition for the top football
clubs in Europe. Which team won the UEFA Champions League title in London?
1) Bayern Munich

2) Borussia Dortmund

4) Liver Pool

5) Barcelona

3) Real Madrid

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9. Which country will host the 2019 cricket world cup?

1) Australia

2) England

4) South Africa

5) New Zealand

3) Bangladesh

10. Arjen Robben excelled in which of the following sports?

1) Hockey

2) Lawn Tennis

3) Football

4) Basketball

5) Squash

11. Which one of the following rates is not determined by the Reserve Bank of India?
1) CRR

2) SLR

4) Prime Lending Rate

5) Reverse Repo Rate

3) Repo Rate

12. The headquarters of SAARC is in?

1) Dhaka

2) Kathmandu

3) Colombo

4) New Delhi

5) Islamabad

13. Open Market Operations are carried out by?

1) Planning Commission

2) Reserve Bank of India

3) Finance Ministry

4) External Affairs Ministry 5) Ministry of Commerce

14. Under provisions of which of the following Acts, the RBI has the power to supervise and
control the banking sector?
1) RBI Act

2) Banking Regulation Act

4) Coinage Act

5) NI Act

3) Essential Commodities Act

15. Teaser loans are offered by banks for which one of the following loan products?
1) Education loans

2) Retail trade loans

3) Home loans

4) Loans against security of gold

5) None of these

16. Which one of the following provides long term financial assistance to various viable infrastructure projects in India?
1) RBI

2) IDBI

3) SBI

4) IIFCL

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5) SIDBI

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17. Kaveri is India's?

1) Cheapest tablet personal computer

2) Air to air missile

3) Indigenous aircraft engine

4) Surface to air missile

5) Unmanned aircraft

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18. Julian Assange is the founder of?

1) Google

2) Rediffmail

3) Yahoo!

4) Wikipedia

5) WikiLeaks

19. Sariska Tiger Reserve is located in the state of?

1) Orissa

2) Gujarat

4) Madhya Pradesh

5) Rajasthan

3) Uttar Pradesh

20. Biometric security is based on which of the following characteristics?

1) Finger print

2) Face recognition

4) Iris recognition

5) All the above

3) Palm print

21. Major producer of spices is?

1) Gujarat

2) Kerala

3) Tamil Nadu

4) Karnataka

5) Assam

22. What is the full form of CDMA?

1) Code Division Multiple Access

2) Calculated Division of Many Applications

3) Computer Divided Multiple Access

4) Code Diversified Memory Applications

5) None of these

23. Which of the following is a financial asset?

1) Gold

2) Silver

4) Shares in a Demat account

5) None

3) Land

24. Zero balance account is generally allowed to be opened for?

1) Children

2) Salaried persons

4) Foreign customers

5) Senior citizens

3) Business people

25. Loan against the security of immovable property is by executing an agreement of?
1) Pledge

2) Transfer

3) Mortgage

4) Assignment

26. Abbreviations and their full forms are given. Find the wrong one?
1) RTGS---Real Time Gross Settlement
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5) None of these

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2) TRAI---Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

3) IFRS--- International Financial Reporting Standards
4) ASBA---Amount Saved and Balance in Account
5) CBS---Core Banking Solution

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27. Which of the following banks has been merged with ICICI Bank?
1) Global Trust Bank

2) Bank of Rajasthan

4) State Bank of Indore

5) None of these

3) State Bank of Saurashtra

28. The expenses of the Government of India are highest on which of the following 'head of
expenses'?

1) Food subsidy

2) Fertilizer subsidy

4) Bharat Nirman

5) None of these

3) Oil subsidy

29. Centurion Bank of Punjab and Times Bank have been taken over by?
1) ICICI Bank

2) IDBI Bank

4) Axis Bank

5) Yes Bank

3) HDFC Bank

30. Which of the following statements is not correct?

1) Credit rating is used to rate the borrowers while giving advances

2) Ten Rupee notes contain the signature of RBI Governor

3) Bangladesh is considered the originator of microfinance

4) In a saving bank deposit account the deposits are made only once in a year
5) Yuan is the currency of China

KEY

1) 1;

2) 2;

3) 3;

4) 4;

5)5;

6) 2;

7) 4;

8) 1;

9) 2;

10)3;

11) 4;

12) 2;

13) 2;

14) 2;

15)3;

16) 4;

17) 3;

18) 5;

19) 5;

20)5;

21) 2;

22) 1;

23) 4;

24) 2;

25)3;

26) 4;

27) 2;

28) 1;

29) 3;

30)4;

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