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1.    The P5+1 countries (USA, UK, France, Russia, China and Germany) signed a historic nuclear deal with which of the following countries in Geneva on November 24, 2013?
     1) Syria     2) North Korea             
     3) Libya    4) Iran      
     5) Lebanon               
 2.    Magnus Carlsen became the new world chess champion beating five-time title-holder Viswana-than Anand in Chennai in November 2013. Magnus Carlsen belongs to?
     1) Russia   2) Norway  3) Israel          4) USA      5) Sweden    
 3.    Virat Kohli is the joint-fastest to score 5000 one day international runs in 114 innings. He equaled the world record of?
     1) Brian Lara
     2) Gordon Greenidge                 
     3) Vivian Richards                      
     4) AB de Villiers
     5) Sourav Ganguly
 4.    Who was appointed as the new Chairman of the 20th Law Commission of India on November 22, 2013? (He succeeded Justice D.K. Jain)
     1) Justice A.K. Patnaik  
     2) Justice T.S. Thakur
     3) Justice Surinder Singh Nijjar  
     4) Justice Ajit Prakash Shah
     5) Justice Dipak Misra     
 5.    Which of the following is not a hill station in South India?
     1) Ooty     2) Kodaikanal
     3) Munnar      4) Coimbatore      
     5) Wayanad                    
 6.    Which of the following words was named Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year in November 2013?
     1) Selfie    2) Twerk             
     3) Binge-watch 4) Schmeat           
     5) Bitcoin      
 7.    Who has been elected honorary foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the first Indian to be so honored?
     1) Yash Pal
     2) Roddam Narsimha      
     3) CNR Rao    
     4) K. Radhakrishnan           
     5) V.K. Saraswat     
 8.    The 3rd BRICS International Competition Conference was held in November 2013 in?
     1) Durban       2) Brasilia  
     3) Sanya         4) Moscow      
     5) New Delhi            
 9.    Who was named Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Player of the Year for the fifth time in November 2013?
     1) Victoria Azarenka (Belarus)
     2) Sara Errani (Italy)
     3) Maria Sharapova (Russia)   
     4) Serena Williams (USA)
     5) Marion Bartoli (France)
 10.    Who is the youngest world chess champion?
     1) Magnus Carlsen  
     2) Garry Kasparov      
     3) Veselin Topalov    
     4) Anatoly Karpov    
     5) Viswanathan Anand
 11.    How many crore jobs were created in India between 2001 and 2011?
     1) 10 crore      2) 8 crore
     3) 11crore      4)  12 crore   
     5) 5 crore             
 12.    Which country won the Sudirman Cup badminton championship in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in May 2013?
     1) China     2) South Korea        
     3) Malaysia      4)  India  
     5) Thailand
 13.    Ronnie O' Sulivan and Barry Hawkins are associated with?
     1) Basketball    2) Badminton    
     3) Snooker        4) Boxing   
     5) Golf
 14.    Which team won the 64th Rangaswamy Cup Senior National Hockey Championship in May 2013?
     1) Karnataka     2) Uttar Pradesh  
     3) Mumbai       4) Punjab    
     5) Andhra Pradesh  
 15.    India signed Extradition Treaty with which of the following countries in May 2013 after two decades of negotiations?
     1) Japan       2) Germany  
     3) South Korea 4) Pakistan  
     5) Thailand
 16.    The Chennai-Bengaluru Industrial Corridor will be set up with the help of?
     1) Japan      2) Russia
     3) China      4) Bangladesh
     5) Sri Lanka  
 17.    Who among the following is not a Prime Minister of a country?
     1) Shinzo Abe
     2) Yingluck Shinawatra   
     3) Li Keqiang         
     4) Nawaz Sharif      
     5) Hassan Rouhani           
 18.    Which country's Prime Minister was conferred Pakistan's highest civil award Nishan-e- Pakistan in May 2013?
     1) India     2) China   
     3) Bangladesh     4) UK    
     5) Australia     
 19.    The President of India is elected by the members of an electoral college consisting of elected members of?
     1) Both Houses of Parliament
     2)    The Legislative Assemblies of the States    
     3) Union Council of Ministers    
     4) Both 1 and 2
     5) Both 1 and 3    
 20.    Identify the mismatched pair?
     1) Baichung Bhutia - Football
     2) Gagan Narang - Shooting  
     3) Vijay Kumar - Shooting
     4) Yogeshwar Dutt - Boxing
     5) Mary Kom - Boxing            
 21.    SEBI introduced "Basic Services Demat Account" (BSDA) recently. What is the maximum value of securities in a BSDA at any point of time?
     1) Rs 1 lakh     2) Rs 2 lakh
     3) Rs 3 lakh     4) Rs 4 lakh  
     5) Rs 5 lakh
 22.    Ericsson, one of the world's largest telecom equipment manufacturers, is based in?
     1) Spain        2) Iceland
     3) Ireland      4) Switzerland
     5) Sweden         
 23.    Identify the mismatched pair?
     1)    Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology - Hyderabad   
     2)    Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research - Kalpakkam  
     3)    Vikram Sarabhai Space Research Centre - Thiruvananthapuram    
     4)    Indian Space Research Organization - Sriharikota
     5)    Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited - Mumbai        
 24.    What is Wakhan Corridor?
     1)    An area of far north-eastern Afghanistan that forms a corridor between Afghanistan and China     
     2)    Part of the border between India and China in Ladakh region      
     3)    A passage between Iran and Afghanistan  
     4)    A corridor between India and Pakistan    
     5)    None of these   
 25.    Who was the Chairman of the Committee on integration of thousands of employees after the merger of Air India and Indian Airlines?
     1) D.M. Dharmadhikari   
     2) Sam Pitroda  
     3) Anil Kakodkar  
     4) C. Rangarajan    
     5) None of these
 26.    Adi Godrej Committee is related to?
     1)    Telecom Sector Reforms  
     2)    National Corporate Governance Policy
     3)    Indian Railways High Level Safety Review
     4)    Financial Sector Legislative Reforms   
     5)    Banking Sector Reforms
 27.    Which of the following programs aims to help build or upgrade dwelling units of below the poverty line rural families?
     1) MGNREGP
     2) Jawahar Rozgar Yojana
     3) JNNURM
     4)    National Social Assistance Program
     5)    None of these    
 28.    In Indian context NSAB stands for?
     1)    National Society for Animal Breeders
     2)    National Support Activity for Banks  
     3)    National Security Advisory Board
     4)    National Spiritual Assembly of Buddhists     
     5)    None of these  
 29.    Adly Mansour, Francois Hollande and Bashar al-Assad are the current Presidents respectively of?
     1) Qatar, France, Lebanon  
     2) Jordan, Germany, Syria  
     3) Egypt, Canada , Iraq
     4) Egypt , France, Syria
     5) Iraq, France, Jordan
 30.    Essar group of companies is promoted by?  
     1) Ruias     2) Tatas  
     3) Goenkas     4) Kanorias   
     5) Ambanis       
 31.    Hero group of companies is owned by?
     1) Hindujas     2) Firodias         
     3) Munjals      4) Birlas  
     5) None of these     
 32.    Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable lake in the world. It is located on the border of?
     1) USA and Canada
     2) USA and Mexico
     3) Peru and Bolivia
     4) Chile and Argentina
     5) Namibia and South Africa      
 33.    The Great Victoria is the largest desert in?
     1) Australia      2) Mongolia  
     3) Namibia      4) Argentina
     5) Algeria
 34.    Which of the following substances is most commonly used for cloud seeding (artificial rains)?
     1) Zinc Sulphate     2) Silver Iodide  
     3) Magnesium Hydroxide     
     4) Potassium Chloride  
     5) Potassium Nitrate     
 
 Key
   1) 4      2) 2      3) 3      4) 4    
   5) 4      6) 1      7) 3      8) 5
   9) 4    10) 2    11) 2    12) 1
 13) 3    14) 1    15) 5    16) 1
 17) 5    18) 2    19) 4    20) 4
 21) 2    22) 5    23) 4    24) 1
 25) 1    26) 2    27) 5    28) 3
 29) 4    30) 1    31) 3    32) 3
 33) 1    34) 2