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GENERAL AWARENESS
1. Who was sworn in as the 39th Chief Justice of India on September 29, 2012?
1) Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan

2) Justice J.S. Khehar

3) Justice Altamas Kabir

4) Justice D. Murugesan

5) Justice M.Y. Eqbal

2. The Supreme Court directed which of the following companies/groups to refund over
Rs. 24,400 crore collected from 2.21 crore depositors through the optimally fully con2) Murugappa

3) Sahar

4) Kingfisher

5) Essar

1) Reliance

vertible debentures (OFCDs) by way of bonds?

3. K.R. Kamath took charge on October 1, 2012 as the Chairman of Indian Banks'
following public sector banks?

Association (IBA). He is the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of which of the
2) Indian Bank

3) Corporation Bank

4) Punjab National Bank

5) United Bank of India

1) Bank of India

4. At the 2012 US Open tennis championships Andy Murray became the first British man
since Fred Perry in 1936 to win a Grand Slam singles tournament when he defeated

which of the following players in the final?

2) David Ferrer (Spain)

3) Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic)

4) Novak Djokovic (Serbia)

1) Marin Cilic (Croatia)

5) Roger Federer (Switzerland)

5. Which of the following statements about the ICC Awards is not true?
1) The 2012 ICC Awards function was held on September 15, 2012 in Colombo, Sri
Lanka.
2) Kumar Sangakkara of Sri Lanka has won three awards- Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy
for Cricketer of the Year, Test Cricketer of the Year and LG People's Choice Award.
3) ICC Emerging Cricketer of the Year is Sunil Narine of West Indies.
4) ICC Twenty20 International Performance of the Year award was won by Richard
Levi of South Africa.
5) Jacques Kallis of South Africa received the Spirit of Cricket Award.
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6. Who won the US Open women's singles title in September 2012?

1) Sara Errani (Italy)

2) Marion Bartoli (France)

3) Serena Williams (USA)

4) Victoria Azarenka (Belarus)

5) Maria Sharapova (Russia)

7. The 62nd meeting of Nobel Laureates was held in Lindau from July 1 to 6, 2012 that
was dedicated to Physics. Lindau is located in which of the following European countries?
1) Italy

2) Portugal

3) Spain

4) Germany

5) France

8. Eight Indian companies are in the list of world's 500 largest companies compiled by
1) PNB

Fortune magazine in July 2012. Which is the only bank in that list?
2) HDFC Bank

3) ICICI Bank

4) IOB

5) SBI

9. Which company topped the Fortune magazine's list of top 500 companies globally for

the year 2012?

2) Exxon Mobil

4) BP

5) Sinopec

3) Wal-Mart

1) Royal Dutch Shell

10. Who was appointed the new Chairman of the High Level Committee on Financing
Infras-tructure in July 2012?

2) Deepak Parekh

3) Yogesh Agarwal

1) R. Gopalan

4) J. Harinarayan

5) G.V. Sanjay Reddy

11. The Government has set up a co-mmittee to recommend the fram-ework for cloud
computing services under the Chairmanship of?
1) Kapil Sibal

2) Gulshan Rai

4) Shiv Nadar

5) None of these

3) S. Gopalakrishnan

12. Who was crowned the winner of the Asia Youth Under-19 Badminton Championship
in South Korea in July 2012?
1) Saina Nehwal

2) P.V.Sindhu

4) Ashwini Ponappa

5) None of these

3) Jwala Gutta

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13. Identify the mismatched pair of the Ministers and their portfolios?
1) P.Chidambaram- Finance

2) Sushil Kumar Shinde- Home

3) M.Veerappa Moily- Corporate Affairs & Power

4) Subodh Kant Sahai- Tourism

5) Jairam Ramesh- Parliament-ary Affairs

14. According to the latest Education Development Index (EDI) released by the Human
Resource Development Ministry on July 24, 2012 which of the following States/ Union
Territories retained the first position?
1) Puducherry

2) Lakshadweep

3) Punjab 4) Mizoram

5) Sikkim

15. Agni I missile was test-launched from the Wheeler Island, off the Odisha coast on July
1) 500 km

2) 400 km

13, 2012. Its range is?

3) 700 km

4) 1000 km

5) 1500 km

16. Which country has announced on July 19, 2012 that it would provide $20 billion in
commitment?
2) China

3) UK

4) USA

5) Russia

1) India

credit to African countries over the next three years, doubling its earlier loan

17. Democratic Republic of Congo signed a pact aimed at eliminating the threat of armed
Ababa?
1) Uganda

rebels in eastern Congo with which of the following countries on July 16, 2012 in Addis
2) Burundi

3) Zambia

4) Rwanda

5) Ethiopia

18. Identify the mismatched pair?

1) Army Chief- Bikram Singh

2) Navy Chief- D.K.Joshi

3) Air Force Chief-N.A.K. Browne

4) CEC- Syed Naseem Ahmed Zaidi

5) Competition Commission of India Chairman- Ashok Chawla

19. Jan Eliasson became the Deputy Secretary- General of the United Nations on July 1,
2012. He is from?
1) Germany

2) Sweden

3) Norway

4) Denmark

5) Poland

20. Abid Hussain passed away recently. He was the former?

1) National Security Advisor

2) Director General of NIA

3) Ambassador to the USA

4) CBI Director
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21. Who became the first Britishman ever to win the Tour de France cycling competition
that concluded in Paris, France on July 22, 2012?
1) Bradley Wiggins

2) Chris Froome

4) Cadel Evans

5) Alberto Contador

3) Vincenzo Nibali

22. Who among the following is not associated with the Formula One Championship?
1) Lewis Hamilton

2) Kimi Raikkonen

4) Mark Webber

5) Ernie Els

3) Fernando Alonso

23. The Asian Cricket Council Under-19 Asia Cup was jointly won by India and Pakistan.
2) Dhaka

3) Kuala Lumpur

4) Colombo

5) Singapore

1) Karachi

Where was the final played on July 1, 2012?

24. P.M.Rungta passed away on July 12, 2012. He was a former?

2) BCCI President

4) IPL Chairman

5) None of these

3) ICC President

1) Cricket Captain

25. Agriculture and Food Processing Industries Minister Sharad Pawar inaugurated the
1) Haryana

first Mega Food Park in the country in which of the following states on July 11, 2012?
2) Punjab

4) Andhra Pradesh

5) Uttar Pradesh

3) Kerala

26. India signed an agreement to establish Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for
Peace and Sustainable Development with which of the following organizations in July

2012?

3) UNESCO

1) Syria

3) Iran

1) FAO

2) WHO

4) UNICEF

5) UNDP

27. Which country recently test fired Shahab-3, a medium range ballistic missile?
2) Pakistan

4) Afghanistan

5) Israel

28. Which of the following has launched 'Bank Branch Locator', a dynamic database that
gives information on location of branches of a bank?
1) SBI

2) PNB

3) HDFC Bank

4) RBI

5) ICICI Bank

29. Mark Boucher has retired from international cricket after suffering a severe eye injury.
He played 147 Tests with a world record of 555 dismissals for which of the following
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countries?
1) England

2) Australia

3) South Africa

4) Wet Indies

5) New Zealand

30. Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh was criticized by which of the following US
magazines as "The Underachiever" in July 2012?
1) Newsweek

2) World

3) TIME

4) The National Journal

5) U.S. News & World Report

31. Enrique Pena Nieto is the Pres-ident elect of which of the following countries? (He
will take charge on December 1, 2012)
2) Spain

3) Italy

4) Portugal

5) Brazil

1) Mexico

1) Ireland

32. Olafur Ragnar Grimsson has been re-elected for a fifth term as the President of?
2) Poland

3) Norway

4) Sweden

5) Iceland

Cabinet Minister for?

1) Health and Family Welfare

2) Labour and Employment

4) Chemicals and Fertilizers

3) Commerce and Industry

33. Union Minister Virbhadra Singh resigned recently on corruption charges. He was the

5) Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

1) Belarus

34. Yitzhak Shamir passed away on June 30, 2012. He was the former Prime Minister of?
2) Israel

3) Poland

4) Germany 5) None of these

35. Rajesh Khanna, a Bollywood actor, passed away on July 18, 2012. He did not act in
which of the following Hindi hits?
1) Aradhana

2) Safar

3) Kati Patang

4) Anand

5) Zanjeer

36. Identify the mismatched pair?

1) Bank Rate-9%

2) Repo Rate-8%

3) Reverse Repo Rate-7%

4) Cash Reserve Ratio-4%

5) Statutory Liquidity Ratio-23%

37. Freedom fighter and a close aide of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Captain Lakshmi
Sahgal passed away on July 23, 2012. She was defeated by which of the following leaders in the 2002 Presidential elections?
1) R. Venkatraman

2) K.R. Narayanan
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4) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

5) Shankar Dayal Sharma

38. Brett Lee announced his retirement from all forms of international cricket on July 12,
2012. He played 76 Tests, 221 ODIs and 25 T20s for which of the following countries?
1) South Africa

2) West Indies

3) England

4) New Zealand

5) None of these

39. India shares longest border with which of the following countries?
1) Nepal

2) China

3) Bhutan

4) Pakistan

5) Bangladesh

2) March 21

3) April 22

4) April 21

5) March 22

1) March 20

40. 'World Day for Water' is observed on which of the following dates?

41. Who is the author of the book 'A Tale of Two Gardens'?
2) E.M. Forster

4) Charles Dickens

5) Octavio Paz

3) 4

4) 4

5) 5

6) 3

7) 4

8) 5

11) 3

12) 2

13) 5

14) 1

15) 3

16) 2

19) 2

20) 3

21) 1

22) 5

23) 3

24) 2

28) 4

29) 3

30) 3

31) 1

32) 5

36) 4

37) 4

38) 5

39) 5

40) 5

Key
2) 3

9) 1

10) 2

17) 4

18) 4

25) 4

26) 3

27) 3

33) 5

34) 2

35) 5

1) 3

41) 5

3) Mulk Raj Anand

1) V.S. Naipaul

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