Business & Economy | Current Affairs

1. The recent G20 Summit was held at:
a. Canberra
b. Cancun
c. Cannes
d. Copenhagen

2. The annual Bankers' Conference (BANCON) was recently held at:
a. New Delhi
b. Bengaluru
c. Chennai
d. Mumbai

3. Who has taken over as the new Chairman and Managing Director of Punjab & Sind Bank?
a. PS Sharma
b. Dharmendra Chopra
c. Rajinder singh Kapoor
d. Devinder Pal Singh

4. Which Planning Commission Member suggested that the government levy customs duty on import of Chinese power equipment?
a. Dr K Kasturiranagan
b. Dr Mihir Shah
c. Arun Maira
d. Prof. Abhijit Sen

5. The 17th SAARC summit was held in which country?
a. Maldives
b. Afghanistan
c. Nepal
d. Bangladesh

6. The Rubber Board, under the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry, has offered to set up a model plantation-cum-training center for growers in:
a. Kerala
b. Karnataka
c. Tamil Nadu
d. Meghalaya

7. Which former Chief Justice of India is the current head of the television news media's self-regulatory mechanism?
a. JS Verma
b. AS Anand
c. BN Kripal
d. VN Khare

8. Which company has emerged as the lowest bidder for the Tamil Nadu Government's laptop scheme, under which nine lakh students of government and state-aided colleges and high schools would be given free laptops?
a. Acer
b. HCL Infosystems
c. Lenovo
d. Wipro

9. In which city will Auto Expo will be held in January 2012?
a. Mumbai
b. Pune
c. Ahmedabad
d. Delhi

10. Which of the following companies has a huge plant for producing wheel rims with a capacity of 15 million units in Gujarat, making it the largest single location plant in Asia?
a. Steel Strips Wheels Ltd
b. Mandap Rim
c. Lemmerz
d. AMW

11. In an attempt to provide a level playing field to domestic players and to check cheap imports of Chinese power equipment, what rate of customs duty has been announced?
a. 10%
b. 14%
c. 18%
d. 22%

12. Who is the chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) investigating the 2G scam?
a. Murli Manohar Joshi
b. Shivraj Patil
c. Yaswant Sinha
d. PC Chako

13. Samsung Electronics, which recently unveiled three new touch-screen handsets in the Indian smartphone market, is originally from which country?
a. Norway
b. Sweden
c. South Korea
d. Taiwan

14. The Tilaiya Ultra Mega Power Project, under construction by Reliance Power, is situated in which of the following states?
a. Gujarat
b. Madhya Pradesh
c. Chhattisgarh
d. Jharkhand

15. According to a leading private international carrier, Virgin Atlantic, which country will soon be producing a world-first low-carbon aviation fuel that has just half the carbon footprint of the standard fossil fuel variant?
a. China
b. Brazil
c. South Africa
d. India

16. Windows Phone 7.5, which is also known as Mango, has recently been launched in India by:
a. Acer
b. Microsoft
c. Nokia
d. Samsung

17. Investment in a project that lacks any constraints imposed by prior work, or in a project to be constructed on land where there is no need to remodel or demolish an existing structure, is known as:
a. Yellowfield investment
b. Greyfield investment
c. Brownfield investment
d. Greenfield investment

18. The world's cheapest tablet PC, Aakash, is being manufactured in Medchal, Hyderabad, by which company?
a. HCL
b. QUAD Electronic Solutions
c. QWERTY Electronics
d. Acer

19. Who has been appointed as Nokia’s head for India, the Middle East, and Africa?
a. Jagdeep Singh
b. Anupam Sharma
c. D Shivakumar
d. Prashanti Singh

20. Sudhir Vasudeva has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of:
a. Oil and Natural Gas Corpo ration
b. Gas Authority of India Limited
c. Oil India Limited
d. Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited

21. Dassault Systemes recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly promote and market its products in various sectors, with:
a. Reliance Power
b. Tata
c. Ruia Group
d. Punj Lloyd Engineering

22. The Ministry of Power has launched Bachat Lamp Yojana with which of the following institutions?
a. The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI)
b. Ministry of New and re newable energy
c. Ministry of Environment and Forests
d. Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE)

23. Headquarters of Daiichi Sankyo, the parent company of Ranbaxy Laboratories, is located in:
a. Italy
b. Spain
c. Japan
d. Singapore

24. Etios and its hatchback version, Etios Liva, are products of:
a. Mahindra Renault
b. General Motors
c. Ford Motors
d. Toyota Kirloskar Motors

25. Indian-origin business tycoon Pankaj Oswal was recently in the news in Australia for:
a. Political activities
b. Corporate fraud
c. Scientific research
d. Social services

26. Skoda Auto India has begun production of its entry-level sedan, Skoda Rapid, at its plant situated at:
a. Sannd
b. Chakan
c. Surajpur (Noida)
d. Nagpur

27. Real estate company Raheja Developers recently inked a contract with Arabtec Construction Company, which is based in:
a. Abu Dhabi
b. Saudi Arabia
c. Oman
d. Dubai

28. FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp, has launched its FedEx Economy intra-India
service. This is in the field of:
a. Telecommunication
b. Foreign trade
c. Transport
d. Highway construction

29. Which of the following statements about World Trade Organisation (WTO) are true?
a. This WTO deals with the rules of trade between the nations of the world.
b. The core functions of WTO includes resolving trade disputes, administering WTO trade agreements, monitoring national trade policies, and providing a forum for trade negotiations.
c. Established after the re placement of GATT in 1994, this organisation is headquartered at New York and is headed by its Director General Pascal Lamy.
d. All of the above 30. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about the World Bank? a. It is the main source of technical and financial assistance to the developing nations of the world.
b. It comprises of two development-based institutions: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), and the International Development Association (IDA)
c. The IBRD focuses on the poorest countries of the world, whereas the IDA focuses on the middle income and poor countries that are creditworthy in nature.
d. The affiliates of the World Bank are: The International Finance Corporation, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)

Current Affairs

1. Who bagged the Hindu Literary Prize for Best Fiction 2011?
a. Hritesh Amani
b. Rohit Brijnath
c. Rahul Bhattacharya
d. Vipul Shastry

2. The Victoria & Albert Museum recently showcased 100 Kalighat paintings in which of the following cities?
a. Paris
b. London
c. New Delhi
d. Kolkata

3. The movie Chaplin has been selected as the inaugural film of the River to River Florence Indian Film Festival 2011, in Florence, Italy. It is originally in which of the following languages?
a. Hindi
b. Telugu
c. Tamil
d. Bengali

4. Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma was re-appointed to the post for four more years at a meeting of the Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM). This is his _____ tenure.
a. Second
b. Third
c. Fourth
d. None of the above

5. Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas (PBD) will be organised as a grand annual diaspora conclave from 7 to 9 January in the coming year at which of the following places?
a. Bengaluru
b. Hyderabad
c. Jaipur
d. New Delhi

6. Mullaperiyar Dam is a bone of contention between which of the following states?
a. Kerala and Karnataka
b. Tamil Nadu and Karnataka
c. Kerala and Tamil Nadu
d. Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh

7. According to a recent survey, which among the following Indian cities ranks first in the number of suicides?
a. Rajkot
b. Bangalore
c. Vijayawada
d. Jabalpur

8. A new virus that causes high fever and shortness of breath and other symptoms akin to Dengue fever was detected in at Yashoda Hospital in Hyderabad. The name of this virus is:
a. Ranta Virus
b. Hanta Virus
c. Lanta Virus
d. Roda Virus

9. Rag Darbari, considered a masterpiece of Hindi literature, was written by:
a. Amar Kant
b. Kunwar Narayan
c. Nirmal Verma
d. Sri Lal Shukla

10. The Hay Festival, one of the biggest events in the world, will be held in India in November 2011. It belongs to which of the following fields?
a. Sports
b. Literature
c. Fashion
d. Painting

11. The world-renowned Bolshoi theatre is reopening after reconstruction that took six years to complete and has become the most expensive theatre renovation project ever. It is situated in which of the following countries?
a. Canada
b. Germany
c. Uruguay
d. Russia

12. Who among the following has agreed to finance the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor by signing a $975 million loan agreement with the Ministry of Finance and Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited (DFCCIL)?
a. Japan Bank
b. Canada Bank
c. World Bank
d. Asian Development Bank

13. Who among the following became the first female Chief Executive Officer in IBM's 100-year history?
a. Ginni Rometty
b. Martha Lopej
c. Dilma Bufort
d. Kim Perg

14. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), an American organisation, wrote to which of the following state’s Chief Ministers, urging the government to stop work on a new marine park?
a. Maharashtra
b. Madhya Pradesh
c. Orissa
d. Gujarat

15. Young Lives, an international body engaged in the study of childhood poverty in India, belongs to which of the following countries?
a. United States
b. United Kingdom
c. Germany
d. Sweden

16. Rohit Brijnath, a famous journalist, belongs to which of the following fields?
a. English Literature
b. Science and Technology
c. Sports
d. Rural Development

17. Telecom equipment maker Ericsson said that it would sell its 50% stake in mobile phone joint venture Sony Ericsson to Sony. Ericsson belongs to which of the following countries?
a. Sweden
b. United States
c. Japan
d. Germany

18. After Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Amitabh Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, which of the following Bollywood actresses now has her statue at Madame Tussauds Museum in London?
a. Madhuri Dixit
b. Katrina Kaif
c. Priyanka Chopra
d. Kareena Kapoor

19. The world's biggest, heaviest, and most valuable gold coin was recently unveiled by which country?
a. Germany
b. United States
c. United Kingdom
d. Australia

20. Efforts are being made to increase the speed of the Brahmos-II hypersonic missile by increasing its speed from Mach 3 to:
a. Mach 4
b. Mach 5
c. Mach 6
d. Mach 7

21. The longest tunnel in India at the Kashmir rail link project that connects Banihal town with Qazigund in south Kashmir, passes underneath which one of the following mountain ranges?
a. Karakoram
b. Jaskar
c. Leh
d. Pir Panjal

22. The third Indian Youth Science Congress has to be held from 3 to 5 November, at which one of these cities?
a. New Delhi
b. Karnal
c. Meerut
d. Gandhinagar

23. Roger Spottiswoode, best known for the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, is working on a movie on which among the following Indian legends?
a. C Venkatraman
b. M Vishweshwaraiya
c. S Ramanujan
d. HJ Bhabha

24. According to the Union Government’s Slums in India - A statistical compendium 2011, which one of the following cities has the highest proportion of slum children?
a. Delhi
b. Chandigarh
c. Mumbai
d. Bangalore

25. A Murti Sthapna (statue installation) function was recently performed at the Shri Chander Chinar temple, Srinagar (J&K) after a gap of over two decades. The temple belongs to which one of the following communities/religions?
a. Hindu
b. Buddhist
c. Jain
d. Animist tribes

26. John Agyekum Kufuor, the former president of Ghana, was recently awarded with which one of the following prizes?
a. Green Earth Prize - 2011
b. World Food Prize - 2011
c. Environment Preservation Prize - 2011
d. World Peace Prize - 2011

27. Football coach Steve Darby recently resigned from his post. He belonged to which one of these teams?
a. Churchill Brothers
b. Mahindra and Mahindra
c. Mohun Bagan
d. East Bengal

28. The AP Transco bagged the restigious ‘5th Enertia National Best-Performing State Power Utility’ award for the second consecutive term thanks to its excellent performance in:
a. Increasing nuclear power generation
b. Increasing hydroelectric power generation
c. Carrying electrification in far-flung rural areas
d. Reducing transmission and distribution losses

29. The Balika Bachao Compaign has been launched by which of these bodies:
a. Government of India
b. National Women Commission
c. Indian Medical Association
d. National Human Rights Commission

30. A conference on Wood Science, involving delegates from Japan, Indonesia, China, Turkey, Cameroon and India, , was held in which one of the countries in October 2011?
a. India
b. Turkey
c. Indonesia
d. Cameroon

31. Shri Lal Shukla and another Hindi author were honoured with the country's highest literary award, the Jnanpeeth, in 2009. Who among the following is the other author?
a. Kamleshwar
b. Giriraj Kishor
c. Kunwar Narayan
d. Amar Kant

32. Shahida Shabnam from Kupwara in Kashmir, who brought the anguish of women in the Valley under the spotlight through her work, was recently honoured with which award?
a. Sahitya Academy Award
b. Sanskriti Award
c. Vyas Award
d. Kabir Award