1) Dayanidhi Maran promised Rs 2,546 crore subsidy for the sector that his ministry represents. Which sector is this?
Cement
Fertilisers
Textiles
Mining
2) The Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA) recently announced suspension of all domestic flights on August 18, which was rolled back. What were the private airlines protesting against?
High rate of sales tax on aviation turbine fuel (ATF)
Airport taxes
Both of the above
None of the above
3) Who has recently said during the turmoil within BJP that ‘Hindutva ideology was as important to the BJP as the Constitution was for the country’?
LK Advani
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Rajnath Singh
Sushma Swaraj
4) The Pakistan Supreme Court has declared illegal the appointment of … who replaced Ifthikar Chaudhary as chief justice of the Pakistan Supreme Court in 2007.
Javed Buttar
Anwar Zaheer Jamali
Faqir Mohammad Khokhar
Abdul Hameed Dogar
5) The opposition in the Lok Sabha walked out on the issue of siphoning off of rice that was meant to be exported to ....
Central Asia
Latin America
Sri Lanka
Africa
6) Which Rs 2,000 crore project has recently got a green signal from the Supreme Court?
Railway track to Srinagar
Delhi-Kanyakumari expressway
Commonwealth Games Village on Yamuna bed
Sethusamudram Project
7) This person occupied the Prime Minister’s seat in Rajya Sabha by mistake.
Mani Shankar Aiyer
Rajiv Shukla
Jayanti Natarajan
None of the above
8) “He will do to the foreign ministry in four months what Shivraj Patil took four years to do to the ministry of home affairs.” Which BJP leader has made this statement about Union External Affairs Minister SM Krishna?
LK Advani
Yashwant Sinha
Sushma Swaraj
Arun Jaitley
9) J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah resumed his office after governor of the state dismissed PDP allegations of Abdullah being involved in a sex scandal. Name J&K governor.
Muzaffar Baig
NN Vohra
Farooq Abdullah
Mehbooba Mufti
10) The Gujarat Assembly adopted the controversial Gujarat Control of Organised Crime Bill recently without any amendments which were recommended by President Pratibha Patil. The Gujarat government is led by …
Narendra Modi
Nitish Kumar
Shivraj Singh Chouhan
None of the above
11) Charging the government of altering the fundamental foundations of the country’s foreign policy and strategic interests, the … in July submitted a memorandum to the president.
Communist Party of India
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
National Democratic Alliance
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
12) Which school, located in Shimla, celebrated its 150th birthday?
St Bede’s
Convent of Jesus and Mary
St Edwards
Bishop Cotton School
13) At the world swimming championship in 2009, the first night saw six world records broken. Where was the event?
Canberra
California
Rome
London
14) Sharad Pawar, agriculture minister, made the statement that the state government has submitted 26 detailed project reports under the Kuttanad package. Kuttanad is situated in … district of Kerala.
Alappuzha
Ernakulma
Idduki
Kunnur
15) Name the governor of Haryana, a senior Congress leader and a Gandhian.
Jagannath Pahadia
Tirath Singh Thakur
Bhupinder Singh Hooda
AR Kidwai
16) Which ballistic missiles will be fitted in India’s nuclear-powered submarine INS Arihant?
Prithvi-III SRBM
K-15
Sagarika
Dhanush
17) For which region of Uttar Pradesh has chief minister Mayawati asked the centre to approve special package based on recommendations of the Samra committee?
Telangana
Vidarbha
Bundelkhand
Braj
18) A report by technology and market research firm Forrester Research has said that by 2013 India will have the … largest online population.
Third
Forth
Sixth
Seventh
19) Which airline asked the finance ministry to consider a financial bailout and has also urged the petroleum ministry to extend the fuel credit limit for at least three more months?
Jet Airways
Kingfisher
Air India
Go Air
20) Tata Nano is to be rolled out globally soon. What is the price of the car in dollars for international buyers?
$ 2,500
$ 2,000
$ 2,300
$ 2,100
Answer: 1.c 2. C 3.c 4.d 5.d 6.c 7.d 8.b 9.b 10.a 11.c 12.d 13.c 14.a 15.a 16.b 17.c 18.a 19.c 20.b
