GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE MCQs

1. Who took over as the first woman President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) on December 15, 2012?
1) Jyotsna Suri (Bharat Hotels)
2) Chanda Kochhar (ICICI)
3) Shikha Sharma (Axis Bank)
4) Naina Lal Kidwai (HSBC)
5) Swati Piramal (Piramal Healthcare)

2. South Korea elected its first woman President on December 19, 2012. She will succeed Lee Myung-bak on February 25, 2013. Name her?
1) Chang Sang
2) Park Geun-hye
3) Jeon Yeo-ok
4) Kang Kum-Sil
5) Lim Su-Kyung

3. The 61st Miss Universe pageant was held on December 19, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Who was crowned Miss Universe 2012?
1) Leila Lopes (Angola)
2) Janine Tugonon (Philippines)
3) Irene Esser (Venezuela)
4) Olivia Culpo (USA)
5) Laura Godoy (Guatemala)

4. Who won the African Footballer of the Year award for a second successive time on December 20, 2012?
1) Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast)
2) Alexandre Song (Cameroon)
3) Samuel Eto'o (Cameroon)
4) Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast)
5) Michael Essien (Ghana)

5. Which of the following statements is not true?
1) Nobel Prize is not awarded in the category of music.
2) Census is conducted every ten years.
3) Rajiv Awas Yojana was started to make cities free from slums.
4) Norman Borlaug contributed to the Green Revolution.
5) Providing banking services to rural poor is known as SME Finance.
6. Which state government launched the Samajwadi Swasthya Seva, an ambulance service to provide emergency medical relief, in September 2012?
1) Bihar 
2) Uttarakhand
3) Uttar Pradesh
4) Rajasthan 
5) Haryana

7. The Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) has commended the Jyotigram Yojana, which provides 24 hour power supply to villages in the state. Which state has launched this program?
1) Goa 
2) Gujarat
3) Chhattisgarh 
4) Karnataka
5) Madhya Pradesh

8. Who was appointed the Chairman of the ICC's Technical Committee on October 11, 2012?
1) Sunil Gavaskar
2) Andrew Strauss
3) Anil Kumble 
4) Mark Taylor
5) Allan Isaac

9. Which of the following pairs of Ministers of State (Independent Charge) and their portfolios is not matched correctly?
1) Manish Tewari - Drinking water & Sanitation
2) Jyotiraditya Scindia - Power
3) Sachin Pilot - Corporate Affairs
4) Jitendra Singh - Youth Affairs & Sports
5) Jayanthi Natrajan - Environment & Forests

10. Home Loans can be best canvassed among?
1) Flat owners 
2) Agriculturists
3) Land developers
4) Individuals wanting to buy a house
5) None of these

11. Bancassurance can be sold to?
1) All Insurance companies
2) Insurance agents
3) All banks
4) All existing and prospective bank customers
5) None of these

12. Bank of Rajasthan has been merged with which of the following banks?
1) IDBI Bank 
2) Axis Bank
3) ICICI Bank 
4) HDFC Bank
5) Oriental Bank of Commerce

13. Which one of the following crops needs plenty of water to grow?
1) Jowar 
2) Bajra 
3) Paddy
4) Finger millet 
5) Cotton

14. Which of the following crops is used to make bio-fuels?
1) Potato 
2) Coconut
3) Wheat 
4) Sugarcane
5) Onion

15. Who is the author of the book 'Solo'?
1) Chetan Bhagat
2) Rana Dasgupta
3) Rahul Bhattacharya
4) Shobha De
5) Kiran Desai

16. Who was appointed the Chairman of the national cricket selection committee in September 2012?
1) Roger Binny
2) Vikram Rathore
3) Saba Karim
4) Mohinder Amarnath
5) Sandeep Patil

17. Abbreviations and their full forms are given below. Which one of them is not correct?
1) SME - Small and Medium Enterprises
2) QIB - Qualified Institutional Buyer
3) NBFC - Non Banking Financial Company
4) LDC - Large Developed Countries
5) IFRS-International Financial Reporting Standards

ANSWERS:
1) 4 2) 2 3) 4 4) 4 5) 5 6) 3 7) 2 8) 3 9) 1 10) 4 11) 4 12) 3 13) 3 14) 4 15) 2 16) 5 17) 4