gk practise paper 15

1. Which of the following organizations/agencies has established a fund known as “Investor Protestor Fund”?
a. SEBI
b. NABARD
c. Bombay Stock Exchange
d. Ministry of Health
ANS. a

2. India has different categories of Commercial banks. Which of the following is not one such category?
a. Private Banks
b. Commodity Banks
c. Nationalised Banks
d. Co-operative Banks
ANS. b

3. Shinzo Abe who was on visit to India in recent past is the
a. Prime Minister of South Korea
b. Prime Minister of North Korea
c. Prime Minister of Japan
d. President of South Korea
ANS. c

4. Hem Dutta who was honoured with the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhawana Award 2007 is a famous
a. Author
b. Social activist
c. Player
d. Film producer
ANS. b

5. Who among the following was the Captain of the Indian hockey team who won Asia Cup 2007 held in Chennai?
a. Baichung Bhutia
b. Dilip Tirkey
c. Manavjit Singh Sandhu
d. None of These
ANS. d – Parbodh Tirkey

6. India launched which of the following satellites in September 2007?
a. EDUSAT
b. METSAT
c. CROSAT-IIB
d. INSAT-4CR
ANS. d

7. The government of India put a ban on export of which of the following commodities at the price below the price of the same in domestic market?
a. Steel
b. Chemical Fertilizer
c. Pharma Products
d. Electronic Goods
ANS. a

8. Who among the following got third position in long jump event of the Bayer International Athletics Meet held in Germany in 2007?
a. Shiny Wilson
b. Anju Bobby George
c. Neha Sanwal
d. Prajakta Sawant
ANS. b

9. Which of the following is a public sector unit?
a. TCS
b. ICICI Bank
c. TESCO
d. BHEL
ANS. d

10. Who amongst the following is selected for Basava Award (2006-2007) by the Karnataka Government?
a. Manmohan Singh
b. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
c. Sonia Gandhi
d. Pratibha Patil
ANS. b

11. The “Orange Coalition Government” was formed once again in which of the following countries?
a. Russia
b. Ukraine
c. France
d. Germany
ANS. b

12. Asafa Powell who created a new world record in 100 meters race is a citizen of
a. Jamaica
b. South Africa
c. India
d. USA
ANS. a

13. The World Athletics Championship 2007 was organized in
a. Beijing
b. New Delhi
c. Osaka
d. Dhaka
ANS. c

14. India won the ONGC Nehru Cup Football Tournament 2007 by beating
a. Syria
b. Pakistan
c. Britain
d. France
ANS. a

15. Which of the following countries is not elected by the Un General Assembly on the non-permanent seats of the UN Security Council w.e.f. January 2008?
a. Libya
b. Vietnam
c. Croatia
d. Pakistan
ANS. d

16. Justine Henin won the Women’s Singles US Open Tennis Championship 2007 after defeating
a. Svetlana Kuznetsova
b. Sania Mirza
c. Dinara Safina
d. Mathalie Dechy
ANS. a

17. As reported in papers the UN World Food Programmes stopped distributing food in Mogadishu Town after it’s local head was abducted by the government soldiers of the country. Mogadishu is the capital city of
a. Tanzania
b. Turkey
c. Libya
d. Somalia
ANS. d

18. The Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) recently imposed a restriction on money flow in equity through ‘P-Notes’. What is the full form of ‘P-Notes’?
a. Permanent Notes
b. Purchase Notes
c. Participatory Notes
d. Private Notes
ANS. c
19. The money which government of India spends on on the developmeny of infrastructure in the country comes from which of the following sources? (Pick up the correct statement(s))
A. Loan from World Bank/ADB etc.
B. Taxes collected from the people
C. Loan from the RBI
a. Only A
b. Only B
c. Both A & B
d. All A, B & C.
ANS. d

20. Which of the following countries in the world is the biggest consumer of gold?
a. USA
b. Bangladesh
c. Russia
d. India
ANS. d

21. FII stands for-
a. Final Investment in India
b. Foreign Investment in India
c. Fair Institutional Investment
d. Foreign Institutional Investment
ANS. d

22. The financial markets of which of the following countries were badly affected by sub prime crisis?
a. Russia
b. Brazil
c. UK
d. USA
ANS. c

23. Which of the following countries has faced the problem of strike by the workers of the transport, electricity & gas companies as the present Government of the country has decided to end the pension to these workers?
a. USA
b. France
c. China
d. Nepal
ANS. b




24. Benazir Bhutto was associated with which of the following political parties?
a. Muslim League
b. Pakistan People’s Party
c. Pakistan National Congress
d. Islamic Movement of Pakistan
ANS. b

25. Which of the following countries recently decided to launch a military action in Northern Iraq where many Kurdish PKK fighters are based & they are killing people from that country?
a. Afghanistan
b. Pakistan
c. Bangladesh
d. Turkey
ANS. d