Quiz16 - Current Affairs 2013 and General Awareness Topics for APPSC, IBPS & Bank PO Exams

"1. The Reserve Bank of India increased the repo rate or the short term lending rate by 25 basis points on September 20, 2013, What is the present repo rate? 1) 7.5% 2) 7.25% 3) 7.75% 4) 6.25% 5) 6.5% "

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1) 1 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 5

"2. Which country’s Parliament approved a new five-year term for long serving Prime Minister Hun Sen on September 24,2013? 1) Vietnam 2) Cambodia 3) Malaysia 4) South Korea 5) North Korea "

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1) 1 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 5

"3. Who was appointed as the Chairperson of the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) on September 23,2013? 1) Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre 2) Justice Deepak Gupta 3) Justice Vangala Eswaraiah 4) Justice S.R. Sen 5) None of these "

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1) 1 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 5

"4. The 16th National Integration Council (NIC) meeting was held in New Delhi on September 23,2013. It was chaired by? 1) Sonia Gandhi 2) P. Chidambaram 3) Sushil Kumar Shinde 4) Dr. Manmohan Singh 5) None of these "

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1) 1 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 5

"5. Who was appointed as the brand ambassador of the Border Security For ce (BSF) on September 22,2013? 1) Leander Paes 2) Sushil Kumar 3) Vij ay Kumar 4) Ronjan Sodlii 5) Virat Kohli "

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1) 1 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 5

"6. Who was appointed as the non playing captain of the Indian Davis Cup tennis team in September 2013? 1) Vij ay Amritraj 2) Anand Amritraj 3) Ramesh Krishnan 4) Ramnath Krishnan 5) None of these "

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6) 2 7) 4 8) 2 9) 5 10)3

"7. Which of the following movies was nominated as India’s official entry to 2014 Oscars in the Best Foreign Film category on September 21,2013? 1) The Lunch Box 2) Bhaag Milkha Bhaag 3) English Vingtish 4) The Good Road 5) Celluloid "

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6) 2 7) 4 8) 2 9) 5 10)3

"8. On September 20,2013 the marginal standing facility (MSF) rate was br ought down by 0.75 per cent to? 1) 10.25% 2) 9.5% 3) 8.5% 4) 9.25% 5) 10.5% "

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6) 2 7) 4 8) 2 9) 5 10)3

"9. Which of the following High Courts was/were established in 2013? 1) Manipur High Court 2) Meghalaya High Court 3) Tripura High Court 4) Both 1 and 2 5) All 1,2 and 3 "

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6) 2 7) 4 8) 2 9) 5 10)3

"10. East Garo Hills district was awarded for achieving 9039 average person-days in implementation of MGNREGS. This district is in? 1) Tripura 2) Manipur 3) Meghalaya 4) Assam 5) Sikkim "

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6) 2 7) 4 8) 2 9) 5 10)3

"11. Which state has been conferred the National e-Governance Gold Award for 2012-13 for its ’Sparsh Abhiyan’ program aimed towards the disabled and the aged? 1) Rajasthan 2) Haryana 3) Punjab 4) Madhya Pradesh 5) Uttar Pradesh "

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"12. What is the number of High Courts in India at present? 1)21 2)22 3) 23 4) 24 5) 25 "

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"13. Japan won the right to host Olympic Games for the second time. It had pr eviously hosted Olympics in? 1) 1956 2) 1960 3) 1964 4) 1968 5) 1972 "

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"14. Deutsche Bundes bank is the central bank of? 1) Sweden 2) Germany 3) Spain 4) Greece 5) Italy "

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"15. SAPPHIRE and NEOSSAT are satellites from? 1) Canada 2) Austria 3) Denmark 4) UK 5) India "

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"16. Which country is setting up the Mangdechhu and the Punatsangchhu-I and H hydroelectric projects with the support of India? 1) Nepal 2) China 3) Sri Lanka 4) Bhutan 5) Bangladesh "

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"17. Mohammed Afzal Guru, the December 13,2001 Parliament attack case convict, was hanged and buried inside the Tihar jail complex in New Delhi on? 1) February 3, 2013 2) February 6, 2013 3) February 9, 2013 4) February 12, 2013 5) February 13,2013 "

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"16. Fordow is the site of an underground Uranium enrichment facility in? 1) North Korea 2) Germany 3) Iran 4) Iraq 5) Pakistan "

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"19. Arrow 3 is an anti ballistic missile jointly funded and developed by? 1) Israel and USA 2) China and Pakistan 3) Iran and Pakistan 4) USA and Russia 5) India and Russia "

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"20. Which of the following does not come under the services sector? 1) Insurance 2) Banking 3) Finance 4) Real Estate 5) Petroleum refinery products "

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"21. Thirty Indian software companies have formed a new association called the Indian Software Product Industry Round Table (iSpirt). It is a break away group of? 1)CE 2) ASSOCHAM 3) FICCI 4) NASSCOM 5) None of these "

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"22. Which state set a new record for the highest voter turnout with 93 per cent polling in Assembly elections conducted recently? 1) Meghalaya 2) Manipur 3) Karnataka 4) Gujarat 5) Tripura "

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"23. Nigeria won the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations football championship in South Africa recently. In the final Nigeria defeated? 1) Burkina Faso 2) Mali 3) Ghana 4) Egypt 5) South Africa "

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"24. The 2015 Africa Cup of Nations football championship 'Will be played in? 1) Botswana 2) Cameroon 3) Zambia 4) Morocco 5) Zimbabwe "

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"25. The Louis Philippe Cup is associated with? 1) Squash 2) Golf 3) Chess 4) Polo 5) Baseball "

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"26. Which of the following is a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM)? 1) Prithvi 2) INS Chakra 3) K-5 4) INS Arihant 5) None of these "

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"27. The Union Government has constituted an expert committee to improve the functioning of the public service broadcaster Prasar Bharati. Who is the Chairman of this seven-member committee? 1) Sam Pitroda 2) Jawhar Sircar 3) M.P.Gupta 4) B.K. Gairola 5) Shekhar Kapur "

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"28. India discussed pr ogress in negotiations over the Jaitapur nuclear power project and the $10 billion deal for 126 Rafale Fighter jets with which of the following counties recently? 1) UK 2) France 3) Japan 4) Spain 5) Germany "

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26)3 27) 1 28)2 29)3 30)4

"29. Luna-Glob is planned to be launched in 2015. Luna-Glob is the name of a Moon- exploration program by? 1) China 2) Japan 3) Russia 4) USA 5) India "

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"30. Which Indian scientist has been conferred with China’s top science award for his contributions in boosting Sino- India scientific cooperation? 1) V.K. Saraswat 2) Ashoke Sen 3) B. N. Suresh 4) C.N.R.Rao 5) None of these "

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"31. Which is the world’s fourth largest steel maker for the third consecutive year? 1) China 2) Japan 3) USA 4) India 5) None of these "

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"32. The government granted Maharatna status to which of the following public sector enterprises in 2013? 1) BSNL & MTNL 2) BSNL & BHEL 3) HPCL & BPCL 4) HPCL & GAIL 5) GAIL & BHEL "

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"33. A Maharatna company can take investment decision of up to what amount without going to the government? 1) Rs 1,000crore 2) Rs 2,000crore 3) Rs 3,000crore 4) Rs 5,000crore 5) Rs 10,000crore "

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"34. The Rashtriya Bal Swaasthya Karyakram of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare was launched recently in Palghar in? 1) Rajasthan 2) Maharashtra 3) Karnataka 4) Haryana 5) Himachal Pradesh "

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"35. How many times did Australia win the women’s world cup cricket? 1)3 2)4 3)5 4)6 5)7 "

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"36. What is TIEA? 1) Total Information Exchange Agreement 2) Tax Information Employment Agreement 3) Tax Investment Exchange Agreement 4) Tax Information Exchange Agreement 5) None of these "

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"37. India has finalized a Rs 3,000 crore deal for supplying 99 jet engines to be used in the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft ’Tejas’ with? 1) USA 2) France 3) UK 4) Russia 5) Japan "

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"38. India, along with five other tea producing countries, has formed the International Tea Producers Forum (ITPF). ITPF is headquartered in? 1) New Delhi 2) Nairobi 3) Colombo 4) Jakarta 5) Kigali "

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