Practice Quiz on Current (Business) Affairs 2012

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUIZ

1. Which countriy is the world's largest producer and exporter of uranium?
a Australia
b Kazakhstan
c Canada
d France
2. Who was awarded the CNR Rao national prize in chemical sciences for the year 2012-13?
a S Chandrasekhar
b V Surya Prakasa Rao
c JK Bera
d AK Sood
3. Recently, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, handed over a railway project built with Indian assistance to which of the following countries?
a Bangladesh
b Sri Lanka
c Bhutan
d Nepal
4. Football club Livorno's midfielder Piermario Morosini died after collapsing on the pitch during a game. Which country did he belong to?
a Portugal
b Germany
c Uruguay
d Itay
5. Former Special Protection Group SPG chief B Wanchoo recently has been appointed as the Governor of:
a Goa
b Uttarakhand
c Rajasthan
d Andhra Pradesh
6. What is the range of the Agni-V missile?
a 3000 km
b 3500 km
c 5000 km
d 6000 km
7. Which High Court has upheld the validity of a decision taken by the Indian Banks Association to not give educational loan to students who had secured less than 60% in qualifying examinations and then secured seats in private colleges under the management quota?
a Madras High Court
b Delhi High Court
c Allahabad High Court
d Gujarat High Court
8. President Salva Kiir has ordered the immediate withdrawal of his troops from the contested Heglig oil field. Salva Kiir is the President of:
a Brazil
b South Sudan
c Bolivia
d Ethiopia
9. Wilson Kipsang won the London Marathon. He belongs to:
a Kenya
b Ethiopia
c Jamaica
d Uganda
10. Who won the Barcelona Open men's tennis tournament 2012?
a David Ferrer
b Fernando Verdasco
c Milos Raonic
d Rafael Nadal
11. IIT-Kharagpur has recently signed a memorandum of understanding with a state government to open an extension centre to impart quality improvement and knowledge upgrade training to university and college teachers. Name the state.
a Chhattisgarh
b Jharkhand
c Bihar
d Odisha
12. Who among the following is the current chief of DRDO?
a M Natarajan
b VK Saraswat
c R Sreehari Rao
d S Sundaresh
13. The National AIDS Control Organisation NACO and the Karnataka State AIDS Control Society have launched a single-window project in four districts of Karnataka to facilitate social protection and deliver social entitlements for people living with HIV. Name the project?
a Swavlamban
b Utthan
c Utkarsha
d Nirbhay
14. In a significant decision, the National Green Tribunal NGT has set aside the Environmental Clearance granted to the 4 MTPA Coal Mining Project of Jindal Steel and Power Ltd and 4 MTPA Coal Washery on grounds of faulty public hearing. These projects were located in which of the following states?
a Chhattisgarh
b Odisha
c Jharkhand
d Karnataka
15. Which country accounted for 47% of global measles deaths in 2010?
a Pakistan
b India
c Bangladesh
d Uganda
16. Which insurance company is planning to come out with a new product that will extend coverage to HIV positive and AIDS patients?
a National Insurance Company Limited NICL
b Apollo Munich Health Insurance
c ICICI Lombard
d United India Insurance Co Ltd
17. SunEdison, a worldwide solar energy services provider, announced the activation of a 25 MW solar photovoltaic PV power plant located within a multi-developer, multi-facility solar park in:
a Rajasthan
b Gujarat
c Haryana
d Maharashtra
18. Justice Ranjan Gogoi has been sworn in as a Supreme Court judge, raising the strength of the apex court to 27. He was the former Chief Justice of:
a Punjab and Haryana High Court
b Guwahati High Court
c Calcutta High Court
d Madras High Court
19. Which of the following countries is planning to install two coastal nuclear power plants, each with the capacity to generate 1000MW?
a India
b Pakistan
c Iran
d North Korea
20. Which among the following satellites is the heaviest satellite of India till date?
a RISAT-1
b RESOURCESAT-1
c CARTOSAT-1
d INSAT-4G
21. Which of the following countries recently allowed imports of basmati rice from India?
a Japan
b South Korea
c China
d Pakistan
22. A Karnataka High Court-appointed committee on malnutrition among children will submit a report to Chief Justice Vikramjit Sen by 15 June. The committee is headed by:
a NK Patil
b BL Patil
c M Srinivasan
d B Sivaraman
23. ‘Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid’ is a book written by:
a CK Prahlad
b Amartya Sen
c Stephen J Dubner
d Sudeep Reddy
24. Which of the following Indian films has been nominated for the Cannes Film Festival 2012?
a Miss Lovely
b Ra One
c The Dirty Picture
d Pan Singh Tomar
25. Which state governments has banned the use of the expression, ‘handicapped'?
a Haryana
b New Delhi
c Kerala
d West Bengal
26. After the successful launch of the Agni-V missile, India has become one of the nations with Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile ICBM technology. Which of the following countries do not have the ICBM technology?
a US
b Russia
c China
b Germany
27. According to the latest data of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute SIPRI, which of the following countries was the world's largest arms importer between 2007- 2011?
a Pakistan
b China
c South Korea
d India
28. Which of the following female actors will act as a brand ambassador on public hygiene issues?
a Katrina Kaif
b Vidya Balan
c Madhuri Dixit
d Karina Kapoor
29. Which one of the following persons has been recently elected as the al-India president of the Progressive Writers Association?
a Ponneelan
b Amrita Pritam
c Vijaydan Detha
c Habib Tanvir
30. Ace tennis player and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awardee, Leander Paes, will be the Sports Ambassador of:
a Andhra Pradesh
b Kerala
c Haryana
d Gujarat
31. Which of the following state's Chief Minister was recently named as one of the 100 most influential people of the world by 'Time magazine'?
a Gujarat
b New Delhi
c Bihar
d West Bengal
32. In which state has the Atomic Energy Commission of India commissioned a uranium ore mine and processing plant set up by the Uranium Corporation of India?
a Karnataka
b Andhra Pradesh
c Madhya Pradesh
d Jharkhand
33. Who among the following is the current chairman of the Bar Council of India BCI?
a Ashok Parija
b Manan Kumar Mishra
c Zafar Ahmed Khan
d Shri Gopal Subramanium
34. Who won the 'Sulabh Kala Sarjak Samman' award - instituted by Sulabh International?
a Virendra Prabhakar
b Karan Thapar
c Rajdeep Sardesai
d Dr Prannoy Roy
35. ‘How to fight Islamist terror from a missionary position’ is a book written by:
a Shashi Tharoor
b Urvashi Butalia
c Tabish Khair
d Salman Rushdie
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