July 2012 Quiz-12

1. Donor nations offered $16 billion to Afghanistan in development aid through 2015 at an international conference on Afghanistan that was held on July 8, 2012 in?
1) London 2) Tokyo
3) Kabul 4) New Delhi
5) Islamabad

2. Roger Federer of Switzerland won his seventh Wimbledon and 17th Grand Slam tennis title on July 8, 2012. Whom did he defeat in the final?
1) Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
2) David Ferrer (Spain)
3) Florian Mayer (Germany)
4) Andy Murray (Great Britain)
5) Marin Cilic (Croatia)

3. Which of the following is/are considered as retail loans?
1) Personal loans
2) Educational loans
3) Auto loans 4) Home loans
5) All the above

4. Which Hollywood actor has been named Ambassador-at-large for Haiti in recognition of his humanitarian work since the 2010 earthquake?
1) Brad Pitt 2) Sean Penn
3) Tom Cruise 4) Will Smith
5) Leonardo Dicaprio

5. Which of the following foreign banks has appointed Sunil Kaushal as its Chief Executive for India and South Asia?
1) BNP Paribas
2) Deutsche Bank 3) Citi bank
4) ABN-AMRO Bank
5) Standard Chartered Bank

6. Akhlaq Mohammed Khan Shahr-yar passed away recently. He was a Jnanpith award winner in wh-ich of the following languages?
1) Hindi 2) Oriya
3) Urdu 4) Punjabi 5) Marathi
7. Which of the following footballers won the Euro 2012 Golden Boot award after scoring three goals in the Championship?
1) Mario Gomez (Germany)
2) Mario Mandzukic(Croatia)
3) Mario Balotelli (Italy)
4) Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)
5) Fernando Torres (Spain)

8. Oscar Pistorius, known as the 'Blade Runner' because he runs on carbon fiber blades, has won the 2012 Laureus World Sports-person of the Year with a Disabi-lity Award. He belongs to which of the following countries?
1) Sweden 2) Norway
3) Denmark 4) South Africa
5) Australia

9. Which state has become the first state in the country to issue e-stamp papers in all denomi-nations?
1) Gujarat 2) Delhi 3) Karnataka 4) Maharashtra 5) West Bengal

10. Operation Atlanta is undertaken by which of the following organizations to prevent and combat acts of piracy off the coast of Somalia?
1) NATO 2) UNO 3) EU
4) SAARC 5) FAO

11. Indian diplomat Vijay Nambiar has been appointed as United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's Special Advisor on which of the following countries?
1) China 2) Pakistan
3) Afghanistan 4) Myanmar
5) Sri Lanka

12. Who is the author of the book 'Last Man in Tower'?
1) Anita Desai 2) Kiran Desai
3) Aravind Adiga 4) Vikram Seth
5) Rahul Bhattacharya

13. Which of the following honorary ranks has been given to Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian cricket team captain, in the Territorial Army?
1) Captain 2) Major
3) Colonel 4) Major General
5) Lieutenant Colonel

14. Who became the new Chief of Pakistan's spy agency Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) on March 9, 2012?
1) Hamid Gul 2) Asad Durrani 3) Nadeem Taj
4) Zaheer-ul-Islam
5) Ashfaq Parvez Kayani

15. Sherwood Rowland of America passed away recently. He won the 1995 Nobel Prize in which of the following disciplines?
1) Physics 2) Chemistry
3) Medicine 4) Economics
5) Literature

16. Who among the following is a Golf player?
1) Pankaj Advani
2) Vijender Singh
3) Jeev Milkha Singh
4) Susheel Kumar
5) Rohan Bopanna

17. Mukul Roy became the new Railways Minister on March 20, 2012. He belongs to which of the following political parties?
1) Samajwadi Party
2) Bahujan Samaj Party
3) Rashtriya Janata Dal
4) Rashtriya Lok Dal
5) Trinamool Congress

18. Which of the following is an asset reconstruction company?
1) CIBIL 2) IRDA
3) ASCI 4) ARCIL 5) DICGC

19. Who is the present Cabinet Secretary of India?
1) K.M.Chandrasekhar
2) Ajit Kumar Seth
3) Ranjan Mathai
4) Nirupama Rao
5) Pankaj Dwivedi

20. Bihari Puraskar is a literary award instituted by the K.K.Birla Foundation. It is given only to writers from?
1) Rajasthan 2) Bihar
3) Orissa 4) Uttarakhand
5) Uttar Pradesh

21. Gopal Krishna Gandhi, former Governor of West Bengal, is the Chairman of the governing body of Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS). Where is IIAS located?
1) Pune 2) Shimla 3) Nagpur 4) Deharadun 5) Kolkata

22. Joy Mukherjee passed away recently. He was an eminent?
1) Scientist 2) Poet
3) Actor 4) Musician
5) Chess player

23. Hindi film music composer Rajesh Roshan was conferred the Lata Mangeshkar award recently. Which state gives this award?
1) Maharashtra 2) Gujarat
3) Rajasthan 4) Madhya Pradesh
5) Karnataka

24. According to the 2012 Environ-mental Performance Index (EPI) released in January 2012, what is India's rank? (The Index is produced by researchers at Yale and Columbia Universities in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. Switzerland took the top spot.)
1) 134 2) 125 3) 135
4) 143 5) 142

25. The residents of which of the following cities created a world record when over 15,000 people gathered to sing the national anthem on the eve of Republic day on January 26, 2012?
1) Gandhinagar 2) Yamunanagar
3) Aurangabad 4) Pushkar
5) Jaipur

26. The National Security Guard (NSG) hub at which of the following cities is the regional centre for eastern India?
1) Bhubaneshwar 2) Gangtok
3) Itanagar 4) Kolkata 5) Shillong

27. India is likely to produce how many million tones of food grains during 2011-12, according to the 2nd Advance estimates of crop production released in February 2012?
1) 249.78 2) 244.78
3) 250.42 4) 245.54
5) 247.45

28. Which country has developed a rating index called ' Comparative Rating Index of Sovereigns' (CRIS) on the basis of sovereign ratings of various countries compiled through rating data of Moody's and GDP data of the International Monetary Fund?
1) Pakistan 2) USA 3) Indonesia 4) India 5) Ecuador

29. Which of the following private banks is/are eligible to handle central and state government business as agents of the Reserve Bank of India, at par with public sector banks?
1) ICICI Bank 2) HDFC Bank
3) Axis Bank 4) All 1, 2, 3

5) All private sector banks
30. A huge stock of gas was found recently in Rashidpur field which is in?
1) Bangladesh 2) Pakistan
3) India 4) Kazakhstan 5) Iran

31. IAEA is an organization working in the area of?
1) Banking 2) World trade
3) Defense 4) Nuclear Energy
5) Social welfare

32. Which of the following is a non institutional source of credit?
1) Commercial Banks 2) RRBs
3) Cooperative Banks
4) Moneylenders
5) None of these

33. Which of the following is/are renewable source of energy?
A) Solar Energy
B) Wind Energy
C) Nuclear Energy
1) Only (A) 2) Only (B)
3) Only (C) 4) Both (A) & (B)
5) All (A), (B) & (C)

34. The Head of which of the following agencies/organizations is designated as Governor?
1) SEBI 2) LIC
3) All public sector banks
4) All private sector banks
5) None of these

35. Which of the following is the currency of Myanmar?
1) Taka 2) Peso
3) Dinar 4) Kyat 5) Baht

36. Heavy water is used in?
1) Pharma industry
2) Textile industry
3) Nuclear power
4) Cement industry
5) None of these

37. Which of the following terms is related to cricket?
1) Grand Slam 2) Love 3) Trump 4) Ashes 5) Jockey

38. Which of the following books is written by Chetan Bhagat?
1) A Suitable Boy
2) Golden Gate
3) A Bend in the River
4) Revolution 2020
5) A House for Mr.Biswas

39. Which of the following is not an oilseed crop?
1) Castor 2) Mustard 3) Garlic 4) Groundnut 5) Sunflower

40. Who headed a high level committee that was mandated to go into all aspects of black money and suggest measures to stop its generation?
1) M.C.Joshi 2) Sam Pitroda 3) C.Rangarajan
4) Pranab Mukherjee
5) Pradeep Kumar

41. A meeting of the Environment Ministers of BASIC countries took place in February 2012 in which of the following cities?
1) New Delhi 2) Durban
3) Brasilia 4) Beijing
5) Sanya

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