1. Who replaced Arvind Mayaram
as the Economic Affairs Secretary in October 2014?
1) Anil Swarup
2) S.K. Srivastava
3) Alok Rawat
4) Rajiv Mehrishi
5) Vinod Agrawal
2. The European Parliament has
awarded its highest human rights
accolade, the Sakharov Prize for
Freedom of Thought to?
1) Edward Snowden
2) Denis Mukwege
3) Leyla Yunus
4) Muhammad Yunus
5) Alan Rusbridger
3. Which of the following teams
defended the Sultan of Johor Cup
under-21 hockey title on October
19, 2014?
1) India
2) Great Britain
3) Australia
4) New Zealand
5) South Korea
4. Who won the 2014 Man Booker
Prize for his book "The Narrow
Road to the Deep North"?
1) Howard Jacobson
2) Joshua Ferris
3) Richard Powers
4) Richard Flanagan
5) David Mitchell
5. Who will head the National
Committee to commemorate the
125th birth anniversary of India's
first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal
Nehru?
1) Karan Singh
2) Sonia Gandhi
3) Sushma Swaraj
4) Arun Jaitley
5) Narendra Modi
6. Who won the Challenger tennis
tournament at the Indore Club
Courts on October 19, 2014?
1) Saketh Myneni
2) Somdev Devvarman
3) Yuki Bhambri
4) R. Ramkumar
5) None of these
7. Identify the mismatched pair
regarding Author and Book.
1) Joshua Ferris: To Rise Again at a
Decent Hour
2) Karen Joy Fowler: We Are All
Completely Beside Ourselves
3) Joseph O'Neill: The Dog
4) Niall Williams: History of the
Rain
5) Neel Mukherjee: How to be Both
8. Sultan of Johor Cup is an
annual international under-21 field
hockey tournament held in?
1) Pakistan
2) Bangladesh
3) Malaysia
4) Indonesia
5) Iran
9. Who among the following is not
a Golf player?
1) Anirban Lahiri
2) Baek Seuk-Hyun
3) Bubba Watson
4) Louis Oosthuizen
5) Vladimir Klitschko
10. The Supreme Court lifted the
19-month ban on iron ore mining
in which of the following states in
April 2014?
1) Karnataka
2) Maharashtra
3) Goa
4) Odisha
5) Kerala
11. Who is the author of the book
"Urban Villager -Life in an Indian
Satellite Town"?
1) Mukul Kesavan
2) Vandana Vasudevan
3) Rashmi Bansal
4) Chetan Bhagat
5) None of these
12. DRT is associated with?
1) Deposit insurance
2) Recurring deposits
3) Loan recovery
4) Demand deposits
5) Fixed deposits
13. Dactylography is commonly
known as?
1) Carbon dating
2) Water printing
3) Finger printing
4) Electro cardiogram
5) None of these
14. Curcumin is a derivative of
which of the following?
1) Ginger
2) Turmeric
3) Garlic
4) Sunflower
5) Jasmine
15. Who is the first Indian woman
winner of Miss Universe?
1) Aishwarya Rai
2) Rita Faria
3) Lara Dutta
4) Sushmita Sen
5) Diana Hayden
16. Which of the following books is
not written by Salman Rushdie?
1) Shame
2) Midnight's Children
3) The Satanic Verses
4) The Moor's Last Sigh
5) The Shape of the Beast
17. MENA refers to the countries
in?
1) Middle East and North African
countries
2) Middle East and North American
countries
3) Mediterranean Europe and North
Atlantic countries
4) Mediterranean Europe and North
American countries
5) None of these
18. Open market operations refer
to the sale and purchase by the
Reserve Bank of India of?
1) Foreign currency
2) Gold
3) Government bonds
4) All the above
5) None of these
19. The agency that estimates
national income in India is?
1) RBI
2) Planning Commission
3) CSO
4) Finance Ministry
5) None of these
20. Who is the author of
'Panchatantra'?
1) Banabhatt
2) Vishnu Sharma
3) Jaya Deva
4) Hala
5) None of these
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