2013 దాదాసాహెబ్ ఫాల్కే అవార్డు విజేత?

2013 దాదాసాహెబ్ ఫాల్కే అవార్డు విజేత?

 N. Vijayender Reddy
 General Awareness
 Faculty
 Hyderabad
 

 General Awareness
 

 1.    The National Association of Software and Services Com-panies (NASSCOM) appointed which of the following persons as its Chairman for 2014-15?
     1) R .Chandrasekaran
     2) B.V.R. Mohan Reddy
     3) N.R. Narayana Murty
     4) S. Gopalakrishnan
     5) S.D. Shibulal
 
 2.    Who adorned the covers of the 151st edition of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack? (He is the first Indian to feature on the cover of the Almanack)
     1) Sunil Gavaskar
     2) Sachin Tendulkar
     3) Rahul Dravid
     4) V.V.S. Laxman
     5) Saurav Ganguly
 
 3.    Viktor Orban was reelected the Prime Minister of which of the following European countries in April 2014?
     1) Austria   2) France 3) Hungary
     4) Romania             5) Poland
 
 4.    Who has been appointed as the next Chief Justice of India? (He will assume his charge on April 27, 2014)
     1) Justice H.L. Dattu
     2) Justice A.K. Patnaik
     3) Justice T.S. Thakur
     4) Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha
     5) Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan
 
 5.    In April 2014, which of the following companies announced that it would acquire 100 per cent of Ranbaxy Laboratories in a $ 4 billion all-share transaction?
     1) Dr. Reddy's Labs     2) Abott
     3) Cipla     4) Cadila
     5) Sun Pharmaceutical Industries
 
 6.    Which country won the third consecutive women's World Twenty20 title in Dhaka on April 6, 2014?
     1) Australia     2) England
     3) Sri Lanka     4) West Indies
     5) New Zealand
 
 7.    Who won the men's singles title in the Yonex Sunrise India Open badminton in New Delhi on April 6, 2014?
     1) Lee Chong Wei 2) Chen Long
     3) Liu Xiaolong    4) Qiu Zihan
     5) None of these
 
 8.    Who has been chosen for the coveted Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2013?
     1) Anand Bakshi 2) Javed Akhtar
     3) Dharmendra   4) Gulzar
     5) Amitabh Bachchan
 
 9.    The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) was established in?
     1) 1965     2) 1969
     3) 1970     4) 1971
     5) 1975
 
 10.    Who among the following leaders was not assassinated?
     1) Mahatma Gandhi
     2) Liaqat Ali Khan
     3) Muhammed Ali Jinnah
     4) Lord Louis Mountbatten
     5) Benazir Bhutto
 
 11.    Who was the founder Director of the Tata Institute of Funda-mental Research (TIFR)?
     1) S.S. Bhatnagar
     2) Homi J. Bhabha
     3) M.N. Saha
     4) Vikram Sarabhai
     5) Ratan Tata
 
 12.    Which port city is called the Queen of the Arabian Sea?
     1) Kandla     2) Kochi
     3) Mumbai     
     4) Marmagoa
     5) None of these
 
 13.    Rihand Dam is located in which of the following states?
     1) Bihar     
     2) Madhya Pradesh
     3) Jharkhand     4) Rajasthan
     5) Uttar Pradesh
 
 14.    Which city is located on the banks of the river Gomti?
     1) New Delhi     2) Amritsar
     3) Lucknow     4) Chandigarh
     5) None of these
 
 15.    Prashant Bhushan is an eminent?
     1) Singer     2) Director
     3) Film Actor     4) Lawyer
     5) Doctor
 
 16.    'Par' and 'Flagstick' are the terms associated with?
     1) Golf     2) Polo
     3) Billiards     4) Squash
     5) Hockey
 
 17.    Goods which are meant for consumption are called?
     1) Giffen goods 2) Final goods
     3) Intermediate goods
     4) Inferior goods    
     5) None of these
 
 18.    Variations in Cash Reserve Ratio and Open Market Operations are instruments of?
     1) Budgetary policy
     2) Trade policy     
     3) Fiscal policy
     4) Monetary policy
     5) Industry policy
 
 19.    Which of the following Articles empowers the President to impose Financial Emergency?
     1) Article 352     2) Article 356
     3) Article 360     4) Article 364
     5) Article 365
 
 20.    The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by which of the following rivers in the United States of America?
     1) Colorado     2) Missouri
     3) Mississippi     4) Columbia
     5) Ohio
 
 21.    Hydroponics is a method of culture of plants without using?
     1) Water     2) Light
     3) Sand     4) Soil
     5) Air
 
 22.    The endangered species are listed in what color data book?
     1) Black        2) Red     3) Green
     4) Blue         5) White
 
 23.    Which country won the maximum number of medals in the 20th Asian Athletic Championships held in Pune recently?
     1) Japan     2) Saudi Arabia
     3) Bahrain     4) India
     5) China
 
 24.    The headquarters of Universal Postal Union is located in?
     1) Montreal (Canada)
     2) Berne (Switzerland)
     3) Geneva (Switzerland)
     4) London (UK)
     5) Washington D.C. (USA)
 
 25.    Who is the author of the book 'The State of the Nation'?
     1) Kuldip Nayar 2) Vinod Mehta
     3) Fali S. Nariman 4) Mark Tully
     5) Soli Sorabjee
 
 26.    Who among the following Nobel laureates was not a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace?
     1) Woodrow Wilson
     2) Linus Pauling
     3) Norman Borlaug
     4) Winston Churchill
     5) Jimmy Carter
 
 27.    Which one of the following days is not observed in the month of October?
 1)    International Day of Non-Violence
     2) World Habitat Day
     3) World Post Office Day
     4) United Nations Day
     5) International Literacy Day
 
 28.    Which Union Territory in India has four districts but none of its districts has a common boundary with its other districts?
     1) Chandigarh     2) Puducherry
     3) Dadra and Nagar Haveli
     4) Andaman and Nicobar Islands
     5) Daman & Diu
 
 29.    The Indian National Congress was founded by?
     1) Surendranath Banerjee
     2) W.C. Banerjee  3) A.O. Hume
     4) Annie Besant 5) None of these
 
 30.    Who among the following was not the President of India?
     1) V.V. Giri     2) Zakir Hussain
     3) Fakruddin Ali Ahmed
      4) R. Venkatraman
     5) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
 
 31.    Which of the following is not a nationalized bank?
     1) Oriental Bank of Commerce
     2) Bank of India
     3) United Bank of India
     4) Union Bank of India
     5) IDBI Bank
 
 32.    What is the full form of OPEC?
 1)    Oil and Petrol Exporting Companies
 2)    Oil Producing and Exporting Countries
 3)    Oil Production and Export Corporation
 4)    Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
 5)    None of these
 
 33.    South-South dialogue is associated with?
     1) Arms Conference
     2) Nuclear Treaty
 3)    Cooperation among developing nations
 4)    Meeting between the developed and the developing countries
     5) None of these
 
 34.    Which one of the following is not a football club?
     1) Arsenal     2) Aston Villa
     3) Chelsea     4) Tottenham Hotspur
     5) Monte Carlo
 
 35.    Which of the following is not a component of the agricultural strategy that brought about the Green Revolution?
     1) Greater intensity of cropping
     2) Guaranteed maximum prices
              3) Development of high-yielding varieties
     4) New agricultural technology
     5) Package of inputs
 
 36.    Decibel is the unit used for?
     1) Speed of light
     2) Intensity of heat
     3) Intensity of sound
     4) Radio wave frequency
     5) None of these
 
 37.    Fire temple is the place of worship in which of the following religions?
     1) Islam     2) Sikhism
     3) Jainism         4) Zoroastrianism
     5) Hinduism
 
 38.    Foal, Filly and Colt are the three names of a baby?
     1) Cat     2) Tiger
     3) Deer     4) Horse
     5) Dog
 
 39.    Blood does not coagulate inside the body due to the presence of?
     1) Hemoglobin 2) Heparin
     3) Fibrin     4) Plasma
     5) None of these
 
 40.    Who is the author of the book 'The Apprenticeship of a Mahatma', on which the film 'The Making of the Mahatma' is based?
     1) Shyam Benegal
     2) Arundhati Roy
     3) Ela Gandhi
     4) Shobha De     5) Fatima Meer
 
 
 KEY
 
 1) 1    2) 2    3) 3    4) 4
 5) 5    6) 1    7) 1    8) 4
 9) 2    10) 3    11) 2    12) 2
 13) 5    14) 3    15) 4    16) 1
 17) 2    18) 4    19) 3    20) 1
 21) 4    22) 2    23) 5    24) 2
 25) 3    26) 4    27) 5    28) 2
 29) 3    30) 5    31) 5    32) 4
 33) 3    34) 5    35) 2    36) 3
 37) 4    38) 4    39) 2    40) 5