1. Who has been ranked as the biggest wealth creator in the past five years between 2008 and 2013 in terms of their market capitalization according to a study by financial services company Motilal Oswal?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
2. The ___________ typhoon struck the Philippines in Nov 2013. It was 3 times stronger than Katrina (the most destructive hurricane in US history).
View Answer / Hide Answer3. ________________ award was instituted in 1954. It doesn't need be given to the Indians only. It need not be awarded every year and not more than three people to get it in a given year.
View Answer / Hide Answer 4. Name the Tehelka editor who is facing rape charge.
View Answer / Hide Answer5. Who has become the fastest batsmen to reach the 500-run mark in ODI cricket recently?
View Answer / Hide Answer6. Mexico has announced to award its 2013 International Prize for Equality and non-Discrimination to _______________
View Answer / Hide Answer7. Who has dethroned Viswanathan Anand as the World Champion recently?
View Answer / Hide Answer8. Who has been the Male World Athelete of the year 2013?
View Answer / Hide Answer9. Name the income exempt from the income-tax as per the prevailing rules in India
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Agricultural income
10. The name of India's first inter-planetary mission to Mars
View Answer / Hide Answer11. Which country was hit by the super typhoon "Haiyan" which killed at least 10,000 people?
View Answer / Hide Answer12. Which country has been topped in the recently launched 2013 World Prosperity Index?
View Answer / Hide Answer13. The country that released dengue-blocking mosquito recently
View Answer / Hide Answer14. Name the person known as the father of IBM personal computer who died recently
View Answer / Hide Answer15. Name the first country in South Asia to approve the cultivation of genetically modified food crops with the approval of commercial cultivation of transgenic Bt brinjal.
View Answer / Hide Answer16. Who has been crowned Miss Asia Pacific World 2013?
View Answer / Hide Answer17. Name the first female managing director of the LIC of India appointed recently
View Answer / Hide Answer18. The Competition Commission of India cleared the ______________ deal, under which the Abu Dhabi based carrier will pick up a 24 % stake in Naresh Goyal's carrier
View Answer / Hide Answer19. World's first Bitcoin ATM launched, converting the virtual currency to conventional cash and vice versa, was introduced at a coffee shop in _________________
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Vancouver, Canada
20. India's first all-women bank, Bharatiya Mahila Bank, was launched on 19 Nov 2013, the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister ___________________.
View Answer / Hide Answer21. ___________ slapped with $35 mn fine by the US govt for seeking visas fraudulently for workers at big clients in America.
View Answer / Hide Answer22. Which two companies have quit race for banking licence recently?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Tata and Mahindra and Mahindra group
23. Apple gets ___________ in retrial vs. Samsung after it convinced a jury that Samsung copied various iPhone features like using fingers to pinch and zoom on the screen along with design
touches like the phone's flat, black glass screen.
View Answer / Hide Answer24. The book Vanity Bagh has been authored by
View Answer / Hide Answer25. Which country has emerged as the most attractive investment destination in a global survey of leading consultancy firm EY recently?
View Answer / Hide Answer26. Which district in Kerala has become the first district where every family owns a piece of land?
View Answer / Hide Answer27. Yuki Bhambri is associated with which game
View Answer / Hide Answer28. In which country has 152 soldiers been sentences to death for 2009 mutiny in one of the world's biggest very mass criminal trials recently?
View Answer / Hide Answer29. Usha Sangwan has been appointed as the first female managing director of which company?
View Answer / Hide Answer30. Who has been given the prestigious Hridaynath Mangeshkar award for his contribution to the film industry?
View Answer / Hide Answer31. Which country is the largest producer of Gold in the world at present?
View Answer / Hide Answer32. Who has authored the book "Magnificent Delusions"?
View Answer / Hide Answer33. In MGNREGA, what fraction of the given employment should be women?
View Answer / Hide Answer34. Which financial organization has announced to close its retail broking and depository businesses in India recently?
View Answer / Hide Answer35. The Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) is maintained by which bank?
View Answer / Hide Answer36. The funds are transacted by banks on an overnight basis under which market?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Call money market
37. According to a survey by the National Sample Survey organization (NSSO), which city in India recorded the highest unemployment rate among males in 2009-10 in cities with more than one
million populations?
View Answer / Hide Answer38. Which of the following companies is preparing to takeover the Europe's largest mobile carrier Vodafone in 2014?
View Answer / Hide Answer39. What is the maximum strength of Lok Sabha envisaged by the constitution?
View Answer / Hide Answer40. Which Sikh guru is known as Bal Guru as he had become Guru at the tender age of five?
View Answer / Hide Answer41. A situation is which a particular market is controlled by a small group of firms is called
View Answer / Hide Answer42. Yeast is an important source of which vitamin?
View Answer / Hide Answer43. Who is known as the father of medicine?
View Answer / Hide Answer44. India acquired Dadra, Nagar and Haveli in 1961 from
View Answer / Hide Answer45. Which is India's first National Park?
View Answer / Hide Answer46. Rand is the currency of
View Answer / Hide Answer47. Who had given the title "Father of the Nation" to Mahatma Gandhi?
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: Subhas Chandra Bose
