Quiz-32

1. The Reserve Bank of India in its quarterly monetary policy review on October 30, 2012 cut the cash reserve ratio (CRR) for banks. What is the CRR with effect from November 3, 2012? (CRR is the portion of deposits banks have to park with RBI)
1) 4.75% 2) 5%
3) 4.25% 4) 4% 5) 5.25%

2. Hugo Chavez defeated Henrique Capriles to win a third consec-utive six-year term on October 7, 2012 as the President of which of the following countries?
1) Bolivia 2) Venezuela
3) Cuba 4) Ecuador 5) Mexico

3. Who replaced S.M. Krishna as the new External Affairs Minister on October 28, 2012?
1) Anand Sharma
2) Ashwani Kumar
3) Salman Khurshid
4) Kamal Nath 5) Kapil Sibal

Quiz-31

1. Juan Carlos I visited India in the last week of October 2012. He is the king of which of the following European countries? 1) Norway 2) Sweden 3) Spain 4) Greece 5) Denmark 2. Which of the following companies has launched Surface, a tablet computer? 1) Apple 2) Google 3) Microsoft 4) Nokia 5) Samsung 3. Mo Yan of China was awarded which of the following Nobel Prizes for the year 2012? 1) Peace 2) Physics 3) Literature 4) Physiology 5) Chemistry

Current Affairs october 2012 Quiz-30

1. An expert panel set up by the Prime Minister recommended complete decontrol of the sugar industry. Who headed this committee? (The panel submitted its report in October 2012) 1) Kaushik Basu 2) Bimal Jalan 3) C.Rangarajan 4) R.S.Gujral 5) Y.V.Reddy 2. Who are awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies of G-protein coupled receptors? 1) Thomas Steitz (USA) & Ada Yonath (Israel) 2) Barry Sharpless & William Knowles (USA) 3) Robert Lefkowitz & Brian Kobilka (USA) 4) Peter Agre & Roderick Mackinnon (USA) 5) None of these

Current Affairs october 2012 Quiz-29

1. Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 2012 for their work with light and matter at the most fundamental level? 1) Adam Reiss and Brian Schmidt 2) Adam Reiss and Saul Perlmutter 3) Serge Haroche and David J.Wineland 4) Charles K. Kao and Willard S. Boyle 5) Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov 2. Who was conferred with the prestigious Lata Mangeshkar Award by the Maharashtra government in September 2012? 1) Khayyam 2) Udit Narayan 3) Anandji Shah 4) Suman Kalyanpur 5) None

Current Affairs October 2012 Quiz-28

1. Who was sworn in as the 39th Chief Justice of India on September 29, 2012? 1) Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan 2) Justice J.S. Khehar 3) Justice Altamas Kabir 4) Justice D. Murugesan 5) Justice M.Y. Eqbal 2. The Supreme Court directed which of the following companies/groups to refund over Rs. 24,400 crore collected from 2.21 crore depositors through the optimally fully convertible debentures (OFCDs) by way of bonds? 1) Reliance 2) Murugappa 3) Sahar 4) Kingfisher 5) Essar

Current Affairs October 2012 Quiz 27

1.Pauline Marois became the first female Premier of which of the following provinces of Canada in September 2012?
1) Alberta
2) Nova Scotia
3) Quebec
4) British Columbia
5) Ontario

2.The Central Government appoin-ted Y.C. Deveshwar as a director on the central board of directors of the Reserve Bank of India in September 2012. He is the chairman of which of the following companies?
1) Bombay Dyeing
2) ITC
3) Murugappa Group
4) Future Group
5) Essar Group

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

Current Affairs August 2012 Quiz-21

1. Meles Zenawi passed away on August 20, 2012. He was the Prime Minister of which of the following African countries from 1995 until his death in 2012?
1) Somalia 2) Ethiopia
3) Eritrea 4) Djibouti
5) Sudan

2. Which Chinese woman shooter won the first gold medal of the London Olympics on July 28, 2012?
1) Yi Siling
2) Yu Dan 3) Ye Shiwen
4) Wang Mingjuan
5) Li Xuerui

Current Affairs August 2012 Quiz-20

1. The restructured version of the Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas (PURA) was launched by the Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh recently in which of the following states?
1) Tamil Nadu 2) Kerala
3) Goa 4) Orissa
5) Andhra Pradesh

2. Who was elected as a judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), based in The Hague, Netherlands in April 2012?
1) Justice Altamas Kabir
2) Justice D.K.Jain
3) Justice P. Sathasivam
4) Justice G.S.Singhvi
5) Justice Dalveer Bhandari

Current Affairs August 2012 Quiz-19

1. Who was the flag bearer for India during the closing ceremony of the London Olympics on August 12, 2012?
1) MC Mary Kom
2) Saina Nehwal
3) Sushil Kumar
4) Gagan Narang
5) Vijay Kumar

2. Which of the following countries granted asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on August 16, 2012?
1) Sweden 2) Australia
3) Cuba 4) Venezuela
5) Ecuador

Current Affairs August 2012 Quiz-18

1. Who was appointed as the Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) in the Finance Ministry in August 2012? (He was former chief economist at the IMF)
1) Kaushik Basu
2) C. Rangarajan 3) Y.V.Reddy
4) Raghuram Rajan
5) Ajay Chhibber

2. Which city hosted the 20th ASEAN Summit on April 3, 2012?
1) Jakarta (Indonesia)
2) Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
3) Manila (Philippines)
4) Bangkok (Thailand)
5) Hanoi (Vietnam)

Current Affairs August 2012 Quiz-17

1. Gagan Narang became the first Indian to win a medal at the London Olympic Games on July 30, 2012 when he won a bronze medal in 10 metre air rifle shooting. Who won gold medal in this event?
1) Alin George Moldoveanu (Romania)
2) Niccolo Campriani (Italy)
3) Wang Tao (China)
4) Zhu Qinan (China) 5) None

2. Joyce Banda became the Presi-dent of which of the following African countries on April 7, 2012? (She is this country's first female president)
1) Zambia 2) Tanzania
3) Malawi 4) Mozambique
5) Liberia

Current Affairs August 2012 Quiz-16

1. Gulab Kothari has won which of the following awards for the year 2011?
1) Saraswati Samman
2) Moorti Devi Award
3) Jnanpith Award
4) Vyas Samman
5) None of these

2. Ramadevarabetta in Ramana-garam district has been declared as a vulture sanctuary. In which state is this sanctuary located?
1) Kerala
2) Tamil Nadu
3) Karnataka
4) Maharashtra
5) None of these

Current Affairs July 2012 Quiz-15

1. Who was sworn in as Hong Kong's new chief executive on July 1, 2012? (Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China) 1) Leung Chun-Ying 2) Donald Tsang 3) Ronald Arculli 4) Chung Sze-Yuen 5) None of these 2. The Templeton Prize honors a living person who has made an exceptional contribution to affir-ming life's spiritual dimension. Who won the 2012 Templeton Prize, the largest annual moneta-ry award given to an individual? 1) Martin Rees 2) Michael Heller 3) The Dalai Lama 4) Charles Taylor 5) Francisco Jose Ayala

July 2012 Quiz-14

1. Who was appointed as the United States new Ambassador to Pakistan in July 2012? 1) Mike Rogers 2)Richard Olson 3) James Cunningham 4) Cameron Munter 5) None of these 2. Which country's parliament ratified the agreement to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) in July 2012? 1) China 2) Russia 3) Cuba 4) Mexico 5) USA 3. Which of the following is the name of a country? 1) Krona 2) Rouble 3) Pula 4) Chad 5) Kwanza

July 2012 Quiz-13

1. Who among the following was re-elected as President of The Gambia in the election organised in November 2011 ?
1) Yahya Jammeh
2) Sadou Hayatou
3) Apolo Nsibambi
4) Ahmadou Ahidjo

2. Sushil Kumar was named as the brand ambassador of which of the following by the government recently ?
1) Indira Awas Yojana
2) National Rural Health Mission
3) National Rural Livelihoods Mission
4) Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

July 2012 Quiz-12

1. Donor nations offered $16 billion to Afghanistan in development aid through 2015 at an international conference on Afghanistan that was held on July 8, 2012 in?
1) London 2) Tokyo
3) Kabul 4) New Delhi
5) Islamabad

2. Roger Federer of Switzerland won his seventh Wimbledon and 17th Grand Slam tennis title on July 8, 2012. Whom did he defeat in the final?
1) Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
2) David Ferrer (Spain)
3) Florian Mayer (Germany)
4) Andy Murray (Great Britain)
5) Marin Cilic (Croatia)

Current Affairs July 2012 Quiz-11

1. India recently has held 6th round of talks on commercial and economic co-operation with ............
1) Sri Lanka
2) Pakistan
3) Bangladesh
4) Maldives

2. The first Indian state to pass the Lokayukta Bill - 2011 is ..............
1) Uttar Pradesh
2) Bihar
3) Uttarakhand
4) Jharkhand

Current Affairs July 2012 Quiz-10

1.Which country's senate voted to remove President Fernando Lugo from office in an impeachment trial in June 2012? (He was replaced by Federico Franco) 1) Chile 2) Paraguay 3) Uruguay 4) Peru 5) Suriname 2.Fatou Bensouda became the first woman and the first African to head the team of prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC), The Hague on June 15, 2012. She is a former Minister of Justice of which of the following countries? 1) Rwanda 2) Kenya 3) Gambia 4) Uganda 5) Nigeria