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General Awareness Test For the Week: March 20 to 26, 2011 No of questions: 100 Answers marked by * Explanatory answers in the end TEST - I 1. Who has been named Chairman of the Joint (c) C D Deshmukh* Parliamentary Committee (JPC) set up to probe the alleged (d) Dr. Manmohan Singh scam in the grant of 2G spectrum and telecom licences from 1998 to 2009? 5. Who was presented the IBN7’s Diamond State Award (a) Jayanthi Natarajan recently? (b) Kalyan Banerjee (a) Narendra Modi (c) P.C. Chacko* (b) Sheila Dixit* (d) Gurudas Dasgupta (c) Nitish Kumar (d) Shivraj Singh Chauhan 2. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below: 6. Consider the following statements about actor Hema Malini who was elected to the Rajya Sabha. List I List II 1. She was elected to the Rajya Sabha for the first time (Person) (Organisation) 2. She was fielded by the BJP A. Dr AK Shivakumar 1. Self Employed 3. She was elected from Karnataka Women‘s Association Which of the above statements is/are correct? B. Ashok Alexander 2. Global Fund to Fight (a) 1 and 2 only AIDS, Tuberculosis (b) 2 and 3 only* and Malaria (c) 3 and 1 only C. Rajat K Gupta 3. Avahan – India AIDS (d) 1, 2 and 3 Initiative 7. The Jerusalem Prize, awarded recently, is given for D. Mirai Chatterjee 4. National Advisory achievements in which of the following? Council (a) Life Sciences Code: (b) Literature* A B C D (c) Architecture (a) 4 2 3 1 (d) Painting (b) 2 4 1 3 (c) 3 2 4 1 8. Fateh Singh Rathore, who passed away, recently, was (d)* 4 3 2 1 known for his conservation efforts at which of the following National Parks? (a) Sariska National Park 3. Which of the following pairs is/are correctly matched? (b) Ranthambore National Park* 1. Customs Day – February 24 (c) Darrah National Park 2. Income Tax Day – July 24 (d) Desert National Park 3. Excise Day – January 27 (a) 1 and 2 only 9. Bachi Karkaria was in news recently for her biography of (b) 2 and 3 only which of the following newspaper groups recently? (c) 3 and 1 only (a) The Hindu (d) 1, 2 and 3* (b) The Indian Express (c) Hindustan Times 4. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee presented his sixth (d) The Times of India* full Budget recently equalling the record of who among the following former Finance Ministers? 10. Consider the following statements about Libya. (a) Morarji Desai 1. United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has voted in favour (b) P Chidambaram of sanctions against Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi 1 © www.TestFunda.com 2. India abstained from voting in the UNSC resolution on 16. Which of the following statements about International sanctions against Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) is/are correct? 3. UNSC has referred Gaddafi to the International Criminal 1. It was established in 1980s Court in The Hague for prosecution for alleged crimes against 2. USA became its member recently humanity 3. It is based in the UAE Which of the above statements is/are correct? Which of the above statements is/are correct? (a) 1 and 2 only (a) 1 and 2 only (b) 2 and 3 only (b) 2 and 3 only* (c) 3 and 1 only* (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 (d) 1, 2 and 3 11. Which of the following was in news for its report ‘Global 17. Why was Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus of Risks Atlas 2011’ that has ranked India among ‘high risk’ Bangladesh in news recently? global economies? (a) He has been appointed Advisor to the Asian Development (a) Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Bank (ADB) (b) Maplecroft* (b) He was removed from his membership of the Awami League (c) Deloitte Party by PM Sheikh Hasina Wazed (d) Pew Research Center (c) He joined politics and was elected to the Lower House of Parliament 12. Key Resolve/Foal Eagle were the military exercises (d) He was removed from his post as MD of Grameen Bank by involving US troops at which of the following places? the government* (a) Turkey (b) Afghanistan 18. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer (c) Central Asia using the code given below: (d) Korea* List I List II 13. Consider the following statements about Republic of (Person) (Company) Ireland where elections were organised recently. A. Nitin Paranjpe 1. Adobe Systems 1. Dail is the lower house of Parliament B. Shantanu Narayen 2. Hindustan Unilever 2. Fine Gael, Labour Party and Fianna Fail won the highest C. Arun Bharat Ram 3. SRF Limited number of seats D. Dr J.J. Irani 4. Tata Sons 3. Prime Minister is called Taoiseach Code: Which of the above statements is/are correct? A B C D (a) 1 and 2 only (a) 1 2 3 4 (b) 2 and 3 only (c) 1 and 3 only (b)* 2 1 3 4 (d) 1, 2 and 3* (c) 1 2 4 3 (d) 2 3 1 4 14. India has decided to open a new Consulate in which of the following cities in the US? 19. V. Radhakrishnan, who passed away, recently, was a (a) Las Vegas well-known __________. (b) Boston (a) Archaeologist (c) Atlanta* (b) Demographer (d) Michigan (c) Astrophysicist* (d) Cartographer 15. Which island nation has decided to remove the images of British monarch Queen Elizabeth from its coins and 20. Who was appointed as the new Prime Minister of Egypt banknotes recently? recently? (a) Seychelles (a) Ahmed Nazif (b) Bahamas (b) Abdel Rahman Nasser (c) Jamaica (c) Essam Sharaf* (d) Fiji* (d) Magdy Galal Sharawi 2 © www.TestFunda.com 21. Wilbur Smith Associates is a consulting firm known for (b) 2 and 3 only its expertise in which sector? (c) 1 and 3 only (a) Oil exploration (d) 1, 2 and 3* (b) Civil Aviation (c) Road Transport* 27. Which of the following is/are not correctly matched? (d) Shipping (a) Dandi March Day – March 12 (b) Consumers Day – March 15 22. Who was appointed as the new Prime Minister of Tunisia (c) Immunization Day – March 16 recently? (d) None of the above* (a) Hamed Karoui (b) Hedi Amara Nouira 28. Consider the following statements about Union Budget (c) Beji Caid Essebsi* 2011-12. (d) Mohammed Mzali 1. Housing loans not exceeding Rs. 25 lakh can avail of interest subsidy 23. Consider the following pairs of awards and their winners 2. Interest subsidy will be applicable upto Rs 15 lakh of the at 83rd Academy Awards. Housing loan amount 1. Tom Hooper – Best Director 3. Interest subsidy on housing loans has been increased by 0.25 2. Best Foreign Language Film – ‗In A Better World‘ per cent 3. Best Animation Film – ‗Alice In Wonderland‘ Which of the above statements is/are correct? Which of the above pairs is/are correctly matched? (a) 1 and 2 only* (a) 1 and 2 only* (b) 1 and 3 only (b) 2 and 3 only (c) 1 and 3 only (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 (d) 1, 2 and 3 29. Which was the highest profit-making public sector unit 24. Consider the following statements about tidal energy in 2009-10, according to the Public Enterprises Survey potential in the country as per a recent assessment by the released recently? Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. (a) SAIL 1. India‘s tidal energy potential is of the order of 8000 MW (b) ONGC* 2. The highest tidal energy potential is in Kerala (c) NTPC 3. Union government provides financial incentives upto 50% of (d) BHEL the cost to the state government implementing Agencies for the development of tidal energy projects 30. Union Budget 2011-12 has announced the setting up of Which of the above statements is/are correct? which of the following? (a) 1 and 2 only 1. Women SHG Development Fund (b) 2 and 3 only 2. Rural Housing Fund (c) 3 and 1 only* 3. India Microfinance Equity Fund (d) 1, 2 and 3 (a) 1 and 2 only (b) 2 and 3 only 25. Which of the following is Russia’s highest civilian award (c) 1 and 3 only* given to former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev? (d) 1, 2 and 3 (a) Order of St. Nicholas 31. Prem Mathur, Durba Banerjee, Chanda Budhabhatti are (b) Order of St. Mark the first among women to contribute significantly to which (c) Order of St. George of the following in India? (d) Order of St Andrew* (a) Adventure Sports (b) Aviation* 26. Consider the following statements about targets and (c) Railways estimates given in Union Budget 2011-12. (d) Manufacturing industry 1. Non-plan expenditure in 2011-12 would decline 2. Total Expenditure in 2011-12 would increase by 3% 32. Consider the following statements about personal income 3. Plan expenditure in 2011-12 would increase tax measures announced in Union Budget 2011-12. Which of the above statements is/are correct? 1. Exemption limit for individual taxpayers has been increased (a) 1 and 2 only 3 © www.TestFunda.com 2. People of age 60 and above will be considered Senior Citizens (b) 2 and 3 only for Income Tax exemptions (c) 1 and 3 only* 3. A new category of Very Senior Citizens of those of 80 years (d) 1, 2 and 3 and above has been created Which of the above statements is/are correct? 37. What is the number of middle class households in India (a) 1 and 2 only according to a recent report by National Council for Applied (b) 2 and 3 only Economic Research’s Centre for Macro Consumer (c) 1 and 3 only Research? (d) 1, 2 and 3* (a) 31 million* (b) 53 million 33.