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1. Which of the following is considered as a non-conventional source of energy? (a) Coal (b) Hydroelectricity (c) Natural gas (d) Wind power Who among the following is the director of the film Devddas? (a) Subhash Ghai (b) Ramesh Sippy (c) Shekhar Kapoor (d) Sanjay Leela Bhansali The smallest country in South America is: (a) Ecuador (b) Guyana (c) Surinam (d) Uruguay Which country is known as the Land of thousand lakes? (a) Norway (b) Finland (c) Canada (d) Uruguay The WTO came into existence in: (a) January, 1995 (b) January, 1996 (c) January, 1997 (d) January, 1990

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Who became the new Chief Minister of Jharkhand overtaking the NDA government in September, 2006? (a) Arjun Munda (b) Enos Ekka (c) Madhu Koda (d) Kamlesh Singh Which of the following nations is not an ASEAN member? (a) Cambodia (b) Brunei (c) Pakistan (d) Laos Insurance sector is regularted by (a) RBI (c) IRDA

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Which of the following Chief Justices of Pakistan was sacked in March, 2007 on charges of misconduct and misuse of authority? (a) Mohammed Aslam Khan (b) Javed Iqbal (c) Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhary (d) S. Obedulla Azmi According to the figures released by Planning Commission which state is the poorest? (a) Assam (b) Bihar (c) Punjab (d) Orissa In India growth of general insurance in the year 2007-08 was: (a) 5 per cent to 6 per cent (b) 12 per cent to 13 per cent (c) 18 per cent to 19 per cent (d) 23 per cent to 24 per cent India has successfully tested the Agni-3 missile in April 2007. What is its penetrating capacity? (a) 1000 kms (b) 2000 kms (c) 2500 kms (d) 3000 kms The Ajanta caves were built during the period of (a) Guptas (b) Kushans (c) Mauryas (d) Chalukyas

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14. At which place did Gandhiji make salt during freedom struggle? (a) Sevagram (b) Wardha (c) Dandi (d) Sabarmati The much discussed Tehri Dam Project is located in which of the following States? (a) Madhya Pradesh (b) Rajasthan (c) Haryana (d) Uttarakhand The longest National Highway in India runs from (a) Kolkata to Jammu (b) Jammu to Kanyakumari (c) Ambala to Nagarkoil (d) Varanasi to Kanyakumari Disinvestment means selling the shares of the Public Sector units to the: (a) Workers or other companies (Public or Private) (b) Workers only (c) MNCs only (d) Private sector only

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Private Insurance Companies in India account for what share of the total insurance business in India in the year 2007-2008? (a) 4% (b) 8% (c) 15% (d) 60% Inflation is caused by (a) increase in money supply (c) decrease in production

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For taking Life Insurance Policy one can go to: (a) Oriental Insurance Co. (b) New India Insurance Co. (c) ICICI Lombard General Insurance Co. (d) None of these Vitamin A is abundantly found in (a) Brinjal (b) Tomato (c) Carrot (d) Cabbage Name the instrument with the help of which a sailor in a submarine can see the objects on the surface of the sea (a) Telescope (b) Periscope (c) Gyroscope (d) Stereoscope Whose teachings inspired the French Revolution? (a) Locke (b) Rousseau (c) Hegel (d) Plato (e) None of these A money bill passed by the Lok Sabha is deemed to have been passed by the Rajya Sabha also when no action is taken by the Upper House within: (a) 10 days (b) 14 days (c) 20 days (d) 30 days (e) None of these

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Which one of the following metals pollutes the air of a city having large number of automobiles? (a) Cadmium (b) Chromium (c) Lead (d) Copper (e) None of these The following are the examples of insurable interests (a) Husband and wife have a insurable interest in each other life (b) A sister has an automatic insurable interest in the life of her brother (c) Both (a) and (b) (d) All of the above (e) None of these The facts that must be declared are (a) Facts of common knowledge (b) Facts of law (c) Facts which lessen the risk (d) The existence of other life insurance policies (e) None of these Japans Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda reorganized an August 1, 2008 retaining only four of the 17 ministers. Who among the following was made the Finance Minister after reshuffle? (a) Koshiari Toyako (b) Isinabel Fukira (c) Toshihiro Nikai (d) Bunmei Ibuki (e) None of these The two-day 15th SAARC Summit was concluded on August 3, 2008 in Colombo adopting the Colombo Declaration titled Partnership for growth of our people. The 16th SAARC Summit will be held in 2009 in (a) Kathmandu (b) Islamabad (c) Male (d) Dhaka (e) None of these Two waves, each of amplitude 1.5 mm and frequency 10 Hz, are traveling in opposite direction with a speed of 20 mm/s. The distance in mm between adjacent nodes is: (a) 1.0 (b) 1.2 (c) 1.5 (d) 2.0 (e) None of these The snow on the mountains does NOT melt all at once when it is heated by the sun because: (a) it becomes very hard (b) it reflects most of the heat from the sun (c) it has a low specific heat capacity (d) it has a high latent heat of fusion (e) None of these An atomic pile is used for (a) producing X-rays (b) conducting nuclear fission (c) conducting thermonuclear fusion (d) accelerating atoms (e) None of these One of the fundamental Principles of life insurance is (a) Premiums and claims is what insurance is all about (b) There is a insurer and a policy holder (c) Utmost good faith (d) All of the above (e) None of these

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34. Material facts should be disclosed during (a) Proposal stage (b) Revival stage (c) Alteration (d) Either (a) or (b) or (c) (e) None of these Normally, the parties to an insurance contract are (a) Policy holder (b) IRDA (c) Insurer (d) Both (a) and (b) (e) None of these

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A stampede on a slender trail leading to the famous hilltop Naina Devi temple in Bilaspur on August 3, 2008 killed at least 146 people. In which of the following States this temple is located? (a) Himachal Pradesh (b) Uttarakhand (c) Uttar Pradesh (d) Rajasthan (e) Chhattisgarh Who among the following won the Hungarian Grand Prix Formula One Race on August 3, 2008 in Budapest? (a) Kimi Raikkonen (b) Lewis Hamilton (c) Heikki Kovalainen (d) Fernando Alonso (e) Timo Glock Labourers who do hard manual labour develop thick skin on their palms and soles due to (a) thick epidermis (b) thick dermis (c) thick subcutaneous tissue (d) All of the above (e) None of these Maximum photosynthetic activity occurs in (a) blue and red region of light (b) green and yellow region of light (c) blue and orange region of light (d) violet and orange region of light (e) None of these A book that brought awareness of environment all over the world was Silent Spring. It was written by (a) Julien Huxley (b) Jane Goodall (c) John Seymour (d) Frank Graham Jr. (e) None of these A breath test used by traffic police to check drunken driving uses: (a) potassium dichromate-sulphuric acid (b) potassium perma-naganate-sulphuric acid (c) turmeric on filter paper (d) silica gel coated with silver nitrate (e) None of these One time associate of Mahatma Gandhi, broke off from him and launched a radical movement called self-respect movement. Who was he? (a) P. Thyagaraja Shetti (b) Chhatrapati Maharaj (c) E.V.Ramaswamy Naicker (d) Jyotirao Govindrao Phule (e) None of these

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India beat Sri Lanka by 170 runs in the second Test at Galle on August 3, 2008 to level the three match series 1-1. Who among the following was adjudged Man of the Match in this Test? (a) Kumar Sangakkara (b) Virender Sehwag (c) Harbhajan Singh (d) Ishan Sharma (e) Mahela Jayawardene Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, whose stubborn, lonely and combative literary sruggles gained the prophecy, passed away on August 3, 2008. In which year he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for a body of work including The First Cirlce, Cancer Word etc.? (a) 1968 (b) 1970 (c) 1962 (d) 1974 (e) None of these Provision of insurance is necessary for (a) Protection of the orphans and helpless widows (b) The economy would survive let alone grow (c) Care of individuals in highly developed capitalist society (d) Both (a) and (c) (e) None of these Life insurance is a superior traditional vehicle of saving because: (a) the policy will pay out the guaranteed sum assured in the event of untimely death (b) it facilitates the borrowings (c) it encourages saving (d) All of the above (e) None of these Insurance covers (a) Speculative risk (c) Dynamic risk (e) None of these

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