Current Affairs September 2012 Quiz-26

1. Effective from September 22, 2012 what is the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR)?
1) 4% 2) 4.75%
3) 4.5% 4) 4.25% 5) 5%

2. Which Russian city hosted the 24th Summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in September 2012?
1) Yekaterinburg
2) Vladivostok 3) Moscow
4) Novosibirsk
5) Saint Petersburg

Current Affairs September 2012 Quiz-25

1. What is the revised growth rate target for the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-2017)?
1) 9% 2) 8%
3) 8.2% 4) 8.5%
5) 9.5%

2. Which Indian author has been short listed for this year's Man Booker Prize for his novel 'Narcopolis', a dark tale about the opium and heroin dens of Mumbai?
1) Aravind Adina 2) Jeet Thayil
3) Amitav Ghosh
4) Chetan Bhagat
5) Rahul Bhattacharya

Books & Authors

"White Tiger" was the first book written by Aravind Adiga, this book has won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.
"Between The Assasinations" was written by Aravind Adiga, this is his second book.
"Sea of Poppies" was written by Amitav Ghosh, this book was nominated for the 2008 Booker Prize.

"Mid Night Children" was written by Salman Rushdie, this book has been adjudged as the Best Of Booker Prize.
"Enchantress Of florence" was written by Salman Rushdie, which is the latest book written by him.
"God Of Small things" was the first book written by Arundhati Roy which won the man Booker Prize in 1997.
"Imagining India" was written by Nandan Nilenkhani.

Appointments in India 2012

 

 

1. Dr. Bhalchandra Mungekar appointed as President, Indian Economic Association.

2. Parvin Sinclair appointed as Director of National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) on Jan 2, 2012.

3. Samir K. Brahmachari reappointed as Director General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). He got extension for a period of two years.

4. Arvind Gupta appointed as Director General, Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA).

5. Vice Admiral M.P. Muralidharan appointed as Director General, Indian Coast Guard in Jan 2012. Earlier served as the first Commandant fo the Indian Naval Academy at Ezhimala.

Current Affairs September 2012 Quiz-23

1. What is the first quarter (April-June) gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the year 2012-13?
1) 6.3% 2) 7.5% 3) 6.5% 4) 5.5% 5) 8.5%

2. Who, among the following Nobel laureates in Literature, has written a novel 'The Dream of the Celt'?
1) V.S.Naipaul 2) J.M.Coetzee
3) Orhan Pamuk
4) Tomas Transtromer
5) Mario Vargas Llosa

3. Which state imposed a ban on manufacture, storage and sale of gutka, pan masala and their variants containing tobacco and nicotine recently? (It has become the second state after Madhya Pradesh to ban gutka products)
1) Punjab 2) Haryana
3) Kerala 4) Gujarat
5) Andhra Pradesh