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(For Various Competitive Exams)

Q.1.After ONGC, which firm has become India’s second largest PSU? 

• IOC 
• NTPC
• BP
• BHEL

Q.2.Name this Indian Tennis player who has turned Hollywood filmmaker?

• Ramesh Krishnan 
• Mahesh Bhupathi 
• Vijay Amritraj 
• Ashok Amritraj

Q.3.Name the MNC which is in packaging of foods which has an equity stake in Britannia?

• Cadbury 
• Nestle
• Danone 
• HLL

Q.4.Which of the following honours has Dr.Kalam been awarded,the highest honour that an Indian citizen can receive? 

• Arjuna Award
• The Bharat Ratna
• Padma Bhushan 
• Padma Vibhushan

Q.5.What is the investment rate recorded by the economy during 2006-07?

• 24% 
• 22.4% 
• 33.8% 
• 34%

Q.6.World space is service provider for

• Satellite Radio
• Broadband
• Telephone 
• None of these

Q.7.Which of the following words was added into the Pre-amble of the Constitution by the 42nd Amendment Act, 1976?

• Federal
• Socialist 
• Sovereign
• Republic

Q.8.What is the growth rate recorded by Indian economy during 2006-07?

• 8.9% 
• 9.04% 
• 9.4%
• 10%

Q.9.Which of the following phenomena of global warming in the Pacific Ocean may also increase in frequency and severity as long-term global warming continues?

• El Nino 
• Trade winds
• La Nina 
• None of these

Q.10.In the list of top 10 valuable brands in the world, there is only one European brand and the rest of the positions are occupied by US brands. Which is that European brand?

• BP 
• Nokia
• British Airways
• Adidas

Q.11.Which Constitutional post is enjoyed for a fixed term?

• President 
• Governor
• Prime Minister 
• Chief Justice

Q.12."Made in America" - the famous book discusses about which company’s business?

• GE 
• Wal Mart
• Dell
• Apple

Q.13.Fiscal deficit during 2006-07 of India was?

• 3%
• 1.5% 
• 2.5% 
• 4%

Q.14.Who among the following was India's longest serving Prime Minister?

• Jawahar Lal Nehru 
• Indira Gandhi 
• Lal Bahadur Shastri 
• Manmohan Singh

Q.15.Which of the following Indian cycle companies has entered its name Guinness Book of World Records? 

• Atlas Cycles
• Hero Cycles 
• TI Cycles
• None of these

Q.16.Full name of the "APJ" in Dr. Kalam's name is?

• Avul Panthwawala Jain
• Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen 
• Aral Ponnuswamy Jampiru
• Akbar Panneer Jalanti

Q.17.Name the company/organization that became famous for a generous donation leading to the addition of new category of Economics, in 1969, in which the Nobel Prize is awarded?

• Bank of Sweden
• General Electric
• GM
• Ford

Q.18.Which of the following human rights is protected in Article 21 of the Constitution of India?

• Right to Vote
• Right to Life and Liberty 
• Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression
• Right to Freedom of Religion

Q.19.“Putting News First” is the punch line of

• CNBC India
• BBC World
• Times Now
• CNN–IBN

Q.20.The process of breaking of a larger hydrocarbon molecule into smaller ones by heating in the presence of a catalyst is known as

• Cracking
• Fission
• Centrifugation
• Fusion

Q.21.Which Bengali writer has won an Oscar for his film direction?

• Anand Mukherjee
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Satyajit Ray
• Bankim Chandra

Q.22.Tundra, the pick-up truck is manufactured and sold by

• Nissan
• Bajaj
• Suzuki
• Toyota

Q.23.Which famous group invested in the Barista chain of coffee outlets?

• Taj group
• Tata Tea
• Hindustan Lever
• Nestle

Q.24.Which business group has a majority share in the magazine Cine Blitz?

• Bennett Coleman
• Kotak Mahindra
• UB
• Reliance

Q.25.Which of the following sports companies was founded in the 1920s by a German Adolf Dassler?

• Nike
• Adidas
• Reebok
• None of these

Q.26.The new company ‘Aventis’ is the result of merger of which two large pharmaceutical majors?

• Hoechst and Sandoz
• Rhone-Poulenc and Hoechst 
• Glaxo and SmithKline Beecham
• Rhone and Warner Lambert

Q.27.The baseline `Because life insurance is also about other people's lives' belongs to

• TATA-AIG
• HDFC
• ICICI Pru Life
• Birla Sunlife

Q.28.Which of following musicians received the Bharat Ratna?

• Hari Prasad Chaurakia
• Bismillah Khan 
• Amrita Pritam
• Shiv Kumar Batalwi

Q.29.Who takes the final decision upon the disqualification of a Member of Parliament?

• Speaker of Lok Sabha
• Vice-President 
• President
• Prime Minister

Q.30.The leading brand of artificial sweetener ‘Sugar Free' is owned by

• HLL
• Cadila
• P & G
• Glaxo

Q.31.The greeting "Jai Hind "was started by which famous person?

• Lal Bahadur Shastri
• Mahatma Gandhi 
• Subhash Chandra Bose
• Lok Manya Tilak

Q.32.What was the monetary size that the Indian economy achieved in 2006-07?

• $1.75 bn
• $100 bn 
• Rs. 40 lakh crores (approx.)
• Rs. 400 lakh crores

Q.33.Which co. owns the brand Glucon D?

• Ranbaxy
• Smithkline
• HLL 
• Heinz

Q.34.From 1585 to 1592, there has been no information about Shakespeare. This period is known as?

• The missing Years
• The black Years
• The suspense Years
• The lost Years

Q.35.Morphology is the study of

• The effects of the analgesic drugs
• The life study of fauna 
• The reproduction of cells
• The shapes of plants and animals

Q.36.Who was India's first deputy Prime Minister?

• Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
• B.R.Ambedkar 
• Sardar Baldev Singh
• Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

Q.37.‘India Today’ magazine is owned by

• Living media
• Bennett & Colman
• Hindustan Times
• Today Network 

Q.38.Which of the following % of Savings rate recorded by Indian economy during 2006-07?

• 18%
• 32.4%
• 39%
• 45%

Q.39.The director of the movie “The Da Vinci Code” is

• Sigmund Freud
• Ron Howard
• Dan Brown
• Steven Spielberg

Q.40.Which Indian software company is associated with the design of A380?

• Quartz
• Infosys
• Wipro
• NIIT

Q.41.From which country’s Constitution did Indian Constitution borrow the Concept of a Five Year Plan?

• UK
• USSR
• USA
• Japan

Q.42.What brand was acquired by Frito Lays from Amrit Agro?

• Lehar Namkeen
• Uncle Chipps
• Lays
• Hello Chipps

Q.43.The literary work, Sishu is of which of the following authors?

• Vikram Seth
• Jawaharlal Nehru 
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Arundhati Roy

Q.44.The IT Company “I-flex Solutions” was originally a part of which of the following companies ?

• ABN Amro Bank
• ICICI
• HSBC
• Citicorp

Q.45.Who was the last ruler of the Mughal dynasty?

• Bahadur Shah Zafar
• Aurangzeb
• Jehangir
• Shah Jahan

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Q.1.Which canal links Red sea and Mediterranean sea?

• Panama canal
• Suez canal
• Palk strait
• None of these

Q.2.Continents have drifted apart because of

• volcanic eruptions
• tectonic activities
• folding and faulting of rocks 
• All of the above

Q.3.Which of the following do not belong to solar system?

• Asteroids
• Comets
• Planets
• Nebulae

Q.4.Sexual reproduction causes genetic variation because of

• blending of genes
• chromosomal changes
• Shuffling of genes
• All of the above

Q.5.Average salinity of water of Arabian Sea is

• 25 ppt
• 35 ppt
• 45 ppt
• 55 ppt

Q.6.Development of the natural systems is described as

• function of the systems
• evolution of the systems
• self-sustained process of the systems
• None of the above

Q.7.Who was elected the new president of the prestigious Supreme Court Bar Association in an election held on 11 May 2011?

• Ram Jethmalani
• Adish C. Aggarwala
• K C Kaushik
• P H Parekh

Q.8.J.Jayalalithaa was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu on 16 May 2011 by Governor SS Barnala along with 33 cabinet ministers at the Madras University.Name the constituency in TN from which she contested the election and won.

• North Chennai Assembly Constituency
• Cuddalore Assembly Constituency
• Thiruvallur Assembly Constituency
• Srirangam Assembly Constituency

Q.9. Who was on 17 May 2011 elected as the new state youth Congress chief of Uttarakhand?

• Anand Singh Rawat
• Jyoti Rautela
• Harak Singh Rawat
• Sangram Singh Paudir

Q.10.Name the from the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader who was sworn in Assam Chief Minister for the third consecutive term on 18 May 2011 by Governor Janaki Ballav Patnaik. To which party does he belong to?

• Tarun Gagoi
• Bhumidar Barman
• GC Langthasa
• Chandan Sarkar

Q.11. Who among the following is the winner of the Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Peace and Reconciliation, 2009?

• Yukia Amano
• Aung San Suu Kyi
• Bill Gates
• Hillary Clinton

Q.12. Plants which grow on saline soils are

• xerophytes
• hydrophytes
• halophytes
• succulents

Q.13. Environment is a composite state of

• biotic factors
• physiographic factors 
• abiotic factors
• All of the above

Q.14. Water is conducted in vascular plants by

• phloem tissue
• parenchyma tissue
• meristems
• xylem tissue

Q.15.Minerals are

• liquids
• inorganic solids
• gases
• All of the above

Q16..RTGS stands for ………….

• Reduced time gross settlements
• Real time gross settlements
• Relative time gross settlements
• real total gross securities

Q.17.The last king of Mauryan empire was—

• Devavarman
• Brihadrath
• Kunala
• Shalishuk

Q.18.The historian Kalhan was—

• Buddhist
• Brahmin
• Jain
• None of these

Q.19.Founder of the Satvahana dynasty was—

• Shatkarni I
• Simuka
• Shatkarni II
• Rudradaman I

Q.20.Yen-Kao-Chen is generally known as—

• Kadphises I 
• Kanishka
• Kadphises II
• Vasishka 

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