1.    The Reserve Bank of India permitted wholly owned subsidi- ary (WOS) of foreign banks to acquire which of the following domestic banks in November 2013?
      1) Government Banks
      2) Private Banks
      3) Regional Rural Banks
      4) Cooperative Banks
      5) Both 1 and 2
  2.    Who took over as the Mana-ging Director and Chief Execu- tive Officer of LIC Housing Finance Limited in November 2013?
      1) Anita Dongre
      2) Renu Sood Karnad
      3) Sunita Sharma
      4) Naina Lal Kidwai
      5) Chitra Ramakrishna
  3.    The Indian Ocean Rim Associ-ation (IORA) held its 13th Council of Ministers meeting in which of the following places on November 1, 2013?
      1) New Delhi (India)
      2) Colombo (Sri Lanka)
      3) Perth (Australia)
      4) Dhaka (Bangladesh)
      5) Port Louis (Mauritius)
  4.    The International Hockey Fede ration (IHF) on November 7, 2013 selected which of the following countries to host the Men’s World Cup Hockey in 2018?
      1) Australia    2) England
      3) Netherlands    4) India
      5) Argentina
  5.    The 12th edition of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) convention will be held in which of the following cities from Janu-ary 7 to 9, 2014?
      1) Jaipur    2) Kochi
      3) Bangalore    4) Hyderabad
      5) New Delhi
  6.    Who has been named the most powerful businesswoman in India for the third consecutive year by Fortune magazine? (Fortune released the list of India’s 50 most powerful businesswomen in November 2013)
      1) Chanda Kochhar (ICICI Bank)   
      2) Shikha Sharma (Axis Bank)           
      3) Aruna Jayanthi (Capgemini)  
      4) Preetha Reddy(Apollo Hospitals)           
      5) Mallika Srinivasan (TAFE)
  7.    The leader of Pakistani Taliban was killed in a drone strike in November 2013. Name him?
      1) Waliur Rehman
      2) Husain Madani   
      3) Shabbir Usmani
      4) Hakimullah Mehsud        
      5) Ubaidullah Sindhi  
  8.    Emomali Rakhmon was re-elected as the President of which of the following countries in November 2013?
      1) Kazakhstan    2) Uzbekistan
      3) Tajikistan    4) Kyrgyzstan
      5) Azerbaijan
  9.    “Hand-in-Hand” is a joint military exercise between India and ___?
      1) China    2) USA
      3) Sri Lanka    
      4) Singapore     
      5) France
  10.    “Interventions: A Life in War and Peace” is written by?
      1) Kofi Annan
      2) Ban Ki-moon
      3) Boutros-Boutros Ghali
      4) U Thant
      5) None of these
  11.    Who among the following enjoys the rank of Cabinet Minister in Union Cabinet?
      1) Solicitor General
      2) Home Secretary
      3) CBI Director
      4)    Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission
      5) Secretary to the Government of India
  12.    “The One- Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming” was written by?
      1) Norman Borlaug
      2) M.S. Swaminathan     
      3) Masanobu Fukuoka   
      4) William Gaud    
      5) None of these
  13.    The first Hindu-American to become a member of the Uni- ted States House of Represen- tatives is?
      1) Tammy Duckworth  
      2) Sunita Williams      
      3) Ami Bera
      4) Jyothi Sengupta  
      5) Tulsi Gabbard  
  14.    Which of the following is called the ‘Crossroads of the Pacific’?
      1) Hawaii    2) Tonga
      3) Ellice      4) Fiji
      5) Nauru
  15.    How many states in India are coastal states?
      1) 7           2) 8     3) 9       
      4) 10        5) 11  
  16.    A tree’s age can be found by?
      1) Measuring its height
      2) Counting the number
          of branches
      3) Counting the number of annual rings
      4) Both 1 and 2
      5) None of these  
  17.    ISDN stands for?
      1) Integrated Services Digital Network
      2)    Indian Standard Digital Network      
      3)    Intelligent Services Digital Network      
      4)    Integrated Services Data Network   
      5)    None of these       
  18.    Jayaprakash Narayan is the author of the book?
      1) India Divided
      2) Why Socialism  
      3) Discovery of India
      4) India wins Freedom  
      5) None of these
  19.    Which one of the following books is written by an Indian author?
      1) Harry Potter  
      2) Animal Farm
      3) Wolf Hall     
      4) Beautiful Mind  
      5) Five Point Someone
  20.    Who is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)?
      1) S. Ramadorai   
      2) K. Natarajan     
      3) N. Chandrasekaran
      4) Cyrus Mistry   
      5) S.D. Shibulal
  21.    CPI and WPI refer to?
      1) Political parties
      2) Price indices
      3) Poverty indices
      4) Unemployment indices
      5) None of these
  22.    Davos is famous for?
      1) EU headquarters  
      2) ICJ headquarters  
      3) World Economic Forum      
      4)    NATO members meet here every year
      5) Best ski resorts in the world      
  23.    Which of the following is not a Millennium Development Goal?
      1) Poverty eradication
      2) Improving maternal health
      3) Universal primary education
      4) Combating HIV/AIDS
      5) Reducing trade barriers      
  24.    Which of the following countries in Europe were most hit by sovereign debt crisis?
      1)    Greece, Spain, France, Switzerland  
      2)    Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain   
      3)    Greece, Germany, Spain, Iceland
      4)    Portugal, Spain, Italy, Czech Republic
      5)    Portugal,UK,Germany,Swit- zerland
  25.    Bretton Woods Twins are?
      1) World Bank, UNESCO
      2) IMF, World Bank
      3) IMF, WTO
      4) World Bank, WTO
      5) WTO, UNESCO
  26.    Barak is a surface to air missile produced by?
      1) Israel    2) USA
       3) Iran     4) Iraq
      5) Syria     
  27.    ‘Teratali’ is the folk dance of?
      1) Punjab     2) Gujarat  
      3) Madhya Pradesh
      4) Rajasthan
      5) Uttar Pradesh
  28.    Identify the mismatched pair?
      1) World Wide Web–Tim Berners Lee
      2) WikiLeaks – Julian Assange  
      3) Google –Larry Page
      4) Amazon.com – Vint Cerf  
      5) Internet Protocol – Bob Kahn
  29.    Palme d’ Or award is given in the field of?
      1) Soccer    2) Television
      3) Movies    4) Literature
      5) Environment
  30.    Harish Hande, a Magsaysay Award winner, is famous for?
      1) RTE Act     2) RTI Act
      3) MRTPC    4) Lokpal Bill   
      5) SELCO
  31.    Sanjukta Panigrahi was a famous?
      1) Kathak dancer
      2) Kathakali dancer
      3) Manipuri dancer
      4) Odissi dancer
      5) Bharatanatyam dancer
  32.    Awards and their respective fields are given below. Identify the mismatched pair?
      1)    Grammy – Music
      2)    Booker – Literature  
      3)    Cannes Lions – Advertising
      4)    Emmy – Television
      5)    Pulitzer – Movies
  33.    Department of Pharmaceuticals comes under the Ministry of?
      1) Health
      2) Food processing
      3) Chemicals and Fertilizers
      4) Consumer Affairs
      5) Defense
  34.    The main constituents of biogas are?
      1) Hydrogen and Carbon dioxide   
      2) Methane and Carbon dioxide
      3) Methane and Carbon monoxide      
      4) Butane and Hydrogen     
      5) Butane and Carbon dioxide
  35.    G-8 was started first as G-7. Which one among the following was not one of them?
      1) Canada    2) France
      3) Italy    4) Japan
      5) Russia
  36.    Which of the following countries does not follow Euro as currency?
      1) Germany    2) Belgium
      3) Switzerland    4) Portugal
      5) Finland  
  37.    The Education Innovation Fund for India (EIFI) is an initiative of?
      1) IBM    2) Microsoft
      3) Intel    
      4) Hewlett-Packard
      5) Dell
  38.    The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is located in?
      1) New Delhi    2) Hyderabad   
      3) Mumbai    
      4) Kolkata
      5) Chennai
  39.    GAAR will be implemented from April 2016. The purpose of GAAR is to?
      1) Increase agriculture income  
      2) Increase rural income  
      3) Regulate foreign investment in agriculture
      4) Check tax avoidance  
      5) Regulate foreign banks
  40.    Amartya Sen received the Nobel Prize in Economics in?
      1) 1990    2) 1995   
      3) 1998    4) 2009      
      5) 2000
 
 Key
 1) 2;    2) 3;    3) 3;    4) 4;    5) 5;    
 6) 1;    7) 4;    8) 3;    9) 1;    10) 1;    
 11) 4;    12) 3;    13) 5;    14) 4;    15) 3;    
 16) 3;    17) 1;    18) 2;    19) 5;    20) 3;    
 21) 2;    22) 3;    23) 5;    24) 2;    25) 2;    
 26) 1;    27) 4;    28) 4;    29) 3;    30) 5;    
 31) 4;    32) 5;    33) 3;    34) 2;    35) 5;    
 36) 3;    37) 4;    38) 3;    39) 4;    40) 3;