Tuesday 22 October 2013

Current Affairs Quiz - October 2013

                1.     What has been India’s ranking in the latest Global Human Capital Index, released by World Economic Forum (WEF)? This ranking considers countries on the basis of economic potential of their labour forces.

(a) 78th
(b) 75th
(c) 77th
(d) 76th
(e) None of these
2.  A scheme named Visa-on-arrival (VoA) to lure foreign tourists is applied to how many countries at present? Government of India is considering to include 40 more countries.
(a) 10
(b) 13
(c) 12
(d) 11
(e) None of these
3.     Who is the new chief of WTO?
(a) Pascal Lami
(b) N Roberto
(c) Roberto Azevedo
(d) Robert DoVillia
(e) None of these
4.     Who won Japan Open Men’s single title, recently?
(a) Miles Raonic
(b) Andy Murray
(c) Rafel Nadal
(d) Juan Martin del Potro
(e) None of these
5.     What is the present MSF rate?
(a) 9.50%
(b) 10.00%
(c) 9.00%
(d) 8.50%
(e) None of these
6.     What is the present Bank rate?
(a) 9.00%
(b) 9.50%
(c) 10.00%
(d) 8.50%
(e) None of these
Answers
1. A2. D
3. C4. D
5. C6. A

7.     Who has been appointed as the chairperson of SBI? She also happens to be the first women to head SBI.
(a) Rashmi Kalakriti
(b) Aditya Kulkarni
(c) A Bhattacharya
(d) Rukmani Mohanty
(e) None of these
8.  Which telecom operator has recently awarded Unified License? This is the first telecom operator to get so.
(a) Airtel
(b) BSNL
(c) MTS
(d) MTNL
(e) Idea
9. Which food item has the largest share in the India’s exports?
(a)  Meat products
(b) Vegetable oils
(c) Oilseed
(d) Pulses & Cereals
(e) Wheat
10. Who has been appointed as the CMD of Corporation bank?
(a) SK Chaturvedi
(b) SR Bansal
(c) R Kaushik
(d) RK Mishra
(e) None of these
11. Who won China Open Women’s doubles title, recently?
(a) Sania Mirza & Cara Black
(b) V Dushevina & A Parra
(c) Roberta Vinci & Sara Errani
(d) William Sisters
(e) None of these
12. James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Sudhof won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Medicine. What was their achievement, which fetched them this prestigious award?
(a) How hormones, enzymes and other key substances are transported within cells?
(b) How microscopic organisms help in digestion?
(c) New method for calculation of BOD
(d) Transplantation of stem cells
(e) None of these
Answers
7. C8. C
9. B10. B
11. A12. A

13.     India @75” – An initiative by Confederation of Indian Industry, has been inspired by _____?
(a) C. K. Prahalad
(b) Naina Lal Kidwai
(c) Hirak Bajaj
(d) Adi Godrej
(e) None of these
14.     Which foreign Airlines took 24% stake in Jet Airways recently?
(a) Fly Emirates
(b) Katar Airways
(c) British Airways
(d) Etihad Airways
(e) None of these
15.     Who took over as Secretary, Department of Telecommunication?
(a) M.F. Farooqui
(b) Kamal Nayan
(c) P. Chaudhari
(d) Amit Bansal
(e) None of these
16.     As per RBI norms, how much minimum amount of funds is required by a Core Investment Company in order set up a JV for insurance business?
(a) 500 Crore
(b) 600 Crore
(c) 400 Crore
(d) 800 Crore
(e) None of these
17.     Recently the Apex court, in a landmark verdict, rejected a Swiss drug giant’s plea for patent of Glivec- a cancer fighting drug. What is the name of that pharma major?
(a) Cipla
(b) Ranbaxy
(c) Novartis
(d) Pfizer
(e) None of these
18.     Which bank has became the first Indian bank to receive ISO 27001 certification from BSI?
(a) Vijaya Bank
(b) State Bank of India
(c) Corporation Bank
(d) Punjab National Bank
(e) None of these
19.     What is H7N9?
(a) A new form for USA Visa
(b) A new form for Australian Visa
(c) Bird Flu disease
(d) Type of a viral fever
(e) None of these
20.     Recently UN passed historic Arms Trade Treaty to regulate the international sale in arms. What was India’s stand for this resolution?
(a) India voted in the favour
(b) India voted in the against
(c) India abstained from the voting
(d) None of these
21.     Which of the following Indian actor has been nominated asSAARC goodwill ambassador for HIV/AIDS?
(a) Ajay Devgan
(b) Sunil Shetty
(c) Nana Patekar
(d) Vinod Rai
(e) None of these
22.   Who is the founder of UCX (Universal Commodity Exchange) – India’s 6th commodity future trading platform?
(a) Nitin Parik
(b) Ketan Sheth
(c) Nirmal Verma
(d) Jyanti Pushanakar
(e) None of these
Answers:- 

13.     A
14.     D
15.     A
16.     A
17.     C
18.     A
19.     C
20.     C
21.     A
22.B

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