gk practise paper 1

1. TRIFED refers to
a) Tribal Federation
b) Tribal Co-operative Marketing Federation of India
c) Tribal Films Enterprises Division
d) Tribal Firms Expansion Department


2. Who was the first Indian to be awarded the prestigious Joseph Schumpeter prize for innovative services in the field of economy, economic sciences and politics:--

a) Mr Nandan Nilekani
b) N R Narayana Murthy
c) Azim Premji
d) Veda Vyas
e)

3. Ram Vilas Paswan is the Minister for
a) Chemicals and Fertilisers & Steel
b) Science and Technology
c) Finance
d) Power

4. Kapil Saibal is the Central Minister for
a) Science and Technology and Earth Sciences
b) Company affairs
c) Consumer affairs
d) Law and Justice

5. While reserving the seats in the higher educational institutions, which of the following is to be excluded
a) Poor People in upper castes
b) Creamy Layer
c) Outer Layer
d) None of the above




6. Which company in India is the first to list in NASDAQ?
a) Infosys
b) TCS
c) WIPRO
d) I-Flex Solutions

7. Which of the following does not form part of the creamy layer as per Mandal Commission Report?

a) Sons/daughters of the Judges of the High court
b) Sons/daughters of the Class I Officers of the State Government
c) Sons/ daughters of the army Personnel below the rank of Colonel
d) Sons/daughters of the Members of UPSC

8. OPEC stands for
a) Organisation for Petroleum Exporting Countries
b) Organisation for Personality Enhancement Corporation
c) Organisation for Petroleum Energy Commission
d) Organisation for Petroleum Exporting Continent

9. A state owned corporation which gives guarantee for export credit is known as:
a) ECGC: b) DICGC; c) X-change; d) CGTSI

10. IPTV refers to
a) Internet Protocol Television; b) Interim Profit & Tax Volume; c) Internet Parlour Television; d) Interim policy on Traffic volume

11. The Director General of WTO is (4 years from 2005)
a) Rumsfield; b) Cardoza; c) Pascal Lamy d) Shashi Tharoor

12. The name of the president of CII is] (2007-2008)
a) T N Sheshan b) R Sheshasayee; c) Sunil mittal d) S K Manjal

13. The acronym FII refers to
a) Foreign Individual Investor; b) Foreign Institutional Investor;
c) Foreign Investment of an Indian; d) Foreign Interim Investment

14 Which trade union organisation has made a beginning to fight for techies’ rights?
a) Bharat Mazdoor Sabha b) INTUC
c) CITU; d) Indian IT Industries’ Association

15. The acronym ITES refers to
a) IT Enabled Services; b) IT Entertainment Services
c) Income Tax Exemption Scheme; d) IT Exports Scheme

16. Who won the Celebrity Big Brother 2007 Reality Show?
a) Rakhi Sawant; b) Shilpa Shetty c) Jade Goody, d)Daniel Lloyd





17. PSLV stands for
a) Public Sector Light Vehicle; b) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle;
c) Private Sector Light Vehicle; d) Pure Services Lending Value

18. Name the US astronaut of Indian descent recently in the International Space Station
a) Kalpana Chawla; b) Sunita Williams
c) Richard Gere; d) Bipasha Basu

19. Name the External Affairs Minister of India.
a) Pranab Mukherji; b) Lal Krishna Advani;
c) Dayanidhi Maran; d) Jawant Singh

20. Who is the chief justice of the Supreme Court of India?
a) K G Balakrishnan, b) R C Lahoti;
c) Y K Sabharwal; d) Somanth Chatterji

21. Which of these countries are members of the OECD Countries?

a) Austria
b) Belgium
c) Canada
d) All the above

22. Which Film was chosen for the OSCAR 2008 awards in Direction, Best Picture and Adapted Screen Play?
a) No country for old men
b) There will be blood
c) Juno
d) The counterfeiters

23. Which film was chosen for the best foreign language film in OSCARS 2008?
a) No country for old men
b) There will be blood
c) Juno
d) The counterfeiters

24. Name the committee appointed in 1999 for recommendations in Corporate Governance in India?
a) Damodaran
b) Narayanamurthy
c) Dr Manmohan Singh
d) Kumar Mangalam

25. Which of these countries are members of OECD?
a) Austria
b) Canada
c) United States
d) All the above









Answers to gk
Q No Ans Q No Ans Q No Ans
1 b 11 c 21 d
2 a 12 d 22 a
3 a 13 b 23 d
4 a 14 c 24 d
5 b 15 a 25 d
6 a 16 b
7 c 17 b
8 a 18 a
9 a 19 a
10 a 20 a