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GENERAL AWARENESS
1. Who was appointed as the United States new Ambassador to Pakistan in July 2012?
1) Mike Rogers

2)Richard Olson

4) Cameron Munter

5) None of these

3) James Cunningham

2. Which country's parliament ratified the agreement to join the World Trade Organization

2) Russia

3) Cuba

4) Mexico

5) USA

1) China

(WTO) in July 2012?

3. Which of the following is the name of a country?

2) Rouble

3) Pula

4) Chad

1) Krona

5) Kwanza

4. Who inaugurated the Global Bihar Summit 2012 in Patna in February 2012?
2) Sheikh Hasina

1) Lord Meghnad Desai

4) Kamla Persad Bissessar

3) Baburam Bhattarai

5) None of these

5. Which former United Nations Secretary-General was appointed as the joint United

Nations-Arab League envoy to Syria in February 2012?

1) Kurt Waldheim

2) Boutros Ghali

4) Kofi Annan

5) None of these

3) UThant

6. Raj Kanwar and O.P. Dutta pass-ed away recently. They excelled in which of the
following fields?
1) Poetry

2) Films

3) Politics

4) Social work

5) Hindustani music

7. Who is the flag bearer of the Indian contingent at the 2012 London Olympics?
1) Vijender Singh

2) Leander Paes 3) Sushil Kumar 4) Abhinav Bindra 5) Saina

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8. The birth centenary of Late Brigadier Mohammed Usman, who died in 1947 fighting
for India against Pakistan, was celebrated on July 15, 2012. He was given which of the
following awards posthumously?
1) Param Vir Chakra

2) Maha Vir Chakra

4) Shourya Chakra

5) Ashok Chakra

3) Vir Chakra

9. Roger Federer reached the landmark of an unprecedented 287th week as World Number

2) Andre Agassi

4) Jimmy Connors

5) John McEnroe

3) Ivan Lendl

1) Pete Sampras

1 in tennis recently. Whose record did he surpass?

10. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma was sworn in as the first woman chairperson of the African

following countries?

2) Uganda

3) Kenya

4) South Africa 5) Rwanda

1) Gabon

Union Commission in July 2012. She is the Home Affairs Minister of which of the

1) Cairo (Egypt)

2) Cape Town (South Africa)

11. Which city hosted the 19th African Union (AU) Summit in July 2012?

5) Kigali (Rwanda)

4) Tripoli (Libya)

3) Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)

12. Wikimania is an annual internati-onal conference for users of the Wiki projects
operated by the Wikimedia Foundation (such as Wikipedia). Where was the Wikimania
held in July 2012?
1) Frankfurt (Germany)

2) Haifa (Israel)

3) Buenos Aires (Argentina)

4) Alexandria (Egypt)

5) Washington D.C. (USA)

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13. SELENE-2 is a proposed lunar mission to be launched in 2017 by which of the

following countries?
1) Japan

2) South Korea

3) China

4) USA

5) France

14. Where was the 39th Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) held in July 2012?
(Nearly 3000 space scientists from 74 countries participated in the meeting)
1) Moscow

2) Sriharikota

3) Tokyo

4) Mysore 5) Hyderabad

15. Manisha Malhotra has been chosen as winner of the IOC Women and Sports Awards

World Trophy by the Internati-onal Olympic Committee for promoting women in

following sports?
2) Badminton

3) Tennis

4) Discus Throw 5) Weightlifting

1) Squash

sports. She won a silver medal at the 2002 Busan Asian Games in which of the

16. Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams took off for her second space odyssey on

1) Russia

the Soyuz-FG rocket that was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome located in?
2) USA

3) Kazakhstan

4) Kyrgyzstan

5) Uzbekistan

17. Chandrayan-2 is proposed to be launched in 2014. Who is its project director?

1) K.Radhakrishnan

2) M.Annadurai

4) G.Madhavan Nair

5) Roddam Narsimha

3) K.R.Sridhara Murthi

18. Who is the author of the book 'Beyond the Lines'?

1) Khushwant Singh 2) P.Sainath 3) Natwar Singh 4)M.J.Akbar 5)Kuldip Nayar
19. Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan has given the green signal for construction
of a mega hydel project on Lohit River in which of the following states?
1) Bihar

2) Assam

3) Tripura 4) Arunachal Pradesh 5) Himachal Pradesh

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20. Which of the following statements is not true with regard to the Australian Open tennis
tournament that was held in Melbourne in January 2012?
1) Novak Djokovic of Serbia won the Men's singles title.
2) Djokovic defeated Rafael Nadal of Spain in the final.
3) Victoria Azarenka of Belarus won her first Grand slam singles title.
4) In the men's doubles India's Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek of Czech Republic

won the title.

5) The Mixed doubles title was won by Leander Paes and Elena Vesnina of Russia
21. Who presented the first budget of independent India on November 26, 1947?
2) C.D.Deshmukh
5) None of these

4) R.K.Shanmukham Chetty

3) Jawaharlal Nehru

1) John Mathai

22. Ahmed Saleem became the Secretary General of the South Asian Association for

Regional Cooperation (SAARC) on March 12, 2012. He belongs to which of the

following countries?

2) Bangladesh

3) Afghanistan

4) India

5) Maldives

1) Pakistan

23. Who among the following became the Chief Minister for the fifth time in March
2012?

1) Vijay Bahuguna

2) Okram Ibobi Singh

4) Prakash Singh Badal

5) None of these

3) Akhilesh Yadav

24. Which of the following states is ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party?
1) Uttarakhand

2) Manipur

4) West Bengal

5) Goa
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3) Uttar Pradesh

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25. Who has been given the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Woman
Mediaperson for 2012?
1) K.K.Shahina

2) Tushita Mittal

3) Rupashree Nanda

4) Smita Gupta

5) Nirupama Subramanian

26. Thomas Lubanga is the first person ever convicted by the International Criminal Court
(ICC). He is a warlord of which of the following countries?

4) Democratic Republic of Congo

3) Botswana

2) Burkina Faso

5) Namibia

1) Benin

27. The 4th Summit of BRICS was held in New Delhi on which of the following dates?
2) March 29, 2012

3) April 4, 2012

1) April 19, 2012

5) March 27, 2012

4) March 20, 2012

28. The Mullaperiyar dam on the Periyar River is located in which of the following states?
3) Kerala

4) Maharashtra

5) None of these

1) Tamil Nadu 2) Karnataka

29. The Reserve Bank of India deregulated the rates of interest to be provided by banks

to their depositors with effect from 25-10-2011 on which of the following accounts?
1) Current

2) Savings

4) Time deposit

5) None of these

3) Fixed deposit

30. What is the number of Kisan Credit Card holder farmers in India?
1) 10 crores

2) 8 crores

3) 8.5 crores

4) 9 crores

5) 7.5 crores

31. Which country has proposed a golden handshake scheme for Maoists opting for
rehabilitation and voluntary retirement?
1) India

2) Myanmar

3) Nepal

4) Bhutan

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5) China

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32. What is the full form of NRE deposit?

1) Non Refundable External

2) Non Resident External

4) Non Resident Exchange

5) None of these

3) Non Resident Extra

33. Who is the author of the book 'Lajja'?

1) Arundhati Roy

2) Shobha De

4)Salman Rushdie

5)Kamala Das

3) Taslima Nasreen

34. Which bank has introduced the Tiny card with biometric iden-tification to achieve

Financial Inclusion? (The Tiny card prov-ides easy banking services for
underprivileged communities)

2) State Bank of India

1) Indian Bank

5) Bank of Baroda

4) Bank of Maharashtra

3) Bank of India

35. John Key is the Prime Minister of which of the following countries?
2) Australia

3) U.K.

4) New Zealand

5) Denmark

1) Canada

36. Which of the following stock exchanges has launched the Green Index called

"Greenex", India's first carbon efficient live index? (Greenex will measure the
performance of companies in terms of carbon emissions)
1) Delhi Stock Exchange 2) Calcutta Stock Exchange 3) Bombay Stock Exchange
4) Ahmedabad Stock Exchange 5) National Stock Exchange
37. Which of the following Ministries gives the Dada Saheb Phalke Award?
1) Home Affairs

2) Corporate Affairs

4) Information & Broadcasting

3) Human Resource Development

5) None of these

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38. Which city will host the 14th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in August 2013?
1) Daegu

2) Moscow

3) Beijing

4) London

5) None of these

39.Which of the following is the name of an autonomous organi-zation for rural

technology?
1) MGNREGS

2) IRDP

3) PURA

4) CAPART

5) IRDA

savings bank account?

2) Rs.5 lakhs

3) Rs.2 lakhs

3) 4

9) 1

10) 4

11) 3

17) 2

18) 5

25) 2

26) 4

33) 3

34) 2

5) No limit

4) 3

5) 4

6) 2

7) 3

8) 2

12) 5

13) 1

14) 4

15) 3

16) 3

2) 2

Key
1) 2

4) Rs.10 lakhs

1) Rs.1 lakh

40. What is the maximum balance amount that is eligible for earning interest in a normal

20) 5

21) 4

22) 5

23) 4

24) 5

27) 2

28) 3

29) 2

30) 1

31) 3

32) 2

37) 4

38) 2

39) 4

40) 5

19) 4

36) 3

35) 4

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