In which year New Telecom Policy was announced?


 A) 1992

 B) 1999

 C) 2001

Which of the following features would you expect to find at an ocean-ocean convergent boundary?


 A) volcanic island arc.

 B) ocean trench.

 C) earthquakes

 D) all of these.

When was Lech Kaczynski sworn in as president of Poland?


 A) 20 January 2001

 B) 15 May 2002

 C) 3 September 2009

 D) 23 December 2005

For which of the following films did Jim Carrey receive an Academy award?


 A) Liar Liar

 B) Man On the Moon

 C) He hasn't won an Academy award

 D) How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Who invented the phonograph?


 A) Thomas Edison

 B) John Kruesi

 C) Jules Levy

 D) Alexander Graham Bell

The hottest part of the gas flame is known as


 A) luminous zone

 B) dark zone

 C) blue zone

 D) non-luminous zone

Hoover Medal, a prize given for outstanding extra-career services by engineers to humanity, has been awarded to which Indian engineer for year 2008 ?


 A) Sam Pitroda

 B) G.Madhavan Nair

 C) N.R.Narayan Murthy

 D) A.P.J.Abdul Kalam

Who is the author of the book ˜The Comedy of Errors?


 A) William Shakespeare

 B) George Orwell

 C) Leo Tolstoy

 D) None of the above

Who is the author of “A Passage to England”?


 A) E.M. Forster

 B) Nirad C. Chaudhari

 C) G.B. Shaw

 D) Winston Churchill

____, he finally decided to go ahead with the new marketing project.


 A) From any rate

 B) To any rate

 C) In any rate

 D) At any rate

Who wrote the 'Das Capital', an extensive treatise on political economy ?


 A) Karl Marx

 B) Friedrich Engles

 C) Leo Tolstoy

 D) Maxim Gorky

With whom did the Britishers concluded the Treaty of Alinagar?


 A) Siraj-ud-daulah

 B) Mir Jafar

 C) Shah Alam

 D) Bahadur Shah Zafar

Which of these creatures has a sting in its tail?


 A) Termite

 B) Cockroach

 C) Scorpion

Which of these facts about Chandragupta is true?


 A) He called his people children.

 B) He trained women to protect his palace.

 C) He converted to Buddhism and rejected war.

In which Indian city would you find the mosque with "Shaking Minarets"?


 A) Hyderabad

 B) Lucknow

 C) Ahmedabad

Who has hit 6 Sixes in a Twenty Twenty International?


 A) M S Dhoni

 B) Sachin Tendulkar

 C) Virendra Sehwag

 D) Yuvraj Singh

One swallow doesn't make a______?


 A) Meal

 B) Spring

 C) Summer

 D) Nest

Which among the following is strongest oxidizing agent?


 A) Chlorine

 B) Fluorine

 C) Bromine

Which among the following is called the greatest hallmark of personal liberty ?


 A) Certiorari

 B) Quo warranto

 C) Habeas corpus

‘Pal Pal’ from one of 2006’s biggest hits, 'Lage Raho Munnabhai', is a rehash of an old English song ‘Theme For A Dream’. Which singer sang the original song?


 A) Bob Dylan

 B) Cliff Richards

 C) Frankie Valli

 D) Elvis Presley

Which country occupied Malaysia during World War II?


 A) Japan

 B) China

 C) Australia

Farming of cloves is done in—


 A) Kerala

 B) Karnataka

 C) Tamil Nadu

 D) Uttar Pradesh

The last Viceroy of British India was


 A) Lord Wavell

 B) Lord Mountbatten

 C) Lord Irvin

 D) Lord Dalhaousie

The hazards of radiation belts include


 A) deterioration of electronic circuits

 B) damage of solar cells of spacecraft

 C) adverse effect on living organisms

 D) All of the above

Which element is necessarily present in all acids ?


 A) Carbon

 B) Oxygen

 C) Hydrogen

 D) Nitrogen

Which among the following is the current president of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI ) ?


 A) Ved Jain

 B) T.S Vijayan

 C) CA.G.Ramaswamy

 D) D. K. Mehrotra

In which year was the Integrated Defence Staff formed?


 A) 1959

 B) 1961

 C) 1981

 D) 2001

Anand Sharma is associated with …

 A) RBI

 B) SBI

 C) IMF

 D) None of these

What language is the native tongue of the most number of speakers?


 A) Spanish

 B) Mandarin

 C) Hindi

 D) None of the above

The Indian National Anthem was sung for the ? rst time in …


 A) 1910

 B) 1911

 C) 1947

 D) 1945

Which protein, wildly used in foods, is made from the horns, bones and hooves of animals?


 A) Pectin

 B) Gelatine

Which B-school in India is assisting the 6th pay commission for the new format?


 A) IIM-B

 B) FMS

 C) IIM-A

Complete the following sentence with the most appropriate verb: 'You should _______ the steaks under a high heat until they are well-done'.


 A) fry

 B) sear

 C) heat

 D) grill

What does the letters XP stand for in the product Microsoft XP?


 A) Extended product

 B) Extra Pampering

 C) Experience

 D) Entry level product

Who is the first Indian lady to become the first President of UN General Assembly?


 A) Mrs. Arti Shah

 B) Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit

 C) Kiran Bedi

Which is the first Indian to beg 500 wickets in Test matches?


 A) Kapil Dev

 B) Srinath

 C) Anil Kumble

Who was the highest run getter in ipl 2 ?


 A) Matthew Hadyen

 B) Adam Gilchrist

 C) Andrew Symonds

 D) Grame Smith

How many hours does a newborn usually sleep a day?


 A) 20

 B) 19

 C) 18

Army Day is observed on___ .


 A) January 1

 B) January 15

 C) January 17

 D) January 10

What is the term of Member of Rajya Sabha?


 A) 4

 B) 5

 C) 6

 D) 7

The acronym E.E.C. stands for______.


 A) European Engineering Community

 B) European English Community

 C) European Economic Community

 D) European Energy Commission

Who won 8 Gold medals in one Olympics and created record?


 A) Mark Spitz

 B) Richard Thompson

 C) Michael Phelps

 D) Walter Diks

Which of the following article deals with the appointment, duty and tenure of the Advocate General of State?


 A) 165

 B) 177

Whose birthday is likely to be declared as a ‘World No Alcohol Day’ by the UN from next year?


 A) Mahatma Gandhi

 B) Swami Vivekananda

 C) Rajiv Gandhi

 D) None of these

If you've travelled around many time zones you might suffer from _____________.


 A) travel-sleep

 B) jet-lag

A field or a part of a garden where fruit trees grow, mainly commercially


 A) Orchard

 B) Park

 C) Nursery

What color will you get on mixing Red and Green colors?


 A) Blue

 B) Yellow

 C) Magenta

 D) Cyan

“Titan” is the satellite of______


 A) Venus

 B) Saturn

 C) Neptune

 D) Jupiter

The flag of which country has the unique shape of two overlapping right triangles?


 A) Pakistan

 B) Bangladesh

 C) Nepal

 D) Bhutan

‘Operation Green’ was launched in Uttar Pradesh on—


 A) July 1, 2001

 B) October 2, 2001

 C) July 1, 2005

 D) June 6, 2006

The office of the UN General Assembly is in


 A) Vienna

 B) New York

 C) Paris

 D) Zurich

Which renowned vocalist was awarded Bharat Ratna in 2008 ?


 A) Lata Mangeshkar

 B) Pt. Bhimsen Joshi

 C) Gangubai Hangal

 D) Pt. Ravi Shankar

Pandit Jasraj has established his reputation in which of the following fields?


 A) Music

 B) Literature

 C) Sanskrit

 D) Dance

The poetic work 'Rashmirathi´ was written by


 A) Maithilisharan Gupt

 B) Mahadevi Verma

 C) Ramdhari Singh Dinkar

 D) Surya Kant Tripathi Nirala

What kind of weapon has been named the 'Pinka' by the Indian Army?


 A) Tank

 B) Rocket Launcher

 C) Helicopter

Who played Saira Banu's music teacher inthe Hindi film 'Padosan'?


 A) Jagdeep

 B) Kishore Kumar

 C) Mehmood

Rabi is sown in April- May and harvested in December.


 A) True

 B) False

Indusland Bank is controlled by which of the following business groups?


 A) Kotak Mahindra

 B) Hindujas

 C) Aditya Birla Group

When we talk of Nandan Nelekani, we talk of


 A) Textile Industry

 B) I.T.

 C) Tyre Industry

Everyone knows 'The Taj Mahal'. It was built by the Emperor Shah Jahan, but for whom?


 A) Jahani Mahal

 B) Farida Mahal

 C) Mumtaz Mahal

 D) Toba Begum

What is the capital of the state of Haryana ?


 A) Kurukshetra

 B) Chandigarh

 C) Gurgaon

 D) Faridabad

A correspondent who is the main reporter on key stories in a certain area (e.g. business, local news etc.) and has a team of junior reporters working in the same area is a ________ reporter.


 A) hard news

 B) front

 C) boss

 D) chief

"Alcohol is legal in India, but is not encouraged by the larger society" ?


 A) True

 B) False

A cynic is one who knows the price of everything and the _________ of nothing.


 A) Meaning

 B) Quality

 C) Emotion

 D) Value

What is the sound produced by Ducks hear like?


 A) Squeech

 B) Quack

 C) Blaah

 D) Meow

Which cricketer is the brand ambassador for Band-Aid in 2011 ?


 A) Virendra Sehwag

 B) Sonia Gandhi

 C) Salman Khan

Which one is the correct ticker symbol for Apple Computer at the NASDAQ?


 A) AAPL

 B) HGF

 C) UYT

What is a bear market?


 A) A market which has animals in it

 B) A market where bears are sold

 C) When the economy is doing poorly - prices of stocks tend to fall

Charaka Samhita' is considered as the first treatise on...


 A) Health And Medicine

 B) Astronomy

 C) Astrology

 D) None of these

Which trophy was won permanently by the winners of Football World Cup 1970?


 A) Duleep

 B) Jules Rimet

 C) Irani

Which country is to the east of Libya?


 A) Egypt

 B) Morocco

 C) Algeria

For which screen play did Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald get credit?


 A) Three Amigos

 B) Three Comrades

 C) Three Musketeers

 D) Three Kings

'Vesaka' is celebrated on whos birthday?


 A) Lord Buddha

 B) Lord Ram

 C) Swami Vivekanand

 D) None

Who is the chairman of the Planning Commission ?


 A) President

 B) Prime Minister

 C) Vice President

 D) Finance Minister

Which is the lowest layer of the Sun, visible to us when we look at it ?


 A) Corona

 B) Chromosphere

 C) Photosphere

 D) Exosphere

Who crowned himself king of the Maratha kingdom in 1674?


 A) Sambhaji

 B) Balaji Vishwanath

 C) Shivaji

Which part of an egg provides nourishment to the new life growing within?


 A) Yolk

 B) Albumen

 C) Shell

Lata Mangeshkar was born in 1929 in Mumbai.


 A) True

 B) False

"Transforming Lives " is the new tagline of which of the following PSU?


 A) Indian Oil Corporation Limited

 B) NTPC Limited

Steel is a chemical element.


 A) True

 B) False

Who is a WWE champion 2010 ?


 A) John Cena

 B) Sheamus

 D) Randy Otten

Did you know that according to the ancient Maya people's ___________, the world will end on June 5th 2012?


 A) diary

 B) calendar

 C) notebook

 D) personal organiser

Arrange to form a vocabulary word “cone” ?


 A) Ocne

 B) Once

 C) Oecn

The Ghadar (Rebellion) party in the USA was formed by ______?


 A) Bhai Parmanand

 B) Lala Hardayal

 C) Raja Mahendra Partap

 D) Baba Gurmuck Singh

Jhum is a pattern of agriculture practiced in North East India. In which of the following north east states of India Jhum is most prominent?


 A) Nagaland

 B) Mizoram

 C) Meghalaya

Is marketing an art or a science? Marketing differs from the natural sciences because:


 A) Marketing tends to deal with open systems whereas the natural sciences tend to deal with closed systems.

 B) Marketing tends to deal with closed systems whereas the natural sciences tend to deal with open systems.

 C) It is impossible to develop a systems perspective for marketing, unlike the natural sciences.

 D) It is impossible to develop a systems perspective for the natural sciences, unlike marketing.

Who won the ICC womans world cup 2009?


 A) India

 B) England

 C) New Zealand

 D) Australia

Total Cost is a total of __________ ?


 A) Fixed Cost & Variable Cost

 B) Fixed Cost , Variable Cost & Marginal Cost

 C) Fixed Cost, Variable Cost , Marginal Cost & Real Cost

Which of the following, according to Mahatma Gandhi, is the strongest force in the world ?


 A) Non-violence of the brave

 B) Non-violence of the weak

 C) Non-violence of the coward

 D) Non-violence of the downtrodden

Which abbreviation is used for times in the afternoon and evening?


 A) AM

 B) PM

An ophthalmologist


 A) skin doctor

 B) foot doctor

 C) eye doctor

Who built the tomb of itmad ud daula?


 A) Jahanagir

 B) Nur Jahan

 C) Shershah

Which of the following is not a Government's commitment to Public Sector Banks as stipulated in Recent Union Budget ?


 A) help them match asset liability tenors for long tenor loans by providing more capital

 B) privatization of government-owned banks

 C) maintaining adequacy and quality of capital.

Giak & Kiari are located in which of the following ?


 A) Ladakh

 B) Orissa

 C) Kutchch

Which of the following city of Uttar Pradesh is not joined by Nationla Highway 2 ?


 A) Agra

 B) Allahabad

 C) Lucknow

 D) Varanasi

In which battle Miguel de Cervantes took part and was wounded?


 A) Battle of Lepanto

 B) Battle of Vienna

 C) Battle of Ulm

 D) Battle of Waterloo

Which of the following light waves is outside the visible spectrum?


 A) Violet

 B) Blue

 C) Yellow

 D) Ultraviolet

What is a GPU?


 A) Grouped Processing Unit

 B) Graphics Processing Unit

 C) Graphical Performance Utility

 D) Graphical Portable Unit

The prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award was conferred was conferred upon Ms. Kiran Bedi for her excellent contribution to which of the following fields?


 A) Literature

 B) Community Welfare

 C) Government Service

 D) Journalism

Castro Sibling is the president of


 A) Romania

 B) Cuba

 C) Israel

 D) Venezuela

Castro Sibling is the president of


 A) Romania

 B) Cuba

 C) Israel

 D) Venezuela

Which disease afflicted Alexander Pope?


 A) Tuberculosis of the bone

 B) Leukemia

 C) Anemia

 D) Bulimia

Which tennis player won the third edition of the Serbian Open on 1 May 2011 by defeating Spaniard Feliciano Lopez?


 A) Novak Djokovic

 B) Nikolay Davydenko

 C) Roger Federer

 D) Rafael Nadal

The NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) was established on


 A) April 4, 1949

 B) September 1, 1966

 C) December 12, 1990

 D) January 20, 1950

Oh, I am sorry you can't see me in daylight For I only come out in the night,Mouse, rats and small animals are afraid of me,Try and guess, if you can.


 A) Bat

 B) Owl

 C) Nightjar

Sodium is a very reactive metal.


 A) False

 B) True

Matrix is a product that is used in cars, can you identify


 A) Horn

 B) Tyres

 C) Battery

Frogs are cold blooded animals.


 A) True

 B) False

The hardest substance available on earth is


 A) Quartz

 B) Diamond

 C) Platinum

 D) Carbon Nanotubes

Which State in India has famous Hill Station "Panchgani" ?


 A) Sikkim

 B) West Bengal

 C) Maharashtra

Full form of E.T.A?


 A) For the attention of

 B) You are welcome

 C) Estimated Time of Arrival

 D) Thanks

What star sign are you if born September 8th ?


 A) Cancer

 B) Virgo

 C) Libra

 D) Pieces

Which is the first life insurance company in India launched by Europeans in Calcutta in 1818?


 A) Bharat Insurance Company

 B) Bombay Mutual Life Assurance Society

 C) Oriental Life Insurance Company

Which of the following is the largest Committee of the Parliament?


 A) The Public Accounts Committee

 B) The Estimates Committee

 C) The Committee on Public Undertakings

 D) The Committee on Petitions

What is the national animal of Ireland?


 A) Stag

 B) Beaver

 C) Water Buffalo

 D) Auroch

Who invented Jet Engine?


 A) Sir Frank Whittle

 B) Gottlieb Daimler

 C) Roger Bacon

 D) Lewis E. Waterman

The most important ore of aluminium is


 A) galena

 B) calamine

 C) calcite

 D) bauxite

Toshiba recently signed .................. as Brand Ambassador.

 A) Sachin Tendulkar

 B) Abhinav Bindra

 C) Laxman

 D) M S Dhoni

Which musician's autobiography is titled 'Raga Mala'?


 A) Amjad Ali Khan

 B) Ravi Shankar

 C) M S Subbulakshmi

Which literary award did Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter Of Maladies win?


 A) Gyanpeeth Award

 B) The Pulitzer

 C) The Nobel Prize for Literature

Which is the smallest mammal at sea?


 A) Walrus

 B) Seal

 C) Sea otter

Where are the youngest stars of the galaxy located?


 A) Central bulge

 B) Black holes

 C) Spiral arms

For how many years every time is Mahamastaka Abhisheka held?


 A) Once in 10 years

 B) Once in 9years

 C) Once in 12 years

 D) Once in 11 years