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1. Templeton Prize established in 1972, to honour a living 2. The water requirements of coastal cities with person who affirms life’s spiritual dimension be it through inadequate alternative source of water will be met insight, or practical works, was recently conferred to- by adopting appropriate technologies that allow for (a) Desmond Tutu (b) Sri Sri Ravishankar the use of ocean water. (c) Aung San Suu Kyi (d) Dalai Lama 3. All the rivers of Himalayan origin will be linked to the rivers of peninsular . 2. Name the first Indian to qualify for in 36 years 4. The expenses incurred by farmers for digging bore- for Olympic 2012. wells and for installing motors and pump-sets to draw (a) Arun Bhardwaj (b) Ram Singh Yadav ground-water will be completely reimbursed by the (c) Sandeep Kumar (d) Kashinath Government.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below: 3. Which among the following statement is incorrect? (a) 1 only (b) 1 and 2 only (a) GDP = consumption + investment + government (c) 3 and 4 only (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4 spending + (exports - imports) (b) GNP = GDP + Net income inflow from assets abroad 8. Which of the following retail Groups, in India, is the 50:50 or Net Income Receipts - Net payment outflow to partner of world’s largest retailer Walmart Stores Inc? foreign assets (a) Bharti Group (b) Reliance group (c) GNP: GDP + Income earned and received in foreign (c) Sara Group (d) Future Group countries - income received by foreign national in India 9. E Lobby, a new initiative with 24 × 7 cash deposit, cash (d) None of the above withdrawal, cheque deposit and passbook updating facility has been launched by which of the following 4. Who among the following has been chosen for the Ramon banks? Magsaysay Award 2012 for economic empowerment of (a) Kotak Mahindra Bank (b) Union Bank of India thousands of women and their families in rural India? (c) ICICI Bank (d) Punjab National Bank (a) P. Sainath (b) Laxminarayan Ramdas (c) Kulandei Francis (d) 10. Plan Holiday was the period between: (a) First and Second Five Year Plan 5. Which of the following countries won Uber Cup 2012? (b) Third and Fourth Five Year Plan (a) India (b) (c) Fourth and Fifth Five Year Plan (c) (d) (d) None of these

6. In the Indian Parliament, the purpose of an adjournment 11. The -based firm ‘Apple’ has lost a case against motion is mobile maker HTC in the U.K. over the same technology. (a) To allow a discussion on a definite matter of urgent HTC belongs to: public importance (a) South Korea (b) Taiwan (b) To let opposition members collect information from (c) (d) China the ministers (c) To allow a reduction of specific amount in demand 12. Who among the following won the 2012 for grant ? (d) To postpone the proceedings to check the (a) Sophie Moulds (b) inappropriate or violent behaviour on the part of some (c) (d) members 13. Who among the following topped the list of 400 richest 7. If National Water Mission is properly and completely Americans, released by Forbes ? implemented, how will it impact the country? (a) Warren Buffet (b) Bill Gates 1. Part of the water needs of urban areas will be met (c) Larry Ellison (d) Jeff Bezos through recycling of waste-water.

SNAP-2012 Page 1 14. With reference to consumers' rights/privileges under the 21. Under the Rani Lakshmibai Pension Yojana women living provisions of law in India, which of the following below the poverty line would be paid Rs.400 per month. statements is/are correct? Which among the following State governments launched 1. Consumers are empowered to take samples for food this Pension Yojana? testing. (a) Madhya Pradesh (b) 2. When a consumer files a complaint in any consumer (c) Rajasthan (d) forum, no fee is required to be paid. 3. In case of death of a consumer, his/her legal heir 22. Which among the following banks has been awarded can file a complaint in the consumer forum on his/ recently gold trophy of Niryat Bandhu Award? her behalf. (a) Bank of Baroda (b) Punjab National Bank (c) Bank of India (d) Canara Bank Select the correct answer using the codes given below: (a) 1 only (b) 2 and 3 only 23. Which among the following pharmaceutical companies (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 has launched its first indigenously manufactured re- usable insulin pen ‘AllStar’? 15. Name the chairman of 13th Finance Commission. (a) Sanofi India (b) Novartis India Ltd. (a) C.Rangarajan (b) A.M.Khusro (c) Pfizer Ltd. (d) Merck Ltd. (c) Vijay L. Kelkar (d) K.C Pant 24. Consider the following kinds of organisms: 16. Who among the following is the only Indian member in 1. Bacteria the board of U.K.-based global banking giant HSBC 2. Fungi Holdings? 3. Flowering Plants (a) N. R. Narayana Murthy (b) (c) (d) Vikram Pandit Some species of which of the above kinds of organisms are employed as biopesticides? 17. Who among the following Indian-origin-boy won ‘National (a) 1 only (b) 2 and 3 only Geographic Bee prize 2012’? (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 (a) Rahul Nagvekar (b) Vansh Jain (c) Varun Mahadevan (d) Rohit Goswami 25. Which of the following services has been recently launched by the Indian Railways to find out the location 18. Which of the following statements is correct regarding of 6500 trains on real-time basis on Google Map? Blue Collar Jobs? (a) RailMap (b) RailLoc (a) These jobs are concerned with skilled/unskilled (c) RailSearch (d) RailRadar workers doing manual works (b) These jobs are concerned with skilled/unskilled 26. According to Guinness World Records website the workers doing office or desk works tallest residential building in the world, the Princess (c) Both (a) and (b) Tower, is situated in- (d) None of the above (a) (b) Moscow (c) (d) Dubai 19. Which insurance company has launched MagicBoard, an integrated portable device, which is a mobile office 27. SDR, which is also known as paper gold, is associated that can issue a policy on the spot? with which of the following organizations? (a) India First Life Insurance (a) International Monetary Fund (IMF) (b) National Insurance Co Ltd (b) International Development Association (IDA) (c) Birla Sun Life Insurance Co. Ltd (c) Asian Development Bank (ADB) (d) ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Co. Ltd (d) World Trade Organization (WTO)

20. Which of the following company has been chosen for 28. United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has declared the “Best PSU Award 2012” in the Mini Ratna category? to celebrate World Refugee Day on: (a) Bharat Dynamics Limited (a) June 20 (b) March 20 (b) Rajasthan Electronics & Instruments Limited (c) May 21 (d) August 31 (c) Central Coalfields Limited (d) Hindustan Newsprint Limited 29. Which one of the following is the only operational stealth fighter in the world? (a) F-22 (b) F-16 (c) FJ-20 (d) Hawk

Page 2 SNAP-2012 30. Who is the current head of IMF? 38. River of Smoke, The Hungry Tide and Sea of Poppies (a) Dominique Strauss Kahn are some famous literary works of: (b) Robert Zoellick (a) Salman Rushdie (b) Anurag Mathur (c) Christine Lagarde (c) Amitav Ghosh (d) Arvind Adiga (d) Ban Ki Moon 39. Which of the following temple is known as the Black 31. Which sector has the highest contribution in the GDP Pagoda? of the country? (a) Meenakshi Temple (b) Konark Temple (a) Agriculture (c) Somnath Temple (d) Akshar Dham Temple (b) Manufacturing (c) Services 40. Who is the chairman of National Commission of (d) Research & Development Population? (a) Prime Minister of India 32. Which one of the following state contributes the (b) Union Minister of Health maximum number of seats in the Lok Sabha (The Lower (c) Deputy chairman of Planning Commission House)? (d) President of India (a) Maharashtra (b) Madhya Pradesh (c) Rajasthan (d) Uttar Pradesh 41. committee is related to which of the following issues? 33. Where is the Headquarters of ICC located? (a) fuel policy (b) poverty (a) London (b) (c) rural development (d) cereal production (c) Melbourne (d) Dubai 42. The Ashden Awards are an internationally recognized 34. A progressive income tax means that those with a higher yardstick for excellence in the field of sustainable energy. income pay Which country is the convener of this award? (a) a lower percentage of their income in taxes than (a) UK (b) (c) (d) USA low-income people. (b) a higher percentage of their income in taxes than 43. According to latest reports, the highest incidence of the low-income people. juvenile rape cases (23.6%) was reported from: (c) the same percentage of their income in taxes as (a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Maharashtra low-income people. (c) Haryana (d) Madhya Pradesh (d) all the taxes in the economy. 44. What is the role of ultraviolet (UV) radiation in the water 35. Which state in India is the first to release HDI report? purification systems? (a) Maharashtra (b) 1. It inactivates/kills the harmful microorganism in (c) Madhya Pradesh (d) Kerala water. 2. It removes all the undesirable odours from the water. 36. Prime Minister ManMohan Singh is a member of 3. It quickens the sedimentation of solid particles, parliament (MP) from which of the following states? removes turbidity and improves the clarity of water. (a) Punjab (b) Haryana (c) Rajasthan (d) Assam Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (a) 1 only (b) 2 and 3 only 37. “Hawala” system can be defined as….. (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 (a) Formal value transfer system in which one receives money for the purpose of making equivalent payment 45. Which of the following state recently bagged the Best to a third party in another geographic location on State for Adventure Tourism Destination Award, being a behalf of government. global tourist destination, in the world, during last over (b) Informal value transfer system in which one receives two decades? money for the purpose of making equivalent payment (a) Kerala (b) Karnataka to a third party in another geographic location. (c) Himachal Pradesh (d) Uttarakhand (c) Regulated money transfer system in which money is paid to receivers in only local currency only. 46. Which among the following seven times world Champion (d) Illegal operation of making unauthorized payments and German Formula-one driver, has recently announced in foreign currency. his retirement from Formula one Race? (a) Sebastian Vettel (b) Nico Rosberg (c) Michael Schumacher (d) Niko Hülkenberg

SNAP-2012 Page 3 47. Who among the following is the brand ambassador of 3. Providing information on nutrition and immunization the ‘Nirmal Bharat Yatra’? 4. Conducting the delivery of baby (a) (b) Vidya Balan (c) Rahul Dravid (d) Salman Khan Select the correct answer using the codes given below: (a) 1, 2 and 3 only (b) 2 and 4 only 48. With reference to ‘stem cells’, frequently in the news, (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4 which of the following statements is/are correct? 1. Stem cells can be derived from mammals only. 54. A Maldivian court has issued an arrest warrant against 2. Stem cells can be used for screening new drugs. the country’s first democratically elected President. 3. Stem cells can be used for medical therapies. Name the personality. (a) Mohamed Nasheed Select the correct answer using the codes given below: (b) Md. Waheed Hassan Manik (a) 1 and 2 only (b) 2 and 3 only (c) Ibrahim Nasir (c) 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 (d) Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

49. Which of the following can be said to be essentially the 55. What is India’s official rank in Global Competitiveness parts of ‘inclusive Governance’? Report 2012-2013 released on 5 September 2012 by 1. Permitting the Non-Banking Financial Companies the World Economic Forum? to do banking (a) 59 (b) 60 (c) 61 (d) 62 2. Establishing effective District planning Committees in all the districts 56. How does the National Rural Livelihood Mission seek to 3. Increasing the government spending on public health improve livelihood options of rural poor? 4. Strengthening the Mid-day Meal Scheme 1. By setting up a large number of new manufacturing industries and agribusiness centers in rural areas Select the correct answer using the codes given below: 2. By strengthening ‘self-help groups’ and providing skill (a) 1 and 2 only (b) 3 and 4 only development (c) 2, 3 and 4 only (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4 3. By supplying seeds, fertilizers, diesel pump-sets and micro-irrigation equipment free of cost to farmers 50. Recently, Supreme Court directed to which of the following group to refund around 17400 crore rupees to Select the correct answer using the codes given below: their investors within three months with 15 per cent (a) 1 and 2 only (b) 2 only interest? (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 (a) Reliance Capital (b) JAYPEE Finances (c) Sahara (d) HDFC Investments 57. Who among the following is the current administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA)? 51. Endangered Gangetic dolphin ( Platanista Gangetica ) (a) Christopher Scolese (b) Charles Bolden is also known as: (c) Michael D. Griffin (d) Frederick D. Gregory (a) ‘Tiger of the Ganges’ (b) ‘Queen of the Ganges’ 58. ‘Liaoning’, is the first aircraft carrier of: (c) ‘Doughter of the Ganges’ (a) China (b) Japan (d) ‘Elephant of the Ganges’ (c) India (d)

52. Which of the following countries has recently unveiled a 59. The Multi-dimensional Poverty Index developed by Oxford colossal radio telescope that will allow astronomers to Poverty and Human Development Initiative with UNDP detect distant galaxies and explore the depths of the support covers which of the following? universe with unprecedented precision? 1. Deprivation of education, health, assets and services (a) Germany (b) at household level (c) Switzerland (d) China 2. Purchasing power parity at national level 3. Extent of budget deficit and GDP growth rate at 53. With reference to National Rural Health Mission, which national level of the following are the jobs of ‘ASHA’, a trained community health worker? Select the correct answer using the codes given below: 1. Accompanying women to the health facility for (a) 1 only (b) 2 and 3 only antenatal care checkup (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 2. Using pregnancy test kits for early detection of pregnancy

Page 4 SNAP-2012 60. Who among the following has been appointed as India’s 69. India has signed the agreement on joint research project Governor on the Board of Governors of the African into pricing structures in LNG markets with which among Development Bank and African Development Fund? the following countries? (a) Arvind Mayaram (b) Bimal Julka (a) Japan (b) (c) Namo Narain Meena (d) P. Chidambaram (c) (d) South Korea

61. Recently, who among the following has been appointed 70. Which of the following National Parks will get remote as the chief economic adviser in the finance ministry? controlled aircraft and a satellite based electronic eye (a) (b) Raghuram G Rajan for round-the-clock surveillance of the animals? (c) Dr. Rajiv Kumar (d) Anil Bisen (a) Bandipur National Park (b) Kanha National Park 62. What is/are the recent policy initiative(s) of Government (c) Kaziranga National Park of India to promote the growth of manufacturing sector? (d) Buxa Tiger Reserve 1. Setting up of National Investment and manufacturing Zones 71. The first Five Year Plan was based on: 2. Providing the benefit of ‘single window clearance’ (a) Herrod Domar model (b) P.C. Mahalnobis model 3. Establishing the Technology Acquisition and (c) Vishweshwarya model (d) None of these Development Fund 72. What is a Bull Market? Select the correct answer using the codes given below: (a) It is a market where the speculators buy shares or (a) 1 only (b) 2 and 3 only commodities in anticipation of rising prices. (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 (b) It is a market where the speculators buy shares or commodities in anticipation of losing prices. 63. Which among the following countries is the world’s (c) It is a market where the speculators buy and sell largest producer and exporter of uranium? shares. (a) Australia (b) (d) None of these (c) (d) France 73. As per United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in its 64. Which of the following countries topped the medal tally "Child Mortality Estimates Report 2012,"the world's in London Olympics? highest under-five mortality rates is in: (a) China (b) Russia (a) (b) Bangladesh (c) USA (d) South Korea (c) (d) India

65. Name the current CAG of India. 74. Christopher Stevens, ambassador of the , (a) Pradeep Kumar (b) Bikram Singh has been recently killed during an armed mob attack in: (c) V S Sampath (d) Vinod Rai (a) (b) Syria (c) Libya (d) Afghanistan 66. Which of the following statements is not correct regarding fiscal drag? 75. Which of the following personalities has become the (a) It is a tax burden which automatically arises due to first person from Indian-American origin to serve as a inflation. parliamentarian for Democratic National Convention? (b) It results in change in taxation rates. (a) Preeta Shah (b) (c) Under this situation people automatically get shifted (c) Kiran Majumdar Shaw (d) Smita Shah to higher tax slab due to wage hike. (d) None of the above 76. Recently Aditi Mukherjee won which of the following prestigious award? 67. Who among the following is the current chairperson of (a) Stockholm Water Prize (b) Norman Borlaug Award the Indian Central Board of Film Certification? (c) Pulitzer Prize (d) Booker Prize (a) Nandita Das (b) Anupam Kher (c) Sharmila Tagore (d) Leela Samson 77. Who among the following is the current president of the Indian Newspaper Society? 68. Which of the following is not the component of Bharat (a) K.N. Tilak Kumar (b) Ashish Bagga Nirman Programme? (c) K. Balaji (d) Manoj Kumar Sonthalia (a) Rural housing (b) Irrigation (c) Rural telephony (d) Food Security

SNAP-2012 Page 5 78. Recently, which of the following young politicians has 86. Janani Suraksha Yojana, which was introduced in 2005 been commissioned as Lieutenant in Territorial Army? covers: (a) Omar Abdulla (b) Rahul Gandhi (a) all women above 19 years age (c) Akhilseh Yadav (d) Sachin Pilot (b) all women who belongs to families below poverty line 79. 16th Non-Aligned Movement summit was held at: (c) all women (a) Tehran (b) Baghdad (d) all women of above 19 years age belonging to below (c) Cairo (d) Riyadh poverty line families

80. Kudumbasree Mission experiment, involving 3.5 million 87. Along with Serge Haroche who among the following women, is becoming a replicable model for the nation American scientists won Nobel Prize 2012 in physics? for the abolition of poverty. The mission was introduced (a) David Wineland (b) Adam G. Riess first in which one of the following states? (c) Saul Perlmutter (d) George E. Smith (a) Andhra Pradesh (b) Tamil Nadu (c) Kerala (d) Karnataka 88. The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in collaboration with LEAD Pakistan and Buksh Foundation 81. India-born Suma Chakrabarti recently has been selected has launched which among the following campaigns in as the President of which one of the following Pakistan? organisations? (a) “Lighting a Country” (a) Asian Development Bank (b) “Lighting People” (b) European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (c) “ Lighting a Million People” (c) International Bank for Reconstruction and (d) “Lighting a Million Lives” Development (d) United Nations Conference on Trade and 89. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Development in 2011, is the current President of: (a) Yemen (b) 82. Robert Lefkowitz, has won the Nobel Prize 2012 in (c) (d) Chemistry for study and research on Protein Receptors along with- 90. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) acts as a bankers’ bank. (a) David J. Wineland (b) Brian Kobilka This would imply which of the following? (c) Saul Perlmutter (d) Richard F. Heck 1. Other banks retain their deposits with the RBI. 2. The RBI lends funds to the commercial banks in 83. Which among the following countries has won women’s times of need. T-20 world cup 2012? 3. The RBI advises the commercial banks on monetary (a) (b) matters. (c) Australia (d) Select the correct answer using the codes given below: 84. A British biologist who was a key member of the Ian (a) 2 and 3 only (b) 1 and 2 only Wilmut team that created Dolly the sheep, has died (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 recently. Name the personality. (a) Peter Englund (b) Keith Campbell 91. Which of the following Five Year Plan was called The (c) Victor Boshi (d) Hans Spemann Rolling Plan? (a) Fifth Five Year Plan (b) Sixth Five Year Plan 85. In India in the overall Index of Industrial Production, the (c) Ninth Five year plan (d) Seventh Five Year Plan indices of eight core Industries have a combined weight of 37.90%. Which of the following are among those Eight 92. Dr. who died recently, was related with: Industries? (a) Yellow Revolution (b) Green Revolution 1. Cement (c) White Revolution (d) Blue Revolution 2. Fertilizers 3. Natural gas 93. Which of the following countries is not a member of the 4. Refinery products Mekong-Ganga Cooperation (MGC)? 5. Textiles (a) China (b) Cambodia Select the correct answer using the codes given below: (c) Myanmar (a) 1 and 5 only (b) 2, 3 and 4 only (d) Lao Peoples Democratic Republic (c) 1, 2, 3 and 4 only (d) 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5

Page 6 SNAP-2012 94. Under which of the following circumstances may ‘capital Select the correct answer using the codes given below: gains’ arise? (a) 1 only (b) 2 and 4 only 1. When there is an increase in the sales of a product. (c) 1 and 3 (d) 2; 3 and 4 2. When there is a natural increase in the value of the property owned 98. Who among the following is the president of the 3. When you purchase a painting and there is a growth International Paralympic Committee? in its value due to increase in its popularity (a) Philip Craven (b) Jacques Rogge Select the correct answer using the codes given below (c) John W. Mitchell (a) 1 only (b) 2 and 3 only (d) Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka (c) 2 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 99. Along with Vijay Kumar who among the following has 95. Along with Shinya Yamanaka which one of the following been conferred with the country’s highest sporting honour won the Nobel Prize 2012 in the field of medicine? Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award for the year 2012? (a) Ralph M. Steinman (b) Jules A. Hoffmann (a) Sushil Kumar (b) Deepika Kumari (c) John B. Gurdon (d) Bruce A. Beutler (c) Yogeshwar Dutt (d) Vishvanathan Anand

96. Antisa Khvichava, who claimed to be the world’s oldest 100. Who among the following personalities won Nobel Prize living person surviving through two World Wars and the in Literature for year 2012? Russian Revolution, has died at the age of 132. She (a) Liu Xiaobo (b) Mo Yan belonged to: (c) Gao Xingjian (c) Mario Vargas Llosa (a) (b) Russia (c) Switzerland (d) Japan

97. Which of the following measures would, result in an increase in the money supply in the economy? 1. Purchase of government securities from the public by the Central Bank. 2. Deposit ‘of currency in commercial banks by the public 3. Borrowing by the government from’ the Central Bank 4. Sale of government securities to the public by the Central Bank

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